MA'TRIX, noun [Latin matrix from mater, mother.]
1. The womb; the cavity in which the fetus of an animal is formed and nourished till its birth.
2. A mold; the cavity in which any thing is formed, and which gives it shape; as the matrix of a type.
3. The place where any thing is formed or produced; as the matrix of metals; gang.
4. In dyeing, the five simple colors, black, white, blue, red and yellow, of which all the rest are composed. (http://worldsworsttourist.com/HansBColorHolo.htm)
5. In Mathematics, A set of numbers arranged In rows and columns— the numbers are called the elements, or entries, of the matrix.
The word matrix is derived from the word ‘mater’ or mother from which we derive our word maternal and the word material.
The matrix could be said to be both the material world around us as well as the womb from which we were maternally formed.
In the Bible the first instance of the word matrix was in the book of Exodus. Observe:
Exo 13:12 - “That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, H7358 and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.”
The matrix here is also the same word that is translated as ‘womb’ 25 times throughout the Word of God.
I love the Word of God, it is relevant— though many would say it is antiquated and deny its truth, a closer look reveals a treasure that is timeless and that it speaks to us across time with words that can and do define reality.
Our reality is constantly shifting— changing with every evolving science, with every ‘wind of doctrine and sleight of men,’ with every agenda soaked news article that has rewritten and is rewriting history—with every click on Wikipedia, we see the evidence our reality shifting as the sands of the desert. The science of the mind, of consciousness is producing studies that reveal how impressionable our minds are to outside influences. From ‘Illusory Truth’ to ‘Shifting Baseline Syndrome’ the evidence tends to agree that reality is malleable.
Understanding this is an important first step into gaining a true perspective of everything that is happening all around us today. The headlines are dominated by words and agendas that seek only to enslave and conform the reader to an ideology that is contrary to the divine conscience that is innate in everyone. You don’t have to have grown up in church to understand the divine nature of the human spirit, nor do you have to be spiritual to see there is a war against the spirit taking place right here and now on planet Earth. This is evident to any who is willing to look, that this assault is an all out war on the human spirit and freedom and liberty——
Allow me please to pause here and reflect and define again some words I feel are pertinent to the discussion; namely the words ‘illumination,’ ‘spiritual’ and ‘material.’
The classic contest of the human being is characterized by Paul as the war between the flesh and the spirit, that is to say, the material world versus the spiritual, or the Maternal versus the Eternal. (Mother Earth vs. Father Time)
Materialism defined is “The doctrine of materialists; the opinion of those who maintain that the soul of man is not a spiritual substance distinct from matter, but that it is the result or effect or the organization of matter in the body.”(http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Materialism)
Spiritualism is the belief that our “Essence is distinct from matter; immateriality.” (http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Spirituality)
Illumination is the rising up above the material plane. It is the climb from materialism to spirituality. It is the understanding that “the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Hebrews 11:3)
Illumination is this knowing and understanding that “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18)
Illumination is the search for the eternal— it is the search for the things not seen, it is faith. Illumination is being born again out of the material, maternal, Matrix and into a new awakening of the the spirit. We are in this material world but not of the material world. We are in this reality but not of this reality nor moved by its shifting sands. Einstein says that reality is only an illusion, and that matter is energy, (and therefore spirit) explained through his equation of E=mc^2—and yes, while this reality is a persistent one, it is also not the only one. Our reality is defined by only a 4 dimensional awareness, and it has been postulated that there are 11 dimensions of reality called M- Theory, and now the discovery of the 12th Dimension called F-theory. (Father of all String Theories.)(M-Theory versus F-Theory)
Our conscious reality is built inside of 4 dimensions using the 5 primary colors of light to mold and give shape to everything that we perceive around us, and all the matter that exists to our understanding is formed inside of this margin, of this 4 dimensional holographic matrix.
I love to quote movies from time to time and here I will quote Yoda, who explains it this way:
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force flow around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, yes, even between the land and the ship.”
~Yoda
Of course he was speaking to Luke Skywalker as he began to awaken the force inside of him, as I intend to do as well. To awaken to, to illuminate to, to make aware of the spiritual nature of our being, that the Holy Scriptures unveil is even now “seated in Heavenly places.” Ephesians 2:6 While we are experiencing the natural our spirit man is seated in another realm, another dimension, another space, another reality, perhaps even in another time.
Paul is revealing to us here an existence outside of these matrix walls, one that we can tap into from this present world in the here and now.
I think one of the greatest evidences of our dual citizenship of Heaven and Earth, happening together, besides what God has revealed to us through his Word, is the nature of sleep. The dream. What is a dream? Why do we sleep? Where does our conscience go? One third of our entire life is spent sleeping, and this has always fascinated me. Even now a nap is calling to me.
"Sleep is essential for health. We have to do it every day. But nobody yet knows why." -Professor Bill Wisden from the Department of Life Sciences and the Centre for Neurotechnology at Imperial College London.
None in the scientific community have been able to solve the mystery of sleep. To me this is because it is an answer humanity is not yet meant to discover, but when we do, I believe that it will be the discovery of the eternal. My question then is our consciousness bound in sleep, by the same margins we are bound to while awake? My suspicion is no, that we are free to move across the cosmos and through all space and time, that we are renewed in spirit as our spirit communes with the Divine Spirit as we enter into REM sleep, but I have nothing to prove this by, except to say that various cultures around the world believe we communicate with the Divine while we sleep, and that includes the Word of God which details many such cases of God speaking to His prophets while they dream.
I make this point only to illustrate that with all the earthly wisdom, with all the science and knowledge and discoveries known to humanity — there as yet is none who can definitively state where we go when we sleep and why. On this mystery is a challenge to all to look further, a beckoning- an invitation to investigate the world outside of our waking reality, to explore the truth that has always been with us, and that we experience everyday, the truth that there is such a thing as the supernatural, that we are not limited by crude matter, that we do in fact possess a soul and spirit, and that this truth does not have to be constricted to religious circles, though it is Christianity that teaches us most how to know and become ‘partakers of the divine nature.’
Psalms 22:9 “Thou art He that took me out of the womb.” The word womb is the same Hebrew word ‘rechem’ which is translated as ‘Matrix’ in the Book of Exodus. Ex. 34:19 “All that openeth the matrix is mine;” — a curious translation in the modern age, evidence that our Bible is not as irrelevant as the many who are wise in this world would have us all to believe.
When I talk about the ‘opening of the Matrix,’ our first inclination is the upcoming release of the new Matrix movie. In fact a Google search of those words will pull up a date of 22Dec21 which is the date of the release of Matrix 4— but God was talking about Destiny when the Holy Spirit divinely inspired these timeless words. The Spirit of God is not bound by time, therefore relevant across time, God revealing this through His Word.
Curiously, it is out of the Matrix that God is wanting to take us, out of the ‘mater’ —the maternal, the material, and into the light of a spirit led life, one that is tapped into the divine nature, one that is driven by purpose, used by the Word, one that overcomes the base nature of man and is risen to the illumined plane of truth and a ‘conscience towards God.’
“Thy Word is a lamp…” It is Word that will lead us and guide us into all Truth. The truth is that Yoda was quoting what Jesus told had already told us 2000 years ago, when he said that ‘we are the light of the world.’ We are beings of light.
Observe: Genesis 1:27
“So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”
When we read this verse and then we read the verse in the Book of 1 John 1:5
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
So we find then that God is a being of light, stated so plainly so as there could be no confusion, and so completely so much to say that ‘This is the Message of the Whole Bible’ ——— GOD IS LIGHT.
God is Light. This verse found in the very final chapters of the Bible sum the entire Book in a single statement that God is Light. In the first chapter of the Eternal Scriptures we find revealed that we too are light as we are ‘created after the image of Him,’ and this was confirmed by Jesus when he said we are the ‘light of the world.’
What is necessary to understand when discussing this is the science behind these verses. When we are viewed through the lens of science, we have discovered that human beings are an energy, we are a frequency, a vibration, a light.
According Classical mechanics, Maxwell in 1878 described that, "light is a form of energy, which is the combination of different radiations of transverse wave with specific wavelength"
Einstein’s theory of special relativity “if a body emits a certain amount
of energy, then the mass of that body must decrease by a proportionate amount,” said that the “loss in mass is a conversion into energy (radiation), which can be interpreted using Einstein’s equation. (E = mc^2)
Thus, the atomic nuclear mass converts into energy-quanta or light.”
“The energy quanta of electrons are the basis of the development of electronic devices, which are the key of modern science/world.”
(From the theory for Everything)
What must be considered and reckoned is that scientifically speaking the Universe (uni= one and verse= song ) is ‘one song,’ a frequency. The universe is a vibration.
Observe:
‘We are a melody’ says Michio Kaku. We are light. The Universe is a song, “a symphony of vibrating strings.”
“We are nothing but melodies, we are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings, and membranes, obeying the laws of physics which is nothing more than the Laws of Harmony of Vibrating Strings.”
~Michio Kaku
So if we truly are an energy, contained inside of a matrix of 4 dimensions with our consciousness free to roam in all 11 dimensions while we sleep, and pray, worship and meditate—then is it possible that our experience that we call life exists only in the mind of God? What does that mean for my tomorrow? How does that change my reality today? Is this the science behind being ‘Born Again?’
My faith swells as I look at a book written by the ancients, a Book from another time, a Message from another dimension that has already told us these scientific truths plainly, thus I am comforted. I can live my best life knowing that these truths have been tested and tried, that I have an anchor that stabilizes me in an ever changing environment that is often hostile to those whose journey is a spiritual one.
Jesus said
‘The Spirit gives life, the flesh (material) profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
The Word of God is Spirit and is Life. It is the existential rise above material plane of existence. It is the ‘more’ that Jesus spoke of when He said in His Sermon on the Mount, ‘what more do ye than others?’ The more is that noble and divine nature that we partake of when we become obedient to the Words of Christ. It is “that good thing that is committed unto thee by the Holy Ghost”— Jesus Christ — His Words are Life. His Words give Life. His Words are Light. To Live in the Light, with the Light dwelling in us, is to overcome this world and the gross darkness that covers the face of the earth.
Jesus said, as we all know by heart the verse from John 3:16:
that ‘God so loved the World, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him shall have everlasting life,’ and He goes on to say in verse 17: “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
Then Jesus said in verse 19 “but this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
We have a choice that is set before us, every moment of every day is a choice. What do I choose to believe? As Luke Skywalker believed? In the crude matter that surrounds me? Or as Yoda that we are Luminous beings? Are we going to choose light or love darkness?
Do I truly believe that I am created after the image of God, who is Light, and that I am a being of light foretold by the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by ‘String Theory’ and ‘Special Relativity?’
Do I believe that the path to illumination is found in — is the Word of God, and will I choose to seek and pursue this knowledge of God, forsaking the seasonal pleasures of the world for a respect of the recompense of reward found only in the Spiritual Quickening of Life?
Will I hear as God is calling me out of the ‘Mater,’ out of the ‘Matrix,’ out of the womb, out of the Maternal and into the Eternal?? Will I hear the call of God that is calling us out of the Material world, out of the flesh, out of this carnal nature—out of the darkness, to be illuminated and ‘Born Again,’ “into His marvelous Light?!”
Do I have the ‘more’ that Jesus spoke of? Am I a light in the World?
Father God thank you for calling me out of the darkness and into the light, I thank you for birthing love in my heart, for salvation that is being born again into a spiritual family, for calling me out of the womb and into a new life that led by Your Holy Spirit.
Father God I thank you for the revelation of life and spirit that births in my heart the revolution of love, one to another. I thank you for your Word, an anchor of my soul, help me to be city on a hill, a light in the world, in your Son Jesus Christ, by whose name we pray and in whom are we seated in the Heavenly Places, even now and forever,
Amen.
Be sure to check out part two of this series entitled “Becoming Christ.” I'm looking forward to publishing this, hopefully by the end of August.
Thanks for reading and may the God of all Heaven and Earth bless you mightily, according to His riches in Glory.