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Monday, December 5, 2011
Do you remember the pact that you have made with the Ancient Ones?
(Originally written in 2008.)
I thought I would re-post it today so that our purpose for being is found and we can recognize the importance of standing for whatever we may believe in so strongly that it will transcend space and deliver to you the time to wake within your core so that your very self will find time to react to the surroundings that we are facing today. You then will be able to accomplish each and every goal and or task that you are required to do in this life. We are not mistakes, everything happens for a reason and often times the reasons are bigger than ourselves. Without a reason to be, we will not do the things we must; We will fail in our mission for a cure and many will have been killed or will have died in Vain. For we are all here for a reason and we must accomplish our purpose for being or the misery, the negativity, the destruction and the apathy will befall you and your loved ones in life and in death. Stand strong, wake yourself to this reality.
Good Luck.
Much Love,
A Kindred Spirit.
It began:
This was all voluntary.............;
When two souls join back together after learning each lesson and/or after experiencing, seeing and understanding every one of those lessons and/or experiences then we will know that we are in is what will be called “The Continue”. Knowing that some of you will be forever lost, this is the cost each of you willingly accepts as the price to cure this disease. Those of you that become lost will be cherished by each and every one of us for eternity. As a protection/inoculation from this disease and to impress and stamp urgency on your souls, one of you shall be immortal and the other invincible. This will be written on your soul at the beginning of your journey. You will not know now which stamp you will receive, but this stamp will be you homing device if the other has caught the disease and is dying. Because this disease takes no preference to the victim, the stamp shall be interchangeable between you to ensure that if the disease is contracted by one or the other of you. This is the best and quickest map back to the other before they die.
This journey is perilous and many of you will not return. We do not know the source or cause of this disease, which is why this is being done. On the same note, this means we do not know who will fall victim or why. This journey that you are about to embark on will give us these answers. With that knowledge we can create a cure. We know that when this disease is contracted, some die and others remain sick. However, they continue to pass it on, either knowingly or unknowingly. We are not certain how this works. Knowing that if this disease is contracted, you are either killed by it or you become a carrier is where the strength and conviction each of you have in your matched soul will be your guide.
Those of you that lose your match, you will be protected from any further threat, also you will not continue this journey with the same agenda. The loss of your match will be . . . well, it is felt amongst us now, so you will then embark on a journey of healing yourself. When this journey begins you will then remember all that is now being said, you will be able to draw some strength to continue on towards the next phase of your journey. You will now know that this has been a last effort for a cure. Look around, remember the power that surrounds all of you now. As long as you are able to feel this in your soul, then you will know the battle for the cure has not ended. Knowing this you will leap to you next task, each of you will need signs, reminders and vessels to draw strength from; to remind your soul of all this being said and to remember that it will take only one set of matched souls to end this disease. No matter what the progression or how many it has infected, the two souls that find their match with the knowledge of this disease and how it is being spread, you both will immediately be empowered by the other. This will be the beginning of the end of this disease that is bringing mankind to extinction. The hurt will be unfamiliar because you have not known all of this that is being said, know this and draw your comfort in the knowledge that this will be over for all of us when the first two have the cure. At this moment, we will all win this battle against eternal death for each and every soul. This cure will be the vaccine that enables man to take the next step through time.
You all will be at risk of the unknown and that is why this has all been voluntary. The purity of a matched set of souls is our best defense and also the biggest risk. Should one of you become ill and not die and your matched soul does not get to you soon enough to . . . ; then you will become our biggest threat. Your memories, power and sight will remain with you but you will be filled with sickness. The actual impact is not known to us, so, it will be left up to each of you to decide what to do, and compassion shall be your guide. The sight of one of your own soul circle using knowledge, power and sight to destroy not only the weak but if recognized will destroy you without hesitation. Only at that moment will you be filled with the wisdom to act.
A personal note from me, dated 12/4/2011.
Much love from a Family that cannot be, but is!! Standing strong against the adversary of Time, Force and the Faith that speaking with Liberty and Freedom of thought, mind and spirit is a right not an accepted factual law given by the ones that would like you to meet your death. Even if a Contract must be written to end you in what would appear a natural act. Oh Well, at least me and mine shall fall as one, that leaves you.
A personal note from me, dated 12/4/2011.
Much love from a Family that cannot be, but is!! Standing strong against the adversary of Time, Force and the Faith that speaking with Liberty and Freedom of thought, mind and spirit is a right not an accepted factual law given by the ones that would like you to meet your death. Even if a Contract must be written to end you in what would appear a natural act. Oh Well, at least me and mine shall fall as one, that leaves you.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Twin Soul: An Ancient Verse
When two souls join back together after learning each lesson and/or after experiencing, seeing and understanding every one of those lessons and/or experiences. Knowing that some of you will be forever lost, this is the cost each of you willingly accepts as the price to cure this disease. Those of you that become lost will be cherished by each and every one of us for eternity. As a protection/inoculation from this disease and to impress and stamp urgency on your souls, one of you shall be immortal and the other invincible. This will be written on your soul at the beginning of your journey. You will not know now which stamp you will receive, but this stamp will be you homing device if the other has caught the disease and is dying. Because this disease takes no preference to the victim, the stamp shall be interchangeable between you to ensure that if the disease is contracted by one or the other of you. This is the best and quickest map back to the other before they die.
This journey is perilous and many of you will not return. We do not know the source or cause of this disease, which is why this is being done. On the same note, this means we do not know who will fall victim or why. This journey that you are about to embark on will give us these answers. With that knowledge we can create a cure. We know that when this disease is contracted, some die and others remain sick. However, they continue to pass it on, either knowingly or unknowingly. We are not certain how this works. Knowing that if this disease is contracted, you are either killed by it or you become a carrier is where the strength and conviction each of you have in your matched soul will be your guide.
Those of you that lose your match, you will be protected from any further threat, also you will not continue this journey with the same agenda. The loss of your match will be . . . well, it is felt amongst us now, so you will then embark on a journey of healing yourself. When this journey begins you will then remember all that is now being said, you will be able to draw some strength to continue on towards the next phase of your journey. You will now know that this has been a last effort for a cure. Look around, remember the power that surrounds all of you now. As long as you are able to feel this in your soul, then you will know the battle for the cure has not ended. Knowing this you will leap to you next task, each of you will need signs, reminders and vessels to draw strength from; to remind your soul of all this being said and to remember that it will take only one set of matched souls to end this disease. No matter what the progression or how many it has infected, the two souls that find their match with the knowledge of this disease and how it is being spread, you both will immediately be empowered by the other. This will be the beginning of the end of this disease that is bringing mankind to extinction. The hurt will be unfamiliar because you have not known all of this that is being said, know this and draw your comfort in the knowledge that this will be over for all of us when the first two have the cure. At this moment, we will all win this battle against eternal death for each and every soul. This cure will be the vaccine that enable man to take the next step through time.
You all will be at risk of the unknown and that is why this has all been voluntary. The purity of a matched set of souls is our best defense and also the biggest risk. Should one of you become ill and not die and your matched soul does not get to you soon enough to . . . ; then you will become our biggest threat. Your memories, power and sight will remain with you but you will be filled with sickness. The actual impact is not known to us, so, it will be left up to each of you to decide what to do, compassion shall be your guide. The sight of one of your own soul circle using knowledge, power and sight to destroy not only the weak but if recognized will destroy you without hesitation. Only at that moment will you be filled with the wisdom to act.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Quotes
“" ... and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment...
If Hephaestus, son of Zeus, were to ask the pair; 'do you desire to be wholly one, always day and night to be in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one, and after your death in the world beyond you will still be one departed soul instead of two — I ask whether this is what you lovingly desire?' — and there is not a man or woman of them who, when they heard the proposal, would not acknowledge that this melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of their ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was original one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love."
~ ~
"Out of the original unity of being there is a fragmentation and dispersal of beings, the last stage being the splitting of one soul into two. And consequently, love is the search by each half for the other half on earth or in heaven...
As twin souls are so alike to begin with, it seems necessary for them to go their separate ways before they can complete each other. Identity and complementarity are the two driving forces and axes of love... For the complete being there must be a blending of the two."
Even Edgar Cayce, the wonderful "sleeping prophet," spoke about soul mates (twin souls). He explained how in the beginning the "male and female were as in one." In his historical description of Atlantis, Cayce says that as long as several hundred thousands of years ago ... "there lived in this land of Atlantis one Amillius, who had first noted the separations of the beings as inhabited that portion of the earth's sphere or plane of these peoples, into male and female as separate entities or individuals."
~ ~
When we finally " wake up" and begin the journey Home to our Source, no longer needing experiences and feelings at the Earth's level of existence, corresponding twins will reunite once again. Male and female essence will blend into in one form, perfectly balanced, totally spiritual, with unconditional love for themselves and others. From that point forward they will remain as one for eternity as they coalesce with other reunited twins to recreate the soul groups they separated from a long time ago. Ultimately, all of us will reunite as the "original One."
~ ~
"To remember yourself, is to know, with purpose, your Why."
~ ~
~ ~
"When two souls join back together after learning each lesson and/or after experiencing, seeing and understanding every one of those lessons and/or experiences. Knowing that some of you will be forever lost, this is the cost each of you willingly accepts as the price to cure this disease. Those of you that become lost will be cherished by each and every one of us for eternity. As a protection/inoculation from this disease and to impress and stamp urgency on your souls, one of you shall be immortal and the other invincible. This will be written on your soul at the beginning of your journey. You will not know now which stamp you will receive, but this stamp will be you homing device if the other has caught the disease and is dying. Because this disease takes no preference to the victim, the stamp shall be interchangeable between you to ensure that if the disease is contracted by one or the other of you. This is the best and quickest map back to the other before they die.
This journey is perilous and many of you will not return. We do not know the source or cause of this disease, which is why this is being done. On the same note, this means we do not know who will fall victim or why. This journey that you are about to embark on will give us these answers. With that knowledge we can create a cure. We know that when this disease is contracted, some die and others remain sick. However, they continue to pass it on, either knowingly or unknowingly. We are not certain how this works. Knowing that if this disease is contracted, you are either killed by it or you become a carrier is where the strength and conviction each of you have in your matched soul will be your guide.
Those of you that lose your match, you will be protected from any further threat, also you will not continue this journey with the same agenda. The loss of your match will be . . . well, it is felt amongst us now, so you will then embark on a journey of healing yourself. When this journey begins you will then remember all that is now being said, you will be able to draw some strength to continue on towards the next phase of your journey. You will now know that this has been a last effort for a cure. Look around, remember the power that surrounds all of you now. As long as you are able to feel this in your soul, then you will know the battle for the cure has not ended. Knowing this you will leap to you next task, each of you will need signs, reminders and vessels to draw strength from; to remind your soul of all this being said and to remember that it will take only one set of matched souls to end this disease. No matter what the progression or how many it has infected, the two souls that find their match with the knowledge of this disease and how it is being spread, you both will immediately be empowered by the other. This will be the beginning of the end of this disease that is bringing mankind to extinction. The hurt will be unfamiliar because you have not known all of this that is being said, know this and draw your comfort in the knowledge that this will be over for all of us when the first two have the cure. At this moment, we will all win this battle against eternal death for each and every soul. This cure will be the vaccine that enable man to take the next step through time.
You all will be at risk of the unknown and that is why this has all been voluntary. The purity of a matched set of souls is our best defense and also the biggest risk. Should one of you become ill and not die and your matched soul does not get to you soon enough to . . . ; then you will become our biggest threat. Your memories, power and sight will remain with you but you will be filled with sickness. The actual impact is not known to us, so, it will be left up to each of you to decide what to do, compassion shall be your guide. The sight of one of your own soul circle using knowledge, power and sight to destroy not only the weak but if recognized will destroy you without hesitation. Only at that moment will you be filled with the wisdom to act."
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
'Oceanscapes' | MARK LILLY PHOTOGRAPHY |
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I am a native San Franciscan born during the peace, love and tie-dye of the 60’s in the Haight-Ashbury District. I grew up in the Richmond District, I loved riding my pony Freckles all over Golden Gate Park, often being chased down by the SFPD mounted police for jumping picnic tables and galloping down the Stow Lake path to get pink popcorn at the vendors stand. Luigi, the proprietor of the concession, would say, “quick now, here they come” he would give me a leg back up on my pony and say, “go girl and please be good pony for her”.
I attended both public and private schools but ultimately was educated at home by my mother all the way to the graduation of her University, called “Life”, thanks Mama, you shine in the armor of your education.
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The City by the Bay
Our home is now your artistic interest in History.
The John McMullen Home “1881”
827 Guerrero St.
This print shows San Francisco’s landmark pearl, the home of John McMullen. This home, a superb example of the Queen Anne styling, is located in the Inner Mission District. Constructed originally in 1881 and extensively redesigned by Samuel Newsom in the year 1890. Mr. Newsom along with his brother Mr. Cather is recognized as two of the most prolific and influential late 19th Century builders of the Queen Anne style homes and mansions.
Queen Anne’s express the now recognized tower and turret as the most recognized feature. However, the graceful and masterful addition to their beauty included ornamental décor, delicately and masterfully adding to the uniqueness of their design. The two features combined were the tell tale sign of being the primary architectural features which made the two brothers known as bold and confident architects of the Century. The most expressive of this would have to be demonstrated with “The Carson Home” in Eureka, CA., perhaps the most well known.
Mr. McMullen, a Connecticut native, arrived in San Francisco, 1876, he became a carpenter and a builder of the cities finest and most interesting designs. In 1877 Mr. McMullen established the San Francisco Bridge Company; this would be the first of a number of contracting and dredging companies that he organized. This list went on to include “the Atlantic Gulf” and “the Pacific Company of New York”, both in existence today. In addition to these feats he was recognized as a pioneer in the hydraulic dredging industry, his firm was responsible for the following projects: “San Francisco’s Green Street Wharf”, “Mare Island Navy Yard Dredging” and the construction of 47 bridges while in employ with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
In 1908 Mr. McMullen moved to New York, selling his home to a local druggist named Joseph Young. The Young’s enjoyed their home and the entire ambience that it provided until 1956.
Recognized as a San Francisco Landmark in 1981, and then listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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The Haas-Lilienthal House
2007 Franklin Street
“1887”
This print shows San Francisco’s landmark ruby, the Haas-Lilienthal House. Located at 2007 Franklin Street she was constructed in the year 1886. William Hass was a Bavarian immigrant, he was instrumental in the construction of his home. Mr. Haas was the first president of the “Haas Brothers”, a company that wholesaled liquor and established the “Cyrus Noble Whisky”.
Generally considered to be along the lines of the Queen Anne styling, this home shared the qualities of the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival construction genre.
Surviving the “Earthquake and Fire” of 1906 she has gone on to serve as a museum and the headquarters for the San Francisco Architectural Heritage Foundation.
Recognized and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
817 Grove Street
“1880”
This print demonstrates the intricate pencil drawing that the original professes with such elegance and grace. The amazement to detail and the capturing of the individual details of this beautiful home are simply remarkable to me, a true emerald. An Italianate style home, the artist conceptualized this innovative design in the 1880’s. The “Earthquake and Fire” of 1906 threatened the life of this glamorous girl, it came within a half of one block of her skirt tales.
943 South Van Ness Avenue
“1890”
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The Imperial Russian Consulate
1198 Fulton Avenue
“1875”
This print will amaze you both in tale and description of a young sharply cut diamond. Known as the William Westerfield House, confusion was set firm by this diamond, for the story is urban lore, more than likely began in the year of 1928. The home at 1198 Fulton Avenue across from Alamo Park, had been purchased by collective of” Russian Czarists”, a mystery for the ages to solve.
Tom Wolfe the author of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” published in 1968 perpetuated this idea that the Westerfield was the “Imperial Russian Consulate”. The touring and unsuspecting visitors of the “City by the Bay” were told by bus drivers and tour books alike that this was the consulate of the Russian Czarists.
Henry Geilfuss designed “The Westerfield House” completing construction in the year 1889 for a total cost of $9,985.00. This grand price tag was afforded by Mr. William Westerfield, a prosperous German immigrant who made his fortune in baking. He owned and operated a chain of bakeries in the San Francisco Area. He was one of the many incredible people that made San Francisco their home and shared with us the prosperity of their heritage. Alamo Park is a neighborhood that will demonstrate this fact best, grand homes and well worth appreciating the investment all of these people made for us to enjoy so many years later. Definitely demonstrating the facets only a diamond could truly display.
Recognized and listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
819 Eddy Street
“1880”
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The Tower House
573 South Van Ness Avenue
“1878”
This print is exquisite in the detail of expression in the style of the Queen Anne architectural features. The Tower House is located in the inner Mission District in the city of San Francisco.
210 San Jose Street
“1878”
This print is intricately drawn with the artist drawing attention to the “Tiffany” lamps in the windows, the ornate wrought iron fence that is an accent to the shrubbery at the base of the home. This home was located in the Inner Mission District of the city by the bay.
300 Pennsylvania Avenue
“1868”
This print captures the imagination and artistically demonstrates the San Franciscan Victorian-style architectural design of the century.
“The ring set with Homes and Mansions, burned into the minds of Man, the pages of history and bell tolls on”
1906 Earthquake and Fire
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812 Steiner Street
“1890”
This print of an Alamo Square Victorian Home is a style indicative of the 18th century. Standing proudly today this incredible home represents the strength of yesteryear and we are fortunate to join her for a brief swing through our time. The artist has imagined the brilliance of the day and certainly in her glory years, expressly in the expression in each window as you pear into the past of a lovely ladies home. As your imagination carries to this peaceful and serene destination, gaze upwards and see the peak of the roof as it so delicately accents the completeness felt with this home. Then at last as you grace your presence into the artist’s conception, note the entrance and how the door is truly a gateway into the home of a delicate and yet lasting impression that this home offers you today.
959 South Van Ness Avenue
“1870”
The John Spencer Home
1080 Haight Street
“1895”
This print demonstrates the Queen Anne built in the Haight-Ashbury District of the city. Designed by Fred Rabin, he turned the reins over to the contractor and builder, William Tegler. She was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 2005.
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The Mish House
1153 Oak Street
“1885”
This print allows us to enjoy the landmark “Mish Home”. She has been exalted as an example of the “Stick Eastlake” style of architectural design. Built in the later part of the 18th century, she stood proudly on the beautifully landscaped corner block of Oak and Divisadero. Designed by McDougal and Son, the cost for her was $15,000.00 to build, a true beauty. In 1897 she was moved across the street, during which the stairway that extended straight to the sidewalk was not to move in its original design. Rather it was replaced with a concrete stairway cascading down in front of her, taking away from her original elegant design with the coarser look of industrial design today.
Mr. an Mrs. Mish were considered to be one of the early pioneers in San Francisco, Sarah and Phenes were born in England, but this is where they truly thrived. Sarah Mish owned and operated a dressmaking and a millinery company, located in the business district (downtown). She grew to have multiple locations with store fronts on Geary Blvd, Kearney, Market Street and Dupont (otherwise known as Market Street). This was rounded out by a wholesale business she ran all along the Pacific Coast. Phenes Mish in his own measure of success was a well-known Dry Good Importer, served as President of the Congregation, Sherith Israel, 1881-1885. He passed on in the year of 1895 while Sarah Mish continued on until the year 1916.
Heirs to the Mish Estate sold the home in 1928 when she was then converted into apartments. During the 1950’s a fire took her and she remained in a deteriorated state for the next 20 years. In 1975 The Preservation Group stepped in and restored her to her formal glory. This incredible home is recognized as one of the San Francisco Landmarks, declared before the restoration in 1974. She then went on to be listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
1202 Dolores Street
“1879”
This print brings to light the popular Queen Anne architectural design, so popular in the late 18thCentury. This wonderful gal is located in Noe Valley; she compliments the neighborhood with her simplicity. In this print one should take note to the artist’s conception just inside the window. As you look into the window you see lace curtains that compliment the stain glass windows and the classic window shades of the time. This Queen Anne seems a bit more striking, as the artist has taken her turret and made it as striking as a springtime bonnet at the Derby.
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1286 Guerrero
“1894”
This print allows us to see a four-story Queen Anne Home, joining her Dolores neighbor in the Noe Valley District of San Francisco. The regard which the artist has taken and drawn in detail the curtain draw strings is spectacular. The balconies are especially striking and complemented so strongly with the wrought iron fence. Still holding court today you may see her at the corner of Guerrero and 25 Street.
3628 16th Street
“1874”
This print shows us a magnificent Victorian Home located in the Duboce Triangle District. She sat on the great fire line whilst all the homes across 16th street went up in flames in the great earthquake of 1906.
3641 17th Street
“1874”
This print express’s the beauty of a two-story Victorian Home, still standing today with strength and presence. She is located in the Mission Dolores District of San Francisco.
“Shining brightly in the City of San Francisco”
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3755 20th Street
“1887”
This print is a spectacular example of the elaborate Victorian design of the late 18th century. This beauty still stands today as testimony to the time and the integrity that the builders had in not only design but thought to longevity through solid construction. She is located in the Eureka Valley District of San Francisco.
The Laguna Street Ladies
1801 -1803-1815-1819 Laguna Street
“1880”
This print is a compliment to her sister’s; the artist has shown us his conception of these beautiful homes as they would have been in the late 18th century. They stand in a much more proper style; almost a bit of snobbery is exhibited in comparison to the Steiner girls. Comparisons are always made when competition is heated between Ladies of this nature; however, it was simply their hats that brought this on to these lovely ladies.
Enjoying the detail of this print, hats aside of course, include the lamps and the vases which are visible to you, almost as if you are standing just in front of them on the street or maybe you have joined the lady and gentleman as they stroll on the sidewalk. Today you may stroll hand in hand and enjoy these lovely ladies as the wait your arrival on Laguna Street.
The Charles Crocker Mansion
California and Taylor Streets
“1870”
This print shows us the mansion belonging to Mr. Charles Crocker, the President of the Central Pacific Railroad. The Crocker is built on an enormous block of land at the top of Nob Hill. He would have accomplished actually having what is now a “city block” but a homeowner refused him and his offer for his property, leaving Mr. Crocker thwarted. He was known as a vengeful gentleman and did not let this disparity go without notice, so, in retaliation he had a 40 foot wall built which surrounded the homeowner’s property.
The 1906 earthquake took pause and spared the mansion, but the raging fire that followed did not show the same resolve, the mansion was forced to succumb burning to the ground. Grace Cathedral now stands on the former site of this exquisitely designed Mansion.
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The Mark Hopkins Mansion
999 California Street
“1860”
This print is a favorite; the artist must have had an amazing command of his art to gift us with such sweet eye candy. The Mansion was designed by Wright & Sanders and built in 1878. This is one of the early” Big Four” on California, sitting majestically atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, you have to stop and be taken back with the architects design. Surviving the 1906 Earthquake and Fire this Mansion went up in flames regardless; destiny seems to even demand the brick and mortar to obey when called. The Mark Hopkins Hotel stands strong in its place.
The Steiner Street Ladies
712 – 722 Steiner Street
“1894 – 1895”
This print shows us the “Painted Ladies” as the artist conceptualized them in the late 18th Century. These Victorian Homes line Steiner Street with such elegance and grace. The view is enjoyed from Alamo Park and includes the Robber Baron Homes in the distance. City Hall is also seen through the recognizable dome that sits atop that building.
These ladies are an iconic landmark in San Francisco.
The Stetson Mansion
“1870”
This print is of the James Stetson Mansion, built in 1870 and survived both the Great Earthquake and the Fire that consumed so much of the city on that fated day in history. The mansion actually stood across from homes that were burning on Van Ness Avenue.
James Stetson was the President of the California Street Cable Railroad Company.
Today, a non-descript brick building sits in place of this beautiful mansion.
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California’s Governor’s Mansion
Full View
Sacramento, CA
“1877”
These two prints show both the front and side view of this Mansard styled mansion. This is a true Victorian Gothic, complete with cupola and was built as a private residence in 1878 for the Sacramento pioneer Albert Gallatin. This mansion was designed and then constructed by the most prominent architect at the time, Nathaniel D. Goodell. The total cost of this undertaking was in excess of $70,000.00.
The death of Mr. Gallatin prompted the sale in 1887 to Joseph Steffens, a Sacramento dry goods merchant. Mr. Steffens, President of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce was well known for his “Racing Stables”. Lincoln Steffens, a nationally known author and relative of Mr. Steffens resided in the mansion during his boyhood years.
The State of California purchased the home in 1903 to put the mansion into service as its Executive Mansion. George Pardee was the first Governor of California to call her home. Serving the state as home to thirteen Governors over a 64 year period during which time the State Fire Marshall declared her unsafe for occupancy. Declared unsafe in 1941 she stood strong in her service to the state until 1967 when Governor Ronald Reagan moved out of the residence. At this point she was declared to be a state landmark and opened to the public for daily tours.
In 1970 the National Register of Historic Places granted this mansion her status in history and placed her on the registry of landmarks.
California’s Governor’s Mansion
¾ View
Sacramento, CA
“1877”
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The story of how these beautiful and masterful drawings found their way into my life:
In the 90’s, during an antique hunting trip in the Sierra foothills, I discovered the jewels of architectural wonder, masterful prints buried in the splintery bins of a faltering shop. I took pause at the sight of the treasure I had just uncovered and immediately recognized both the quality and uniqueness of these ageless lithographs. Ultimately, I made the acquaintance of Ms. Laura Stevens, owner and operator of; Laura Inc. Ageless Lithographs.
Ms. Stevens has long been a patron of the arts much like me and an immediate bond was created. She has sponsored artists who work in media and it is this venue that piqued her interest. She has been a collector of objects d’art since her early teens, graduating from California State University San Francisco. Throughout her life Laura has traveled most of the world, and this exposure has taught her to appreciate all forms of art as well as art that have been created throughout the ages. Laura has an extensive personal art collection and her home has the ambience of a miniature museum. Through her Company, Laura Inc., Ms. Stevens hoped to share her art as well as to expose fresh art talent to the general public. Laura Stevens, also known as Laura Inc., sold total interest in her inventory of Ageless Lithographs as described, all “ORIGINAL DRAWINGS” for the Ageless Lithograph collection, All “Photostats” for the Ageless Lithograph collection, All “NEGATIVES” for the Ageless Lithograph collection, All printed Lithograph of various sizes on hand at the time of the sale to me, now owner, operator and sole proprietor of the most incredible drawings that I had ever seen to date. Special thanks to Ms. Stevens, your confidence in my ability to carry forward with a dream not yet realized, inspired a girl to make a beautiful woman her mentor in the arts. This is my story and the investment of one woman’s life that has brought the beauty of this unique collection to the general public. All rights to reproduce are expressly owned and operated by Anastasia Inc. exclusively.
A delightful addition to the wonder of such a whale of tale, only one day in my life, I have found that not only are all of my drawings titled with addresses but a number of them are San Francisco architectural landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ms. Stevens had them registered with the Library of Congress and of course copy righted but to learn that each has an even bigger story to tell is the cherry on top of this remarkable collection.
The inheritance of such an unknown collection and the shear number of “Originals” I possess has put my life in jeopardy in unimaginable ways; I was completely unaware and certainly unprepared. I was ignorant to the fact that a great wealth is seen as only dollars to make, no matter to the investment that it took to create and develop such a collection. Be advised that illegal actions and sales of digitally mastered copies of my works to produce a beautiful introduction to this collection for the general public has been reported to the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Copy Right Office, Library of Congress and local authorities. Any and all of these pirated versions of my collection are to be regarded as fraudulently collected and immediately reported to the F.B.I. for an on-going investigation It is sad and brings heaviness to my own heart to know that people have stolen art to make money in mass production and not to tell the tale or enjoy the efforts of Mr. Eddie Williams, Ms. Laura Stevens and myself to bring artistry to the general public.
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Pathwork Guide Lecture No. 199
March 24, 1972
by Eva Broch Pierrakos
Greetings. Blessed be all of you, my beloved friends. The force of love and truth, elicited by your seeking, is pouring forth to forge another link in the chain, to give you what you need at this juncture in your path.
The average state of the human mind is only a fragmented piece of total consciousness. In this fragmented state you are cut off from reality. You inevitably live in fear and limitation. Yet you believe that this is all there is to your life and you frantically clutch at this limited fragment. You resist the natural inner movement of the soul to go beyond, to expand this state, because the split-off ego-consciousness fears that doing so will annihilate you. You ardently protect this limited consciousness, yet this very limitation creates fear and suffering.
This is, broadly speaking, humanity’s plight. It is your task, in the cycle of incarnations, to reintegrate this split-off ego-consciousness and to regain forever wider and deeper portions of your real self, your cosmic existence, with its infinite possibilities for experience, joy, and creation of the self.
Humanity believes that this split-off ego-consciousness is the real self. You identify with your brain, your outer intelligence, your will, your mind, all those faculties immediately available, not realizing that to whatever degree you now possess these, it was you who in the past made them available for yourself through a deliberate effort. For there was a state in which you possessed much less awareness, less power to create, less ability to experience joy. Your consciousness was much more limited and confined. You had to use whatever consciousness you had to enlarge your faculties and to avail yourself of dormant possibilities. This process must continue until there is no longer any split-off fragment and humanity has reached cosmic consciousness, which means that humanity itself has become one with ultimate reality. The process of self-enlargement, of making apparently foreign territory your own domain, constitutes the Pathwork — any valid pathwork.
Ego means fragmentation. As I mentioned, it is the task of all beings who are caught in this fragmentation, and that means anyone in the cycle of being born and dying, to enlarge their field of operation, their perception, their awareness, and their power to create. The problem is that in the limited state of the separated ego, enlargement appears, contrary to reality, to be annihilation of your very existence, of your sense of self. To penetrate this illusion, you need all the force, commitment, goodwill and help available — help that you must want and request.
This is truly humanity’s search and struggle. Only as you venture forth step by step, overcoming the inherent resistance to transcend this separated state, do you find out gradually that there is another life beyond the ego state. You then find out that this other life is reality and that this reality is not to be feared. It is good; it is to be utterly trusted. It means that there is ongoing life, self-awareness, and ever-increasing joy. You find out that the limited ego state you have so ardently protected is an illusion: the illusion of death and aloneness.
Awareness has to be fought for. It does not come easily, nor gratuitously. Remaining in the isolated ego state may appear safe and easy, but it leads to stagnation and death — ever recurring death.
The ego uses any number of tricks in order to maintain its separated, limited state and to avoid moving beyond it. I would like to show them to you.
In the first place, the ego uses every conceivable negativity known to humanity; any fault; any violation of integrity, truth, love, and divine law. Since all these negativities can be summed up in the triad of pride, selfwill, and fear, I shall show how the ego uses these traits to avoid self-transcendence.
The ego fears losing its present state, meaning its self-awareness, so much that the fear displaces the instinct of self-preservation. The ego misuses this instinct to preserve its present awareness. Fear always distorts truth and reality. Thus the ego maintains itself with pride. It maintains its separateness by creating an artificial conflict between the self and others. It says, “I must prove to the world that I am admirable and better than others; I must outdo others; I must not be worse than others; my interests counteract those of others, and vice versa.” All these attitudes are pridefully put in the service of maintaining the ego’s separation. It is always “I versus you,” and this inevitably creates a spirit of one-upmanship. Whether or not in your current incarnation your development happens to be ahead or behind another’s, to use this as a wedge between your own ego and those of others, is completely missing the point. For, in principle, there is no difference. It does not even take very long on this path to find out that one’s interests conflict with those of others only on the most superficial level. What is really right and good can be seen just beneath the surface. According to divine law this deeper good is right for all concerned. Therefore all comparing and competing to best others increases the separation and sharpens the illusion that this pitiful existence is all there is to life.
People’s prevalent tendency to live for the sake of appearances, rather than for the sake of truth and of real feelings and interests, is also caused by pride. The illusion of separation is so strong at this point that it seems more important to people to create an impression than even to consider what a tragic, wasteful sacrifice you make to achieve an entirely imaginary gain.
All masks and defenses, pretenses and false shame of exposure, embarrassment about real feelings and one’s inner reality regarding the spiritual self, belong in the category of pride; they are tricks of the ego to maintain its limited state.
Selfwill comprises stubbornness, resistance, spite, defiance, rigidity. All these attitudes connote a stiffening against change, against expanding into new spiritual territory. These traits express the attitude, “I will stay where and as I am.” This ego-trick makes rigidity appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear threatening and/or humiliating. Pride and fear are necessarily coupled to selfwill, just as selfwill must be present where either of the other two dominates. Each of these attitudes harbors the other two as well.
The refusal to move may be evaluated on a more superficial level in terms of personal idiosyncrasies and neuroses, as spite against a specific person or people — let us say parents or parent substitutes or general authority figures. Or there might be a spiteful attitude toward life itself. But on a deeper level the ego’s trick is to remain isolated.
Under the category of fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions. The ego’s trick is to make change appear threatening and life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you from attaining joyousness, peace, and freedom — the cosmic reality that opens up when the present state is expanded.
Negative intentionality is also part of the ego’s trickery to preserve your present limited state. Whatever the specific negative intention may be, it always indicates spite — hence selfwill, which always blurs and falsifies reality, denying all desirable life experience.
Other ego tricks that serve to maintain its present “safe” position are: denying pleasure, bliss, joy, expansion, and creative movement into life. The fear of experiencing all these states is obviously also a trick of the ego. This is a well-known phenomenon applying to all human beings and is easy to observe. More such tricks of the ego are: inattentiveness, lack of concentration, abstractedness, absent-mindedness. These attitudes prevent the focusing necessary for the ego to transcend itself. To transcend its present limited state, the ego requires a good deal of one-pointed focusing, of being all there, as it were. Laziness, tiredness, and passivity are, too, tricks of the ego. They make movement impossible, undesirable, and exhausting. We shall come back to this later.
Fear of exposure and denial of real feelings not only stem from pride but also directly perpetuate isolation and are therefore used as ego tricks to deny oneness with others. Negative reactions to the negativity of others is another trick of the ego to maintain its isolation. The moment negativity appears, the energy system begins to function to deny the ego’s expansion, which would effect self-transcendence. The ego denies the joyousness of true being by making something more of other people’s behavior than necessary. It cuts off the vision of real life that exceeds the limited present state. Only the isolated ego-bound entity experiences the terror of finiteness. Distrust and suspiciousness are not only part of the general fear that makes the ego wish to remain immobile and resort to trickery in order to defy the natural movement toward the being’s ultimate fate. While distrust caused by fear is the motivating force, the ego simultaneously uses the distrust as a trick to stop the movement toward union.
The ego assumes a preposterous and paradoxical position. It is intrinsically unhappy, precisely because of its finiteness, or what seems finite in its present limited state. It is self-evident that the ego can see only what is within its present scope of awareness. And what it sees is, to varying degrees, limited and falsified. Hence the ego sees and experiences only finiteness: the disconnected, meaningless universe in which it is senselessly suffering and powerless. This perception of life can alter only to the degree that the ego overcomes the temptation to stay put. But the paradoxical position of the ego is that it fights to remain in the very state that often makes your life unbearably lonely, fearful, and meaningless.
Unfathomable death is terrifying, and although it is possible to deny this terror, it cannot be dissolved as long as the ego remains within its present narrow confines. Sooner or later everyone is faced with this terrifying illusory end, both their own and others’. But even if this terror is not acute, it remains a gnawing force in your soul, a force that must always exist until the ego gives up its resistance. In spite of the ego’s extreme discomfort, it clings to that very condition, the very state that makes true vision beyond the imaginary line of demarcation between life and death impossible. This is the sickness of the ego state and the perversion of it — to cling to the very thing it battles against.
All my friends can easily recognize themselves in this description, for the pathwork makes this incongruity very obvious. I believe it will greatly help you all to see your plight in this light and to know that this is a universal state which you are called upon to transcend. On this path you must be concerned with, and grope for an understanding of, how to transcend the ego, and what that really means.
Isolation and separateness are, without a doubt and without exception, tragic and ironic; tragic because unnecessary, and ironic because the ego clings to what it hates and what hurts it most. It lacks the discipline and the perseverance, the commitment and the faith to venture beyond its present scope of awareness. Suffering must exist as long as you cling to this state and indulge in it. As long as all the tricks of the ego are acted out, rationalized, denied, perpetuated and nurtured — as is usually the case — you cannot help but suffer.
You all know, my friends, and many of you have indeed experienced it, that every step forward on the path reveals new vistas that are very real, much more real than the previous state that you thought was the ultimate reality. Every step of the way this newly gained reality opens to a life wider and fuller for you. The result is more joy, more peace, more consciousness, more understanding of the beautiful deep meaning of life, more creativity and more intrinsic knowledge of life’s eternality versus the illusion of death, the illusion of finiteness.
But every one of these steps could have been won only by a tremendous amount of investment on your part. Whoever still wants indulgence and easy, cheap results can never, never attain this new state. You will look wistfully at the possibilities yet doubt that anything else could exist that would warrant the effort and the lowering of your pride. This doubt then becomes the excuse for the artificially maintained status quo. This is the sin against life, defeating life’s natural movement toward evolution and unification.
Discipline, courage, humility, and the ability to commit yourself — these are not attitudes you do not possess, my friends. Everyone of you possesses every conceivable attribute in the universe. The question is, do you wish to avail yourself of these potentials within you, or do you wish to claim that you do not possess them and that someone has to “give” them to you magically?
You often hold the misplaced and confused idea that self-discipline hampers your freedom, and, conversely, that a free person does not need self-discipline. Nothing could be further from the truth. Freedom, in its real sense, is unthinkable without discipline. And, conversely, the people who indulge themselves and who reject discipline are inevitably dependent, weak, powerless, and consequently afraid. They lack freedom. Freedom can be gained only to the degree one uses voluntary self-discipline — uses it for one’s own sake and not to appease and appear good in the eyes of others. The latter attitude often leads either to actual or imaginary discipline being imposed upon the person by others. When such imposition happens — and this is of course undesirable — it is always a result of the denial of voluntary self-discipline, which goes together with self-responsibility.
Every expansion must be fought for with self-discipline, by overcoming the embedded resistance against expansion. The discipline must be used for stringent recognition of the ego tricks and against giving in to them. This expansion is always a step beyond a known territory. The ego has evolved to its present state, which varies, of course, from person to person, as a result of what humanity has already achieved. The “territory” people have gained determines their degree of functioning, the scope of their experience and awareness.
When I speak of “territory,” I mean a state of awareness, creative life force, and influx from the real world, all of which make experiencing life deeper and more meaningful. The word “territory” is thus not to be understood in a geographical sense, but in a total sense. The fences around this territory indicate the degree of the ego’s self-transcendence.
Every incarnation, on whatever level, requires increasing the scope of one’s “field of operation.” To widen the fences around the fragmented ego, to bring in more reality from the world beyond the illusory confinement is the task. Indirectly, this applies to all levels. Even the most mundane, outer, physical and intellectual knowledge and skills to be acquired increase in some way your present ability to function and experience life, and thus indirectly contribute to the ultimate task of self-transcendence. The acquisition of new knowledge and skills also demands the cultivation of the attitudes necessary for self-transcendence. Every bit of new knowledge or a new skill yields, directly or indirectly, more spiritual power and awareness, more experience of joy and realization of your own adequacy and your potential.
To acquire new knowledge or skills, on whatever level, always means overcoming laziness. It means self-discipline: the more desirable a new aspect of life is, the more real and durable it is, the more you must invest in it. It means trial and error, and the ability to convert failure into success. It means perseverance, patience, faith. It means overcoming fear until the new thing becomes one’s own natural possession, until it becomes part of the personality, second nature, so to speak.
The ego’s task is always first to accept the difficulties, the hardships of the learning process. Only when the ego has learned the more mechanical aspects of this process can the influx of the spiritual self make the new acquisitions a spontaneous, living, effortless experience. Ego means effort; spiritual self means effortlessness. This desirable effortlessness is not given by magic, however, for this would mean that the ego is not being transcended but avoided. The ego must change its lazy, resistant attitudes in order to transcend itself to become able to unify with the cosmic, greater self. The ego must lay the arduous groundwork until the real self can come through. This can be noted in every activity or skill. First there is always effort. It becomes pleasurable only when it seems, and actually is, “happening through you.”
If you are learning a manual task, the manual rules have to be learned until they become part of the ego; if a mental task, mental knowledge has first to be painstakingly acquired, often through quite mechanical processes. Then the new knowledge will become the person’s own and the spirit can use this newly expanded vision, knowledge, skill, energy, and accomplishment to play creatively. An artist who wants to bypass the effortfulness of learning the ground rules can never unfold any creative ability, no matter how real it may initially be. These creative abilities will wither because that person wants to cheat life.
The spiritual path itself demonstrates the identical principles. As mentioned before, the ego must learn and adopt attitudes compatible with the universal, divine ones. This is, as you know, not easy. The inspiration of the spiritual self is blocked off to the degree the ego is blindly involved in its negativity, including laziness, pride, selfwill, fear, wish to cheat life, and escapist tendencies. But as these tendencies are honestly recognized and gradually given up, the influx of the world of eternal truth, love, and beauty becomes possible.
The arduous task of making the ego flexible always comes first: teaching it, bending, changing it; making it receptive and vibrant; letting new life energy and creativity flow through it by identifying and abandoning the ego’s tricks. Whether it takes shape as new knowledge, new skills, or a new attitude toward life and the universe, this change always means a new territory has become your own.
People truly wither away when they remain in the narrow confines of their present state because they feel it is safe and they think they have eliminated the need for effort and investment. They do not permit life to regenerate them. Regeneration can happen only where inner movement exists. It always seems frightening at first to go beyond the ego’s present confines. The new territory is foreign, unknown. People want to avoid the unknown, and they would rather cower in fear of it than have the courage to learn about it and make it their own. To make the unknown known, outside as well as inside, is the beauty of the spiritual path.
The ego is under the illusion that to stay in the stagnant, narrow confines of the already known territory — for regardless of how much wider it may be compared to the territory of others, it is still narrower as compared to one’s potential — is easy and relaxing. To pull yourself up by your bootstraps and move beyond seems terribly tiresome. This feeling is illusory because the stagnant state is really a contraction, and contraction is by no means relaxing and restful, although it may seem so to the confused mind. True restfulness is always alive and effortlessly moving. This is impossible in a state of contraction. You can verify this by looking around you. The people who do the least are always the most tired. And the people who do most are always most energized and relaxed — provided their activity does not serve as an escape from the self.
Harmonious movement is not tiring or exhausting, although you may experience such symptoms at first, because to go from stasis to motion on any level first requires accepting a temporary effort with self-discipline, faith, courage, and humility until the effort becomes effortless. Spiritual movement is effortless. By spiritual movement I mean the movement of ultimate reality, of the totally unified entity. The stagnation is really very effortful, because it requires an enormous and often unconscious effort in order to sustain the resistance against the soul’s natural inclination to follow its destiny. This unconscious effort then manifests as tiredness, exhaustion, weakness, which furnish the excuse to remain still longer in the status quo. The ego uses the results of its own errors as tricks.
All life is movement, and movement is not effortful when the entity is in harmony with life. But movement seems temporarily effortful until this harmony has been established by reorienting the ego. You then move within the rhythm of your own life stream. When you can feel the rhythm of your life stream, you have already acquired a certain amount of self-awareness and you are already within the expansive movement.
Those who are on paths such as yours will find that some parts of them are already joining the cosmic movement; other parts still resist and stagnate. Your moving parts are the aware parts. These parts are capable of recognizing the significance of the resistance. These parts can meditate on seeking a deeper understanding of your task in life; on the meaning of your life in the light of this lecture. You will find greater motivation to request guidance so that your stagnating parts will yield to the moving parts. Little by little you will energize the contracted consciousness that has separated itself from the whole.
When I speak of ego, I do not wish to imply that it should be totally negated, denied, and insulted. The ego is part of divine consciousness and holds all aspects of the greater self from which it has separated itself, even if they are distorted and misused. The basic energy and consciousness of the ego is made of the same substance with which you ultimately reunite.
The ego must be healthy in order to venture beyond its present confines, to transcend itself, and learn and own as yet unknown spiritual territory. It needs to expand its knowledge, experience, and creative potential. In order to do this, the ego must adopt attitudes compatible with its original nature. All the tricks of the ego, all the negativity and evil that are embedded only in the ego, have to be recognized with a very incisive, sharp self-honesty for what they are. Denial, rationalization, and projection must be given up. The searchlight must be ruthlessly turned on the little self. Only when you use your ego consciousness to put the strong light of truth on other areas of your ego consciousness can you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can transcend itself and unify with the naturally healthy divine consciousness.
The weak, sick, distorted ego very often wants to give itself up simply because it cannot bear itself any longer. It adopts various forms of escape, such as drugs or other means of false transcendence. But such ego transcendence is highly dangerous and is just a variation of insanity. For insanity itself is the attempt of the ego to lose or transcend itself because it can no longer bear itself. In all these false and dangerous attempts, the entity always seeks to avoid effort, pain, inconvenience, and those aspects of life with which it does not agree or which it does not understand. It seeks to cheat, using shortcuts, which can never work and which exact a very high price. Consequently, the entity may hold on even tighter to the immobile, rigid state, perhaps for many incarnations, thus making healthy ego transcendence as impossible as the false kind.
You can succeed only by using the healthy part of the ego to shed light on the sick part; to use the honest part of the ego to shed light on the dishonest part. Then ego transcendence takes place in the safest possible way. Then you acquire new territory: a territory that was at first frighteningly foreign, unknown, and apparently dark but will become familiar and light. With this new safety, a sense of eternality is created in the self. The deepest feelings, knowledge, and experiences of life’s continuum will grow and automatically eliminate an enormous amount of pain and fear. But this growth cannot come cheaply. It requires full investment and commitment on your part. And whoever does this genuinely must reap the fruits in a most concrete way.
The greater your efforts become, the more of a spiritual force you lawfully elicit and make your own. Every step of truth and goodwill activates automatically and inexorably the power and creative spiritual force within and around you.
Blessings and love for all of you, my dearest ones.
1996 Edition
1996 Edition
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