Way  14

A Look Back, And Forwards


A long time ago, there lived a man. Some say a great man. Others, that
he was just lucky. In the right place, at the right time, as the saying
goes. Regardless of which of these views you might subscribe to, the
simple fact remains that this particular man had a profound impact on
all around him. He was a teacher of sorts, a teacher of life and all its
complexities. The lessons he taught changed the world for all time. The
lessons were simple things, not grand philosophies or highend theology.
Just plain old common sense, everyday things. It has been said that he
had a special power to communicate ideas, a way to make them clear and
understandable to everyone, regardless of intelligence. This is the mark
of genius, the hand of the profound at work, the true nature of the Word
of God.

I have tried to prepare The Way in this same manner, one that would be
both informative and, at the same time, easily understood by all.
Preparing the historical portions of The Way messages was certainly a
formidable task. Bear in mind that all that I have written was already
known. I have said nothing new. I have merely gathered what was
fragmented and forgotten, and made it whole again. It was a difficult
task with many of the pieces scattered in different cultures and
histories. Some of the pieces had been forgotten, simply silenced by the
march of time. In other cases, pieces were deliberately hidden with
devious intent. The idea being to erase from your memories events that
might challenge the prevailing power structures now on this planet.
Still, the pieces of the puzzle were there, waiting for the day to come
when they would be reassembled into "the big picture." This is what you
now have in your possession, "the big picture," and no one can take this
from you.

The historical Way messages only scratched the surface of an immense
body of buried knowledge. Using them, you should now be able to better
understand many mysteries of the past. Think of them as a sort of
Rosetta Stone, and you can decipher the language of the hidden world you
call history. One of the most difficult to understand, and also the most
important for you to have a true knowledge about, was the Book of
Revelations in the Christian Bible. It has been called one of the
greatest mysteries of all prophetic writings. I have shown you it is
neither. It should no longer remain a mystery, for I have explained it
to you. It is not a work of prophecy, but in fact a history. An
historical record that verifies much of what I had said to you. That it
remained an enigma for so long is not surprising. This is what it was
intended to do. It was saved for a time in the future when its real
meaning would be revealed, and in so doing, authenticate the source of
that revelation. This is a powerful thing I have just told you. I hope
you fully appreciate and understand what I said. It is important.

One of the things that is uppermost in my mind, and deeply concerns me,
is my own ability to express the contents and ideas of The Way messages
accurately. These are important matters, and as such, require the
deepest commitment to truth. My concern is that some will not
understand, or will misinterpret what I have said. If this happens, it
is my fault, and in no way that of she who sent me. I am only human, and
although my search for historical data and its writing have been
inspired from elsewhere, the relating of these matters in understandable
format has been my task. I pray that I have been up to it, and that all
I have said has been easy to comprehend. My goal was to provide you with
the missing pieces that many of you knew existed, but were unsure where
to look. The Way messages should have confirmed many of your own deep
beliefs and intuitions regarding the past, and the involvement of
extraterrestrials in it. This was the purpose of the historical Way
messages.

There is, however, a larger, much deeper goal that The Way has sought to
achieve. That is, to try and correct the mistakes and failures of a
previous DOMA mission, known as the Messiah Projects. As you'll
remember, they were an attempt to bring advanced human concepts to the
Earth. It was thought that it would serve as a uniting force that would
make all mankind seek after truth together. This, as everyone knows, has
not been very successful. In fact, it has had the exact opposite effect,
driving a religious wedge between the peoples of Earth and resulting in
much loss of life, knowledge and growth of spirit. This is the main
problem, the main FAILURE, that The Way seeks to address. Many of you
have perceived The Way as simply a new religion. This is, perhaps, the
furthest thing from its true intention as you can get. I will try to
explain this, for it is vital that you clearly understand what The Way
is, and what it is intended to do to life on this planet.

Think of your life, this being not only you as a spirit, but the results
and consequences of your actions as well, as a great ship moving down a
river. Your destination is the ocean into which all the rivers empty.
The ocean is the One, your final goal. The river is your religious
beliefs. It keeps you afloat and provides the means to reach your goal.
There are many rivers that you could travel down. Some will lead to
nowhere, some to even larger faster rivers. Religions form the backbone,
the core belief structures of what we call civilization. They are your
beliefs, ideas, and motivations, like the current of the river. You are
the ships, your religions the rivers, and The Way is a map and log book.
The Way is not the river, it defines the course, or which river your
ship will sail down. On it are routes that others have taken, but the
larger part is still blank and represents the uncharted waters of human
evolution. The Way provides you with a framework, a point of reference,
to determine the best course. It is not the river. It is the best path
to take, via the rivers, in reaching your goal. Sort of like a map on
which you can record all the welltraveled and familiar waters. These
represent the various religious philosophies and spiritual dogmas that
now exist.

As with many other modes of travel, you realize that the shortest path
to your goal is a straight path and, in a perfect world, this would
apply to religions as well. One great big nice straight super river to
sail smoothly down. In a perfect world, made up of perfect people,
following the perfect religion, life would also be perfect. Life would
be easy. Now, I don't think there is anyone out there who thinks the
world is a perfect place. Nor do we think that we are perfect pristine
examples of what it is to be human. As for religion, I think they have
spoken for themselves. This is the real world, not the perfect world. It
is a world filled with rivers for us to sail down. Rivers that are
curving. Rivers that lead nowhere. There are rapids, whirlpools, and all
manner of obstacles and dead ends. Congratulations, you have just
realized the first principal of truth that comprises The Way. That we
are, as individuals, not perfect and that our world, as a whole, is just
as imperfect. Here is the second principal. "I, and this whole thing I
call life, don't have to be bad... we can be improved upon." Here is the
third and final truth of The Way's Big Three. "No one is going to do it
for me, but I can change things by my own efforts, and make the world a
better place."

These are the three basic reasons why The Way exists. It is not the
journey, but the decision to leave in the first place. It is not the
traveling, but the direction you take. Those three simple truths are all
that is needed for you to realize and, by so doing, create The Way.
Realize that nothing in this world is perfect. Realize that, through
knowledge, a more perfect way can be found. And third, realize that it
is you and you alone, who must do the changing. Only by action, your
deeds, do you become fully human. The Way is your method for finding
truth in the various religions (the rivers), taking from them those
things that help you and the world become better (picking the right
course), and then applying what you have learned in your actions (your
journey).

The Way is not religion. The Way is how you apply religious truths to
your lives. The Way does not care which religion the truth comes from,
as long as it was truth. It can take the Ten Commandments from
Christianity, the Golden Rule from Buddha, and Mahammad's teaching that
"there must be no compulsion with regards to the truth," and use them
all as they were meant to be. As one, as the true Word of God. Read
carefully the following statements. They are some of the basic beliefs
The Way conforms to. Read them and then ask yourself, "Is this truth? Is
this how I feel also?"

The Way says this: "The world could be a better place. People have to
stop hurting each other and start working together. All religions
contain some basic truths. I believe in some of what some have to offer,
but other parts I totally disagree with. Religions have become power
structures, political arenas wherein people try to "out holy" the other,
and force their own narrow belief structures upon others. I believe
there is a need for a code of morals and a set of beliefs that all
mankind could use and benefit by. I believe that all mankind should be
one people, and that there should be a unified belief structure, one
that takes the truths from all religions and unifies them into the Word
of God. I believe that this is a very large and difficult task. I know
that I will make mistakes, but at least I will be doing something."

Now ask yourself this question. "Do I believe in what was just said?" If
you do, then you are a part of The Way. The Way is the process of making
all those things a reality. We, as a people, have reached a point in our
evolution where we can no longer act as spoiled children, refusing to
play with one another. The time has come for us to take a very focused
and critical look at what we have become. Let's look in the mirror and
see if we like what we see. We need to look at our society, its
religions, its governments, its very nature, and say, "are we doing the
right thing... can it be made better?" We need to look back on all that
has happened, all that we have done, and admit to ourselves that
mistakes have been made. We need to also identify those things that were
correct, those things that did help. This is what The Way is all about.
It is a selfcritique, a clarification, a reassessment and course
correction, all rolled into one. The Way does not seek to destroy
religions, it seeks to free you from them. It is the basic belief
structure that will contain all that you determine to be good and
truthful.

Some have confused The Way with the creation of the DOMA, as outlined in
Way  13. For this I am truly sorry, as it was not my intention to
confuse. Let me try to explain the difference, for that difference is
very important. The Way is a belief structure to house truths from all
religions. As of today, the major religions of the world are
maleorientated, and in some cases, actually quite hostile toward women.
The Way will one day contain the greatest and truest of philosophies
found in all these great religions. In this way, the best they have to
offer will be made available to all. This joining of ideas and
philosophies is crucial to your social survival. You can no longer act
like children, getting mad over who has the best toys, for the toys you
play with today are lethal on a planetary scale. By joining your
religious philosophies into one, it will help bring a "balance" to all
things. Balance is perhaps the most critical achievement you must make.
Balance between, not only the different races, creeds, philosophies, but
balance between men and women.

Now, ask yourself this question. "What is the great femalecontrolled,
femaleorientated religion that you will include with the others in The
Way? Is it in the top three religions? Perhaps the top five, perhaps
ten?" It does not exist. How then, if religion forms the basis of our
social structures, can we hope to achieve balance of the male/female
forces of this planet, and do it with only maleorientated philosophy?
Aha. There is a large vacuum, a whole which exists in society. It is the
lack of female influence on religious philosophy. The DOMA is an attempt
to provide the other half of this world's population, its female half,
with something which it has been denied for nearly 1500 years. A
religious philosophy specifically geared to meeting their needs. It is
not intended to replace the other great religions. It is made to enhance
them. It will coexist in The Way, right alongside Islam, Christianity,
Taoism, and the others. It will add its uniqueness to the whole and, in
so doing, the whole will be made greater.

Some may have the idea that the DOMA is intended to supplant all the
other religions. That it will conquer all, and rule the world from a
vantage point of female superiority. This line of thought underscores
exactly why the DOMA is needed. This thinking results from centuries of
untempered male domination. Conquer and destroy all that opposes. These
are in themselves not bad philosophies, unless they are not balanced by
female compassion and cooperation. For it is the balance of these two
principals that makes a total, complete human being, or civilization.
The DOMA should be as much a source of guidance for men, as for women.
In the next Way message, I will address the critically important role
the males of this world will play in the future of mankind.

Men, do not think that you are about to be conquered by a band of raging
Amazons from space. Throughout the Collective, males and females exist
in absolute equality. This is the intent for Earth. Perhaps the reason
many have feared or misunderstood what I have said, is simply because
absolute equality of men and women is indeed, an alien concept to the
Earth. Remember this though, my friends. The equality I spoke of is
indicative of truly human civilization.

The DOMA is a religion for all the women of this world who have no
religion. The Way is the place where the Daughters of Ma and the Sons of
Ma will meet, and in the sharing, become one. It is not something to be
feared. It is something to look forward to with the greatest
anticipation. For it will bring to you that which will help you evolve.
It will bring balance to your hearts and minds. The DOMA will be a
separate religious order, one among many.

There is nothing wrong with belonging to a specific religious order, so
long as you realize that there is a larger whole that you are part of.
Be a Christian, but practice the Christian Way. Be a Muslim, but
practice the Muslim Way. Be a Jew, but practice the Jewish Way. Be a
DOMA, but practice the DOMA Way. Be together with people of your own
kind, with similar beliefs and interests, but be together with all your
brothers and sisters in The Way. You must find what is really important,
what is truth. You must work together toward achieving a better world.
You do not have too much more time to do it, and still retain those
things uniquely special to humans of the planet Earth. The Way is yours
to help you do this. No one will force you to stop hurting each other,
at least not now. But the time will come when all these things will be
overwhelmed and lost if they are not now identified and strengthened.

Now that you know a little more about The Way, I hope that you will
embrace it and begin to put it into practice. I know there is a hunger
in everyone's heart for something better, a chance to make things right
on this world. It will only happen if you work together and do it,
instead of merely saying it. Be part of The Way. Tell your friends about
it. If you are in the media, mention it so that others may hear. Part of
the strength of unity is realizing that you belong to something large
and powerful, that others believe in as well. Don't be afraid to show
your support. You are, yet, all this world has. Let this world know
about The Way and, in so doing, pass along that the time has come for
Change. You can do all these things if you only believe in yourselves
enough. I believe in you, as does she who sent me. Now, believe in
yourselves, and change the world.

My friends, we are one people. In The Way, we have the chance to start
acting like it.

Peace and Blessed Be,
MaDi




The Way installments are now available via FTP, FTPByEmail, and WWW. If
you would like a complete set of those currently published, or would
like to add missing installments, you can retrieve them using the
instructions below.



FTP (anonymous):   ftp.webcom.com/pub/way/

(This can be a busy site during peak hours. Should you get a "user
access denied" message, it just means all available pathways are in use
at that moment. Keep trying when you get that message, and usually
within another 56 tries, you will get through.)



HOW TO USE FTPBYEMAIL

(1) To Get A File When You Already Know The Filename:

Put  in the address (the To section)

(dont put anything in the Subject)

Put the following command in the body:

open ftp.webcom.com anonymous ftpmail/your address

(Be sure to substitute your complete email address in place of your address)

Next, (on separate lines) put the following command (in the body):

get /pub/way/filename
quit

(Be sure to substitute the exact name of the file in place of filename)


(2) To Get A List Of Available Files:

Put  in the address

(dont put anything in the subject)

Put the following command in the body:

open ftp.webcom.com anonymous ftpmail/your address

(Be sure to substitute your complete email address in place of your address)

Next, (on a separate line) put the following command in the body:

dir /pub/way/
quit

(This command will send you a list of all files in the directory. Then,
select the file(s) you want, and put their filenames place of filename
in the commands given in Option 1 (To Get A File When You Already Know
The Filename)



WWW (WorldWideWeb): http://www.webcom.com/~way/theway.html



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