The Book OF Anglion: Condensed Version (4)
J. Dean Fagerstrom
(24) While my close association with Maxine had an early beginning in 1954 a number of intervening events and experiences filled the years from that date to 1989, the Aphax encounter. Angels do not instruct in a direct way but rather by awakening those things we have learned from a spiritual origin. It is quite true that, as Maxine said, 'the soul remembers and foretells'. We may awaken one day and realize our thoughts and feelings are coming from a transcendent source, and if we pay heed to such matters our feet find the spiritual pathway we are meant to follow. A certain background regarding Maxine must be presented, and I will make use of an experience occurring while speaking with my mother.
(25) In the first part of the year 1967, in the Army and preparing to depart for Vietnam - I and my family were visiting my closest relatives in California. In Santa Cruz, on the day in question, my mother and I stood beneath an immense bamboo tree near her home. It is possible my mother may have considered that I'd not return from the war zone, but whatever her reason was she said the following. "Maxine was born on the fifteenth of December nineteen-twenty-four. She lived only a few minutes due to a respiratory dysfunction, and she was taken back into heaven to be taught by angels. For eight years, until you were born, your father and I were separated. Not physically but inwardly. A coldness came between us, and a sadness because of Maxine's passing. Nineteen days after you were born I took you to the church and placed you on the altar. I prayed over you something like this. 'Dear Lord, You have chosen to take my daughter from us, so now I give You back this son. Do with him as you will. I have no further claim on his life.' Then my mother, with tears in her eyes, told me that I was called her 'child of reconciliation' because she and my father were reunited in love, reconciling all the troubles and sorrows of time past. This was understandably a very moving interlude and it was remembered in clear detail. I have no recourse but to accept such a meaning and significance of a mother's out-poured heart of deep feeling, and likewise that Maxine indeed came to me initially on 19 June 1954 and never swallowed a single drop from the glass in her hand. God has no special people to do His will; He has only willing persons who have no plans of their own except those they are given from a source other than this world. That became my prayer each day as I sat before the analog-style typewriter of days gone by and the same prayer now as I read the email from friends afar. As Maxine made known - I am always remembering what my soul has foretold I must do.
(26) It should be said briefly that while in high school I was a mathematical dunce, and certainly not prominent at this day where traditional mathematics is concerned. Numerical correspondence is a heavenly science as the text will unfold step-by-step.
(27) Although the experience called the Aphax encounter may appear to be hardly more than a journalistic report it was in fact a dynamic event of vast implications. While standing with Maxine on the grassy apron near the building described I was told the following: "The mausoleum you peered into and the sarcophagus seen as well as the person named Aphax , your father and yourself , contains a correspondence. In what Emanuel (meaning Swedenborg) has termed the most ancient age there existed a science similar to numerical correspondence. It was manifested through symbols of various types, each character representing some aspect of truth. These symbols are very much like the hieroglyphic writing you are familiar with although occurring at a far more remote time. In time they lost some of their meaning and became less understandable, yet retaining a certain semblance to their original form. As this proceeded until the time of the building of the pyramids this kind of writing had become purely symbolic of nature, copied from generation to generation without the vital meaning of their original intention. I am permitted to tell you concerning Aphax for this will be important in your work. He was Egyptian, born on 23370707. (This was 7 July 2337 before the Divine birth). He had anticipated that the great son-god Ra would at some time become incarnated and become known and seen on earth. In fact Aphax had foreseen the birth of our Lord although knowing very little about exact times and dates. Aphax formed a school of learning and knew only that the great God of heaven would assume human form on 11, not knowing more than this. In turn he and his students observed the eleventh of each month in anticipation of this greatest of all events. In the heavenly world there are countless societies or communities of persons, even as Emanuel has written. These societies are divinely-arranged according to the deepest inclinations and states of love its members manifest. We call this affinities of soul. Everyone on earth is inwardly connected to some society or to those representative of a society of a heavenly social order where affinities of soul are present. For these reasons the heavenly science of numerical correspondence has now been restored, and your conjunction with those who have met with you will become a vital part of your assigned task."
(28) It should be understood that no person is 'assigned' any spiritual mission from some arbitrary reason but only in cooperation with one's free-will. If willingness is the active force it appears that individuals find out sooner or later what the greatest delight of life and pursuit really is. It becomes the 'real work' as Maxine called it; it is the fulfilling work of one's life, the activity which is filled with joy and delight, a knowledge of the certainty of a spiritual task. It becomes a person's vital action in the kingdom of God regardless of its external description. This was confirmed on the date of 19890101.
(29) Maxine caused me to understand concerning first names according to NC (numerical correspondence). In the latter part of 1986, while at my place of work, Maxine was with me and informed that an earthly counterpart of the Anglion society would come about. I began writing notes on a pad, actually a daily journal later called the Aphax journal - and all at once realized what I'd written: The Center Of Sacred Studies. Maxine confirmed this as the correct title. On 19870509 (9 May 1987) a friend was visiting. Suddenly I said we had a task to perform, and taking a shovel I led the friend to one of my adjoining lots and drove the shovel into the ground and said: 'On this day I dedicate this home and property to the Lord's purpose called The Center Of Sacred Studies. This center, abbreviated, will identify itself as CSS. In forming a mathematical correspondence of a name or phrase each word is separately given its numerical equivalence and added to the succeeding word or name involved. The NC of CSS is 1704515.
(30) In No. 20 the derivation of the numerical designator was explained. The Divine ND of Jesus Christ is 367. This ND is formed like any other, first by using the provincial date, and in this case it reads 60811, meaning the apparent historical year-designation of 6 B.C. This will therefore show 268 which is 13 (x22). In corrected terms as shown above this date will read 10811, the first numeral 1 signifying year-1 of the new Christian era. This will show the spiritual ND as 281, a naturally-derived PN. In the case of the Lord Jesus Christ the celestial ND is formed differently than is any other person's. The Lord was resurrected on 360409, or 9 April 36 A.D. in corrected time. This ND designation is therefore 949 which is 73 (x13). 13 + 281 + 73 = 367, the Divine ND.
(31) When the Divine ND 367 is programmed and successively added to my cumulative ND 167 a total of 4644 times the number reached will be 1704515, the NC of CSS. This is only one of many instances of similar nature to be shown later in the text. The title of this book is also abbreviated as TBA, and this phrase, along with the phrase 'text', are considered synonymous.
(32) Several significant events occurred at the time of my wife's 'ascension', the angelic term for one's departure from the world. Certain of these events are noteworthy in our context.
(33) Helga's ascension occurred on 19830215. It is by now assumed that the reader will easily recognize the manner in which eight-digit dates are properly written. On the 18th the funeral was held. A large gathering met at my home following the graveyard ceremonies. Late that night, lying on my bed still dressed, I was praying and meditating on the next phase of my life. The meeting of Helga while I was a soldier stationed in Germany was what I happily call the 'romance of the century'. We were meant to meet and marry, and for 24 wonderful years we celebrated love. Helga was a very beautiful woman, compassionate, gifted, someone every friend adored. As I lay on my bed that night late I was suddenly aware of my father's presence, and he spoke the following words: "Dean, have no fear, for when the feet of your beloved first touched these shores I was there to greet her." Obviously on earth my father had never met his daughter-in-law, having ascended on 19550526. The following morning my father again was making his presence known, and he asked me to sit in my car. I got in my car and just sat looking at the February landscape, and finally I casually glanced at the odometer. The car had recently passed the 100,000-mile mark and the odometer was starting over again in its calculations. As I read the little window I gasped in surprise: the number was 16519. This was the exact NA of Helga, meaning the day she passed from the earth on the 15th. I had already made the computation and that is why this sudden appearance of something so deeply significant had such an impact. Later in the day I was looking at some of Helga's belongings and I saw her watch, an older style requiring manual winding. It had long since stopped at 6:22. I gasped in great surprise again. 622 is Helga's natural non-factored ND, her date of birth being 19371124, or 622, as a natural ND. An hour or two later I discovered an old watch once owned by my father; it had stopped years before, but its time showed 7:26 - my natural ND. When this occurred I was both sad and happy, a very peculiar feeling of pathos because of such events. This did not end the session with my father however. One day in April of that same year, 1983, I arrived home from work and again my father was present. He asked me to look for something, as ambiguous as the request may sound. I ran down to my basement darkroom, feeling that anything important might be found there. Nothing of significance appeared so I returned to the living room and stood in the same place as before when asked to look for something. Again I casually looked around and at last, right before me, on a table near a lamp, was a ceramic coaster with one of the house-keys lying on it. I had given each of my children a key months before, but none of them, including the one on my key ring, had a number imprinted on it. The one I now picked up had a single five-digit number on its shank: 27584. This is the NA of my father on the day he departed the world. I had the key silver-plated and carry it to this day. But the moment I picked up this key my father spoke and said: "So now you know." What did this mean ? On 19811009, while at work. Helga purchased a fifty-cent lottery ticket sponsored by a fire department as a fund-raiser. That ticket was drawn a few days later, a sum substantial enough to buy the present home. My father had insinuated that he had acted under the auspices of the Divine providence as the instrumentality in causing Helga's ticket to be drawn. Angels do these things when it is the Lord's good pleasure, and the one truth that is gleaned from this account is that 'accidents', 'chance' and 'luck' are not realities and do not exist except as euphemisms. Nothing said thus far is intended to engender faith; the only authentic source of faith comes from love of God and the neighbor.
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