Significance of May (Pentecost) to Human Existence

By Femi Kusa/

Olufemikusa1783@omail.ai

johnolufemikusa@gmail.com

Nigerians will remember 29 May 2023 for the inauguration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In other countries, different events will make that day a historic one. Yet for many persons worldwide, May 29 of every year is observed in spiritual retreat as the forerunner day of the peak of PENTECOST or the outpouring of power from On High into our universe.

Since I learned in 1978 of the importance of May of every year for human existence, I have striven to inwardly withdraw from material encumbrances in the last three days of that month to give it deserved attention. Many of us do not know we are tiny parts of a mighty whole and that the mighty whole is microscopically present in each of us. I remember this fact all over every May 29, 30, and 31 when I observe my heartbeat, about 72 of them every minute, and imagine the blood as it circulates within my body. Then, I strive to imagine this microscopic event in the body of a mortal man at play in the gigantic universe, as what is happening below is a mere miniature of what is going on in the mighty whole, Universe. Does this mean that the universe has a heart that is beating and pumping “blood” around it? If this is so, of what significance is it for the existence of every creature, including man, in the Universe?

Left to man, this conception must be a difficult one to untangle. He is no longer a balanced being with the ability to simultaneously experience material and immaterial existence. The intellect, resident in the frontal brain, the cerebrum or the “big” brain, the sharpest instrument of the material world, is overcultivated and out of balance with the back brain, the “small” brain, the cerebellum, the connection point with the immaterial or invisible world. Thus, the average earthman knows only his physical environment and nothing else. Yet that other world exists and is tangible to whoever concerns himself or herself with it.

Earthly affairs, political, social, economic, etc, or simply our tangible world is upside down solely because many of us are no longer able to connect with the immaterial world. The immaterial world we are now distant from is the world that should govern our activities in the material world. There are very few human beings today who are balanced human beings because their frontal brains and back brains are no longer balanced. Our language should have warned us about this. We do not speak of a small eye and a big eye. Nor do we speak of a big hand and a small hand. Both lobes of the ear are symmetrically positioned and physically apportioned. So, something must be wrong with the conception of a big brain and a small brain. It is this imbalance which makes governments, citizens, and the professions to be unable to think straight when it comes to doing things the way the universe, the microscopic part of it, expects us to conduct ourselves.

Nevertheless, there is a lifeline for the materialist or purely intellectual person. This lifeline is revealed knowledge. Knowledge belongs to the realms of the non-physical world. We always make the mistake of believing that the intellectually developed person or someone who has trained his or her brain through the study of something earthly or physical is a knowledgeable person. Oh no! He or she is only an erudite person brimming with erudition in his or her special and narrow field of material preoccupation. A cardiologist is erudite when it comes to discussing the heart and the cardiovascular system before laypersons or even specialist doctors like himself. But when he says he ‘knows” his wife, or when she says she “knows” her husband, can this be a true statement? Whoever “knows” the other person? You cannot say you “know me “simply because you have been seeing me, reading my articles or hearing about me almost all your life. Only a person who can see that other person in and out can claim or speak of knowing him or her.

We may understand this subject better and appreciate it better, also, the concept of revealed knowledge from the story of a psychic boy. He was in elementary school. He liked to be by himself whenever other children trooped out of their class for snacks or to relax during break time. The boy was called John. His story was told by Neale Donald Walsch in his book titled CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD. The book was a gift to me on 12th April 1999 from Mr. Jacob Akindele, economist, tennis coach, and a former member of the Editorial Board of THE GUARDIAN newspaper. I guess he thought I needed to read it after my review in the newspaper of James Redfield’s book, Celestine Prophecy. One day during class break, John’s teacher, a woman, walked up to him to ask why he was not out for a break. John gave her a shocking and surprising reply. He said her son had just had an accident. She had a son. When she asked him what he meant, John replied that her son was trying to cross a road and a vehicle knocked him down. The teacher thought John was out of his mind. But soon after the class break was over and she resumed her work, the head teacher walked in with someone beside him. They came to break the news to her that her son had just been knocked down by a vehicle and was in hospital! The teacher looked straight at John, picked up her bag, announced to the class that she had to leave, and went to see her son in the hospital.

What I am trying to say is that knowingness is knowledge, and the capacity or ability to know does not reside in the frontal brain or intellect but in the SPIRIT. The intellect is no more than the perceptive capacity of the brain to gather information, classify it, store it, retrieve, and analyze it when necessary.

Where most human beings on Earth do not realize that they are SPIRIT BEINGS, we cannot speak of their ability to recognize, easily become seeing and knowing, and, therefore, become knowledgeable. So, when we speak of revealed knowledge, it is knowledge revealed to the person who did not possess it. We are all meant to be knowing people but, unfortunately, we have become thinking people. That means we THINK before we act. We do not RECEIVE, and act based on that which we have received, using the intellect as an instrument to shape our conduct. We do not receive or, rather, we do not easily receive anymore because the back brain, the cerebellum, which is the spiritually receptive part of the brain, has become stunted or atrophied from lack of sufficient use for which reason we now recognize it as the “small” brain. That, also, is why our world is upside down and, everywhere, there is no peace or happiness.

 MAY 30.

Christians are aware of the BOOK OF REVELATIONS. Moslems, too, are well advised of the events this book of revealed knowledge says are forthcoming to the earth. I find interesting the Revelations about May 30 in the REVEALED KNOWLEDGE of our time. It takes us back to that temple In Christian teachings where 24 elders continually sing HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. Going by this revealed knowledge, the temple is at the boundary of the worlds of the angels and interfaces with another temple right below it where, before creation came into existence, there was a dark, cold, and lifeless void. With the creation, order LET THERE BE LIGHT, a spiritual temple appeared beneath the Divine temple of the 24 elders like an annex to it. From out of the Spiritual Temple, came out the Power which lit up and warmed the lifeless, dark void, giving it the ability to host and sustain existence. This was the creation of PARADISE or the various worlds of the spiritual species of creation. It is after the lowest of these worlds that the material worlds developed as miniature semblances. The earth is the outermost boundary or Outpost of the material worlds in our universe called EPHESUS. This universe is one of the seven referred to in the BOOK OF REVEALATIONS which speaks of a Message to THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA. In this Divine Message, the “seven churches ” are the “seven universes” and “Asia” is the spiritual name of creation. An archangel superintends each universe, and it is being addressed by a higher order. This should resolve for us the assurance of Jesus that there were many “mansions in My father’s House”. How else but as shown in this revelation could there have been many mansions in a single house? God’s house is the entire creation, and the mansions are the various spheres of existence!

At the peak of paradise stands a temple. In this temple, there is a vessel. It is from this vessel that all the worlds below this temple in Paradise receive the power from the Almighty Creator for their continued existence, flowering, and fruiting. Once a year in earthly parlance, power is poured out to the creations below for their maintenance. The outpouring is akin to the pumping of blood by the human heart to all parts of the body. When the heart fails to perform this function, the possibility of death is high. As it is above, so is it below, we have been told. Thus, if there is no outpouring of DIVINE POWER from the CHALICE in the highest temple in Paradise, creation would become deprived of energy, it would shrivel or wilt and… die!

In the aforementioned ‘REVEALED KNOWLEDGE’ in our time, the RENEWAL OF POWER FOR CREATION takes place in the earthly month of May EVERY YEAR. Revealed Knowledge informs us that the earthly peak of this event is May 30th. Knowing ones assemble in groups in every country where the knowledge is anchored to absorb this power unhindered and to triumphantly use it beneficially for upbuilding purposes on this earth and in the Universe.

The revelation does not end there. It informs us that, as this period approaches in Paradise, the KNIGHTS of the TEMPLE Who guard the CHALICE seriously beseech the HOLY SPIRIT for this High Grace on behalf of creation. For if the power is not sent by the HOLY SPIRIT, creation would wilt and die. There is rejoicing in that temple when the holy dove appears over the CHALICE. It is the spiritually visible form of the HOLY SPIRIT. Clairvoyants sighted the holy dove above; the person of Jesus wherever he was. Even Joseph, his earthly foster father, would sight it on his deathbed when Jesus stood beside him. So moved was he, we are told, that all doubts departed for him, and he exclaimed…So, THOU ART HE! The appearance of the dove above the person of Jesus is evidence that, like the Father and the holy spirit, He and the Father are one in their Activities.

Some churches may have come to the recognition of THE HOLY DOVE as the spiritually visible form of the HOLY SPIRIT to make an image of it as part of their paraphernalia!

PENTECOST

As the HOLY DOVE stands over the CHALICE inveighing it with power, the CHALICE burgles over from an outpouring of power from the Holy Spirit into CREATION. This event has come to be recognized as PENTECOST. This was what the disciples of Jesus experienced in the upper chamber. According to reports of that event, clairvoyants saw TONGUES OF FIRE descend onto the head of each of them, and their souls were spiritually invigorated.

THE CHURCH

Some Nigerian churches do not celebrate Pentecost. Those who do believe it was a one-off event of which the congregation is merely reminded once a year. But in other spiritual circles, it is well known, thanks to REVEALED KNOWLEDGE, that this event has been occurring since the beginning of CREATION and continues to occur for as long as subsequent creation deserves to exist through the fulfillment of THE WILL OF GOD, especially after the promised millennium. In fact, man is now educated that Jesus knew about it, having come from the Almighty Creator. Did he not want that man’s sins against the Almighty Father and those against him Jesus would be forgiven, but those against the Holy Spirit would not? Jesus knew of the time of the Pentecost of His time and instructed his Disciples to gather in the upper chamber for the blessing. In fact, as we are now, informed, his Ascension took place on the crests of the waves of power rebounding homeward.

Pentecost has not ceased to occur at the designated time every Earth year, and May 30 has remained its peak. The trouble is that this power is received by many human beings today, not consciously as the disciples absorbed it, but unconsciously.

In this regard, it drives not many people towards beautiful ends as it did the disciples, but they use it for ignoble ends, not knowing the power which fills them up.

NATURE

If we carefully observe what we call nature currently, we experience a season of regeneration. In our part of the earth, rain comes visiting, the fields and forests are greener and the soil yields more crops. I have an experimental snail cage in my garden. It excites me to remember this season when I see new and bigger eggs every day. I watch out for the fruits and vegetables of the season and enjoy them in gratitude for the renewal of Creation. I observe the events around me, mindful that many people are unconscious of what is going on. Traditionally, this is the season of OUTBURSTS not only in Nigeria but globally. Anyone who does not consciously absorb and use this power would put it to negative use, because no one can rise beyond his or her nature, and no one can withhold this power within him or her without using it. If we recall most flash points in Nigerian history, we may easily discover they fall within this season.

FLASHPOINTS

The First World War (1939-1945) broke out in July when Germany invaded Poland. The Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) broke out on July 6. In April 1978, Nigerian students staged the now popular Ali-must-go nationwide riot against the education minister over increased school fees.

I do not vividly remember the cause of yet another riot that saved my job as Editor of The Guardian newspaper.  On May 29, 30, and 31, I always inwardly withdraw from material pursuits as I said earlier, to attune myself to this event. So did the Managing Director of the newspaper, Mr Lade Bonuola. Mr. Alex Ibru, chairman of the company, could not understand what was so important about those dates that both helmsmen would ease themselves out of work. He also did not realize that both men had been so dedicated to work that they ran a schedule of 10 am to 1 am every day on average and had not gone on vacation for about 10 years running. So, he scheduled an important meeting for 31st May which both men must attend. Mr. Bonuola said outright that he would not. To broker a middle ground, I decided to turn up for the meeting at about 3 pm, which is about four hours late, if only to show my face. Mr. Ibru would have none of that. It was EITHER you came on time, or you did not come at all. So, I braced up to be fired. Mr. Bonuola stuck to his guns. My journey to Ikeja was smooth. In Ikeja, I saw huge mobs, burning tyres and harassing motorists. To prove solidarity with them, I pulled some plants by the roadside and held them on the windscreen with the car wipers. They let me pass. I drove between the airport and the air force barracks where I expected some quiet. Everywhere in town was noisy and rowdy. I arrived in the office to find only one of the people expected at the meeting. He was ALHAJI ALIYU DASUKI, a relation of the Sultan of Sokoto deposed by Gen Sanni Abacha. Mr. Alex Ibru could not leave his home in Ikoyi!

INAUGURATION

I do not know what thinking informed the shifting of the inauguration of the Nigerian President from OCTOBER 1, the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence from Great Britain to May 29, a previously quiet date on the Nigerian calendar. It may very well be that whoever threw up the idea was guided to imbue the new president with the power of Pentecost. It may very well be just one of those things. Whatever it is, my prayer is that his aura restores peace, and unity to the nation and attracts to it such blessings as would help citizens and country alike recognize the unswerving will of the Almighty Creator and unconditionally fulfill it. For that alone is what can bring peace, plenty, and happiness.

FEMI KUSA was at various times Editor; Director of Publication/ Editor-in-Chief of THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER; Editorial Director/ Editor-in-Chief of THE COMET NEWSPAPER. Currently, he keeps a Thursday Column on Alternative Medicine in the NATION NEWSPAPER.

Some of his health columns may be found on www.olufemikusa.com and in MIDIUM a digital platform for writers. He is active also on Facebook @ John OLUFEMI KUSA.

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