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  What Would You Do With The Book of Life?

  Written By: P.M.

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  Copyright 2016 P.M.

  M.J.D. Rof

  CHAPTER 1

  The Book of Life

  The book of Life has been a long fabled book of mysteries and legends, a book that has been around since the dawn of time. It has been said that it contains the meaning of life itself, or is believed to contain the history of our lives. Many religions talk about Gods having books of great wisdom or of enlightenment ‘The Book of Light’. There is always believed to be a ‘Book Of The Dead’ or a ‘Dark Book’. Sometimes these books were shown to our ancient ancestors that were taken among the gods. Sometimes they were given to ancient man as a gift. A man once claimed to see an entire library of these mystical books. People have claimed to have either read it in physical place on earth or to experience it through a dream or vision, in the supernatural realm.

  Mans search for wisdom has taken us from the far corners of earth to places not on this earth. The search always leads to places of mythical proportions. These places usually have something to do with the Gods themselves. Man holds these places as sacred or holy, believed to actually be “touched” by the Gods. Some have been deemed evil and haunted by bad spirits.

  There is only two ways that the book of life has been known to man. The first is actually seeing it, touching it, or looking at it with your own two eyes, to actually be in contact with it in the physical world. It would be like any other book to hold or to open and read, but its contents are what make it special. The search for wisdom is one of the first stories in the King James Bible. Genesis tells of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden eating a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, therefore gaining enlightenment.

  The Book of Enoch tells of a man’s journey into the heavens. Enoch is a character that appears in the Book of Genesis and a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is described as the great grandson of Adam (through Seth) the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah. The text reads uniquely in the Generations that Enoch "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him," suggesting he did not experience the mortal death ascribed to Adam's other descendants. These stories recount how Enoch is taken up to Heaven and is appointed guardian of all the celestial treasures, chief of the Archangels, and the immediate attendant on God’s throne. He is subsequently taught all secrets and mysteries and, with all the angels at his back, fulfills of his own accord whatever comes out of the mouth of God, executing his decrees. Enoch was also seen as the inventor of writing, teacher of astronomy, arithmetic, all three reflecting the interpretation of his name as meaning initiated. Much esoteric literature, like the 3rd Book of Enoch, identifies Enoch as the Metatron, the angel which communicates God's word. In consequence, Enoch was seen, by this literature, and the Rabbinic Kabbalah of Jewish mysticism, as having been the one which communicated God's revelation to Moses, in particular, the dictator of the Book of Jubilees.

  The Old Chinese fable by Wu Ch’eng called A Journey to the West, written in the 16th century of the Ming dynasty, tells a tale of a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself, "Great Sage Equal to Heaven". When he is summoned to the underworld and told that his time on earth is up, he merely crosses his name out of the Book of Death. His powers grow to match the forces of all of the Eastern (Taoist) deities, and the prologue culminates in Monkey’s rebellion against Heaven, during a time when he garnered a post in the celestial bureaucracy. Hubris proves his downfall when the Buddha manages to trap him under a mountain, sealing the mountain with a talisman for five hundred years. The mountain is deemed haunted for five hundred years, although the monkey is not evil.

  Ancient Mayan civilization tells of a god that gives a Book of Knowledge to Man before leaving earth. A man in South America claimed to have been diving in a river and found and underwater cave. In this was a volume of books made from gold, one paged weighed so much he could not possibly swim out of the cave with or he might drown. So if one paged weighed so much how much would an entire book weigh, let alone a whole volume of books? The man told that the writing was unrecognizable to him, which being of an uneducated background was really of no significance. The man said that in the rainy season this cave would be impossible to locate, but during severe droughts the cave was accessible only by diving underwater. How could anyone dive with such heavy objects? What information would be of such value that it would be scribed into gold and hidden in an underwater cave? The man died taking the secret location with him to his grave. While the location is still in debate the local tribes indigenous to the area, believed to hold the lost golden books, are the guardians and will not permit any foreigners in their lands.

  Was this an entire encyclopedia of the God’s books? Could it have been an entire library left behind by the gods? The knowledge in just one page would be equivalent to our entire knowledge to date as an entire species. The man who alleges to have seen these golden books knew revealing the location would bring robbers looking for fortune from the allure of gold. Now say that this entire collection falls into the hands of a human who seeks the wealth of gold. The most important discovery a human could make for mankind as a whole thrown away because of being blinded by shiny gold. The Spanish conquistadors killed entire cultures looking for gold, for some reason in our history we believe that gold is so important to kill for. All ancient knowledge should be distributed into commonwealth of the human race over individuals. Instead we use it to be more powerful than another, to get a leg up on everyone else. Maybe the way to unite our species forever is in these books, in the wrong hands that would be hidden away by the same people that would have the most to lose. This is probably why the tribesman of this land had vowed to kill any outsiders on their sacred land.

  There are other tales in the physical that are not as grandiose as the golden library. Ancient Egyptians have a hall of records which kept the ancient knowledge. It was believed that their knowledge came from an even early civilization called Atlantis, but there is no know evidence this is true or not. We have found the hall of records but it is empty of any records or books thus containing no knowledge at all.

  High in the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet, monks are believed to have ancient scripts and knowledge, but this is strictly forbidden to anyone but the monks. While there reasons for not allowing access are not fully understood does that make it right or wrong? There could be specific instructions contained in these scripts saying not to divulge the information, or it could say quite the opposite. Either way is it right for a few to decide for the many?

  CHAPTER 2

  Spirit World or 4TH Dimension