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The Story of Paxcalibur

Part III

(2007-2010)

Paxcalibur & the Last Crusade

The Separation Wall

From my Journal:

September 22th, 2007

"You must love the ones you've harmed. You must serve the ones you or your people have harmed."

When you become a Christian with Father Jesus in your heart, you must go to those who've you've wronged in the past and make amends. You must seek truth and reconciliation in all your troubled relationships until the discord is resolved and peace reigns in your heart again. This is a general commandment from Father Jesus but I am to deliver it in Jerusalem especially aimed at Israelis to soften their hearts towards the people they've greatly wronged. This is part of the Messianic messages. God's a 12 Stepper, it seems..

Jesus "owns" Jerusalem. Paxcalibur is His Sign of ownership and mark of His presence.

There is no reason now to honor the place where a Hindu god was mistaken for a Hebrew or Arab man. Paxcalibur will go into the Garden Tomb, the "place of the skull" as a Sign of the Return of the Spirit of Christ.

All the Paxcalibur visions were Signs pointing to the End of Abraham.

You cannot make a mythical god-man real by false sanctification.

July 3rd, 2008

"Paxcalibur and the Religion of Peace is the only authentic religion of the Living God."

"God sent me to re-establish spiritual authority in the Holy Land that has been corrupted and lost."

"Paxcalibur was sent to Palestinian Arabs, not Israeli Jews. Paxcalibur is God's Sign that Palestinians will get their country back. A Promise from God. But the name of the country will not be "Palestine" but the Promised Land, "Canaan"."

July 7th, 2008

"Canaan" gives both Israelis and Palestinians a way out of their I/P conflict with grace. A new beginning for both in the center of post-Abrahamic religious worship.

The Canaan Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Ariel, the Angel of Jerusalem guided me in my Old Testament days. Father Jesus guides me in my New Testament days.

July 16th, 2008

July 19th, 2008

"Then Jesus said to him, 'Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe."-Jn 4:48

Those who see Paxcalibur who are of God, will respond and be awakened. The image of Paxcalibur is enough to trigger the spiritual reaction when coupled to my Gospel.

Father says I go back to Israel..

July 20th, 2008

Paxcalibur, the Golden Ruler

Paxcalibur, meaning "Peace" and "[fashioned]"out of steel", is that rod of iron of the Messiah made into the world's 1st sacred weapon of peace against war.

It shows us how to follow the Golden Rule by sacrificing everything that people make into weapons against peace.

July 21st, 2008

The Wall

Paxcalibur is to touch this wall to start the process of destroying it.

"Out of Egypt I have called My Son."

Jesus learned the truth in Egypt. The Jews didn't know it even though their prophets carried the information in symbolic code. The early Gnostics knew the truth and when Roman Catholics went after them, they went to Egypt to hide the truth again knowing that God would direct the next prophet to Egypt's secret influence on Jesus and Christianity. "In My house there are many mansions" the verse in John 14:2 is straight out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. In 1964 a Christian seeress saw "Egypt" strongly in my future.

July 26th, 2008

Eretz Yisrael is the world. Greater Israel is the world. It is spiritual in meaning for the Creator dispersed Jews for a reason; "Ye are the salt of the earth", only Jews didn't know it. Jesus did; to spread the truth which is carried like a precious pearl within the Torah and Tanakh.

August 16th, 2008

I am cleansing Christianity, Judaism, and Islam of moral pollution. I will not argue about this fact of moral pollution for it is obvious in our times in view of the religious warfare between and among fanatical members of these Abrahamic religions.

August 18th, 2008

August 19th, 2008

Paxcalibur in Jerusalem on the Altar of Peace at the Garden Tomb site must point to Mecca.

December/2/09

Stephen's Peace Mission to Israel.

The Wall

There was a vision within my Paxcalibur vision that pointed to a "wall" which I thought was the Wailing Wall but now I know it's the apartheid Wall Israelis are building to create their Fortress Israel prison-state.

Paxcalibur is to touch this wall to start the process of destroying it.

If the Wall is still there when we go to Israel for Easter, as a Sign of God's Presense behind me, Paxcalibur will perform a biblical miracle. Paxcalibur will destroy the Israeli apartheid Wall with one touch, a cry, and no violence at all.

February 10th, 2010

February 13th, 2010

Paxcalibur is the anchor for the Rainbow Bridge connecting New World spirituality with Old World Holy Land religious tradition. Paxcalibur must be anchored in Jerusalem.

April 9th, 2010

God recognized as goodness to others personified no matter how goodness as God is called or worshiped. Rebuke religious, intellectual and moral hypocrisy. Truth cannot be sacrificed. Explain why peace on earth, goodwill to all in Creation cannot be attained without sacrifice of everything that acts as weapons against peace, the meaning of Paxcalibur.

April 13th, 2010

A "kinder, gentler, jihad."

Our trip to the Holy Land, 2010

It was an ordeal with everything that could go wrong going wrong yet despite the naive Christian peace pilgrims many errors in travel arrangements and travel knowledge, God still provided continuing astonishing proof of Paxcalibur's spiritual power.

First the bad news. Bridgit, my traveling Pentecostal companion was convinced the Devil was trying to thwart us every which way he could. Where to start on our misadventures? Finding out the day before takeoff that my longterm parking arrangements for my van were not set up right and having to make special arrangements costing twice as much as expected? Taking our flight from SFO to JFK to Amman, Jordan where we would transfer to a connecting flight to Cairo, Egypt making needless arrangements booking a round trip itinerary to Cairo instead of Tel Aviv which necessitated taking a bus ride from Cairo to the Israeli border and then a rip-off $600 taxi ride from there to Jerusalem because the buses weren't running in order to arrive in Jerusalem in time for the Palm Sunday celebration march where the Nazarean priest who had Paxcalibur was bringing it especially for me to carry in the Palm Sunday march, the priest who we never did connect with until after the parade was over with and finding out we both were there but never saw one another in the 3000 people event? Or before this happened, losing my passport in the Amman airport at the security gate before boarding the flight to Cairo and then dealing with Amman airport security people passing the buck as what to do with us, finally deciding after 12 hours to send us back home to the USA because the US Embassy wouldn't be open for four days where I could get another passport, all of which would have wasted our trip and left us out over a $1100 apiece, to a visit to the Amman police station to fill out a missing passport with police filling out forms in slow motion, to finding my passport at last stuck underneath my hat that had gone through security check and had been searched with no passport seen until I found it, Amman security having a good laugh at that, to arriving at Cairo where my luggage was missing and not found until the return to Cairo at the end of our trip leaving me with no clothes and no brand new camcorder to record events all through our trip, to having to wash my clothes I was wearing daily as well as buying some to tide me through. I won't even mention my digital camera coming off my belt and falling into a toilet knocking it out of action for most of my trip. Luckily, Bridgit had brought disposable cameras and most of the pictures were shot with these,--hence the poorer quality of images.

Murphy's Law was the Devil's tool and almost every day of our 16 day itinerary something went wrong requiring hours of hassling. On the incorrect advice of Radio Shack we didn't buy a cellphone because they didn't know if Israel cellphone service would work on the cheap phones we could afford. So everywhere we needed to call someone or have someone call us was a headache of finding a willing cellphone owner or paying for expensive calls. And the buses, ah yes, those buses that we were counting on to get between cities and which were never running when we needed them because of this or that Jewish, Christian, or even Muslim holiday. Never go to Israel on high holy days unless you're with a tour group with their own buses. We ended up having to take expensive long distance taxi rides which wiped out our trip monies, spending well over half our costs on them. Or how about that bus ride from Jerusalem to Bethlehem that started off with a bomb scare at the bus stop where we would-be bus passengers were herded across the road while IDF went through a ritual of blowing up a plastic trash bag and making our bus late. After arriving at Bethlehem at dark we were let off outside the Israeli security wall and luckily our friend, Sami Awad in Bethlehem came and rescued us telling us that had we arrived 2 hours before that gateway would have been closed as it had been for five days--Israeli vengance closing off Bethlehem from tourists for Sami's Holy Land Trust organization's successful peace-action where 12 activists were arrested, went to trial and got released by an Israeli judge setting a precedent that IDF could no longer arbitrarily arrest non-violent Palestinian and international peace demonstrators. I won't go into all the relatively minor malfunctions of our trip because despite all the hardship and misconnections, some extraordinary things happened and it is these memories that I want to report here now.

The good news:

While it seemed misfortune that I didn't connect with Abuna (Father) Hatoum at the Palm Sunday event in Jerusalem, the event he had specifically invited me to come to where I could carry Paxcalibur in the procession from Mount of Olives down the valley and then up into Old Jerusalem, similar to my carrying Paxcalibur seven years before at Nazareth's Easter procession, it was a blessing in disguise. Seven years before after Paxcalibur's final sanctification baptism in the Jordan River I had lightly glued it to its redwood burl slab base. Both together made Paxcalibur weight at least 30-35 pounds which I did carry in the Nazareth event for 2½ kilometers. The Palm Sunday march was at least 3 miles long and up and down large hills. I was counting on being able to pull Paxcalibur off its burl slab but the light coating of glue had hardened up over the seven intervening years and I couldn't budge it. If I had carried Pax in that Palm Sunday event it would have wiped me out carrying both Paxcalibur and the burl slab base. The Palm Sunday event was pretty spectacular with at least 3000 joyous and exhuberant Christians from many places around the world participating in singing "Hosanna", "Christ is arriving in Jerusalem". There were even singing and dancing nuns and priests but we missed Abuna who turned out to have been at the end of the parade while we were at the beginning of it. He had dutifully brought Pax with him. We spent the rest of Palm Sunday sightseeing in old Jerusalem. Bridgit got to pray at the Wailing Wall and put her hand in the place where Jesus was said to have touched.

The Wailing Wall, Women's section with Bridgit somewhere in the photo (the dark smudges are actually plants growing in the wall)

Bridgit touching the spot where Jesus is said to have touched it 2000 years before

On Monday Abuna Hatoum came and took us to Nazareth via the coastal road where we stopped at a beautiful and peaceful Trappist monastery

and then in Haifa, at Abuna Hatoum's Archbishop's office where we had tea with the Archbiship. I had thought Abuna was Catholic and wondered why he could have a family but learned on this trip he is Melkite Greek Orthodox who has two churches in Nazareth, the beautiful little Church of St. George near his home and a new and much bigger one being constructed not too far away. I found out that Paxcalibur has been mounted these past seven years in Abuna's most special room where he receives dignitaries from all over the Holy Land as well as from other countries. For example I met the mayor of Nazareth there. Here are pictures of Pax in that room.

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Outdoor barbeque with Abuna Hatoum's family. I found I loved most all Arabic foods put in front of me!

Abuna's grandkids ready to sing their routines at a drop of a hat. I wished that my own grandkids could have been there.

A Nazareth church (forgotten the name of this one) bedecked with palm branches for Palm Sunday

Next, off to Bethlehem from Nazareth to see Sami Awad and the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem. I've told the kind of scary way we arrived in Bethlehem but Bethlehem turned out to be the place both Bridgit and I like best of all the places we saw in the Holy Land. Bethlehem is very Christian, much more so than Nazareth even though Nazareth has more Christians in it. Bethlehem Palestinians were the friendliest to us overall and it was there that I got to accomplish the most important reason I had come back to the Holy Land: to fulfill the vision command that Paxcalibur touch the Apartheid or Separation Wall with a prayer and no violence at all to start the process of the Wall's dismantlement in three years. Sami Awad had arranged for us to stay in a near-by hotel to his Holy Land Trust organization's office in reciprocation for staying with us in California where I had arranged two venues for Sami to speak about the Palestinian issues with Israeli occupation. Boy, was that hotel a welcomed relief from the dirty Cairo hotel and cramped Jerusalem hostel. Abuna's home was nice but the Arabic/English language barrier made communications with Abuna's family a little difficult. Sami speaks fluent English and it helped knowing what we said and what our listeners heard were being understood. Sami knew all about my Paxcalibur vision and was into helping me find the spot on the Separation Wall that now cuts off Bethlehem from Bethlehem as well as from easy access to Jerusalem, both considered twin cities which is something that's never happened before in history.

The Holy Land Trust office in Bethlehem

The Separation Wall in Bethlehem

Now how to find the Palestinian girl "without guile", not to knight me as Paxcalibur couldn't be lifted off its redwood burl base, but instead to bless Paxcalibur for its mission at the Wall. Like all my Paxcalibur sanctification rituals, God always seems to want feminine energy involved. Sami volunteered his seven year old daughter, Lulu, another strong personality in miniature who was happy to do it. Below is Lulu blessing Paxcalibur.

Me, Sami and Lulu Awad with Lulu blessing Paxcalibur in front of the Separation Wall

Completing the vision whereby Paxcalibur touching the Wall will start in motion the Wall's eventual dismantlement

Sami, Lulu, me and Paxcalibur

Bridgit and me with Paxcalibur at the Wall

Well, now Paxcalibur is on the line for a miracle to happen--the dismantlement of the Separation Wall, that process to begin within three years. I have accomplished what God told me to do. What happens now is up to God but as a favorable indicator, when I had first put psychic energy into going to Bil'in as the first site for this Pax exorcizement, Bil'in received a new court ruling banning further construction of the Wall there. The Wall will come down just as the Communists' Berlin Wall came down. God has told us through this vision and the Canaan Peace Plan that it is a sin to divide the Holy Land. "Israel" may think it can always "struggle with God" and win but it cannot win against the Creator.

Happy that despite the hardships and mishaps of the trip I had done what God had asked me to do, what else was there to do in Bethlehem but sightsee like regular tourists? So we did see the Church of the Nativity (very packed with tourists) and a much quieter and nicer feeling "Milk Grotto" nearby where Mary was supposed to have nursed the toddler Jesus. Bridgit, being a devout believer in the Bible stories was duly impressed with the old structures but me being the Gnostic Christian it was the here and now that I looked for spiritual power. Too many ghosts in those old buildings for me and of course, my working spiritual hypothesis, "God is God of the living, not the dead" meaning I needed Sign that God was present Now. And I got one:

Staying in our Bethlehem hotel was Dr. Richard Martin, "Dr. Rick" to his friends. Dr. Rick turned out to be an ex-Episcopal priest turned psycho-therapist who besides doing psychological counseling, is now devoting much of his life to peace activism, helping the underdogs as he says, i.e. the Palestinians. He divides time between his home in Massachusetts and Bethlehem and the Tent of Nations peace organization set up on a hundred acres of land near Bethlehem. The Israelis have been trying to take the land away from the Nassar family who owns it but so far the land has stayed in Palestinian hands. Elder Nassar before passing on willed that the land be a site for peace workers, Palestinian children and whoever is supportive of peace to have an authentic Palestinian tree planting and many other such activities in a peace park type of setting which is what the Tent of Nations is all about.

When Dr. Rick found out about my Paxcalibur mission he was fairly astonished with what he saw as tremendous spiritual power in Paxcalibur as a new universal symbol. This of course endeared him to me because it's not often I have met people who know just what Paxcalibur has meant to me all these years. He's a Jungian and knows the power of symbols. He was so taken with Paxcalibur that he asked if his organization, (he acts as the editor of their outreach publications as well as seeming the Tent of Nations director, Daoud Nassar's second in command) could use the image of Paxcalibur for their organization's logo on a new booklet explaining the T.O.N.s purpose. Dr. Rick went farther, asking what I intended to do with Paxcalibur after I told him about the Wall ritual. I told him God eventually wants Paxcalibur to permanently reside in Jerusalem and he volunteered Tent of Nation organization to help accomplish this feat. I told him that God wanted Paxcalibur to be gold-plated before such entry into a permanent home in Jerusalem so that Pax's soft-steel blade parts won't rust (they are already rusty in the seven years since I last saw Pax in Nazareth). When gold-plated Paxcalibur will add "the Golden Ruler" to its appellations. Dr. Rick gave me $100 towards establishing a Paxcalibur fund for the gold-plating. He, like I, wants to spread the image and message of Paxcalibur as far and wide as possible because he, like I, believes it truly is a new Word of God, a new symbol that can "speak" exactly what God wants of us in order to bring peace and harmony to the world. He said he needed agreement with the Tent of Nation's director, Daoud Nassar, who we met with the next morning and who seemed nearly as enthusiastic about the Tent of Nations using the Paxcalibur symbol as Dr. Rick. Daoud Nassar, learning about my past cooperative community builiding experiences and knowledge and Dr. Rick have offered their Tent of Nations as a place for me to imput my communitarian information to help with alternative community building ideas. Plus, when I told them about an idea of using my old Super Bread recipe to start a bread company to help fund T.O.N.s activities because "Bethlehem" literally means "House of Bread", they were quite interested in developing such a project. I had tried three different times over the years to start a bread company using this Super Bread recipe I developed while living on our commune way back in the early '70's but whenever I have tried to commercially exploit one of my ideas God seems to want to keep me away from financial success and no bread company producing the world's most tasty balanced protein bread has happened yet. Perhaps it was always waiting for the House of Bread Bethlehem-Holy Land connection..

"Dr. Rick" and me in the Alexander Hotel in Bethlehem

Dr. Rick, Daoud Nassar and their Tent of Nations organization have opened up many possibilities for me to explore and consider working with them. Dr. Rick wants to help start a Paxcalibur Movement as do I and what were the chances of meeting this person without God arranging my life in such special ways? God is good!

Since Sami Awad is also connected to Paxcalibur I want to help his Holy Land Trust organization too. Now I've also learned that the spot where God wants Paxcalibur to eventually end up in, the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem needs funding help, anything that is derived from this Paxcalibur effort will be spread around to these worthy organizations and perhaps more to come as well.

Our time up in Bethlehem and still no word from my Israeli peace activist friend we went back to Nazareth for their Easter celebration. Bridgit and I ended up attending two Greek Orthodox services, including Easter sunrise service but later that afternoon when the Easter procession was to begin I was disappointed that it seemed so lack-luster compared to the one I was in seven years earlier.

Waiting for the Easter procession in Nazareth. All dressed up (including borrowed priest's pants) and nowhere to go..

It turned out that most of the Christian holy day energy had gone to the Palm Sunday march in Jerusalem with even Abuna excusing himself being too tired for this Easter march. That man has church services so often and so much to do that his giving me and Bridgit special attention and warmth of his home and family is something I will always appreciate. Sami Awad too has an incredibly busy schedule and his help with us deserves the same praise. The Holy Land is lucky to have such dedicated people as the ones we met on this not-so-easy but very deeply satisfying trip to the Holy Land. Abuna Hatoum's son, Faraj runs a gift shop and he was curious about what Bridgit and I did to support ourselves. We told him we're officially "retired" but both work, Bridgit as a massuse and me as an activist writer. I told Faraj about my working with Native Americans trying to set up a lottery system to use to buy back ancestral lands. Unlike my local Muslim Palestinian friends here where I live who have prohibitions against any type of gambling, being an Israeli Arab Christian he was quite interested in the idea of using a lottery system to help Palestinians and Arab Israelis. So, again, another opportunity door has opened to use information that otherwise just sits in my file boxes.

After we left Nazareth for Tel Aviv airport then Cairo again, we were ready to get home, except we just had to see those Pyramids! And we did. Bridgit even sat on a camel.

See how easy it is to reach the top of Cheop's Pyramid?

What's next in the amazing adventures of Paxcalibur, Sword of Peace?

We shall see!

Saif al Salam

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