Oh Jerusalem

It's about admitting our pride and not being hypocritical.

Oh Jerusalem yeah, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem...

Realizing that there's no place else to go And there's nobody I know who can help me Text book solutions are so improbable 'cause everybody else is just as empty Naked as the day that I was born, I tried to hide ...behind education and philosophy Hopeless explanation to describe a situation I can't see because the world's on top of me Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me From the body of this death Freeing me from dust, and the superficial trust Of an enemy that seeks to take my breath Failing to connect, 'cause I'm morally defect By reason of the God inside my head Causing me to see, only what pertains to me Believing I'm alive when I'm still dead Limited to earth, unable to find out my worth 'cause I... can't see past my own vanity If I'm not included, then I just have to remove it From my mind because it has to be in sanity Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me From the body of this death Can I even factor, that I've only been an actor In this staged interpretation of this day Focused on the shadow, with my back turned to the light Too intelligent to see it's me in the way What a paradox, having God trapped in a box All this time professing to be spiritual Naturally pretending, that I'm actually defending God through my facade, don't need material

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness That thou may be saved from thy deception How long, shall thy face those lies within thee Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection

Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth So we could walk in the council of authority Forget the proof, our generation so aloof Only follow in the steps of the majority Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart And lay not to thine, oh an understanding in all thy ways Acknowledge Him, and He shall correct our paths Be not wise in thine own eyes and you can follow him We judge and condemn, just as ignorant as them Who religion tells us that we should ignore Perpetrating we're in covenant with Him Exposed by the very things that we adore We grin and shake hands, then lay ambush for the man Who has a different point of view then us Infuriated 'cause he doesn't understand Bringing up those things we don't want to discuss WISE IS THE NEW EVIL WHEN we don't know how to do good Walking on in darkness running from the light, ey Led to believe, because we live in neighborhoods Telling us what's going on will be alright Oh so repressed, so convinced that I was blessed When I played with my game of Monopoly Oh to suggest, that my life is still a mess Would reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness That thou may be saved from thy deception How long, shall thy face those lies within thee Oh Jerusalem keeping them from perfection

Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bare ...fruit of itself except in the vine I am the vine, ye are the branches, He delivered me And I in him, the same bring forth much fruit Without me, you can do nothing Oh Jerusalem, you're traditions have deceived you I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me Do whatsoever, you asking my name he may give to you But in vain they call my name teaching doctrines just the same Just to fight amongst themselves But God know with the heart, what man esteemed as smart Is an abomination to Emmanuel Just repent, turn from selfish motivation So iniquity will not cause your demise Make you a new heart and a new spirit ...for why would he die Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why I have no pleasure in the death of him to die Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word Are the only ones the Father will forgive

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness That thou may be saved from thy deception How long, shall thy face those lies within thee Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection

Oh Jerusalem...

This song is a wealth of esoteric knowledge pointing us in the direction of the ineffable essence we call God. It's a cry to humanity to reevaluate the deceptions of culture and mass religion they blindly accepted and to reflect on their true nature. While religions may put us on the path to realizing our true nature, which is the nature of god, they alone will not free the bondage of the souls of the children of men.Realizing our true nature and experiencing God ourselves is the only way to the father, but the masses wonder aimlessly unaware of their true nature idiolizing the "god experiences" of others while totally avoiding their own experience. Oh Jerusalem your ways have decieved you bc it is not through ritual and blind belief that we come to know ourselves and ultimately God, but through meditation, contemplation, and personal experience with the reflection of the essence of God, which is obtained once a heart seeks and obtains its true nature. I and my father are one, but any words symbols or language i use to describe this experience or union is a perversion of the truths they represent. That is why a personal experience must be established, all else is perversion and illusion next to it. The union of the will, nature,and mind of man with God's (LOGOS) activaates the cosmic christ consiousness and the lignt of God in the soul of man. He then becomes Adam Quadom, the archetypal cosmic man.

How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee, oh Jerusalem, keeping them from perfection...I missed correcting the lyrics for the hook...