Paul Magdalene
My Lost Love recounted the calling and amazing experience of Craig and Suzzan. Love The Common Denominator -My Journey to the Truth is the second in the trilogy, which continues with Craig and Suzzan being shown how God’s message has become distorted by mankind’s dogma, doctrine and intellectualism. The book is divided into three volumes, which is described by Suzzan as her more than seven-year labor of love, gathering the pieces of a metaphorical Jigsaw Puzzle to reveal the Truth.
Volume I examines the debate between creation and evolution and the mysterious references to gods and demigods in antiquity. Then, following chronologically through the Old Testament, the first volume demonstrates how humanity’s concept of history just may be flawed, before ending with the similarity of the world’s teachers.
Volume II traces the origins of Christianity and it’s struggle through persecution to define who Jesus was. Also, it asks whether orthodoxy or Catholicism was the closest to Jesus’ teachings or were his earliest followers members of another sect? In addition, the second volume examines the rise of Islam and the revival of ancient mystical teachings. Arriving in the Middle Ages, this volume relates how dangerous fear and superstition is. With the Renaissance, it recounts how western humanity appeared to have emerged from the Dark Ages showing the promise of enlightened understanding. The volume ends with discussing what actually did occur and hypothesizes over some of the causes involved.
Finally, the third volume is concerned with uncovering the mysteries spoken of by both Jesus and Paul. Relating that humanity’s spiritual evolution is irrevocably linked to its physical evolution. Volume III demonstrates that the Truth has been concealed in encoded numbers and symbology. It also illustrates how the scriptures contain at least seven keys of interpretation. The last volume shows that the world’s religions all originate through a common thread known as the Wisdom Religion. In the conclusion, Suzzan’s journey to the Truth ends with her compiling the metaphorical Jigsaw Puzzle and discovering the simple universal Truth that God wants us all to understand.
Before their calling ten years ago, Craig and Suzzan Babcock had believed they were the epitome of ordinary people. Craig, born in Cumberland, Wisconsin, grew up as a carefree boy. Like most young men of his generation, the Vietnam War cut his further education short when he enlisted in the Navy. Still, he did learn a trade in electronics and after finishing his tour of duty; Craig joined the Raytheon Corporation, where he advanced to the position of Senior Field Engineer. This level took him to remote parts of the world, including a spell as civilian advisor to the military during the Gulf War, where he received two medals for his service. After leaving Raytheon, Craig accepted an opening in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with Intergraph. It was there that he met Suzzan and began the journey that would forever change his life.
Suzzan born in London, England had also grownup without any idea of the spiritual challenges in store for her. After leaving school, she began an apprenticeship with a local hairdressers’. She married her first husband within six months of meeting him when she was barely eighteen years old. The birth of their son followed a little under a year later. Due to Suzzan being a qualified hairdresser, she was able to work anywhere she chose. This served her well when she joined her husband of ten years in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. However, it wasn’t until she had opened a large beauty salon, in 1991 in partnership with a Saudi national, that she began to feel that she was destined for other things. Two years later she met Craig.
Craig and Suzzan wrote under the pseudonym Paul Magdalene for two reasons. The first was that they both felt their lives and therefore their story was divinely guided. The second was that both the first and the third in the trilogy are written in the third person. Like an objective reporter, their story is told like an impartial observer. This enables the highly personal experiences to be related with an honesty and candor that would have been impossible if written in the first person.
Our first book, My Lost Love, 1 ended with Craig and I returning to America, and being guided to follow Jesus’ instructions to “search the scriptures.” Very soon it became apparent that the “scriptures” he was referring to, wasn’t just what we knew as the Old Testament. They were also the “scriptures” of other religions. It seemed that God wanted us to understand the connection between the religions.
During the autumn of ‘94, God showed me that within the Bible there are many contradictions and that He wanted me to uncover the Truth. And that, in a nutshell, has been my quest for more than seven years, to find the pure unadulterated Truth, devoid of any human interpretations or doctrines to blur its clarity.
When Craig and I were first called out of Saudi Arabia, we had no idea where our journey would lead us. Our story, related in My Lost Love, is about our struggle to interpret, in our frame of reference, the phenomenal events we experienced, while coming to terms with our relationship with God and each other. Because of our Western, Christian background, we tended to see things at first in the traditional Judaeo-Christian way; i.e., interpreting the events that happened in the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem from the church’s conventional perspective on the second coming.
In the beginning, God referring to me as an angel of love had challenged almost all my preconceived ideas. First, my reflection in the mirror was far from any concept of an angel, I might have had. Secondly and most importantly, I did not feel particularly angelic. To me, an angel would never be angry or disheartened or confused, but in the early days, all three emotions became a regular occurrence for me. However, my learning that the word angel originally meant “messenger” made it slightly easier to accept.
I gained an even greater understanding of what love is, when I read a channeled message from Ambres, in 2001, which was recorded in Messiahs, 2 by John Hogue. According to Mr. Hogue, Ambres is a spiritual entity channeled by a “Swedish carpenter named Sturé Johannson.” Evidently, Ambres gained notoriety in 1986 through Shirley MacLean’s best selling book Out On A Limb. However, it was in Messiahs that I found this particular quote. It reads: “Love is compassion and the ability for empathy. But not as empathy which includes only a few people. And not an ability of empathy only applied within your own field of people. Love is not always there to caress your hairs (Swedish saying), but many times it means you have to brush the hairs against the grain. In this way love does not want anything. The one who wants to be loved and act accordingly is not loving but rather it is calculating, consciously or unconsciously. People can disgrace themselves as much as possible to be liked and accepted, but the one who feels true love to his fellow human being and the world will be perceived by many as very uncomfortable and even as an enemy because he or she will say things and act in a way that breaks the borders of covenants, laws, and life patterns. Such a human being is never out to hurt, or has never any ulterior goals in her actions. She’s not looking for any personal gain, or any goods and therefore her actions are straight and clean because she gave of her knowledge and her wisdom only to share what she has discovered and she does this without any demands.” 3
To me this epitomized the lives of the great teachers, such as, Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus. Their message certainly challenged the status quo, asking humanity to rise above their human existence and see a greater spiritual future.
In recent years, America has been introduced to the possibility of non-earthly beings taking human form with shows like Touched By An Angel, and Roswell. However, I do not see myself as either a teacher or some mystical being. Instead I liken myself to being a receptacle of God’s wisdom. Not by any virtue of my own, but like the cup or goblet that Jesus poured the wine into at the last supper; it was merely the vessel closest to hand. And so giving myself up to my mission, which I freely did, my journey began. First, though, some ground rules needed to be learned. It was important that I had no preconceived ideas about any of the subjects. In a way this wasn’t that difficult for me, as my formal education ended, when I left school at 14 to become an apprentice hairdresser. Also, I was not heavily indoctrinated into any rigid dogmatic religion. Instead, my love of God and Christ had grown by listening to my heart.
My journey took me into fields of study that I had barely heard of, and many subjects that intimidated me. In fact, one of the biggest hurdles for me to overcome was what Craig euphemistically calls “expertitus,” which was my belief that anyone with doctor or professor before their name, or letters after, must automatically know everything. This particular problem was cured in my investigation of the sciences, anthropology, genetics, paleontology, linguistics, Egyptology and archaeology. I quickly learned that very few of the “experts” agreed with each other. In fact, early on, it was quite a dilemma for me. In turning to God in near despair, he told me “Trust your heart to spiritually discern the relevant information.” And so that became the order of the day. I approached each book with a totally open mind, forgetting all former knowledge about the subject. Very quickly I was sifting the precious gold from the pages, metaphorically speaking of course. Some material held several nuggets, whilst others a mere grain or two. For instance, an 800-page book may contain only a couple of relevant paragraphs; but how precious those paragraphs were. I must stress that the books to be read, were not determined by me, that honor was God’s responsibility.
Much of the material covered in the book, Craig studied with me. He was invaluable to me in his loving support and clarity of thought. Many times he translated complicated scientific terms into my simple vernacular. But most of all, his thorough understanding of electronics enabled me to see spiritual truths in a scientific light.
Many people who knew of this endeavor have asked me if the book was channeled; i.e., a spiritual being wrote it through me. There were many times throughout the 7 years, when I wished that could have been the case. But alas that was not to be. This brings me back to the ground rules. God gave me the title of each chapter and the general layout of the three volumes. For instance, he led me to understand that volumes 1 and 2, B.C and A.D were a journey through history, with volume 3--The Fullness of Time, discussing the mysteries that both Jesus and Paul spoke of. I was also given certain “pillars” which God told me were incontrovertible truths. These would help me in dealing with seeming contradictions. Unfortunately, this happened more frequently than I would have liked. The “pillars” were, “Anything that creates fear, hatred and or division is never of divine origin. Jesus will never be born again because another physical teacher will only lead to us focusing on the teacher instead of the message. All messages from apparitions that are not about God’s love for us are from the powers beneath the veil, and not from the Ultimate Source. Any information that manifests itself through one of the 5 senses, is from beneath the veil. All scripture is multi-layered, even the errors will lead you to the Truth. Each and every piece of channeled information is a mixture of truth and lies. You must never alter your conciousness.”
These “pillars” helped me immensely with deciphering any references to a vengeful God. No, this work was not channeled, but let me qualify what I mean by channeled. A channeled work, is when a person allows their body to be taken over and the information comes from that entity. In my journey, I literally take apart and re-examine everything I thought to be sacrosanct.
Through the several hundred books, I gathered pieces of the mystical jigsaw that was to be constructed at the end of my journey. As stated, I did not choose the books; nevertheless, each new book was approached with the sincere belief that it held a valuable piece of my puzzle. Some of the authors may not agree with my interpretation of their material. In each case I have tried to read them with non-judgment, allowing my heart to feel the truth. And it is with grateful appreciation to the nearly 300 authors who gave their hearts and souls to the search for knowledge, that I dedicate this work. Apart from the reading material, many pieces of my puzzle were embedded in several T.V. shows, documentaries and films; such as, The Star-Trek series; particularly Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Others, Stigmata, Sliders, and the Matrix to name but a few. Evidently, many screen writers and scriptwriters have been inspired with the material to jog our subconscious, and help us remember the Truth.
If my quest has taught me anything it is not to blindly accept anyone else’s interpretation. As I said, the Bible tells us to “search the Scriptures,” and it is my hope that you will go on a quest for yourself. In fact, I sincerely urge you to read the books that guided me on my journey for yourselves. Ultimately, this work is a sharing of my journey and having said that I invite you to ride along. We begin appropriately in the beginning, at the very dawn of existence and the debate between the creationists and evolutionists.
