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July Newsletter
Harmony Fellowship of Fort Worth
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What a month - David Friedman and Steve Bhaerman were outstanding guest, both of their workshops were stimulating and fun. Our birthday was an outstanding celebration. And we have kids in the childcare. All is well!
 
                          
July Calendar   

July 1 - Speaker is Rev.Glenn Moore, Legion, A Clash of Consciousness, Rev. Pat Moore will lead the meditation and the music is by Mike Kelley

Janet Ellis July 8 - Speaker is Janet Ellis. Janet is speaking on Thank You Very Much - More Please. Music is by Gigi Cervantes.
Stay and share our potluck today.  



July 15
- Speaker is Rev Glenn Moore topic is Joseph, A Story of Forgiveness, and the music is by Harmony Singers.

Mindy Audlin
'July 22
- Mindy Audlin is speaking
and the music is by Hilary Tipps.
Share our potluck today. 



July 15
- Speaker is Jodie Payne topic is I Got All I Needed in Kindergarten, and the music is by Pat Trimble.
  
   
chenoweth

 

Chris Chenoweth is joining us on August 5. He will lead our service and
have a workshop on
How to Power Pray at 1 pm
 
Bobby Belfry, Manhatten based singer, Wednesday, August 8, 7 pm At Harmony 

Bobby BelfryBobby Belfry is an award winning singer/songwriter whose latest album, entitled "One Lucky Day", is a collection of pop classics set to the thrilling jazz virtuosity of The David Budway Trio.     

 

Born and raised in the suburbs of New York City, Belfry's work on "Day" has been greatly influenced by The Big Apple's immeasurable wealth of culture, which can be felt and heard on all 13 tracks.   

 

Bobby can also be heard (and seen) on his first two albums, LIVE:In The Heart of The Universe (a CD/DVD) and "Imperfect Rhymes" which have both received great critical notice: "Bobby Belfry is one to savor, embrace and lend the hand of fame to...smooth jazz outlets will have a ball with this shrewd offering" said Chuck Taylor of Billboard Magazine. Two cuts from Rhymes have been included on a popular jazz compilation, "In Love With Jazz", released in Europe and Asia.  He also appears on Broadway:Unplugged 2 and  Chip Deffaa's "The Johnny Mercer Jamboree".   

 

A mainstay at Feinstein's, The Metropolitan Club, and Brandy's, Bobby has also performed at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, The Russian Tea Room, The Rainbow Room, Bitter End, China Club, CBGB's, Smoke, The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Kennedy Center, and The Cinegrill in Hollywood.  

Bobby has also appeared on national television on "The Morning Blend", a news/talk show on MSNBC (interviewed by Soledad O'Brian), and was a frequent guest on WOR Radio's The Joey Reynolds Show, whose theme song, penned by Bobby, was played for an audience of 5 million listeners, nightly.   

 

Bobby has been the recipient of the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist. Imperfect Rhymes and "So What", a cut off the album, were 2nd and 3rd place finalists for the Just Plain Folks Independent Music Awards, in a field of 10,000 submissions. He has also received the MAC Award for outstanding Pop/R&B Vocalist and several Critics Choice Vocalist Awards.    

 

Filmmaker, Victor Mignatti (R Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet", The Real World) has included Bobby in his documentary "This Time", which follows the careers of diverse artists in the music industry (including the legendary Sweet Inspirations & Cissy Houston) by weaving their music-filled stories, exploring the relationship between faith and persistence to longevity and the process of making music against all odds. The film is currently available on DVD and iTunes.

 
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Lots of News and Note 

   

Great News -- Harmony has Child Care. It will accommodate ages 1 thru 8. Susan Horton, who has a lot of experience, has agreed to lead the program.  Megan South will be assisting Susan and Promise Daniell and Cheyanne Clark have volunteered  to help.  If you are interested in being a part of the Child Care program or would like more information, please email [email protected] We will just have to see where Divine Order takes this. 

 

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Harmony T-shirts, sizes small thru 3x may be purchased for $15 in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Fellowship.

 

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Permanent nametags are being purchased for volunteers and/or if you just want a nametag. You will be responsible for remembering to wear it. There will be a sign up sheet on the table in the entry or email [email protected] Please let us know if you want the word volunteer or a specific title such as choir member, greeter etc.

        

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Spiritual Message
Instead of writing this month's minister message I would like to share this article in homage to our nation's birth 
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Rev Glenn Moore
THE DEEPER, SECRET ROOTS OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING   � 1994 Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson

The most intriguing hint about the secret, metaphysical dimensions of the founding of America is not actually hidden at all--in fact it can be seen in millions of places today--on every one dollar bill, which displays the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. Here is the All Seeing Eye of God or Spirit, placed above a pyramid--a symbol representing spiritual vision that is found in many secret societies, including the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons.

The pyramid was used by some ancient cultures, such as the Egyptian and the Mayan, as an initiation chamber. The All-Seeing Eye seems to be placed as a capstone at the top of the pyramid. If you stand at the base of the pyramid, there are many different viewpoints, depending on which of the four sides you are standing on and looking out from. But at the top, all the viewpoints unite, because there we see with the Eye of Spirit. What an important message for us today!  The various religious and political groups stand at the base of each side of the pyramid, fighting for their limited view, when they need to climb higher to see the more inclusive, higher vision from the top-the radiant Eye of Spirit.

The reverse of the Great Seal was minted in 1789 but it wasn't used until 1933 when
President Roosevelt put it on the dollar bill at the urging of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, who was a follower of Nicholas Roerich, founder of the Agni Yoga Society.  The first Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin to design this Seal, and major revisions were added by Charles Thomson and William Barton. The United States is the only country today with a two-sided national seal. Isn't it time to pay more attention to what's on the reverse of this Seal?  It's a powerful symbol of the soul of America.

Several intriguing Latin phrases can also be found on the Great Seal and the dollar bill:
Annuit Coeptus ("God Fa�vors our Undertakings") and Novus Ordo Seclorum ("The New Order of the Ages"), as our Founding Fathers were visionaries planning for a new age. E Pluribus Unum ("Out of Many, One") not only reflects the unity of the original thirteen states, but on a deeper level reflects the One Life, the Divine Presence, which pervades all life and creates unity in diversity.
The eagle on the front side of the Seal represents spiritual vision as the eagle is the only creature which looks directly into the sun. In one foot the eagle holds a sheaf of arrows, symbol of war, and in the other the olive branch of peace. Unlike in traditional heraldry, the bird looks to the West, to peace, rather than to the East and to war.

The number thirteen
is used thirteen times in the Great Seal--in the number of stars, clouds around the stars, stripes, ar�rows, leaves and berries in the olive branches, feathers in the tail, layers of stones in the pyramid, number of letters in E Pluribus Unum and in Annuit Coeptus, and the number of letters (three times thirteen) in the title: "The Coat of Arms of the United States of America."

Thirteen is not only the number of the original colonies, but more significantly is the number of
transformation, as it adds the catalyzing number one to the completed cy�cle of the magical twelve-for example, the twelve disciples plus Christ, the twelve signs of the zodiac plus the sun, the twelve knights of the round table plus King Arthur. For better or worse, the United States has had a major trans�forming role in the world--sometimes positively, as with her exportation of democracy, and sometimes negatively, as with her exportation of an exces�sively materialistic life-style.

Francis Bacon
The seeds for America's founding were planted much earlier by the wise initiates of many cultures, from an�cient Egypt and Greece to latter-day England and France. Francis Bacon wrote of America before its founding as "the new Atlantis" in his book by that name. He was also a member of the company that founded colonies in Virginia and the Caro�linas.
Bacon, known as the "Father of Modern Science," is thought by many researchers to be the founder of modern Freemasonry and the head of the Rosicrucian Order, a secret metaphysical society which taught the inner laws of nature, spiritual principles for self-transformation, and keys for creating a better world.

George Washington
The role of Divine guidance in America's founding was acknowledged by George Washington himself in his first inaugural address: "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Ev�ery step by which they advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency."[1]

Washington believed he was constantly guided by higher sources in direct�ing his troops to outsmart the British. He was often called clairvoyant be�cause it seemed he could look into the future and predict troop movements with amazing accuracy. According to a report by Anthony Sherman, who was with Washington at Valley Forge where the incident occurred, Washington had a vision of an Angelic presence. He was shown the birth, progress, and destiny of the United States in three great crises where enemies within and without challenged the Union, but it persevered. He was told that "while the stars remain and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Republic last. The whole world united shall never be able to prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn to live for his God, his land, and the Union."[2]
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

There are many intriguing hints that Thomas Jefferson was a Rosicrucian (the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross) as evidenced by a secret code he used that was known only to high initiates of the order and the fact that he designed the building of the University of Virginia in a pattern relating to a Kabbalistic metaphysical design.
[3]  Letters on display at Jefferson's home at Monticello in Virginia also indicate that he was a vegetarian like the Rosicrucians of the time.

John Adams's forebears in England were said to belong to a sect of English Druids called the Dragons, which also included Sir Walter Raleigh and John Dee, Queen Elizabeth's astrologer. The Dragons sought to renew the ancient wisdom of earth energies and studied the astrological procession of the equi�noxes.[4]

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin published an astrological ephemeris in his Poor Rich�ard's Almanac and wrote an epitaph that seems to suggest he believed in reincarnation: "The Body of B. Franklin, Printer ... lies here, food for worms, but the work shall not be lost; for it will appear once more, in a new and more elegant Edition, Revised and corrected by the author."

Franklin also published the books of Johann Conrad Biessel, who founded
Ephrata in Pennsylvania, the first Rosicrucian community in the New World. Franklin visited there frequently and brought gifts.[5] This commu�nity was a focus for the spreading of the Ageless Wisdom in America, and after its disbanding,
most of its metaphysical library passed into Franklin's keeping.[6] George Washington was also a friend of the community and re�leased a prisoner at the request of one of its leaders, Peter Miller.[7]

In addition, Franklin spoke of the "Father of Lights," as the Rosicrucians
do, and his speech to the Continental Congress reflects other Rosicrucian themes: "God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"
[8]  Some researchers believe that Franklin himself was secretly a Rosicrucian.[9]

The Freemasons
At least fifty out of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Indepen�dence, including John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, were Freemasons. Franklin and Jefferson had both been ini�tiated into a French Masonic lodge, and Washington was initiated into the Masonic Lodge of Fredericksburg, VA.[10]  At the time of America's founding, the Masonic lodges were very different from the social clubs they've become today.  They had a strong metaphysical orientation, which developed common values and purposes among members, as well as deep bonds of loy�alty. The tradi�tional secrecy preserved in Masonic lodges allowed members to communicate and organize the American Revolution with little fear of exposure. Several significant non-American contributors to the revolution were also Masons, such as the Marquis de Lafayette of France 

The Boston Tea Party was the work of the Masons of the St. Andrews Lodge while tak�ing a "recess."[11] Paul Revere began his famous ride after he left an adjourned meeting of a Masonic lodge.[12] Through the lodges of the Freemasons, the ideas of such Age of Enlightenment thinkers as John Locke, David Hume, Francois Ma�rie Arouet (Voltaire), and Jean Jacques Rousseau became widely dissemi�nated in the new colonies.[13]
The structure of the U.S. Constitution was based on Masonic ideals, and the federalism created by the Constitution is identical to the federalism of the Grand Lodge system of Masonic govern�ment created in 1723,[14] as well as to that of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building was laid in a Masonic cer�
emony, with George Washington presiding as Grand Master. Masonic architects also laid out the city of Washington, D.C., in a meta�physical design to make the best use of the earth energies-called "ley lines," or "dragon lines," for creating healing or harmony. The original de�sign of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant was later modified by Washington and Jefferson to produce the specifically octagonal patterns incorporating the particular cross used by the Masonic Templars.[15]
Just as ancient sites such as Stonehenge are aligned to the positions of the sun and moon, the same is true of the Washington Monument. For example, a line of sight for the winter solstice can be established from the top of the monument to the southeast, down Virginia Avenue. Since the physical pattern of Washington is based on sacred architecture, could it not inspire future leaders to base policies on sacred principles of governance based on the Ageless Wisdom?

The Future
The metaphysical traditions studied by our Founding Fathers enlightened their efforts to create a new government, and were the deeper, secret source of their wisdom and inspiration. Today this ageless wisdom is no longer secret and is widely available. Could knowledge of the metaphysical sciences help enlighten our efforts today to create a better world?  Could it help us learn to actually embody "E Pluribus Unum"-"Out of Many, One" by creating a true unity in diversity?  And most importantly, can we allow the All Seeing Eye of Spirit to guide our national life as our Founding Fathers (and Mothers) did?


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We are a Community of Prayer 

We offer many ways to request and share prayer concerns and joys. At Fellowship services we offer prayer sharing during the service, there is a prayer box at the front of the sanctuary for prayer requests and Prayer Chaplains in front of the sanctuary after the service for prayers, tears, laughs and hugs. Prayers can also be requested on the website, www.HarmonyFellowshipofFortWorth.org and on the Harmony Fellowship Facebook page. You are always in our thoughts and prayers.

Harmony Fellowship is a group of like-minded people that believe in unconditional love, positive energy and living what we believe. We meet the each Sunday of the month. There is meditation every Fellowship and we will hold space for all of those facing challenges and/or celebrations.

 

To provide flowers for a Sunday service, make out a $75 check to Harmony Fellowship and drop it into the collection basket or give it to Joe or Rebecca. Let us know what the occasion is - even if there isn't one! The flowers are yours to take after service. 

         

The Fellowship begins at 10:30 with a meet and greet at 10:15.  Following the worship service, there are always people to pray with anyone individually. We have a pot luck luncheon on the 2nd and 4th Sundays and there is always enough food so please join us. The location of the Fellowship is:

 

Harmony Fellowship
824 Pennsylvania Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76104
817-244-1151 

 

 

There is parking on both sides and in the back of the building. Just a safety reminder, keep any valuables in your trunk.

 

Harmony Fellowship is open and receptive to your ideas and/or suggestions. 

 

All are welcome so join us when Spirit moves you!!

 

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