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-- The Eucharist --
The Wedding Feast
As stated in the article
The Outer
Darkness Of Mind And Being, whatever exists in this
physical world is a three-dimensional allegorical
shadow-image of a higher soul and spiritual reality that is
incomprehensible to the mind of man in his organic physical
condition.
Why? Because what is
portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal
son, is very much the "outer
darkness" of min and being -- and because this
realm is three-dimensional -- whereas, higher reality that
is the Source, is a twelve-dimensional reality -- what we
perceive with our physical senses is very much a
three-dimensional allegorical image of the higher
twelve-dimensional Source (see
Why Can't Truth Exist In This World). In the
analogy of Plato's Cave, these allegorical images are
portrayed as shadow-images that are an illusion.
Modern physics has recognized and concluded that what we
perceive with our physical senses is a
"blemish" that is caused by the intersecting
forces within the unseen source that is in the Ætheric
Field. And in coming to recognize this higher
reality, it must then be understood that there is therefore a Eucharist in the physical
that is celebrated in the Churches of this world
that is a ritual observance to those who desire to seek the
Unseen True Spiritual Eucharist in the Living Temple that is
not of this world -- and this Spiritual Eucharist is beyond
the comprehension of those who dwell in the
"outer darkness" of mind
and being. And this is especially
seen in the dogmatic difference between the Eucharist
celebrated in the non-Roman Catholic Churches, and the
Catholic Church itself. Where the non-Roman
Churches portray the Eucharist as a ritual/sacrament in
remembrance, the Roman Church dogmatically portrays the
wafer and the wine as the actual body and blood of Jesus --
while in reality, both are in error because the Spiritual
Eucharist cannot be celebrated and manifest in this
three-dimensional reality.
To celebrate the True Spiritual Eucharist, the disciple must
enter into the "narrow gate"
and gain entrance into the Inner Living Temple where the
Logos/Son of God awaits you. And only therein
can you be nourished by the Living Blood and Body of Christ.
In Justin Martyr's First Apology to the Roman emperor,
Marcus Aurelius, Justin gives a very detailed account of the
Eucharist. The disturbing part of Justin's description
of the Eucharist comes when he states in the last two lines
of his dissertation that the adherents of Mithraism were
somehow stealing the idea of the Eucharist and using it in
their own ceremonies. The problem is that Mithraism is
older than the Gospels -- and in ritual and form, the
celebration of the Christian Church is drawn from Mithraism,
and has little in common with the original teachings and
objectives of the Gospels. But this is true of
the whole Church (see
The
Religion Of Roman Emperors). Quoting from
the foregoing first century Apology of Justin Martyr:
"For the apostles, in the memoirs
composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus
delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus
took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, 'This do ye
in remembrance of Me, this is My body;' and that, after the
same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said,
'This is My blood;' and gave it to them alone. Which the
wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras,
commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a
cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the
mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know
or can learn."
In article on the Key of Knowledge there is a subheading
entitled
Is
The Gospel Copied From Another Source? And
in this subheading I totally refute the assertion that much
of the Gospel is copied from other religions -- or, as
Justin Martyr concludes, that devils have imitated the
sacraments of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.
But it is also a fact that leading up to the fourth century
takeover of the Gospel by the Emperor Constantine,
Mithraicism was said to be the universal religion of the
empire. Which fueled the assertion of Rome that
Jesus was the most recent incarnation of Mithras, and that
he was born among the Jews to refute them, and that the true
Church of Christ was the Church of Rome.
Quoting from
Christianity Existed Before The Birth Of Jesus:
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Today we call ourselves
by the Greek word
Christian -- but have we
ever questioned where
the term originated? And
what does it mean? The
New Schaff-Herzog
Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge
confirms that the name
"originated outside of
Christian and Jewish
circles". The Mercer
Dictionary of the Bible
states that:
"By the
late first and early
second centuries the
name ‘Christian,’ which
early believers avoided
using of themselves, was
beginning to be
accepted". If
modern believers were
truly sincere in their
desire for a more
intimate relationship
with the Lord, they
would immediately want
to know and question why
"early believers
avoided" using the name
Christian? When it is
realized that even the
very name Christian was
in use prior to the time
of Jesus, we truly begin
to grasp the Pagan
connection. The name
Christian was a term
employed to describe one
who was an initiate, and
understood the inner
meaning of the Greek and
Roman mystery religions.
Thus, the early
followers of Jesus
refused to be called
Christian, and call
Jesus the Christ,
because the word was
used in reference to
enlightened Pagans and
their gods.
(Jumping Further Down
The Page)
With regard to the
historical people who
were called the people
of Christ before the
time of Jesus, it did
not mean anything to an
enlightened Christian
that the masses of
people worshiped the
sun, moon, stars or
idols. Because the
people of the Nations
were carnal, they were
unable to perceive the
inner meaning of the
writings of the poets.
In the far-reaching
vision of the greater
reality, they viewed
these things as the
worship of the Logos, or
Christ, by the ignorant
masses of people.
That the initiates of
the ancient mystery
religions were called
Christians prior to the
time of Jesus is
demonstrated in a letter
from the Emperor Adrian
to Servianus, written in
134 A.D., wherein it is
stated:
"Egypt, which you
commended to me, my
dearest Servianus, I
have found to be wholly
fickle and inconsistent,
and continually wafted
about by every breath of
fame. The worshipers of
Serapis are called
Christians, and those
who are devoted to the
god Serapis, call
themselves Bishops of
Christ". What
is confirmed is that,
with the advent of
Jesus, the Christ or
Christos was not a new
term, and there were
people throughout the
empire who were called
Christians prior to the
time when the name came
to be associated with
the followers of Jesus.
More important, though,
is the fact that they
brought their ideas and
beliefs pertaining to
Christ into the religion
of Jesus -- which
teachings in their
original form possessed
an essence and spiritual
reality that few of
these Pagan Christians
could perceive.
Archaeologists have
demonstrated that the
word Christos, which we
render Christ, has been
found not only on Pagan
temples, and used in
relation to those who
were said to be the sons
of the Pagan gods, but
the term was also
engraved on tombstones
and other Pagan
artifacts prior to the
time of Jesus. In the
Greek and Roman mystery
religions of the time,
the Christos was the
Anointing of the Logos,
and the Christian was
the follower of the
Anointed. In the
writings of Clement of
Alexandria we find it
explained that:
"Those who lived
according to the Logos
were really Christians,
though they have been
thought to be atheists;
as Socrates and
Heraclitus were among
the Greeks, and such as
resembled them"
(Strom. bk. i, ch xix).
Eusebius, the great
historian of the early
Church, admits that the
religion that is called
Christianity was known
to the ancients (Eccl.
Hist., 1, ch iv) and
writes that the religion
of Jesus had
"...been known among
all nations,
nevertheless our life
and our conduct, with
our doctrines of
religion, have not been
lately invented by us,
but from the first
creation of man, so to
speak, have been
established by the
natural understanding of
divinely favored men of
old... What then should
prevent the confession
that we who are of
Christ practice one and
the same mode of life
and have one and the
same religion as those
divinely favored men of
old? Whence it is
evident that the perfect
religion committed to us
by the teaching of
Christ is not new and
strange, but, if the
truth must be spoken, it
is the first and the
true religion".
Modern Christians who
erroneously believe that
Christianity started
with Jesus, will be
unable to relate to the
words that
"our doctrines of
religion... have been
established by the
natural understanding...
and [is] the same
religion as those
divinely favored men of
old". The
early Gentile Christians
knew this fact, and it
was for this reason that
a copy of Plato’s
Republic and other such
writings was contained
among the writings
preserved in the
recently discovered Nag
Hammadi Library of early
Christian writings.
St. Augustine wrote:
"That, in our times, is
the Christian religion,
which to know and follow
is the most sure and
certain health, called
according to that name,
but not according to the
thing itself, of which
it is the name; for the
thing itself which is
now called the Christian
religion, really was
known to the ancients,
nor was wanting at any
time from the beginning
of the human race, until
the time when Christ
came in the flesh, from
whence the true
religion, which had
previously existed,
began to be called
Christian; and this in
our days is the
Christian religion, not
as having been wanting
in former times, but as
having in later times
received this name"
(Opera Augustini, vol. i,
p.12).
When we begin to
understand the common
root of all religions,
only then are we able to
comprehend with clarity
that it wasn’t so much
that the Greek and Roman
world was converted to
the teachings of Jesus,
but more appropriately,
the teachings of Jesus
came to be a part of the
existing religious
world, which came to be
outwardly known as
Christian. After
Constantine silenced the
true followers of Jesus
with the power of the
sword in the fourth
century because they
refused to accept the
religion of the emperor,
all that was left was
the Gentile church which
was very Pagan in
nature, that had come to
be known as Christian.
In a letter from Faustus
to St. Augustine this
Pagan-Christian
connection is
embellished upon:
"You have substituted
your agape for the
sacrifices of the
Pagans; for their idols
your martyrs, whom you
serve with the very same
honors. You appease the
shades of the dead with
wine and feasts; you
celebrate the solemn
festivities of the
Gentiles, their calends,
and their solstices;
and, as to their
manners, those you have
retained without any
alteration. Nothing
distinguishes you from
the Pagans, except that
you hold your assemblies
apart from them"
(Quoted in Draper:
Science and Religion,
p.48).
How could
"nothing"
distinguish Christians
from the Pagans, with
the exception of where
they hold their
assemblies? How could
Christians
"retain"
the manners of the
Pagans,
"without any
alteration"?
If their lifestyle,
celebrations,
festivities and manner
of worship are the same,
then how could they be
called the followers of
Jesus?
In many instances,
conversion was the
result of Jesus being
installed as the
replacement for the
former Pagan gods. In
his book, Jesus, The
Evidence, Ian Wilson
writes:
"A
third-century mosaic
from the Mausoleum of
the Julii underneath
present-day St. Peter’s
in Rome actually
portrays Jesus as Sol
Invictus, driving the
horses of the sun’s
chariot. That
Constantine himself
mixed Christianity and
the Sol Invictus cult is
clear from a second
commemorative medallion
issued by him within two
years of the first, on
which he represented
himself with a Chi-Rho
monogram on his helmet,
and with a leaping Los
chariot below".
Speaking of Constantine,
Ian Wilson writes:
"It was only when he
was approaching death
that he asked for, or
was accepted for,
Christian baptism. As
was still the custom, he
received this naked,
thereafter renouncing
forever the purple of
his imperial rank"
(Ian Wilson, Jesus, The
Evidence). This means
that the leader and head
of the Gentile Church,
as well as many of the
present day doctrines
which remain with us
today, were inaugurated
into the church by a man
of a very Pagan mindset
who was not even
baptized.
Present day Christians
are under the erroneous
and grave belief that
the tenets and beliefs
of their religion are
unique. In reality,
nothing could be farther
from the truth. What is
unknown to the believer
today is that the world
has known countless
other crucified Saviors
who were: Born from a
virgin mother in a cave
or underground chamber
on or near Christmas Day
-- each led a life of
sacrifice for mankind,
and were called by the
names of Light-bringer,
Healer, Mediator, Savior
and Deliverer -- they
were vanquished by the
powers of darkness, and
descended into hell or
the underworld -- they
each rose again from the
dead and became the
means for mankind to
enter into the heavenly
world -- they founded
communities of saints,
and churches into which
disciples were received
by baptism -- and they
were commemorated by
Eucharistic meals. Thus,
every element of
modern-day Christianity
was present in the Pagan
world prior to the
advent of Jesus.
In his book, The
Christian Conspiracy:
The Orthodox Suppression
of Original
Christianity, Joseph P.
Macchio writes:
"We find no less than
twelve
mythical-historical
personages before the
advent of Christ, who
are said to have
suffered
crucifixion/death and to
have risen from the
dead. Among them are:
Krishna, Wittoba,
Osiris, Attis, Indra,
Prometheus, Mithra,
Dionysius, Hesus,
Aesculapius, Adonis,
Apollonius of Tyana.
Several of these figures
are said to have been
crucified at the spring
equinox and to have
risen on the third day". |
In the same way that the vast majority of those who were
portrayed as Pagan who were not Initiates, did not at all
understand the inner spiritual meaning of the writings of
the poets or the Mystery Religions they observed, neither do
the modern Christians understand the spiritual meaning of
their own scriptures or the sacraments of the original
teachings of Jesus and TheWay. That the
Eucharist is a Universal Symbol that has been used by many
Spiritual Religions (see
Is
The Gospel Copied From Another Source? ), is not only
true, but is not at all understood by the body of
faith-based Christians who unknowingly celebrate the ritual
of the symbol, without actually fulfilling the spiritual
meaning of what is symbolized.
In many ways this
inability to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the
symbolism is presented in St. Augustine's Doctrine of
Original Sin which has been the foundation of the Church
since it was invented as an explanation for an inherent
human reality that few men can even begin to come to terms
with. While Augustine blamed the Fall of Man on the eating
of the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Duality (aka Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil), few people are capable of
perceiving the true meaning of the allegorical Genesis
Account as personified in the Spiritual meaning of the Tree
of Life as the pattern of our own mind and being (see
TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ) -- and Augustine's Doctrine of
Original Sin was therefore very much an allegory that
paralleled Origen's statement regarding the belief in the
physical resurrection which he portrayed as being
“preached in the Churches… for the
simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are
led on to live better lives by their belief”
(see Origen Contra Celsum). But it was also Augustine
who understood the absolute necessity of the scriptural
allegorical symbols, and wrote that:
“He is a slave to a sign who uses or
worships a significant thing without knowing what it
signifies. But he who uses or venerates a useful sign
divinely instituted whose signifying force he understands
does not venerate what he sees and what passes away but
rather that to which all such things are to be referred.
Such a man is spiritual and free, even during that time of
servitude in which it is not yet opportune to reveal to
carnal minds those signs under whose yoke they are to be
tamed” (De Doctrina Christiana).
In coming to terms with
what Augustine is stating, it is of ultra importance to
understand that Augustine portrayed the carnal
interpretations of these allegorical symbols which is the
folly of both the Fundamentalist believer, as well as the
Fundamentalist unbeliever, as the death of the soul, as seen
in the words of Augustine: “What
the apostle says pertains to this problem: 'For the letter
killeth, but the spirit quickeneth', that is, when that
which is said figuratively is taken as though it were
literal, it is understood carnally. Nor can anything more
appropriately be called the death of the soul than that
condition in which the thing which distinguishes us from
beasts, which is the understanding, is subjected to the
flesh in the pursuit of the letter. He who follows the
letter takes figurative expressions as though they were
literal and does not refer the things signified to anything
else” (De Doctrina Christiana). Perhaps even
more important is the fact that since the allegorical
language of the scriptures is in fact the same language that
when properly understood, all of the physical world is
written in, then this warning applies to the scientific and
scholastic worlds, as much as it does to the religious world
-- i.e., "...Nor can anything more
appropriately be called the death of the soul than that
condition in which the thing which distinguishes us from
beasts, which is the understanding, is subjected to the
flesh in the pursuit of the letter."
Those who see only the outer physical forms of
nature, without understanding what these forms allegorically
signify, are little more than human beasts that walk in the
form of man, because they have in their prevailing blind
ignorance "...subjected to the
flesh in the pursuit of the letter."
When Paul rejected the "works of the Law", as the
"letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) -- portraying
the Law of Moses as being built upon
"Jewish fables" (Tit 1:14) -- it
was because the written text was a series of allegorical
symbols that acted as catalysts which triggered the higher
spiritual reality that could not be presented in fullness in
this three-dimensional realm. And this is why
enlightened Jews such as the Essenes never engaged in temple
sacrifice, and the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus were
portrayed as having blasphemed the Law -- i.e., and this is
why the early Church Father
Epiphanius wrote that
the Ebionites "...do not
accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings
they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and
will blaspheme most of the legislation"
(Panarion 30.18.7-9). For them to be accused of
"blaspheming most of the
legislation", means that they did not at all
observe the Torah in accordance with outward rituals in the
manner of the Pharisees -- but rather, they understood the
allegorical symbolism that was applicable to unlocking the
inner door to the Kingdom. Why didn't the Ebionite
Nazirenes observe the Torah in the outward ritual manner of
the Jews? Because Christ had revealed to them
the spiritual meaning of the allegorical symbols, and they
therefore understood the almost worthless of the
"letter that killeth".
So, if the question is posed: Were they Torah Observant?
Spiritually, yes. The scriptures are composed by
enlightened wise men who understand the need to present
mental and spiritual catalysts that are used in the
scriptures to connect the outer perception with the inner
Source of Spiritual Reality. And without the
scriptures, this outer to inner connectivity is very
difficult to impossible to achieve.
The Eucharist that is celebrated in our Churches today is a
symbol -- i.e., a three-dimensional allegorical ritual that
is necessary to signify a higher Spiritual Reality that is
beyond both the comprehension and the reach of the
entry-level faith-based Christians. If the
symbol of the Eucharist did not exist in the Churches, then
it could not act as a catalyst which conveys to the immature
believer the higher spiritual reality they must seek out.
And because of the three-dimensional limitations of this
realm which is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable
of the prodigal son (aka the "outer darkness" and
Plato's Cave of Illusions), it is impossible for the
Fullness of the True Spiritual Eucharist to be manifest in
this world without the return of the lost prodigal son to
the Edenic Kingdom of Origination wherein he is able to
enter the Living Spiritual Temple that is not of this world.
The Wedding Feast is the Eucharist that Enlightens the
eater thereof, Anoints them with the Holy Spirit -- i.e.,
the Spiritual Manna/Knowledge of the Tree of Life that
bestows Eternal Life on the eater thereof (see
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ). As stated in the
foregoing, in order to come to the Wedding Feast in the
parable of TheCall, the seeker
must be attired in the unspotted Wedding Garment of Spiritual
Purity. The True Eucharist is the flesh
(Knowledge/Divine Manna) and blood (Spirit) of the Son of
God -- i.e., "So Jesus said to
them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in
you" (John 6:51). But unless you put
on the unspotted Wedding Garment, it will remain impossible
for you to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of
Man. And this is why Paul warns those who claim
to be believers:
"Therefore whoever
eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the
Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread
and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks
without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on
himself" (1 Cor 11:27-29).
What kind of judgment does the believer who fails to
examine themselves bring upon themselves? In the
above heading Baptism -
The Required Wedding Garment, it is warned that
the believer who puts on the required Wedding Garment and is
properly baptized "...ought
to beware that it be not in any part of it stained with sin,
and so he be rejected as unworthy and reprobate."
And at the foregoing heading it is demonstrated that Paul
warned that a believer who willfully sins after coming to the
knowledge of the Lord, that they will have made themselves
apostates to the Gospel and the Kingdom -- i.e.,
"For it is impossible to restore again
to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they
crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up
to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice
for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of
fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb
6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
Those who have come to the knowledge of the Lord, and have
received the sacrament of baptism are portrayed in the
parable of TheCall to the Wedding Feast as the one's who
have been "invited" --
and when they failed to come, "The
king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those
murderers and burned their city" (Matt 22:7).
Which confirms the statement that
“That
servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready
or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with
many blows. But the one who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From
everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and
from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more
will be asked” (Luke 12:47-48 NIV).
Where those who were portrayed as believers and had received
the sacrament of baptism -- yet, failed to come -- are seen
as receiving the greater judgment than those who were not
invited and did not know the Lord:
“But when the king came
in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no
wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you
get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was
speechless.
Then the king
said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him
into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.’ "For many are called, but few are
chosen." (Matt 22:11-14).
The Spiritual Eucharist
can only be received by those who put on the required
Wedding Garment of Purity, and come to TheCall -- i.e.,
"It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John
6:63). Therefore, unless one receives the
Spiritual Eucharist which can only be consumed by those who
put on the unspotted Wedding Garment of Purity, it will
remain impossible for them to understand the true meaning of
the scriptures.
In the
early writing known as the
Shepherd of Hermas , which was the most popular
scripture used by the early Gentile Church, a reference is
made to a tower, of which it is written:
“And the
tower, I asked, what does it mean? This tower, he replied,
is the Church. And these virgins, who are they? They are
Holy Spirits, and men cannot otherwise be found in the
kingdom of God unless these have put their clothing upon
them: for if you receive the name only, and do not receive
from them the clothing, they are of no advantage to you. For
these virgins are the powers of the Son of God. If you bear
His name but possess not His power, it will be in vain that
you bear His name”.
In
understanding what is written, it is most important for us
to be aware of the continual message found in the words:
“If you bear His name but possess not
His power, it will be in vain that you bear His name”.
Thus, if you call yourselves Christian, but fail to purify
and develop your mind and body from the defilements of this
world -- and do not possess the true Knowledge of the
Spiritual Christ by receiving the Spiritual Eucharist
directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God -- and have
not yourselves inherited the same higher powers of mind that
the Son of God promised all his followers would possess --
then “it will be in vain
that you bear His name”.
Receiving The Spiritual
Eucharist - Who Can Receive It:
As is documented at this
link (see Mystery
Of The Gospel), Paul warned that if the congregation of
faith-based believers were exposed to the esoteric teachings
on the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the
Kingdom, they would reject these concepts and teachings as
utter "foolishness"!!!
Why? Because this world in the parable of the
prodigal son is portrayed as the Far Country -- aka the
"outer darkness" of mind
and being (see
Outer Darkness), which is parallel to the analogy of
Plato's Cave of Illusions -- because this realm of Duality
is three-dimensional, while the Spiritual Realm which is the
True Source of Higher Reality is twelve-dimensional
(see
Why Can't Truth Exist In This World).
Therefore, the higher twelve-dimensional reality of the Soul
and the Kingdom is inconceivable to organic man which Paul
portrays as being of a "natural"
and carnal mind.
Thus,
confirming the long ignored warning:
"There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is
the way of death" (Prov 14:12). Why is it
written that what seems right to the organic "natural"
mind or man, is the way of death? Because this
is the Far Country which is the "outer darkness" of mind and
being, and the organic senses of man's physical body only
perceives a fragmentary symbolic-image representing a higher
reality that his organic condition causes him to be
inherently blind to the Source -- and these
three-dimensional symbols in its limited and fragmentary
form is allegorical -- and can even be rightly portrayed as
a shadow-image of man's higher reality that he is virtually
blind to. Which limited perception of man's
higher soul and spiritual reality would confirm the validity
of the warning in the Epistle of Peter and James that if the
esoteric body of the Gospel teachings was to become lost,
that
"...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth,
always to wander in error"!!!
And that the Church of Rome threw this essential knowledge
away, is the reason why the vast body of modern Christians
remain totally alienated from the essence of the Original
Teachings of Jesus and TheWay.
For the
good of the faith-based congregations, the Gospel had to be
presented to them in such a manner that they could
understand in accord with their own very elementary level of
advancement -- and the more they progressed in TheWay, the
greater vision and understanding they would then be able to
eventually possess. Those who received the
Spiritual Baptism, and began to seek the Kingdom keeping the
required Wedding Garment pure, are portrayed as being
In The House -- and it was those who kept the Wedding
Garment pure, whose physical senses began to undergo the
process of transformation, who were the few who could
perceive beyond the three-dimensional limitations of the
organic consciousness of "natural" man -- and it was these
faithful disciples who were able to enter
In The House,
and be taught directly by the Logos/Son of God.
Jesus taught in parables, so
that those few who possessed the capacity to understand,
would receive the instruction that the multitudes were
incapable of comprehending. And if we ask Why? In the
parable of the Sower and the Seed (
http://SowerAndSeed.com
), what is portrayed as the necessary condition of mind, is
taken one step further -- as in the rungs of the proverbial
Jacob's Ladder. In the parable, those who bring forth what
is portrayed as sixtyfold, can perceive and understand a
higher perception and understanding of what Paul calls the
Mysteries of the Kingdom, than those who have brought forth
thirtyfold -- and ultimately the ones who have brought forth
what is portrayed as "one
hundredfold", can perceive and understand what
the rest of mankind remains totally blind to. Yet, the
parable of the Sower and the Seed also warns that those who
have not overcome the limits of their human carnal nature,
and have failed to bring about the process of expansion of
mind and being by becoming the
"good ground", these people cannot even begin to
understand anything of any true sustenance and spiritual
value. Thus, the warning of Jesus to those who ignore
what the parable of the Sower and the Seed states:
“Know ye not this parable? and how
then will ye know all parables?” (Mark 4:13 KJV)
-- or, in the wording of a the modern language New Living
Translation: “But if you can’t
understand this story, how will you understand all the
others I am going to tell?” That the vast
majority of believers, as well as the Gospel critics, all
fail to understand the true spiritual meaning of the Bible,
is because they ignore what this parable states to them.
In
the parable, we must pose the question as to who those
people are who can be likened to the Word sown on stony
ground? The Bible says that they receive the Word with
gladness -- in our own time they would be seen as people who
proclaim that Jesus is their personal Lord and savoir --
they call themselves by his name, and they profess to be the
people of God. But because they
“have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time:
afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
word’s sake, immediately they are offended” (Mark
4:17 KJV). What
does it mean to have no root? When Jesus taught that the
Kingdom is within us (Luke 17:20-21), and that he is the
true vine, we must understand that as the branches who are
to flourish in the Word in this world, we must bear fruit:
"I am the true vine, and my Father
is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears
no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes
so that it will be even more fruitful" (John
15:1-2 NIV). The root of man is his connection to the
Kingdom within the essence of his being. If this root is
healthy, then the Spirit and Knowledge of the Kingdom will
flow from its inner Source to bring about the growth of the
disciple. If, the believer embodies the symbol of the dog,
and the believer clings to the doctrines and traditions of
other men -- failing to learn from the One Teacher (see
The
True Prophet) -- then the Genuine Knowledge that can
only be received from the inner Kingdom is negated, and the
root that carries the life-giving Spirit and Truth is
severed -- as seen in the words:
"...my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in
me that bears no fruit". Again as a
reminder with respect to learning from the teachers of this
world, quoting the words of Peter as presented in the above:
"But the ways in which this garment
may be spotted are these: If any one withdraw from God the
Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher besides
Christ, who alone is the faithful and True Prophet..."
(see Baptism As A Divine
Marriage).
And
who are those people who can be likened to the Word sown
among thorns? Again we see the problem being when these
people cling to the things of this world -- i.e., its
culture, mindset and thinking, its lifestyle, doctrines and
materialism -- anything that draws the consciousness of the
believer away from the inner Kingdom, and fixates their
attentiveness and focus of being in the outer world -- as
seen in the words: “And the cares
of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the
lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it
becometh unfruitful” (Mark 4:19 KJV).
When
Paul makes reference to the
inability of the faith-based
believers to understand the true
spiritual nature and
"mystery"
of the Gospel, we must pose the
question: What is the meaning of the
word
"mystery"? Thayer's
Lexicon states that it is a
"hidden
thing, secret, mystery... confided
only to the initiated and not to
ordinary mortals. A hidden or
secret thing, not obvious to the
understanding. Of God: The secret
counsels which govern God in dealing
with the righteous, which are hidden
from ungodly and wicked men... in
rabinic writings, it denotes the
mystic or hidden sense of an Old
Testament saying..."
Therefore, what Paul is stating is
that spiritual knowledge (Gnosis)
belongs only to those who are
themselves spiritual. Why? Not
because anyone desires to conceal
this esoteric knowledge -- but
rather, the organic facilities of
mind associated with the limitations
of the physical body, are simply
incapable of perceiving man's own
higher reality of soul and spirit.
From an organic human perspective,
it is not a matter of a more
clarified explanation -- but rather,
there is no such thing as any
explanation to convey to organic man
what is incomprehensible to his very
limited mind and being. From the
perspective of the allegory of the
Tower of Babel: The structure that
permits the earth to reach into the
expanse of the heavens, cannot be
built with earth-matter -- but must
be built upon the transformation of
the physical body and consciousness
as stated by Paul:
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV).
When
Jesus said of his disciples:
“The secret of
the kingdom of God has been given to
you. But to those on the outside
everything is said in parables so
that, they may be ever seeing but
never perceiving, and ever hearing
but never understanding”
(Mark 4:11-12 NIV)
-- that word translated secret, is
the same word translated mystery,
and makes reference to an esoteric
knowledge that is beyond man's
organic comprehension. Yet,
in a state of spiritual denial, the
modern Church attempts to ignore the
implications of what these words
convey. In explanation of the
above words of Jesus, the Wycliffe
Commentary writes that:
“…the
initiate was instructed in the
esoteric teaching... which was not
revealed to outsiders… The mystery
of the kingdom in its ultimate
development is the full-orbed
message of the Gospel (Rom
16:25-26). The purpose of parables
was to instruct the initiates
without revealing the items of
instruction to the ones who were
without. This is in keeping with the
Biblical principle that spiritual
understanding is restricted to those
who have become spiritual...”
 In
the original biblical Greek language
there existed a differentiation with
respect to types of knowledge --
i.e.,
(1) there was
knowledge gained through other men;
and
(2) then there was the
spiritual Knowledge gained directly
from God. And with respect to
these two very different types of
knowledge: The knowledge of man that
was taught and imparted by other
men, was portrayed very differently
than the knowledge that could be
portrayed as the Divine Manna of the
Kingdom that could ONLY be imparted
to man directly from the Logos (aka
the Son Of God & True Prophet) --
i.e., this Heavenly Spiritual
Knowledge was called Gnosis.
Therefore, when the Gospel of John
states that the true seekers and
disciples of the Christ will be
"taught by
God" -- and they will
come to the Logos/Son of God -- the
reference was to those who escaped
the "outer
darkness", entered the
Inner Kingdom, and came into the
Presence of the Logos/Son of God.
But in our modern world, the word
Gnosis is often totally misused and
misunderstood, to the degree that
many in the Christian world today
condemn the Divine Manna of the
Kingdom as heresy.
The second century Christian Bishop
Valentinius quoted Paul's Epistle to
the Ephesians when he made reference
to Gnosis
Kardias -- or, the
enlightened eyes of the heart.
"I pray
also that the eyes of your heart may
be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which he has called
you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in the saints"
(Eph 1:18). And that Paul wanted
very much to speak about the Mystery
of the Gospel to the Ephesians, but
could not, is the reason he
portrayed himself as an ambassador
in bonds:
"And for me, that utterance may be
given unto me, that I may open my
mouth boldly, to make known the
mystery of the gospel, for which I
am an ambassador in bonds: that
therein I may speak boldly, as I
ought to speak" (see Eph
6:19-20). Which raises the
question: How was a seeker/disciple
supposed to obtain these enlightened
eyes of the heart? Very briefly,
by becoming the
"good
ground" in the parable of
the
Sower And The Seed, that permits
the necessary expansion of the
facilities of mind to be brought
about, which enables the
seeker/disciple to be taught by the
Indwelling Logos (aka Son of
God/True Prophet). And in the same
way that in the parable of the ten
virgins it was said to those who had
failed to prepare themselves with
the oil of purification that
"Assuredly,
I say to you, I do not know you"
-- even though they believed and had
called upon the Lord and was
awaiting his coming, this reality of
the believer who has failed to
prepare himself, is further explored
in the early Christian scripture
known as the Shepherd of Hermas.
In the introduction of the early
Christian writing known as the
Shepard of Hermas, it is
written:
“The Pastor of Hermas was one of the
most popular books, if not the most
popular book, in the Christian
Church during the second, third, and
fourth centuries... In ancient times
two opinions prevailed in regard to
the authorship. The most widely
spread was, that the Pastor of
Hermas was the production of the
Hermas mentioned in the Epistle to
the Romans. Origen states this
opinion distinctly, and it is
repeated by Eusebius and Jerome”.
If, then, it is true that the Pastor
or Shepherd of Hermas was one of the
most important scriptural
authorities over the first four
centuries -- i.e., pre-Nicene and
prior to the take-over of the Church
by the Emperor Constantine -- then
we can use this Gospel in our
endeavor to better understand the
essence of early Christian
teachings. And if
modern Christians are no longer in
agreement with the doctrinal tenets
set forth in this most important
writing during the pre-Nicene
time-frame, then it is because of
the direct influences of Constantine
who was not even a baptized
Christian when he set the limits and
doctrines of the Church which he
ruled over.
Therefore, for those few
sincere believers who desire to be
taught directly from the Logos/Son
of God, what the Shepherd of
Hermas has to say about the nature
and objectives of Christian
teachings during the pre-Nicene
time-frame, is ultra-important to us
today. Why? Because it represents
the scriptural tradition that was
taught directly by Jesus and the
faithful flock by the Original
Apostles of Christ.
Thus, on the nature of
scripture, in the Shepherd we find:
“I am
senseless, sir, say I, and do not
understand these parables. For how
she can crush out, and on the other
hand save, I do not perceive.
Listen, says he. Those who have
never searched for the truth, nor
investigated the nature of the
Divinity, but have simply believed,
when they devote themselves to and
become mixed up with business, and
wealth, and heathen friendships, and
many other actions of this world, do
not perceive the parables of
Divinity; for their minds are
darkened by these actions, and they
are corrupted and become dried up.
Even as beautiful vines, when they
are neglected, are withered up by
thorns and divers plants, so men who
have believed, and have afterwards
fallen away into many of those
actions above mentioned, go astray
in their minds, and lose all
understanding in regard to
righteousness; for if they hear of
righteousness, their minds are
occupied with their business, and
they give no heed at all. Those, on
the other hand, who have the fear of
God, and search after Godhead and
truth, and have their hearts turned
to the Lord, quickly perceive and
understand what is said to them,
because they have the fear of the
Lord in them. For where the Lord
dwells, there is much understanding.
Cleave, then, to the Lord, and you
will understand and perceive all
things”.
The message that is very clear from
this early Christian writing is that
it is impossible to mature
spiritually, while attempting to
divide oneself between the two
worlds. In our
present day culture we are living
proof as to the validity of the
wisdom that is portrayed in this
writing -- i.e., one cannot perceive
the true meaning of the parables and
the inner significance of the
historical narrative of the
scriptures, while one devotes their
lives to their
“business, and
wealth, and heathen friendships, and
many other actions of this world”
-- which would include the whole
array of addictions provided by all
the many leisure’s and
entertainments that captivate and
control our every-day lives.
With respect to the foregoing, we
dwell and are immersed in the
absolute epitome of a
"heathen
culture" -- a culture
that totally rejects the Ten
Commandments, promotes a
secular-atheist mindset, and has
virtually nothing in common with the
teachings of the Gospels. Do we
live in a culture that truly
advances the teachings to do unto
others as we would want others to do
unto us? Do we seek to live our
lives in spiritual purity? Do we
make ourselves the "good ground" in
the parable of the
Sower And The Seed?
Do we send our children (the souls
who were placed in our care) off to
government secularized schools to
become imbued with the thinking,
mindset and lifestyle of the heathen
culture in which we presently
live?
In the
Shepherd of Hermas a reference
is made to a tower, of which it is
written:
“And the tower, I asked, what does
it mean? This tower, he replied, is
the Church. And these virgins, who
are they? They are Holy Spirits, and
men cannot otherwise be found in the
kingdom of God unless these have put
their clothing upon them: for if you
receive the name only, and do not
receive from them the clothing, they
are of no advantage to you. For
these virgins are the powers of the
Son of God. If you bear His name but
possess not His power, it will be in
vain that you bear His name”.
In the scriptures what is
allegorically portrayed as a virgin,
is represented as existing in a
state of undefiled (spiritual)
purity.
In understanding what is written in
these pre-Nicene teachings, it is
most important for us to be aware of
the continual message found in the
words: “If
you bear His name but possess not
His power, it will be in vain that
you bear His name”.
Thus, if you call yourselves
Christian, but fail to purify and
develop your mind and body from the
thinking, mindset, lifestyle and
defilements of this world -- and do
not possess the true Knowledge of
the Spiritual Christ by putting on
the garments associated with the
virgins in the parables -- and have
not yourselves inherited the same
higher powers of mind that the Son
of God promised all his followers
would possess -- then
“it will be in
vain that you bear His name”.
And again, this is
demonstrated in the words spoken to
those who believed upon the coming
of the Lord, and even called upon
his name, but had failed to bring
with them the oil of purification,
where it was stated:
"Assuredly,
I say to you, I do not know you"
If, as
openly stated above, it is true that
Jesus taught his core disciples differently
than the multitude of people who he
portrayed as being
"...outside",
then a true seeker must conclude
that every article of faith promoted
by the Church today, would have to
be totally re-evaluated. Thus the
question: What was Jesus stating
with respect to why he spoke in
parables? To ignore this question,
is to reject the whole foundational
objective and revelation of the
Bible. Jesus was stating that only
those who become separate from the
thinking and ways of this world, and
became true disciples of
Messiah/Christ, are able to perceive
and understand the secrets of the
Kingdom of God -- and in the Greek
language, this sacred Knowledge is
called Gnosis. And by the very
meaning of the word that is being
presented that cannot be revealed
"...to
ordinary mortals. A hidden or
secret thing, not obvious to the
understanding" -- it is
of the utmost importance to
recognize that what is being
conveyed is the fact that
"...spiritual understanding is
restricted to those who have become
spiritual...”.
Why? Because man in his organic or
"natural"
condition of mind, has yet to
develop the facilities of mind
necessary to receive and comprehend
this higher spiritual knowledge that
the biblical authors are making
reference to. And this fact of
human life that everyone must
eventually come to terms with, is
demonstrated in the Gospel of Thomas
in the saying:
(17) Jesus said, "I shall give
you what no eye has seen and what no
ear has heard and what no hand has
touched and what has never occurred
to the human mind." It
is not that either Jesus or the
disciples wanted to hide or conceal
higher spiritual facts and realities
from anyone -- but rather, the
organic human mind which is limited
by the consciousness and vibratory
spectrum of thought of the physical
body, simply is incapable of
comprehending any thoughts,
impressions and realities beyond
what the organic human body/mind
will accommodate, without evolving
through the process of
transformation that was -- and
remains -- the primary objective of
the Gospel message and teachings.
Jesus came to lead the lost prodigal
sons and daughters into the kingdom
-- but for the inner
"narrow
strait gate" to open, the
body and physical mind must become
what is allegorically portrayed as
the
Final Temple.
In
analyzing what the Thayer's Lexicon
is stating above: Because the
people are not yet initiates into
the knowledge that is beyond the
understanding of
"...ordinary mortals"
-- secret knowledge that is
"...not
obvious to the understanding"
-- knowledge that is
impossible to be revealed in the
written text of the scriptures --
knowledge that Paul, as
"...an
ambassador in bonds",
cannot speak openly about to the
congregation of believers who he
himself taught -- Paul portrays the
congregation of believers as
"babes in
Christ". Again, to the
Colossians Paul asks for their
prayers that
"...God would open unto us a door
of utterance, to speak the mystery
of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds: That I may make it manifest,
as I ought to speak" (see
Col 5:3-4). Thus, these mysteries
of the Gospel that Paul portrays as
beyond the comprehension of
believers of a
"natural" mind,
because these believers of the
Gospel will look upon and reject
esoteric spiritual concepts as utter
"foolishness" (1
Cor 2:14) --
cannot be
revealed in man's spoken or written
words -- but only when
"...God
...opens ...a door of utterance, to
[reveal] the mystery of Christ"
-- a knowledge that cannot be
revealed
"...to ordinary mortals. A hidden
or secret thing, not obvious to the
understanding" --
including
"...the mystic or hidden sense of "
a biblical story. And while God
wants all the lost prodigal sons and
daughters to receive the sacred
knowledge which in the Thayer's
Lexicon it states is
"...not
obvious to the understanding [of]
...ordinary mortals" --
because the human earthly nature
must be evolved, this sacred
knowledge can only be perceived and
comprehended by those who have
prepared themselves to receive it.
Notice that the above statement by Ian Wilson which is
historically accurate, that "It was
only when he [Constantine] was approaching death that he
asked for, or was accepted for, Christian baptism. As was
still the custom, he received this naked, thereafter
renouncing forever the purple of his imperial rank."
Why? Because at that time the inner core of the
Church was well aware of the original teachings on Baptism
where in the Homilies of Clement, the Apostle Peter is
quoted as stating: "He has
commanded us to go forth to preach, and to invite you to the
supper of the heavenly King, which the Father hath prepared
for the marriage of His Son, and that we should give you
wedding garments, that is, the grace of baptism; which
whosoever obtains, as a spotless robe with which he is to
enter to the supper of the King, ought to beware that it be
not in any part of it stained with sin, and so he be
rejected as unworthy and reprobate." Thus,
Constantine was Baptized on his death bed in an attempt to
take advantage of what he saw as a Gospel loophole, in that
he could live his life as a sinner, and be totally forgiven
after Baptism, having never even being given the opportunity
to sin with the advent of his physical death shortly after
being given the Sacrament.
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A Divinely Ordained Marriage or
Union has Requirements -- i.e.,
"Therefore
what God has joined together, let no
one separate" (Mark 10:9)
--
"and the two will become one flesh.
So they are no longer two, but one
flesh". What is
bound in Marriage must meet the
necessary spiritual requirements.
Thus, no man, no clergy -- no group,
no earthly authority -- no
government has the Power to bind the
man and woman together in a True
Spiritual Marriage, unless the Union
is in accord with the Spiritual
Requirements that God sets forth in
the Sacrament of Marriage. And
unless the man and woman are
desirous to enter into a True
Coverture-Union (see
The Foundation Of A
Coverture-Marriage
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage
) -- in a state of absolute Oneness
and Fidelity -- then God will not
join them together.
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Can man redefine
Spiritual Sacraments
Ordained by God?
And when the Court
crosses over the
line of Separation
of Church and State
and attempts to
redefine a Spiritual
Sacrament and using
secular authority to
impose their will
upon the
Congregation of
Believers, is this
not a modern example
of where Peter
stated:
But Peter and
the apostles
answered, "We must
obey God rather than
men" (Acts
5:29).
For those who
believe that
Marriage is a
Spiritual Sacrament
and Covenant that
can't be redefined
by man, the recent
ruling of the
Supreme Court has
tested the
faithfulness to your
beliefs. If it is
true that Marriage
is a Spiritual
Sacrament and
Covenant between
God, a man and his
wife, then the
government has
betrayed your
trust.
In the words of
Jesus:
"But
from the beginning
of the creation God
made them male and
female. For this
cause shall a man
leave his father and
mother, and join to
his wife; And
they two shall be
one flesh: so then
they are no more
two, but one flesh. What
therefore God has
joined together, let
no one separate" (Mark
10:6-9). A
marriage, therefore,
is that sacrament
and holy consecrated
union that make the
man and woman,
"one flesh".
And that few
Christians today
even understand the
spiritual potential
of Marriage, is
explored in the
article
The Divine Role Of
Woman.
Throughout my
writings on the
Sacrament of the
Divine Marriage, I
have long maintained
that neither a
secular or religious
authority has the
power to institute a
Genuine Marriage
that is Ordained by
God -- that
marriages are
determined by the
content and
faithfulness of the
heart and mind --
without which, no
Real Marriage can be
instituted.
Further, not only
does the Sacrament
of Marriage have
requirements to be
entered into, but
must be maintained
in accord with
Spiritual Standards.
In view of the
fact that the Court
has moved to
redefine the
Sacrament of
Marriage, what they
have accomplished is
nothing more than
state licensed
co-habitation and
sex. And this does
not in any manner
constitute a
marriage in the Eyes
of God.
We have all seen the
videos where both
Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton have
pledged their belief
in marriage as a
sacred union between
one man and one
woman. It has been
asserted that in the
case of Barack
Obama, he lied to
get elected -- and
in the words of the
late William Safire,
Hillary Clinton is a
"congenital liar".
Clinton will be
shocked when it is
revealed to her when
she passes from this
life, that her and
Bill Clinton are not
even married in the
Eyes of God. As a
Sacred Covenant, if
the terms of that
Covenant are not
maintained in purity
of thought and body,
then the Covenant
itself is nullified
and void.
From the perspective
that secular
authority which does
not even possess the
power to institute a
True Marriage, and
has moved to
redefine a Spiritual
Sacrament that they
have no business of
setting the terms
and conditions of,
the people of the
states should
immediately move to
negate the power of
secular authority to
institute what they
cannot institute --
and thereby enacting
the necessary laws
and statutes to deny
secular authority
the right to use the
term marriage --
replacing it instead
with the term "civil
union". The terms
of marriage must be
taken away from
civil authorities,
and returned solely
to the domain of
religion.
Therefore, all such
unions ordained by
the state and
secular authorities,
must be labeled
"civil unions" --
with all secular
authorities banned
from even using the
term marriage.
All people should
have equal
Constitutional
Rights and
Protections -- and
therefore if a
same-sex couple
desire to enter into
a legal union
ordained by the
state, this union
should properly be
named a
"civil
union".
Same-sex couples are
just the beginning,
and this will in the
future again be
redefined to cover
polygamy, polyandry,
and eventually the
union of beast and
man. In Islam, a
man can have -- and
are encouraged to
have -- as many as
four (4) wives, plus
concubines. And it
is only a matter of
time before the
Court moves to
affirm the right of
the Muslim to
practice their
religion.
Therefore, in view
of the fact that the
authorities of the
state do not have
the (spiritual)
power to make the
two (man and woman)
"one flesh",
they must be denied
the use of that word
-- which means that
all state sanctified
unions would be
defined as
"civil
unions". If
the perspective
partners are members
of a religious group
that promotes the
sanctity and
fidelity of entering
into the Sacrament
and Covenant of
Marriage, then it
would be within the
domain of the
religious group to
issue a Marriage
Certificate (see
previous articles on
Marriage at
LINK). In
view of the fact
that the the
Constitution
requires separation
of church and state
-- and the state
does not have the
power to either
redefine or initiate
the Spiritual
Sacrament of
Marriage -- the
People must
themselves move to
deny the authorities
of the state even
the use of the term
Marriage --
replacing it with
the more proper
term, civil union.
The scriptures are
allegorical -- and
when the spiritual
meaning of the
Genesis account of
Creation is
understood, what is
revealed is the
Forces and Laws of
Consciousness that
is operating within
the mind of
mankind. In the
article on
The Tree Of Life And
The Divine Marriage,
it is demonstrated
that the fruit of
the Tree of Duality
(aka Tree of Good
and Evil) is the
divided thoughts and
impressions of man
and woman. And the
need to merge the
male and female
impressions in a
higher Morphic Field
which creates a
spiritual atmosphere
and environment for
the mind and being
to evolve and
spiritually mature,
is presented to the
seeker in the
Gospel of Thomas
saying:
They said to him,
"Shall we then, as
children, enter the
kingdom?" Jesus said
to them,
"When you make the
two one, and when
you make the inside
like the outside and
the outside like the
inside, and the
above like the
below, and when you
make the male and
the female one and
the same, so that
the male not be male
nor the female
female;
...then will you
enter the kingdom."
Unless this teaching
that was removed
from the Gospels
used by Christians
today is fulfilled
with respect to the
the eating of the
fruit of the Tree of
Life through the
merging of the male
and female columns
of the Tree of
Duality within the
seeker, then it will
remain impossible to
gain entrance into
the Inner Kingdom.
And those people who
reject same-sex
unions, innately
know this to be
true.
From the perspective
of a civil union,
people have the
absolute right to
enter into any union
of their choosing --
and no one has the
right to force them
to do differently.
Ultimately, our
Constitution
provides each man
and woman the right
to live in accord
with any philosophy
or mindset of their
choosing -- to the
degree that they
have the right to
squander away their
opportunity of life.
Sex, and sexual
expression, is not a
sin, so long as it
is not coerced or
forced upon another
individual. But
when used properly
within the construct
and environment of
The Tree Of Life And
The Divine Marriage,
sexual interaction
between the opposite
polarities of male
and female is the
catalyst that
initiates higher
development of mind
and being on the
"narrow way" of
Enlightenment and
Anointing. And
no secular authority
has the power to
initiate and ordain
a True Spiritual
Marriage. Secular
authorities are
limited to licensing
sex and cohabitation
only -- and because
of this fact, the
unions they license
should be rightly
limited to
civil-unions. |
We must then
pose the question: While male
and female unions are as common as
man and woman, the question must be
asked: Why don't these unions
initiate the next stage of birth
which the mystics make reference
to? The answer is very simple:
Because the union must not be
limited to the physical -- but
rather, the dynamic interaction of
mind and spirit in a state of
absolute harmony that is able to
raise the two up to a higher level
of being. Thus, together they must
seek to Know Self -- i.e., their
true self -- while seeking Truth and
the Inner Kingdom. Because of
self-ignorance, the vast majority of
marriages between a man and woman
are limited to the physical, the
emotional and the forming of a
family.
As
stated in the above, a Divinely
Ordained Spiritual Marriage has
requirements that must be met and
maintained. And if these
requirements are not maintained,
then no Spiritually Ordained
Marriage can exist. The scriptures
were composed by Mystics, to be used
by other sincere seekers who can be
portrayed as the prodigal sons and
daughters who have
"come to
their senses", and desire
to return to the Edenic Kingdom of
Origination. And this is why the
Law is designed and enacted only for
the most spiritual, while the rest
of mankind is only held to a set of
lesser laws and requirements. This
fact of different requirements which
modern Christians can't at all
understand, is presented in the
words:
“That servant who knows his master's
will and does not get ready or does
not do what his master wants will be
beaten with many blows. But the one
who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten
with few blows. From everyone who
has been given much, much will be
demanded; and from the one who has
been entrusted with much, much more
will be asked” (Luke
12:47-48 NIV). Thus, the people of
this world
"...who does not know and does
things deserving punishment will be
beaten with few blows",
because they are the prodigal sons
who remain lost and under the
control of what is portrayed as the
Citizen of the Far Country. On the
other hands, those who have begun to
come to Christ, and fail to live in
accord with the teachings and
requirements set forth in the
Gospel, will receive the greater
judgment and condemnation -- i.e.,
“That
servant who knows his master's will
and does not get ready or does not
do what his master wants will be
beaten with many blows. ...From
everyone who has been given much,
much will be demanded; and from the
one who has been entrusted with
much, much more will be asked”
The Law,
as set forth in the Torah, was never
intended to be applied to common man
who was not spiritual seekers and
disciples of TheWay. And because a
person cannot have "two masters",
and he cannot be true to the
thinking and lifestyle of this world
while still being a sincere seeker,
the vast majority of the Gentiles
very quickly corrupted the Gospels
that were given to them -- creating
dogmatic dispensations as to why it
was not necessary for them to live
in accord with the Gospel teachings
and requirements. But to the
degree that each person was able to
receive the spiritual teachings of
the Gospel, imposed upon them
greatly different requirements.
Thus, Paul condemned those who
believed that they could come to
Christ and continue to sin, as seen
in the statement that:
"For it is
impossible to restore again to
repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son
of God on their own account and hold
him up to contempt.. For if we sin
deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment,
and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries."
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). In like
manner, a large segment of the early
Gentile Church very quickly defiled
the original Gospel Sacraments (see
Sacraments), and brought
judgment upon themselves. With the
annexation of the Church by the
Roman Emperor Constantine in the
forth century, the Church was cast
into a spiritual abyss of abject
ignorance from which it has yet to
emerge. And because of the
Church's self-imposed exile in a
spiritual diaspora, they are no
longer able to be nourished by the
fruit of the Tree of Life -- and
therefore remain as lost prodigal
sons who dwell under the power and
control of the Citizen of the Far
Country.
See Also
Why Is Sexual Immorality Condemned
Invoking Grace In Response To Sexual
Immorality
The Esoteric Feminine Mystique
The Divine Marriage Index
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Organic Man - Ruled Over By His
Earthly Animal Nature: In
accord with the original Gospel
teachings of Jesus and TheWay, our
birth into this life is the first
phase of birth -- i.e., the initial
stage of birth that presents us with
the opportunity to bring about the
next subsequent stages of birth, and
enter into the Promise of a Higher
Life. The second century Christian
elder/bishop Valentinus who himself
had been instructed by teachers and
elders who had themselves been
taught directly by the disciples,
stated that faith-based Christians
who did not strive to travail in
TheWay -- and therefore failed to
use the opportunity of their
physical birth to bring about the
next and subsequent stages of birth
-- could not inherit the Gospel
Promise of entering into Life. Was
he wrong? Before the modern
Christian can even begin to answer
this question, there is an important
reality that was understood by those
in the first and second centuries,
that believers today know absolutely
nothing about.
The leaders of the Jews were
condemned by Jesus, because they had
thrown away what Jesus called the
Key of Knowledge -- and were
therefore counterfeit leaders and
teachers who were totally ignorant
of the threefold process of birth
that each person must undergo.
This fact is presented in the words
of Jesus to Nicodemus:
"...Do not
marvel that I said to you,
'You must be
born again.'
The wind blows where it wishes, and
you hear the sound of it, but cannot
tell where it comes from and where
it goes. So is everyone who is born
of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered
and said to Him, How can these
things be? Jesus answered and said
to him, Are you the teacher of
Israel, and do not know these
things? Most assuredly, I say to
you, We
speak what
We
know and testify what
We have seen,
and you do not receive
Our witness.
If I have told you earthly things
and you do not believe, how will you
believe if I tell you heavenly
things?" (John 3:1-12 NKJ).
These words were said to Nicodemus,
because as a religious leader,
Nicodemus was obligated to convey to
the people the absolute need to
bring about the next stages of birth
within themselves. The portrayal
in Jesus' words of
"We"
-- i.e.,
"...We
speak what
We
know and testify what
We have seen,
and you do not receive
Our witness"
-- is stated in the plural, because
this knowledge is true with respect
to anyone who understands the Laws
and the esoteric meaning of the
scriptures, and is able to bring
about the next stages of birth.
And while our entrance into this
world when we emerged our of our
mother's womb presented to us the
opportunity to achieve the
subsequent stages of birth and enter
into Life, unless we take advantage
of the opportunity that has been
presented to us, we will be doomed
to failure.
Once it is recognized that according
to Jesus and the Gospel teachings,
we are presently in the process of
striving to achieve the next stage
of birth -- and that when we emerged
out of the womb of our physical
mother, we entered into the womb of
mother-earth in order to enter into
an environment where the next stage
of birth can be brought about -- and
our presence in this world as male
or female, must be understood in
accord with the holographic pattern,
as the next level of
Cosmic Ovum Or Sperm . And
while our first stage of birth was
of the physical which formed our
body, we are presently in the
process of bringing about the second
stage of birth which is that of mind
-- prior to the even less understood
third stage of spiritual birth.
But what this also means is that we
presently exist at greatly varying
stages of what must be portrayed as
that of cosmic-fetal development --
and we have yet to achieve our
potential that will be manifest in
us when the subsequent stages of
birth have been achieved. The
Gospel of Thomas makes reference
to the fact that as a
Cosmic Ovum Or Sperm we
presently exist in an undeveloped
and divided state that must be
brought into a condition of Oneness
-- and then evolve through the
levels of development -- in order to
bring about the next stage of
birth. Which means that we must
recognize the reality that there are
people who walk the face of the
earth in a primary and undeveloped
condition of mind. And in the same
way that a divided ovum and sperm
are very different than the united
embryo, fetus, infant and adult that
their union has the potential to
create, these same differences
between people who exist at greatly
varying stages of development
towards achieving the next stage of
birth must be recognized and
understood.
In the same way that a sperm and
ovum released into the womb of a
woman must become ONE and UNITED to
form the embryo that evolved into
our present body, this same uniting
of male and female opposites is
presented to us in
Gospel of Thomas saying 22 when
Jesus is asked about how the Kingdom
is entered, and he replies:
Jesus said to them,
"When you make
the two one, and when you make the
inside like the outside and the
outside like the inside, and the
above like the below, and when you
make the male and the female one and
the same, so that the male not be
male nor the female female;
...then will you enter the kingdom."
(see
The Unwanted Truth That Makes Men
Free). And having emerged from
the womb of our mother and entered
the womb of mother-earth as a
Cosmic Ovum Or Sperm , our
development of mind and spirit is
contingent upon our fulfillment of
this above saying in the Gospel of
Thomas. And if the words
attributed to Jesus in the foregoing
is true -- and each person must
bring about the conditions within
themselves presented in these
teachings -- then it can easily be
demonstrated that modern Christians
have little in common with the
Original Gospel teachings of TheWay.
And what is truly revealing is the
fact that the same basic message of
the above that would greatly confuse
modern Christians, was also
contained in The Second Epistle of
Clement where Clement writes to the
first-century Christian
congregations:
“Let us expect, therefore, hour
by hour, the kingdom of God in love
and righteousness, since we know not
the day of the appearing of God. For
the Lord Himself, being asked by one
when His kingdom would come,
replied, 'When two shall be one,
that which is without as that which
is within, and the male with the
female, neither male nor female’”.
What this means is that this
important teaching that was removed
from our present day Gospels (
http://BibleCorruption.com ),
was in response to a person asking
Jesus about the promised coming of
the Kingdom. And while a large
segment of the modern Church are
looking for the Kingdom to come upon
the earth -- regardless of the fact
that when asked, Jesus said the
Kingdom would never come upon the
earth outwardly -- but rather, can
only come within the
seeker/disciples own mind and
being. And the fact that Clement
could repeat this teaching to the
congregations he was writing to, and
these congregations would understand
the teaching in question,
demonstrates the great spiritual
divide that exists between modern
dogma and the original teachings of
Jesus and TheWay. In fact, if this
teaching was preached from one of
the pulpits of the modern Church,
the parishioners would be absolutely
clueless as to its meaning and
significance. Further, where many
modern Christians have reduced and
redefined the process of
second-birth to the formality of
words spoken in a prayer, Jesus
taught that those who achieve the
next stage of birth are able to gain
entrance into the Kingdom -- which
Kingdom comes within them in the
fulfillment of the Gospel Promise.
Thus, the clergy and teachers of
modern Christendom have more in
common with the spiritually
disenfranchised blind leaders of the
Pharisees, than the first and second
century Christians who understood
this ultra-important teaching
contained in both a suppressed
Gospel and an Epistle.
In analysis, the above teaching of
Jesus to Nicodemus is important to
understand where he stated:
"...If I have
told you earthly things and you do
not believe, how will you believe if
I tell you heavenly things?".
Which provokes the question: Why
does organic man not only have great
difficulty in understanding what is
being portrayed by Jesus as
"earthly
things"? And why would
"heavenly
things" be virtually
impossible for them to understand?
And when Nicodemus questioned what
was being stated to him, Jesus
replied:
"You are a respected Jewish teacher,
and yet you don't understand these
things?" In view of the
fact that Nicodemus was acknowledged
to be a teacher among the Jews,
Jesus could have very well phrased
his statement: How can you not first
remove the beam from your own eyes,
before attempting to remove the
splinters from the eyes of your
brothers? And the fact that
Nicodemus and the leaders of the
Jews failed to apply the scriptures
as the Key of Knowledge and gain
entrance into the Kingdom (see The
Fatal Error Of The Church
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third
), and learn how a true teacher or
guide teaches others how to bring
the subsequent stages of birth about
in their lives.
In light of the above, the question
must be asked: What exactly is that
level of consciousness that is
portrayed in the above as a
primary and
undeveloped human condition of mind?
When we use the the term holographic
pattern, what this means is that
what is true on one level, is also
true on all subsequent levels. And
in understanding the physical as a
holographic pattern that exists at
all levels of man's development --
we must pose the questions: Is the
comparative consciousness of a sperm
and ovum different than that of an
embryo? Different than that of what
can be portrayed as a cosmic-fetus
? A cosmic-newborn? A
cosmic-toddler? A
cosmic-adolescence? And a fully
formed adult? Because we fail to
understand the second and subsequent
stages of birth, our language has no
terms that in any manner define
these subsequent stages of mental
and spiritual development which
takes place within the spectrum of
achieving the next stage and stages
of birth. While the defining terms
embryo, fetus, new-born, adolescence
and adult possesses great meaning
with respect to stages of expected
physical development, none of these
age-apparent terms exist within the
spectrum of the next stage of
birth. Which provokes the
question: When Jesus said that his
disciples were his brothers -- and
that they
"...will do the works I have been
doing, and they will do even greater
things than these, because I am
going to the Father"
(John 14:12) -- what he was making
reference to was not a faith-based
believer who was the equivalent of a
spiritual-fetus or infant -- but
rather, those who had evolved
through the stages of subsequent
birth and had fully entered the
Kingdom of Man. Which raises the
question: Are all people part of the
Kingdom of Man who have yet to
achieve the necessary maturity and
subsequent stage of birth that is
merely the potential of the life he
is presently living? And if the
potential is not achieved, then how
are those people who failed to
achieve the potential of the life
they are presently living defined?
Once again we must pose the question
as to what is the level of
consciousness of those who can be
portrayed as a cosmic ovum and
sperm? A reality that modern
Christians are not even prepared to
come to terms with is presented in
the statement by one of the earliest
of Christian writers named Justin
Martyr where he makes reference to
the doctrine of transmutation --
i.e., the embodiment of a person in
the body of a beast which is
portrayed as punishment for the
misdeeds of a previous life -- when
he (Justin) answers the question of
Trypho, the Jew, and writes:
"And what
do those suffer who are judged to be
unworthy of this spectacle? said he.
They are imprisoned in the bodies of
certain wild beasts, and this is
their punishment"
(Dialogue of Justin With Trypho, a
Jew). Which provokes the
question: Is this really a teaching
of Jesus and the original Ebionite
Nazirene Christians? Where could
such a thought have originated? If
the Gospels had not been corrupted,
Christians would have access to the
teaching which has been preserved in
the 88th chapter of
The Gospel Of The Nazirenes
where Jesus states:
"Love you
one another and all the creatures of
God, Yet I say to you, not all are
men, who are in the form of man. Are
they men or women in the image of
God whose ways of violence, of
oppression and wrong, who choose a
lie rather than the truth? No,
truly, till they are born again, and
receive the spirit of love and
wisdom within their hearts. Then
only are they sons and daughters of
Israel, and being of Israel they are
children of God, And for this cause
came I into the world, and for this
I have suffered at the hands of
sinners." Going even
one step further the Church Father
Origen explains that:
"By some
inclination toward evil, certain
spirit souls come into bodies, first
of men; then, due to their
association with the irrational
passions after the allotted span of
human life, they are changed into
beasts, from which they sink to the
level of plants. From this condition
they rise again through the same
stages and are restored to their
heavenly place" (Origen,
On First Principles, B. W.
Butterworth, translator). What is
being said is that while man is of
the fourth kingdom -- i.e. with the
mineral, vegetable and animal below
him in the first three kingdoms of
Nature -- the Soul's birth in the
physical body presents to that Soul
the opportunity to become of the
Fourth Kingdom which we associate
with the Kingdom of Man. And what
the soul-generated personality
achieves in this life, will
determine whether that person is
able to achieve the necessary
subsequent stages of birth.
A most important reality is
presented in the above quotation
that has perpetually confused the
modern Bible reader -- i.e.,
"No, truly, till they are born
again, and receive the spirit of
love and wisdom within their hearts.
Then only are they sons and
daughters of Israel, and being of
Israel they are children of God..."
This verse explains and supports the
statement:
"These twelve Jesus sent out,
instructing them, “Go nowhere among
the Gentiles and enter no town of
the Samaritans, but go rather to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The
kingdom of heaven is at hand’"
(Matt 10:5-7) -- and again Jesus
said: He
answered, “I was sent only to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel”
(Matt 15:24). Why was Jesus sent
ONLY to the children of the House of
Israel? Because only those who can
be portrayed as Spiritual Israel --
who have themselves been nourished
by the fruit of the
Tree of Life and are in the
process of achieving the next stage
of birth -- have attained the
necessary level of Completion within
themselves -- and are therefore
able to receive the Whole of the
Gospel Teachings directly from the
Indwelling Logos/Son of God who was
called The True Prophet
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TrueProphet
. When rightly understood, the
leaders of the Jews were condemned
by Jesus, because they were the
personification of counterfeit
Israel who were portrayed as blind
guides -- because having received
the Royal Law of the Most High, they
observe it outwardly in ritual and
tradition. Only Spiritual Israel
is no longer controlled by their
their lower animal nature -- and
have either achieved or are in the
process of achieving the next stage
of birth into the Kingdom of Man.
If, as stated in the above, there
are beasts who walk in the form of
man -- and exist at varying levels
in the process of achieving the next
stage of birth that would make them
of the fourth kingdom of man -- then
humanity exists at greatly varying
levels between walking the earth as
a beast in the forum of man, and
actually achieving the next stage of
birth that would manifest them in
the fullness of the fourth kingdom.
Further, only those who are
portrayed as the Spiritual House of
Israel, are able to enter through
the "narrow
gate" within them, into
the Kingdom, and learn in the
presence of the Logos/Son of God.
The argument will be made that there
is a series of verses in the Gospels
that allegedly repute the above
statement that Jesus could only come
to those who were of the House of
Israel -- and they will counter
with what is portrayed as The Great
Commission which is at Matthew
28:19-20. But the problem is that
The Great Commission has long been
proven to be an interpolation and
corruption added by the later fourth
century Church (see
http://BibleCorruption.com#TheGreatCommission
). But even more important is the
fact that between the actual verses
which confirm the teaching that
Jesus could only come to those who
are portrayed as the House of Israel
-- and the fact that The Great
Commission has long been proven to
be a fraud -- confirms the statement
of the Apostle Peter as found in the
Homilies of his disciple Clement
(see
The Two Princes).
Speaking
of Simon Magus in the Clementine
writings, the Apostle Peter states:
"He is a power of the left hand of
God, and has authority to do harm to
those who know not God, so that he
has been able to involve you in
diseases; but by these very
diseases, which have been permitted
to come upon you by the good
providence of God, you, seeking and
finding him who is able to cure,
have been compelled to submit to the
will of God on the occasion of the
cure of the body, and to think of
believing, in order that in this way
you may have your souls as well as
your bodies in a healthy state."
And we can observe Jesus making this
exact statement when he said to the
person he had healed:
"Behold,
thou art made whole:
sin no more,
lest a worse thing come unto thee"
(John 5:14 KJV). Which provokes
the question: How does sin cause
"..a worse
thing come unto" a
person? What is the causal factor
that initiates what is portrayed as
a "worse
thing" that is caused by
a person's sin?
This
reality is explained in the Homilies
of Clement where the Apostle Peter
then explains about the Two Princes
or Powers of the Left and Right
Hands of God:
"For thus from the beginning was a
law laid by God, the Creator of all
things, on each of the two princes,
him of the right hand and him of the
left, that neither should have power
over any one whom they might wish to
benefit or to hurt, unless first he
had sat down at the same table with
them. As, then, when you partook of
meat offered to idols, you became
servants to the prince of evil, in
like manner, if you cease from these
things, and flee for refuge to God
through the good Prince of His right
hand, honoring Him without
sacrifices, by doing whatsoever He
wills, know of a truth that not only
will your bodies be healed, but your
souls also will become healthy. For
He only, destroying with His left
hand, can quicken with His right; He
only can both smite and raise the
fallen."
And again Peter explains:
"But that this is so, has been said
even by the law in the person of
God: ‘I will kill, and, I will make
alive; I will strike, and I will
heal. For, in truth, He kills and
makes alive. He kills through the
left hand, that is, through the evil
one, who has been so composed as to
rejoice in afflicting the impious.
And he saves and benefits through
the right band, that is, through the
good one, who has been made to
rejoice in the good deeds and
salvation of the righteous."
As stated in the Bible:
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be
mocked. A man reaps what he sows”
(Gal 6:7 NIV). Which means that
each person inherits the fruit of
their own actions -- as set forth
where the Natural Laws of Creation
are explored as a
Living Bio-Feedback Organism
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#LivingBioFeedback
. Which means that those who seek
to live under the domain of the
GOOD, are able to be nourished and
assisted by the Good Prince on the
Right Hand of God. While those who
do evil, and are of the principle
power of this world, dwell under the
domain of the Left Hand -- which is
why Jesus warned the man who he made
whole to "...sin
no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee". Which means
that -- in the manner of a
bio-feedback organism -- it is the
Natural Laws of Creation that
monitors and responds to our
actions. Why? When our bodies
were being formed in our mothers
womb, we developed in accord with a
genetic pattern that was functioning
in accord with the Natural Laws.
And, when we emerged out of our
mothers womb, we entered this world
which can be holographically
understood as the womb of
mother-earth -- and in the same way
that the Natural Laws brought us to
the point of physical birth, the
Natural Laws of mother-earth are the
means by which our minds develop to
enable us to enter the kingdom of
man. That Jesus taught the
necessity of still subsequent stages
of birth, conveys to us that upon
entering the womb of mother-earth,
the Forces and Laws of Creation will
work upon us to bring this
subsequent stage and stages of birth
about. And it is these Laws of
Creation that intimately monitor our
progress of which Jesus warned the
person to
"...sin no more, lest a worse thing
come unto thee".
What the Gospels are confirming is
that both the Prince of the Right
Hand and the Holy Spirit can only
come to those who can be
portrayed as being of the House of
Israel -- i.e., those who keep the
Commandments and travail in TheWay
-- and of whom it can be stated:
"No, truly, till they are born
again, and receive the spirit of
love and wisdom within their hearts.
Then only are they sons and
daughters of Israel, and being of
Israel they are children of God..."
Then again, didn't Jesus warned:
"Not
everyone who says to Me, 'Lord,
Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of
heaven, but he who does the will of
My Father in heaven. Many will say
to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in Your name, cast
out demons in Your name, and done
many wonders in Your name?' And then
I will declare to them, 'I never
knew you; depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness!'"
(Matt 7:21-23 NKJ). Why didn't
Jesus know them? Because the
Prince of the Right Hand cannot
intervene in the life of those who
dwell under the domain of the Prince
of the Left Hand.
Those who call upon the Name of God
with their lips, and fail to keep
the Commandments, are ruled over by
the Prince of the Left Hand. And
even those who prophesied in the
name of the Prince of the Right
Hand. And those who cast out
demons. And performed many works
and wonders in the Name of the
Lord. The Prince of the Right Hand
proclaims:
"And then I will declare to them, 'I
never knew you; depart from Me, you
who practice lawlessness!'"
And sadly, in the same way
the Jews permitted themselves to
become spiritually disenfranchised,
the same prediction was made about
the Christians -- i.e. Paul warned:
“let no man
beguile you in any wise: for (it
will not be,) except the falling
away come first, and the man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition,
he that opposeth and exalteth
himself against all that is called
God or that is worshipped; so that
he sitteth in the temple of God,
setting himself forth as God”
(2 Thes 2:3-4 ASV).
What the Apostle is herein very
clearly predicting is that there
would come a time when the god of
the Christian Church will be a false
god.
Historically speaking, it has been
almost universally recognized that
the period in time that the Apostle
could have been referring to was in
the fourth century when the church
made a covenant with the Roman
Emperor Constantine.
With regard to this falling
away, the Adam Clark Commentary
writes of this passage of Paul's
Epistle:
“[Except there come a falling away
first] We have the original word
apostasia in our word apostasy; and
by this term we understand a
dereliction of the essential
principles of religious truth,
either a total abandonment of
Christianity itself, or such a
corruption of its doctrines as
renders the whole system completely
inefficient to salvation. But what
this apostasy means is a question
which has not yet, and perhaps never
will be, answered to general
satisfaction” (from the
Adam Clarke Commentary). Or,
as stated by John Wesley, Paul was
portraying
"...that fatal period when the
Emperor Constantine called himself a
Christian; From this time onward -
the Christians had no more of the
Spirit of Christ than the
heathens...." (Wesley's
Works, vol 7, Sermon 89, pp.
26-27).
If the question is posed: What is
the determining factor with respect
to the people and their leaders who
dwell under the domain of the Right
Hand of God? Those who dwell on
the Right seek Truth over dogma and
man-made doctrines. They live
their lives in accord with that
Truth. Jesus taught that only
those who dwell under the domain of
the Right Hand are able to make
progress toward achieving the next
and subsequent stages of birth.
Holographically, we evolve through a
series of births by first emerging
out of the womb of our physical
mother, whereby we then enter the
womb of mother-earth in order to
continue our development. What
this means is that unless the person
achieves the next level of
soul-birth (see
Cosmic Ovum And Sperm), that
they remain ruled over by their
lower animal nature which is
embodied in the consciousness of the
body-vessel. Therefore, while
they physically appear to be human,
they are in fact the consciousness
of a beast that walks in the form of
man or woman. And this reality is
expressed in the meaning of the
Greek text of Paul's First Epistle
to the Corinthians (2:14) where Paul
states that the
"natural"
organic man cannot comprehend the
higher reality of the Soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom -- i.e.,
where the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Bible Commentary writes with respect
to the meaning of the word in the
original Greek language:
"natural
man—literally, 'a man of animal
soul'." Further,
the Treasury Of Scriptural Knowledge
for the ignored and profound
statement at 1 Cor 2:14 which reads
(quoting Paul): "But
the
natural man
receives not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness to him: neither can he
know them, because they are
spiritually discerned."
The Commentary then provides the
interpretative-meaning of Paul's
words with respect to the reality of
what is portrayed by Paul as the
natural man:.
[Psuchikos,] the animal man, one who
lives in a natural state, and under
the influence of his animal
passions; for [psuche] means the
inferior and sensual part of man, in
opposition to the [nous]
understanding, or [pneuma,] the
spirit. And this is not
only true -- but is is a fact of
life that all mystics and
enlightened souls must deal with
when interacting with organic man.
Which
is exactly why Paul profoundly
stated to the very people who he had
personally taught the Gospel
message:
"And I, brethren, could not speak to
you as to spiritual people but as to
carnal, as to babes in Christ. I
fed you with milk and not with solid
food; for until now you were not
able to receive it, and even now you
are still not able; for you are
still carnal" (1 Cor
3:1-3 NKJ). Stating to the body of
confirmed and baptized believers who
he portrayed as having received all
truth and knowledge pertaining to
the elementary
"traditions" of
Christ:
“But the natural man does not
receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are
foolishness
to him; nor can he know them,
because they are
spiritually
discerned”
(1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).
Mankind is of the Fourth Kingdom --
i.e., mineral, vegetable, animal and
mankind-- and his lower nature and
body consciousness is comprised and
immersed in the three lower kingdoms
beneath mankind who is of the fourth
kingdom. That organic man in what
Paul portrays as a
"natural"
condition of mind is ruled over by
man's lower natures, is why in his
Epistles Paul commanded to
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV) -- further warning
that
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
Yet, because important teachings
were removed from the Gospels, and
modern man does not at all
understand the reality of his lower
animal nature, he fails to
understand that he can very well be
portrayed as being of an animal
consciousness who is walking the
earth in the outward form of man --
i.e., the fourth kingdom of man,
being ruled over by the lower three
that comprise his lower nature
manifest in the consciousness of his
physical body. Therefore, what
Paul warned with respect to
comprehending the higher reality of
the soul and the Mysteries of the
Kingdom is that
“But the
natural man [who is still of an
animal-soul] does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God, for
they are
foolishness
to him; nor can he know them,
because they are
spiritually
received”
(1 Cor 2:14 NKJ). Therefore, the
baptized and confirmed believers who
Paul had personally taught were
incapable of comprehending the
higher reality of the soul and the
true spiritual meaning of the
Gospel, because they were yet too
immature to comprehend man's higher
spiritual reality -- i.e.,
"And I,
brethren, could not speak to you as
to spiritual people but as to
carnal, as to babes in Christ. I
fed you with milk and not with solid
food; for until now you were not
able to receive it, and even now you
are still not able; for you are
still carnal" (1 Cor
3:1-3 NKJ). And this fact of
reality remains true unto this very
day. Without doing as Paul
commanded with respect to the
transformation of the lower
animal-consciousness of the body, it
will remain impossible to perceive
and comprehend the true spiritual
meaning of the Gospels. And it
will make no difference if you study
the scriptures in a university or
seminary -- in the same way that
Paul himself could not convey to
those he personally taught the
spiritual meaning of the Gospels,
neither can any man teach this
meaning without the seeker/student
undergoing the process of
transforming the
"natural
animal-soul"
consciousness of the physical.
Many religions teach that man can
and is thrown into an animal body --
and like all such doctrines, while
there is a degree of truth to these
statements, because of the
distortion of human consciousness,
organic man does not understand what
is being presented. Quoting from
Reincarnation In Islam and the
writings of the Sufi Mystic Hazrat:
"I died as a mineral and became a
plant, I died as plant and rose to
animal, I died as animal and I was
Man. Why should I fear? When was I
less by dying?" This
belief is present in Hinduism, as
well as Jewish Mysticism -- i.e.,
quoting the
Kabbalah Center:
"There are
four levels in which a soul can
reside: human, animal, vegetable, or
mineral. If you have selfish desire
in this life, in the next life you
will have to deal with being
captured in a stone (mineral),
vegetable, or animal. It’s not a
punishment. It’s because you didn’t
know what to do with the desire to
receive as a human. So, you are
given a form (like, mineral,
vegetable, or animal), in which your
desire to receive is lower than a
human."
Continuing from a Jewish perspective
quoting
The Kosher Torah:
"Alas, in
our many sins, just as souls can
evolve upward in Kedusha (holiness)
so can they descend into tumah
(uncleanness). When this occurs,
HaShem can punish a human soul by
incarnating it into a non-human
form. Indeed, a human soul can
incarnate into anything that HaShem
has created. HaShem has placed
fallen human souls into animals of
all kinds, into plants and even into
rocks, water, sand and dirt. Each of
these places is to act as a prison
for the soul, each in accordance to
the sins it performed. The fallen
soul is destined by Divine edict to
stay trapped in its non-human form
with all its memories of being human
for a specified amount of time. It
is said that this form of punishment
is most hard to bear and the most
painful punishment of all."
Perhaps the reality of an animal
consciousness that rules over the
body can best be comprehended by
understanding the teachings of the
Essenes on the subject. In his
Antiquity of the Jews, the Jewish
historian Josephus, who had lived
among the Essenes, was a
contemporary of the man Jesus, and
became an Ebionite, stated that the
Essenes: “…resigned
up their souls with great alacrity,
as expecting to receive them again.
For their doctrine is this, that
bodies are corruptible, and that the
matter they are made of is not
permanent; but that the souls are
immortal, and continue for ever; and
that they came out of the most
subtle air, and are united to their
bodies as to prisons, into which
they are drawn by a certain natural
enticement; but that when they are
set free from the bonds of flesh,
they then, as released from a long
bondage, rejoice and mount
upward...”. The fact
that the soul is attracted to the
body in which it will inhabit, is
because the nature of the body
previously existed, and was an
integral part of the soul spanning
the Seven Kingdoms of Creation. The
statement that the soul becomes
"...united to their bodies as to
prisons", is made on the
basis that the condition and
consciousness of the body is in
accord with the condition the soul
left the body in its previous
life. Thus, the above can be
understood within the context of
Paul's statement that
"If there is a
natural body, there is also a
spiritual body"
(1 Cor 15:44) -- with the
"natural
body" being comprised of
the lower three kingdoms that is
ruled over by our lower (animal)
nature. And herein lies the
problem that modern man is not at
all prepared to both comprehend and
even deal with -- i.e., we are
returned or reunited with our lower
animal nature from life to life to
life to life -- until the lower
nature is transformed, so it can
provide a proper foundational
environment for our higher soul and
spiritual natures to manifest.
Thus, it is not that the soul is
forced to incarnate as a beast --
but rather, the soul is returned
back to the consciousness of it's
lower nature -- which lower nature
will greatly impact the
consciousness of the person
throughout the life they will live.
Will that life be as a prison? Or
will the body be the environment of
a Living Temple? This will be
determined by the level of
refinement we have accomplished from
life to life.
When Paul commanded the Christians
who he had himself taught the Gospel
to "Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV) -- he wrote these
words because the Christians he
taught HAD A LOWER EARTHLY NATURE
that would not only control their
thinking and ability to live in
accord with the Gospel teachings,
but would inhibit their ability to
even learn and advance beyond the
"animal-soul"
level of consciousness which would
make it impossible to receive the
promise of the Gospel teachings.
And with respect to the promise of
salvation as set forth in the
Gospel, Paul further warned that
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
Why? Because so long as the person
remains in a state where they are
controlled by their lower animal
nature -- incapable of advancing
beyond what Paul portrayed as
"natural"
organic man -- then these people
regardless of the fact that they may
call themselves Christians, will be
incapable of transforming the lower
(animal) nature, bringing about the
next stage of birth , and entering
into Life in accord with the Promise
of the Gospel.
  Many
of the Indigenous and Ancient
religions and teachings were more in
tune with man's physical body, and
they understood that man has a lower
animal nature that his soul
re-inherits from life to life.
Every type of mythology is ripe with
images of half-man and
half-animal. Many Indigenous
peoples from around the world
learned and developed the ability to
directly communicate with their
lower animal nature, and release it
from the body to go on missions.
At
Legends Of America it is stated
that:
"Native beliefs further explain that
a totem animal is one that is with
you for life, both in the physical
and spiritual world. Though people
may identify with different animal
guides throughout their lifetimes,
it is this one totem animal that
acts as the main guardian spirit.
With this one animal a connection is
shared, either through interest in
the animal, characteristics, dreams,
or other interaction."
The Soul has an animal nature -- and
one of the primary objectives of
life is to refine our animal nature,
in order to create the necessary
environment within us that will
permit our higher Soul and Spiritual
Natures to manifest in the body.
From life to life each
soul-personality picks up where they
left off, and continues with the
process of refining the lower
nature.
The Soul of a person who has worked
to refine their lower animal nature
over the course of many lives, will
very quickly be able to evolve their
thinking and understanding to
comprehend higher realities that
will remain virtually impossible for
most people to comprehend. Which
is why different people are born
with greatly varying capacities to
both learn and embrace higher
understanding with respect to man's
Soul and Spiritual Natures. But
herein lies one of the major
problems -- i.e., the ability of a
person to bring about the necessary
expansion and deepening of mind and
manifest higher consciousness, will
be totally dependent upon that
Soul's achievements over the course
of the lives that Soul has lived.
In hte words of the Church Father
Origen:
“Every
soul... comes into this world
strengthened by the victories or
weakened by the defeats of its
previous life” (Origen,
De Principiis see The
Biblical Foundation Mindset
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#BiblicalFoundationalMindset
). And since each of us is
the person we are at the present,
because of the accomplishments of
our Soul in those lives preceding
the present, equality in advancement
and mental expansion is
impossible. And thus, the great
Truth of Origen's words with respect
to the Conditions that each of us is
born into this world:
“For God
the Creator makes a certain vessel
unto honor, and other vessels to
dishonor; but that vessel which has
cleansed itself from all impurity He
makes a vessel unto honor, while
that which has stained itself with
the filth of vice He makes a vessel
unto dishonor. The conclusion from
which, accordingly, is this,
that
the cause of each one's actions is a
pre-existing one; and then every
one, according to his deserts, is
made by God either a vessel unto
honor or dishonor. Therefore every
individual vessel has furnished to
its Creator out of itself the causes
and occasions of its being formed by
Him to be either a vessel unto honor
or one unto dishonor.
And if the
assertion appear correct, as it
certainly is, and in harmony with
all piety, that it is due to
previous causes that every vessel be
prepared by God either to honor or
to dishonor, it does not appear
absurd that, in discussing remoter
causes in the same order, and in the
same method, we should come to the
same conclusion respecting the
nature of souls, and (believe) that
this was the reason why Jacob was
beloved before he was born into this
world, and Esau hated, while he
still was contained in the womb of
his mother” (see
The Early Church On Predestination
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#predestination
).
The ability of a person's mind to
overcome the barrier imposed upon us
by human limitations -- evolving the
mind beyond the
"animal-soul"
level of Consciousness -- is
solely dependent upon the refinement
and domestication of our lower
animal nature. And herein lies the
problem: While Indigenous cultures
that are more in harmony with the
Laws and Forces of the Earth are far
more knowledgeable with respect to
man's lower animal nature, our
modern plastic politically correct
culture is absolutely clueless as to
this human reality that is man's
greatest controlling and restraining
factor. And while the elders of
Original Christianity understood
these ultra-important controlling
factors and limitations, our present
crop of religious leaders have no
idea as to why modern believers
can't live in accord with the Gospel
Teachings and Principles. Those
who comprehend what can be called
the Cosmology of Mind and Being
understand that man has a Higher
Soul-Self that is virtually an
All-Knowing Being of Light -- and
from a physical perspective, man's
ability to learn, evolve and to
possess higher knowledge, is totally
dependent upon the refinement of his
lower animal nature and the
Wholeness of his Being. And while
this refinement was one of the
primary teachings of the Original
Gospel-based Christianity, it
remains virtually absent in our
modern Churches that claim to
represent the teachings of Jesus.
To the degree that when the
religious requirements of first and
second century Christianity is
pointed out in the teachings set
forth in the New Covenant Sacraments
(see
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org
), the modern faith-based Christian
rejects these Original Requirements
as being
"impossible" to keep and
fulfill. And because of the
prevailing ignorance of Self, Soul
and Spirit, they are correct --
i.e., beasts who walk in the form of
man are incapable of keeping the
Original Gospel Requirements -- and
are incapable of comprehending the
spiritual meaning of the Gospel and
the Higher Reality of the Soul.
Thus, the truth with respect to the
human condition is preserved in the
above words:
"Love you one another and all the
creatures of God, Yet I say to you,
not all are men, who are in the form
of man. Are they men or women in the
image of God whose ways of violence,
of oppression and wrong, who choose
a lie rather than the truth? No,
truly, till they are born again, and
receive the spirit of love and
wisdom within their hearts. Then
only are they sons and daughters of
Israel, and being of Israel they are
children of God..." --
and the words: "Therefore, I
teach you only those laws which you
can understand, that you may become
men, and follow the seven laws of
the Son of Man..." -- which
means that until the next stage of
birth is achieved, the people's of
the earth are striving and in the
process of bringing about the stage
of birth that will enable them to
achieve the fourth kingdom of man.
And until that next stage is
achieved, they will remain beasts
who walk in the form of man. While
it is true that a lion, a tiger or a
bear cannot become a man, it is also
true that the consciousness of a
lion or a tiger or a bear can evolve
and bring about the next stage of
birth while walking in the body of
man. But in order for this
transformation of the lower nature
to be brought about, it is necessary
for the person to be reared and
developed in an environment that
enables the next stage of birth to
be brought about.
The
Problem: Because of our
profound ignorance of Self, our
children are being born into a
spiritually disenfranchised culture
that enflames the animal-passions of
man's lower nature, and alienates
him from his Higher Soul Nature that
he knows virtually nothing about.
And if ever we wanted an example of
the lost prodigal son squandering
away his inheritance of things of no
substance and meaning, there could
be no finer example of man's folly
than our modern plastic culture and
spiritually disenfranchised society
than the manner in which we are
rearing our children today.
Insuring their spiritual demise and
failure. If ever a teaching was
valid in the words:
"...But if
you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty" -- our
modern plastic culture is the
embodiment of intellectual poverty
and abject spiritual ignorance. In
virtually every aspect of our modern
cultural lives we ignore the
essential Gospel teachings of the
Sermon on the Mount (see
The Esoteric Sermon On The Mount)
-- and in our carnal mindset and
lifestyle that promotes our lower
animal passions and appetites, we
totally alienate both ourselves and
our children from our True-Self.
Leaving ourselves mentally barren in
a state of intellectual poverty and
spiritually impotent.
The
Vicious Circle Of Self-Ignorance:
Jesus therefore said to those of
the Jews who had now believed in
Him,
"As for you, if you hold fast to my
teaching, then you are truly my
disciples; and you shall know the
Truth, and the Truth will make you
free" (John
8:31-32). Why was this said?
What is the meaning of the
teachings? It doesn't say that if
you believe in the man Jesus you
will know the Truth. It says that
if you
"hold fast" to the
teachings,
"...you will know the Truth that
sets men free". The term
"hold fast"
is defined as
"To bear down, grit it out, stay
the course" -- meaning,
to live in strict accord with the
teachings. Why? The Gospel
teachings represent the minimum
level of thinking and lifestyle
necessary to begin to evolve the
lower animal nature -- to merge
together the outer male/female
columns of the Tree of Duality
within each persons own mind (see
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org )
-- and create within the body and
mind of the seeker the necessary
environment for the Heavenly Kingdom
to merge with the Earthly,
initiating the next stage of Birth,
instituting what has been
traditionally portrayed as
Armageddon or the End Times within
the body and mind of the
seeker/disciple of TheWay who is
faithful to the Gospel teachings.
Organic man has a
"natural"
limitation that inhibits his
development beyond a certain level
that Paul correctly portrayed as an
"animal-soul" level of
Consciousness. In order to move
beyond that very limited level of
both mental and human development,
certain Laws and Building Blocks
must be observed and embraced. In
our present culture the secularized
public school system destroys the
child's opportunity to fulfill the
Gospel Promise of entering into
Life. So does the broken marriages
and the lack of moral standards that
is actively promoted by our modern
media -- and is even present in our
churches and institutions. There
is an important reason why the
scriptures set forth sexual and
moral standards (see
Sexual Immorality - Why Is It
Condemned In The Scriptures?).
Our modern culture does not
in any manner understand the
important differences between men
and women (see Academia And The
Feminist Cultural War On Women
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AcademiaWarOnWomen
). And our religious institutions
have become so corrupted, that they
are totally clueless as to how the
life-giving fruit of the Tree of
Life is to be eaten (see
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org
).
The problem of not being able to
comprehend the whole reality of
life, is typical of human
three-dimensional thinking (see
Why Truth Can't Exist In This World).
The above doctrinal statements drawn
from the Jewish mysticism and the
teachings of Kabbalah, are based
upon fragments of truth that is not
fully understood by man in his
organic condition of mind. To the
degree that while it is not true in
the manner that this reality is
being envisioned by people who are
lacking an elevated comprehension,
it is true from a higher reality
that the vast majority of mankind
would not be able to comprehend what
is being presented. Yet, because
this and many other fragments of
truth are ultra-important for modern
man to comprehend if he is to step
up upon a plateau of greater
understanding of Self and the Life
he is presently living, I will
explore this subject in great depth
in the below, after I have covered
the necessary preliminary Cosmology
of Mind and Being required to
understand man's true reality.
In the above where in the Epistle of
Peter and James it declares that if
the esoteric knowledge that could
only be imparted to spiritually
mature Christians should become
lost, that
"...it will remain even for those
who really seek the truth, always to
wander in error", one of
the primary reasons is seen in the
fact that if a man is ignorant of
the reality of his animal nature,
that he will be ruled by the beast
of the lower kingdoms that make up
his body and organic
consciousness. There are Seven
Kingdoms of Nature -- and man is of
the Fourth Kingdom. Beneath him
lies the three earthly kingdoms, and
above him is the three heavenly
kingdoms. In the parable of the
Sower and the Seed, the
condition of the ground is
representative of the consciousness
and condition of the body with
respect to the objective of
sacrificing the lower animal
kingdoms in order to bring about
the
Final Temple within the body and
mind of the seeker. Therefore, it
is not that the soul incarnates as a
beast -- but rather, that the
soul-seed essence remains ruled over
by the consciousness of the beast as
realized as the reality of the
body-vessel which is comprised of
the consciousness and elements of
the lower three earthly kingdoms.
And it is ignorance of this fact
that caused the early Christian
(Gnostic) Valentinus to confirm what
Jesus stated with respect to what is
portrayed as only the very few who
succeed -- i.e.,
"...narrow the road that leads to
life, and only a few find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NIV) -- Valentinus
stating that the vast majority of
people have no real continuance
beyond the grave, that most seekers
will fail, and only a few will
overcome and succeed. That Jesus
is portrayed as the Savor, is
because he fulfilled the Law within
himself, and became the pattern for
all others to embrace and follow in
TheWay. If, therefore, you don't
follow the pattern, then you can't
be counted as a believer.
What the biblical authors portray as
"natural"
man (see
Mystery Of The Gospel) -- which
level of being the early Christian
Valentinus portrayed as Hylics --
which reality of being I often use
the term organic man to portray --
is very much the product of nature
-- and it is this lesser level of
humanity that is portrayed above in
the Gospel of the Nazirenes as
beast-men who walk in the form of
man. And what is not understood by
modern man is the fact that if
mankind is the fourth-kingdom, then
he possesses within himself and his
being the lower three kingdoms which
are earthly -- i.e., mineral,
vegetable and animal -- in the words
of the Sufi Mystic
Rumi:
"I died as a mineral and became a
plant, I died as plant and rose to
animal, I died as animal and I was
Man. Why should I fear? When was I
less by dying?" And
without development towards
achieving the next stage of birth,
that person walks the earth as a
beast in the form of man. The
problem is that these lesser
kingdoms remain as an integral part
of the conscious and foundation upon
which that of mankind is manifest in
the earth.
If we understand the relationship of
beast-man to man -- which can be
portrayed from a biblical
perspective as the relationship of
the Jew to the non-Jew as presented
in the Talmud:
"G-d created the non-Jew in human
form so that the Jew would have to
be served by beasts. The non-Jew is
consequently an animal in human
form, and condemned to serve the Jew
day and night" (Talmud,
Midrasch Talpiothe). Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef teaches (see
Non-Jews Are Donkeys):
Yosef further elucidated his ideas
about the servitude of gentiles to
Jews, asking “why are gentiles
needed? They will work, they will
plow, they will reap; and we will
sit like an effendi and eat.” “That
is why gentiles were created.” The
concept of gentiles being
infra-human beings or quasi-animals
is well-established in Orthodox
Judaism. For example, rabbis
affiliated with the Chabad movement,
a supremacist but influential Jewish
sect, teach openly that at the
spiritual level, non-Jews have the
status of animals. Abraham Kook,
the religious mentor of the settler
movement, was quoted as saying that
the difference between a Jew and a
gentile was greater and deeper than
the difference between humans and
animals. “The difference between a
Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews —
all of them in all different levels
— is greater and deeper than the
difference between a human soul and
the souls of cattle.”
Where the Gospel of the Nazirenes
above states "Love
you one another and all the
creatures of God, Yet I say to you,
not all are men, who are in the form
of man...", a similar
proclamation is made in the
Essene Gospel of Peace where it
states:
"Therefore,
I teach you only those laws which
you can understand,
that you may become men,
and follow the seven laws of the Son
of Man. Then will the unknown angels
of the Heavenly Father also reveal
their laws to you, that God's holy
spirit may descend upon you, and
lead you to his law."
Once again we see that in the
progression of the seeker, he must
first became man -- i.e., no longer
ruled over by his lower animal
nature. And we also see that
Nature-Man is incapable of
understanding the Higher Laws and
Reality of God, until which time he
refines his lower nature to the
degree where he can live in accord
with what is portrayed as the Laws
of the Son of Man, and in the
process become Man -- i.e., not
ruled over by his lower animal
nature. We also see that only
after living by the Laws of the Son
of Man, wherein he becomes man, can
"...the
unknown angels of the Heavenly
Father also reveal their laws to
you, that God's holy spirit may
descend upon you, and lead you to
his law."
What is being expressed is the great
variance between man in the
beast-form when he is (1) being
ruled over by his lower animal
nature; (2) the faith-based man who
has begun to embrace the Laws of the
Son of Man who Paul portrays as
"babes in
Christ" who has received
the elementary Gospel teachings; (3)
the disciple who has embraced these
teachings in word, thought, desire
and deed, and has begun to be taught
by the Angles who has imparted to
him the knowledge of the Heavenly
Laws; (4) and lastly, the mature
disciple who the Heavenly Father has
"...descend
upon [and has] lead you to his law."
From the allegorical perspective of
the scriptures, the people of the
Nations are those who are beasts who
walk in the form of man who are
ruled over by their lower animal
nature -- whereas those who are
portrayed as the Jew or Jews, are
representative of that level where
beast-man has received the Royal Law
of God, but is still of a lesser
level of consciousness where he
expresses the Law outwardly in
ritual and tradition. In order to
mature and evolve into Spiritual
Israel, the
Key of Knowledge must be
applied, and the full
twelve-dimensional potential of Mind
must become manifest in the life of
the seeker. And symbolically, this
is why Jews who expressed the Law
outwardly were seen as
Christ-killers by the early
Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians who
portrayed Jews as worshiping a
Demiurge (external) god of this
world. Which is why Jesus
portrayed the leaders of the Jews as
the offspring of the Devil who were
incapable of comprehending man's
higher soul and spiritual reality --
i.e.,
"Why do you not understand My
speech? Because you are not able to
listen to My word. You are of your
father the devil, and the desires of
your father you want to do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and
does not stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he
speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
resources, for he is a liar and the
father of it" (John
8:43-44 NKJ - see
The Devil - God Of The Jews).
And from a biblical
perspective, the Jew can be seen as
a symbol representing a necessary
rung on the ladder -- i.e., while
one's consciousness is still carnal
and organic, one is at a level where
they have begun to receive the Royal
Law, and that person is in the
process of bringing about the
necessary alchemical transformation
into the next level of soul-birth --
which can only be achieved when the
consciousness of the Jew becomes
transformed into that of Spiritual
Israel.
In the scriptural quotations
presented in the foregoing, the
people are presented on two (2)
levels -- i.e., those who are still
of an animal-soul level, and those
who have begun to enter the Kingdom
of man. And in the Gospel of Luke,
these two levels are again presented
in the words:
“That servant who knows his
master's will and does not get ready
or does not do what his master wants
will be beaten with many blows. But
the one who does not know and does
things deserving punishment will be
beaten with few blows. From everyone
who has been given much, much will
be demanded; and from the one who
has been entrusted with much, much
more will be asked” (Luke
12:47-48 NIV). With respect to
these two major levels -- keeping in
mind that each of the two major
levels contain sublevels within them
-- as demonstrated in the above,
even those who Paul taught all the
knowledge of what he portrayed as
the (historical)
"traditions" of Christ --
with Paul making reference to
committed Christians who had learned
directly from the Apostle, was
baptized and in the words of Paul
had received all the initial gifts
of the spirit -- Paul portrayed
these confirmed believers as still
of a
"natural" or animal-soul
level of consciousness, mind and
being. And when I use the term too
carnal to comprehend man's higher
reality of the Soul and the Kingdom,
I am in fact merely quoting Paul's
own words he uses to portray these
same baptized and committed
Christians who having only received
the literal historical teachings,
lacked the spiritual maturity to
comprehend the True, Spiritual
meaning of the Gospel teachings --
teaching which Paul warned that the
body of committed, baptized
Christians were reject as utter
"foolishness", if he were
to reveal or attempt to teach them
-- i.e.,
“But the natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are
foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually
discerned” (1 Cor 2:14
KJV).
Jesus himself once again presented
this same line of division between
the multitude of people who were
only capable of hearing allegorical
parables who he portrayed as those
who were cast into the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being (see
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org
, and the few who had evolved out of
the animal-soul level of being, and
began to enter into the Kingdom of
Man -- and were therefore had begun
to be able to receive and comprehend
the knowledge of man's higher soul
and spiritual natures and
realities. And the prohibition
against portraying one's self as a
teacher, rabbi or master, was based
upon the fact that as shepherds of
TheWay, the genuine disciples of
Jesus were too guide sincere seekers
in the same way as presented in the
Essene Gospel of Peace that:
"Therefore,
I teach you only those laws which
you can understand, that you may
become men..." And those
who do begin to enter the Kingdom of
Man, are then able to be taught
directly from the ONE TEACHER who
was portrayed as the True Prophet
(see
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org/#TrueProphet
.
Thus, Jesus taught that those who
seek to enter into Life, must
"Enter by the narrow gate; for
wide is the gate and broad is the
way that leads to destruction, and
there are many who go in by it.
Because narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which leads to
life, and there are few who find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NKJ) -- and it
is imperative to understand that the
word translated
"destruction", in no
manner represents what is actually
being presented by the interpreters
of the Greek biblical texts.
Quoting the footnote on this word in
the Schofield Reference Bible which
reads:
“There is no thought in these
various words of annihilation but of
something that is ruined and thus
unsuitable or unable to fulfill its
original purpose”.
That the higher soul-self generates
embryonic images at the conception
of the body -- and these soul-images
then begin the process of evolving
through the levels and stages of
birth that Jesus portrayed in the
words:
"...Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God"
-- means that those soul-images
that, after emerging out of the
physical womb of their mother, and
into the environment of this world,
have begun the next phase necessary
in order to bring about the next
stage of birth. That you are a
thought-image which has been
generated by your higher soul-self
-- i.e., you exist as a projected
embryonic seed-image which has been
impressed into the physical body at
conception -- is the reason why
Paul and the earliest of biblical
texts warn that carnal man is not
even "known
by God" (see
Soul-Image). Therefore, you
exist as a Creation of God only by
proxy -- and by virtue of the fact
that you are a thought projected by
your soul -- and it was your soul
that was Created by God in the
beginning. And thus, the reality
of the words to Know Thyself -- and
a house that is divided, cannot
stand.
That for countless reasons these
soul-images which enter this world
in the bodies of man and woman
mostly fail to bring about the
objective of achieving the next
stage of birth that Jesus said was
absolutely necessary to achieve
permanence in Life, is very much
true that they have become as
portrayed in the Schofield Reference
Bible as being
"...ruined and thus unsuitable or
unable to fulfill its original
purpose”. As
soul-images that failed to evolve
through the next stage of birth,
they are for the most part temporal
-- being temporal, they can never
reincarnate as many in the New Age
believe -- and neither can they go
to Glory as the Church promotes.
The fact that some people claim to
see their past lives, have been
deceived when they mistakenly
believe that they lived those lives,
and the memory has been
suppressed. What they are in
effect seeing, is the images which
their higher soul-self has
previously generated -- failed
images which is the Gospel of Thomas
saying 84 are portrayed in the words
that
"...when you see your images which
came into being before you, and
which neither die nor become
manifest, how much you will have to
bear!" And these
failed images which walked (what
Jesus portrayed as) the broad-way of
self destruction -- i.e.,
"...ruined
and thus unsuitable or unable to
fulfill its original purpose”
-- neither reincarnate, nor go to
Glory in the Christian sense of the
understanding -- and yet, they
remain within the higher reality of
the soul in that dimension of mind
which man, in his very limited
understanding, calls time (see
The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of
Man).
When Jesus taught that you must
achieve the next stage of birth to
enter into the Life in the Kingdom,
this next stage of birth must be
accomplished while you are still in
the physical body. That you, as
the projected soul-image, has been
inhibited from growing and
developing, because of the
conditions of the earth in the
parable of the
Sower and the Seed, is very much
presented in the words:
"...Yet I
say to you, not all are men, who are
in the form of man. Are they men or
women in the image of God whose ways
of violence, of oppression and
wrong, who choose a lie rather than
the truth? No, truly, till they are
born again, and receive the spirit
of love and wisdom within their
hearts." Thus, the
soul-images that are ruled over by
the appetites and passions of the
lower nature of the body, are
temporal with respect to the higher
reality of the soul, and can neither
reincarnate or go to Glory -- i.e.,
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye
shall die: but if ye through the
Spirit do mortify the deeds of the
body, ye shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
The whole system of animal sacrifice
in the Old Testament is allegory --
and it is the lower animal nature
within each person that must be
sacrificed. And this is why the
early Church Father Epiphanius wrote
concerning the Ebionites that they
do not engage in the outward ritual
observances of the Law of Moses --
i.e., they
"...do not accept Moses' Pentateuch
in its entirety; certain sayings
they reject... stating Christ has
revealed this to me, and will
blespheme
most
of the
legislation"
(Panarion 30.18.7-9). Yes,
it is the Anointing (Messiah/Christ)
that reveals to the enlightened soul
the inner meaning of the written
word of the scriptures that organic
man remains blind to (see
An Inconvenient Truth).
Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of
the Ebionites/Hebrews where Jesus
states: "I
have come to destroy the sacrifices"
(Panaron 30.16.5) -- i.e.,
outward sacrifice vs the necessary
sacrifice of man's own lower earthly
(animal) nature. And when
AskMoses.com states that we must
sacrifice our inner animals i.e.,
"We cannot
atone for our shortcomings by
sacrificing animals, but we can
sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires,
our beastly compulsions"
-- is this any different than the
teachings of Jesus in the
Gospel of the Nazirenes:
"For they,
making a god of their belly,
sacrificed to their God the innocent
creatures of the earth, in place of
the carnal nature within
themselves. And eating of their
flesh and drinking of their blood to
their own destruction, corrupted
their bodies and shortened their
days, even as the Gentiles who did
not know the truth, or who knowing
it, have changed it into a lie."
And this is why Paul
warned that the person must
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV).
With the requirement that
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
And this is why those who desire to
return to the Inner Kingdom,
understand the absolute need to
observe the original diet intended
for man in the words:
"And God
said, See, I have given you every
herb that yields seed which is on
the face of all the earth, and every
tree whose fruit yields seed; to you
it shall be for food. Also, to every
beast of the earth, to every bird of
the air, and to everything that
creeps on the earth, in which there
is life, I have given every green
herb for food; and it was so. Then
God saw everything that He had made,
and indeed it was very good. So the
evening and the morning were the
sixth day" (Gen 1:29-31
NKJ).
Quoting from
The Final Temple:
The word Messiah which in Greek is
the Christ, and in English is the
Anointed, indicates one whose mind
has been Enlightened -- i.e.,
Anointed and Chosen by God to guide
Israel. But what is Israel? It is
not the person of the flesh -- but
rather, of the Spirit. And the
confrontation between Jesus and the
Pharisees in the New Covenant
Gospels, was a reenactment of the
proverbial struggle between the
spirit and the flesh -- i.e., Able
and Cain -- Light and darkness --
the Essene portrayal of the Sons of
Light and the sons of darkness --
and these are the struggles that
exist within each of us -- and it is
this struggle that each of us must
overcome. And that the Pharisees
were of the flesh -- and were blind
to the higher reality of soul and
spirit -- is the reason the
Pharisees asked Jesus when the
Kingdom of God would come upon the
earth as they believed their
prophets had predicted? (Luke
17:20-21) And because the vast
number of Jews went in the way of
Cain -- and they are and continue to
be of the flesh -- they are not even
aware that there is an inner,
spiritual meaning to the Torah that
few people are able to see and
understand. Why? Because they
are oblivious to the above words
with respect to the Final Temple.
Therefore, without the necessary
conscious understanding, they have
not purified and sanctified their
own body-Temple. Thus, the long
ignored Jewish Mystic warns:
"Thus the
tales related in the Torah are
simply her outer garments, and woe
to the man who regards that outer
garb as the Torah itself, for such a
man will be deprived of portion in
the next world..." (see
No Jew Has Seen The Torah).
Which is explained in the Zohar:
“The
narratives of the doctrine are its
cloak. The simple look only on the
garment, that is upon the narrative
of the doctrine; more they know
not. The instructed, however, see
not merely the cloak, but what the
cloak covers”.
As confirmed in the above article
from AskMoses.com, Jesus correctly
stated that the Kingdom of God can
never come upon the earth in the
manner that carnal men predict and
look for it to come, because it is
within us (see
Gate
Of Eden) -- all of us --
equally. And since the Torah is
a series of allegorical symbols and
forms that portray inner realities
of body, mind/soul and spirit (see
An Inconvenient Truth) to those
who possess the eyes to see beneath
what is presented as the
"...outer garb
as the Torah itself" --
which is often allegorically
portrayed as the Torah that could
not be received because the children
of Israel worshiped the golden calf
when Moses returned from the Mount
-- which means that within the
symbolism of the allegorical forms
of the Torah, is the esoteric
knowledge necessary to receive the
Sacred Manna that one must
possess in order to fulfill the
Messianic prophesies -- breaking
down the inner barriers of mind and
being -- and dwelling within the
Holy of Holies in the Presence of
the Most High. When the article in
AskMoses.com states:
"With
the destruction of the Second
Temple, G-d changed His mode of
interaction with the universe."
This is an acknowledgement that the
historical man Jesus was the chosen
holy vessel and Anointed One
(Messiah/Christ) who inaugurated the
Holy Temple defined above. That
does not mean that Jesus was God
incarnate in the manner that the
pagan Gentiles who worshiped
everything under the sun
proclaimed. Neither does it mean
that Jesus was the only Messiah --
because each of us who seeks to make
their body-vessel a Living Temple,
is made a Messiah. And this
reality of the meaning of the words
Messiah and Christ is demonstrated
in the position of the Ebionite
Nazirene Disciples of Jesus who were
correct in their assertion that
Jesus
"was justified by fulfilling the
Law. He was the Messiah/Christ of
God, since not one of the rest of
mankind had observed the Law
completely. Had any one else
fulfilled the commandments of the
Law, he would have been the
Messiah/Christ." Hence,
when the Disciples and followers of
TheWay
"...thus fulfill the law, they are
able to become Messiah/Christs,
for they assert that our Lord
Himself was a man in like sense with
all humanity."
(Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer.
vii. 34 - quotations at
http://Ebionite.com ). So as a
Messiah, the teachings of Jesus with
respect to the necessary mindset and
lifestyle that is required to
fulfill the Law within ourselves,
meant that he was sent as a Prophet
of the Most High to guide the true
seekers into the Inner Kingdom.
And isn't this exactly what is
presented in the above words of
AskMoses:
"...G-d
destroyed the physical Temple and
made it a spiritual place.
He took that
window and placed it within us.
Instead of traveling to Jerusalem,
G-d wanted us
to find Him in our inner Jerusalem.
Now, our bodies are our Temples, our
souls are our windows, our minds are
our Kohanim and our animal instincts
are our sacrifices. We cannot offer
physical sacrifices three times a
day, but we can pray three times a
day. We cannot attend Temple
services three times a day, but we
can tap into our souls three times a
day. We cannot
atone for our shortcomings by
sacrificing animals, but we can
sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires,
our beastly compulsions. We cannot
find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find
Him in us.
This
was G-d’s Master Plan. By
exchanging a sweeping, dramatic
outdoor concert of public
spirituality for an internal,
personal, private experience,
G-d was
bringing Himself even closer to
humanity, laying the groundwork for
the Third and final Temple—an age
that will synthesize G-d’s presence
inside our hearts and minds and in
the world around us in a totally new
reality: the Era of
Moshiach."
What Jesus taught was the mindset
and the necessary Consecrated Life
Style to become a Living Temple --
and as the High Priest of our own
Living Temple, what is portrayed in
the allegory of the Torah and Old
Testament as entering within the
Holy of Holies of the Jerusalem
Temple, is synonymous with striving
to enter at the
"narrow
gate" and permit the
Kingdom to come within --
"Enter by
the narrow gate; for wide is the
gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many
who go in by it. Because narrow is
the gate and difficult is the way
which leads to life, and there are
few who find it." (Matt
7:13-14 NKJ). And this is why in
the Clementine Homilies the Apostle
Peter states that if properly
understood, there is no difference
between the Torah and the New
Covenant scriptures -- because the
underlying spiritual objective is
one and the same. The problem is
that neither the Jews or the
Christians understand either set of
scriptures with any true spiritual
depth -- because their body-temple
has been ravaged by the thinking,
culture and ways of this world, as
portrayed in the plundering of the
temple by the carnal forces of this
world.
Notice the very important words in
the above article from AskMoses.com:
"We cannot
atone for our shortcomings by
sacrificing animals, but we can
sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires,
our beastly compulsions."
And this is why the
Ebionite Disciples of Yeshua
rejected all animal sacrifice --
i.e., quoting Epiphanius: The
Ebionites
"do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in
its entirety; certain sayings they
reject... stating Christ has
revealed this to me, and will
blespheme most of the legislation"
(Panarion 30.18.7-9).
Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of
the Ebionites/Hebrews where Yeshua
states: "I
have come to destroy the sacrifices"
(ibid. 30.16.5). And when
AskMoses.com states that we must
sacrifice our inner animals, is this
any different than the teachings of
Yeshua in the
Gospel of the Nazirenes:
"For they,
making a god of their belly,
sacrificed to their God the innocent
creatures of the earth, in place of
the carnal nature within
themselves. And eating of their
flesh and drinking of their blood to
their own destruction, corrupted
their bodies and shortened their
days, even as the Gentiles who did
not know the truth, or who knowing
it, have changed it into a lie."
Only those who make their
body-vessel a Living Temple -- and
in the words of AskMoses.com, they
must
"...sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires,
our beastly compulsions"
-- and is this any different
than the words of Paul when he
commanded the Gentiles to
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV)?
Or the requirement that
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV):
Which means that we must transform
the beastly predator of carnal man's
lower nature, into an unblemished
perfect lamb that is a fit sacrifice
on the altar of our Inner Living
Temple. And this state of required
purity and consecration is
exactly what is stated by Isaiah
where it is written:
"And
a highway will be there; it will be
called the Way of Holiness. The
unclean will not journey on it; it
will be for those who walk in that
Way; wicked fools will not go about
on it"
(Isa 35:8 NIV).
Mankind has freewill -- and as the
prodigal sons who have each emerged
out of the Kingdom to travail in
this world which Jesus portrayed as
the Far Country -- each of the lost
sons and daughters of the Kingdom
must return of their own volition
and desire. That each has the
innate power to return, is in fact
the very purpose and objective of
the scriptures -- i.e., to be used
as the
Key of Knowledge when each
individual desires to return to the
Edenic Kingdom of Origination (
http://GateOfEden.com ). That
the leaders among the Jews had
alienated themselves from the Inner
Kingdom -- and they attempted to
observe the scriptures in outward
ritual and tradition -- is the very
reason why Jesus condemned them as
heretics who hid the
Key of Knowledge from the
people, and in their carnal
interpretations they
"...prevent
others from entering".
Because the carnal Jews were under
the control of what Jesus portrayed
in the parable of the prodigal son
as the
"Citizen ...of the Far Country",
they remained blind to the Inner
Kingdom and the true meaning of the
scriptures -- i.e.,
"...but unto
them
that are without,
all things are done in parables:
that seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand".
And the fact that those who were the
leaders of the people were blind to
the Kingdom, and unable to
spiritually hear and understand,
made it impossible to even begin to
compose scriptures where the higher
reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom were more
plainly presented to the reader.
As Paul warned, if the people who
were under the control of the
"Citizen
...of the Far Country",
were to even be told about the
Mysteries of the Kingdom, they would
immediately reject these teachings
as utter
"foolishness" (see
Mystery Of The Gospel). And
that this inability to present the
esoteric truths of the Gospel
remains today, is the reason why the
modern congregation of Christian
believers remain in subjugation to
the
"Citizen ...of the Far Country".
Not to understand the meaning of the
term "In
The House", and to have
thrown away the
Key of Knowledge, is to remain
totally ignorant of the spiritual
meaning of the Gospels and the
teachings of TheWay. In fact, the
reality of the term being In The
House was and is so important, that
the
Gospel of the Nazirenes (chapter
19:10) states:
"There is a
house made without hands, seek that
you may dwell therein."
If the believer is truly faithful to
the Living Word -- lives in
accordance with the Commandments of
the Royal Law of the Most High --
seeks to acquire Genuine Knowledge
directly from the Son of God -- and
sincerely walks in The Way -- then
they will pass through the
"narrow
way" and the
"straight
gate" into the Kingdom
will open to them.
When the disciples who dwelled In
The House, asked Jesus why he taught
the multitude of people in the
enigma of parables -- wherein, each
person's interpretation and
understanding was in accord with
their own mindset and thinking --
Jesus replied to his disciples:
"Unto you
is given the mystery of the kingdom
of God: but unto them that are
without, all things are done in
parables: that seeing they may see,
and not perceive; and hearing they
may hear, and not understand; lest
haply they should turn again, and it
should be forgiven them"
(Mark 4:11-12 ASV) -- and the term,
"...lest
haply they should turn again",
is stated in reference to the
Kingdom that can only be found
within, and the presence of the
One Teacher therein.
Animal Sacrifice And The Living
Temple: When the original
Ebionite Nazirene disciples and
followers of Jesus expressed the
need to fulfill the Law, it was not
the literal allegorical text of the
Torah which is observed in outward
ritual and tradition in the manner
of the Jews that was being made
reference to -- but rather, the
Universal Law of Mind and Spirit
that is allegorically presented and
functioning within each and every
one of us. Therefore, when the
Ebionite Nazirene were portrayed as
being Torah Observant, the Law was
therefore observed in the exact
manner that Jesus said was necessary
-- i.e.,
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh
counts for nothing. The words I have
spoken to you--they are full of the
Spirit and life" (John
6:63).
The early Church writer
Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites
"do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in
its entirety; certain sayings they
reject... stating Christ has
revealed this to me, and will
blaspheme most of the legislation"
(Panarion 30.18.7-9). For
them to be accused of
"blaspheming most of the
legislation", means that
they did not at all observe the
Torah outwardly in accordance with
the letter of the written word in
the manner of the Jews -- but
rather, they understood the
allegorical symbolism that was
applicable to unlocking the inner
door to the Kingdom.
In recognition of the existence of
man's lower animal nature that not
only rules over man's consciousness,
but in the words of Paul presented
above limits his comprehension and
development, it is important to
understand man's motivation to
perform animal sacrifice as a part
of his religion. Which provokes the
question: Did God in the Old
Testament require animal sacrifice?
Lets begin my answer to this
question by quoting the words of
Moses Maimonedes, one of the most
respected of Jewish theologians,
historian, and Talmudist, where he
writes about the nature of
scripture:
“Every time that you find in our
books a tale the reality of which
seems impossible, a story which is
repugnant to both reason and common
sense, then be sure that the tale
contains a profound allegory veiling
a deeply mysterious truth; and the
greater the absurdity of the letter,
the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.
When understood from the perspective
of the original authors of the
scriptures, what is presented in the
scriptures is a blueprint of the
seekers own mind -- the levels and
forces of consciousness -- and the
Laws that control every aspect of
the person's life. And while the
scriptures may appear as historical
accounts, this is merely the facade
that enables the authors to present
the inner spiritual meaning which
portrays the mental development and
spiritual events in the life of the
seeker in search of Higher Truth.
Which raises the question: Why would
the scriptures contain (allegorical)
fabricated
"...stories which is repugnant to
both reason and common sense"
-- which I might also add was why
Paul portrayed these stories as the
"letter
that killeth" [and] "Jewish fables"
(see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). Why?
The answer goes to the core of our
own holographic reality -- and the
fact that whatever we perceive in
the outer world, is merely a
reflection of the inner reality of
our own mind and being. And that
primitive man the world over is
often observed performing animal
sacrifice, is because he is
externalizing his own animal nature
which he perceives in the outer
world. Innately he senses that his
own animal nature must be
transformed -- and so, he engages in
the (outward) ritual of animal
sacrifice -- doing outwardly, what
he must accomplish within himself.
Quoting from
http://TheConsecratedLife.com :
And when AskMoses.com states that we
must sacrifice our inner animals, is
this any different than the
teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of
the Nazirenes:
"For they, making a god of their
belly, sacrificed to their God the
innocent creatures of the earth, in
place of the carnal nature within
themselves. And eating of their
flesh and drinking of their blood to
their own destruction, corrupted
their bodies and shortened their
days, even as the Gentiles who did
not know the truth, or who knowing
it, have changed it into a lie."
Only those who make their
body-vessel a Living Temple -- and
in the words of AskMoses.com, they
must
"...sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires,
our beastly compulsions"
-- and is this any different than
the words of Paul when he commanded
the Gentiles to
"Put to
death, therefore, whatever belongs
to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV)? Or the requirement
that “For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live” (Rom 8:13 KJV):
Which means that we must transform
the beastly predator of carnal man's
lower nature, into an unblemished
perfect lamb that is a fit sacrifice
on the altar of our Inner Living
Temple. And this state of required
purity and consecration is exactly
what is stated by Isaiah where it is
written:
"And a highway will be there; it
will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in
that Way; wicked fools will not go
about on it" (Isa 35:8
NIV).
It is important to recognize that
under the Law of Moses, the Jews
were ONLY permitted to perform
animal sacrifice in ONE place --
i.e., the Jerusalem Temple. And
when it is understood that the
temple in Jerusalem was an
allegorical portrayal of the Living
Temple that the seeker/disciple must
transform in their own body-vessel
(see
The Living Temple), then it is
their understanding that it is their
own lower animal nature that must be
raised up as an unspotted lamb, and
sacrificed on the altar of their own
transformed body-temple. Which is
why the literal text of the Old
Testament is portrayed as the
"letter
that killeth" when the
Jews fail to understand the
spiritual meaning of the allegorical
text, and apply what Jesus call the
Key of Knowledge (
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ) --
turning the scriptures within their
own consciousness, mind and being.
Yet, the message and meaning is of
the utmost importance.
As explained above, man is of the
fourth kingdom -- with the lower
three kingdoms of mineral, vegetable
and animal as part of his earthly
consciousness. That man's lower
animal nature in many instances
rules and controls his consciousness
and being (see
Ruled Over By His Lower Animal
Nature), which is the cause of
much of the violence and brutality
in the world. And because we fail
to comprehend the Cosmology of Mind
and Being (
http://SoulSelf.org ), and
remain ignorant of the fact that in
many people what we have is the
beast walking in the forum of man,
there are countless elements within
our modern culture that actually
causes and supports the beast in man
to prevail in our society. Further,
Paul emphatically warns that
Christians and Jews who remain at
the level of what he portrays as of
a "natural"
organic human consciousness, are
incapable of comprehending either
the higher reality of the Soul, or
the true spiritual meaning of the
scriptures, because as Paul asserts
the faith-based believers of a
"natural"
mind are of an
"animal-soul" level of
consciousness and understanding (see
What Difference Does It Make) --
and therefore remain totally carnal
and earth-bound in their thinking
because they are ruled over by their
lower animal nature.
The heathen and pagan mind of the
mainstream of Gentiles always had
great difficulty in understanding
the difference between the man
Jesus, the Indwelling Logos/Son of
God which is representative of the
Mind of God (see
The Logos), and the One Teacher
which Jesus commanded all who would
call themselves his disciples and
followers, were to seek out and
learn from (see
The True Prophet). And it was
the living of the necessary
Consecrated Life that Jesus
ordained, and the seeking of the
Kingdom within, that enabled the
historical Jesus to become the
Messiah, and At-One with the
Indwelling Logos/Son of God. And
this is especially demonstrated in
the words of Edward Gibbon with
respect to the original position of
the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of
Jesus that he was in
“...supernatural union of a man and
God... In their eyes, Jesus of
Nazareth was a mere mortal, the
legitimate son of Joseph and Mary:
but he was the best and wisest of
the human race, selected as the
worthy instrument to restore upon
earth the worship of the true and
supreme Deity. When he was baptized
in the Jordan, the Christ, the first
of the aeons, the Son of God
himself, descended on Jesus in the
form of a dove, to inhabit his mind,
and direct his actions during the
allotted period of his ministry”
(Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of
the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).
The historical and spiritual
factualness of these words can be
proven when one understands the
original words that were spoken to
the man Jesus at his baptism in the
Jordan River -- when the Voice of
God stated:
"Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee"
-- which means that the historical
man Jesus was a man who became the
Messiah/Christ when he overcame the
Laws and became Anointed by God.
That the later Church of Rome which
existed as a puppet under the pagan
sun worshipping Emperor Constantine,
censored and changed the very words
of God spoken to mankind, is the
primary reason why the Christian
world remains shackled to the abyss
of spiritual ignorance to this very
day. In the article
The Ten Words, it will be
demonstrated that all the pre-Nicene
Christian authors who quoted the
baptism sequence in their copies of
the Gospels, confirmed that prior to
the fourth century editing of the
scriptures by Pagan Rome, that the
Gospels confirmed that Jesus was a
holy man who became the Lord's
Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by
fulfilling and overcoming the
Laws. Moreover, in addition to
the six (6) pre-Nicene Christian
authors who are cited in
The Ten Words, this fact is
further confirmed in the more
ancient surviving biblical texts
that modern translators continue to
ignore to the spiritual pearl of the
Christian world today. That the
modern Church continues to reject
the very words of God spoken to
mankind, in favor of the censored
and corrupted words of the fourth
century Emperor of Pagan Rome, is
the reason why the modern Church
which has caused itself to be
spiritually flat-lined, only
possesses what Paul portrayed as the
"elementary" doctrines
that the Church Father Origen
defined as being
“...preached in the Churches …for
the simpleminded and for the ears of
the common crowd who are led on to
live better lives by their belief”
(see Origen, Contra
Celsum).
If the original Gospels and the
witness of the original disciples
and followers of Jesus is true --
and the objective of the original
teachings is to bring about a
condition of mental and spiritual
maturity -- thereby enabling each
follower of TheWay to become the
Anointed (Messiah/Christ -- then it
can be stated that the modern Church
dogma has virtually little in common
with the original teachings of
TheWay. The difference being
whether Jesus was a holy man who
became At-One with the Indwelling
Logos (aka Son of God/True Prophet),
or whether the Church of Constantine
was correct in their assertion that
Jesus was God-Incarnate? The Adam
Clark Commentary with regard to the
passage at Hebrews 1:5 where Paul
quotes the original Gospel statement
that the Father said of Jesus:
"Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee"
Where the Adam Clark Commentary
states:
“This most important use of this
saying has passed unnoticed by
almost every Christian writer which
I have seen; and yet it lies here at
the foundation of all the apostle's
proofs. If Jesus was not thus the
Son of God, the whole Christian
system is vain and baseless:..."
If the original Gospels are correct
-- which teaching was confirmed by
the original (Ebionite/Nazirene)
disciples and followers of Jesus --
that he was a Holy Man who became
At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son
of God who was portrayed as
The True Prophet, then the whole
focus of the modern Church dogma is
indeed
"...vain and baseless".
What
Jesus Do You See? What is
clear is that the disciples who were
portrayed as being In The House,
were taught entirely different than
the common people who were portrayed
as being
"outside". Why were
they taught differently? Because
having abandoned the thinking and
lifestyle of this world, they had
begun to enter the Kingdom of Man
which not only permitted a
spiritually elevated level of
comprehension, but also provided
them entrance into the Inner
Kingdom. In the Gospel of John the
question was posed to Jesus as to
why he would not show himself to the
people who were portrayed as being
"outside"
-- i.e., the people whose mind and
thinking is controlled by the
power/god of this world:
"Then Judas
(not Judas Iscariot) said, But,
Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the
world?" (John 14:22 NIV).
While this rather profound statement
was part of a much larger message
prior to being edited and removed by
the later Gentile Church (see
BibleCorruption.com ), even the
statement should provoke the
question: How could this be said?
Didn't everyone see Jesus? And what
this means is exactly what is
presented in the Gospel of Philip in
the statement that people can only
perceive the Jesus that is in accord
with their own Condition. The
reality that has been preserved in
the Gospel of Philip reads:
"Jesus took
them all by stealth, for he did not
appear as he was, but in the manner
in which they would be able to see
him. He appeared to them all. He
appeared to the great as great. He
appeared to the small as small. He
appeared to the angels as an angel,
and to men as a man. Because of
this, his word hid itself from
everyone. Some indeed saw him,
thinking that they were seeing
themselves, but when he appeared to
his disciples in glory on the mount,
he was not small. He became great,
but he made the disciples great,
that they might be able to see him
in his greatness."
What Judas (not Iscariot) was
stating is that the Jesus which the
disciples saw and heard, was an
entirely different Jesus than what
the multitudes who are portrayed as
being
"without", saw and
heard. And we can observe this
same reality in the Fundamentalists
who promote their dogma that the
scriptures are historical accounts
-- when in fact they are spiritual
accounts that utilize a
quasi-historical cloak to reveal
"by
stealth", the Laws,
Forces and the Cosmology of Mind and
Being that the sincere seeker needs
to possess the knowledge of to bring
about and initiate their own
spiritual regeneration and birth.
In the same way that the Gospel
states that
"...he made the disciples great,
that they might be able to see him
in his greatness."
Taking this great Truth one step
further, those of a
"natural"
(animal-soul) organic mind are
incapable of perceiving and
comprehending the higher reality of
the soul and what the biblical
authors portray as the Mysteries of
the Kingdom, because of their own
(carnal) Condition -- i.e., as
stated in the Gospel of Thomas:
(5) Jesus
said, "Recognize what is in your
sight, and that which is hidden from
you will become plain to you . For
there is nothing hidden which will
not become manifest."
The version that was in the Library
that was inadvertently destroyed
states:
Greek POxy 5) Jesus said: "Recognize
what is before your face and that
which is hidden from the you will be
revealed to you. For there is
nothing hidden which shall not be
made manifest, nor buried which
shall not be raised."
The Gospels were written to serve
the needs of a great multitude of
people at greatly varying levels of
Condition of mind. Spiritually
immature readers and believers see
nothing more than an historical
narrative which Paul portrays as the
"testimony"
of Christ. And as a believer becomes
a seeker, and a seeker becomes a
true disciple, they begin to see
what those who do not have the eyes
to see are blind to.
In answering this question posed by
Judas as to why the Christ that they
saw could not be revealed or seen by
the people of this world, the focus
was on the necessity of obeying
Jesus' Commands as presented in the
Gospel:
"Jesus replied, If anyone loves me,
he will obey my teaching. My Father
will love him, and we will come to
him and make our home with him. He
who does not love me will not obey
my teaching. These words you hear
are not my own; they belong to the
Father who sent me" (John
14:23-24 NIV). And perhaps even
more important is the statement:
"I have yet
many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now"
(John 16:12 KJV).
If Jesus was making reference to
himself as God Incarnate, or the
necessity to say their Jesus-prayer
to acquire salvation in the manner
of modern Church dogma, then why
would he convey to them that they
were not yet mature enough to bear
the higher knowledge of the
Gospel? In his Epistle to the
Trallaus the first century elder
Ignatius speaks of the Mysteries of
the Gospel and the Kingdom, and
writes:
“Might I
not write to you things more full of
mystery? But I fear to do so, lest
I should inflict injury on you who
are babes. Pardon me in this
respect, lest, as not being able to
receive their weighty import, ye
should be strangled by them”.
The only way that Ignatius could
have written these words, was if he,
himself, understood what was beyond
the comprehension of the organic
mind of the believers of the simple
faith. And while he states that he
had himself progressed to the point
where he understood what was
incomprehensible to the organic mind
of man, he also confesses that
though he is aware of the minor
mysteries, he is not yet
“by any means
perfect, nor am I such a disciple as
Paul or Peter”. If
Ignatius or the other early Church
Fathers who knew the Mysteries of
the Kingdom of God were with us
today, what profound mystery could
they speak regarding the true
teachings of Jesus that believers
today would be
“strangled by them”? To
the degree that Paul proclaimed to
the Christians at Corinth:
“And I,
brethren, could not speak to you as
to spiritual men, but as to men of
flesh, as to babes in Christ”
(1 Cor 3:1 NAS). Thus, these
believers could only be taught the
most basic exoteric doctrine of a
quasi-historical allegorical account
of Jesus Christ and him crucified (1
Cor 2:2), because they were not yet
spiritual men -- but rather, they
were men of flesh and still very
much “babes
in Christ”. Paul then
explains that:
“I gave you
milk to drink, not solid food; for
you were not yet able to receive it.
Indeed, even now you are not yet
able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).
A man of true biblical insight and
intellect would want to know why
mankind in his organic condition,
would reject what Paul calls the
higher reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of God as absolute utter
"foolishness"??? To the
degree that when Paul states that he
was
"..caught up into Paradise and heard
inexpressible words, which it is not
lawful for a man to utter"
(2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ) -- an intelligent
seeker of Truth would immediately
question as to why
"...it is
not lawful for a man to utter"
what a Disciple who enters the
Kingdom experiences? When Paul
warns the baptized and committed
Christians at Corinth who he,
himself, originally instructed, that
they were yet to carnal in their
understanding to comprehend the
spiritual meaning of the Gospel --
which is often referred to as the
Mysteries of the Kingdom of God --
he conveyed to them the reality that
they would judge and even condemn
this higher reality of the Spirit as
absolute
"foolishness" -- i.e.,
“But the
natural man does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God, for
they are foolishness to him; nor can
he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned” (1
Cor 2:14 NKJ). Thus, it is
imperative to ask the question: What
is the
"natural man"? The
condition of mankind that Paul is
making reference to, would just as
well be portrayed as
"organic"
-- or, of the physical body. The
"natural
man" , is the
"organic"
human being.
What Jesus stated was of such a
profound importance to comprehend if
the seeker/disciple was to begin to
understand the true meaning of the
scriptures as set forth in the
parable of the
Sower and the Seed, that Jesus
then warned:
"And he saith unto them, Know ye
not this parable? and how shall ye
know all the parables?"
(Mark 4:13 ASV). And what this
means is that if you fail to
understand the meaning of the
parable of the
Sower and the Seed, and put its
teachings into practice in your
daily lives, that it will be
impossible for you to understand any
part of the spiritual meaning of the
Gospel teachings. And if you fail
to understand the meaning of the
term "In
The House", and the
difference in the reality of those
who Jesus portrayed in the words:
"...but
unto them that are without, all
things are done in parables: that
seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand" --
that you will dwell in what Jesus
portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being (see
Outer Darkness) -- walking upon
what Jesus portrayed as the
"broad-way
of self-destruction"
(Matt 7:13-14).
To become what is conveyed in the
parable of the
Sower and the Seed as the
"good
ground", it is absolutely
necessary to live in strict accord
with the Gospel Teachings. Which
transformation of self into the
"good
ground" creates within
self the necessary environment for
the the Logos to In-Dwell -- i.e.,
"Jesus
replied, If anyone loves me, he will
obey my teaching. My Father will
love him, and we will come to him
and make our home with him. He who
does not love me will not obey my
teaching. These words you hear are
not my own; they belong to the
Father who sent me" (John
14:23-24 NIV). But this becomes
impossible for those who believe in
accord with the dogma and traditions
of men, and live a lifestyle in
accord with the ways of this
world. Which is the basis of the
question presented to Jesus:
"Then Judas
(not Judas Iscariot) said, But,
Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the
world?" (John 14:22 NIV).
Again, of which it is stated that
the Logos/Son of God will come and
In-Dwell within those who have left
behind the mindset and ways of this
world, and seek to live the
necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay
-- i.e.,
"Jesus replied, If anyone loves me,
he will obey my teaching. My Father
will love him, and we will come to
him and make our home with him. He
who does not love me will not obey
my teaching. These words you hear
are not my own; they belong to the
Father who sent me" (John
14:23-24 NIV). Which then enables
the seeker/disciple to enter the
House with the Lord in the Inner
Kingdom -- i.e.,
"There is a
house made without hands, seek that
you may dwell therein" (Gospel
of the Nazirenes chapter
19:10)
 If
what Paul and the other Gospel
Authors stated is true, and there
exist higher realities and
dimensions of being that are totally
inconceivable to the mind of the
undeveloped faith-based believer
(see
Mysteries Of The Gospel ) -- and
by virtue of the immaturity of the
faith-based believers brought about
by an embryonic condition of mind
which Paul portrayed as the
"natural"
mind of man -- and the limitations
of this embryonic condition of mind
even inhibited Jesus from conveying
the true meaning of the scriptures,
and the higher reality of the soul
and the Kingdom to all but his inner
core of disciples (see
In The House - Taught In Parables)
-- which means that the biblical
authors were therefore powerless to
explain in detail many of the most
important Gospel teachings and
concepts in the literal text of the
New Testament -- then the
spiritually mature author's of the
scriptures who were themselves
enlightened to these higher
realities, remained virtually
powerless to do anything more than
to provide the people with a list of
do's and don'ts -- so that the
faith-based believers will be in a
position where they will be better
able to evolve to a mature
understanding and comprehension of
the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.
To totally ignore these do's and
don'ts, without knowing the
consequence of one's choices and
actions, is paramount to walking out
onto a freeway blindfolded.
The leaders among the carnal Jews
who interpreted the scriptures in
outward ritual and tradition, had
thrown away the
Key of Knowledge -- and as such,
had alienated themselves from the
Inner Kingdom, and were as Jesus
portrayed them as
"blind
guides" who were leading
the people in the wrong
direction. When Jesus portrayed
them as being
"without" -- i.e.,
"...but unto
them that are without, all things
are done in parables" --
this was a similar condition
expressed in the spiritual reality
that they existed either in what
Jesus portrayed as
The Prison, or in the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being (see
Outer Darkness). And because
the leaders of the Jews expressed
the scriptures in outward ritual and
tradition, and failed to use them as
the
Key of Knowledge, was the reason
why they were blind guides who could
"...not
perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand" --
and this remains true of the
congregation of Christian who
continue to embrace the way of the
carnal Jews today.
The Gospel accounts state that Jesus
only spoke to the multitude of
hearers in the enigma of parables,
it is imperative that we recognize
that Jesus did not, and could not,
speak and teach plainly to those who
are portrayed as being
"without"
the House -- i.e.,
"And with many
such parables He spoke the word to
them as
they were able to hear it.
But without a parable He did not
speak to them. And when they were
alone, He explained all things to
His disciples" (Mark
4:33-34 NKJV). The word
translated
"explained", in the
phrase "And
when they were alone, He explained
all things to His disciples",
literally translated from the Greek
into English means to
"unloose or
untie" -- i.e., what has
been "bound
or sealed up" -- and
"what is
obscure and hard to understand"
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon). And
the word translated secret or
mystery, makes reference to an
esoteric knowledge that can only be
revealed spiritually to one who is
"in the
House", because it is
beyond the organic comprehension of
those who are portrayed as being
"without",
or
"outside" the House.
The term
"open and unloose" the
mind, is was also used in the Gospel
as the path to entering the Inner
Kingdom (see
Open & Unloose The Mind).
With respect to the reality of those
who are portrayed in the Gospels as
being
"without", in
contradistinction to those who are
said to be
In The House, the
quotation of the early Church Father
Origen represents an excellent
portrayal of the reality of mind and
being that is presented in these
words of Jesus -- wherein, Origen
writes in reply to the allegations
of Celsus that the Church is a
secret system (see
The Secret Doctrine):
“I have not
yet spoken of the observances of all
that is written in the gospel, each
one of which contains much doctrine
difficult to be understood, not
merely by the multitude, but even by
certain of the more intelligent,
including a very profound
explanation of the parables, which
Jesus delivered to 'those without'
while reserving the exhibition of
their full meaning for those who
have passed beyond the stage of
exoteric teachings, and who came to
him privately in the house. And when
he comes to understand it, he will
admire the reason why some are said
to be without, and others in the
house”.
So we
must ask: By what means did
the disciples receive this esoteric
knowledge that was beyond the
comprehension of organic man who was
portrayed as being
"without"
-- i.e., Gnosis. But what is Gnosis
-- and how does a person receive
this Sacred Knowledge of the Kingdom
directly from God? In a state of
spiritual denial, the modern Church
attempts to ignore the implications
of what these words convey. In
fact, few Christians even understand
what a parable is. Moreover, they
can't even begin to come to terms
with the reality of why one man
perceives and comprehends a deeper
meaning of a parable, while the
multitude of hearers remain
oblivious to what has been portrayed
as a secret meaning that only a very
few can receive. And while some
would like to promote the idea that
it is an illustration where a
conceptual reality is simplified,
just the opposite is factually
true. Moreover, not only is the
words portrayed a body of secret
knowledge presented throughout the
Gospels, but reference is openly
made to the word mystery as used in
Romans -- i.e.,
"according
to the revelation of the mystery,
which was kept secret since the
world began" -- and in
explanation of the above words of
Jesus with respect to the use of
parables as a means to teach the
people, the Wycliffe Bible
Commentary writes that:
“…the
initiate was instructed in the
esoteric teaching... which was not
revealed to outsiders… The mystery
of the kingdom in its ultimate
development is the full-orbed
message of the Gospel (Rom
16:25-26). The purpose of parables
was to instruct the initiates
without revealing the items of
instruction to the ones who were
without. This is in keeping with the
Biblical principle that spiritual
understanding is restricted to those
who have become spiritual...”
If, as openly stated above,
it is true that the disciples
received instruction that was
totally different than what was
revealed to the multitude of people
who Jesus portrayed as being
"...outside", then
a true seeker must conclude that
every article of faith promoted by
the Church today, would have to be
totally re-evaluated. Thus the
question: What was Jesus stating
with respect to why he spoke in
parables? To ignore this question,
is to reject the whole foundational
objective and revelation of the
Bible. Jesus was stating that only
those who become separate and freed
from the limited thinking and carnal
ways of this world -- a condition of
mind that Paul portrays as
"animal-soul" level
consciousness that is incapable of
elevated thought or reason -- and
became true disciples of
Messiah/Christ, are able to perceive
and understand the secrets of the
Kingdom of God -- and in the Greek
language, this sacred Knowledge is
called Gnosis. And in view of the
fact that the modern Church
basically portrays Gnosis as heresy
-- even rejecting Paul's use of the
word in his plea to Open the Eyes of
the Heart. In the original
biblical Greek the knowledge of man
that was taught by other men, was
portrayed differently than the
Divine Manna of the Kingdom that
could ONLY be imparted to man
directly from the Logos -- i.e.,
this Heavenly Spiritual Knowledge
was called Gnosis. The early
Christian Valentinius quoted Paul's
Epistle to the Ephesians when he
made reference to
Gnosis
Kardias -- or, the
enlightened eyes of the heart.
"I pray
also that the eyes of your heart may
be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which he has called
you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in the saints"
(Eph 1:18). And that Paul wanted
very much to speak about the Mystery
of the Gospel to the Ephesians, but
could not, is the reason he
portrayed himself as an ambassador
in bonds:
"And for me, that utterance may be
given unto me, that I may open my
mouth boldly, to make known the
mystery of the gospel, for which I
am an ambassador in bonds: that
therein I may speak boldly, as I
ought to speak" (see Eph
6:19-20).
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Introduction |
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Faith Apart
From Works |
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The Dogmatic
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The Spiritual
Abuse Of the
Sacraments |
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The Parable
Of TheCall |
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Are You
Saved? The Truth
About The Law Of
Grace |
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The Required
Wedding Garment |
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The Sinners
Prayer |
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The Epistles
Of Christ Unto
The Churches |
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Baptism As A
Divine Marriage |
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The
Celebration Of
Baptism |
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Grace And
Redemption |
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The True
Christian Knows
The Truth |
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The Sacrament
Of Baptism |
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The Spiritual
Eucharist vs The
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Receiving The
Spiritual
Eucharist |
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The Sacrament
Of Marriage |
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The Living
Temple And Man's
Animal Nature -
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