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DivineManna.org

http://DivineManna.org
"To him who overcomes will
I give to eat of the hidden manna."
Revelation 2:8-17

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"My People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge
Because You Have Rejected Knowledge, I Reject
You..."
(Hosea 4:6)
Spiritual
Knowledge Is The Fruit Of The Tree Of Life

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they
may have the right to the tree of life,
and may enter through the gates into the city. But
outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral
and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and
practices a lie.
Rev 22:14
"Therefore, he
who rejects this
instruction does
not reject man
but God, who
gives you his
Holy Spirit"
(1 Thes 4:8
NIV)

Those who
reject and fail
to seek the
Divine Manna of
the Kingdom,
Reject God

The Divine
Manna (Gnosis)
Of The Kingdom,
Can Only Be
Given To Those
Who Are Willing
To Pick Up Their
Own Cross, And
Follow In TheWay
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The Gospel Of Thomas
And The
Sacred Manna Of The Inner
Kingdom of Light

The Kingdom Within


You have reached the Web
Site of Yeshua/Jesus'
Brother
Though many of you call me
James, my real name is Jacob
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The
Radical Change And
Transformation Of Christianity
The
people prayed for greater truth
and insight into the Gospel --
and the Hand of God Moved, and
provided them with an
opportunity that would fulfill
their prayers. And
because their prayers were
answered with
the discovery of the
Gospel of
Thomas -- and the door to
greater spiritual opportunity
was opened for all sincere
seekers -- the very foundation of
Christianity and the Church was
radically changed and
transformed. And while few
modern Christians are even aware
of the foundational shift,
without knowing it, they have chosen instead to hide their
heads in the sands of man-made
dogma. With the restoral of this
important Gospel to its rightful
place, all the rules and
requirements of what constitutes
valid Christian teachings became
radically changed and restored.
Yet, in the manner of a
spiritually comatose people who
lack the consciousness to
mentally process the vast
changes that have taken place in
their lives, the body of
faith-based believers remain
blind to the opportunity that
has been presented to them.
The modern Christian has
perpetually prayed for greater
truth and understanding with
respect to the Gospel.
When recent events are
understood, the Lord has heard
and answered their prayers.
Therefore, the prayers of many
sincere believers have been
answered, and the means has been
provided for the modern
Christian to totally restore the
Original Gospel Teachings, and
walk in TheWay beside the Lord.
Thus, TheCall has been made (see
The Call) --
the Wedding Feast has been set
-- and those invited have been
presented with the means to come
and be United with the BrideGroom of their Souls.
Will they come to TheCall?
Will they recline at the Table
of the Lord, and be nourished by
the Divine Manna and the fruit
of the
Tree of Life?
Since its inception one
of the primary concerns of the Church has been the teachings on the Kingdom.
Who will enter into life? How does the individual believer gain
entrance into the Kingdom? Will the Kingdom come upon the earth?
Will we go there when we physically die? Or, will we remain in a state of
suspension until the trumpet blows and Jesus inaugurates the Kingdom upon the
earth? How do sinners gain entrance into the Kingdom?
Unbelievers? Those who have not been baptized? Is the Church
teachings on hell correct? What is the nature of hell? Is it
eternal? These and many other such questions have dominated
the Christian and religious landscape since the inception of the Church.
And what few Christians are even remotely aware of, is the fact that not only
what is believed today has virtually nothing in common with the original
teachings of Jesus or what was embraced by the original followers and disciples
of TheWay -- but that it is the original teachings that are totally alien to the
modern Church, has been confirmed as the only valid teachings. Which
reality provokes the question: Is salvation which the modern believers seek
acquired through the doctrines and dogma of men -- using
corrupted biblical
texts to support these manmade doctrines of belief? Or, is salvation
the result of following and embracing the original and pure teachings of Jesus
and TheWay? If you believe in a time of judgment where the actions
of all people will be evaluated, then these questions will be presented to you
in that day. In view of the fact that the truth can be sought,
tested and known -- beyond any shadow of a doubt -- how you answer these
questions in the present will greatly impact your eventual destiny.
Slothfulness is one of
the Seven Deadly Sins -- and for our purpose here, can be defined as apathy to seeking Spiritual
Truth. While it is readily acknowledged that the world may seem to be a confusing
place, the original teachings of Jesus known as TheWay was intended to draw back
the curtain of confusion, and enable the sincere seeker to grasp all truths of
all realities -- both of this world, and beyond. To the degree that
the Christians should be the most enlightened and knowing people on the planet.
As demonstrated in the subheading,
Jesus The (Law)
Professor, when the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount is rightly
understood, it is a dissertation on the Natural Laws that control every aspect
of our lives. But, in order for
the system of teachings to bring about the opening of the proverbial curtain of
confusion, it is the original teachings that has to be ardently followed and
embraced -- and not the meaningless dogma of men. And from the perspective of
the modern Church which is easily demonstrated to be immersed in a state of
abject confusion and doctrinal discord, it is because the Church abandoned the
original teachings of Jesus and TheWay, that the modern Christian believers
dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora of abject ignorance and confusion.
Why? Because they are slothful and apathetic in their pursuit of
truth, while remaining totally consumed by the doctrines and dogma of men.
In
the
Gospel of Thomas it is
stated that
"Whoever finds himself is
superior to the world".
When the Church became the
religious puppet of the Roman
Government in the fourth century
(see
The Death Of The Religion Of
Jesus), this self-knowledge,
the
Key of Knowledge, and the
Sacred Manna/Gnosis of the
Spirit was thrown away.
Quoting a few of the
pre-Constantine statements of
the early Church Father as
contained on the
Being of Light web site:
It is for this reason
that the second-century Church
Father Clement of Alexandria
said that it is
“…the greatest of all lessons to
know one's self. For if one
knows himself, he will know God;
and knowing God, he will be made
like God… and that man becomes
God, since God so wills”.
In his treaties on The Soul
and the Resurrection, St
Gregory writes that
“the Resurrection is no other
thing than 'the re-constitution
of our nature in its original
form’”,
and states that there will come
a time
“…when the complete
whole of our race shall have
been perfected from the first
man to the last”...
When God, in the words of St.
Nazianzen, no longer is an
“object of wonder”,
but rather an
“object
of desire”
-- and we, desiring to be
purified from the defilements of
this world, make ourselves fit
vessels for the Lord to indwell,
the Spirit, according to St.
Nazianzen, reveals to us our
true nature, and the revelation
of this manifest Sacred
Knowledge makes
“us
like God; so that when we have
thus become like Himself, God
may, to use a bold expression,
hold converse with us as Gods,
being united to us, and that
perhaps to the same extent as He
already knows those who are
known to Him”.
St. Nazianzen then writes that
“the Divine Nature
then is boundless and hard to
understand”
by those who are yet carnal and
think as natural beings of this
world.
Those who think
they can Know God,
without bringing
about the next stage
of soul-birth and
Knowing Self, are
themselves
delusional, and
under the power of
the Demiurge --
i.e., the god of
this world -- the
collective
consciousness -- the
unity consciousness
-- the citizen of
the far country.
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"He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches.
To him who overcomes, to him I will give of
the hidden manna"
(Rev 2:17)
The Law
Is: Spiritual Manna which is Spiritual Knowledge, can only be imparted to
man directly by God -- and can only be received by those who fulfill the above words,
and are those who "overcome", and are
prepared to receive the Sacred Knowledge of the Kingdom. The Greek word for this sacred spiritual knowledge
that can only be imparted directly from God to those who are prepared to receive
it, is called "Gnosis" -- aka Spiritual
Manna. Paul correctly stated that the faith-based Christians who are totally
versed in what he called the (historical) "testimony"
traditions of Jesus and him crucified, were too undeveloped and carnal
to receive the Spiritual Manna or Gnosis. Paul portrayed the baptized and
committed Christians as still being of an "animal-soul"
level of consciousness who were incapable of comprehending or receiving the Divine Manna or
Gnosis. 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. Which profound
statement provokes the question: What is meant by the term that Paul used when
he described the very people who he had himself taught, and yet they were
incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of
the Kingdom when he portrayed them as being of a
"natural" organic level of mind and consciousness? 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 states of this 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" -- wherein the proper interpretative-meaning of Paul's
words with respect to the reality of what is portrayed by Paul as the natural
man is then presented: [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 it 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 stated
had 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).
And that the Christian was to overcome the limitations of their carnal mindset
and nature -- enabling them to expand and evolve the mind and the transformation
of their physical being into a state of spiritual maturity -- with the objective
of the Gospel message as demonstrated in the commandment of Paul:
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your
earthly nature..." (Col 3:5 NIV) -- "Those
who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions
and desires" (Gal 5:24 NIV). When Paul warned that he could
only speak to the believers at Corinth as "...men of
flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS), what he was warning
was that “Anyone who lives on milk, being still an
infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food
is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish
good from evil” (Heb 5:13-14 NIV). And because they are yet carnal
-- not having undergone the process of spiritual transformation -- Paul warned
that “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he
knows nothing yet as he ought to know”
(1 Cor 8:2 NKJ). Living in strict accord with the precepts of the
original Gospel teachings, is therefore preparatory foundation that prepares the
mind to be able to receive the Divine Manna of the Kingdom.
Mankind is of the Fourth Kingdom --
i.e., mineral, vegetable and animal -- and his lower nature and body
consciousness is comprised and immersed in these three lower kingdoms as
personified in the subheading:
Organic
Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature. Which is why in his Epistles
Paul commanded to "Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV)
-- i.e., your lower animal nature. 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) -- i.e., the appetites of the lower animal
nature. 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 being ruled over by the lower three that
comprise 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 [higher knowledge] 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)
by those who have prepared themselves to receive this higher wisdom and
knowledge that is beyond the comprehension of animal-soul level of mankind.
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. It remains true of the Christians in the
Churches -- the students in our colleges and universities -- and it remains true
with respect to those we portray as scholars and experts. 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 not only the true spiritual meaning of the Gospels., but all aspects
of the lives that mankind lives while walking the face of the earth. 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. Which is why Paul warned the complacent faith-based
believer who continues to embrace the "milk"
intended only for entry-level believers: “Anyone who
lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about
righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have
trained themselves to distinguish good from evil” (Heb 5:13-14 NIV).
The authors of the scriptures were
Spiritual Seekers in search of Spiritual Knowledge -- i.e., Gnosis or what can
be defined as the Sacred Knowledge or the Divine Manna revealed directly from
God to the Seeker of the Truth and the Kingdom. Gnosis has absolutely nothing
to do with an historical people who were portrayed as Gnostics. There is no
formal Church or secret order that can reveal Gnosis. Contrary to popular
opinion, the term Gnostic does not in any manner denote an alternative
historical tradition which the Church suppressed. Gnosis is not a set of
dogmatic beliefs -- or any phenomena pertaining to this world. In fact, all
genuine scriptures are Gnostic at their core -- i.e., Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John -- and the whole foundation of the esoteric knowledge concealed within the
body of the scriptures, deals entirely with the Forces and Laws that control the
Consciousness of Man, and Cosmology of the seekers own Mind and Being. But
even more important is the fact that this body of knowledge exists no where else
-- i.e., it is totally absent from our modern colleges and universities -- and
therefore, it is impossible to teach Gnosis in a university or seminary. The
very existence and reality of True Gnosis in fact remains an enigma to
virtually all of man's religions and philosophical systems today. Therefore,
it is impossible to read and study that body of Knowledge which can be defined
as Gnosis in any of the books written by man To the degree that Gnosis cannot
be researched or studied in even the greatest of man's libraries. And yet, it
is the most important body of knowledge that man could possibly possess. To
the degree that the Gospel of Thomas declares:
"...But if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty". And while it
is true that this esoteric body of knowledge lies concealed within the textual
cloak of the scriptures, it remains an unseen and camouflaged enigma to the eyes
and understanding of the vast majority of mankind who gaze into the textual-body
of the scriptures, and who see only the reflection of their own beliefs and/or
condition of mind reflected back to them. Which means that if we pose the
question: What Difference Does It Make? It makes all the difference in the
world!!!
After reading the foregoing where the
biblical authors warn that it is impossible for a man of a
"natural" human consciousness to read the literal text of the
scriptures and discern the truth, and understand the inner spiritual meaning of
the written word, every SINCERE Christian should want to know why Paul warned
that it was impossible for the baptized and confirmed Christians who he
personally taught, would reject the higher knowledge of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness"? This is not a reality that
the intelligent and conscientious seeker can just skim over and ignore. In
fact, it is one of those immutable red lines that have been drawn in the sands
of life. It is in fact parallel to the statement of Jesus with
respect to the parable of the
Sower and the Seed
where it is stated: If you don't understand this parable, it will remain
impossible for you to understand ANY parable -- or enigma of scripture and all
of Life. To the degree that believers, clergy and critics alike have
spent their lives studying the scriptures -- and because they failed to heed
these words presented in the scriptures -- they have never been able to evolve
their thinking and knowledge beyond an infantile level of comprehension.
Further, that the body of Bible
readers are warned that whatever is written in the text possesses a deeper
unseen meaning that is incomprehensible from a
"natural" human perspective, also simply skipped over and ignored by
the vast majority of faith-based believers. Which is why Paul warns that you
cannot simply read the written word of the scriptures and discern the higher
truth of the Gospel -- even portraying the literal text of the scriptures as the
"letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales"
(see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). Why? Why did Paul portray the written
text in this manner? Because the written text is a cloak that preserves
and conceals the inner unseen meaning that only those with the eyes to see, the
ears to hear, and the comprehension to understand, will be able to discern the
true meaning of the scriptures. Yet, the vast majority of Christians
throughout history have chosen to totally ignore this warning -- to the degree
that the Christian world has come to embody the reality portrayed in the very
words of Jesus when he was asked why he only spoke to the multitudes in
parables, and stated:
“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). Which reality of imposed deafness, blindness and barrier
to understanding prompted the Wycliffe Bible Commentary to write
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...”
With the far-reaching implications embodied in the reality that
"...spiritual understanding is restricted to those who
have become spiritual...”.
What is clear is the fact that neither
Jesus or Paul could speak plainly to the people they taught. Jesus went as far
as stating that the
"...secret of the kingdom of God" only belonged to his select
few disciples who had left home totally abandoned the ways of this world --
which embodied the meaning and condition of mind portrayed in the word Ebionite,
meaning the "poor-ones" -- and followed him
daily. Paul portrayed the faith-based Christians as
"babes in Christ" who were only capable of receiving the
"milk" of the Gospel because they were still
"natural" organic men who was said to be of
an "animal-soul" level of spiritual
immaturity. Which provokes the question: What makes the modern person -- and
even the modern believer -- any different than the baptized believers who Paul
personally instructed and taught? Sadly, the only answer is: Absolutely
Nothing! In the same way that Paul warned that because of the immature
condition of mind that he portrayed as still being of a
"natural" (human) consciousness, the the
Christians where were only capable of receiving the
"milk" of the Gospel would reject the higher knowledge of the Gospel
as utter "foolishness" if he was to dare to
even speak of man's higher soul and spiritual reality. And this inability of
those who Paul portrayed as "natural"
organic man to comprehend the higher knowledge of the soul and spirit was
referenced by the 2nd century Bishop Clement of Alexandria in the profound
statement: “The Lord… allowed us to communicate to
those Divine Mysteries, and of that holy light, to those who are able to receive
them. He did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many;
but to the few to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving
and being molded according to them”.
That the higher spiritual knowledge
and meaning of the Gospel could only be received by those who had properly
purified and prepared themselves to receive this higher knowledge, was presented
in the words of the Church Father Origen when he explained:
“Whoever has clean hands, and therefore lifts up holy
hands to God… let him come to us… Whoever is pure, not only from all defilement,
but from what are regarded as lesser transgressions, let him be boldly initiated
into the mysteries of Jesus, which properly are made known only to the holy and
the pure… To those who have been purified in heart, he whose soul has for a long
time, been conscious of no evil, especially since he yielded himself to the
healing of the Word, let such a one hear the doctrines which were spoken in
private by Jesus to his genuine disciples”. Which provokes the
all-important question: How does a person become spiritual? The long ignored
answer is that there are no shortcuts or dispensations -- and that the only
means to fulfill the requirement which brings about the transformation of the
seeker is for them to live and sincerely embrace the Original Gospel Teachings
in word, thought, desire and deed. With the bottom line being that to Possess
the Truth, one must surrender and themselves become Possessed by the Truth --
and the Truth, alone. And until the seeker/disciple begins to bring this
transformative condition about in their daily lives, they will remain deaf, dumb
and blind to both the true meaning of the scriptures, as well as the higher
reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Which is
confirmed by the Apostle in the words: “Howbeit we
speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor
of the princes of this world, that come to naught” (1 Cor 2:6 KJV).
Throughout all of Christian history, the body of believers who Paul portrayed as
too "carnal" to receive and understand the
higher knowledge of the spirit, have been unable to understand the Apostle's
words when he wrote: “But when that which is perfect is
come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 Cor 13:10 KJV).
The dilemma is that if a Christian fails to go beyond the milk of the gospel,
“that which is perfect” can never come. The
carnal believer never embraces the words: “That the man
of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2
Tim 3:17 KJV).
As stated in the above, while the word
Gnosis portrays a type of Knowledge, it in no way means the knowledge of this
world that can be taught by other men, written in books, or received from any
other Source than directly from God. Under the heading of Gnosticism, the
Encyclopedia Britannica states: “Among the majority
of the followers of the movement, 'Gnosis' was understood not as meaning
'knowledge' or 'understanding', in our sense of the word, but 'revelation'.
These little Gnostic sects and groups all lived in the conviction that they
possessed a secret and mysterious knowledge, in no way accessible to those
outside, which was not to be proved or propagated, but believed in by the
initiated, and anxiously guarded as a secret. This knowledge of theirs was not
based on reflection, on scientific inquiry and proof, but on revelation. It was
derived directly from the times of primitive Christianity, from the Savior
himself and from his disciples and friends, with whom they claimed to be
connected by a secret tradition, or else from later prophets, of whom many sects
boasted. It was laid down in wonderful mystic writings, which were in the
possession of the various circles”. Those Christians who had
prepared themselves to receive the Higher Knowledge imparted directly to them by
the Logos, must be understood as the Christians who Paul portrayed as having
gone beyond the "milk" of the Gospel, and
were able to receive the "solid food" from
Spirit -- i.e., “But God hath revealed them unto us by
his Spirit” (1 Cor 2:10 KJV).
Regarding these two groups of
Christians -- i.e., the faith-based entry-level Christians who could only be
given what Paul called the "testimony" of
Christ- - and the mature Christians who were no longer in need of the
"milk" of the Gospel intended to nourish
"babes in Christ", Smith and Wace's
Dictionary of Christian Biography states: “We have no
reason to think that the earliest Gnostics intended to found sects separated
from the Church and called after their own names. Their disciples were to be
Christians, elevated above the rest as acquainted with deeper mysteries, and
called Gnostikoi because possessed of a Gnosis superior to the simple faith of
the multitude… They also boasted to be in possession of genuine apostolical
traditions, deriving their doctrines, some from St. Paul, others from St. Peter,
and others again from Judas, Thomas, Philip, and Matthew. In addition moreover,
to [this] secret doctrine which they professed to have received by oral
tradition, they appealed also to alleged writings of the apostles themselves or
their disciples”. Which, while ignored by the faith-based
Christians, is confirmed in the ignored words of Jesus when he was asked by his
disciples why he ONLY spoke to the multitudes in parables:
“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).
The disciples and original Ebionite
Nazirene followers of Jesus understood that they could know and possess all the
Spiritual Knowledge (Gnosis) that Jesus possessed -- and they were able to do
all the works that Jesus did -- because he was a man just as they were. The
original Gospels taught that Jesus was a holy man who became At-One with the
Indwelling Logos -- with the voice of the Father saying to mankind at the
baptism in the Jordan: "Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee" (see
TheTenWords.com ). But
these words of God that were spoken as much about Jesus as they were about all
of mankind -- and in reference to Jesus becoming the Son of God at his baptism
in the Jordan -- was changed and corrupted in the fourth century. To even
suggest as the Church has done, that the very disciples who walked with Jesus
daily -- talked with him daily -- the disciple who Jesus personally taught about
God and both his and their relationship to the Father -- those who Jesus said
were a witness to the Truth and TheWay -- that these same disciples (in the
words of the later Church leaders) were too ignorant, or too Jewish, to
understand what Jesus taught -- must be representative of the greatest religious
fraud and deception known to man. And yet, regardless of the facts, this same
fraud and deception continues to be preached from the pulpits of most Churches
-- spiritually disenfranchising the Christian world to this very day!!!
Contrary to what the later deception
which the Church of Rome promoted, the Gospels emphatically state that these
same disciples were representative of a witness to the Truth and TheWay that
Jesus taught -- and to even suggest that they were themselves too ignorant, or
too Jewish to understand these teachings, is representative of the greatest
religious hoax that has ever been perpetuated upon mankind. The Book of Acts
testifies to the fact that Jesus further instructed the disciples through the
Holy Spirit -- i.e., "after giving instructions through
the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen" (Acts 1:2-3 NIV).
And these same disciples witnessed to the fact that
"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went
around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because
God was with him" (Acts 10:38 NIV). They portrayed Jesus as
"...a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders,
and signs which God did through Him in your midst" (Acts 2:22 NKJV).
But in the fourth century the segment of the Church who entered into a covenant
relationship with the Pagan Emperor Constantine not only rejected the witness of
the disciples who personally knew Jesus, that he was a man who was Anointed
(Messiah/Christ) by God -- but they changed the very words of God spoken to
mankind -- i.e., "Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee".
What these original Ten Words spoken by
the Father to mankind presented, was that the original
Ebionite
Nazirene disciples of Jesus remained totally faithful to the Gospel
teachings. If, as the very words of God spoken to mankind stated, that Jesus
became the Messiah (Anointed) and Son of God by living the necessary Consecrated
Life that enabled him to fulfill the Law within himself, then the truth of the
Gospel is found in the witness of the Ebionites
who held firmly to the position that Jesus "...was
justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the 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 Christ"
see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).
With the true objective of the original teachings presented in the
words of Hippolytus where he stated that the original Ebionite Nazirenes
"...assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see
Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34). Which means that every man and
woman who walks the face of the earth has the same potential as their elder
brother Jesus -- if the Gospel teachings of TheWay are intimately embraced and
followed to their spiritual conclusion.
When the
Ebionite Nazirenes make reference to the
Law, this very much includes the Laws of Creation as portrayed in the words
"...the designs/laws found
throughout Nature and all of Creation". That the historical man
Jesus was a pattern for all of mankind because of his success in overcoming the
Laws, is demonstrated in the words: "He was the 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
Christ..." And this confirms this statement with respect to the
true potential of all of mankind that Jesus taught, as demonstrated in the words
of Hippolytus when he wrote that they believed that when anyone
"...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs"
(Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see
http://Ebionite.com ). And this is why Jesus
taught that he was our brother -- i.e., "Go instead to
my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my
God and your God'" (John 20:17 NIV).
That the historical Jesus was a true holy
man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within
himself, is attested to at Acts 2:22 where Jesus is portrayed as
"a man, attested to you by God" -- and this
was demonstrated by God performing "mighty works and
wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst". If Jesus
was himself God incarnate as believed by the later Romans, then these words
portraying Jesus as a man approved by God through the works and wonders that God
did through him, never would have been presented in this manner.
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".
Those who think
they can Know God,
without bringing
about the next stage
of soul-birth and
Knowing Self, are
themselves
delusional, and
under the power of
the Demiurge --
i.e., the god of
this world -- the
collective
consciousness -- the
unity consciousness
-- the citizen of
the far country.
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Spiritual Knowledge
aka
Divine Manna
aka
Gnosis
Is As Fruit On A Healthy Tree
In the opening of the Gospel of
Thomas Jesus is quoted as
stating:
"Whoever finds the
interpretation of these sayings
will not experience death."
The
interpretation can't be found --
it can't be taught -- but
to begin to even comprehend what
is being presented, one must
first understand how Divine
Knowledge as Spiritual Manna is
acquired. In the
same way that
a healthy tree is the result of
the proper soil and
environmental conditions in
which the tree has been planted
that permits
leaves to form -- and the leaves are responsible for the
process of photosynthesis -- and
photosynthesis is necessary in
the process of the tree bearing
fruit -- spiritual knowledge
cannot be sought outside of the
environment that permits it to
become manifest. The
Gospels themselves attest to the
fact that Jesus could not impart
Spiritual Knowledge to the vast
majority of people he taught
(see
In The House).
And that even the very presence
and nature of what different
people see in the account of
Jesus, is directly in accord
with their own thinking (see
What Jesus Do You Think You See?).
And like the fruit bearing tree,
the knowledge of the believer is
totally dependent upon the
conditions of their life -- with
the requirement presented in the
Gospels as being the
"good
ground" in the
parable of the
Sower And The Seed.
Therefore, Accurate and True
Spiritual Knowledge cannot be
taught or revealed to those who
fail to insure that they dwell
in the necessary environmental
condition whereby the
requirements set forth in the
Gospel teachings are lived out
in word, thought, desire and
deed. And this is
impossible so long at the
Christian world continues to
cling to the dogma of Pagan
Rome, while rejecting the
original teachings of the
original disciples and followers
of the historical man Jesus.
As presented in the article
TheTenWords.com ,
where the
Adam Clark Commentary with
regard to the passage at Hebrews
1:5, which prior to the
corruption of the Gospels (see
BibleCorruption.com) was at one
time the words spoken by the
Father to Jesus at his baptism:
“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
-- whereby it is acknowledged
that if the words of the Father
as presented in the original
Gospels is correct, then
"the
whole Christian system is vain
and baseless".
And because the dogmatic
foundational environment is
fatally flawed, it remains
impossible for True Spiritual
Knowledge to be imparted to the
body of faith-based Christian
believers.
Does it matter? It
matters because the statement in
the Gospels of Thomas could just
as well be interpreted to mean:
"Whoever fails to find the
interpretation of these sayings
will not experience Life in the
Kingdom."
Unless the seeker/believer
becomes the environment
portrayed as the "good ground"
in which the Living Word has
been implanted, they will remain
in what Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind
and being (see
Outer Darkness) -- unable to
fulfill the objective of the
Gospel to enter
In
The House -- which is the
only place where the Divine
Manna of the Kingdom can be
imparted to the True Christian.
No truer or more factual words
could be expressed to portray
the modern body of faith-based
believers that the very words
presented in the Gospels:
“These
people draw near to Me with
their mouth, and honor Me with
their lips, but their heart is
far from Me” (Matt 15:8).
Thus, the wisdom in the words:
"For
just as the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without
actions is also dead"
(James 2:26).
Or, in the words
of Paul:
“And with
all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received
not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved. And for
this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie: That they
all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness” (2 Th
2:10-12).
A love of the Truth begins with
the teachings of Jesus as set
forth in the Original Gospel
message -- in contradistinction
to the doctrines and dogma of
men. And it is for
no other reason than the fact
that the modern Church retains
the polluted environment of the
fourth century Pagan Church of
Rome -- rejecting the very words
of the Father spoken to mankind
(see
TheTenWords.com
), that
it remains impossible for the
body of faith-based believers to
receive and be nourished by the
Divine Manna which the
Indwelling Logos/Son of God
imparts to those who love Truth
over dogmatic error.
Those who think
they can Know God,
without bringing
about the next stage
of soul-birth and
Knowing Self, are
themselves
delusional, and
under the power of
the Demiurge --
i.e., the god of
this world -- the
collective
consciousness -- the
unity consciousness
-- the citizen of
the far country.
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Gnosis
Defined: In most instances
throughout human history what is portrayed as Gnosis or Gnostic,
is not -- and is merely little more than an alternative verity
of man-made thinking and interpretations of mysteries not at all
fully understood. Which means that in many instances what
the later Church condemned as Gnostic heresy, was indeed a
variety of heresy -- but so too was the man-made dogma of the
Church. And what it amounted to was one group promoting a
different verity of heresy -- i.e., a heretic
finding fault with other heretics. That
mankind as the proverbial prodigal son has the innate potential
to seek and know the Truth of all Truths, is a reality that few
can come to terms with. Yet, it remains true beyond
even his wildest imaginations. Truth can be
found and proven, because it is an integral part of man's core
and essence. Therefore, man was not born in sin --
but rather, born in Truth -- but has been seduced into following
error by those who lead him. Therefore, you don't
need to be taught the Truth -- you only need to live in accord
with the original Gospels principles, and Truth will come to you
in the manner that a healthy tree that has been planted in the
proper environment produces fruit.
There exist words and realties that
cannot be redefined by man. Gnosis is a word that is
beyond man's ability to redefine -- and it indicates Spiritual Knowledge
revealed directly to man by God. Gnosis cannot be
written in a book. It cannot be taught by one man to
another. Gnosis is not at all an alternative
historical tradition that was suppressed by the Church or any
other group. Gnosis has nothing to do with the
wisdom of this world. It is impossible to study
Gnosis in a school, college or university. The
Gospel of Thomas portrays this world as dwelling in a state of
abject poverty, because the wisdom of this world is devoid of
the essential elements of what can be portrayed as Higher
Spiritual Knowledge -- the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- or, in
the Greek language what is portrayed as Gnosis.

In the original biblical Greek
language, 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. Paul
taught the necessity of seeking Spiritual Knowledge which in the
Greek language is Gnosis -- i.e., Ephesians 1:17 states:
"and asking that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of
wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him"
This Knowledge that Paul teaches to seek out -- Divine Knowledge
that only God can impart to sincere seekers who have prepared
themselves to receive the Divine Manna -- is called Gnosis in
the Greek language. 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). And how did a
seeker/disciple obtain these enlightened eyes of the heart?
Very briefly, by fulfilling the role of a virgin who awaits the
Lord with the oil of purification -- and by becoming the
"good ground" 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/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 prepair 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 of Hermas was one of the
most important scriptural authorities over the first four
centuries, then we can use it in our endeavor to better
understand the essence of early Christian teachings.
Therefore, what the Shepherd of Hermas has to say is very
important to us today, because it represents the scriptural
tradition that was taught directly by Jesus and the faithful
flock by the 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. Further, do we truly
do unto others as we would want others to do unto us -- i.e., 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 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 -- 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"
When the Book of Revelation
declares: "To him who overcomes will I
give to eat of the hidden manna" -- in no manner can
it be concluded that to call upon the name of the Lord by
reciting the Jesus-prayer, in any manner constitutes to
"overcome"!
And this spiritual fact is reflected throughout the
Shepherd of
Hermas. Further, that modern Church dogma has
absolutely nothing in common with the original teachings of
Jesus and TheWay, is demonstrated conclusively in the profound
statement of Paul where he warns: "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).
Original Teachings Have Nothing
In Common With Modern Dogma: Christians maintain that they are
saved by faith totally apart from their actions and works -- and
their salvation is guaranteed from the moment they accept Jesus
as their personal Lord and Savior. But is this the original
teachings of Jesus? Perhaps this can be gauged by a recent
interview with Pastor
Brian McLaren who made the rather
profound statement: "One of the
problems is that the average Christian in the average church who
listens to the average Christian broadcasting has such an
oversimplified understanding of both the Bible and of church
history - it would be deeply disturbing for them to really learn
about church history."
And truth be told, it can easily
be demonstrated that the core purpose and objectives of the
original Gospel teachings are so radically different than what
is preached from our pulpits today, that the Gospel of the first
century would be condemned as heresy if it was presented to a
modern congregation of believers.
And
while the congregation of believers have been largely kept in
the dark, the biblical scholars understood this fact – and this
is demonstrated in the words of A. Powell Davies:
“Biblical scholars were not disturbed
by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had
known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was
commonly supposed to have been”
(quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea
Scrolls).
Worse
yet, Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls
further raised the question as to what difference it makes if
“Jesus... had been trained in
the discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish
sect, and that he had learned from it the role that he
afterwards lived...” (The Scrolls From The Dead
Sea). To the uninformed and unknowing believer, it made all the
difference in the world!
And when
Prof. John Allegro was quoted as saying that
what has been revealed in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
is a great amount of overwhelming evidence that
“...may upset a great many basic
teachings of the Christian Church. This in
turn would greatly upset many Christian Theologians and
believers. The heart of the matter is, in
fact, the source and originality of Christian doctrine”
(August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine).
What
all the many recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed
and demonstrated is that Prof. Allegro was correct in his
assertion that our modern-day understanding of
“the source and originality of
Christian doctrine” is defective. Why? Because
neither the original teachings or the corrupted scriptures
simply does not support the tenets and structure of an organized
dogmatic church as we have today. In the words of Prof. Elaine
Pagles, in her book, The Gnostic Gospels:
“It is the winners who write history - their way. No
wonder, then, that the viewpoint of the successful majority has
dominated all traditional accounts of the origin of
Christianity… It suggests that these religious debates -
questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously
bear social and political implications that are crucial to the
development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In
simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that
development come to be labeled as heresy; ideas which implicitly
support it become orthodox”.
That fact and reality that modern Christianity has virtually
nothing in common with the original teachings of Jesus and TheWay is easily demonstrated when it is noted that modern
dogmatic Church would never be able to utilize the most popular
scripture over the first three centuries -- as it is stated in
the Introduction to the Shepherd of Hermas:
“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..."
And this is confirmed by the most ignored statement of Paul
which overtly condemns the whole doctrine of Perpetual
Redemption as demonstrated in Paul's statement where he warns:
"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). Why did Paul make such a statement?
Because the original Gospel teachings in their original form was
one of spiritual transformation -- and those who willfully sin
after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message are not only
unbelievers and apostates to the teachings of the Gospels, but
in Paul's words these counterfeit believers crucify the Son of
God afresh -- and, in total opposition to what the Churches
preach, "...there no longer remains a
sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a
fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."
These, and other such spiritual concepts, were totally
unacceptable to the fourth century heathen Church of Rome -- and
while these few passages continue to exist, the scriptures were
corrupted (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ) in order to make the Gospels
support the doctrines of a series of Roman Emperors who ruled
over the Church from the fourth century onward (see
Religion
Of Roman Emperors).
It is impossible to
enter the Kingdom in the manner that Jesus taught, without
possessing the Knowledge of one's true self and your
relationship to Creator-God -- and without receiving
Knowledge/Gnosis directly from God -- i.e., the Divine Manna of
the Kingdom. The original objective of the Gospels
was to alter and evolve the disciple's mind and body in the
process of spiritual transformation, that would enable the
disciple to achieve and bring about the necessary subsequent
stages of birth -- learn directly from God and receive the
Divine Manna -- and become restored as a child of the Kingdom.
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The
Term Gnostic Gospels Is An Oxymoron

All Scriptures
Are Gnostic, And Have A ThreeFold
Nature
Only The True Prophet Within You,
Can Reveal The True Meaning

Spirituality Is Always Gnostic

Those Who Read The Letter Of The
Written Word Of Scriptures
Are Spiritually Dead
Even When They Call Themselves
Gnostic

Only The True Prophet/Son
Of God

Can Reveal To You
The True Meaning Of The
Scriptures |
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Those Who Reject Gnosticism
Reject Spirituality
They Reject The
Son Of God
They Reject The True Prophet And One
Teacher
And They Reject The Divine Knowledge
Of The Kingdom Of God
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The Cosmology Of Mind And Being:
Jesus declares in the Gospel of Thomas:
"But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty and it is you who are that poverty... Whoever finds himself is
superior to the world".
When properly understood in their original spiritual context and meaning, the 114 sayings of the Gospel of Thomas is the Key to entering the
Kingdom Within. The meaning is not something
that you must be taught -- but rather, a reality of mind and being that is
revealed to you as you progress along the path of TheWay.
Therefore, to know the meaning of the 114 sayings, you must
first explore and Know Thyself. Thus,
when properly understood, the sayings are themselves a catalyst for spiritual
transformation and the evolution of Mind and Being. Therefore,
the meaning of the 114
sayings cannot be taught with words -- but rather, experienced within one's
own self. Further, the meaning can never be revealed from
without one's self -- but rather, only from within as one seeks to the
depths of one's own mind and being. When properly understood, this body of Experiential Knowledge is the fruit of
picking up one's own cross, travailing in TheWay, in imitation of the
Pattern presented to mankind by the historical man Jesus.
When Jesus taught that his disciples would know
the Truth, this was based upon the reality that his disciples would
transcend human organic limitations, and experience the Kingdom within (see
Gate Of Eden) as he taught at Luke
17:20-21. That the true objective of the teachings of TheWay is
to enter within the "narrow strait gate"
and into the Kingdom within one's self, is presented in the words of Jesus'
condemnation of the Jewish leaders who in their carnal interpretations and
outward observance of the scriptures, threw away
The Key Of Knowledge:
"Woe unto you,
lawyers! for ye have taken away the
key of
knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in ye hindered" (Luke
11:52 KJV). And this
fact is further demonstrated in the words:
"But woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that
are entering to go in" (Matt 23:13 KJV).
And it is this inner "narrow strait gate"
that exists within each of us, that we are supposed to use the
Key of
Knowledge to open, and enter in the Kingdom within us -- i.e.,
"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).
As the prodigal sons and daughters who have lost their way in what Jesus
portrayed as The Far Country, each of us not only possesses the innate ability to overcome the limitations
of this world and enter the Inner Kingdom -- but when the Cosmology of Mind
comes to be understood, the part of us that presently resides in this world
is like the tip of the iceberg -- and we exist in the reality portrayed by
Jesus as a divided house that if left in this condition, will come to ruin.
Further, each of us is equally the prodigal son who is
currently lost in the Far Country under the control of what Jesus portrayed
as the Citizen -- or what
Paul portrayed as the god of
this world. And the only way to learn the true
interpretation of the
114 sayings, is to experientially learn the meaning directly from the
True Prophet/Logos/Son
of God
within. And herein lies the problem that has been presented to
us: The True Prophet (aka Logos & Son Of God) will only reveal Himself to a sincere Disciple who follows in the footsteps
and pattern of the man Jesus in TheWay
-- i.e., those who pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay in the
manner that Jesus taught.
That Jesus was our brother is seen in his
own words that
"Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am
returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'"
(John 20:17 NIV). That Jesus became
One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God is seen in the words that his
disciples held that he (Jesus) 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).
And thus, the requirement of the original Gospel
teachings is for those who were followers and believers, to imitate the
pattern that Jesus set forth, and to do the Commandments that would fulfill
the Law within the individual believer -- i.e.,
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
(Luke 6:46 KJV). And this is why Jesus warned those who would call
themselves his followers and believers:
“And he who does
not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his
life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it”
(Matt 10:38-39 NKJ). The requirement that has been set forth is that
“...ye shall
therefore be holy, for I am holy”
(Lev 11:45 KJV).
In the words of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa: “…it is
imperative on all those who have an equally earnest desire for the Good as
He has, to be followers by the path of an exact imitation of Him Who leads
the way to salvation, and to carry into action what He has shown them. It
is, in fact impossible for persons to reach the same goal unless they travel
by the same ways”. And this is why the requirement was set
forth by Jesus with respect to his disciples and followers:
“You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly
Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48 RSV).
Only those who become the
"good ground" in the parable of the
Sower and the Seed, can be taught by the Logos/Son of God/True Prophet
-- to the degree that they can themselves become Anointed (Messiah/Christ)--
i.e.,
"These things I have written to
you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you
have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach
you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is
true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in
Him. And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may
have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know
that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is
born of Him" (1 Jn 2:26-29 NKJ).
The necessary
"...practice [of] righteousness" has
absolutely nothing in common with the blind belief of manmade Church
doctrines which is promoted by Christians today -- but rather, the very
thinking, lifestyle and mindset of the sincere seeker who strives to do as
Jesus taught, and seek the Kingdom (within).
And this important Gospel teaching is presented in the words of the
Apostle John:
“Everyone who has
this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure”
(1 Jn 3:3 NIV).
Gnosis is the Spiritual Knowledge imparted to the faithful disciple
directly from what the ancient Greeks called the Logos (see
Logos) --
what many Christians call the Son of God -- or what the disciples of Jesus
called The True Prophet who was the One Teacher that Jesus commanded to seek
out (see
The True Prophet). With respect to The True Prophet,
in the Homilies of his disciple Clement the Apostle Peter warned the people
with respect to the One Teacher that Jesus commanded all his followers to
learn from:
“Hence, O beloved Clement,
if you would know the things pertaining to God, you have to learn them
from Him alone, because He alone knows the truth. For if any one else knows
anything, he has received it from Him or from His disciples”.
That these words have for
the most part been totally ignored, is the reason why modern man is ruled
over by the Citizen of this, the Far Country, and why the religious world is
shackled in the abyss of absolute ignorance and dogmatic confusion.
If, as Jesus taught, the One Teacher that Jesus commanded to seek out is
within us -- beyond and within the natural barrier of human organic
consciousness -- and only those who fulfill the spiritual meaning of the
allegorical scriptures by become the
Living Final
Temple and are able to enter within the Inner Holy of Holies -- thereby
gaining entrance into the Inner Kingdom -- and the scriptures are in fact
the
Key of Knowledge that
must be turned within self in order to unlock and open the
"narrow strait gate" that provides
entrance into the Kingdom -- then it is imperative that the seeker/disciple
prepare themselves to receive the necessary esoteric knowledge that could
only be revealed to the inner core of disciples who travailed in TheWay --
and an important aspect of this esoteric knowledge was the cosmology of
one's own mind and being. And this fact is
demonstrated in the words of Jesus in the
Gospel of Thomas
where it is written,
"But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty and it is you who are that poverty... Whoever finds himself is
superior to the world". And,
when properly understood,
the finding of self is the primary objective of all
scriptures -- i.e., sacred writings that are dressed
in the garb or facade of what appears to the multitude of people as
historical, but are in truth an allegorical portrayal of the disciples own
body, mind/soul and spirit. And when we add to this the
statement in Thomas that few understand with any
real spiritual depth, a similar statement from the
Gospel of Philip that
"Those who say that first
they shall die and
(then) they shall arise
are confused. If they do not first receive the
resurrection (while) they live, they will not
receive anything (when)
they die" -- we can begin to understand
that the doctrines of the simple faith that Paul
called the "milk"
of the Gospel of Christ (see
Mystery), is truly elementary and
only the beginning of entry-level teachings of TheWay. Which means that one of
the primary objectives of Jesus' teachings is to
seek spiritual maturity as one strives to become a Disciple of TheWay, and bring about that
condition within one's own body-mind Temple, where
one can be with the Lord
"in the House", and receive the Mysteries
of God from the One Teacher of Light.
That God dwells in a Temple not of this world -- and not made with the hands
of man -- is the reason why the Jews have been inhibited by the Hand of God acting
through the Laws from rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple -- with the objective
being that all the prodigal sons and daughters become a Living Final Temple
(see Final
Temple). When Jesus taught that the Law cannot pass away
until every jot and tittle is completed and brought about, the reference was
being made to the building and completing of the Temple within your own body
and mind -- and it is the building of the Living Final Temple, that enables
the Kingdom to come within the body/mind of the seeker/disciple. To
accomplish this, you must learn to turn the
Key of Knowledge -- i.e., the
scriptures -- within your own body mind/soul and spirit. The True Meaning of not only the
Gospel of Thomas, but also of all genuine scriptures, can only be revealed to
those who gain the experiential knowledge through direct revelation of the One
Teacher within (see
True
Prophet). Thus, the words: "These are
the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas
wrote down. And he said,
Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death.
Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he
will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he
will rule over the All."
Why are the teachings
in Thomas portrayed as being secret? The answer to this question can only be
understood when a person comes to comprehend why the Mysteries of the Gospel
could only be revealed to Jesus' inner core of disciples who were said to be
"in the House", while he taught all others
who were portrayed as being "without" the
House, in the enigma of allegorical parables
(see
Mystery).
On this great spiritual truth that remains ignored by modern believers, the
Church Father Origen defended Christianity against the attacks against the
Church by Celsus, the second century Epicurean philosopher, when Origen wrote that
the true depth of the Gospel message is difficult for the reader to perceive,
“…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”.
And without the proper application of
the
Key of Knowledge --
and an understanding of the vision and objectives of the original authors -- it
remains impossible for modern believers to perceive the true meaning
of the scriptures. It is therefore not that the author's of the
scriptures wanted to hide important spiritual truths from the eyes and
understanding of those who Jesus portrayed as being "without"
the House -- but rather, it is impossible for the mind of organic man in his
natural earthly condition, to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom of God -- to the degree that the few who possessed this
body of esoteric knowledge of self and the Kingdom, were perpetually hunted down
as heretics
(see
An Inconvenient Truth).
While Paul portrayed
the written text of the scriptures as the the "letter
that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6), which was
often little more than
"Jewish fables"
(Titus 1:14), the Apostle Peter went
as far as to portray the scriptures as the
"...the mystery of the books which
are able to deceive"
(see Power
To Deceive). Further stating that
BY DESIGN, each person
is supposed to see and perceive a different meaning when reading the text of the
scriptures (see
Unique Individual Perspective). And it was because of this fact
that Paul condemned anyone who even suggests creating a doctrine -- a sect or faction
-- as being
"turned out of TheWay" -- and commands the
congregation of believers to reject such a person (see
No Doctrines Or Sects)
who promotes a sectarian faction as a heretic. Why? Because the
teachings of TheWay are representative of a purely spiritual religion -- with
purely spiritual objectives -- and are designed to bring about the necessary
spiritual transformation of the seeker/disciple that permits them to enter into
the Holy of Holies within the Living Spiritual Temple of self
(see Final
Temple), and learn directly from the
True
Prophet. And that
the literal text of the scriptures is an allegorical enigma that cannot be
deciphered using human reasoning, is exactly what Peter warns when he states
that:
"...therefore great care is to be taken, that when the law of God is read, it be
not read according to the understanding of our own mind. For there are many
sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every
one has preconceived for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you ought
not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from
without". (see
The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind). Thus, the
warning with respect to man's "natural" perspective on both the meaning of the
scriptures, and the meaning and purpose of life itself:
"There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death"
(Prov 14:12).@@@
The primary
objective of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay was to prepare the
seeker/disciple to enter in at the "narrow strait gate"
which is portrayed as the Holy of Holies within the Living Temple -- and learn
the Mysteries of the Kingdom from the
True
Prophet. And this is
portrayed by the Church Father Origen (above) as being
"In The House" with the Lord! In The House portrays a
genuine disciple of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay who have entered within
the Holy of Holies within themselves -- and have entered the Kingdom and the
come into the Presence of the
One Teacher
that Jesus commanded to seek out. That
Christians have failed to observe and understand the meaning and reality of
these teachings, has caused them to be cast in the role of latter-day Pharisees who
have been banished to a Spiritual Diaspora where the dwell in the abyss of
profound ignorance.
The spiritual formula that
most people ignore is the reality that we cannot
Know God, until we first Know Self. And
all the conflict and divisions among mankind is
caused by man's own lack of self-knowledge.
The Gospel Of Thomas factually declares that if you
know the meaning of the sayings, that you will not
taste of death -- and this is true. If
you know the true depth of the meaning of these
sayings, it is because you have moved into harmony
with your inner soul-self that is eternal, and you have drawn near
to the Kingdom within. The people of
this world are spoken of as dead (see
The Dead
Know Nothing), because their consciousness is of the earth -- ruled over by
their lower animal/earthly natures -- and they are
of an outer consciousness that is totally alien to
their own higher soul-self and the Inner
Kingdom which is of the Light and is Eternal.
Jesus said that only those who are born again from
above, can enter into Life -- and this next stage of
birth is not based upon faith and beliefs -- but an
actual soul-birth that manifests the Kingdom within
us and reveals to us the true inner realities of
Self, and all the Mysteries of God. True
Gnosis is the Sacred Manna of the Inner Kingdom that
can only be given to those who seek it with a pure
heart and a consecrated life. This Sacred Manna has
nothing in common with the reasoning of man -- but
rather, the Reasoning of God that can only be
imparted to those who are willing to become immersed
in the fires of purification and the cleansing and
healing of the Living Word. The requirement to Know
the Truth, is that you live the Truth in the
totality of every word, thought, desire and deed.
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Scriptures as the Key of
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Yeshua/Jesus taught that
there is Only One Teacher -- the
Indwelling True Prophet. And
if you fail to learn from the True
Prophet, then you know nothing of
any true spiritual value. Most
believers are alienated from the
True Prophet by virtue of their
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The Virgin Birth.
To enter the Inner Kingdom, every
disciple must be born again of what
is portrayed as the Virgin Birth.
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understand the significance of the
threefold stages of birth, has made
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True Gnosis is the Divine Manna or
Knowledge of the higher reality of
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Yeshua/Jesus said that the
god of the (carnal) Jews was the
Devil. That modern
believers read the scriptures in the
same manner as the Pharisees who
threw away the Key of Knowledge, and
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ignorant as to the Left and Right
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Peter warned about the
mystery of the books (scriptures)
with the power to deceive -- and
Christians ignore this warning to
their own demise. Peter
correctly stated that the scriptures
are designed so that those who
attempt to read them in an unworthy
manner, will see nothing more than
their own predetermined manmade
doctrines of belief.
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Using Scripture In Search Of The Kingdom
The Tree of Life
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“Woe to you lawyers!

For
you have taken away the key of knowledge;

you did not enter in yourselves,
and
those who were entering in you hindered”
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The literal text of the scripture is intended to
teach certain moral and physical lessons about life. Jesus' Sermon
on the Mount, and other interactions with the people, convey to the seeker
important lessons about embracing the proper mindset and living a God-Centered
spiritual Life. But the next stage of soul-birth and the journey in
TheWay to the Inner Kingdom, can only be accomplished through the transformation
of self. Thus, it is written: "We
must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ). And this is why Paul Commanded to
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV). To the degree that Paul warned:
“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). To mortify the deeds
of the body takes work -- a great amount of work -- and this work cannot be
accomplished through a static faith.
The problem is that these biblical commandments have
absolutely nothing in common with the doctrine of faith that was developed by
Martin Luther in the Middle-ages. As a priest of
the Church of Rome, there was much that was not understood by Martin Luther and the
Middle-Age Reformers. They did not know that the scriptures are in
fact the Key of Knowledge -- and that if you learn to turn the
scriptures within yourself, you
draw ever nearer to the Kingdom within (Lk 17:20-21).
G.R.S. Mead, a foremost authority on the Gnostics, in his book entitled
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, this explanation of the true nature of the
scriptures is put forth: “…what the Gnostics projected
onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a
picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a
deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of
the human personality”. It was for this reason that Carl Jung
called the Gnostic Christians the worlds first and foremost psychologists who
understood the very fabric of human consciousness. That there is an
Inner Source of Knowledge that is beyond even the most enlightened wisdom of
this world, is in fact the very reason why the Apostle Paul wrote:
“For the truth about God is known to them
instinctively; God has put this knowledge in their hearts” (Rom 1:19
TLB). And what Martin Luther and the Middle Age Reformers could
never have known, is that Paul's doctrine of faith was based upon the fact that
if you embrace the mindset taught by Jesus, and live a consecrated life, the the
inner "narrow gate" to the Kingdom (see
Gate
Of Eden) will begin to open, and you will be able to access this inner Source of
Knowledge.


Those who would be disciples of Jesus are told to
"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). Thus we must first
understand where the "narrow strait gate" is, and what is the difference
between the the two paths: "...Because narrow is
the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who
find it". If Jesus said that the way which leads to
life is difficult, and few are able to find it, then Jesus' words can have
nothing in common with the modern concept of saying a prayer accepting Jesus
as one's personal Lord and Savoir -- with the result being that you are
guaranteed salvation from that moment forward.
Speaking of the few who walk in TheWay, seeking the
"narrow gate" that
leads to life, Jesus warned:
"Then He said to them all, If anyone desires to come
after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life for My sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains
the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?" (Luke 9:23-25
NKJ) Once again we see that it is necessary to
"...take up [one's] cross daily" -- which
totally dispels the idea of this being a one time proclamation or joining --
which means the the modern doctrine that one is saved by virtue of their
one-time prayer, has no Gospel basis. Further, the
requirement is that the disciple bring forth the spiritual works/actions of
living the necessary Consecrated Life where it can be said that they
"...take up [one's] cross daily", that every
day must be seen as a total commitment to living in accord with the core
Gospel teachings and requirements.
Modern Christians cannot be true followers of Jesus -- i.e.,
"If
anyone desires to come after Me..." -- and in the same way
that the Pharisees were rejected by Jesus as being counterfeit shepherds of
Israel, so too is the modern clergy of the Church for exactly the same
reasons. The flock of modern-day Christians would better know how
to apply the Key of Knowledge in opening the (inner) door to the Kingdom, if
the Gentiles who called themselves Orthodox, had not edited and corrupted the Gospels in their endeavor to
remove what they saw as "Gnostic interpolations".
As correctly stated by Prof.
Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture,
where he warns us that: "...theological disputes,
specifically disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter
the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the
polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more
patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of
orthodoxy" (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ).
Those who portrayed themselves as Orthodox Christians in the second and
third centuries of our Common Era, were simply too pagan and heathen in
their thinking to comprehend the scriptures with any depth of understanding.
And in their opposition to the Spiritual Christians who were called
Gnostics, they removed most of the more spiritual teachings that were needed
to begin to properly utilize the Key of Knowledge, and commence to begin the
journey in TheWay.
Therefore, the modern Christian world has
been spiritually disenfranchised by their own Churches -- and they would better understand where and how
to apply the Key of Knowledge if the statement on the coming of the Kingdom
(Second Coming) which is preserved in the Epistle of Clement (disciple of
Peter) where it states with respect to how and when Jesus taught the
Kingdom would come -- which preserved quotation is explored in the
subheading entitled
The Tree Of
Life - Star Of David -- where it reads:
“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’”.
But even more revealing is the version of this teaching that is preserved in
the Gospel Of The Nazirenes where it reads: And
one of the disciples asked him, "How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?"
And he answered and said, "If you don't make below as the above, and the
left as the right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center
and passing into the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God."
Thus, if the Gospels had not been severely corrupted in the attempt by those
who called themselves Orthodox to spiritually castrate the scriptures, then
the modern congregation of believers would be better able to discern where the Key of
Knowledge must be used.
While in the past the case could be made that
it was beyond the majority of believers ability -- as well as the Churches -- to know
these important things that were removed by the Pagan Church of Rome. And
to some extent, this is true. But in view of the fact that in such
articles as The Three Lies I prove
all that I have written beyond reasonable doubt -- and this suppressed
knowledge is now available to the Churches -- having been sent into the
world to accomplish this restoral of these crucial teachings, it is
applicable to state: "If
I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have
no excuse for their sin" (John 15:22 NKJ).
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Why Can't The Truth Of The Gospel Be Stated And Written Literally?
To answer this question, lets first examine what the scriptures state? The
warning is that it is
impossible to convey to the common believer of the Simple Faith the higher
reality of the soul of man, and the Kingdom of God that the Disciples of Jesus
experienced first hand (see
Mystery). Speaking of the Disciples and what they experienced,
Paul writes that they were "caught
up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man
to utter" (2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ). Why? Every sincere Christian must ask the
questions: Why can't the experience of being brought up into Paradise be
expressed in words? And perhaps even more important is the question as to why
"...it is not lawful for a man to utter"
what a Disciple who enters the Kingdom experiences? These are serious
questions, that can only be addressed by very serious Christians who truly seek
not only to Know the Lord, but to Know anything beyond the temporal mundane of
this world which fades like the cycle of leaves falling off a tree before the
winter.
The most profound statement which is all but ignored
by seekers today, is found in the Epistle of Peter And James where it is
written: "Hear
me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all
indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be
perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done,
it will
remain even for those who really
seek the truth, always to wander in error. Wherefore it is better that
they should be with us, and that we should communicate them with all the
fore-mentioned care to those who wish to
live piously, and to save
others." Thus,
unless you can answer the question: Why would it be
stated that, if the esoteric wisdom and knowledge of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay were to be lost, that
it
"...will remain even for those who really
seek the truth, always to wander in error"???
And while many people think they know, in truth these words represent a reality
that they have yet to come to terms with:
“If any one imagines
that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know”
(1 Cor 8:2 RSV).
When Paul warns the baptized and committed Christians
at Corinth 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"?
In view of the fact that Paul stated this warning to a congregation of believers
that he, himself, had instructed -- a congregation of believers who Paul
portrayed as having received all knowledge and gifts of the spirit that could be
imparted to them -- it must be recognized that these Christians who Paul
personally instructed, were in fact in a better environment to understand the
Gospel message, than any modern day believer. And unless you begin
to recognize that the condition of mankind
that Paul is making reference to, would just as well be portrayed as
"organic" -- or, of the physical body
-- then it will be impossible for you to move beyond your very limited
understanding of the core objectives of the Gospel Message. Why?
Because the
"natural man" which Paul is making
reference to, is in fact the
"organic" human being
who is dependent upon three-dimensional human consciousness. Paul
correctly rejected the outward rituals of the carnal Jews -- stating that
believers are saved through faith in the teachings of TheWay, rather than in
dead rituals that represent an outward expression of what must be accomplished
within the believers own mind and being
(see Final
Temple). And this is
why Paul taught the necessity of picking up one's own cross and crucifying one's
lower nature -- i.e., "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV). But to accomplish this, the
believer/disciple must cease to live in accord with the flesh, and live in such
a manner that the necessary spiritual transformation begins to be brought about
within the body and mind of the person -- 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).
It is said that human consciousness is like the tip of
an iceberg -- and in the same way that only a very small tip which is supported
by an immense foundation of ice protrudes above the water where it can be seen
-- organic man who Paul portrays as of a natural mind, can only utilize a very
small portion of his potential of mind. Like an ovum that is
released into a woman's womb, without the proper and balanced fertilization, and
the necessary environment that initiated growth and development, the mind of
organic man remains earthbound in it's thinking -- simply because those higher
areas of mind that do not support the physical body and the culture of this
world, do not develop! It is not a question of how smart a
person is from the perspective of man's way of measuring intelligence.
But rather, it is a reality that if these higher areas of mind that do not
correspond to the vibration of the earth are not properly stimulated and
developed in the proper environment that initiates growth and maturation, then
the very spheres of mind required to contemplate and understand anything beyond
the physical and mundane, simply fail to develop. And when Paul states that the wisdom
of this world will come to naught (1 Cor 2:6-8), it is because of these organic
limitations that inhibit all of mankind who are of a
"natural mind", from understanding anything beyond the forms of this
physical world -- and as I demonstrate on Unity of Mind (
Science Proves
Religion ), even the most brilliant of secular minds do not in
any manner possess any real understanding of even the forms they see, as they
look out into the world in which they presently dwell. In fact, you could
enroll in all the most esteemed colleges and universities that man has created
-- you could endlessly study the volumes of books composed and written by men
throughout the ages -- and your wisdom and knowledge would pale in comparison to
the Disciples of Jesus and the earliest of Spiritual Christians who were sincere
Disciples of TheWay.
The average modern believer who reads these words
would probably reply: If this is true, then the Disciples of Jesus were set
apart from the rest of mankind, and we cannot expect to know what they knew.
Yet, nothing could be further from the truth! The first century elder Ignatius
personally knew both Paul and the other Disciples.
And in his Epistle to
the Trallaus he 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 understood what was
incomprehensible to the organic mind of man, he also confesses that though he is
aware of the mysteries, he is not yet “by any means
perfect, nor am I such a disciple as Paul or Peter”.
What preacher of the
Gospel today would stand before his congregation and state to the people in
their pews, that if he was to reveal the true teachings of the New Covenant --
the Mysteries of the Gospel of God -- he would
“inflict injury on you who are babes”
in Christ? What teaching of the Lord could a present-day preacher of
the gospel reveal that the congregation of believers are not
“able to receive their weighty import”?
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 doctrine 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). What should be troubling to the modern believer is that Paul
openly admits that the baptized and confirmed Christians at Corinth -- people
who had accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior and received the gifts of the
laying on of hands and speaking in tongues -- people who were not taught by
preachers and priests, but the Apostle himself -- were not yet able to
understand and comprehend what Paul referred to as the Mysteries of the Gospel
of God.
If what both Paul and Ignatius states is
true, and not only the Christian believers of the simple faith will look upon the
Mysteries of God as "foolishness" --
but so too will the most intelligent and wise men who are portrayed as men of
learning by our culture -- each, in not understanding the very organic reason
they are incapable of understanding their own higher reality of the soul and the
Inner Kingdom -- rejecting the higher revelation of the Spiritual Gospel as something that could not possibly be true -- then
every sincere Christian must ask themselves the question: If a Disciple came to
speak to me, how could he possibly convey to me what would be inconceivable for
me to understand? Again, the Christian should ask: What truths describing a
higher reality would be so profound, that a mature Disciple of TheWay would not
be able to convey to me what they knew, because it would
“inflict injury on”
me, to the degree that I would be spiritually
“strangled by" the revelation?
And while the vast majority of Christians would take the complacent package deal
which they believe the Gospel represents -- i.e., since I am saved, what is the
difference if I don't understand the higher realities of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom of God? This mindset which is typical among believers
of the simple faith, is synonymous with saying: I got a passing grade in
elementary school, so why should I go on to middle and high school, and perhaps
seek a higher education? And in the same way that an elementary school
education would place a great hardship on a person who then attempts to enter
the market place in pursuit of employment and supporting a family, because the
institutionalized Church endorsed complacency, few modern Christians even begin
to understand the full dimensions of the warning:
“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). What this means is that the Christian,
who has been given greater opportunity than other peoples of the world, will
have the greater requirements placed upon him. If there is a hell,
then it is the complacent Christian who is more likely to go there, than the
unbelievers who the Church condemns as not being saved. While the
Church can no longer understand what is being said because of their manmade
doctrines of belief, what is being conveyed is the fact that those who have not
received the greater opportunity, will not be judged with the same
requirements. And this fact is further demonstrated in the article,
The Complacent Christian. While the institutionalized Church -- often for
their own monetary and political gain -- has in many instances promoted the
complacent mindset, if the warning is true where it is written:
"And
why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
(Luke
6:46
KJV) -- many who are under the
belief that they are Christians in good standing, will experience a rude
awakening in the future. Thus, the warning that the vast majority of
complacent lukewarm Christians are not in the least prepared to deal with:
"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).
While in the original
religious teachings of Jesus and his Disciples, these verses were of great
importance, they are virtually meaningless in the idolatry of Pagan Rome, and in the religious teachings and
theology of Martin Luther and the framers of the Reformation (see
The Christian Diaspora ). Moreover, the leaders of the modern Church have
absolutely no idea either how these warnings apply to the fate of the body of
believers, or why Jesus taught that the Christian will be held to a higher
level of accountability, than the unbeliever. Further, the modern clergy and
leaders of the Church are absolutely clueless as to why Paul warned that the
committed and baptized believers at Corinth were incapable of understanding the
true spiritual meaning of the Gospel, and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God,
because they were yet of a natural organic mind -- and in their carnal mindset,
they would judge and condemn these higher revelations as
"foolishness"!!!
Regardless of the number of times that believers of
the simple faith are warned that God is a Spirit, and can only be sought through
man's indwelling spiritual nature (Jn 4:24) -- and that to receive this
spiritual revelation that the organic mind of the believer will judge and
condemn as utter "foolishness" -- the great
mass of Christians perpetually reject the spirit, and and turn to the
written word of the scriptures in pursuit of what Paul the
"letter that killeth"
(2 Cor 3:6) (see
http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm ). Paul commands the believers of the
simple faith to "Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5
NIV). To the degree that Paul warned:
“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, believers will perpetually turn to
the flesh of the written word that Paul portrayed as the
"letter that killeth"
(2 Cor 3:6), and ignore the commandment to move on to maturity and
embrace the spirit that the baptized Christians of the simple faith will view as
utter "foolishness" -- and even heresy from
the perspective of their very limited organic understanding.
Perhaps the most profound example of the inability of
the natural carnal mind to even begin to grasp man's own higher soul and
spiritual reality is provided in the words of Paul who said of the baptized,
totally committed believers as Corinth:
“I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For
in him you have been enriched in every way -- in all your speaking and in all
your knowledge -- because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.
Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord
Jesus Christ to be revealed”
(1 Cor 1:4-7 NIV).
Yet, in the second chapter of the very same Epistle Paul warns these believers
who have been given all knowledge and testimony 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). Paul then goes on and warns these believers of a natural
mind who were baptized and dedicated to Christ: “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 doctrine 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).
The shackles which inhibit not only the modern Christian today,
but the learned scholar and critic as well, is seen in the fact that the Church not only institutionalized what Paul calls
the "milk" of the Gospel intended for
“babes in Christ”
-- but then the Church of Rome threw away the Key of Knowledge (
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), and totally lost the ability to understand the
Spiritual Gospel that Sustains and Completes the true Disciple of Jesus who
picks up their own cross and imitates the pattern within his own mind and being. The modern believer will
respond that those who have gazed upon what Paul states is
"...not lawful... to utter"
(2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ) and reveal to the minds of the believers of the simple
faith, should merely tell them what they have seen and experienced.
But in truth, because their minds are carnal -- i.e.,
“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 3:2-3 NKJ) -- until a person begins to overcome the organic limitations
of the body by becoming the "good ground" in
the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see
http://SowerAndSeed.com ), they can study the scriptures until the hour they
take their last breath, and they have absolutely no chance of understanding the
true meaning with any depth of comprehension beyond the cloak of what Paul
portrays as the "letter that killeth"
(2 Cor 3:6). And to the detriment of
the flock of believers, because peddling Christ has become a lucrative business with political benefits,
the "milk... intended for babes in Christ"
has become so institutionalized, that those to whom the higher reality of the
soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom has been revealed, are condemned as
heretics by the flock of believers. Thus, if we replace the word synagogue
with the modern portrayal of a church, we can begin to see the dilemma of the
modern Christian who no longer possess the Key of Knowledge, and has absolutely
no idea how to receive the revelation of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God:
"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should
not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these
things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me"
(John 16:1-3 KJV). And while they claim to know Christ with their lips, their
hearts and minds are far removed, because they no longer possess the means to
move onto maturity --
“Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about
Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from
acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the
laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment”
(Heb 6:1-2 NIV).
While
it is true that Paul taught the necessity of faith -- faith in the
Gospel-process that if adhered to, would bring about the transformation of the
believer -- an integral part of this process was the need to transform the
carnal nature after embracing the elementary teachings of Christ, and going on
to maturity. But because the Church of Rome threw away the Key of Knowledge,
and the non-Roman Church conceived out of the Reformation, had been totally
alienated from the preparatory knowledge and lifestyle necessary to even begin
to understand the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom --
i.e., that intermediate wisdom and knowledge that prepares the Disciple to begin
to comprehend what believers of the simple faith view as utter
"foolishness" -- the Church itself
has become
lost in the quagmire of what Paul portrays as the elementary doctrines,
literally drowning in the
"milk... intended for babes in
Christ".
To even begin to
understand the spiritual void that exists today, we must closely examine the
Church prior to it being adopted by Pagan Rome as the official religion of the
Empire. And one of the important documents that we can turn to in our search
for the Truth and TheWay, is a document known as The True Word.
In
the approximate year of 178 of our Common Era, Celsus, the Epicurean Philosopher
and opponent of Christianity, published a rather embarrassing work in opposition
to Christianity known as The True Word or Discourse. It is said that
this work was widely published and used by the Pagan world as an attack on the
Church, that seventy years after its publication The True Word was still
so widely circulated, that the Church Father Origen was commissioned by St.
Ambrosius to refute this attack by Celsus. In this polemic against the Church,
Celsus attacked the Church as being a secret system -- teaching the body of
believers a very different doctrine, than what was taught and embraced by the
inner core of the elect.
In
view of the fact that neither Origen or any authority in the Church refuted what
Celsus stated, it is of the utmost importance to first understand why the outer
body of believers embraced very different doctrines of belief than the inner
core of the elect. When Paul warned the believers at Corinth that it was not
only impossible -- but not even lawful -- to reveal to them the true spiritual
meaning of the Gospel with respect to the higher reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom that they, in their natural organic (untransformed)
mind would condemn as "foolishness" --
then what he created was not only two opposite polarities within the body of the
Church -- but a great diversity and variance in understanding between those who
were migrating from the doctrines of the simple faith, and those who Paul
portrayed as having gone on to maturity.
The
entry-level believers of the simple faith who were blinded by their carnal
mindset and understanding, came to call themselves Orthodox. Why? Men who
were absolutely clueless as to the spiritual meaning of the Gospel and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom, called themselves priests and teachers, and they were
under the grave misconception that they understood what is impossible for the
organic mind of man to comprehend. In making reference to these teachers and
priests who called themselves Orthodox, we can see the very same elementary
beliefs which are embraced by Christians today, as well as their reading only
the literal written words of the scriptures in the manner of the Pharisees when
Eusebius writes of their doctrines -- doctrines conceived by the early
Christians Papias and Irenaeus, and still held throughout the modern Christian
world today: “Papias reproduces other stories
communicated to him by word of mouth, together with some otherwise unknown
parables and teachings of the Saviour, and other things of a more allegorical
character. He says that 'after the resurrection of the dead there will be a
period of a thousand years when Christ's kingdom will be set up on this earth in
material form'. I suppose he got these notions by
misinterpreting the apostolic accounts and failing to grasp what they said in
mystic and symbolic language. For he seems to have been a man of
very small intelligence, to judge from his books.
But it is partly due to him that the great majority of churchmen after him took
the same view, relying on his early date; e.g. Irenaeus and several others, who
clearly held the same opinion” (Eusebius, Hist Eccl., Book III,
39.11). What is a man of very small intelligence? Is it not organic man
whose untransformed mind is as the tip of the iceberg? And when they begin as
believers, these are the people of the simple faith who would condemn the higher
reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom as
"foolishness". On the other hand, the
Spiritual Christians who picked up their own cross and lived the Consecrated
life prescribed by Yeshua -- making their body into a Living Temple (
http://TheThreeLies.com ) -- came to be called Gnostic. But what is
Gnosis? It is the Experiential Knowledge that after being brought up into the
Kingdom, Paul warned was "...not lawful... to utter"
(2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ) even to the baptized believers of the simple faith. So the
truly Spiritual Christians who having themselves overcome to each person's
ability, was able to move beyond the elementary precepts of the Gospel, and were
able to then receive the Knowledge of the Kingdom in the same manner as did the
Disciples -- and in the same manner that every potential Disciple has today to
Know the Truth by entering into the House with the True Prophet (see
http://DivineManna.org#TrueProphet ).
So
the scriptures are written and composed in the manner that they presently are,
because it is impossible to reveal to the organic mind of man what he is not
only carnally incapable of understanding -- but as the scriptures warn, he is
blind to this higher reality -- and as Paul warns, it is not even lawful to
reveal the Mysteries of the Kingdom to the believers of the simple faith. Yet,
to those who Live in accord with the Commandments and the Royal Law -- and
sincerely strive to overcome -- they are given the Key of Knowledge which when
properly applied, has the ability to reveal all things to the Disciple who picks
up his on cross and travails in TheWay -- seeking the Kingdom as Yeshua
commanded.
Nothing Hidden Or
Concealed: We often hear the terms esoteric, hidden or concealed
knowledge -- and while there is truth to what is being conveyed, in reality
nothing is at all hidden from the eyes or understanding of mankind.
As presented in the article Science Proves Religion (see
Science Proves
Religion ), the mind
associated with the physical body of man can only perceive a very limited
spectrum of the frequencies of the universe -- and being comprised of physical
matter, the body only permits the mind to perceive and understand what is
manifest physically, in the earth. And while the mind of man has the
innate potential to see and understand all things -- i.e., dimensions and realms
that are not of the earth vibration -- man remains blind to these higher (and
lower) dimensions of mind and being while the necessary centers and spheres of
mind that correspond to these other dimension, remain dormant and undeveloped.
And this is why, when Jesus was asked why he can only speak to the multitudes in
parable and allegorical enigma, he responded:
“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). The
disciples, who were said to be "In The House",
were those who had themselves followed in TheWay, and had overcome the organic
limitations of the body and organic mind. In
the words of the Church Father Origen: “And if you come
to the books written after the time of Jesus, you will find that those
multitudes of believers who hear the parables are, as it were, 'without', and
worthy only of exoteric doctrines, while the disciples learn in private the
explanation of the parables. For, privately, to His own disciples did Jesus
open up all things, esteeming above the multitudes those who desired to know His
wisdom” (Origen Contra Celsum). In other words, those who are bound
by the limitations of the physical body, and dwell in what Jesus portrayed as
the "outer darkness" outside of the Inner Spiritual Kingdom, could only be
instructed in parables and the exoteric doctrines of the simple faith -- which
doctrines the Apostle calls the “milk intended for
babes in Christ” -- because they were only using those areas of mind
and physical being that corresponded to this physical world.
And while the Kingdom and man's higher reality of soul and spirit lied open
before them, they remained blind because their organic body and mind could only
perceive that vibration of being associated with this physical world.
And the same is true of the scriptures which are an allegory -- i.e., the more
they begin to develop the higher spheres of mind beyond the organic limitations,
the more they would perceive and understand the meaning of the scriptures with a
depth that carnal man is incapable of seeing and understanding.
Just after Jesus
explains that the organic men of the earth will remain ever blind and unable to
comprehend anything beyond the temporal and mundane of this world -- i.e., they
will
"...be ever seeing
but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding”,
he
makes the profound statement that is ignored by disbelieved by carnal men:
“And he said unto
them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?”
(Mark 4:13 KJV).
And what this means is that if you fail to understand this parable and the
absolute need to become the "good ground"
which enables the disciple to become the Living and Consecrated Final Temple
(see Final Temple), that you will
never understand ANYTHING with any depth of comprehension -- i.e., perpetually
dwelling in what Jesus calld the "Outer Darkness"
of mind and being (see
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org ). Why?
Because having failed to develop those areas of mind that interact with those
spectrum of frequencies beyond the organic, you simply cannot possess the
potential of mind to see or perceive anything beyond the mundane of this world
(see http://UnityOfMind.org ).
It will not matter if you perpetually read the scriptures -- if you dwell in a
church and continually pray and sing praises to the Lord -- or if you read every
book and attend every university of this world -- it will remain true that you
will remain blind to those vibrations and frequencies outside of the narrow
spectrum of this physical world. From a Greek perspective, the
Knowledge of the higher reality of the soul and the Kingdom that organic man is
blind to, is called Gnosis -- or, to the disciple walking in TheWay, it is
called the Divine Manna of the Kingdom. And as Paul warns, it is
impossible to not only write Gnosis or the Divine Manna in the words of man, but
it is unlawful to even attempt such a thing -- i.e.,
"caught
up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man
to utter" (2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ). And this is why Jesus
commanded:
“Give not that which
is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine”
(Mt 7:6). And why Paul wrote with respect to the higher reality that carnal
man is blind to:
“Howbeit we speak
wisdom among them that are perfect,”
writes Paul, “yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of
the princes of this world, that come to naught: But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto
our glory” (1 Cor 2:6-7 KJV).
Throughout history
those who have been totally faithful in their search for Truth and the Kingdom
-- and having embraced the pattern and become the "good
ground" that permits the seed within to flourish beyond the organic
--
have
been continually portrayed as arrogant... elitists
because they have repeated the warning of the Gospel that understand and
knowledge can only be imparted to those who pick up their own cross, travail in
TheWay, and imitate the patter that our elder brother Jesus set before us as the
only path into the Kingdom. Because those who have been truly
faithful to the Living Word have attempted to warn others of their inherent
organic blindness, they were hunted down by the Church, and murdered as heretics
-- i.e., the fulfillment of the warning:
"...yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service..."
(John 16:1-3 KJV).
Are those who seek the
Divine Manna (Gnosis) of the Kingdom arrogant? Elitists? Or
self-centered? Heretics? Or are they the few who are doing what
Jesus commanded those who truly believe, and are faithful to the teachings of
TheWay?
This great dilemma
that Paul wrote about with respect to the inability of organic man being blind
and unable to comprehend anything beyond the exoteric doctrines of the "simple
faith" -- a reality that spiritual men and women have many times confirmed, and
has been continually ignored by the majority of Christians throughout history --
was explained by Peter when his disciple Clement wrote his warning to believer:
“…and if you do not find Him, expect not
that you shall learn anything from any other” (Clementine Homiles).
From a first century Christian perspective, there is only one way
that you can learn and know the truth, and that is through your own inner
dormant spiritual nature. “Expect not
that you shall learn anything”, says Peter, if you
attempt to learn from the doctrines of men -- even when these men are the
leaders of your church, synagogue, mosque, or temple. Why? Because Jesus
himself commanded: “But you, do not be
called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren”
(Matt 23:8 NKJ). And when rightly understood, the teachings of Yeshua and
TheWay present to the true seeker how they each may be
"...taught by God"
(John 6:45 NIV). In the below you will find the first century
teachings on the True Prophet that is the ONLY Source of Knowledge and
Instruction for those who truly believe, and have faith in Yeshua and the
teachings of TheWay (see
The True Prophet).
Those few who truly believe, and are totally faithful to
Yeshua -- willing to live the necessary Consecrated Life and seek Truth over the
doctrines of men, and the Inner Kingdom -- are the only true believers who can
fulfill the Commandment of Yeshua, and learn from the True Prophet.
Quoting Peter in the Homilies (see below): "...And
therefore I advise not only wise men, but indeed all men who have a desire of
knowing what is advantageous to them, that they seek after the true Prophet; for
it is He alone who knoweth all things, and who knoweth what and how every man is
seeking. For He is within the mind of every one of
us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His
righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that
which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge.
Wherefore
seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall
learn anything from any other. But He is
soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth..."
And this is why Yeshua commanded not to be called rabbi or
teacher -- because their is only One Teacher -- and the only means to come into
the Presence of the True Prophet and Learn All Truths directly from the Source,
is to live your highest ideal in word, thought, desire and deed -- seeking Truth
over the doctrines of men -- seeking the Kingdom over the Churches of this world
-- and seeking to Possess the Truth, by surrendering yourself only to the Living
Word (within you), and yourself becoming Possessed by the Truth, and the Truth
alone. And those who the Church has traditionally portrayed as
arrogant, elitists, and Gnostic heretics -- those who the Church have hunted
down and murdered -- are the few who have remained faithful to these
Commandments of the Lord, and seek only to become servants of TheWay who guide
others into the Presence of the True Prophet/Logos/Son of God.
The True
Interpretation Of The Scriptures: The
scriptures are an allegorical portrayal of your own mind and being -- and the names that
are used, the numbers, and the picture of what appears to be historical
accounts or cosmic occurrences or conditions, can also be understood as
events
of the body, mind and spirit in the life of the disciple. In the
same way that Paul called the written word of the scriptures the
"letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6), the same
exact formula with respect to the scriptures is presented in the words:
“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). If you attempt to interpret
the scriptures after the letter of the flesh, then you have thrown away the Key
of Knowledge that you failed to understand in the spiritual sense, and turn the
scriptures within yourself: "How terrible it will be
for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the
people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from
entering" (Luke
11:52 NLT). Christians today who read the scriptures to
find the historical Jesus, are no different than the Pharisees who looked only
to the letter of the written word -- failing to use the Key of Knowledge to open
the inner door to the Kingdom within them. And of those who
"...live after the flesh [of the written word],
ye shall die."
And to them the warning of The Apocalypse of Peter has come upon
them: "They will cleave to the name of a dead
man, thinking that they will become pure. But they will become greatly
defiled and they will fall into a name of error and into the hand of an evil,
cunning man and a manifold dogma, and they will be ruled heretically. For
some of them will blaspheme the truth and proclaim evil teaching.
And they will say evil things against each other... But many others, who oppose
the truth and are the messengers of error, will set up their error and their law
against these pure thoughts of mine... They do business in my word... And there
shall be others of those who are outside our number who name themselves bishop
and also deacons, as if they have received their authority from God. They
bend themselves under the judgment of the leaders. These people are dry
canals".
The
Objective Of The Scriptures: While the scriptures center around
the teachings of Jesus, the objective is to become a disciple and enter
"in the House" within you and learn the
Mysteries of God from the Living Christ. If you believe in Jesus,
then you will live in the manner that he taught, and seek the Inner Kingdom.
Thus,
the scriptures are written in such a way that they can be turned within -- and
what appears as historical accounts in the written word of the
"letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6), becomes
events of the body, mind and spirit in the life of the Disciple of Jesus and
TheWay. The twelve
signs of the zodiac, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve disciples of Jesus,
become the twelve spheres of mind of the Tree of Life. And when you
are able to do as Paul states and put to death your attachment to the things of
this world, and evolve and balance the twelve spheres of the mind -- doing and
living the Commandments of the Lord in all things -- then you will find the
reality coming to pass that is stated in the Revelation:
"Blessed are those who do His commandments, that
they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates
into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ). Notice that the dogs, sorcerers, sexually
immoral, murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves the (lying) doctrines and
philosophies of men over the Truth, are spoken of as remaining
"outside" the gates of the City?
This is the realm of outer consciousness where man cannot
know self, the Inner Kingdom, or God.
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God-Centered vs Know
Thyself: To Know, vs to Believe. While the Disciple Knows, the
believer is elementary in his understanding, and his mind us undeveloped and
incapable of Knowing God. And it is at this important point that
positions the seeker at the crossroads where they have the opportunity to bring
about true spiritual success in their quest to Truly Know God.
To begin to have success in the evolutionary
transition from a believer, a seeker, and then a Disciple, it must be
understood that all the religions of the world are elementary -- i.e., they
represent various flavors of milk that is necessary for the people of an
entry-level mindset to begin the process of Knowing God -- vs, believing the
doctrines of men who possess very little understanding of either the reality
of self, and the Kingdom of God. Why? Because the mind must be
developed and matured -- and in the example of Judaism and Christianity, the
believers simply ignore many of the most important biblical statements
because their mindset -- or manner of thinking and framework of thought --
their very doctrines of belief does not permit them to evolve beyond the
most basic of biblical concepts. This can be seen and demonstrated above
(see
http://DivineManna.org#literal ). Therefore, regardless of
the flavor, all these religions are basically what would be called
God-Centered -- and while there is nothing wrong with being Centered on God,
most of the world's religions are God-Centered to the exclusion of self.
And while there are levels and variations among the world's religions --
from monastic, to pure faith-based, to the disciples of a yogi or guru, or
quasi-Gnostic -- the objectives of a Disciple of Jesus and TheWay is purely
spiritual through Wholeness. Which means that because none of the
monastic, faith-based, yogi/guru, or quasi-Gnostic rules or traditions have
any real application beyond the elementary, what is often presented will be
difficult for most religious people or seekers to comprehend.
In a God-Centered religion, the mindset is that God created a monarchy or
royal family that makes the rules -- mankind is a subject of the royal
monarchy -- and like good subjects, members of the respective religion are
expected to be in good standing by either obeying and adhering to the
required rules which they must obey without question -- or, from the
perspective of the more liberal sects or the New Age, be philosophically
acceptable to the believers or sect's concept of God. Even the
modern-day neo-Gnostics are under the delusion that Gnostic Scriptures are
merely an alternative historical tradition that the Orthodox Church rejected
-- and in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In
contradistinction to the Monarchal God-Centered mindset, the true spiritual
reality of each soul is portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son --
where it is understood that each of us is equally the divine offspring of
God -- and each of us must grow to maturity and become Complete. That
present-day Christianity has very little in common with the teachings of
Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay, is easily demonstrated in the article entitled
The Secret Doctrine of the
Church , wherein the Church is accused of being a
"secret system",
where the masses are taught an entirely different doctrine than the inner
spiritual core. And like a typical AA 12 step program, the outer exoteric
doctrines of the Church were God-Centered -- because this is a necessary
mindset to begin to heal the prodigal sons who are lost in this, the
"far country... outer darkness"
of this world. But once the seeker has begun to be healed, and
has matured beyond the need for what Paul called the "milk" of
the Gospel message, they must begin to evolve beyond the monarchy mindset,
and begin to understand that each of them is equally the divine offspring of
God -- and each of them must evolve to a perfected state of Completion in
order to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination from which they, as the
prodigal sons, originally emerged from (see
http://GateOfEden.com ). And while Jesus openly stated this fact --
i.e., "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48 KJV) -- because
Christians and other religions are all elementary in their understanding,
they simply ignore this important requirement.
Since these concepts
will sound heretical to the believers of the simple-faith who are of a
monarchial mindset where they see themselves as nothing more than subjects
of the royal family, let me quote some of the early Church Fathers prior to
the take-over of the Church by Pagan Rome in the fourth century. Quoting
the web site Being of Light (
http://BeingOfLight.com ):
Quoting from Origen’s Contra Celsum we read that
“it doth not yet appear what we shall be;
but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like God, and shall see
Him as He is”.
With regard to our becoming like God, Origen then
writes regarding Matthew 5:48 that “...the
virtue of man and of God is identical. And therefore we are taught to become
‘perfect,’ as our Father in heaven is perfect”.
The great truth
that has been continually expressed by both Jewish and Christian visionaries
is that the knowledge of the mysteries of God and the Divine Plan begins
with the knowledge of ourselves as the Prodigal Sons of our Heavenly
Father. It is for this reason that the second-century Church Father
Clement of Alexandria said that it is
“…the greatest of all lessons to
know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing
God, he will be made like God… and that man becomes God, since God so wills”.
In his treaties on The Soul and the Resurrection, St Gregory writes
that “the Resurrection
is no other thing than 'the re-constitution of our nature in its original
form’”, and states that
there will come a time
“…when the complete whole of our race shall have been perfected from the
first man to the last”...
When God, in the words of St.
Nazianzen, no longer is an
“object of wonder”,
but rather an “object
of desire” -- and we,
desiring to be purified from the defilements of this world, make ourselves
fit vessels for the Lord to indwell, the Spirit, according to St. Nazianzen,
reveals to us our true nature, and the revelation of this manifest Sacred
Knowledge makes “us
like God; so that when we have thus become like Himself, God may, to use a
bold expression, hold converse with us as Gods, being united to us, and that
perhaps to the same extent as He already knows those who are known to Him”.
St. Nazianzen then writes that
“the Divine Nature then is
boundless and hard to understand”
by those who are yet carnal and think as natural beings of this world.
While man has an eternal soul, in accord with
the threefold nature of man, as the prodigal sons, we are not the soul (see
Know Thyself
) -- and neither our higher soul-self, or our higher spiritual nature which
is portrayed as the elder brother, incarnates into the body.
Therefore, the Easterners and New Age are in error with respect to their
understanding of reincarnation and their doctrine that the knowledge of
one's past lives is suppressed upon entering into the body (see
Reincarnation, A
Counterfeit Doctrine) -- and so too is Christianity which has derived
it's doctrines of belief from Pagan Rome, and adheres to the religious
concepts of a circus prostitute (see
The Ten Reasons Why The
Church Rejects The Doctrine Of The Pre-Existent Soul), paradoxically
also in error. But what really complicates the conflict
between Eastern and Western thought, is seen in the reality that we dwell in
a holographic reality -- and because in the holographic reality of Creation
(see
http://UnityOfMind.org ) that Pattern (or Spiritual DNA) of the whole,
is replicated into each of its fragmentary parts, as an image of our higher
soul-self, we do have a threefold nature in the body. And each soul exists
in a great expanse of various stages of spiritual maturity and evolution.
And the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay, as presented on this web site,
therefore opens with two primary concepts that divides the entry-level
religions of the world from the spiritual path of TheWay, as seen in the
proclamation in the Gospel of Thomas where it states:
"But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty and it is you who are that poverty.. Whoever
finds himself is superior to the world" -- with the
objective being to bring about the next stage of soul-birth as portrayed in
the Gospel of Philip: "Those who say
that first they shall die and (then) they shall arise are confused. If they
do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live, they will not
receive anything (when) they die."
From a higher perspective, where very little is expected of subjects of a
monarchy except to live in accord with the rules, once you begin to
consciously walk the Journey in TheWay, every concept of life must become
both radically altered from it's milky elementary state of understanding,
and matured beyond the comprehension of the organic people of this world.
And as demonstrated in the parable of the talents, while very little is
expected of the lesser evolved organic people who are lost in this world,
much is required of those few evolved souls who are seekers in TheWay (see
Christian
Blindness To The Scriptures). When the man came and asked Yeshua/Jesus
what was required to enter into Eternal Life, Yeshua told him that he must
Keep the Law. And this is not the written law which Paul correctly
portrayed as the "letter that killeth" (see
http://ebionite.com/defeat.htm ) -- but rather, the inner meaning of
the Spiritual Law which transforms us into a Living Temple (see
http://TheThreeLies.com ). And in the same way that Yeshua did not
tell him to believe and he will be saved as the Christians today preach --
what is being presented is the reality that there was foundational
requirements to even be a disciple of TheWay. In truth, the vast majority
of people who would consider themselves religious, are simply not prepared
to be Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus, because they lack the
necessary foundational spiritual maturity. From a biblical perspective,
they have yet to Keep the Royal Law and the Commandments of God, and they
are therefore not prepared to become a Disciple of TheWay. And
this is why Jesus said to his disciples when aske why he did not speak
plainly and openly to the people who he taught only in parables:
“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). And, as Paul warns, these
important concepts of the higher reality of the soul and the Inner Kingdom
of God that prepares the Disciple to receive the Divine
Manna/Knowlege/Gnosis of the Kingdom, cannot be comprehended by the
untransformed organic/natural mind of the believers. And that the
concepts that must be embraced in order to even begin to open and evolve the
mind as the seeker strives to become a Disciple, appears to be
"foolishness" as Paul warns -- and is
the reason why the first century elder Ignatius warned:
“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.”
And this is especially demonstrates where Paul warned that it was unlawful
to even discuss the Mysteries of God and the higher reality of the soul with
the believers of the simple faith -- i.e.,
“..tell about the visions I've had, and revelations
from the Lord. Fourteen years ago I was taken up to heaven for a visit.
Don't ask me whether my body was there or just my spirit, for I don't know;
only God can answer that. But anyway, there I was in paradise, and heard
things so astounding that they are beyond a man's power to describe or put
in words (and anyway I am not allowed to tell them to others)”
(2 Cor 12:1-4 TLB).
So, the objective of the teachings of TheWay is
not to convert people to any belief in any doctrine of any manmade cult --
but rather, in helping the few mature souls who are sincere seekers, in
understanding what they must do to be nourished by the Divine Manna that can
only be received by those who are capable of moving beyond the organic
limits of carnal man, and embracing the path of true spiritual
transformation. And since the higher soul-self of every person reading
these words already knows more than all the would-be teachers of this world
-- and is far more enlightened than all the would-be masters, yogis and
gurus that you could seek out -- the objective is to awaken the seekers to
their own inner Source of Knowledge that Reveals all things to the True
Disciples of TheWay -- as stated in the Ancient Persian Proverb (see
http://divinestrategery.com/#persian ). And this can only be
accomplished by escaping what is portrayed as the illusions of Plato's Cave
(see
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Plato ).
When the man who had asked Yeshua about eternal life stated that he had
kept the Law, Yeshua told him to give up all that he had, and come and
dedicate his life to following in TheWay. And if you properly apply the
Key of Knowledge to this requirement (see
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), the requirement has nothing to do with
money -- but rather, the thinking, mindset and lifestyle of this world.
And thus, it can properly be stated, that it is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle, than the people of the churches and the
religious teachings of this world to bring about the next stage of
soul-birth -- or even escape the illusion of what is portrayed in the
analogy of Plato's Cave. And as stated in the 84 saying of the Gospel of
Thomas, while the organic people of this world do not cease to exist -- or
enter into eternal damnation as many religions teach -- neither do the
organic people become "manifest"
from a soul-perspective (see
http://ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm#knowthyself ), and either go to
Glory as the Christians/Muslims believe, or reincarnate as the New Age and
Hindu/Buddhists believe.
From a higher soul-perspective, there is nothing to convert to -- or no
belief to subscribe to -- other than to mature and evolve the mind, and come
to truly Know Thyself -- and only by Knowing Self, can you begin to Know
God. Philip K. Dick
wrote what he called The Ten Principles Of The Gnostic Revelation which I will
quote: "Each of us has a divine
counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This
other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is
asleep and minor. We are in fact asleep, and in the hands of a dangerous
magician disguised as a good god, the deranged creator deity. The bleakness,
the evil and pain in this world, the fact that it is a deterministic prison
controlled by the demented creator causes us willingly to split with the
reality principle early in life, and so to speak willingly fall asleep in
delusion." This divine counterpart that is
unfallen into the ignorant abyss of this world, is what we often refer to as
the soul-self -- or the Being of Light which is often encountered in a Near
Death Experience (
http://BeingOfLight.com ). And it is this inner soul-self that is the
focus of the requirement to Know Thyself -- i.e., the Gospel of Thomas
statements: "But if you will not know
yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty... Whoever
finds himself is superior to the world." But to
the people of the simple faiths who are of a monarchical mindset, this is
pure heresy. And as Gurdjieff
correctly states, the objective is not conversion to any system of belief --
because as he warns, every time the organic people of this world think they
have found truth, the god of this world who Philip Dick portrays as a
dangerous magician, merely re-seduces the seeker with a newly revised
illusion (see
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Plato ). It was Gurdjieff who wrote:
"Man's possibilities are very great. You cannot even
conceive a shadow of what man is capable of attaining..."
(G.I.Gurdjieff). But to even begin the journey of both
self-discovery and walking the "narrow path" of TheWay which Yeshua/Jesus
taught, as the prodigal son you must first seek to escape imprisonment and
clutches of the "Citizen... of the Far Country"
who has robbed you of your inheritence -- and free yourself from the
"outer darkness" of mind and being that
shackles you to the abyss of ignorance which is the shadow reality of this
world. And that is journey in TheWay and begin to escape the
seductive imprisonment of what Paul portrayed as the god of this world,
which the Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics portrayed as a
Demiurge (creator of illusion), which Yeshua/Jesus portrayed as the
devil-god of the Pharisees, and that is for the seeker to become the
"good ground" in
the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see
http://SowerAndSeed.com ), and seek to Know Thyself and the Kingdom
within (
http://GateOfEden.com ).
While the people of this world are the prodigal
sons and daughters who are lost and under the control of the
"citizen" of this world, only those who hear TheCall and seek to walk in TheWay
and enter the Inner Kingdom can find the Promise of Life. Thus, the
person who claims to be a genuine believer and seeker, and yet fails to put on
the “wedding garment” (Mt 22:12) -- which is
the robe of spiritual union and perfection -- will be
“cast into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”
(Matt 22:13 NKJ). And where is this outer darkness? Outside the gates to the
city -- which from the perspective of the Bible, is the place in which we
presently dwell. What is conveyed to us here regarding the Kingdom,
is that when we open and read the scriptures, what we have before us is the
mystical/Gnostic writings of a spiritual people -- writings that are written for
the edification of a the prodigal sons and daughters who desire to return to the
Kingdom of the Father -- and we can never understand the Mysteries of God
through a superficial reading of the literal word of the Bible which Paul called
the "letter that killeth". Why do we use
the word Gnostic? Because it is the Greek word that differentiates between
what we call abstract philosophical knowledge pertaining to this world which is learned in our
educational manner of teaching, in contradistinction to knowledge
that is learned directly through our inner spiritual experiences and interaction with
the Divine. Where the knowledge of this world is philosophical and temporal, the type
of Knowledge that is called Gnosis, denotes the Sacred Manna that is given to
true holy men and women who live in the Light, and seek the Kingdom of God.
As G.R.S. Mead concludes on page 176: “The claim of the
Gnostics was that a man might so perfect himself that he became a conscious
worker with the Logos; all those who did so, became 'Christs,' and as such were
Saviors, but not in the sense of being the Logos Himself”.
Where the people of the simple faith looked upon the word
“Christ”, as Jesus' last name, the Spiritual Christians understood
that what this term meant was the Anointing of the mind of the disciple that
permits the seeker to learn from the inner Logos -- i.e., the Mind of God. In
the revelation of his spiritual Gospel, it was this receiving of the Anointing
that Paul speaks about throughout his Epistles. When the disciple receives the
Anointing -- this Anointing of the mind of the disciple in the Greek, denotes
one who is Anointed, or the Christ.
It is for this reason that the believers of the simple faith are not yet
Christians, because they have not yet received the Anointing -- which is
impossible to receive without embracing the proper mindset and consecrated
lifestyle. Moreover, the Anointing is not philosophical or rhetorical -- as
becoming a believer -- but is an actual illumination of higher consciousness
that permits the disciple to use more of their mind that the natural man is
capable of using in his organic condition. A person cannot be
a genuine Christian -- i.e., an Anointed one -- without possessing the knowledge
of their pre-existent soul. A person cannot possess the knowledge of the soul,
without knowing the previous lives that the soul has lived. In Pistis Sophia,
one of the sacred books used by the Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians, which name
in English means the Book of Faith-Wisdom, Jesus states:
“But if he shall have sinned once, twice, or thrice,
they shall reject that soul, sending it back again into the world according to
the form of the sins that it may have committed; the form whereof I will declare
unto you hereafter. But verily, verily I say unto you, that even the righteous
man that hath committed no sin at all cannot be brought into the Kingdom of
Light, forasmuch the seal of the mysteries of that kingdom is not found upon
him. Once for all, I say unto you, a soul cannot be brought into the kingdom,
if it be without the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Light”.
In this quotation we not only see that the Spiritual Christians understood that
Jesus taught the reincarnation of the soul -- “sending
[the soul] back again into the world according to the form of the sins that it
may have committed” -- but what we have here is the genuine
foundation of Paul's doctrine that man can do nothing on his own, and can only
be saved through faith in Christ. The problem arises when we do not understand
the difference between Jesus -- the historical man -- and Christ -- the
Anointing of the mind -- or the Logos, or Mind of God. It is this reason also
that believers fail to understand the declaration in the beginning of the
Epistle to the Romans where Paul writes that: When the Gentiles do the
things of the Law, without the Law, they become a Law unto themselves, and can
be saved. It is further this reason that we do not understand when Paul says
not to seek the Jesus after the flesh, but rather the Christ of the Spirit.
In the article on Christian Mysticism, the Encyclopedia Britannica writes
regarding Valentinus, who was considered orthodox in the beginning of the second
century, and states: “He believed that human beings are
alienated from God because of their spiritual ignorance; Christ brings them into
the gnosis (esoteric revelatory knowledge) that is union with God. Valentinus
held that all human beings come from God and that all will in the end return to
God. Other Gnostic groups held that there were three types of people --
'spiritual,' 'psychic,' and 'material' -- and that only the first two can be
saved. The Pistis Sophia… is preoccupied with the question of who finally will
be saved. Those who are saved must renounce the world completely and follow the
pure ethic of love and compassion. They will then be identified with Jesus and
become rays of the divine Light”. While this reality may
sound foreign and strange to the modern Christian, it is in fact parallel to the
parable of the prodigal son. But since the modern Christian
rejects the important teaching on the pre-existent soul that evolves to
perfection over the course of many lifetimes, because they adhere to the
doctrines of a Circus Prostitute (see
The Ten Reasons Why Christians
Reject The Pre-Existent Soul), they remain hopelessly lost in the quagmire
of this world of the "outer darkness" (see
Divine Strategery)
Once properly understood, what Valentinus was in fact stating was no different
than what was also clearly stated by the early church authorities, Paul, Jesus,
and the present-day Canon of Scriptures itself: That there are three types of
Christians -- i.e., the spiritual which are in union with God, and are saved;
the psychic, or disciple in search of the Truth, which are still walking in The
Way; and the material or physical, who are the people of the simple faith.
The mysteries made reference to in Pistis Sohpia that, according to the Jesus
presented in this gospel, states that a person must possess the sacred Knowledge
of the Kingdom in order to be saved -- and this is the knowledge of the laws
that both preserve the natural barriers of this realm, as well as restrict
carnal man's access into the spiritual realms and the Kingdom (see
Divine Strategery). When the
disciple knows the workings of these natural laws of Creation, they are then
able to safely transcend the barriers between this and the inner Kingdom, and
come into the presence of the Spiritual Christ.
Once we understand this important element in Paul's Epistles, we then begin to
comprehend why Paul considered it one of the greatest of sins to promote a
doctrine of belief -- as seen in the words: “Reject a
factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is
perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned” (Titus 3:10-11
NAS). The essence of what Paul taught was that believers were to rid
themselves of all worldly thoughts and desires in order to embrace the
indwelling Logos -- thereby becoming an Anointed One, or genuine Christian.
From Paul's perspective, beliefs and doctrines pertaining to mysteries that are
beyond the comprehension of the natural man, were thorns and entanglements that
the god of this world used to imprison the believer.
In order to preserve the Sacred Knowledge of
TheWay from generation to generation -- so that all seekers are able to find
TheWay -- the scriptures are encoded with the necessary knowledge that enables
the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High to return to the Inner Edenic
Kingdom of Origination with their Heavenly Father (see
Gate Of Eden). And those who
learn to turn the scriptures within self, and perceive what appears to be
historical and cosmic accounts as events of the body, mind and spirit, will find
the Inner Gates to the Holy City opening unto them.
The book of The
Revelation proclaims: “The Revelation… which must
shortly come to pass... Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words
of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is
at hand”. It does not say that in two thousand years these things
will come to pass; but rather, “…the time is at hand”.
The nations that rise against nations, the famines, pestilences and earthquakes,
are all the signs of the “pangs of birth”
(Mt 24) that the disciple experiences as they move near to the Kingdom within.
“Varily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled” (Mt 24:34); “Varily I say unto you,
All these things shall come upon this generation” (Mt 23:36);
“There are some standing here, who shall not taste of
death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom” (Mt
16:28). Thus, the words of the Lord, “Repent [change
the mind], for the Kingdom is at hand” is the key to witnessing the
Son of Man coming in His Kingdom. In order to overcome, we must understand
that the kingdom will never come so as to be seen outwardly, for the kingdom is
within us (Lk 17:20-21). Prior to the time of Constantine, this fundamental
spiritual truth was well understood: Under Alexandrian Theology, the Church
Father Origen is quoted in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics as writing:
“God never speaks to us from outside” (In
Psalm 27). Thus, if we are to see the Lord coming in His glory, we must
cleanse and purify our body-mind, break down our own inner walls of division,
and look within ourselves to God’s Holy Temple.
A very important insight into the very essence
of the genuine teachings of Jesus and TheWay is contained in an article in the
Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading, The History of Christian Mysticism,
where it reads: “Although the essence of mysticism is
the sense of contact with the transcendent, mysticism in the history of
Christianity should not be understood merely in terms of special ecstatic
experiences but as part of a religious process lived out within the context of
the Christian community. From this perspective mysticism played a vital part in
the early church. Early Christianity was a religion of the spirit that expressed
itself in the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness”.
These words must be a profound revelation to a
body of believers who have been barred from the use of reason. When Jesus
commanded his disciples: “But you, do not be called
‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren”
(Matt 23:8 NKJ) -- what he was saying is that the genuine follower of the
Christ is the one who opens the inner door of the mind to the Master, and
develops their “sense of contact with the
transcendent”.
What is being said here is that Christianity in
its original form as a spiritual religion, and the natural environment of the
genuine Church is mysticism -- which is defined as one's personal communion with
God -- and it is this direct contact with the Divine Within, that the Disciple
receives the Spiritual Gnosis or Mysteries of the Kingdom. In this we can see
the great dividing line between both the Jewish sects of the Sadducees and
Pharisees, and the Essene Mystics who worshiped the Father in a Spiritual Temple
that was beyond the comprehension of the carnally minded Jew. Paramount, then,
to understanding one of the primary differences between Genuine Christianity and
pseudo-Christianity, is the understanding that genuine Christianity is a
spiritual religion, and it “expressed itself in the
heightening and enlargement of human consciousness”. Thus, the
religious ideas expressed by Luther and Calvin -- where man rejects reason, and
closes the mind in order to cling to the dogma of a manmade church -- concepts
which remain to this day as the foundation of modern doctrine -- not only had no
place among the first Christians, but were in fact alien to the very core
teachings of Jesus. What this means is that the church which came into being
in the fourth century, was the anti-church -- i.e., a shadow church that was
ruled by the god of this world.
It is the chirst of this realm that lives and
moves in a world of darkness. It is the chirst of this world that condemns the
use of reason and the development of the mind. It is the christ of this world
that attempts to alienate us from our very gift bestowed from God our Creator --
which is an illumined mind and an Anointed understanding.
When the Encyclopedia Britannica states with
regard to the church prior to the fourth century: “…From
this perspective mysticism played a vital part in the early church. Early
Christianity was a religion of the spirit that expressed itself in the
heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” -- it is this
spiritual element that died when the church was made a secular institution by
the Emperor Constantine. Sadly, it is this same spiritual element that
continues to remain dormant even in the world of Christendom to this very day.
In those many places where the Bible speaks of
the Mysteries of God as seen in the words: “we speak of
God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our
glory before time began” (1 Cor 2:7 NIV) -- the Apostle is quite
clear that this “secret wisdom” cannot be
comprehended by men who perceive life and the scriptures with a carnal mindset
-- but rather, with a spiritual mindset that is established upon the mystical
senses founded in the higher powers of mind. And if we ask the question as to
why carnal man is incapable of perceiving the Mysteries of God that are spoken
of by the Apostle? Because these elements of mind that are necessary to
perceive the higher reality of man, are centered in parts of the ninety percent
of the mind which the natural person is unable to access -- and it is these
sections of the mind that are said to lie dormant within all people. Thus,
only the mystic -- Gnostic -- or spiritual Christian -- has the ability to
perceive the Mysteries of God, and know the True Christ, and enter the Genuine
Temple of the Lord, because they endeavor to expand their consciousness by going
beyond the ten percent barrier of mind that limits man in his natural organic
state of being.
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The Essence Of Gnosticism
All genuine religions are Gnostic:
The
term Gnostic is derived from the Greek word "gnosis",
which is the term used to both delineate and define experiential spiritual
knowledge, vs knowledge derived through human reasoning based upon the natural
consciousness of mankind. The objective of all genuine
religions, is to bring about that condition within the mind and life of the
individual where they are able to fulfill the statement in the Gospel of John,
and be "taught by God" -- i.e.,
"It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be
taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father
comes to Me" (John 6:45 NKJ). And it was for this reason
that Jesus commanded his disciples not to be called teacher or rabbi -- i.e.,
"But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have One
Teacher, and you are all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV) -- and this was
commanded, because there is Only One True Teacher, and that is the True Prophet
(see True Prophet).
And that those lost prodigal sons who look to other men as their teacher, rabbi
or leaders, will be greatly deceived and misguided, is why the disciple Peter in
the Clementine Homilies declared:
“Hence, O beloved Clement,
if you would know the things pertaining to God, you have to learn them from
Him alone, because He alone knows the truth. For if any one else knows anything,
he has received it from Him or from His disciples”.
The Wisdom and Knowledge that the True Prophet (Son of God/Logos)
imparts to those who are worthy, is called Gnosis. And Gnosis cannot
be written in the words of man -- or even taught by man -- because Gnosis is
defined as Spiritual Knowledge, or the Divine Manna of the Kingdom, that can
only be received directly from the True Prophet to those who are themselves true
spiritual seekers. In the words of Valentinus:
"Gnosis was distinct from the secret teachings they only
revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression."
And the whole objective of the
teachings of TheWay as revealed by Yeshua/Jesus, was to prepare the mind of the
disciple to receive the revelation of Gnosis -- i.e., the Divine Manna of the
Kingdom -- from the indwelling True Prophet/Logos/Son of God that is dormant
within the minds of carnal believers.
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) -- what he was
stating is that only those who become separate from the thinking and ways of
this world, and become true disciples of Messiah/Christ, are able to perceive
and understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God -- and this sacred Knowledge is
called Gnosis. When Paul stated to the believers in the Churches:
“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) --
what he was stating was that until the believers of the simple faith begin to
live the necessary lifestyle that is portrayed as the
"good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see
Sower And The Seed), that it will remain impossible for them to
understand the true meaning of the Gospel -- and this sacred Knowledge can only
be taught by those who are able to receive Gnosis from the True Prophet/Son of
God. The disciples possessed the eyes to see and understand,
because as it is written:
"Then opened
He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures"
(Luke 24:45)
-- and this higher enlightened perception and understanding that the mind of
organic man is incapable of understanding, is called Gnosis.
To
even begin to understand the true meaning of both the Gospel, and the nature of
what is called Gnosticism, you
must first understand that (1) all true men of God have warned us that it is
impossible for the natural mind of man to even begin to envision his own inner
soul and spiritual natures, as well as God (see
Why God Speaks To Us In Enigma And Allegory); (2) religion has always been
used by the governments of the world as a primary tool to control the thinking
and allegiance of the people, and throughout most of history the worlds
religions have been ruled over by politicians, both secular and sectarian.
Any time that a genuine visionary emerges who
knows the Truth, he is always turned upon by the people when he is condemned by
their leaders as a heretic. Because the vast multitude of people
can't even begin to understand either their true soul-self, or Creator-God, and
their fragmentary misunderstood religious doctrines are more superstitious than
factual, the genuine visionary has no other choice than to communicate with them
through the use of allegorical symbols and forms that are used as a catalyst to
connect with the higher soul and spiritual reality that the people are blind to.
And the problem is made monumental in the life of man, because his body-vessel
is comprised of earth-material, and simply cannot under normal circumstances
vibrate at the necessary frequencies needed to see and understand beyond the
barriers of this natural world (see
Science Proves
Religion).
Plato's Cave: Plato,
the Greek philosopher, wrote a
series of `Dialogues' which
summarized many of the things which
he had learned from his teacher, who
was the philosopher Socrates.
One of the most famous of these
Dialogues is the
Allegory of the Cave.
In this allegory, people are chained
in a cave so that they can only see
the shadows which are cast on the
walls of the cave by a fire. To
these people, the shadows represent
the totality of their existence --
and it is impossible for them to
imagine a reality which consists of
anything beyond the fuzzy shadows on
the wall.
True Spiritual seekers of
TheWay who seek the Divine Manna
of inner gnosis, are those
who were prisoners, and escape
from the cave. Unlike the
multitudes, they are willing to
seek the Truth over the carnal
doctrines of men which chain
them to the environment of the
cave, and are willing to live
the necessary life that enables
them to transcend the
limitations of this world.
The Sacred Manna or Gnosis is
the experiential knowledge they
learn when they go out of what
is portrayed as the cave of this
world, and into the inner
reality which is portrayed by
Plato as the light of the sun
and behold true reality. Then,
when they try to go back into
the cave and tell the other
captives the truth, they are
mocked as madmen. This fact
you can observe throughout the
history of man, as well as in
the present time. We are
all initially prisoners and
this tangible world that we
perceive as physical reality is
our cave. And while the
spiritual path of the Gnostic
begins when one who was
a prisoner escapes out into the
sun, this is in effect only the
beginning of the journey as the
mature soul begins to amass
gnosis, which is purely
spiritual knowledge gained as
they ascend into the true Light
of true reality.
What is equally
interesting is the literal
interpretation of Plato's tale:
The idea that reality could be
represented completely as
"shadows"
on the walls. The true
visionary and mystic knows that
reality exists in another
dimension beyond our vision, but
we are so hypnotized by the
world of shadows, that we fail
to perceive the inner reality
that is the source of everything
in the life that we live. The
scriptures, though, possess a
dimension that the believer is
totally unaware of -- i.e., as
with all writings of true
spiritual men and women, the
scriptures present an
allegorical form in the written
word that acts as catalysts
which assist the seeker to break
loose of the world of shadows,
and connect with this inner
reality that the vast majority
of people are blind to. But
for the scriptures to function
as designed, you must begin to
perceive what is portrayed in
the Macrocosm in the text of the
scriptures, as indicating an
inner reality within the
microcosm of self. And this is
the reason why Yeshua condemned
the Pharisees for throwing away
the Key of Knowledge -- i.e.,
the scriptures -- by
interpreting them outwardly in
an historical mindset, and
observing them in outward ritual
and tradition.
“Woe to
you lawyers! For you have taken
away the key of knowledge; you
did not enter in yourselves, and
those who were entering in you
hindered” (Luke 11:52
NAS). What ws true
in the past, is true today --
and those who fail to learn the
lessons of history, are doomed
to repeat them.
Today the lawyers who see only
the "letter that killeth",
(see
The Abysmal Pursuit Of God By
The Letter That Killeth
),
are called Fundamentalist
Christians. But
since all of life is a Living
(allegorical) Scripture, then so
too are most other religious
leaders just a different variety
of blind guides who lead the
people down the broad-way of
self-destruction. So
those who escape the blindness
of the various religious
leaders, merely embrace the
blindness of other leaders who
are often move blind than the
religious traditions they
blindly condemn.
The Problem: In order to
possess the eyes to see, you
must first understand the nature
of the problem. Those who are
prisoners in the cave who reject
the enlightened souls who return
in an attempt to awaken them,
also reject the idea that the
scriptures which are written in
the allegorical shadow language
of this world, have an inner
meaning that they are totally
incapable of perceiving.
The allegory of the scriptures
are merely written in the same
form and symbols that all of
life is imbued with, and in
conjunction with the variety of
superstitions of the cultures of
the people they were intended to
communicate with.
Since the people of a natural
organic consciousness will
always look upon the higher
reality of their own soul-self
and the Mysteries of God as
"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) -- “And
I, brethren, could not speak to
you as to spiritual men, but as
to men of flesh, as to babes in
Christ. 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) -- there is
simply no other means to
communicate essential truths
that their natural organic
consciousness will vehemently
reject and condemn, than to
employ allegorical forms and
symbols that appear as either
historical or cosmic accounts.
The Absurdity Of
Those Who Condemn Gnostics: To understand the Gnostic and begin to
embrace the gnosis of the Divine Manna of the Kingdom of God, one must first
comprehend the primary rule for interpreting all genuine scriptures.
In the same way that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for throwing away the Key of
Knowledge that must be turned within in one's search for the Kingdom (see
Gate Of Eden), and thereby inhibiting the
prodigal sons and daughters from entering into Life, the primary rule that all
pseudo-religious leaders violate is when they attempt to tell you what the
Gnostics believe based upon a literal interpretation of their writings.
In what is arguably one of the best works on Christian Gnosticism by G.R.S. Mead
entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, this explanation is put forth:
“…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the
form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds.
Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces
which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”.
It was for this reason that Carl Jung called the Gnostic Christians the worlds
first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human
consciousness. If it is true what the Apostle wrote:
“For the truth about God is known to them instinctively; God has put this
knowledge in their hearts” (Rom 1:19 TLB) -- then the anti-Jewish
religion that Paul preached must be seen as a means to tap into this deposit of
“instinctual… knowledge [that God deposited] in their
hearts”. And it is this inner instinctual knowledge that
Paul spoke of and taught the means to find within (see
The Gnostic Paul).
This allegorical nature of both the scriptures,
as well as all of life itself, to their own demise is not understood by all
sectarian and secular leaders alike. Moreover, the only war between
religion and science, is in reality the struggle of sectarian ignorance and
secular ignorance confronting each other with their own inability to perceive
beyond the limited and dark environment of the Cave. And this
blindness is presented to us in the article entitled
No Jew Has Seen The Torah , where the
carnal Jews are warned by the Jewish Mystic that
"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..."
-- as well as by the early Christian Church Fathers as
represented in the words of Origen who called the historical narrative
"worthless" -- explaining in his famed De
Principiis that:
“Where the word found that things done according to the history could be adapted
to these mystical senses, he made use of them concealing from the multitude the
deeper meaning; but where in the narrative of the development of super-sensual
things, there did not follow the performance of those certain events which were
already indicated by the mystical meaning, the scripture interwove in the
history the account of some event that did not take place, sometimes what could
not have happened; sometimes what could but did not”
(see
The Secret Doctrine Of
Christianity).
In the first century writings
known as the Clementine Homilies
which is a discourse between the
Apostle Peter and his disciple
Clement, it is written of the
religious writings of the
Greeks:
“The wisest of the ancients,
men who had by hard labor
learned all truth, kept the path
of knowledge hid from those who
were unworthy and had no taste
for lessons in divine things.
For it is not really true that
from Ouranos and his mother Ge
were born twelve children, as
the myth counts them: six sons,
Okeanos, Koios, Krios, Hyperion,
Japetos, Kronos; and six
daughters, Thea, Themis,
Mnemosyne, Demeter, Tethys, and
Rhea. Nor that Kronos, with the
knife of adamant, mutilated his
father Ouranos, as you say, and
threw the part into the sea; nor
that Aphrodite sprang from the
drops of blood which flowed from
it; nor that Kronos associated
with Rhea, and devoured his
first-begotten son Pluto,
because a certain saying of
Prometheus led him to fear that
a child born from him would wax
stronger than himself, and spoil
him of his kingdom... But, my
son, as I said, such stories
have a peculiar and
philosophical meaning, which can
be allegorically set forth in
such a way that you yourself
would listen with wonder.”
What is being revealed here is
that what is written literally
in the sacred writings of the
people we call Pagans, is not
the true and genuine message
that is being conveyed to the
enlightened members of the Pagan
religions -- who by reason of
their enlightenment, were called
Christians. All these many
stories and myths pertaining to
gods and goddesses were in
reality pertaining to the
manifestation of the laws and
divine powers throughout all of
Creation. Thus, if we are
truly perceptive, we must begin
to admit that we haven’t the
slightest idea what the true
Pagan initiate believed.
Moreover, what we should really
take to heart and be concerned
about from our own religious
perspective is the fact that
these initiates were referred to
as Christians prior to the time
of Jesus -- and their gods where
spoken of as the Christos, or
Christ.
That the true meaning of the
sacred writings of the Greeks
was concealed from the multitude
of people is further established
in the writings of the early
Church Father Clement of
Alexandria who writes:
“It was
not only the Pythagoreans and
Plato then, that concealed many
things; but the Epicureans too
say that they have things that
may not be uttered, and do not
allow all to peruse those
writings. The Stoics also say
that by the first Zeno things
were written which they do not
readily allow disciples to read,
without their first giving proof
whether or not they are genuine
philosophers. And the disciples
of Aristotle say that some of
their treatises are esoteric,
and others common and exoteric.
Further, those who instituted
the mysteries, being
philosophers, buried their
doctrines in myths, so as not to
be obvious to all. Did they
then, by veiling human opinions,
prevent the ignorant from
handling them; and was it not
more beneficial for the holy and
blessed contemplation of
realities to be concealed? But
it was not only the tenets of
the Barbarian philosophy, or the
Pythagorean myths. But even
those myths in Plato (in the
Republic, that of Hero the
Armenian; and in the Gorgias,
that of Aeacus and Rhadamanthus;
and in the Phoedo, that of
Tartarus; and in the Protagoras,
that of Prometheus and
Epimetheus; and besides these,
that of the war between the
Atlantini and the Athenians in
the Atlanticum) are to be
expounded allegorically, not
absolutely in all their
expressions, but in those which
ex-press the general sense. And
these we shall find indicated by
symbols under the veil of
allegory. Also the association
of Pythagoras, and the twofold
intercourse with the associates
which designates the majority,
hearers), and the others that
have a genuine attachment to
philosophy, disciples, yet
signified that something was
spoken to the multitude, and
something concealed from them.
Perchance, too, the twofold
species of the Peripatetic
teaching - that called probable,
and that called knowable - came
very near the distinction
between opinion on the one hand,
and glory and truth on the
other. To win the flowers of
fair renown from men, Be not
induced to speak aught more than
right.”
In explanation of why the inner
meaning of the mysteries are
concealed from the masses,
Clement writes:
“The
Ionic muses accordingly
expressly say, ‘That the
majority of people, wise in
their own estimation, follow
minstrels and make use of laws,
knowing that many are bad, few
good; but that the best pursue
glory: for the best make choice
of the everlasting glory of men
above all. But the multitude
cram themselves like brutes,
measuring happiness by the belly
and the pudenda, and the basest
things in us.’ And the great
Parmenides of Elea is introduced
describing thus the teaching of
the two ways: ‘The one is the
dauntless heart of convincing
truth; The other is in the
opinions of men, in whom is no
true faith’”.
Because we fail to understand
the reason and essence of life
itself, it is near impossible
for the modern Christian to
understand the nature of the
ancient religions and their
relationship to the teachings of
the New Covenant. Moreover,
because of our inability to
comprehend the very elementary
significance of religion itself,
neither can we perceive the
reason why the adoption of Pagan
religious symbols were so
readily embraced by the more
mature Christians over the first
four centuries. The problem is
that we have slammed the door to
higher knowledge by virtue of
our own arrogance which
manifests itself in the
Christian dogma that we are
right, and everyone else is
ignorant. What we fail to
realize is that all the
religions of the world possess a
degree of truth -- and it was
the people of the New Covenant
who were holy enough to embrace
Truth in its Ultimate Reality.
What is expressed in these words
with regard to the inner meaning
of what we call the Pagan
religious symbols, is a sure
demonstration of Universal
Truth. In all religions the
world over there is
“the
teaching of the two ways”.
To the disciple with the
“dauntless heart”
who, with his whole life, seeks
out the truth, the inner
spiritual meaning is revealed.
All the rest, who are the
majority -- whose lives are
driven by sensual desires and
brute carnal appetites -- the
wise men of all time have
provided religious symbols that
entice the masses, and yet
conceal the true spiritual
meaning from the eyes of the
profane.
The reality of mankind is
portrayed in the words of
Clement when he wrote in the
above quotation:
“But
the multitude cram themselves
like brutes, measuring happiness
by the belly and the pudenda,
and the basest things in us”.
This is true -- true when these
words were written, and true of
the people in our own time.
The multitude of people do not
care about Truth! They have no
desire to embrace the Pure
Word! Being carnal, they
relate everything to the
fulfillment of their sensual
desires and appetites. Knowing
this fact, the holy men the
world over have embedded the
teachings of the Two Way into
whatever form the multitude of
people would accept. This very
important knowledge is beyond
our comprehension today, because
we ignore the words of the
Apostle Paul when we worship the
historical Jesus, while giving
very little attention to the
Marriage with the indwelling
Christ.
Clement explains that the
ancient sources of philosophy
were spiritual and true, and the
great confusion among the Greeks
is a result of false
philosophers who are of a later
time when he writes:
“But the
most ancient of the philosophers
were not carried away to
disputing and doubting, much
less are we, who are attached to
the really true philosophy, on
whom the Scripture enjoins
examination and investigation.
For it is the more recent of the
Hellenic philosophers who, by
empty and futile love of fame,
are led into useless babbling in
refuting and wrangling. But, on
the contrary, the Barbarian
philosophy, expelling all
contention, said, ‘Seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you; ask, and it
shall be given you.’
Accordingly, by investigation,
the point proposed for inquiry
and answer knocks at the door of
truth, according to what
appears. And on an opening being
made through the obstacle in the
process of investigation, there
results scientific
contemplation. To those who thus
knock, according to my view, the
subject under investigation is
opened. And to those who thus
ask questions, in the
Scriptures, there is given from
God (that at which they aim) the
gift of the God-given knowledge,
by way of comprehension, through
the true illumination of logical
investigation. For it is
impossible to find, without
having sought; or to have
sought, without having examined;
or to have examined, without
having unfolded and opened up
the question by interrogation,
to produce distinctness; or
again, to have gone through the
whole investigation, without
thereafter receiving as the
prize the knowledge of the point
in question. But it belongs to
him who has sought, to find; and
to him to seek, who thinks
previously that he does not
know. Hence drawn by desire to
the discovery of what is good,
he seeks thoughtfully, without
love of strife or glory, asking,
answering, and besides
considering the statements made.
For it is incumbent, in applying
ourselves not only to the divine
Scriptures, but also to common
notions, to institute
investigations, the discovery
ceasing at some useful end. For
another place and crowd await
turbulent people, and forensic
sophistries. But it is suitable
for him, who is at once a lover
and disciple of the truth, to be
pacific even in investigations,
advancing by scientific
demonstration, without love of
self, but with love of truth, to
comprehensive knowledge”.
Modern Christians today pray for
a greater understanding of the
Word, and yet the term
“scientific investigations”
is totally alien to their
perception of the Word.
Perhaps the key phrase is
presented to us in the words:
“Knowledge... belongs to him who
has sought, to find; and to him
to seek, who thinks previously
that he does not know”.
Is this any different than the
words of the Apostle when he
wrote:
“if anyone thinks that he knows
anything, he knows nothing yet
as he ought to know”
(1 Cor 8:2 NKJ). So long as we
think we know the meaning of the
Pagan religious writings -- the
Bible -- and even the meaning of
purpose of life itself, the
words of the Apostle will
continue to plague us when he
said of us that we know:
“nothing yet as we ought to
know”.
The blindness is our own! If
we had so formed our life that
we were able to fulfill the Word
and become the bride of Christ,
and were truly the people of an
Anointed and Illumined mind, we
would see that concealed within
the body of the narrative, the
philosophers spoke of Christ in
the form of the Logos -- in the
manner of the Gospel of John --
and this is seen when Clement
writes:
“Thus in the Philebus, Plato,
who had been the disciple of the
barbarian philosophy, mystically
called those Atheists who
destroy and pollute, as far as
in them lies, the Deity dwelling
in them - that is, the Logos -
by association with their
vices”.
Thus, the message of Clement is
threefold: Clement writes that
the true source and inner
revelation of the writings of
Plato, is the same Logos
attested to in the Gospel of
John. Moreover, we observe the
continual statement that the
Logos represents the Deity that
is indwelling within all of
mankind. Clement then
describes our own present-day
condition when he refers to
multitude of people as
“Atheists who destroy and
pollute, as far as in them lies,
the Deity dwelling in them -
that is, the Logos -- by
association with their vices”.
This is true of natural man
throughout all time -- i.e.,
people who have failed to make
themselves an acceptable vessel
for them to enter into the
Divine Marriage with the
indwelling Logos.
What we are presented with are
two major themes that need our
careful attention. First it is
demonstrated that Plato knew,
and wrote about the Logos.
From our modern-day doctrinal
perspective that can only mean
that Plato wrote about Jesus
prior to the time of Jesus’
incarnation. Moreover, this is
the same Logos that is written
about in the Gospel of John
where it reads:
“In the
beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word
was God” (John 1:1
KJV). Contrary, then, to our
present-day doctrines, we must
conclude that Christ was written
about by the philosophers prior
to the time of Jesus. Further,
unless be begin to comprehend
the difference between the name
Jesus and the term Christ, the
only conclusion that can be
arrived at is that Jesus wrote
through Plato in the same manner
that he wrote through the Hebrew
prophets.
The Encyclopedia Britannica
(1998 edition) writes of the
word Logos:
“In
Greek philosophy and theology,
the divine reason implicit in
the cosmos, ordering it and
giving it form and meaning.
Though the concept defined by
the term logos is found in
Greek, Indian, Egyptian, and
Persian philosophical and
theological systems... The idea
of the logos in Greek thought
harks back at least to the 6th-century-BC
philosopher Heracleitus, who
discerned in the cosmic process
a logos analogous to the
reasoning power in man. Later,
the Stoics, philosophers who
followed the teachings of the
thinker Zeno of Citium (4th-3rd
century BC), defined the logos
as an active rational and
spiritual principle that
permeated all reality... Philo
of Alexandria, a 1st-century-AD
Jewish philosopher, taught that
the logos was the intermediary
between God and the cosmos,
being both the agent of creation
and the agent through which the
human mind can apprehend and
comprehend God. According to
Philo and the Middle Platonists,
philosophers who interpreted in
religious terms the teachings of
the 4th-century-BC
Greek master philosopher Plato,
the logos was both immanent in
the world and at the same time
the transcendent divine mind...
The identification of Jesus with
the logos, which is implied in
various places in the New
Testament but stated
specifically in the Fourth
Gospel, was further developed in
the early church but more on the
basis of Greek philosophical
ideas... the early Christian
Fathers stated that Christ as
the preexistent logos (1)
reveals the Father to mankind
and is the subject of the Old
Testament manifestations of God;
(2) is the divine reason in
which the whole human race
shares, so that the 6th-century-BC
philosopher and others who lived
with reason were Christians
before Christ; and (3) is the
divine will and word by which
the worlds were framed”.
The concept of the Logos is so
deeply imbedded in Greek
thought, that the Eleventh, or
Scholars Edition of the
Britannica which was published
prior to the discovery of the
Dead Sea Scrolls writes that:
“Among
the influences that shaped the
Fourth Gospel that of the
Alexandrian philosophy must be
assigned a distinct...
importance”.
Because of this very distinct
Hellenic influence, many Bible
experts believed that the Gospel
of John had been written by a
Greek convert. This is
especially seen in the statement
by the Britannica where it
writes:
“What John thus does is to
take the Logos idea of Philo and
use it for a practical purpose
-- to make more intelligible to
himself and his readers the
divine nature of Jesus Christ.
That this endeavor to work into
the historical tradition of the
life and teaching of Jesus -- a
hypothesis which had a
distinctly foreign origin -- led
him into serious
difficulties...”.
The idea that John borrowed the
concept of the Logos from the
Greeks, or even that the Gospel
was written by a Greek convert,
was widely accepted by biblical
scholars, and this opinion was
only proved faulty with the
discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls. From the perspective
of better understanding what we
believe, this whole concept that
is being presented is important
for modern Christians to
comprehend. What the scholars
are stating is that John
borrowed Greek Hellenistic ideas
about the Christ of Plato and
the Greek philosophers, and then
incorporated these foreign ideas
into his gospel. This includes
the idea of the pre-existent
Word that is the creator of the
universe -- which when
understood in this light, is as
much a concealed doctrine of the
Pagans, as is the biblical
teaching that one must be born
again. Because these ideas are
absent from the other three
gospels -- was more
appropriately used in the Greek
mystery religions than in
Judaism -- and were then
incorporated in the gospel,
biblical scholars and
theologians have long thought
that John’s Gospel was founded
upon the same Hellenistic
theology responsible for
Platonic thought and the
writings of the poets.
What we are presented here is
one of the core reasons why most
biblical scholars did not
believe the religion of the
simple faith, or in the
traditional manner of the very
churches they served.
Evangelical and Born again
Christians often use the first
chapter of John to prove that
Jesus was the pre-existent God
who came into the world. What
the Evangelical Christians
failed to understand was the
fact that the more informed
biblical scholar understood the
connection between the Logos of
John and the Logos of Plato and
the Pagan world. Moreover, the
scholar also understood the
universal doctrine of the Logos
throughout all the religions of
the world, as seen in the above
words:
“the concept defined by the term
logos is found in Greek, Indian,
Egyptian, and Persian
philosophical and theological
systems...”
Unlike the people of the simple
faith, the biblical scholars
knew that many Pagan concepts
were added into the text of the
New Testament in order to better
bring the text into harmony with
traditional Greek and Roman
religious ideas. With good
reason it has even been
speculated that the verse most
used by modern Evangelical
Christians to prove that Jesus
was God, was added to the
beginning of John at a later
date by the Roman Church in the
endeavor to Paganize the
gospel. What this means is
that Christians today could in
every way be calling upon the
god of Plato, and the Christ of
the Pagan philosophers.
The great change that literally
pulled the proverbial rug out
from under the Christian world
was brought about with the
discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Everything that
biblical scholars and
theologians thought they knew,
had to re-evaluated when the
scrolls gave them the ability to
transcend time itself -- and for
the first time in almost two
thousand years, they were able
to perceive the true foundation
of Christian thought. The
ramifications were literally
astounding -- i.e., what this
meant was that all their
theories, as well as everything
that was ever written about the
Gospel of John prior to that
time, was in error. It did not
matter that Luther, Calvin and
the common believers quoted and
used John, often to the
exclusion of the other
gospels. The problem was that
the anti-Gnostic church which
evolved out of the Roman Empire
was incapable of understanding
even the elementary aspects of
the gospel, because they did not
comprehend the tradition in
which it was founded. The
scholar understood this fact –
whereas, even today the preacher
of the simple faith does not --
and this is demonstrated in the
words of A. Powell Davies:
“Biblical scholars were not
disturbed by what they found in
the Dead Sea Scrolls because
they had known all along that
the origin of Christianity was
not what was commonly supposed
to have been”
(quoted by Millar Burrows in
More Light on the Dead Sea
Scrolls).
That most Christians remain lost
today, and fail to comprehend
the profound meaning of the
requirement to be "Born Again"
-- is seen in their inability to
understand both the allegorical
nature of the scriptures, as
well as life itself.
Thus, Dead Sea Scroll expert
Prof. John Allegro reveals this
truth in his book, The Dead
Sea Scrolls and the Origins of
Christianity, where writes:
“It is
a fact that the Qumran Library
has profoundly affected the
study of the Johannine writings
and many longheld conceptions
have had to be radically
revised. No longer can John be
regarded as the most Hellenistic
of the Evangelists; his
gnosticism, and the whole
framework of his thought is seen
now to spring directly from a
Jewish sectarianism rooted in
palestinian soil, and his
material recognized as founded
in the earliest layers of Gospel
traditions.”
The Bible is as much the
writings of Gnostics, as is the
writings of men such as
Valentinus.
What all the many recent
archaeological discoveries have
confirmed and demonstrated that
Prof. Allegro is correct in his
assertion that our modern-day
understanding of
“the
source and originality of
Christian doctrine”
is defective. Why? Because
the Bible does not support the
tenets and structure of an
organized church as we have
today. In the words of Prof.
Elaine Pagles, in her book, The
Gnostic Gospels:
“It is
the winners who write history -
their way. No wonder, then,
that the viewpoint of the
successful majority has
dominated all traditional
accounts of the origin of
Christianity… It suggests that
these religious debates -
questions of the nature of God,
or of Christ - simultaneously
bear social and political
implications that are crucial to
the development of Christianity
as an institutional religion.
In simplest terms, ideas which
bear implications contrary to
that development come to be
labeled as heresy; ideas which
implicitly support it become
orthodox”.
In order to create an
institutional religion under
Pagan Rome, the fourth century
Emperor Constantine murdered all
the original Ebionite Disciples
of Jesus (see
The Death Of The Religion of
Jesus), as well as the
Spiritual Christians who were
called Gnostics.
Constantine then set about to
edit the Bible in order to make
it reflect the doctrines of his
Church (see
Bible Corruption).
Part of the necessary editing
entailed the alteration of the
texts to support the doctrine
that Jesus was God (see
The Ten Words).
When Edmund Wilson, an expert
who worked on the Dead Sea
Scrolls asked the question as to
what difference it makes if
“Jesus... had been trained in
the discipline and imbued with
the thought of a certain Jewish
sect, and that he had learned
from it the role that he
afterwards lived...”
(The Scrolls From The Dead Sea),
the defectiveness of our
commonly held ideas was
immediately brought to light.
Moreover, what some of our
experts have now come to suspect
is that the primary difference
between the Old Covenant and the
New Covenant has absolutely
nothing to do with their choice
of biblical testaments -- bur
rather, is founded upon the
manner of thinking of the
people, and the means by which a
believer is to receive the
revelation of God.
And the fact that most
Christians today read the
scriptures in the same exact
blind manner as did the
Pharisees who Jesus condemned
for throwing away the Key of
Knowledge, means that the
Christian world is basically
functioning in an Old Covenant
mode (see
Old Vs New).
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Our
True Nature And Form
Our Soul-Self Is
The Being Of Light
Life after life we become caught up in the rituals and traditions of the religious paths, while the primary objective remains obscured and unknown. Without the religion, we quickly become possessed by the sensual and elemental appetites of the body, and controlled by the elemental powers of this world. With the religion, we become so hypnotized by the rituals, traditions and manmade doctrines, that the primary objectives of both the religion and life becomes hidden and concealed from us. This creates the many failures in life -- and it is this reality that Yeshua makes reference to in the 84th saying of the Gospel of Thomas in the words (84) Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But 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!"
Notice that Jesus did not say that when you see God, you rejoice... and how much will you bear? But the reality of what is conveyed in these words is one of those Great Truths that are unknown and condemned by the masses of entry-level believers. Because at the "AA" elementary level everything has to be conveyed from the perspective: God Commanded This -- or, God Commanded That -- or, you must do this to satisfy the Requirements and Laws of God -- and the real killer in the doctrine that you must get rid of self in order to satisfy these Requirements, while enabling the masses to get control of their lower natures, makes them unfit for discipleship or walking in TheWay. And so, your dammed if you do, and your dammed if you don't -- and life after life is a series of failed soul-images that are only able to make the most minutest of spiritual gains.
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Man's Soul Reality/Genetics: Jesus taught that each of us must be born a second time to enter the Kingdom -- (see You Must Be Born Again ) -- but what does this mean? What is the fate of those who do not succeed in bringing about the next stage of soul-birth -- thereby overcoming their divided nature that Jesus made reference to when he stated that a house divided cannot stand? In my article on Coming Into The Light I attempt to explain our relationship to the Being of Light that people encounter in a Near Death Experience. But who is this Being of Light This is your pre-existent soul -- your true self that has existed since the dawn of time. In our inner journey into the Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ), we must first overcome our divided natures and become our truth self -- our soul-self -- before we can bring about our spiritual transformation and birth and return as the prodigal son/daughter to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination. And while I recognize that this inner soul reality is not clearly portrayed in the written words of the scriptures, this reality is among the Mysteries that Jesus taught privately to his disciples "in the house", and one of the realities that Paul warned the believers of the simple faith would look upon as "foolishness".
Your soul-self which exists consciously independent in a parallel realm, knows your every thought -- your every future event in your life -- and has the memory of every experience that your true self has ever had since the dawn of time. But you can only possess this knowledge of your true nature and self, when you are able to transform the physical body so it can accommodate this higher perception, knowledge and reality. By nature, we only utilize approximately 10% of our potential of mind, because the physical body only develops those aspects of mind that relate to this physical world. In order to utilized those other areas of the mind that don't correspond to the physical, we have to purposely and consciously develop them. The mind must be grown and developed beyond the limitations of the physical natural-organic, and it must be nourished by thoughts, concepts and impressions that permit its development. Anything that limits this development from a lifestyle, religious/philosophical or cultural perspective, inhibits the development of the mind to go beyond what is supported by the physical body environment.
Our reality is portrayed in the words of Yeshua in the 84th saying of the Gospel of Thomas in the words
(84) Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But 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!" Your likeness is the true you -- i.e., the Being of Light who is your soul-self. Your images are the personalities (embryonic images) which lived before you in previous lives which failed to become one with their source of being (the Being of Light), and thus failed to "become manifest". We can't remember our past, or manifest the knowledge of our soul-self, unless we alter the physical body in such a way that it will begin to vibrate as a higher frequency than what was developed by nature.
The Universe is a Great Mind: In his 1951 textbook on quantum theory, Bohm offered some interesting speculations on the analogies between quantum processes and thought processes, thus carrying further the celebrated statement made by the astronomer James Jeans two decades earlier: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”. More recently, cyberneticist David Foster described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source. The holographic theory says that:
“…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”
What is the impact of these findings of modern science? The reality that is being conveyed is that what we perceive as solid physical matter, is being interpreted in this manner because our brains interpret that frequency to make what we see appear concrete. Moreover, what it also means is that we perceive only a fraction of Creation because our brains, which by virtue of the fact of their physical nature, can only detect frequencies that are within the same spectrum. In the same way that in order to be effective, an antenna must possess the physical characteristics that enables it to receive a certain range of the frequencies that the device (radio, TV, wireless phone, etc.) is intended to operate within, our physical mind and bodies are designed to function within a certain spectrum of Creation -- and this is predicated by the fact that our physical nature is composed of the elements that are of this world.
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This is the meaning of what is often portrayed as physical transformation. And in the above quotations this is presented to us in the words: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.” In order to see and perceive beyond the spectrum of frequencies of this physical world, we must find a way to permit the body-mind to vibrate and perceive these higher frequencies. And this is what the true religious path is all about -- as the journey of religious-philosophy gives birth to the true spiritual path which we call TheWay. Because the physical body-vessel can't vibrate at the necessary frequencies to perceive our own greater soul and spiritual reality, we are shackled to a very narrow physical reality where mankind constantly speculates about the unknown and what Jesus called the Mysteries of God that was beyond natural man's ability to comprehend -- that is, without bringing about the transformation of the physical in order to permit it to accommodate these frequencies of mind and beyond that is beyond the scope of the natural organic reality of the body-vessel.
In the Gospel of Thomas saying 84 above, a lesser secondary soul-self is projected into the reality of the physical body-vessel, and this lesser soul which is an embryonic image of our higher soul-self, is the true source of your consciousness and mind. And because this embryonic image came into being at conception, it can be said that it has never lived before. But, because of the Laws and the fact that everything is imbued with the DNA of the Alpha and Omega, this lesser soul-embryonic image of our true self that is projected into the physical reality of this world and associated body-vessel, must return to its source -- which is our true soul-nature that is the Being of Light in the NDE. While people such as the Christians and the example of Judy possess much religious knowledge, they miss the mark and fail to properly develop because they are worshiping or seeking God -- while ignoring the necessary knowledge of self as understood in the reality of the higher soul-self. And people such as yourself who believe they are the product of physical genetics, fail to develop beyond a certain point in much the same way as the religious people, because you lack the knowledge and understanding of self.
While these lesser soul-images are never manifest as portrayed in the Gospel of Thomas, this is because they fail to return from the Alpha to the Omega while they are still in the body-vessel. And as seen in the Near Death Experience (NDE), they do not die, but they must accomplish what they failed to accomplish in an after death state which most Mediums or people who can initiate an Out of Body experience can learn about. But with respect to returning to their source of being and the Laws that are imbued with the DNA of the Alpha and Omega, they are said to walk the broad-way of self-destruction because they failed to complete their development while in the physical body-vessel. They, therefore, exist as (failed) experiences in the journey of the soul-self to embrace Completion and Perfection. With respect to remaining as experiences in the travail and journey of the soul who must fulfill the requirement of perfection as stated at Matthew 5:48 where we are told to be Perfect, as our Heavenly Father is Perfect. In the early Christian writing known as the Books of the Saviour or Pistis Sophia (Faith Wisdom), this requirement is expressed in the words:
“But if he shall have sinned once, twice, or thrice, they shall reject that soul, sending it back again into the world according to the form of the sins that it may have committed; the form whereof I will declare unto you hereafter. But verily, verily I say unto you, that even the righteous man that hath committed no sin at all cannot be brought into the Kingdom of Light, forasmuch the seal of the mysteries of that kingdom is not found upon him. Once for all, I say unto you, a soul cannot be brought into the kingdom, if it be without the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Light”. And in the Zohar which is the essence of Jewish Mysticism, this same truth is expressed in the words: “All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”. The Book of the Revelation is the allegorical account of entering the Kingdom within after accomplishing the perfection and spiritualization of the body-mind:
"Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie" (Rev 22:14-15 NKJ). Those who remain outside, are the people who are the dogs and swine who practice a lie and have not faithfully walked in TheWay.
Since the vast majority of religious leaders and quasi-philosophers of this world who most people listen to know absolutely nothing about the soul/higher self -- and they fail to comprehend the many paradoxes of Creation that causes them to perpetually eat of the fruit of the Tree of Duality -- let me speak from the perspective of my own experiences that is beyond even their wildest imaginations. In my life as Jacob during the time of Jesus (see http://BrotherOfJesus.org ), I was able to walk the earth as my soul/higher self manifest in the flesh. I literally was the Being of Light. And while it is true that I was overshadowed by Jesus who not only was his soul/higher self and spiritual-self manifest in the flesh, but because of his Consecrated Holiness it could be said that Jesus walked the earth as God -- it is also true that the essence of our teacher disciple relationship where I was literally taught by God manifest in the flesh -- and taken by God manifest in the flesh into realms and kingdoms that would boggle the mind of natural man -- it is also true that this level of spirituality became a part of men that transcended all future lifetimes. When you are able to manifest your soul/higher self in the body, you not only possess the knowledge of all the lives that you have lived since the dawn of time, but you can access those "images... which neither die nor become manifest". Since they are expressions of the soul, they still exist within the consciousness of the soul, and they exist as a community of One within the soul/higher self in much the same way that we exist as One within the Mind of God. And while the written record of all experiences is recorded in the Akashic records, this is more like a ledger -- while the living "images... which neither die nor become manifest" remain living within the soul.
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The Command To
Know Thyself
In
the Gospel of Thomas it is
stated that
"Whoever finds himself is
superior to the world".
When the Church became the
religious puppet of the Roman
Government in the fourth century
(see
The Death Of The Religion Of
Jesus), this self-knowledge,
the Key of Knowledge, and the
Sacred Manna/Gnosis of the
Spirit was thrown away.
Quoting a few of the
pre-Constantine statements of
the early Church Father as
contained on the
Being of Light web site:
It is for this reason
that the second-century Church
Father Clement of Alexandria
said that it is
“…the greatest of all lessons to
know one's self. For if one
knows himself, he will know God;
and knowing God, he will be made
like God… and that man becomes
God, since God so wills”.
In his treaties on The Soul
and the Resurrection, St
Gregory writes that
“the Resurrection is no other
thing than 'the re-constitution
of our nature in its original
form’”,
and states that there will come
a time
“…when the complete
whole of our race shall have
been perfected from the first
man to the last”...
When God, in the words of St.
Nazianzen, no longer is an
“object of wonder”,
but rather an
“object
of desire”
-- and we, desiring to be
purified from the defilements of
this world, make ourselves fit
vessels for the Lord to indwell,
the Spirit, according to St.
Nazianzen, reveals to us our
true nature, and the revelation
of this manifest Sacred
Knowledge makes
“us
like God; so that when we have
thus become like Himself, God
may, to use a bold expression,
hold converse with us as Gods,
being united to us, and that
perhaps to the same extent as He
already knows those who are
known to Him”.
St. Nazianzen then writes that
“the Divine Nature
then is boundless and hard to
understand”
by those who are yet carnal and
think as natural beings of this
world.
Those who think
they can Know God,
without bringing
about the next stage
of soul-birth and
Knowing Self, are
themselves
delusional, and
under the power of
the Demiurge --
i.e., the god of
this world -- the
collective
consciousness -- the
unity consciousness
-- the citizen of
the far country.


What Is It?
Whose World Is The Work Of
The Demiurge?
While these questions may appear to be strange to the
average person, they represent the missing key to understanding what exactly is
being portrayed in the concept of the Demiurge. And the essence that
the questions set before the inquiring mind, presents the reality that each
person sees and understands the world very different from others -- and this
difference can be portrayed as part of the Tower of Babel Syndrome that few
people understand (see
http://DivineStrategery.com#babel ). But herein lies the problem
-- i.e., since few people actually understand the far reaching reality that is
portrayed in the allegorical account of the Tower of Babel -- and, fewer yet to
their own demise understand that the reality portrayed in the concept of the
Demiurge, is merely an integral part of the Laws that bring about the Tower of
Babel Syndrome -- then, typical of the vast majority of the lost prodigal sons,
they remain shackled to ignorance because they judge what they don't understand
the higher reality of.
In the same way that in the allegory of the tower of
Babel, each person hears and is portrayed as speaking a different language than
the other people -- and that these differences are brought about and maintained
by the Laws of God -- so too does each person see the world differently, and
these differences are brought about and maintained by the Laws of God.
What this means is that each persons present station in life, is the result of
the Laws of God impressing upon them a certain predetermined mindset and vision
of the world. Therefore, each person hears a different language
which speaks to their vision of both self and the world. A liberal,
is of a liberal mindset, because the Laws have brought about that condition of
mind where he sees the world through a liberal mindset. And this is
not only true of a conservative, but also a Feminist, a homosexual, an Atheist,
a Marxist, a Capitalist, as well as all the other countless differences that
divide the thinking of mankind into schools of thought that are often in
conflict with other schools of thought and philosophy. And thus, the
liberal does not see the world through the same eyes as the conservative, the
Atheist, the secularist, the man of faith, as well as all the philosophical and
religious differences that exist among mankind. And that these
philosophical differences which are often in conflict one with another, are
brought about and maintained by lesser Laws which maintain these vast
differences, from the allegorical account of the Tower of Babel represent the
lesser Laws of God which are said to be an (individualized) world created by a
Demiurge.
What is presented in the above goes to the very core
of man's ignorance about life, which permits that Jesus portrayed as the
"Citizen... of the Far Country" to totally
control the thinking of the lost prodigal son (see
http://DivineStrategery.com/#prodigal ). And this same
counterfeit vision of the world that mesmerizes each individual person --
shackling them to a world of illusions -- is what is being portrayed in
the analogy of Plato's Cave (see
http://DivineStrategery.com#Plato ). The creator of the illusion
through which each person sees the world, is what was called a Demiurge by the
early Spiritual Christians who had accomplished what the Apostle Paul commanded,
and had overcome this world and their lower nature which inhibits their
perception and understanding (see
http://gateofeden.com/#overcome ). The world of illusion which
shackles the lost prodigal son in the abyss of ignorance -- depriving him of his
inheritance and spiritual birthright as the offspring of God -- is the effect of
the lesser Laws which has created the world of illusion that holds each person
captive in Plato's Cave.
To man's own undoing, perhaps no other subject is so
misrepresented and misunderstood -- not only by those who do not know, but also
by those who think they know -- as the subject of what was historically called
the Demiurge. And in addition to the allegorical account of the
Tower of Babel Syndrome, while the reality portrayed in the word and concept of
a Demiurge can readily be seen in the Bible, few who dwell under the Power of
the Demiurge are able to comprehend what is being conveyed. From a
purely Church perspective, the Key to understanding the reality of the Demiurge
is presented in the words: "The coming of the lawless
one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying
wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they
did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved" (II
Th 2:9-10 NKJ). With respect to the term
"...lawless" -- which is used throughout the scriptures -- the Law
that is being referenced is not the literal text of the Law of Moses -- the Law
that is being presented is the Spiritual or Royal Law that is the bulwark of
those who seek righteousness. In the above statement by Paul, the
"...love of the truth" portrays those who
are willing to seek the Truth over the doctrines of men, and righteously live
the Truth in word, thought, desire and deed. And it is in the living
and the seeking the Truth and TheWay, that the illusions imposed upon man by the
Demiurge -- i.e., the Citizen of the Far Country -- is overcome.
With respect to the Church, it was predicted by Paul that the AntiChrist would
rule over the Church, and he would be worshiped by those who called themselves
Christians, as God (see Church Of The
AntiChrist). As demonstrated at this link, those who will
worship Satan as God, will cling to the doctrines of men, and reject the
original teachings and objectives of the Gospel -- i.e., writing on the second
chapter of Thessalonians: "...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).
Why would it be predicted that the AntiChrist would
rule over the Church which called itself Christian, and be worshiped by those
who call themselves Christian, as God? Like Nero who fiddles which
Rome burns, those who call themselves Christian -- but are really CINO's
(Christian In Name Only) -- remain under the control of the AntiChrist that Paul
predicted would rule the Church -- and be worshiped as God.
The illusion that Satan and the AntiChrist is God, is presented in the words
with respect to the blindness and inability of the Jews to see with the
necessary spiritual eyes and understanding:
“For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their
ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal
them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they
hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see
what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it”
(Matt 13:15-17 NIV).
They could not see and understand, because they were inhibited by the Laws (of
God) from perceiving and comprehending the higher reality that confronted them.
The spiritual Christians maintained the the god of the
literal text of the Jews was a Demiurge, and this was initially revealed to them
by Paul -- and then confirmed when they were themselves freed from the illusion
of what Paul called the god of this world. In the same way that
Jesus stated that they are blind and do not hear or understand, Paul warned that
the New Covenant was spiritual, and freed the lost prodigal sons from the
illusion of the "letter that killeth" (see
http://Ebionite.com#defeat ):
"And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is
abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same
vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away
in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall
be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty" (2 Cor 3:13-17 KJV).
In the same way that Paul predicted that Satan would
rule the Church, and would be worshiped as God, the Christian world dwells under
the illusion of the god of this world -- i.e., the Demiurge which is the creator
of illusions -- and has seduced even the elect of the Church into looking to
what Paul called the "letter that killeth"
-- and thus, like the Jews before them, the Christian world can't see through
the vail of illusion. And while they remain under the delusion that
the vail was done away with, because they worship Satan instead of God, they
remain blind and shackled to ignorance by what Jesus portrayed as the
"Citizen... of the Far Country".
And because they have been spiritually slain by the
"letter that killeth" (see
http://Ebionite.com#defeat ), they fail to comprehend the words of Paul that
"...the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty"
To understand why Paul made the prediction that those
who called themselves Christian would worship Satan as God -- and why Jesus
warned that the AntiChrist would fool the very elect of the Church -- it is
necessary to understand the allegorical account of the Tower of Babel.
In this account from Genesis (see
http://DivineStrategery.com#babel ), wherein the people were attempting to
build a tower that reached into the heavens, the Laws of God were invoked to
inhibit them in their efforts to build the Tower. Why?
Because they attempted to build their Tower using only earthly matter, and their
objective was to raise up this Tower to reach the heavens of this world.
And herein lies the problem -- i.e., in the same way that Jesus told the
Pharisees that the Kingdom would never come upon the earth so as to be seen by
men (Luke 17:20-21) -- because it has always been at hand, and was portrayed as
the Kingdom of the Father that each of the prodigal sons abandoned when they
ventured into this, the Far Country. And that the lost
prodigal sons don't remember their own more distant past, is because they have
been cast into the prison that Jesus warned about (see
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org#ThePrison ) -- and they presently dwell in what
Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of
mind and being (see
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org ). And that the lost
prodigal sons fail to recognize that they are spiritually blind and do not
perceive -- and it is the Power of the Lesser Laws of God that has brought this
condition of spiritual blindness about -- i.e.,
“For this reason they could not believe, because, as
Isaiah says elsewhere: ‘He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so
they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts’”
(John 12:37-40 NIV). And this condition of blindness and suppressed perception
and comprehension will continue to be imposed upon the prodigal sons, so long as
they continue to cling to the Citizen of the Far Country -- dwelling under the
illusion created by the Demiurge. Therefore, the Kingdom of the
Father from which each of us has journeyed out of,
must be sought within one's self -- what is
earthly must be used as a foundation that enables the seeker to journey within
one's own mind and being, where they will find the
"narrow gate" of TheWay opening unto them. And by using
the Key of Knowledge to open the inner "narrow gate",
they can then enter in the Kingdom (see
http://GateOfEden.com ) and learn directly from the voice of the Lord.
While carnal men who are subject to the Tower of Babel
Syndrome and the illusion of the Demiurge reject this teaching of an inner
Kingdom that the lost prodigal sons can re-enter, this is exactly what is
portrayed in the words: "The LORD your God will make
you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the
increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the
LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if
you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His
statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD
your God with all your heart and with all your soul. For this commandment
which I command you today, it is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend into heaven for us
and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' Nor is it beyond the
sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us,
that we may hear it and do it?' But the word is very near you, in your
mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. See, I have set before you
today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love
the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His
statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your
God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart
turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods
and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall
not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and
possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life,
that both you and your descendants may live" (Deut 30:9-19 NKJ).
What is being conveyed is the necessity to fulfill the
Law and Keep the Commandments -- seeking the Royal Law that is presented in the
inner reality that "...But the word is very near you,
in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it."
Thus, with the proper application of what Jesus called the Key of Knowledge, the
written Law must be used as a catalyst to seek the Spiritual Word that is
written in your heart. And it is this inner reality that Paul
presented in the words: "For this is the covenant that
I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put
My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and
none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least
of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is
becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away" (Heb
8:10-13 NKJ).
What Christians fail to realize is the fact that the
inner core of Spiritual Jews were themselves Enlightened to these same concepts
presented by Paul -- and they understood that the written word of the Mosaic
Law, was merely a catalyst that was an allegorical shadow of the Royal Law --
and this Royal Law that is the essence of New Covenant teachings, portrays the
Law that is written within all people. As an example of these
Spiritual Jews, I give you the accounts of
Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer (see
http://TheThreeLies.com#Isaac ). And to understand that what is
portrayed as the Logos (Mind of God), or the Son of God which is portrayed by
the Apostle Peter as the True Prophet (see TrueProphet
) dwells in the heart of all of
mankind as seen in the words:
"...For He is within the mind of every one of us, but in
those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is
inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to
their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge.
Wherefore
seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall
learn anything from any other. But He is
soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose
souls are not taken possession of by wickedness".
The only means to find and learn
from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet, is to live one's live in
strict accord with the Commandments of God, and seek the Inner Kingdom.
When Paul writes that the essence of the New Covenant
is to bring about that condition where "...None of them
shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother" -- this is because
both the Law and the Gospel are Spiritual -- and what is written is intended to
be a catalyst to open the inner "narrow gate"
to the Kingdom. This Divine Knowledge or Manna that is imparted to
the righteous disciple who seeks the inner Kingdom, in the Greek language is
called Gnosis. And in the same way that the carnal Jews known
as the Pharisees and Sadducees rejected this essential teaching of the
historical Jesus, the Christians and the religious and secular authorities of
this world, continue to reject these essential spiritual teachings today.
Thus, because they attempt to employ only earthly reasoning in the building of
their tower, they dwell under the Laws that not only inhibits their vision and
understand to that of the illusions of this world -- and these Laws that
according to the scriptures blinds them and makes them deaf, is what is
portrayed as the Demiurge.
In reference to the predictions of Paul with respect
to the "...lawless", he warns that
"...And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie" (II Th 2:11 NKJ).
And it is these Laws of the Left Hand of God that is the creator of the delusion
of the unrighteous and lawless. So, it is not that this world was
created by a Demiurge -- but rather, it is the Laws of Correction that blinds
and limits the vision and understanding of those who live in accord with what
Jesus portrayed as the "Citizen... of the Far Country"
in the parable of the prodigal son.
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In what
may on the surface initially appear
to be a divergence from the primary
religious and spiritual theme of
this article, it is important to
demonstrate that modern science has
not only proven the validity of
Mysticism, but that the objective of
all religions is the acquisition of
Gnosis -- or the Divine Manna of the
Kingdom of God. The historical
record demonstrates the perpetual
struggle between the vision of the
Spiritual Mystic who seeks to learn
directly from God -- the Gnostic who
makes claim to spiritual insights
that the common believers who have
traditionally called themselves
Orthodox, are blind to. And the
fact that only now, in our present
time, has modern science been able
to shed light on the controversy, is
of a primary importance to those
seekers of Truth.
The
Church Father Origen who was
esteemed as the greatest Christian
authority after the disciples,
portrayed those who could believe
the absurdities of the written word
of the scriptures as being
historically and spiritually true,
to be simpleminded idiots. The
Church Historian Eusebius portrays
these people who are so gullible, as
men of small intellect. Once
rightly understood, the scriptures
were in fact expressly composed in
such a way so that people of a
rational and intelligent mind will
reject the written word of the
quasi-historical narrative which
Origen portrays as
"worthless",
and seek the deeper meaning of mind,
soul and spirit. And that the
critics and Atheists have long
ignored the witness of the most
knowledgeable of religious men, and
have continually chosen to disparage
the ignorant blind believer, is not
only evidence of their own folly,
but proof of their intellectual
bankruptcy.
On
September 8th, 2008, I made a Blog
entry entitled:
Reply: The God Who Wasn't There.
And because of it's importance to
the questions raised in this present
article, I will copy and make
further relevant comments below:

Reply: The God
Who Wasn't There
Greetings
Hal:
In reading
about your
DVD entitled
The God Who
Wasn't There,
there is an
important
element to
the equation
that is
totally
absent from
what you are
presenting
-- and that
element is
the fact
that the
scriptures
were written
by Gnostic
Mystics --
composed for
those who
seek the
Ebionite
Nazirene
path of
TheWay. And
what this
means is
that none of
the people
you
interviewed
-- whether
they are
true
believers
(Fundamentalists),
accepted
scholars and
historians,
or any
variety of
philosophers
and clergy
-- all the
opinions and
positions
that you
present is
mere
speculation,
because the
people you
interviewed
neither
understand
the original
objective of
the
scriptures,
or the
spiritual
language of
the soul
that the
scriptures
are written
in. Like all
such
spiritual
writings,
the Gospels
emphatically
state that
the
personage of
Jesus did
not openly
reveal what
was called
the
Mysteries of
the Kingdom
of God to
the
multitude of
people --
i.e.,
"And the
disciples
came and
said to Him,
Why do You
speak to
them in
parables? He
answered and
said to
them,
Because it
has been
given to you
to know the
mysteries of
the kingdom
of heaven,
but to them
it has not
been given"
(Matt
13:10-11 NKJ).
To the
degree that
Paul, who
had been
taken up
into the
Kingdom,
stated that
without the
transformation
of the lower
nature that
is essential
to the
mystical
path of
TheWay, that
the
believers
will look
upon the
Mysteries of
the Kingdom
as
"foolishness"
(
http://DivineManna.org#literal
). Which
means that
even in my
attempt to
explain the
mass
confusion
with respect
to those who
attempt to
read the
scriptures
without
having
brought
about the
necessary
spiritual
transformation
of the lower
nature, the
very words
that I
express will
be rejected
and seen as
"foolishness".
Paul
portrayed
the written
word of the
scriptures
as the
"letter that
killeth"
(see
http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm
). Why? It
is
impossible
to
understand
the inner
spiritual
meaning of
the
scriptures,
without the
transformation,
opening and
Anointing of
the mind of
the disciple
-- i.e.,
"Then opened
He their
understanding,
that they
might
understand
the
scriptures"
(Luke
24:45).
And the fact
that the
Pharisees
had thrown
away what
Jesus called
the Key of
Knowledge (
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org
), and
attempted to
read the
scriptures
without
first
bringing
about the
necessary
spiritual
transformation
and this
opening and
enlightenment
of the mind,
is why Jesus
portrayed
them as the
offspring of
the Devil --
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).
And once you
begin to
truly
understand
what is
being
portrayed in
the above
words, all
the
authorities
who you have
interviewed
not only
study the
written word
of the
scriptures
"...from
[their] own
(carnal
organic)
resources
-- but that
they each
fail to
understand
that they
are
"...speak[ing]
from [their]
own
resources"
-- and thus,
the whole
framework of
their
thinking is
drawn from a
mindset that
parallels
that of the
Pharisees
who Jesus
condemned as
not
understanding
the true
meaning of
the
scriptures.
To even
begin to
understand
what I have
presented to
you in the
above, and
why Jesus
portrayed
the Torah
Observant
Pharisees as
the
offspring of
the Devil,
you must
first
understand
why Jesus
commanded:
“But you, do
not be
called
'Rabbi'; for
One is your
Teacher, the
Christ, and
you are all
brethren”
(Matt 23:8
NKJ).
And it is
in this one
very
important
statement
that neither
believer,
nonbeliever,
clergy,
scholar or
critic
understands,
that is the
paramount
cause of
their error
and folly.
Who is the
One Teacher?
Among the
original
Ebionite
Nazirene
disciples of
Jesus who
were
condemned by
both the
Jews and the
Christians,
the One
Teacher was
portrayed as
the True
Prophet (
http://TheThreeLies.com#TrueProphet
) -- and it
was warned
that only
those who
become the
"good
ground"
in the
parable of
the
Sower and
the Seed,
can be
taught by
the True
Prophet --
to the
degree that
they can
themselves
become
Anointed
(Messiah/Christ)--
i.e.,
"These
things I
have written
to you
concerning
those who
try to
deceive you.
But the
anointing
which you
have
received
from Him
abides in
you, and you
do not need
that anyone
teach you;
but as the
same
anointing
teaches you
concerning
all things,
and is true,
and is not a
lie, and
just as it
has taught
you, you
will abide
in Him. And
now, little
children,
abide in
Him, that
when He
appears, we
may have
confidence
and not be
ashamed
before Him
at His
coming. If
you know
that He is
righteous,
you know
that
everyone who
practices
righteousness
is born of
Him"
(1 Jn
2:26-29 NKJ).
The
necessary
"...practice
[of]
righteousness"
has
absolutely
nothing in
common with
the blind
belief of
manmade
Church
doctrines
which is
promoted by
Christians
today -- but
rather, the
very
thinking,
lifestyle
and mindset
of the
sincere
seeker who
strives to
do as Jesus
taught, and
seek the
Kingdom
(within).
It has been
speculated
that those
writings
known as the
Clementine
Homilies
(the
disciple of
the Apostle
Peter),
represents
the original
Ebionite
Nazirene
teachings
which have
long been
suppressed
by the
Church --
and it is in
these
writings
that the
above
reference to
the One
Teacher is
explained by
Peter where
it is
written:
"And
therefore I
advise not
only wise
men, but
indeed all
men who have
a desire of
knowing what
is
advantageous
to them,
that they
seek after
the true
Prophet; for
it is He
alone who
knoweth all
things, and
who knoweth
what and how
every man is
seeking.
For He is
within the
mind of
every one of
us, but in
those who
have no
desire of
the
knowledge of
God and His
righteousness,
He is
inoperative;
but He works
in those who
seek after
that which
is
profitable
to their
souls, and
kindles in
them the
light of
knowledge.
Wherefore
seek Him
first of
all; and if
you do not
find Him,
expect not
that you
shall learn
anything
from any
other.
But He is
soon found
by those who
diligently
seek Him
through love
of the
truth, and
whose souls
are not
taken
possession
of by
wickedness.
For He is
present with
those who
desire Him
in the
innocence of
their
spirits, who
bear
patiently,
and draw
sighs from
the bottom
of their
hearts
through love
of the
truth; but
He deserts
malevolent
minds,
because as a
prophet He
knows the
thoughts of
every one.
And
therefore
let no one
think that
he can find
Him by his
own wisdom,
unless, as
we have
said, he
empty his
mind of all
wickedness,
and conceive
a pure and
faithful
desire to
know Him.
For when any
one has so
prepared
himself, He
Himself as a
prophet,
seeing a
mind
prepared for
Him, of His
own accord
offers
Himself to
his
knowledge”.
And this was
the very
reason that
Yeshua
stated to
the
Pharisees
that the
Kingdom
would never
come upon
the earth in
the manner
that carnal
men look for
it -- for it
is within
you (Luke
17:20-21) --
which
reality is
further
detailed at
http://GateOfEden.com
).
While
your
authorities
correctly
state that:
"The Jesus
of the
Gospels
bears a
striking
resemblance
to other
ancient
heroes and
the
figureheads
of pagan
savior
cults"
-- and while
this is a
typical
statement by
countless
scholars and
historians,
because they
each fail to
understand
both the
objective of
the
scriptures,
as well as
the language
of the soul
the
scriptures
are written
in -- they
all arrive
at an
equally
flawed
conclusion.
And once
this flawed
conclusion
is
understood,
their error
is equal to
those who
you portray
as the
"Contemporary
Christians
[who] are
largely
ignorant of
the origins
of their
religion."
But this
same warning
was
presented
from a very
different
perspective
in the
words:
“Biblical
scholars
were not
disturbed by
what they
found in the
Dead Sea
Scrolls
because they
had known
all along
that the
origin of
Christianity
was not what
was commonly
supposed to
have been”
(A. Powell
Davies
quoted by
Millar
Burrows in
More Light
on the Dead
Sea Scrolls).
The problem
that the
scholars who
note the
"...striking
resemblance
to other
ancient
heroes and
the
figureheads
of pagan
savior
cults",
is seen in
the fact
that the
accounts of
these other
ancient
heroes are
also written
in the
language of
the soul,
and neither
are these
other
religions
which are
put forth as
"...figureheads
of pagan
savior
cults"
understood
with any
greater
depth, than
the mystical
Gnostic
accounts of
the New
Testament.
The great
Truth that
none of the
culturally
accepted
experts,
scholars,
clergy or
philosophers
have all
failed to
understand,
is the fact
that
regardless
of the
ancient
religious
tradition,
the inner
core and
scriptural
authors of
each of
these
ancient
religions,
were all
confronted
by the
profound
reality that
the mind of
organic man
which Paul
portrays as
being of a
"natural"
consciousness
(
http://DivineManna.org#literal
), is
incapable of
understanding
the higher
reality of
the soul and
what Jesus
portrayed as
the
Mysteries of
the Kingdom
of God.
Which means
that in all
cases, not
only were
each of
these
authors and
core
religious
groups
incapable of
portraying
in the
common
language of
their
cultures the
Truth that
they knew --
but that
each of
these
religious
groups had
to employ
the mystic
language of
the soul, in
order to
convey
essential
Truths to
those who
understood
the
objectives
of the
scriptures,
and the
application
of what
Jesus called
the Key of
Knowledge (
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org
).
The Common
Theme and
core of all
religions at
their
essence that
is not
understood
by the outer
body of
believers,
is portrayed
in the
parable of
the Prodigal
Son -- which
in many
respects,
parallels
the analogy
of Plato's
Cave (see
http://DivineStrategery.com#Plato
--
or, what
is presented
in the
completion
of the cycle
from the
Alpha to the
Omega as
portrayed in
Jewish
Mysticism in
the Zohar:
“All
souls are
subject to
the trials
of
transmigration;
and men do
not know the
designs of
the Most
High with
regard to
them… The
souls must
re-enter the
absolute
substance
whence they
have
emerged. But
to
accomplish
this end
they must
develop all
the
perfections,
the germ of
which is
planted in
them; and if
they have
not
fulfilled
this
condition
during one
life, they
must
commence
another, a
third, and
so forth,
until they
have
acquired the
condition
which fits
them for
reunion with
God”.
That the
vast
majority of
people are
totally
ignorant of
not only the
true meaning
of the
scriptures,
but also the
higher
reality of
their own
souls and
the
Mysteries of
the Kingdom
of God, is
because they
dwell in
what Jesus
portrayed as
the
"outer
darkness"
of mind and
being (see
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org
). Thus, the
common
symbols of
all
religions,
represent
the
universal
journey of
the soul
that only a
handful of
seekers ever
truly come
to
understand
the reality
of. That
these
symbols
employed in
the
scriptures
are
themselves
universal,
is portrayed
by
G.R.S. Mead
in his book
entitled
Fragments of
a Faith
Forgotten,
where this
explanation
is put
forth:
“…what the
Gnostics
projected
onto the
screen… [in
the form of
a ] picture
of the
universe was
in reality a
picture of
their own
minds. Its
mythology is
a symbolic
portrayal,
almost a
deliberate
one, of the
forces which
operate in
the
structuring
and
evolution of
the human
personality”.
And it was
for this
reason that
Carl Jung
called the
Gnostic
Christians
the worlds
first and
foremost
psychologists
who
understood
the very
fabric of
human
consciousness.
Moreover,
while the
body of
believes
don't
themselves
understand
the inner
spiritual
reality of
the
scriptures,
they are led
to believe
and embrace
them,
because the
universal
symbols used
in the
written
narrative of
the
scriptures
act as a
catalyst
which
connects
them to an
inner
reality of
soul and
spirit that
they don't
yet
comprehend
with any
depth of
understanding.
What all
these
religious
traditions
share in
common, is
that the
inner
spiritually
enlightened
core were
all turned
upon and
murdered
(see
http://Ebionite.com/prologue.htm
), and their
scriptures
which were
promoted by
unenlightened
priests,
politicians
and
institutionalized
religion,
were very
quickly
corrupted
(see
http://BibleCorruption.com
). Few
people ever
come to
understand
the Laws (
http://DivineStrategery.com#TheLaws
) which hold
them
spellbound
in the
illusion of
Plato's Cave
-- which
Jesus
portrayed as
a type of
prison.
And it is
for this
reason that
the Apostle
Peter in the
Homilies
warns with
respect to
the True
Prophet that
Jesus
portrayed as
the One
Teacher:
“Hence, O
beloved
Clement",
proclaims
Peter,
“if
you would
know the
things
pertaining
to God, you
have to
learn them
from Him
alone,
because He
alone knows
the truth.
For if any
one else
knows
anything, he
has received
it from Him
or from His
disciples”.
And the
philosophical
and
theological
premise that
all your
quoted
authorities
(pro and
con) begin
on, is that
Jesus was
wrong and
did not know
what he was
saying.
All those
who escape
the illusion
of
Plato's Cave
, come to
understand
the journey
of the soul
from the
Alpha of
absolute
ignorance,
to the Omega
of
Enlightened
Light and
Knowledge,
which must
be
accomplished
over the
course of
many
lifetimes.
And the fact
that this
essential
teaching was
removed and
outlawed
from
Christianity,
is easily
demonstrated
(see
http://ChristianReincarnation.org
). And once
the mystical
path of
TheWay is
truly
understood
-- and the
fact that
the escape
from the
illusion of
Plato's Cave
is through
an inner
dimension of
mind -- only
then can the
sincere
seeker begin
to
understand
the reason
why Jesus
taught the
necessity of
living the
Consecrated
Life in
TheWay --
seeking to
transform
yourself
into what is
portrayed by
AskMoses.com
as the Final
Temple (see
http://TheThreeLies.com#temple
) -- and
this will
enable you
to enter
within the
Holy of
Holies
within you,
and learn
from the
True Prophet
who will not
only open
and Anoint
your mind
and
understanding,
but will
reveal all
the
Mysteries of
life, the
soul, and
the Kingdom
to the few
who prepare
themselves
to make the
journey. And
that those
who are
quoted in
the DVD The
God Who Was
Not have not
themselves
made the
necessary
journey in
TheWay --
and
themselves
dwell under
the illusion
of Plato's
cave and the
"outer
darkness",
is the
reason why
they fail to
understand
the the
historical
Jesus was a
man who
overcame the
Laws within
himself, and
achieved
Absolute
Unity with
the Logos of
God.
GodSpeed in
TheWay,
Brother of
Yeshua
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As
evidence of their own ignorance,
Atheists, and people of a linear
mindset, are of the impression
that religions are concocted in
people's minds, in order to
explain away phenomena that they
don't understand. In a high
school text book, I observed
that Buddhism was portrayed as
being superior to Hinduism
because it wasn't as pagan, but
in this school text book
Buddhism was faulted for
"having borrowed the
belief in reincarnation from
Hinduism".
While I am not in any way a
Buddhist, what I found
objectionable was the
secularized Atheistic spin that
was presented to the students --
and we see this often in the
secular Atheistic position that
religions merely borrow beliefs
from other religions, in order
to explain away phenomena. In
fact, I directly address
this folly in my Blog article
which is a reply to the DVD
entitled, The
God Who Wasn't There .
Contrary to the folly of their
thinking, the similarities
between the exoteric allegorical
scriptures of all religions is
not the result of borrowing
religious beliefs -- but rather,
the fact that all religions have
the same spiritual objective --
and the fact that they are all
striving to overcome the same
universal Laws and limitations
of consciousness, mind and
being, within themselves.
Science Proves The Gnostic
Vision: Quoting at the
link
http://UnityOfMind.org#blemish
: In his
book, Urbausteine der Materie,
physicist Walter Thirring wrote
about matter that modern physics
“...has put our thinking
about the essence of matter in a
different context. It has
taken our gaze from the visible
- the particles - to the
underlying entity, the field.
The presence of matter is merely
a disturbance of the perfect
state of the field at that
place; something accidental, one
could almost say, a ‘blemish’.
Accordingly, there are no simple
laws describing the forces
between elementary particles…
Order and symmetry must be
sought in the underlying field.”
One of the primary realities
that science has to come to
terms with in order to advance
beyond their present level, is
the fact that physical matter is
the result of the forces in the
Etheric Field coming together,
causing what Walter Thirring
describes as a
"blemish"
that we observe with our organic
physical senses. And what this
is, is Darwinism in reverse --
i.e., the Field is the Source
which impresses the aspect of
mind and consciousness into the
form of matter that we
observe. The problem is that
to the organic mind of both the
faith-based believer, as well as
the Atheist, what modern science
has proven is simply beyond
their ability to even
contemplate.
Quoting at the link
http://UnityOfMind.org#GreatMind
:
In his
1951 textbook on quantum theory,
Bohm offered some interesting
speculations on the analogies
between quantum processes and
thought processes, thus carrying
further the celebrated statement
made by the astronomer James
Jeans two decades earlier:
“Today
there is a wide measure of
agreement… that the stream of
knowledge is heading towards a
non-mechanical reality; the
universe begins to look more
like a great thought than like a
great machine”;
and the statement by astronomer
Arthur Eddington:
“The
stuff of the universe is
mind-stuff”.
More recently, cyberneticist
David Foster described
“an
intelligent universe”
whose
apparent concreteness is
generated by cosmic data from an
unknowable, organized source.
The holographic theory says
that:
“…our
brains mathematically construct
hard reality by interpreting
frequencies from a dimension
transcending time and space.
The brain is a hologram,
interpreting a holographic
universe.”
This is why Mystics who have
walked the spiritual path in
search of Gnosis and the Divine
Manna or the Kingdom, have
traditionally warned others that
what they see with their
physical eyes -- i.e., the
objects that appear to their
organic mind as being concrete
and solid matter -- is merely an
illusion. And thus it is this
world of illusion that is
created by the limitations of
each person's own mind that is
portrayed by the Gnostics as the
Demiurge of a counterfeit
creator, and it the illusion
that man must escape in the
analogy
of
Plato's Cave . And
just as important is the
statement at the link
http://UnityOfMind.org#illusion
:
In a
February 1979 Psychology
Today interview with brain
scientist Karl Pribram, the
world which he attempted to
describe confirmed the vision
witnessed by the Hebrew prophet
and confirmed in the Bible:
“It isn’t
that the world of appearances is
wrong; it isn’t that there
aren’t objects out there, at one
level of reality. It’s that if
you penetrate through and look
at the universe with a
holographic system, you arrive
at a different reality, one that
can explain things that have
hitherto remained scientifically
inexplicable: paranormal
phenomena… synchronicities, the
apparently meaningful
coincidence of events”.
What this confirms is the fact
that the objects in the outer
world that we observe with our
physical senses, are in reality
allegorical symbols of mind
impressed into the forms of
matter by the forces in the
underlying Etheric Field -- and
the forms that we observe,
represents a psychic/mental
impression of the thought form
of mind that it denotes to our
own, and the Universal
Consciousness. And this is
why, while Eastern mysticism
portrays matter as an illusion,
Western Gnosticism understands
that the illusion is more
factually an allusion. Which
means that a dog, appears to
us in that physical forum,
because of the underlying aspect
of mind and consciousness that
is represented in the form of a
dog. And a swine, is a swine,
because of the underlying aspect
of mind and consciousness that
is represented in the form of
the swine. From a biblical
perspective, the swine is an
unclean animal, because of the
thought-pattern and
consciousness that is
represented in the (allegorical)
form of the swine as presented
to our organic senses. And
this is true of all the forms
that we observe in the outer
world -- and especially the
human body, which is
an allegorical blueprint of our
own minds impressed into the
forms that make up the
body-vessel in which we dwell.
And the fact that these
universal (allegorical) symbols
of mind which are impressed into
the forms of nature, is the
basis of why it appears that
religions borrow beliefs from
other religions (see
http://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2008/09/reply-god-who-wasnt-there.html ).
Mystics are those who seek to
become spiritual scientists.
If, as
astronomer
Arthur Eddington states, that
“The stuff of the universe is
mind-stuff” --
then the only way to explore
beyond the borders of this world
of illusion, is to develop one's
own mind to pierce the cloak
that limits the physical sensed
of organic man to the three
dimensions of this world. And
it is the voice of the Mystic
that has perpetually stated to
the rest of mankind: If you want
to see and know that I have seen
and know, then you have to do
and accomplish that I have
myself done with my own mind and
life! And the fact that one of
the objectives of the Mystic is
to observe
this world from a point just
outside of the illusion of
physical matter, in many ways it
is the Mystic who has proven the
assertion of the modern
physicist who has stated that "...The
presence of matter is merely a
disturbance of the perfect state
of the field at that place;
something accidental, one could
almost say, a ‘blemish’." (see
above). The Mystic has
therefore found that with the
right training and discipline,
that he can move into "...the
perfect state of the field",
and observe this world from the
perspective of the Etheric Field
-- i.e., the source, rather than
the illusion of the symbolism of
what man's sees as concrete
matter.
With respect to the perception
of the physical senses and
limited understanding of the
organic mind of carnal man,
Jesus said of those of his
disciples who followed in
TheWay:
“Unto you it is given to know
the mystery of the kingdom of
God: but unto them that are
without, all these things are
done in parables: That seeing
they may see, and not perceive;
and hearing they may hear, and
not understand” (Mark
4:11-12 KJV). Why did Jesus
warn that the senses and
understanding of organic man
"...see, and not perceive"?
Why
did they
"...hear, and not understand”?
Because, unlike the spiritual
man -- i.e., the Gnostic who
walks the mystical path of
TheWay -- the organic mind of
man is blind to not only the
realities in what the modern
scientist has demonstrated to be
the Etheric Field that is the
source of all the forums of this
world -- and that the Gnostic
sees what organic man is blind
to, and understands the higher
reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom,
because he has removed the beam
from his own eyes, that he may
see what others are blind to:
"Why do
you see the speck that is in
your brother's eye, but do not
notice the log that is in your
own eye? Or how can you say to
your brother, 'Let me take the
speck out of your eye,' when
there is the log in your own
eye? You hypocrite, first take
the log out of your own eye, and
then you will see clearly to
take the speck out of your
brother's eye" (Matt
7:3-5 RSV).
The Gospel is in fact a
declaration that while all men
have the potential to open their
mind and senses to the higher
reality beyond the
three-dimensional limitations of
this world that the Gnostic has
long portrayed as an illusion
that is an allusion, few people
are actually willing to live the
Consecrated Life that Jesus
taught was necessary to Expand
and prepare the mind to be
Anointed, that enables the
person to see and understand the
higher reality of all things --
both in this world, and
beyond. And while
pseudo-religious men and
pseudo-intellectuals have
attempted to dismiss the
mystical Gnostic foundations of
all religions, modern science
has succeeded in breaking
through the barrier of ignorance
with which organic man has
immersed himself in the illusion
of doctrinal and philosophical
confusion.
And the fact that modern science
has now begun to open the door
that proves the fundamental
truths that the teachings of
Jesus and the Gnostic
foundations of religion has long
expressed -- scientific truths
that are presented at
http://UnityOfMind.org --
indicates that if the scientist
now wishes to begin to prove his
own findings beyond his present
state of maturity, then he will
have to begin to listen more
intently to Mystics, and
especially True Gnostics, who
have not limited themselves to
the fossilized thinking of man's
past -- i.e.,
“The present scientific
establishment has grown somewhat
fossilized by its current world
picture and is locked into a
view of reality that has
outlived its usefulness. It has
begun to limit mankind’s growth
and has so increased its sense
of specialization, separateness,
materiality, and mechanical
computer-like functioning that
it is in real danger of
self-extermination”
(William A. Tiller,
Materials Sciences Department,
Stanford University).
Science
has proven that the world is not
what it appears to be to the
physical senses of the body -- and
those who were declared heretics
throughout history, were often the
few who were right.
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When approached by the Canaanite
woman to heal her daughter, Jesus said: "I
was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel" (Matt 15:24).
Why? Why was Jesus sent only to the lost sheep of the House of
Israel? And who is the House of Israel? In not
understanding the answer these questions, it remains virtually impossible for
modern Christians to understand one of the most important realities of the Gospel message.
While the traditional answer would be that Jesus was making reference to the
Jews, this answer is assumed, because there is a missing element to the equation
that is not rightly understood. Jesus clearly portrayed the
Torah Observant Jewish leaders as the offspring of the Devil, as seen in the
statement as to why they did not, and could not, understand his teachings:
"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). Which
is why many of the earliest Christians portrayed the Pharisees and Sadducees as
counterfeit Israel.
An important missing part of the equation is found in the quotations of Peter that have
been preserved in the Homilies of his disciple Clement. To begin, we
must understand how Peter portrayed the proverbial
Simon Magus in the
Clementine writings where the Apostle
Peter explains that:
"He
is a power of the left hand of God,
and has authority to do harm to
those who know not God..."
Peter then goes on and explains that Simon
"...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."
First it must be
recognized that disease, strife, hardships and sufferings, all serve a higher
purpose.
The question set before us is how can God raise
up and imbue a person with the "authority"
to inflict harm upon mankind who are portrayed as
"...those who know not God"?
The portrayal of God in the Old Testament proclaims with respect to
the source of what man calls evil: "I form the light
and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these
things.'" (Isa 45:7 NKJ). And in his ignorance of the Laws, man
condemns what he does not understand -- and in his blind condemnation of what he
fails to understand, he remains ignorant of the true cause of what he proclaims
to be evil -- i.e., "Shall a trumpet be blown in the
city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD
hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6 KJV). Thus, there is nothing that
exists in this world, that has not been orchestrated and brought about by the
Laws of God -- i.e., "The LORD of hosts has sworn,
saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, and as I have
purposed, so it shall stand" (Isa 14:24 NKJ). And until a man
begins to understand the true source and purpose of what he calls evil, he
cannot know anything of any true substance. If, as Jesus confirms,
that not even a single sparrow can fall to the earth apart from the Will of God,
then the source and calamities of evil that befall mankind, are the result of
the Laws that return to each person the fruit of their own previous actions.
Thus, Jesus warns the man who he previously healed by making him whole:
"Behold, thou art made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14 KJV). We
must therefore ask: If our own actions can, and do cause
"...a worse thing [to] come unto [us]", how is
this tribulation brought about? The answer is that there were Laws put into
action at the very beginning of Creation which returns to each person the fruit
of their own actions --
“Do not be deceived: God
cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).
And it is these Laws that mature the lost prodigal son -- driving him from the
Alpha of Ignorance and Unknowing to the Omega of Perfection and Enlightened
Light enabling him to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.
In referencing these Laws that were put into
effect in the beginning of the Alpha of Creation and what is portrayed as The
Two Princes, Peter then explains:
"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."
Jesus was sent
"...only to the lost sheep of
Israel", because as a
servant of the Right Hand, he was
barred by the Laws from intervening
in the lives of those who were under
the dominion of the Prince of the
Left Hand. In like
manner, it is near
impossible to understand the Gospel
account of Jesus and the Syro-Phoenician
woman, without understanding what
Peter stated in the above quotation
with respect to the Laws. Thus, it
is written:
"For a woman whose young daughter
had an unclean spirit heard about
Him, and she came and fell at His
feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician
by birth, and she kept asking Him to
cast the demon out of her daughter.
But Jesus said to her, Let the
children be filled first, for it is
not good to take the children's
bread and throw it to the little
dogs. And she answered and said to
Him, Yes, Lord, yet even the little
dogs under the table eat from the
children's crumbs. Then He said to
her, For this saying go your way;
the demon has gone out of your
daughter. And when she had come to
her house, she found the demon gone
out, and her daughter lying on the
bed" (Mark 7:25-30 NKJ).
Why did Jesus not immediately help
her? Why did he portray the woman
as a dog? What is the spiritual
meaning of the children's bread
which is served at the Table --
bread that cannot be eaten by those
portrayed as dogs? And, the Laws
which were instituted by God in the
beginning, inhibited those on the
Right Hand such as Jesus, from
relieving the infirmities of those
who sat down at the table on the
Left -- people who Jesus portrayed
as dwelling in the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being (see
Outer Darkness) -- and even
existing in a type of Prison (see
The Prison).
And with respect to the Two Princes,
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."
Where Peter explains
"...that neither [Prince} 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",
it must be
understood that the food that one
receives at the Table with the
Prince of the Left or Right Hands,
is the knowledge or nourishment that
is the foundation of the thinking,
mindset and resulting lifestyle that
is lived out by the lost prodigal
sons. Where it states in
the Revelation that
"To him who
overcomes will I give to eat of the
hidden manna" (see
Opening
The Eyes Of The Heart - Rev
2:8-17), this
"hidden manna"
is the the Knowledge/Gnosis or the
Divine Manna that can only be
imparted to the seeker directly from
the Indwelling Logos and True
Prophet (see
The True Prophet) -- who is the
ONLY TEACHER that Jesus commanded to
seek out and learn from.
In prayer Peter states:
"Deliver
me, O Lord of all, from Thy fearful
judgment. Do not give the enemy
power to swallow me up, and to
become heir of my soul, as of that
of him who is hanging on the left;
for I see how the devil joyfully
takes his soul, and his body
disappears."
But Christians today are as the men
of Nineveh of whom it is said:
"And should I
not pity Nineveh, that great city,
in which are more than one hundred
and twenty thousand persons who
cannot discern between their right
hand and their left?"
(Jonah 4:11 NKJ). For as it was
said to Job:
"Then I will
also confess to you that your own
right hand can save you" (Job 40:14
NKJ). And in the Psalms: "You will
show me the path of life; in Your
presence is fullness of joy; at Your
right hand are pleasures
forevermore... Though I walk in the
midst of trouble, You will revive
me; you will stretch out Your hand
against the wrath of my enemies, and
Your right hand will save me"
(Ps 16:11;138:7 NKJ). Which is the
reason why Jesus said that those on
the right will enter into life,
while those on the left will inherit
the tribulation of their deeds and
ways: "Then
He will also say to those on the
left hand, 'Depart from Me, you
cursed, into the everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his
angels" (Matt 25:41 NKJ)
The Counterfeit Shadow Church Ruled Over By The
Prince Of the Left Hand: While Christians are under the belief that they
are the authentic Church of Christ, the above statement taken from the Shepherd
of Hermas (see Opening The Eyes Of The Heart)
puts the reality of the modern Christian world in the true perspective -- i.e.,
“If you
bear His name but possess not His power, it will be in vain that you bear His
name”. This same
reality can of course be portrayed in the words: "And
why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke
6:46 KJV). Which reality is further expressed in the words:
"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you,
saying: 'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their
lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men' " (Matt 15:7-9 NKJ).
And that those who dwell under the control of the Prince of the Left Hand is the
reason why only Jesus' disciples could understand the higher reality of the soul
and the Mysteries of the Kingdom -- i.e.,
"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 thus, the Prince of the Right Hand which modern Christians attempt to seek
with the words of their lips, can't reach out to them, because the Church itself
dwells under the dominion of the Prince of the Left Hand -- having entered into
a covenant with Pagan Rome wherein a series of Roman Emperors dictated the
doctrines of belief of the Christian world (see
The Religion Of Roman
Emperors). And as presented in the above (see
The Two Princes), because the Christian world
entered into a covenant with the Prince of the Left Hand, the Prince of the
Right hand is barred from helping them.
Many Christians claim that the Bible is the
infallible word of God? And even though the overwhelming evidence
proves that the Bible has been severely corrupted (see
BibleCorruption.com), the
modern Christian world clings to this spiritual fraud because having entered
into a covenant with pagan Rome, they continue to dwell under the power of the
Prince of the Left Hand. And while they call upon the name of the
Lord, the Prince of the Right Hand can't come to them, because He is barred by
the Laws as presented in the above (see The Two Princes).
The Left Hand is portrayed in the
literal text -- and is especially
seen in the Mosaic Law of
Karmic-Retribution that perpetually
returns back to us the fruit of our
own thoughts, desires and actions --
i.e.,
"Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked; for
whatever a man sows, that he will
also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).
A most profound statement by the
Church Father Origen is basically
rejected by the people of the simple
faith today who are incapable of
reason and engaging the mind in the
process of true spiritual growth.
What does Origen state:
“What man of sense will agree with
the statement that the first, second
and third days in which the evening
is named and the morning, were
without sun, moon and stars, and the
first day without a heaven.
What man is found such an
idiot as to suppose that God planted
trees in paradise in Eden, like a
husbandman, and planted therein the
tree of life, perceptible to the
eyes and senses, which gave life to
the eater thereof; and another tree
which gave to the eater thereof a
knowledge of good and evil?
I believe that every man must
hold these things for images, under
which the hidden sense lies
concealed” (Origen
- Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p.
142).

Jesus Said:
The God Of The Jews Was The Devil

And Because
The Church Has Embraced The Way of
the Jews
The Devil Is
The Christian God Today!

Jesus said that the God of the Jews
was the Devil. Paul called the
reading of the literal written word
of the Old Testament in the manner
that Fundamentalist do today the
"letter that
killeth" -- meaning that
it is the path to spiritual death.
In the writings of his disciple
Clement, Peter called the Old
Testament written word the
"...books with
the power to deceive".
And the Jewish mystic who spends his
life seeking the inner meaning of
the written word that the natural
mind of man is incapable of seeing,
has warned:
"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..."
(the
Zohar quoted in
No Jew Has Read The Torah).
The Church Father Origen proclaimed
those who are so gullible to believe
the literal written word of the Old
Testament idiots! Peter said what
appears to be historical never
happened. Paul called the literal
text an allegory.
In the exact same manner as the
enlightened Jewish Rabbi's, the
early Christian Church Father Origen
writes:
“It is sufficient however, to
represent in the style of a historic
narrative what is intended to convey
a secret meaning in the garb of
history, that those who have the
capacity may work out for themselves
all that relates to the subject.”
And with regard to what would
otherwise be historical symbols and
events that would appear to us as
the knowledge of superficial
episodes of the past, Origen writes:
“I believe that every man must hold
these things for images, under which
the hidden sense lies concealed”
(Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167
Franck, p. 142).
Students of Hebrew Mysticism will
perceive that what the third-century
Christian Church Father Origen wrote
was no different than what is
contained in the Zohar, where it
states:
“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”.
These
great truths are again demonstrated
in 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”. These same truths are again
conveyed to us in the words of the
Church Historian Eusebius:
“Many were led astray by reading the
allegorical contents of the
scriptures literally in the method
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”.
What these symbols truly mean is
perhaps best expressed by G.R.S.
Mead in his celebrated work,
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten,
where he explained that, once
properly understood, the true
meaning of what is
“…projected onto the screen…”
of the scriptures,
“…was in reality a picture of
their [man’s] own minds”.
In view of the fact that Yeshua
himself taught that the Kingdom of
God is within us (Luke 17:20-21),
that the scriptures were in fact a
blueprint of man’s own mind begins
to make a great deal of sense.
What Moses
Maimonedes is stating, then, is that
there exists many parts of the
scriptures that are literally and
historically not true. Isn't Paul
stating this exact same truth when
he writes to the Galatians who are
attempting to embrace Jewish
ritualistic ways, and states:
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under
the law, do ye not hear the law?” And then
Paul goes on to explain to those who
want to attempt to read the written
word literally, in an historical
context as Christians do today: “For it
is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a bondmaid, the
other by a freewoman. But he who was
of the bondwoman was born after the
flesh; but he of the freewoman was
by promise. Which things are an
allegory”
(Gal
4:21-24 KJV).
That the Jew who remained of a
natural carnal mindset could not see
beyond the symbols of the allegory,
and their eyes and hearts were
hardened so they could not
comprehend the true meaning of the
scriptures, is readily understood
where Paul states that
“their
minds were blinded” by God, “for
until this day remaineth the same
vail untaken away in the reading of
the old testament… even unto this
day, when Moses is read, the vail is
upon their heart”
(2 Cor 3:14-15
KJV). The time has come for this
vail to be removed from the eyes of
all Jews. What modern non-Jews fail
to realize today, is the reality
that all men of the flesh are
equally blind to the Truth Torah of
God!
From
a spiritual perspective, when the
Jews worship the god of the literal
word -- with rituals, animal
sacrifices, incense, in a temple
made with the hands of men, it can
truly be said that the Jews
worshiped a false god. And what was
it that the scriptures used by the
Jews said:
"The multitude
of your sacrifices-- what are they
to me? says the LORD. I have more
than enough of burnt offerings, of
rams and the fat of fattened
animals; I have no pleasure in the
blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you, this
trampling of my courts? Stop
bringing meaningless offerings! Your
incense is detestable to me. New
Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I
cannot bear your evil assemblies.
Your New Moon festivals and your
appointed feasts my soul hates. They
have become a burden to me; I am
weary of bearing them. When you
spread out your hands in prayer, I
will hide my eyes from you; even if
you offer many prayers, I will not
listen. Your hands are full of
blood; wash and make yourselves
clean. Take your evil deeds out of
my sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to
do right! Seek justice, encourage
the oppressed. Defend the cause of
the fatherless, plead the case of
the widow"
(Isa
1:11-17 NIV).
Why does the Most High God take no
pleasure in rituals, sacrifices,
incense, Sabbaths and New Moon
festivals? In the words of the
Church Father Origen:
“I believe that every man must hold
these things for images, under which
the hidden sense lies concealed.”
And in the words of Paul:
"Which things are an allegory.”
And in the words of the Jewish
Mystic:
“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”.


The
Devil -- The God Of The Jews!

The Early Spiritual Christians
Called The God Of The Jews A
Demiurge

Judaism is one of the last surviving
ancient mystery religions -- and
what is a mystery religion? When
Paul wrote:
“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) -- what he was
making reference to was the
inability of man in his natural
state of mind to even begin to
envision man's own higher spiritual
reality that is beyond even the
contemplation of his imagination. And
this is why Paul warned that while
he could only tell the baptized and
confirmed believers at Corinth about
Jesus and him crucified, he could in
no manner convey to them the inner
knowledge and mysteries of the
Gospel -- i.e.,
“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). 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).
When
Paul was taken up into the Kingdom
within (Luke 17:20-21), he said that
he saw
“…things so astounding that they are
beyond a man's power to describe or
put in words…” -- and
warned that those who are permitted
to gaze upon the Mysteries of the
Kingdom, will have witnessed a
higher reality that will be so
profound, that they will
“…not [be]
allowed to tell them to others”
(2 Cor 12:4 TLB).
And
Paul warned those who are under the
grave misconception that they can
simply read the literal text of the
scriptures and ascertain the Word of
God, that they were greatly deceived
-- i.e.,
“And if anyone
thinks that he knows anything, he
knows nothing yet as he ought to
know”
(1 Cor 8:2 NKJ). For if it
were possible for a man to simply
open the scriptures and be able to
discern the Truth and Reality that
was beyond natural human
comprehension, Jesus would not have
said of his disciples:
“For I tell
you the truth, many prophets and
righteous men longed to see what you
see but did not see it, and to hear
what you hear but did not hear it”
(Matt 13:17 NIV).
Surely, if the natural mind of man
was capable of understanding, the
prophets and righteous men of old
could have opened the scriptures and
learned the Mysteries of the Kingdom
of God -- but as Paul confirmed,
such a thing was impossible. And
it was for this reason that Jesus
had to open the minds of his
disciples to the inner meaning of
the scriptures -- i.e.,
"Then opened
he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures"
(Luke 24:45 KJV) -- but if the inner
revelation of the scriptures was
limited to the testimony of
"...Jesus
Christ, and him crucified"
(1 Cor 2:2 KJV) -- but the spiritual
revelation that can only be revealed
to the mind of those who are mature,
and have undergone the process of
spiritual transformation:
"However, we
speak wisdom among those who are
mature, yet not the wisdom of this
age, nor of the rulers of this age,
who are coming to nothing. But we
speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery, the hidden wisdom which God
ordained before the ages for our
glory, which none of the rulers of
this age knew; for had they known,
they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory. But as it is written:
'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the heart of
man the things which God has
prepared for those who love Him.'
But God has revealed them to us
through His Spirit. For the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep
things of God. For what man knows
the things of a man except the
spirit of the man which is in him?
Even so no one knows the things of
God except the Spirit of God. Now we
have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit who is from
God, that we might know the things
that have been freely given to us by
God. These things we also speak, not
in words which man's wisdom teaches
but which the Holy Spirit teaches,
comparing spiritual things with
spiritual. 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. But
he who is spiritual judges all
things, yet he himself is rightly
judged by no one. 'who has known the
mind of the Lord that he may
instruct Him?' But we have the mind
of Christ" (1 Cor 2:6-16
NKJ).

The Demiurge -- God Of The Jews:
The earliest Christians affirmed
these words of Paul, and stated that
the god of the Jews of a natural
mind was a lesser god, and not the
God of Jesus -- and what was being
made reference to, was the lesser
Laws of the Left Hand of Correction
which blinded those in what Jesus
called the
"outer darkness" (
http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org
) in a world of illusion.
And
because most Christians lack insight
into the manner in which the
scriptures are written, they make
the fatal mistake of judging what
they don't understand.
Once properly
understood, it was for good reason
that the Spiritual Christians who
were the disciples of Paul called
the god of the Jews a Demiurge -- a
lesser god. In full agreement,
Jesus said that these ritually
Torah observant keepers of the
Law worship the Devil -- "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).
The later Church of Rome
condemned the Spiritual Christians
because they said that the god of
the Jews was not the God of Jesus --
and in the above Jesus confirms that
position to be true. And in the
same way, because the modern
Christians have all been shackled to
the worship of the same lesser god
of the Left Hand, what Jesus said to
them is true of the Christians
today. And because people fail to
comprehend the nature of what Peter
describes as the Mystery of the
Books that have the power to deceive
-- wherein, the Left Hand which is
the karmic-corrective Mosaic Law of
Retribution which is portrayed in
the literal text, while it is the
inner Spirit that reveals the Right
Hand that heals and frees men from
the karmic shackles of their own
past -- in worshiping the god of the
literal, they worship the devil.
But because they lack an
understanding of the manner in which
the scriptures are composed in the
language of the soul, the vast
majority of Christians reject the
Spirit and embrace the letter that
killeth -- and thereby worship the
Demiurge of the Pharisees.
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The Church Of
The AntiChrist

The Prediction That Satan Would Rule
The Church: In total
disregard of the admonition of the
scriptures themselves, the greater
majority of Christians believe that
the church is beyond the reach of
Satan -- that God somehow drew a
line that Satan cannot cross over --
and because of this force of Divine
protection, Satan has not immersed
himself in every aspect of their
lives! Yet, to
their own detriment, the leaders of
the modern church ignore the warning
of the Apostle:
“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).
Not to depreciate or make less
the significance of any one of the
individual statements presented in
the above words, what the modern
believer must recognized is the
far-reaching totality of the
statement:
“But
what this apostasy means is a
question which has not yet, and
perhaps never will be, answered to
general satisfaction”.
Ultimately, what this
means to the modern believer is that
each and every church authority from
the fourth-century to the present,
as well as every single preacher of
the gospel, speaks from the position
of concession -- which concession is
that there is a great void in their
knowledge of the truth.
Thus, one of the core
presumptions upon which our
present-day doctrine of faith is
based, is that these words of the
Apostle Paul are not true.
One of the major causes of the
present state of doctrinal chaos is
the failure of modern pastors and
church authorities to recognize that
the key to their dilemma is found in
the prediction of the Apostle that
there would come a time of total
abandonment of the Gospel with
respect to the desolation of all
genuine spiritual Christian ideas
and concepts.
What this means is that the
Apostle predicts that in the near
future,
the
true religion of Jesus would cease
to exist in this world.
In this respect, the
words of the Apostle are quite clear
in their assertion -- i.e., from the
time period of the first century of
our Common Era when it was written
by the hand of Paul, it
prophetically speaks of a time in
the near future when the teachings
that Yeshua placed in the hands of
mankind would cease to exist -- and
it is the correct assertion of many
Christians that this in fact took
place in the establishment of an
institutionalized church under the
control of Pagan Rome in the fourth
century.
What the modern Christian fails
to realize is that the total
corruption of the doctrine of the
church which the Apostle speaks of
was in fact brought about by the
adoption of the Christ of
Constantine, which resulted in the
rejection of the Messiah Yeshua of
Nazareth. While
it is true that believers use the
name Jesus, and call themselves his
followers, what Christians have lost
sight of is that the essence of the
religion of the New Covenant is
spiritual -- and where the physical
body of Messiah/Christ was crucified
by the carnal Jews in the first
century, the spiritual body of
Messiah/Christ was crucified in the
fourth century.
In further explanation with
regard to this crucial prediction of
the Apostle, the Adam Clark
Commentary then goes on to provide
us a vivid description of
Constantine and the formation of his
new church:
“[Who opposeth
and exalteth] He stands against and
exalts himself above all divine
authority, and above every object of
adoration, and every institution,
relative to divine worship, sebasma,
himself being the source, whence
must originate all the doctrines of
religion, and all its rites and
ceremonies; so that sitting in the
temple of God -- having the highest
place and authority in the Christian
church, he acts as God -- taking
upon himself God's titles and
attributes, and arrogating to
himself the authority that belongs
to the Most High”
(from the Adam Clarke Commentary).
That these events came to pass is
well documented from a historical
perspective -- i.e., the church was
ruled by Satanic forces that
dictated every aspect of Christian
doctrine. And
while it is true that many faithful
believers, clergy, pastors and
religious authorities today have
recognized the defilement of the
church that took place beginning in
the fourth century, what could not
be revealed until now was the
absolute certainty that, because the
Church has never fully recovered
from the darkness and corruption
that was imposed upon the teachings
of the church by the ruthless
political despots of the past,
essential foundational principles,
as well as indispensable elements of
New Covenant knowledge of what is
constantly referred to in the Bible
as the Mysteries of God, is
presently absent from the thinking
of the body of the faithful
believers to this very day.



Satan Speaks To The Christian Elect
The Apostle warned:
"For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this age, against
spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places"
(Eph 6:12 NKJ). From a biblical
perspective, the supernatural being
referred to by Paul as Satan, who
the Apostle refers to as the god of
this realm, easily speaks to
Christians and impersonates God,
Yeshua, or an angelic being, and
thus successfully gains control over
the thinking of the religious people
of any given generation by speaking
to their imagination.
What does this mean?
He begins the process by
inspiring within them a vision of a
kingdom that is to come at some
later time.
Where Yeshua preached that the
Kingdom is here -- at hand, and
could be entered through a change of
mind -- the forces of darkness
blinds the hearts and minds of the
believer to the Kingdom that is
already present and has been set
before them.
The result is that the Prince of
Darkness continues to rule over the
hearts and minds of the believers
because, in their state of spiritual
complacency, they continue to live
in accordance with the culture of
this world, and never actually take
up their crosses and follow in the
footsteps of Yeshua.
And while they think they are
different than the unbeliever, often
it is found that they are different
only in the words they speak.
Thus, while they believe and have
faith, their faith is misdirected.
In failing to recognize the
warning of Paul with respect to the
total
“…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…”,
Satan successfully alters the
believers perception of the
scriptures, and induces them to wait
-- rather than begin the journey
into the Kingdom where the Son of
God awaits them.
The Satanic powers of darkness that
are revealed in the scriptures gains
the upper hand by moving the hearts
and minds of unsuspecting men and
women to become attached to this
world by whatever means possible.
He controls religious people
by seducing them into adopting a
life of spiritual complacency and
impotence -- using religion to
effect within the believer a false
vision of their own level of
spirituality as being exalted and
heightened. He
often accomplishes this deception by
inducing them to judge and compare
themselves to non-believers, and
those who have already surrendered
their soul over to the Prince of
Darkness.
It was easy for Lot to perceive
himself a righteous person in
comparison to the inhabitants of
Sodom. It is in
like manner easy for the average
Christian today to view themselves
as being a faithful and believing
people in relation to the criminal
element that is portrayed in our
newspapers and media.
The flaw in this perception
is seen in the fact that the Bible
does not require us to be better
than the unholy -- but rather, to be
Christ-like -- and ultimately as
perfect as our Heavenly Father (Matt
5:48). Thus,
because we judge ourselves in
accordance with the standards of
this world, the result is that the
religious person sees himself as
being in accord with the gospel
message, because he can easily
perceive a difference between
himself and the people he views as
being turned out of The Way.
From the perspective of what
the Apostle calls the god of this
world, this false vision of
righteousness is absolutely
necessary in order to implant within
their minds a strong delusion that
induces them to believe that they
are fulfilling the Word of God.

The Ministers of Satan: A great truth that the Bible
continually warns the religious
person about -- a truth that he must
come to terms with if he is to
become a disciple of the Light -- is
that this supernatural being which
the Apostle calls the god of this
world has the power to ordain
servants to mislead the flock of
believers -- and more importantly,
even those servants are unaware that
they have become the ministers of
Satan. More
importantly, the servants of Satan
are very often the people who the
flock of believers regard as the
most well meaning of individuals --
men and women who the believing
community perceives as religious
allies, and perhaps even saintly.
Throughout the course of human
history it can be demonstrated that
large numbers of true believers have
permitted themselves to be deceived
and led into error and captivity,
because they failed to heed the
lesson of the biblical account of
Samson and Delilah -- where the
betrayer appears to be good, and yet
saps their strength, and then
attacks the believers in order to
enslave them.
If, then, we are to break the bonds
of slavery, and succeed in
safeguarding ourselves from being
deceived, we must become acutely
aware of the important biblical
warning that:
“There is a
way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of
death”
(Prov 14:12 KJV).
From the perspective of the Prince
of Darkness, we are more easily
conquered and led into a life of
servitude by those who appear to us
as allies and champions of the
faith, than those who would oppose
us. No doubt
many Christians will immediately
reject this argument -- saying, God
would not permit this to happen to
His church. But
this claim is quickly proven
counterfeit when it is demonstrated
that God has indeed permitted the
church to fall into error.
Can the believer trust the
affirmation of the leaders of the
church with respect to their claim
of doctrinal purity and Divine
protection? The
Bible very clearly states that the
opposite is true, and it is the
leaders of the church who will be in
error when they make this claim.
In confirmation of what was
predicted by Paul, Yeshua said that
the powers of darkness which seek to
enslave us, and will accomplish this
by fooling the very elect of the
church (Mat 24:24; Mk 13:22).
The Apostle warns that Satan
will appear as an Angel of light,
and he will transform his ministers
and servants of darkness to make
them falsely appear to you as good,
in order to deceive you (2 Cor
11:14). In this
respect, the Bible warns us that
what seems right to the carnal mind
of man, is the very thing that will
bring about the ways of death (Prov
14:12). This reality
is truly manifest among believers
who are under the deception that
they have fulfilled the requirements
of walking in TheWay, by merely
saying a prayer to the Jesus-god,
and then living their daily lives no
different than those who dwell in
Sodom and Gormorah.
What Yeshua warned his followers
was to:
“Beware of
false prophets, which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they
are ravening wolves. Ye shall know
them by their fruits” (Matt 7:15-16 KJV).
In understanding the
far-reaching reality of these words,
we must comprehend exactly what the
fruits are that Yeshua makes
reference to which we should use to
judge the validity of our religious
leaders! Fruits
in the scriptures relate to works
and accomplishments -- and the works
of the spirit is seen in the ability
of the shepherd of the flock to
place within the hands of the
believer the Key that opens the door
to what the Bible calls the house of
knowledge -- and then demonstrate
how to use that knowledge to guide
the believer into the Kingdom -- a
Kingdom that will never come upon
the earth as our present-day church
authorities proclaim (Luke
17:20-21), but exists at this very
time in a parallel dimension.
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The Written
Word Portrays The Left Hand Of God
The Inner
Spiritual Meaning the Right Hand Of
God

Jesus said the god of the Jews
was the Devil -- the Spiritual
Christians who were called Gnostics
said the god of the Jew was a lesser
god who was a Demiurge -- and Paul
warned that you can't be saved by
the works of the written word of the
Law -- that the reader of the
scriptures who failed to understand
the allegorical manner they were
composed in, embraced the
"letter that
killeth" -- and Peter
called the written word the books
that have the power to deceive --
because the literal word of the
scriptures portrays the Left Hand of
God, while the inner spiritual
meaning that lies beneath the
allegorical garb, reveals the Right
Hand that can save. The Left Hand
is the reflective reality -- i.e.,
Lucifer -- and this reflective
reality is called the Bringer
of Light, because the reflective
reality is a corrective response to
our word, thoughts, desires and
deeds that forces an upward movement
towards completion. When a child
misbehaves, a parent applies a
corrective action in accordance with
the needs of the child. And in the
scriptures this great truth is
revealed in the words: "Do
not be deceived, God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, that he
will also reap" (Gal 6:7
NKJ).
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 in another place in the
same writings Peter explains:
"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."
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."
And in prayer Peter states:
"Deliver
me, O Lord of all, from Thy fearful
judgment. Do not give the enemy
power to swallow me up, and to
become heir of my soul, as of that
of him who is hanging on the left;
for I see how the devil joyfully
takes his soul, and his body
disappears."
But Christians today are as the men
of Nineveh of whom it is said:
"And should I
not pity Nineveh, that great city,
in which are more than one hundred
and twenty thousand persons who
cannot discern between their right
hand and their left?"
(Jonah 4:11 NKJ). For as it was
said to Job:
"Then I will
also confess to you that your own
right hand can save you" (Job 40:14
NKJ). And in the Psalms: "You will
show me the path of life; in Your
presence is fullness of joy; at Your
right hand are pleasures
forevermore... Though I walk in the
midst of trouble, You will revive
me; you will stretch out Your hand
against the wrath of my enemies, and
Your right hand will save me"
(Ps 16:11;138:7 NKJ). Which is the
reason why Jesus said that those on
the right will enter into life,
while those on the left will inherit
the tribulation of their deeds and
ways: "Then
He will also say to those on the
left hand, 'Depart from Me, you
cursed, into the everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his
angels" (Matt 25:41 NKJ)
The Left Hand is portrayed in the
literal text -- and is especially
seen in the Mosaic Law of
Karmic-Retribution that perpetually
returns back to us the fruit of our
own thoughts, desires and actions --
i.e.,
"Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked; for
whatever a man sows, that he will
also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).
A most profound statement by the
Church Father Origen is basically
rejected by the people of the simple
faith today who are incapable of
reason and engaging the mind in the
process of true spiritual growth.
What does Origen state:
“What man of sense will agree with
the statement that the first, second
and third days in which the evening
is named and the morning, were
without sun, moon and stars, and the
first day without a heaven.
What man is found such an
idiot as to suppose that God planted
trees in paradise in Eden, like a
husbandman, and planted therein the
tree of life, perceptible to the
eyes and senses, which gave life to
the eater thereof; and another tree
which gave to the eater thereof a
knowledge of good and evil?
I believe that every man must
hold these things for images, under
which the hidden sense lies
concealed” (Origen
- Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p.
142).
Once these words are
understood, they are in essence no
different than what Paul stated,
Peter in the Clementine Homilies,
the Zohar, and even St. Augustine in
the words: “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).
The Fundamentalists who insist
that the literal text of the Old
Testament is the un-errored word of
God, insist that the earth is only
6,000 years old. They reject the
higher wisdom that teaches that the
scriptures are an allegory that
conveys inner spiritual truths of
the mind and spirit in a series of
forms and symbols, and they demand
that Genesis be taught as historical
truth. Yet, even a casual
examination of the facts by a high
school student proves them wrong.
Then, the secular left uses this
weak link to condemn the Bible as a
whole, and thereby successfully
undermines the teachings of Yeshua
and TheWay. Yet, what we have in
Darwinism is grave error opposing
gross ignorance of the manner in
which the Old Testament and all
scriptures are written -- thus, we
have ignorance opposing ignorance.
While Christianity has been
relegated to the junk-heap in Europe
-- which has permitted Islam to
thrive -- in the United States the
failings of the left have actually
fed the religious right. Because
the left has created an environment
where the only means to cure the
rampant alcohol and drug addiction
is through belief in the Jesus-god,
the churches are overflowing with
ex-addicts who are often incapable
of embracing higher thought. And
while these people have found great
strength and solace in their beliefs
-- and have thus found healing from
their addictions -- the very fact
that they cling to a Fundamentalist
interpretation of the Old Testament
gives the left overwhelming
ammunition to undermine genuine
religious teachings. So it becomes
a vicious circle of people on both
the left and the right who are
incapable of even envisioning higher
reality, undermining the very
foundations of our culture by
attacking the weaknesses of the
opposing sides.
The
Gnostics Were Right: In an
Orthodox Jewish community the study
of Torah is a strength -- but in
view of the fact that 95% of
American Jews are non-Torah
observant, most are Atheists, and
they embrace every garden variety of
immorality of the left, then in the
lives of the majority of people the
Old Testament is an anchor that
shackles them to a gross
misunderstanding of God and man's
higher reality. The people who
come here are those who know
intuitively that there is something
more than what is embraced by either
mainstream of Fundamentalist
Christianity. And we nourish them
by assuring them that the God of
Jesus has nothing in common with the
counterfeit portrayal of God in the
allegorical Old Testament -- i.e.,
the vengeful god that chooses one
group of idol worshipers over all
the peoples of the earth -- kills
innocent men, women and children
-- commands the people not to kill,
and then is the first to break this
commandment -- and judges the
children of sinners to the third and
fourth generation.
In the allegorical text, in order
to demonstrate to mankind God's
absolute power and authority, it is
observed that God often chose the
most morally degenerate men to
inherit the good.
King David, for example, was
a murderer and an adulterer, as
demonstrated by The New Unger's
Bible Dictionary in their sighting
under David for First Samuel 13:14:
“How, ask
some, could a man after God's own
heart have murdered Uriah, seduced
Bathsheba, and tortured the
Ammonites? An extract from one who
is not a too-indulgent critic of
sacred characters expresses at once
the common sense and the religious
lesson of the whole matter. ‘David,
the Hebrew king, had fallen into
sins enough -- blackest crimes --
there was no want of sin. And,
thereupon, the unbelievers sneer,
and ask, ‘Is this your man according
to God' s heart?’”
(Carlyle, Heroes and
Hero-worship, 1:277; from New
Unger's Bible Dictionary, originally
published by Moody Press of Chicago,
Illinois.
Copyright (C) 1988).
It would appear that God chose
David -- a true sinner -- over Saul,
because Saul possessed a conscience,
and did not unmercifully wipe out
his enemies, as seen where it is
written under the heading of Saul:
“But he
disobeyed the divine injunction by
taking alive Agag, the king, and
sparing all the best of the cattle
and all that was valuable,
destroying only that which was
despised and worthless. Instead of
pursuing the campaign and finishing
the destruction of the fugitives…”
(New Unger's Bible
Dictionary).
Thus, Saul failed in his mission --
which was to totally wipe out all
the men, women, children, and
everything that breathed among the
enemies of Israel.
Anyone who believes that the
Bible is literally true where it is
written:
“And the LORD
our God delivered him over to us; so
we defeated him, his sons, and all
his people. We took all his cities
at that time, and we utterly
destroyed the men, women, and little
ones of every city; we left none
remaining”
(Deut 2:33-34 NKJ); is simply unable
to perceive the Divine Essence of
God. What does this
killer of the innocent have in
common with the Heavenly Father
revealed by Jesus? Absolutely
nothing! In the Clementine
Homilies it is written:
“Then
Peter answered: Assuredly, with good
reason, I neither believe anything
against God, nor against the just
men recorded in the law, taking for
granted that they are impious
imaginations. For, as I am
persuaded, neither was Adam a
transgressor, who was fashioned by
the hands of God; nor was Noah
drunken, who was found righteous
above all the world; nor did Abraham
live with three wives at once, who,
on account of his sobriety, was
thought worthy of a numerous
posterity; nor did Jacob associate
with four women - of whom two were
sisters - who was the father of the
twelve tribes, and who intimated the
coining of the presence of our
Master; nor was Moses a murderer,
nor did he learn to judge from an
idolatrous priest - he who set forth
the law of God to all the world, and
for his right judgment has been
testified to as a faithful steward”.
It was of these symbols that Origen
said: “I
believe that every man must hold
these things for images, under which
the hidden sense lies concealed”.
So every source of wisdom
declares that the literal text of
the Old Testament is not literally
true -- and yet, it is from this
antiquated Mystery-religion text
that the vast majority of people
form their opinions and beliefs
about God -- to their own spiritual
demise. Since the people are not
initiates into the secret system,
and are incapable of understanding
the true meaning of the text, then
from a spiritual perspective it
would be best to discard it in the
manner that the first Spiritual
Christians did. While the Old
Testament is a source of knowledge
to the few who understand the
allegorical language, what is
important with respect to the
essential teachings for seekers to
embrace, is already presented to us
in the New Testament and such
additional writings as the Gospel of
the Nazirenes.
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The Mystery Of
The Books
With The Power
To Deceive

It
is the position of many Biblical
researchers that most of the Old
Testament comes from other, more
ancient writings. Even Jewish
writers admit that most of the
Hebrew writings were merely taken
freely from Sumerian, Babylonian,
Egyptian, and even Greek sources.
Horace Meyer Kallen, at one time a
professor at the Jewish New School
of Social Research, said that the
Book of Job was lifted bodily from
an early and obscure Greek play.
Scientist and author Immanuel
Velikovsky admitted that there are
"many parallels"
between the Vedic Hymns and the
Books of Joel and Isaiah. Hebrew
scholar Zecharia Sitchin claimed
that the Book of Genesis is based on
the Sumerian creation myth. The
story of Noah comes from the
Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh. The
Psalms were taken word for word from
Akhenaton's Hymns to the Sun,
written 600 years earlier in Egypt.
The Ten Commandments were taken
wholly from the Egyptian Book of the
Dead. And so on through the books of
the Old Testament.
In our present time the vast
majority of believers and
non-believers are not only totally
ignorant of the above reality, but
fail to comprehend the reality of
the very true words of the Zohar
where it states:
“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”.
And while Paul warns the people
that the Old Testament is an
allegory -- and the written word is
not on untrue, but he portrays the
written word as "...the
letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life"
-- we can see the reality of
these words in the world today in
both believers misconceptions
pertaining to God, and people's
rejection of God based upon an
ignorance of the allegorical manner
in which the Old Testament is
written. And the results of this
misconception is so grave, that the
Zohar warns those who are under the
delusion that they have read the
Word of God:
"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..."
What is being said? That
those who read the Old Testament
without knowing the secret code
possessed only by initiates into the
Jewish Mystery religion that
requires a lifetime of study and
dedication to master, will have so
wasted their time on the study of
the written word, that they will be
deprived of the promise of entering
into Life. On the other hand, if
you are a Jew, and you live in a
Hasidic fully Torah observant
community that studies Kabbalah
and Jewish Mysticism, only
then will you be able to get a more
correct perception of God and Higher
Reality.
Speaking of the ability of
Simon Magus to deceive the people
through the allegorical nature of
the Old Testament, in the Clementine
Homilies Peter warns:
“And with us,
indeed, who have had handed down
from our forefathers the worship of
the God who made all things, and
also the
mystery of the books which are able
to deceive,
he will not
prevail; but with those from amongst
the Gentiles who have the
polytheistic fancy bred in them,
and who know
not the falsehoods of the
Scriptures,
he will
prevail much. And not only he;
but if any
other shall recount to those from
among the Gentiles
any vain,
dreamlike, richly set out story
against God, he will be believed,
because from their childhood their
minds are accustomed to take in
things spoken against God. And few
there shall be of them, as a few out
of a multitude, who through
ingenuousness shall not be willing
so much as to hear an evil word
against the God who made all things.
And to these
alone from amongst the Gentiles it
shall be vouchsafed to be saved.
Let not any
one of you, therefore, altogether
complain of Simon, or of any one
else; for nothing happens unjustly,
since even the falsehoods of
Scripture are with good reason
presented for a test.”
Notice the words in
RED.
If those who are not initiated into
the secret code of the allegory will
be greatly deceived -- to the degree
that the Kabbalah warns that they
will be deprived of entering into
Life -- then why would anyone in
their right mind even promote such a
system in our present time? The
deception is so rampant, and so all
consuming, that the Spiritual
Christians who were called Gnostics,
rejected the Old Testament entirely,
and began their scriptures with
Yeshua after the resurrection.
Check out Pistis Sophia (see
http://alchemy.nazirene.org/pistis1.htm ),
and see for yourself. They did
this because so many people are
deceived by the allegorical
portrayals of God -- which is in
reality the portrayal of the Left
Hand of God which we often refer to
as Satan -- that they wanted no part
in promoting these antiquated
scriptures of the ancient Jewish
Mystery religion that Peter
correctly portrays as the books that
deceive.
A truly important statement is
made by Peter in the Clementine
Homilies where it is written:
“Neither,
therefore, are the Hebrews condemned
on account of their ignorance of
Jesus, by reason of Him who has
concealed Him, if, doing the things
commanded by Moses, they do not hate
Him whom they do not know. Neither
are those from among the Gentiles
condemned, who know not Moses on
account of Him who hath concealed
him, provided that these also, doing
the things spoken by Jesus, do not
hate Him whom they do not know. And
some will not be profited by calling
the teachers lords, but not doing
the works of servants. For on this
account our Jesus Himself said to
one who often called Him Lord, but
did none of the things which He
prescribed, ‘Why call ye me Lord,
Lord, and do not the things which I
say?’ For it is not saying that will
profit any one, but doing. By all
means, therefore, is there need of
good works.
Moreover, if
any one has been thought worthy to
recognize both as preaching one
doctrine, that man has been counted
rich in God, understanding both the
old things as new in time, and the
new things as old.”
Those very few who possess the
depth of insight to be able to
pierce beneath the garb of the
allegorical text of the Old
Testament, know that there is
absolutely no difference between
what is written in the Old and New
Testaments -- with the exception
that the New presents a more
realistic portrayal of God and what
is expected of man in his search for
the Kingdom within. Prior to the
fourth century, many Christians did
not even use the Old Testament
because of its power to deceive --
and the Old Testament was used by
the Church of Constantine as a means
to promote their violence against
their opponents. How could they
kill in the name of the God of Jesus
who required all men to turn the
other cheek? They could not! So
they drew their image of God out of
the literal text of the allegorical
Old Testament, and worshiped the
Left Hand of God.
In our present time there are
groups who call themselves Nazarenes
who are born again Pharisees who
desire to build the third temple and
begin to sacrifice animals in accord
with the literal text of the Old
Testament. These people are
thoroughly deceived by these ancient
Mystery religion writings that can
only be understood by initiates of
the system. The Jehovah's
Witnesses, Evangelical Christians,
and other groups all derive their
perception of God from the Old
Testament -- to their own spiritual
demise. Peter states to his
disciple Clement: "...Let
not any one of you, therefore,
altogether complain of Simon, or of
any one else; for nothing happens
unjustly,
since even the
falsehoods of Scripture are with
good reason presented for a test.”
The test is that
those who hold unworthy ideas
pertaining to God, and fail to live
in accord with the Royal Law, are
themselves banished from the Kingdom
and the Knowledge of the Truth. So
why would I want to begin with
writings that are a source of
spiritual deception? And this is
why though I understand the inner
meaning of the allegory, I rarely
quote the Old Testament.
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The Gospel Of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas proclaims a unique and very
different message from the current "accepted" New Testament Gospels. In
contrast to the way in which he is now portrayed, Jesus in the Gospel
of Thomas performs no physical miracles, reveals no fulfillment of
prophecy, announces no apocalyptic kingdom, and dies for no one's sins.
Instead, Jesus provides insight and wisdom and offers a way of salvation
through the understandings of his teachings and words. The readers of
the Gospel of Thomas are invited to discover within themselves
the way of salvation, by interpreting the cryptic and enigmatic "hidden
sayings" of the living Jesus. While
modern Christians might be offended by the spiritual concept that one
must possess knowledge in order to receive salvation, what they fail to
realize is the acquisition of knowledge is in fact the very essence of
New Covenant thought. The whole of both the Gospel message, as well as
the Apostle Paul's doctrine that man is saved by Faith, is based upon
the threefold nature of man (physical, soul, spirit) and the indwelling
Kingdom of God (see Luke 17:20-21).
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Pistis Sophia
Pistis Sophia is actually a
series of fragments, not a complete book. It is almost a catalogue of
Gnostic works that were so persecuted that only fragments of them exist
in the modern world. The works that make up
Pistis Sophia were banned by
the Roman Church. It is said that the Nag Hammedi Library, a collection
of Gnostic holy books was discovered in 1948, fleshes out the fragments
that make up Pistis Sophia.
The Pistis Sophia is a spiritual work that often reveals the inner
meaning of the symbols used in the traditional New Testament. Quoting
the word: Jesus chose the Twelve before He came into the world. He chose
twelve powers, receiving them from the twelve Saviors of the
Light-Treasure. When He descended into the world, He cast them as sparks
into the wombs of their mothers, that the whole world might be saved --
Pistis Sophia.
Book One
Book Two
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Shepherd Of Hermas
If it is true that the Shepherd of
Hermas was the most widely accepted and used Book by the earliest of
non-Jewish followers of Jesus, then it is also true that what Jesus
taught has very little in common with what Christians believe today.
And if this is true, then the Atheist and non-believers who oppose
Christianity, do not find fault and oppose what Jesus taught -- but
rather, the manmade doctrines of the Church of Constantine that came
into existence in the fourth century (see
The Death Of
the Religion of Jesus). Every believer and non-believer has the
ability to prove the Truth beyond any doubt whatsoever by virtue of
their own spiritual experiences. And while it is true that the modern
believer has alienated themselves to the Truth by virtue of the adoption
of manmade beliefs and doctrine, those unbelievers who oppose them are
equally imbued with error. And while each individual has the ability
to prove the Truth for themselves, the Laws that control this world
would inhibit them from revealing this Higher Truth to either the body
of believers, or their unbelieving brothers and sisters. Therefore,
being able to point out the error of others does not in and of itself
constitute Truth, because both the believer and unbeliever dwell in a
divided reality where each possesses valid facts that are rejected by
their opposites, each remains equally in error! Most believers need
what many unbelievers possess, and most unbelievers have been themselves
alienated from the Higher Truths by virtue of the same government
secular forces that ruled the Church for over a thousand years.
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Essene Gospel Of
Peace
In the same way that the Roman Church attempted to conceal the sexual
abuse of young children for the sake of the institution, it would be
truly difficult to explain why many of the core beliefs that were
suppressed while Christianity was under the direct control of the Roman
Imperial Government, was not re-established once the church became
free. How can the church at this late date reveal to the faithful flock
that such truths as the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection (Mt
5:48) over the course of many lives (transmigration/reincarnation), was
removed from Christian doctrine by a Roman Emperor (see
http://www.nazirene.org/secret_doctrine.htm#reincarnation )? How
can the church admit that doing no harm to any living creature was a
commandment of Jesus to those who would be his followers -- that they
were vegetarians (see
http://watcher.nazirene.org/watcher4.htm#vegetarian ) -- and would
not even consider someone who ate the flesh of slain beasts to be a
follower of Christ? How could the church at this late date admit that
within us is the True Temple of God, and whatever exists outwardly in
this world with respect to the church is merely at best a portal that
serves as an entrance point into the indwelling Kingdom (Luke
17:20-21)? They cannot! And in the manner of the cover-up of the
pedophile priests, these truths are best concealed from the masses --
for the sake of the church.
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Book Of Enoch
Christians will
rightfully ask: Why would I want to read the Book of Enoch? The reason
is that hidden within the text of Enoch is the knowledge of the Laws
that inhibit our access into the Kingdom that Jesus taught is within us
(Luke 17:20-21). While there is very little in Enoch that is
literally/historically accurate, the message within the symbolism of the
text is of such a profound reality, that the code to comprehending the
secret wisdom it concealed was kept by the Essenes by virtue of a sworn
oath not to reveal to those who were not worthy of the Sacred
Knowledge. An Essene would sooner die, than to betray the wisdom of
the Sacred Knowledge of the Laws of God. Among the reasons why a modern
Christian would want to read the Books of Enoch is this: Perhaps because
they took to heart the words of biblical scholar
A. Powell Davies:
“Biblical scholars”,
he writes, ”were not
disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had
known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was
commonly supposed to have been”
(quoted by Millar Burrows in
More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls). Then
again, perhaps they became disturbed by the words of Prof. John Allegro
in is book, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity,
where he writes: “It is
a fact that the Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the
Johannine writings and many longheld conceptions have had to be
radically revised. No longer can John be regarded as the most
Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his gnosticism, and the whole framework
of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism
rooted in palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in
the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.”
The very idea that the
authors of our scriptures were Gnostic -- i.e., concealing the true
meaning within the body of the text in a system of code that could only
be deciphered by one who was versed in the system of Gnostic secrets and
thought -- should frighten the modern Christian.
One of the fundamental
truths that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has demonstrated to us
today is the defectiveness of what we believe with respect to Christian
foundings -- as well as our grave misconception regarding the commonly
held idea that the time of the Old Covenant was before Jesus -- and that
what was called the Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant which
was inaugurated by Jesus. In fact, one of the
profound realities many of our experts today have begun to understand,
is that nothing could be farther from the truth.
When Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls asked
the question as to what difference it makes if
“Jesus... had been trained in the
discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and
that he had learned from it the role that he afterwards lived...”
(The Scrolls From The Dead Sea), the defectiveness of our commonly held
ideas was immediately brought to light. Moreover,
what some of our experts have now come to suspect is that the primary
difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant has absolutely
nothing to do with their choice of biblical testaments -- bur rather, is
founded upon the manner of thinking of the people, and the means by
which a believer is to receive the revelation of God.
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The Gospel of Philip
At this
link is both the
Patterson Brown
translation, and in the color brown is the
Welsey
W. Isenburg translation. On
reading each of the translations separately, I realized that each often
augmented the understanding of the other, and both helped in
understanding the soul and spiritual meaning of the written word.
The Patterson Brown translation is still accessing the interlinear and
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The Cult Of The
Worship Of Mary Magdalene
Gnosticism is embodied in the words of the Gospel of Thomas:
"But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty... Whoever
finds himself is superior to the world". When Valentinus,
perhaps the most recognized Gnostic, stated that the vast majority of
people cannot achieve salvation or permanence, let me pose the question:
Is this because they are ignorant of historical people such as Mary
Magdalene? In the Gospel of Light which is attributed to him, there is
not even one mention of Mary -- or any other historical person -- making
reference to Jesus as having come to teach men how to receive the Sacred
Gnosis of the Inner Kingdom. Has those modern pseudo-neo-Gnostics who
promote the cult of the worship of Mary Magdalene ever asked the
question: What knowledge of even the most secret historical account,
would bestow upon the hearer eternal life? Valentinus stated that the
people of this world cannot achieve salvation, because they are imbued
with "hyleticism" --
which is the worship of the material. Even among seekers, salvation
could not be achieved, because they are imbued with "psychism" --
which he portrayed as the sickness of abstract intellectualism and
moralizing. The word abstract is of great importance, because it
denotes theoretical and non-experiential knowledge from direct Inner
Sources. Only through the
"pneuma" --
i.e., the knowledge of one's own inner soul and spiritual nature, can
one achieve salvation and permanence. And from a purely Christian
perspective, if you do as Jesus Commanded -- live the life he ordained,
and embrace the mindset of in the world and not of it -- then you will
be able to receive the Divine Gnosis of the Inner Kingdom.
Thus, speaking of this inner source of Gnosis, Peter speaks of the True
Prophet, and proclaims to his disciple Clement in the Homilies: “Hence,
O beloved Clement, if you would know the things pertaining to
God, you have to learn them from Him alone, because He alone knows the
truth. For if any one else knows anything, he has received it from Him
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Unity Of Mind - Science Proves
Religion
The Bible teaches that parallel
realms exist. Jesus taught that a Disciple of TheWay could enter the
Kingdom while still alive in the body. Hebrew/Christian Mystics have
long witnessed to what modern science now confirms - that we can enter
the Kingdom, and thereby fulfill Paul's Commandment to prove all things.
For Genuine Christians, blind belief is a thing of the past, because it
is within their ability to prove their beliefs! Atheists no longer have
an excuse, because their own science has proven that man has the ability
to prove the existence of God by virtue of their own spiritual
experiences. Learn how to go beyond the limitations of Church doctrine.
Discover how science can strengthen religious faith, and how evolution
does not contradict Christian teaching, but rather, reflects God?s
creative hand among us.
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Jesus Was A Mystic
Jesus was a Mystic, and he taught his disciples how to walk the
spiritual path known as TheWay. Paul warned that man in his natural
state cannot know the Truth. The True Church is Spiritual, and can only
be entered by spiritual men and women who dedicate and surrender their
lives to the teachings of Jesus and TheWay. Everyone else embraces
error -- institutionalized error -- in church, school and every other
aspect of life.
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