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All truth passes through three Schopenhauerstages:
   First, it is ridiculed;    Second, it is violently opposed; and  Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

What is a Causal Factor?  It means that there is a Reason for every aspect of the life you are living.  That every event in your life is caused by the Natural Laws of Creation -- often invoked by your own previous actions -- including the very life you are presently living.  It means that there is a higher reason and purpose to the life you are living -- and for you to fulfill the adage to Know Thyself, you must understand the Causal-Factors in the Life that you are presently living.  Which provokes the questions: Why were you born into this life?  Why were you born into the conditions of the life you are presently living?  Why did your Soul choose your present gender -- your present race -- the conditions of your birth?  Today we hear the term Transgender -- suggesting that person feels they are not the same gender as their physical body -- which provokes the question: Why did your Soul choose for you to live this present life?  Which further raises the question: What is the purpose of the life you are presently living?  Which further provokes the question: If life has a higher purpose, then what would constitute a successful life?  The vast majority of people believe that their lives are the result of fate, chance, good or bad luck, or the result of any other unknown factors that they know little to nothing about.  And while they possess absolutely no understanding of the reality of the Causal-Factors of the events and experiences of their lives, they remain unaware that every one of these questions can be answered by those who acquire self-knowledge.  Further, it will remain impossible for you to even begin to answer these questions, until you are able to understand the Causal-Factors of the life you are presently living. 

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:20-21) -- but what does that mean?  It means that if you were to move beyond the superficial human level of organic consciousness that is often portrayed as the ego-self -- looking deeper beneath the superficial levels of your earthly self -- that God dwells within you in the Kingdom where all the hierarchy of angels and heavenly hosts dwell.  And what this also means is that beneath our organic earthly consciousness, lies deeper levels of consciousness that exist beyond organic man's level of comprehension.  Which also means that the Self that is portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself, exists beneath your organic level of human consciousness -- existing at deeper levels of Self that carnal man knows absolutely nothing about.  And what this fact ultimately means is that each person has a pre-existent Soul or Soul-Self that is eternal and is our True-Self (see http://SoulSelf.org  ).  We hear the terms ego-self, earthly-self, false-self, carnal-self and lower-self used in conjunction with the mind of man -- and if this is true, then what is our True-Self?   It is the Self that is portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself. 

So long as you continue to gaze in the mirror and self-identify with the reflected image you observe, you will remain self-ignorant and self-disenfranchised.  In like manner, so long as you read the Gospels as historical accounts, you will continue to throw away what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge.  What knowledge?  The answer to the enigma of the Gospels is found preserved in the Gospel of Thomas in the words of Jesus when he said: "But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   Thus, when the spiritual meaning of the Gospels are understood, you are beholding the Revelations of Self through the text-book of the Cosmology of Mind -- i.e., your own Mind.  And when rightly understood, the writings by design, have no time-frame or cultural significance, and are relevant to the time-frame and life-conditions of any person who opens the pages in search of Self and God. 

The difference between our physical and spiritual bodies is noted in the words: "As surely as there are physical bodies, there are spiritual bodies. And our physical bodies will be changed into spiritual bodies" (1 Cor 15:44 CEV).  Which in the Aramaic translation reads: "It is sown an animal body; a spiritual body rises, for there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body."  Which means that when you self-identify with the image reflected back to you in a mirror, you are seeing your lower animal nature (see The Formation Of Our Lower Earthly Animal Consciousness http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LowerEarthlyAnimalConsciousness  ).  That organic "natural" man is incapable of comprehending his own higher Soul-Reality, is confirmed by Paul when he stated: “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).  And if we pose the question as to why our higher soul and spiritual reality is seen as "foolishness" to the mind of "natural" organic man, the profoundly important answer is found the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary where it writes with respect to the meaning of the word "natural" 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 is a fact of life that all mystics and enlightened souls must deal with when interacting with organic man.  

When Paul wrote these words portraying the consciousness of organic man as incapable of comprehending the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings, he was not making reference to unbelievers -- but rather, to Christians who he personally taught.   Quoting from 

Abysmal Pursuit Of God By The Letter That Killeth http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm : 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).  And therein lies the problem as seen in the fact that Christ can only come to those who become the "good ground" in the parable of The Sower And The Seed http://SowerAndTheSeed.Ebionite.com .  But that is impossible for the modern Christian who believes they are "saved" before they even begin the journey in TheWay -- a body of faith-based believers who reject spiritual knowlege and believe that Jesus commanded them toremain complacent. 

What is the source of the portrayal of organic "natural" man as being of an "animal soul" level of consciousness?  It is based upon the reality that man's lower nature is of an "animal consciousness", that without being transformatively integrated with his higher soul and spiritual nature, can be portrayed as a beast that walks in the bodily form of man.  Which is why the Gospel of the Nazirenes explains this process of transforming our lower earthly/animal consciousness when Jesus said: "Love you one another and all the creatures of God, Yet I say to you, not all are men, who are in the form of man. Are they men or women in the image of God whose ways of violence, of oppression and wrong, who choose a lie rather than the truth? No, truly, till they are born again, and receive the spirit of love and wisdom within their hearts. Then only are they sons and daughters of Israel, and being of Israel they are children of God."  What this means is that those people personified as Israel in the scriptures, are represented as those who have transformed the beast of their lower earthly/animal nature.  And one of the primary objectives of the Gospel message and teachings, was to initiate this transformative process that will begin to unite a person's lower earthly-animal nature, with his higher spiritual nature, thereby enabling the person to begin the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening. 

In the early scripture known as the Dialogue of the Savior, which was found in the Nag Hammadi Library of Christian Scriptures, Jesus explained that our natural dwelling place is a “place of life” where “the true mind dwells” that is “only pure light.”   Thus, confirming our true soul-reality as a Being of Light.  While our true nature and form was known to the original disciples and followers of Jesus, it is also important to note that there existed a segment of the Church as late as the sixth century that possessed the soul-knowledge that man's true reality and form was a Being of Light.   Among the condemnations of the Emperor Justinian against the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen in the 2nd Council of Constantinople in the year 553 where the pope was imprisoned until he signed the decrees of the emperor when  the teachings on the pre-existent soul was condemned and deemed heresy from a dogmatic Church perspective (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors http://ChristianReincarnation.org#emperors ), was this statement: "If anyone says or thinks that, at the resurrection, human bodies will rise spherical in form and unlike our present form, let him be anathema" (see Council Agenda).    The problem is that the true form of the soul is a spherical Being of Light -- and the human body is merely an allegorical manifestation of the mind projected into the symbolism of physical matter.   Moreover, in our natural state we are a Being of Light -- and our body-vessel which we inhabit in this world, is merely an allegorical projection of mind and spirit into the image of the body -- which confirms the reality that each of us has a Higher Source of Mind and Being that is not of the flesh of the physical body-vessel.   That the journey of the soul over the course of many lifetimes was an integral part of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and was removed by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the doctrines of the Church -- is demonstrated conclusively in The Ten Reasons Why The Church Rejects The Teaching On The Pre-Existent Soul.  

Each Soul came into being as a spark of the Divine Mind -- and because no experiential-knowledge existed in the beginning, each Soul is in the process of evolving from what can be portrayed as the Alpha of Ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Light.  In the same way that a newborn is ignorant until it's mind evolves through the infant's experiences, so too was the Soul ignorant in the Alpha of Creation.  The problem: Each of our Higher Soul-Selves is a twelve-dimensional Being of Light -- and all growth can only be achieved as one aspect of the Soul interacts with its opposite aspect within the same Soul-Mind.   And thus, the twelve-dimensional Soul evolves through the experiences of three-dimensional male or female projections of self into this lower realm which is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son -- wherein each projected aspect of the Soul is able to interact with others who are themselves three-dimension projected images drawn from opposite spheres of Soul-Mind as patterned in the Tree of Life (see http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).  It is the Destiny of our Soul to evolve to Wholeness and Completion as we gain self-knowledge and grow the Light of the Soul (see The Evolving Soul http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheEvolvingSoul ) -- i.e., "Therefore, you must be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt 5:48).  How is this Wholeness and Perfection brought about?  Through the process of returning all thoughts and actions back to their Source.  The word abracadabra is a Hebrew term that means “I will create as I speak” -- and is true when one begins to understand that every word and action creates the Causal-Factors of the future life that each projected image of the Soul lives out.  

 

   Are There Religious Exemptions From The Royal Law: The Question: What is stopping each of us from entering the Kingdom that Jesus taught was within us?  The answer: We must develop those areas of Mind that enable us to enter through the Inner "Narrow Gate" and gain entrance into the inner Kingdom that exists at the core of our consciousness.   BUT, like the prodigal son, we can't do this, so long as we remain undeveloped and carnal in our thinking.   Where the plight of man is portrayed in the statement: "Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken" (Gen 3:23), the Force and Barrier that causes man to wander in this, the "Outer Darkness" of what is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son, inhibits mankind from returning to his True Home and Source of Being in the Edenic Kingdom of their Heavenly Father -- placing a barrier between this world and the Kingdom as declared in the statement: "So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden, with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life" (Gen 3:24).  BUT, when the Gospels are used as the Key of Knowledge as designed by the Ebionite authors, the mind of mankind as the lost prodigal sons and daughters begins to develop the inward-looking aspects of mind, and can safely pass through the  inner  "narrow strait gate" that enables the seeker safe passage by the Laws that are allegorically portrayed as the "cherubim" who guard the Tree of Life with their "whirling sword of flame", -- and with Wholeness of spiritually mature mind, the Laws then -- and only then -- allow entrance to the Edenic Kingdom within.  Jesus declared to his followers: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NIV).  

There are no exemptions -- no prayers to your god that exempts you from having to fulfill the process of growth and development -- no shortcuts.  Christians today promote the man-made dogma that if you say a prayer accepting Jesus as your personal lord and savior, that you will automatically be exempt from fulfilling the same Royal Law that Jesus himself fulfilled to become the Anointed (Messiah/Christ).  Yet, in the Gospels Jesus himself disputes this Church doctrine that has misled generations of faith-based believers (see Fulfilling And Overcoming The Natural Law http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#FulfillingTheLaw ).                               

How is this process of growth and development implemented and carried out?  When the prodigal son traveled into the Far Country, he is portrayed as having squandered away his inheritance on "riotous living" -- having then fallen under the control of what is personified as the Citizen of the Far Country.  The "inheritance" is the Vital Life-Force and bio-energy upon which our Consciousness exists.  As the prodigal sons, we need this bio-energy to build and develop our consciousness into a mature and enlightened condition.  When we squander this bio-energy away on the meaningless things of this world, we remain carnal and spiritually undeveloped in our consciousness -- thereby being controlled by the consciousness of this world.  When we utilize this bio-energy wisely, then we are able to advance to a condition of Wholeness that enables us to be restored to the Higher Consciousness of the Edenic Kingdom that is our True-Source of Mind and Being.  And if we ask how this development of mind and being is monitored and brought about?  The answer: Through what mystics and those with higher spiritual vision have portrayed as the Law of Octaves -- whereby every thought and action is evolved and tested -- and if the thought or action lacks the necessary Wholeness to pass through the "narrow strait gate"  within us, it must return to it's earthly source (see The Application Of The Law Of Octaves And The Trinity http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LawOfOctaves ).  In common English Language, this process of growth and development can be portrayed in the words, what goes around, comes around -- as you sow, so shall you reap -- or, in the words of Jesus, as you do unto others, the same will be done unto you.   What this means is that if you do good to others, then the Laws will return back to you the good that you did.  And if you persecute and do evil unto others, then this same evil and persecution will be returned back to you.  This is the Law that develops each and every Soul to their full potential of mind and being, by returning back to each Soul the fruit of that Soul's own words, thoughts, desires and deeds.   

In relation to our True-Self that in the parable of the two sons is portrayed as the elder son who remains in the Kingdom of the Father, we hear the terms ego-self, earthly-self, false-self, carnal-self and lower-self used in conjunction with the mind of man.   As we begin to deepen our consciousness through the transformational process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening, we are able to tap into our twelve-dimensional Eternal-Self that is a Being of Light -- which we are an expression of that has been projected into this three-dimensional realm.  But the process of deepening our mind requires a great amount of work on self -- i.e.,  "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22).  In the Epistle to the Corinthians Paul commands to "…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5) -- but how can such a reality be achieved?  To affirm this requirement as genuine, the Gospel account of Jesus warns: "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" (Matt 12:36 - see Judgment Day - Evolving To Maturity Of Mind And Being ).  Idle words can be defined as those thoughts or impressions which are not, and cannot, achieve the necessary Wholeness to manifest in the Center of the Tree of Life, and be returned of our Source of Mind and Being.   The Law of Octaves monitors our every thought, and is portrayed in the words: "I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds" (Rev 2:23).   If the thoughts are balanced and whole, then these thoughts can be channeled through the "narrow strait gate"  within us, where the bio-energy can be positively used to bring about mental-development and spiritual-maturity.   Which is why Paul tells the people  to "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thes 5:17).   Perpetual prayer can be defined as positive thoughts of a higher expression that is able to be drawn up through the "strait gate" -- invoking the process of expansion and deepening of our Mind.  

What this means is that every day is Judgment Day -- and our every thought is Judged -- with thoughts of a balanced Wholeness, passing through the "narrrow strait gate" of the Center column of the mind as patterned in the Tree of Life -- and those thoughts and impressions that lack the necessary Balanced Wholeness, being diverted into the outer columns of the Tree of Duality and lost into Nature.  Therefore, it is important to understand that when the bio-energy and Generative Power which is the "inheritance" of the prodigal son that he squanders away on "riotous living", what is being allegorically portrayed is the loss of man's inheritance that has the capacity to enable him to enter into Higher Consciousness and Life.   The working of the Natural Laws to test each thought and impression by virtue of what is portrayed as the Law of Octaves, is explored and presented in the subheading entitled The Octave Test Through The Narrow Gate http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#OctaveTestNarrowGate .  But to understand the Law of Octaves, the beginning of the relevant subheadings is at The Application Of The Law Of Octaves And The Trinity http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LawOfOctaves ). 

The Natural Laws that exist as the framework of Consciousness and Life, force the prodigal sons along the road that brings about his eventual perfection and return to the Edenic Kingdom.  As it is written: "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,  So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa 55:8-11).  The ultimate Destiny of all the prodigal sons and daughters is portrayed in the words that "I have sworn by Myself, the Word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath" (Isa 45:23) -- and this Ultimate Destiny has been guaranteed from the beginning of Time and Creation, by the Laws which were instituted and put in effect.   When a man deviates from the path that brings about this Ultimate Destiny in the perfection and return of each and every prodigal son back to the Edenic Kingdom of their Father, then the Laws correct the path, by returning back to that person the fruit of his own words, thoughts, desires and deeds.    And through the process of self perpetually confronting self, the soul is slowly evolved to perfection.  How many times will you do unto others what they would not want to be done -- and so, the Natural Laws return back to you the fruit of your own actions -- until which time you learn your lessons of life and you do unto others what you would want done unto you?  

When the Journey of the Soul is understood, the only element of growth set forth in the previous quotation is the fact that we, as the prodigal sons and daughters, can only return to our Source in the Edenic Kingdom of our Heavenly Father, when we choose to return.  In the parable the prodigal son it states: "Finally he came to his senses"!  Which means that each person must of their own volition, seek to return to their Higher Source.  It doesn't happen because you squandered away your present life on the "riotous living" and on things of no substance and real value in the manner of the lost prodigal son.  Your failure to return to your Source is not resolved because you physically died -- as stated 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".  Which is confirmed in the words of Jesus: Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).   

It can be said that life itself -- and every aspect of life -- as well as every primary events in each person's life, has a preordained Causal-Factor with respect to what each of us experiences, as well as the objectives of life itself.   And thus, the problem is seen in the fact that it will remain impossible to understand both your True-Self and the purpose of the life you are presently living, without understanding the Causal Factors of Life.  But since few people understand that in this life we are immersed in what can be rightly portrayed as a Labyrinth of Natural Laws -- i.e., and this Labyrinth of the Laws can be portrayed as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism that responds to our thoughts and actions in this world -- because they remain ignorant of the Laws and the Causal-Factors of life, most people perpetually get caught up in the circular loops within the Labyrinth of the Laws, making little to no progress in their lives.  The loops within a Labyrinth is when the choices we make perpetually cause us to confront the same issues, without our choosing a path or solution that will release us from the loop. 

When the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen stated that “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis), what this means is that our life is the result of the Causal-Factors initiated by the "...victories or... defeats of [our Soul's] previous lives” that have orchestrated the experiences and encounters of the life we are presently living.   This confrontation of self can also be expressed in the words: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7).  Therefore, in not understanding the Causal-Factors, the question that confronts countless people is this: How many lives will it take to break out of the loops within the Labyrinth of the Laws (see The Purpose Of The Natural Laws And The Prison http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ThePrison ).  Every experience of life has been orchestrated and initiated by the Natural Laws based upon feedback drawn from our Soul's own previous actions -- and our every thought, action and choice we make, will invoke these Natural Laws in ways that few people are even prepared to understand.  Which means that it can rightly be said that so long as we remain ignorant of the Natural Laws and the Causal Factors of the Life we are presently living, then it will remain virtually impossible to fulfill the purpose and objectives of life. 

The reality that our every action invokes the Natural Laws of Creation that act as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism (see The Labyrinth Of The Laws And The Outer Darkness Of Mind And Being http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Labyrinth ) -- and that our interaction within the Natural Laws creates a functioning syllabus that provides for each person in accord with their personal needs to progress and develop -- monitoring our every word, thought, desire and action in our process of development (see The Law Of Octaves And The Narrow Gate: http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#OctavesAndTheNarrowGate ) -- then each person is living a life that is tailor made to bring about their own development and eventual success. 

When you physically die, you will have to present an accounting-review of the life that you have lived.  It will not be a matter of judgment -- of heaven, hell or some sort of punishment -- but rather, what you have personally accomplished with the opportunity of life that has been bestowed upon you.  Which means that so long as you do not understand the reason and purpose of the life, little to no progress will be made with respect to accomplishing the primary objectives of the life that you are presently living.  And since only a mere handful of people in any given time-frame are motivated to understand either the Natural Laws or the Causal Factors of life, few people are prepared to even present an accounting of the life that they have lived. 

 

Why Don't You Understand the Causal Factors Of Life?  The problem is seen in the fact that unless you have evolved your thinking and mindset beyond the self-serving appetites of your carnal earthly nature, then you have yet to progress to the degree where you would be able to begin to understand the Causal Factors of your life.  Personally, I am of the position that every person born into this life should come with a users manual for the purpose of navigating through the life they were born into.   If we were provided certain insights into the higher reason and purpose of life in this realm, we would then be in a position to make the greatest gain in the life that we have begun to live.   But because higher knowledge and understanding can only be received as a person evolves through the levels of comprehension as they climb the proverbial Jacob's Ladder, we would need guide books reissued at various levels of elevation.  

Can we just read and understand the text-book of humanity?  The Gospel account of Jesus stated: "Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces"  What is portrayed in the symbolism of "dogs and swine", are people who are controlled by their lower animal nature (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature  http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature ) -- and in the same way that a dog or swine is only capable of a very limited level of reasoning, so too are people who Jesus portrayed as a dog or a swine.  Further, Jesus told the Jews that because they threw away the Key of Knowledge they were blind guides who he portrayed as the "spawn of the devil" (see Christianity - The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ).  Why?  Like the dogs and swine, the Jew is portrayed as incapable of comprehending the higher Knowledge, because having received the Law of God, that interpret it outwardly in ritual and tradition -- instead of turning the scriptures within their own mind and being as the Key of Knowledge (see The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).  They are "blind guides", because they lead others in the wrong direction.  

An example of this is seen in the account of when Jesus was approached by the Canaanite woman and asked 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 when the woman persisted, Jesus said to her: "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."   Why would Jesus portray the woman as a "dog" -- especially in view of the commandment: "Do not give that which is holy to the dogs" (Matt 7:6).  Which provokes the question: What people did Jesus define as dogs?  Why can't higher concepts and what is sacred be given to those people portrayed as dogs and swine?  When Paul warns the baptized and committed Christians at Corinth who he, himself, originally instructed, that they were yet too carnal in their understanding to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel -- which sacred knowledge 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 - see What Difference Does It Make?).   What Paul was in essence saying was that because the Christians who he had himself taught the primary principles of the Gospel were still imbued with the traits of what Jesus portrayed as dogs and swine, that it was impossible for these Christians to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel, the higher reality of the Soul, and receive the Sacred Knowledge of the Kingdom of God.   Why?   Because of their spiritual immaturity, they had yet to evolve into what Jesus portrayed as the House of Israel.  And if this is true -- and Jesus was sent only to the House of Israel -- and only those who constitute the House of Israel can comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel and the higher reality of the Soul -- then one of the most important questions is: Who, then, is the House of Israel?    

In not understanding the answer to 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 as the embodiment of the House of Israel, this answer is assumed because there is a missing element to the equation that is not rightly understood.    Were the Jews representative of Israel?  While they like to think they are, because they throw away the Key of Knowledge in their outward interpretation of the scriptures, they must be understood as counterfeit Israel.   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).   Which is why many of the earliest Christians portrayed the Pharisees and Sadducees as counterfeit Israel.  And from the perspective of the Essenes who were the foundation of the New Covenant (see The Essene Foundation Of Judaism And Christianity ), what is personified in the Essenes is the Sons of Light, while the Jews (Pharisees and Sadducees) were representative of the Sons of Darkness -- i.e., counterfeit Israel.   And it must be remembered that the original Spiritual Christians portrayed the Jews as worshiping a false god -- an evil demiurge.   But just as important is the fact that the leaders of the Jews could not understand the Gospel teachings for the same reason which those baptized believers who Paul personally taught could not understand the Spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings -- i.e., their thinking was earth-bound and limited by what Paul portrayed as their "animal-soul" level of consciousness -- which was a level of mind that Jesus equated to that of "dogs and swine" (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ).

Thus, the answer: Their beliefs and doctrines which they taught and maintained, locked their thinking into a very carnal and low intellectual level of thinking that inhibited the people from making any progress in their development.  Because as "blind guides", they threw away what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge ( http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ) -- just as the Christians do today.  Which provokes the question: If the leaders of the Jews were incapable of understanding the teachings of Jesus -- i.e., "you not understand what I say" -- and were portrayed as the "spawn of the Devil" because they threw away the Key of Knowledge in their carnal and outward interpretation of the scriptures, then we must pose the question: If the modern Christian also throws away what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge, then aren't they also the "spawn of the Devil"? (see Christianity - The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ).   When rightly understood, the Roman Empire was not converted to the religion of Jesus -- but rather, the personage and image of Jesus was converted to Mithraism -- and it is easy to prove and demonstrate that even the name Christian is drawn directly from Mithraism.  And while there appears on the surface to be many similarities between Mithraism and the Gospel account of Jesus, these similarities are based upon the allegorical symbols that portray the Universal Cosmology of Mind that is not at all understood by the body of faith-based believers.   This is a fact: If you are a modern Christian, then the most basic and fundamental tenets of belief that you hold as truth, not only has nothing in common with the positions of the people who Jesus personally taught -- but if a believer that Jesus personally taught came to visit your Church, they would be labeled a heretic.  Therefore the question must be posed: Was the man Jesus an incompetent teacher who was unable to clarify what is necessary for salvation?  Or, was the original teachings of Jesus changed and corrupted? 

The followers of Jesus should be the Light of the world.  All Universities and the Halls of Learning should be based upon the teachings of Jesus.  The Gospels should be the curriculum followed and embraced by all those seeking the Source of Higher Knowledge and Ultimate Truth.   The world should be united by One Universal Religion that is based upon the Gospels.  But in the same way that Jesus portrayed the father of the Jews as the Devil, the same is true of the modern Christian who has embraced Roman Mithraic-Christianity (see The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity ).   And so long as people reject essential self-knowledge -- and fail to understand the Natural Laws and the Causal Factors of the Life we are living -- then mankind will fail to make progress with respect to the very reason and purpose of the life they are living.  

 

  The Intellectual Red Line In The Sand Of Human Consciousness: There is a mental red line that inhibits all growth and development of organic intellect and consciousness beyond that point, unless certain conditions are met.     If you were to climb a high mountain, you would encounter a point known as the Tree Line where the conditions of elevation inhibits all growth of trees beyond that point.   The same is true with respect to intellectual and spiritual development -- i.e., there is a mental red line that inhibits all development beyond that level of development unless certain conditions are met.  And while many of these developmental-concepts were presented in the original Gospels -- including the higher understanding of the reality of the Soul -- these important higher concepts were stripped out of the Gospels by the Church (see The Spiritual Castration Of The Gospels http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#SpiritualCastrationOfTheGospel ).   And therein lies the problem as seen in the fact that this same Mental Red Line not only inhibits Christians from making any reasonable progress beyond that elementary point, but in like manner inhibits the students of modern Academia and all Philosophies and Intellectual Pursuits, from progressing beyond the Mental Red Line (see The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles ).  In the same way that trees cannot grow beyond a certain point in elevation, neither can the mind mature and evolve beyond a certain point of development that enlightens the person to the Causal Factors and the Primary Purpose and Objectives of the life we are living in this world.  Which means that you could study at the most esteemed universities -- learn from the most admired scholars -- arise to the level where you are yourself hailed as a great expert -- and when you arrive at the hereafter, you will be confronted by the reality that you did not know, as you should have known, because your progress was blocked by your beliefs which stopped you from crossing over the Mental Red Line that inhibited you from climbing the Mountain of True Enlightenment.  

Does it matter?  Most people judge and evaluate their lives from the perspective of what they see as their own accomplishments in relation to everyone else.  In The Call to the Wedding Banquet it is stated: "Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt 22:13-14).  What is the "outer darkness"?  In the same way that trees don't grow above the tree line, the mind of man can't grow and evolve beyond organic limitations, unless certain innate attributes of mind are developed that enables the person to perceive and comprehend man's higher Soul-Reality.  Why are these critical attributes of mind that reveals man's higher Soul-Reality portrayed as innate?  Because their development is not necessary in the daily day-to-day life of the vast majority of people.  Therefore, these innate attributes of mind remain dormant and even atrophied, because  of their lack of stimulation that enables them to reveal what exists beyond the intellectual tree line of man's limited human reality in this world.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus states: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you...".  Which provokes the question: What is it that you don't understand that you see?  In the parable of the prodigal son, the son while in the Far Country is portrayed as being in a state of death in the "outer darkness" of mind and being.  In the analogy of Plato's Cave, mankind is portrayed as a prisoner who is shackled in a reality where shadow-images are mistaken for the reality of an Unseen Source (see Plato - The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato ).  And when these limitations that have been imposed upon mankind are understood, modern cutting-edge science has only now confirmed this fact with respect to the reality of the inherent blindness of human perception and understanding (see The Findings Of The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist ).   Mankind who has been personified in the analogy of Plato's Cave, is incapable of perceiving the Source of the images he sees as he looks out at the world in which he presently lives.  And the Causal-Factor of this blindness can be attributable to three causes (see The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness ) -- i.e., (1) our own past personal failure; (2) the manner and environment in which we were raised into adulthood by our parents (see The Sin Of The Parents); (3) the manner in which we live our lives that inhibits self-development beyond the Intellectual Red Line as personified in the reality of the "outer darkness" and Plato's Cave of Illusions.    

There is a mental-gateway that acts as a key to open man's higher intellectual reality -- thereby loosening the shackles of Plato's Cave and the "outer darkness" just enough to enable him to begin to perceive the higher reality of what modern science portrays as the Source-Field that organic man is inherently blind to (see The Mental Barrier http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalBarrier ).  Why does our culture possess virtually no knowledge and understanding of the Causal Factors of Life?  Because like the Tree Line, there is an Intellectual Red Line that regardless of the facts, our culture, science and mainstream religions refuse to cross over and walk the path of higher mind and consciousness.   And what is the red line?  We hear the terms ego-self, earthly-self, false-self, carnal-self and lower-self used in conjunction with the mind of man -- and if this is true, then what is our True-Self?   It is the Self that is portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself.   And this is the Self that is made reference to in the words of Jesus as preserved in the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   And in accord with this definition, our science and the vast majority of the world's religions dwell in a state of abject intellectual ignorance.   If, as Socrates states, “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom”, then those who lack self-knowledge possess no viable wisdom or higher self-knowledge.   As stated on the Delphic Oracle: "Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside.  If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders?  In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures.  Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."

Without Self-Knowledge, man remains ego-bound and totally ignorant of the Source of Self and Life -- as well as the Causal-Factors of life.  And this total lack of self-knowledge is the reason that faux-science has undermined actual valid scientific inquiry (see Science Vs Scientism http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism ).  Without self-knowledge, we possess absolutely no understanding of even the purpose and objectives of the life that we are presently living.   We attribute important causal-factors to chance, accident, luck of the draw, fate, or any other unknown factor that is used to explain those factors of reality that is beyond man's limited organic perceptive-understanding.  Why?  Because we totally lack any valid understanding of the nature and reality of our True-Self that is a Being Of Light when not incarnate in the physical body (see http://BeingOfLight.com ).   And the primary core objective of all valid religions and philosophies, is to open the inner door of deeper consciousness that enables a person to enter the presence of their True-Self -- i.e., their Soul-Self (see http://SoulSelf.org ) -- that has existed since the dawn of time -- and has evolved the Light of the Soul over the course of countless unique lifetimes such as the one we are presently living.  Thus, those who have focused on the importance of acquiring self-knowledge, have through various means begun to open the inner door of consciousness that has permitted them to enter what can be portrayed as the Realm of Souls -- i.e., that dimension of Higher Mind and Being where the True-Self of every person exists in a Natural Twelve-Dimensional Higher Reality.

Most people once they are locked into a belief which is drawn from their spiritually immature understanding, cannot release their thinking from the shackles of that belief.  And the fact that the Church was forced to teach the spiritually immature different from the more evolved and advanced, is why the Christianity was portrayed as a "secret system" -- teaching the inner core a totally different human reality than the mass of believers who were struggling to break free from the pagan mindset of the Roman Empire (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html  ).  And regardless of the facts, the vast majority of Christians cannot free themselves from the dogma of paganism that became infused into the teachings of the Church by a series of Roman Emperors.  With respect to the teachings that were revealed only to the more spiritually mature, a most profoundly important statement was made by the pre-Nicene Church (Anti-Mithraic) Father Origen when he said: "The soul has neither beginning nor end... Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life.  Its place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor is determined by its previous merits or demerits" (Origen, De Principiis).  When the Gospel account of Jesus stated in the parable of the Talents that "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability" (Matt 25:15), this was in confirmation of our present life being formed and orchestrated by our own accomplishments in the previous lives our Soul has lived (see Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The Invited Guests http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA ).   Unless you are able to comprehend why a different number of Talents was given to each -- i.e., "...one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one", -- and understand the words "to each according to his own ability" -- and why the person who received "one talent" could not receive "two talents" -- and why the person who received "two talents" could not receive "five talents" -- then it will remain impossible for you to understand the higher realities of the life you are presently living.  Which means that with respect to the number of Talents received, unless you understand why "...to each [was given] according to his own ability", then you will remain incapable of comprehending your own higher Soul-Realty.   In the same way that each person begins their life as the product of their physical DNA and heritage, each person enters this life as the product of their Spiritual DNA -- which is responsible for the number of what is portrayed as Talents being inherited by them (see Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The Invited Guests http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA ).  Which is why some people can instinctively comprehend what other people cannot.         

That each person's fate in life is the product of their Soul's previous lives, is confirmed and expressed in the words: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7).   And Origen confirms this Fact Of Life when he explained that our lot in life is the result of our own soul's previous deeds and actions, and writes: “For God the Creator makes a certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but that vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity He makes a vessel unto honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice He makes a vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor. And if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in harmony with all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear absurd that, in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the same method, we should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature of souls, and (believe) that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved before he was born into this world, and Esau hated, while he still was contained in the womb of his mother” (see http://ChristianReincarnation.org ).

On the pre-Nicene teaching on the pre-existent Soul, St. Jerome (340-420) wrote: “The doctrine of transmigration (reincarnation) has been secretly taught from ancient times to small numbers of people, as a traditional truth which was not to be divulged”    Thus, what St. Jerome was stating was that the more mature spiritually mature Christians were taught the teaching on the pre-existent soul that evolves to Wholeness and Completion over the course of many lives, while the untransformed Christians of an elementary mindset had not yet arrived at the level where they could understand this teaching on the higher reality of the Soul.  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, which portrayed the Church as a "secret system" which taught the spiritual elect the doctrine of the soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes, while teaching the unenlightened entry-level Christians the doctrine of Heaven and Hell and the physical resurrection.    It is said that this work was widely published and used by the Pagan Mithraic world as an attack on the Church.   Seventy years after its publication The True Word was still so widely circulated, that the Church Father Origen was commissioned by Ambrose's to refute this attack by Celsus.   In this official reply to Celsus by the Church is this teaching: "Is it not rational that souls should be introduced into bodies, in accordance with their merits and previous deeds, and that those who have used their bodies in doing the utmost possible good should have the right to bodies endowed with qualities superior to the bodies of others?... The soul, which is immaterial and invisible in its nature, exists in no material place without having a body suited to the nature of that place; accordingly, it at one time puts off one body, which was necessary before, but which is no longer adequate in its changed state, and it exchanges it for a second".  Which confirms the fact that each person has different spiritual abilities, because their more evolved Spiritual DNA based upon their Soul's previous accomplishments has endowed with qualities superior to the bodies of others" (see Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The Invited Guests http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA ).  Why can some people recall their Soul's previous lives?  Why can some people perceive the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, while others see only the enigma of the literal text -- i.e., “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).  And ultimately, accomplish what the historical man Jesus did when he became At-One with the Mind of God (see Coverture-Marriage - Was Jesus God? http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureMarriage ).    

Our True-Self or Soul-Self is a Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) that is portrayed as "immaterial and invisible" -- and must therefore incarnate into a physical body that is appropriate for it's nature at any given point in the Soul's development -- i.e., as stated by Origen in Contra Celsum:   The soul, which is immaterial and invisible in its nature, exists in no material place without having a body suited to the nature of that place; accordingly, it at one time puts off one body, which was necessary before, but which is no longer adequate in its changed state, and it exchanges it for a second".    Origen further clarifies the reality of the Soul in his writing, De Principiis:  "The soul has neither beginning nor end... Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life.  Its place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor is determined by its previous merits or demerits. Its work in this world determines its place in the world which is to follow this..." This teaching on the reality of the Soul was the official position and doctrine of the Christianity prior to 325 A.D. when the take-over of the Church by the Emperor Constantine converted Christianity to a form of Mithraism.  Quoting from The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity :

In recognizing the death of the Gospel teachings in the year 325 A.D. when the Church was forcefully abducted by the sun-worshipping Emperor Constantine, lets again examine the above statement of Fact: When rightly understood, the Roman Empire was not converted to the religion of Jesus -- but rather, the personage and image of Jesus was converted to Mithraism -- and it is easy to prove and demonstrate that even the name Christian is drawn directly from Mithraism.  And while there appears on the surface to be many similarities between Mithraism and the Gospel account of Jesus, these similarities are based upon the allegorical symbols that portray the Universal Cosmology of Mind that is not at all understood by the body of faith-based believers.   This is a fact: If you are a modern Christian, then the most basic and fundamental tenets of belief that you hold as truth, not only has nothing in common with the positions of the people who Jesus personally taught -- but if a believer that Jesus personally taught came to visit your Church, they would be labeled a heretic.  Therefore the question must be posed: Was the man Jesus an incompetent teacher who was unable to clarify what is necessary for salvation?  Or, was the original teachings of Jesus changed and corrupted?  As stated by teh Adam Clark Commentary with regard to the passage at Hebrews 1:5 which confirms the words of God that was corrupted by the fourth-century Church that if true, then "the whole Christian system is vain and baseless" (see The Missing Gospel Essence http://TheTenWords.com#TheMissingGospelEssence ).

Historian Edward Gibbon writes in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: ”Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinancy... Not a moment was lost in excluding the ministers and teachers of the separated congregations from any share of the rewards and immunities which the emperor had so liberally bestowed on the orthodox clergy. But as the sectaries might still exist under the cloud of royal disgrace, the conquest of the East was immediately followed by an edict which announced their total destruction”.    Thus, in the same way that whoever did not embrace the religion of the emperor met with the sentence of death, whatever scriptures did not conform to the approved version, was immediately destroyed (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).   Biblical scholars basically told the people the truth, but the truth was and remains unacceptable to the multitude of Churches.  Quoting from Examination of Modern NT Text Criticism: "Where history records that true sacred text survived this assault and is preserved in the traditional text, Westcott and Hort counter that the whole church participated in a conspiracy to fabricate a blended (and therefore corrupted) text. Westcott and Hort must not have believed the traditional Christian church to be genuine, but a sham. This thesis is supported by the biographies of Westcott and Hort. When J. F. D. Maurice was accused of false doctrine, Westcott commented that Orthodox Christians are like a new Islam persecuting a revival of the true Christians."

Why can the adoption of the corrupted scriptures be portrayed as "...a conspiracy to fabricate a blended (and therefore corrupted) text"?   Because the Roman Emperor Constantine orchestrated a massive adoption of of the Church as the Universal Religion of the Empire -- which brought about the massive conversion of pagans into the Roman Church.   Jesus was portrayed as the latest incarnation of the Mithraic sun-god that was born on December 25 -- which is when the sun begins to move northward from the southern hemisphere.  Constantine took the most corrupt New Testament scriptures and further edited and corrupted them to make them support the dogma of Mithraism which represented the common beliefs of the people.  The original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers of Jesus were condemned as heretics -- often portrayed as "too Jewish" to understand the meaning of the Gospel -- i.e., “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).    Further, the Spiritual (Gentile) Christians who understood the important purpose of the scriptures as a catalyst to develop the mind and enable the seeker/believer to begin to receive the Divine Manna of the Kingdom, were condemned as Gnostic heretics -- hunted down, their scriptures destroyed and those who did not embrace the religion of the emperor, were put to death.   Resulting in the fact that the whole foundation of the modern Church which is based upon Original Sin, has been imported from the Mithraic based teachings of the Iranian prophet Mani, in order to explain and fill the great void that the Church suppression of important teachings on the pre-existent soul created (see Original Sin).   Thereby creating a pagan foundation to the Church that has rendered Christianity spiritually impotent.  Further quoting from Examination of Modern NT Text Criticism: "Westcott and Hort must have believed that what historians recorded as a defense against heretics was in reality a suppression of the true church. They believed that what the historians recorded as heretically corrupted texts were closer to the true autographs."  And this statement is true beyond the comprehension of the modern believer.    The more pure the copy of the Gospels, the more offensive it was from the perspective of the dogma and religion of the emperor.  In the same way that the original Gospel teachings were suppressed by Constantine, the teaching on the pre-existent soul was embraced by the more mature within the Church until being condemned by the Emperor Justinian in the year 553.   Because the Church since the Roman take-over has embraced the manmade doctrines of the Emperors who ruled over the Church and its accepted doctrines of belief, the faithful flock has remained entry-level and spiritually disenfranchised throughout the intervening centuries. 

In the year 553 the Emperor Justinian convened the 5th Ecumenical Council where, quoting the Catholic Encyclopedia, "...the council opened on 5 May, 553, in spite of the protestations of Pope Vigilius, who though at Constantinople, refused to attend it... before the opening of the council, which had been delayed by the resistance of the pope, the bishops already assembled at Constantinople had to consider, by order of the emperor, a form of Origenism that had practically nothing in common with Origen..." Quoting the Britannica: "After the council, Justinian banished the pope to Egypt , and afterwards to an island, until he accepted the Council, which he ultimately did." The result is that the very foundational doctrines that are necessary to begin to mature beyond an elementary level, were not only anathema -- but have yet to be corrected to this very day.   In the same way that the religious doctrines of the pagan emperors were imposed on the church in the fourth century, this remained true into the sixth century when the doctrine of the pre-existent soul was outlawed (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors http://ChristianReincarnation.org#emperors ).    

The Red Line: Without understanding that the events in our present life is the result of our own Soul's previous actions, then it will remain impossible to understand the reality of the life we are presently living.  The understanding that all that we experience in the present is the result of Causal-Factors initiated by our own previous actions -- whether good, bad or indifferent -- has the capacity to totally change the face of all that we experience in the present.  We can no longer blame others for the occurrences in the present.  We can no longer blame others for the problems that are attributed to our own interactions with others. Life is no longer due to chance, accident, luck of the draw, fate, or any other unknown factor that that we use to blame others for our plight in this world.   Further, the enigmas of life are explained once we understand that our primary objective is for the lesser-self that we are in this world, to find and enter into a Coverture-Union with first our True-Self -- and ultimately with God (see Coverture-Marriage - Was Jesus God? http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureMarriage ), then most of the unknown enigmas of life become plainly and factually answered.   Moreover, if we fail to bring this Divine-Union about, then we have failed to fulfill the higher objectives of the very life we are presently living.   When it is realized that all the difficulties, problems and tribulations that confront us in our daily experiences, are not only the result of our own Soul's previous actions -- but also, was known and self-orchestrated prior to our birth in this life -- then we have only ourselves to blame for the results of our life.    

 

  The Void In Marxist Socialist Woke Thinking:  Why does Socialism always fail?  Why are people born into and live out vastly different conditions in life?  Where our culture dwells under the superficial misconception that our birth is a matter of accident, luck or unknown fate, this misconception only shackles us to lives of abject self-ignorance.  Once again there are Causal-Factors to all realities of life.  When when we attempt to negate those Causal-Factors, we not only fail, but we create worse and even grave conditions of life.  Until we understand that there is a Causal-Factor why some people are born rich -- others poor -- others with a silver spoon in their mouths -- some born beautiful in contradistinction to those born ugly -- in good and bad health -- including born with defects -- as well as every other possibility that we can observe in life.  And since the conditions of life are brought about as a matter of Natural Law, when we violate or attempt to suppress these Natural Laws, we not only violate the Laws, but in our ignorance, we often bring even worse conditions upon the people that we make ourselves responsible for.   Without understanding the Causal-Factors of the Natural Laws express themselves in the reason why these great differences exist among mankind, systems such as the various forms of Marxism promote the idea that man can fix the supposed inequities of life by promoting the concept that is key to Marxism:  "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".   And from the perspective of absolute ignorance of the Causal-Factors, man attempts to inaugurate a system that negates the Natural Laws without any regard to why the Laws were functioning in the manner they were in each person's life. 

Since a person born into wealth, was born rich for a reason and a purpose, when government forcefully intervenes in the rich man's life, he is actually stealing wealth that was allotted to a certain person and purpose by the Natural Laws.  Which makes the people and their system of government involved in their intervention of the Laws, thief's and robbers.   Which invokes the Laws that cause both them and their system to be unlawful under Law.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sin Of The Parents And Organic Blindness: Are you, as a parent, causing your children to be blind and incoherent to man's higher reality of mind and spirit -- and therefore, it can be said that you are burying your children by depriving them of the Higher Life their Souls entered into this world to achieve?  And in the process, are you creating your own future blindness by the way you are raising your children?  How?  In speaking of giving gifts to children Jesus said: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets" (Matt 7:12).  It is the Law and the wisdom of the prophets, that the opportunity you make for you children, will be returned back to you in you own future lives.  When the disciples of Jesus posed the question as to the cause of human blindness -- "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:1-2) -- portraying both the sin of a person in a previous life, as well as the sin of the person's parents as part of the equation of the Causal-Factors of blindness.  It is important to realize that Jesus did not say that they were wrong on what can be seen as these two causes of organic blindness, because they were not.  But Jesus corrected them and said that there was a third cause of blindness that can be portrayed as the result of a type of organic Original Sin that is in addition to the first two causes.  Yet, all three of the Causal-Factors of blindness portrays a reality that is not at all even recognized or comprehended by our modern culture.  When rightly understood, this third Causal-Factor of organic human blindness can be properly portrayed as a type of Original Sin (see Original Sin And Spiritual Osmosis http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#OriginalSin ) -- but when understood, this Original Sin portrays a type of sin that each person is responsible for in their own present life -- i.e., as explored in the foregoing link.  And as explained, what is portrayed as Original Sin has the potential to be turned into Original Opportunity with respect to the human experience that is within your ability to rectify and overcome.  Therefore, this Sin is a condition associated with all of mankind who dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being that causes them to be blind to their own higher Soul-Reality.   Why Original Sin?  The Causal-Factor of what can be portrayed as the Original Sin of not achieving Wholeness where man's condition of duality is overcome.   And when Jesus answered his disciple's question and stated that the blindness "..happened so that the the works of God should be made manifest in him" (John 9:3), the works of God enabled the man to achieve the necessary Wholeness that enabled him to overcome his inherent blindness that was caused by the condition of human organic duality.   

In order to convey to you, the modern seeker, the straightforward knowledge of the mysteries and realities of life that has been suppressed and therefore hidden from you, I will have to present to you what will seem to be a quasi-historical accounting.   The problem is that few people understand not only the Causal-Factors of what can be portrayed as the organic human blindness that the disciples were inquiring about (see The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness ), but even more important the fact that they are themselves the victim of this organic blindness.  All divisions, conflicts and ignorance among mankind, is the direct result of this organic blindness that Jesus portrayed as being cast into the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see The Outer Darkness Of Mind And Being http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#OuterDarkness ).   What is the "outer darkness" of mind and being?  One of these core teachings and concepts that was removed from the Gospels has been preserved in what is known as the Gospel of the Nazirenes where in chapter 64:12-13 it states: "It is written in the law, 'Who so leaveth father or mother, let him die the death.' Now the law speaketh not of the parents in this life, but of the Indweller of Light which is in us to this day.  Who so therefore forsakes Messiah the savior, the holy law, and the body of the elect, let them die the death. Yea, let them be lost in the outer darkness, for so they willed and none can hinder The Law."    The word Messiah in English, indicates the Anointing of the Mind as Jesus taught that must be brought about in the individual seeker (see Jesus Taught To Become The Christ http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#BecomeTheChrist ).  The Law enables each of us to bring about Wholeness (see The Formula For Wholeness And The Law Of Octaves http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Formula ). But all the teachings on The Law and achieving Wholeness, were all suppressed and even removed from the Gospels by the fourth century Church.  Which means that the Church and the corruption of the Gospels, has cast the body of Christians into the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- blind to their own higher Soul and Spiritual Reality that is inconceivable from the perceptive-understanding of man's organic consciousness.  And as a condition that each person is born into, Organic Blindness effects every individual as stated: "Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror" -- explaining that only when a certain condition is brought about, are we able to overcome our innate condition of organic blindness as presented in the words: "..but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away" (1 Cor 13:9-12).  Why "partial"?  The condition portrayed as "partial" can only be overcome through the person achieving Wholeness -- which can only be achieved by overcoming our own inherent limitations and division of mind.  

Organic man remains blind to both the Causal-Factors of his life, as well as his own higher Soul-Reality, until he has overcome what can be defined as the Original Sin where Adam and Eve became divided and overcome by the male or female mental impressions that in their divided condition, is portrayed as the fruit of the Tree of Duality.  Paul's reference to "...when the perfect comes", portrays a person who has overcome their own inner division and achieved maturity and Wholeness -- i.e., "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 nought" (1 Cor 2:6).   And this condition of Wholeness and Perfection was set forth in the words of Jesus: "You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48).  Perfection can only be achieved when our own duality is overcome -- enabling us to become Whole and Complete.  

When our divided reality of our own mind is recognized, it can properly be portrayed as the Original Sin that, as a divided man or woman, each person is born into  -- by necessity of the Natural Laws.  Therefore, the allegorical account of Adam and Eve is not about man's long distant past -- but rather, about a condition that each person is born into that must be overcome.  And in failing to understand the nature and reality of the forbidden fruit of duality, the divided man and woman fail to be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life.  But since the vast majority of modern believers reject the knowledge that Jesus taught his faithful followers, and therefore few modern believers understand where the Tree of Life is -- or how it's life-giving fruit is eaten -- few modern believers are able to fulfill the promise of the Book of Revelation and Eternal Life -- a reality that must be accomplished in the present.  After eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality (a.k.a. Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil), the statement was made in the allegorical account of Genesis: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever" (Gen 3:22-23).   Thus, the promise is that those who eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, will live forever.  Therefore, what can be portrayed as Original Sin is the failure of the individual person to be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life by picking up their own cross and following in the footsteps of Jesus to their own crucifixion (see The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion  http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross ).  That the Tree of Life is something that all of mankind can gain access to, and be nourished by the Divine Manna and life-giving fruit thereof, is demonstrated in the statement in the Revelation: "'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7).  From the perspective of the Book of Revelations and the present timeframe of the reader, what is it that must be overcome in order to be "..granted to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God"?  Further stating with respect to those who overcome that "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).  And is this hidden Divine Manna what is being referenced in the words:  “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)  What is this secret knowledge that could only be given to those who overcome?    A secret knowledge that the vast majority of Christians are in denial of -- which was portrayed in the words: “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).  Thus the statement: "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12 - see Go Out No More http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#GoOutNoMore ).    Thus, the references in the Book of Revelation is in the present -- it is being made to the person who is reading the text and has eaten the fruit of the Tree of Duality -- and is being made to the few who are striving to eat the Divine Manna of the Tree of Life.   But since few people understand where the Tree of Life is -- and how the Divine Manna must be eaten -- the vast majority of people will continue to "go [back] out" -- life after life after life. 

St. Augustine was not an ignorant man.   He belonged to a Gnostic group known as Manichaeans -- and Gnostics reject the wisdom of this world, and seek the Divine Manna of the Kingdom within as Jesus taught.  As Gnostics, Manichaeans understood that Paul was correct when he stated that it is "unlawful" for a spiritual man to reveal to the faith-based believers -- 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).  And the only way that spiritual truths could be presented, was in allegorical symbolism.   And as a Manichaean Gnostic, Augustine became a Christian when forced to do so by the emperor (see The Original Sin Of The Church http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#TheOriginalSinOfTheChurch ).  The Wikipedia portrays Manichean beliefs as "a dualistic religion that offered salvation through special knowledge (gnosis) of spiritual truth." 

Augustine understood that you cannot reveal higher spiritual truths to immature minds -- and therefore they can only receive allegorical symbols that must be turned within the person's own mind, in order to understand the spiritual meaning (see The Law Of Jacob's Ladder And Mental Advancement http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#LawOFJacobsLadder ).  And in comprehending this reality of human nature, Augustine therefore understood that it is necessary to convey higher truths in the enigma of the universal language of parables, symbols and myths.  Augustine outlined the need for the vast majority of mankind to be provided allegorical parables, and the inability of the organic mind of man to comprehend higher spiritual truths when he wrote: “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). 

When it is stated in the above that "It is written in the law, 'Who so leaveth father or mother, let him die the death.' Now the law speaketh not of the parents in this life, but of the Indweller of Light which is in us to this day.  Who so therefore forsakes Messiah the savior, the holy law, and the body of the elect, let them die the death..."   The mind of organic man cannot comprehend that each person is the divine direct offspring of their Heavenly Mother and Father -- and that their True Self is the Indweller of Light which they must seek the Anointing (Messiah/Christ of that Light.  And those who therefore "leaveth father or mother" and therefore fail to seek the Anointing -- i.e., "...forsakes Messiah the savior" -- are very much the walking dead as personified in the statement “Another disciple said to him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matt 8:21-22).  And as stated in this same suppressed teaching with respect to the walking dead: "...Yea, let them be lost in the outer darkness, for so they willed and none can hinder The Law."   Therefore, in order to escape the death of the "outer darkness", the person must seek the Anointing within them that connects them to their True-Self, and restores their realization of their Eternal Mother and Father God. 

 

What this means is that the doctrine of Original Sin was a sign that must be turned within the person's own mind. In not understanding the parabolic enigma of Original Sin as it applies to them in the present, the immature believers are rightly portrayed as "...worshiping a significant thing without knowing what it signifies".  But those who understand what is being signified in the parable or myth, are "...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”.  When the question is posed, what needs to be tamed?  Man's lower carnal nature as manifest in the lower three kingdoms must be purified and brought together with the upper three heavenly kingdoms.  Why can this only be revealed in the form of parables and myths?  Augustine explains: “What the apostle says pertains to this problem: 'For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth', that is, when that which is said figuratively is taken as though it were literal, it is understood carnally. Nor can anything more appropriately be called the death of the soul than that condition in which the thing which distinguishes us from beasts, which is the understanding, is subjected to the flesh in the pursuit of the letter. He who follows the letter takes figurative expressions as though they were literal and does not refer the things signified to anything else” (De Doctrina Christiana).  Thus, in the failure to perceptively understand what is being signified in the allegory and myth of Original Sin, is portrayed as "...the death of the soul".  As Augustine himself wrote, "the letter of the doctrine of Original Sin killeth" -- but when the doctrine is turned within your own mind as the Key of Knowledge (see Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ), then what is spiritually presented in the doctrine of Original Sin not only must be understood in the present-tense, but is a Sin that the person themselves commits in the present.  

In explanation of these important teachings that can only be presented allegorically, the doctrine of the physical resurrection of the body, writes Origen in Contra Celsum, is misunderstood by the spiritually immature believers, and writes that the doctrines of the crucifixion and the physical resurrection was “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”. Why?  Because like the doctrine of Original Sin, both the crucifixion and the resurrection are representative of allegorical spiritual events that have to do with the process of achieving Wholeness and the Spiritual Rebirth of the seeker/disciple -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  Which is why there is documented Sixteen Crucified Saviors in the world's religions (see The Sixteen Crucified Saviors http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#SixteenCrucifiedSaviors ).  Why?  Because the symbols of Original Sin, the virgin birth and the crucifixion are all universal allegorical symbols composed in the Language of the Soul.   Therefore, if it is true that those who are portrayed by Jesus as "righteous" had achieved "wholeness" apart from belief in the historical crucifixion and the resurrection, then the whole position of the Church that a person is saved without having to pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay, is gravely flawed.  

What, then, must you do in order to "overcome"Further, in this respect, we can correctly portray the Original Gospel Teachings of Jesus as the means to heal and overcome the Original Sin of Duality and Division -- but this is only true if we follow and embrace the teachings of Jesus by picking up our own Cross and travailing in TheWay (see The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion  http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross ).  Original sin is not a condition of birth that you inherited from your ancestors -- but rather, a failure of man and woman to fulfill their condition of birth.  Which from a Gospel perspective, means that only when the spiritual meaning of the Crucifixion and the Cross is understood, and applied daily to every thought and action, can the duality of Original Sin be negated in the life of that person.  Therefore, when Jesus said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23), Jesus did not say that you must merely believe that he was crucified.  What Jesus actually stated is that you must "come after [him]" by taking up [your own] cross daily" -- i.e., DAILY -- and with your own cross, you must bring about and submit to your own crucifixion -- DAILY. 

If Original sin and the forbidden fruit is allegorical, then what does it mean to the modern believer?  An important teaching found in the suppressed Gospel of Philip states: “When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again and attains his former self, death will be no more”.   The clue to the allegory is in the statement: "When she (Eve) was separated from him (Adam), death came into being."   Why?  Because of the duality of the opposite spheres of mind as allegorically portrayed in the separation of Adam and Eve -- and in the separation, the two opposite Male/Linear and Female/Intuitive Spheres of mind were functioning separate from each other.  Therefore, it is the separated impressions and thoughts of the Male and Female outer columns of the Tree of Life, that causes death (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ).  If Adam (Linear Outward-Looking Spheres of Mind) had restored Oneness with Eve (Intuitive Inward-Looking Spheres of Mind), Adam never would have answered: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate” (Gen 3:12).  If the fruit (Female-Intuitive Impressions of Eve) had been properly joined with the other half of the Male-Linear Impressions of Adam, then Wholeness would have been achieved.  But in blaming the Female-Intuitive Impressions, no degree of Wholeness had been achieved -- i.e., "If he (Male-Linear Impressions of Adam) enters again and attains his former self (where the Male-Linear and the Female-Intuitive are One), death will be no more”

This allegorical foundation of the separation of the Male and Female columns of the Tree of Life is further explained in the Gospel of Philip where it is stated: "There are two trees growing in Paradise. One bears animals, the other bears men. Adam ate from the tree which bore animals. He became an animal and he brought forth animals. For this reason the children of Adam worship animals. The tree whose fruit Adam ate is the Tree of Knowledge. That is why sins increased. If he ate the fruit of the other tree, that is to say, the Tree of Life, the one which bears men, then the gods would worship man. For in the beginning God created man. But now men create God. That is the way it is in the world – men make gods and worship their creation. It would be fitting for the gods to worship men!"    On the other hand, "If he (Adam) ate the fruit of the other tree, that is to say, the Tree of Life, the one which bears men, then the gods would worship man."  In this allegorical portrayal, the gods represent the Natural Laws that enable mental and spiritual development, would have opened the inner "narrow gate" that Jesus commanded all his followers to enter (see The Cosmology Of Mind - The Law Of Octaves And The Narrow Gate http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#CosmologyOfMind ).  When God said: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.” (Gen 1:28), this could only be accomplished when the duality of Adam (Linear Spheres of Mind) function in conjunction with Eve (Intuitive Spheres of Mind), and bring about Wholeness of Impressions and Thought which is necessary to bring about the transformation and refinement of the three lower earthly kingdoms and the upper three heavenly kingdoms.   The Enlightened non-Jewish followers of Jesus portrayed the god of the Jews as a demiurge -- i.e., "...But now men create god. That is the way it is in the world – men make gods and worship their creation"  -- this was the position of the worship of that god of the literal allegorical text which was portrayed in the words the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).  Which is why the Gospel account of Jesus portrayed the Jews who only saw the literal text of the scriptures as the The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com .  Quoting the Church historian Eusebius who writes of the doctrines conceived by the early Christians Papias and Irenaeus who based their understanding of the scriptures on the literal text: “Papias reproduces other stories communicated to him by word of mouth, together with some otherwise unknown parables and teachings of the Savior, 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..." (Eusebius, Hist Eccl., Book III, 39.11).   The fact that the Church of Constantine and the modern Christians continue is this error where they worship the gods that they have created, causes them to remain spiritually ignorant and disenfranchised -- 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).   

While the division of Male-Linear and Female-Intuitive is necessary to mentally “Be fruitful and multiply", the transformative process of bringing about Wholeness, can only be accomplished in what is portrayed as a Coverture-Marriage where the duality is merged and overcome (see The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage ).  The only way this could be accomplished was to unify and restore Oneness to the two outer divided male and female columns of the Tree of Life.   Without this Unified Wholeness, the male and female impressions and thoughts will remain carnal and of the earth -- i.e., "Adam ate from the tree which bore animals. He became an animal and he brought forth animals. For this reason the children of Adam worship animals. The tree whose fruit Adam ate is the Tree of Knowledge. That is why sins increased...".  What does this entail?  Belief in the cross as an historical event in the life of the man Jesus, does not in any manner equate to taking up your own cross DAILY, and carrying it to your own crucifixion.  Jesus did not say that a person's mere belief in his crucifixion was sufficient.  In fact, Jesus warned that mere belief was not enough as expressed in the words: "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46).  And what did Jesus say?  Jesus said that each person must pick up their own cross and submit to the transformative process of their own crucifixion.  Thus, while our knowledge of the cross that each person must carry is crucial, few Christians possess the in-depth knowledge to understand the symbolism and meaning -- especially when they rely upon the historical image of the crucifix that portrays the Cross in an historical context that is relevant only to the historical man Jesus.  Which means that it is the condition of Original Sin which portrays the separation and duality of the Male and Female realities of Mind as personified in the symbolism of the divided Adam and Eve -- has imbued each person with a type of blindness to his own higher Soul-Reality -- and it is the Gospel teachings on The Cross which overcomes the condition of blindness caused by Original Sin of duality as personified in the Tree of Duality (Knowledge of Good and Evil) -- and Original Sin portrays the condition of duality as personified in Eve's separation from Adam -- then the crucifixion is achieved when man overcomes his own divided natures as presented in the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas:  "Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."   When the male and female spheres within your own mind are At-One -- i.e., when Adam and Eve is restored to AdamEve, and Wholeness is brought about -- only then you have overcome the Original Sin of the Tree of Duality.   

As presented at TheCall To The Wedding Banquette http://TheCall.Nazirene.org , what is portrayed as the Wedding Garment is in reality the preparatory transformation necessary to initiate the process of Connecting of Consciousness in pursuit of overcoming man's inherent inner division and duality.   Mankind is the Fourth Kingdom that is the balance between the upper three heavenly kingdoms and the lower three earthly kingdoms -- which must be Unified and brought into the Center by the Male and Female spheres of Mind as personified in the image of the pattern of the Tree of Life as portrayed at the right and explored at http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org .  The Tree of Duality is then the division of Male/Adam and Female/Eve, and the division of the upper Heavenly and the lower Earthly Kingdoms.  And having been born a Male or Female, each person has inherited this Duality that they must overcome as personified in the formula of the above teaching.  Therefore, Original Sin is the failure to bring about Oneness and Wholeness within your own life -- as your brother Jesus did: "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).

Thus, the all-important question: What, then, are you connecting in the above teaching of Jesus?  You are connecting the person you are in this world with your inner eternal Soul-Self -- by connecting the lower self of the three earthly kingdoms, with your higher self of the upper three heavenly kingdoms -- and this is accomplished by the male and opposite female spheres of mind coming together to overcome the duality of mind of the ego-self that inhibits the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.   And when rightly understood, all of life can be defined as an opportunity to Connect Consciousness in pursuit of acquiring the vision and perception that provides us the experiential knowledge that brings about growth and development of Mind.  When Jesus explained to his disciples why he was able to speak differently to them, then he did with the multitudes of people who came to hear him, he stated: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are outside, 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).  Unlike the multitudes who were not prepared to overcome the inner duality that inhibited them from Connecting in Consciousness, the multitude of people could only be taught in parables which the vast majority could not comprehend the spiritual meaning of -- i.e., "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34).  

When rightly understood, the whole of the Gospel teachings is focused on the process of Connecting in Consciousness in pursuit of overcoming mankind's own inherent inner duality that caused the lost prodigal son to dwell in the "outer darkness" of the Far Country.  Thereby causing him to be a prisoner of Plato's Cave.  And when it is recognized that failure to Connect in Consciousness is inherent in all of mankind, it can properly be recognized as man's Original Sin that consigns him to the hells of this world.  In fact, all of man's trials and tribulations -- all of man's evils -- all of man's ignorance -- can be portrayed as the Original Sin of his failure to Connect in Consciousness in pursuit of bringing about the condition of Wholeness of Mind and Being -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   

Consciousness requires Energy or Bio-Energy -- vital-life-force upon which Consciousness manifests.  Energy requires a Positive/Male and Negative/Female Polarity that is brought together to manifest the Third-Force of Consciousness.  Our True or Higher Soul-Self is a Being of Light, because it is a twelve-dimensional being wherein the polarities of Male/Female are Self-Contained.  What does Self-Contained mean?  It means that the polarities of Male and Female are functioning together within the One in a similar fashion as the two sides of the heart perform together to flawlessly move life-giving blood throughout the Whole Body. 

In the same way that the contraction of the two atrium chambers of the heart initiate the contraction in the ventricles of the heart, in this divided reality every action initiates a reactive-action in its opposite polarity.  Which from the higher perspective of mankind wherein the pattern of the complexity of mind is manifest in the pattern of the Tree of Life,  it means that every word, and every action you make, initiates an opposite polarity-action that MUST BE BALANCED IN THE CENTER OF THE TREE OF LIFE.  When balance and wholeness is achieved, then growth and development is brought about.  When the active and reflective opposites cannot be balanced within one's own self, then the action becomes externalized -- which in the parable of the prodigal son, is portrayed as the squandering away of the inheritance on "riotous living".   But because the loss or externalization of the bio-energy is stamped with what can be portrayed as the imprint of our Spiritual DNA, it MUST return back to us -- and this process can and does continue until Wholeness and Completion is achieved. 

Our Soul cannot directly incarnate into this three-dimensional world, because the higher twelve-dimensions of consciousness that polarities of male and female cannot be manifest in a self-contained physical body.   And this is why in the allegorical account of Genesis, Mankind would be represented as AdamEve -- with Eve (Negative-Polarity) representing one half of the Mind that was drawn from the side of Adam (Positive-Polarity), portraying a condition of a divided Whole.   Why?  Why was the Mind of the Soul divided in half -- with each half seeing and understanding all of mankind's reality from an opposite and very different perspective?  Because our True-Self -- our Higher Soul-Self -- is a Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) that dwells in a twelve-dimensional realm where the polarities of Male and Female are Self-Contained.  And it is this Higher Soul-Self that is the true being that we are as portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself (see http://SoulSelf.org ) -- i.e., as stated in the Gospel of Thomas: "(3) Jesus said ...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".  Which means that (1) there is no such thing as a male or female Soul; and the (2) primary purpose of sexual intercourse is to bring about a Connection in Consciousness between the two halves of the Mind -- and this Connection is brought about through the exchange of DNA between the two halves of the Whole, that enables the two halves of the One-Self to interact and bring about growth and development of Mind and Spirit.   Which means that procreation is a byproduct of the sexual union of man and woman -- and is not the primary purpose which is to bring about the possibility of the restoration of Wholeness, that is the key to the development and higher evolution of the Mind. 

The missing element in the wisdom of the meme on the development of the newborn child which is labeled Connecting Consciousness, is that the very birth of the child presents an important opportunity for the parents to overcome the pitfalls of their own childhood.  Thus, by Connecting with the Consciousness of one's own child, the parents are given the opportunity to heal and change their own Condition of Consciousness.  And what is not generally understood is the fact that the child stays actively connected with its parents until puberty.  Depending upon the spiritual condition of the marriage-relationship of the parents, the primary purpose of sex is to connect the minds of the woman and man marriage partners (see The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage ).  In the case of the female child, she will remain connected to the father through the genetic connection of the original cell that formed her body at conception, until she has sex with a male or husband -- and a male child will remain connected till puberty.  But what is important is the Causal-Factor as to why this connection within a family is crucial to both the higher  development of the mind of both the parents, and their children within the family unit, that is crucial to the conditions that the family members within the framework of the Natural Laws that each will live out throughout their lives.  

We have all heard the statement: As above, so below.  Spiritually Advanced Souls arrive at the level of awareness where they begin to understand the relationship of the physical nature of man to his mental and spiritual natures.  When a person comes to understand that there is a Divine Pattern that is holographically replicated throughout all of Creation, they begin to realize that what is being stated is that: If you understand the pattern on the physical level, that this same pattern is also true and can be applied to the mental and spiritual natures and levels of  development.  Holographically, when the male and female are brought together in the exchange of their physical essence during sexual intercourse, the conception of a physical child is often the result.  But on a higher mental level -- as portrayed in the image on the left -- the union of male and female is designed to create and build a Morphic Field that has the capacity to enclose the man and woman in a personal atmosphere that stimulates and manifests the development of higher mind and consciousness (see Morphic Field).  In the same way that the mind surrounds the physical body, and works through the body-vessel, the Morphic Field that forms as a result of sexual intercourse between a Husband and Wife, is the Atmosphere and Seclusive Environment that forms the Mental-Embryo wherein the Husband and Wife have the capacity to bring about the next stage of Mental-Birth that enables them to become At-One with their Higher Soul or True-Self (see http://SoulSelf.org ). 

In the same way that you cannot see a person's mind with your physical eyes, neither can you see the Mental-Mind that makes the husband and wife "one flesh" -- i.e., "one flesh" (Matt 19:6).  And when the Morphic Field created by the sexual union is understood to be the mental-offspring of the Marriage/Union, then it is this Field that makes the two, "one flesh" on a mental Etheric level in the field that surrounds them.  And it is this Mental-Spiritual environment of the Field that brings about the next stage of Mental or Soul-Birth (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ).    

What does this mean in relation to the message of the meme on the right?  In the same way that the mental-energies of the man and woman is building the Morphic Field which their marriage-union created -- the Morphic Field evolves the minds of the husband and wife in a Coverture-Marriage -- and the same dynamics of the union of opposites is true on a physical level where the thoughts and impressions of the parents evolve and develop the Essence-Mind of the child.  What is the Essence-Mind?  It is the aspects of mind that remain connected to both the parents, and the child's higher Soul-Self. 

The physical body of each person began to form when three events came together -- i.e., the sperm and ovum of the child's mother and father came together and are joined together to form an embryo -- and with the joining, this opened the door of opportunity for the Soul that was incarnating into the body-vessel to became attached to the forming embryo.  But because the Soul is a twelve-dimensional Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) that cannot physically manifest in this three-dimensional sub-realm -- and the consciousness of the embryo is itself an embryonic-expression of the Soul or True-Self that has the innate capacity to develop and become Whole -- the soul-generated personality must evolve through the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening for the Soul or True-Self to manifest in the body-vessel. 

After being formed in the womb of the mother, the developing embryo is prepared for the first stage of birth by receiving the physical food and mental-impressions supplied through the mother of the developing fetus.   But because of the genetic connection, the impressions of both the father and the mother continue to influence the developing child.  With the formation of the physical body, when the infant is born into this world, the infant in reality is beginning the next stage of mental birth (see Stages Of Birth http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#StagesOfBirth ) -- and because mankind IN THIS WORLD is divided by gender, we can rightly be portrayed as a Mental-Ovum or Mental-Sperm that needs to be joined to its opposite polarity to advance beyond the consciousness of organic man or woman ( The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ). 

When the cycles of life is understood, childhood can be portrayed as the preparatory development that must prepare the developing minds into and through the stages of puberty, when they are prepared for the joining that would then render the sexual union of man and woman into what can be portrayed as a Mental-Embryo.   And it is this joining of the Mental Ovum and Sperm into a Mental Embryo -- where the polarities of male/positive and female/negative interact together to bring the earthly and the heavenly natures of mankind into Wholeness by channeling the Soul bio-energy through what the Gospels portray as the "narrow gate", in order to bring about the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual deepening (see The Narrow Gate And The Enigma Of The Law Of Octaves http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Intro ).  And it is through the interaction of the opposite male/positive and female/negative polarities that is intended to grow and evolve our mind and consciousness beyond what can be portrayed as the organic consciousness of man or woman (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ). 

In the image on the left, we see the lower earthly portrayals of man and woman at a level that can be portrayed as Organic Consciousness.  By their very human nature, they are imbued with great diversity and depth of intellect.  But, from the perspective of their Higher Soul-Level of Consciousness, the Organic levels of human intelligence is embryonic in relation to their true potential when they achieve the next stage of Mental-Birth.  In the elevated we see the male and female polarities of mind on a higher plane of consciousness, mind and being.   In the case of the male polarity, we see the image of Solar-Vision -- and in the case of the female polarity, we see the image of Lunar-Vision.  Beneath the elevated MaleFemale images who are At-One, we see the image of a Lotus, which is a symbol of transformed and higher consciousness which is defined as: "The lotus has a life cycle unlike any other plant. With its roots latched in mud, it submerges every night into river water and miraculously re-blooms the next morning, sparklingly clean. In many cultures, this process associates the flower with rebirth and spiritual enlightenment. With its daily process of life, death, and reemergence, its no wonder that the lotus holds such symbolism.  Because of these meanings, the lotus is often seen alongside divine figures in some cultures. For the Egyptians, the flower represents the universe. In Hindu culture, it is said that gods and goddesses sat on lotus thrones. And a longstanding Buddhist story states that the Buddha appeared atop a floating lotus, and his first footsteps on Earth left lotus blossoms" (see https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9550430/lotus-flower-meaning/ ).

The above process of how the opposites in the center are brought together in Oneness with the duality of male and female restored, is presented in the Gospel of Thomas saying 22: "Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."   What is being portrayed here is the coming together of the Mental-Sperm and Mental-Ovum in the formation of a Mental-Embryo that has the ability to achieve the next stage of Mental-Birth.  The question that had been posed to Jesus by his disciples was: "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"   That the foregoing teaching which is contained in the Gospel of Thomas saying 22 was important to the first century followers of Jesus, is demonstrated in  The Second Epistle of Clement where this ultra-important teaching that was removed from the Gospels modern Christians use is quoted as stating: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.   What Clement -- the disciple of Peter who is claimed by the Church as the fourth pope in succession of Peter -- is stating in accord with the Original teachings is that when the seeker/believer brings this condition about within their own Mind and Being, that the predicted and expected Kingdom will come within them as promised -- as stated in Jesus' teachings on the Key of Knowledge (see The Third Fatal Mistake - Not Proving The Truth).  It is also important to recognize that when Clement wrote the above in his Epistle to a congregation of Christians, he did so in the expectation that the people to whom he was writing would understand the great truths he was presenting to them.   That the Kingdom or End Times would -- and could only -- come when "...two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.   And the fact that this statement that is in the Gospel of Thomas and was contained in a first century Epistle from an elder, to a congregation of believers in that time-frame, could not be contained and understood in a letter or epistle to a congregation today, is merely one example of the fact that the dogma and thinking of the modern Church has virtually nothing in common with the original teachings of Jesus known as TheWay (see The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#OriginalTeachings ). 

When Jesus conveyed to Nicomedus that "...Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" -- and when Nicomedus did not understand the threefold process of birth, Jesus then asked how he could be a teacher, and not know these spiritual realities: "...Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be?  Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?  It is important to grasp the reality of the words that when Nicodemus did not understand how a person had to achieve the next stage of birth, that Jesus replied:   Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" (John 3:1-12).  This process of Birth is embedded in what has been portrayed as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God (see http://TheLawOfOctaves.com  ).  But when the original followers of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily attempted to convey this reality of the Natural Laws to the faith-based Gentiles, they were rejected and condemned as heretics (see The Ebionite Heresy http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheEbioniteHeresy ).  The faith-based Gentiles imported the dogma of Mithraism into the Gospel teachings (see The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity ).  When the division of male and female is understood within the context of this Earthly-Womb, then the process of birth can then be understood.  Thus, if the next stage of birth was brought about by saying a prayer to the Mithraic Jesus-god created by fourth century pagan Rome -- or, the sinners prayer as is commonly practiced by modern Christians -- then Jesus would not have replied to Nicodemus in the above manner.  

The obligation of the parents is to properly prepare their child to embrace the subsequent stage of birth.  Those parents who fail to prepare their children to achieve the next stage of birth, are those who are portrayed as the "sin of the parents".  The fetus develops to a certain point when it is released through physical-birth from the womb of its mother, which birth in this world is necessary to prepare the child to begin to advance to the next stage of Mental-Birth.  In accord with the Natural Laws of Creation, this second stage of development is brought about by virtue of the fact that the parents remain intimately connected to both each other, and the newborn.  Instead of a physical umbilical chord, the genetic connection acts in the manner of a mental-umbilical chord to both the mother and the father in the development of the infant/child.  And when rightly understood, this genetic connection of the child to the parents is maintained, so that the parents can develop the child's inner resources of Essence-Mind that enables the child to Naturally develop beyond organic human consciousness through the child's connection to its Higher Soul-Self.  

 

This sub-realm which we call the earth where we are presently dwelling, is a three-dimensional world -- and higher development is dependent upon the connection from the three-dimensional physical mind of the child to the twelve-dimensional Soul-Mind which connection is maintained through the Essence-Mind of the child that is connected to the primary-cell that came together to create the original embryo.  Only the parents with their genetic connection to the primary-cell of the child, can build and maintain the inner connection of the child's Essence-Mind with their Higher Soul-Mind.  Therefore, parents neglect the personal development of their children -- who fail to build and maintain the connection of the infant with the child's Higher Soul-Mind -- are guilty of what is portrayed in the Gospels as the "sin of the parents" (see The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#ThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness ).  When the disciples asked Jesus about the causes of blindness, it is the "sin of the parents" that can be portrayed as the failure to insure the development of the child while maintaining the child's connection to its Soul -- a connection that can only be made though the Essence-Mind that is manifest in the primary-cell of the child.  Wholeness can only be achieved when the development of the mind of the person is able to connect to their Higher Soul-Self ( http://SoulSelf.org ) -- and this inner connection is evolved during that time in the preparation of the child achieving puberty. 

Only the parents have a connection to the Primary-Cell or Essence-Mind of the child.  And therefore, only the parents can properly teach and prepare the child through the development of the Essence-Mind.  Those non-parent adults who attempt to teach the child cannot develop the Essence-Mind of the child -- and when they teach the child, they carve out segments of False-Personality (ego) within the mind of the developing child.  What is portrayed as the ego-self is that part of the mind that is disconnected from the Essence-Mind through abnormal development.  In the same way that the fetus developed as a physical expression unique to the genetics of the father and mother, the Soul that is incarnating into the body-vessel of the child connects with the embryo at the point of conception -- connecting with the primary cell that forms the body and mind of the developing fetus.  If the primary cell essence is developed and evolved, then the connection of the child to it's Higher Soul-Self is maintained and grown.  This genetic connection to both the parents and the Soul of the child, is necessary in the proper mental development of the child in preparation for the child to achieve the next subsequent stage of Mental-Birth.  With its genetic connection, the fetus develops to a certain point in the womb of its mother, and then by virtue of the genetic connection with the parents, the child continues to develop up until puberty.  And it is the genetic connection to the parents that prepares the child's development beyond organic male or female human consciousness.  

Spiritually, the Original Cell that was formed by the joining of the father's sperm and the mother's ovum remains connected to the parents who are the physical source -- and it is through this primary cell or Essence-Mind that the child maintains the connection to their own Soul or the Higher Self of the child --  and continues to remain connected after the birth of the child.  The adage to Know Thyself, is that condition when the Essence-Mind prevails over the Ego-Self, and is firmly connected to the person's Soul or True Self -- as stated by Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   Therein, it is this primary cell that forms the Essence of the child's mind and personality.  The cells that were formed from the primary cell, are the secondary cells of what is often portrayed as the ego or worldly consciousness of the developing child.  When one of the parents who remain intimately connected to the child through the primary cell teaches the child, this builds the Essence-Mind of the Child -- thereby maintaining a connection to the child's Higher Soul-Self.  When someone else attempts to teach the child, the external teacher cannot connect with the child's primary cell or core of mind, and the teachings by these other people has the effect of dividing the mind of the child by carving out segments of ego-mind that interacts with the external teacher -- thereby building the child's ego or false-personality.      

The Window Of Higher Knowledge, Mind and Being: Is woman a sex partner and a vehicle to raise a man's offspring?  Or, is she a Living Window that opens to her husband the key to acquiring the Knowledge of the Mysteries of Creation?  Mankind remains a prisoner in what is personified as Plato's Cave, because he fails to understand that Woman is a Living Window that has the potential to reveal to him all the answers that is lacking in the halls of Academia, science and philosophy. 

Why It's Time to Stop Mocking Sex Education that Teaches 'Just Say No'

Why It's Time to Stop Mocking Sex Education that Teaches 'Just Say No'

In the article the young man whose thinking and mindset has been cultured into perceiving woman as a means to engage in a higher form of masturbation that satisfies his carnal appetites, simply has no idea as to the true potential of woman as the means to reveal to him all the answers to the mysteries of life.  And therein lies the crux of the young man's cultural mind-programming that has alienated and disenfranchised him from solving and comprehending the mysteries of self and life -- i.e., he has been led by blind guides in the wrong direction. From a the time he was a child he was taught that to learn and acquire knowledge, he must seek out teachers and instructors -- and thus, he bought into the big lie that shackles mankind in the abyss of abject ignorance.   The inconceivable truth is that he does not have to learn what he already possesses -- he only has to learn how to retrieve and restore what he lost when he was born into this present life.  Which means that to acquire all the knowledge that the teachers and universities in this world has thrown away, he only has to fulfill the adage to Know Thyself -- his True-Self that is a Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) -- and he will restore the knowledge of the mysteries of life and creation.  As stated in the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: "(3) Jesus said ...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty"

How can woman possess such intellectual power?  Because she is the opposite of man -- the opposite half of the mind -- the opposite polarity that interacts with his own intellectual power to bring about Higher Consciousness -- and the other half that when Oneness is Restored, makes the the two of them Whole and Complete -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  And with Wholeness, the next stage of birth can be achieved.  Which is why the disciples asked Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"  How could the disciples of Jesus portray themselves as children?  What does being children has to do with entering the Kingdom?  Thus, in the answer of Jesus to his disciples we see the resolution to the plight of mankind in this world when he said:  "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."  What Jesus was stating is that so long as you remain divided and incomplete, you will remain a victim of man's divisive ignorance.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The "ladder" which is portrayed as the proverbial Jacob's Ladder, represents step-by-step INNER development of the mind to receive and comprehend higher realizations of Essential Truth.  An important reference to the Ladder of Expanded Consciousness has been preserved in the 90th chapter of the Gospel of the Nazirenes where it states: "God gives you all truth, as a ladder with many steps, for the salvation and perfection of the soul, and the truth which seems today, you will abandon for the higher truth tomorrow. Press toward perfection."   

Another example of man's quest to see and understand Higher Truth is presented in the above Gospel where Jesus explains: "When one climbs a mountain and attaining one height, he says, this is the top of the mountain, let us reach it, and when they have reached that height, lo, they see another beyond it until they come to that height from which no other height is to be seen, if so be they can attain it".  Why is the statement made: "...if so be they can attain it"?  In order to begin to grab the next rung of the ladder, you must be able to let go of the previous rung that you have outgrown -- i.e., "...the truth which seems today, you will abandon for the higher truth tomorrow. Press toward perfection."    

With respect to the Truth of the Gospels, Jesus then makes reference to his own quest for Higher Truth: "So it is with truth. I am the truth and the way and the life, and have given to you the truth which I have received from above. And that which is seen and received by one, is not seen and received by another. That which appears true to some, seems not true to others. They who are in the valley don't see what they who are on the hill top see"  What Jesus was saying is that he, having climbed to the top of Jacob's Ladder, is conveying to others the Truth that he has seen and understands -- i.e.,  "I... have given to you the truth which I have received from above".  And when rightly understood, the purpose of the Gospels is to provide all seekers with the necessary process that will enable them to climb to the top of Jacob's Ladder.  And having yourself made the journey in TheWay, you will know and do all that your brother Jesus did before you.  In the same way that after climbing to the top of Jacob's Ladder the historical man Jesus could receive and understand the sacred wisdom and knowledge that he was only then able to receive -- i.e., "I... have given to you the truth which I have received from above" -- you will only be of an enlightened understanding when you also arrive at the top of Jacob's Ladder as your elder spiritual brother Jesus did.

You could have a 180 IQ -- born with the potential of superior human intellect -- and if you continue to cling to the lower rung of the ladder, your (mental) advancement will remain flat-lined.  Why?  "When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child" (1 Cor 13:11).  Those who cling to elementary ideas and concepts about life, cannot mentally and spiritually advance beyond the infantile state of mind representative of that rung they continue to grasp and refuse to let go of.  Quoting from the Wikipedia article on the analogy of Plato's Cave: "Like the fire that cast light on the walls of the cave, the human condition is forever bound to the impressions that are received through the senses" (see Plato - The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato ), unless we begin to open our minds to the level of consciousness representative of the next rung of Jacob's Ladder, it will remain impossible for us to advance beyond a level where, like the prisoners in Plato's Cave, it will remain impossible for us to embrace the process of growth through mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening. 

You could be the most brilliant scientist -- able to attract the largest crowd of worshipers to a religious institution -- or known as a leading expert in your field of study -- and so long as you continue to cling to the elementary concepts of life and remain  "...bound to the impressions that are received through the senses", it will remain virtually impossible for you to mentally and spiritually advance beyond that level of the rung you cling to and refuse to let go of.   While we are on the cusp of great advancement -- with modern cutting edge science proving the wisdom of the mystic and the reality that Spirit is the True Unseen Source of all the images we see that are cast upon the Cave of this sub-realm (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife ) -- we must prepare ourselves to understand the wisdom of the mystic, in order to grasp the next rung of Jacob's Ladder that will enable us break the shackles of imprisonment in Plato's Cave, and begin to advance out of the shadow-images of this sub-realm of immature consciousness.   

In the same way that a different segment of mind is used to create music, art and other such creative works than that part of the mind that is used in academic pursuits, still other aspects of mind must  be developed in order to access our inner realities of Higher Mind that modern science has only now proven to be the Unseen Source of all that we see and interact with in this sub-realm (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife ).  What is portrayed as Jacob's Ladder, is representative of man's inner climb into Higher Consciousness.  And in the same way that if a person never sits down at a piano and begins the process of learning to play, those areas of mind that bestows upon man these musical abilities never develop, the same is true with respect to man's inner journey in his climb up the levels of Jacob's Ladder.  You could be a scientist or expert in your field, and because your mind has been focused outwardly in your lerning experience, not only will you lack inner self-knowledge, but the inner realities of your own Higher Self will remain an enigma to the whole of your thinking. 

In order for the prodigal son/daughter to escape the "outer darkness" of this, the Far Country, they must make the inner climb into Higher Consciousness in what is portrayed as Jacob's Ladder.  In order for the prisoners who are shackled in Plato's Cave to make the inner journey to escape the shadow-images of this sub-realm, the person must develop those attributes of mind that enables them to begin to climb Jacob's Ladder.  This inner journey remains impossible so long as the person remains "...bound to the impressions that are received through the senses".  And in knowing this fact of life, the scriptures are not historical accounts pertaining to the outer world -- but rather, when turned within one's own mind and used as the Key of Knowledge, the allegorical symbols act as catalysts that begin the process of inward mental-expansion and spiritual deepening (see The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).       

So long as academia continues to cling to Darwinism which is the holy grail of Scientism -- and the Church continues to cling to the man-made dogma of pagan Rome (see The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles ) -- no mental or spiritual advancement can be brought about.  The Ladder of Higher Mind and Consciousness that evolves that which is portrayed as the "animal-soul" level of mind and being (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ), must be brought about one level of higher truth at a time -- i.e., “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?  For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little” (Isa 28:9-10).  

 

How long will man continue to look outwardly for what only can be found within?  The inner journey begins with self-knowledge -- and self-knowledge begins with observing self and how you respond to the experiences of life.   The wisdom of self-knowledge that was the foundation of the adage to Know Thyself, is represented in the ancient philosophical schools of man's past.   Thus, the wisdom of the Delphic Oracle which states: "Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside.  If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders?  In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures.  Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."    Which provokes the question: How can it even be stated: "If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside"???

If it is true that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, then the core essence of insanity is each person's failure to understand and even recall the Causal-Factors of the events in one's own life.  To the degree that the vast majority of people fail to understand that virtually every event that transpires throughout every aspect of everyone's life, is initiated by a Causal-Factor that initiated and brought that event about.  And while there is what can be called academic book-knowledge where one memorizes rote opinions and quasi-facts, the gateway to true wisdom and higher knowledge that open's one's mind to strategic thinking and higher consciousness, begins with abstract-intuitive thinking -- which begins with one's understanding and conscious recognition of the causal factors that precedes every event and experience in our lives.  We have often heard the adage to Know Thyself -- i.e., the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   And when it is understood that our Higher True-Self knows and foresees all the Causal-Factors of all the events in the life that we are presently living, it remains impossible for each of us to even begin to tap into our Inner Source of Mind and Being, without understanding the higher realities of the life we are presently living.  What this means is that every event in your life has been initiated for a reason and a purpose.  Even your life itself.  

 

 

 

In this article you will discover the union and merger of Modern Science and Spirituality.  

 

Everyone arrives at a station in life that has been pre-chosen based upon the causal-factors of your own past -- and therefore each person must either embrace or prevail over the causal-factors that have created their present life, in order to embrace a higher path in life.  Understanding the Causal-Factors begins with consciously observing every facet of one's life -- seeking its meaning -- and opening one's mind to receiving the impressions through our intuitive spheres of mind that are able to begin to tap into each of our Inner Higher True-Self that possesses this essential self-knowledge.  Thus, to even begin to accomplish this, we must break the stranglehold of the outer world that demands every aspect of our attention -- and we must begin to seek beyond the (male) Linear spheres of mind that control our thinking, and begin to access and listen to the suppressed (feminine) Intuitive spheres of mind that has the power to look inwardly to our Source of Mind and Being.   

Admittedly, the Causal-Factors of life are not always apparent to the vast number of people who have never understood the reality of Cause and Effect as set forth in the scriptures and science.  And with respect to this knowledge that is not recognized by the majority of people who remain in the dark with respect to the lives they are living, when rightly understood, there is no such thing as hidden knowledge -- and what is hidden is in reality in plain sight right in front of you, but your thinking lacks the necessary connectivity to recognize or see it.  In the words of the Gospel of Thomas: Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you."   What this means is that Ultimately, all the answers to all the questions in life lie before your eyes -- but you fail to see or understand them.  And it is this inability to see and understand the Causal-Factors of your own life, which is why the Gospels portray organic man as being stricken by a form of inherent blindness and amnesia.   This world which was portrayed in the Gospels as a realm of "outer darkness" of Mind and Being, is in fact a sub-realm of a higher reality that organic natural man is blind to.  Why?  The concept of life that few people are able to comprehend can be summarized in the following: There are no accidents in the life you are presently living.  All your experiences in life are for a reason and a purpose.  What this means is that whatever your present station in life is -- i.e., your gender, your race, the place of your birth, the parents and family you were born into, your sexual orientation, who your spouse is, whether you are rich or poor, as well as all other measures of success or failure -- are all the result of either (1) the choices that you have yourself made; or (2) roles that your own past orchestrated for you -- and are the result of Causal-Factors designed to bring about a certain developmental-experience.  Therefore, every event that you have experienced, was initiated by a causal-factor that brought about the events in your life, in order to bring about the objective of the initiating causal-factor.  And therefore, when you imagine that the events you experience in your life is by chance, accident, luck of the draw, fate, or any other unknown factor -- without understanding that all the events, and even the very life you are presently living, has an initiating Causal-Factors designed to bring about a certain objective -- then you are dwelling under the cloud of self-ignorance.  And unless you begin to understand the Causal-Factors of the events in your life, you will fail to make any serious gains in accord with the reason you are presently experiencing the very life you are living. 

Every life has a purpose and a meaning, and is part of a Universal Objective that each of us shares with all of mankind.  As a person begins to understand first, the universal causal factors, and secondly the personal causal factors, such a person can then take over the reigns of their life as they begin to guide themselves onto a higher plane of consciousness and existence.   Biblically, we are the prodigal sons and daughters who are presently dwelling in the Far Country.  When Jesus said that the Kingdom will never come upon the earth in the manner that men look for it -- because it is within you (Luke 17:20-21) -- one of the causal factors that he noted, was that if you are looking in the wrong place or wrong direction, no gain or advancement can be achieved.   And when Jesus replied to the Pharisees that the Kingdom will never come upon the earth as to be physically seen -- because it is within the Soul and Essence of all of mankind -- he said this so that this Universal Objective of entering the Kingdom could be brought about by those seeking to abandon this world which has many times been is portrayed as spiritually barren -- the valley of death that for some people can be portrayed as a type of hell -- and that those who understand the causal factors of why they are present in this, the Far Country, are able to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom.  

Unless you can recall when, as the prodigal son, you dwelt in the Edenic Kingdom of your Heavenly Father -- as well as all the paths in this realm you have previously traveled -- then you have been stricken by the organic condition that can be portrayed as spiritual amnesia, that has caused you not to recall your own past (see Spiritual Amnesia http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ).  As the first of the prodigal sons to return to the Edenic Kingdom, the Gospels were written as a text-book to bring about your return to your True Source of Being.  Therefore, when the Gospels are turned within you as the Key of Knowledge ( http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), all those predicted cosmic events associated with the End Times, must be brought about within your own mind and being in order to open the inner door to the Kingdom within you.  Which is why Jesus confirmed that his sincere followers will experience the coming of the Kingdom within them as predicted -- i.e., "Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom" (see The End Times - Armageddon/Rapture - The Coming Of The Kingdom http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#EndTimes  Matt 16:28).   In like manner, all the miracles must be celebrated within you -- i.e. Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these" (John 14:12).  Why can't you fulfill the same miracles that Jesus said you would?  If you truly believe in Jesus, you would do even greater miracles than Jesus did.  But if you interpret and apply the scriptures outwardly, in the manner of the Jews, then you are yourself the victim of the Devil's Spawn who deceives you -- i.e., "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:43-44).  The Gospel account of Jesus portrayed those who interpret the scriptures outwardly as actual historical narratives, and observe the Law as ritual and tradition, as the "spawn of the devil" (see Christianity - The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ) -- and when Christians look outwardly for the miracles and the kingdom that can only come within them, then they not only follow blind guides, but they have failed to follow Jesus and travail in TheWay -- i.e., “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). 

The parables drawn from the Gospel teachings represent Universal Realities of all of mankind.  What this means is that every parable intimately makes reference to each person and the life they are presently living.  With respect to the parable of the prodigal son, that means that all of mankind previously existed in the Edenic Kingdom of Father-God -- which is why Jesus taught: "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven" (Matt 23:9).  And the fact that organic man does not recall when he dwelt in the Kingdom, means that what constitutes hidden knowledge can better be understood as forgotten knowledge, that most of mankind does not remember.  Yet, in the Gospel teachings of Jesus, it was important for the disciples to understand the Causal-Factors for the events of the life that they were/are living, in order to escape the mental impediments of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being.  In the Platonic dialogue of Meno and Socrates, all lost knowledge of what will constitute the Causal Factors of life, can be drawn from Soul-Memory.  In the parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field" (Matt 13:44), the Treasure can be found at the deeper levels of consciousness of our own Soul.  Therefore, through the process of anamnesis, each of us is able to remember the knowledge that we no longer consciously recall. As Socrates says, “the truth about reality is always in our souls,” we just need to recall the knowledge that is there, hidden in the deep recesses of our souls. Thus, within the soul, all knowledge is contained because our Soul is the True-Source of our Being (see http://SoulSelf.org ).  And that organic man is imbued with Spiritual Amnesia (see http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ), can be overcome through the process of Anamnesis - The Innate Knowledge Of The Truth Of All Truths: http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#Innate ). 

Now that modern science has proven the Theory of Evolution to be in error (see Evolution) -- and, in the emerging body of modern cutting-edge science, the Universe is now understood to be the product of a Great Thought as portrayed in the statement by astronomer James Jeans: “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” -- or the words of Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.  Which means that the Universe is the product of Intelligent Design, wherein Higher Vision and Consciousness brought all things into existence.  Intelligent Design expressed by Higher Consciousness, means that everything has a Reason and Purpose for Being -- as part of the Whole.  Which means that in the Design, there is a Reason and a Causal-Factor that initiates every event that mankind experiences in this world.   And it will remain impossible to mentally advance beyond a certain point of development -- or, for you to even understand the life that you are presently living -- without understanding what can be portrayed as the Causal-Factors that created these events. 

  The Empty And Full Mind Paradigms: Why is understanding what can be called the Causal-Factors of the events in life important?  There exists two ultra-important opposite foundational paradigms of human consciousness which is based upon the premise: (1) Is an infant's mind empty -- i.e., a blank slate -- and in need of being filled with the wisdom and knowledge of mankind?  (2) Or, is every infant an extension of an inner un-manifest source of Higher Mind and Consciousness that many portray as our True or Soul-Self?   Your answer to these questions sets the framework for the whole of your thinking and search for Truth.  

When the ancient wise men stated the importance of acquiring self-knowledge in order to fulfill the adage to Know Thyself -- i.e., their True-Self that cannot manifest in this three-dimensional realm -- they were making reference to the infant Mind-Full foundation of consciousness?   In like manner, when Jesus rejected the position of the Pharisees who were waiting for the Kingdom to be inaugurated upon the earth wherein he stated that "...the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21), indicates that only those who seek inwardly beyond the barrier of organic human consciousness, can find the Kingdom -- and in finding what is portrayed as the Inner Kingdom, one is able to discover all the important answers to the life we are presently living.  

The scriptures are based upon the process of anamnesis -- or, drawing from a pre-existing source within the child/person's own mind.  Under the heading of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the Wikipedia states: It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The article then goes on to say: Socrates' response is to develop his theory of anamnesis. He suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity...  What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. (Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.) And thus Socrates (and Plato) sees himself, not as a teacher, but as a midwife, aiding with the birth of knowledge that was already there in the student.   While the English language is spiritually inadequate and dead, the word Jñāna in Sanskrit means "knowledge" -- but, like the Greek word Gnosis, the word Jñāna portrays Knowledge acquired through Meditation -- i.e., looking within one's own mind at a deeper level.  

This reality of the existence of a deeper level of consciousness and an inner Source of Knowledge is portrayed in the statement by the Church Father Origen on using the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge where he wrote: “But all the narrative portion [of the scriptures], relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever, what else can they be supposed to be, save the forms and figures of hidden and sacred things? As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn, the consequence is that they never begin to have knowledge".   It is important to take note of Origen's statement that "...As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn" -- where reference is being made to an Inner Source of Knowledge that mankind possesses, even before they begin to learn in the traditional outward manner.   Further, Origen correctly states with respect to the (allegorical) text of the scriptures that "...all the narrative portion [of the scriptures], relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever", do not at all pertain to historical accounts of man's more distant past -- but rather, the biblical accounts are composed with allegorical presentations of the Forces and Laws of Consciousness that are presently working within man's own mind and being.   Why?   How could Origen who was called the prince of Christian learning second only to the Apostles themselves, state that the historical interpretation of the scriptures is "worthless" -- i.e., “Scripture contains an unhistorical element in-woven with the history, in order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics).   Further explaining in 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.”   And that what is presented in the written text of the scriptures as marriages, the begetting of children, and the many various wars and battles are not at all historical -- but rather, an allegorical portrayal of the Laws and Forces working within one's own mind and being? 

In the mind-empty paradigm of consciousness, the person learns exclusively from external sources -- often through rote mind-programming by a series of teachers who instructs the student into the positions of accumulated human reasoning based upon that teacher's perspective of man's experiences.   Each religion -- each philosophy -- each school of thought -- in most instances holds a different and often conflicting perspective of what is valid and true.   In most cases, confusion, discord and even conflict reigns because of the greatly varying opinions and positions based upon a surface understanding of the events.  Which provokes the question: Is there a reason that different people see and understand the world differently?  Without understanding the Causal-Factor of WHY each group of people perceives and understands from greatly varying different perspectives, one is stuck with little more than partisan opinions that are often gravely flawed.   Without understanding the bottom line of Intelligent Design -- including WHY each person sees and understands the world from a very different and often conflicting perspective -- no real understanding can be brought about.   From the perspective of the infant mind-full and Intelligent Design paradigm of life, it remains impossible for the person who has based their thinking from a child empty-mind perspective, to achieve the necessary Higher Reasoning necessary to possess Sure and Complete Knowledge.   Without understanding the Causal-Factors of why different men, religions or schools of thought see and understand from a different and often conflicting perspective, one is left with opinions that may be right, wrong or superficial and incomplete. 

In contradistinction, the person who has embraced the mind-full paradigm, and has endeavored to tap into the inner Source of Higher-Knowledge where all of Creation is seen and understood in the reality of naked Truth -- a State of Mind were fragmented partisan opinion does not exist on the Higher Plane of Consciousness -- such a person who is able to access and tap into this Inner Source, comes to understand WHY different people see the world differently.  And without understanding the Causal-Factors of WHY different people see the world differently, and arrive at very different conclusions, the process of mental-development becomes derailed and incapable of developing beyond that surface-level of understanding.  And while from a mind-empty paradigm, the unknown is based upon blind hope that at some time in the future the confusion will be resolved -- but without an understanding of the Causal-Factors, the confusion can never be resolved.       

Whose opinion is right and whose is wrong?  What if each opinion represents different pieces to the puzzle of life?  And the different fragmentary pieces must be brought together in their correct formula and context, in order to tap into the higher reality where Truth and Genuine Knowledge exists and prevails on a higher plane of consciousness.   Unless one understands the Causal-Factors that are responsible for the conflicting opinions in this world -- and in understanding the Causal-Factors, only then is a person able to bring the divisions together in Wholistic Harmony on a Higher Plane of Consciousness.  

When one's thinking is born out of what can be portrayed as fragments of the Whole, truth remains beyond the person's reach so long as the error of limited understanding prevails.   Unlike the Mystery Religions of the past that relied upon teachers to instruct initiates, the Gospels were intended to connect each person with his Inner Source -- and was the One Teacher that Jesus taught to seek out (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).  In order to even begin to dig down into the depths of human consciousness from a mind-full perspective, one must develop those abilities of mind that enable the person to begin to tap into the inner Source of Knowledge.  Without understanding the Causal-Factors that is the basis of conflicting human opinions, the mind very quickly becomes anchored by faux-facts that are based upon human pseudo-opinion.   

The reality that confronts all of mankind is this: At a certain point in your development, it will remain impossible for you to understand any more advanced or higher reality and knowledge than the most superficial of concepts, without understanding the Causal-Factors of Life Itself.  Who are you?  What are you doing here?  What is the objective of your life?  And what is the objective of life itself?  What constitutes a successful life?  In our present timeframe, neither science, religion or philosophy can factually answer these crucial questions.  Yet, whoever understands the Causal-Factors of life, can easily answer these simple questions that remain an enigma to the vast majority of people.  And when it is realized that it will remain impossible for you to correctly understand any of these paramount important questions of life, while still remaining ignorant of the Causal-Factors of Life itself, a wise man would seek to better understand the reality of the life that he is living. 

  The Disconnected World Of Scientism:  Scientism is a faux-science that is based upon man-made dogma that misguides mankind in its counterfeit and incomplete findings that do more to inhibit the acquisition of truth, than to actually find and ascertain truth (see Science Vs Scientism http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism ).   Charles Darwin, as an example, rejected the Wisdom of the Mystic (see Plato - The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato ), and looked exclusively to concrete physical matter as man's source of being -- claiming that there was no "supernatural" or non-physical power, consciousness or Higher Mind that brought this world into existence.  And the fact that the fossil record which he depended upon, failed to support Darwin's conclusions, is openly acknowledged even in his own words where he wrote: "Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory" (Charles Darwin, On The Origin Of Species).   Darwinism and the Theory of Evolution upon which much of Scientism has been erected, can be portrayed as synonymous with those who embrace the flat-earth theory -- remaining close to the waters-edge so they didn't fall off the face of the earth.  Thus, the grave flaw in Darwin's thinking that was the foundation of Scientism was defined by Emmanuel Kant who stated: “The human mind is restricted to the logical world and thus can only interpret and understand occurrences according to their physical appearances”.   As explored in the article, The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org  , mankind's greater intellect and great diversity of perspective-thought, is based upon the fact that the mind of man is made up of twelve spheres of mind that uniquely see and understand the world from different and often opposite perspectives.   

As stated in the article, the Tree of Duality is the expression of the division of the male and female spheres of mind.   The (male) linear spheres of mind which are dominant in understanding the outer,  only see and observe the physical images that men see in this outer world.  When you teach someone in the traditional manner of instruction, you are in essence programming the (male) Linear spheres of mind.  In contradistinction, the (feminine) Intuitive spheres of mind must be developed in order to look and understand the non-physical reality that modern science has only now proven to be the Unseen Source of all that we see (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife ).  And while the Feminine-Intuitive possesses abilities that are opposite the Male-Linear, only when the male and female spheres of mind are brought into Oneness and Wholeness, can the Inner Source of the Soul be Entered.  When the Gospel account of Jesus taught that the Kingdom is within you, this inner journey required a roadmap of the Cosmology of Inner Consciousness and an understanding of the Causal-Factors and the Natural Laws that bring the Duality of Male and Female into Wholeness.  In the Gospel of Thomas this inner journey into our True-Source is presented in the question presented to Jesus on how the Inner Kingdom is to be entered?  To which Jesus explained: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."  Unless you understand the Causal-Factors that unites and makes the inner duality of self Whole, the journey into the inner Kingdom will remain impossible for you to make.  

Modern cutting-edge science has acknowledged the fatal error of their past, and they have begun to embrace a higher degree of Wholism -- and this wholism has proven the wisdom of the mystic to be true.  And what is that truth?  That this world is a sub-realm of a higher reality -- and that this higher unseen reality is the true source of all the images that we observe in the outer world (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife  ).  What is wholism?   Wholism is defined as the realization that: "...different parts are all interconnected and cannot be understood without understanding the entire whole."  What this means is that you cannot understand what you see with your physical eye, without also being able to see into the Source-Realm that is projecting the images you observe in this physical world.   And what this means is that unless your thinking embraces the necessary Wholism where the outward looking Male-Linear and inward looking Feminine-Intutive are brought into balance -- and through the merger, are raised up to the higher plane with the two opposite polarities exist in Oneness -- i.e.,  "...when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."  

In contradistinction, the reality that what has traditionally been portrayed as science, is actually Scientism which has suppressed and limited all scientific inquiries and research.  Scientism is defined as "...an ideology that promotes science as the only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values" (see Wikipedia).  In the article Science versus Scientism it is stated: "Scientism is a dogmatic ideology which presumes that 'science,' in the narrower sense of the word, has the answers to all questions. For believers in scientism the claims of metaphysics are invalid and have no bearing on reality. The physical cosmos is all there is. There is nothing but three dimensions (or four if we include time as a dimension) which are perceived with our five senses. This is all there is and this is therefore all that is worth studying." Scientism excludes and ignores whatever is not three-dimensional and physical, and therefore inhibits man from achieving any degree of Wholeness which would enable him to achieve true Enlightenment and Knowing.   Further, because Academia is built upon the dogma of Scientism, and is founded upon the infant empty-mind paradigm, Scientism not only suppresses the development of the Feminine-Intuitive spheres of mind, but atrophies those areas of mind necessary to begin to achieve any degree of wholism in the thinking of the students.   And when it is understood that true thought must be build upon the interaction of opposites, the students of academia are only capable of vomiting their storage of rote programming.   

  The Emergence Of Science Against Scientism: Modern science has begun to open the door to acknowledging man's higher Soul and Spiritual reality, and therefore is in the process of freeing mankind from the dungeons of scientism.  Thus, the question must be posed: Is only what is physically seen valid?  And from the three-dimensional perspective of Scientism, is all that exists beyond man's physical vision invalid?   Einstein declared after one discovery, "If it is correct (Quantum Mechanics) it signifies the end of science" as we know it (see Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science).  When physicist Walter Thirring stated in his book, Urbausteine der Materie about the nature and reality of physical 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” -- what he was confirming is that what man sees with his physical eyes, is an image that has been projected into this world of appearances from an UNSEEN CAUSAL SOURCE-FIELD.  In the same way, Einstein experienced shock when he first came into contact with the new emerging reality of atomic physics, and wrote in his autobiography: “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundation of physics to this [new type of] knowledge failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built”.  In much the same fashion, the European physicist Niels Bohr stated that “…The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”  What this means is exactly as stated by Einstein when he stated: “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” (quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics).  What is being stated is that the primary focus of scientism that has been masquerading as genuine scientific enquiry -- where only what was seen with one's physical eyes is valid, has now been rendered inadequate and incomplete -- it being focused totally on observable matter -- because the emerging body of facts and evidence now demonstrates that what we perceive physically, is a projection from a (METAPHYSICAL) UNSEEN Source where True Reality exists.  Which provokes the question: What is being projected?  Thus, the statement by astronomer James Jeans: “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” -- both demonstrate the reality that there is nothing but Projected Thought.  Which means that you are a thought that is being projected in this world by your non-physical True-Self that dwells in the reality of an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD.        

The mystic has portrayed this realm in which we presently dwell as a sub-realm -- a part of a higher unseen reality -- where incomplete shadow-images are projected from an unseen Spiritual Source -- which the modern scientist has portrayed as a "blemish" that is formed by the intersecting forces that originate in an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD.   And what this means is that until we develop the ability to gaze into the UNSEEN FIELD which the mystic portrays as Spirit, then we lack the necessary Wholeism that renders us incapable of understanding the Causal-Factors of all of Life.  Therefore, we don't understand what causes the projection of a shadow-image from Spirit into this sub-realm.  And in our organic blindness, neither do we understand the Source of the images, or what the images are supposed to bring about.   What this means is that mankind presently dwells in what can be portrayed as a cocoon of mental darkness which the Gospels portray as the "outer darkness" of mind -- unable to perceptively understand virtually anything with respect to the Causal-Factors of the life we are presently living.  Further, in view of the fact that we have been defined as a projected "blemish" by the emerging body of modern science -- and a shadow-image by the mystics -- our true reality as mankind, is that we are a projection of an UNSEEN HIGHER SELF (see http://SoulSelf.org ).  And it is this unseen Higher Self that is embodied in the adage to Know Thyself.   Not the temporal earthly-self that we are in this sub-realm -- often portrayed as the earthly of false-self.  But rather, our True twelve-dimensional Self that cannot manifest in this three-dimensional shadow-realm. 

Mystics have often portrayed the person we are in this world as an ego-self, an earthly-self; and even a false-self.  In the same way that the Gospel account of Jesus warned that a house divided cannot stand, and if you don't lose the self you are in this world, you cannot enter into Life, this loss of the earthly self you are in this world is presented in the Gospel of Thomas (GofT) saying 84: (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!"   What is being stated?   Saying 84 presents what is portrayed as YOUR LIKENESS, and YOUR IMAGES.   It does not say: When you see God -- and this is because you dwell within the reality of your own Higher Soul-Self -- and it is your Soul-Self that is in the above portrayed as "your likeness" that dwells within God.   When rightly understood, we only dwell within God by proxy.   But in order to understand our own plight and purpose in life, we must understand that what science portrays as a "blemish-self", which the mystic portrays as the "shadow-self", the GofT portrays as the "image-personalities" that are projected into this sub-realm by your True-Self that remains in Spirit.

If our true Source of Self is unseen and is portrayed in the GofT as our "Likeness" -- and the personality we are in this world has been portrayed as a kind of "blemish-self" by science, and a "shadow-self" by mystics -- and in our present mindset, we possess absolutely no knowledge of our True-Source --  then how can we claim to possess any real knowledge of our True-Self?   What this means is that from a higher soul-perspective, our modern-day philosophical and cultural thinking and reasoning is gravely flawed.    And this flawed cultural reasoning is caused by man's elementary understanding of the Divine Pattern of Creation, and his inability to comprehend the properties and realties of a hologram.    While we rhetorically say such statements as: As above, so below -- the pattern of the Macrocosm is the same as the microcosm -- that man has been Created in the image and likeness of God as seen in the words: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen 1:26-27 KJV) -- which also indicates that the very polarities of male and female are drawn from the higher Image of Creator God, and have not only been implanted into man, but the Divine Pattern is manifest at every level of mind and being.   

 

The Trinitarian Cosmology Of Mind: The Mind of God dwells in an infinite higher reality which has often been portrayed as Mother/Father God -- and the Law is that whenever Duality exists, there is always what can be portrayed as the Third-Force Balance or Offspring which is the product of the two Opposite Powers and Realities -- and in the case of God and the Divine Pattern of Creation, this Third-Force Balance is the Mind of God or Logos which the Essenes portrayed as the Teacher of Righteousness, and the Ebionite Nazirenes portrayed as the Son of God or True Prophet.   Our Soul or True-Self that was created in the Alpha of Creation in "...the image of God created he him; male and female created he them", is Whole and eternal, because the polarities of male and female remain in balanced-wholeness as portrayed in the allegorical first creation account in Genesis (see The Laws of the Two Creation Accounts and how they intimately effect all of mankind.   http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTwoCreationAccounts ).   But our Higher Soul-Self dwells in a twelve-dimensional Realm of Souls, and because of the unity of male and female polarities in our Higher Soul-Self, no growth and development can take place.  Growth and development of Mind can only take place when the divided spheres of mind interact with each other.  And to bring about this inner development of Soul-Mind, is why the second allegorical creation account in Genesis portrays the separation of Man and Woman -- i.e., the polarities of positive (male) and negative (female) -- polarities that are divided in this three-dimensional sub-realm. 

The Soul is a Being of Light because of the balance of Male and Female within the Higher Reality of the Soul that is a Being of Pure Light and Intellect (see http://SoulSelf.org ).  This knowledge of man's true self and higher reality was known by the early Christians.  It is important to note that there existed a segment of the Church as late as the 6th century that possessed the soul-knowledge that man's true reality and form was a Being of Light.   Among the condemnations of the Emperor Justinian against Origen in the 2nd Council of Constantinople in the year 553 where the teachings on the preexistent soul was condemned and deemed heresy from a Church perspective, was this statement: "If anyone says or thinks that, at the resurrection, human bodies will rise spherical in form and unlike our present form, let him be anathema" (see Council Agenda).    The problem is that the true form of the soul is a spherical Being of Light -- and the human body is merely an allegorical manifestation of the mind projected into the symbols of matter.   Because of the duality of male and female in this sub-realm, it is impossible for our twelve-dimensional True-Self to directly manifest in this three-dimensional sub-realm, so the Soul then projects the male OR female attributes of mind into an allegorical portrayal of male or female that forms our physical body.  Moreover, in our natural state we are a Being of Light -- and our body-vessel which we inhabit in this world, is merely an allegorical projection of mind and spirit into the image of the body.   That the journey of the soul over the course of many lifetimes was an integral part of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and was removed by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the doctrines of the Church -- is demonstrated conclusively in The Ten Reasons Why The Church Rejects The Teaching On The Pre-Existent Soul.   Where the 4th century Church of Constantine put to death the Spirit of the Church (see  The Corruption Of The Church), it's Spiritual Castration which totally alienated the congregation of believers from comprehending even what was left of a corrupted and spiritually sanitized New Testament (see Bible Corruption), was implemented in the 6th century.   As an example of how the Christian world was literally forced to adhere to the dogma of the secular priests and emperors, when the doctrine of the pre-existent soul was outlawed by the Emperor Justinian, the Britannica confirms that the emperor then forced his will upon the Church when he "...banished the pope to Egypt , and afterwards to an island, until he accepted the Council, which he ultimately did" (see http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm ).    After relenting to the will of the emperor, and finely accepting the decree of the emperor after seven months of imprisonment, it is reported that the pope met with an untimely death before he could even return to the Vatican.   

What is allegorically portrayed as the Fall of Man was not at all due to any fault of our own -- but was a natural exploration of self as both God through our souls, and our souls through us, began to explore the reality of Self.   This exploration of Self can only take place in an environment where aspects of Self can interact with each other -- which is impossible in the twelve-dimensional higher reality of the Realm of Souls.  Therefore, in order to experience, grow and evolve, the division of male and female had to exist in this three-dimensional sub-realm.  Thus, a long ignored statement by Paul as seen in the words: "For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now" (Rom 8:19-22).   Take special notice of the words:  "...For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it  ...For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now".  

In the same way that Jesus stated that unless you bring about the next stage of birth, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven -- all of the trials of the prodigal son in this, the Far Country, is the process of birth that was brought upon mankind by the Laws that Creator-God put into action in what is allegorically portrayed as the Seven Days of Creation.   In the beginning there was no Higher Knowledge in what I often portray as the Alpha of Ignorance, because no experiential knowledge existed -- and part of us became lost in the lower worlds in an attempt to begin to explore and know self -- and God is Knowing Self through our higher Soul-Selves -- and our Higher Soul-Selves is coming to know self through the experiential knowledge gained in this realm of three-dimensional reality.

Birth can only be brought about through the intimate interaction of the male and female polarities.  In the same way that physical birth is brought about when the male-sperm and female-embryo become joined into oneness as an embryo, we are born into this world as a Cosmic-Sperm and Cosmic-Embryo that must bring about mental-growth and developmental interaction when man and woman overcome this three-dimensional realm through the joining and becoming "one flesh" as a Cosmic-Embryo.   And this is reflected in the disciples question to Jesus in the 22nd saying in the GofT: (22) "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"  To which question Jesus stated: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female;  then will you enter the kingdom."    

What this means is that from a scientific perspective, life is a mystery that our culture which is based upon the faux-tenets of Scientism, knows virtually nothing about.   In view of the fact that Science has not yet achieved the ability to gaze into the UNSEEN FIELD which is the TRUE SOURCE of the images that man sees (see The Findings Of The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist ), neither can Science convey to us the purpose and reasons for life -- or the Causal-Factors of what we experience.  Thus, the tenets of Scientism has caused us to dwell in a state of abject ignorance with respect to the very reasons and purpose of the life that each of us is presently living.  Why?   Neither can science that our culture is dependent upon for our answers to life, in any way enlighten us to even what we are doing in this life.   Science is in fact a great void with respect to even the reasons we are living.  All science knows is that throughout the past, they have been totally blind to the very Source of what mankind sees and comprehends with his perceptive-understanding.   Yet, the modern day secular authorities of this world believe they are empowered to dictate to everyone what is right or wrong, and how they should live.  At present, an activist group in our modern culture that has founded its thinking and ideology upon the man-made tenets of scientism, is seeking to eradicate religion from the face of the earth.   And that includes even genuine spiritual religious paths can can supply all the answers to life's questions that scientism and faux-religion are totally blind to.

  Are Atheists The True Victims Of Revealed Religion: It can factually be stated that Atheists are the victim of what the Deists portray as Revealed Religion, because most Atheists have no understanding of the higher purpose of religion -- and the construct of their thinking is based upon the empty-mind paradigm of human consciousness (see http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#EmptyFullMindParadigms ).  Yet, few Atheists recognize the fact that they have been intellectually raped and ravaged by what Deists portray as "priest-craft" and the pandemics of Revealed Religion that has cast them into the dungeon of abject ignorance.   Why have Atheists been victimized by what Deists portray as Revealed Religion?  Because crucial facts and information has not only been withheld from them, but this information has been totally censored and suppressed by the body of priest-craft that maintains control over both church and state.  To the degree that if the Christian dogmatic idea of Judgment Day was to be brought about -- and believer and unbeliever were standing before the proverbial Judgment Seat of God -- then the Atheists would be be portrayed as the victims of what the Deists portray as Revealed Religion. 

One of the Primary Unacknowledged Facts of Life is this: Human Nature corrupts every genuine religion within a very short time after its advent.  While genuine religion opens the door between man and God, the corruption that attacks all religions is brought about when priests insert themselves between man and God -- and this in contradistinction to the Original Gospel teachings -- i.e., "But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ" (Matt 23:8-10).   Why would Jesus bar his followers and disciples from being teachers, leaders and masters?  Once the priest, teacher, master or authority inserts themselves into the equation, then the very purpose of the original teachings become compromised and rendered virtually worthless from the perspective of the objectives of the Original Gospel Teachings.  Therefore, what is not at all understood by the vast majority of Atheists is the fact that: (1) Judaism is a quasi-Mystery Religion that is dependent upon rabbis and teachers to guide the development of the student/believer; and (2) the New Covenant is the rejection of Judaism and the traditional Mystery Religion environment.  In the Old Covenant foundational mode, the student/believer must become an Initiate who learns from the teacher or instructor.  Which means that the understanding of the student is often totally dependent upon the knowledge-level of the teacher.  Further, once the interpretations of the scriptures become infused and hardened into a religious group, then any concept at a higher level very quickly becomes defined as heresy.  And when a congregation of believers becomes adopted by a secular authority, then the religious teaching itself becomes undermined.   Which provokes the question the the Church has always evaded answering correctly: Why Would God Permit The Gospels To Be Corrupted http://BrotherOfJesus.org#WhyGodPermittedTheCorruptionOfTheGospels .  

The purpose of genuine religious teachings is to open the inner door within each person's mind and consciousness that will enable them to begin to tap into their inner Source of Mind and Being -- i.e., the Mind Full Paradigm of man's higher reality (see http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#EmptyFullMindParadigms ).   On the basis of the fact that the literal text of scriptures -- and especially the Old Testament -- are basically allegorical myths and folklore that is not based upon actual historical facts and accounts -- and are intentionally designed so that as the person gains intellectual reason, they begin to reject the literal text that Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14) -- by design, the scriptures are reliant upon teachers and instructors who convey to the student using the scriptures WHY the author's inserted glaring inconsistencies, discordances and conflicts in the biblical texts intentionally, in order to make the more intelligent student begin to question the validity of the literal text.   But these scriptures such as the Old Testament are dependent upon the presence of rabbis and teachers who are able to instruct the student into the necessity to seek the deeper meaning of the text that is not apparent to the body of faith-based believers who Paul stated cannot comprehend any higher concept beyond "milk" for the immature as stated in the words that most Christians ignore: "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).    

The authors of the scriptures were men of the spirit -- i.e., mystics who developed those areas of their mind that enabled them to possess the perceptive-vision to gaze into what modern science has only recently proven to be Spirit -- that is not only the True Source of all that we see with our physical eyes -- but is out of the frequency of our organic natural vision as verified by modern cutting-edge scientists at The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife .   And while this Fact of Life has been confirmed by the original authors of the scriptures and Enlightened Visionaries that have been suppressed by Revealed Religion that has spiritually disenfranchised the faith-based congregations of believers.  How did the Enlightened Visionaries develop their higher attributes of mind that enabled them to gaze into man's Higher Spiritual Reality that organic man is blind to?  By rejecting the historical narrative of the scriptues, and using them as the Key of Knowledge which was their intended purpose (see The Application Of The Scriptures As The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).  And like the Atheists, these same Enlightened Visionaries have unsuccessfully attempted to warn the people that the dogma of Revealed Religion that has been drawn from the literal text of the scriptures and promoted by those who Jesus portrayed as blind leaders who were the "spawn of the devil" (see Christianity - The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ), is a fraud drawn from mysticism and folktales that were never intended to be read literally.  Which means that when the Atheist rejects the god of the Churches, the Atheist is not wrong in many instances in their rejection of the god of the Churches. 

As science began to develop carbon dating, the Atheists were suckered into the Revealed Religion charade when they attempted to focus on the validity of the Creation Account in the Old Testament Book of Genesis from an historical perspective.   They therefore ignored the Enlightened Visionaries who warned against falling into the trap of attempting to interpret the scriptures literally and historical.  Thus the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen: “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).  Origen portrays those who see and believe only the written text of the scriptures as "idiots", because the scriptures were written in such a way that the more intelligent reader will immediately reject the folly of the written word, and seek out the Inner Spiritual meaning.   Therefore, from the perspective of the authors of the scriptures who used the myths of the nomadic and heathen tribe of animal-sacrificing Jews to weave an allegorical portrayal of essential universal truths that were concealed beneath the literal text, only an "idiot" would surrender their gift of reason and common sense, and believe in the god of the Old Testament who has been insightfully portrayed as resembling the Wizard of OZ -- i.e., a magical nut case behind the curtain who liked physical circumcision, genocide of non-Jews including killing every woman & child -- a god who made man, then repented he even made man, and killed everyone on earth but Noah and his immediate family -- a god who kills a man for trying to steady the ARK, a voodoo god who loves animal sacrifice and blood sprinkling.  

In like manner, the voice of the Enlightened Jewish Visionary warned that the literal text of the scriptures cannot be trusted when Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, wrote 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”.  Why would the authors of the scriptures insert events that are "...repugnant to both reason and common sense" that never did historically happen?  Why would the authors of the scriptures insert non-historical events where these faux-events can be portrayed as "...a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”

If the Atheists had supported the Enlightened Visionaries who the Church suppressed and rejected as heretics, then the Atheists would have 

        

inserted countless untruths and .  

 

Of equal importance is the very next verse after the above that states: "The greatest among you shall be your servant." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The Causal Factors And The Original Gospel Teachings: In the parable of the prodigal son, it was demonstrated that Jesus knew and taught his inner core of disciples how to overcome our inner duality -- connect with our Higher Source of Self -- and be restored to the Ultimate Source of Mind and Being.   That Jesus focused on the Causal-Factors of life in his teachings to his disciples, is easily demonstrated.  The problem is that most people who call themselves Christian, reject the implications of what the Causal-Factors that Jesus taught his disciples mean in the higher reality of Life.  And while a totally different reality remains embedded in the written word of the Gospels, it remains true that , "the eye of the reader sees only what the mind of the person is prepared to comprehend"  -- and as stated in the song The Boxer: "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest".  In reality, mankind has bee blinded by The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles

To his disciples who were portrayed as being In The House with the Lord, Jesus said: “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).   In the Gospels we encounter two groups of people who exist at greatly differing levels of consciousness and understanding -- i.e., those who are portrayed as being "without", and the few who are said to be "In The House".   With respect to the reality of those who are portrayed in the Gospels as being "without", in contradistinction to those who are said to be In The House, the quotation of the early Church Father Origen represents an excellent portrayal of the reality of mind and being that is presented in these words of Jesus -- wherein, Origen writes in reply to the allegations of philosopher Celsus that the Church is a secret system (see The Secret Doctrine): “I have not yet spoken of the observances of all that is written in the gospel, each one of which contains much doctrine difficult to be understood, not merely by the multitude, but even by certain of the more intelligent, including a very profound explanation of the parables, which Jesus delivered to 'those without' while reserving the exhibition of their full meaning for those who have passed beyond the stage of exoteric teachings, and who came to him privately in the house. And when he comes to understand it, he will admire the reason why some are said to be without, and others in the house”

Why would Celsus, the second century philosopher, portray Christianity as a "secret system" that teaches the elite few, a body of esoteric truths that is never revealed to the multitude of faith-based believers?  What, then, is esoteric truth that cannot be given to those who are portrayed as being "without"There is nothing in the scriptures that even remotely suggests that we can live in the manner of the unbelievers and heathen as cultural Christians attempt to do today, and expect to inherit the Kingdom.   Without the necessary change of perception and change of mind, the Cultural Christians will remain blind to the spiritual meaning of the Gospels.   Further, Jesus did not teach that man is saved by proclaiming belief without a total change of mind in conjunction with the manner that the disciple lives their life.   One of the truly prime examples of this fact is seen where the English translation of the scripture says: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matt 3:2 NAS).   The meaning of the original Greek, which literally means to “change the mind”, conveys a message of great depth that is not apparent in our English translations today.   To phrase the thought that is being expressed, the true meaning is to “Open and unloose the mind, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand [within you]”.   This is truly important for the person of faith to come to terms with -- for it is the beginning of The Way.   When we begin to put these words into their proper context with respect to the Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21), then we can see that the Gate of Eden which in the New Testament is portrayed as the "narrow gate", can only be entered by unloosing the mind from the anchor of the doctrines and thinking of men -- opening the mind to the inner reality of the Kingdom -- and this can only be accomplished by living one's life in strict accord with the Commandments and Teachings of Jesus and TheWay (see The Spiritual Holistic Lifestyle http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheSpiritualHolisticLifestyle ).

If those teachings that Jesus portrayed as  "...the mystery of the kingdom of God", could only be given to a select few.    While everyone else had to be taught in the enigma of allegorical parables  The Gospel accounts state that Jesus only spoke to the multitude of hearers in the enigma of parables.  It is imperative then, that we recognize that Jesus did not, and could not, speak and teach plainly to those who are portrayed as being "without" the House -- i.e.,  "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34).    The English word translated "explained", in the phrase "And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples", literally translated from the Greek into English means to "unloose or untie" -- i.e., what has been "bound or sealed up" -- and "what is obscure and hard to understand" (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon).   And the word translated secret or mystery, makes reference to an esoteric knowledge that can only be revealed spiritually to one who is "in the House", because it is beyond the organic comprehension of those who are portrayed as being "without", or "outside" the House.  

In his famed work De Principiis, Origin explains who can be a recipient of the Knowledge of the Mysteries of the Kingdom: “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”.   This is confirmed in the quotation of the Apostle Peter as recorded by his disciple Clement when Peter stated: “We remember that our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us, guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples, privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the heavens” (Clementine Homilies).  Why was the disciples commanded to  "...guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house"?   Why couldn't Jesus convey to those who are portrayed as being "without" the House, the mystery of the Kingdom of God?  The term "without", indicates those who are of an organic mind or human consciousness, and exist in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being.   The term, In The House -- i.e., "...guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house" -- indicates those who have themselves travailed in TheWay, and have entered the Kingdom within (see Gate Of Eden).    Yet, the Church, in throwing away the Key of Knowledge in the manner of the Pharisees, the modern Christian no longer even has the means to enter In The House -- and like the carnal Jews that Jesus condemned as counterfeit shepherds, they look outwardly for the Kingdom that can only come within themselves.   Moreover, they reject the words of Jesus with respect to there being only One Teacher (see http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ), and they seek out other men who know not either the Truth, or God, to teach them. 

Why were only a select group of followers who were portrayed as being "in the house", able to understand what others could not?   The answer is, because those whose understanding of life was limited and superficial, could not -- and did not -- understand the Causal-Factors of Life.   Therefore, their comprehension of the purpose and realties of life remained infantile and spiritually flat-lined.   To the degree that Paul portrayed the limited consciousness of organic man as being of an "animal-soul" level of mind that was incapable of comprehending his own higher Soul-Reality (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ).   Thus, all of life will remain an enigmatic mystery, to those who fail to understand the Causal-Factors of life itself. 

When the wise visionaries of man's past confirmed the need to discover and Know Thyself, they were making reference to each person's True-Self -- not the embryonic earthly projection of the self that we are in this world.   The wise man understands that your life is not the culmination of a series of accidents -- good or bad luck or fortune.  Every event in every person's life has a reason and a purpose that can only be perceived by those who understand the causal-factors that have initiated those events.  Why is this important?  It is virtually impossible to understand the realties of the life you are presently living, without understanding the causal-factors that frame and initiate each of the events of your life.  The full potential of man's mind is vast -- and the problem is that only those few people who consciously develop those latent attributes of mind that permit the person to perceive and understand the causal factors, possess any functional understanding of the realities of life.   In order to develop the underlying attributes and full potential of the mind, the person must make the necessary effort to develop their inward-looking resources of mind.   Spiritually enlightened men and women have embraced the adage to Know Thyself -- their True-Self - and they are the few who have taken the necessary steps to develop their latent attributes of mind that enable them to perceptively-understand the causal-factors that initiate the events in the life that they are living.

 

  The Laws From A Deist Perspective: One of the major differences between Theists and Deists is seen in the fact that Theists have no understanding of what can be portrayed as the Natural Laws of Creation -- Laws that were put into effect to evolve every Soul from the Alpha of dark ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Light -- Laws that can be portrayed as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism which  intimately interacts with our every interaction of life to bring about Wholeness and Perfection of Self.   And therein lies the problem of why the world lies in ignorance of not only the Natural Laws and how they function to bring about Enlightenment to every Soul, but how this Enlightenment is brought about.   When Jesus taught that as you judge others, your judgments will come back upon you, he was making reference to the Natural Laws that are portrayed in the above as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism -- that returns to each person the fruit of their own thoughts and actions to their brothers and sisters.   Which means that each life a person lives, orchestrates a life that that Soul will live out in the future.  The teaching: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets" (Matt 7:12), is the means by which the Natural Laws bring about the Perfection and Enlightenment of every Soul -- and this is accomplished over the course of the many individual and unique lifetimes that each Soul lives in bringing about the process of Soul-Evolution.

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The failure of Theists to understand the Natural Laws is easily presented in their failure to understand the meaning of the Sabbath or Seventh Day (see The Spiritual Sabbath http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#SpiritualSabbath ).  In not understanding the Natural Laws, Theists believe that after the Seventh Day of Rest in the allegorical Genesis account, that God went back to work in the daily functioning and intercessions in the workings of this world.   Genesis chapter two reads: "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done."  Where the Enlightened Deist understood the words that "...the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array ...God had finished the work he had been doing" -- understanding the meaning of the word FINISHED -- the Theist asserted that the work of God was not finished, and it was necessary for Creator-God to perpetually intervene in the day to day affairs of this world.  In contradistinction to the position of the Theists, the Deist position was that Creator-God brought forth and initiated a series of Laws which He (quoting Wikipedia: Deism): "...endowed the world at creation with self-sustaining and self-acting powers and then abandoned it to the operation of these powers acting as second causes." 

What is said to be the Deist theology has often been portrayed as the Clock Maker Universe -- i.e., (Quoting): "The clockwork universe theory compares the universe to a mechanical clock wound up by a supreme being, or initiated by the Big Bang. It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every single aspect of the machine completely predictable. Before the emergence of quantum mechanics, many scientists believed that the Universe was completely deterministic in this way. ...This conception of the universe consisted of a huge, regulated and uniform machine that operated according to natural laws in absolute time, space, and motion. God was the master-builder, who created the perfect machine and let it run. God was the Prime Mover, who brought into being the world in its lawfulness, regularity, and beauty. This view of God as the creator, who stood aside from his work and didn’t get involved directly with humanity, was called Deism (which predates Newton) and was accepted by many who supported the 'new philosophy'."  How did the Deists arrive at their conclusion?  Because Jesus and all enlightened seekers were themselves Deists who understood the Laws of Nature (see The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com ), they were able to learn directly from God about the functioning of the Natural Laws of Creation.  Because the Theists did not understand the Natural Laws -- and they therefore embraced the doctrines of men instead of being able to learn directly from God -- the Natural laws remained an unknown enigma to the very foundation of their thinking. 

Deists portray this world as being immersed in the Natural Laws -- using the phrase found in the Declaration of Independence: The Laws of Nature and Nature's God.   Why did the Constitutional Framers use this wisdom drawn from Deism?  Because the Deists laid the foundation that permitted the Natural Laws to create what can be portrayed as American Exceptionalism.  And this Framework of the Natural Laws is responsible for not only financial success, but has also prepared the Nation to provide the catalyst to bring about a rebirth of true spirituality.   In order to create a secular environment where man's spirituality could evolve and flourish into what has been portrayed as American Exceptionalism, the Original Disciples and followers of Jesus re-entered this life to lay the foundation of our Constitutional form of Government where personal liberty was an unalienable Right (see http://ThomasPaineRedux.Nazirene.org/SelfGovernment.htm ) -- and these same original disciples and followers are defending our Constitution in this present time-frame. 

Understanding the Natural Laws is paramount for a follower of Jesus.  Why?  Because the historical man Jesus fulfilled the Law to become the Anointed (see Fulfilling And Overcoming The Natural Law http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#FulfillingTheLaw ), which ultimately enabled him to enter a Coverture-Union with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God (see Coverture-Marriage - Was Jesus God? http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureMarriage ).   And in fact, The Call to the Wedding Feast (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), is the invitation for all the prodigal sons and daughters to enter into a Coverture-Marriage with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God (see The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage ).  And those who failed to put on the required wedding garment, and come to the TheCall To The Wedding Banquette (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), were thrown into the "outer darkness" of mind and being where the spiritually blind grope in this world of illusion.  Jesus confirmed the existence of the Natural Laws that control the lives that we live when he taught his disciples that there was Causal-Factors that controlled all realities in this world -- Laws that even brought about a sparrow's fall to the earth: "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father" (Matt 10:29).  God does not sit back and decide which sparrow will fall to the ground, and which sparrow will again take flight -- the enlightened person understands that all of Nature exists under the Natural Laws which control all events that transpire.  And God, who created and put these Natural Laws into effect to bring about a specific purpose, through the Laws exerts His Will throughout every aspect of Creation and Life as we know it.

On the foregoing verse on the sparrow falling to the earth, the Adam Clark Bible Commentary states: “The providence of God extends to the minutest things; everything is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission”.   In relation to this verse under the heading of Providence in the Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary it is explained that: “Divine government is the continued activity of God by which He directs all things to the ends He has chosen in His eternal plan… He governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world. The laws of nature are nothing more than man's description of how we perceive God at work in the world. They neither have inherent power nor do they work by themselves. Man is not free to choose and act independently from God's will and plan; he chooses and acts in accordance with them. In His sovereignty, God controls man's choices and actions (Gen. 45:5; Deut. 8:18; Prov. 21:1). God's actions, however, do not violate the reality of human choice or negate man's responsibility as a moral being”What is being stated based upon biblical teachings, is that the Laws which Deists portray as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, not only orchestrates every event in the life of mankind, but the events that mankind experiences have been initiated for a cause and a reason.   Because of the importance of understanding the causal-factors of life, Jesus explained to his disciples how the Natural Laws controls all events in life. 

The Enlightened Deists of the past understood that the purpose of the Natural Laws was to evolve each and every Soul or Prodigal Son from the Alpha of Abject Ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Light (see Understanding The Intelligent Universe - The Clock Maker vs Jalopy Universe  http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ClockMakerUniverse ).  Without understanding the every-day purpose of the Natural Laws, their Higher Purpose and Objective, and how the Laws utilize the Causal-Factors in response to our own choices and actions to bring this Ultimate Condition about throughout all of Creation, then it will remain impossible to understand any part of life beyond a very superficial understanding.   And this is true if you are a believer in the Gospels, or a believer in the wisdom of science.  All events in the life of every person has been initiated by Causal-Factors that lie beyond man's limited organic human vision.   Which provokes the question: If this is true, then why can't we see these causal factors?  We can -- and this extended vision can only be given to those who make the effort to escape what mystics portray as the limitations of this shadow-realm that has been portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- and in escaping the shadow-realm that has been portrayed in the analogy of Plato's Cave, the person seeking higher knowledge and truth must develop those inward-looking attributes of mind that enables them to begin to see what the modern scientist portrays as the UNSEEN SOURCE that lies beyond the limitations of man's organic vision and senses (see The Findings Of The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist ).  And having developed those areas of the mind that permits the person to see the UNSEEN SOURCE of all that exists in this realm, they are then portrayed in the Gospels as having developed the "eyes to see" that is personified in the Gospels as being  "in the house" where the Higher Mysteries of Creation can be seen and understood -- i.e., 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).  

In the foregoing link we can see that modern cutting-edge science portrays this world as a "blemish" or "shadow-image" that is being projected by an UNSEEN SOURCE.  And what this means is that the ancient adage to Know Thyself, is actually the development of those inward-looking attributes of mind that enables the person to begin to perceive their own Source -- i.e., the Self that is Eternal.  In view of the fact that the science of man's past was only interested in the three-dimensions of this seemingly physical world (see Science Vs Scientism http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism ), and has only recently begun to acknowledge the UNSEEN SOURCE that is beyond the limitations of this three-dimensional realm -- which is a Source-Realm that the mystics who have developed their inward-looking attributes of mind have long attempted to convey the reality of to mankind -- we have no arrived at the point where the scientist must learn from the mystic how to begin to personally explore beyond the limitations of this quasi-physical three-dimensional shadow-realm.  And I use the term quasi-physical because of the conclusions of the modern scientist that “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” (Astronomer James Jeans).  Which means that   “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff” (Astronomer Arthur Eddington) -- which can be portrayed as “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.” (Cyberneticist David Foster).  What this means is that the physical objects are in reality thought that appears concrete to our physical brains because of the frequency of the thought.  Which means that what we perceive to be physical matter, is merely thought that our human mind interprets as solid (matter).  And we don't see what is portrayed as the UNSEEN SOURCE, because the frequencies are beyond our ability to perceive with our physical senses.  

An Enlightened Deist would understand that the higher development of mind beyond organic man's natural limitations is dependent upon the person's ability to perceive and take advantage of the implanted intervals embedded within the movement of the Natural Laws.  The mystic learns to invoke and take advantage of these intervals embedded in the Natural Laws to develop what the Gospels call the "eyes to see" what modern science portrays as the UNSEEN SOURCE.    The analogy of Plato's Cave states that because of his undeveloped areas of mind, organic man can only see the shadow-images that is projected into this realm from the UNSEEN-SOURCE that the mystic portrays as SPIRIT.  While the mystic develops the ability to gaze beyond the limitations of man's organic vision and senses, the disciples and followers of Jesus were able to move beyond man's physical limitations, and enter the actual Spiritual or Source Realm which they portrays as the Kingdom.  The author and visionary Philip K. Dick was able to recall his Soul's previous life in the first century where he lived as an original follower of Jesus.  Because Jesus understood the Natural Laws and could take advantage of the implanted intervals embedded in the construct of the Laws, Jesus and his disciples could escape or move beyond the limitations of this world.  And this is attested to by Philip K. Dick when he wrote with respect to the original disciples of Jesus that:  "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here.  He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)."    This is true -- and that the original Gospel message was to develop the mind through the transformative process of expansion and deepening of consciousness, and then enable the disciple to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom which the scientist portrays as the UNSEEN SOURCE and the mystic portrays as SPIRIT.  In fact, the whole of the New Covenant was to enable the person to learn directly from the Mind of God (Logos) as seen in the requirement to have only The One Teacher as explored at  http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher .  And when the scriptures are used as the Key of Knowledge, their purpose was to develop those areas of mind that enabled the person to begin to learn from the One Teacher (see The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ). 

Philip K. Dick portrays the mystic as "...mystery religions [that] only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here."  Whereas, because of Jesus' knowledge and fulfillment of the Natural Laws (see Jesus Fulfilled The Law http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#JesusFulfilledTheLaw ), Jesus was able to bring his disciples into the Kingdom of Source, as seen in the words of Dick: Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive".  And this is why the Enlightened Deists maintained that the Original Teachings of Jesus were the most valid -- as stated in the Wikipedia article under Deism: History of religion and the deist mission.   Most deists saw the religions of their day as corruptions of an original, pure religion that was simple and rational. They felt that this original pure religion had become corrupted by "priests" who had manipulated it for personal gain and for the class interests of the priesthood in general.   According to this world view, over time "priests" had succeeded in encrusting the original simple, rational religion with all kinds of superstitions and "mysteries" – irrational theological doctrines. Laymen were told by the priests that only the priests really knew what was necessary for salvation and that laymen must accept the "mysteries" on faith and on the priests' authority. This kept the laity baffled by the nonsensical "mysteries", confused, and dependent on the priests for information about the requirements for salvation. The priests consequently enjoyed a position of considerable power over the laity, which they strove to maintain and increase. Deists referred to this kind of manipulation of religious doctrine as "priestcraft", a highly derogatory term.  Deists saw their mission as the stripping away of 'priestcraft' and 'mysteries' from religion, thereby restoring religion to its original, true condition – simple and rational. In many cases, they considered true, original Christianity to be the same as this original natural religion."  Because many of the Deists understood the Natural Laws, this knowledge enabled them to tap into the Higher Source of Knowledge that is beyond the limited understanding of mankind in this three-dimensional world.   Like the first century Spiritual Christians, the Enlightened Deists understood that the tenets of Theism was born out of the priest-craft of the Church who were peddling faux-salvation to the multitude of people for profit and political power.  The Enlightened Christians and Deists understood that, in order to evolve the mind out of the cocoon of ignorance, the person had to seek self-knowledge, and understand the Natural Laws that was the foundation of the Clock-Maker Universe.  Which meant that the person also had to understand the Journey of the Soul over the course of many lifetimes.  But to even suggest that the Soul evolved over the course of many lives -- and that Creator-God did not directly intervene in the affairs of man because the Natural Laws intimately monitored every step of his mental and spiritual evolution -- was incomprehensible to the majority of people who neither understood the Natural Laws, or the very purpose and objective of the lives they were living.  From a Deist perspective, both Thomas Paine and Jefferson possessed varying degrees of past-life recall -- but to reveal their source of information was drawn from their experiences in the previous lives their soul had lived, would have undermined their efforts to bring about a government of Freedom, Liberty and Exceptionalism.   

The above was also confirmed by the  Dominican friar Giordano Bruno who was portrayed as a Pandeist who confirmed the account of Philip K. Dick that "The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body"Further confirming Dick's statement that the Source is within us, where Bruno stated "The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it"  And therein lies the enigma of man's quest for higher knowledge.   

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When Paul warned that  “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7), what this means is that what each person experiences in their life, will be the result of the Causal-Factors invoked by that person's own previous actions.  The bottom line of understanding virtually any reality of life beyond the most superficial perceptive-understanding, was to comprehend the Causal-Factors and the Natural Laws that initiated all events and experiences.  That the Causal-Factors of life was an ultra-important element of understanding the Gospel Teachings, was demonstrated in the question that the disciples posed to Jesus when they asked him: "Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'" (John 9:1-2).  This question was posed to Jesus as an important part of the Gospel teachings.  What the disciples were in fact asking is: What was the Causal-Factor that caused this man to be born blind?  In like manner, to a man who was paralyzed Jesus said: "And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, 'Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven'” (Matt 9:2).  In this case the man's sin was the Causal-Factor  that caused his paralysis.  Which raises the question: What kind of sin causes blindness, paralysis, and the whole gamut of physical infirmities that strike mankind?  Further, when were these sins committed?  Asking about the Causal-Factor, the disciples posed the question: "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"  While many spiritually important teachings were edited and/or corrupted in the canonical Gospels put into use by the fourth century Church, in the Gospel of the Nazirenes this statement in answer to the question of the disciples was preserved when Jesus said: "The rewards of our actions return again to us so that the works of the Lord are made manifest."  

When the Church suppressed, corrupted and even removed the Gospel teachings on the Law of Cause and Effect -- denying the people the essential knowledge of how and why the Natural Laws were put into place to evolve each and every Soul to Wholeness and Perfection -- they opened the proverbial Pandora's Box and unleashed abject ignorance upon the cultures that have inhibited the people from acquiring any meaningful understanding of the Natural Laws that control every event they experience throughout their lives (see The Spiritual Castration Of The Gospels http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#SpiritualCastrationOfTheGospel ).  Not understanding of the Natural Laws, would be synonymous to driving an automobile blind!!!  In the subheading entitled The Death Of The Gospels http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#DeathOfTheGospel , I portray the suppressed teachings in the scenario of removing the wheels off the vehicle that transports the prodigal sons and daughters on their return to the Edenic Kingdom.   Without the wheels, the automobile cannot go anywhere.  But, with the suppression of the understanding of the Natural Laws by the Church, not only was the Christian world plunged into intellectual darkness, but because all of the Western cultures have attempted to maintain balance with Church dogma, it is as if they have been abandoned in a spiritual desert that has drained them of the very Life-Giving Waters that sustains them in their Supreme Journey back to the Edenic Kingdom.  When you teach a person how to drive an automobile, you explain and monitor how they must maneuver and navigate within the construct of the laws of the road, in order to safely arrive at their desired destiny.  A person who attempts to drive without any understanding of the laws of the road, will very quickly be involved in collisions that can even cause the needless loss of life.  In the same way, without an understanding of the Natural Laws, man's journey in life will be a perpetual series of collusions that inhibits their progress that could have easily been avoided.   Further, all the hardships and conflicts in the life of man, is all due to his ignorance of the Natural Laws.    

  Go Out No More: Few Bible readers have ever questioned the statement in the Book of Revelations pertaining to going in and out -- i.e., by asking the question: in and out of what?  Thus the statement: "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12)   If the Book of Revelation had not been edited by the Church (see http://BibleCorruption.com ), it would better reflect the original teaching which is preserved in the Gospel of the Nazirenes in the words: "...They have overcome evil, and are made pillars in the temple of my God, and they go out no more, for they rest in the eternal.  For them that persist in evil there is no rest, but they go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect."   What are the Causal-Factors that causes a soul to go back out and again incarnate into the earth?   

On page 220 of Fragments Of A Faith Forgotten by GRS Mead, he quotes the Septuagint and writes: "Job ii. 9: 'And I am a wanderer, changing place after place and house after house.'"  GRS Mead then writes with respect to this passage in the Book of Job: "The...  passage is found in the version of the Seventy, but is omitted in the English translation."   Why would this statement be omitted in the English translation?   In the Gospel of the Nazirenes this passage is contained: "So through many changes must you be made perfect, as it is written in the book of Job, 'I am a wanderer, changing place after place and house after house, until I come into the city and mansion which is eternal.'"   And this is the portrayal of the journey of the soul that has been removed from the scriptures used by the common believers.   When Jesus said that you must be born again, this next stage of birth cannot be accomplished with mere words -- but is the result of the necessary process of spiritual transformation that is brought about by walking in TheWay, overcoming the Laws within one's self, and achieving the necessary Completion at this level of being.   Thus, the more complete interaction with Nicodemus (John 3:1) is presented in the 37th Chapter that has been preserved in the Gospel Of The Nazirenes: "Jesus sat in the porch of the temple, and some came to learn His doctrine, and one said to Him, Master, what do you teach concerning life? And He said to them, Blessed are they who suffer many experiences, for they will be made perfect through suffering; they will be as the angels of God in heaven and will die no more. Neither will they be born any more, for death and birth have no more dominion over them.  They who have suffered and have overcome will be made pillars of the temple of my God, and they will go out no more. I say to you, except you be born again of water and of fire, you cannot see the kingdom of God.  And a certain Rabbi, Nicodemus, came to Him by night for fear of the Jews, and said to Him, How can a man be born again when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again?  Jesus answered Except a man be born again of flesh and of spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. The wind blows where it lists, and you hear the sound of it, but can not tell from where it comes or to where it goes.  The light shines from the East even to the West; out of the darkness. The sun rises and sets into darkness again; so is it with man, from the ages to the ages.  When it cometh from the darkness, it is that he has lived before, and when it goes down again into darkness, it is that he may rest for a little, and there after again exist.  So through many changes must you be made perfect, as it is written in the book of Job, 'I am a wanderer, changing place after place and house after house, until I come into the city and mansion which is eternal.  And Nicodemus said to him, How can these things be? And Jesus answered , You are a teacher in Israel, and do not understand these things? Truly, we speak that which we know, and bear witness to that which we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.  If I tell you of earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? No one ascends into heaven, unless they descended out of heaven, even the son or daughter of man which is in Heaven."    That this above saying is authentic is demonstrated in the fact that it is quoted by the Church Father Hippolytus in his Refutation of All Heresies, Bk VIII, 3, where he writes: "And that these things are so, says (the Docetic), it is possible also to perceive from Job, when he uses the following words: "And I am a wanderer, changing both place after place, and house after house.'"

In the above quotation we again see the original context of the statement in the Book of Revelation that "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12).  With respect to the meaning of this verse as explained in the above Gospel:  "...Blessed are they who suffer many experiences, for they will be made perfect through suffering; they will be as the angels of God in heaven and will die no more. Neither will they be born any more, for death and birth have no more dominion over them.  They who have suffered and have overcome will be made pillars of the temple of my God, and they will go out no more."   What are the Causal-Factors that control the process: "...Neither will they be born any more, for death and birth have no more dominion over them.  They who have suffered and have overcome will be made pillars of the temple of my God, and they will go out no more".  While the fourth century Church made it more difficult for the modern believer to understand the process of birth and rebirth, those who possess the "eyes to see" and understand the Causal-Factors that remain in the Gospels, will be in a position to understand the process of rebirth. 

  The Three Causes Of Organic Human Blindness: When we portray organic human blindness, that does not mean that organic man cannot see -- only that his vision is limited to the physical objects of this sub-realm.  The same example of a diminished level of consciousness is presented in a similar statement where Jesus said: “Another disciple said to him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matt 8:21-22 NIV).   The dead who Jesus is making reference to, are the people of an organic (carnal) mind.   What is portrayed by Jesus as the Far Country, represents the way of death -- i.e., "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found" (Luke 15:24).   Which is the true meaning of Ecc 9:5 that "the dead know nothing".   Or, in the words of Paul: “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).   Paul does not say that if you say a prayer accepting Jesus as your lord and savior, that you will become alive or able to have the "eyes to see".  Paul warned that you will live from a higher perspective, only when you "mortify the deeds of the body"

With great wisdom and vision Einstein stated "Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible."   Paul conveyed the exact same message to the congregation of believers that Einstein stated in the above words:  "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18).  One of the primary objectives of the Gospel Teachings is to see the Source of all realities that lie beyond the physical, and therefore develop the ability to see in Wholeness.  And this is why the Gospel of Thomas states: "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you".   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).

A reality that the modern Christian does not at all understand is the fact that the Gospels portray three reasons -- i.e., important Causal-Factors -- for people being born blind from birth -- i.e., (1) the sins committed in the Soul's previous lives; (2) the sins committed by the parents; (3) and the inherent blindness as a condition of being cast into what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being, that cloaks the senses and consciousness which effects all of organic "natural" man when his/her development has been derailed (see Arrested Mental Development ).   Jesus portrayed the Pharisees as "blind guides", because their thinking, mindset, religious framework of thinking and their lifestyle inhibited their higher development.  Jesus said that the Pharisees could not understand his words and teachings -- i.e., "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word"  As to why the Jews could not understand spiritual teachings and concepts, Jesus explained: "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:43-44).   Allegorically, the devil personifies the thinking and culture of this world that lacks the necessary Wholeness of Mind to comprehend man's higher Soul and Spiritual Reality.  They could not understand the teachings of Jesus, because of their inherent organic blindness, they saw only the literal text of the scriptures that Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14) -- unable to perceive or comprehend the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures.   And Jesus made note of this condition of organic human blindness when he stated to the Jewish leaders: "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).  

Having been previously cast into the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being (see http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ), higher vision, understanding and elevated consciousness must be developed as the person emerges out of the darkness of this realm.  What is not at all understood is the fact in this sub-realm which we call the physical earth, that Organic Blindness is only able to see the physical in man's normal undeveloped embryonic mental condition of mind.  What is portrayed by Jesus as a condition of "outer darkness", which those who have failed to put on the "wedding garment" must be attired in, Paul portrayed as an "animal-soul" level of consciousness that was true of all of mankind who had been cast into this life (see http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ).   This condition of embryonic consciousness is confirmed in the most popular pre-Nicene scripture (see Shepherd Of Hermas) where the symbol of virgins is portrayed as the elevated mental-powers of the transformed believer where it is stated: "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”.   Until organic man puts on what is portrayed as the "wedding garment" in the purity of the "virgins", he will remain in the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being that limits his perceptive-vision to an undeveloped embryonic condition of mental-abilities.  And what this means is that because of his undeveloped immaturity, all of mankind are born blind to their own higher Soul and Spiritual Reality -- incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of God.  But as the mind of man matures and evolves to a condition of Wholeness-- i.e., They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17) -- the fullness of perceptive-vision and enlightened understanding will come -- unless the process of developmental-maturity of mind and consciousness is derailed by beliefs and their inherent mental obstacles, and/or a carnal lifestyle immersed in the ways and thinking of this world. 

When the mind is properly intellectually nourished and permitted to mature by the Divine Manna (see The Divine Manna - The Gospels - The foundation of the New Covenant http://BrotherOfJesus.org#NewCovenant ) -- with all carnal beliefs and developmental-obstacles cast aside and overcome -- the inherent human blindness begins to pass as greater Wholeness of Mind is achieved.  What is attained through this developmental-maturity, is the personification of the true meaning of Paul's words when he wrote: "For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known" (1 Cor 13:9-12).  Organic man that Paul portrays as being of a "natural" mind (see Animal-Soul), can neither see or understand man's own higher Soul and Spiritual Reality -- as stated in the words: "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).  Paul's reference to "...when the perfect comes", makes reference to our own maturity and Wholeness -- i.e., "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 nought" (1 Cor 2:6).   And this condition of Wholeness and Perfection was set forth in the words of Jesus: "You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48).

When Paul wrote that "...Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror", reference was being made to "natural" man's inability to see and understand in Wholeness -- Wholeness portrays those who can perceptively-understand and connect the Source, the Causal-Factor, and the effect that transpires in this sub-realm.   Yet, when Paul wrote: "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18) -- what is being acknowledged is that while organic man is born blind to man's higher reality, we do possess the innate ability to begin to perceive the UNSEEN.  Which is why the Gospel of Thomas states: "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you...".   So long as we only look to what Paul portrays as the "...dim reflection as in a mirror", we will remain blind to our own Higher Reality.   Thus, we must recognize the nature of what we see with our physical senses, in order to even begin to develop the ability to (as Paul states to) enable us to begin to perceive the UNSEEN.  And it is this inherent condition of human blindness that affects all of mankind, that was portrayed in Paul's prayer to the Ephesians as personified in the words: "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the... glorious inheritance in the saints" (Eph 1:18).  What, therefore, is the "eyes of the heart" that the very believers who Paul personally taught, had yet to open and enable them to perceive what organic man is blind to?  And when rightly understood, it is this all-consuming blindness that plagues both Christians and all or mankind today.   Therefore, what is being stated is that those people who have developed their innate resources of mind, and have manifest to varying degrees what the scriptures portray as the "eyes to see", are the few who are able to observe the Higher Reality that organic man in his natural state of mind, is blind to.  And this blindness is noted in the prophecy of Isaiah when Jesus said: "In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving" (Matt 13:14).   While Jesus said of his disciples whose eyes, ears and perceptive-understanding had been opened and were no longer limited to the physical: "But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear" (Matt 13:15) -- and this ability to perceive and understand what the modern scientist portrays as the UNSEEN SOURCE, is not the case with organic man in his natural state of divided development.  

That all of mankind is blind to the Source of the images they see in the outer world, has been confirmed by modern science (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life).  Quoting from the foregoing link: When physicist Walter Thirring stated in his book, Urbausteine der Materie about the nature and reality of physical 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” -- what he was confirming is that what man sees with his physical eyes, is an image that has been projected into this world of appearances from an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD.  What this means is exactly as presented by Einstein when he stated: “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” (quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics).  Thus, the physicist is openly acknowledging that organic "natural" man is blind to the UNSEEN SOURCE, and is only able to see the shadow-images that have been projected into this world -- shadow-images that Paul portrays as temporal: "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18).   In the Gospels this condition of congenital blindness is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being.  Which is portrayed by the mystic in the analogy of Plato's Cave (see Plato The Physicist) as man's perception of "shadow-images" which in his organic blindness he imagines to be the whole thing.   Which provokes the question: Why is Organic Man born blind?  And, how can this inherent congenital condition of blindness be overcome?  Of important interest it must be noted that modern religion, cultural philosophical, secular authorities or academia has no answer to the question of how to overcome man's inherent condition of blindness.  Further, in contradistinction to the findings of the emerging body and revelations of modern science, the paradigm-model of previous schools of scientific theory that has been based upon the three-dimensional position that only what is physically seen with one's physical senses is real, has been rendered junk-science by modern physicists.  Yet, the blind continues to ignore the inherent human condition that enslaves them in a state of self-ignorance, and continues to lead the blind in the wrong direction.  Man's religions continue to immerse the people in blind belief.  Modern culture continues to alienate man and woman from their True Source of Being. And, academia actually inhibits the development of the necessary aspects of mind that are crucial in the development of the "eyes to see".

In the parable of the prodigal son, mankind is portrayed as dwelling in what is personified as the Far Country -- and having squandered away his inheritance on "riotous living", organic man presently dwells under the control of the of the Citizen or Consciousness of the earth -- and in his mentally inhibited state of mind, mankind is unable to recall when s/he dwelt in the Kingdom with their Heavenly Father.  And having squandered away his/her inheritance on "riotous living", mankind aimlessly wanders in this, the Far Country, as a victim of Spiritual Amnesia who is unable to recall his divine origin.   And as a victim of Spiritual Amnesia, mankind has been struck with blindness due to one or more of the three inherent human conditions.   What is the cause of this inherent human condition of blindness?  The answer is lack of Wholeness -- as stated in the Gospel account of Jesus in the words: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  Which means that the Gospels were created in order to restore the amnesic and blind person you are in this world, to a condition of Wholeness that restores your True Self. 

 

 

  Jesus Teaches The Causal Factors Of Life: The door to the higher knowledge and realties of life is opened with the understanding of the Causal-Factors of Life.  Perhaps more than any other factor, it is the beliefs that people hold and cling to that inhibit their understanding of the Causal-factors of life, that inhibit them from opening the door to higher spiritual knowledge.  In the same way that from a scientific perspective, Wholism is defined as the realization that: "...different parts are all interconnected and cannot be understood without understanding the entire whole", the same is true with respect to the door to higher spiritual knowledge.  And when a people hold and cling to beliefs that inhibit Wholism, they are unable to interconnect all the realities of life that they must comprehend, in order to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of both the Original Gospel teachings, and their own higher Soul-Reality and Creator-God.

Jesus taught the Causal-Factors of life that are clearly represented in the Gospels -- but because of the adoption of man-made beliefs and doctrines, the vast majority of modern Christians remain blind to the reality of these essential teachings.  Who was Jesus?  Man, Myth or God?   Theologian Albert Schweitzer suggested that there will never be one answer to that question.   He said that looking for Jesus in history is like looking down a well: You see only your own reflection.  The “real” Jesus, Schweitzer says, will remain “a stranger and an enigma”.  Because they see only their own reflection -- or, the reflection of their own predetermined beliefs -- believers, their clergy and alleged scholars alike hold almost countless opinions as to the meaning of the scriptures.   Sadly, "the eye of the reader sees only what the mind of the person is prepared to comprehend"  -- and as stated in the song The Boxer: "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest" -- to their own detriment, those who read and study the scriptures overlook the most important part of the equation -- i.e., that the scriptures are exactly what the original authors intended them to be.   What this means is that if your world-view (religious beliefs), is different than the world-view of those who authored the Gospels, then you will be alienated from understanding the true meaning of the scriptures. 

The Gospels were written by the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus.  Who were the Ebionites?  In the first century, all believers and followers of Jesus were known as Ebionites. Thus, the early Church Authority Epiphanius writes that the name Ebionite "...was at first ...a common name for all" the original followers of Jesus (Epiphanius Adv. Haer., xxix. 1).  Yet today the name Ebionite is often portrayed as heresy.  Why?  If all the original followers of Jesus were Ebionites, as Epiphanius stated, then why are these earliest followers of Jesus portrayed as the heresy of the Ebionites?  Because the Church that evolved out of the Roman and Greek Gentiles had virtually nothing in common with the original Gospel teachings.   In fact, in the manner of the modern faith-based believers, the Church that evolved out of the body of Gentile believers totally rejected the core foundation of the New Covenant (see Old Vs New Covenants http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OldVsNewCovenants ).  

If we then pose the question: What are the implications of this fact?   While you may have read and even studied countless opinions of scriptural interpretation and commentary -- and you may have even undergone the formal study of the scriptures yourself -- but if the authors composed the scriptures to be turned within your own mind as personified in the Application Of The Scriptures as the Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge -- and you interpret them outwardly, historically. literally then your interpretations will be virtually worthless with respect to the purpose they were written. Therefore, unless you properly apply the Key of Knowledge in accord with the original intent and objectives which the authors composed these sacred writings -- then your assumptions about the meaning of the scriptures will amount to just one more of the infinite often meaningless opinions as to just what the scriptures mean -- i.e., "Jesus said, ...How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You throw away the Key of Knowledge and you shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in".  

When Paul stated to the Corinthians who he had himself taught what he portrayed as the "traditions" of the Gospel that, "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), Paul was therein making reference to the literal/historical interpretation of the Gospel teachings that are preached from the pulpits of the Churches today.   In not understanding how to apply the Key of Knowledge and the spiritual meaning of both the teachings and the Gospels, these Christians could only be given the "milk" of the Gospels.  In not yet achieving a more mature level of spiritual consciousness, they can't comprehend how the understanding of the Causal-Factors in life are key to opening the door to higher understanding.  And it is their own man-made beliefs adopted from sources outside the Original Teachings, that alienates the believers from developing the ability to acquire the higher knowledge that Jesus taught his disciples. 

Jesus very clearly taught his disciples the Causal-Factors, as a necessary precursor to comprehending the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.  And therefore, unless you are able to grasp and understand the workings of the Natural Laws and the Causal-Factors of all the events that mankind experiences, it will remain impossible for you to understand both the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, as well as any reality of life beyond a very superficial level of comprehension -- which equates to a blindness with respect to the source of the events of this world.  And this same fact of life is seen in the biblical quotations: “Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8); “Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies” (Prov 1:31); “But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception” (Hosea 10:13); “God will give to each person according to what he has done” (Rom 2:6); “If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints” (Rev 13:9-10); “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man” (Gen 9:6 NIV).

What the above verses state is that each action of man invokes a Causal-Factor that orchestrates future events that each person experiences -- both good, bad, or indifferent.  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).  Notice that Jesus did not tell the man that if he believes in me (Jesus), that he will be saved by Grace, and not be accountable for his actions.  In fact, just the opposite was true.  We must therefore ask: If our own actions can, and do cause "...a worse thing [to] come unto [us]", how is this future tribulation brought about?  The answer is that there were Laws put into effect 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).  And it is these Natural Laws that were put into action in the Alpha of Creation, that impacts and controls every aspect of the life we are living. 

What is the purpose of the Natural Laws that were put into effect at the Alpha of Creation?  If you fail to correctly understand the answer to this question, then the reality of your own life will remain a mysterious enigma.   In fact, if we make the statement that God is Good, then God's goodness is manifest in the reality of the Natural Laws that were instituted in the Alpha of Creation, and continue to mold every aspect of your life today.   From the perspective of the parable of the prodigal son, the Laws were put into effect to guarantee the return of the son to his Heavenly Father and the Edenic Kingdom.  The Natural Laws were instituted and put into effect to bring about the Perfection of each Soul -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48).  How was this perfection of the Soul to be brought about?   The Laws insure that each and every action MUST return to its own Source.   Which means that we are forever confronting Self -- and we learn and evolve to Wholeness and Perfection through this interaction with Self. 

When it is recognized that Jesus discussed the impact of the Natural Laws in his teachings with his disciples and inner core of followers, the question must be asked: Why was it important for the disciples to understand what can be called the Causal-Factors of life?  Without an understanding of the Natural Laws of Creation, and the Causal-Factors that impact the lives of all of mankind, it will remain virtually impossible to in any manner understand the higher realities of the Soul and the meaning of life itself.   And this is true of science, religion and all of man's various philosophies pertaining to the very meaning and purpose of Life.  All advancement is accomplished one step at a time -- i.e., "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little" (Isa 28:9-10).  In order to advance beyond organic man's carnal limitations, it is imperative that he understands the Natural Laws and the Causal-Factors that are the steps to mental and spiritual advancement.  It is therefore imperative to understand how the Causal-Factors affect each person and the life they are presently living.   When it is understood that the relationship of the Natural Law and the Causal-Factors that is the moving force in every experience of each person's life, the threshold of higher spiritual understanding begins to reveal the reason, the purpose, and the objective of every aspect of the Gospel Teachings.  And without an understanding of the relationship of the Causal-Factors and the Natural Laws, it will remain impossible for us to not only understand the core and foundation of the Gospel teachings, but also to make any progress what-so-ever in fulfilling the purpose and objectives of both the Gospel and the life that each person is presently living.  In reality, we are literally immersed in a sea of Natural Laws that were put into action by our Creator that monitors and controls every aspect of the lives we are living.  And Jesus taught his disciples that this is true not only with respect to our actions, but also with our thoughts and words -- as seen in the statement: "Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Matt 7:1-2).   What this means is that the Natural Laws turn our own judgments back upon us -- thereby creating the life and experiences that each of us lives out.   And understanding of the impact of the Causal-Factors and the Natural Laws is so important for a seeker/believer to comprehend, that Jesus portrayed the fruit of our judgments and actions as a type of imprisonment.  

  The Purpose Of The Natural Laws And The Prison: The Gospel account of Jesus warns: "Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison" (Matt 5:25).  This teaching on the prison that is rarely mentioned by the modern-day authorities of the Church is so important, that it is also found in the Gospel of Luke (see Luke 12:58-59).   But what does this mean?   When you interact with your brothers and sisters, you are interacting with the Natural Laws -- wherein your own actions are returned back to you.  Therefore, Jesus warned that if you fail to come to terms with the Law through your interaction with your adversaries (your brothers and sisters), that you will be cast into a type of prison  -- i.e., "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing" (Matt 5:26) -- and you will remain in that prison until you have come to terms with your adversary, and  "...,hast paid the uttermost farthing".  Which of course confirms that biblical teachings that "A man reaps what he sows ...For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you ...He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity".  This last teaching is perhaps one of the most important, because it states that if you force your will upon another person, that you will be deprived of your own freewill in the future.  An important teaching that was removed from our Gospels but has been preserved in the Gospel Of the Nazirenes reads: "And if you desire something as strongly as you desire life, and it turns you from the truth, cast it out from you, for it is better to enter life possessing truth, than losing it, to be cast into outer darkness.  And if that which costs others pain or sorrow seems desirable to you, cast it out of your heart; in that way you will attain peace. It is better to endure sorrow, than to inflict it, on those who are weaker.  Be you therefore perfect, even as your Parent who is in heaven is perfect" (see http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org ).

What this means is that like the movie Groundhog Day, you will continue to interact and confront with the same adversary or situation -- from life to life in however many lives is required for you to "Settle matters quickly with your adversary..." -- until, in the words of Jesus, you "...,hast paid the uttermost farthing" of what you owe in the debt under the Laws.  In fact, you cannot advance beyond that point in your development in however many lifetimes is required, until you can "Settle matters quickly with your adversary..." as Jesus taught.  The vast majority of Christians can't understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures or comprehend their own higher Soul-Reality, because they can't mentally and spiritually advance beyond the level of their self-imposed imprisonment.  And while they lead lives embracing the Gospels with their words, because they fail to live in accord with those teachings, they can't advance beyond an immature level of understanding so long as they remain imprisoned.  They reason that Jesus nailed the Law to the cross, and they therefore have a disposition with respect to their accountability to the Law.  They therefore ignore the warning: 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 7:15-23).   

Once properly understood in light of the genuine teachings of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount is basically a means to (1) fulfill the Law and avoid the obstacles of imprisonment of our path of advancement; and (2) for those imprisoned, to get out of their self-imposed jail that is maintained by the Laws that require that "...till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (Mat 5:26).   Of course, because of our inherent organic human blindness in conjunction with the inherent Spiritual Amnesia ( http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ), we cannot make any higher mental and spiritual progress so long as we dwell in a state of self-imposed imprisonment.  With respect to the Law that Jesus portrays in his teachings, even this can be taken to the next level of understanding in the words: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets" (Matt 7:12).   But to release yourself from the Laws that imprison you by restricting you to your present level of mental and spiritual advancement -- Laws that can keep you bound until you overcome and prevail over the issue of imprisonment --  you must continue to repeat the tests in life that you have yet to overcome.  In each life you must once again re-enter the vibration of mind and reality that caused your imprisonment.  If you are a thief, then you must see the error of your ways when you are either a thief, or the victim of a thief when you pray for the soul of a thief.  If you are a whore, a rapist, a murderer, or whatever in life is your cause of imprisonment, you will remain at that level and position in life to life -- with “...no means to come out from there, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” or debt to your brothers and sisters.

From a modern Christian perspective, Jesus is portrayed as being in error -- in that from a modern dogmatic perspective, you no longer have to repay "...the uttermost farthing” once you accept Jesus as your personal lord and savior.   Because Christians have failed in their mission where they were supposed to be the Light of the World -- guiding others to break the chains of imprisonment that inhibits their advancement -- the whole foundation of our modern culture is founded upon abject lawlessness.  Our Churches preach lawlessness to the faith-based believers.  Our scientists remain earth-bound in their thinking, and promote the folly of Scientism (see Science Vs Scientism http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism ).  Our lawless culture shackles the people to meaningless lives of irredeemable  self-ignorance.  Why?  Without an understanding of the Laws of Life, nothing but lawless chaos prevails -- lawless chaos that inhibits any mental and spiritual advancement prevails and obstructs the advancement of the mankind as a whole.  Academia who is supposed to teach students, promotes various forms of Marxism, Socialism and even Communism that promotes the lawless violation of individual rights that are God-Given.  And while the teachings of the Gospel were intended to provide mankind with the knowledge to prevail over suffering, ignorance and despair that permeates much of our culture and society, the corruption of the scriptures and the man-made dogmatic doctrines promoted by the Churches that believers are exempt from the Law, has anchored us to the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- i.e., Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'  For many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt 22:12-14).  Thus, all development whether it be mental or spiritual advancement beyond a very limited organic human level of consciousness, inhibits the people of our lawless cultures from fulfilling the very purpose and objective of the lives they are living. 

The vast majority of people journey through life blindly.  They are as ships without a rudder -- being driven too and fro by the external winds and currents of the earth and man's various cultures.  Men of great wisdom who have sought self-knowledge have attempted to convey to the multitudes that when the Laws are understood, we in effect create the lives we live by virtue of our own actions towards our brothers and sisters.  When the disciples of Jesus ask the question: "Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'" (John 9:1-2), the disciples were continuing a teaching with Jesus about the causal-factors of blindness.  No Christian in our modern society would ask their pastor if the sins of a person in a former lifetime was the cause of the person being born blind.   The question was (1) whether the causal-factor of the man's blindness was from the sin of the man in a former life; (2) the manner and environment in which the man's parents reared him; (3) and Jesus then explained that the man's blindness was due to the human condition that all of mankind who dwell in the "outer darkness" of mind and being are subject to (see The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#ThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness ).  Jesus was making reference to the organic human condition of blindness with respect to those who have been cast into the "outer darkness" of mind and being when he explained this blindness to his disciples: “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).  And this third condition of organic human blindness can only be cured by seeking the Truth and receiving the transformational Anointing (Messiah/Christ) of the Mind. 

When Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders that the “…tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you” (Matt 21:31 RSV), such a statement simply has no place within the present day understanding of Christian teachings.  Why?  Because from the perspective of the dogma of the Church, modern Christians are without a means to explain Jesus' words.  Therefore, most Bible commentaries simply ignore the implications of this passage of scripture . One widely used commentary attempts to correct the text by changing the words to “instead of” -- which would then make the meaning dogmatically correct and read: “The tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God instead of you”.   In this verse of scripture we are presented with one of the core reasons why the original followers of Jesus believed differently than most Christians today -- inquiring whether the man was born blind because of the sins incurred in a previous life.  Therefore, the question that must be posed is: When will the chief priests and elders enter into the kingdom? Modern Christian doctrine states that because of their disbelief and rejection of Christ, they will be cut off from the face of God, and condemned to eternal judgment. And yet we cannot deny the fact that Jesus' own words convey the message that there will come a time when the chief priests and elders will also enter the Kingdom of God -- and it will be at a time after the tax collectors and harlots who believed, repented, picked up their own crosses and followed in TheWay.    

In the same way that the disciples asked Jesus the question: Was the man's present blindness caused by the sin in the man's previous lives, unresolved causal-factors can imprison you until they are resolved.  Jesus conveyed this reality in the words: "Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison" (Matt 5:25).  How long can our actions imprison us?  In the words of Jesus: "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing."   Therefore, the answer is: Like the movie Groundhog Day, How many lives will be required for you to resolve the issues with your adversary that is the causal-factor inhibiting your progress in this and the subsequent lives your Soul will live?  Thus the oft ignored warning: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7).  Or, in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen who is known as the Prince of Christian learning in the third century: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).  That the Natural Laws of Creation monitor every event in our lives, is the basis of the statement: "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14).  The answer to this dilemma is revealed in the fact that each of us is moving through life in a Labyrinth Of The Natural Laws (see The Laws That Control Our Life http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ) -- and these Laws within which the whole of our life is immersed, responds directly to the everyday choices that we make. 

How does "a worse thing come unto thee" based upon each person's actions?  And what this means is that the judgments of the Natural Laws that are initiated by each person's actions against them in their future tribulations, will have been invoked by the causal-factors of the man's previous actions -- which cannot be resolved until the man "hast paid the uttermost farthing."   How is each person imprisoned until they have repaid the "...uttermost farthing"?  And what is the fate of each person when they finely have repaid the "...uttermost farthing"?  What then?  Thus, this reality that is no longer understood by the modern Christian is why the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen writes with respect to each person's station in life "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel [person] has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor" (see http://ChristianReincarnation.org ).  Which confirms that question of the disciples when they asked whether it was the sin of a previous life that caused the malady of the man's present life -- the sin of his parents and the environment in which the person was reared -- of has the person yet to reap the benefits of living a Godly Life and is in the process of picking up their own cross and travailing in TheWay in pursuit of achieving the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) as promised. 

  Secondary Karma, The Prison, And The Chickens That Come Home To Roost: As portrayed in the above teachings of Jesus on The Prison, the term "the chickens come home to roost", like the saying "what goes around comes around", is merely an acknowledgement of the workings of the the Natural Laws that control the destiny of all of mankind.   The problem is that while many religious and political leaders use these statements, when directly confronted they are all in denial of the reality that is being presented in virtually all of the scriptures that man uses as the foundation of his beliefs.  Malcolm X used the phrase of the chickens coming home to roost in response to the assassination of President Kennedy.    When the assassination of John F. Kennedy horrified a nation, Black Muslim leader Malcolm X declared that it was payback for America’s violence in the world, a case of “chickens coming home to roost.”   Thus he explained: “Being an old farm boy myself,” said Malcolm, “chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad, they’ve always made me glad.”

While the statement with respect to the chickens coming home to roost is true, because the religious leaders who have attempted to use this biblical expression of the Laws, are themselves all ignorant of the Movement of the Laws of God in the life of mankind, they have been unable to explain exactly how and why the chickens do come home to roost -- and perhaps more important, to whom they come home to roost.   On September 11th, 2001, the very liberal New York City and the very liberal people in the United States was brought into the presence of reality, and was mugged by Islamic terrorists who believed they were doing good by striking a blow against The Great Satan.   What the left leaning liberal Bill Clinton, and the right leaning Jerry Falwell each prophesized, was that the United States had angered God.   Falwell and Clinton had each suggested that the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was the result of debts that were owed by the American people.   While Bill Clinton in his speech at Georgetown University did not out right attribute the devastation at the hands of Islamic terrorists directly to the Will of God, as did Falwell, there can be no other reasonable explanation.

Interestingly, when Jerry Falwell proclaimed that the cause of the World Trade Center disaster was due to God’s anger over the immorality and ungodliness that has overcome the Nation as it continues its downward spiral into what has been portrayed as the decadence of Sodom and Gomorrah, the liberal leaning media was aghast that he would make such a statement.   People were appalled that Jerry Falwell, and then Pat Robertson, could even suggest that God had brought judgment upon the American people in the manner of the biblical portrayal of Sodom and Gomorrah.   Yet, as typical of liberals, very little protest was raised by the left leaning media when Bill Clinton warned that we were suffering the consequences of a nation that was both founded on slaves, and the alleged act of disposing and killing native Americans in order to get their land.   Regardless of the fact that we don’t like the message that both have expressed for very different reasons, there is an element of truth to what they are saying.      Yet, because neither understood the Laws -- or the biblical assertion that all events that take place in this world is orchestrated directly by God -- the assertion that God was bringing judgment upon the United States could not in any manner be explained by those who were preaching this retributive prophesy of God at work in the lives of all Americans.

In much the same manner, many of the mainstream Reform and Conservative Jews were angered when Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan, the former chief Rabbi of Israel -- a religious scholar who was also the spiritual leader of the Shas party -- made the statement that no innocent Jews died in the Holocaust.  What Rabbi Yosefan said was that the 6 million Holocaust victims "were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done.”   Rabbi Yosefan explained that these souls who had previously lived lives of sin, “…had been reincarnated in order to atone.”   Immediately, all sectors of the population -- from then Prime Minister Barak, to the Holocaust survivors -- condemned the rabbi's remarks.   In a communiqué issued from his office, Barak stated: “His words are liable to harm the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and are liable to hurt the feelings of their families and the feelings of the entire nation.”

Legislator Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, who had been himself a Holocaust survivor who at that time headed the secularist Shinui party, condemned Rabbi Yosef’s statements and said he was “… in effect confirming what Hitler said, that the Jews are sinners.”    Holocaust organizations and the two main Israeli radio stations reported that they were inundated with phone calls and fax messages, most of them criticizing Yosef's statement.   The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum labeled Yosef's remarks “miserable” and said they “seriously harm the memory of the victims.”    In a released statement the museum said: “With all due respect to such a leader, it's hard to understand where Rabbi Yosef gets the courage to explain the intentions and ways of the supreme authority.”    Attempting to clarify his words in the following week to a populace that did not comprehend one of the most paramount teachings of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, Rabbi Yosef cited a 16th century Jewish mystic, Isaac Luria, who wrote: “If the soul was not purified entirely the first time, and it left this world, that soul must come back in a reincarnation, even a few times, until it is entirely purified.”

What Rabbi Yosef stated was that all those Jews who died at the hands of Hitler, were merely reaping their own debts they had themselves incurred in previous lives!    And while the secular Jewish leaders were offended by his statement, Rabbi Yosef did not state that they were Jews when they committed the sins that invoked the Laws of Cause and Effect upon them.   But the vast majority of unenlightened Jews imagine that their souls are Jewish, and they totally fail to understand both the scriptures, and the movement of the Laws in the lives of mankind.   From the perspective of the Laws that pseudo-authorities are in denial of, the scriptures state: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7) -- or, in the Book of Job: "According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same" (Job 4:8).   And both of these verses could just as well be expressed in the words: The chickens of those people who suffered under Hitler, had come home to roost -- and in that life they inherited the fruit of their own past actions.  

What the Rabbi suggested was that, even though we may appear to be the innocent victim in this present life, this was not always the case -- and each of us inherits both the good and the evil that we have personally and collectively engendered in the previous existences our soul has lived prior to our being born into the present life we are now living -- as so clearly stated in the words of the Church Father Origen when he wrote: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).   

Thus, the common message that Jerry Falwell, Bill Clinton, Pat Robertson, and the Rabbi Yosef all proclaimed, was the conformation of the great biblically defined truth that what goes around comes around: “Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8 NKJ); “Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies” (Prov 1:31 NKJ); “But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception” (Hosea 10:13 NIV); “God will give to each person according to what he has done” (Rom 2:6 NIV); “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life” (Gal 6:7-8 NIV); “If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints” (Rev 13:9-10 NKJ); “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man” (Gen 9:6 NIV); “His disciples asked him [Jesus], Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (Jn 9:2 NIV).   Yet, because certain New Testament teachings were removed by the Pagan Church of Rome, modern Christians are at a total loss when they attempt to explain how the Laws work in the life of man -- and even the very reason why bad things seemingly happen to good people -- or why a benevolent God ordains the good and evil that man is incapable of understanding.

As Romanized Pagan Christians who had embraced the dogma of the Emperors Constantine and Justinian, while Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson did not believe in the pre-existence of the soul -- and we are not quite sure exactly what Bill Clinton believes in -- we can easily see that the position of Rabbi Yosef was not only biblically based, but is very much in accord with the original teachings of the New Covenant (see The Spiritual Castration Of The Gospels http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#SpiritualCastrationOfTheGospel ).   In the 69th chapter of the Gospel of the Nazirenes (see Gospel), Jesus is asked: “Master, if a man die, shall he live again?”   While every Christian will agree with the reply of Jesus in the words: “I am the resurrection and the life, I am the good, the beautiful, the true; if a man believe in me he shall not die, but live eternally,” where modern believers depart from the original teachings of TheWay is seen in the biblical interpretation of what it means to believe in the Lord, and what is required in order to live eternally.   Of those who believe, Jesus said: “As in Adam all die, so in the Christ shall all be made alive. Blessed are the dead who die in me, and are made perfect in my image and likeness, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them. They have overcome evil, and are made pillars in the temple of my God, and they go out no more, for they rest in the eternal.”   While modern Christians will readily accept the idea that they will be made perfect in the image and likeness of Christ, the problem is seen in the words that they will “…go out no more”.

While the late Jerry Falwell and Bill Clinton would agree that man will be judged and owe a debt for his evil, only Rabbi Yosef correctly predicted the means and process by which the Most High God employs to correct the evilness and debts of mankind, as seen in the very next warning of Jesus: “For them that persist in evil there is no rest, but they go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect. But for them that have done good and attained to perfection, there is endless rest and they go into life everlasting. They rest in the eternal. Over them the repeated death and birth have no power, for them the wheel of the eternal revolves no more, for they have attained to the center, where is eternal rest, and the center of all things is God.”   

If these words are true, and there is no rest for those who persist in doing evil because they are forced back into life in this world where they “…go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect,” then we must pose the question as to how we will recognize these souls when they re-enter this life?   For the most part we can’t -- and they will appear to us as innocent men, women and children, unless we ourselves possess the spiritual eyes to see their more distant past that was beyond their entrance into this present life.   Thus, we can see the words of wisdom when Rabbi Yosefan said of the Jews who died in the Holocaust that they "were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done.”   What this means is that those who suffered in the Holocaust came into that life to pay back a debt that was incurred in previous lives, and what Rabbi Yosefan was merely acknowledging was the very clearly defined doctrine that everything in life is orchestrated by our own past actions.

Georges Sanyayana correctly stated: "He who does not remember history is condemned to repeat it". Unbeknown to the majority of people, because the very same souls from the past are here in the present -- continuing to wage the same conflicts that immersed mankind in ignorance and violence in the past -- the people themselves submit to the shackles of almost perpetual enslavement -- from life, to life, to life -- until the person breaks the shackles of enslavement. Einstein's definition of insanity was when a person does the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. While I would not dispute with Einstein on this very insightful definition, the Laws that control the events of this world often initiate soul-growth, by forcing each soul to switch the polarity of the side they are on from life to life. Using the example of the Jews: The Jews of the past can very well be the Palestinians of today, and vice versa. In the reversal of polarities, that would make the communists of the past, the capitalists of the present. The misogynists of the past, the Feminists of today. The homosexual activists of the present, those who persecuted the homosexuals in the past. In many instances the Law is that a person or group becomes what they judged and persecuted in the past. And since most souls develop in groups, whole groups of souls incarnate in lifetimes where they become the other side of the equations. And what this also means is that because of the greatly expanded population of the earth in this timeframe, such souls as Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, Napoleon, and all the other would be despot conquers are presently on the world's stage as political, religious and philosophical leaders -- along with their followers. Thus, the reality of the words: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7-8) -- which of course means that not only does each man's own actions come back upon him, but so does this same Law apply to a group. 

In the same way that the Jews rejected the wisdom and understanding of the Laws that caused them to be victims of the holocaust -- even when it was their own Holy Man and Jewish Mystic whose teachings they rejected -- few people possess the insight to see that it is themselves that they are judging, and their primary downfall and demise is seen in the fact that they do not at all possess the knowledge to understand the movement of the Laws in their own lives.   In not understanding the Laws, they are fundamentally lawless -- and their lawlessness undermines all efforts to bring about true success in their lives.

This ignorance and violations of the Law even among supposed believers was noted by Jesus in the words: "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’" (Matt 7:21-23).   Further, Jesus warned that the lawless believer will incur the greater dept than the unbeliever, as seen in the long ignored and misunderstood 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).   The servant who knows the Master's will, are those who proclaim to be believers in the Gospel -- and when they are "lawless", they will receive the greater judgment than the unbelievers "...who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows".  Those who know the Master's will as set forth in the Gospels and the Law of the Most High, will be held accountable to the Law: “For them that persist in evil there is no rest, but they go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect".  Thus, through the process of confronting one's own actions -- living lives as victims of their own previous aggressions against their brothers and sisters -- they will eventually be refined and transformed into a Whole and Perfect Soul -- i.e., But for them that have done good and attained to perfection, there is endless rest and they go into life everlasting. They rest in the eternal. Over them the repeated death and birth have no power, for them the wheel of the eternal revolves no more, for they have attained to the center, where is eternal rest, and the center of all things is God.”  

Without understanding the Laws that provided the vehicle which brought you to your present station in life -- or the fact that you are in most instances, confronting your own past actions -- then you will remain stuck in a Cause and Effect Loop which Jesus portrayed as The Prison as detailed above.   Quoting the Blog article entitled The Enslavement Of Black Liberation Theology : How did the thinking of these men get this way? In past lives, most of them were the very white slave owners that they presently hold the white race accountable for today.  Jesus warned that as ye judge, so shall you be judged -- and this is accomplished and brought about by the Laws when you literally become what you judged or oppressed.  Thus, in the case of Jeremiah Wright who was the pastor in Barack Obama's Church, him and his followers not only became the race that they oppressed -- but in the same way that as whites, they abused blacks, now as blacks, they hate the white race.  Further, their hatred of everything American, is the result of their being the very Confederate forces that opposed the Union with the same venom that we can see in the words of men such as Jeremiah Wright today.  Because they exploited blacks, they were born into this present life as African-Americans -- the very form of the people they oppressed and hated in the past.  And because they fail to redeem themselves as blacks in the present -- blaming others for the conditions of their birth -- they will continue to switch back and forth from life to life, as aggressor and oppressed, until they see and redeem the error of their ways.   And if the Rev. Wright had anything in common with the teachings of Jesus who taught to pray for those who persecute you -- never returning evil for evil -- forgiving those who would be indebted to you -- they would be preaching forgiveness instead of the doctrine of racial hatred. 

Once properly understood in light of the genuine teachings of Jesus, what the Sermon on the Mount basically is, is a means for those imprisoned, to get out of their self-imposed jail that is maintained by the Laws "...till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (Mat 5:26).  But to release yourself from the Laws that imprison you, you must once again re-enter that vibration of mind and reality that caused your imprisonment.  If you are a thief, then you must see the error of your ways when you are either a thief -- the victim of a thief when you pray for the soul of a thief -- or if you invoke the Law of Grace by assisting a thief to mend their ways against their brothers and sisters.  If you are a whore, a homosexual, a rapist, a murderer, or what ever in life is your cause of imprisonment -- i.e., (see below) “Thou shalt by no means come out from there, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (Mat 5:26) -- then you can only free yourself when you are in one of the positive or negative cycles that hold you in the loop of Action/Reaction, Cause and Effect. 

Using a rapist as an example: A rapist, will continue to loop in the positive and negative cycles of rapist and victim -- from life to life -- until which time the rapist sees the error of his ways as a rapist, or prays and forgives a rapist as a victim of rape.   Modern medical science has only now come to understand that behavior -- even criminal behavior -- is pre-programmed into the DNA and genes of an individual person -- and this programming is the Laws which have brought the chickens home to roost in the life of every individual.   Many homosexuals claim to be born homosexual -- and while this is true, it is also the result of that person's own past that they were born into this life as a homosexual.   And while consensual sex is not a sin, the misuse of sex keeps the person anchored to the very limited organic thinking of this world.   And this is true of the vast majority of all the conditions of life that most people despise. 

In the above example of the holocaust and the Jews who, one of their own holy men -- i.e., Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan -- said were born into that life in order to pay back a karmic debt, not all six million Jews had actually murdered people in the past.   Yet, because they acted in concert with their leaders, they inherited what can be called secondary karma, because they supported those who did.   What this means is that Yasser Arafat in the future could very well be born a Jew, while his Jewish opponents in this life will be born Muslim -- and the followers in each group will themselves be born into the groups that they persecuted and opposed.   Often, support of a leader, equates to acting in concert.  

 

 

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Why are people born under oppressive regimens such as Castro's Cuba, Stalin's Russia, Mao's Communist China, and all the other dictators throughout history?   Left leaning America coddles Castro -- and they see him as a champion of Marxism.   And while there are those in America who actively support Castro, there is a greater mass of people who support and empower these activists.   In the future, they will be born into a Castro type regime where the activists will become the most oppressed, and those who supported the left leaning activists will be there as part of the equation.   In order for the leaders who are the actual perpetrators to play out their karma/imprisonment under the Laws of Cause and Effect -- which often requires a reversal of roles on the stage of this life -- the secondary people who are often victims, are necessary in order to create the environment to where the karma can be played out.   If there were no Cuban people, then Castro and his henchmen could not play out their karmic roles.  

 

If the Laws as presented in the above brought instant action against either an individual or group of people, then no real lessons would be learned in this, God's School House for His prodigal sons and daughters.   In the same way that you very quickly learn not to touch a hot stove, if each time that you judged, persecuted or oppressed another person, the Laws instantly returned to you the fruit of your own actions, then no real lessons would be learned.   If every test a school child took was an open book test, then the student would never learn to think, analyze and develop the mind.    They would simply learn to retrieve the answer, and respond in a parrot like manner to the test.   And in this world the lessons of life can only be learned, when the prodigal sons and daughters dwell under the illusion that there is no retributive action.     The instant reaction of the Laws would be seen in touching a hot stove.   A smoker does not immediately die of cancer -- the earth did not instantly become polluted when toxins were emitted in the atmosphere -- the sea did not instantly become polluted when barges filled with garbage were first dumped in the ocean -- and in the same way, some lessons in life require a person of a group of persons to be born into the circumstances that their own actions have created in the past.   

Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, are all representative of Hollywood activists who embrace and even promote Castro, Hugo Chavez, and other dictators and Communist regimes.   It is said that Jimmy Carter never met a dictator the he did not defend.   And while each of these high profile men dwell in the environment of Constitutional freedom, in the future they will be born into the environment that they presently promote, in order to examine what they promote from the perspective of those who live under such systems.   And just as important is the question as to what was their past, that brought them to their present, and is in the process of creating their future by virtue of their actions?    And just as important is the fact that their own family and supporters which have followed these men into the present out of their own past, will continue with them in the future.  

It is impossible for a man who abuses women to learn his lessons as a man.   Yet, the result of his abuse is learned as he experiences his abuse when he finds himself in life as a woman.   Those who persecute homosexuals can only learn their lessons, when they are born a homosexual and inherit the persecutions that they have themselves imposed upon homosexuals in their more distant past.    Moreover, while there is an important reason why the Bible and traditional scriptures condemn and reject homosexuality -- it is also true that no leader or group has the right to dictate the thinking and lifestyle to other men and women who do not ascribe to their philosophy.   Nor does any leader or group have the right to enforce a school of thought or philosophy upon other men or women, or their children.  

In the same way that a rapist or wife-beater will not learn his lesson until he is himself born under the condition which he persecuted in the past -- and the Hollywood elite who promote Marxism while living in the environment of liberty and freedom, cannot learn their lessons until they experience life from the other side of the equation -- if a woman died when she aborted her fetus, then there would be no such thing as abortion today.   In fact, without abortion on demand, women themselves would live very different lives than they do at the present time in western society.   And if these same women had the ability to see into the future life that they are creating for themselves, they would not only abstain from murdering the life of the soul in their womb, but they would once again live a very different life than they are doing at present.   Moreover, in view of the fact that in most abortions on demand, an abortionist is tearing the fetus limb from limb in order to forcefully remove it from the womb, in the future they may find themselves in a life parallel to that of the women in such places as Ethiopia and the Sudan, where they suffer a similar fate as an adult instead of a fetus.   And in like manner, even those who support the murder of the unborn, will find themselves born into lives where murder and even torture is commonplace.  

 

Where most people identify themselves as they relate to the physical body they are presently inhabiting, the body with its gender, race, nationality, as well as all other physical conditions, change from life to life.   The Africans who were captured and brought to America as slaves, were not always either black, or Africans.   And there was a preexisting reason why the Laws caused them to be captured and brought to America as slaves.   Further, the slave owners were not always white -- and neither were they always slave owners.   All victims are for the most part oppressed by what they were themselves, in their more distant past.   And depending upon the outcome of the confrontation between victim and oppressor, the Laws will continue the victim aggressor interaction in the future -- often when the roles are reversed.   When the Japanese went into China during WWII, they often raped and eventually murdered all the Chinese women.   Yet, not only may there be a reversal of roles, but the people themselves may no longer be Asian, or live in that part of the world.   The Japanese rapist and murderer today, may be a white coed who has lived a non-violent life when she finds herself confronted by a soul who she previously raped, tortured and slain.  

If the Laws reacted instantly to our actions, then the more important lessons in life would never be learned.   Often, these important lessons can only be learned when we walk in the same shoes as those who we owe a debt to by virtue of our judgments, persecutions, or the wrongs that we have perpetrated upon others -- i.e., as the prodigal sons, our own brothers and sisters.     The Law is portrayed in the words: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).   But if the Laws of God that bring all experiences about in this world initiated an instantaneous response to our actions, then the prodigal sons and daughters would not be able to learn their most important lessons that will eventually perfect and make them Whole -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt. 5:48).   

In our present time a great number of people have inherited vast freedoms and liberties to pursue their own destiny by virtue of the blood that was sacrificed by the American Constitutional framers who secured these freedoms -- often with their own lives.   The question then becomes: What have these people accomplished with this gift of freedom, liberty and personal rights?   In the parable of the Talents (see Talents), each person is provided in accord with their own past accomplishments -- i.e., "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability..." (Matt 25:15 NKJ).   And as the Church Father Origen wrote: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life”.    And, as futher explained by Origen: "...and that consequently every vessel [person], according to the measure of its purity or impurity, received a place, or region, or condition by birth, or an office to discharge, in this world... The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor" (see The Early Church On Predestination).    While most Americans have inherited the gift of freedom and liberty by virtue of the blood of our forefathers and Constitutional framers, most of them have squandered this opportunity away -- like the prodigal son portrayed in the parable.   And in the reversal of the Laws, this is how people are born into oppressive regimes -- and this is why there is what man calls evil in the world.   The harsh and often cruel reality of man's suffering is presented in an article by Walter E. Williams entitled America's Move Toward Tyranny where he wrote: "Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, 'The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.' The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government."  The vast majority of people inherit these often horrendous lives, by either supporting those who deny the rights of others, or are complacent to evil.   Over the course of countless lifetimes of inheriting one's own past, the prodigal sons begin to awaken to a higher calling -- a higher morality -- a higher spiritual quest.  

Most men and women can't get their marriages to manifest higher fruit, because they have been neglecting these same spouses over the course of eons of lifetimes.   Men use women, women use men -- and the karmic trail goes on, and on, and on.   Few people are willing to live their highest ideal and break free of the shackles of the Laws and the "outer darkness" (see Outer Darkness ).    The Ten Commandments warns not to covert what belongs to your neighbor -- because each soul is born into life in the exact conditions that their own past actions has orchestrated and brought about.   And this breaking of one's own past karma, is the reason why Jesus taught to turn the other cheek -- forgive and pray for those who persecute you -- and often, this is the only way to break the karmic cycles that enslave.  

In the example I give in the Blog entry on Jeremiah Wright's Black Liberation Theology: If it is true that the Laws have reversed Jeremiah Wright from being a slave owner who lived off the labors of slaves, to a preacher who is now living off the blacks who in the past as white southerners supported the institution of slavery, and now have inherited what they themselves supported and perpetrated against Africans in the past -- then to break the karmic cycle, they should be embracing the example of Jesus, and they should be praying for those who they believe are oppressing them.   Their present course of action will merely continue the karmic chain that has shackled them over the course of lifetimes.    And while they, themselves, may not have owned slaves, they either supported the institution of slavery, or were complacent to it.   But in this example we can see the plight of each and every person -- all of whom have inherited the fruit of their own ways in their own more distant past: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).

 

 

  The Causal Factors And The Corrupted Teaching On Children: When rightly understood, the teaching on the children that was corrupted and removed by the Church presents these three human realities (see Turn About And Become As a Child http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#TurnAbout  ): In the Gospels, Jesus places particular attention and importance on Children who are often referred to as the "little ones".   Believers are warned that if they fail to "turn about", and become as a child, they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18:3; 19:14).   But this provokes the question: What does it mean to "turn about", and become as a child? It is easily demonstrated that the first century Christians understood an important spiritual concept and teaching that is totally foreign to the modern believer (see The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#GospelEnigma ).  And it is demonstrated that the Gospel of Thomas saying 22 was at one time the foundational centerpiece of Gospel teachings on the End Times and the Coming of the Kingdom.  The question was posed to Jesus by his disciples: "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"  Which should provoke the question: The disciples asked Jesus how they were to enter the Kingdom -- (1) giving no thought about the Kingdom coming upon the earth as many Christians believe in their End Times dogma; (2) and, the disciples of Jesus portrayed themselves as "children"?   Jesus taught that unless you are "born again", and "turned about" as a "little one", it will remain impossible to enter the Kingdom.  But what does this mean?  Modern Christians can't understand this crucial teaching, because the explanation that Jesus provided was rejected by the Church of Rome, and removed. 

What does it mean to "turn about"?  From the perspective of the parable of the prodigal son, it means that we must return to our Source in the Edenic Kingdom which we abandoned when we journeyed into this, the Far Country which is under the control and domain of the Citizen of the Far Country.  The fact that we don't remember when each of us dwelt in the Edenic Kingdom, is because we are presently dwelling in the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being -- dwelling in a state of Spiritual Amnesia ( http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ).  At the above link (Turn About)  I demonstrate that not only was an important teachings about the necessity to "turn about" from the thinking and lifestyle of this world in order to become a child of the Kingdom removed, but that the whole of the text of the Gospels had been edited and corrupted.  "For (1) there are some children, which were so born from their mother's womb; And (2) there are some who God returned, and were made the children of men; And (3) there be children, who have made themselves children for the kingdom of heaven's sake."  Those who "...were so born from their mother's womb, portrays the natural cycles of birth by which the Light of the Soul evolves.  Those "...who God returned, and were made the children of men", are those who the disciples of Jesus asked about: "...And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'" -- a condition of reality portrayed as being in a type of Prison where the Soul is required to have "...paid [back] the uttermost farthing."  While those who were born blind as a natural pre-subsequent birth limitation imposed upon all humans who have yet to travail in TheWay in pursuit of the promised Anointing  (Messiah/Christ), are those "...who have made themselves children for the kingdom of heaven's sake."   The warning in Mt 18:6 and Mk 9:42 where it is stated that: "But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea", does not apply to those who are children from their mother's womb?  But more appropriately, this message of severity applies to those "...who have made themselves children for the kingdom of heaven's sake"?  

As stated in the foregoing, each person's birth into this life is determined by that person's own past actions -- i.e., the Causal-Factors -- portrayed in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen as "...either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor" (see The Early Church On Predestination http://ChristianReincarnation.org#predestination ).  Where does such concepts of life come from?  The Dead Sea Scrolls have virtually proven the fact that the Gospel teachings were drawn from the Essenes -- of whom Josephus who was a contemporary of the man Jesus who lived among the Essenes stated that the Essenes “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.  Moreover, the Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) declares that, "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect".   Turning to the historian, this ultra important element to the equation of life is made reference to by Edward Gibbon in the footnote regarding the question of the disciples at John 9:2: "The disciples of Jesus were persuaded that a man might have sinned before he was born, (John, ix. 2,) and the Pharisees held the transmigration [reincarnation] of virtuous souls, (Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern Rabbi is modestly assured, that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato, etc., derived their metaphysics from his illustrious countrymen" (Gibbon; Decline & Fall) -- metaphysics that embraced the concept of the pre-existence and transmigration of the soul.  But just as important is the fact that what is being presented is actually the threefold cause of blindness -- with each of the causes being valid in their own realities of the life that Christians are presently living.  And unless you understand the Causal-Factors of the three causes of blindness that is being presented -- in conjunction with the three phases of becoming a child -- it will remain impossible for you to understand the spiritual meaning of the Gospel, as well as your own affliction of blindness. 

If the question is posed as to why the witness of the Church Father Origen and other pre-Nicene Church Authorities is in conflict with the modern-day dogma of the Church?   Because (1) Origen had access to Gospels prior to the teaching on the pre-existent Soul being suppressed and removed from the scriptures; and (2) perhaps even more important is the reality that as the person evolves in accord with the Original Gospel teachings, they begin to emerge out of the organic condition portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being, whereby organic undeveloped man is inherently afflicted with what can be portrayed as spiritual amnesia (see Spiritual Amnesia http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ).   As the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High God, each of us has dwelt in the Kingdom prior to our emergence in this world -- and our birth into the physical has suppressed our memory of our more distant past -- causing us to dwell under a condition of Spiritual Amnesia.  But as a sincere seeker embraces the core Gospel Teachings as restored and set forth at http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com , the person begins to acquire the necessary Soul-Memory that permits them to begin to recall the previous lives their Soul has lived.  In the case of pre-Nicene Church authorities such as Origen who was one of the most Christ-like authorities of the early Church, he began to overcome his own inherent organic blindness, which provided him the necessary access and knowledge of his own Soul's previous lives.  And this process of transformation that opens the mind of the True-Seeker, is expressed by the  Italian Dominican friar Giordano Bruno who stated that "The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body" -- wherein he explained the causal-factors of each person's life in the words "Every act performed brings its appropriate reward or punishment in another life. In proportion as the soul has conducted itself in a body, it determines for itself its transition into another body."   

What the foregoing means is that the deeds, actions and works of your own Soul's previous lives, has initiated the causal-factors that has orchestrated  your present life -- and your own past actions towards your brothers and sisters are therefore directly responsible for the conditions and station in life that you have inherited in the present.   Do you have an ear that hears the reality that is being stated with respect to the Natural Laws -- i.e., “If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints” (Rev 13:9-10).  “God will give to each person according to what he has done” (Rom 2:6).  Which means that the actions, the thinking, and even the lifestyle of each person, directly orchestrates their future.   Not because someone is keeping tabs on each person's life.  But rather, we dwell in a sea of Laws that are invoked by the life that we lived in the past, and are presently living and orchestrating out future.   

In the Gospel quotations above it is demonstrated that an important part  of Jesus' teachings was an understanding of the Causal-Factors with respect to the experiences of each person's life.  What is the Causal-Factors of each person's condition of birth?  What is the Causal-Factors that has orchestrated and brought about the conditions that confront each person, each day, in the lives that they are living.  One of the most ignored teachings on the Causal-Factors of the Laws is seen in the statement: "He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity".   Captivity can be understood as any action on your part that forces another person to live in accord with your will.  And when the reality of this teaching is understood, only then can we begin to grasp the Spiritual Essence of the Constitutional Foundation of the United States which was put into effect by Deists and Enlightened Christians.   The fact that the First Amendment provides unalienable rights for the freedoms from coercion and laws that inhibit each person exercise of those rights of freedom and liberty, is one of the elements that have manifested American Excellence (see Natural Law - The Deists And American Exceptionalism http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#AmericanExceptionalism ).  That many of the same souls who were the original disciples and followers of Jesus had entered this life in the 18th century to form the Constitutional framework of government as a foundation to the restoration of the Original Gospels teachings and the necessary Spiritual Environment to raise up the Consciousness of mankind, is explored at President Trump & The Restoration of Self-Government  http://ThomasPaineRedux.Nazirene.org/SelfGovernment.htm

With the corruption of the Gospels and the suppression of important original teachings, modern Christians are unable to comprehend many of the foundational Gospel concepts.   How different modern Christians perceive what the scriptures convey to us today is easily demonstrated by using our very own Bibles.   When Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders that the “…tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you” (Matt 21:31 RSV), such a statement simply has no place within the spectrum of present day understanding of Christian dogma.   Because we are without a means to explain Jesus' words, most Bible commentaries simply ignore the implications of this passage of scripture.   One widely used commentary attempts to correct the text of the scriptures by changing the words to “instead of” -- which would then make the meaning dogmatically correct and read: “The tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God instead of you”.   In this verse of scripture we are presented with one of the core reasons why the original followers of Jesus believed differently than most Christians today.   The question that must be posed is: When will the chief priests and elders enter into the kingdom?   Modern Christian doctrine states that because of their disbelief and rejection of Christ, they will be cut off from the face of God, and condemned to eternal judgment.   And yet we cannot deny the fact that Jesus' own words convey the message that there will come a time when the chief priests and elders will also enter the Kingdom of God -- and it will be at a time after the tax collectors and harlots who believed, repented, and followed the Christ.

In the Revelation it is warned: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth" (Rev 3:15-16).  What works are being made reference to?  Someone who is cold to the Gospel, is an unbeliever -- while someone who is hot, is on fire as a true Disciple of TheWay. But someone who is lukewarm, is very clearly a member of the Church who is complacent, and fails to bring about the works of the spirit that is required to walk in TheWay.  Thus, Jesus warned: "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48). Thus, the modern Christian simply has no means to understand why and how the lukewarm believer in Christ will be beaten with the stripes of greater judgment, than the unbeliever.  So what is the fate of those who "...did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.Because of the corruption of the scriptures and the adoption of man-made dogmatic beliefs, the modern Christian has no means to explain why the unbelievers will receive less judgment than the mainstream of complacent believers who those who knew the masters will, but did not properly prepare themselves to live in accord with the Gospel teachings, will receive the greater judgment.  In fact, these statements are in total opposition to everything that modern Christians believe.   If the unbelievers receive the lesser judgment than the lukewarm believers, then what is their fate.  From a modern Christian dogmatic perspective, that would mean the the unbelievers would inherit the Kingdom, while the lukewarm believers would not -- or at least be subject to greater judgment than the unbelievers who committed many sins. 

With respect to those believers who failed to put on the required Wedding Garment and come to TheCall ( http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), in the parable of the Wedding Feast they are portrayed as the "invited guests".   There is of course the statement by Peter that confirms the statement by Paul -- i..e, "If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud" (2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV).  Where the modern Church promotes the doctrine that they are saved by Grace regardless of the manner in which they live their lives, Peter not only states that this modern man-made doctrine is in grave error, but correctly states that: "It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them." Every Christian should ask themselves: How Can This Be???  How can those who have never known the teachings of Christ, be better off than those who having heard, and are complacent towards those teachings?

If the Christians in the parable of the Wedding Feast are representative of the invited guests, in the version in Matthew (22:1-14) they are utterly destroyed because of their complacency.   In the version found in the Gospel of Luke it states: "For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet” (Luke 14:24) -- which provokes the question: How can the Christians who claim to be saved by faith apart from their actions -- making claim to a guarantee and free gift of salvation the moment they accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior -- be subject to the greater judgment because of their complacency?  Further -- and quite contrary to Church dogma -- if non-Christians were those who had not been called as invited guests -- and the non-Christians were not doomed to the destruction imposed upon the invited guests (Christians) who did not come -- the question still remains as to what is the fate of those who were cast into the "outer darkness"?  What does it mean: "For many are called, but few chosen"

  The Causal Factors And The Talents: The answer to the above dilemma, is in the parable of the Talents?  When what can be portrayed as our Spiritual DNA is understood, what it means is that while each of us can be portrayed as having been created equal, to even suggest that each of us is the same, would have to be seen as a bogus lie.  Because organic man is born blind (see The Cause Of Organic Human Blindness http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OrganicHumanBlindness ) -- and in his congenital blindness, can only see the physical form of the body -- organic man is therefore unable to see how advanced each Soul is.   This is why the Jews who came into the presence of the historical man Jesus, were blind to his state of being as an extremely evolved and and highly advanced Soul.   Further, because of their inherent blindness, the Jews failed to see that the disciples of Jesus were themselves highly advanced and spiritually evolved Souls.  When Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out" (John 6:37), only highly advanced souls could be drawn to Jesus.  Which provokes the question: Why were only certain souls given to Jesus as his disciples?  The problem is that only highly advanced souls were able to comprehend the Higher Spiritual Teachings and Meaning of the Gospel -- i.e., “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).  When Paul stated to the Corinthians who he had himself taught what he portrayed as the "traditions" of the Gospel that, "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), because of their lack of soul-evolution, it would have been impossible for Paul to convey to the Corinthians the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom.  Thereby forcing Paul to convey only what he portrayed as the "milk for babes in Christ", rather than "spiritual solid food" that would have been impossible for them to comprehend.  In the same way that if you attempted to give "solid food" to an infant, they would be choked and could not consume the food, the "milk" of the Gospel was necessary for the consumption of souls who were too immature to receive and be nourished by the Higher Knowledge of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom.  And this is seen in the statement of Paul to the body of confirmed and baptized believers who he stated had received all the entry-level truths 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).   And this is why in his Epistle to the Trallians the first century elder Ignatius who was himself a disciple of John, 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”.   Which is why Paul stated that it was "unlawful" for him to reveal the higher reality that he witnessed -- i.e., truths "...which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2 Cor 12:2-4), to those he portrayed as being of a "natural" organic mind. 

When Paul writes that "...the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him", a man or woman can never understand anything beyond what their Spiritual DNA over the course of their Soul's previous lives permits them to comprehend.  And this is why in the parable of the Talents, the allotment given to each person was portrayed as, "to each according to his own ability" (Matt 25:15 NKJ).   And when it is recognized that the parables are representative of universal truths that applies to all of mankind, then it must be understood that each of us brings into life what our Soul's have accomplished in the more distant past -- which reality was expressed by the Church Father Origen in the words: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see The Early Church On Predestination).

If all people are born equal and the same in the eyes of God, then why in the parable of TheCall to the Wedding Banquette, some people are categorized as "invited guests", while others are not?  And if they reply that the "invited guests" are the Christians, they then open the dogmatic Pandora's box.   If Christians are the invited guests, what is their fate?  From a purely dogmatic and doctrinal perspective, a modern Christian is only required to say their prayer accepting Jesus as their personal lord and savior to supposedly receive the Promise of the Gospel -- but is this factual and true from an Original Gospel perspective?   Dogmatically, after accepting Jesus as their personal lord and savior, the modern Christian believes they are free to go about their business and normal affairs of life with no other requirements -- being saved by faith apart from works or actions.  Yet, in the version of TheCall in the Gospel of Matthew,  "...the king ...was angry, and sent his armies ...and burned their city."  In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus states: "But one after another, they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’ Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to try them out. Please excuse’ me. Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come’" (Luke 14:17-24) -- and yet, because these invited guests did not abandon their obligations of this world, and come to TheCall, it is stated that: "For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet” -- which presents the fact that a believer or invited guest can't continue in their normal life in the manner they are accustomed to living, and there are requirements set forth for the invited guests to fulfill.   Quoting the prayer which has come to be accepted by modern Christians: "You must believe in salvation by grace alone, and that salvation is immediate and eternal upon acceptance of Jesus as a one-time sacrifice for your sins, and not obtained through works, sacraments, traditions or merits of our own".   The teaching that this is "...a one-time sacrifice for your sins, and not obtained through works, sacraments, traditions or merits of our own" -- means that no other actions or requirements are necessary for the believer who repeats the prayer. 

To understand what is being stated in the foregoing with respect to the invited and not-invited guests, one must understand from the perspective of the parable of the talents -- i.e., "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability" (Matt 25:15).   The key concept here is that each person was not only entrusted with a different amount, but that each person was entrusted with an amount "...each according to his own ability."   When rightly understood within the construct of the original Gospel teachings prior to being corrupted by the Church, each person is given their lot in life in accordance with this predetermined criteria of what each soul has accomplished in their own past.  And that each of us is born into this world in accord with our Soul's accomplishments and our Spiritual DNA, is why the fate of those who "...did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes",  because not as much could be required of them because of their Soul's lack of development.   In the same way that the Soul that was somewhat advanced received two talents, and the more advanced Soul had received five talents -- and having received five talents, not only was more expected of them, but they were the "invited guests" who were expected to come to TheCall (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ).   And the fact that the more advanced did not come, was the reason they were subject to the greater judgment -- i.e., "...the king ...was angry, and sent his armies ...and burned their city" and "For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet”.  

Further, what Jesus taught was that what the spiritually poor complacent people possessed, would even be taken away and be given to those who had an abundance -- i.e., “Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away” (Matt 25:28-29).  Those who spend their lives immersed in the things of this world, make no spiritual gain, and they are then thrown into the "outer darkness" of Mind and Being -- i.e., "Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' For many are called, but few chosen" (Matt 22:1-14).  And this is the cause of Organic Human Blindness (see The Cause Of Organic Human Blindness http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OrganicHumanBlindness ).  And having been cast into the "outer darkness", they lack the ability to recall the previous lives their Soul has lived, and they remain blind to the spiritual meaning of the scriptures and the higher reality of their own Soul. 

The Gospels teach that there are two ways -- portrayed as the "broad-way" and the "narrow" path into Life.  To understand the Two Ways and the difference between the realities portrayed as the New and Old Covenants, one must understand the two foundational paradigms of human consciousness -- which is based upon the premise: (1) Is an infant's mind empty and in need of being filled with the wisdom and knowledge of mankind?  (2) Or, is every infant an extension of an inner un-manifest source of mind and consciousness that many portray as our True or Soul-Self -- who is itself an expression of the Logos (Mind of God a.k.a. Son of God), and s/he must learn and acquire the ability to tap into this Inner Source?   When asked, Jesus rejected the position of the Pharisees who were waiting for the Kingdom to be inaugurated upon the earth.  And in his answer that "...the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21), indicates that only those who seek inwardly beyond the barrier of organic human consciousness, can find the Kingdom.

The authors of the scriptures were spiritual men -- and as spiritual men, their objective was to develop those latent areas of mind that enabled them to perceive the causal-factors of life that reveals to them the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.  The Gospel account of Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:20-21) -- existing at the inner core of man's consciousness.  The authors of the scriptures understood that in order for man to enter the Inner Kingdom, the latent areas of his mind had to be developed.  Therefore, as spiritual men in search of the inner Kingdom, they had no interest in composing historical accounts of the temporal events of this outer world which is portrayed as the Far Country and the "outer darkness" of mind and being.  

Being wise, they preserved their wisdom and self-knowledge in allegorical accounts that have an historical facade, in order to preserve the inner body of truth and knowledge throughout the generations to come.  If the scriptures had not been composed using an historical facade that the mass of faith-based believers embraced, then the underlying esoteric meaning could not have been preserved, and would not have been used by the common believers who like a mule that is used as a transport vehicle, this body of esoteric self-knowledge would not be available for those few who are born haveing received five (5) talents, who possessed the vision to perceive the inner meaning of the allegorical text.  Most men and women who have sought the Essence of the Gospel, have been rejected as heretics by the Church.  Giordano Bruno was even burnt at the stake for the crime of conveying to others the spiritual meaning of the Gospels (see Intro To Original Gospel By Brother Of Jesus http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Introduction  ). Man's reality is that his visionary-perception is limited to what his mind has been prepared to see and understand.  

Only those who develop their inner resources of mind that lie undeveloped and atrophied from disuse because of their carnal and worldly beliefs and lifestyle, are able to perceive and understand the causal-factors that reveal all the secrets of the lives that mankind is presently living out.  The authors of the scriptures were spiritual men -- and as spiritual men, they had no interest in composing historical accounts of the temporal events of this world.  But being wise, they preserved their wisdom and self-knowledge in allegorical accounts that have an historical facade, in order to preserve the inner body of truth and knowledge throughout the generations to come.  If the scriptures had not been composed using an historical facade that the mass of faith-based believers embraced, then the underlying esoteric meaning could not have been preserved, and would not have been used by the common believers who like a mule that is used as a transport vehicle, this body of esoteric self-knowledge would not be available for those few who possessed the vision to perceive the inner meaning of the allegorical text.  Man's reality is that his visionary-perception is limited to what his mind has been prepared to see and understand. 

They were highly evolved spiritual visionaries in search of the causal-factors and the knowledge of the Natural Laws that not only enable the seeker to become Enlightened by the Indwelling Light and Consciousness of the Divine, but also to bring about the subsequent stages of birth that makes them Whole and Complete. 

  The Return To Eden And Dorothy's Ruby Slippers: The Wisdom of the Original Authors of the Gospels: What is the purpose of the Gospels? Because the purpose and objective of the Original Authors was so radically different and can even be portrayed as opposite and in conflict with the thinking of modern believers, the modern believers would be so shocked if they were able to perceive the underlying meaning of their own scriptures, that they would condemn the Original Authors as non-believers and even heretics.  In the same way that a mule is used as a transport vehicle, so too is the scriptures used to transport the body of esoteric self-knowledge from generation to generation for those who are able to perceptively understand the underlying message   

And if the historical man Jesus were to actually reappear, the modern believers would reject him as a total fraud.  Sadly, the vast majority of Christian believers over the past 1700 years have been shocked, when the passed from this life and found themselves in a non-physical condition of afterlife, and they have found themselves confronted by the fact that they were not only duped into believing a fraud perpetuated by the dogma of the Church of Rome, but even worse is the fact that if they had embraced the core Gospel teachings, that they would have proven and confirmed the Truth of all Truths.   Which means that like Dorothy's ruby slippers, each believer -- nay, each person -- possess the innate ability to not only prove and know the Truth of all Truths -- but to return to the Edenic Heavenly Kingdom while they are still alive in the physical body-vessel.  In fact. in accord with the Original Gospel teachings, if they fail to return to the Kingdom that Jesus taught is within them, then it will be impossible to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom when they physically pass from this life.    

The question of life is not why has the truth been concealed from you?  But rather, why did you fail to follow the instruction books that have been left for you to follow?  The fact of the matter is that if you were given the opportunity to talk with the original author of the core Gospels, you would learn that the text of the Gospels were not written by witnesses to the events in the first century, because the Gospels are not historical.  They do not portray events that transpired in the first century -- or, the events in the lives of a group of people.  Because when properly understood, they are timeless and universal -- transpiring in our present timeframe in our modern world.  When TheCall was made for all of mankind to come to the Wedding Feast (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), this Call to the lost prodigal sons and daughters has been made in every generation that mankind has walked the face of the earth. 

The Gospels were composed with a semi-historical facade, to make them relatable to the embryonic mind of the undeveloped reader -- i.e., those who could only receive one (1) talent.  When the disciples of Jesus asked him why he only spoke to the people in the enigma of parables, he replied: 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).  When Paul stated to the Corinthians who he had himself taught what he portrayed as the (quasi-historical) "traditions" of the Gospel that, "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).  Paul was stating that it was not a matter of teaching or instruction -- but rather, of the "natural" mind of man evolving beyond man's organic limitations, that would raise them up to a level of higher mental and spiritual maturity.  The Church Father Origen who was portrayed as the greatest teacher second only to the Apostles stated of the physical resurrection that it was “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”.   Why?   Because of their untransformed carnal condition of mind and being, this was all that they were capable of comprehending.  Each of us exists at a station in our Soul's existence -- and unless you understand how and why you are presently at this station -- what has created the events in your life -- what is it that you are supposed to accomplish in your life -- then you have permitted yourself to be mentally flat-lined and spiritually dead-ended -- with very little opportunity to accomplish your very purpose of life.  

There are no accidents in the life you are living.  Every event that you have experienced, was brought about by a causal-factor that initiated the event in your life, in order to bring about the objective of the initiating causal-factor.  And therefore, when you imagine that the events you experience is by chance, accident, luck of the draw, fate, or any other unknown factor -- without understanding that all the events, and even the very life you are presently living has an initiating causal-factor -- then you are dwelling under the cloud of abject self-ignorance.  And unless you begin to understand the causal-factor of the events in your life, you will fail to make any serious gains in accord with the reason you are presently living the very life you are living.   Unless you come to understand why Paul conveyed to the Christians who he had himself taught, why he was only able to nourish them with the "milk" of the Gospel "traditions" -- and was not able to provide them the "solid food" of maturity.   And unless you understand why the knowledge of the "mysteries" of life could only be conveyed to the disciples of Jesus -- and why all others were taught by the enigma of parables as confirmed in the words: "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34).  And unless you are able to understand why Origen stated that the Gospel "traditions" was taught to the "...simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief”.   Which means that unless you understand why the "simpleminded" believers were incapable of comprehending the non-physical spiritual meaning of the Resurrection, then the best you can presently achieve is to live a better life by virtue of your entry-level immature beliefs. 

While Jesus was able to explain the mysteries of life and the Gospels to his disciples, these same mysteries could not be revealed to the multitudes who came to him to be taught.  Why?  In order to understand the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, the Soul would have been born into that life having received what is portrayes as the five (5) talents -- i.e., "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability" (Matt 25:15).  All the important answers to life have been rendered impossible for the body of Christian believers to understand, because key essential teachings have been removed from the Gospels by the Church of Rome.   Resulting in the fact that modern Christians have been programmed by the counterfeit shepherds of the Church to think in a pagan and subjective manner -- sinners remain in subjection to their sinful lower natures, and utilize pagan sacrifices to justify their sinfulness.   From the pagan sacrificial perspective, there simply is no place in their dogmatic thinking for the words: "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).   

That the statement by Paul and the other biblical authors that the fate of most Christians is worse than that of the unbelievers, simply cannot even be imagined from the Church's pagan dogmatic perspective.   Why?  Because the original Gospel focus became so altered under the domain of Pagan Rome -- and the original Gospel objectives became suppressed and even portrayed as heresy -- that the modern Christian is spiritually disenfranchised to the degree that the present Gospel teachings can no longer support the original intended purpose of the very core principles of the New Covenant ( Old Vs New Covenants http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OldVsNewCovenants ).  Yet, what we see portrayed in these important words is the original meaning of the doctrine that Jesus made himself a sacrifice for sinners -- i.e., "...that they might return to the truth and sin no more"  (see  Moffatt, quoting Gospel Of Mark in Codex W; Also quoted by St. Jerome as being the authentic ending of the Gospel of Mark).  On the other hand, the great truth that is clearly presented in the reality that those who continue to sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel,  "...commit apostasy" [and] "...crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt"!!!   And contrary to the pagan doctrines adopted by the fourth century Church, Paul warns that  "...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."    And while Peter warns in the above that the fate of complacent believers who continue to sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel is worse off than before they learned of the Good News, the modern Christian world has become so spiritually disenfranchised, that they are incapable of understanding these original foundational Gospel teachings and concepts.   Why?  Because what is preached in the Churches today, has relatively little in common with what Jesus actually taught.  And in truth, modern Christian doctrine is founded upon the religious principles of Pagan Rome (see The Christian Judas), than what Jesus actually taught.  How can this be?  A person will ask?  Quite contrary to modern Christian doctrine where all believers are saved, it is very clearly demonstrated in the scriptures that believers who do not live in accordance with the Commandments of the Lord will be punished more severely than the non-believer. This truth is demonstrated in the words: “That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:47-48).   What Jesus is stating to the reader is that believer’s who do not fulfill the Commandments, will be punished more than those who do not know the will of God.    This whole line of teaching simply has no place in the dogma of the modern Church as restored at http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com .

The leaders among the carnal Jews who interpreted the scriptures in outward ritual and tradition, had thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- and as such, had alienated themselves from the Inner Kingdom, and were as Jesus portrayed them as "blind guides" who were leading the people in the wrong direction.    When Jesus portrayed them as being "without" -- i.e., "...but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables" -- this was a similar condition expressed in the spiritual reality that they existed either in what Jesus portrayed as The Prison, or in the  "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).    And because the leaders of the Jews expressed the scriptures in outward ritual and tradition, and failed to use them as the  Key of Knowledge, was the reason why they were blind guides who could "...not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand" -- and this remains true of the congregation of Christian who continue to embrace the way of the carnal Jews today. 

The Gospel accounts state that Jesus only spoke to the multitude of hearers in the enigma of parables, it is imperative that we recognize that Jesus did not, and could not, speak and teach plainly to those who are portrayed as being "without" the House -- i.e.,  "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34 NKJV).    The word translated "explained", in the phrase "And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples", literally translated from the Greek into English means to "unloose or untie" -- i.e., what has been "bound or sealed up" -- and "what is obscure and hard to understand" (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon).   And the word translated secret or mystery, makes reference to an esoteric knowledge that can only be revealed spiritually to one who is "in the House", because it is beyond the organic comprehension of those who are portrayed as being "without", or "outside" the House.    The term "open and unloose" the mind, is was also used in the Gospel as the path to entering the Inner Kingdom (see Open & Unloose The Mind).

With respect to the reality of those who are portrayed in the Gospels as being "without", in contradistinction to those who are said to be In The House, the quotation of the early Church Father Origen represents an excellent portrayal of the reality of mind and being that is presented in these words of Jesus -- wherein, Origen writes in reply to the allegations of Celsus that the Church is a secret system (see The Secret Doctrine): “I have not yet spoken of the observances of all that is written in the gospel, each one of which contains much doctrine difficult to be understood, not merely by the multitude, but even by certain of the more intelligent, including a very profound explanation of the parables, which Jesus delivered to 'those without' while reserving the exhibition of their full meaning for those who have passed beyond the stage of exoteric teachings, and who came to him privately in the house. And when he comes to understand it, he will admire the reason why some are said to be without, and others in the house”.

  Understanding The Intelligent Universe -- The Clock Maker vs Jalopy Universe: Deism maintains that Creator-God does not directly intervene  in the affairs of man.  Why?  In the same way that once fertilized, an embryo develops in accord with the Natural Laws, the same is true with respect to all of Creation.  When the Laws that were put into effect at the Alpha of Creation are understood, perhaps the best way to understand these Laws that the Deists portrayed as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, is as a Spiritual Bio-Feedback organism that like a developing embryo, dynamically evolves each soul to completion by intimately responding to our every action, reaction and failure to act -- and responds appropriately when the time is opportune for our greatest learning and advancement.  What this means is that each person evolves by virtual of confronting their own previous actions -- i.e., "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7).  Which reality of the Natural Laws is expressed in the words: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets" (Matt 7:12).  That these Laws were put into action in the Alpha of Creation -- and are the Perfect Works of Creator-God that is Dynamically connected to the movement of man -- is a reality of the Laws that the core Deists attempted unsuccessfully to convey to the Theists and organized religion.  Finally, it is ultra important to understand the primary difference between the Theist and Deist perceptions of God and the two allegorical Creation Accounts in Genesis (see The Two Creation Accounts above @ http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTwoCreationAccounts ).

The Theists asserted that it is necessary for Creator-God to perpetually intervene in the day to day affairs of this world, while the Deist position was that Creator-God brought forth and initiated a series of Laws which God (quoting Wikipedia: Deism): "...endowed the world at creation with self-sustaining and self-acting powers and then abandoned it to the operation of these powers acting as second causes."  What is said to be the Deist theology has often been portrayed as the Clock Maker Universe Theory -- i.e., (Quoting): "The clockwork universe theory compares the universe to a mechanical clock wound up by a supreme being, or initiated by the Big Bang. It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every single aspect of the machine completely predictable. Before the emergence of quantum mechanics, many scientists believed that the Universe was completely deterministic in this way. ...This conception of the universe consisted of a huge, regulated and uniform machine that operated according to natural laws in absolute time, space, and motion. God was the master-builder, who created the perfect machine and let it run. God was the Prime Mover, who brought into being the world in its lawfulness, regularity, and beauty. This view of God as the creator, who stood aside from his work and didn’t get involved directly with humanity, was called Deism (which predates Newton) and was accepted by many who supported the 'new philosophy'."

Do we interact with God?  Or with the Laws of God?  With the Natural Laws acting as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism that to some degree interacts with our every word, thought desire and especially our actions and deeds, then prayer that attunes the mind to man's higher spiritual reality can be invoked if we are sincere in our thoughts and actions.   And while this will be seen as God interacting with our prayers, it is in reality an example of our positive interaction with the Natural Laws that returns to each person the fruit of their own thoughts and actions.   That the prayers of man does answered in the form of him getting all that people pray for, is because his (1) prayers cannot circumvent his previous actions; and (2) the example of Jesus in the Lord's Prayer is for the Kingdom to Come within us as detailed at The End Times - Armageddon/Rapture - The Coming Of The Kingdom http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#EndTimes .  Thus, Jesus said to his disciples: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matt 6:7-10).  Thus, as the prodigal son who is lost in the Far Country, the Natural Laws are perpetually attempting to prepare us to "come to our senses" (Luke 15:17)., and embrace the Natural Laws that will lead us back to our Source in the Edenic Kingdom.  

If the Deist perception of God can be portrayed in the Clockmaker theology that once the clock is built and wound, it will thereafter function exactly as designed, the Theist perspective of God is that of a tinkerer who has pieced together a jalopy-universe that is in need of constant intervention in order to make the thing work. The problem is that in the correct vision of Creation, both paradoxical opposite positions each possess degrees of truth -- and this truth can only be understood by a person of an evolved depth of vision and comprehension.  The journey of mankind in this world is presented in the parable of the Two Sons -- often portrayed as the prodigal son who ventures into this world and falls under the control of the Power of the Citizen of this, the Far Country.   In the parable of the prodigal son, the Father does not come rushing into what is portrayed as the Far Country every time his lost son is in need, or suffering a fate that he has brought upon himself.  And yet, when the parable is understood, it can be seen where both perceptions (the Theist and Deist) to some degree are equally true -- i.e., it is stated that the son had a change of mind: “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father." So it can be said that so long as the son remained attached to the thinking and lifestyle of this world which is portrayed in the parable as the Far Country, no intervention took place on the part of the Father.  Yet, we do have this intervention at a certain point when the son began his journey in TheWay Home to the Kingdom of the Father: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him." And since the parables are representative of the universal plight of mankind, this intervention was personal, and in accord with the individual's spiritual condition.

So long as the prodigal son remained under the influence and power of the Citizen of the Far Country -- i.e., the consciousness of this world -- at no time did the Father intervene in the affairs of his son.  And when the Natural Laws are understood, no intervention could take place, until the lost prodigal son "...came to his senses", and began his journey back to his Father.  So, when Theists claims that God routinely intervenes in the affairs and lives of the lost prodigal sons and daughters -- this is simply not true.  No intervention can take place, until the prodigal sons and daughters "turn about", (see The Enigma Of The Children) and make serious change in their lives that constitutes the Journey in TheWay where the prodigal seeks to return to the Kingdom which s/he originally abandoned.   And only when the prodigal had "...come to his senses", and abandoned the Far County, and was still journeying back to his Father, did the Father directly intervene in assisting him.    And basically, this is exactly what is asserted by the Deists.

To understand the Natural Laws, it is imperative to understand the Two Creation Accounts in Genesis (see The Laws of the Two Creation Accounts and how they intimately effect all of mankind. http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTwoCreationAccounts ).  On what is portrayed as the Sabbath in the first Creation account, the Laws were brought fourth that would drive Creation from the Alpha of undeveloped ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Light.  And it is these Laws of Nature and Nature's God that man is interacting with (see The Living Bio-Feedback Organism ).  While the prodigal son can interact with the Logos of Creator-God directly (see At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement ), this can only be accomplished by those who begin the journey Home by travailing in TheWay.  Which means that in the traditional conflict between the Theists and Deists, the Deists are more correct than the Theists.  And this is because those who can be defined as True and Enlightened Deists, understand the Journey of the Soul that evolves to Completion and Wholeness over the Course of many lifetimes.   This ultra-important teaching was understood by the Jews and Greeks when the historical man Jesus lived (see Biblical Foundation Mindset ).  This teaching on the pre-existent Soul was openly taught by the pre-Nicene Church (see The Early Church On Predestination ).   This teaching was then outlawed by the Church when it fell under absolute control of a series of Roman Emperors (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors ).   But with the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and other important pre-Nicene scriptures and writings, the true foundation of the Church has been restored (see The Restored Foundation ).    

The Deist Bottom Line: It is impossible to be a Deist, without understanding the Foundation of Deism which is portrayed as the Clock-Maker Universe.  It is impossible to understand the Clock-Maker Universe without understanding the Causal Factors of the events in life.  It is impossible for the thinking and mind of man to evolve beyond a very elementary level of understanding, without understand the foundation of the Clock-Maker Universe with is based upon the evolution of the Soul from the Alpha of Ignorance to the Omega of Enlightened Light.  

In the above it is easily demonstrated and proven that the original followers and disciples of Jesus understood the Journey of the Soul.  It is also easily proven that prior to the fourth century and the takeover of the Church by the Roman Emperor Constantine, that the Church admitted that they openly taught the doctrine of the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection over the Course of many lives (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html  ).  And that this crucial foundational teaching was suppressed by a series of Roman Emperors who totally ruled over the Church (see Christianity Today:  The Religion Of Roman Emperors  http://reincarnation.nazirene.org/#emperors ). 

In the words of the Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).   When rightly understood, the primary difference between the Theists and the Deists, is seen in the fact that the Deists understood the Journey of the prodigal son and the Natural Laws that evolved the Soul to Completion and Wholeness.   Which confirms the fact that men such as Pythagoras and Plato were themselves Deists.  As was the priest, Giordano Bruno, who was burnt as the stake by the Church for preaching the Original Gospel Teachings that were outlawed by the Church (see Spiritual Religion).  As a Deist, Bruno understood the Journey of the Soul, and taught that "The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body".   In confirmation of Origen's foregoing statement, Bruno taught that "Every act performed brings its appropriate reward or punishment in another life. In proportion as the soul has conducted itself in a body, it determines for itself its transition into another body".  Which is confirmation of the reality that "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).   The Deist who understands the Natural Laws of Creation, understand how the Laws acting as a Bio-Feedback Organism, returns to each of the prodigal sons and daughters the fruit of their own thinking, ways, words and actions -- which, over the course of many lives, evolves the Soul to a state of Completion and Wholeness.    The Theist whose thinking and understanding is shackled by The Religious Dogma Of Roman Emperors, is incapable of understanding how the Natural Laws reflects back to each person "...whatever each person sows, that they will also reap".  

  The Cosmology Of The Mind of God:    If you read the subheading where I demonstrate that all of Creation has been thought into existence by Creator God -- and that Creation is therefore a Great Thought within which we live and exist (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife ) -- therefore all physical matter and soul-generated personalities is an allusion. The Cosmology of the Mind of God can be understood by levels of consciousness. The Souls came into existence as sparks of the Divine Mind -- and therefore I agree with the Zohar (quoting from Plato - The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato ): In the beginning -- or the Alpha of Creation -- all souls existed as sparks of the Divine Mind. In what I portray as the Realm of Souls, each individual soul would be perceived as a weak flickering light -- like a distant star. Quoting The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of: “The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which was especially accepted by the Karaites… is defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben Israel. It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized form in the Zohar, it is further developed in the teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572), and in Hasidism it becomes a universal belief. According to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the individual souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower souls into confusion; as a result, every soul has to pass through a series of incarnations... The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”. Thus, the pre-existent soul of man which is portrayed as "..sparks of which form the individual souls..." are in fact the Beings of Light encountered by some some people in a Near Death Experience -- and it is this Being of Light that is each person's true form and self (see http://BeingOfLight.com  ). Moreover, in our natural state we are a Being of Light -- and our body-vessel which we inhabit in this world, is merely an allegorical projection of mind and spirit into the image of the body. Science has even proven that all the neurons in our physical brain respond and are connected to a Higher Source of Light. Quoting from Scientists Discover Biophotons: "...the Biophotons our brains produce might be affected by quantum entanglement, meaning there can be a strong link between these photons, our consciousness and possibly what many cultures and religions refer to as Spirit."

That the journey of the soul over the course of many lifetimes was an integral part of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and was removed by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the doctrines of the Church -- is demonstrated conclusively in The Ten Reasons Why The Church Rejects The Teaching On The Pre-Existent Soul. In the Zohar it is written that: “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”. In order to begin to understand Soul-Evolution, we must focus on the above words: "...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; ...until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”. Which is expressed in the Sermon on the Mount in the words of Jesus when he stated: "You, therefore, must be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt 5:48).

The Soul or Being of Light which dwells in a twelve-dimensional Realm of Souls, evolves by having aspects of self born into this three-dimensional real -- thereby enabling the Soul to evolve through experience of self interacting with self. From the perspective of the Cosmology of Mind, the Soul's are as a single Neuron in the Mind of God. And when a soul-image is generated by the Soul into this sub-realm, when we return to our Source in the Soul, we become a single neuron in the Mind of the Soul -- or the House of the Soul as portrayed as the Soul Mind-Matrix. What is truly difficult for mankind to understand, is that what we call Time, is a dimension of Soul-Mind -- and all the lives the Soul has ever generated and experienced through, once restored to the Soul Mind-Matrix, is as a single neuron in the Mind of the Soul. And since my wife and I were able to achieve the subsequent stages of birth, we have communicated with the soul-generated personalities within the Soul Mind-Matrix -- portrayed by St. Teresa of Avila in the reality that "The Soul...", writes St. Teresa, is as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila). Each Soul-generated personality which the Soul has lived through, dwells in what St. Teresa portrays as a single room within the Soul-Manson or Matrix. .

An Enlightened person who understands the Natural Laws of Creation, understands that God is not a being who is separate from man -- but is the very Consciousness within which we move and have our being. Perhaps one of the best teachings (which was removed from the canonical Gospels by the Church), has been preserved in the outlawed Gospel of the Nazirenes, and is known as the parable of the fishes (quoting): "And there were certain men, of doubtful mind, who came to Yeshua, and said to him, You tell us that our life and being comes from God, but we have never seen God, nor do we know of any God. Can you show us whom you call the Father-Mother, one God? We don't know if there is a God. Yeshua answered them, saying, Hear this parable of the fishes. The fishes of a certain river communed with one another, saying, they tell us that our life and being is from water, but we have never seen water, we don't know what it is. Then some among them, wiser than the rest, said, We have heard there dwells in the sea a wise and learned fish, who knows all things. Let us journey to him, and ask him to show us what water is. So several of them set out to find this great and wise fish, and they came at last to the sea where in the wise fish dwelt, and they asked of him. And when he heard them he said to them, O you foolish fish that don't contemplate! The few of you who seek, are wise. You live, and move, and have your being in the water; from the water you came, to the water you return. You live in the water, yet you don't know it.' In a similar manner, you live in God, and yet you ask of me, 'Show us God.' God is in all things, and all things are in God."

Does a fish see the water? No. They only see the physical form of the objects that exist within the water -- or in the analogy of the fish, the the water is the Reality of Mind within which all the physical objects exist. At a deeper level, all of Mankind and Creation exits -- and is intimately connected -- within the Mind of God. And while, like the fish, organic man can only see the form of the physical objects, because organic man is blind to the Reality of Mind and Spirit, we fail to see that “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’” (Acts 17:28). Which has been confirmed in the words of James Jeans that: “...the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine” -- and the words of Arthur Eddington who is portrayed as an astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics.: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.

Einstein basically stated the same thing as the above parable of the fishes -- as well as the analogy of Plato's Cave -- when he wrote in a letter (see Letter) where he made the profound statement with respect to the connectedness of all of mankind and the reality of this world, both seen and unseen where he wrote: "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
 

  Fulfilling And Overcoming The Natural Law: Jesus said and taught his disciples with respect to the Natural Law: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a lampstand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished" (Matt 5:13-18).   And with respect to each person fulfilling the Law, Jesus stated: "So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:19-20).  To the above the Gospel of the Nazirenes has: "They who believe and obey will save their souls, and they who don't obey will lose them. For I say to you" (see The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com  ).   And with respect to the Law, Jesus said to the man who asked him how to achieve eternal life: "As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. 'Good teacher,' he asked, 'what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" (Mark 10:17).  In answer to his question, Jesus said: "You know the commandments: 'You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"  To understand how the Law interacts with your every Thought and Impression in the development of your Mind and the Evolution of your Consciousness, you must understand The Law of Octaves (see http://TheLawOfOctaves.com ). 

These words of Jesus with respect to fulfilling the (Natural) Law, can only be understood within the construct of what the Deists portrayed as the Law of Nature and Nature's God -- i.e., the Law that was put into effect in the Alpha of Creation that evolves each Soul to the Omega where each Soul evolves to Wholeness and Completion -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect (Matt 5:48) -- and this Wholeness and Perfection can only be fulfilled by fulfilling the Law within your own mind and consciousness in the manner that the man Jesus did.  When the man called Jesus "Good teacher" (Mark 10:17), Jesus replied to him: Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God" (Mark 10:18).  When the people questioned the source of Jesus' words, he called himself a prophet: "So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house" (Matt 13:57). 

Prior to the scriptures being edited to support the Pagan doctrines of Rome (see http://BibleCorruption.com ), the words spoken to Jesus by the Father was: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee"  (see http://TheTenWords.com ).   And this original statement is further confirmed in both the Book of Acts, as well as the Epistle to the Hebrews -- wherein, with regard to the passage at Hebrews 1:5, The Adam Clark Commentary writes: "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..."   Stating that if what Paul states is true -- which the scriptures confirm (see http://TheTenWords.com ), then "...the whole Christian system is vain and baseless..."   Why?    Because the teachings of Jesus represented the pattern of healing to bring about Wholeness -- whereas, the Church since the fourth century has used Jesus as a Pagan mojo sacrifice to peddle a license for those of a heathen mind and lifestyle of perversion, to dwell in a state of perpetual sin and spiritual abandonment.   Ignoring the words of Paul that such a mindset and lifestyle is "...apostasy [ to TheWay], since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.."   Warning that those who call themselves Christians and thereafter "...sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins" (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). 

Jesus came to fulfill the Law within his own mind, and to teach other lost prodigal sons and daughters to do the same by picking up their own cross and travailing in TheWay -- i.e., “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me...” (Matt 10:38-39).  And this fulfillment of the Law is exactly what Jesus taught, and his original Ebionite Nazirene disciples believed -- i.e. 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, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   When the original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers of Jesus expressed the need to fulfill the Law, it was not the literal allegorical text of the Torah which is observed in outward ritual and tradition in the manner of the Jews that was being made reference to -- but rather, the Universal Law of Mind and Spirit that is allegorically presented and functioning within each and every one of us.   Therefore, when the Ebionite Nazirene were portrayed as being Torah Observant, the Law was therefore observed in the exact manner that Jesus said was necessary -- i.e., "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life" (John 6:63).   The early Church writer Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   For them to be accused of "blaspheming most of the legislation",  means that they did not at all observe the Torah outwardly in accordance with the letter of the written word in the manner of the Jews -- but rather, they understood the allegorical symbolism that was applicable to unlocking the inner door to the Kingdom.    Therefore, the Ebionites were using the scriptures as Jesus taught as the Key of Knowledge ( http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ) by turning the scriptures within their own mind and being in the transformation of the body into the Living Consecrated Temple of the Most High.  And this is why Jesus commanded his disciples to pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay -- following in his footsteps.  

That the historical man Jesus was a pattern for all of mankind because of his success in overcoming and fulfilling the Law within himself, 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 this body of original core followers and disciple believed that when anyone "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).   Which means that what Jesus accomplished, is in fact the eventual destiny of all of mankind who are portrayed as the lost prodigal sons and daughters of their Heavenly Father.   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).     That the historical Jesus was a true holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within his own mind, 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.  

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 (see At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement ) -- a path and teachings that the modern Church totally rejects based upon the doctrine of faith apart from one's actions which was instituted by Martin Luther.   And the reality that Jesus, the man, became the Anointed, and At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God, 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).   

It must be noted that the mother and family of Jesus were all Ebionites -- as was his brother Jacob who they call James, and was the leader of the Ebionite Community.   In the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon notes that the teachings of Jesus was “…embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutae, or Essinians…”, and wrote that: “Le Clerc (Hist. Ecclesiast p. 477, 535) seems to have collected from Eusebius, Jerome, Epiphanius, and other writers, all the principle circumstances that relate to the Nazarenes or Ebionites. The nature of their opinions soon divided them into a stricter and milder sect; and there is some reason to conjecture that the family of Jesus remained members, at least, of the latter and more moderate party”.   The Ebionites who were totally faithful to the Original Gospel teaching, understood that the Kingdom or Second Coming can only come within the mind and body of the seeker/disciple who lives the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay.

When questioned by Pilate, Jesus said that his Kingdom was not of this world: "Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight... but now My kingdom is not from here'" (John 18:36 NKJ).   The reality of this inner Kingdom was further confirmed when Jesus stated to the Pharisees: "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21 NKJ).   And that this was the original Ebionite Nazirene teaching on the Kingdom is further documented by Edward Gibbon in the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire where he writes: "Among the Christians who were brought before the tribunal of the emperor, or, as it seems more probable, before that of the procurator of Judaea, two persons are said to have appeared, distinguished by their extraction, which was more truly noble than that of the greatest monarchs. These were the grandsons of St. Jude the apostle, who himself was the brother of Jesus Christ.   Their natural pretensions to the throne of David might perhaps attract the respect of the people, and excite the jealousy of the governor; but the meanness of their garb, and the simplicity of their answers, soon convinced him that they were neither desirous nor capable of disturbing the peace of the Roman empire. They frankly confessed their royal origin, and their near relation to the Messiah; but they disclaimed any temporal views, and professed that his kingdom, which they devoutly expected, was purely of a spiritual and angelic nature."

The grandsons of Jude devoutly expected the Kingdom to come within them, because they understood how man must fulfill the Law within one's self -- thereby becoming the Living Temple of the Most High.   The Ebionite Nazirene Disciples of Jesus understood the words: "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-20). 

The historical and spiritual factualness of the above 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 -- having fulfilled the Law within himself -- became the Messiah/Christ when he overcame the Laws and became Anointed by God.  That the words spoken by God to mankind were corrupted by the fourth century Church of Constantine, is proven at http://TheTenWords.com .  When the historical man Jesus is understood as the first of the prodigal sons to overcome the Law within himself and return to the Father in the Edenic Kingdom, then the statement in the Gospel Of the Hebrews can be understood: "And it came to pass when the Lord was come up out of the water, the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended upon him and rested on him and said to him: My Son, in all the prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldest come and I might rest in thee".   The Greek word Christ and the Hebrew word Messiah in English mean The Anointed -- and there were twenty-one (21) prophets and kings in the Old Testament who were "Anointed" by God -- i.e.,  "...in all the prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldest come and I might rest in thee".   All of the Anointed (Christ/Messiah) kings and prophets failed to fulfill the Law completely -- i.e.,  "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. , for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).  By fulfilling the Law within himself, Jesus fulfilled the requirement to be perfect -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48).    Which those who were previously Anointed (Messiah/Christ) had not accomplished -- as stated in the Gospel of the Hebrews: "For in the prophets also, after they were anointed by the Holy Spirit, the word of sin was found".    This confirms what Hippolytus wrote when he confirmed that the body of original core followers and disciple believed that when anyone "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).   Which means that what Jesus accomplished, is in fact the eventual destiny of all of mankind who are portrayed as the lost prodigal sons and daughters of their Heavenly Father.   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).    Which was further witnessed to by the Disciples where it is proclaimed: "And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors. God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm: You are My Son; today I have become Your Father" (Acts 13:32-33) -- and again Paul states: "For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father, or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son?" (Heb 1:5).   These biblical witnesses are incomprehensible to the modern Christian whose beliefs are based upon the doctrines of Constantine and Martin Luther.

What Jesus taught and revealed to his disciples with regard to who he was, is exactly what was stated by Peter after he was himself totally enlightened by the Holy Spirit: “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know” (Acts 2:22 NIV).   Where did Peter get the notion that Jesus was a man -- a man "accredited by God" -- a man that God performed miracles, wonders and signs  "...which God did among you through him"?   Didn’t Jesus himself say that “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself...” (John 5:19 NAS);   “The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works” (John 14:10 NKJ); “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 5:30 NKJ); “...I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him” (John 8:28-29 NIV); “for the works which the Father has given Me to finish -- the very works that I do -- bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me” (John 5:36 NKJ); “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You” (John 17:6-7 NKJ).  

The important spiritual truth that is demonstrated in the above is that EVERY PRODIGAL SON AND DAUGHTER has the capacity to become Anointed and arise to perfection as their elder brother Jesus did.   And this is further confirmed in the quotation of the Apostle Peter by his disciple Clement in the Homilies where it is written: “For even the Hebrews who believe Moses, and do not observe the things spoken by him, are not saved, unless they observe the things that were spoken to them. For their believing Moses was not of their own will, but of God, who said to Moses, Behold, I come to thee in a pillar of cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. Since, therefore, both to the Hebrews and to those who are called from the Gentiles, believing in the teachers of truth is of God, while excellent actions are left to every one to do by his own judgment, the reward is righteously bestowed upon those who do well. For there would have been no need of Moses, or of the coming of Jesus, if of themselves they would have understood what is reasonable. Neither is there salvation in believing in teachers and calling them lords”.

 

 

   Christ Before Jesus: When rightly understood, the Roman Empire was not converted to the religion of Jesus -- but rather, the personage and image of Jesus was converted to Mithraism -- and it is easy to prove and demonstrate that even the name Christian is drawn directly from Mithraism.  And while there appears on the surface to be many similarities between Mithraism and the Gospel account of Jesus, these similarities are based upon the corruption of the Gospels (see The Corruption Of The Gospel Texts http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#GospelCorruptions ), the adoption of the Manichean doctrine of Original Sin (see The Original Sin Of The Church http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#OriginalSinOfTheChurch ), and the inability of the Roman Church to understand the allegorical symbols that portray the Universal Cosmology of Mind that is not at all understood by the body of faith-based believers.   This is a fact: If you are a modern Christian, then the most basic and fundamental tenets of belief that you hold as truth, not only has nothing in common with the positions of the people who Jesus personally taught (see The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com )-- but if a believer that Jesus personally taught came to visit your Church, they would be labeled a heretic.  Therefore the question must be posed: Was the man Jesus an incompetent teacher who was unable to clarify what is necessary for salvation?  Or, was the original teachings of Jesus changed and corrupted?   

Who were the Ebionites?  In the first century, all believers and followers of Jesus were known as Ebionites. Thus, the early Church Authority Epiphanius writes that the name Ebionite "...was at first ...a common name for all" the original followers of Jesus (Epiphanius Adv. Haer., xxix. 1).  Yet today the name Ebionite is often portrayed as heresy.  Why?  If all the original followers of Jesus were Ebionites, as Epiphanius stated, then why are these earliest followers of Jesus portrayed as the heresy of the Ebionites?  Because the Church that evolved out of the Roman and Greek Gentiles had virtually nothing in common with the original Gospel teachings.   In fact, in the manner of the modern faith-based believers, the Church that evolved out of the body of Gentile believers totally rejected the core foundation of the New Covenant (see Old Vs New Covenants http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OldVsNewCovenants ).  

There is a factual assertion that I can set before you that is an undeniable truth that all faith-based believers must eventually confront -- i.e., as a believer, you have never so much as heard the position of the original followers of Jesus that has been labeled the Ebionite heresy.   Designed to be used as the Key of Knowledge that unlocks the inner "narrow strait" Gate of Eden  within the mind of the sincere seeker, the Gospels were written by Ebionites who authored the scriptures to be used in a New Covenant Mode and Mindset that was totally rejected by the Gentile Church.   Where the plight of man is portrayed in the statement: "Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken" (Gen 3:23), the Force and Barrier that causes man to wander in this, the "Outer Darkness" of what is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son, inhibits mankind from returning to his True Home and Source of Being in the Edenic Kingdom of their Heavenly Father -- placing a barrier between this world and the Kingdom as declared in the statement: "So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden, with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life" (Gen 3:24).  BUT, when the Gospels are used as the Key of Knowledge as designed by the Ebionite authors, mankind as the lost prodigal sons and daughters can safely pass through the  inner  "narrow strait gate" that enables the seeker safe passage by the "cherubim" who guard the Tree of Life with their "whirling sword of flame", and allow entrance to the Edenic Kingdom within.  Jesus declared to his followers: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NIV).    Because the Church threw away the Key of Knowledge, and adopted pagan dogmatic doctrines of belief, the Christian world sits idly complacent on the side of the "broad-way  ...that leads to destruction."   When Jesus commanded those who would be his followers: “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” (see The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion  http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross -- Matt 10:38-39) -- it will remain virtually impossible for you to enter through the "narrow strait gate" within you, without using the Gospels as the Key of Knowledge that enables you to pass by the "cherubim" who guard the Tree of Life with their "whirling sword of flame" -- thereby escaping the "outer darkness" of this, the Far Country -- and gain entrance to the Edenic Kingdom within you (see The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).  "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).  Thus, in understanding these words spoken to the Pharisees, the questions must be asked: How did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities "...hide the key to knowledge from the people"?   Why did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves? -- i.e., "...You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!   And how did the religious leaders of the Jews "...prevent others from entering?"   In further clarification, the TEV version of the this verse states: “How terrible for you teachers of the Law! You have kept the key that opens the door to the house of knowledge; you yourselves will not go in, and you stop those who are trying to go in!” (Luke 11:52 TEV).  

What the above means is that if you fail to utilize the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge -- turning them within your own mind in order to open the "narrow strait gate" within you -- thereby enabling you to acquire the Power and Ability to over come the Laws that enable you to safely pass by the "cherubim" who guard the Tree of Life with their "whirling sword of flame" (see The Law Of Jacob's Ladder And Mental Advancement http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#LawOFJacobsLadder ), then you are not a follower of Jesus and the New Covenant.   The author and visionary Philip K. Dick was able to recall his Soul's previous life in the first century where he lived as an original follower of Jesus.  He also wrote with respect to the original disciples of Jesus that:  "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here.  He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)."    This is true -- and that the original Gospel message was to develop the mind through the transformative process of expansion and deepening of consciousness, and then enable the disciple of TheWay to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom, is easily demonstrated in the above quotations on the proper use of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge. 

As a Mystery religion, the objective of the religion was to acquire what Philip K. Dick portrays above at the ability to bring about amnesis, which can be defined as observing through meditation in the manner of the traditional monk.  BUT, as Philip K. Dick confirms what is presented in the Gospel teachings, Jesus taught his followers how to enter the Kingdom -- and through the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) of the Mind, enabling his disciples to be taught directly from the One and Only Teacher that Jesus instructed his followers to seek out and learn from (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).   Few modern believers even understand the foundation of The New Covenant -- i.e., "For this is the covenant that I will make ...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" (Heb 8:10-11 NKJ).  Yet, the Christian world has rejected the very foundation of the New Covenant by virtue of countless teachers, Bible Commentaries, a mass of Bible interpretations  and the adoption of man-made dogma that inhibits the believer's spiritual advancement.  Thus, the reality of the words of Isaiah have enveloped the modern faith-based believers in the quagmire of their own self-imposed spiritual shackles: "For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Isa 9:6).    And when rightly understood, the resounding truth is that the modern believers have chosen tradition and man-made dogma over the Knowledge of the Original Teachings associated with the New Covenant -- i.e., "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee..." (Hos 4:6).  

In the Epistle of Peter to James it is warned that if the esoteric body of knowledge of how the Gospels must be used as the Key of Knowledge is thrown away or lost, that  "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error" -- and the prediction by the Apostle Peter has been confirmed as true.  As blind guides that led the people in the wrong direction -- looking for the Kingdom to come outwardly instead of within the body and mind of the believer -- the Gospel account of Jesus portrayed the Pharisees as the "spawn of the devil" -- i.e, "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word"  As to why the Jews could not understand spiritual teachings and concepts, Jesus explained: "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:43-44).  That the modern clergy and Church authorities interpret the scriptures in the same manner as the Pharisees, has caused the modern believer to remain banished in this, the Far Country.  Which provokes the question: What makes the theological and spiritual positions of the Ebionites heresy?  Because they learned and were taught by Jesus how to apply the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge and gain entrance to the Inner Kingdom -- how to fulfill the Laws that guard the Tree of Life in the manner of a  "whirling sword of flame" -- the Ebionites were condemned as Gnostics and heretics.  Why?  Because the Ebionites confirmed the statement in the Gospels of the fate of those who throw away the Key of Knowledge -- i.e., "you do not understand what I say? ...because you cannot bear to hear my word".  Why?  Because those who reject and condemn the knowledge of the proper use of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge, remain lost and incapable of hearing and understanding the Sacred Body of Knowledge that could only be revealed to those who made themselves into the "good ground" that is portrayed in the parable of the Sower and the Seed ( http://Messianic.Nazirene.org/sower_seed.html ) -- “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).  Why did Jesus portray some people as "...seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand”?  What Jesus said was that, unless certain transformative requirements are fulfilled by a person, they will see, but remain blind and unable to understand with any depth of what they are seeing.  And this is verified by Paul when he stated to the Corinthians who he had himself taught what he portrayed as the (quasi-historical) "traditions" of the Gospel that, "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).  Paul was stating that it was not a matter of teaching or instruction -- but rather, of the "natural" mind of man evolving beyond man's organic limitations, that would raise them up to a level of higher spiritual maturity.  And this is why the Church Father Origen who was portrayed as the greatest teacher second only to the Apostles stated of the physical resurrection that it was 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 Contra Celsum).   Why?   Because of their untransformed carnal condition of mind and being, this allegorical portrayal of the Final Stage of Birth was all that the faith-based believers were capable of comprehending.   

Everything you have heard or been told about the beliefs of those who Jesus personally taught is based upon partisan ignorance of the source.  In view of the fact that all the modern knowledge about the Ebionites has been drawn from their opponents and detractors who were themselves blind guides who threw away the Key of Knowledxge, you have never heard the explanation from the Ebionites as to their use and positions on the scriptures, and why they held and embraced the spiritual positions that they did.  While the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed that the Essenes were the foundation of the New Covenant Gospel teachings, the Ebionite Nazirenes came into existence as a direct result of the influence and teachings of Jesus.  And even more important is the fact that the opponents of the Ebionites, was based upon Greek and Roman detractors.   Which not only confirms the fact that those of whom it was stated that, while "...seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand”, were the ones who condemned the Ebionties as gnostic heretics.  And to their own spiritual defeat, the modern Christian has embraced their blind dogmatic ramblings, hook, line and sinker.   

The word Ebionite means the "poor ones", which portrays a people who are separate and set aside from the thinking and lifestyle of this world.  Therefore, they are the "set apart" ones who are the "poor" to the ways and thinking of this world.  Quoting the Gospel of the Nazirenes: "Blessed in spirit are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".  Which is the basis of the requirement to be "in the world and not of it" -- i.e., "Then I heard another voice from heaven say: 'Come out of her, my people,' so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues" (Rev 18:4).  With respect to the question as to how "set apart" were the original Ebionite followers and disciples of Jesus?  The historian Edward Gibbon writes that the original Ebionite Nazirene followers of Jesus were “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).  Being rejected by both Jews and Christians alike, the fate of the original followers of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily during his earthly ministry, can be summed up in the words of Jesus that: "They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God" (John 16:2).  Thus, neither Judaism or modern Christianity has anything in common with the original teachings of Jesus.

Regardless of the fact that it was the Ebionite Nazirenes who walked and talked daily with the man Jesus during his earthly ministry, the congregation of modern faith-based believers have been denied access to the witness of the Ebionites.   From the perspective of the Roman Church, the Ebionites who were the only people who actually engaged in important conversations with the man Jesus, were "...apostates, and ...heretics” who totally rejected the wisdom and doctrines embraced by those secular leaders of the very worldly Church of Pagan Rome.   Which raises the question: How could the doctrines of a Church that was totally immersed in the man-made pagan thinking of this world, even begin to understand the higher spiritual concepts and realities of a community of seekers who were not only totally "set apart" from the thinking of this world, but whose minds were opened and Anointed by the Holy Spirit?  When Prof. John Allegro who was quoted as saying that what was 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), he was warning the faith-based believers that the doctrines of Pagan Rome which are presently the foundation of the Church and modern Christianity, have virtually nothing in common with the Original Gospel teachings of the man Jesus and the Essene Ebionite Source of these teachings.  And in confirmation of the foregoing statement of Prof. Allegro, it was confirmed by A. Powell Davies that: “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).   Yet, because neither the faith-based believers or the modern theologians possessed any understanding of the Ebionite Nazirenes who were hunted down by the Gentile Church and silenced, the man-made doctrines of the Church are based upon the worship of the sun-god Mithra.    

Why is it stated in the scriptures that a sincere seeker of Truth had to be "set apart" -- i.e., a "poor one" (Ebionite) -- who is totally detached from the thinking and lifestyle of this world?  Why are those attached to the thinking of this world portrayed as: "For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it".  Why are those who throw away the Key of Knowledge portrayed as blind guides who are the "spawn of the devil"?  And why is the Sacred Knowledge of Jesus as taught to his Ebionite followers and disciples of how the scriptures must be used as the Key of Knowledge, condemned as "gnostic heretics"

One of the primary plagues noted in the quotation drawn from the Revelation -- i.e., "...so that you will not receive any of her plagues" -- is the plague of abject spiritual ignorance -- which is a reality that the Church has brought upon itself.  The true followers of Jesus must turn away from the ways and thinking of this world as stated: "Therefore, Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you" (2 Cor 6:17).  Why is it important for the follower of Jesus and the New Covenant to "...be separate, [AND] ...Touch no unclean thing"?  Because the core of the New Covenant teachings was to prepare the mind of the believer to be taught directly by the One Teacher as stated: "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God'" (John 6:45 see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).  And in confirmation of this fact, the Apostle Peter who is quoted in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where he warns the followers of the Gospel to reject all human interpretations of the scriptures -- i.e., "...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".  Which means that every Christian sect that is based upon doctrines that rely upon a human interpretation of the scriptures, is leading the congregation of believers in the wrong direction. 

Why would the Apostle Peter reject a human interpretation of the scriptures?  Because the scriptures are not designed to teach you -- but to open your mind to an enlightened higher understanding by employing embedded catalysts that have the ability to connect the person you are in this world with your own Higher Mind and enable you to begin to be taught directly by the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.  Wherein the answer to the equation of achieving an enlightened perceptive-understanding is found in the statement in the Gospel of Luke with respect to the opening of the mind of the disciples in order to enable them to understand the true spiritual meaning of the written text of the scriptures: "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45).  Unless the believers spiritual eyes and understanding is opened and enlightened, they will remain unable to comprehend the higher reality of the Soul and the Kingdom of God.  This is is because a higher enlightened understanding can only be accomplished by opening the "eyes of the heart" -- often referenced in the words: "eyes to see" -- as seen in the reality of mankind portrayed in the Gospel: "For this people’s heart has grown callous; 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’" (Matt 13:15).   Therefore, unless the believer has set themselves apart from the spiritually disenfranchised thinking and mindset of this world, they will remain unable to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospels.  And in verification of this human reality, the second century Christian Bishop Valentinius quoted Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians when he made reference to Gnosis Kardias -- or, the enlightened eyes of the heart -- i.e.,   "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 -- but could not -- speak about the Mystery and Spiritual meaning of the Gospel that remains beyond organic understanding to the Ephesians -- and could not because of their inherent human blindness that has victimized them since birth -- 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). 

One may ask: Isn't the scriptures composed in order to teach the person what they need to know?  Contrary to the position of modern believers and biblical scholars alike, the answer is NO !!!  The scriptures are not historical accounts -- but rather, the scriptures are accounts of the mind that employ allegorical catalysts designed to develop the innate attributes of the believers mind that enables them to begin to tap into the indwelling True Prophet (a.k.a. Logos/Son of God).  Quoting from The Cosmology Of The Gospels http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com : When rightly understood, the Gospels are not historical accounts -- but rather, possess embedded allegorical catalysts that use the equation of the symbolism to bring about the transformational mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening that evolves the mind to levels of Wholeness and Completion.  In order for the equation of development to properly function, the embedded symbols and catalysts must be presented in a useable form that can be embraced in the daily lives of the "babes in Christ" that Paul warns are incomprehensible to man's organic embryonic consciousness.   Therefore, the Gospels were intentionally created with an historical facade that could be intimately embraced by individuals and groups of serious seekers.   Without the historical facade of the literal text of the scriptures that Paul portrays as "Jewish folktales" (Titus 1:14), the crucial equation of development could not be put into place where the symbols and catalysts were able to properly function in the development of the mind of the seeker.  

What this means is that the truth is not in the literal allegorical symbolism of the text of the scriptures -- which symbolism is designed to develop and connect the person we are in this world with our Higher Inner Self -- and ultimately, the indwelling Logos/Son of God that is the One Teacher that the Gospels command to seek out (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).  In understanding this biblical reality, the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen portrayed the literal text of the scriptures as basically "worthless" -- i.e., “Scripture contains an unhistorical element in-woven with the history, in order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics).  Further explaining in 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.”  And that the spiritual meaning is not found in the literal text, is why Paul portrayed the scriptures as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).  

When rightly understood, the question should be posed:  Are those who call themselves Christian today the followers of Jesus the Nazirene?  Or has their thinking become so spiritually disenfranchised by the man-made dogma of Pagan Rome, that they are misguided blind believers  who not only reject the core New Covenant teachings, but they portray the core Gospel teachings as heresy?  Today we call ourselves by the Greek word Christian, which provokes the questions: Why isn't the word translated into English?   Have we ever questioned where the term Christian originated? And what does the word mean?  The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge confirms that the name Christian "originated outside of Christian and Jewish circles".  Which means that there were people who were outside the believer community who were called Christian prior to the advent of the man Jesus.   The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible states that: "By the late first and early second centuries the name ‘Christian,’ which early believers avoided using of themselves, was beginning to be accepted"Which provokes the question: Why did the original followers of Jesus reject being called by the name Christian?  If modern believers were truly sincere in their desire for a more intimate relationship with the Lord, they would want to know why the "early believers avoided" using the name Christian?  When it is realized that even the very name Christian was in use prior to the time of Jesus -- and when rightly understood, the beliefs that virtually all Christians hold in common are in fact founded upon the tenets of Mithraism -- we can then begin to grasp the Pagan/Mithraic connection associated with the name Christian that was rejected by the original followers and disciples of Jesus.  In the Greek and Roman Mystery Religions, the name Christian was a term employed to describe one who was an initiate, and understood the inner meaning of the Greek and Roman mystery religion Mithraism. Thus, the early followers of Jesus refused to be called Christian, and rejected calling the man Jesus the Christ, because the word was used in reference to the followers of Mithraism and the worship of their gods.  Quoting from Jesus as a Reincarnation of Mithra: "The Vatican was built upon the grounds previously devoted to the worship of Mithra (also known as Mithras) (600 B.C.). The Orthodox Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version. Virtually all of the elements of Orthodox Christian rituals, from miter, wafer, water baptism, alter, and doxology, were adopted from the Mithra and earlier pagan mystery religions. The religion of Mithra preceded Christianity by roughly six hundred years. Mithraic worship at one time covered a large portion of the ancient world. It flourished as late as the second century. The Messianic idea originated in ancient Persia and this is where the Jewish and Christian concepts of a Savior came from. Mithra, as the sun god of ancient Persia, had the following karmic similarities with Jesus:"

Perhaps the most astounding observation of the conversion of Jesus to Mithraism is preserved in a letter by the historian Vopiscus in his work, the Life of the Tyrant Saturninus, where it is written: "Those who worship Serapis are likewise Christians; even those who style themselves the bishops of Christ are devoted to Serapis. The very Patriarch himself... is forced by some to adore Serapis, by others to worship Christ" (see The Gnostics and Their Remains, by C.W. King).  Under the heading of Mystery Religions in the Encyclopedia Britannica, the intimate connection between the religion of the Nations and that of what evolved into what came to be called Christianity is readily seen in the words: "The doctrinal similarity is exemplified in the case of the pagan writer and philosopher Synesius. The people of Cyrene selected him as the most able man of the city to be their bishop, and he was able to accept the election without sacrificing his intellectual honesty. In his pagan period he wrote hymns that closely follow the fire theology of the Chaldean Oracles; later he wrote hymns to Christ. The doctrine is almost identical".  Ammonius Saccus, a Greek philosopher and founder of a Neo-platonic school taught that: "Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same thing" (see Taylor’s Diegesis, p.329).  Celsus, the Epicurean philosopher, wrote that: "The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with heathens; nothing new, or truly great" (see Origen, Contra Celsus).

That the initiates of Mithraism and the ancient mystery religions were called Christian prior to the time of Jesus is demonstrated in a letter from the Emperor Adrian to Servianus, written in 134 A.D., wherein it is stated: "Egypt, which you commended to me, my dearest Servianus, I have found to be wholly fickle and inconsistent, and continually wafted about by every breath of fame. The worshipers of Serapis are called Christians, and those who are devoted to the god Serapis, call themselves Bishops of Christ".  What is confirmed is that, with the advent of Jesus, the Christ or Christos was not a new term, and there were people throughout the empire who were called Christians prior to the time when the name came to be associated with the followers of Jesus.  More important, though, is the fact that they brought their pre-existing ideas and beliefs pertaining to Christ from a Mithraic perspective, into the religion of Jesus -- which teachings in their original form possessed an essence and spiritual reality that few of these Mithraic Christians could perceive.

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the word Christos, which we render Christ, has been found not only on Mithraic and Pagan temples, and used in relation to those who were said to be the sons of the Pagan gods, but the term was also engraved on tombstones and other Pagan artifacts prior to the time of Jesus.  In the Greek and Roman mystery religions of the time, the Christos was the Anointing of the Logos, and the Christian was the follower of the Anointed.  The word Logos which is used in the first chapter of the Gospel of John where it is translated the "Word" -- i.e., "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God".  The Encyclopedia Britannica 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 original followers and disciples of Jesus rejected the word Christ, because the inner core of the followers of Mithraism and Greek philosophy were portrayed as Christians.  In the writings of Clement of Alexandria we find it explained that: "Those who lived according to the Logos were really Christians, though they have been thought to be atheists; as Socrates and Heraclitus were among the Greeks, and such as resembled them" (Strom. bk. i, ch xix).  Eusebius, the great historian of the early Church, admits that the religion that is called Christianity was known to the ancients (Eccl. Hist., 1, ch iv) and writes that the religion of Jesus had "...been known among all nations, nevertheless our life and our conduct, with our doctrines of religion, have not been lately invented by us, but from the first creation of man, so to speak, have been established by the natural understanding of divinely favored men of old... What then should prevent the confession that we who are of Christ practice one and the same mode of life and have one and the same religion as those divinely favored men of old? Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion".  Modern Christians who erroneously believe that Christianity started with Jesus, will be unable to relate to the words that "our doctrines of religion... have been established by the natural understanding... and [is] the same religion as those divinely favored men of old". The early Gentile Christians knew this fact, and it was for this reason that a copy of Plato’s Republic and other such writings was contained among the writings preserved in the recently discovered Nag Hammadi Library of early Christian writings.   St. Augustine wrote: "That, in our times, is the Christian religion, which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health, called according to that name, but not according to the thing itself, of which it is the name; for the thing itself which is now called the Christian religion, really was known to the ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race, until the time when Christ came in the flesh, from whence the true religion, which had previously existed, began to be called Christian; and this in our days is the Christian religion, not as having been wanting in former times, but as having in later times received this name" (Opera Augustini, vol. i, p.12).

When we begin to understand the common root of all religion, only then are we able to comprehend with clarity that it wasn’t so much that the Greek and Roman world was converted to the teachings of Jesus -- but more appropriately, the teachings of Jesus came to be a part of the existing religious world, which came to be outwardly known as Christian. After Constantine silenced the true followers of Jesus with the power of the sword in the fourth century because they refused to accept the religion of the emperor, all that was left was the Gentile Orthodox Church which was very Pagan in nature, that had come to be known as Christian.  In a letter from Faustus to St. Augustine this Pagan-Christian connection is embellished upon: "You have substituted your agape for the sacrifices of the Pagans; for their idols your martyrs, whom you serve with the very same honors. You appease the shades of the dead with wine and feasts; you celebrate the solemn festivities of the Gentiles, their calends, and their solstices; and, as to their manners, those you have retained without any alteration. Nothing distinguishes you from the Pagans, except that you hold your assemblies apart from them" (Quoted in Draper: Science and Religion, p.48)

How could "nothing" distinguish Christians from the Pagans, with the exception of where they hold their assemblies? How could Christians "retain" the manners of the Pagans, "without any alteration"? If their lifestyle, celebrations, festivities and manner of worship are the same, then how could they be called the followers of Jesus?  In many instances, conversion was the result of Jesus being installed as the replacement for the former Pagan gods.  In his book, Jesus, The Evidence, Ian Wilson writes: "A third-century mosaic from the Mausoleum of the Julii underneath present-day St. Peter’s in Rome actually portrays Jesus as Sol Invictus, driving the horses of the sun’s chariot. That Constantine himself mixed Christianity and the Sol Invictus cult is clear from a second commemorative medallion issued by him within two years of the first, on which he represented himself with a Chi-Rho monogram on his helmet, and with a leaping Los chariot below".

Knowing these things, Ammonius Saccus, a Greek philosopher and founder of a Neo-platonic school taught that: "Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same thing" (see Taylor’s Diegesis, p.329). The problem is that modern believers do not "rightly understand" either Christianity, or the religious writings of the philosophers. Why? Because the sacred writings of each are derived from a different culture, the uniform underlying message is not perceived by the uninitiated believers.  Celsus, the Epicurean philosopher, wrote that: "The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with heathens; nothing new, or truly great" (see Origen, Contra Celsus). Though such opinions on the surface appear to be radical by today’s standards, they are basically correct from the perspective of the Pagan Mithraic-Christianity that evolved out of the Greek and Roman cultures. Yet this was not true of the religion Jesus himself taught when he walked the earth.

  The Original Sin Of The Church: The teaching of the Church that each person is born in sin and is in need of salvation, is easily proven to be a bogus lie that has been used by the Church to enrich themselves and rule over the people.  Original Sin, which is the primary foundational doctrine of the modern Church, is not drawn from the Original Gospel teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- but rather, the doctrine of Original Sin was imported from the Mithraic based teachings of the Iranian prophet Mani.  What can therefore be portrayed as The Foundational Paradigm of Spiritual Failure upon which the modern Church is erected, is built upon the doctrine of Original Sin and all the similar doctrines which have their existence within the domain of a savior who must be sacrificed for the salvation of a sinful fallen mankind.   While modern believers cling to the dogma of the doctrine of Original Sin which was hatched by St. Augustine and promoted by Martin Luther into virtually all sects of Protestantism, is doctrine is in fact the cause of the faith-based believers own spiritual immaturity that causes them to cling to such preposterous and carnal ideas about God.   What was the source of the doctrine of Original Sin?  Quoting from T.W. Doane, Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions, 7th ed., 1910, p.194-5: "The Persians believed that they were tainted with original sin, owing to the fall of their first parents who were tempted by the evil one in the form of a serpent" [194:12].   Quoting from the Wikipedia: "The Romans attributed their Mithraic mysteries (the mystery religion known as Mithraism) to Persian or Zoroastrian sources relating to Mithra."  With respect to Manichaeanism, the same article states:  "It was among the Parthian Manicheans that Mithra as a Sun God surpassed the importance of Narisaf as the common Iranian image of the Third Messenger; among the Parthians the dominance of Mithra was such that his identification with the Third Messenger led to cultic emphasis on the Mithraic traits in the Manichaean God."   Quoting from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves who writes with respect to those who believed in the sun-god Mithra: "They observed all the Christian sacraments, even to the laying on of hands in the confirmation." (211.) And the Christian Tertullian also tells us that "The priests of Mithra promised absolution from sin on confession and baptism," while another author adds, that "on such occasions Mithra marked his followers (the servants of God) in their foreheads," and that "he celebrated the sacrifice of bread, which is the resurrection."

St. Augustine, one of the most important figures in the history of the Roman Church, was a Manichaean before converting to Christianity.   Why did he convert?   It is important to note that Augustine's conversion came after the threat of death -- i.e., quoting the Wikipedia: "Augustine of Hippo (354–430) converted to Christianity from Manichaeism, in the year 387. This was shortly after the Roman Emperor Theodosius I had issued a decree of death for all Manichaean monks in 382 and shortly before he declared Christianity to be the only legitimate religion for the Roman Empire in 391."   So, in the same way that the Emperor Constantine hunted down the Ebionite Nazirenes and Spiritual Christians as heretics in the year 325, Theodosius hunted down the Manichaeans in the year 382.   And it was shortly after the decree of death by the emperor, that Augustine converted to Christianity.   Further, it is therefore important to point out that Manichaean teachings were based upon a form of Gentile-Gnosticism - and this form of quasi-Gnostic teachings which rejects the Core of the Gospel Teachings, has totally undermined the modern Church.   With respect to the Manichaeism of St. Augustine the Wikipedia states: "Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements".   Thus, when rightly understood, these Mesopotamian teachings which have been classified as Gnostic have totally undermined the original spiritual foundation of the Gospel teachings.   And with respect to the label Gnostic: It should be noted that the Roman Church labeled virtually every theological position contrary to their own as Gnostic heresy.  To the degree that the word itself and what it represents has been totally misrepresented by man's countless opinions that have no basis in actual fact.

The Original Gospel teachings were based upon the spiritual evolution of the Soul that attains Wholeness and Completion over the course of many lives (see The Removal Of The Crucial Teachings On the Pre-Existent Soul http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Removal ).   With the removal of the core teachings on the evolution of the Soul, the doctrine of Original Sin was imported into the core doctrines of the Church, in order to explain and fill the great void that the Church suppression of important teachings on the pre-existent soul created.   Thereby creating a pagan foundation to the Church that rendered Christianity spiritually impotent (see The Death Of The Gospels http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#DeathOfTheGospel ).   Yet, Jesus himself in the Gospels stated just the opposite in the words: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   Contrary to the Church dogma, if Jesus is the physician, then those who achieve and sustain a condition of Wholeness, do not need the physician -- and as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only those who are sick and need the physician.   And in opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time of Jesus, there existed people who he portrays as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician (see The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#OriginalTeachings ).

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), few modern Christians have even begun to understand why Prof. Allegro made this statement, which confirmed the position of A. Powell Davies that: “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).  What was it about the Original Foundational Gospel teachings that had virtually nothing in common with what modern Christians believe today?   And perhaps the more important question: Does it matter?

While most Christians remain ignorant of why biblical scholars published these long ignored warnings, the majority of believers felt that so long as the Church had the Bible as their guide, that the facts they remained ignorant of really didn't matter.   Yet, in light of a series of even more profound statement by scholars such as Prof. Bart D. Ehrman that the Bibles that the Church is using has been edited with core spiritual teachings removed -- wherein in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, 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" -- which orthodoxy was to bring the text of the Bible into conformity with the doctrines and tenets of the Church of the Roman Emperor Constantine.   As documented in the article http://BibleCorruption.com , the Gentile believers who portrayed themselves as Orthodox Christians, had been editing the Gospels to make them support their pagan thinking and mindset -- and this editing of the scriptures had been going on since the first century.   In his Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, by Dr. F. H. Scrivener, he writes that: "In the second century we have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious, others positively dishonest". Scrivener states that "it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church" used inferior manuscripts.  Under the title of Bible in the Church, the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics writes: "In the first two centuries nearly all the various readings of the New Testament came into existence, the majority of them by deliberate alteration of the text, many for the sake of style, and several in the interests of dogma… Often readings were rejected as falsifications of heretics, but often the heretics were right in their counter-complaint… Every province, every order, every monastery, has a tradition of its own…"   If every province, every order, and every monastery in the first two centuries had their own version of the scriptures which supported their favorite doctrines of belief, then we must seriously ask the question as to what has been passed down to us today?

 

Once the original Christian teachings on the transmigration of the soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes was removed from the Gospels and outlawed by the Church, it was necessary to fill the void that was left by the absence of this core teaching on the higher reality of the soul.   And this removed core teaching was originally an integral part of the questions posed by the disciples of Jesus when they asked: "Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'" (John 9:1-2 NKJ).   Thus, it is easily demonstrated that the original Gospel mindset was built upon a very different foundation than what has evolved into the modern Church.  What Christian today would ask the forgoing question?   "...Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'"   It must be immediately recognized that not a single modern Christian would even consider asking such a question.  Why?  As stated in The Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect"  Because modern Christians have been totally alienated from the biblical foundational mindset by the very doctrines such as Original Sin that was adopted while the Church was ruled over by Pagan Rome.    Thus, we must pose the question:  What prompted the disciples of Jesus to even ask such a question?  Turning to the historian, this ultra important element to the equation of life is made reference to by Edward Gibbon in the footnote regarding the question of the disciples at John 9:2: "The disciples of Jesus were persuaded that a man might have sinned before he was born, (John, ix. 2,) and the Pharisees held the transmigration [reincarnation] of virtuous souls, (Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern Rabbi is modestly assured, that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato, etc., derived their metaphysics from his illustrious countrymen" (Gibbon; Decline & Fall) -- metaphysics that embraced the concept of the pre-existence and transmigration of the soul. 

Again, let me pose the question as to what this statement means to us from a modern-day perspective?   It means that the mindset and doctrinal thinking of the modern believer is so alienated from the original biblical foundational mindset and thinking, that the modern believer has been disenfranchised from the Gospel teachings and rendered spiritually sterile.    In the question posed to Jesus there simply is no element of the Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin.   The question posed to Jesus by his disciples was whether the soul of the man born blind was caused by the sin committed by the man's Soul in a previous life, or whether his blindness was the result of the sin of his parents?  The original mindset and thinking with respect to the events of life from the perception of the disciples is explored in the Wycliffe Commentary where it is written: "The question of the disciples (v. 2) was grounded in the belief that bodily infirmity or suffering was due to sin, whether of parents (Exo 20:5) or of the man himself, presumably on the basis of the soul’s pre-existence, which some Jews held".   Thus we must ask: Is this concept that a soul can sin prior to birth some Jewish fable that the disciples of Christ conjured up themselves?   Or, is this belief based upon a foundational teaching of the Gospel that Jesus taught to them?   Once properly understood, the position of the disciples is founded upon the construct of Jesus' statement to the woman caught in adultery: "Go, and from now on do not sin anymore" (John 8:11).   Thus, Jesus did not tell the woman caught in adultery to believe in him (Jesus) as her personal lord and savior for the forgiveness of her sins.   If, as Augustine set forth, the woman sinned because of the congenial sin imposed upon mankind by virtue of the sin of Adam and Eve, then Jesus never would have stated to her to go forward in her life and cease to sin -- acknowledging that she had the power and ability to cease from sinning.   And this is especially presented in the example of the person Jesus healed and made whole where he said: "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14).   Once again we see Jesus rejecting the Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin -- conveying to the man the need to begin to live a life wherein he would cease to sin -- i.e., "...sin no more".   But it was the second part of his statement to the man where he made reference to The Laws in the statement "...lest a worse thing come unto thee" that immerses each of us in our own personal Labyrinth of Laws that is molded by our previous actions, and has orchestrated the path and the choices of our destiny (see The Laws That Control Our Lives http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ). 

Once again we do not see Jesus conveying to the man to believe in him as his personal lord and savior for the forgiveness of his sins.   We not only see Jesus instructing the man to "sin no more" -- which, in opposition to the Augustianian doctrine of Original Sin, meant that the man had the ability to live free of sin -- but also warning the man that if he sins again after being healed, that "...a worse thing [will] come unto thee".   Why?  Because the Laws of God that were instituted at the dawn of Creation, monitor our every word, thought, desire and deed (see The Laws Of Creation http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsOfCreation .  And it is these Laws of Creator-God that were put in place in the Alpha of man's beginning, that returns to each soul the fruit of their own thinking and actions.   And it is for this reason why both Peter and Paul affirm the reality that those who sin -- especially after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message -- inherit a fate even worse than before they were exposed to the Gospel teachings.   To the degree that Paul warned the congregation of believers: , “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7).    

What does it mean that "...God cannot be mocked -- [and that each person] reaps what he sows”?   To the degree that Jesus warned the man: "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."    Yet, to their own spiritual demise, the vast majority of modern Christians promote the belief that they are exempt from having their own sin and misdeeds come back upon them in the manner that is portrayed in these verses -- and that somehow they have been exempted from the fruit of their own ways, while everyone else is held in judgment.   In fact, Christians promote the doctrine that because they attempt to appease the Lord with their lips, they virtually have a license to live in sin.    And they cling to this doctrine even though the Gospel warns that their fate will be worse than the unbelievers (see Fate) -- and that because of their infidelity to the Gospel, wherein they are portrayed as crucifying the Son of God afresh, even the opportunity of salvation by virtue of the sacrifice on the cross has been denied to them (see Sacrifice).    And because of their infidelity to the Gospel, they have been rendered spiritually blind to the degree that they fail to perceive that they are dwelling in what Jesus portrayed as The Prison and the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Blindness) -- incapable of understanding the core meaning of the Gospel and the scriptures.    

The original ending of the Gospel of Mark reads very differently than the present version -- i.e., "This Age of lawlessness and unbelieving lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore, they said to Christ, reveal your righteousness now.   Christ answered them, The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand.  I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven" (Moffatt, quoting Gospel Of Mark in Codex W -- Also quoted by St. Jerome as being the authentic ending of the Gospel of Mark).   This original ending of the Gospel of Mark that is still contained in some of the oldest biblical manuscripts, presents the core essential Gospel teaching that believes in Jesus will "...return to the truth and sin no more"  -- that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven".   Which is why Paul wrote: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Rom 6:1-2,12,16 KJV).   And again Paul wrote:  "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor" (Gal 2:17-18 KJV).   While the Mithraic Eucharist that was embraced by the Roman Church was for the forgiveness of sins, Paul warns that if you sin and partake the cup of the Lord, that you drink judgment unto yourself:  "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep" (1 Cor 11:27-30 NKJ).   Thus, while the modern Christian Church is founded upon the Augustinian (Manichaean/Mithraic) doctrine of Original Sin and a savior sun-god who was sacrificed to forgive the congenital sins of the people, the Original Gospel teachings were founded upon the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection and having fulfilled the Royal Law within themselves, believers are able to live a life free of sin.  

In opposition to the Augustine Manichaean doctrine, of the monk named Pelagius (354–420 or 440) the Encyclopedia Britannica (1998 electronic edition) reads: “Pelagius, though not a priest, became a highly regarded spiritual director for both clergy and laymen. The rigorous asceticism of his adherents acted as a reproach to the spiritual sloth of many Roman Christians, whose moral standards greatly distressed him. He blamed Rome's moral laxity on the doctrine of divine grace that he heard a bishop cite from the Confessions of Saint Augustine, who in his prayer for continence beseeched God to grant whatever grace the divine will determined. Pelagius attacked this teaching on the grounds that it imperiled the entire moral law and soon gained a considerable following at Rome”.  Pelagius wrote that: “Man is able, if he likes, to live without sin and keep the commandments of God, in as much as God gives him this ability.  Which is exactly what the Original Gospel teachings taught.  Notice that Pelagius stated that "...God gives [man] this ability.  The Wikipedia states: "Pelagius rejected the Augustinian concept of grace. According to his opponents, Pelagius taught that moral perfection was attainable in this life without the assistance of divine grace through human free will. Augustine contradicted this by saying that perfection was impossible without grace because we are born sinners with a sinful heart and will. The Pelagians charged Augustine with departing from the accepted teaching (e.g.: John 8:11) of the Apostles and the Bible, demonstrating that the doctrine of original sin amounted to Manichaeism, which taught that the flesh was in itself sinful (and thus denied that Jesus came in the flesh). This charge would have carried added weight since contemporaries knew that Augustine had himself been a Manichaean layman before converting to Christianity. Augustine also taught that a person's salvation comes solely through a free gift, the efficacious grace of God, but that this was a gift that one had no free choice to accept or refuse."

When Jesus warned the man "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" -- he confirmed the doctrine that all the calamities of life that each individual person encounters and experiences, is caused by each soul's sin and disobedience to the Royal Law of God.   On the question itself that the disciples of Jesus asked -- i.e., Master, who did sin? -- the commentary Barnes’ Notes writes that: "It was a universal opinion among the Jews that calamities of all kinds were the effects of sin. The case, however, of this man was that of one that was blind from his birth, and it was a question which the disciples could not determine whether it was his fault or that of his parents. Many of the Jews, as it appears from their writings (see Lightfoot), believed in the doctrine of the transmigration of souls; or that the soul of a man, in consequence of sin, might be compelled to pass into other bodies, and be punished there. They also believed that an infant might sin before it was born (see Lightfoot), and that consequently this blindness might have come upon the child as a consequence of that".

On the question of who did sin, this man, or his parents, and the pre-existence and reincarnation of the soul, the Adam Clarke Commentary tells us: "The doctrine of the transmigration of souls appears to have been an article in the creed of the Pharisees, and it was pretty general both among the Greeks and the Asiatics. The Pythagoreans believed the souls of men were sent into other bodies for the punishment of some sin which they had committed in a pre-existent state. This seems to have been the foundation of the disciples’ question to our Lord. Did this man sin in a pre-existent state, that he is punished in this body with blindness? Or, did his parents commit some sin, for which they are thus plagued in their offspring!... The Jewish rabbis have had the same belief from the very remotest antiquity. Origen cites an apocryphal book of the Hebrews, in which the patriarch Jacob is made to speak thus: I am an angel of God; one of the first order of spirits. Men call me Jacob, but my true name, which God has given me, is Israel: Orat. Joseph. apud ORIG. Many of the Jewish doctors have believed that the souls of Adam, Abraham, and Phineas, have successively animated the great men of their nation. Philo says that the air is full of spirits, and that some, through their natural propensity, join themselves to bodies; and that others have an aversion from such a union. See several other things relative to this point in his treatises, De Plant. Noe-- De Gigantibus-- De Confus. Ling.-- De Somniis, etc.; and see Calmet, where he is pretty largely quoted".

It is important in our assessment of genuine biblical foundations of thought to recognize the fact that the pre-existence -- and what some call the reincarnation of the soul -- was a universally accepted belief among the people who Jesus taught the Gospel Precepts -- and in the case of the Disciples, the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.  Once this fact is acknowledged, then we are forced to conclude that if this belief about the nature of life was in error, and the journey of the pre-existent soul is not a viable part of the teachings of Jesus, then Jesus would have had to condemn it -- or, we must recognize that it was removed by the later Gentile Church.

With respect to the question: Did the Jews in the first century believe in the pre-existent soul?  The Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect".   At Genesis 2:7, the Wycliffe Commentary writes: “Man's body was fashioned from the dust of the ground, while his spirit came from the very ‘breath’ of God. He is literally a creature of two worlds; both earth and heaven can claim him”.  More importantly, though, is for us to clarify our understanding of when the soul came into existence.   Thus, the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary notes the belief of both the Jews and early Church: “The... views of Origen and other Fathers, and the... Talmudists, that all souls had been created ‘in the beginning,’ and were lodged by God in a certain place, whence each one was taken out to inhabit the respective bodies of individuals”.   In this respect, it can easily be demonstrated the first followers of Jesus firmly believed that the soul pre-existed the body, and that our present physical forms are mere vessels that we inhabit during our sojourn in this life.

That the Pharisees understood that a man is born blind from the misdeeds of a previous life is seen in their words to the man: "You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" (Jn 9:34 NAS).  Moreover, it is well documented that the Essenes -- who with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now understood to be the foundation of New Covenant teachings -- also believed in the pre-existence and transmigration of the soul.   In his Antiquity of the Jews, the Jewish historian Josephus, who had lived among the Essenes, and was a contemporary of the man Jesus, stated that the Essenes: “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.  

Josephus openly wrote the foregoing words pertaining to the pre-existent soul that incarnates into the body, because it was a predominant belief held by the Jews in the first century.   This fact is also seen in the writings of Philo in his On Dreams Being Sent from God, section 22, where he speaks of the various kinds of souls and of the celestial bodies as being animated entities, quite in common with the general teaching of antiquity, and remarks: "Now all these souls seem to descend upon the earth with a view to being bound up in mortal bodies, those namely which are most nearly connected with the earth, and which are lovers of bodily habitations. Others, however, soar upwards, and are distinguished from others of their class according to the times and characteristics which Nature has appointed unto them. All these souls, those which are influenced by desires for mortal existence and which have been previously familiarized with it, return to mortal life. But others, refusing bodily life as a great folly, and as a mere trifling, pronounce it a prison or a grave, and fleeing from it by the impulses of their nature as from a house of correction or a tomb, raise themselves on the light wings of their nature towards the aether where they devote all their life to speculations of a divine type...".  And in the version of John 9:1 that is contained in the Gospel of the Nazirenes 53:1 (see Born Blind) we can see what the Gospel of John used to contain before being edited by the Church (see BibleCorruption.com ) where it is written: "And at another time as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?  Jesus answered, To what importance is it whether this man or his parents sinned? The rewards of our actions return again to us so that the works of the Lord are made manifest. I must work the works of the Lord while in this season. As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

Why is there no doctrine of Original Sin in Judaism?   The foundational doctrine which St. Augustine brought into the Church from his Manichaean background?  Modern Christians fail to realize that their religion evolved out of the Essenes, and Spiritual Jews have always founded their system of beliefs upon the concept of the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes.   The following quotation is taken from The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of: “The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which was especially accepted by the Karaites… is generally attacked by Jewish philosophers, but is defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben Israel.  It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized form in the Zohar, it is further developed in the teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572), and in Hasidism it becomes a universal belief.   According to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the individual souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower souls into confusion; as a result, every soul has to pass through a series of incarnations... The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.  

In the Zohar which is the foundational doctrine of Jewish Mysticism, it is written that: “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”.   This reunion with God is the rebirth that was spoken of by Jesus to the Pharisee Nicodemus, “a ruler of the Jews”.  

Parallel to the Journey of the Soul as set forth in the Zohar in the foregoing, is the teachings in the Qur'an which states "God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to Him"    Which again parallels the teachings of Jesus in the Pistis Sophia where it is stated: “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.”   When it is understood that the "...seal of the mysteries" which is further stated in the pronouncement that "...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”  is parallel to the Zohar where it states that "...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”.

Virtually all of the sayings of the Gospel of Thomas was removed from the traditional scriptures and teachings (see The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend ).   Saying 84 (see The Foundation Of The Soul And The Threefold Self ) restores the teachings on the pre-existent Soul and our own relationship to the previous lives our Soul has lived.   Saying demonstrates that the traditional belief in reincarnation as embraced by the Eastern religions is in error -- and while the Pre-existent Soul does evolve over the course of many lifetimes, each of these lifetimes are themselves unique incarnations.   And this is why the pre-Nicene Church Fathers rejected the traditional belief in reincarnation, they embraced the teachings of the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many (unique) lifetimes.   Therefore, as a soul-generated personality, most people don't remember past lives, because they never lived them -- yet, their own Soul generates as many soul-personalities as is needed to become Whole, Complete, and fulfill the requirement of perfection -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be Perfect, as you Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt 5:48).   And as demonstrated in the previous link, the great difficulty in explaining the reality of the Soul to organic man who Paul portrays as being of a "natural" mind (see Animal-Soul), is because the typical teachings on reincarnation are in error -- and the pre-existent Soul evolves over the course of many Incarnations -- with each soul-generated personality only living one life.  And because of the spiritual-amnesia of having been cast into the "outer darkness" of mind and being in which mankind as the prodigal sons/daughters have been cast, Paul is correct when he asserts that man in his "natural" untransformed mindset will reject his own higher Soul-Reality as utter "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).  

While Christians attempt to interpret the parable of the Prodigal Son in fragmented piecemeal, when taken as a whole, and understood as a universal reality common to all of mankind in the manner it was intended to be understood, it is recognized to be in total conflict with modern Christian doctrine.    Once it is understood that each of us is the Prodigal Son/Daughter of our Heavenly Father, then it must also be recognized that each of us at one time dwelled in the Kingdom prior to journeying out into this, the "far country".    We don't remember our more distant past prior to this present life, because this realm is the "outer darkness" that causes us to be stricken with Spiritual-Amnesia http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia .   Thus, we see this parallel concept in the above quotation from the Zohar where it states that each of us, like the Prodigal Son that we are, must return to our Source -- i.e.,  "The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged...."

In the parable of the Wedding Feast, those who come to TheCall must have put on the required Wedding Garment -- and thus, we see the parallel concept in the Zohar in the words with respect to the required perfection of each soul: "But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them...".   To the degree that Jesus stated in the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 5:48 that each soul must be as perfect as their Heavenly Father -- i.e., again parallel to the Zohar: "...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”.   In the parable of the talents, when the distribution of Talents is understood within the Foundation of the Original Gospel Teachings prior to being corrupted -- and the difference is understood between those portrayed as "invited guests" and the majority who were not "invited guests" as pertaining to The Talents And A Person's Spiritual DNA http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#SpiritualDNA , a totally different picture of each of our more distant past begins to emerge -- prompting the Church Father Origen to explain: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).  

God did not hate Esau and love Jacob for no reason!  Paul gives the example of Jacob and Esau, and writes: “For though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose according to His choice might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. Just as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” (Rom 9:11-13 NAS).   What the Apostle is very clearly stating is that, before either of the twins had been born, before either had “done anything good or bad”, God not only decided their fate in life, but for no apparent reason, He hated Esau and loved Jacob.   Why?   Paul offers no explanation other than God does what he wants to do -- and man does not have the right to question God's choices in these matters.   This is especially seen in the words: “Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” (Rom 9:21 NKJ).   Origen then demonstrates that our lot in life is the result of our own deserts, and writes: “For God the Creator makes a certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but that vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity [an untarnished wedding garment] He makes a vessel unto honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice He makes a vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor. And if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in harmony with all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear absurd that, in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the same method, we should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature of souls, and (believe) that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved before he was born into this world, and Esau hated, while he still was contained in the womb of his mother”.  This same reality where each of us comes into the body in accord with the accomplishments of our Soul's past, is expressed in the Wisdom of Solomon 8:19-20, where it reads: “Now I was a child good by nature, and… being good, I came into a body undefiled”.

To even begin to comprehend this higher reality of the perfection of the soul over the course of many lifetimes, the person must understand the cycle of the Prodigal Son/Daughter as presented in the words: "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa 55:8-11 NKJ).   God cannot fail -- and nothing in Creation can be void -- and as the Prodigal Sons of the Most High, each of us emanated from the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- and each us us must fulfill the requirement of perfection as presented at Matt 5:48 -- and if this required perfection is "...not fulfilled this condition during one life, [we] must commence another, a third, and so forth, until [our souls] have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”
With respect to not only the example of Jacob and Esau in the womb -- but also all infants -- the question must be posed: What is a child?  From the perspective of the framework of modern Christian thought, we would say that a child it is a newly soul that was created at conception by God.  But is it?  The Bible itself states to us in Eccl 1:9-11 that “there is no new thing under the sun” -- and then asks the question: “Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See this is new”.  Let us refute the wisdom of the Bible, and use the example of a new-born baby as something that is new.  Surely this baby is new -- i.e., from a Christian perspective it has never had an existence prior to being born.  Yet, the scripture confutes us, and teaches that “It hath been already of old time, which was before us”.  So that we might be sure that the scriptures are speaking about a new born baby, it then goes on to clarify the statement by adding: “There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after”.   Based upon these words is can be said that, from a biblical perspective, even though a baby (or person) will not remember its past: “It hath been already of old time”. According to the first Christians, this is true -- unless the Lord opens the mind of a person which would then permit them to remember the previous lives that their soul has lived.  That the majority of people do not remember the previous lives that their pre-existent soul has lived prior to their coming into being in their present life, is basically caused by the fact that by embracing the culture of this world, they have made themselves alien to their true self.

Once the teachings on the pre-existent soul was removed from the Gospels and suppressed by the Church of Constantine, it became necessary to fill the void with the Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin as a means of explaining many of the inconsistencies left in the scriptures.  And in total conflict with Original Sin, Paul not only stated that mankind was forced into what is personified in the allegorical Fall of Man -- but the journey in the Far Country portrayed in the parable was absolutely necessary for each of our development.  As the Prodigal Sons/Daughters of the Most High, each of us was forced to leave the Kingdom and venture out into this world which is portrayed in the parable as the "far country" -- not by our own choosing, but by the Will of God who through the Natural Laws forced each of us into the "outer darkness" of the Far Country.   But what is the Far Country?  A realm where each of us is able to grow and evolve to perfection -- i.e., “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Rom 8:20-22 NIV).   What the Apostle states in the above quotation is that it was (the Laws of) Creator-God that subjected mankind to the frustration of what we perceive as the Fall of Man, in order that “the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage” through the process of the soul-evolution in this world which is God's Spiritual University that perfects and brings about our eventual spiritual rebirth into the Kingdom -- i.e., “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time”.  Yet, it remains virtually impossible to convey to organic "natural" man that this realm that is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being, can be better portrayed as the "mental-womb" of Mother-Earth (see Mental Womb http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#MentalWomb ).   And in the same way that a fetus is evolved within the womb of its mother to prepare for physical birth, mankind who is born into this world as a Cosmic Ovum or Sperm , must become a viable embryo that is prepared to evolve within the Womb of Mother-Earth, and bring about the next stage of birth that Jesus said was absolutely necessary to enter the Kingdom of God.  

What does Paul's words mean?  Take especial notice of the words:  "...For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it  ...For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now".   In the same way that Jesus stated that unless you bring about the next stage of birth, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven -- all of the trials of the prodigal son in this, the Far Country, is the process of birth that was brought upon mankind by the Natural Laws -- Laws which evolve each and every soul from the Alpha of ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Light and Knowing (see The Laws That Control Our Lives).   The great truth that is not at all understood in the above words -- a 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.    And 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”.    And that this statement is confirmed in the Gospel of Thomas in the words: "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."   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”.   This statement should provoke great thought in the reader who is under the misconception that our Heavenly Father would destroy or forever cut off one of his sons or daughters who are lost in this world.   Moreover, the reality that mankind did not Fall from Grace because of the insane folly of what the Church of Rome portrayed as Original Sin -- but rather  "...the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it" -- and that what mankind is presently enduring is the "...groans and labors [of] birth pangs".   Which means that what is presented and concealed within the allegory of the letter of the written word, is simply beyond even man's imagination.    Which is why Paul warns that the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom is incomprehensible to the "natural" mind of man who, because of his own mental and spiritual immaturity, will reject the Truth as utter "foolishness" (see Mystery Of The Gospel).    Moreover, this means that if what the biblical authors and early Church authorities are saying is true, how could those who wrote the scriptures possibly put what is incomprehensible into a plain written narrative that those who totally lack the capacity to understand, would read and comprehend?   Further, so long as mankind remains what is portrayed as being  "glued" to the Citizen of this world -- and the Citizen or god of this world maintains absolute control over the thinking and life of organic man -- then it remains impossible for man to comprehend anything of a higher reality than the most mundane things of this world.  

Your Savior And The Gospel Teachings: Jesus stated of those who would be his followers: “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).   What Jesus is stating is that unless you lose the earthly person you are in this life -- be transformed through what is personified in the Crucifixion -- then you will be unable to enter into the Higher Life of the Kingdom.   And with respect to this process of transformation, Jesus stated that other sincere seekers were able to achieve the necessary transformational process: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   Contrary to the dogma of the modern Church, if Jesus is the savior who every person needs for salvation, then Jesus himself said the Church was wrong, and those who are Whole do not need him.  And as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only for those who are sick and in need of a physician.   And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time the historical man Jesus walked the face of the earth, there existed other people who he portrayed as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician.  Moreover, Jesus openly states that his mission as a spiritual physician is not for these other people, because they achieved the necessary Wholeness without him.  Which provokes the question: Does everyone need Jesus as the modern Christian maintains?  While Jesus himself said that those who had achieved Wholeness did not need him as a spiritual physician -- i.e., They that are whole have no need of the physician..." -- Jesus also stated that with effort, all of mankind is capable of achieving a condition that Jesus portrayed as "whole [and] righteous".  Which means that these people who did achieve Wholeness, were not sick, and in Jesus' own words were not in need of him (Jesus) as a physician to heal them.  

 

Which means that the whole foundation of modern Church dogma is man-made and in error. 

 

Before this verse can be understood we must first understand what it means to be Whole.   Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved? 

 

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The Causal Factors Of Life http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org

Are There Religious Exemptions From The Royal Law   http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ReligiousExemptions 

Why You Don't Understand The Causal-Factors of Life http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#WhyYouDontUnderstand

  The Intellectual Red Line In The Sand Of Human Consciousness http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheIntellectualRedLine 

The Sin Of The Parents And Organic Blindness http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#SinOfTheParents 

Jacob's Ladder http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JacobsLadder 

 The Union Of Science And Spirituality http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#UnionOfScienceAndSpirituality

  The Empty And Full Mind Paradigms http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#EmptyFullMindParadigms

The Disconnected World Of Scientism http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheDisconnectedWorldOfScientism

  The Emergence Of Science Against Scientism http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ScienceAgainstScientism

The Trinitarian Cosmology Of Mind http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TrinitarianCosmologyOfMind

The Causal Factors And The Original Gospel Teachings http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCausalFactorAndTheGospel

The Laws From A Deist Perspective http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ADeistPerspectiveOfTheLaws

  Go Out No More http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#GoOutNoMore

The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness

Jesus Teaches The Causal Factors Of Life http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JesusTeachesTheCausalFactorsOfLife

  The Purpose Of The Natural Laws And The Prison http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ThePrison

  Secondary Karma, The Prison, And The Chickens That Come Home To Roost http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#SecondaryKarma

The Causal Factors And The Corrupted Teaching On Children http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCorruptedTeachingsOnChildren

The Causal Factors And The Talents http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCausalFactorsAndTheTalents

The Return To Eden And Dorothy's Ruby Slippers http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#RubySlippers

Understanding The Intelligent Universe - The Clock Maker vs Jalopy Universe  http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ClockMakerUniverse

Fulfilling And Overcoming The Natural Law http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#FulfillingTheLaw

The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity

The Original Sin Of The Church http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#OriginalSinOfTheChurch

Index of Causal Factor http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#Index