“Jesus said to his followers, ‘These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom.’

“They said to him, ‘Then will we enter the kingdom as babies?’

“He said to them, ‘When you make the two one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter the kingdom.’

“Jesus said, ‘ I will choose you as one from a thousand and as two from ten thousand and they will stand as a single one.

“Whoever has ears should hear. There is light within a person of light and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine it is dark.’

“Jesus said, ‘ Love your brother like your soul. Protect that person like the pupil of your eye.’

“If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom… you will not see the Father.

“I took my stand in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found them all drunk yet none of them thirsty. My soul ached for the human children because they are blind in their hearts and do not see. They come into the world empty and seek to depart from the world empty.” ~The Gospel of Thomas

Like Babies

When Jesus told the apostle they should be like babies if they wished to enter the Kingdom of God, he didn’t mean that they should cry a lot, need to be held and cared for, need to be fed by their mothers, etc. He meant that they should have the innocence of babies. They should be free of prejudices and beliefs that block us from learning the truth. This is especially true of religious and spiritual beliefs. When we are full of false beliefs, we can’t accept the truth, or as some Zan teachers put it, you have to empty the cup before it can be refilled.

Make Two into One

This is a variation of “as above, so below”. Jesus is saying that when we are like the Cosmos above, the atoms below we will be well on our way to full enlightenment in heaven. But here, the Cosmos refers to the spiritual dimensions, not the physical cosmos. The physical realm is both dark and light, negative and positive. Spiritual dimensions are only Light, and God and the Angels are only Light. We must awaken our spiritual faculties and bring that spiritual Light down to earth and make the lower like the upper. As we aid God in bringing more Spirit into the realm of matter, we aid in returning the material realm back into spirit and making what was two realms into one again. We are mainly doing that to ourselves, but also to the world around us.

One From a Thousand

The chosen people who will aid God in returning the world to spirit—the so-called War of Light and Darkness—exist in small numbers. These are the people of Light. It may be one in a thousand or one in ten thousand, the exact percentage doesn’t matter. What matters is that when this small part of humanity is sufficiently awakened, the changes in the physical realm will happen. We can already see some of the preparation stages happening with the change in weather.

Love Your Brother

This doesn’t mean that we should love only our siblings. It means that we should love all of humanity, whether we like the things they do or not, we must still love them. Love is the power that will bring us all together.

Fast from the World

This means that we should not become too involved in worldly matters or too attached to material things. That doesn’t mean we must live in a cave and eat weeds. We can live in a house, sleep on a bed, and eat good food, but without getting attached to such comforts. When we are unable to give up such things when our spiritual quest requires it, we have become too attached, and the beings and forces of Darkness can use those attachments to hold us back.

Blind in Their Hearts

We come into the world of matter with our spirits in a dormant state similar to a coma. We must awaken and develop the spirit if we ever want to get to Heaven.

“We do not always learn a lesson at one trial, and we are sent back to our task over and over again until we have accomplished it. But not the slightest effort is ever lost, and if we have failed at the task in the past, it is easier for us to accomplish it today.

“An American writer, Mr. Berry Benson, gives us a beautiful illustration of one of the features of the workings of the law of Spiritual Evolution. We reprint it herewith:

“’A little boy went to school. All that he knew he had drawn in with his mother’s milk. His teacher (who was God) placed him in the lowest class, and gave him these lessons to learn: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt do no harm to any living thing. Thou shalt not steal. So the man did not kill; but he was cruel and he stole. At the end of the day (when his beard was gray) his teacher (who was God) said: Thou hast learned not to kill, but the other lessons thou hast not learned. Come back tomorrow.

“On the morrow he came back a little boy again. His teacher (who was God) put him in a class a little higher, and gave him these lessons to learn: Thou shalt do no harm to any living thing. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not cheat. So the man did not hurt any living thing; but he stole and he cheated, so his teacher told him to come back tomorrow. …’

“This is what I have read … in the scroll of the Heavens. The great lesson to be learned is the Oneness of All. This knowledge carries with it all the rest.” ~William Walker Atkinson

Learning a Lesson

When we are first learning to walk, we fall down a lot. But we are encouraged by our parents to try again and again until we can do it without falling. The same is true when we learned to ride a bicycle, drive a car, ice skate, etc. When we go to college, we do not get a degree on the first day. It takes time to learn enough to get a degree. Yet many seem to think it should be different with spiritual studies and they should be able to learn all that needs to be learned in a few days, or weeks at the most. That belief is wrong.

His Teacher Was God

God is the ultimate teacher, but before we can talk directly to God, we need a human teacher to show us The Way. Like learning those other lessons mentioned above, learning to link directly to the mind of God takes time and effort. And you have to know what you are doing. While the popular saying that there are many paths to God is somewhat true, most paths are twisted and lengthy. To be successful, you should follow the most direct path possible. That is what Cosolargy teaches.

Mr. Benson’s tale is intended to say that we live many lives until we succeed in learning the lessons. This is a pleasant fantasy promoted by governments who don’t want the many people in their countries living in terrible poverty to rise up in a revolution. Making them think it is simply a lesson they must learn, and then in another life, they can have wealth, helps prevent those revolutions. In Cosolargy, we are taught that our current life is our only life, so we can’t be lazy, we must do our best to evolve our spiritual Self now.

Read the Scrolls of Heaven

What Mr. Atkinson is calling “the scrolls of Heaven” is just an allegorical name for the great Knowledge and Wisdom found at the highest levels of consciousness that the Gnostics called Gnosis. This Knowledge is not found in books, podcasts, or videos. It must be gained by direct access to these higher levels of consciousness. We do that only by the gradual development of our spiritual faculties using the solar techniques taught in Cosolargy.

The Great Lesson

The Great Lesson is Oneness, the Oneness of all. Humans, animals, plants, rocks, rivers, planets, etc. are all part of The One, the Godhead. That is a simple thing to say, but nearly impossible to understand. We only truly grasp this Knowledge when we reach the highest level of consciousness and become fully aware of The All. But when it happens, we know that one spirit is much like another, one being is much like another, no matter what material shell it may be wearing. That means that all living things are a part of us so killing any other being is killing a part of ourselves. Unfortunately, we have sunk so far down into matter that we must kill and eat other beings to survive. We can, however, start learning to live on Light again and reduce our dependence on eating matter. Being part of The One makes us more tolerant and merciful toward others. We can start practicing mercy and tolerance now.