March 2, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 5)

“And the male Companion of The Way further asked, ‘Is a person in a state of perfect prayer open to revelation?’ The Man answered, ‘Yes, I would say so,’ and then continued. ‘Jesus preached in parables to the initiates, the neophytes, and the public. He spoke to the disciples in words they could understand because they were living The Way. Jesus taught that God the Father is the Savior, the Redeemer, and the Restorer of Mankind. He always referred to God as being the Father. He always acknowledged a higher power than himself. And when he passed away on the cross he said, “Unto thee, Father, I commend my spirit.” The spirit, having been created and reborn by God, was returned to God.

“‘Jesus taught that the body of flesh does not inherit the Kingdom of God; only the Body of Spirit does. Thus this world, with all its prayers and churches and power, is nothing because everything passes away in time. The only immortality is in the spirit, and a person should devote all one’s life to restoring that.

“‘To reiterate, according to the ancient Teachings, the Sun of Righteousness was the True Image of God. And God caused that Image to manifest, and that image was filled with His Word, and that was the First-Born of God, His First Son sent into the world.

“‘As man and woman looked upon the Sun of Righteousness after having learned to live The Way – they had to be taught how to live that Way by a Teacher, an inspired Teacher, Prophet or Holy Person of God – and were created anew in spirit, they became Images of the Image of the Sun of Righteousness. That was the true means by which a person would ascend to the Godhead, because God does not manifest in the world of the senses.

“‘There are two kinds of religion. One, the religion of the earth – the religion of the popular churches – teaches the parables of Jesus though they are misunderstood because the inner truths are not known. It is thus a religion of the senses, of the mind, of the psyche; and this religion has nothing at all to do with the spirit that is in each person. Those practicing this religion mistakenly believe that Jesus, or some other Holy Teacher, can save them, or that their rites and rituals, ceremony, liturgy, sacraments will be heard by God. Yet Jesus insisted: “You must be born again. Your spirit must be filled with the Image and the Word of God. Only then does God recognize you, and will you be able to hear the Word of God. Once you hear it and are filled with the Image, you then must live The Way. And in living The Way, you will then walk with God.”

“‘Revelation is revealed to those few Holy Ones inspired to found a new religion, or to restore an older one in progressive religious evolution until the world is redeemed. It is the object of True Religion, through its disciples, to make clear the One Teaching and the One Truth, for there is only One Teaching and One Truth, just as there is but One Way to this One Teaching and One Truth. Teachers ordained in the One Doctrine who explain the Teaching and the Truth and instruct the world in The Way must be cautious of those who have private revelations, or of those who innovate upon sacred scripture and interpret sacred things and found vain doctrines. The ordained Teachers must dissuade such individuals with courtesy and decorum, so they will not lead the goodly astray.

“‘False teachings, misrepresentations of the One Truth, often lead to complex combinations of teachings that give the illusion that there are many Truths in the world, when in fact there is but One. The disciple must be able to condemn such false ideas, not authorize or condone them when conversing with students who come to the School.

“‘Error, like Evil, leads Man astray and away from God. Truths of the mind and the material world, like truths of the psyche and the psychic world, are not Truth of Spirit. The student should be careful of which path he or she is pursuing: the earthly, the psychic, or the spiritual. The former two are not related with the latter and should be quickly dismissed, by both teacher and student, from their conversation.’”

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Gene

February 23, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 4)

“And The Companion then asked, ‘Does being born again take the place of prayer? Is it necessary to pray after spiritual rebirth?’ To this, The Man said, ‘Here we have a dilemma. For example, we of the Church of the Second Advent preach to the Church of the First Dispensation saying, “Jesus Christ is not the Only-Begotten, First-Born Son of God.” That expression, taken from ancient religions, was always used to describe the great spiritual Sun of Righteousness by which God revealed His Nature to the world, expressed His Truth, which was perceived by the spirit of Man as Goodness or as Light, and spoke to the spirit of man and woman in The Word.

“‘The Sun of Righteousness was the intermediary between man and woman and God. The intermediary was not a person. The Christians borrowed that concept from ancient sources. These sources taught the Greek and the Egyptian concepts: that God had revealed Himself and given His Body, which was Light, for man and woman to eat, so that they might be nurtured; that He had revealed His Nature and His Face to all humankind in the Light of the Sun of Righteousness and spoke to them by means of His Word; and that that Light – that Sun – was His Image and His First-Born, which He had sent into the world to redeem humankind as an act of Love. Christians of the first centuries well understood this, but those of later centuries forgot the original teachings.

“‘In the teaching that has come down to the modern Church, people became obsessed with the idea that the life of the body was in the blood, and that the life of spirit was also in the blood. They spoke about the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood as being the atonement for Man’s sin, not realizing that Jesus followed The Way of God, looked upon the Sun of Righteousness, received The Image, was re-created Image, and received The Word. Both Image and Word were incarnate within Jesus. And he told the Jews to follow him, to live The Way, so that they, too, might be re-created in the Image of God and receive His Word. The body of flesh was never intended to be the Image of God because it was heir to death; and God, being deathless, could not possibly create anything that would suffer or die.

“‘Prayer does not rise to God, no matter how emotional, how zealous it might be. It is the same as yelling for God with the voice. God hears neither mental prayers nor vocal speech. He hears only the voice of the spirit. And you must live The Way, or He will not hear you. There is no other way to raise a prayer to God. The perfect prayer, as taught by Jesus, the Essenes and other members of the Eternal Race in every great culture throughout the world (for the Essenes were an Order of men and women living in Palestine who had their fellows in other parts of the world) was the same fundamental teaching: a person was reborn by living The Way, looking upon the Face of God, and allowing God to send His Word within that person so he or she might have a dialogue. And by “dialogue” was meant “God speaks to me and I speak to God by living The Way.” That is the perfect prayer – living The Way – not speaking, praying, asking, sacrificing, or any other thing a person might do.

“‘And that is the message we have for the Christian religion.’”

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Gene

February 18, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 3)

“Then a male Companion of The Way, the first Companion to speak, asked, ‘Is the spirit, the sleeping spirit, related to the archetype?’

“And The Man answered, ‘The spirit of man and woman has the potential of Light and of Darkness. In that, we have an archetype. If we refer to the allegorical Garden of Eden, we see that Man and Woman fell away from God because they believed in the teachings or the words of the Power of Darkness, which we call the Devil. And, having thus believed, they followed the way of the Angel of Darkness and fell away from the Grace of God. And having thus fallen, they were denied nourishment and became dormant. A body denied food will die. Thus Man and Woman took on form – material form – which began with an archetype.

“‘That archetype was the “shadow” of the angelic Body of Light, a Dark Body of Light, or a Dark Angel. That was the archetype. And out of the Dark Body of Light slowly evolved the material body we have today, as did the mind. So the mind is related to the material body – both evolved out of the Dark Body and the mutated Consciousness which we call the Kalos nature of the psyche. And all these evolved out of the Light Body and the Divine Consciousness which can only be restored by God.

“‘Therefore, even though a material person goes to a material church and prays to a material god, that person will in no way gain access to the True God. And though prayers may be emotionally, psychically, and mentally satisfying and good for a person, they will not restore the spirit to a living Soul. That was a fundamental teaching of Jesus and the reason he and the disciples and the first Christians were so fanatic in their zeal to spread the “Good News.” But the people, in desiring to worship a messiah, or a material god, and wishing to have a savior who would redeem them, clung to Jesus as that savior, denying the Power of God as the means of restoring them to their divinity.

“‘The archetype is the neuter spirit which has its origins in the angelic Body of Light and becomes alive again with the Word of God in the Image. Therefore, individuals looking upon the Sun of Righteousness and hearing The Word evolve physically – on the mental level – very strongly. The psychic level then begins to develop and the person has memories of who she or he was. Then these individuals begin to have a Consciousness of Spirit and, in an instant, remember who they truly are. As a consequence, they let go of the material world and serve the world of the spirit more than the world of matter. They become a complex, as it were.’”

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Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene