The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 5)
And The Man continued his commentary.
“‘If we build churches and acquire great material possessions, these in themselves cannot help us to affect the sun or the cosmos for the good of the universe. That would not carry out the Will of God. Indeed, that would tend to serve our own human needs more than spiritual needs. Large buildings, in imitation of that which God has already created for us in nature, are superfluous. God, speaking through the prophets, has told us that altars made by human hands, like churches, are rejected by God.
“‘True religion and true worship are not a matter of faith, belief, sacrifice, or living a dogmatic set of laws, but living The Way revealed by God as a new spiritual people. The new spiritual personality is created or generated by God’s Presence and the force and the Light of the sun. The Light, being God’s Truth, Righteousness, Image and Word, represents a new condition in the universe which we are instructed how to use for our own spiritual evolution back to the Godhead.
“‘As I have said many times before, just as an embryo is conceived by the act of man and woman, the new spiritual person is conceived by the joining of a person with the Image and the Word of God. Thus God creates that person anew. Faith or belief systems, or adherence to a church idea created by the mind of Man cannot create new life, physically or spiritually. All living things generate their own kind, offspring similar to themselves.
“‘It is a law of nature that each species reproduce itself. Spiritual people are reproduced by God in the sun in accordance with The Teachings. As a new species of spiritual persons, they are restricted to The System itself – they are a product of that System. Generation of a Light body is something that is unique to this Teaching, this Way, this System that we have repossessed in this Church. This is very difficult for people to understand.
“‘Man has inherited a spirit. This spirit has a dual aspect. It has the capacity to come under the influence of the Powers of Darkness which make it grossly materialistic and plunges it deeper into error and eventual dissipation into chaos. It also has the capacity to come under the influence of the Powers of Light. When God’s Word has incarnated within Man’s spirit, a Soul is born to that person. The person then becomes spiritual with new faculties of perception which puts that person into a new dimension of reality. This is The Way that Jesus was attempting to teach members of the early Church, and it explains why they were not afraid of death. Jamil has revealed this same Way to us in modern times and he has shown us the means by which it is achieved.
“‘In the Catholic or Protestant churches in the world there is no spiritual rebirth of the kind spoken of by Jesus in the first Church, and now restored in the new Church, because the former are not teaching the means or the methods by which spiritual life can be recreated. The people who believe in the church are good people; they express themselves emotionally, intellectually, and have an appreciation of God. But they do not recreate or generate a Light body nor come into possession of a Soul as taught by Jesus. This, we know is fundamental.
“‘Ministers of this Church guard the secret means of obtaining this new birth. And, by secret, we mean sacred. This new birth is not attainable outside of The Community. Many people find fault with that fact. They say that this rebirth should be possible to anyone who wishes it, even outside of this Community. It is important for you to understand the concept that each species reproduces itself.
“‘If you look at the sun and other people do not, if you follow The System and other people do not, if you look upon the Image of God in the sun and other people do not, if you follow The Way and abide by the codes and the ethics and exemplify the Light, then you will respond to that System. Those people outside of The System cannot be expected to respond to it because it is beyond their power to do so. Some people find this very difficult to understand.
“‘The ministers or the persons within this System participate in a divine Marriage to God. And the Teachers of this Church officiate and oversee this marriage by teaching others how to apply The System and The Way within The Community. Some people may reason that it is not necessary to have Teachers, Overseers or order in The Community. They may reason that it is possible to obtain positive results by looking at the sun through disorder, by living any way they choose and still obtain a desired effect. That is not possible.
“‘The divine State is reserved for those people who participate within the mystery; it is not for those outside of it. Let us review what Jamil tells us in the Twenty-First Saying: “The destiny of the whole world shall be determined by ministers ordained to The Teaching of the New State. Each minister shall pledge to serve the New Nation beyond any human allegiance of family, society or nation, as an act of love of God.” The profundity of these words only has meaning and far-reaching significance when understood properly. The cosmos is not to be denied.’”
