Hello. I hope you are staying safe and keeping healthy. We are almost at the end of our review of the Thirteenth Saying of Jamil. This portion continues with the themes of pre-existence and the preordained but elaborates on arrogance versus humility and living the Life of Light to attain spirituality.
The Thirteenth Saying (Part 13)
“And The Navigator spoke again saying, ‘What you seem to have said in your answer is that none of us knows exactly where we came from, or even that we had a pre-existence prior to our entrance into this world until we are awakened by the call of Christ. Let me quote from the Gospel of John: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. But what of the laws of God? Are they not made obvious to us from the moment of our awakening as to who we were and where we came from?’
“And turning to the seaman, The Man answered saying, ‘Each of us must first accept that once awakened by God’s presence in the Light of Christ, we begin to live under supernatural laws. These laws bind us to a life of dedication. Our supernatural uniqueness means simply that we have become spiritual. We have used our free will to elect to live under the Laws of Light. This does not mean that we are better than other people. We are only different. We become servants of Christ. We are here to instruct the human family. Therefore, we cannot ever think of ourselves as superior. We do live under superior laws, true. But superior to other men and women, never.
“‘Arrogance defeats spirituality. It defeats the whole life of Jamil, and of Jesus. Jamil taught us humility as a child; Jesus as a man. Humility is a discipline. And the discipline of humility teaches us spirituality. Jesus identified with man; Jamil identified with natural phenomena. He lived off the breath of God. He was nurtured by it.
“‘To learn more about our pre-existence, we must withdraw from the world and try to understand God. Look at how Jesus experienced his human nature when hanging on the cross. He uttered the words: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. Here was a suffering, natural man in a moment of despair. He was not fully in charge. He was not completely free from the natural body which was suffering terribly. He felt abandoned. He had failed his community, as they had failed him. But slowly he withdrew from his agony and forgave his tormentors saying: Forgive them Father for they know not what they do. Here was the supernatural Man speaking to natural Man. His superiority of reasoning allowed Jesus to be forgiving. In this moment Jesus became perfect Christ, incarnate in human form. And he triumphed. And when he cried out: Father into thy hands I commend my spirit, at this moment Jesus was freed from his human nature, and his Spirit merged with God.
“‘With his ascent back into the Worlds of Light whence he had come, Jesus then knew of his true, supernatural nature. He was free forever. It is the same for any one of us. We will not be truly spiritual, nor have a full understanding of who we really are, nor understand our origins, until we depart this world and merge with the source of our being. I think that the closer we draw to the end of our natural life, the closer we come to God.
“‘Jesus triumphed over the death of his natural body. He returned to his disciples in possession of a Light Body, the same Body to which all persons of Light are heir, as a testimony to the immortality of the human Spirit that exists once it is empowered by God’s eternal Light.’”
This theme continues next week and focuses on Jamil’s return to the Worlds of Light.
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