WEEKLY MESSAGE: July 11, 2019
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
I was reading The Book of God’s Revelation the other day at our Saturday Communion of Fellowship service from, and I thought I would share with you some thoughts from that text because they struck me rather strongly.
The foremost prophecy of Jesus Christ was his proclamation of the coming Second Advent (or Second Coming) of God that would manifest as Divine Light – a Power that would renew the whole world by means of a seven- or eight-fold Light through the Messianic Sun whose rays would burn up wickedness and prepare the Righteous for the return of God. And this is what we teach: that the Second Advent or Second Coming is here. This, of course, is anathema to the traditional or “orthodox” churches and makes us, in ecclesiastical terms heretical or, at least, heterodox, i.e., not conforming to accepted and/or standard beliefs.
However, the Second Advent of God was the basis of the ministry of Jesus. This was the Divine Act he promised would come at a future age when God would manifest Himself as the Savior and Redeemer of the human family and the whole of Creation gone astray. Jesus preached on the Divine Process of procreation and rebirth of Man’s Soul in The Image of God as essential to immortality. The Process was not a matter of written law, scripture, or sacrifice but a Holy Act regulated by the Divine Laws of Heaven.
But, we should also realize that this supernatural act of cosmic rebirth in the End Times was to be preceded by The Tribulations. And this is something that many people forget. So it should be remembered and acknowledged that The Tribulations, which had been foretold by the former prophets, including Christ, is now what the world is undergoing and experiencing.
God is using the supernatural powers of Creation to redeem Souls that are part of His spiritual domain. Therefore, redemption is placed outside the realm of formalized doctrines inherent in the established churches and orthodox religions of the world. This is important to understand and something which these churches do not recognize or acknowledge themselves.
Jesus had also preached of the True God of Heaven, who was not the author of this world, and had declared that those reborn must put away the ways of the world and live The Way of God. This concept was embedded in the cosmology of the Essenes and later adopted by groups such as the Gnostic Christians. Jesus revealed to his disciples the Sacred Way – hidden from the world because of its hallowedness and held secret. They knew that humanity was the progeny of Dark Angels who, having fallen away from the Righteousness of God, lost the power of Spiritual Reason and caused to be generated the Dark Worlds which, in turn, generated the universe of matter.
Any person taking up The Way exposed themselves to the creative and generative forces of the Universe. Therefore, unless one led a disciplined life, a person, being subject to powers greater than one’s own human powers, would seek self-expression – as had the Dark Angels – and fall victim to their influence.
Since time immemorial, these Dark Angels had established themselves as gods over the peoples. As malevolent deities, they demanded sacrifice, appeasement, and enslavement of the human intellect. In exchange for such worship they offered material wealth and power. To any enlightened member of the Order, the result of their rule could be observed on all levels of human activity and in the transitory nature of life in a degenerate world.
The secular religion of the Jerusalem priesthood in control of the Temple, like so many state-regulated religions of the world at large, was deficient in knowledge of the True God preached by Jesus. The priesthood, ignorant of the True God, based their theology on a traditional form of worship, on sacrifice and levitical purity, on moral laws and written scripture that dominated their way of life.
The Temple priests considered the teachings of Jesus to be heretical and heterodox. He was punished and eventually put to death for attempting to alter that which was written. To them, the Teachings of Light were repugnant, abstract, impractical, without value, and threatening. This is a concept that is continued even today in our world, where materialism has replaced religion. Science, commercialism, and government are expected to improve the human condition at the expense of Divine Law and Divine Aid, although in reality Divine Law and Divine Aid regulate the human Spirit.
There is more that I’d like to share with you in this vein, so we will continue on this theme next week.
Once again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Very truly yours in Light+,
Gene
