Last week, we were touching on the Kingdom of Light as not being part of the physical universe, the physical senses, emotion or the mind; and that this, in fact, was an essential component to the message of Jesus. His teaching emphasized rebirth of the Soul through the seminal agency of the Godhead by means of Light.
The secular religion of the Jerusalem priesthood in control of the Temple at the time of Jesus’ ministry, like so many state-regulated religions of the world at large, had become deficient in knowledge of the True God as 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 priests considered the teachings of Jesus to be heretical. He was punished and eventually put to death for attempting to alter that which was written.
The Christian Churches that claim to have succeeded the ministry of Jesus have not carried on the tradition of spiritual rebirth by means of the Appearance of God’s Image and Word. Furthermore, they have not preserved the Sacred Teachings on the source of Divine Nourishment, prerequisite to a reborn Soul, as proclaimed by Jesus, nor have they preserved knowledge of The Way that was essential to his followers. Like the priests of those orthodox sects in control of the Temple in Jerusalem, opposed by Jesus and his followers, the Churches have carried on the more secular tradition of the old Law, making of Jesus a sacrifice to a wrathful and vengeful god as atonement for the sins of man. By so doing, this secular tradition merely replaced the sacrifice of innocent animals, thus preserving the worship of an earth deity, a practice common to the pagan religions of antiquity.
The Sacred Doctrine of the Appearance of God’s Image and Word as a living, creative force regulated by Heavenly Law was lost by the failure of Jesus’s followers to preserve the knowledge of the True God, entrusted into their care by Jesus as Messias, Teacher, and Interpreter of the Law. As a consequence, the Churches became apostate, teaching the greatest of all heresies: that God’s Word is perpetuated by the Churches and that it is confined to the pages of Biblical scripture. These heresies were compounded by the doctrine that salvation of the Soul is attained by faith and belief rather than by a spiritual transformation of the Spirit as a Divine Process regulated by the Living Word of God, manifest in The Image of Light sent from Heaven, and not by written law, sacrament, dogma, or creed. Jesus – Messenger of God, sent to teach The Way – was elevated to the Godhead, worshiped and adored as were the gods of primitive religions. Knowledge of The Way he revealed to his followers was rejected, misunderstood, and put aside.
The Holy Spirit had departed Israel following the breaking of the Covenant and the passing away of the prophets. The Covenant had been renewed afresh by amendments and supplements under Jesus in a new and more meaningful manner. Jesus had revealed to his sect – the Essenes who had held to the Old Covenant – the Way of the New Covenant and the fountainhead of the True Bread of Life. And, as scripture states, they did eat and were satisfied according to the Word of God. The Light of God manifest in the spiritual Sun was their source of food during the daylight hours. God had given them Heavenly Bread to eat and the Living Waters of Fire. As a new generation of Man that had evolved over countless centuries, the ascetics under Jesus were able to absorb the rays of the sun according to sacred and ancient rites for which they were prepared – something not possible for the novice. Only at night, after the sun had set, did they eat of earthly food, and then only with prayers according to their tradition. By these means God dwelled with those of the Righteous Community who disciplined their physical bodies while allowing their Spirits to commune with the Light manifest.
The New Covenant – declared by Jesus to the sect that had awaited his coming since their withdrawal into the desert, away from the formalized religion of Israel – was to begin a new era for humanity; a returning to the Godhead and a renewal of the human Spirit in preparation for the coming Messianic Kingdom promised by God, to be established at His Second Advent in the End Times of the Earth.
With the crucifixion of Jesus, the martyrdom of his disciples, and the continued persecution of the faithful remnant of the sect who preserved the Teachings revealed by Jesus, the sacred doctrines were lost to the later communities and churches who created a faith system out of the scattered teachings that remained. Hebrew scripture was seized upon and used as a basis for the new religion, proclaimed as Christianity in the ensuing centuries. The formalized religion that followed did more to perpetuate orthodox Judaism and the Mosaic Law, with emphasis on blood sacrifice and atonement, than it did to reveal the True God preached by Jesus.
What followed, in place of the transforming spiritual Process of new birth and life – exemplifying the new spiritual man – as taught by Jesus, was a belief system of dogmatic concepts, worship, and symbolic ritualistic sacrifice, which only tended to give renewed life to older teachings. The Holy Spirit, which had been renewed under Jesus and again at Pentecost when the manifesting Image and Word was declared, not in human speech but in the language of Spirit incarnating in those renewed Souls gathered under the spiritual Sun, for a second time departed the land and its people.
However, in accordance with the prophecy of Jesus, God’s Light would shine forth in the Advent of His Final Appearance in greater magnitude than it ever had before.
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In Light+,
Gene
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