The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 3)

And The Man continued instructing the Companions of The Way.

“‘It is the obligation of the New Ministry to preserve The Teachings and to instruct the whole world, including secular religions, in them. Man’s religions serve Man and his social order, as you all know, but they fail to inspire humankind because, being ignorant of The Teachings, they are not in agreement with Cosmic Law which dictates that God must be active in the affairs of Man and must be available to spiritual people. Therefore, these religions, being ignorant of this new condition, are not representative of the Religion of God and must be viewed as the religions of Man and his human society.

“‘Cosmic Law – the Divine Law of God – is to be served more than the law of Man. God does not respond to Man’s laws; on the contrary, Man responds to God’s Laws. So the Divine Law, being established first in Heaven and in the Light of the Sun, is to be established on earth according to Divine Order.

“‘A living theocracy is to come into being to serve God so that His Will may be established upon the earth and in the heart and the soul of Man.

“‘If Man is to understand and experience God, he must break away from Man’s laws that were created to serve Man and not God. That does not mean that Man should live in a state of anarchy or that we care to do away with law. On the contrary, all spiritual people must be conscious of the good of law and order in the State, but people must not serve civil law first and relegate spiritual Law to a secondary role.

“‘God lives today. The priests of the Roman Church, as well as the ministers of the Protestant churches, emphasize that God lived in the past and is no longer active today in the laws of the nations. In reality, God is dead as far as the affairs of Man are concerned – God is relegated to ancient history. Though He is no longer available to heads of state, God once walked and spoke with those in power. Something went awry in the course of history.

“‘How are we to gather sufficient numbers to establish the Divine State, or Nation, spoken of by Jamil? How are we to make this Nation effective as a spiritual force in the face of large, heavily populated nations with their economic, political, military and material power? We are told by Jamil that any alteration of the world must begin with the individual. And the individual can affect the world when that individual is joined with others in Community. Though spiritual evolvement begins with the individual, one’s influence is limited until such time as one joins in Community and abides by the laws of that Community. The effect of individuals collected in Community is measured in the sun – the material sun – of our universe. And the world reacts to that effect – the sun’s power is more powerful on the earth than the natural forces of the earth itself. We thus comprehend the power that is in the hands of the adept.

“‘In The Community, the individual who becomes enlightened must be prepared to stimulate the world. And the individual must make a pledge to God in order to achieve this stimulation. This can only be done if the individual exemplifies the Light by living what we call The Way. By exemplifying the life of Jamil, one causes a reaction in the sun. Therefore, all things in a person’s human life – fame, power, material benefits, pleasures, family, the State – must play a secondary role in order that one may live the spiritual or Holy Way.

“‘Whatever one must relinquish in order to achieve the State of Light should not be considered as a sacrifice, but as a gift to God. A sacrifice creates the opposite result of what is desired. A gift to God is given as an act of love and always achieves the desired result.

“‘We must emphasize the value of spiritual Love more than any kind of sacrifice, or the idea of sacrifice. The individual is asked to love God and not make sacrifices. Only the pure spirit of a reborn soul is acceptable to God – any other gift has no meaning. A pure spirit and reborn soul are the products of a lifetime of dedication, and the greatest gift that can be made by any human.’”

Good morning. For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, I hope you have been enjoying the Summer. My family and I recently returned from a few restful days at Lake Tahoe. A friend of mine was kind enough to let us use his vacation home.

We will now resume our review of The Secret Sayings of Jamil with the 20th and 21st Sayings.

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 1)

“The Man, the chosen and beloved disciple of Jamil, returned to the Emerald Isles to join in fellowship with The Mariners and Companions of The Way. And on the eleventh day of November, in the nineteen hundred and eightieth year of the Christian calendar, the twenty-first year following The Child’s birth, in the eighteen year of the Second Advent of God, The Man climbed with his followers to the heights of a forested hill in the valley called Makaha. And they sat down together amidst the ruins of an ancient temple for he would reveal to them the Twentieth and Twenty-First Sayings of Jamil as he had promised to do.

“But The Man was saddened this day for he had news that his father was near death. And he felt a part of himself dying with his father. And he was moved to silence and could not read from the scrolls. And that night his father did pass out of the world of the living at the age of eighty-eight years.

“The following day, The Man boarded the Ship of Light in company with the Seafarers and Companions of The Way, and sailed out of the harbor beneath a resplendent rainbow arching the sky. It was the twelve hundred and forty-fifth day after the Ship of Light had sailed from its home port on the mainland of America, and the five hundred and twenty-seventh day in the Emerald Isles.

“Throughout the day they sailed on the blue waters of the Pacific, driven by a freshening breeze. And The Man felt the pulse of his father’s spirit within his own. And he was at oneness with him, knowing that his father had returned to the source of his own being as do the aged who, broken by the pains of a tired body and restless spirit, seek God in their own way.

“And he felt no further sorrow or loss, knowing that his father had found peace in death. And he looked at the sun with eyes made for Light and prayed that his father would know of his love for him.

“That evening after the darkened sea had swallowed up a fiery red sun and they had dined together, The Mariners and Companions of The Way sat before The Man awaiting his words. And he spoke unto them saying:

“‘You have received nineteen of the Sayings of Jamil. And these sayings of the Seer Child, especially when combined with the prophecies he has revealed to us, instruct us in the formation of a New Religion on earth. And I say a New Religion because the Messenger of God, come in the guise of an innocent child, has shown us The Way in a modern world – how to express the religious life in a higher form than given to us by any of the world’s religions. The world’s religions do not teach The Way.

“‘For example, in the Christian religion, we are left with a belief system which does not teach us the religion of Christ, nor how to find the Godhead, or our Godhood. We are told to believe in Jesus, but there is no grand design for the establishment of a universal theocracy by enlightened men and women living The Way of God. The Church is static, frozen to what occurred two thousand years ago.

“‘The Child continues to inspire us from Heaven, continually revealing truths of a new dispensation for the world. He has revived older truths that are eternal and are as valid for us today as they were for Man centuries ago. But more than this, the Man-Child has supplemented these truths with new teachings which fulfill the older religions and create a new one. That is what I mean when I say that Jamil has brought us a New Religion.

“‘The Sayings and other revelations of Jamil, including the Prophecies, give us profound material for thought. The first nineteen Sayings tell us that a future religion, prophesied by the ancients, was destined to usher forth out of the Central Sun at some future date, and that this religion would cast out Darkness from the world. We were also told that this new prophetic religion would generate a fellowship of Immortals, that a School of Light would come into existence to instruct Teachers, that these Teachers would become God’s agents and be empowered by the sun, and that they would eventually triumph over the world.

“‘The School of Light formed of the Immortals would instruct the nations of the world in the new laws and statutes of God. The future nations and governments would be judged by God’s Sun of Justice.

“‘We are told the spiritual Sun benefits those dedicated to The System for it is given specifically for God’s People living in The Community. This Sun is not accessible to those outside of The Community. This is true because the material sun is diseased due to Man’s thoughts and actions. It can be cured only by the spiritually devoted through the spiritual Sun.

“From out of the various religions of the world an Order of Patriarchs would emerge to form a holy Order. Women would also become Matriarchs and disciples of this Order.’”

“After speaking these words, The Man broke a golden seal binding two scrolls, and removing a silken ribbon, he began to read.”

We will review the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings next week.