Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 9)

“And The Companion of The Way then said, ‘It seems after re-reading The Child Christ that you experienced at least three kinds of mystical experiences while you were in Peru. One, the “rapture” where you indicate you could not even move an eyelid or breathe – when you received the profound knowledge of your immortality. The second was the visions. And the third was the instant image of being face-to-face with the source so that no words, no gestures were necessary, just the presence-to-presence, face-to-face. These are clear-cut and at the same time developmental experiences that could be considered bench marks or stages of your progress. I say this because it brings to mind similarities in my childhood to yours. I spent the first years of my life in an orphanage. After my mother married my father, he left her while she was pregnant with me. She had no living relatives at the time, as her older sister died before I was born. When I left the orphanage, I felt totally alien to all my surroundings. In my feelings and emotions throughout my teen and formative years, I always felt out of place. I have always felt different from other people, and do to this day. And so, the thrust of my life went in a spiritual direction. This thrust was greatly accentuated by Papa Bray, an authentic Hawaiian Kahuna who was very instrumental in my achieving my own “rapture.” He knew, in fact, he told me, the date it would happen. And it did. Therefore, I can identify with what you are saying. And in my own life, I can attest to the truth of what you say, because to me it is very much the same.’

“Said The Man, ‘All the writings, the prophecies, the theology, the training, the teaching and the actual working in the Church – the doing – is what makes you remember, not so much who you are, but what you are, and that it is your destiny to be in this Church. And the first indication of this knowing is that you do not want to live without it. If we acknowledge that there is a charismatic power in the Sun of Righteousness, we have direct access to God through the Image and the Word of the Sun. If that Image and Word works on our Soul, which we know it does, then we experience the metanoia or charismatic action that is real. It is not something we read about, it is not speculative, it is not theoretical. And you all know the difference between theory and practice.

“‘For the most part, metaphysicians and Christians of the traditional churches work in theory. They say, “Jesus was a good man. He was the Son of God. We must be good. He was the peace maker. We follow after him.” And then they go about doing the opposite. They do that because of the need of the world; not because they want to, but because of their environment. If we acknowledge that there is good and evil in the world, we must acknowledge that we, as humans, are incapable of resisting Darkness, because it always seems to prevail. We suffer, we experience pain and loss, we become ill, we grow old, and we die. These are real and evil in origin because God did not create something to die. We require the assistance of God to overcome the Evil and Darkness in this world.

“‘The only means we have is from an outside source working on us from the realm of the sun, the sustainer of the world. Therefore, if we acknowledge that God does have a charismatic power, there is a metanoia in the power of Community. By working together, we enhance not only our access to that power, but our ability to use it. We cannot assimilate sunlight through photosynthesis like a plant that converts sunlight into chemical energy. It is fundamental law of the Church that in Community we are able to assimilate more intelligence from God, His Word, and more spiritual Light, by working actively in the Church because we are then participating in the most fundamental law of all: unity.'”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

“‘The same feeling continued as I got older. I never felt comfortable in the world or that I belonged in it. Though I continued to go to church, was baptized and planned on entering the ministry, I felt alien even to the Christian environment. Like so many, I became interested in Eastern teachings; but again, I felt like an alien. I only began to feel comfortable when I discovered the beauty of the ancient religions, such as Zoroastrianism and the ancient Egyptian teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. However, I did not become a great student of these religions, as I continued to be more inclined toward Christianity.

“‘Basically what I am trying to say is that with all my searching in the Christian Church and in the Eastern and Oriental religions, I never became comfortable with religion until I had experienced the visions, and then was able to endure the strong light of the sun. My eyes were no longer blind to the Light of Christ. The world was no longer Dark. For I saw within the light that illuminated the world a greater Light – the Light of God that illuminates the spirits of men, a Light more brilliant than the light of the stars and the moon and the sun combined. That efficacious Light put my heart and mind to rest. It taught me the meaning of religion in a flash – a rapture of spiritual joy. It instructed me in religion more than any rite or ritual, more than any book, more than any sermon. It was a living communion in which I was able to experience the Divine Presence of God. I was reborn! – made spiritual – yet I was without instruction – an innocent child, a neophyte awaiting maturity as eagerly as a babe.

“‘I found the source of Righteousness. I had found the place where God resides, not by my own motivation, but by the vision of Light and by the Presence within the Light. What clergyman, what biblical scholar had ever seen God face to face? God dwells in a place accessible only to those who are called to it by Him, it seems. And I knew that it was my destiny to serve God in the formation of this Church. I therefore awaited the birth of The Child from whom I would learn with trust, and hope, and belief. I gave up all my human motivations of self; that is, pursuit of my human destiny. It was my destiny to serve God within the framework of the Church to come. God would be my Teacher, and I would follow Him. My spiritual Eye had been opened, and it saw a realm of spiritual Beingness. Now that I had been led to it by revelation, I would devote my whole life to teaching it to others.

“‘Then I began to have recollections and remembrances. They did not all come at once; they came in stages. And as I had experiences and began teaching and moving about in the world, my remembrances increased by the act of working in the Church. Then, of course, when Jamil was teaching, just by looking at him, I knew many things. He had the flashing eyes and the touch. He did not have to say much – all he had to do was make a gesture with his hands or look at me with a flash, and I knew. I learned from him by his Presence, and by looking at the sun, and by recalling and putting things together. And after a while, I realized that although I was doing all the work, or so it appeared – writing, teaching, recording the words of Jamil, exploring and holding the Church together as best I could – and suffering, as it were, especially as people could not understand and were leaving – that there was a power over the Church that was outside of my control.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 7)

“‘Jamil was entirely different from any person I ever knew. People in this Church are different. When people have been touched by God and made immortal, they live in the future after the death of the body. That is why they are not afraid. And that is why they are beyond space and time as we understand it; because if they are in the future, they are already immortal. They must have been created immortal in the Mind of God when He touched them. So they have a very unique and special place in the world. That explains why I saw a vision of Jamil before his birth into the world. Jesus often spoke in such terms. He spoke to his disciples about having been born before the world was. He said, “Before Abraham was I am. Before the world was made, I was with God the Father.” That made people think he had to be the Son of God. He had to be God coming to earth to become material so they could kill him. Not so. He was immortal because God had touched his spirit and made him Divine.

“‘That would explain why a person coming in contact with the Church has an inward inclination to participate in it. That is why our numbers are so limited in the early stages of the Church. It is only for the preordained and not for anyone else. It is not for ordinary people. That may sound somewhat elitist or exclusive, but that is the way it is. In all my years of teaching, I found it does not do any good to teach the person who cannot understand or to teach the ordinary person who has a Darkness of Soul. Persons who understand this Teaching really know it in their heart; they know it in their spirit. They recall things I say. They know it all within themselves. And that is something truly amazing, because they know more than the orthodox clergy in these areas of theology we have been discussing. They know it inwardly. All I do is confirm it. But even though they know it, they do not remember it until I teach them, or until they have read something in our scripture, or until they do something in the Church – until they make an effort in the Church to do something and by that work in the Church they learn by doing. Thus, there is a reward in the Church inasmuch as God’s Word and Image is also within The Community as it is in the Sun. Therefore, The Community becomes a small Image and Word manifest in the world. And in the Church, we call this metanoia.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Let me say how grateful I am to everyone for making this year’s Community Convocation and Seminar on Color and Sacred Imagery a resounding success! Please mark your calendar for the next Convocation, which will be held the first week of June 2024.

Let us now continue our review of the Twenty-third Saying of Jamil with The Man addressing the Companions of The Way.

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 6)

“‘Jamil often refers to God as ‘the Father,’ because He is active and He is impregnating us with His Energy and with His Light and His Goodness. The masculine title was given to God the Father, the creative spirit. And we, being of the earth, are considered as the feminine aspect because we are receptive. That is why in ancient times, the Soul was referred to as she – Shekinah. The Wisdom of the Soul was always given the feminine designation. Even the sky and the oceans were likened to the feminine aspect. But the Divine Essence, outside of the sky and outside of the world and of the spirit, was likened unto the Father as a masculine power.

“‘Therefore, we make a Divine Marriage in which we give ourselves over to God. He impregnates our being, a conception takes place, and our spirit is reborn and given life as a Soul. We then become Children of God. We live The Way, we look at the sun and reflect to it, we bring about a change in the sun, the change in the sun affects the world and, very slowly, by our Community effort, the world will change and become restored to Light. How long will that require? I do not know. It will require a Community of men and women to achieve this. And that is basically why the religion of our Church is different from any other religion. We are not solely worshiping God, we are not just practicing our religion as a social activity, we are actually involving ourselves with God in a very creative manner in an effort to change the world on His Terms, not ours because we do not know what He is going to do with this world.’

“Upon hearing these words, the same Companion of The Way said, ‘Then, the preordained, those who will come to The Community, are those who originally lived The Way. They saw God face to face. They lived before.’ In reply, The Teacher said, ‘The pre-ordained are those people who have been touched by God. Their Souls, their spirits, have been quickened by God to do this work, to come into The Community. The motivation is spiritual, not human. What other reason would they have for serving in The Community, especially in the beginning of its formation? To join as disciples of a new religion requires vision and foresight. There is no instantaneous gain or glory. Indeed, there is much sacrifice. But the satisfaction gained by mutual association with others of one’s own kind is reward enough.

“‘It is Divine Reason that brings members to The Community, not human reasoning. There is a spiritual beauty about the membership, seen and observed by one another, though perhaps not by the world that loves physical beauty only. As those same people get older, we love them even more. That love is more than physical; it is a real feeling of companionship, of wanting to be with them because they are like we are. Like seeks like.

“‘Once the spirits of the pre-ordained are touched by God – by the Mind of His Spirit or Consciousness, those persons are reborn and are able to work in this Church by the knowledge given them by God, not by what the Head Overseer of the Church says or the books given them. They recognize the reality of that knowledge because they know from within that it is true. Those are the kind of people that are going to be required to build this Church. And they are different from other people.

Gene