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.
