This is an important part of the commentary which treats on the significant difference between the priests/ministers of the old churches and the minister/priest of the New Advent Community.

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 16)

“‘In our own Christian religion, ministers are ordained to administer the sacraments and perform pastoral duties in a parish. Above all, they are empowered to transform the sacramental elements of bread and wine – the Eucharist – into the presence of Jesus, yet the appearance of the bread and wine remains unchanged to the human eye. The worshipers are able to participate in this “presence” which is claimed to represent the true mystery and power of ministers.

“‘In the New Christ Age, Ministers in the Church of the Second Advent are ordained to a higher and more noble form of transubstantiation in which they are empowered to bring about an alteration in the physical sun. By reflection techniques and by the implantation of their spiritual powers into the sun, many negative aspects are subdued, allowing the blessings from the spiritual Sun – which are imperceptible to the perceptory senses of the peoples of the world – to stream down to the planet. In other words, adepts of The System invoke God to bless the world and its inhabitants.

“‘Ministers of this Church labor with the Powers of Light against the Powers of Darkness, using the sun as a force for good. They implant their own spiritual natures within the sun, impregnating it with spiritual Power which, allied with the Angelic hosts and the inhabitants of the Worlds of Light, bring about a transformation of the material sun. Indeed, they sustain the material sun causing it to shine favorably upon the world and prevent the end of the world.

“‘You have all seen how the sun can appear harsh, brilliant, and difficult to look at at times. The adept, especially when joined with others in Community, is able to alter the sun, transforming it into a mellow, golden source of light and energy. Those standing in the field generated by adepts who are structured, ordered, and bound by the Codes of the Order, under vows and who have taken an oath to serve God in the Second Advent Church, find that they experience greater benefit from looking at the sun than they might otherwise enjoy were they not within this benevolent field. This act of transubstantiation is only possible by the highest level of adeptship.

“‘The New Ministers have power and authority in this Church. We have, of course, new attitudes, which we will not discourse upon in this commentary.

“‘We have a living Christianity, an entirely new Christianity based on new doctrines, not just a social church of religious belief. We have a Church that teaches and lives The Way in harmony with God’s cosmic Light and Word manifest in the Sun of Righteousness. This Church allows man and woman to cooperate with God for the redemption of the world. The difference between the Church of the Second Advent and the churches of the first dispensation is that we do not stress the building of structures for worship of God – something that God does not really want or need – but stress the need for humankind to participate in this Messianic Age and to work in a structured manner within the cosmic whole for the benefit of humanity and the universe itself. We are a New Church with a New Teaching. We have come into repossession of the lost Teachings of Jesus, which have now been fulfilled and supplemented and made new by Jamil, The Child.

“‘Of all people, we have hope in immortality. Others have faith, hope, or belief in some system or church. We know that this hope, faith, and belief are not sufficient to assure the desired spiritual state. This spiritual state is only realized by applying The Way revealed by God in accordance with the cosmos. By living The Way, the spiritual life is demonstrated and proven by the benefits realized. Those people who do not experience The Way are living chaotic lives without real and lasting spiritual benefits.

“‘Again, we repeat that the members of The Community have a power over the sun and star systems and, with God’s assistance, the cosmic and solar energies of the universe can help humankind. Even the stars will respond in such a way that the earth benefits during the night from the light from the sun and star systems.

“‘Consciousness comes to life by living The Way. Application of the techniques brings to the individual, like a living string, a creative power of Consciousness which can never be developed in an ordinary person by will, by thought, or by desire, but only by absorbing that energy and being able to tap the intelligence within, which is Truth of God.

“‘The techniques that we use when looking at the sun are amplified in accordance with the spiritual dedication of the individual. The greater the spiritual devotion, the greater the abundance of energy received, and the greater amount that can be transmitted back to the sun with greater effect. When adepts transmit energy back to the sun, they are also transmitting information or intelligence back to the sun. This means that an adept actually projects or transports part of himself or herself into the sun and thence into the stellar systems. This all has an effect in the cosmos and explains why it is so important for mature individuals to come to The School to devote themselves entirely to The Way. By living The Way, one can have a positive, meaningful, and lasting effect upon the universe. The Second Advent of God has empowered those within the revealed Teachings in a manner that was not possible before the Advent.’”

And we will conclude this commentary next week.

This is a wonderful segment of the Saying that talks about love – both physical and spiritual – but more importantly spiritual love – the love of God and the love from God.

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 15)

“And the fifth Mariner, the seventh person to speak said, ‘Could you speak to us of physical love and spiritual love?’

“And The Man answered, ‘When we speak of physical love, we usually refer to emotional love or physical attachment or dependence which is based on the senses. That is a kind of attachment – a kind of a gratification – like eating. Spiritual love is something that is the product of a person in love with God and can be shared with another person who also loves God and radiates love. And that love is Light and that Light is Truth and Goodness. The Light and Goodness in love is a kind of food. Therefore, the love of God transmitted as Truth becoming Light is, in reality, food and nourishes the spirit. Thus the spirit can only live off Light and Love. And once a person becomes spiritual, that is, once the spiritual Light body is generated, that Light body generates Light and energy and intelligence.

“‘The physical expresses itself physically on the level of the eight force centers – from the generative force center to the psychic force center. On the spiritual level, one can only express oneself on the level of the four force centers of Consciousness, Being, Intellect, and Form. This means that a person looking at the physical sun discerns it as a physical energy source. The spiritual Sun is not perceived this way. In order to perceive the spiritual Sun, one must needs live The Way. Living The Way extends a real spiritual life to the person by permitting that person to express the spiritual attributes. A spiritual person needs to express love, truth, beauty, justice and all the other spiritual qualities that are not expressed on the human level. These qualities include Divine Wisdom, celestial Intelligence, and a spiritual Righteousness.

“‘The difference between the intellectual and emotional life is great. A person can be very intelligent but not always in control of his or her emotions. A person may be very emotional but not very intelligent. Emotion and intelligence are separate, just as the body and the spirit are separate. If one lives The Way and adheres to The System, one develops faculties that experience and perceive the special world of spirit.

“‘The emotional religion of popular Christianity is no substitute for the spiritual religion of Jesus as lived by the disciples and apostles. The traditional churches preach that we are saved by the body and blood of Jesus, which has nothing to do with the spirit at all. That is strictly a physical concept which satisfies the emotional need and dependence upon a human savior made god. It is better to live off the love of God than the blood of Jesus, but people who are emotional and not spiritual cannot understand this. One must have spiritual faculties in order to understand spiritual things. Without them all one can do is mimic Jesus’ teachings but never understand them. That is why popular Christianity has only been able to create a secondary understanding of the teachings of Christ but has never been able to live them. Jesus Christ was always opposed to blood sacrifice. That was fundamental in his teaching. How could he create a religion of sacrifice and blood in his own life?

“‘God, not Man or his governments, can redeem the world and change it to a higher and more evolutionized state or condition. By collaborating with God and by living the Truth of God’s Light in the Sun of Salvation, the people of the world will evolve to a higher state.

“‘Man and his governments do not give life nor do they sustain it. God and the cosmos do this. Thus Man and his governments must have a higher understanding of God. They need to understand the necessity for change and to accept that God is the only Power that can redeem the world. As long as Man depends upon the material powers of his world, he will suffer. So Man must trust God with all his heart and being in order to change himself and the world. He must see himself as having been made in the Image of God. That Image must be recreated and reborn by application of The Way and The System as taught.

“‘Ministers of The Community are part of a coming new spiritual Order. They belong to the future. They receive the Gift of God from the New Sun, which is a blessing that is not given to all humankind but is reserved for those people who are actually participating in the cosmos and are opposed to chaos. That is why our Church is structured.

“‘Those who deny that God is able to influence their lives, or deny the influence of the sun, put themselves outside of the Blessings of God. They do not share in the Divine Plan nor do they participate in the transformation of the world. God blesses that person who submits to Community life.

“‘When a person loves another, they find themselves loving with care. They are courteous, kind, well-mannered, clean, gracious, and usually generous. One conducts oneself on the highest level in order to assure that that love will be returned by the other person. One cannot ignore a loved one and expect love to be maintained. Love is based on consent between two persons. It is never given against one’s will. As a person loves, so is that love returned. It is the same with God. If love of God is ordered and well structured, that is, if it is within the laws of the cosmos created by God’s Will, that love is returned in kind. One cannot expect God to return a love that is disrespectful or disobedient. People find this hard to understand – they expect God to love them on their own terms.’”

We have three more portions before we conclude our review of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings of Jamil. Today’s segment is short, but the next two will be somewhat longer than average because there is not a good way to separate the messages. So, let us continue.

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 14)

“And another Mariner, the sixth person to speak, said, ‘Could you speak to us of the roles of men and women in the world today and their approach to living under physical or natural laws and spiritual or supernatural laws? How do we separate the two when we look at the sun in the prescribed manner within The System as taught by the School?’

“And The Man answered him saying, ‘The physical sun contains the regulatory forces that govern the solar system. The planet responds to the sun, is regulated and governed by the sun, and all life is dictated by that sun. The earth does not have the potential to create life – only the sun does. As the earth cannot live without the sun, the sun cannot live without its source of energy and information from a higher Sun beyond it. We use the term spiritual Sun in an allegorical sense. The spiritual Sun is only an image, and that image is Light. And that Light consists of the Word of God, which is His Truth. And the Truth is contained within the Light, and yet the Light is Truth. So when you look at the physical sun, you are looking at pure intelligence. When you look at the Image of God in the Sun of Righteousness, you are looking at pure Spirit. The spiritual cannot be conceived by the physical senses of perception, only by the spiritual. And yet, because we do not have human natures equipped with preceptory senses and reasoning mind or intelligence, we use both human and spiritual faculties to attain God.’”

And we will continue next week.

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sayings (Part 13)

“Then a physician, the fifth person to speak, a Companion of The Way, said, ‘I understand that the human nature and the spiritual nature go along together, and that human nature cannot really affect the spiritual nature – the spiritual nature is more or less constant – but what I wonder is, does human nature have freedom of choice, and the spiritual nature, being predestined, does not?”

“And The Man answered the physician, ‘It is human to err. Humans use common sense, logic, reason, and their senses of perception to measure reality. We know that reality is different among individuals, and that the senses cannot be trusted as accurate measuring rods of reality. An individual changes about every seven years. Impressions of life vary according to state of health, status in life, environment, and situation in life. Each individual’s reaction to, and evaluation of, reality varies from day to day. Though reality changes, people believe they see reality as it is.

“‘Yet, what do we know of life in other galaxies trillions of light-years out into space? We have no way of measuring reality there. When we speak of God, we are speaking about the whole vastness of creation in worlds we cannot dare imagine. Mankind is very limited by the environment, the sources of energy available, and by food grown on the planet.

“‘In The System, we are fed on the energy of the sun that streams into it from other stellar systems filled with celestial information which our brain and nervous system are only able to handle with long exposure to this energy. We have no other means of understanding life in the universe except by new energy sources, such as that of our sun. The energy and information from the spiritual Sun, which opens new horizons even beyond the limited material universe, is our sole means of understanding God. We certainly cannot attempt any understanding of God by those energy sources available on the planet. The evolution of the brain and nervous system allows us access to higher forms of energy and information, just as the development of our spiritual faculties allows us to absorb spiritual information by means of the spiritual Sun of Righteousness. This spiritual information consists of creative intelligence. And this intelligence, of which we become part, instructs us. By living The System and The Way, we, like fetuses and infants, grow and develop and train ourselves to comprehend greater things of God. How does one explain something like this concerning freedom of choice to a person who is only interested in making money or seeking earthly pleasures? One cannot. For a person to understand the implications of this matter in question requires higher insight.’”