January 26, 2022

It is appropriate that we read from the Twenty-Second Saying on the Sun of Righteousness and the Image and Word incarnate within that Light as we prepare to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the dawning of God’s Second Advent.

Our eight-day sunrise vigil begins on the evening of January 29th with a service commemorating the events that transpired that night in 1962 when The Child of Light, Jamil, passed from this world at midnight. We then have eight days of sunrise services through the morning of February 6th. Of course, you can find all the details in the last chapter of the book, Jamil: Child of Light, which I always encourage you to read at this special time of year.

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 2)

“After thinking these thoughts, The Man took a scroll in hand; and removing the silken ribbon that bound it, he began to read to The Mariners and Companions of The Way.

“And these are the words of the Twenty-Second Saying:

“Man has a spiritual nature that is not consciously alive – a spirit which is part of a spiritual domain and is not of the world or the material universe. It sustains the life of mortal man, yet he knows it not, being ignorant of his true nature: the spirit sleeps. And no teaching of saintly priests or words spoken by holy prophets, neither any scripture, sacred book, sacred law, nor sacrament, ordinance or commandment of any world religion, regardless of its great age or supposed authority, can awaken it – these only stir the mind or the emotion or the psychic nature of Man. The spirit remains the sole possession of God; and nothing of the earth, no matter the title, position or claim to any such title or position, can reach it.

“God speaks to the spirit through His Word. And the Word manifests in the Image. There is no other way to God. God has blessed the world with a precious gift – the manifestation of the Image and the Word discerned as the great, holy Light of the spiritual Sun of Righteousness which is the instrument of His Divine Will.

“God would that man and woman perceive His Image and Word and by these means come to Life again; and by living, they would know Him.

“From ancient times God has revealed Knowledge of His Existence through Holy Ones inspired of the Image and the Word. And Holy Ones proclaimed to all the world the means by which the spirit might live again and know God. But humans, in their foolishness and inability to judge or know things of the spirit, because of their perpetual clinging to the senses and the mind as the sole means of perception, lost hold of the Truth of the revealed Doctrines.

“Thus, Knowledge of The Way to God was forgotten. Even the Christian religion is guilty of this most grievous error. The scriptures say, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His Only-Begotten Son, so those who believe in Him might not die, but have life everlasting.’

“Man, desiring to worship things mortal and being ever anxious to follow the way of the flesh, believes the good and inspired teaching that Jesus is the Son of God. Though incarnate with the Image and the Word of God and truly a Son of God, Jesus is not the First-Born of God sent into the world to redeem humanity.

“The First-Born is the Light of God’s Image and the Truth of His Word, gloriously manifest in the Sun of Righteousness.

“It is not by the suffering of Jesus, my beloved Brother in Light, nor by his death on the cross, nor by the shedding of his blood as atonement, that Man is saved, but only by the Image and the Word which God has caused to come into the world. God alone is Man’s Savior. And only God’s Light and Truth can redeem him from the error of Darkness; for if Man’s spirit not be reborn, it can never know God.

“It is because he was made in the Image of that Image and Word of God that Jesus arose from the dead. And this is the greatest of Secret Sayings, for the Image and the Word given of God so that Man might live are not discerned by the worldly but only by those who live The Way under the Codes of the Order of The Community.

“The spirits of those who live The Way are reborn and made into living souls; and they know God by means of the Image and the Word, which are Life and Breath, Bread and Water, to the soul. No mortal eye can see, nor mortal ear hear the Things of God.

“The Sun of Righteousness comes to restore order in the universe. It is the Image of God and not an image of any living thing either in Heaven or on earth. The Word is manifest within the Image, and within the Word is God’s Revelation and Knowledge of Himself, the source of all life in its original and pre-existent form. The Substance of this spiritual Sun is God – Redeemer, Restorer, Savior – who instructs the world in understanding of His Nature in Love, Mercy ,and Goodness.

“Let all those who would be redeemed from the earth, in life and in death, accept the Gift of God with rejoicing and thanksgiving, wrapping themselves in a robe of splendorous Light as a protection against the Powers of Darkness which even now gather in strength to seek out the spirits of the ignorant and the unsuspecting who put their faith and trust in the powers of the world.”

We are preparing, and you will be receiving soon, information on this year’s Community Convocation which will take place the first week in June. Our celebration will focus on the 60th anniversary of this important cosmic and spiritual event. You will also be receiving additional information on the September Cosolargy Conference, which will focus of Color and Sacred Imagery.

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

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

January 19, 2022

Greetings for the new year. I hope you had a pleasant and wonderful Christmas-Epiphany Season. Thank you for indulging me in my brief sabbatical of the last several weeks. We will now resume our review of The Secret Sayings of Jamil with the Twenty-second Saying.

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 1)

“In the nineteenth year of the New Calendar of the Church of the Second Advent celebrating the birth of God’s Image and Word in the Sun of Righteousness, the twenty-second year following the birth of the Christ Child, Jamil, in the nineteen hundred and eighty-first year of the Christian calendar, The Man returned to the Emerald Isles to join there with his disciples.

“And on the twelfth day of October, following his religious devotions at the rising of the sun, he went in company with two disciples to the landing where the Ship of Light was berthed. The Companions of the Way and The Mariners had assembled to await him, for they had received word of his coming.

“And when he boarded the sacred vessel, his disciples greeted the sage and disciple of Jamil with great thanksgiving, for he was their instructor in the Religion of Light.

“And The Man sat with them, sharing their breakfast of fresh tropical fruit and juices. And when they had finished eating, they began to discourse on the nature of Man’s existence under the New Sun and on the future course of The Church in the world.

“And The Man listened with quiet composure knowing they were prepared in mind for the higher truths of the Sayings of Jamil. He suggested that they leave the Ship, now growing warm under the ascending sun, and seek the cooler regions of a local temple site where he would reveal additional Sayings.

“At noon, The Man with five disciples, one mariner and four Companions of The Way, reached the ruined temple of Puu-O-Mahuka Heiau, the largest on the island of Oahu. Fragrant pineapple plants scented the air. Passing over the enclosures of stone walls overgrown with a heavy mantle of lantana nurtured by abundant rainfall and rich soil, they came to a terraced platform shaded by the spreading branches of a full-grown Java Plum tree heavy with ripe, red fruit. Far below, the glittering blue Pacific, the Sea of Pupukea – the white-shelled sea of olden times – broke over the sandy beach. A light, inshore breeze brought a soothing touch of coolness.

“And the disciples spread colorful blankets upon the green grass and seated themselves comfortably. And The Man sat down on a pile of large rocks facing them. And he looked upon his fellow Companions of The Way who had hushed their voices awaiting the words of their Teacher. It was the fifteen hundred and seventy-ninth day since the Ship of Light had sailed from the mainland, which seemed so long ago, and the eight hundred and sixty-first day in the Emerald Isles, an interval which seemed but a few days.

“The Man knew that the Ship’s visit to the islands was growing short, and that soon The Mariners and The Companions of The Way must-needs depart the islands, forego their wanderings and return to the mainland, and there make their home in the desert sanctuary being prepared for them by The Order.

“Ever since the first visions of the desert sanctuary, and of future things to come to The Order, had come to him some twenty years before, they were as distant dreams, and he did not know how they would be fulfilled. But because of his unshakable faith in the Will of God, and in the Visions, the Prophecies, and the Sayings of The Child, which were revealed in never-failing cyclic events, The Man held firm to living The Way, placing trust in those things foretold and ordained of God.

“Now that the time was growing near to the establishment of the New Nation of God in the vast desert regions of the Nevada plains, his thoughts turned toward all the wandering by land and by sea in his living of the Great Work. He thought of the tomb of Jamil facing the snowy Andes of Peru, and how he had dreaded to leave those remains which brought comforting memories of the physical form of his son whom he had loved so much.

“Yet, a member of The Order must obey the truth and follow The Way instead of following one’s own will prompted by emotions or sympathy or love of the material things that perish. When one dies, the body returns to dust whence it came, but no tomb holds the spirit created by God. This he knew by the presence of Jamil that came to him in the Light where all spiritual beings dwell with God. To follow and obey God’s Will by living The Way takes all of one’s discipline and concentration, and it is only by this discipline that one keeps from falling back into the old ways of the world, ways which can have but one final ending. This ending was preached against by all the Holy Ones inflamed with the Image and Word of God come to them in their own times, for they preached that God’s Will is irresistible and no earthly power can subdue it.

“Looking upon the faces of The Companions of The Way, he saw hope in their eyes and he realized that the future of The Church was in the combined efforts of the members of The Order. God’s Will would be fulfilled by The Order. He was therefore resolved to relinquish thoughts of wandering over the face of the earth and to establish the Great School of Light as ordained – to build the Nation of God by teaching the members of both sexes come to The Order. In this way teachers could be trained. By becoming versed in the Scripture and Teachings of The Community; becoming wise in the living of The Way in accordance with its Codes, Institutes, Precepts, Concepts and Ethics; becoming learned in the Statutes and Judgements of God; and strengthened by their mutual unity, teachers could go forth to the four quarters of the world and instruct all the races of humanity in the Doctrines of the Religion of Light, thus spreading the Truth of the Revelations and Prophecies and Sayings so that all might become citizens of the Nation of Righteousness under God’s Image and Word manifest in the spiritual Sun of Righteousness.

“But before the roots of the new religion could be firmly planted in the desert, it was essential that the disciples come to him for instruction and be taught in accordance with the giving of the Sayings at the pre-ordained time and place; for all things prophesied in the lifetime of the Church of the First Dispensation and that of the Second Dispensation of God’s Second Advent must needs be fulfilled in accordance with the cyclic period assigned to them.”

We will get to the Saying itself next week.

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

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene