The Seventeenth Saying (Part 12)

And The Man continued addressing the Mariners, saying:

“‘Light beings will always exist wherever there is Light. Wherever God points a finger, wherever there is a manifestation of Light, beings will appear within that Light. From such higher forms evolved Man. In view of what has been said, it is within the realm of possibility that our own earth evolved out of the sun, or portions of the sun. Higher beings, as part of this solar “stuff,” could very well have evolved down to a lower scale as physical beings of matter.

“‘This School has come forth at a time when the world is ignorant of these great Teachings, just as it is ignorant of Man’s heritage as a spiritual being. The world is truly ignorant of the real message of Jesus and now also of Jamil. It is actually ignorant of the power that rests with the mind and Consciousness of Man, and of the fields that envelop his material being. In spite of all scientific theories, and the many schools of metaphysics that claim to know the means, the fact remains that no institution or school possesses these secrets. It is essential that you, in our School, learn early to look beyond yourselves; and understand the meaning of spirituality, because if one views life from a selfish viewpoint, one will never understand the meaning of God and the meaning of the Teachings of this great School of Light.

“‘There must be a School in the End Times to teach a sacred body of men and women this knowledge so that they may preserve life on the planet and be responsible for creating a New Race of Man who, in effect, could halt the death of the planet and bring about its transformation into a spiritual world of Light. This is the whole concept of our Teachings.

“‘To a solar adept, the idea of the world changing into Light is not any more fantastic than the idea of an atomic explosion is to modern Man. However, because of ignorance and inability to understand, the concept of the world changing to Light is, to modern Man, as fantastic as the concept of atomic explosion would have been to a primitive mind. However, though Man has created the modern world, he is still at the beginning of what he is capable of creating.

“‘The very fact that matter can be transformed into energy proves that energy can be transformed into something else, such as intelligence, or as in this case, Consciousness. What I am trying to say, in so many words, is that when we enter into the realm of Consciousness, and when we project ourselves into the sun, we are penetrating dimensions of tremendous power and force.’”

I trust you experienced special benefits in and from the Light during this year’s Second Advent Vigil which commemorates the birth of the Sun of Righteousness and the New Advent of God that dawned in 1962. Let us now resume our review of the Seventeenth Saying of Jamil.

The Seventeenth Saying (Part 11)

“The Second Mariner asked another question saying, ‘Is Man’s negative effect on the sun then an indirect product of his ignorance and desire to follow intellect as opposed to a direct effect on the sun by beings or powers of a Darker nature? Or are both occurring?’

“And he answered The Mariner saying, ‘It is both. For example, Jesus spoke about the Essenic concept that the earth and the cosmos would be destroyed by fire. This same idea was taught in ancient Egypt, Greece, Persia, and Babylonia. And according to the ancient concept of Quetzalcoatl, the sun had to be kept alive by sacrifice or it would die. The perverted version of this idea was that blood had to be shed to keep the sun alive. This misinterpretation was also present in the Hebrew concept of sacrificing blood to Jehovah, or the Christian concept that Jesus shed his blood as an atonement for Man’s sins. It is all the same basic idea. Christians will argue the point, but basically, it is the same concept.

“‘The higher concept of the Essenes was that Man had to sacrifice a pure mind and a pure heart to be able to restore the sun. The Essenes believed that if they did not continue to do this, the sun would die and the end of the world would occur. Of course, the Jewish world did more or less end with the destruction of Jerusalem. The early Christian or Messianist Community believed the whole world would come to an end; however, prior to this occurrence, Christians would come out of the Church in apostasy to prepare for the Second Coming of God who would recreate the world and restore it to its original form before Man’s fall in the Garden of Eden.

“‘All living things have a predetermined life span. Man’s life on earth is predetermined to be three score and ten years, more or less. The planet has a specific life span because it is a living thing. How long will it live? We do not know, but if it becomes diseased before its normal life span is completed, it can die prematurely. That is logical. This is the condition that we find ourselves in today. People can say, “That is ridiculous. The world will not die. It always has been and it will always be.” It is like saying, “I will never get sick and I will never die.” Most people really like to believe that there is going to be an exception in their case, that they are going to live forever. But nobody ever does – the planet is not going to, and the sun is not going to. The human race, like the planet and our sun, is doomed to extinction. It is inevitable. Without a planet, the race could not be sustained. Without a sun, the planet could not be sustained. When the sun dies, the planet must die and all life must cease. That spells the end of Man. Does this mean the cessation of all life in the solar system? It certainly means the end for what we know as Man.

“‘Therefore, a person who is concerned about this end, who wishes to go beyond the limitations of material existence by means of higher forms of Consciousness, and who wishes to explore those dimensions wherein dwells his or her higher Consciousness that survives bodily death, is, above all persons, very realistic, practical, and intelligent. The world today is basing its whole reality on bodily existence, and is not concerned about the world of the spirit, that is, about non-materiality. The world of modern Man is occupied with politics, economics and survival. He looks to nothing beyond this life, for his materialistic attitudes tell him there is nothing more to look forward to after death claims the body.

“‘Man, especially a secular scientist or a materialist, would say that there cannot be any kind of a revealed religion because there is nothing to reveal – there is no other source and no other higher authority except the state and the institutions of the world. This is a very limited point of view. What happened to the Roman authorities or the Greek authorities or to the authorities of Persia or of Egypt? They all passed away, yet people today think that their institutions of learning and their own great civilization will endure. Of course, this is not true. We should learn from history that nothing endures, nothing.

“‘Someday our scientists and our sciences will all be dust. There will be nothing left but “life” continuing on the planet. We do not know what species of living forms will inherit the world tomorrow. We of this School teach that it is not going to be Man as we know him today, that material Man is going to become extinct, whether he likes it or not because he is destined to destroy the very system that sustains him. Imagine the consequences if Man polluted the oceans and cut down all the trees. There would not be enough oxygen to support life as we know it. What would exist? Some form of lower life that would evolve and inherit the earth? It is inevitable that that creature would become heir to all of the knowledge around us. Now, would that lower life stand up and walk like a man? Probably not. Secular sciences would have us believe that that is what would happen according to their ideas of evolution of the species. On the other hand, Man’s spirit would not be destroyed by a lack of oxygen any more than Man’s spirit is destroyed by the loss of the body.’”