Allow me to convey my very best wishes to you as we enter a brand new year, as well as a new decade. I am optimistic about the future of our Community. I hope you and your loved ones experienced a special and blessed Christmas-Epiphany Season. We in Reno concluded the sunrise vigil with a spectacular Divine Service on January 6th, which was preceded by our traditional annual banquet and festivities at the Rectory-Abbey on January 5th.

This month, we will be concluding our review of The Tenth Saying of Jamil and then be going on to the Eleventh Saying. So, let us continue with commentary from The Man.

The Tenth Saying (Part 14 of our series)

“‘In our religion we profess a belief that holds God to be the cause of all living things, one who occupies no place in time and no particular space. He is greater than Being, or Form, or even Consciousness. This religion teaches that in order to overcome death of the physical body one must generate a new body of Light which is nourished on the Light given by God through the Sun of Righteousness. Within the Light of this Sun dwells the Word of God, the Logos. The Logos incarnates within Man’s Spirit and gives him new life. Therefore, this religion is one that believes in the True God – the One God – which is manifest in all living things. We teach our members how to generate this body of Light and how to communicate with God through higher powers of Consciousness. If Man is to return to God and participate in his divinity, he must-needs generate a spiritual nature as was taught by the holy teachers of revealed religions. We share with these religions the Way of Light and return to God. This religion has come forth into the world because The Way has been lost to the old religions.

“‘Man is free to believe in whatever he wishes to believe. It is the right of science, or materialism, or technology, or secular religion, to claim that it has the only way to Man’s salvation. But the fact remains there is only one way to generate a Light body – just as there is only one way to propagate children. The way is self-evident. Such is our System.

“‘All of us here want our families to live. It is because of our dedication to this Teaching that some day we may be able to help our families. We hope to be able to help all people, as Jesus and Jamil and great holy men and women of times past are helping people today because they want people to know God. But Man must taste of death, he must know the Darkness before he can walk back to God. In this respect, perhaps death need not be permanent.

“‘Either our Teachings are right or they are wrong. Either the religions of the world today are teaching The Way or not. Each has to ask himself that. I can only say that I cannot worship a god that demands blood. I cannot worship a god that would throw any person into Hell forever because that person sinned out of ignorance. I believe in the goodness of God. I believe that God offers redemption and salvation for every creature on the face of the Earth. This is what I have dedicated my life to. And I am sure that you believe the same thing.

“‘We must have faith. We must have hope that God will redeem all men and women. This is all we can do, nothing more. Each is free to give their life to what they believe in; either country, or church, or religion of whatever denomination. No member of this Church will ever accuse a person of being wrong because he or she belongs to another religion. It is not for us to think that Man is going to taste death, and that we are going to taste life everlasting because we are a very special breed. It may turn out that way, but it is not by our own wish. It is perhaps by the Will of God or by the laws of nature that this will happen, but not by our choice. We know there is one way only by which to generate a Light body and spiritual Consciousness. God has given us the manner by which to accomplish this. Our mission is to instruct people in this system.’”

I look forward to sharing with you further next week.

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

January 1, 2020
New Year’s Day

On this the first day of Christmas, I send you my warmest personal regards. As you know, we in the Reno Community will gather each morning at the Consecrated Sanctuary for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas with a final Sunrise Divine Service on the morning of Epiphany, January 6th. These are days of special blessing, and I encourage you to commune with us through the Sun of Righteousness. In the meantime, we will continue with the commentaries of the Tenth Saying.

The Tenth Saying (Part 12 of our series)

And, again, The Man continued.

“‘It is our responsibility to create a Community that can illuminate Mankind through The System. Because we love our fellow human being, it is our sacred obligation to teach others. This is best accomplished by dedication to The Community. Therefore, we must unite together in Community; and by so doing, other people will emulate us. In Community, we will be able to help more than if we try to teach on an individual level. Our task should be to point people’s eyes toward the Sun and The Teaching, so they can break away from the drugged state and become free under God. And once people have done so, they will see that society and secular institutions and the ways of the world are not the proper way to become inspired or to become immortal.

“‘Each individual can acknowledge and accept The System and the Community life in a free manner, by their own free choice. They must accept it openly, democratically. It must not be by fear that they do this, because they do not want to die. Once they accept The Teachings as free men and women, then they share in Community life as higher individuals. The problem of the world is that it leads large numbers of people into a useless life. We can say that society, science, technology, the social governments are feeding people, giving them a good life, better than they may have had in the past. But that does not change the fact that the populace is only encouraged to keep the existing social system alive. The world’s institutions, including our institutions of learning, are on a collision course. What they are teaching is detrimental to the ultimate goal of humanity, which is to find God and participate in its own immortality and divinity.

“‘Even though the world has produced an advanced social system, it is polluting nature and the human mind, dominating humankind in such a way that people are reduced to human machines geared to produce and consume. Money dictates and dominates their very lives. People in power and those in position can to large degree determine the life of the individual and society simply by manipulating the economic world. A person has no dignity under those conditions. He is a slave. And even though he is free to walk the streets, he is not free to make his own choice as to how his children are going to be educated or how he is going to live his life. He has little choice as to how he is going to live his daily life. He might say: “I want to go to the beach today. I want to lie in the sun. I want to think. I want to know why I am here. I want to know God. I want to know the meaning of life. I want to know the course of my destiny, or the course of my family’s destiny. Where is God?” But he has little time for these thoughts. His whole life is geared to earning money and spending it. That is all he has time to do. It is not proper for a man or a woman to dedicate their entire lives to earning a living; there are more important interests in life. To think, to grow spiritually, requires the major portion of one’s life. Because people are caught up in the need for money, they have no time to see other values which are important to their being. Therefore, it is our task to change the motivations and directions of humanity.

“‘We must accept, first, that the world’s institutions, governments, political structures are involved with the Y Factor and with the Z Factor. So these institutions, world society, political structures have to be reshaped. And this can only be done from within these structures by the people who form them. The people must be learned and enlightened. This System can do that. Once illuminated, people by their own free choice can change those institutions and structures in world society. It is not our task to change the world, or to save it, but to enlighten the minds of people – to free them so they can go into the world and reshape the destiny of Man. This is our task, and we must be very clear on this. Time is running out because these institutions of learning and world systems are archaic. They are not in tune with the Sun. They are not in tune with nature anymore. They are directing mankind on a collision course in which nature will rebel.

“‘Man cannot defy the laws of nature for long. Man can make rules and laws. He can publish documents and papers enforcing the laws he has made, but that doesn’t mean the laws are right or that nature must listen to them. Man can follow them because Man is a slave. But nature follows her own rules – those laid down by God. These laws change with time. What was good for Mankind a hundred years ago may not be good for him today. Man has lost the ability to live with nature. His technologies, his sciences, have tried to dominate nature and are in conflict with it. Man says: “I will defy nature.” He thrusts into the ocean a large pylon of iron. That pylon stands for a time until, little by little, the ocean begins to eat it away. Soon there is nothing. The elements continuously work on all things. They work on Man, eventually contributing to his death. Everything in nature is worked down, ground, polished, destroyed. What is to become of the world if this process is not broken? We break it by creating bodies of Light and by working with God. Cosolargy is a cosmological system that is designed to restore Man’s lost ability to live in harmony with nature and, most of all, to teach Man how to live in harmony with the Messianic Sun, which is altering the environment in which we live. Our object is to establish a Community that is universal, one that can appeal to people of all nations. Once Man is motivated by the X Factor, by Christ, then Man’s sciences, and his technologies, and his social structures will change.’”

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

The Tenth Saying (Part 11 of our series)

And The Man continued.

“‘Man holds his destiny in his own hands. He has all the ingredients for immortality. And God has provided the means for Man to attain his own immortality. But, in the final analysis, Man is responsible for his own evolution. The result of his actions are his own doing. God cannot be held responsible for Man’s actions. In view of this, if anyone is to be blamed for the condition of the world, it is Man.

“‘Every person illuminated by the Sun of Righteousness has the obligation to share that teaching with others. If he does not share The Teaching, his illumination will be taken from him. God wants all to be saved. The Sun shines on every person equally. God does not give you, or me, or anyone of us, more Sun than he does another human being. We are all equal in that respect. In another respect, all people are not equal in that some are richer than others; some are maimed, ill, blind; and many are not in possession of normal intelligence. Others, by accident, chance or fate, suffer and die earlier than others. I suppose this is a kind of injustice – this partiality and difference among individual men and women. But none of us made the world nor the laws that govern it. Each of us has to make it a better place in which to live. It is a hard teaching when one is told that one’s mother, or father, or brother, or sister, or daughter, or son or friend who does not apply The Teaching will not gain immortality and enter the Worlds of Light. How can this be, we ask? Where is the justice of God? Which of us loves his family or friends less because they do not apply The Teaching? None of us feels differently toward those who turn from the Teachings. We still love them; and God’s love is no less than ours. But God has told us through illuminated prophets that there is a Way to attain immortality, and if it is to be gained, we must-needs follow The Way with all of our hearts and all of our beings else we lose it forever. Are we to believe our Lord and Maker or our own limited rational minds which reason logically not by what is right or true, but like a computer that has been programmed with limited knowledge and is therefore limited and restricted in its powers to know?

“‘The world lives. We are the products of our mothers and fathers. We inherit the world as it is. And mankind kills itself because of ignorance of higher life. There is nothing as sad to behold as the human life that is lost through ignorance, both physical and spiritual. Wars, accidents, famine, flood, pestilence, disease, earthquakes, all combine to destroy mankind. I see no justice in this loss whatsoever. It is hard for me to understand. The only answer I have is one of simplicity: we must believe enlightened prophets of God who tell us how to escape the world and save our own lives. It is like Noah, in the biblical allegory, who called out to mankind to save itself, but saved himself and animal life by building an ark that survived the flood. He might have chosen to drown with the world, but in fact he decided to live. He took precautions as we must take. Therefore, let each one submit to the polishing so they may shine forth as a brilliant jewel to give light and life unto themselves first, and then to others; one cannot give to others what one has not oneself.

“‘God has sent us a messenger of Light, Jamil, who came in perilous times. He has given us a pre-knowledge of things to come. We have but to apply The System in order to transform ourselves and the world into an immortal state. The choice is ours. And herein is the justice of God who loves us. We can but inform others of the message and let each person decide for themselves, with dignity, whether he or she will follow The System or not. In this also, there is justice. It is unfortunate that Man is, to a great degree, governed by reason and logic of mind that is dictated by those intellectual processes formed from the moment of birth, by observation: of the seen world. Until spiritual faculties are developed, Man has no concept of the unseen world of sensations. Until spiritual faculties are developed, it is difficult for Man to understand that there exists much more to life than is observed. This is the value of The System – it enables the spiritual faculties to develop through a practical method.

“‘The actions of people are dictated by their culture: schools, institutions, professional bodies, news media – all predetermine what and how people think. To try to break them from established patterns is extremely difficult. Therefore, when you who are following the Teachings of Light try to illuminate your fellow and they reject this, it does not change the fact that they are asleep, and are going to die as a natural order of events. This is a hard teaching.

“‘You have two choices: you may join others and perish, or you may dedicate your whole being to the service of God in Community, according to the revealed Teachings so that you may be immortal because you love God and want to listen to your Father. It is that simple. If you try to find any other solution, any other answer to the question, you will only confuse yourself. You have to learn to accept ignorance and pain as it is—quietly, and calmly, and without judgement. The world is what Man, in combination with Darkness, has made it; a sorrowful thing indeed. There is a great advantage to faith. If you have faith in the goodness of God, then believe in the Teachings of Light and be saved.’”

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