The Tenth Saying (Part 8 of our series)

“And now it was mid-afternoon and the seafarers all went up on deck to look at the Sun. After this, they took food and drink. And when they had returned to the table, the Third Mariner said: ‘We have spoken of two types of people: Men and women of the Earth and men and women of the Spiritual Worlds, those dominated by Darkness and those dominated by Light. If our mission in The Community is to gather together the preordained, those willed by God to form a Community of Light in this world, what is our mission in relation to other men and women of the world, the people who are dominated by Darkness and people of the Earth who are trapped by the more sensual feelings of lower vibrations? Is there hope for these people, as well as for those who are preordained to follow the path of Light? Is there a place in The Community, is there work in The Community, for these people.’

“Turning to the seaman and his fellow Companion of Light, The Man said: ‘Let us suppose there are two people, a man and a woman, twenty years of age, very much in love. They marry under the canopy and the marriage is consummated. The woman becomes pregnant and a very healthy, beautiful child is born and received into the church. Now, let us suppose that there is an old man, a bachelor, ninety years old, and an old maid eighty-eight years of age who are past the age of child bearing. And the woman says, “How be it that I cannot have a child? How be it that God favors the young people with children and not me?” An observer might say God is unjust: He gives children to the young and denies the old. Jesus said, “pick up your cross and follow me.” We know from our own teachings that to benefit in The Teaching we must dedicate our life freely to this work; there can be no halfway. If there were another way that would allow all people to become enlightened without applying The System, if there were a way for old people to have children, perhaps this would have been divined or willed by a higher being than ourselves. But as far as we know, and from what we have been taught by Jamil, unless individuals dedicate their entire beings to The Community, and unless they receive the Light of the Sun of Righteousness into their being, there can be no salvation for them. This is a very hard teaching; but remember the first Christians who died in the Coliseum dedicated themselves to the Way of Christ without question; they believed in what their Master told them.

“‘Today, people of the modern world do not have the same dedication. They see no reason to give up their lives simply because of a belief. Now, if men and women in times past gave up their lives for their belief, if holy prophets told their followers that they must devote their lives entirely to the Light to be saved, then I would assume that the same applies to us today. We do not understand the workings of God and we do not understand all of the workings of nature. If you cut a vein and let all your blood flow out, you do indeed die. There may be people who would criticize this fact. Why would God let a poor man die just because he can’t stop the blood from flowing out? I don’t know why that is, but I do know that if you do not regenerate yourself with Light you die. It is that simple.

“‘We will be criticized for our beliefs by a large segment of humanity that is naturally opposed to any exclusive order. But it is fundamental that some beings are immortal and others are not. Some would say that all people have an equal right to divinity, just as did Jesus and holy prophets of times past, even though they don’t work for it. Such people want to be redeemed by the dedication and effort of others, just as the old couple who want a child reserved for the young. This cannot be.

“‘Life and the times change. Each age is different. The laws of Cosolargy are universal. I am sure the laws of Cosolargy were in effect many, many centuries ago under a different name, but because of the changing times in the world, Cosolargy, or The Way, must adapt to a new age. The Sun of Righteousness has appeared in the heavens. Those of times past did not have that sun to work with. Why did God give those of us of today the Sun of Righteousness and not to ancient man? Perhaps God did give it and it was rejected. I believe one of the main problems with humans is they are always judging God. They question His Ways. They argue among themselves. They find it difficult to sacrifice. They find it difficult to give up the ways of the world. They are selfish. They desire illumination and immortality without striving for it. And when they don’t get it, they blame God.

“‘To understand religion and the teachings of holy prophets, the mind and the spirit have to be disciplined. We need to study the lives of holy teachers, and especially the life of Jamil. Each of these stressed the Light, community and, above all, the need to break away from the world with its emphasis on material ways. These holy teachers are models for us to follow, and that is perhaps why they have come into the world. Why have all the teachers, Jamil, Jesus, and many others, said there is a need to free humanity? Humanity does not have the power to free itself.

“‘In order for the brain to free itself, it must have energy to liberate itself. Everything in the world is regulated, motivated, by a system that is organized and uses energy. All living things are nothing more than an organized colony of individual units that burn energy, whether it is food, or water, or oxygen, or whatever it may be. This church teaches that Man requires spiritual energy by which to run his spiritual faculties. You cannot nourish the Spirit, you cannot bring into being a spiritual Consciousness, by reading books or by simply eating food that nourishes the mind and body. Spiritual life requires spiritual energy by which to manifest and function. People are trapped in matter; to liberate themselves they must rise out of matter, and to do that requires energy. The source of that energy is the Sun. And within that energy of the Sun is the Word of God, which is knowledge enabling man and woman to have a dialogue with Him. Individuals learn how to use solar energy and apply The Word by The System we are teaching in Cosolargy. It was taught in its original form by the great inspired holy ones of times past who brought into being the inspired religions. But people rejected those teachings because they were difficult.

“‘Many will ask, “Why do I have to be different from other people?” Jamil, the messenger of God, taught that we must be different if we are to be redeemed from the Earth. We are changed by consuming the food given by God in a certain manner. To give you an example, there is a passage in Corinthians, Chapter 11, verses 27 to 30 , which reads thus: “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”

“‘What is meant by this? It says, to rephrase it, whoever eats of the bread and drinks of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty or undeserving of this ritual. Therefore, let one be very careful to examine himself before he drinks of the cup and eats of the bread, because whoever eats and drinks unworthily, drinks and eats himself to damnation, which means a form of extinction. And, continuing, all you have to do is look around you, because many people who are taking the Lord’s bread and drink in vain are not only weak, but sick and dead, or dying. Now, we know that the New Testament is filled with allegory. And this is one example, probably one of the most important in the whole text of the New Testament. We know that a person is not going to get sick by eating bread and drinking wine at communion; there must be another answer here.

“‘We know that in the early days of the Christian Community, before the formation of the orthodox or organized Church, the catechumens, the beginners in the teaching, received the bread and the wine in a ceremony; the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the wine symbolized a communal meal. But as they advanced and were introduced into the Church and became initiates, fellows received into the body of the Church, they then took a higher form of communion. This is why Paul says in the New Testament, “Let the young in the Church drink milk and let those that grow eat the meat of the Teaching.”

“‘In the early Christian Church, people were being taught to look at the Sun. It was a grave thing to look at the Sun if one was not doing it in the correct way. That is what is meant here. The New Testament is steeped in allegory and there are no inspired teachers today who possess the oral tradition given by Jesus to interpret it. Therefore, we have people rationalizing, applying their logical minds to holy writ and arriving at supposed answers which people are following.

“‘A man or woman who goes to a church on Sunday is not going to be saved, according to the True Teachings of Christ; that is apparent. A man, a woman, must change their lives in order to be able to take the Light of the Sun worthily without harm. This Teaching of the Church of Cosolargy regarding the techniques of the Sun is a very basic teaching. Unless you have faith in God and unless you believe in Christ, and unless you have been received into the invisible Church of God with His Blessing, you are unable to take the Sun into your eyes without negating. It is not possible. I have seen a large number of people looking at the Sun and I have seen the aftereffects.

“‘There is something precious and something unique about taking the Sun in Community. We do have, even though we are small in number, a very special grace that is bestowed upon us by Jamil, our patron. He has a personal interest in us. And he is accompanied by all of the holy teachers of times past; they are all working for the fulfillment of this Church. What we need to do is to apply the Teachings properly.

“‘Needless to say, any world religion must be universal. It must appeal to people of all races and all creeds and all languages and all beliefs. And it must be suited to them that they may follow it. But for individuals to truly live the life of The Teachings, they must abandon the world that is geared to the economics of life and make The Teachings and The Community the dominant way of life.’”

For those of you in the United States, I wish you and your families a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving.

The Tenth Saying (Part 7 of our series)

“After the Man finished speaking the Fourth Mariner said: ‘You mentioned earlier that those coming to the Community are preordained to do this work. What is the meaning of preordained? Does it start at birth?

“And the Man answered saying: ‘All human beings have two natures, one of Light and the other of Darkness. Either the Light principal or the Dark principal is dominant. The majority of humans are under the influence of Darkness and thus of the Earth. But when the Logos or Word of God incarnates within the Light nature of a human being, the soul is born through a spiritual conception. And that human being is immortal and never suffers death in the ordinary sense because their soul, once conceived, never dies. If a human being aspires to the Light and becomes immortal, then they existed before their coming into the material world. With their spiritual birth they become the chosen of God, the preordained. This is a difficult concept to understand by the rational mind. We each must accept the idea that once a person experiences spiritual birth, the newly-born soul overcomes the limitations of time as we know it on Earth, and that person becomes conscious of having existed before earthly life. Once born, the soul becomes co-eternal with God. Thus the preordained are those who existed with God from the beginning. Once a person has been reborn, they then must withdraw from the ways of the world and live in Community with other immortals of Light. For the Community of Light on Earth is a model of the Community in heaven. It is only people of Darkness – those who have not been illuminated by God’s Word – who desire to live in the world. Not all people wish to follow the ways of Light. They prefer the world and the Darkness of the soul. This is why people of ancient times rejected the teachings of Jesus. They could not understand him so they put him away. One cannot say that the people who rejected the teachings of Jesus, or those who had him judicially murdered were illuminated people of Light. They were of the world and under the influence of Darkness. They were by no means immortal. They suffered death and passed away from the memory of Man. Some people believe that death is only transitory, that all human beings are God, a concept particularly believed among people of oriental religions. This is not a valid concept. If it were, there would be no need for inspired people of God to come into the world revealing high religion.

“‘Think about the concept of the preordained. If you are immortal then you have always been, and always will be. You are co-eternal with God. God’s Word, the Logos, has incarnated within your being. You have been accepted by God, and exist with Him. Such beings as these will build this religion. Our task is to go into the world to gather the wheat from the tares. If we consume our energies by teaching people of the world or of Darkness they will laugh and mock us, and perhaps kill us. Therefore, there are divisions among people as there are divisions among nations. As there is spirit there is matter. As there is Light there is Darkness. People of Light, like Jesus, and Jamil, and other holy teachers, descend into the world of matter and Darkness from the lofty abodes of Light in order to illuminate people of Light who would ascend to heaven. The descent has always been by free choice – that is, people of Light are here because they wish to redeem their fallen comrades from the Earth. I would not question that you all are the preordained who have chosen to come here because of your love of mankind.’

“And the Fourth Mariner asked another question: ‘Then “preordained” could be defined as pre-existent or pre-selected for a certain mission, which the individual can choose, or not choose, as they exercise their free will prior to earthly life?’ And The Man answered the question saying, ‘If a person comes into the Teachings, and receives his or her baptism of fire, it is as if that person had been asleep. Once awakened by the Sun, they have remembrances that they were once beings of Light who pre-existed the world. Again, it is as if they had been awakened to true reality and, once awakened, are freed from the hold of the material world. But once freed, they must unite in Community or be purged in a world that is dominated by Darkness. As their beings are illuminated by the Sun of Righteousness, they turn to it for survival and not to the world. I admit it is difficult to grasp the meaning of this teaching. We have been taught to believe there is a beginning, a middle and an end; that we are born, live and die. It is hard to understand that the preordained have always been and always will be. Even more difficult to accept is that some human beings are not pre-existent. Regardless of this, Man holds the power to recreate itself through the Messianic Sun as given by God. Since Man is created in the Image of God, he shares in the power to recreate himself. On the material level this power is demonstrated through procreation of children. On the spiritual level it is demonstrated through spiritual procreation.

“‘Man is co-creator with his Creator, but being one step removed from God and the Worlds of Light, when Man generates children, they are not as beings of Light, but as mortals. God has sent His Word into the world through the Light to call people back to their true nature and original state. Thus Man can be created by God a second time. But Man can reject the second birth by his own free will and by so doing denies his true nature and preexistence.’”

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