In this Community, we know that the Christian churches that claim to have succeeded the ministry of Jesus have not carried on the tradition of spiritual rebirth as taught by him. Furthermore, they have not preserved the Sacred Teachings on the source of Divine Nourishment – a prerequisite to a reborn Soul – as proclaimed by Jesus, nor have they preserved knowledge of The Way that was essential to his followers.

Like the priests of the orthodox sects in control of the Temple in Jerusalem, opposed by Jesus and his followers, the churches have carried on the more secular tradition of the old Law, making of Jesus a sacrifice to a wrathful and vengeful god as atonement for the sins of man. This secular tradition merely replaced the sacrifice of animals, thus preserving the worship of an earth deity, a practice common to the pagan religions of antiquity.

The Sacred Doctrine of the Appearance of God’s Image and Word as a living, creative Force regulated by Heavenly Law was lost by the persecution and martyrdom of Jesus’s followers. Thus, the knowledge of the True God entrusted into their care by Jesus as Messias, Teacher, and Interpreter of the Law was lost.

As a consequence, the churches became apostate, teaching the greatest of all heresies: That God’s Word is confined to the pages of biblical scripture. This heresy was compounded by the doctrine that salvation of the Soul is attained by faith and belief rather than by a spiritual transformation of the Spirit as a Divine Process regulated by the Living Word of God manifest in The Image of Light sent from Heaven, and not by written law, sacrament, dogma or creed.

Jesus – the Messenger of God, sent to teach The Way – was elevated to the Godhead, worshiped and adored as were the gods of primitive religions. Knowledge of The Way he revealed to his followers was rejected, misunderstood, and put aside.

Just as the Holy Spirit had departed Israel in earlier times with the breaking of the Covenant and the passing away of the prophets, the Holy Spirit departed Israel a second time with the crucifixion of Jesus. The Covenant had been renewed afresh by amendments and supplements under Jesus in a new and more meaningful manner. Jesus had revealed to his disciples the Way of the New Covenant and the fountainhead of the True Bread of Life.

And, as scripture says, they did eat and were satisfied according to The Word of God. The Light of God manifest in the spiritual Sun was their source of food during the daylight hours. God had given them Heavenly Bread to eat and the Living Waters of Fire. As a new generation of man that had evolved over countless centuries, the ascetic mystics under Jesus were able to absorb the rays of the sun according to sacred and ancient rites for which they were prepared – something not possible for the novice. Only at night, after the sun had set, did they eat of earthly food; and then, only with prayers, according to their tradition. By these means, God dwelled with those of the Righteous Community who disciplined their physical bodies while allowing their Spirits to commune with the Light manifest.

The New Covenant – declared by Jesus to the sect that had awaited his coming since their withdrawal into the desert away from the formalized religion of Israel – was to begin a new era for humanity; a returning to the Godhead and a renewal of the human Spirit in preparation for the coming Messianic Kingdom promised by God to be established at His Second Advent in the end times of the Earth.

As I emphasize, with the crucifixion of Jesus, the martyrdom of his disciples, and the continued persecution over time of the faithful remnant of the sect who preserved the Teachings revealed by Jesus, the sacred doctrines were lost to the later communities and churches who created a faith system out of the scattered teachings that remained. Hebrew scripture was seized upon and used as a basis for the new religion, proclaimed as Christianity in the ensuing centuries.

The formalized religion that followed did more to perpetuate orthodox Judaism and the Mosaic Law, with their emphasis on blood sacrifice and atonement, than it did to reveal the True God preached by Jesus. What followed, in place of the transforming spiritual Process of new birth and life as taught by Jesus exemplifying the new spiritual man, was a belief system of dogmatic concepts, worship, and symbolic ritualistic sacrifice, which only tended to give renewed life to older teachings.

The Holy Spirit — which had been renewed under Jesus and again at Pentecost when the manifesting Image and Word was declared, not in human speech but in the language of Spirit incarnating in those renewed Souls gathered under the spiritual Sun – for a second time departed the land and its people. However, in accordance with the prophecy of Jesus, God’s Light would shine forth in the Advent of His Final Appearance in greater magnitude than it had before.

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I was reading The Book of God’s Revelation the other day at our Saturday Communion of Fellowship service from, and I thought I would share with you some thoughts from that text because they struck me rather strongly.

The foremost prophecy of Jesus Christ was his proclamation of the coming Second Advent (or Second Coming) of God that would manifest as Divine Light – a Power that would renew the whole world by means of a seven- or eight-fold Light through the Messianic Sun whose rays would burn up wickedness and prepare the Righteous for the return of God. And this is what we teach: that the Second Advent or Second Coming is here. This, of course, is anathema to the traditional or “orthodox” churches and makes us, in ecclesiastical terms heretical or, at least, heterodox, i.e., not conforming to accepted and/or standard beliefs.

However, the Second Advent of God was the basis of the ministry of Jesus. This was the Divine Act he promised would come at a future age when God would manifest Himself as the Savior and Redeemer of the human family and the whole of Creation gone astray. Jesus preached on the Divine Process of procreation and rebirth of Man’s Soul in The Image of God as essential to immortality. The Process was not a matter of written law, scripture, or sacrifice but a Holy Act regulated by the Divine Laws of Heaven.

But, we should also realize that this supernatural act of cosmic rebirth in the End Times was to be preceded by The Tribulations. And this is something that many people forget. So it should be remembered and acknowledged that The Tribulations, which had been foretold by the former prophets, including Christ, is now what the world is undergoing and experiencing.

God is using the supernatural powers of Creation to redeem Souls that are part of His spiritual domain. Therefore, redemption is placed outside the realm of formalized doctrines inherent in the established churches and orthodox religions of the world. This is important to understand and something which these churches do not recognize or acknowledge themselves.

Jesus had also preached of the True God of Heaven, who was not the author of this world, and had declared that those reborn must put away the ways of the world and live The Way of God. This concept was embedded in the cosmology of the Essenes and later adopted by groups such as the Gnostic Christians. Jesus revealed to his disciples the Sacred Way – hidden from the world because of its hallowedness and held secret. They knew that humanity was the progeny of Dark Angels who, having fallen away from the Righteousness of God, lost the power of Spiritual Reason and caused to be generated the Dark Worlds which, in turn, generated the universe of matter.

Any person taking up The Way exposed themselves to the creative and generative forces of the Universe. Therefore, unless one led a disciplined life, a person, being subject to powers greater than one’s own human powers, would seek self-expression – as had the Dark Angels – and fall victim to their influence.

Since time immemorial, these Dark Angels had established themselves as gods over the peoples. As malevolent deities, they demanded sacrifice, appeasement, and enslavement of the human intellect. In exchange for such worship they offered material wealth and power. To any enlightened member of the Order, the result of their rule could be observed on all levels of human activity and in the transitory nature of life in a degenerate world.

The secular religion of the Jerusalem priesthood in control of the Temple, like so many state-regulated religions of the world at large, was deficient in knowledge of the True God preached by Jesus. The priesthood, ignorant of the True God, based their theology on a traditional form of worship, on sacrifice and levitical purity, on moral laws and written scripture that dominated their way of life.

The Temple priests considered the teachings of Jesus to be heretical and heterodox. He was punished and eventually put to death for attempting to alter that which was written. To them, the Teachings of Light were repugnant, abstract, impractical, without value, and threatening. This is a concept that is continued even today in our world, where materialism has replaced religion. Science, commercialism, and government are expected to improve the human condition at the expense of Divine Law and Divine Aid, although in reality Divine Law and Divine Aid regulate the human Spirit.

There is more that I’d like to share with you in this vein, so we will continue on this theme next week.

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Hello. I hope you are doing well and enjoying the season (Summer up North, and Winter down South).

This has been a very busy time for us here at the Community Center in Nevada. We came back from successful and productive trips both in Mexico and Japan, launched new websites for Cosolargy International (http://cosolargy.org) and the Healing Center at Steamboat Hot Springs (http://steamboatsprings.org), and are now fully preparing for this year’s annual Convocation which will run from Tuesday, September 3rd through Sunday the 8th.

As you may know, this year’s conference will also include a special extended two-day training seminar for our global representatives from Japan, Mexico and Australia on Cosolargy and Jamilian University operations as we roll out new outreach methods and procedures. This seminar will take place on Monday and Tuesday, September 9th and 10th and is by invitation only. Convocation is shaping up to be quite an exciting event as we also celebrate and commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Community in 1959, and I hope you will make every effort to attend.

It was asked of me the other day by a person inquiring into our System/School why we in this Community link spirituality and religion together “in a day and age when religion has very little to do with spirituality.” The individual asked for clarification, and I’d like to share with you my response. This is a common, good and valid question, and one which should always be answered. This is what I wrote:

“The first thing, I think, we need to differentiate between is True Religion and mundane religion. True Religion is the essence of the original teachings of the founders of the great religions before they were corrupted, perverted, changed, etc. This is what has happened to all the great religions over time. Therefore, in my estimation, all religions (or most, anyway) are mundane, meaning that they are earthly or worldly rather than heavenly or spiritual and therefore have become irrelevant in today’s world because they haven’t evolved, adapted or changed to address the cosmic/spiritual energies affecting humanity, the planet, the Universe, etc. today.

“This is why so many have turned away from religion and rightfully so because religion is stuck in the past. Jesus came to amend, supplement and bring new revelations to the Jewish religion of the day which had become stagnant. The Buddha endeavored to do the same with the Brahmin religion that had become corrupted and defiled. And so on. But in today’s world, the religions are stagnant and stuck in the past. So in that regard, it is good and fitting that people leave the old to make way for the new. But what is the new?

“If we speak about True Religion then there are universal and cosmic truths that do not change with the times. The purpose of True Religion is communication or communion with God/the Godhead. To communicate with God — which is Divine Energy, as you know — requires developing the means to do so, i.e., developing latent spiritual faculties which everyone posses but are dormant in the individual. The development of these spiritual faculties must be undertaken with care which translates to the application of certain disciplines and ethics in conjunction with the implementation of certain techniques which have been handed down from time immemorial. These practices have always been employed by those in high spiritual Orders. Please understand that I am not speaking of “religious” orders as we know them today.

“Therefore, the development of spiritual faculties is the domain of spiritual education and training with the ethics and disciplines of high religious order because we are dealing with complex levels of being — physical, emotional, psychological, psychic and spiritual. Providing an environment conducive to this activity is what a true religious Community does in a spiritual manner. These principles do not change from age to age. What does change are the revelations, supplements and amendments to the Teachings of Light that are given in each age according to its needs, as well as its level of ignorance. The world and the human family are in a new age. We require a new, highly spiritual religion which is dynamic and cosmic in nature. I believe this is what Cosolargy offers.

“I hope this addresses some of your concerns. Please feel free to contact me with any follow-ups you may have. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to visit our new website at http://cosolargy.org. I send you many blessings in Light+. Gene”

There is obviously a lot more to the answer than that. But it might give you some pointers the next time you are asked the same or a similar question. I look forward to resuming our weekly messages.

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