In concluding our theme of the last two weeks, we know of the eternal struggle on Earth, over the long history of the human race, between the Powers of Darkness and the Powers of Light. Darkness, in its perpetual efforts to bind humankind to the illusory universe of matter – generated by rebellious Angels who withdrew from the Godhead before the sun and the stars and the world were born – inflicts with evil intention certain people who, by the incarnation of Dark Powers, lead the world astray. These wicked ones – who deceive, lie, falsify, and persecute the good – deny God and the immortality of the Spirit.

Subject to Darkness, they despise God. They are robbers of the Divine Doctrines bestowed upon the world by Righteous ones sent by the Powers of Light to alleviate a suffering mankind. They adulterate holy writ, thus corrupting the minds and Spirits of men and women, causing them to war against one another. Every day, they promote evil causes, which ultimately leads to the death of the races and perpetuates the Error of Darkness.

This being the case, humankind knows not the True Religion perpetuated by the Elect of God. Humanity scorns Divine Law and persecutes and sometimes puts to death the Holy Ones sent by God and the Powers of Light to liberate the human Spirit. These Holy Ones taught in every land and in every culture over the span of a thousand millennia, endeavoring to liberate the peoples of the Earth from the bondage of ignorance of God.

In the case of the Holy Covenant between Man and God in Israel, in the latter days of the Jewish nation before its defeat at the hands of the Romans, the remnant of Holy Ones who lived apart from the Jewish people attempted to restore the Temple and establish true worship, abrogating blood sacrifices. Moses had atoned for the sins of Israel. And as recorded in their literature and sacred scrolls, the struggle to cleanse Israel and institute prayer and righteous living of the True Way of God had been thwarted three separate times under three Messiahs: First, under the Prophet Messias of Israel; secondly, under the Priest Messias of Aaron and Israel; and thirdly, under the lay Messias, a prince of the line of David come for the salvation of Israel. Each Messiah had suffered death at the hands of secular and religious authorities.

The ministry of the Davidic Messiah, Jesus, was brought to an end by crucifixion. But before his passing from the world of the living, Jesus had proclaimed the coming of a future Age of Enlightenment when God would appear in the Heavens as a Great Light and as savior of the whole world.

The ancient prophets of the Righteous Race prophesied that after the completion of four cycles of seven times seventy years following the birth, ministry, and martyrdom of the final Messiah of Israel – in an age of earthly tribulation, war, turmoil, unrest, and social strife, an age of apostasy of the professing churches and a falling away from the true doctrines given to the world by those Holy Ones inspired of the Powers of Light – the Universal Messianic Age would commence and God would extend the True Bread of Life and the Waters of Truth at the Great Communion Banquet in which all Souls would share.

In holding to the ancient tradition, the followers of Jesus prayed to God each day while facing the sun at its rising. With hands stretched toward heaven, they implored the Creator to reappear and deliver the world. They asked for His Redeeming Light that had been withdrawn from the world with the fall of the Angels of Darkness who had led Adam and Eve into the degeneration of matter.

They prayed with humble heart and devout Soul for God to reveal Himself, to illuminate the heavens with that Great Light that had glorified Adam and Eve before the Temptation. They asked God to incarnate The Image of Himself in a Messianic Sun that would shine sevenfold in strength to blind Satan and the Angels of Darkness and burn up the wickedness of evil for all time. And in their devotion they invoked the Sun to shine favorably upon the world, thus opposing the Evil One – the begetter of all human flesh and the generator of mortal life that is subject to impermanency and changeableness in a world of suffering, pain and sorrow, where all living things eat one another for life and slowly pass away into the oblivion of a deep sleep from which they never awaken.

The Righteous Ones knew that the True God of Spirit was not the Father of the world, but the Creator of Spiritual Realms removed from mortality: immortal realms of permanent Life, Peace, and Love where the Spirit of every living thing was nurtured by the Divine Presence. Though the Eternal Race passed away from the memory of man, it left to generations to come a sacred inheritance engraved on every human Spirit to assist them at the coming of God’s Day in their eternal struggle against that old enemy of Man, Satan, whose profoundly cruel and impious act of error annihilates all life and allows him to rule over a mute and lifeless universe for a time. Satan, not knowing that separation from God must end in extinction of even those Dark Worlds which are the offspring of God’s adversary, is the soulless Destroyer. But God would appear as the Heavenly Messiah in the end times of the Earth, and His Light would be softer than water for the Righteous and harder than rock for the wicked.

By the establishment of the New Covenant of Love and Mercy ruled by Divine Law, God has covered the earth with Redeeming Light to unite all separated Spirits and to restore them to Divine Order. God has assumed the role of Teacher and Instructor from the abode of Heaven. He has set His Power in the seat of the Sun to rule over the Earth by means of Intelligent Light and Energy beyond the reach of any human hand or corrupt government.

By means of the Creative Power of Light and Energy, God will clothe the races of the Earth in New Flesh to inherit a New World. A new humanity, created by God’s Light as successor to the former races generated out of Darkness,shall establish a New World of Truth and Justice ruled by God’s Divine Image and Word, which will result in the transformation of matter into incorruptible Spirit in a restored Creation in which Evil and Darkness would vanish forever.

Before the final Restoration, the world is to be purified by the bright rays of the sun. The races will be cleansed by the fire of the Holy Spirit for a healing and a blessing of Soul. And God shall speak to them out of the Light, and they will see His Image. And that race that endures will bathe in God’s Light and live on the Divine Presence as did the Creation before the generation of Darkness – the sun and stars and the worlds of matter – and it will share in the New Act of Creation.

Next week, in preparation for this year’s annual Community Convocation, we will be spending some time reviewing The Secret Sayings of Jamil.

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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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