“Commune with your soul within, and consider how wonderfully you are created. Meditate long upon your nature, contemplate the powers you possess. Consider your needs and desires; thus, you will find the proper path through life and a sure guide to direct your footsteps.

“As the union of heat and tinder produces fire, so does the union of soul and body produce life in man.

“Nothing is constant in life, except wisdom, knowledge and skill. Life ebbs and flows, as the tide and the fortunes of men wax and wane as the moon. The rich become poor, and the poor become rich. The powerful become weak, and the weak become powerful. Where the stream flowed

yesteryear is now dust, and the cooling waters have moved elsewhere. The lakes of last season have joined the wilderness, and the dykes have become pits. Fortune smiles upon the improvident, and misfortune smites the worthy. Men are born handsome or ugly, rich or poor; they inherit a life of ease or a life of struggle.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:1-3)

Commune With your Spirit

We should commune with our Spirit and contemplate how wonderful it is that we have been created with an immortal Soul, giving us the possibility of an eternal life in heaven. That eternal life is not guaranteed, but must be earned by awakening and developing our spiritual faculties and by obeying the Law of God.

Consider Needs and Desires

Considering your needs and desires doesn’t mean that you should give in to all your desires, but that you should learn to distinguish between real needs and physical desires that are often harmful to the process of awakening and developing the spiritual faculties. As for the powers we possess, this again is not talking about physical strength or other physical abilities, but our spiritual powers that few are aware of. As Jesus is reported to have said, “Have faith the size of a mustard seed, and when you tell a mountain to move, it will move.” In other words, when you truly believe in the unlimited power of spirit, you will be able to do miraculous things.

Union of Soul and Body

The true union of the body and soul does produce life. The ancients said this because they didn’t consider the body by itself a living thing. After all, its life is temporary. But when we successfully unite body, mind, and Spirit, we become truly immortal.

Nothing is Constant

The physical realm is all about change. Beings get old and die. Some who were poor get rich, and some who were rich become poor. Fertile land becomes desert, and desert becomes fertile land. The great Sahara Desert was once fertile land. Some do inherit a life of ease, while others get one of constant struggle, but such things can change, and often do. Some of the wealthiest people of today were once poor. Of course, true wealth comes from wisdom and knowledge, not material goods. So develop your spiritual Self, and gain wisdom and knowledge.

“He is not a New God but the Oldest God of All, the Father of All Ages, the Ancient One of yore. He requires no temple to establish His glory or sacrifice to give Him strength. A cheerful nature is more acceptable to this God than offerings of gold and silver by the bad-tempered man, or the sacrificial ox of the churlish man. He prefers the man who gives a willing hand to his neighbor, to one who brings Him treasure.

“A word of encouragement to a man in distress is of more value to Our God than loud praises in His temple. He does not take all and remain mute. He seeks not gifts with no purpose, or wasteful sacrifices. What can man give that will add to His glory? What thing fashioned by man could benefit the One God, who by taking thought could create a universe?

‘Work for Our God, and He will work for you. He remembers well the man, who labors on His behalf. He who labors to the benefit of others works for the Great God. He who improves Earth works for Him.

“The purpose of man’s sojourn on Earth is the glorification of man, not the glorification of God, who is the All Glorious One. Thus it is written in the plans of God.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:2:33-35)

Not a New God

While Christianity may be a relatively new religion, that doesn’t mean the God of Christianity is a new god. I’m not talking about Jesus, who many worship as god, but the True God that Jesus called “Father”. This is the same God worshipped by the Essenes and Pythagorians, among others. Simply because these old religions predated Christianity doesn’t mean they worshiped false gods.

No Sacrifices Required

While false gods may like sacrifices of blood and burnt offerings, the true God has no need, or desire, for such sacrifices. As the creator of all that is real, there is nothing we can give God that isn’t already His. The one sacrifice He desires is that we serve His Will and obey His Laws.

The One God, Who could Create a Universe

The true God is the one who created the real universe, the permanent universe of Spirit. The Universe of matter, which the Demiurge created, is a deformed and temporary creation full of death, disease, and suffering. None of those horrors exists in the realm of the True God of Spirit.

Work for God and God Will Work for You

God wants to save all of humanity, but He helps those who do His Work on Earth. That work is to help in the process of turning the deformed realm of matter back into Spirit. God wants us to help in that process, which means that we must first awaken and develop our own Spiritual faculties. Until we do that, we cannot truly understand God and what He wants from us.

Glorification of Man

This statement can be easily misunderstood. It doesn’t mean that we should worship other Men, or put the laws of man ahead of the Laws of God. It means that we must each achieve the glory God wants of us by developing our Spiritual faculties until we reach that high level of consciousness where we become One with the All, One with God and the Angels in Heaven.