WEEKLY MESSAGE: August 17, 2022

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 4)

And The Man continued his discourse addressing the Companions of The Way.

“‘Let me demonstrate this point: If a religious person becomes ill, or suffers pain from an incurable disease, that person’s whole existence is dominated by that suffering and pain. What I am trying to say is that the physical or material being within the environment is the sole means of reality. If the world were to suddenly be plunged into great cold or great heat by the lack of or increase of heat from the sun, the body would cry out for warmth or coolness. Everything else would be blotted out of that being’s awareness. Man is a product of the environment.

“‘Although the world has many churches, temples and synagogues for the worship of God, or of a god, any great world calamity, such as a deluge or some other catastrophe, would cause people to flee holy places because they are consumed with a great desire to live. The physical environment dominates humans. They have nothing else to measure reality by except the physical environment experienced by means of the physical senses.

“‘The same thing takes place on the mental and psychic levels. We are also victims of our environment on those levels. We respond to the Powers of Darkness to an enormous degree. Most people do not realize how strong Evil is. It is very strong. In our own ignorance and innocence, we believe we can overcome Evil and Darkness which, by ourselves, we cannot. It can only be done with the help of God. But how do we find God? Only by living The Way.

“‘The physical world is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, dominated and controlled by the radiations of the sun. The psychic world – the world of the fourth dimension, which is beyond our own visible dimension – is dictated to by the tremendous Powers of Darkness. And these Powers unquestionably exist. There is God, the True Maker of the original Creation, and there is the world of the third dimension that evolved out of the lesser world of the fourth dimension. And we are the product of a maker who is not the True God.

“‘Christian and Jewish scriptures state that God created the world. Thus people believe God is a person or being who created this physical world with all of its pain and suffering. In olden days, in the Hebrew as in most of the early religions of the past, animals were sacrificed to this god. Today, we have a Christian religion that says beautiful things but does not practice them, for the most part. Christians have been the cause of extinction of many peoples, many races. They have been the cause of many wars. They do not practice what they preach. And the reason is that people are like the god they worship, which is a blood-thirsty, vengeful god.

“‘If you read the Old Testament, you will find yourself a stranger from the god depicted therein. That is not a god of reason, an illuminated or enlightened being. However, people cling to this version of God because they have nothing better. And large numbers of people in the world, especially those of the Buddhist, Brahmin or Hindu worlds, do not have much respect for the Christian religion because of that fact. But Christians and Jews cling to that god because they do not know any different.'”