WEEKLY MESSAGE: May 4, 2022

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

The Twenty-second Saying (Part 13)

“And another of the Companions said, ‘I do not know of any race of people which does not have a religious concept. Is the search for God imbedded in the archetype?’

“‘It is taught in this School,’ replied The Man, ‘that man and woman have a spirit. And that spirit continually yearns to have life and to be nurtured. And that is why there will continually be some form of religious expression, even if it is not the ultimate form. The religions of the world preserve our religious yearnings and make it possible for us to someday find the Truth, because God’s Image and Word will always manifest and He will always send Proclaimers or Messengers into the world to proclaim the Truth. And once that Truth and The Way are known to man and woman, they will then live it.

“‘This brings us back to the City and the Nation we must found. This is to be a Nation of people of the Eternal Race who are representative of the new people with new sights and new goals beyond politics, economics, and the military. But we can never turn from these things until we are truly spiritual. People in the world today want to free themselves from the control of the State. They want to free themselves from law and order and social restraint and economic control. In wanting to be free, they find or seek escape in the use of drugs, in metaphysical speculation, in materialistic or humanistic viewpoints, in music, art, or poetry. They desire to be liberated – to break away from conformity. These acts only lead them deeper into error of matter and the self. In the end, they become enslaved to their emotions and to their desires. It is almost as if people are seeking their own destruction. They are rebelling because they cannot find ultimate and True Religion. This fact explains the great need for our Church to instruct the awaiting masses of the world. But in order for this to happen, our Church must be totally free to teach the Truth as revealed to us without hindrance.

“‘Our communion of bread and water is a symbol of unity and of our humanness. We ask God to endow that bread and water with a special blessing, which, in a way, prepares us to receive the greater blessing in the Sun of Righteousness whereof we eat the True Bread of Life and drink the Living Waters of God. Thus we have a lower and a higher form of religious expression.

“‘If we as spiritual beings die, we cannot help the world. If we seek our death, we cannot instruct humankind. Therefore, it appears that we must accept our spiritual Origin and Nature as well as our human nature and responsibility to the world to instruct humanity and free them from the Powers of Darkness that hold the innocent in a grip of death. Once we are reborn – made spiritual – we remember our origins and our true natures and begin to see that we are immortal. As Jesus taught, “Before Abraham was I am.”

“‘By our instructing the ignorant of the world in the Ways of God, this world will change into spirit. First, individuals will collect together into a Community; the members of that Community will collect into a Nation, and that Nation will instruct other nations. Eventually, all the nations of the world will form into a whole, and then God’s Word and Image will manifest and engulf the world and it will be restored to spirit. That is the concept.

“‘Therefore, as men and women of spirit, we must think beyond the Christian religion. We must think beyond any world religion and think in terms of a universal religion. As Americans, we must think beyond America and think in terms of a spiritual Nation. In essence, we are creating or generating a kind of spiritual revolution that will cause men and women to let go of those powers that control them – economics, politics, the military, social restraints – and refuse to be governed by the Powers of Darkness. It is a great war that we are involved in – a war of peace, a war of conquest and of triumph – God’s Instruments by which this will be achieved are the Sun of Righteousness and the human Soul.’”