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Blog Articles
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Brother Of Jesus
Brother Of Jesus
http://BrotherOfJesus.org
Intro To Original Gospel By Brother Of Jesus
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Introduction
The Unforgivable Sin Of The Church
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheUnforgivableSinOfTheChurch
The Great Lie About The Scriptures
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheGreatLie
Why Would God Permit The Gospels To Be Corrupted
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#WhyGodPermittedTheCorruptionOfTheGospels
The Spiritual
Holistic Lifestyle
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheSpiritualHolisticLifestyle
The Importance Of The Corrupted Gospels
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CorruptedGospelsImportant
The Natural Laws - Spiritual Maturity
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheNaturalLaws
The Corruption Of The Words Of God
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CorruptionOfGodsWords
Jesus The Anti-Christ
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#JesusTheAntiChrist
The Removal Of The Crucial
Teachings On the Pre-Existent Soul
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Removal
At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement
Acts 3:19
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Acts
Coverture-Marriage - Was Jesus God?
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureMarriage
The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage
Study On DNA Exchange
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#study
The Coverture-Marriage And The Tree Of Life
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureTreeOfLife
The foundation of the New Covenant
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#NewCovenant
The
Divine Manna - The Gospels - The foundation of the
New Covenant
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#NewCovenant
The One Teacher
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher
Reading The Law Of God
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#LawOfGod
The Condemnation Of Sects And Divisions
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CondemnationOfSects
The Purpose Of The Scriptures
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#ThePurposeOfTheScriptures
The Folly Of Liner-Derived Knowledge
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FollyOfLinearKnowledge
Re-Engineered Myths
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#ReEngineeredMyths
Alleged Text-Errors, Discordances And
Inconsistencies
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AllegedTextErrors
Fulfilling the Works and Miracles Of Jesus
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FulfillingGospelWorksMiracles
How
Did Jesus Become The Anointed
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#HowDidJesusBecomeTheAnointed
The Gospel Restoration
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheGospelRestoration
The Folly Of Collective Salvation
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CollectiveSalvationJustice
The Kingdom Within And The Cosmology Of Mind And
Being
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CosmologyOfMind
The Universal Truth Spanning Judaism, Christianity
And Islam
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#UniversalTruth
The Universal Path Of TheWay
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheUniversalPathOfTheWay
How Did Jesus Become The Son Of God
http://Ebionite.com/SonOfGod.htm
Reply To Bishop Spong
http://Ebionite.com/SonOfGod.htm#Spong

The Cosmology Of The Gospels
The Cosmology Of The Gospels
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com
The Four Gates Of The Mind
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#TheFourGates
The Octave And The Rainbow
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#TheOctaveAndTheRainbow
Symbols Of Esoteric Knowledge
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#SymbolsOfEsotericKnowledge
The One Teacher
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#TheOneTeacher
The Purpose Of The Scriptures
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#PurposeOfTheScriptures
The The Words of the Devil
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com/#WordOfTheDevil
The Spiritual Castration Of The Gospels
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#CastrationOfTheGospels
The Creation Of The Jesus God http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#CreationOfTheJesusGod
The Corruption Of The Words God Spoke To Mankind
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#CorruptionOfGodsWords
Turn About And Become As a Child
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#BecomeAChild
Stages Of Birth
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#StagesOfBirth
The Folly Of Literal/Historical Interpretations
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#LiteralInterpretativeFolly
The Bottom Line On The Scriptures
http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#BottomLineOnTheScriptures

Original Gospel
The Reality Of The Original Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com
Plain Text Original Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com/PlainText.htm
The True (Unknown) Nature And Reality Of The
Scriptures
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#UnknownTruth
You No Longer Have An Excuse
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#NoLongerHaveAnExcuse
The Flawed Foundation Of The Church
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#FlawedFoundation
Is The Scriptures Just Myth?
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Myth
The Process of Re-Engineering Beliefs, Myths &
Folklore
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Reengineering
Old Vs New Covenants
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OldVsNewCovenants
The True Miracle of the Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#GospelMiracle
Soul-Evolution - Reincarnation And Soul-Development
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SoulEvolution
The Three Causes Of Human Blindness
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#ThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness
The Cause Of Organic Human Blindness
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OrganicHumanBlindness
Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The
Invited Guests
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA
Spiritual DNA And The Sower And The Seed
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SowerAndSeed
Jesus Fulfilled The Law
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#JesusFulfilledTheLaw
The Original Design And Purpose Of The Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalDesign
The Original Spiritual Language Of The Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalLanguage
The Essene Foundation Of Judaism And Christianity
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#EsseneFoundation
The Books With The Power To Deceive
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#BooksWithPowerToDeceive
The Folly Of Bad Beliefs About God
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#BadBeliefsAboutGod
Can I Get An Original Pure Copy Of The Scriptures
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#PureCopyOfScriptures
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The Original Gospel Teachings Have Nothing In Common
With Modern Church Dogma
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalTeachings
The Essenes And The Dead Sea Scrolls
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Essene
Christ Before Jesus
http://OriginalGospel.ebionite.com/#ChristBeforeJesus
The Original Sin Of The
Church
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#TheOriginalSinOfTheChurch
The Ebionite Nazirenes
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Ebionite
A Purely Spiritual Kingdom
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualKingdom
Plain Text
http://originalgospel.ebionite.com/PlainText.htm
Plain Text Index
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com/PlainText.htm#Index

The Causal Factors OF Life
The Causal Factors Of Life
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org
Religious Exemptions From The Royal Law
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ReligiousExemptions
Why You Don't Understand The Causal-Factors of Life
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#WhyYouDontUnderstand
The Intellectual Red Line In The Sand Of Human
Consciousness
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheIntellectualRedLine
Jacob's Ladder
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JacobsLadder
The Union Of Science And Spirituality
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#UnionOfScienceAndSpirituality
The Empty And Full Mind Paradigms Of Life
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#EmptyFullMindParadigms
The Disconnected World Of Scientism
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheDisconnectedWorldOfScientism
The Emergence Of Science Against Scientism
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ScienceAgainstScientism
The Trinitarian Cosmology Of Mind
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TrinitarianCosmologyOfMind
The Causal Factors And The Original Gospel
Teachings
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCausalFactorAndTheGospel
The Laws From A Deist Perspective
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ADeistPerspectiveOfTheLaws
Go Out No More
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#GoOutNoMore
The Three Causes Of Human Blindness
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness
Jesus Teaches The Causal Factors Of Life
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JesusTeachesTheCausalFactorsOfLife
The Purpose Of The Natural Laws And The Prison
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ThePrison
Secondary Karma, The Prison, And The Chickens That
Come Home To Roost
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#SecondaryKarma
The Causal Factors And The Corrupted Teaching On
Children
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCorruptedTeachingsOnChildren
The Causal Factors And The Talents
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCausalFactorsAndTheTalents
The Return To Eden And Dorothy's Ruby Slippers
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#RubySlippers
Understanding The Intelligent Universe
- The Clock Maker vs Jalopy Universe
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ClockMakerUniverse
Fulfilling And Overcoming The Natural Law
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#FulfillingTheLaw
The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity
The Original Sin Of The Church
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#OriginalSinOfTheChurch
Index of Causal Factor
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#Index

Devil's Spawn
Christianity - The Devil's Spawn
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com
Faith-Based Christians Barred From Teaching
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#ChristiansBarredFromTeaching
The Death Of The Gospels
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#DeathOfTheGospel
The Spiritual Castration Of The Gospels
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#SpiritualCastrationOfTheGospel
JumpingTime http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#JumpingTime
The Four Stages Of Birth
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#FourStagesOfBirth
The Folly Of Original Sin
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#FollyOfOriginalSin
A Church Divided - Carnal vs Spiritual
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#ChurchDivided
The Logos/Son Of God
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#LogosSonOfGod
The Dogmatic Belief In Jesus
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#DogmaticBeliefInJesus
The Inner Spiritual Path
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheInnerSpiritualPath
OrthodoxVsGnosticChristianity
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#OrthodoxVsGnosticChristianity
The Scriptures As The Key Of Knowledge:
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#KeyOfKnowledge
The Ebionite Heresy
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheEbioniteHeresy
Entering Eden's Gate Within
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#EnteringThroughEdensGate
The Modern Franken-Culture
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#FrankenCulture
The Return Of The Prodigal Son To The Edenic Kingdom
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#ReturnOfTheProdigalSon
When The Door To The Kingdom Closes - Master Of The
House
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#MasterOfTheHouse
The Astral Realm Hell
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheAstralRealmHell
The Enigma Of Concrete Matter
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#EnigmaOfSolidMatter
The Hell of Time
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheHellOfTime
"Make a tree good and its
fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit
will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. You
brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say
anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart,
the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things
out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man
brings evil things out of his evil store of
treasure" (Matt 12:33-35).
"You snakes, you offspring
of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of
hell?" (Matt 23:33)
you "have neglected
the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and
mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you
should have done without neglecting the others"
(Matt 23:33)
The Lie
The Lie Of The Church
http://TheLie.org
The Fallacy Of Salvation By Faith Alone
http://TheLie.org#sacrifice
Minister Of Sin
http://TheLie.org#MinisterOfSin
Christians Worse Off Than Unbelievers
http://TheLie.org#WorseOffThanTheUnbelievers
Cast Out Of The Bosom Of Christ
http://TheLie.org#BosomOfChrist
Judgment Of Those Who Drink From The Cup Of The Lord
Unworthily
http://TheLie.org#cup
Pre-Nicene Christianity
http://TheLie.org#PreNiceneChurch
God Uses The Modern Church Even Though It Remains
Spiritually Disenfranchised
http://TheLie.org#error
SoulSelf.org
http://SoulSelf.org
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Soul Self
http://SoulSelf.org
The
Soul - Thomas Paine's Rights Of Man And Emerson's
Oversoul
http://SoulSelf.org#RightsOfMan#RightsOfMan#RightsOfMan
The
Esoteric Feminine Mystique
http://SoulSelf.org#EsotericFeminineMystique
The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind
http://SoulSelf.org#IntuitiveVsLinear
The Intuitive Mind vs Linear-Rational
http://SoulSelf.org#IntuitiveVsLinear
The Opening And Unlocking Of The Mind
http://SoulSelf.org#OpeningAndUnlockingTheMind
Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature
http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature
Animal Sacrifice And The Living
Temple
http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalSacrifice
Gender
Blindness http://SoulSelf.org#GenderBlindness
Sexual
Immorality http://SoulSelf.org#SexualImmorality
Woman As Man's Help-Meet And Savior
http://SoulSelf.org#HelpMeet
Breaking
Out Of The Time Continuum Box http://SoulSelf.org#Time
Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image
http://SoulSelf.org#EmbryonicSoulImage
The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man
http://SoulSelf.org#EnigmaOfTime
Soul-Symphony - Time -
Soul-Octaves - Spiritual Cathedral
http://SoulSelf.org#SoulSymphony
Transcending Time
http://SoulSelf.org#TranscendingTime
The
Evolving Soul http://SoulSelf.org/#TheEvolvingSoul
The Source Of Soul-Light
http://SoulSelf.org/#SourceOfSoulLight
The Source Of Soul-Light
Pt2 - The Vertical Slice Of Creation:
http://SoulSelf.org#VerticalSliceOfCreation
Thought Animated Symbols
http://SoulSelf.org#ThoughtAnimatedSymbols
The Scriptures And The Light Of Spiritually
Advanced Souls
http://SoulSelf.org#SpirituallyAdvancedSouls
The Matrix And Soul-Mind
http://SoulSelf.org#MatrixOfMind
The Way Of The Monk
http://SoulSelf.org#monk
Why There Is No Reincarnation
http://SoulSelf.org#NoReincarnation
The True Self
http://SoulSelf.org#TheTrueSelf
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An Inconvenient Truth
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An Inconvenient Truth
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org
A Confrontation With A Long Ignored Reality
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#AConfrontationWithReality
Written By An Original Author
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#WrittenByAnOriginalAuthor
The UnForgivable Spiritual Blasphemy Of The Church
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#UnforgivableSpiritualBlasphemyOfTheChurch
Spiritual Amnesia
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia
Arrested Mental Development
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#ArrestedMentalDevelopment
Anamnesis -
Innate Knowledge Of The Truth Of All Truths:
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#Innate
The
Great Question
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#TheGreatQuestion
Is The Mind Of An Infant Empty?
Animal-Soul
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal
Animals That Walk In The
Form Of Man
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#WalkInFormOfMan
Animal
Sacrifice And The Living Temple
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#AnimalTemple
The True (Unknown) Nature And Reality Of The
Scriptures
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#NatureAndRealityOfTheScriptures
Original Design Of
The Gospels
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OriginalDesign
The Original
Spiritual Language
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OriginalLanguage
The Essene Foundation
Of Judaism And Christianity
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#TheEsseneFoundation
The Books With The
Power To Deceive
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#BooksWithPowerToDeceive
Can I Get An Original
Pure Copy Of The Gospels
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#PureCopyOfScriptures
The
Historical Dilemma: http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#HistoricalDilemma
The Fatal
Error Of The Church http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#FatalError
The Bible As A Trojan Horse
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#TrojanHorse
The Books With The Power To Deceive
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#BooksWithPowerToDeceive
The Hidden Reality Of The Old Testament
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OldTestament
The Folly Of Original Sin:
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OriginalSin
The Spiritual Void That Created Original Sin
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OriginalSinVoid
In The
House http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#InTheHouse
What Jesus
Do You Perceive http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#WhatJesus
Flawed Human Reasoning
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#FlawedHumanReasoning
The Gospels And The PreExistent Soul That Evolves To
Perfection In Many Lifetimes
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#TheGospelAndThePreExistentSoul
Outer Darkness
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Outer Darkness
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org
The Truth
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTruth
The True Facts And Realities Of Life
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTrueRealityOfFacts
The Parable
Of The Prodigal Son http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#prodigal
Why Can't Truth Exist In This World
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TruthCannotExistInThisWorld
Science Proves Religion
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#ScienceProves
The Folly Of Atheists
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#FollyOfAtheists
The Great Allegory Of Mind And Matter
- What Do We See?
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#AllegoryOfMindAndMatter
The Good Ground
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#GoodGround
The Counterfeit Church Foundation
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#CounterfeitChurch
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The Laws Of Creation
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsOfCreation
List Of Below
Subheadings That Are Part Of The Laws Of Creation
And The Laws That Control Our Lives Presentation
The Laws of the Two Creation Accounts
and how they intimately effect all of mankind.
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheTwoCreationAccounts
The Allegorical Fall of Man
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#FallOfMan
The Spiritual Sabbath
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#SpiritualSabbath
Received The Law From Angels - The Two Creation
Accounts
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#angels
The Princes or Powers Of The Left And Right Hands Of
God
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#princes
The Natural Laws - The Nature Of Evil - Simon Magus
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#NaturalLaws
Clockmaker Vs Jalopy Universe
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#ClockMaker
The Laws That Control Our
Lives
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives
The Labyrinth Of The Laws And The Outer Darkness Of
Mind And Being
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Labyrinth
Entering The Kingdom Of Man
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#EnteringTheKingdomOfMan
Living Bio-Feedback Organism
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#LivingBioFeedback
Everyday Is Judgment Day
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#JudgmentDay
Judgment Day - Evolving To Maturity Of Mind And
Being
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#EvolvingToMaturity
The Laws That Control Our Lives
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives
Mental Womb
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#MentalWomb
Entering
The Kingdom Of Man
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#EnteringTheKingdomOfMan
The Living
Bio-Feedback Organism
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#LivingBioFeedback
The
Labyrinth Of Laws and the Outer Darkness Of Mind And Being:
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Labyrinth
Our Evolving Self - The Being Of Light
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#BeingOfLight
Everyday Is
Judgment Day http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#JudgmentDay
Judgment
Day - Evolving To Maturity Of Mind And Being
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#EvolvingToMaturity
The Enigma
Of The Segmented Mind http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#SegmentedMind
The
Solution http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Solution
Triangulation - Overcoming The Tower Of Babel Syndrome - The Secret To
Mental/Spiritual Growth, Expansion and Soul-Birth
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Triangulation
Using
Triangulation - The Laws - The Spiritually Mature Mind Of Man
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org/#TheLawsAndTriangulation
The Outer
Darkness Of Mind And Being
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#OuterDarkness
The Dead
Know Nothing http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheDeadKnowNothing
The Prison
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#ThePrison
The True
Prophet
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TrueProphet
The One Who Was Sent - Who Is The True Prophet (
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheOneSent
The Escape
From Plato's Cave
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Escape
Plato's
Cave http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Cave
The Call To The
Wedding Banquette
TheCall To The Wedding Banquette
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org
The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With
Church Dogma
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#OriginalTeachings
The Essenes
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#Essene
The Ebionites
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#Ebionite
Spiritual Apostasy
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#SpiritualApostasy
Baptism - The Required Wedding Garment
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#TheWeddingGarment
The Faux-Baptism Of The Church
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#ChurchFauxBaptism
The Sin Of The Defiled Wedding Garment
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#DefiledWeddingGarment
Faux-Christians Who Are Not Christian
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#FauxChristians
The Allotment Of Talents
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#AllotmentOfTalents
The Talents And A Person's Spiritual DNA
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#SpiritualDNA
Sacraments Of The New Covenant
Sacraments Of The New Covenant
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org
The Doctrine Of Faith Apart From Actions
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#FaithApartFromActions
The Spiritual Abuse Of The Gospel Sacraments
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#SpiritualAbuseOfSacraments
What About The Law Of Grace? Are You Saved? Gospel
Of Thomas Saying 44
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#LawOfGrace
The Parable Of TheCall
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TheCall
Baptism - The Required Wedding Garment
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TheRequiredWeddingGarment
What About The Sinner's Prayer
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#SinnersPrayer
The Eucharist -- The Wedding Feast
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#Eucharist
Receiving The Spiritual Eucharist - Who Can Receive
It
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#ReceivingEucharist
Baptism As A Divine Marriage
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#BaptismAsADivineMarriage
The Celebration Of Baptism As A Divine Marriage
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#CelebrationOfBaptism
Grace And Redemption From The Sins Of Ignorance
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#GraceAndRedemption
The True Christian Knows The Truth
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TrueChristianKnowsTheTruth
The Sacrament Of Baptism
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TheSacramentOfBaptism
The Eucharist As The Wedding Feast
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#Eucharist
Receiving The Spiritual Eucharist - Who Can Receive
It
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#ReceivingEucharist
Sacrament Of Marriage
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#SacramentOfMarriage
The Living Temple And Man's Lower Animal Nature
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TempleAnimalSacrifice
In
the Homilies of Clement, Peter conveys to the
believer that it is a sin to seek out any other
teacher than the True Prophet -- as seen in the
words: "But the ways in
which this garment may be spotted are these: If any
one withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all,
receiving another teacher besides Christ".
The Sacrament Of Marriage
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#SacramentOfMarriage
The Living Temple And Man's Animal Nature
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#TempleAnimalSacrifice
The Law Of Grace
http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#LawOfGrace

The Ten Words
http://TheTenWords.com
The Ebionite Nazirene Witness
http://TheTenWords.com#Ebionite
The Greatest Hoax Perpetrated Upon Mankind
http://TheTenWords.com#TheGreatestHoax
The Missing Gospel Essence
http://TheTenWords.com#TheMissingGospelEssence
The Earliest Of Christian Documents
http://TheTenWords.com#Didache
The Trinity
http://TheTenWords.com#Trinity
Christ Before Jesus
http://TheTenWords.com#ChristBeforeJesus
The Pre-Nicene Gentile Witness
http://TheTenWords.com#Gentile
Bible Corruption
http://BibleCorruption.com
Most Important Gospels Never Given To The Gentiles
http://BibleCorruption.com#error
Original Scriptures Written In Hebrew Characters
http://BibleCorruption.com#HebrewCharacters
Codex Bezae
http://BibleCorruption.com#bezae
The Insertion Of The Trinity
http://BibleCorruption.com#trinity
Interpolations To Support Government
http://BibleCorruption.com#InterpolationsToSupportGovernment
The Great Commission
http://BibleCorruption.com#TheGreatCommission
Interpolations Alleged To Be Ebionite And Gnostic
http://BibleCorruption.com#EbioniteInterpolations
Gathered In The Bosom Of Christ
http://BibleCorruption.com#bosom
The Creation Of The Jesus-god
http://BibleCorruption.com#CreationOfJesusGod
The Spiritual Kingdom
http://BibleCorruption.com#kingdom
The Removal Of The Mystery Of The Children
http://BibleCorruption.com#children
The Virgin Birth
http://BibleCorruption.com#VirginBirth
Spiirtual
Groups A Seeker Can Join
FaceBook Groups http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#FaceBook
Original Spiritual Christianity
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OriginalSpiritualChristianity/
Ebionite Nazirenes Of TheWay
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2116895261877456/
TheWay
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gnosic/
Christian Reincarnation
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristianReincarnation/
Christian Tree Of Life
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristianTreeOfLife/
Lilith - The Denomic Reality Of The Modern Feminist
Movement
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LilithTheDemonicRealityOfFeminism/
Thomas Paine Redux
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ThomasPaineRedux/
South African Ebionites Of TheWay
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthAfricaEbionites/
TheWay
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gnosic
Spiritual Friends & Spiritual Topics Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spiritualfriendsandtopics
Deism For The World
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeismForTheWorld
Spiritual Praying Deists
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spiritualprayingdeists
Non-FaceBook Groups/Forums
Essene Ebionite Nazirene Group
https://EsseneEbioniteNazirenesOfTheWay.groups.io/g/main
Christian Reincarnation
https://esseneebionitenazirenesoftheway.groups.io/g/ChristianReincarnation
The Nazirene Library
https://esseneebionitenazirenesoftheway.groups.io/g/NazireneLibrary
OTHER
The mind of organic man is embryonic, and must be
developed beyond natural human levels of
comprehension in order to begin to understand man's
own higher Soul-Realty. My Soul lived as Jacob
who they call James, the Brother of Yeshua who they
call Jesus -- and in that life I authored the core
original Gospel written in Hebrew Characters.
Unless you have transformed the mind beyond organic
human levels of comprehension by TRAVAILIING in
TheWay, then it will be impossible for you to
comprehend the spiritual meaning of the scriptures,
or your own higher Soul-Reality.
Thus, how can I argue with my untransformed brothers
and sisters who have not learned directly from the
Source as I have -- regardless of the fact that
their ego-self believes they
know more than I do as the Original Author of
the Gospels?
Therefore, you cannot force someone to comprehend
what they are not yet ready to receive. Still, you
must never underestimate the power of Planting A
Seed.
Planting A Seed
http://BrotherOfJesus.org/PlantingASeed.htm
Shepherd Of Hermas
Shepherd Of Hermas
http://nazirene.org/shepherd_of_hermas.htm
Widows And Orphans
http://nazirene.org/shepherd_of_hermas.htm#widow
The Books Of Enoch
http://Nazirene.org/Enoch_intro.htm
The Lost Books Of Enoch
http://Nazirene.org/Enoch_intro.htm
The Essene Gospel Of Peace
http://Nazirene.org/essene_gospel_of_peace_book1.htm
The Epistle Of Christ To The Churches
http://Ebionite.com/EpistleOfChrist.htm
What Is The Meaning And Purpose of the Gospels from
the Perspective of the Original First-Century
Author? @ https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-cosmology-of-gospels.html
The Sower And The Seed
http://SowerAndTheSeed.Ebionite.com
Old
http://Messianic.Nazirene.org/sower_seed.html
The Children
The
Removal Of The Children
http://BrotherOfYeshua.com/children.htm
The
Importance Of The Children
http://BrotherOfYeshua.com/children.htm#importance
The Missing Verse Removed From The Gospels
http://BrotherOfYeshua.com/children.htm#TheMissingVerse
Divine Manna
http://divinemanna.nazirene.org/topbanner.jpg
Open The Eyes Of The Heart
http://DivineManna.org#EyesOfTheHeart
Original Gospel Teachings Have Nothing In Common
With Modern Dogma:
http://DivineManna.org#NothingInCommon
Cosmology Of Mind And Being:
http://DivineManna.org#CosmologyOfMind
Christians Can't Receive The Divine Manna
http://DivineManna.org#ReceivingDivineManna
The Consecrated Life
The Consecrated Life
http://TheConsecratedLife.com
The Living Consecrated Temple
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#temple
Charles Fillmore & Unity Church
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#unity
Cleansing The Temple - Ellen G. White
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#adventist
The Final Temple
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#temple
The Truth About Animal Sacrifice
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#AnimalSacrifice
The Enlightened Jewish Perspective
http://TheConsecratedLife.com/#EnlightenedJewishPerspective
The Nazirene Vow
http://TheConsecratedLife.com#NazireneVow
The Church Of The AntiChrist
http://Ebionite.com/AntiChrist.htm
Seat Belt
http://Ebionite.com/seatbelt.htm
Science Proves Religion
http://Ebionite.com/seatbelt.htm#ScienceProvesReligion
The Scientific Refutation Of Darwin
http://Ebionite.com/seatbelt#science
Mystery Of The Gospel
Mystery Of The Gospel
http://Mystery.Nazirene.org
Can You Just Read The Scriptures
http://Mystery.Nazirene.org#Intro
Inoculations - A Christian Biblical Perspective
http://Inoculations.Ebionite.com
Ebionite Nazirene Restoration Community Of North
Carolina
http://NorthCarolina.Ebionite.com
The Law of Octaves
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com
Tesla - The Bridge Between Religion And Science
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#bridge
Tesla - Frequency And Vibration Of Mind
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Tesla
Tesla - The Universal Source Of Knowledge
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#UniversalSourceOfKnowledge
Energy Consciousness
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#EnergyConsciousness
The Plight Of The Prodigal Son
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#ProdigalSon
The Process Of Fulfilling The Law
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#OctavesFulfillingLaw
The Seduction Of The Prodigal Son
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#SeductionOfProdigalSon
The Narrow Gate And The Enigma Of The Law Of Octaves
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Intro
The Eyes Only See At The Level Of Comprehension
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheEyesOnlySee
The Test Of The Law Of Octaves
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheTest
The Cosmology Of Mind - The Law Of Octaves And The
Narrow Gate
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#CosmologyOfMind
The Formula For Wholeness And The Octaves
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Formula
The Law Of Octaves And The Cross
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross
The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own
Crucifixion
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross
The Essence Of A Coverture-Union Marriage
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Essence
Balanced Wholeness
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#BalancedWholeness
The War On Women
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheWarOnWomen
The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#FoundationOfACovertureMarriage
The Coverture-Marriage And The Tree Of Life
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#CovertureMarriageTreeOfLife
The Laws Of Nature And The Law of Octaves
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com/#TwistingOfTheOctaves
The Octaves And The Fulfilling Of The Law
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#OctavesFulfillingLaw
The Application Of The Law Of Octaves And The Real
Trinity
The Twisting of Law at the Third Interval
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Third
Being Of Light
Being Of Light
http://BeingOfLight.com
FaceBook Censorship
http://BeingOfLight.com#FaceBook
Become Your True-Self
Self-Identify As A Trans-Human Being Of Light
Escape the Human Closet of
Man Or Woman
Transcend All Sexism,
Racism And Elitism
Your Real Self is a Being Of Light
http://BeingOfLight.com

Metaphysical Bible Dictionary
https://www.truthunity.net/mbd
http://TheGift.Nazirene.org

http://thegift.nazirene.org/1132662.png
TheGift is a three part mini-series presenting what
the New Testament authors portrayed as the
Incomprehensible Mysteries of the Soul and Creation
-- ultra-important teachings that were suppressed by
the Church. The Restored Gospel teachings can
be found at
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com . While
to their own detriment modern Christians ignore the
warning of Paul that because organic
"natural" man is
of an "animal-soul"
level of consciousness, and that he is incapable of
comprehending the spiritual meaning of the Gospel
(see Organic Man
Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature @
http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature ).
Further ignoring the warning of Paul that what they
believe is a series of allegorical Gospel accounts
(see An Inconvenient Truth @
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org ) that can only
be perceived and understood by the few who possess
the "eyes to see"
-- and the transformed mind that permits the
seeker/disciple to understand what is
incomprehensible to organic
"natural" man.
Meme GodWithin
What I have written is not assumptions. It is a fact
that if you had developed your inward higher
attributes of mind, that you would see and
understand with an enlightened and knowing
consciousness. As portrayed in the image below, it
is all in the assentation of mind in order to
embrace Full-Blown Mystical Experience that connects
you with your Source -- i.e., God. It is not a
matter of belief -- but rather, of development. It
is therefore a given Fact of Life. It's like
the undeveloped person's mind achieving Spiritual
Mental Puberty. The process of Spiritual
Maturity is a guaranteed Fact of Life. I
don't have to personally know you -- it is all in
your words and SELF-KNOWLEDGE that you express.
Everyone who makes the effort, is guaranteed to
ascend up the proverbial Jacob's Ladder of spiritual
advancement.
Tree Of Life
http://treeoflife.nazirene.org/Vitruvian-Tree-Final-Op.jpg
Tree Of Life
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org
Wholeness of Mind & Being
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#wholeness
The End Times - Armageddon/Rapture - The Coming Of The
Kingdom
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#EndTimes
Proper Scripture Interpretation
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#ProperScriptureInterpretation
Achieving Wholeness Of Self
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AchievingWholeness
The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation
The Application Of The Law Of Octaves And The
Trinity
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LawOfOctaves
The Twisting of Law at the Third Interval:
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TwistingOFTheOctave
The Octaves And The Narrow Gate:
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#OctavesAndTheNarrowGate
The Octave Test Through The Narrow Gate
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#OctaveTestNarrowGate
The Law Of Opposites
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LawOfOpposites
The Law Of Action And Reaction -- All Actions
Initiate An Opposite Re-Action
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AllActionsInitiateTheirOpposite
The Divine Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheDivineMind
The Trinity - Divine Pattern - Linear vs
Intuitive Development Of The Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org/#Trinity
Linear Vs Intuitive Development Of Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LinearVsIntuitive
The Cause Of Gender-Violence
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#GenderViolence
The Ignorant Anti-Perception Of Women
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#IgnorantAntiPerceptionOfWomen
Women Who Promote Feminine Gender Abuse
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#FeminienGenderAbuse
Mystics Perception - Women Created On A Higher
Plane Than Men
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#HigherPlane
The Twelve Within The Twelve
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation
Oneness Within The Third-Force Morphic Field
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#XYXX
Lack Of Development Beyond The Organic
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LackOfDevelopment
The Restoral Of Adam And Eve
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#RestoralOfAdamEve
The Holographic Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheHolographicMind
The Nazirene Vow And The Holographic Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#NazireneVow
The Holographic Animal Consciousness
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheHolographicAnimalConsciousness
The Evolving Soul
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheEvolvingSoul
The Source Of Soul-Light
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#SourceOfSoulLight
The Source Of Soul-Light Pt.2 - The Vertical Slice
Of Creation
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#VerticalSliceOfCreation
Soul-Breath And The Common Ground Of The Fourth
Kingdom
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheCommonGround
The Formation Of Our Lower Earthly Animal
Consciousness
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LowerEarthlyAnimalConsciousness
Thought Animated Symbols
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#ThoughtAnimatedSymbols
The Light Of Spiritually Advanced Souls
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#SpirituallyAdvancedSouls
The Matrix Of Soul-Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#MatrixOfMind
The
Ten Sphere Tree Of Life
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#JewishTreeOfLife
Academia
And The Feminist Cultural War On Women
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AcademiaWarOnWomen
"Blessed
are those who do His commandments, that they may
have the right to the tree of life, and may enter
through the gates into the city. But outside are
dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and
practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ). If the
text of the Revelation represented the end of the
world, as is commonly believed by the majority of
Christians today, then we must pose the question:
Why are those who remain outside the city portrayed
as
"dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters,
and whoever loves and practices a lie"?
Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples personal
tribulation described as the
"pangs of
birth", as he
endeavors to overcome his own lower carnal nature
through the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the
flesh, in order that he can possess the Knowledge of
the fruit of the Tree of Life, transcend the natural
barriers of this world, and
"enter
through the gates into the city".
The Gospel Of Thomas
The Gospel Of Thomas
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org
http://gospelofthomas.nazirene.org/Thomas1.jpg
The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't
Comprehend
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#GospelEnigma
The Unwanted Truth That Makes Men Free
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#TheUnwantedTruth
The Restored Foundation
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org/#TheRestoredFoundation
Saying 84 - The Foundation Of The Soul And The
Threefold Self
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#84
The Gospels Embody The Principles Of Anamnesis
http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#Anamnesis
"(3)
Jesus said ...But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty and it is you who are that poverty".
"Jesus
said to them,
When you make the two one, and
when you make the inside like the outside and the
outside like the inside, and the above like the
below, and when you make the male and the female one
and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female;
...then will you enter the kingdom."
(5) Jesus said,
"Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is
hidden from you will become plain to you
The Three Lies
http://TheThreeLies.com
Books With The Power To Deceive
http://TheThreeLies.com#PowerToDeceive
The Folly Of The NDE Critic
http://TheThreeLies.com#NDE_Critic
Books With The Power To Deceive
http://TheThreeLies.com#PowerToDeceive
The Reality Of The Virgin Birth
http://TheThreeLies.com/#VirginBirth
Joseph - The Generative Power Of The Kingdom
http://TheThreeLies.com/#GenerativePower
The Cosmic Ovum And Sperm
http://TheThreeLies.com#CosmicOvumAndSperm
Key Of Knowledge
http://brotherofyeshua.com/ImageKeyOfKnowledge.jpeg
Key of
Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org
The Inner Kingdom
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#InnerKingdom
Application Of The Key Of Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge
The Two Ways - New vs Old Covenants
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#TheTwoWays
The True Prophet
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#TrueProphet
Christians Blocked From Being Taught By Indwelling
Logos
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ChristiansBlocked
Turn About And Become As a Child
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#TurnAbout
The Fatal
Error Of The Church http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third
Language Of The Soul
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#LanguageOfTheSoul
Inconsistencies Intentionally Written Into The
Scriptures
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#Inconsistencies
The Rejection Of All Human Opinion:
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#HumanOpinion
Is The Gospels Copied From Other Religious Sources
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#copied
That the Ebionite
disciples of Jesus were enlightened to the spiritual
meaning of the Torah, and did not observe it
outwardly in ritual and tradition in the manner of
the Jews, is the reason why Epiphanius wrote that
they
"do not accept Moses'
Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they
reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me,
and will blaspheme most of the legislation"
(Panarion 30.18.7-9). For them to be
accused of "blaspheming
most of the legislation", means that
they did not at all observe the Torah in accordance
with the letter of the written word -- but rather,
they understood the allegorical symbolism that was
applicable to unlocking the inner door to the
Kingdom.
Know Thyself
Know Thyself
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org
The Conflict Of The Ignorant
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ConflictOfTheIgnorant
The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And
Fallacious-Religion
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles
Science Vs Scientism
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism
Mental Barrier
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalBarrier
The True Facts And Realities Of Life
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife
The Findings Of The Physicist
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist
Science Acknowledges Blindness Of Organic Man
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#_Science_Acknowledges_Human_Blindness
Plato - The Physicist
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato
The Supernatural Self
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TheSupernaturalSelf
Abstract Thought
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#AbstractThought
Wholeness And The Cosmology Of Mind
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#WholenessAndCosmologyOfMind
The Laws Of Nature And
Nature's God http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#LawOfNatureAndNaturesGod
Scientism And The Folly
Of The NDE And OOBE Critic
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#NDE_Critic
Wholeness And The Great Question Of Mind
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#WholenessAndTheGreatQuestionOfMind
The Folly Of The Theory of Evolution
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FollyOfEvolution
The Reality Of Mind
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#TheRealityOfMind
We Are All Connected Within The Mind OF God
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#WeAreAllConnected
The Science Delusion
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TheScienceDelusion
The Religious Delusion
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TheReligiousDelusion
The Human Condition
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TheHumanCondition
Time And The Enigma Of Self
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TimeAndTheEnigmaOfSelf
The Holographic Animal Consciousness
http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TheHolographicAnimalConsciousness
The Source Of Soul-Light
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#TheSourceOfSoulLight
Present And Future Exist At The Same Time
https://sciencephiles.com/a-new-theory-on-time-indicates-present-and-future-exist-simultaneously-2/?fbclid=IwAR1vcd32kq69V668SBRDE77n-vedWFJxG58C8hsuJ3dwJ4mTPFr9qQoAKZc
Lilith
Lilith - The Denomic Reality Of Modern Feminism
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org
The Modern Seduction Of Adam
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#SeductionOfEve
The Consequence Of (Gender) Ignorance
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#ConsequenceOfIgnorance
The Holographic Reality Of Gender
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#HolographicRealityOfGender
Never Have Sex With Someone You Don't Want To
Become
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#SexualImmorality -
Sexual Immorality
Help-Meet
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#Help-Meet
What You Didn't Know About Casual Sex - Cutting AKA
Cords - A Letter To Crystal
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#CuttingCords
Did Jesus Love The Woman At The Well
http://Lilith.Nazirene.org#WomanAtTheWell
Science Proves Religion
http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceProvesReligion
South
Africa
South African Ebionites
http://SouthAfrica.Ebionite.com
Past Lives of Tshiliso and Tsiu
http://SouthAfrica.Ebionite.com#Ernest
Thomas
Paine Redux
http://ThomasPaineRedux.com
The Foundation of Deism
http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#Foundation
American Exceptionalism http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#AmericanExceptionalism
Natural Law - The Deists And American
Exceptionalism
http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#AmericanExceptionalism
Spiritual Religion
http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#SpiritualReligion
Trump & The Restoration of Self-Government http://ThomasPaineRedux.Nazirene.org/SelfGovernment.htm
Deism
The Laws From A
Deist Perspective
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ADeistPerspectiveOfTheLaws
Understanding The Intelligent Universe - The Clock
Maker vs Jalopy Universe
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ClockMakerUniverse
Fulfilling And Overcoming
The Natural Law
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#FulfillingTheLaw
Giordano Bruno: "The soul
is not the body and it may be in one body or in
another, and pass from body to body"
"The divine perfection
of the individual soul is the aim of all
progression"
"Within every man there
is a soul-flame, kindled at the sun of thought,
which lends us wings whereby we may approach the sun
of knowledge."
"This principle in man moves and governs the body,
is superior to the body, and cannot be constrained
by it."
"Every act performed
brings its appropriate reward or punishment in
another life. In proportion as the soul has
conducted itself in a body, it determines for itself
its transition into another body."
"The Divine Light is
always in man, presenting itself to the senses and
to the comprehension, but man rejects it"
Wikipedia: "Bruno suggests
that we can now recognize the universal law which
controls the perpetual becoming of all things in an
infinite universe."
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish
to think with the masses or majority, merely because
the majority is the majority. Truth does not change
because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of
the people.” ~ Giordano Bruno
The Foundation Of The Age Of Enlightenment
http://ThomasPaineRedux.com/#AgeOfEnlightenment
American Crisis - Common Sense Blog
http://AmericanCrisisCommonSense.Blogspot.com
American Crisis - Common Sense Blog Index
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#AmericanCrisisCommonSenseBlog
Christian Reincarnation
The Paradox Of Soul-Reality
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#SoulParadox
Reincarnation - The Key To Christianity
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#KeyToChristianity
The two most important days in your life are the day
you are born and the day you find out why
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#preface
Building Upon The Real Framework Of Mind And Being
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#framework
Why Can't I Remember My Past Lives
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#RememberPastLives
The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#SegmentedMind
The Solution To The Dilemma
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#Solution
Social Justice And The Natural Laws
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#SocialJustice
Conditions Of One's Birth - Life - Death
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#ConditionsOfBirth
What Happens When I Die
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#WhatHappensWhenIDie
The Scriptures Employ Anamnesis: http://ChristianReincarnation.org#Anamnesis The Religion Of Roman Emperors
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#emperors
Biblical Foundation Mindset
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#BiblicalFoundationalMindset
The Early
Church On Predestination
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#predestination
The Enigma
Of The Segmented Mind
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#SegmentedMind
The
Solution Of To The Dilemma
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#Solution
Reincarnation
- A Counterfeit Belief
http://ChristianReincarnation.org#ReincarnationACounterfeitBelief
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Reincarnation Links
The Spiritual
Castration Of The Gospels
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#SpiritualCastrationOfTheGospel
Go Out No More
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#GoOutNoMore
Soul-Evolution
- Reincarnation And Soul-Development
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SoulEvolution
The Cause Of Organic Human Blindness
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OrganicHumanBlindness
Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The
Invited Guests
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA
Spiritual DNA And The Sower And The Seed
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SowerAndSeed
The
Intellectual Red Line In The Sand Of Human
Consciousness
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheIntellectualRedLine
Jesus Teaches The Causal Factors Of Life
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JesusTeachesTheCausalFactorsOfLife
The Purpose Of The Natural
Laws And The Prison
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ThePrison
Secondary Karma, The
Prison, And The Chickens That Come Home To Roost
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#SecondaryKarma
The Causal Factors And The
Corrupted Teaching On Children
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCorruptedTeachingsOnChildren
The Causal Factors And The
Talents
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheCausalFactorsAndTheTalents
http://ChristianReincarnation.org
Christianity Today: The Religion Of Roman Emperors http://reincarnation.nazirene.org/#emperors
Gospel OF The Nazirenes
Gospel Of The Nazirenes
http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org
Nazirene Gospel Teachings On Soul Evolution
http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org#reincarnation
Nazirene Gospel Teachings On The Outer Darkness
http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org#outer
Thus, Yeshua is asked:
"And again that one asked,
If anyone comes to us who eats flesh and drinks
strong drink, how shall we receive them? And Yeshua
said to him, Let such a person abide in the outer
court until they cleanse themselves from these
grosser evils; for till they perceive, and repent of
these, they are not fit to receive the higher
mysteries."
Why can't they be
permitted into the inner core of the Congregational
Body of Messiah/Christ? Because their minds are
incapable of contemplating the Mysteries of God by
virtue of the polluted body-vessel -- and therefore,
the necessary spiritual transformation cannot be
brought about. And this is further demonstrated in
the words of Jesus as preserved in the Gospel of the
Nazirenes: And Yeshua said
to them, "They, whose hands are stained with blood,
or whose mouths are defiled with flesh, or they who
partake of benefits which are gotten by wronging one
of God's creatures, cannot be righteous; nor can
they touch holy things, or teach the mysteries of
the kingdom."
"For
they, making a god of their belly, sacrificed to
their God the innocent creatures of the earth, in
place of the carnal nature within themselves. And
eating of their flesh and drinking of their blood to
their own destruction, corrupted their bodies and
shortened their days, even as the Gentiles who did
not know the truth, or who knowing it, have changed
it into a lie."
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The Journey Of The Pre-Existent Soul
The Journey Of The Pre-Existent Soul
http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm
Second Council of
Constantinople
http://Reincarnation.Nazirene.org/Council.htm
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The Christian Secret Doctrine
http://SecretDoctrine.Nazirene.org
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Was
Paul An Apostle Of Apostate
http://Ebionite.com/Paul.htm
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The
Gnostic Paul
http://nazirene.org/gnostic_paul.htm
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The
Christian Judas
http://nazirene.org/ChristianJudas.htm
Paul of Samosata - Typical Clergy
http://Nazirene.org/unfaithful2.htm#clergy
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The Spiritual Source Of
Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com
Islamic Knowledge Of The Pre-Existent Soul
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#reincarnation
The Essential Vegetarian Sufi Diet
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#vegetarian
Islamic Sufi Women As Mystics And Saints
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#women
All Religions Have Been Corrupted
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#AllReligionsCorrupted
Islamic Corruption
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#IslamicCorruption
The Necessity Of Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#necessity
The True History Of Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TrueHistoryOfIslam
The True Founding Of Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TrueFoundingOfIslam
The Real Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TheRealIslam
The Corruption And Impersonation Of The True Prophet
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#ImpersonationOfTheTrueProphet
Inserted Corruptions
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#InsertedCorruptions
Wife Beating
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#WifeBeating
The Relationship Of Paul And Mohammed
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#MohammedAndPaul
The Pagan Arab Mindset
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#ThePaganArabMindset
The Allegorical Qur'an
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TheAllegoricalQuran
The Spiritual Fall Of Islam
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TheSpiritualFallOfIslam
The Corruption Of The Qur'an
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#TheCorruptionOfTheQuran
The Spiritual Qur'an
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#SpiritualQuran
The Journey To The Distant Mosque
http://Islam.Ebionite.com#DistantMosque
Islam Corruption
http://Islam.Ebionite.com/IslamCorruption
A Soul Perspective
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org
Native American Life
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org/native.htm
American Revolution
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org/revolution.htm
Scribe to Ya'kov/Jacob
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org/Yeshua.htm
Ebionites
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org/ebionite.htm
Alchemical Transformation
http://Emmanuel.Nazirene.org/fr_francis.htm
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Quotes
Abortion Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#abortion
Law Of God Is Read
Parables
Origen
Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#Origen
Opening The Mind
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#OpeningTheMind
Take The Kingdom By Force
Reincarnation Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#ReincarnationQuotes
OuterDarkness Quote
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#OuterDarknessQuote
New Covenant Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#NewCovenant
Ebionite Nazirenes
Captivity
And Judgment
Have
Nothing To Do With Sinners
Bible Corruption Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#BibleCorruption
Dead Sea Scroll Quotations
Church Corruption
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#ChurchCorruption
Coming Of The Kingdom
Mysticism
Symbolic Language
Christ Before Jesus
Gnostic Quotes
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#Gnostic
Bible Interpretation
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#BibleInterpretation
The Closer
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#TheCloser
Circumcision
http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#Circumcision
Desire And Commitment http://MasterIndex.Nazirene.org#DesireAndCommitment
Same Sex
Armegeddon
Things
Christians Never Told Jews
Gurdjieff
Columbus
Feminism
"If I keep on saying to
myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is
possible that I may end by really becoming incapable
of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the
belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the
capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the
beginning." (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Men occasionally stumble
over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
(Winston S. Churchill)
"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother,
he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath
not seen?" (1 John 4:20)
According to
19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer,
“All truth passes through
three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as
self-evident.”
Einstein said:
“Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Mikhail
Kalashnikov who designed the AK-47 which is known as
the most reliable rifle ever made:
“Things that are complex
are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.”
“People who say it cannot
be done, should not interrupt those who are doing
it”. ~ Confucius
"I freed 1,000 slaves I
could've freed 1,000 more if only they knew they
were slaves" ~Harriet Tubman
“When you realize
how perfect everything is you will tilt your head
back and laugh at the sky”
― Siddhārtha Gautama
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
Homocide Rates
- Whites killing Blacks
— 2%
- Police killing whites
— 3%
- Whites killing
whites — 16%
- Blacks killing whites
— 81%
- Police killing Blacks
— 1%
- Blacks killing Blacks
— 97%
Pelagius:
In opposition to the Augustine Manichaean doctrine,
of the monk named Pelagius (354–420 or 440) the
Encyclopedia Britannica (1998 electronic edition)
reads: “Pelagius, though
not a priest, became a highly regarded spiritual
director for both clergy and laymen. The rigorous
asceticism of his adherents acted as a reproach to
the spiritual sloth of many Roman Christians, whose
moral standards greatly distressed him. He blamed
Rome's moral laxity on the doctrine of divine grace
that he heard a bishop cite from the Confessions of
Saint Augustine, who in his prayer for continence
beseeched God to grant whatever grace the divine
will determined. Pelagius attacked this teaching on
the grounds that it imperiled the entire moral law
and soon gained a considerable following at Rome”.
Pelagius wrote that:
“Man is able, if he likes, to
live without sin and keep the commandments of God,
in as much as God gives him this ability”.
Which is exactly what the Original Gospel teachings
taught. Notice that Pelagius stated that
"...God gives [man] this
ability”.
The
Wikipedia states:
"Pelagius rejected the Augustinian concept of grace.
According to his opponents, Pelagius taught that
moral perfection was attainable in this life without
the assistance of divine grace through human free
will. Augustine contradicted this by saying that
perfection was impossible without grace because we
are born sinners with a sinful heart and will. The
Pelagians charged Augustine with departing from the
accepted teaching (e.g.: John 8:11) of the Apostles
and the Bible, demonstrating that the doctrine of
original sin amounted to Manichaeism, which taught
that the flesh was in itself sinful (and thus denied
that Jesus came in the flesh). This charge would
have carried added weight since contemporaries knew
that Augustine had himself been a Manichaean layman
before converting to Christianity. Augustine also
taught that a person's salvation comes solely
through a free gift, the efficacious grace of God,
but that this was a gift that one had no free choice
to accept or refuse."
“I call heaven and earth to
witness against you this day, that I have set before
you life
and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore
choose
life”
(Deut. 30:19)
In
an article by Walter E. Williams entitled
America's Move Toward Tyranny where he
wrote:
"Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, 'The
greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but
without understanding.' The freedom of individuals
from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not
now, the normal state of human affairs.
The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny,
arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own
government."
"We can't expect the
American People to jump from Capitalism to
Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders
in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they
awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
--Nikita S. Khrushchev
Thomas Paine “That government is best which governs
least.”
Mao Zedong
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
"The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
(2 Thes 3:10).
"Do not defile
yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become
unclean or defiled by them. For I am the LORD your
God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy,
because I am holy" (Lev 11:43-44)
"But just as He
who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
for it is written: Be holy, because I am holy” (1
Peter 1:15-16)
LBJ: "These Negroes,
they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's
a problem for us since they've got something now
they never had before, the political pull to back up
their uppityness. Now we've got to do something
about this, we've got to give them a little
something, just enough to quiet them down, not
enough to make a difference." This quote
appears on page 155 of Goodwin’s LBJ
biography. The utterance was made to Richard
Russell, a fellow Democratic Senator from Georgia.
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take
it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword,
sell your cloak and buy one" (Luke 22:36).
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Abortion
With respect to the Holocaust of the UnBorn, The
Didache (a.k.a. The Teaching of the Apostles), which
is one of the oldest Christian documents, at Section
2:2 states: "...thou
shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them
when born..." -- and at 5:2 it states:
"The Way of Death is
filled with people who are...murderers of children
and abortionists of God's creatures." In
the Epistle of Barnabas who was a co-worker and
companion of the Apostle Paul, it is written:
"You shall not kill
either the fetus by abortion or the new born"
In the words of the Church Father Clement of
Alexandria: "Our
whole life can go on in observation of the laws of
nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from
the beginning and if we do not kill, by various
means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born
according to the designs of divine providence; for
these women who, if order to hide their immorality,
use abortive drugs which expel the child completely
dead, abort at the same time their own human
feelings." The Church Father Tertullian
wrote: "...we are not
permitted, since murder has been prohibited to us
once and for all, even to destroy ...the fetus in
the womb. It makes no difference whether one
destroys a life that has already been born or one
that is in the process of birth." The
Apocalypse of Peter states:
"I saw a gorge in which the discharge and excrement
of the tortured ran down and became like a lake.
There sat women, and the discharge came up to their
throats; and opposite them sat many children, who
were born prematurely, weeping. And from them went
forth rays of fire and smote the women on the eyes.
These were those who produced children outside of
marriage and who procured abortions... Those who
slew the unborn children will be tortured forever,
for God wills it to so."
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Racism
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
Acting white is a term
pejorative, usually applied to
black people, which refers to a person's
perceived betrayal of their culture by assuming the
social expectations of
white society.
Success
in education in particular (depending on one's
cultural background) can be seen as a form of "selling
out" by being disloyal to one's culture.
The term is controversial, and its precise meaning
is hard to define.[1]
Some minority students are discouraged from
achieving in school by the negative prejudices of
ethnic peers; such a view has been expressed in
articles in
The New York Times,
Time magazine, and
The Wall Street Journal—and by public
figures and academics across the political spectrum
Uncle Sam's Plantation
https://www.unclesamsplantation.com/
Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how
government manipulates, controls, and ultimately
devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans
must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare
addict who was chewed up and spit out by the
ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much
needed light on the bungled bureaucratic attempts to
end poverty and reveals the insidious deceptions
perpetrated by self-serving politicians.
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Marriage
Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child
Poverty
https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty-0
Search for article
https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/search?q=america%27s+greatest
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"If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they
have no excuse for their sin" (John
15:22).
"If you stick with this, living out what I tell you,
you are my disciples for sure. Then you will
experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth
will free you" (John
8:31-32 TheMessage)
“My teaching is not My own, Jesus replied. It
comes from Him who sent Me. If anyone desires to do
His will, he will know whether My teaching is from
God or whether I speak on My own.…" (John
7:16).
“I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this
day, that I have set before you
life
and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore
choose
life”
(Deut. 30:19)
"But the ways in
which this garment may be spotted are these: If any
one withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all,
receiving another teacher besides Christ, who alone
is the faithful and True Prophet,
In the words of John
Wesley:
"that fatal period when
the Emperor Constantine called himself a Christian;
From this time onward - the Christians had no more
of the Spirit of Christ than the heathens...."
(Wesley's Works, vol 7, Sermon 89,
pp. 26-27)
"...And
therefore I advise not only wise men, but indeed all
men who have a desire of knowing what is
advantageous to them, that they seek after the True
Prophet; for it is He alone who knoweth all things,
and who knoweth what and how every man is seeking.
For He is within the mind of
every one of us, but in those who have no desire of
the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is
inoperative; but He works in those who seek after
that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles
in them the light of knowledge.
Wherefore seek Him first of
all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you
shall learn anything from any other.
But He is soon found by those
who diligently seek Him through love of the truth,
and whose souls are not taken possession of by
wickedness. For He is present with those who desire
Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear
patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their
hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts
malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the
thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one
think that he can find Him by his own wisdom,
unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all
wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire
to know Him. For when any one has so prepared
himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind
prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself
to his knowledge”
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Law Of God Is Read
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they
are life" (John 6:63).
Scripture study
must be done individually. The scriptures use
catalysts that develop your mind -- and this
development cannot be accomplished in a group -- or
with an interpretation taken from outside of your
own mind.
In the Homilies of Clement the Apostle Peter is
quoted as warning: "...therefore
great care is to be taken, that when the law of God
is read, it be not read according to the
understanding of our own mind. For there are many
sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn
to that sense which every one has preconceived for
himself; and this ought not to be done. For you
ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense,
which you have brought from without".
If we ask the question: What is being said to the
believer who desires to be faithful to the Gospel
Teachings? In the same way that the believer is
commanded to seek out the One Teacher, and the
commandment that "when
the law of God (scriptures) is read, it be not read
according to the understanding of our own mind" --
it is being stated that there is only One Source of
Truth -- and that the wisdom and teachings of man
will misguide the seeker. By design, human
linear-carnal reasoning is incapable of
understanding the true spiritual meaning of the
scriptures -- i.e., "...therefore
great care is to be taken, that when the law of God
is read, it be not read according to the
understanding of our own mind."
And neither should you listen to other men's gravely
flawed interpretations of the scriptures -- i.e., "...For
you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous
sense, which you have brought from without".
Jesus taught that there is only one Source of Truth,
and the disciple/seeker must learn directly from
that One Teacher -- i.e, "Then opened He their
understanding, that they might understand the
scriptures" (Luke 24:45). This can only be
accomplished by becoming the "good
ground" in the parable of the Sower And
The Seed (see http://SowerAndTheSeed.Ebionite.com ).
And thus, these words which are representative of
the New Covenant and the core Gospel teachings, are
inconceivable to the modern faith-based believer who
is divided and disenfranchised from the very essence
and objectives of the Gospel teachings --
overwhelmed and anchored to a carnal mindset that is
of the "outer
darkness" -- spiritually disenfranchised
by innumerable manmade opinions, factions and sects
which totally alienate the believer from the Truth
and the Kingdom.
There is only One Teacher -- and that is the
indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet within you
that the scriptures use as a catalyst to connect
with. As stated by the Apostle Peter in the Homilies
of his disciple Clement: "...And therefore I advise
not only wise men, but indeed all men who have a
desire of knowing what is advantageous to them, that
they seek after the True Prophet; for it is He alone
who knoweth all things, and who knoweth what and how
every man is seeking. For He is within the mind of
every one of us, but in those who have no desire of
the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is
inoperative; but He works in those who seek after
that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles
in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him
first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not
that you shall learn anything from any other. But He
is soon found by those who diligently seek Him
through love of the truth, and whose souls are not
taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present
with those who desire Him in the innocence of their
spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the
bottom of their hearts through love of the truth;
but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a
prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And
therefore let no one think that he can find Him by
his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty
his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and
faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so
prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a
mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers
Himself to his knowledge”
The Encyclopedia Britannica (1998 edition) writes
of the word Logos: “In
Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason
implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it
form and meaning. Though the concept defined by the
term logos is found in Greek, Indian, Egyptian, and
Persian philosophical and theological systems... The
idea of the logos in Greek thought harks back at
least to the 6th-century-BC philosopher
Heracleitus, who discerned in the cosmic process a
logos analogous to the reasoning power in man.
Later, the Stoics, philosophers who followed the
teachings of the thinker Zeno of Citium (4th-3rd
century BC), defined the logos as an active rational
and spiritual principle that permeated all
reality... Philo of Alexandria, a 1st-century-AD
Jewish philosopher, taught that the logos was the
intermediary between God and the cosmos, being both
the agent of creation and the agent through which
the human mind can apprehend and comprehend God.
According to Philo and the Middle Platonists,
philosophers who interpreted in religious terms the
teachings of the 4th-century-BC Greek
master philosopher Plato, the logos was both
immanent in the world and at the same time the
transcendent divine mind... The identification of
Jesus with the logos, which is implied in various
places in the New Testament but stated specifically
in the Fourth Gospel, was further developed in the
early church but more on the basis of Greek
philosophical ideas... the early Christian Fathers
stated that Christ as the preexistent logos (1)
reveals the Father to mankind and is the subject of
the Old Testament manifestations of God; (2) is the
divine reason in which the whole human race shares,
so that the 6th-century-BC philosopher
and others who lived with reason were Christians
before Christ; and (3) is the divine will and word
by which the worlds were framed”
With respect to the above, from our modern
perspective, few people recognize the profoundly
important statement by that of Clement of
Alexandria when he wrote:
“Thus in the Philebus,
Plato, who had been the disciple of the barbarian
philosophy, mystically called those Atheists who
destroy and pollute, as far as in them lies, the
Deity dwelling in them - that is, the Logos - by
association with their vices”.
"It is written in the
prophets, 'And they shall all be
taught by God.'
Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from
the Father comes to Me" (John 6:45 NKJ).
"But you are not to be
called rabbi, for you have One Teacher, and you are
all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV)
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Parables
Have all you Mithraic-Christians read the article at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OriginalSpiritualChristianity/permalink/671199216417020/
? Does the Mithraic sun-god provide you
salvation? In view of the fact that you have
virtually nothing in common with the Original Gospel
Teachings of TheWay -- and you reject Jesus?
"When you make the two one,
and when you make the inside like the outside and
the outside like the inside, and the above like the
below, and when you make the male and the female one
and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female;
...then will you enter the kingdom."
(5) Jesus said, "Recognize
what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from
you will become plain to you..."
"While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen: for the things which are
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen
are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18 KJV).
“Even
after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in
their presence, they still would not believe in
him..." “For
this reason they could not believe, because, as
Isaiah says elsewhere: ‘He has blinded their eyes
and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see
with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts’”
(John 12:37-40 NIV).
COME TO SPEAK TO THEM "If I
had not come and spoken to them, they would have no
sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin"
(John 15:22 NKJ).
Israel Israel
-- see's God Face To Face
"Then the man said,
“Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,
because you have struggled with God and with men,
and you have prevailed.” 29Then Jacob asked him,
“Please tell me Your name.” “Why do you ask My
name?” he replied. And He blessed Jacob there. So
Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I
have seen God face to face, and yet my life was
spared.”…
Gen 32:28-32
"letter that killeth [and]
Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus
1:14).
HIDDEN MANNA "He who has an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the
hidden manna" (Rev 2:17)
"And with many such
parables He spoke the word to them
as they were able to hear it.
But without a parable He did not speak to them. And
when they were alone, He explained all things to His
disciples" (Mark 4:33-34 NKJV).
“The secret of the kingdom of
God has been given to you. But to those on the
outside everything is said in parables so that, they
may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever
hearing but never understanding” (Mark
4:11-12 NIV)
“And he said unto them,
Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know
all parables?” (Mark 4:13 KJV)
“Unto you it is given to
know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto
them that are without, all these things are done in
parables: That seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not
understand” (Mark 4:11-12 KJV).
In the Homilies of his
disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter is quoted as
stating: “We remember that
our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us,
guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my
house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples,
privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the
heavens.”
In explanation of the above words of Jesus, the
Wycliffe Commentary writes that:
“…the initiate was
instructed in the esoteric teaching of the cult,
which was not revealed to outsiders… The mystery of
the kingdom in its ultimate development is the
full-orbed message of the Gospel (Rom 16:25-26). The
purpose of parables was to instruct the initiates
without revealing the items of instruction to the
ones who were without. This is in keeping with the
Biblical principle that spiritual understanding is
restricted to those who have become spiritual...”
I was
"...caught
up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words,
which it is not lawful for a man to utter"
(2 Cor 12:4-5).
In his Epistle to the
Trallaus the first century elder Ignatius speaks of
the Mysteries of the Gospel and the Kingdom, and
writes:
“Might I not write to you
things more full of mystery? But I fear to do so,
lest I should inflict injury on you who are babes.
Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able
to receive their weighty import, ye should be
strangled by them”.
In the Homilies of his
disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter is quoted as
stating: “We remember that
our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us,
guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my
house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples,
privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the
heavens.” Thus, what is being stated is
that those to whom the higher knowledge of the truth
is revealed, are to protect and preserve this sacred
knowledge from those people who are allegorically
defined as dogs and swine.
Origen:
Who was Origen?
Origen is called “…the most
prominent of all the church fathers”
(Encyclopedia. Britannica), and was considered by
Jerome to be “the greatest
teacher of the Church after the Apostles.”
St. Gregory of Nyssa called him
“the prince of Christian learning in the Third
Century.”
In his
Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament,
by Dr. F. H. Scrivener, one of the ablest of
modern-day biblical scholars and critics writes of
Origen: “Origen is the most
celebrated biblical critic of antiquity. His is the
highest name among the critics and expositors of the
early Church. He is perpetually engaged in the
discussion of various readings of the New Testament,
and employs language, in describing the then
existing state of the text, which would be deemed
strong if applied even to its present condition,
after the changes which sixteen more centuries must
needs have produced… Seldom have such warmth of
fancy and so bold a grasp of mind been united with
the lifelong, patient industry which procured for
this famous man the honorable appellation of
Adamantius.”
The biblical
scholar Wescott says of the Church Father Origen
that: “We have not yet made
good the positions which he marked out as belonging
to the domain of Christian philosophy”
(Religious Thought In the West, p. 252).
“It is sufficient however, to represent in the
style of a historic narrative what is intended to
convey a secret meaning in the garb of history, that
those who have the capacity may work out for
themselves all that relates to the subject.”
"...because that which is
known about God ...for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible
attributes, His eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly seen,
being
understood through what has been made,
so that they are
without excuse"
(Rom 1:19-20).
“Scripture contains an
unhistorical element in-woven with the history, in
order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive
us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen
quoted under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics).
Further explaining in De Principiis that:
“Where the word found that
things done according to the history could be
adapted to these mystical senses, he made use of
them concealing from the multitude the deeper
meaning; but where in the narrative of the
development of super-sensual things, there did not
follow the performance of those certain events which
were already indicated by the mystical meaning, the
scripture interwove in the history the account of
some event that did not take place, sometimes what
could not have happened; sometimes what could but
did not.”
Zohar:
"Thus the tales related in the
Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the
man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself,
for such a man will be deprived of portion in the
next world..."
Zohar:
“The
narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The
simple look only on the garment, that is upon the
narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The
instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but
what the cloak covers”.
“It
is sufficient however, to represent in the style of
a historic narrative what is intended to convey a
secret meaning in the garb of history, that those
who have the capacity may work out for themselves
all that relates to the subject.” (Origen
Contra Celsum)
Quoting the Church
historian Eusebius who writes of the doctrines
conceived by the early Christians Papias and
Irenaeus: “Papias
reproduces other stories communicated to him by word
of mouth, together with some otherwise unknown
parables and teachings of the Saviour, and other
things of a more allegorical character. He says that
'after the resurrection of the dead there will be a
period of a thousand years when Christ's kingdom
will be set up on this earth in material form'. I
suppose he got these notions by misinterpreting the
apostolic accounts and failing to grasp what they
said in mystic and symbolic language. For he seems
to have been a man of very small intelligence, to
judge from his books..." (Eusebius, Hist
Eccl., Book III, 39.11).
Moses Maimonedes, one
of the most respected of Jewish theologians,
historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the
nature of scripture: “Every
time that you find in our books a tale the reality
of which seems impossible, a story which is
repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be
sure that the tale contains a profound allegory
veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater
the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom
of the spirit”.
In his book entitled
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, G.R.S. Mead
explains that what the authors truly
“…projected onto the
screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe
was in reality a picture of their own minds."
He then writes of the scriptures:
"Its mythology is a
symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the
forces which operate in the structuring and
evolution of the human personality”
Contra Celsum:
Respecting the Divine Order of Creation, Origen then
continues referring to Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
and goes on to explain:
“For God must be believed to do and order all things
and at all times according to His judgment. For the
words which the apostle uses when he says, ‘In a
great house there are not only vessels of gold and
silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to
honor and some to dishonor;' and those which he
adds, saying, 'If a man purge himself, he will be a
vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for the
Master's use, unto every good work,' undoubtedly
point out this, that he who shall purge himself when
he is in this life, will be prepared for every good
work in that which is to come; while he who does not
purge himself will be, according to the amount of
his impurity, a vessel unto dishonor, i.e.,
unworthy. It is therefore possible to understand
that there have been also formerly rational vessels,
whether purged or not, i.e., which either purged
themselves or did not do so,
and that consequently every vessel, according to the
measure of its purity or impurity, received a place,
or region, or condition by birth, or an office to
discharge, in this world.
All of which, down to
the humblest, God providing for and distinguishing
by the power of His wisdom, arranges all things by
His controlling judgment, according to a most
impartial retribution, so far as each one ought to
be assisted or cared for in conformity with his
deserts. In which certainly every principle of
equity is shown, while the inequality of
circumstances preserves the justice of a retribution
according to merit. But the grounds of the merits in
each individual case are only recognized truly and
clearly by God Himself, along with His only-begotten
Word, and His Wisdom, and the Holy Spirit”.
Contra Celsum: Spiritual DNA:
"Is it not rational that souls
should be introduced into bodies, in accordance with
their merits and previous deeds, and that those who
have used their bodies in doing the utmost possible
good should have the right to bodies endowed with
qualities superior to the bodies of others?... The
soul, which is immaterial and invisible in its
nature, exists in no material place without having a
body suited to the nature of that place;
accordingly, it at one time puts off one body, which
was necessary before, but which is no longer
adequate in its changed state, and it exchanges it
for a second". And in his famed work De
Principiis the Church Father Origen explains:
"The soul has neither
beginning nor end... Every soul... comes into this
world strengthened by the victories or weakened by
the defeats of its previous life. Its place in this
world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor is
determined by its previous merits or demerits. Its
work in this world determines its place in the world
which is to follow this..."
Of
Origen’s teachings, the Encyclopedia of Religion and
Ethics goes on to write that:
”Origen believes that the Logos enlightens all
men according to their capacities.
Current
Christianity is the best that the average man can
assimilate.
It includes
mythical stories which exist both in Old Testament
and New Testament;
it
offers rewards and punishment as inducements to
virtue, and communicates truths in veiled forms and
images.
But it is not a
matter of indifference what symbols are presented to
the ‘common man’; it is the religion of Christ alone
which must be accepted by all, though under
different aspects.
The Gnostic
learns that the objects of religious knowledge have
only a supramundane history: The ‘eternal’ or
‘spiritual’ Gospel places clearly before men’s minds
all things concerning the Son of God, both the
mysteries shown by His words, and the things of
which His acts were the riddles (In John 1:9)”.
Spiritual DNA:
"Is it not
rational that souls should be introduced into
bodies, in accordance with their merits and previous
deeds, and that those who have used their bodies in
doing the utmost possible good should have the right
to bodies endowed with qualities superior to the
bodies of others?
“Now, in answer to such statements, we say that
it is not the same thing to invite those who are
sick in soul to be cured, and those who are in
health to the knowledge and study of divine things.
We, however, keeping both these things in view, at
first invite all men to be healed, and exhort those
who are sinners to come to the consideration of the
doctrines which teach men not to sin, and those who
are devoid of understanding to those which beget
wisdom, and those who are children to rise in their
thoughts to manhood, and those who are simply
unfortunate to good fortune, or -- which is the more
appropriate term to use -- to blessedness. And when
those who have been turned towards virtue have made
progress, and have shown that they have been
purified by the word, and have led as far as they
can a better life, then and not before do we invite
them to participation in our mysteries. ‘For we
speak wisdom among them that are perfect’”.
When Celsus attacked the Church for being a
“secret system”,
teaching some a different doctrine than others,
Origen replied: “Moreover, since he frequently calls the Christian
doctrine a secret system, we must confute him on
this point also, since almost the entire world is
better acquainted with what Christians preach than
with the favorite opinions of philosophers.
For who is ignorant of the statement that
Jesus was born of a virgin, and that He was
crucified, and that His Resurrection is an article
of faith among many, and that a general judgment is
announced to come, in which the wicked are to be
punished according to their desserts, and the
righteous to be duly rewarded?”
“And yet the mystery of
the Resurrection, not being understood, is made a
subject of ridicule among the unbelievers.
In these circumstances, to speak of the
Christian doctrine as a secret system is altogether
absurd.
But that there should
be certain doctrines, not made known to the
multitude, which are after the exoteric ones having
been taught, is not a peculiarity of Christianity
alone, but also of
philosophic systems, in which certain truths are
exoteric and others are esoteric.
Some of the heroes of Pythagoras were content
with his ipse dixit; while others were taught in
secret those doctrines which were not deemed fit to
be communicated to the profane and insufficiently
prepared ears.
Moreover, all the mysteries that are
celebrated everywhere throughout Greece and the
barbarous countries, although held in secret, have
no discredit thrown upon them, so that it is in vain
he endeavors to calumniate the secret doctrines of
Christianity, seeing that he does not correctly
understand its nature”.
Origen's reply to Celsus where he wrote:
“By participation in the
Son of God one is adopted as a son… by participation
in the Holy Spirit is a man rendered holy and
spiritual…” and,
“every rational creature
needs a participation in the Trinity”.
In the words of the Church Father Origen:
“And if you come to the
books written after the time of Jesus, you will find
that those multitudes of believers who hear the
parables are, as it were, 'without', and worthy only
of exoteric doctrines, while the disciples learn in
private the explanation of the parables.
For, privately, to His own disciples did
Jesus open up all things, esteeming above the
multitudes those who desired to know His wisdom”
(Origen Contra Celsum).
Take
The Kingdom By Force
All religions posses truths. The difference
between the Gospels and other religions is seen in
the statement of author and visionary Philip K. Dick
who wrote with respect to the original disciples of
Jesus that: "Christ ...taught his followers how to
enter the kingdom while still alive, where other
mystery religions only bring about amnesis:
knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other
realm,' not here. He causes it to come here, and is
the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the
Logos)." All the Eastern religions and the Mystery
religions such as the example of Mithraism, are all
striving to see into man's higher reality -- mostly
through meditation and the like. In
contradistinction, the Gospel teachings of Jesus
brought about the necessary Wholeness of Mind and
Being that enabled the disciple to gain entrance
into the Kingdom -- i.e., "...causes it to come
here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God
(i.e. the Logos)." These other paths were portrayed
in the words: "From the days of John the Baptist
until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to
violence, and the violent lay claim to it" (Matt
11:12). The Children of the Kingdom gain entrance
into the Kingdom through Wholeness -- i.e., "They
that are whole have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick: I came not to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17) --
and that is why the Gospels have virtually nothing
in common with the Mithraism of modern Christianity
-- as detailed in the Restoration of the suppressed
and corrupted Gospel teachings at http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ).
Like myself, Philip K. Dick was able to recall his
past life as a first century follower of Jesus and
TheWay.
OPENING THE MIND
"Then opened He their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures"
(Luke 24:45)
Epistle of Peter to James: that
"...it will remain even for
those who really seek the truth, always to wander in
error"
Tarnishing The Wedding Garment:
"But the ways in which this
garment may be spotted are these: If any one
withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all,
receiving another teacher besides Christ, who alone
is the faithful and True Prophet"
"...withdrawn from God the
Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher
besides Christ"
"There is a way that seems right to man, but its
end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12).
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny
himself and take up his cross daily and follow me"
(Luke 9:23).
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you" (Matt. 6:33)
"He who overcomes, I will
make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he
shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12).
"But you are not to be
called rabbi, for you have One Teacher, and you are
all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV)
"...therefore great care is to be taken, that when
the law of God is read, it be not read according to
the understanding of our own mind. For there are
many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be
drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived
for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you
ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense,
which you have brought from without"
(5) Jesus said, "Recognize
what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from
you will become plain to you."
"While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen: for the things which are
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen
are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18 KJV).
"Whom will he teach
knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the
message? Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the
breasts? For precept
must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line
upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a
little" (Isa 28:9-10 NKJ).
"Therefore let us leave the
elementary teachings about Christ and go on to
maturity..." (Heb 6:1 NIV)
“Therefore let us leave the
elementary teachings about Christ and go on to
maturity, not laying again the foundation of
repentance from acts that lead to death, and of
faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying
on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and
eternal judgment” (Heb 6:1-2 NIV).
“Faith is the foundation;
knowledge the superstructure, by knowledge faith is
perfected, for to know is more than to believe.
Faith is a summary knowledge of urgent truths;
knowledge a sure demonstration of what has been
received through faith, being itself reared upon
faith through the teachings of the Lord.
Thus the Gnostic grasps the
complete truth of all revelation from the beginning
of the world to the end, piercing to the depths of
scripture, of which the believer tastes the surface
only. As a consequence
of this intelligent sympathy with the Divine Will,
the Gnostic becomes in perfect unity in himself, and
as far as possible like God. Definite outward
observances cease to have any value for one whose
being is brought into abiding harmony with that
which is eternal; he has no wants, no passions; he
rests in the contemplation of God, which is and will
be his unfailing blessedness ” (quoting
Clement of Alexandria in Smith & Wace's Bible
Dictionary).
JESUS COMES TO THE PERFECT
“…which appearing is manifested to each one of those
who are perfect, and which enlightens the reason in
the true knowledge of things” (Origen
Against Celsus, bk. Ill, ch. Ixi.).
"...it will remain even for
those who really seek the truth, always to wander in
error"
“Another disciple said to
him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But
Jesus told him, Follow me, and let the dead bury
their own dead” (Matt 8:21-22 NIV).
KNOW THYSELF "...But if you will not
know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you
who are that poverty".
FULL VERSION:
"When you come to know
yourselves, then you will become known, and you will
realize that it is you who are the sons of the
living Father. But if you will not know yourselves,
you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that
poverty... Whoever finds himself is superior to the
world".
"And that servant, which knew
his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither
did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things
worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be
much required: and to whom men have committed much,
of him they will ask the more" (Luke
12:47-48).
Left Undone: "Woe to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you hypocrites! ...you have neglected
the more important matters of the law--justice,
mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced
the latter, without neglecting the former"
(Matt 23:23).
REINCARNATION
“Every soul... comes into
this world strengthened by the victories or weakened
by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen,
De Principiis).
"Do not be deceived, God is
not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will
also reap" (Gal 6:7)
"The
disciples of Jesus were persuaded that a man might
have sinned before he was born, (John, ix. 2,) and
the Pharisees held the transmigration
[reincarnation] of virtuous souls, (Joseph. de Bell.
Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern Rabbi is
modestly assured, that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato,
etc., derived their metaphysics from his illustrious
countrymen"
(Gibbon; Decline & Fall)
On the
question of who did sin, this man, or his parents,
and the pre-existence and reincarnation of the soul,
the Adam Clarke Commentary tells us:
"The
doctrine of the transmigration of souls appears to
have been an article in the creed of the Pharisees,
and it was pretty general both among the Greeks and
the Asiatics. The Pythagoreans believed the souls of
men were sent into other bodies for the punishment
of some sin which they had committed in a
pre-existent state. This seems to have been the
foundation of the disciples’ question to our Lord.
Did this man sin in a pre-existent state, that he is
punished in this body with blindness? Or, did his
parents commit some sin, for which they are thus
plagued in their offspring!... The Jewish rabbis
have had the same belief from the very remotest
antiquity. Origen cites an apocryphal book of the
Hebrews, in which the patriarch Jacob is made to
speak thus: I am an angel of God; one of the first
order of spirits. Men call me Jacob, but my true
name, which God has given me, is Israel: Orat.
Joseph. apud ORIG. Many of the Jewish doctors have
believed that the souls of Adam, Abraham, and
Phineas, have successively animated the great men of
their nation. Philo says that the air is full of
spirits, and that some, through their natural
propensity, join themselves to bodies; and that
others have an aversion from such a union. See
several other things relative to this point in his
treatises, De Plant. Noe-- De Gigantibus-- De
Confus. Ling.-- De Somniis, etc.; and see Calmet,
where he is pretty largely quoted".
Josephus who was a
contemporary of the man Jesus who lived among the
Essenes stated that the Essenes
“…resigned up their souls
with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them
again. For their doctrine is this, that bodies are
corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is
not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and
continue for ever; and that they came out of the
most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as
to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain
natural enticement; but that when they are set free
from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from
a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.
St. Jerome wrote: “The
doctrine of transmigration (reincarnation) has been
secretly taught from ancient times to small numbers
of people, as a traditional truth which was not to
be divulged”
“That servant who knows his
master's will and does not get ready or does not do
what his master wants will be beaten with many
blows. But the one who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.
From everyone who has been given much, much will be
demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted
with much, much more will be asked” (Luke
12:47-48 NIV).
The Hastings-Scribner
Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p.
63) "To affirm that Jews in
Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is
simply incorrect".
"How terrible it
will be for you experts in religious law! For you
hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't
enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others
from entering."
(Luke 11:52 NLT).
"But woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering
to go in" (Matt 23:13 KJV).
The Delphic
Oracle states: "Heed these
words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature:
If you do not find within your Self that which you
seek, neither will you find it outside. If you
ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you
expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the
Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will
know the Universe and the Gods."
"For it is impossible to
restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their
own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we
sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of
the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury
of fire which will consume the adversaries."
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but
if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the
body, ye shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your
earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV).
"We must
through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ).
"Nothing impure
will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is
shameful or deceitful"
(Rev 21:27 NIV).
"And a highway
will be there; it will be called the Way of
Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it
will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools
will not go about on it" (Isa
35:8 NIV).
"Enter through
the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is
the road that leads to destruction, and many enter
through it. But small is the gate and narrow the
road that leads to life, and only a few find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NIV).
"Now when He was asked
by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come,
He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does
not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See
here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of
God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21).
Jesus is
quoted in The Books of the Savior, also known as
Pistis Sophia (Faith-Wisdom):
"Do not
cease seeking day or night, and do not let
yourselves relax until you have found all the
Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify
you and make you into Pure Light and lead you into
the Kingdom of Light."
And of the
transformation of the physical body Jesus said:
"Do not desist from seeking by
day and by night, until you find thepurifying
mysteries of the light, which refine the body of
matter and make it a pure light very refined."
How
important is it to seek the Mysteries of the Kingdom
of Light in the life of all people -- many of whom
believe that all is required is to live a good
life? In the Pistis Sophia Jesus states this
warning:
“But
if he shall have sinned once, twice, or thrice, they
shall reject that soul, sending it back again into
the world according to the form of the sins that it
may have committed; the form whereof I will declare
unto you hereafter. But
verily, verily I say unto you, that even the
righteous man that hath committed no sin at all
cannot be brought into the Kingdom of Light,
forasmuch the seal of the mysteries of that kingdom
is not found upon him. Once
for all, I say unto you, a soul cannot be brought
into the kingdom, if it be without the mysteries of
the Kingdom of the Light.”
What
is a child?
Is it a new soul?
The scripture advises us in Eccl 1:9-11 that
”there is no new thing
under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be
said, See this is new?”
Let us consider a new-born baby as something
that is new.
The scripture teaches that
”It hath been already of
old time, which was before us”.
So that we might be sure that the scriptures
are speaking about a new born baby, it then goes on
to add that ”There is no
remembrance of former things; neither shall there be
any remembrance of things that are to come with
those that shall come after”.
Thus even though we do not remember, when a
baby is born, ”It hath been
already of old time”.
This is true; unless the Lord opens our
minds, we do not generally remember our previous
lives that we have lived.
In his bookNishmath
Hayem, Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) wrote:
”The belief or the doctrine of the transmigration of
souls is a firm and infallible teaching accepted by
the whole assemblage of our people with one accord,
so that there is none to be found who would dare to
deny it... Indeed, there are a great number of sages
in Israel who hold firm to this doctrine so that
they made it a teaching, a fundamental point of our
religion. We
are therefore in duty bound to obey and to accept
this teaching with acclamation... as the truth of it
has been incontestablydemonstrated by the Zohar, and
all books of the Kabalists.”
Psalms 91:8
"Just open your eyes, and
see how the wicked are punished".
Heb 2:2 "For if the word
spoken by angels was stedfast, and every
transgression and disobedience received a just
recompence of reward"
"Blessed are
those who do His commandments, that they may have
the right to the tree of life, and may enter through
the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and
sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and
idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
"And he
who does not take his cross and follow after Me is
not worthy of Me" (Matt 10:38 NKJ).
"But I say unto
you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment"
(Matt 12:36 KJV).
"…take captive
every thought to make it obedient to Christ"
(2 Cor 10:5 NIV).
"…beat my body
and make it my slave..."
(1 Cor 9:27 NIV).
"Beware
of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You
will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so,
every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree
bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that
does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into
the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know
them. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,'
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does
the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me
in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done
many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare
to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness!'" (Matt 7:15-23).
"Then one said
to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He
said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow
gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and
will not be able. When once the Master of the house
has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to
stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord,
Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to
you, 'I do not know you, where you are from,' then
you will begin to say,
'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught
in our streets.' But He will say, 'I tell you I do
not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me,
all you workers of iniquity.' There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom
of God, and yourselves thrust out. They will come
from the east and the west, from the north and the
south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. And
indeed there are last who will be first, and there
are first who will be last"
(Luke
13:23-30).
OUTER DARKNESS
"But when
the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man
there who did not have on a wedding garment. So he
said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here
without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand
and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer
darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.'" (Matt 22:11-13 NKJ).
"For everyone who has will be given more, and he
will have an abundance. But the one who does not
have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
And throw that worthless servant into the outer
darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth" (Matt 25:29-30)
"The light of the body is
the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil,
thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness!"
(Luke 11:34)
Gospel Of The Nazirenes
26:16
"And if you desire something as strongly as you
desire life, and it turns you from the truth, cast
it out from you, for it is better to enter life
possessing truth, than losing it, to be cast into
outer darkness."
63:7
"Take
therefore the talent from him, and give it to him
who has two talents. For to every one that has
improved will be given, and he will have abundance,
but from him that has not improved, will be taken
away, even that which he has. And cast out the
unprofitable servant into outer darkness, for that
is the
portion he has chosen."
NEW COVENANT
Jeremiah 31:33
states: "I will put my law
in their minds and write it on their hearts"
"Wherefore come out
from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you" (2 Cor 6:17).
"I wrote to
you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually
immoral people... But now I have written to you not
to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is
sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- not
even to eat with such a person..." (1
Cor 5:9-13).
"Behold, thou art made
whole: sin no more,
lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John
5:14)
"Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father
and your Father, to my God and your God'"
(John 20:17).
“‘For in him we live and
move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets
have said, ‘We are his offspring’” (Acts
17:28).
“I will put my laws in
their minds and write them on their hearts. I will
be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
because they will all know me, from the least of
them to the greatest” (Heb 8:10-11).
CALLED TEACHER "But
you are not to be called rabbi, for you have One
Teacher, and you are all brethren" (Matt
23:8 RSV).
"Then
opened
He their understanding, that they might understand
the scriptures"
(Luke 24:45)
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NazirenesEbionite
(Jesus)
"...was justified by fulfilling
the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of
the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely.
Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the
Law, he would have been the Christ,
for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in
like sense with all humanity" (see
Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).
Hence
"when Ebionites thus
fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs,
for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in
like sense with all humanity."
(Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii.
34).
Jesus was in
“...supernatural union of a man
and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a
mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary:
but he was the best and wisest of the human race,
selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon
earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity.
When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the
first of the aeons, the Son of God himself,
descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit
his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted
period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).
"Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee"
Prof.
Hyam Maccoby in
The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of
Christianity (see
abstract), where he writes that:
"The Ebionites are thus by no
means a negligible or derisory group. Their claim to
represent the original teaching of Jesus has to be
taken seriously. It is quite wrong, therefore, to
dismiss what they had to say about Paul as unworthy
of attention." Prof. Maccoby then
writes: "Consequently, if
the Gospel of Matthew contains assertions by Jesus
about the validity of the Torah, this is strong
evidence that Jesus actually made these assertions,
for only a persistent and unquenchable tradition
that Jesus said these things would have induced the
author of the Gospel to include such recalcitrant
material, going against the grain of his own
narrative and standpoint. If Jesus himself was an
adherent of the Torah, there was no need for
re-Judaization on the part of the Nazarenes in
Jerusalem, who were simply continuing the attitudes
of Jesus. But, in any case, several scholars have
now come to think that the loyalty of the Jerusalem
movement to the Torah is itself strong evidence that
Jesus was similarly loyal. It is, after all,
implausible, to say the least, that the close
followers of Jesus, his companions during his
lifetime, led by his brother, should have so
misunderstood him that they reversed his views
immediately after his death. The 'stupidity' motif
characterizing the disciples in the Gospels is best
understood as a Pauline attempt to explain away the
attachment of the 'Jerusalem Church' to Judaism,
rather than as historical obtuseness."
Epiphanius, Heresy xxix.9.4 (Nazoraeans).
They have the Gospel according to Matthew quite
complete, in Hebrew: for this Gospel is
certainly still preserved among them as it was first
written in Hebrew letters. I do not know if they
have even removed the genealogy from Abraham to
Christ.
"Do not think that I came
to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come
to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to
you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one
tittle will by no means pass from the law till all
is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the
least of these commandments, and teaches men so,
shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but
whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you,
that unless your righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will
by no means enter the kingdom of heaven"
(Matt 5:17-20).
"These things I have written to you concerning
those who try to deceive you. But the anointing
which you have received from Him abides in you, and
you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the
same anointing teaches you concerning all things,
and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has
taught you, you will abide in Him. And now, little
children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may
have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His
coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know
that everyone who practices righteousness is born of
Him" (1 Jn 2:26-29).
the Gospel of the
Hebrews/Ebionites, in the words:
"And it came to
pass when the Lord was come up out of the water, the
whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended and rested
upon him, and said unto him: My son, in all the
prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldst
come, and I might rest in thee. For thou art my
rest, thou art my first begotten son, that reignest
for ever."
To which the Church Father Jerome correctly
explains "not
partially as in the case of other holy men."
Jerome on Matt. xviii. 22.
"The Jewish has, immediately after the seventy times
seven: For in the prophets, after they were anointed
with the Holy Spirit, there was found in them a word
(matter) of sin".
In Budge's Miscellaneous Coptic Texts is a
Discourse on Mary by Cyril of Jerusalem. It is
written in the Gospel to the Hebrews that
when Christ wished to come upon the earth to men,
the good Father called a mighty power in the heavens
which was called Michael, and committed Christ to
the care thereof. And the power came down into the
world and it was called Mary, and Christ was
in her womb seven months. Cyril asked: "Where
in the Four Gospels is it said that the holy Virgin
Mary the mother of god is a force?" The monk said:
"In the Gospel to the Hebrews."
Origen on John, ii. 12. And if any accept the
Gospel according to the Hebrews, where the Saviour
himself saith, 'Even now did my mother the Holy
Spirit take me by one of mine hairs, and carried me
away unto the great mountain Thabor', he will be
perplexed, &c. . . .
this extract was found by the translator of Origen's
comentary in some work of Jerome Matt.
vii. 5. The Jewish has here:
"If ye be in my bosom and do not the will of my
Father which is in heaven, out of my bosom will I
scast you away."
The Ebionites
“represented Jesus as having not been born of a
virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary
according to the ordinary course of human
generation, while he nevertheless was more
righteous, prudent, and wise than other men.
Moreover, after his baptism, Christ descended upon
him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler,
and that then he proclaimed the unknown Father, and
performed miracles” (Irenaeus, Bk 1, Ch 26,
doctrines of Cerinthus).
Gibbon notes that
“The two first chapters of St. Matthew did not exist
in the Ebionite copies (Epiphan. Haeres. xxx. 13”.
Prof. Elaine Pagles,
writes about the founding of Christianity in The
Gnostic Gospels: ”It
is the winners who write history - their way.
No wonder, then, that the viewpoint of the
successful majority has dominated all traditional
accounts of the origin of Christianity... Why did
the consensus of Christian churches not only accept
these astonishing views but establish them as the
only true form of Christian doctrine?
Traditionally, historians have told us that
the orthodox objected to gnostic views for religious
and philosophic reasons.
Certainly they did; yet investigation of the
newly discovered gnostic sources suggests another
dimension of the controversy.
It suggests that these religious debates -
questions of the nature of God, or of Christ -
simultaneously bear social and political
implications that are crucial to the development of
Christianity as an institutional religion.
In simplest terms, ideas which bear
implications contrary to that development come to be
labeled as heresy; ideas which implicitly support it
become orthodox”.
“They revered Jesus as
the greatest of the prophets, endowed with
supernatural virtue and power. They ascribed to his
person and to his future reign all the predictions
of the Hebrew oracles which relate to the spiritual
and everlasting kingdom of the promised Messiah”
(Gibbon; Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.2,
P.222).
“But Jesus said to
them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his
own country and in his own house’” (Matt 13:57 RSV).
“Yes, today, tomorrow,
and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it
wouldn’t do for a prophet of God to be killed except
in Jerusalem!” (Luke 13:33 NLT).
: “Ye men of
Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders
and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you,
as ye yourselves also know” (Acts 2:22 KJV).
“That they may all be
one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee,
that they also may be in Us; that the world may
believe that Thou didst send Me. And the glory which
Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they
may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou
in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the
world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst
love them, even as Thou didst love Me” (John 17:21-23).
a “supernatural
union of a man and a God; and this mystic doctrine
was adopted with many fanciful improvements by
Carpocrates, Basilides, and Valentine... In their
eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the
legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the
best and wisest of the human race, selected as the
worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship
of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized
in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons,
the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the
form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his
actions during the allotted period of his ministry”
(Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,
V.4, P.366).
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CAPTIVITY “If anyone has
an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity
shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword
must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience
and the faith of the saints” (Rev 13:9-10
NKJ).
"For with what
judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the
measure you use, it will be measured back to you"
(Matt 7:2)
"For with the same
measure that you use, it will be measured back to
you” (Luke 6:38) “For
with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be
judged; and with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you" (Matt 7:2)
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Have Nothing To Do With Sinners
"Now we command you,
brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
you keep away from any brother who is walking in
idleness and not in accord with the tradition that
you received from us.
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us,
because we were not idle when we were with you, nor
did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but
with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we
might not be a burden to any of you. It was not
because we do not have that right, but to give you
in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we
were with you, we would give you this command: If
anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For
we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not
busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we
command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do
their work quietly and to earn their own living."
(2 Thes 3:6- 12)
"I wrote to you in my
epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral
people... But now I have written to you not to keep
company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually
immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- not even to eat
with such a person. For what have I to do with
judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge
those who are inside? But those who are outside God
judges. Therefore 'put away from yourselves the evil
person'" (1 Cor 5:9-13).
“What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God
forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
longer therein?” (Rom
6:1-2).
“Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
(Rom 6:16).
"Therefore 'Come out from
among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not
touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I
will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons
and daughters, says the Lord Almighty'"
(2 Cor 6:17-18).
"...sin no more, lest a
worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14)
Pelagius: “Man is able, if he likes, to live without sin and
keep the commandments of God, in as much as God
gives him this ability”.
"For it is impossible to restore again to
repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since
they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately
after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful
prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb
6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
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BIBLE
CORRUPTION:
In the words of Prof. Bart
D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of
Scripture, where he warns us that:
"...theological
disputes, specifically disputes over Christology,
prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of
scripture in order to make them more serviceable for
the polemical task. Scribes modified their
manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’
and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of
orthodoxy"
-- which
orthodoxy was to bring the text of the Bible into
conformity with the doctrines and tenets of the
Church of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
In his
book The Text of the New Testament, Dr.
Vincent Taylor writes that
"The manuscripts of the New
Testament preserve traces of two kinds of dogmatic
alterations: those which involve the elimination or
alteration of what was regarded as doctrinally
unacceptable or inconvenient, and those which
introduce into the Scriptures proof for a favorite
theological tenet or practice".
An
important truth is contained in the Epistle of Peter
to James where it is stated:
"Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should
give the books to all indiscriminately, and they
should be corrupted by any daring men, or be
perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that
some have already done,
it will
remain even for those who
really seek the truth, always to wander in error.
Wherefore it is better that they should be with us,
and that we should communicate them with all
the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to
live
piously, and to save others."
Those outside of the original Ebionite/Nazirene core
of disciples and followers of Yeshua/Jesus, were
quick to corrupt all the copies of the scriptures
that were given to them. And this fact
is confirmed to us by Dr. F. H. Scrivener
where he writes that:
"In the second century we
have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper
with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious,
others positively dishonest".
Scrivener states that
"it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in
sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New
Testament has ever been subjected, originated within
100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus
and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with
a portion of the Syrian Church"
used inferior manuscripts
(F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of
the New Testament). Dean
Burgon quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the
source of corruptions that survive in the early
papyri: "The
Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously
corrupted. Laying violent hands upon them, under
pretense of correcting them."
(Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323).
Eusebius (Eccleastical History), citing the second
century Church Father Clement of Alexandria:
"The worst
corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been
subjected originated within one hundred years after
it was composed."
In the words
of Colwell (What is the Best New Testament Text?,
p.119)
"The first two centuries witnessed the creations of
the large number of variations known to scholars
today. In the manuscripts of the New Testament
most variations, I believe, were made deliberately."
G.D. Kilpatrick (Atticism and the
Text of the Greek New Testament, pp 125-131):
"Deliberate changes
in all text types appear to antedate A.D. 200..as
distinct from errors... all categories of deliberate
alteration... are present in both groups.
Tatian is the last author of make deliberate
changes. The vast majority of deliberate changes
were older then A.D. 200. They came into being
in the period A.D. 50-200."
In his book, Introduction
to the New Testament, B.W. Bacon wrote:
"The Christian can only
mitigate the disrespect he feels for plagiarists and
impostors by the reflection that the conscience of
the second century had practically no recognition
for those literary crimes, rampant as they then were
in the Church"
(p. 168). Yet it
is the product of these
"literary crimes" that believers put
their faith in when they read their Bibles today!
Something which no sincere
believer today should take lightly is the charge
against Christians by Celsus, the second century
Epicurean philosopher, who alleged that:
"Certain Christians,
like men who are overcome by the fumes of wine and
care not in the least what they say, alter the
original text of the Gospels so that they admit of
various and almost indefinite readings. And this, I
suppose, they have done out of worldly policy, so
that when we press an argument home, they might have
the more scope for their pitiful evasions".
Celsus concludes that because of the wholesale
rewriting and corruption of the text of the
scriptures, that this fraud has made all of
Christianity a bogus lie:
"It is clear to me that the
writings of the Christians are a lie, and that your
fables are not well-enough constructed to conceal
this monstrous fiction: I have even heard that some
of your interpreters, as if they had just come out
of a tavern, are onto the inconsistencies and, pen
in hand, alter the originals writings, three, four
and several more times over in order to be able to
deny the contradictions in the face of criticism."
(R.J.Hoffmann's
Celsus: On The True Doctrine, Oxford
University Press, 1987).
To
which allegation the third century Church Father
Origen replied:
"Besides, it is not at all fair to bring this
charge against the Christian religion as a crime
unworthy of its pretended purity; only those persons
who were concerned in the fraud should, in equity,
be held answerable for it"
(Origen, Contra Celsus).
What we fail to realize
today is that during this period, every single
document was edited and revised to confirm the
doctrine of the Roman Church. The noted Church
Historian Eusebius quotes the Church Father
Dionysius (Hist. Eccl., Bk. 4. 23), who reports that
his own epistles had been tampered with:
"When my fellow
Christians invited me to write letters to them I did
so. These the devil's apostles have filled with
tares, taking away some things and adding others.
For them the woe is reserved. Small wonder then if
some have dared to tamper even with the word of the
Lord Himself, when they have conspired to mutilate
my own humble efforts".
Eusebius writes of a number
of sects of Christians of his day:
"Therefore they have
laid their hands boldly upon the Divine Scriptures,
alleging that they have corrected them. That I am
not speaking falsely of them in this matter, whoever
wishes may learn. For if any one will collect their
respective copies, and compare them one with
another, he will find that they differ greatly.
Those of Asclepiades, for example, do not agree with
those of Theodotus. And many of these can be
obtained, because their disciples have assiduously
written the corrections, as they call them, that is
the corruptions, of each of them. Again, those of
Hermophilus do not agree with these, and those of
Apollonides are not consistent with themselves. For
you can compare those prepared by them at an earlier
date with those which they corrupted later, and you
will find them widely different. But how daring this
offense is, it is not likely that they themselves
are ignorant. For either they do not believe that
the Divine Scriptures were spoken by the Holy
Spirit, and thus are unbelievers, or else they think
themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and in that
case what else are they than demoniacs? For they
cannot deny the commission of the crime, since the
copies have been written by their own hands. For
they did not receive such Scriptures from their
instructors, nor can they produce any copies from
which they were transcribed".
Under the
title of Bible in the Church, the
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics writes:
"In the
first two centuries nearly all the various readings
of the New Testament came into existence, the
majority of them by deliberate alteration of the
text, many for the sake of style, and several in the
interests of dogma… Often readings were rejected as
falsifications of heretics, but often the heretics
were right in their counter-complaint… Every
province, every order, every monastery, has a
tradition of its own…"
If
every province, every order, and
every monastery in the first two centuries had
their own version of the scriptures which supported
their favorite doctrines of belief, then we must
seriously ask the question as to what has been
passed down to us today? Show me the modern
Christian who promotes the idea that their beliefs
are from God because they are supported by the
scriptures, and I will show you believers who have
failed to follow the advice of the Apostle and
"Test all things".
Quoting Prof. Millar Burrows in More Light on the
Dead Sea Scrolls, Prof. Burrows writes:
“There are those who
believe or assume that the Greek and Hebrew texts
from which our translations are made are infallible.
No person who has studied textual criticism at all
could believe that. The most conservative scholars
in the most conservative churches recognize that the
text has become corrupt at many points in the course
of its transmission. If that were not already well
known and universally admitted, the Dead Sea Scrolls
would demonstrate it conclusively.”
In the Preface to the
Revised Standard Version of the bible this notable
statement is made regarding the need for a revision
of the English translation:
"Yet the King James
Version has grave defects... was based upon a Greek
text that was marred by mistakes, containing the
accumulated errors of fourteen centuries of
manuscript copying. It was essentially the Greek
text of the New Testament as edited by Beza, 1589,
who closely followed that published by Erasmus,
1516-1535, which was based upon a few medieval
manuscripts. The earliest and best of the eight
manuscripts which Erasmus consulted was from the
tenth century, and he made the least use of it
because it differed most from the commonly received
text; Beza had access to two manuscripts of great
value dating from the fifth and sixth centuries, but
he made very little use of them because they
differed from the text published by Erasmus".
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Dead Sea Scroll
Quotations
How much does the
modern Church have in common with the original
teachings? Perhaps this can be gauged by
a recent interview with Pastor Brian McLaren who
made the rather profound statement:
"One of the problems is
that the average Christian in the average church who
listens to the average Christian broadcasting has
such an oversimplified understanding of both the
Bible and of church history - it would be deeply
disturbing for them to really learn about church
history." And
truth be told, it can easily be demonstrated that
the core purpose and objectives of the original
Gospel teachings are so radically different than
what is preached from our pulpits today, that the
Gospel of the first century would be condemned as
heresy if it was presented to a modern congregation
of believers. And while the
congregation of believers have been largely kept in
the dark, the biblical scholars understood this fact
– and this is demonstrated in the words of A. Powell
Davies who stated:
“Biblical scholars were not disturbed by what they
found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known
all along that the origin of Christianity was not
what was commonly supposed to have been”
(quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the
Dead Sea Scrolls). What does it mean that the
scholars acknowledge that the origin of Christianity
is not what believers have been told by the Church?
Worse yet,
Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea
Scrolls further raised the question as to what
difference it makes if
“Jesus... had been trained
in the discipline and imbued with the thought of a
certain Jewish sect, and that he had learned from it
the role that he afterwards lived...”
(The Scrolls From The Dead Sea). To the
uninformed and unknowing believer, it made all the
difference in the world!
And when
Prof. John Allegro was quoted as
saying that what has been revealed in the discovery
of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a great amount of
overwhelming evidence that
“...may upset a
great many basic teachings of the Christian Church.
This in turn would greatly upset many
Christian Theologians and believers.
The heart of the matter is, in fact, the
source and originality of Christian doctrine”
(August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine).
What all the many recent
archaeological discoveries have confirmed and
demonstrated is that Prof. Allegro was correct in
his assertion that our modern-day understanding of
“the source and originality
of Christian doctrine” is defective.
Why? Because neither the original
teachings or the corrupted scriptures simply does
not support the tenets and structure of an organized
dogmatic church as we have today. In the
words of Prof. Elaine Pagles, in her book, The
Gnostic Gospels: “It
is the winners who write history - their way.
No wonder, then, that the viewpoint of the
successful majority has dominated all traditional
accounts of the origin of Christianity… It suggests
that these religious debates - questions of the
nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear
social and political implications that are crucial
to the development of Christianity as an
institutional religion. In simplest terms,
ideas which bear implications contrary to that
development come to be labeled as heresy; ideas
which implicitly support it become orthodox”.
Biblical
scholars basically told the people the truth about
their beliefs, but the truth was and remains
unacceptable to the multitude of Churches.
Quoting from
Examination of Modern NT Text Criticism:
"Where history records that
true sacred text survived this assault and is
preserved in the traditional text, Westcott and Hort
counter that the whole church participated in a
conspiracy to fabricate a blended (and therefore
corrupted) text. Westcott and Hort must not have
believed the traditional Christian church to be
genuine, but a sham. This thesis is supported by the
biographies of Westcott and Hort. When J. F. D.
Maurice was accused of false doctrine, Westcott
commented that Orthodox Christians are like a new
Islam persecuting a revival of the true Christians."
In the same way that Islam claims that all the
prophets in the Old Testament, as well as Jesus were
all Muslim, the Church of Constantine claimed that
the Ebionite disciples of Jesus were in accord with
the doctrines of pagan Rome -- which are all drawn
from Mithraism.
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Church
Corruption
In his letter to Pope
Leo X on September 6th, 1520, where Martin Luther
wrote of the Christianity of his day, that the
church, “…once the holiest
of all, has become the most licentious den of
thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the
kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that
even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could
think of nothing to add to its wickedness”
(Quoted in: The Great Thoughts; compiled by George
Seldes).
The Predicted Fall Of The Church:
“let no man beguile you in any
wise: for (it will not be,) except the falling away
come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself
against all that is called God or that is
worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God,
setting himself forth as God” (2
Thes 2:3-4 ASV).
With
regard to this falling away, the Adam Clark
Commentary writes of this passage of Paul's Epistle:
“[Except there come
a falling away first] We have the original word
apostasia in our word apostasy; and by this term we
understand a dereliction of the essential principles
of religious truth, either a total abandonment of
Christianity itself, or such a corruption of its
doctrines as renders the whole system completely
inefficient to salvation. But what this apostasy
means is a question which has not yet, and perhaps
never will be, answered to general satisfaction”
(from the Adam Clarke Commentary).
In
further explanation with regard to this crucial
prediction of the Apostle, the Adam Clark Commentary
then goes on to provide us a vivid description of
Constantine and the formation of his new church:
“[Who opposeth and
exalteth] He stands against and exalts himself above
all divine authority, and above every object of
adoration, and every institution, relative to divine
worship, sebasma, himself being the source, whence
must originate all the doctrines of religion, and
all its rites and ceremonies; so that sitting in the
temple of God -- having the highest place and
authority in the Christian church, he acts as God --
taking upon himself God's titles and attributes, and
arrogating to himself the authority that belongs to
the Most High” (from the Adam
Clarke Commentary).
Apostasy: "that fatal
period when the Emperor Constantine called himself a
Christian; From this time onward - the Christians
had no more of the Spirit of Christ than the
heathens...." -John Wesley (Wesley's
Works, vol 7, Sermon 89, pp. 26-27)
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Coming
of the Kingdom
"Truly I tell you, some who
are standing here will not taste death before they
see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
(Matt 16:28).
Then Jesus said to
them, "Truly I tell you, there are some standing
here who will not taste death until they see the
kingdom of God arrive with power"
(Mark 9:1)
Peter told the people:
”looking for and hastening the coming of the day of
God” (2 Pet 3:12). Which provokes the
question: How could the believers in that time-frame
of the first-century, hasten or speed up the coming
of the Kingdom, if it was coming externally in the
outer world?
When Nicodemus further questions Jesus about the
need to achieve the next stage of birth, Jesus
replies: "...Most
assuredly, I say to you,
We
speak what We know
and testify what We
have seen, and you do
not receive Our witness."
Thus, by virtue of his words, Jesus is not speaking
only of himself -- i.e., in the singular -- but
rather, he is speaking in the plural with respect to
the higher reality that ALL who achieve the next
stage of birth know, have seen, and can witness
to. And when Nicodemus still did not understand
what Jesus was stating with respect to the need to
bring about the next stage of birth, Jesus stated
that he was yet too carnal and immature to
comprehend -- i.e., "...If
I have told you earthly things and you do not
believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly
things?" And this higher reality
remains as true today, as when Jesus stated these
words to Nicodemus: Organic man who does not
understand the need to bring about the next stages
of soul and spiritual births, are incapable of
understanding the
"...heavenly things" -- and even fail to
understand the esoteric reality of what Jesus
portrayed as "...earthly
things".
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Mysticism
Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading, The
History of Christian Mysticism, where it reads:
“Although the essence
of mysticism is the sense of contact with the
transcendent, mysticism in the history of
Christianity should not be understood merely in
terms of special ecstatic experiences but as part of
a religious process lived out within the context of
the Christian community. From this perspective
mysticism played a vital part in the early church.
Early Christianity was a religion of the spirit that
expressed itself in the heightening and enlargement
of human consciousness”.
Clement of Alexandria
explained: “The Lord…
allowed us to communicate those Divine Mysteries,
and of that holy light, to those who are able to
receive them. He did not certainly disclose to the
many what did not belong to the many; but to the few
to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable
of receiving and being molded according to them."
"Fellow Jews
and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain
this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These
men are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in
the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the
prophet Joel: ‘In the last days, God says, I will
pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and
daughters will prophesy, your young men will see
visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my
servants, both men and women, I will pour out my
Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will
show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the
earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to
blood before the coming of the great and glorious
day of the Lord’"
(Acts 2:14-21 NIV).
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
”Constantine easily believed
that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his
opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of
the most absurd and criminal obstinancy... Not a
moment was lost in excluding the ministers and
teachers of the separated congregations from any
share of the rewards and immunities which the
emperor had so liberally bestowed on the orthodox
clergy. But as the sectaries might still exist under
the cloud of royal disgrace, the conquest of the
East was immediately followed by an edict which
announced their total destruction”.
To what degree the church had fallen under the
control of blind carnal men can perhaps best be
envisioned in the words of Hilary, Bishop of
Poitiers, when he wrote:
“It is a thing equally deplorable and dangerous,
that there are as many creeds as opinions among men,
as many doctrines as inclinations, and as many
sources of blasphemy as there are faults among us;
because we make creeds arbitrarily, and explain them
as arbitrarily. The Homoousion is rejected, and
received, and explained away by successive synods.
The partial or total resemblance of the Father and
of the Son is a subject of dispute for these unhappy
times. Every year, nay, every moon, we make new
creeds to describe invisible mysteries. We repent
of what we have done, we defend those who repent, we
anathematize those who we defended. We condemn
either the doctrine of others in ourselves, or our
own in that of others; and, reciprocally tearing one
another to pieces, we have been the cause of each
other's ruin” (Quoted by E. Gibbon; The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire).
Under the title of Bible in the Church, the
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics writes: "In
the first two centuries nearly all the various readings of the New Testament
came into existence, the majority of them by deliberate alteration of the text,
many for the sake of style, and several in the interests of dogma… Often
readings were rejected as falsifications of heretics, but often the heretics
were right in their counter-complaint… Every province, every order, every
monastery, has a tradition of its own…".
If every province, every
order, and every monastery in the first two centuries had their
own version of the scriptures which supported their favorite doctrines of
belief, then we must seriously ask the question as to what has been passed down
to us today? Show me the modern Christian who promotes the idea that their
beliefs are from God because they are supported by the scriptures, and I will
show you believers who have failed to follow the advice of the Apostle and
"Test
all things".
Paul states: I will
“...tell about the visions
I've had, and revelations from the Lord. Fourteen
years ago I was taken up to heaven for a visit.
Don't ask me whether my body was there or just my
spirit, for I don't know; only God can answer that.
But anyway, there I was in paradise, and heard
things so astounding that they are beyond a man's
power to describe or put in words (and anyway I am
not allowed to tell them to others)”
(2 Cor 12:1-4 TLB).
What did Paul see and experience that was not only
beyond natural man's ability to comprehend, but was
not lawful to tell what he saw to others? In
the Martyrdom of Ignatius (first Century
Overseer of Antioch), Ignatius speaks of himself as
a disciple of John. In his Epistle to the Ephesians
he writes that he has been
“initiated into the mysteries
of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred”.
In his Epistle to the Trallaus he speaks of the
mysteries and writes:
“Might I not write to you
things more full of mystery? But I fear to do so,
lest I should inflict injury on you who are babes.
Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able
to receive their weighty import, ye should be
strangled by them”.
Ignatius also writes that though he is aware of the
mysteries, he is not yet
“by any means perfect, nor am
I such a disciple as Paul or Peter”.
What preacher of the gospel today warns his
congregation that if he was to reveal the true
teachings of the New Covenant -- the Gospel of God
-- he would “inflict
injury on you who are babes”
in Christ? What teaching of the Lord could a
present-day preacher of the gospel reveal that the
congregation of believers are not
“able to receive their
weighty import”?
If Ignatius or the other early Church Fathers who
knew the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God were with
us today, what profound mystery could they speak
regarding the true teachings of Jesus that believers
today would be
“strangled by them”?
The following quotation is taken from The
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, under the heading
of Souls, Transmigration of:
“The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which
was especially accepted by the Karaites… is
generally attacked by Jewish philosophers, but is
defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben Israel.
It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized
form in the Zohar, it is further developed in the
teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572), and in
Hasidism it becomes a universal belief.
According to these teachings, all human souls have a
common origin in the spiritual unity of the
primordial man, sparks of which form the individual
souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower
souls into confusion; as a result, every soul has to
pass through a series of incarnations... The soul
itself has no sex, which is determined by the body
and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.
In the Zohar, the
foundational doctrine of Jewish Mysticism, it is
written that: “All souls
are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men
do not know the designs of the Most High with regard
to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute
substance whence they have emerged. But to
accomplish this end they must develop all the
perfections, the germ of which is planted in them;
and if they have not fulfilled this condition during
one life, they must commence another, a third, and
so forth, until they have acquired the condition
which fits them for reunion with God”.
Symbolic
Language Of The Scriptures
Quoting the Zohar where it states: “The narratives
of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only
on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the
doctrine; more they know not. The instructed,
however, see not merely the cloak, but what the
cloak covers”. The Jewish mystic who spends his life
seeking the inner meaning of the written word that
the natural mind of man is incapable of seeing, has
warned: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are
simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who
regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for
such a man will be deprived of portion in the next
world..." (the Zohar quoted in The Zohar; Edited by
Gershom G. Scholem, Zohar- The Book of Splendor,
Basic Readings from the Kabbalah [New York, Schocken
Books, 1949]). Why would the Zohar warn: "...and woe
to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah
itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion
in the next world..."?
The pre-Nicene Church Father Origen wrote with
respect to the scriptures: “What man of sense will
agree with the statement that the first, second and
third days in which the evening is named and the
morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the
first day without a heaven. What man is found such
an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in
paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted
therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes
and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof;
and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a
knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man
must hold these things for images, under which the
hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet.,
Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).
Quoting the Church historian Eusebius who writes of
the doctrines conceived by the early Christians
Papias and Irenaeus: “Papias reproduces other
stories communicated to him by word of mouth,
together with some otherwise unknown parables and
teachings of the Saviour, and other things of a more
allegorical character. He says that 'after the
resurrection of the dead there will be a period of a
thousand years when Christ's kingdom will be set up
on this earth in material form'. I suppose he got
these notions by misinterpreting the apostolic
accounts and failing to grasp what they said in
mystic and symbolic language. For he seems to have
been a man of very small intelligence, to judge from
his books..." (Eusebius, Hist Eccl., Book III,
39.11).
In his book entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten,
G.R.S. Mead explains that what the authors truly
“…projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ]
picture of the universe was in reality a picture of
their own minds." He then writes of the scriptures:
"Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a
deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the
structuring and evolution of the human personality”.
Moses Maimonedes, one
of the most respected of Jewish theologians,
historian, and Talmudist, writes about the nature
of scripture: “Every time
that you find in our books a tale the reality of
which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant
to both reason and common sense, then be sure that
the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a
deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the
absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of
the spirit”.
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Christ Before Jesus
Today we call ourselves by the Greek word Christian
-- but have we ever questioned where the term
originated? And what does it mean? The New
Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
confirms that the name "originated outside of
Christian and Jewish circles". The Mercer
Dictionary of the Bible states that: "By the late
first and early second centuries the name
‘Christian,’ which early believers avoided using of
themselves, was beginning to be accepted".
If modern believers were truly sincere in their
desire for a more intimate relationship with the
Lord, they would immediately want to know and
question why "early believers avoided" using
the name Christian? When it is realized that even
the very name Christian was in use prior to the time
of Jesus, we truly begin to grasp the Pagan
connection. The name Christian was a term employed
to describe one who was an initiate, and understood
the inner meaning of the Greek and Roman mystery
religions. Thus, the early followers of Jesus
refused to be called Christian, and call Jesus the
Christ, because the word was used in reference to
enlightened Pagans and their gods.
“When artificial religions
have thus failed to provide the imperial regime with
the effective religious sanction that it needs”,
writes Arnold Toynbee in his An Historians
Approach to Religion,
“there is only one alternative left to
an Imperial Government. It must place itself under
the aegis of some living religion that has arisen
spontaneously and cannot be discounted by the
Imperial Government’s subjects as being a cult
manufactured by the imperial authorities. In the
Roman Empire both these necessary conditions were
filled conspicuously by Christianity...”
”History”, writes
Edward Gibbon, ”is indeed little more than the
register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of
mankind” (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
"The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of
describing Religion as she descended from Heaven,
arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty
is imposed on the historian. He must discover the
inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she
contracted in a long residence upon earth, among
a weak and degenerate race of beings." (Edward
Gibbon).
Under
the heading of Constantine, in the Eleventh
(Scholars) Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,
we find that: ”Constantine
showed a determination to assert his Supremacy in
ecclesiastical affairs, holding no doubt that, as
the office of pontifex maximus gave him the supreme
control of religious matters throughout the empire,
the regulation of Christianity fell within his
province... and it is significant that from hence
forth we meet with the undisguised assertion that
the will of the emperor, in whatever form expressed,
is the sole foundation of the law.
Constantine, in
fact, embodies the spirit of absolute authority
which, both in church and state, was to prevail for
many centuries”.
Gibbon writes in the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
”Constantine easily
believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute
his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty
of the most absurd and criminal obstinancy... Not a
moment was lost in excluding the ministers and
teachers of the separated congregations from any
share of the rewards and immunities which the
emperor had so liberally bestowed on the orthodox
clergy. But as the sectaries might still exist under
the cloud of royal disgrace, the conquest of the
East was immediately followed by an edict which
announced their total destruction”.
Perhaps the classic witness to the absolute carnal
discord that took place can be found in the writings
of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, when he wrote:
”It is a thing equally
deplorable and dangerous, that there are as many
creeds as opinions among men, as many doctrines as
inclinations, and as many sources of blasphemy as
there are faults among us; because we make creeds
arbitrarily, and explain them as arbitrarily.
The Homoousion
[Trinity] is rejected, and received, and explained
away by successive synods. The partial or total
resemblance of the Father and of the Son is a
subject of dispute for these unhappy times.
Every year,
nay, every moon, we make new creeds to describe
invisible mysteries.
We repent of
what we have done, we defend those who repent, we
anathematise those who we defended.
We condemn
either the doctrine of others in ourselves, or our
own in that of others; and, reciprocally tearing one
another to pieces, we have been the cause of each
other’s ruin” (Quoted by E.Gibbon; The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire).
Ellen White: WAS THE MAN JESUS CHRIST ALSO TRULY
GOD? EGW: NO "The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord
God Almighty" (Letter 32, 1899, quoted in the
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p.
1129).
see
https://www.ellenwhite.info/50-contradictions-christ-almighty.htm
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Gnostic
Under the heading of Gnosticism, the Encyclopedia
Britannica states: “Among
the majority of the followers of the movement,
'Gnosis' was understood not as meaning 'knowledge'
or 'understanding', in our sense of the word, but
'revelation'. These little Gnostic sects and groups
all lived in the conviction that they possessed a
secret and mysterious knowledge, in no way
accessible to those outside, which was not to be
proved or propagated, but believed in by the
initiated, and anxiously guarded as a secret. This
knowledge of theirs was not based on reflection, on
scientific inquiry and proof, but on revelation. It
was derived directly from the times of primitive
Christianity, from the Savior himself and from his
disciples and friends, with whom they claimed to be
connected by a secret tradition, or else from later
prophets, of whom many sects boasted. It was laid
down in wonderful mystic writings, which were in the
possession of the various circles”.
Christian Church Father Clement of Alexandria who
explains: “Faith is the
foundation; knowledge the superstructure, by
knowledge faith is perfected, for to know is more
than to believe. Faith is a summary knowledge of
urgent truths; knowledge a sure demonstration of
what has been received through faith, being itself
reared upon faith through the teachings of the Lord.
Thus the Gnostic grasps
the complete truth of all revelation from the
beginning of the world to the end, piercing to the
depths of scripture, of which the believer tastes
the surface only. As a
consequence of this intelligent sympathy with the
Divine Will, the Gnostic becomes in perfect unity in
himself, and as far as possible like God. Definite
outward observances cease to have any value for one
whose being is brought into abiding harmony with
that which is eternal; he has no wants, no passions;
he rests in the contemplation of God, which is and
will be his unfailing blessedness ”
(quoting Clement of Alexandria in Smith & Wace's
Bible Dictionary).
When Clement
portrays the Gnostic Christian as being in
“…unity in himself”,
and developing to where they have become
“…like God” and
“…brought into abiding
harmony with that which is eternal”, it
is at that time when the disciple becomes the True
Christian by entering the final stage of spiritual
development, and fulfills the biblical requirement
as set forth by Jesus in the words:
“You, therefore, must be
perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect”
(Matt 5:48 RSV). Even our very own Bibles at one
time more clearly taught this same concept. In the
third century 1 John 3:2 read somewhat differently
than it does in our present translations. Quoting
from Origen’s Contra Celsum we read that
“it doth not yet appear
what we shall be; but we know that when He shall
appear, we shall be like God, and shall see Him as
He is”. With regard to our becoming like
God, Origen then writes regarding Matthew 5:48 that
“...the virtue of man and
of God is identical. And therefore we are taught to
become ‘perfect,’ as our Father in heaven is
perfect”.
This great truth is seen in
Origen's reply to Celsus where he wrote:
“By
participation in the Son of God one is adopted as a
son…
by participation in the Holy Spirit is a man
rendered holy and spiritual…”.
Those who have not themselves yet uncovered
their true spiritual nature as the Sons and
Daughters of God, perceive sacred truths in forms,
types, and allegories -- because they, being
carnal,
“cannot
comprehend” the mysteries of God that
awaits them.
When God, in the words of St. Nazianzen, no
longer is an
“object of
wonder”, but rather an
“object of
desire” -- and we, desiring to be
purified from the defilements of this world, make
ourselves fit vessels for the Lord to indwell, the
Spirit, according to St. Nazianzen, reveals to us
our true nature, and the revelation of this manifest
Sacred Knowledge makes
“us like
God; so that when we have thus become like Himself,
God may, to use a bold expression, hold converse
with us as Gods, being united to us, and that
perhaps to the same extent as He already knows those
who are known to Him”.
St. Nazianzen then writes that
“the
Divine Nature then is boundless and hard to
understand” by those who are yet carnal
and think as natural beings of this world.
Bible
Interpretation
A statement of the Apostle Peter is preserved in
the Homilies of Clement where Peter is quoted as
stating:
"...therefore great care is to be taken, that when
the law of God is read, it be not read according to
the understanding of our own mind. For there are
many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be
drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived
for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you
ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense,
which you have brought from without".
And in the same way that present-day Christianity
is a religion of innumerable teachers and almost
countless sects and factions, the reality of these
words are totally incomprehensible to the modern
Church. Yet, these words are not only
representative of the very core foundation of the
Gospel teachings, but they are representative of the
original objectives of the New Covenant. In making
reference to The True Prophet who Jesus portrayed as
the One Teacher (see
The True Prophet
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TrueProphet
), Peter warns that:
"Hence, O beloved Clement,
if you would know the things pertaining to God,
you have to learn them from Him alone, because He
alone knows the truth. For if any one else knows
anything, he has received it from Him or from His
disciples”. If we ask the question:
What is being said to the believer who desires to be
faithful to the Gospel Teachings? In the same way
that the believer is commanded to seek out the One
Teacher, and the commandment that
"...when
the law of God (scriptures) is read, it be not read
according to the understanding of our own mind"
-- it is being stated that there is only One Source
of Truth -- and that the wisdom of man will misguide
the seeker. By design, human reasoning is
incapable of understanding the true meaning of the
scriptures -- i.e.,
"...therefore great care is to be taken, that when
the law of God is read, it be not read according to
the understanding of our own mind."
And neither should you listen to other men's gravely
flawed interpretations of the scriptures -- i.e.,
"...For you ought not to seek a foreign and
extraneous sense, which you have brought from
without". Jesus taught that there
is only one Source of Truth, and the disciple/seeker
must learn directly from that One Teacher -- i.e,
"Then opened He their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures"
(Luke 24:45) .
And thus, these words which are representative of
the core Gospel teachings, are inconceivable to the
modern faith-based believer who is divided and
disenfranchised from the very essence and objectives
of the Gospel teachings -- overwhelmed and anchored
to a carnal mindset that is of the
"outer darkness"
-- spiritually disenfranchised by innumerable
manmade opinions, factions and sects which totally
alienate the believer from the Truth and the
Kingdom.
Respecting the True Prophet, Peter explains that
"...And therefore I
advise not only wise men, but indeed all men who
have a desire of knowing what is advantageous to
them, that they seek after the True Prophet; for it
is He alone who knoweth all things, and who knoweth
what and how every man is seeking.
For He is within the mind of
every one of us, but in those who have no desire of
the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is
inoperative; but He works in those who seek after
that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles
in them the light of knowledge.
Wherefore seek Him first of
all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you
shall learn anything from any other.
But He is soon found by those
who diligently seek Him through love of the truth,
and whose souls are not taken possession of by
wickedness. For He is present with those who desire
Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear
patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their
hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts
malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the
thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one
think that he can find Him by his own wisdom,
unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all
wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire
to know Him. For when any one has so prepared
himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind
prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself
to his knowledge”
ANSWER: You are at a great disadvantage. In the
first place, the scriptures have been corrupted --
mistranslated -- and misrepresented. Moreover, the
scriptures are a parable within a greater parable.
You must apply the Key of Knowledge to understand
them. And that those who don't understand the
allegorical language of the soul, Peter is quoted by
his disciple Clement: "...therefore great care is to
be taken, that when the law of God is read, it be
not read according to the understanding of our own
mind. For there are many sayings in the divine
Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which
every one has preconceived for himself; and this
ought not to be done. For you ought not to seek a
foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without" You are applying the
"understanding of your own mind" -- and you are
using the man-made dogma of the Church in your
interpretations. If you want me to explore with you
how to properly apply the scriptures as the Key of
Knowledge, I can. It is up to you.
The Closer
Those who have watched The Closer on TV may be
familiar with an analogy that was set forth in Part
2 of the episode Serving the King, where Islamic
terrorists were attempting to use nuclear weapons to
destroy the US which in the (below) analogy is
portrayed as the king. And in this analogy Brenda
Leigh Johnson explains as to their role:
"I remember once hearin' a
speech about what it meant to be an officer of the
CIA and the man who gave this speech talked about
the struggle to control civilization and how we're
always fightin' the same fight, and he used the dark
ages as an example. And he talked about how on the
one side you had the pragmatic king who was greedy
and power hungry and basically took advantage of
people whenever he could. And on the other side you
had the idealistic church forcin' everyone to follow
the same rules, believe the same thing, and all
that. Neither the king nor the church was ever
completely right or wrong, both sides ended up doin'
terrible things to get what they wanted, really
terrible things. The point of the story was this,
that this struggle from the dark ages had been goin'
on forever, and the church and the king might take
on different philosophies but they would always
fight each other, pragmatists and idealists, and at
most times, you're better off standin' on the
sidelines, lettin' them duke it out. But every once
in a while, one side or the other decides it might
be better just to blow up the whole world just to
get its own way and when that happens you can't
stand on the sidelines any more. You have to pick a
team. So for tonight anyway, we're servin' the
king."
In view of the fact that (1) you remain ignorant of
your past lives -- (2) you have never opened the
door to your higher soul-self -- and (3) since
therefore you have very limited mental resources to
rely upon -- let me assure you that the above
analogy is very true with respect to the plight of
man in this, the Far Country. And my own personal
success throughout the expanse of time over the
course of thousands of years, has been the work of
saving the people who can be rescued from the folly
of the two warring sides whose primary goal is to
rule over the people -- i.e., "...The point of the
story was this, that this struggle from the dark
ages had been goin' on forever, and the church and
the king might take on different philosophies but
they would always fight each other, pragmatists and
idealists, and at most times, you're better off
standin' on the sidelines, lettin' them duke it
out." The problem is that due to
the volatal situation that has been brought about by
The Laws, complacency to these two warring factors
at this time constitutes sin of the highest order.
If you understand the Cosmic Octaves, then you
become aware of those special intervals where
greater change can be achieved than throwing
life-preservers to small groups of sincere seekers
-- and this is one of those times. And if myself
and the handful of others fail in our mission, then
the proverbial waring factors will invoke great
destruction upon a great number of people --
i.e.,"...But every once in a while, one side or the
other decides it might be better just to blow up the
whole world just to get its own way and when that
happens you can't stand on the sidelines any
more.".
I have a medical Doctor friend, who has a psychic
friend, who studied many religious fields and even
Theosophy, who could astral travel through the
astral worlds, which he claimed to be very
dangerous, until you really know your way around,
bypassing the darker aeons--According to my friend,
his psychic friend told him that there are specific
aeons for each religious group; in the Christian
aeon all the travesties and even inquisitions are
still at the order of the day; in the Jewish aeon is
continuous Torah studying; he said that the Buddhist
aeon is the most dull and grey of them all, because
they are just sitting in this dull grey atmosphere
saying mantras all the time; apparently it is so
dull grey there because they completely blanked
their minds here on Earth, and didn't really believe
there is a GOD--Thus according to him everything
continuous very much the same as down here--Is it
true?--I simply don't know.
Socrates “When you want wisdom and insight as badly
as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have
it.” (see
https://alyjuma.com/success/ ).
I was born understanding Karma.. and how to jump off
the Karmic wheel when the understanding and
compassion of how to comes into your life.... or
your mind... What he did to me with the knife and
the continuous assault for three months or more was
a debt he owed me...... when I went IN TU IT and
found out what I had incurred upon him before when
we were together in another lifetime my heart and my
mind totally understood this ...............totally
When I had this flash of insight and my body also
remembered I called him on the phone to let him know
.. that I understood. I asked him if he had a few
mins to speak to me....... reluctantly he
said YES...... I then proceeded to tell him that I
FORGAVE him for all he did to me TO ME and that I
understood why he did it.......... He was
speechless..... for about 30 secs and then said to
me Janet I don't know what to say .......... how can
you forgive me I said well I can I know why you did
what you did and I am calling you know to let you
know I forgive you totally and completely I then
proceeded to explain to him that I am jumping off
this wheel with him now because I have come to that
place on my path...... that I understand the whys
and hows of why he did it. I told him I love you
unconditionally and will always love
you unconditionally. he said what? I said
unconditional love is the first and most
important lesson any soul can learn I said Thank you
for bringing me that lesson and doing your JOB
really well from this lesson you gave me I have
learned much I am now telling you I am off this
wheel with you, one of us had to learn I did
........... I send you love, compassion and
peace. May you find peace and happiness in your
life and now I am gone from it I love you, take
care end of conversation
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Circumcision
Circumcision is an
allegory. As stated in the Gospel of the
Nazirenes: "And one asked Him, "Master, do you
want infants to be received into the
congregation as Moses commanded, by
circumcision?" And Jesus answered, "For those
who are in Christ there is no cutting of the
flesh, nor shedding of blood." (see http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org ).
As stated at http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohara/ ,
circumcision not only impacts male sexuality,
but also female. It is a barbaric ritual that
was rejected by the Ebionites and all spiritual
people.
Desire And Commitment
Desire and commitment is often the catalyst that
brings ultimate success: Thus, time for an anology:
A hermit was meditating by a river when a young man
interrupted him. "Master, I wish to become your
disciple," said the man. "Why?" replied the hermit.
The young man thought for a moment. "Because I want
to find God." The master jumped up, grabbed him by
the scruff of his neck, dragged him into the river,
and plunged his head under water. After holding him
there for a minute, with him kicking and struggling
to free himself, the master finally pulled him up
out of the river. The young man coughed up water and
gasped to get his breath. When he eventually quieted
down, the master spoke. "Tell me, what did you want
most of all when you were under water." "Air!"
answered the man. "Very well," said the master. "Go
home and come back to me when you want God as much
as you just wanted air."
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Same Sex
pists Sophia chapter CHAPTER 147 Of the chastisement
of the homosexual Bartholomew said. “A man who hath
intercourse with a male what is his vengeance?’
Jesus said: “The measure of the man who hath
intercourse with males and of the man with whom he
lieth, is the same as that of the blasphemer. “When
then the time is completed through the sphere, the
receivers of Yaldabaoth come after their soul, and
he with his forty-and-nine demons taketh vengeance
on it eleven years. “Thereafter they carry it to the
fire-rivers and seething pitch-seas, which are full
of demons with pigs’ faces. They eat into them and
take vengeance on [?] them in the fire-rivers
another eleven years. Thereafter they carry them
into the outer darkness until the Day of Judgment
when the great darkness is judged; and then they
will be dissolved and destroyed.”
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Armegeddon
The problem is that Jesus also taught that the
Kingdom will never come upon the earth, because it
is within you -- and it is therein that you must
seek it. Doomsday prophets have been preaching the
immediate End of the Earth in every generation.
Paul stated that the coming of the Kingdom was so
close, that married men should live as if they were
not married -- i.e., "What
I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is
short. From now on those who have wives should live
as if they do not" (1 Cor 7:29).
Doomsday prophets ignore the statement of the Apostle
Peter that a Christian has the innate ability to
quicken the coming of the Kingdom -- i.e., With
respect to when the Kingdom would come, Peter told
the people: ”looking for
and hastening the coming of the day of God”
(2 Pet 3:12). Which provokes the question: How could
the believers in that time-frame of the
first-century, hasten or speed up the coming of the
Kingdom, if it was coming externally in the outer
world? And if Peter was truly telling the people in
the first century that they had the ability to
hasten and speed up the coming of the Kingdom, then
either the disciples were wrong -- they were lying
to the people -- or the body of believers outside of
the original Ebionite Nazirene Community simply do
not understand the core Gospel teachings (see
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ). Those who
picked up their own cross to travail in TheWay, saw
and experienced the Kingdom coming within them -- as
stated in the words:
"Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing
here who shall not taste death till they see the Son
of Man coming in His kingdom" (Matt
16:28). This same statement is also confirmed in the
words: "So also, when you
see all these things, you will know that He is near,
right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation
will not pass away until all these things have
happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My
words will never pass away" (Matt
24:33-35). If you fill your lamps with the pure oil,
you will find the promise of the Gospel fulfilled
within you, and the inner
"narrow gate" to the Kingdom will be
opened unto you. And this is also confirmed at the
ending of the Book of Revelation where it states:
"Blessed are those who do
His commandments, that they may have the right to
the tree of life, and may enter through the gates
into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters,
and whoever loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15). If the text of the Revelation
represented the end of the world, as is commonly
believed by the majority of Christians today, then
we must pose the question: Why are those who remain
outside the city portrayed as
"dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and
practices a lie"? Armageddon, then,
indicates the disciples personal tribulation
described as the "pangs of
birth", as they endeavor to overcome his
own lower carnal nature through the crucifixion of
what is symbolized by the flesh, in order that they
can possess the Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree
of Life, transcend the natural barriers of this
world, and "enter through
the gates into the city".
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Things Christians Never Told Jews
http://Messianic.Nazirene.org/never_told.htm
“For on this account Jesus is concealed from the
Jews, who have taken Moses as their teacher, and
Moses is hidden from those who have believed Jesus.
For, there being one teaching by both, God accepts
him who has believed either of these".
"Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to
recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man
has been counted rich in God, understanding both the
old things as new in time, and the new things as
old.”
“Neither, therefore, are the Hebrews condemned on
account of their ignorance of Jesus, by reason of
Him who has concealed Him, if, doing the things
commanded by Moses, they do not hate Him whom they
do not know. Neither are those from among the
Gentiles condemned, who know not Moses on account of
Him who hath concealed him, provided that these
also, doing the things spoken by Jesus, do not hate
Him whom they do not know."
“For even the Hebrews who believe Moses, and do not
observe the things spoken by him, are not saved,
unless they observe the things that were spoken to
them. For their believing Moses was not of their own
will, but of God, who said to Moses, Behold, I come
to thee in a pillar of cloud, that the people may
hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for
ever. Since, therefore, both to the Hebrews and to
those who are called from the Gentiles, believing in
the teachers of truth is of God, while excellent
actions are left to every one to do by his own
judgment, the reward is righteously bestowed upon
those who do well. For there would have been no need
of Moses, or of the coming of Jesus, if of
themselves they would have understood what is
reasonable. Neither is there salvation in believing
in teachers and calling them lords”.
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Gurdjieff : When
Gurdjieff went to first the yogis in India, and then
the Buddhist masters in Tibet, he in like manner saw
through their limitations. And this can also be
related to why Yeshua and his core disciples were
not Essenes. The holy men of the East have a
system where they don't directly interact with the
worldly people -- but they work on their own lower
natures by using their disciples and followers as
catalysts so that they don't have to experience what
is portrayed as the Fall. So they are developing
their own lower natures by proxy. My own
experiences confirm those expressed by Gurdjieff as
quoted by P.D. Ouspensky in his book In Search Of
The Miraculous: "The third
way is the way of the yogi. This is the way of
knowledge, the way of mind. The way of the yogi
consists in working on the third room and in
striving to enter the fourth room by means of
knowledge. The yogi reaches the fourth room by
developing his mind, but his body and emotions
remain undeveloped and, like the fakir and the monk,
he is unable to make use of the results of his
attainment. He knows everything but can do nothing.
In order to begin to do he must gain the mastery
over his body and emotions, that is, over the first
and second rooms. To do this he must again set to
work and again obtain results by means of prolonged
efforts." In spirit when I was
beginning my initial stages of development in this
life, it was conveyed to me by my soul-self to stay
far away from the Eastern teachings. And while
there are of course similarities, their philosophy
must be embraced over the course of eons in order to
reach this state of higher soul-awareness. It is
just that -- a way for those souls who have lived
very limited lives from a worldly perspective, and
they must maintain this separateness in order not to
experience the fall. So they evolve themselves
very slowly by using their fallen disciples as a
catalyst. Gurdjieff recognized their limitations,
in the same way that you recognized the limitations
of Religious Science. And in much the same way,
Yeshua and his core disciples recognized these same
limitations among such groups as the Essenes. In
fact, if we had remained Essenes, we would have
failed in that life to achieve all that we did.
That is not because there was something inherently
wrong with the Essenes -- but rather, they
represented a level that the Disciples of TheWay
must evolve and move beyond in order to experience
soul-birth.
Columbus: It's like: In the
time of Columbus, the vast majority of people
rejected the earth as a globe -- and not flat. And
when Columbus succeeded in his journey to the New
World, many people did not believe him. BUT, the
bottom line was that if you wanted proof that the
world is not flat, and if you sail to the west that
you would encounter the New World, then you had to
make the journey. You are as those who rejected the
witness of Columbus, and refused to make the
journey. Science has proven that Spirit exists, and
it is the Source of all that exists in this shadow
sub-realm. People such as myself and others have
made the journey,
Quran 4:157 “And because of their saying: We slew
the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger -
they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared
so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning
it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge
thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him
not for certain.” Note where it states that Jesus
was neither slain (killed) nor was He crucified.
This isn’t only ignorance of what the New Testament
clearly teaches (Quran 7:157) it is also a lie told
from the pit of hell.
Feminism Quotations:
The Feminist movement is
solidly Democrat -- which is fundamentally socialist
with a Communist Marxist foundation -- and the core
of the movement is anti-marriage.
Quoting
from Marx's Communist Manifesto, which said,
"The bourgeois
claptrap about the family and education, about the
hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes
all the more disgusting …",
we can observe the
Democrat, Feminist, Socialist rejection of the
traditional marriage and family environment.
In her younger days the radical feminist icon Gloria
Steinem led the women’s liberation with the phrase:
"A woman
needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".
The image
on the right of a fish riding a bicycle became a
popular symbol that women put on their T-shirts,
flags and other clothing.
Feminist author Vivian Gornick
wrote: "Being a
housewife is an illegitimate profession ... the
choice to serve and be protected and plan toward
being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be.
The heart of radical feminism is to change that"
(Vivian Gornick, feminist
author, University of Illinois, The Daily Illini,
April 25, 1981). In the words of Swedish
Feminist Barbro Backberger:
"The idea that someone should
be supported within marriage can never find
acceptance in a socialist society. For this reason,
marriage, as an institution where one non-working
partner is supported, must be abolished, the
children should be supported by the state and cared
for and/or raised collectively and every adult be
self-sufficient."
Dr. Mary Jo Bane, Feminist and
assistant professor of education at Wellesley
College and associate director of the school's
Center for Research on Women stated:
"In order to raise children
with equality, we must take them away from families,
and communally raise them."
Feminist leader Sheila Cronan
stated the position:
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it
is clear that the women's movement must concentrate
on attacking this institution. Freedom for women
cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."
Harvard Press author, Feminist Catharine MacKinnon,
who in her recent book compares male sexual desire
to rape -- whether women consent to sex or not.
Expressing what one reviewer called
"a whole-hog hatred of men,"
MacKinnon explains:
"What in the liberal view looks like love and
romance looks a lot like hatred and torture to the
feminist."
Gloria
Steinem, the famous celebrity feminist, once
declared,
“We
have to abolish and reform the institution of
marriage…By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our
children to believe in human potential, not God…We
must understand what we are attempting is a
revolution, not a public relations movement.”
Novelist and feminist Toni Morrison concurred,
announcing,
“The
little nuclear family is a paradigm that just
doesn’t work.
It doesn’t work for white people or for black
people.
Why we are hanging on to it, I don’t know.”
Linda Gordon, a radical
feminist writer, attempted to rally her sisters by
announcing,
“The
nuclear family must be destroyed,
and people must find better ways of living
together…Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up
of families now is an objectively revolutionary
process. Families have supported oppression by
separating people into small, isolated units, unable
to join together to fight for common interests.”
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