Once again, while from a paradoxical perspective the statement in Acts -- i.e., "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 NIV) could be construed as Pantheistic -- the problem is not that the Pantheists are wrong on this point -- but rather, there is a whole lot more to the equation.   What it amounts to is the fact that fragments of truth that are devoid of the larger reality, do not represent Truth.   That the above verse in Acts affirms this fragment of truth promoted by the Pantheists, is confirmed in the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary for this verse where it is written: "This is the first half of the fifth line, word for word, of an astronomical poem of Aratus, a Greek countryman of the apostle and his predecessor by about three centuries. It is found also (nearly as here) in a religious hymn of Cleanthes of Troas, a contemporary of Aratus. But, as our speaker hints, the same sentiment is to be found in other Greek poets. They meant it, doubtless, in a pantheistic sense"�.   The problem is that as with all the religions of mankind, while the Pantheists are correct from one paradoxical perspective, it is also true that there is so great a reality that is missing from Pantheism to render it in grave error as understood by most people who portray themselves as Pantheists.   And among the many realities that are absent in Pantheism is presented in the above words expressed in The Ten Gnostic Principles in the words: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self...".   If this is true, and we are the false or ego-self who is totally unaware of our true self that lies beyond and on the other side of a barrier within our own segmented mind -- and on Emerson's writing on the Oversoul it is concluded in comment: (1) the human soul is immortal, and immensely vast and beautiful; (2) our conscious ego is slight and limited in comparison to the soul, despite the fact that we habitually mistake our ego for our true self; (3) at some level, the souls of all people are connected, though the precise manner and degree of this connection is not spelled out; and (4) the essay does not seem to explicitly contradict the traditional Western idea that the soul is created by and has an that is similar to God, or rather God exists within us. This idea was later adopted by many religions.      

While the Christians and what is portrayed in the above as God within which "...idea was later adopted by many religions" may once again be paradoxically true, the fact that there is an inconceivable reality of soul and spirit between us and God that is not at all understood -- of which the Christians ignore the statements of Paul which is explored in Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image , which conveys the reality that God does not even know man -- it is important to understand that such a statement of reality on the surface would be rejected as being impossible by the vast majority of religions of the world.   And yet, if the statement is true, then all the religions of the world which have adopted manmade carnal dogma to explain what is inconceivable from an organic human perspective, means that all of these religions all promote little more than fragments of truth, and are all equally in error with respect to the more important Truths that is beyond the perception of organic man.   Which is why the Gnostics portrayed the religions of man as worshiping a Demiurge that created the world of illusions within which organic man dwells -- i.e., Plato's Cave.   Further, in addition to the statement by Paul and the confirmation in the Gospel of Thomas, the same reality is portrayed in the words of St. Nazianzen which can be found at http://BeingOfLight.com where it is written: 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.  Thus, again we see this same reality that is not understood in the words: "...knows those who are known to Him"�.   If we are indeed a false or ego-self that began as an embryonic image projected into the body by our true self -- i.e., our higher soul-self that is not manifest in the physical body -- then God can only know that which is true, and not that which is false and of this world.   And that the false cannot exist in the Kingdom, is the reason why Jesus is portrayed as totally rejecting the counterfeit believer who does not pick up his own cross and fulfill the Law within himself: "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 7:21-23 NKJ).

What we see unfolding here is the Grand Enigma and Paradox of Confusion that is the essence of the long ignored words of Paul (see Mystery Of The Gospel) that man's own higher soul and spiritual reality remains totally inconceivable to the organic mind of man -- that this higher soul-reality remains virtually unknown to the multitude of religious and philosophical leaders in the world who mistake the false ego-self with the true soul-self that is not manifest in the body-vessel -- and is representative of the ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY knowledge which caused Valentinus to state that even among the sincere seekers, only a few will ultimately succeed.  While the eternal souls or soul-selves are the Creation of God -- we are an embryonic image of our soul that has been projected into this world (see  Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) -- and that principle which we call God which exits at the Core Essence of Creation, cannot bypass the levels of Creation and Consciousness and directly intervene in the lives of man who only exist within God by PROXY of being an embryonic image that exists within the reality of the soul-self.

What is presented just following the foregoing hyperlink beginning with The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man -- which opens the door to what is further presented in Soul-Symphony - Time - Soul-Octaves - Spiritual Cathedral -- portrays the Mind of the soul as existing within a Matrix, of which the vast majority of mankind remain an unknowing part of.   And it is from this higher reality that I write that from our perspective, there is no such thing as reincarnation -- and yet, our higher soul-self which Philip Dick and Emerson portray as the True Self, evolves to Completion over the course of many lifetimes.   But that what we call Time, is in fact a dimension of mind and consciousness that few of mankind possess the capacity to even begin to comprehend, is a reality within the Matrix of Mind that is necessary to even begin to understand our own higher soul and spiritual reality -- all of which as attested to by the Deists, is functioning under the Laws.   And that there was a body of esoteric knowledge within Deism that could not be conveyed to those whose minds remained functioning on the lower levels of organic consciousness, is demonstrated in Franklin's rejection of Paine's The Age of Reason.   Not that Paine was wrong -- but because of the consequences of revealing even some of this esoteric knowledge Franklin wrote: . [T]hink how great a portion of mankind consists of weak and ignorant men and women and of inexperienced, inconsiderate youth of both sexes who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue . . . . I would advise you, therefore, not to attempt unchaining the tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person . . . . If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? I intend this letter itself as proof of my friendship"     Which I liken to the statement by Origen that the doctrine of the physical resurrection was "...preached in the Churches for the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief" (Origen Contra Celsum).

 

 

The True Reality of Woman has been so censored and rejected by modern religious and intellectual cultural authorities, that it can be factually stated that mankind has been deprived and even robbed of his true potential and inheritance.   While traditionally, woman has been viewed only in her reproductive and sexual role, her true esoteric potential and reality which has often been suppressed either by male-dominated religious systems, and/or philosophical ignorance, has had the effect of rendering most of mankind's intellectual and cultural concepts flat-lined and  virtually worthless and mentally inhibiting.    

If a person looks up the term Sibyl in the Wikipedia, you get: "The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles. The earliest sibyls, according to legend,[1] prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity; originally at Delphi and Pessinos, the deities were chthonic deities. In later antiquity, various writers attested to the existence of sibyls in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor."   In the more enlightened spiritually oriented cultures of the past it was well recognized that women possessed powers of mind and spirit that men totally lacked.   They not only did not stay home, but they were revered as goddesses who were all-seeing and knowing.  Under the heading of Pythagoreanism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism ) we find:  "Women were given equal opportunity to study as Pythagoreans, and learned practical domestic skills in addition to philosophy.  Women were held to be different from men, sometimes in positive ways.  The priestess, philosopher and mathematician Themistoclea is regarded as Pythagoras' teacher; Theano, Damo and Melissa as female disciples. ...Female philosophers include: Pythais (mother of Pythagoras), Theano (wife of Pythagoras), Cheilonis, Tyrsenis, Myia (Daughter of Theano and Pythagoras), Damo, Timycha, Bitale, Aspasia, Alexis, Perictione (believed to be Plato's mother), Arete, Melissa, Phintys, Ptolemais, Arignote." 

Wise men of the past were enlightened as to the divine role and reality of the feminine mind -- of which her physical body is only the vessel that accommodates the mental and spiritual facilities that cannot be manifest in the physical body of man.  We still dwell in a spiritual dark ages that mankind has yet to emerge from. And because the Christian, the Islamic and the vast majority of Jews remain spiritually ignorant and mentally undeveloped (see Arrested Mental Development ), everything that conflicts with their very limited understanding is often labeled heresy and satanic. And one of the problems is that academia actively supports and promotes the philosophy that other than their child bearing roles, there is no difference between men and women (see Academia's War On Women @ http://treeoflife.nazirene.org/#AcademiaWarOnWomen .  Which means that in many very important ways, modern academia is even more ignorant than the religions of ignorance that have cast mankind into a spiritual dark ages.   Left wing icon Larry Summers was thrown out as the president of Harvard for merely expressing the idea that women are intellectually different than men -- which has institutionalized and taken the shackles of ignorance to new heights (see http://ebionite.com/harvard.htm ).   In the below I will demonstrate that there is an important Alchemical formula or equation that must be embraced and utilized in order to achieve greater awareness, expand the potential of mind, and achieve a true state of Knowing.  What is paramount to the equation is to not only understand the dynamics of the genders and their opposite powers of mind and being, but to develop these powers of mind to their absolute zenith. The problem is that our academic institutions are so dominantly male-linear oriented -- with women who the authors of Brain Sex correctly portrays as wannabe surrogate men -- an (educational?) environment with the natural feminine-intuitive so suppressed on the altar of Feminist political correctness -- that there exists an absolute void with respect to even a common language in order to communicate with these people who consider themselves enlightened intellectuals.   Are these people truly Knowing? From a higher perspective of reality, these men are dumber than a goose, because they dwell in a feminine void.  What is a feminine void? As the ancients well knew, all of Creation dwells within the Dynamic Balance of Male/Female -- with the Third-Force being the balance of Mind that exists between these all-consuming polarities. Since all realities are relevant, an imbalance in the mental caused by the suppression of the feminine powers of mind, can in many ways be compared to an Intellectual Self-Imposed Down Syndrome which is a genetic imbalance in the physical. In Spirit when I was being prepared for the life I had begun as a seeker, I was told that one of the most important concepts that I would have to convey is that "equal does not mean the same".   While it is true as presented in the above that the Feminine Intuitive must be developed -- sometimes independent of male input or linear limitations -- it is also true that there is a higher reality above the developed male or female that can only be reached and achieved through the interaction of the evolved male and female powers of mind and being. And this is why in many of the more spiritually advanced communities, women were only taught by other women -- and they were never taught in the very linear manner of men. Quoting from http://nazirene.org/secret_doctrine.htm#SecretSystem :

Secret System? 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?”

Fundamentally, what Origen enumerated was elementary Christian doctrine 101 -- i.e., what the Apostle Paul refers to as the “milk” -- or that basic doctrine which still exists to this very day (see Mystery Of The Gospel). Origen acknowledged these doctrines -- refuted Celsus by stating that these beliefs are openly expounded as articles of Christian faith, and then Origen explained: “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”.

It is not that certain teachings and realities were kept secret -- but rather, that it is impossible for mankind who exists at an "animal-soul" level of mind to comprehend higher spiritual reality (see http://AnInconvenientTruth.org/#WhatDifference ). While the Feminine Powers of Mind were known by the more advanced among the ancients, I know for sure that such authorities as Pythagoras understood that the supreme development of mind and spirit required the direct interaction of an evolved man and woman. And the fact that a great void exists between what is published and known by those who were only able to hear the ipse dixit of such ancient authorities -- the term ipse dixit defined as Ipse dixit (Latin for "he himself said it") is a term used to identify and describe a sort of arbitrary dogmatic statement, which the speaker expects the listener to accept as valid -- because of the limits on what could be stated openly, what we call the Cosmology of Mind and Being and the Higher Reality of the Soul was not, and could not, be openly stated to a peoples incapable of understanding anything above that of an animal-soul level of consciousness. And it is in understanding this grate void that has motivated me to write on the Soul-Self in the manner that I have. And Origen was correct in his assertion that this body of esoteric self-knowledge had to be reserved only for those who were prepared to hear it. And since this Knowledge of the Cosmology of Mind and Being is lacking in our modern culture -- and only vaguely revealed in what was openly written in the ancient world when mankind understood the reality of the term Know Thyself -- some of the greatest philosophers of the past have been guided and drawn to my writings of the Soul and the teachings on the Tree of Life.

To Know Thyself, one must know and understand that mankind is divided across positive and negative polarities of mind and being -- and either gender apart from the other, remains hopelessly incomplete.   In the foregoing (see Soul), Emerson writes about the relationship of man to his un-manifest soul or soul-self -- i.e., (1) the human soul is immortal, and immensely vast and beautiful; (2) our conscious ego is slight and limited in comparison to the soul, despite the fact that we habitually mistake our ego for our true self.    Thus, the questions that must be answered: (1) How can man mistake the ego-self for the true soul-self?  (2) How can the vast majority of the worlds religions mistake the un-manifest soul for God?   Why?   Because man in his organic state of mind has no understanding of what can be portrayed as the Cosmology of Mind -- and lacks the necessary knowledge associated with the adage: Know Thyself.

If it is true -- and the unknown and un-manifest soul-self is immortal and possesses permanence, then how can the ego-self that man confuses for the true-self, also possess permanence?   Or, does it?  And why?   And how can we perceive and become our true soul-self that is immortal?    One of the primary reasons why the ego-self of man that is manifest in this world remains totally ignorant of the higher reality of his own soul and true self, is because he fails to recognize that the soul-consciousness of higher reality is divided in this world across the spectrum of male and female -- and without the merging of opposites, it remains impossible to make any real progress beyond that of the ego-self of organic man in his divided state.   In the below subheadings, this important and crucial union of opposites will be explored.

An important teaching that was removed from the Gospels is preserved in the Second Epistle of Clement where it is explained when and how the Kingdom will come (within the individual person) in the censored and suppressed words: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.    For the Kingdom to come within the seeker, they must possess Wholeness -- and Wholeness is dependent upon not only the union of what is portrayed as male/female -- but the development of mind and being within the Divine Pattern.   This same message of the reunification and development of self is also seen in the words: "The Lord did everything in a mystery. . . He said, 'I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like those inside. I came to unite them.'" (see Gospel Of Philip).

   The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind: If I pose the question: Do you know the purpose and objectives of the original teachings of Jesus and TheWay?   Only Christians who have been deemed heretics and outcasts by the traditional Church, might begin to answer this question with some degree of understanding!!!   Why?   Largely because of government intervention into the affairs of the Church which for purely political gain, imposed manmade dogmatic restrictions on the Church -- hunted down and murdered those who dissented with the government position -- edited the scriptures to support their dogma -- and destroyed all scriptures which more closely reflected the original teachings.   The result is that while the original teachings associated with the historical man Jesus known as TheWay was the finest of all of man's religious efforts, these once sublime teachings have been castrated and rendered spiritually impotent.

An important insight into the very essence, purpose and higher spiritual objectives of the original teachings of TheWay is contained in an article in the 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”.     What is expressed in these words is of the utmost importance.   Why?   Because the original teachings of Jesus was not the blind faith and belief in a prophet or god-man -- but rather, the means to transform all Christian disciples of TheWay into prophets and mystics as demonstrated in the words: "...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”.   But, we must then pose the question: Just what is a "...religion of the spirit"?    Like an astronaut who travels beyond the limits of the earth's atmosphere into outer space, a spiritual religion prepares the seeker/disciple to transcend the barrier of this physical world, and enter into what the biblical authors portrayed as the Kingdom of God which Jesus taught was within us.   But to accomplish this spiritual transcendence, you had to first prepare the physical body to make it an environment that would permit "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” to be brought about -- and this requires a great amount of effort and preparation.     In the parable of the Sower And The Seed, this necessary environment was portrayed as the "good ground" that enabled the expansion of 100 times what was originally manifest within the disciple/seeker.    But since the majority of people are simply unwilling to make the commitment to actually live in accord with these teachings, they embrace charlatan clergy who promote (pagan) dispensations and exemptions that assure the people that they can acquire the promise of the religious teachings, without actually having to live in accord with the religious teachings.    And in the same way that charlatans peddle get-rich schemes which rob the people of their wealth and prosperity -- what Jesus portrayed as wolves in sheep's attire peddled short-cut schemes -- and it was these counterfeit shepherds who seduced the naive into handing over their money and support so they could live lucratively off the collection plate.   

The spiritual Christians who followed in TheWay and prepared themselves to transcend the natural physical limitations of the body, possessed the Divine Knowledge of the Kingdom which they had succeeded in entering.   And the Spiritual Christians were opposed by those who portrayed themselves as Orthodox -- who more often than not, were charlatans who for the sake of mammon and the political power of this world, ardently opposed the Spiritual Christians because they represented a direct threat to their base of money and political power.  

  Intuitive Mind Vs Linear-Rational: The question can be rightfully asked: If the above is true, then why can't mystics and enlightened spiritual men speak plainly to the people, instead of using the enigma of allegorical scriptures?   The answer can only be understood as the seeker/disciple begins to fulfill the ancient adage to Know Thyself -- and when the Cosmology of Mind is rightly understood, the truth and the reality of self that the disciple seeks, already exists within them -- i.e., "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it" (Matt 13:44-46).   The theme of giving up all that you presently have in order to acquire the treasure or pearl of great value that can only be found within you, is the giving up of the thinking, mindset and lifestyle of the cultures, philosophies and religions of this world.   But just as important is the teaching: "Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened" (Matt 13:33).   In this parable the Intuitive Mind is portrayed in the feminine -- the hidden denotes within one's own mind and being -- and the "...three measures of meal" portrays the threefold reality of mind that must be leavened (expanded) beyond the physical.   But what is the threefold reality of mind?    Holographically, it is the Divine Pattern with which all or Creation is imbued.   But just as important is the reality that this holographic pattern exists across the spectrum of all levels of being -- i.e., the threefold pattern across the physical -- across the physical mind in the division of intuitive (feminine) and linear (masculine) -- across the physical-spiritual as manifest across the vital life-force emitted by woman which is opposite to that of man.   But all these divisions across the gender divide are in the physical -- and holographically, the Divine Pattern is manifest in the physical and spiritual natures as portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son -- wherein the elder son is not manifest in the physical world that is portrayed as the Far Country, and remains with the Father in the Kingdom.   But when it is recognized that all duality is in reality threefold when the third-force balance is understood -- and when the third-force balance of the Divine Pattern is recognized as the reality of the pre-existent soul (or soul-self) that is a Being Of Light, only then can be even begin to understand the deeper spiritual meaning and objectives of the Gospel teachings.

When the above reference to the Divine Pattern is understood as manifest throughout all of Creation, then greater comprehension is realized in the foregoing quotation that was removed from the Gospels by the later Church, and is preserved in the Second Epistle of Clement where it is written: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.  The third-force balance between the Intuitive and Linear Spheres of Mind must both bring the two together as "one flesh", and raise the third-force balance up to the level of the higher soul-self where there is "...neither male nor female’”    But to accomplish this "...that which is without" [the physical mind as portrayed in the prodigal son] and "...that which is within" [the spiritual nature as portrayed as the elder son in the parable], must become manifest in the third-force reality of the higher soul-self -- i.e., "...When two shall be one" -- and this third-force balance is our true self, which is a Being Of Light.

Mystics have long warned mankind that the reality of this world of appearances is not at all what is seems to be through the perception of man's physical eyes and senses -- i.e., that there is a great deal more that man's senses and perception cannot detect or even imagine.   And this same enigma of the limits of man's physical senses was noted by Albert Einstein who concluded with respect to man's dilemma when he stated: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."   

In view of the fact that our culture neither understands the intuitive spheres of mind -- neither do they understand the Source of knowledge that the intuitive spheres of mind has the potential to tap into -- resulting in that condition whereby mankind has for all intent and purposes shackled himself to a condition of profound self-imposed ignorance with respect to a higher reality that he does not at all understand.   And what the Mystic has long warned mankind, is that because of the shackles imposed upon mankind by his traditional religious, philosophical, cultural and educational institutions which "...have created a society that honors the [rational] servant and has forgotten [and suppressed the development of] the [intuitive] gift" -- thus, blinding mankind to the underlying cause of all that man sees and experiences in this world, man remains perpetually lost and blind in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- or what the philosopher portrayed in the analogy of the illusions of Plato's Cave (see Cave) .  

That the whole of our culture is based exclusively upon the very limited vision of the linear-rational mind which strives to overpower and inhibit the development of the intuitive gift, is why the Apostle Paul warned "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..." (Col 2:8 NIV).   Thus, where the biblical authors portray what they call the "testimony" of Christ as the entry-level language of allegorical symbols that are intended to act as a catalyst in the beginning development of the entry-level believing Christian, the objective is to bring about the necessary maturity and transformation in the development of the latent intuitive spheres of mind, that enables the seeker/disciple of TheWay to fulfill the higher spiritual objectives of the Gospel -- as presented in the above words of the Britannica: “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”.   That this spiritual objective and body of esoteric teachings became lost when the Church came under the dominion of Pagan Rome -- which was the primary reason why our Constitutional Framers inhibited the government from interfering in the practice of religion -- means that the spiritual objective of the practice of religion is in the development of the seeker/disciple to utilize those higher intuitive areas of the mind that is able to connect with the inner transcendent -- i.e., "...contact with the transcendent [that was] 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”.    Which means that the true objective of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay is "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” through the development of the intuitive centers of the mind which Einstein correctly portrays as "...a sacred gift".

The very fact that it was the objective of the original teachings associated with the historical man Jesus known as TheWay, to bring this condition of enlightenment about in the life of the individual Christian believer, means that there exists the inherent potential to manifest this enlightened reality of mind within the individual believer who becomes a disciple of TheWay.   Which means that the question then becomes not if -- but rather, how to bring this "...heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” about in the life of the believer as he progresses down the path of TheWay?   Certainly not through the further development of the mind through what is portrayed as the linear rational servant.   In the picture at the right -- "the frontispiece to her translation of Newton, Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire" (see Voltair) -- what is personified in the term muse, is always representative of a feminine source of wisdom -- and is very much an allegorical personification of the intuitive aspects of one's own mind that provides insight and access to the higher source of knowledge and wisdom within one's self.   In the image of the three muses at the left, in Greek writings these would be representative of the personification of the intuitive aspects of mind which must be developed in order to begin to tap into and access man's inner Source of Mind and Being.   And in this respect such biblical figures as Mary Magdalene is not the personification of an historical person -- but rather, the purification, development and raising up of the (feminine) intuitive aspects of the disciples own mind.    In the Gospels associated with Mary Magdalene it is written: “She speaks to the other disciples about Jesus and what she’s seen, and Peter says, ‘I don’t believe the Lord said these things. These are certainly strange ideas.’ And she says, ‘Well, do you think I made them up? Do you think I’m lying about the Lord?’ ”   In this allegorical representation, the linear-rational aspect of mind is represented in Peter's inability to comprehend what the feminine-intuitive as represented in the allegorical personification of Mary Magdalene reveals.   And since these intuitive visions, impressions and wisdom does not support the linear reasoning of the masculine vision of this world and Creation, in most people they are rejected. 

In the introduction to the book Secrets of Mary Magdalene, Prof. Elain Pageles writes and quotes the Gospel of Philip: Simultaneously, the Gospel of Philip celebrates Mary Magdalene as manifesting the divine spirit, which this gospel calls the “virgin who came down” from heaven. When Christians spoke of Jesus “born from a virgin,” this author agrees—but refuses to take it literally. So some people, he says, take this literally to mean that Jesus’ mother became pregnant apart from any man, apart from sexual intercourse. But this, he says, is the “faith of fools” who fail to comprehend spiritual matters (although, as we note, it can be seen in the birth narratives offered in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke). Instead, continues the Gospel of Philip, Jesus was born physically, just as all humans, as the son of biological parents. The difference, says the author of this gospel, that he was also “born again” in baptism--born spiritually to become the son of the Father above, and of the heavenly Mother, the Holy Spirit.   That one of the primary objectives of this life is to bring about and achieve the next stage of birth -- a non-physical birth which is allegorically portrayed as a Virgin Birth -- should be of primary importance to all people.   

In the same way that Peter as representing the (male) linear-rational spheres of mind states of the intuitive visions and wisdom of Mary Magdalene:  "...These are certainly strange ideas", it is a fact that it is the lopsided development of what Einstein portrayed as the linear-rational servant that inhibits the development of the intuitive-gift -- i.e., as seen in Einstein's statement that “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”     Without the balanced development of the intuitive, the linear-rational which only senses outwardly, arrives as a point where it becomes what can be portrayed as flat-lined -- which in turn inhibits the further development of the linear rational servant from itself maturing beyond organic limitations.   And herein lies the great obstacle to human development that linear-intellectuals don't at all understand -- i.e., the reality that the linear programming of the mind which is the agenda of our educational systems -- including the reading of books and traditional study -- only serves to inhibit the development of the intuitive spheres of mind -- and it is the lack of balance between the inward looking intuitive and the outward looking linear-rational that inhibits the development of the mind beyond a certain very shallow organic physical level of maturity.    Further, what we are presented with are a number of paradoxes that have confronted man since he first stepped foot on the earth.   Thus, these proverbial questions must be confronted: Is the mind of a child empty?   Or, does a great source of knowledge already exist within the mind of the child that must be tapped into?   Do you instruct a child through rote programming in the manner of our educational systems today?   Or do you guide the child into an environment of self-discovery?

The problem is seen in the fact that the linear-rational servant can only look outwardly -- and not only remains totally ignorant of an inner reality that it is blind to -- but it demands that all of mankind ignore and even reject the higher causal reality that can only be sensed and understood through the development of the intuitive centers of mind.   Like the tip of the proverbial iceberg, what is observed protruding out of the water is very small in relation to the immense body of ice that is beyond man's normal scope of vision lying beneath the water line.   And because our culture and linear learning environment actually inhibits the development of the intuitive, it remains atrophied and latently embryonic and immature.   This is seen in the fact that when the leaders of the Jews (Pharisees) asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come upon the earth in the manner that they believed it would, he told them that it would never come upon the earth so as to be seen with their eyes (that look outwardly), because the Kingdom already exists within them (see http://GateOfEden.com ) -- and it is accessed through the development of the intuitive spheres of mind that are positioned to look inwardly -- which then must be balanced with the outward looking rational linear.

In the parable of the prodigal son who is subject to the limited perception and understanding of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness), man dwells in a world of illusions (see Plato's Cave) that are an allusion of mind impressed into the allegorical images of nature.   In her book, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, author Karen L. King writes: "…the Gospel of Mary communicates a vision that the world is passing away, not toward a new creation or a new world order, but toward the dissolution of an illusory chaos of suffering, death, and illegitimate domination. The Saviour has come so that each soul might discover its own true spiritual nature, its ‘root’ in the Good, and return to the place of eternal rest beyond the constraints of time, matter, and false morality."    The error of Karen King is typical, in that in her failure to properly apply the Key of Knowledge, she perceives Mary Magdalene as a flesh and blood woman, not understanding that Mary is representative of the intuitive spheres of mind that must be evolved and raised up, in order to tap into and connect with man's inner Source of Being -- and ultimately the True Prophet.

   The Opening And Unlocking Of The Mind: A recently published book by William A. Donius entitled Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius, not only provides a degree of confirmation for what is presented in the above subheading entitled Intuitive Mind vs Linear-Rational -- and I point out this book especially because of an important critical review that appears on the Amazon.com web site.  The book description reads: Thought Revolution invites readers to unlock their whole brain to change the way they see themselves and find the truth in whatever challenges them. Encompassing twelve years of research, the book takes readers on an unexpected journey that will set them free-and it all begins with moving the pen from one hand to the other. The technique is called "intuitive" or "nondominant" hand writing and is the basis for this revolutionary approach to making lasting life changes. (Paragraph 2) Tapping the non dominant subconcious right brain through nondominant hand writing, or drawing, can act as a direct pipeline to one's inner truth, open up creative problem-solving abilities, and help people think outside the box. Others have reported improvements in relationships, reduction in stress, better physical health, discovery of hidden talents, deeper spiritual awareness, healing from trauma, breakthroughs in career, accessing inner wisdom, and connection with a higher power. (Paragraph 3) Inside Thought Revolution William A. Donius offers the science behind nondominant hand writing and teaches readers ow to incorporate nondominant hand writing in their own lives. Thought-provoking, easy-to-do exercises and prompts help readers connect mnore fully with the needs of their subconcious right brains and unlock their hidden genius.   

In the article entitled The Cross And The Seat Belt, I explore the reality that while from a purely linear perspective it makes perfect sense to wear a seat belt.   I then demonstrate that what appears on the surface to be purely rational thinking, in fact inhibits the development of the intuitive which is of a primary importance in the development of the mind of the spiritual seeker.    In a subheading of  The Cross And The Seat Belt  article entitled Directed Impressions, I explore the reality that you not only have the innate ability to sense impending events, but by developing the intuitive spheres of mind and then learning how to project one's thoughts to others, that in many instances you can actually avert what the linear-minded people portray as accidents.    But I quoted the above book review specifically because of a customer review by Gary J. Belis on the Amazon.com web site which states: I have just finished reading this book online, and I must say the title does not capture its essence. It should be called "Lies Your Left Brain Tells You." I have tried writing answers to key questions with my nondominant hand as the book recommends, and it is truly amazing just what my underutilized right brain wants to tell me. The book is an easy read, written in an engaging manner. That title led me to believe it was going to be a boring textbook. It isn't. Probably a lie told by my left brain.  And another related review by B. "Cat" Morrow further examines a reality that few understand:  I must admit when I first began reading this I couldn't understand how we could be so adept at telling ourselves lies, AND believing them. However as I kept reading and worked through the exercises provided I realized this is indeed true.  It will take courage to face self-examination, and accept you may be believing things that aren't true, but for those that find the courage to do the work, and follow this line of thinking, there are some amazing revelations in store!    And again in the Product Description on the Amazon UK web site, the crux of the problem is again presented: The Thought Evolution, applies the science to help us learn to think differently. The book cites Donius' experience over the past twelve years and with hundreds of interview subjects in demonstrating how to enable the creative, intuitive right hemisphere to weigh in on our thought processes to help us better understand the obstacles we face and even the lies we may be telling ourselves. Learning to tap into the right brain is similar to learning a new language. But, it is far simpler! Find out what awaits in the subconscious.    

Again we observe the reality portraying what the linear-rational mind perceives and understands as a lie -- at least from a right brain perspective.   In the above noted opposition to first the New York, and then North Carolina seat belt laws as presented in the case of  The Cross And The Seat Belt, when I attempted to present the case that the linear perspective of accidents presented such an incomplete picture of man's true reality, what I presented was immediately dismissed -- and that what I was stating was some sort of cultish mumbo jumbo that made absolutely no sense.   Why?   Because the reality that I was presenting was totally inconceivable to the linear-rational minds of the lawyers and court officers.   And while I eventually prevailed in my opposition to the law, my victory was founded upon Constitutional mandates that the court did not want to oppose.   And sadly, in many respects, this has been the plight of women who by virtue of the feminine powers of mind, are far more intuitive than their male counterparts -- as presented throughout the article The Divine Marriage.    Quoting this web site:

One of the greatest lessons the people of our modern culture must learn is that equal does not mean the same.  Perhaps this is best expressed in the introduction of the long ignored book Brain Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, where they wrote: "Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. To maintain that they are the same in aptitude, skill or behaviour is to build a society based on a biological and scientific lie".   The key to the dilemma that confronts us today is further seen in the words of the authors with respect to their opposition to the ideas we teach our children in our modern-day politically correct culture: "What you will read in this book about the differences between men and women may make both sexes angry or smug. Both reactions are wrong. If women have reason to rage, it is not because science has set at naught their hard-won struggle towards equality; their wrath should rather be directed at those who have sought to misdirect and deny them their very essence". The book then goes on to embrace the very real statement that "Women should contribute their specific female gifts rather than waste their energies in the pursuit of a sort of surrogate masculinity. A woman’s greater imagination can solve intractable problems - be they professional or domestic - at one apparently intuitive stroke."   More recently another (female) researcher named Dr Luan Brizendine has authored a book named The Female Mind.   Dr. Brizendine, whose book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain.  Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality.  I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us.  I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men.  If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives."   These more informed decisions are basically impossible for most women in today's culture because of the biological lie that is being promoted due to political correctness.   The problem is that because we dwell in a world that is generally defined by a male linear perspective, the true nature and depth of the feminine mind is largely an unexplored realm of vast substance and opportunity.   In fact, once this far reaching reality is truly realized, one must begin to acknowledge that even men are severely anchored and inhibited by their own and societies ignorance with respect to the higher purpose and untapped potential of the female mind.  In this respect, woman is the missing element in (male) man's search for God and the meaning of life -- and vise versa.

 

How Different Are Men And Women? In support of the above there is a growing body of evidence as to just how different men and women are.  Male and female brains wired differently, scans reveal (Source: TheGuardian) Maps of neural circuitry show women's brains are designed for social skills and memory, men's for perception and co-ordination Neural map of a typical man's brain. Photograph: National Academy of Sciences/PA Scientists have drawn on nearly 1,000 brain scans to confirm what many had surely concluded long ago: that stark differences exist in the wiring of male and female brains.  Maps of neural circuitry showed that on average women's brains were highly connected across the left and right hemispheres, in contrast to men's brains, where the connections were typically stronger between the front and back regions. Ragini Verma, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, said the greatest surprise was how much the findings supported old stereotypes, with men's brains apparently wired more for perception and co-ordinated actions, and women's for social skills and memory, making them better equipped for multitasking. "If you look at functional studies, the left of the brain is more for logical thinking, the right of the brain is for more intuitive thinking. So if there's a task that involves doing both of those things, it would seem that women are hardwired to do those better," Verma said. "Women are better at intuitive thinking. Women are better at remembering things. When you talk, women are more emotionally involved – they will listen more." She added: "I was surprised that it matched a lot of the stereotypes that we think we have in our heads. If I wanted to go to a chef or a hairstylist, they are mainly men.”     Neural map of a typical woman's brain. Photograph: National Academy of Sciences/PA   The findings come from one of the largest studies to look at how brains are wired in healthy males and females. The maps give scientists a more complete picture of what counts as normal for each sex at various ages. Armed with the maps, they hope to learn more about whether abnormalities in brain connectivity affect brain disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. Verma's team used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map neural connections in the brains of 428 males and 521 females aged eight to 22. The neural connections are much like a road system over which the brain's traffic travels. The scans showed greater connectivity between the left and right sides of the brain in women, while the connections in men were mostly confined to individual hemispheres. The only region where men had more connections between the left and right sides of the brain was in the cerebellum, which plays a vital role in motor control. "If you want to learn how to ski, it's the cerebellum that has to be strong," Verma said. Details of the study are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Male and female brains showed few differences in connectivity up to the age of 13, but became more differentiated in 14- to 17-year-olds. "It's quite striking how complementary the brains of women and men really are," Ruben Gur, a co-author on the study, said in a statement. "Detailed connectome maps of the brain will not only help us better understand the differences between how men and women think, but it will also give us more insight into the roots of neurological disorders, which are often sex-related.” http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/02/men-women-brains-wired-differently

 

In the below subheadings entitled Gender Blindness And The Process Of Birth, and the following subheading entitled The Holographic Pattern Of Sex, I portray man and woman's separateness in the true light of the reality of a Cosmic Ovum And Sperm.    And the true folly of our Feminist based politically correct culture when seen from the perspective of Gloria Steinem's portrayal of "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" -- along with even the suggestion at Harvard that perhaps men and women are inherently different (see Harvard - The Quagmire Of Ignorance) -- where leftist icon Lawrence Summers was ousted as president because he suggested that men and woman might be drawn to different gender-specific intellectual pursuits.    In an article entitled Maneaters - Women who make the world worse (and the men who do what they say) got the best of Larry Summers by Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women's Forum, quotes an essay by a molecular biologist and Royal Society fellow Peter A. Lawrence is quoted: 

“If you say, for example, that women are on average more understanding of others, this can be interpreted as misogyny in disguise. If you state that boys on average are much more likely than girls to become computer nerds, people may react as if you plan to ban all women from the trading rooms of merchant banks. The Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen published research on the ‘male brain’ in a specialist journal in 1997, but did not dare to talk about his ideas in public for several years....One reason for this absurd taboo is that we cannot think objectively because our minds are full of wayward beliefs and delusions — ‘ghosts’....And one of these ghosts is the dogma that all groups of people, such as men and women, are on average the same, and any genetic distinctions must not be countenanced. “Classifying individuals in general terms, he concludes that among men, about 60% have a male brain, 20% have a balanced brain, and 20% have a female brain. Women show the inverse figures, with some 60% having a female brain. Many facts...have their roots in biology and genetics. Here are some examples. First, it is hardly necessary to point out that distinguishing between the contributions of nature and nurture to animal or human behaviour has proved difficult. However, newborn infants (less than 24 hours old) have been shown a real human face and a mobile of the same size and similar colour. On average, boys looked longer at the mobile and girls looked longer at the face....Second, such differences at birth must have developed earlier. One factor is the level of testosterone in the developing brain around three months of gestation, which is higher in males (due to the hormone being produced by the foetus itself). Many studies show that testosterone affects development and behaviour, not only in humans, but also in other mammals. Testosterone sponsors development of the male phenotype, and can influence behaviour even of animals of the same sex. For example, giving older men testosterone specifically improves their ability with those spatial tests on which males normally score higher than females.”

Woman, who is by nature far more intuitive, being the opposite polarity of the linear-male mind, is in fact imbued with this greater intuitive insight in order to enable her to supply and fill in the countless voids that exist in male-logic and linear-vision -- that from the perspective of man's higher soul-reality, is a virtual lie that in many respects is the basis of the analogy of the world of Illusions that hold mankind in the dungeon of Plato's Cave.     And when properly understood, the blindness of the linear-rational mind to the true reality of the (allegorical) forms and symbols of this world, is in fact the basis of Jesus' portrayal of the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).    But the problem is that in the same way that in the reviews of the above noted book the  Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius, what the linear-left brain perceives is often a lie, the male-dominated linear perspective of mind does not understand the feminine-intuitive perspective, and simply ignores the important insight of most women -- rejecting their insights as feminine foolishness and housewife folly.   Worse yet is the fact that our modern systems of education work to program young girls and suppress their natural feminine intuition, thereby making them what is portrayed in the above as "surrogate men"!    Thus, in the process, these modern systems of institutionalized education flat-line the thinking of the students at a very low level of perception and understanding, and inhibit the people from making any real progress beyond a low-level carnal perception limited to man's organic physical nature.             

If all that was necessary was for people to employ the exercises presented in the foregoing book the Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius in order to begin to perceive truth -- or, for men to begin to listen to the intuitive insight of women in order to unlock the mysteries of life -- then the solution to the dilemma of the illusions of  Plato's Cave would be rather simple.   But the crux of the problem is far greater than this.   That the male vision is opposite the female -- and that like the sperm and ovum, they are in reality half of each other -- means that while the intuitive perception of reality is opposite that of the linear, it still remains carnal, physically organic, and limited in its paradoxical opposite understanding.   In the following sections I will explore the fact that in the same way that a child needs nurturing -- and must be nourished by the proper food -- the same is true with respect to the mind of mankind that is seeking to bring about the next stage of birth.     Both the linear and the intuitive supply necessary pieces to the puzzle of the greater picture of life that is necessary to being to perceive man's greater soul-reality which embodies our true nature and form -- a nature and form that organic man can't even begin to envision in his very limited physical consciousness.    But since the vast majority of our young children have been ruined even before they have reached an age where true development can be brought about, the whole of our politically correct culture is little more than an adolescent death-trap.  

  Spiritual (Intuitive) Development: One of the primary objectives of the Original Scriptures was the development of the Intuitive spheres of mind that brought about Enlightenment through the eventual Anointing (Messiah/Christ) of the Mind -- which enabled the seeker/disciple to transcend the natural barriers of the physical, and be taught directly by God.   But to even begin to accomplish this spiritual transformation of the body and physical consciousness, those spheres of mind associated with the Intuitive had to be developed, and then integrated with the rational-linear at a higher level of man's consciousness and being than his normal organic consciousness would naturally permit.    Thus, in their original condition before being corrupted by the Church (see http://BibleCorruption.com ), the scriptures were intended to begin the process of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” (see Expansion Of Mind) that would enable the seeker/disciple to become enlightened and be taught by God -- i.e., "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).   And it was for this reason that the historical man Jesus commanded his disciples not to be called teacher or rabbi -- i.e., "But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have One Teacher, and you are all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV) -- and this was commanded, because ultimately, there is Only One True Teacher, and that is the True Prophet -- often referred to as the Logos, the Son of God, and the Teacher of Righteousness.    And that those lost prodigal sons who look to other men as their teacher, rabbi or leaders, will be greatly deceived and misguided, is why the disciple Peter in the Clementine Homilies declared: “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”.  (see The Search For The True Prophet/Logos/Son Of God Within One's Own Mind And Being).     

If we pose the question as to how blind to man's higher soul and spiritual reality the linear-rational mind is?   Both the blindness, mental impairment and dysfunction is so severe, that the person who is limited to normal linear reasoning, is portrayed as being dead in the scriptures (see The Dead Know Nothing).    Thus, the lopsided development of the linear-rational which today is brought about in our cultural educational systems by pseudo-intellectuals who only utilize and develop the linear-outward spheres of mind -- and by the very nature and purpose of instruction, totally suppress the intuitive spheres of mind -- inhibit the whole development of mind to the degree that the students become intellectually flat-lined and totally incapable of grasping higher understanding of both self, and the life the person is living.   That in their original condition prior to being corrupted by the Church (see http://BibleCorruption.com ), the scriptures which are allegorical (see An Inconvenient Truth) contained important teachings and catalysts that developed the intuitive spheres of mind -- catalysts which began the process of connecting the seeker/disciple with both the higher reality of their soul and what the original disciples called The True Prophet who was and is the One Teacher that Jesus said to seek out -- it was this enlightening of the mind of the seeker/disciple that was the very purpose of the teachings of Jesus which were originally called TheWay.    And thus, the development of the intuitive by virtue of the important teaching that were removed by the Church, and the catalysts of the allegorical scriptures, brought about the fulfillment of the original objectives portrayed in the 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”.    

How blind to the true meaning of the scriptures and the realities of life is the linear-rational mind which is associated with the pseudo-intellectualism that is promoted by our culture and taught in our schools today?  In the subheading of Flawed Human (Linear) Reasoning in the article An Inconvenient Truth it reads that: And that human reasoning, the quasi-religious dogma of man's religions and his philosophical schools of thought, are always in error by virtue of their lack of balanced development between the linear and intuitive spheres of mind -- which lack of balance invokes a blindness to the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God -- which reality Paul presented in the words: "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..." (Col 2:8 NIV).    And the degree that the seeker of Truth is to abandon and reject the dogmatic and philosophical (linear) reasoning of this world, is further presented in the words of the Apostle Peter who is quoted in the writings of 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". (see The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind).     

If neither the true meaning of the allegorical scriptures, or the realities of life itself, can be understood using "...the understanding of our own mind" when man is dependent upon the linear-rational spheres of mind, only then can man begin to understand why the Apostle Paul warned that the believer should not depend upon human logic and reasoning "...which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..." -- which to their own detriment the Church has ignored this warning.     What the Apostle Paul portrays as "...the basic principles of this world..." is the linear-reasoning which physicist Niels Bohr stated that “…The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.” These “…mechanical conceptions” make reference to Darwin and the Theory of Evolution which is born out of the blindness of human linear reasoning and logic.   A blindness portrayed by William A. Tiller in the words: “The present scientific establishment has grown somewhat fossilized by its current world picture and is locked into a view of reality that has outlived its usefulness. It has begun to limit mankind’s growth and has so increased its sense of specialization, separateness, materiality, and mechanical computer-like functioning that it is in real danger of self-extermination” (see Science Proves Religion).   So the question becomes will mankind's rejection of the reality portrayed by the modern physicist -- as well as his abandonment with the original purpose of the Gospel teachings -- cause him to go the way of the dinosaur and bring him to the precipice where his reliance upon linear-reasoning has placed him "...in real danger of self-extermination”? 

  The Biblical Code: It is important to understand the reality presented in the Gospels when Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables -- a system of allegories designed to conceal the inner meaning from the multitude of hearers, while permitting only a select group of hearers to understand the esoteric truths that were being revealed (see Mystery Of The Gospel).   And when his disciples asked Jesus why he spoke in enigmatic parables, and did not speak plainly to the people?   Jesus said of his disciples: “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).   The word "...outside" , denotes those who Jesus portrayed as dwelling in the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   And the word translated secret, is the same word translated mystery at the foregoing link ( Mystery Of The Gospel), and makes reference to an esoteric knowledge that is beyond man's organic "natural" comprehension, is a reality that few modern believers or the critics of religion have been able to come to terms with (see An Inconvenient Truth).   Yet, in a state of spiritual denial, the modern Church attempts to ignore the implications of what these words convey.    In explanation of the above teachings of Jesus, the Wycliffe Bible Commentary writes that: “…the initiate was instructed in the esoteric teaching... 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...”

Why and how is "...spiritual understanding ...restricted to those who have become spiritual”???   Because higher spiritual perception and understanding is dependent upon Wholeness of Mind.   The physical consciousness of the body only supports the development of mind that pertains to the physical.   The linear spheres of mind in their natural organic state, can only assess outward phenomena -- phenomena that the linear spheres of mind can only perceive a very limited and partial perception of.   But even more importantly, when Jesus is portrayed as only speaking in parables to the multitude of hears -- which means that among those who are portrayed as the multitudes, those who possessed the innate ability to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of the parable, were those who also possessed the innate potential to be awakened by the parable -- while the majority of the hears remained bound by human organic reasoning that made it impossible for them to understand the true meaning of the parabolic teachings.   And while the reader should be moved to immediately question why the few, possessed an ability to perceive and understand, what the vast majority of the multitude of hearers did not, and could not -- few students of the scriptures even possess the insight to question what makes these few different from the rest of the multitude of hearers?   In fact, the modern Christian who is anchored by the fourth century manmade dogma of the pagan Church of Rome, is simply incapable of answering this ultra-important question.    Where it can be said that the 4^th century Church of Constantine put to death the Spirit of the Church (see above The Corruption Of The Church), it's Spiritual Castration which totally alienated the congregation of believers from comprehending even what was left of a corrupted and spiritually sanitized New Testament (see Bible Corruption), was implemented in the 6^th century.   As an example of how the Christian world was literally forced to adhere to the dogma of the secular priests and emperors, when the doctrine of the pre-existent soul was outlawed by the Emperor Justinian, the Britannica confirms that the emperor then forced his will upon the Church when he "...banished the pope to Egypt , and afterwards to an island, until he accepted the Council, which he ultimately did" (see Teachings On Pre-Existent Soul ).    After relenting to the will of the emperor, and finely accepting the decree of the emperor after seven months of imprisonment, it is reported that the pope met with an untimely death before he could even return to the Vatican.    And while it is true that most of the modern-day doctrines of the Church was forced upon the Christian world in this same violent manner -- and the vast majority of modern-day believers are all victims of what has come to be known as the Stockholm Syndrome -- the removal of this important original teaching has had such far ranging implications, that it has become impossible for modern believers and critics alike to even begin to get a valid sense of the original Gospel meaning and objectives.    The modern Church is faith-based -- founded upon blind-faith -- because the reader lacks the necessary tools to even get a sense of the very purpose of the original teachings of TheWay.   And this secular imposed intervention where the Christian world was literally forced to succumb to the decrees of the emperors, has had the far ranging effect of spiritually castrating the Church.  

Without an understanding of the journey of the preexistent soul and the manner in which the universal symbols in both the scriptures and the parables can act as catalysts which awaken the hearer or reader, it is impossible for the reader/hearer to comprehend even how this system of allegory and parabolic instruction works.   And in not understanding how the system of instruction works, it is not at all understood how the symbolism employed within the parables and scriptures were designed to act as catalysts which initiated impressions and intuitive knowledge from within the mind of the person -- originating from the other side of the barrier between the person in this physical world, and their higher soul-self that dwells in a non-physical spiritual world (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image).   Those who have in their more distant past developed their mind and being through "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” (see The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind) -- are in the present able to receive and comprehend the spiritual meaning of the symbols of both the parables and scriptures.    Which means that everything is dependent upon the necessary development of mind -- and especially those intuitive spheres which enable the person to connect with their soul and inner source of being that exists beyond the barrier of the physical.  This development through "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” is necessary to fulfill the Gospel teaching to seek out only The One Teacher which the disciple Peter portrayed as The True Prophet (see Taught In Parables - The Key Of Knowledge).    And that the whole of this world which is blind to the cause and the Laws that bring about and orchestrates all events in this world -- a condition of blind ignorance that Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- is what necessitates the opening the inner door to learn the true meaning of the events of this world, as well as the true meaning of the catalyst symbols used in the scriptures -- i.e., the warning of Peter: "...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" (see Flawed Human Linear Reasoning).   What this means is that no one -- i.e., either believer or unbeliever -- will understand the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures -- a meaning that is beyond organic human comprehension -- unless the individual person has been enlightened by what the disciples portrayed as the One Teacher and True Prophet, as to the true meaning.   Why?   Because "...spiritual understanding is restricted to those who have become spiritual...”  -- and the very purpose of both the scriptures, and the Laws that control all events in this world, is to bring this higher understanding about in the life of the worthy seeker/disciple. 

The Apostle Peter warned the seeker/disciple not to rely upon human perception and comprehension in their quest to understand the meaning of the scriptures -- and it is this same rejection of human linear reasoning and the quest to learn from the True Prophet the meaning of the scriptures, that develops the intuitive spheres of mind and prepares the seeker/believer to understand the Forces and Laws that bring about and orchestrate all events of this world.   In the same way that we have the ability to learn and acquire the ability to read -- and we do so by learning to interpret the symbols of letters and words -- all of life is written in a language that we must learn to interpret the symbols of -- and I often portray this as the language of the soul that the Key of Knowledge must be applied to.    Because the Atheist and/or the linear-rational minded person who sees only the outer physical aspects of this material world, remains blind to both the causal factors of what is experienced -- as well as the Laws and Forces which present all events to each person -- and remains ignorant of the choices presented to him/her within the labyrinth of one's scripted life -- the Atheist, the linear-rational, as well as the person who remains undeveloped,  believes these encounters are the result of accident, luck, the unknown, human nature, animal compulsion and/or natural occurrences and selection.   This is of course a lie promoted by blind pseudo-authorities who have been alienated from their own higher soul-nature -- and as such, they lead the people in the wrong direction.   Those few who develop the intuitive spheres of mind are able to not only escape what Jesus portrayed as The Prison and the blind ignorance of the Outer Darkness -- a condition whereby the person sees only what is portrayed as the illusions of Plato's Cave -- but also perceive the causal factors of each encounter -- and the Laws which present to us our choices within the labyrinth.  Part of us -- i.e., our higher soul-self that is not manifest in this world -- not only knows the meaning of the symbols of life -- but also the causal factors initiated by the Laws which are presented to us in the manner of a labyrinth that scripts every aspect of our life.  

The purpose of this world is the evolution and advancement of the soul of man -- and one of the primary objectives that is necessary to bring this evolution about in the reality of the individual, is to develop the intuitive spheres of mind that permits one to perceive and comprehend what lies beyond the curtain of the "outer darkness", and begin to develop the ability to understand the whole encounter of life that the individual experiences.   The scriptures are written in a series of allegorical symbols (see An Inconvenient Truth) that act as a catalyst which has the potential to bridge the inner divide between the person we are in this world, and our higher soul-reality -- and as the person begins to advance beyond the physical organic mind, they begin to perceive that all of material nature is itself imbued with symbols of mind and consciousness impressed into the forums of nature that we interact with (see The Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter).     And when it is understood that the Source of all that we see in the material world is in the (un-seen Etheric) Field that modern physicist have now proven surrounds all physical forms in this world (see The Folly Of Darwinism -- and Science Proves Religion) -- then as the seeker begins to unlock the allegorical language of the scriptures which act as catalysts within his own mind and being, the same esoteric reality of nature itself begins to unfold to the mind of the disciple of TheWay -- i.e., (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you..." (Gospel of Thomas). 

  Religion As A System Of Education: When Jesus promised that his disciples will know the Truth that will set them free (John 8:32), he was not portraying the plight of blind faith and belief in manmade dogma that has bound and enslaved the modern Church today -- but rather, that his followers will become immersed in a system of spiritual development known as TheWay, that will evolve and Anoint (Messiah/Christ) their mind in order to reveal all the Mysteries of Creation to their elevated and enlightened understanding.   The fact of the matter is that while those who are portrayed as teachers, in reality even know that they have no real answers as to the meaning and mysteries of life.   So in reality it can be said that those who teach are merely dispensing cultural and philosophic speculation to others, regardless of the fact that those who teach possess no real knowledge. 

If we even begin to ask the question: How important is the development of the latent intuitive spheres of mind associated with Mysticism?    What is today known as faith-based religion is portrayed in the Bible as the elementary teachings designed specifically for entry-level congregations of believers.    What the Apostle Paul portrayed as the "testimony" of Christ, was set forth to the people he converted as a starting point.  And when it is understood that the objectives of the original teachings of TheWay were in fact parallel to that of our modern educational systems -- i.e., "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” -- with the objective being to learn directly from the Source of all Knowledge that Creation was brought into existence to bring about in the eternal reality of the soul of mankind -- then it can also be understood that if the objective of our educational system is to obtain a university and graduate degree, then the beginning of the educational process starts with pre-school or kindergarten -- i.e., an entry-level environment which is necessary to prepare the student to embrace the process of higher learning.   In the same way that you can't enroll an immature student in a college or university, so too must entry-level Christians be exposed one step and level at a time in a religious-based process that brings about their own spiritual maturity and attainment.    And this design and objective of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay is explored in the chapter of the article The Three Lies entitled The Mystery Of The Gospel .    And it is further demonstrated that the pre-Nicene Church (before 325 CE) very much resembled a spiritual healing center that was totally focused on the objective of the development of the seeker/disciple, one level at a time, of the congregation of believers (see The Secret Doctrine ).   To the degree that the Church was accused of being a Secret System that taught the spiritually mature a totally different doctrine than the congregation of believers.   And in reply to the allegations against the Church by the pagan philosopher Celsus, it was noted that the elementary doctrines which survive today as the foundation of faith-based Christianity, was said to be “...preached in the Churches… for the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief” (Origen Contra Celsum).    So what happened?   In the article  The Secret Doctrine, the pre-Nicene Church is presented in its finest moments as a three-tier healing system which served the needs of the people at every level of the process.  But what happened?  In time the proverbial saying that the inmates took over the institution came to pass -- and the charlatan political leaders of the lower echelon put to death the genuine spiritual healers who were the original core and spiritual essence of the Church.   Resulting in the reality that the entry-level beliefs became the only surviving teachings, when the original Ebionite Nazirenes and Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians were hunted down and murdered because they refused to accept the doctrines of the Emperor of Pagan Rome who ruled over the Church beginning in the fourth century.

Based upon the dogmatic folly of pseudo-authorities such as Martin Luther who promote the thinking that you have completed the process even before you have begun -- i.e., the dogma that once you say your Jesus-prayer, that you have fulfilled all Gospel requirements -- these easily proven fraudulent doctrines  (see The Lie & The Ten Minute Test) are easily demonstrated to be spiritually counterfeit.   Again, under examination, we can easily perceive a parallel relationship between the original teachings of Jesus and TheWay, and our modern-day cultural educational systems.   When a child is first introduced into the system as an entry-level student, what is presented to the child is a vision of the final result where the graduate student is able to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, computer programmer or some other professional.   The child is told that if they ardently embrace the objectives of the educational system -- prepare their minds through proper study and application -- that they can arise and fulfill all cultural expectations and find great success in their lives.   From the vision presented to the entry-level student, the promise of success is never presented from the perspective of the dropout -- or those who flunk out and fail to take advantage of the learning environment that the educational system provides to the student.   It is not at all suggested that you can hangout in school without study and application, and collect your university degree by merely putting in your time and going through the motions of going to school.   And what is not at all understood  today, is the fact that the promise of the scriptures is parallel to that of the promise presented to the child who enters our educational system -- in that, the promise of the scriptures portrays the reality of those who sincerely engage and complete the process of the original objectives of  "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness”, will attain the promised results -- and this promise cannot be achieved by those who become spiritual dropouts.    But as the original teachings became institutionalized under secular control, charlatan priests and clergy (see The Example Of Paul Of Samosata at http://nazirene.org/unfaithful2.htm#clergy ) peddled dogmatic shortcuts that they said eliminated the need to strive and fulfill the original spiritual objectives of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” -- with a greater number of dogmatic dispensations being invented in order to circumvent the process of higher development --  to the degree where the focus of the Church became instant salvation for the purpose of acquiring mammon and the political power of the secular priests and clergy.   And when the remaining spiritual core objected, they were condemned as heretics, hunted down and murdered. 

  The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation: If you believe that God is as a Being/Person in human form and appearance, then there is no point in your reading any further.   The problem is based upon the reality that your True-Self is not in the form that looks back to you in the image you perceive in a mirror -- and it will remain impossible for you to even begin to understand God, the Trinity, or what can be portrayed as the Divine Pattern of Creation, so long as you remain ignorant of your own True-Self as a direct expression of the Divine, and a Being of Light.  Thus, as stated in the Gospel of Thomas: Jesus said, "...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."    The implications are that so long as you fail to Know Thyself, you are not even Known by God -- that your True-Self is a Son/Child of God -- and that if you fail to Know your True-Self, that you dwell in poverty, and "...it is you who are [the embodiment of] poverty".   Which embodiment of abject poverty is an accurate portrayal of 99.9% of the people in the world today.  Why?  Because this realm is the Far Country portrayed in the Parable of the Prodigal Son -- it is the "outer darkness" of mind and being ( http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ) in TheCall to the Wedding Banquette ( http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ) -- it is the realm of shadow-illusions in the analogy of Plato's Cave -- and so long as you remain shackled by the limitations imposed upon you in the foregoing portrayals of your present reality, it will remain virtually impossible for you to escape your present condition of abject intellectual and spiritual poverty.   Which means that all your ideas about self, the life you are presently living, or God, are all elementary speculations at best.   And to you Jesus said: "How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye'" (Matt 7:4-5) -- and until you are prepared to remove the beam from your own eyes by coming to your senses as the prodigal son -- escaping the "outer darkness" by coming to TheCall -- or learning how to escape this realm of shadow-illusions of Plato's Cave -- then you will remain bound and shackled by your self-imposed intellectual and spiritual poverty that imprisons you in a Diaspora of Abject Ignorance.    When the allegorical account in Genesis states that you/mankind was created in the image of God, what is portrayed is your True Reality in a Condition of Wholeness -- in contradistinction to the very limited fragment of self that you are at present.    Jesus clearly taught the the Kingdom is within you -- and that you must seek it therein (see The Fatal Error Of The Church http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third ) -- yet, so long as you remain limited by your physical condition of consciousness, you will remain ignorant of the Inner Kingdom that Jesus taught to seek, and you will continue to dwell in a state of spiritual disenfranchisement.   A condition of mind and being portrayed as the walking dead -- i.e., "For this my son was dead..." (Luke 15:24).   And when the disciple asked about burying his father, Jesus stated: “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).   Therefore when the scriptures portrays the dead -- i.e., "...but the dead know nothing" (Eccl 9:5 NIV) -- it is portraying those prodigal son and daughters who have yet to remove the beam from their own eyes, thereby remaining bound by the human limitations imposed upon them in this, the realm of the Far Country.   And until they begin to overcome the limitations imposed upon them by their "natural" physical nature -- connecting the person they are in this world with their True Self that is not manifest in the body-vessel -- they will remain a prisoner of the Citizen of the Far Country.   And as the prodigal sons/daughters, in the same way that it is impossible for those who remain bound by the limitations of this world to fulfill the adage to Know Thyself, it will remain impossible for them to Know God.  
 

From a foundational background perspective, there is a great deal of historical information in the in-depth article The Three Lies beginning at the subheading on the Logos -- which leads into what is arguably the most important suppressed and misunderstood teaching on The True Prophet, and the following subheading entitled The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind. While the subject matter is again resumed in the subheading The Holographic Pattern, let me point out that there is a reason why there is a great deal of discussion in that section on American Spirituality which lays the foundation to comprehending the Laws that control all of Creation between the two groupings of headings. And in the subheading following -- i.e., The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation -- there is further exploration.

DUALISM? What exactly is Dualism? The problem is that few people understand the reality of what is called Dualism -- often portrayed in a negative sense as Persian Dualism, Gnostic Dualism, etc. -- resulting in the fact that not even those who often think of themselves as Gnostic, understand the reality of what they are portraying.  There are certain words that possess a Divine Meaning that is beyond the ability of man to redefine or define from a carnal perspective.   And in the word Gnosis (see The Reality Of Gnosis) is one of those words.   Quoting from the foregoing link: Gnosis is the Greek word meaning Spiritual Knowledge -- and True Gnosis is defined as Knowledge received directly from God.   Gnosis cannot be found in a book -- it cannot be taught by another man or teacher of this world -- and it is representative of a higher spiritual reality that simply cannot be redefined by man.   Gnosis is the Greek word which indicates that revelationary experiential Knowledge received from God -- and cannot be imparted by any other Source.   Which means that when quasi-religious and politically-religious motivated people condemn Gnosis/Spiritual Knowledge as heresy, they are in every way condemning and rejecting the Divine Manna imparted to the most religious and spiritual of mankind, as heresy.    Those who ignorantly condemn Gnosis, condemn the Knowledge of God.    And the fact that, because of the politics of religion and the fact that governments the world over have traditionally used religion as a means to maintain rule and authority over the people, we can begin to understand the very reason why genuine Mystics who have dedicated their lives to seeking Spiritual Knowledge -- defined as Gnosis -- have concealed the means to acquire this Spiritual Knowledge within the written text of the scriptures -- cloaked in allegory, so it would not be revealed to carnal/organic man.

From a higher spiritual perspective, there is really no such thing as Dualism in the manner that the proponents and opponents think -- because Dualism only takes into account the Positive and Negative Powers that are paradoxical opposites which permeate all of Creation. And if we ask: Why is there no such thing as Dualism?  Because even the concept of dualism would omit the most important element of the equation which is what we call the Third-Force Balance.  But going one step further, the paradoxical opposites that constitute Dualism on this Plane, exist in Oneness on a Higher Plane -- and their division in this world always initiates the environment where the third-force reality of Mind is the balance.  Moreover, the conflict of the paradoxical opposites can only be resolved when the third-force (of mind) is raised up to the higher plane where what is Dual in this world exists in Oneness.

If the bottom horizontal base of the triangle represents the duality in the earthly plane, then this duality can only be harmonized and overcome in the development of the upper point where the two exist as One on a higher plane.   If the horizontal base represents the perception and understanding from the limited reality of the earth-plane, then the elevated point which is able to not only perceive reality from a higher plane -- but also without the duality of the lower earth-plane -- posses an enlightened vision and understanding that is not organic to the duality of the earth.    One of the primary obstacles that confronts seekers, is seen in the fact that to achieve this higher vision where the duality of the earth is overcome, the third-force balance must be raised up.   Therefore, from a purely cultural perspective, what would be commonly understood as the traditional consensus balance of opposites (male/female) on the horizontal line of the earth plane, would only produce a third-force balance on the same horizontal earth plane.    And thus, the majority of religious paths attempt to ignore the duality in the earth -- or rectify this duality -- by seeking the spiritual as portrayed in the upper most point, without understanding the nature of that elevated point of mind and being.  

In the same way that the soul is asexual -- and is a Being of Light that is pure intellect and consciousness -- our true self that exists on a soul-level is not polarized to male of female or any other duality -- and yet, the enlightened vision of reality is the product of the absolute balance of duality.   In Jewish Mysticism, Eve did not come into being when formed from the rib of Adam -- but rather, Eve always existed before being separated.   In the first Creation Account, man was created from the beginning male and female in the image of God -- i.e., "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen 1:27 KJV) -- which indicates that what is allegorically portrayed as Eve always existed within the reality of the One.    And that to even exist in this world, what exists must be in accord with the Divine Pattern -- and in the same way that man and woman exists in duality, so too does even every thought that is generated by man and woman.   And only when these thoughts are balanced and made whole across the spectrum of male and female, can the third-force balance that exists from an enlightened higher soul-perspective exist.

In the same way that the polarities of male and female are representative of the pattern of duality in the earth, the very thoughts and mental impressions -- in addition to the (spiritual) vital energies or life-force -- what exists within the reality of man and woman  in a state of division, must be overcome and raised up to a soul-level of being, in order to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life which is portrayed in the diagram at the right.   The Tree of Duality (aka The Forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil), is representative of the two outer columns which are male/female in relation to each other.   And the only way to overcome this duality, is to properly engage it -- evolve it -- and restore the male and female to a condition of Oneness and Wholeness.   Thus, the Kingdom can only be restored as presented in the Second Epistle of Clement where Jesus teaches on the coming of the Kingdom in the words: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”    In the same way that there was no Tree of Duality in the first Creation account of Genesis -- and this duality that brings death is the result of the Laws -- only when the Laws are overcome, can the Kingdom be restored within the prodigal sons and daughters. 

While there have always been entry-level pseudo-Gnostics who have preached an earthly-evil and heavenly-good doctrine based upon fragmentary understandings, the Gnostics who truly know the truth and reality of mankind, stated the necessity of evolving the earthly or ego-personalities which are often portrayed as false-personalities, in order to develop the essence-self or soul-impression in Gospel of Thomas saying 84.   And thus, the earthly, or ego-self, must become the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, in order for the essence-self or soul-image to develop and evolve to it's full potential as portrayed in the words: “…multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times” (Mark 4:8 NIV) the soul-image or essence-self which was implanted in the body at conception.   If the ego or false personalities are the expression of the earthly centers, then the refining of the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, is representative of the development of the lower centers -- and ultimately the earthly becoming the bride of the heavenly opposite -- coming together in the Center.

It is important to recognize that while you can't get to the upper point on the heavenly plane that is beyond your reach as organic man -- if you understand and are willing to apply the natural Laws of Creation and Spiritual Alchemy, you can make the lower point reflect the upper, which enables their joining.    Therefore, the lower point as portrayed in the Star of David at the left, must be purified and evolved to the degree that it merges with it's heavenly opposite.  

Once properly understood, the threefold reality which the pseudo-Gnostic, the monk or yogi attempts to tap into by the suppression of the lower nature, and the meditating on the Light emanating through the sixth center above and between the eyes, can be used to demonstrate the failings of the path of both the monk and yogi who rely upon meditation to achieve their ecstatic states of illumination and what they portray as Christ Consciousness via the Light that enters the body and mind through that center.    Thus we must ask: Why not the topmost seventh center?   And it is in the understanding of this crucial question, that the secret to the key of all of Creation is revealed.   The top three centers in the head are the heavenly centers -- and the sixth center is the balance of the fifth and seventh spiritual centers (aka chakras).    The amount of Light that has the potential to illumine the mind, is the result (or fruit) of the balance of the fifth and seventh spiritual centers -- which balance is manifest in the sixth center.   And herein lies the problem -- i.e., part of us is manifest in the lower vibrations associated with the earth and earth-consciousness -- and the higher reality of the soul or soul-self, cannot even be approached, without the Wholeness of the seven spiritual centers -- which cannot be balanced without the evolved balance of mind as portrayed in the diagram of the twelve spheres of the Tree of Life with the Star of David overlain.    

In a summary, if the triangle above represents the dilemma from the perception of man on the earth-plane with the horizontal duality that must be satisfied by the third-force point of the heavenly plane -- and the vast number of religions attempt to overcome the dilemma by negating and getting above the mind by seeking that higher point to the exclusion of the lower -- then the True (Gnostic) Spiritual Seeker who understands the Cosmology of Mind, embraces an opposite path.   As presented in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, the teachings of TheWay strives to develop and evolve the lower point by making the reflective earth ego-self the "good ground".    And this is the objective of allegory of the Torah and the manifestation of the lower animal appetites that must be evolved and perfected, in the AskMoses.com portrayal of the Final Temple.   And it is the evolved development and perfection of these lower centers, that embodies TheCall to the parable of the Wedding Feast, wherein each who comes to TheCall, must have on the appropriate "wedding garment" -- which signifies the evolved perfection of the lower earthly spiritual centers.    And this is why the Gospel of Thomas is consumed with the development of self as seen in the wisdom: "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".   The self that the seeker must find, is the indwelling soul-self that is the focus of the True Self in the Gospel of Thomas saying 84 (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image), and this can only be achieved through the Wholeness of an evolved mind that brings about the next stage of birth.    Again, we see the relationship between the lower earthly point that is the solution to the upper heavenly duality, in conjunction with the upper heavenly point that is the solution to the earthly duality, and when evolved Wholeness is achieved, how the perfected fruit of the Tree of Life is portrayed in the symbol of the Star of David.  

In the same way that the sixth spiritual center (chakra) is the balance between the fifth and seventh heavenly spiritual centers in the head -- and the second spiritual center (chakra) is the balance of the lowest first and the third spiritual (sex) centers -- thus, we have an upper heavenly triad, a lower earthly triad, and it is the fourth spiritual center in the middle which is often allegorically portrayed as the Son of Man in the scriptures, which is the balance of what is portrayed as heaven and earth.    The totality of mind is the balance between the seven spiritual centers and the physical body -- and the mind is manifest in the twelve spheres of the Tree of Life.   And this is the primary reason why the paths of the monk and yogi teach the need to get above the mind -- not being able to engage the mind and evolve it to Wholeness, because of the negation of the lower centers.    The twelve tribes of Israel have absolutely nothing to do with an historical people -- but rather, represent  an allegorical portrayal of the mind as patterned in the Tree of Life -- as is the higher presentation of the twelve disciples an allegorical portrayal of the perfected mind in the Gospels.    And this is why Paul warned the Galatians who were attempting to embrace Jewish ritualistic ways, stated to them: “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?” And then Paul goes on to explain to those who want to attempt to read the written word literally, in an historical context as Christians do today: “For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory” (Gal 4:21-24 KJV).

Not only are the lower three earthly centers the paired opposites of the upper three heavenly centers -- but the spiritual centers and associated spheres of mind are paired across the spectrum of gender as manifest in male and female.    But this is not apparent unless you come to understand the holographic reality of man and woman as the cosmic sperm and ovum that must achieve the next stage of birth.   Moreover, while in our divided reality as man or woman we exist as an ego-self, or embryonic soul-image, our true being is manifest in the higher reality of our soul, or soul-self that is the Being of Light encountered in the Near Death Experience (NDE).    In the same way that a sperm or ovum is not representative of the whole person, we are not representative of the wholeness of our soul or higher soul-self.   And because the womb of our physical mother's is simply not the environment necessary to develop the mind and bring about the next stage of birth, our soul-image is connected in a fetus that is born into this world -- divided across the spectrum of cosmic ovum and sperm in the womb of Mother-Earth -- which world presents to us the necessary environment to bring about the expansion of mind and consciousness in the quest to initiate the next stage of soul-birth.   And man and woman who possess the potential to initiate and fulfill the Laws which bring about this next stage of birth, must develop those areas of mind that are beyond the level of organic consciousness.   

If we draw a vertical line through the middle of the triangle from to top bottom, we can begin to grasp the solution with respect to the Laws that must be overcome.   The two horizontal points on the base of the triangle, are imbedded in the outer columns of the Tree of Duality -- and for this duality to be overcome, the angles must be equal and reversed with respect to the Laws that will bring about the evolution of the center point.    Where normal male/female physical and emotional interaction will remain earth-bound with the third-force balance remaining of the horizontal plane, when a Husband and Wife work on evolving the mind and thinking of each other, as both male and female in harmonic balance -- while evolving that third-force which is the sum of that union of "one flesh" -- while seeking the higher truth of mind that is manifest in their soul, and the higher reality of the Kingdom that is manifest in their spiritual nature -- then the duality is overcome in the Third-Force balance, and the Alchemical Transformation is brought about through the application of the Laws and Forces of Creation which manifest Completion within the Divine Marriage.  

The objective is to elevate one's mind and being to the higher soul-plane of reality.   One of the problems is seen in the fact that there is no duality of male of female on the soul-plane -- and yet, our higher soul-plane is the result of all duality of male and female raised up in perfect balance and wholeness.    Our higher soul-self is neither male nor female -- and this higher reality cannot be reached when our thoughts and mindset are imbued with the duality of male or female -- i.e., the fruit of the Tree of Duality.    Yet, within the environment of a Divine Marriage where male and female have been merged into "one flesh" (Matt 19:6), this duality of mind and being can be overcome -- and the original pattern of Adam/Eve manifest within the reality of Husband and Wife. 

In order to accomplish this transformation, the Husband and Wife must seek to make themselves a Holy and Consecrated Final Temple -- where the lower appetites of the animal consciousness of the body are raised up to their highest expression as portrayed in the AskMoses.com presentation (see Temple).   And it was this reference to the Law that Jesus stated not one jot or tittle would be negated, till all is Completed.   But an all-important reality of Law must be recognized and observed, if this spiritual alchemical transformation is to be brought about.   In its final manifestation as a triangle, each of the male/female horizontal opposites, are themselves equal points in a triangle that they are themselves part of, and they are the center of.   Which means that the male and female opposites must not only reflect each other in the reverse of their polarities, but that the Laws that form the linear connection on the earth plane, as well as the linear connection which arises into the heavenly plane, must all be equal and harmonically balanced.   And while this may sound complex to many, this is exactly what happens in the physical process of birth which every succeeding level is patterned after.   In the same that the genetics of an embryo must have a perfectly balanced chromosomal balance across the DNA of mother and father, in order for the third-force of the offspring to begin to evolve into an fetus and be born as an infant, so too must the balance of male and female opposite impressions of mind manifest this same harmonic balance between Husband and Wife in a Divine Marriage.

In the subheading on the Logos, we find the Greek term Logos properly defined as the Mind of God. And since the Mind cannot exist outside of the Environment of Positive/Negative Forces which empowers and manifests the Mind as the Third-Force Balance -- then what we are left with at it's core could best be portrayed as the Science Of Mind. Understanding the Science of Mind as it relates to One's Self in the equation of Know Thyself, is called the Cosmology of Mind -- i.e., "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" (Gospel Of Thomas). Which means that from an Enlightened perspective, even the most advanced of our universities today, dwell in abject poverty. In not understanding the Cosmology of Mind, they remain totally immature in their thinking and mindset.

Thus we must first pose the question: What is mind? And just as important: What is the potential of mind? And then we should add the proverbial questions that are gateways to acquiring the self-knowledge that will begin to crack open the door out of the abyss of intellectual and spiritual poverty: What are the limitations of mind? Can these limitations be overcome? Why is the Mind of God portrayed as All-Knowing? While the organic consciousness of man dwells in dark confusion that is often portrayed as ignorance? Can man's condition be changed and improved? And perhaps most importantly, what must man do to improve his condition? What will he be when man improves his condition? And does it matter? The problem is that the answers to these questions cannot at all be found in our esteemed educational institutions -- and can only be revealed to us by what the first followers of Jesus called, The True Prophet.

Sadly, these are all questions that the majority of people could give a hoot about.  Why? Because organic man who is ruled over by the lower three earthly-kingdoms, is only concerned with satisfying his carnal appetites and needs of the body -- and having become adjusted to his condition, he simply is not motivated to do the necessary labor and dedication to advance himself beyond what is supported by the physical body-vessel.  And this is especially true when said advancement requires a great expenditure of time and effort without carnal or worldly reward.  Man, in his organic condition, demands instant gratification -- i.e., tell me, so I can know the truth.  The reality that the Truth he seeks is beyond his "natural" organic comprehension (see Mystery Of The Gospel) -- and to understand, he must surrender to the transformative process of embracing the Cross in every aspect of his life -- this time and dedication is simply something that he is unwilling to do.  Further, you have the proverbial problem that a little bit of knowledge is often more dangerous than no knowledge at all.  And since man in his organic condition of mind is incapable of understanding his own higher soul and spiritual reality (see Mystery Of The Gospel), all of organic man's perceptions and understanding of God (and the Trinity) is immersed in grave dogmatic error. In fact, dogma can be defined as the assumptions of the carnal mind that is incapable of comprehending both self and God with any real depth of understanding -- and that these assumptions are then encased in hard and fast creeds that inhibit advancement beyond the carnal, is the plight of the Christian today. And (in the fourth century) since the segment of the Church which portrayed themselves as Orthodox and entered into a covenant with the Emperor Constantine who was in every way a barbarian, the whole foundation of the Church's dogmatic understanding remains gravely flawed. When you add to this the fact that one of man's primary organic needs is that of survival, what man portrays as religion has always been hijacked by counterfeit shepherds (priests/clergy) who hand out dispensations to guarantee survival after physical death. But since death in the scriptures portrays the plight of organic man in this world (see The Dead Know Nothing) -- and the essence of all people survive physical death -- then the whole construct of the religion that is preached from the altars, has virtually nothing in common with the original teachings of Jesus and TheWay.

While the true purpose and objectives of religion is to provide answers and solutions to the above questions that the majority of people could care less about pursuing, the fact that counterfeit shepherds always adopt true spiritual holy men such as Jesus, and use them to peddle their dispensations and carnal dogma -- and they do this for their own empowerment and political position within the culture -- then the few who embrace genuine religion and the teachings of holy men for their intended purpose of achieving Enlightenment and the Kingdom, are very quickly turned upon by the counterfeit shepherds as heretics.

No truer statement has ever been made which portrays the plight of the vast majority of mankind than this: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ...Therefore, my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge" (Hosea 4:6; Isa 5:13). Why? This question is answered in the words: "Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths" (Isa 3:12 NKJ). And if the proclamation in the Gospel of Thomas is true -- i.e., "...if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" -- then the very Essence of Religion IS the Science of Mind. In the subheading entitled The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind -- which is the process that opens the door enabling the seeker/disciple to be able to answer the above proverbial questions that the vast majority of people could care less about.   And in the same way that the Mind of God (or Logos) is the Third-Force Balance of the Positive/Negative Forces which are often portrayed as Father/Mother God, all of Creation is holographically imbued with this same Divine Pattern. Thus, we not only observe Duality in all things -- i.e., day/night, light/dark, male/female, left/right, heaven/earth, spirit/flesh, etc./etc. -- the very condition and reality of mind is always found in the third-force balance of the two. And when rightly understood, even the parable of the prodigal son presents the duality of the two sons -- with the third-force of mind which is never spoken of, is representative of the missing link that inhibits most people from understanding the esoteric knowledge of mind that is being presented within the construct of the parable. But if this third-force is representative of the soul of man -- with the elder son remaining in the Kingdom of the Father -- then this third-force which is representative of the soul of man, neither incarnates into this world, nor can it dwell in the Kingdom, without the lost prodigal son completing its journey in TheWay -- and by its own volition, returns to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.

Both the Trinity and the Duality of the Divine Pattern can be presented in other ways that can help us to better understand.  While electricity is comprised of positive and negative polarity opposites, where they come together in the electrical appliance can be thought of as the third-force balance. Not to utilize the duality of an electric current, can then be portrayed as The Way Of The Monk -- which path attempts to suppress the development of the mind -- in their words they meditate on the Light coming through the sixth center in an attempt to "get above the mind".   And in the example of the electrical circuit where the two polarities are brought together at the point of the third-force appliance, it must be recognized that the vast majority of people have absolutely no understanding of electrical circuits, and all they know is to throw a switch, and use the appliances that operates off the duality of the current flow.    Which means that while the duality exists, few people understand the application of the threefold reality of the circuit.

When rightly understood, computers are the dumbest things that totally lack intelligence. All computer languages are based upon positive/negative charges, or "1"s and "0"s -- but it is the combination of these "1"s and "0"s -- and the speed with which they can be deciphered -- that gives the computer the appearance of intelligence.  But in the example of the computer, it is the sum and application of the duality of the "1"s and "0"s that manifests the third-force which man utilizes in his virtually countless computer applications.  And while the vast majority of people know how to move a mouse, or engage a key, few have any understanding whatsoever of Computer Science or the integration across the matrix of the computer bus and circuits that cause the images to dance across the screens.  Yet, if you were going to create an application -- or modify your computer to expand its present limitations -- you would have to comprehend Computer Science and the reality of the "1"s and "0"s that make the computer function.

Those few who seek to answer and prevail over the above proverbial questions -- and see to bring about the necessary Heightening And Expansion Of Mind that enables them to comprehend at a higher and more enlightened level than the rest of mankind -- recognize the necessity of comprehending the higher reality of mind -- or, what can be portrayed as the Science of Mind.  And in the same way that the computer programmer must understand the compilation and interactions of the "1"s and "0"s in the workings of a computer circuit and language, so too must the seeker/disciple who is striving to reach his true and ultimate potential, seek to understand the Science of Mind -- and the interaction of the duality and the third-force of mind which they are striving to raise up and expand beyond organic limitations.  And in this respect, it must be recognized that if it were even possible to eliminate the duality of all the "1"s, or the "0"s in the computer language, the computer would be dead and worthless, because it could no longer function.  Therefore, not only must the computer programmer understand and utilize the compilations of these essential "1"s and "0"s, but he must orchestrate them in such away, that together they fulfill the objectives of the program that is being worked on.   In the same way, not only must the seeker/disciple understand the interaction of the negative/positive (male/female) forces that manifest in the third-force of mind -- but he must utilize them in such a manner so as to orchestrate and bring about his higher spiritual objectives.   And it is for this reason that the Sacred Knowledge of the Forces and Laws of Mind was concealed and preserved within the allegorical body of the scriptures (see An Inconvenient Truth) -- and in Jesus' own words, a seeker/disciple needed to properly apply the Key of Knowledge in order to ascertain and utilize this Sacred Knowledge within their own Mind and Being in search of Self and the Inner Kingdom.

In the example of the linear and intuitive spheres of mind that I present in The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind, when it is realized that man's superior intellect is born out of a complexity of mind that is manifest in the twelve often paradoxical (duality) spheres of the Tree of Life (see The Enigma Of The Twelve) -- and that the interaction of these spheres is controlled by Laws that must be perfected and prevailed over -- then it can be understood that the interactions of the "1"s and "0"s in a computer or electrical circut can be seen as child's play in comparison.  And yet, because all of Creation is holographically imbued with this same pattern of Laws and Triune interactive realities, the seemingly complex can be rather simple when what you see is truly understood from the perspective of your own higher soul-reality.

When you buy a computer, it does not come with a book explaining the computer languages and detailed workings of the computer -- which virtually no one who buys a computer could even begin to comprehend.   The original Personal Computer (PC) worked on what was known as the DOS operating system.   But this was found to be too complicated for the average person to use -- so interfaces such as Windows was developed in order to create a point and click environment.   In very much the same way, the textual body of the scriptures do not even attempt to present the great body of esoteric knowledge that only the sincere and dedicated seeker/disciple must know to prevail and bring about the higher objectives of Creation within the individual.  In the same way that the users guide of a computer only conveys the simple interactions that make the computer function and animate the images that are danced across the screen, the written text of the Gospels convey to the believer the proper mindset and lifestyle necessary to begin to be worthy of being a disciple of TheWay.   It can be said therefore, that the literal text of the Gospels is representative of an very preliminary point and click environment that is intended to prepare the faith-based believer to begin to progress beyond a very elementary path that is intended to bring about a highly evolved condition and environment of maturity, wholeness and balance within the mind and body of the seeker/disciple.  In a recent legal case which I portray as the Cross and the Seat Belt, I begin my explanation of the true cause of accidents by exploring what can be called The Conditions Of One's Birth - Life - And Death. The fact that there is no such thing as an accident -- and every event in this world has a pre-existing cause -- from a seat belt perspective is synonymous with stating that the solution to water pollution, is not to drink water.  

The primary objective of the written text of the Gospels -- i.e.,. the human users manual -- is to change one's condition so that the believer is then prepared to begin to embrace the higher reality of the soul and spirit. Yet, the counterfeit shepherds who preach from the pulpits of the Churches peddled the dogma that they have a dispensation, and it is not necessary to embrace the mindset and lifestyle presented in the Gospels -- even when the cultural lifestyle they are presently living is openly condemned in the scriptures (see TheLie).  As stated in the article An Inconvenient Truth, all scriptures are allegorical -- with important esoteric knowledge that is of no use to the believer, concealed and preserved within the allegorical text of the scriptures.

In many respects the New Testament was written to free the people from enslavement to the ancient Mystery Religion known as Judaism -- and ultimately, all the Mystery Religions of the old world.  When the Gospels were originally written, there existed many important and essential truths written literally in the body of the text. But because the carnal Christians who called themselves Orthodox, did not possess the depth of mind to even begin to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and spirit, and the Kingdom of God which is within -- they either removed or edited out these important teachings that are essential to walk in TheWay (see The Corruption Of The Church). In the manner of carnal people, their primary concern was the satisfaction of their body appetites -- and the concept and necessary dedication of becoming a student/disciple of the Science of Mind -- i.e., picking up one's own cross and travailing in TheWay -- was something that they condemned as heresy. Their counterfeit shepherds who made a living out of dressing in robes and dispensing ritual and dogmatic dispensations intended to provide the masses of people salvation from physical death, used their armies to hunt down the heretics who maintained that their dogma was a fraud, and their ritual dispensations were worthless. And with the removal of the objective which Jesus commanded with respect to learning only from the One Teacher and True Prophet that Jesus taught to seek out within them (see True Prophet) -- the throwing away of the Key of Knowledge -- and the removal of the teachings on the pre-existant soul (see The Spiritual Castration Of The Church) -- the Church itself has been transformed into a whitened sepulcher that has been dogmatically rendered a tomb of death. Yet, in their folly, they assume that they can understand the higher reality, Laws and Forces that animate and manifest Creation.

The Universal Voice of the Mystic has always stated to mankind: If you want to see and understand the esoteric realities that I have seen and experienced, then you must do as I have myself done -- and there are no shortcuts of dispensations. Those who do not pick of their own cross and travail in TheWay, are not worthy to be taught by the One Teacher that Jesus said to seek out (see True Prophet) -- and thus, they dwell in the abyss of intellectual and spiritual poverty: "...if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty". And herein likes the crux of the problem -- i.e., to understand the Science of Mind and the Trinitarian Foundation of the Divine Pattern of Creation, one must begin to change their condition and create within themselves the necessary spiritual environment which in the allegory of the scriptures is portrayed as the Final Temple. And in this respect, the necessary knowledge which the Church suppressed and destroyed when it entered a covenant with Rome, is presented in The Three Lies and its associated links. But to bring about the necessary transformation of self into the Final Temple that enables the seeker/disciple to enter within the Holy of Holies with themselves and enter the Inner Kingdom, they must live their received level of knowledge in word, thought, desire and deed. Thus, like the prodigal son, they must begin their journey in TheWay back to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination ( http://GateOfEden.com ). And the further along they progress, the greater their understanding will become. 

   Understanding What We See: The Gospel of Thomas declares to the reader: "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.  For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest."   What does this mean?   It is not until we begin to be conscious of the reality that everything we think we see, perceive and understand is a mere fragment of reality, that we can even begin to overcome the limits that this physical world places upon us.   Jesus portrayed man as having abandoned the Kingdom in order to journey into the Far Country in the parable of the (two sons) prodigal son.   He portrayed this world as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- which "outer darkness" is synonymous and parallel to the plight of mankind in what is known as Plato's Cave.  That man in his organic "natural" state of mind is severely limited and fragmented in what he thinks he sees, perceives and understands, is what Jesus portrays as the condition of blindness that immerses all of mankind in the "outer darkness" of mind and being.   And it was because of this inherent blindness that Jesus explained: “For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts...” (Matt 13:15-17 NIV) -- and thus, what Jesus revealed is that mankind in his organic "natural" state of mind, was inherently blind, deaf and unable to understand man's own higher soul and spiritual reality.   And that it is further impossible for even baptized and committed believers to understand the true meaning of the Bible -- and all of life -- and this long ignored biblical fact is clearly demonstrated and explored at the subheading entitled The Mystery Of The Gospel.   And when Paul explained to the Congregation of Christians who he had himself taught that: "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.  I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal" (1 Cor 3:1-3 NKJ). -- it was because they had only begun their journey in TheWay, and were yet too immature and carnal to not only perceive their own higher soul and spiritual reality -- but to understand the inner meaning of the Gospel and scriptures.  

The gaining of what the Gospel portrays as the "eyes to see" and the "ears to hear" that is necessary in order to escape the limitations of the "outer darkness", is very much found in the words: "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.   In the subheading on The Holographic Pattern Of Creation, I portray this world as a mental-womb that has the potential to supply and nourish the seeker with the necessary thoughts and mental-impressions to bring about the next stage of birth that Jesus said was necessary to enter into Life (see The Laws And The Birth Process).     What is therefore imperative to understand is the fact that the scriptures are written in allegory, because all that we see when we look out into the world are in fact thoughts and realities of mind impressed into the forms of Nature which immerse man in a Mental-Womb that is necessary for his development and next stage of birth.    Science has already proven that what man sees with his physical senses is a mental-projection of what exists in the Field which surrounds physical matter (see Science - Religion - And The Etheric Field/Mind).   And in his physical organic condition, man remains inherently blind to the source in the (Etheric) Field.   Science has further come to understand that we dwell in a holographic universe that is a projected thought -- and our physical brains interpret a certain spectrum of frequencies as being concrete -- but in reality, what we perceive as concrete is merely that spectrum of frequency (of thought) within the holographic reality of this world.   In an excerpt of the book Active Consciousness - Awakening The Power Within, by Amy L. Lansky, it is stated that:  "If a holographic image has many different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of the same frequency to stand out. That's because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another -- just as two violin strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. This property of resonance has [also] been used to explain how each of us might interact with mysterious fields like the psi or Akashic fields... People pick up only that with which they personally 'resonate.' Each individual's resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limits what they can perceive."

What you have here is the human dilemma -- i.e., "...That's because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another" -- which is why your body-senses which are comprised of earth-matter, and resonates at an earth-frequency, is generally incapable of perceiving beyond this very limited spectrum -- even though, all of reality lies before each person with nothing concealed.  Moreover, because there is nothing but thought-images impressed into the forms of Nature -- and you are presently dwelling in what can best be portrayed as a mental-womb -- what you are actually seeing is thoughts which have been molded and impressed into allegorical forms.  And when properly understood, this is the analogy of the Outer Darkness and Plato's Cave.  But the greater problem is that the vision of each person is further constrained by their very limited mindset -- and they can't even begin to "open and unloose" the mind as the Gospel proclaims.  And in never developing the mind to perceive and think beyond the narrowest of limitations within an already limited spectrum of the holographic field.   Now add to this the fact that each of the twelve spheres of mind imposes a sectarian perception on what is seen -- and of course these are again filtered by the holographic reality of the twelve within the twelve -- and this is why organic man is not only blind to reality outside of the frequency spectrum of the earth -- but also, sees and thinks within a very narrow spectrum of even the limited frequencies of the earth.  Further, we see in what is portrayed as the Tower of Babel Syndrome that "...People pick up only that with which they personally 'resonate.' Each individual's resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limits what they can perceive" -- and this is why each group is only capable of hearing and understanding the rhetoric of their own group -- why men don't understand women, and vice versa -- why man is divided across countless sectarian and philosophical schools of thought, all of which remain incomplete and dead-ended.  

  Gender-Blindness And The Process Of Birth: In view of the foregoing where the extreme limitations of man's vision, perception and understanding of what he thinks he sees is explored, it is important to also come to understand what can be called man's inherent Gender-Blindness.  When it is understood that this world is very much a mental-womb where the next stage of birth must be brought about -- and that having emerged into this world, man and woman can very much be portrayed as a cosmic ovum and sperm (see The Cosmic Ovum And Sperm) -- and that man and woman is in reality an embryonic image of their true self that already exists in the embodiment of their eternal Soul-Self (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) -- then it will become necessary for the seeker/disciple to re-evaluate the whole of our modern-day cultural mindset and lifestyle.   Once again quoting from the excerpt of the book Active Consciousness - Awakening The Power Within, by Amy L. Lansky, it is stated that: "Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance also depends upon similarity in vibration. Members of the same species, being 'on the same wavelength,' are able to tap into information that pertains uniquely to them. And while members of an entire species might be able to tune into a fairly broad spectrum of frequencies (think of Carl Jung's notion of the collective unconscious that humans supposedly tap into [5]), smaller, more tightly connected groups -- such as members of the same family or loving couples -- resonate in more focused zones of vibration; they have access to their own "private frequency.' In fact, Sheldrake goes even further and suggests that morphic fields can explain how human memory operates. Instead of being stored in our brains, he suggests that memories are stored in the morphic field. Our brains then pick them up via resonance, like radios tuning to their own private stations."

To morph, is to transform.   In The Brain Mind/Connection it has already been demonstrated that the mind and/or personality of the person is in the Etheric Field that surrounds and immerses the body-vessel.   In the same way that the atmosphere surrounds the earth and provides life-giving oxygen to organic life, the mind encompasses the body and is cycled in and out in positive and negative charges with each breath.   That the mind is in the Etheric Field is further explored and proven in The Folly Of The NDE Critic.   (quoting) What does the Bible state?    With respect to man's ability to release himself from the body-vessel, Paul writes that: "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows-- such a one was caught up to the third heaven.  And I know such a man-- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows -- how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2 Cor 12:2-4 NKJ).   What Paul is describing is an inner journey beyond the limitations of the physical body -- to what he portrays as the third level of heaven -- beyond the inner gate of the body and what Paul portrays as Paradise -- where he "...heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."   That other disciples of TheWay brought about this same transformation of body and mind that enabled them to enter the Inner Kingdom ( http://GateOfEden.com ), represents an important aspect of the original spiritual objectives of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.    Jesus taught that there is One Teacher -- and you must learn only from this One Teacher (see The True Prophet) -- and the substance of Jesus' teachings of TheWay, was to enable the disciple to enter the "narrow gate" within themselves, and learn the Sacred Secrets of Creation directly from the One Teacher.  

When people pick up the Bible or read a scriptural quotation, they automatically perceive and attempt to define what is presented based upon their previously held conceptions of the dogmatic religious world.   And herein lies one of the primary problems that plague mankind -- i.e., the scriptures have virtually nothing to do either dogmatic belief, and/or belief in an historical person or man-god -- but rather, when properly understood from the perception of the original authors (see An Inconvenient Truth), the scriptures are an allegorical text-book of the person's own mind and body-environment with respect to the growth and development of mind.   In the above heading on The Trinity - Dualism - And The Divine Pattern Of Creation, I demonstrate that the Dualism that is the very foundation of the Trinity and Pattern of Creation, is not only presented throughout all of the scriptures, but is the primary teaching throughout.   Once properly understood, it can be stated that the scriptures are in reality a Marriage Manual that teaches the seeker/disciple how to bring together, merge, and unite in Marriage the Duality and Opposite Forces within their own mind and being.   And that Man and Woman is the Highest Expression of the Duality of the Divine Pattern, means that it is the Organic Environment of Marriage taken to a Higher Level -- that is not only the very objective of the scriptures, but the means by which each individual man and woman can learn and experience the Highest Truths that are portrayed in the Gospels as the Sacred Secrets of the Kingdom.   

With respect to the proper use of the scriptures which Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge that is necessary to turn within one's own mind and being in search of the One Teacher and True Prophet, the Church Father Origen wrote in De Principiis: “But all the narrative portion, relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever, what else can they be supposed to be, save the forms and figures of hidden and sacred things? As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn, the consequence is that they never begin to have knowledge”. 

What this means is that what is portrayed as marriages of seemingly historical people, is not at all pertaining to an historical account of the past -- but rather, the merging and morphing of positive/negative male/female spheres and realities of mind in the process of  Heightening And Expansion Of Mind that enables the seeker/disciple to comprehend at a higher and more enlightened level than the rest of mankind.   That holographically, men and women embody these polarities of mind that are imbued with the Divine Pattern of Creation, is merely the manifestation of the Laws that are intended to assist mankind in his development and process of maturation that brings about wholeness and completion.   What appears in the scriptures to be the names of historical people, are merely a portrayal of segments, forces and laws which control and manifest man's thinking, awareness and level of knowledge.   As the opposites are merged, and the third-force balance of mind is expanded beyond the limits of the organic physical consciousness of the body, the seeker/disciple begins to access both the higher reality of the soul and the Logos or Mind of God which is at the core and essence of our Being.   And it is to this inner Source of Knowledge that the Gnostics portrayed as Gnosis, which Origen makes note of when he writes that  "...As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn"  -- and this knowledge which is already possessed even before organic man begins to learn, is the inner Source of his being as manifest in the higher reality of his own soul, as well as the Divine Mind of God as manifest in the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet.    And in the same way that the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is a portrayal of the Duality of male and female that is divided and functioning in a separated condition, the process of merging the opposites is portrayed in the allegorical scriptures in "...the narrative portion, relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children".   And without the proper application of the  Key of Knowledge, the person will remain in death from the eating of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality.    

  The Merger Of Opposites Into One: When rightly understood, procreation is a by-product of sex -- and not the purpose of sex as philosophically and dogmatically portrayed by many of the world's religions.   The word by-product is defined as "...a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction. It is not the primary product or service being produced."   The primary purpose of sex it to bring about the interaction and merger of opposites in order to achieve Oneness and Wholeness -- a condition that is necessary to initiate the higher development of the mind and being beyond organic physical limitations which have the potential to initiate the process of the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind.  

Writing on the nature of a hologram, in The Holographic Universe - Does Objective Reality Exist?, Michael Talbot explains that "The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose.  Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole."   In order to begin to understand the limitations of what we see and the true unseen reality, Bohm created an analogy using an aquarium (see Aquarium).   Using Bohm's analogy of the aquarium, Michael Talbot further explains: "According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.  Such particles are not separate 'parts', but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these 'eidolons', the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.  In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected."

The foregoing both conveys and explains a number of ultra-important realties that is not generally understood.   First, that what we observe with our physical senses is only a fraction of the whole -- i.e., "...that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to".    And this very partial perception is one of the reasons why the Gospel of Thomas states: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you..."    Which is also presented by the Apostle Paul in the words: "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).   The fact that we innately possess the ability to perceive the whole -- of which only a fragment can be seen with man's physical eyes -- means that we have the potential to develop the ability to perceive reality beyond physical organic limitations.   

In the above subheading entitled The Divine Counterpart I portray a higher mind and being that is our True Self -- i.e., our higher soul-self -- and the fact that our true self which exists in a higher realm of being, is not manifest in the physical body-vessel.   And I portray the individual man or woman in this world as a projection of the soul into the body as An Embryonic Soul-Image.   Which means that because of the limitations of the organic physical body, the True Self or the Soul-Self cannot manifest.   Moreover, as stated in The Second Fatal Mistake in the Prologue of the Key of Knowledge, the reason why it is impossible for man in his "natural" organic condition to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and the Mystery Of The Gospel, is because of his fragmentary and embryonic condition of mind and being that Paul portrays as the limitations of "natural" man. 

In order to conquer and overcome man's inherent physical limitations, it is important to understand that the higher soul-self of man is asexual -- asexual because the male/female polarities are in balance.   And when properly understood, all of Creation exists within the Divine Pattern of male/female opposites, and the third-force of mind as the offspring (see The Divine Pattern).   In the same way that the Logos/Son of God is the third-force balance of what is portrayed as Mother/Father God (see The Logos), our own higher soul-self which has no gender, is the balance between the duality of the (feminine/reflective) physical and spiritual (male/active) natures.   As stated in 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”.   

The important truth for our conversation here is that "...The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.   Therefore, to manifest the soul or true self in the body, the person must overcome the great gender divide within themselves -- and this can only be accomplished within the higher reality of the Etheric.   This is possible because the soul itself is not itself implanted in the body -- neither does the soul have a body in the manner that their generated embryonic soul-image does in this world -- and since the soul-self is a Being of pure Enlightened Light and Life-force, with the proper foundation it can manifest in the Etheric field of the enlightened mind of man.   But what is important with respect to our present discussion, is the fact that it means that a man or woman is neither whole, nor are they a complete individual, because their very gender divides them into, at the very least, a third of the whole.   The body and the gender assigned human consciousness is in fact a barrier to manifesting the true self -- i.e., again quoting The Female Mind by Dr. Brizendine (see above The Opening And Unlocking Of The Mind) where she writes: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality."

If the higher soul-self is neither male nor female -- and is the cumulative sum of all experiences spanning countless lifetimes since the dawn of time -- then it is impossible for man or woman in their organic earth-consciousness condition to Know Thyself.    Further, as an embryonic-image of the true self -- i.e., a fragmentary aspect of the consciousness of the un-manifest whole that is imbued with the temporal and myopic thinking of the conditions and culture it is born into -- and by virtue of its inherent limitations as a fragmentary aspect of the whole that is the product of this temporal culture, does not possess the mental depth to even envision its own higher soul-realty -- which is why Gurdjieff portrays organic man as a "false-personality", others portray organic man as the false ego-self, and why Jesus taught that you must lose the self you are in this world, in order to gain the true self in the Real World (see  The Divine Counterpart).      

When I wrote in the above that "...when rightly understood, procreation is a by-product of sex" -- and that the "primary purpose of sex it to bring about the interaction and merger of opposites in order to achieve Oneness and Wholeness" -- this is because the environment of man and woman in a Consecrated Divine Marriage has the ability to evolve both the man and woman who comprise the Union -- creating within the Union of Dynamic Evolved Opposites, the necessary Foundation in the physical to manifest the higher soul-selves in the body-vessel.    Jesus taught that a house divided cannot stand -- and only when there is a merger of the person we are in this world with our own higher eternal soul-self, can the Logos of Mind of God be tapped into -- which fulfills the teaching: "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) -- i.e., the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   Which is why Peter is quoted in the Clementine Homilies as stating:  “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” (see The Search For The True Prophet).          

What Jesus taught with respect to an inner Kingdom and a Source of All Truth which the ancients called the Logos or Mind of God (see Logos), is not at all a religious belief -- but rather, a fact of life that has been proven to be true by countless seekers the world over.    That those who either choose to live their lives in often total abandonment of any higher moral or spiritual values and standards , and those who reject knowledge and fail to understand the higher reality of man and woman as the highest expression of the Pattern of Duality, can't duplicate this same inner journey into the Inner Kingdom -- and the fact that these same individuals are perceived to dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- or what Plato portrayed as the Cave of Illusions -- is merely the fruit of their own thinking as their carnal chickens come home to roost!   When the cultural authorities said the world was flat -- and Columbus ignored their self-imposed beliefs, and then traveled to the New World, it was not a religious belief that the New World existed -- just like it is not a religious belief that each of us has an inner gateway to the Kingdom within.   This is a fact of life that has been confirmed by countless witnesses who have themselves made the inner journey.   That those who, as the prodigal son who squandered away his inheritance -- i.e., his vital life-force and bio-energies -- which portray people who defile their body and choose to live as heathen beasts -- thereby  "...destroys and pollutes, as far as in them lies, the Deity dwelling in them - that is, the Logos -- by association with their vices”  (see Logos) -- and because of this defilement and pollution, they dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see  The Outer Darkness ) that causes them to be blind to man's own higher reality of soul and the Kingdom -- does not at all mean that all of mankind must remain spiritually blind, and alienated from the higher knowledge of the soul and the Kingdom of God.   From a purely Constitutional perspective, the knowledge of this inner Kingdom and the higher reality of the soul can and should be portrayed as a birth-right -- and this sacred knowledge is therefore very much an UnAlienable Right that can't be censored by counterfeit teachers who knowingly suppress and censor the facts in order to promote a godless and immoral culture.   Again, to clarify -- while the existence of the inner Kingdom is a fact, religion is the mindset and lifestyle that the person must live and put into practice, in order to break down the barrier of separation of what is allegorically portrayed as heaven and earth within themselves. 

The primary cultural flaw is the conclusion of each person that they are the true person they think they are -- and that they are themselves Whole.  When in truth they are in fact the next holographic level of (cosmic) sperm and ovum (see The Cosmic Ovum And Sperm).  From the perspective of man's higher reality, on a holographic level of physical reproduction, a child is merely the third-force pattern of the duality of the mother and father being played out in an allegorical analogy.  If man understood the Laws, he would begin to grasp that in this Living Allegory, his third-force offspring in the form of his child is presented to him, so he can better understand himself and his being in this world.  And in this respect, the duality of man is very much as one half of the two sides of a heart -- one half of the two hemispheres of the brain -- one half of the equation of the two lungs -- etc., etc..  And in relation to his higher soul-self which is his true-self, his inherent sperm-thinking in the case of the male, or ovum-thinking in the case of a female, must be seen as a fatal flaw that inhibits his progress.   But since most organic men and women don't even much understand each other -- i.e., bound by their gender, they see a different spectrum of frequency within the cosmic hologram -- they speak different languages -- and they lack the necessary manifestation of Wholeness -- they are generally incapable of perceiving and understanding their own higher soul-realty.  And whatever they do sense out of the Astral, is warped because of their own lack of wholeness.

In a holographic reality, each level is not only in accord with the pattern of the whole -- i.e., as above, so below -- as in the Macrocosm, so in the microcosm -- the reality of the lower levels of a holographic reality is always a pattern for the higher.   What this means is that in the same way that the purpose of sex on a physical-level is to bring forth the third-force offspring of the sexual union of man and woman, this sexual union that manifests a new body on the physical, is also the primary forces that develops the mind in the interaction and union of paradoxical opposites within the Duality of the Divine Pattern of Creation.   On a mental and spiritual level, physical sex is the means to connect the two half's, and begin the process of exchange of impressions -- enabling not only mental interaction, but the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind that enables them to comprehend at a higher and more enlightened level than the rest of mankind.   By Law, the greater the bonding between husband and wife -- in conjunction with mental exploration and expansion -- the greater the growth of the third-force that is the (mental) substance of the union -- a third-force reality which exists in the Etheric that both have equal access to.  And as explained in the diagrams of the Triangle, the Star of David, and the Tree of Life in The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation, it is the male/female interaction within the Natural Laws of Creation, that evolves the Third-force (of mind) up to a soul-self level of manifestation.  Physical sex, therefore, is the physical means of connecting the two halves and initiating and maintaining the process where the exchange of thoughts and impressions is raised up and again exchanged at a higher level of mind, where they are then channeled into evolving the third-force that is by Design, the means to move beyond the limitations of the frequency spectrum of this world.

  Why Is Sexual Immorality Condemned In The Bible: To understand why sexual fidelity is required in the scriptures, one has to first understand to whom and for whom the scriptures are written?  Of primary importance is to understand that in most instances, sin is knowledge not lived.   Thus the statement: “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).   What this means is that each person's life is evaluated in accord with their personal level of advancement and knowledge i.e.,  "...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”.    For the vast majority of mankind, sex is not a sin, so long as it is not coerced or in any manner forced.   In the Blog article entitled Should Christians Embrace Genuine Spiritual Marriage? Civil Union vs Marriage (copied into the below), the case is made that sex is a natural expression, and all people have the civil right to choose their sexual partners and orientation.   But a True Marriage is a Spiritual Sacrament -- as is the sexual union within such a Marriage (see The Sacrament Of Marriage).   And as a Spiritual Sacrament, the requirements of a True Marriage is Spiritually Ordained from On High, and cannot be defined or redefined by man.   Those who fail to achieve and maintain the Requirements, cannot be participants in the Spiritual Sacrament.  

Sexual immorality is condemned in the scriptures, because it is an inhibiting factor in the development of the Union which is the foundation for the third-force higher spheres of mind that provide us access to our True-Self, as well as the Higher Source of Knowledge.  In order to evolve the mind to where we can begin to tap into the Higher Source of Knowledge that in most people lies beyond the holographic barrier within each person, the thought-impressions between the opposite polarities (male/female) must be exchanged, raised up, and again exchanged at a higher level.   This is necessary in order to evolve the third-force  of the male/female opposites beyond the limitations of earth-frequencies.   When the Gospel of Thomas states that you must "...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" (see Gospel of Thomas saying #22), it becomes very difficult to even impossible to bring about the required merger, when the woman is connected to men other than her husband.   And Paul correctly presents the problem when he writes to the Congregation at Corinth: "Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, 'The two will become one flesh'". 

This statement of Paul's is confirmed in a recent study where it was found that: "Women retain and carry living DNA from every man with whom they have sexual intercourse, according to a new study by the University of Seattle and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center" (see Study).  Further explaining: "This has very important ramifications for women. Every male you absorb spermatazoa from becomes a living part of you for life. The women autopsied in this study were elderly. Some had been carrying the living male DNA inside them for well over 50 years. Sperm is alive. It is living cells. When it is injected into you it swims and swims until it crashes headlong into a wall, and then it attaches and burrows into your flesh. If it’s in your mouth it swims and climbs into your nasal passages, inner ear, and behind your eyes. Then it digs in. It enters your blood stream and collects in your brain and spine.  Like something out of a scifi movie, it becomes a part of you and you can’t get rid of it.  We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse."

When Jesus said to the woman at the well that she was unable to go and get her husband because she had five husbands (John 4:18), we must be cognizant of the fact that Jesus and other spiritually advanced souls are able to see into Ætheric (Field) dimensions that man in his natural organic condition cannot.  What Jesus was observing when he made this statement, was the stream of vital life-force from five different men with whom the woman had sex, as a connective thought-stream entering into her.  Her mind was being ruled over and her life molded by the thoughts and impressions of five different men with whom she had become attached through sexual intercourse.  Moreover, when Jesus told her that even the man she was with at present could not be her husband in the genuine spiritual meaning of the word, what he was conveying was that because of the polluted environment that she had permitted her body to become, she was incapable of having a genuine husband.  Since on one level you stay connected to whom ever you have had sex with, there is only the exchange of low-level thought-impressions which cannot be exchanged at a higher level -- and only drive the person into confusion and meaningless carnal thinking.  Thus, mentally and spiritually grounding the people to the mundane earth. And while the more advanced the soul, the more they are able to deal with adverse body environmental conditions, in most instances even these few become warped in their perception and thinking. In the same way that a genetic imbalance in a developing embryo creates mental impairment and conditions such as Down Syndrome, the same is true on the next higher holographic level with the bombardment of low-level thoughts from people who one has been previously connected to. In the same way that the two sides of the ear must move and resonate together, so too must husband and wife.

For the first time modern science has proven the wisdom of the mystic -- i.e., that a woman remains connected to every man she has ever had sex with -- which is noted in the recent American Journal Of Medicine article entitled: Male microchimerism in women without sons: Quantitative assessment and correlation with pregnancy history.   Directly quoting the article it states: "Male microchimerism was not infrequent in women without sons. Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation, or sexual intercourse."   Researchers have found that any man a woman has unprotected sex with, will also permanently store their DNA with hers.   The findings have demonstrated that DNA belonging to men (detected by the presence of Y chromosomes) in women.  They could find these by taking blood samples from various body parts and brain tissue.  Male DNA can exist inside cells in women's bodies for decades. This effect was given the name microchimerism. The most studied cause of microchimerism is that originating from the male fetus into their pregnant mothers. However, women who have never been pregnant also had male DNA in their cells, and it has been concluded that this was also through sexual intercourse.  Semen contains lymphocytes and other cells of the male which can pass into the bloodstream and continue to persist inside the organs of women.   This deposit of male DNA in the woman's brain is the means by which the woman and the man maintain a connection in the physical -- enabling the thought impressions to connect on an etheric level.   Writing on the foregoing sexual reality that modern science is only now coming to discover, Alanna Ketter wrote the following:

The above picture was used in one of the publications of the foregoing article by Alanna Ketter.   And while the picture attempts to portray a defiled physical woman as a sexual partner, it very well presents what can be portrayed as spiritual defilement and death by virtue of the woman being flat-lined and earth-bound by virtue of her connection to many sexual partners.  

In the magazine The Scientist the article entitled Swapping DNA In The Womb it is stated that: "The findings are the first demonstration of microchimerism—in which cells that originated in one individual integrate into the tissues of another—in the human brain, and could have implications for disease."  Concluding that: “Knowing cells are in the brain brings home the idea that we’re a little more diverse than we thought we were,” said Nelson. “So conceptually, it may be more appropriate to think of ourselves as an ecosystem rather than a single genetic template.”   The article then goes on an explains that: "Researchers have suspected that the human brain may harbor microchimeric cells, which are present in other human organs, and previous studies in mice have shown that such foreign cells can break through the blood-brain barrier. But the study, led by Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, revealed that microchimeric cells could not only migrate to the brain, but do so frequently: more than 60 percent of autopsied brains contained DNA from another individual.  ...To quantify microchimerism in the brain, Nelson and colleagues selectively looked for a gene found on the Y chromosome in brain sections from 59 female cadavers. ...In total, the researchers found that 37 women harbored such foreign genes in their brains. They also found evidence of cells in the brain, suggesting that microchimeric cells can and do cross the blood-brain barrier."

That the DNA of a husband begins to deposit and even merge with that of his wife, is of the utmost importance in the process of bonding that enables the two to become "one flesh".   But when a woman can be portrayed "...as an ecosystem rather than a single genetic template.”, such a body-environment where a woman is connected to a number of previous sexual partners, is detrimental to the two becoming "one flesh".   Thus, inhibiting the alchemical transformational process presented in the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: Jesus said to them, "...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."   And to the woman who had been caught in adultery, Jesus said: "Go and sin no more” (John 8:1-11).   Why?   Because a woman who is connected to many male sexual partners -- making herself "...an ecosystem" where the DNA of past sexual partners has joined with her own -- will have great difficulty joining with a husband, and therefore cannot fulfill the biological role of the two becoming "one flesh".   

From the perspective of the mystic Samael Aun Weor (see Gnostic Teachings - What Is Adultery?): "Since a woman’s body is a passive and receptive element, it is clear that her body collects and stores more of the results of the sexual acts than all of those men who commit adultery with her; those results are atomic substances from the men with whom she has had sexual intercourse. Therefore, when someone has sexual intercourse with a person who has been with another partner or other partners, both then absorb the atomic essences of the other partners and poison themselves with them. This is a very grave problem for those brothers and sisters who are dissolving the “I” because then, not only do they have to fight against their own errors and defects, but more over, they have to fight against the errors and defects of those other partners with whom they had sexual intercourse."   And this is why the scriptures state: "And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death" (Leviticus 20:10).   And why it is written: "Three evil deeds [that create suffering] depending upon the body are: killing, stealing, and committing adultery." (Buddha, from The Practice of Dhyâna).   "Adultery can be committed with the eyes" - (Jewish, Leviticus Rabba 23)   "Commit no adultery. This law is broken by even looking at the wife of another with a lustful mind" - Buddha.   "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" - Jesus, in Matthew 5.      An interesting position is presented in confirmation of the above in the publication Hinduism Today in the article on A Mystical View Of Adultery where it states:

In another recent study: Study: Women Carry DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Been With Women retain and carry living DNA from every man with whom they have sexual intercourse, according to a new study by the University of Seattle and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  Quoting the below finding: "Sperm is alive. It is living cells. When it is injected into you it swims and swims until it crashes headlong into a wall, and then it attaches and burrows into your flesh. If it’s in your mouth it swims and climbs into your nasal passages, inner ear, and behind your eyes. Then it digs in. It enters your blood stream and collects in your brain and spine.  Like something out of a scifi movie, it becomes a part of you and you can’t get rid of it.  We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse."

  Help-Meet

In addition to the above, modern science has recognized what can be called the "bonding hormone" in the form of the secretion of oxytocin when a woman hugs with a man.  "It's like a hormone of attachment, you might say," said Carol Rinkleib Ellison, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Loomis, California and former assistant clinical psychiatry professor at the University of California, San Francisco. "It creates feelings of calm and closeness" (see The Effects Of Oxytocin).    Thus, the Britannica states that "Oxytocin and its receptors also play a role in pro-social behaviours, including in social motivation, social recognition, trust, and pair-bonding" -- and hugging and close interaction, is an integral part of the pair-bonding sexual process.   In the article at Your Hormones, it states that "More recently, oxytocin has been suggested to be an important player in social behaviour.  In the brain, oxytocin acts as a chemical messenger and has been shown to be important in human behaviours including sexual arousal, recognition, trust, anxiety and mother-infant bonding. As a result, oxytocin has been called the ‘love hormone’ or ‘cuddle chemical’."   The foregoing provokes the question:  What is it that you want out of life?  Quoting from the article The Real Meaning Of Help Meet:

From a biological-spiritual perspective, woman as personified in the allegorical account of Eve,  is man's (Adam) most immediate savior.   She not only Completes him,  but she has the unique ability to draw him up from the excesses of his positively-charged lower nature -- returning back to him the necessary impressions as a mental food on a higher plane, that brings about higher expansion and deepening of mind.   Which is why in the Spiritual Communities of the past, all contact with a young female was always chaperoned.   To the wise and spiritually enlightened men of the past, what a young woman brings to the marriage is of an immeasurable importance.   Again quoting Beverly Campbell: "Thus, it seems that through imprecise translation, our understanding of the powerful words used originally to describe Eve’s role have been diminished. As a result, our understanding or Mother Eve has also been diminished. Suppose we had all, male and female alike, been taught to understand Genesis 2:18 as something like the following, 'It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a companion of strength and power who has a saving power and is equal with him'.”   When a woman permits herself to become attached to a number of men, this "saving power" is greatly diminished, and she can no longer fulfill her intended role.   Thus, the woman that has permitted herself to become spiritually polluted through many connections with men other than her husband, can no longer garner her feminine power that enables her to Complete and Raise Up her husband -- and in the process, Completing herself Spiritually.   A woman who is attached to other men, cannot fulfill the dynamic spiritual role of the feminine within the construct of the Laws of Creation.   And while this may appear extreme by modern cultural standards where casual and hookup sex has become a part of the recreational sex environment, the reality of life is seen in the fact that choices have consequences.  There is a reason why the Bible condemns fornication and adultery -- and not to understand that reason, is to become entrapped in a condition of spiritual ignorance.  If what Paul and the other Gospel Authors stated is true, and there exist higher realities and dimensions of being that are totally inconceivable to the mind of the undeveloped faith-based believer (see Mysteries Of The Gospel ) -- and by virtue of the immaturity of the faith-based believers brought about by an embryonic condition of mind which Paul portrayed as the "natural" mind of man -- and the limitations of this embryonic condition of mind even inhibited Jesus from conveying the true meaning of the scriptures, and the higher reality of the soul and the Kingdom to all but his inner core of disciples (see In The House - Taught In Parables) -- which means that the biblical authors were therefore powerless to explain in detail many of the most important Gospel teachings and concepts in the literal text of the New Testament -- then the spiritually mature author's of the scriptures who were themselves enlightened to these higher realities, remained virtually powerless to do anything more than to provide the people with a list of do's and don'ts -- so that the faith-based believers will be in a position where they will be better able to evolve to a mature understanding and comprehension of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.  To totally ignore these do's and don'ts, without knowing the consequence of one's choices and actions, is paramount to walking out onto a freeway blindfolded.      

In the same way that the embryo which formed each persons physical body was made up of the ovum and sperm that became ONE in their mother's womb, when rightly understood this world is merely the next higher level of womb -- i.e., a mental womb. And much of this is explained at The Esoteric Feminine Mystique. That you enter this world as a Cosmic Ovum or Sperm, means that at best you are only one third of the whole -- and the purpose of sex is to connect up the two halves on this plane (man and woman) so the higher reality of the Third-Force that is formed by the joining of the two can be brought about on a higher-plane. And with the interaction of the opposites (male/female spheres of mind), this has the potential to form and manifest what can be portrayed as a morphic field where the two are not only made "one flesh", but that the higher areas of mind and being can form and evolve the relationship (see Gender Blindness And The Process Of Birth).  When the man and woman live in a Divine Union, then there is an exchange, interaction and raising up of the minds as the higher mental spheres develop and connect the person you are in this world with your higher soul-self.  But in order for this to happen, the man and woman must interact on all levels of their being -- as equal and united halves.  If the woman is connected to a man other than her husband, then this interaction of the spheres of mind is not possible -- and the vital life-force is lost into nature.  In the case of a man, these other women are as dependents that drain him of his vital life-force -- rather than reflect and raise him up as with a true wife.   And thus, because this necessary interaction of opposites cannot take place, the  remain flat-lined. I expanded upon this process to some degree on the Know Thyself article under the heading The Divine Pattern Of Mind And Being.

   What You Didn't Know About Casual Sex - Cutting AKA Cords - A Letter To Crystal: Some time after writing the above on Sexual Immorality, a FaceBook entry came across my inbox entitled What You Didn't Know About Casual Sex.   As stated in the below, my wife has helped other women to cut the Aka Cords that connect sexual partners -- and one of the statements that I took particular notice of in the Blog article that Crystal wrote was her profound wisdom in the advice that few women today have any understanding of: "Never Have Sex With Someone You Don't Want To Become".   Below is my letter to Crystal the author of What You Didn't Know About Casual Sex, and I have copied her article into the below.
 

  Can You Even Be Married?  While this may sound like a question of ignorance, in view of the above two articles, modern man and woman should seriously rethink the reality of the question presented. 

Spouse is always aware of the unfaithfulness of the other partner.   In the case of women, their more developed Intuitive abilities makes her aware of her partners unfaithfulness.    Further, the Soul or Higher-Self of both partners can observe and receive the thoughts of the other person.   There is no action that a perspective person makes -- there is no thought that the perspective person entertains -- that is not fully known by the higher Soul-Self of the other person in a relationship.  

Soul-Fragmentation:

  Invoking Grace In Response To Sexual Immorality: The vast majority of people reading this article have been seduced by our hedonist culture and spiritually disenfranchised academia, and have all engaged in sex with many partners.   Our modern culture promotes what can be portrayed as recreational sex.  Which provokes the question:  Is there a way to restore ourselves to a pure and undefiled state?   The answer is no.     While the Hawaiian Huna portrayed these connections with others as Aka chords -- which to some degree parallels the Hindu concept of chakra chords -- while there are ways that the connections between women and their past sexual partners can be weakened, with the possible exception of physical death, they can never be entirely eliminated.  The problem is seen in the fact that modern science is only now beginning to understand the connections that exist between people.   When I was a speaker at The Conference For Consciousness And Human Evolution (see LINK), I for the first time became aware of the work of Amit Goswami (see LINK).    Amit, who is a Theoretical physicist at the University of Oregon, had conducted an experiment whereby he demonstrated the basic connection that exists between people.   Amit selected two pairs of subjects. The first pair met and created a bond between them (aka cord). They were then separated; each was placed in a separate Faraday cage (a copper sealed space) and moved 20 meters from each other. They could not see each other and did not know the purpose of the experiment. When one of the subjects was stimulated by a rapidly flashing light, the other subject showed corresponding electrical activity in the visual cortex. The second set of subjects did not meet or bond and the rapid light stimulation of one subject’s brain did not influence the other subject’s brain waves.   Thus, while Amit established the very simple connective link that takes place between people -- a link which the Hawaiian Huna learned to heal by cutting this aka link -- the connections made through sexual interaction are not only permanent, but often transcend lifetimes.  

Many Hasidic Rabbis do not shake hands -- and do not touch anyone but their wives -- so as not to establish a connection with the other person which will impact their consciousness.   This difficult subject is somewhat explained at Chabad.org On Shaking Hands where it is stated: "What is the rationale for the Jewish prohibition on men and women touching, let alone shaking hands?  The prohibition of touching (in Hebrew negiah) goes back to the Book of Leviticus (18:6 and 18:19) and was developed further in the Talmud. A person who observes this prohibition is often called a shomer negiаh. It applied not only to close contact such as hugging and kissing, but also to shaking hands or patting on the back. The practice is generally followed by traditionally observant Jews, both men and women, including Hassidic Jews, and those who are referred to as Haredim." 

While attempting to cut the connections in the Ætheric does some good, it does not alleviate the problem entirely.  But with spiritual knowledge and the living of a Consecrated Life, the man and woman can move on and make greater progress together.  Over the course of time the connections do weaken, and the Law of Grace can be invoked which will further lessen the influences of those with whom we have had intimate connections in the past.   How is the Law of Grace Invoked?   Only through a change in mind and lifestyle -- along with assisting others in not making the same mistake.   When you convey to others the consequences of casual sex with a multitude of partners -- making them aware of the pitfalls -- then you invoke the Law of Grace by saving others from the pitfalls of your own past. 

A true Gnostic does not attempt to dissolve the "I" as stated by Samael Aun Weor above -- but rather, a seeker/disciple is able to use the ego-self as a catalyst to spawn greater growth and development.  The exchange of vital life-force has the potential to supply the Impressions that act as the final food in the Law of Octaves in the dynamic mental exchange between husband and wife.  When it is realized that the forbidden fruit of the (outer columns of the Tree of Life) is the male/female Impressions in the Tree of Duality that have not been brought together in the Center Column of the Tree of Life, then you can begin to understand the dynamics of the higher mind and the teaching in the Gospel of Thomas: 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" (see Gospel of Thomas saying #22).  

  The Holographic Pattern Of Sex: In beginning to understand the above patterns of a hologram, what man perceives as sex and procreation, is merely a sub-pattern in the physical that is true at each higher level within the holographic Divine Pattern.   In the same way that an ovum and sperm must become united and evolved in order to bring about the manifestation of human life, when man and woman are understood as a cosmic sperm and ovum on the next level of the hologram (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) -- and it is recognized that male and female is representative of half of the whole from a higher soul-perspective -- then the dynamics of the male/female relationship must be seen and understood as two halves coming together in order to create a soul-level embryo within themselves.    In the same way that the two halves of the heart cannot be seen as separate from each other -- and in like manner, the two lungs, the two testis and ovaries, and the two halves/hemispheres of the brain -- it is not until man and woman are understood as two halves of the one, that the biblical reality of the Divine Marriage can be understood.   As stated in the above in  The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation, a most important teaching which was removed from the Gospels is preserved in the Second Epistle of Clement where Jesus teaches on the coming of the Kingdom in the words: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.    How can  "...the male with the female [be] neither male nor female’”?    The answer: When the two become "one flesh" within a Spiritual Divine Marriage -- which holographically merges the husband/wife into a spiritual embryo in the pattern of the physical embryo that becomes a fetus.   As stated in the above quotation: "Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance also depends upon similarity in vibration... loving couples -- resonate in more focused zones of vibration; they have access to their own "private frequency.' In fact, Sheldrake goes even further and suggests that morphic fields can explain how human memory operates. Instead of being stored in our brains, he suggests that memories are stored in the morphic field. Our brains then pick them up via resonance, like radios tuning to their own private stations."    

In the above subheading on The Divine Counterpart and The Soul, I reference the works of both Philip K. Dick, G.I.Gurdjieff and Emerson who all portray the physical personality as a false-self or ego-self that is oblivious to the true being of the higher soul-self.   In the writings of what Gurdjieff called The Fourth Way, an organic system is presented whereby man emits what I portray as vital life-force, which I relate in the above to the inheritance that the prodigal son squanders away on "riotous" living -- i.e., (quoting) That those who, as the prodigal son who squandered away his inheritance -- i.e., his vital life-force and bio-energies -- which portray people who defile their body and choose to live as heathen beasts -- thereby  "...destroys and pollutes, as far as in them lies, the Deity dwelling in them - that is, the Logos -- by association with their vices”  (see Logos) -- and because of this defilement and pollution, they dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see  The Outer Darkness ) that causes them to be blind to man's own higher reality of soul and the Kingdom.    In the Divine Marriage I demonstrate where, in the vast majority of instances, the Creative Force is passed from the male to the female -- and then, because of lack of development and/or connections in the Etheric that defiles the union and makes Marriage in the Spiritual impossible, the vital life-force is lost into Nature.    Yet, when the Creative Force and the vital life-force of the male and female is channeled within the Marriage -- and raised up in the development of a soul-seeker husband and wife -- the vital life-force is channeled within the union into the Morphic Field -- harnessing the very Laws and Forces of Creation as brought forth by Creator-God --  which inhibits and even stops the vital life-force from being lost into Nature -- bringing about the Spiritual Evolution of the Divine Marriage through The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind -- creating within the husband and wife a Morphic Field that has the power to transform and initiate the next stage of birth.

Not only can the dynamic spiritual-embryo of husband and wife generate the necessary impressions which are used to bring about the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind that enables them to comprehend at a higher and more enlightened level than the rest of mankind -- but they have access to a very personalized morphic field.    In the findings of Sheldrake: "Morphic field is a term introduced by Sheldrake. He proposes that there is a field within and around a morphic unit which organizes its characteristic structure and pattern of activity. According to this concept, the morphic field underlies the formation and behaviour of holons and morphic units, and can be set up by the repetition of similar acts or thoughts. The hypothesis is that a particular form belonging to a certain group, which has already established its (collective) morphic field, will tune into that morphic field. The particular form will read the collective information through the process of morphic resonance, using it to guide its own development. This development of the particular form will then provide, again through morphic resonance, a feedback to the morphic field of that group, thus strengthening it with its own experience, resulting in new information being added (i.e. stored in the database). (see Morphic Field).  

In the case of a Spiritual Divine Marriage, the Morphic Field becomes the expanded spheres of mind of the husband and wife, which harmonious resonance provides them access to, to the exclusion of all other people.   But, when the dynamics of male and female is rightfully understood, what is presented in Sheldrake's morphic field is only the beginning of the process.    Because of the Oneness and Wholeness of the Marriage which brings together the divided spheres of the Tree of Duality (see The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation) -- which Wholeness and Unity provides access to what is portrayed as the fruit of the Tree of Life -- this fulfillment of the Laws and Forces opens a gateway for both husband and wife to manifest and access their higher soul-selves (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) that is the true being that they are.    

The scriptures condemn adultery and sex outside of the marriage union, because as stated in the above in Gender Blindness, the people (and especially the woman) remains connected on an etheric level to each person they have had sex with.   Since it is the dynamics of sexual interaction and the exchange of bodily fluids that unites the two halves into one unit, then the impressions from each previous sexual partner uses these etheric connections.   That these connections in the Etheric Fields of the people involved in the sexual unions often result in the bombardment of negative thoughts, is a reality that was known and understood by the Mystic authors of the Torah and Gospels.   Further, the disruptions caused by these connections in the Etheric Field of the individual, are often the cause of physical disease and maladies, because these negative connections not only interfere with the flow of vital life-force, but drain the person of necessary energy needed to bring about the expansion of the mind, through connections to others.     In the case of the Woman at the Well who could not receive the Living Waters due to the fact that she did not have a husband (see Woman At The Well), her connection to five other men was easily seen and detected by Jesus, because the connections were observed in her Etheric Field/Mind.   Moreover, because she was anchored to five men -- and could not therefore even have a husband -- her lifestyle and mindset inhibited her from receiving the Living Waters of the Spirit (see  Lilith, The Demonic Reality Of The Modern Feminist Movement ).   And it was for this very reason with respect to connections in the Etheric Field/Mind that anchored people to this world, that Jesus condemned even looking on another person who was not your spouse with lust -- i.e., "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Matt 5:27-28 NKJ - see Divine Pattern).   Did Jesus pronounce in the Gospels that it's OK to embrace the culture of this world -- to pursue the life of a whore, or in the case of men, to be a whoremonger?   No, in fact he stated to the woman at the well that she could not receive the Living Waters, because of her (Etheric) connections to five other men who inhibited her from even having a husband.  

Sexual purity between husband and wife, on the other hand, can bestow upon the couple all the blessings and advantages of the Laws, without any negative detriments whatsoever.    In the same way that a sperm and ovum are paired opposites that have been Created for the express purpose of bringing about birth and life, so too does man and woman remain within this Divine Pattern (see Cosmic Ovum And Sperm).   The Laws of Creator-God have insured that, within the environment of the Divine Marriage is all the elements of mind and being on a physical, mental/soul and spiritual level, to bring about ultimate spiritual blessings and success.  

If it is true that our very physical bodies represent the alchemical Philosopher's Stone upon which the transformation from base to precious substance must be brought about, then the long ignored statement of Paul must be revisited through more enlightened eyes of understanding -- i.e., "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!  Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For 'the two,' He says, 'shall become one flesh.'  But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor 6:15-20 NKJ).   

What does it mean that any other sin is outside your body, while sexual immorality is a sin against your own body -- which body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit?   And what is the Temple of the Holy Spirit?   Why, it is the Final Temple that is allegorically portrayed in the scriptures (see Temple).   And it's transformation is the application of the Laws within the construct of a Consecrated Divine Marriage, that brings about the subsequent stages of birth that Jesus stated was necessary to enter in the inner Kingdom.   

In the same way that the first stage of birth is brought about through the interaction of male and female in the creation of a fetus -- and Jesus taught that you must be born again to achieve the next stage of birth and entrance into the Kingdom -- the article The Divine Marriage demonstrates how Spiritual Husband and Wife can invoke the Laws and Forces of Creation within themselves, in order to bring about the necessary Spiritual Transformation that initiates the next stage of soul-birth.   Yet, the very environment of Marriage has been destroyed -- with great harm inflicted upon the young impressionable minds of children, with the resulting defilment associated with our sexualized cultural lifestyle (see  Lilith, The Demonic Reality Of The Modern Feminist Movement ) -- which has deprived the people of even the opportunity of receiving their inheritance as the offspring of God.    Moreover, our culture has robbed the people of understanding both the reason and potential of their gender differences.  

Once again the words of Dr Luan Brizendine in her book entitled, The Female Mind are of primary importance to understand where she writes that: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality. I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us. I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men. If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives."    As a husband or wife, it is absolutely necessary not only to recognize this difference which is the result of being opposite polarities within the One, but it is necessary to foster those differences and innate abilities which cause man and woman to see and perceive the world differently -- and often, opposite from one another.    As explained in the article The Divine Marriage , not only must a man or woman not expect their spouse to see and perceive the world as they do -- but they must permit the thoughts, the perceptions, and the impressions of their spouse, to expand their consciousness -- while maintaining a connection with their native gender reality.    As stated in the book Brain Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, where they wrote: "Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. To maintain that they are the same in aptitude, skill or behaviour is to build a society based on a biological and scientific lie".    With the warning that: "What you will read in this book about the differences between men and women may make both sexes angry or smug. Both reactions are wrong. If women have reason to rage, it is not because science has set at naught their hard-won struggle towards equality; their wrath should rather be directed at those who have sought to misdirect and deny them their very essence".    And in appraising the vast difference in the feminine intuitive mind from it's male opposite, the authors conclude that "Women should contribute their specific female gifts rather than waste their energies in the pursuit of a sort of surrogate masculinity. A woman’s greater imagination can solve intractable problems - be they professional or domestic - at one apparently intuitive stroke."

A woman who has been indoctrinated by our culture and system of education to think as a surrogate man -- a condition which forces her to reject not only her own innate intuitive cognitive powers of mind and being that most men not only don't possess, but reject because they don't understand these feminine abilities -- will be forced to greatly struggle to undo the harm that was inflicted upon her by our culture.   In the same way that many indigenous cultures inflict harm through genital mutilation of the female at puberty, our own western culture inflicts harm through the mental mutilation of robbing a woman of her inherent gifts that not only separates -- but can be seen as saving her male counterpart from his genetic fate and limitations which invoke his death through the failure to achieve the next stage of birth.     In the same way that an egg needs a sperm, and a sperm needs an egg, in order to fulfill its destiny, there is a higher soul and spiritual reality that can only be achieved when a man and woman enters into a true Divine Marriage.   And the building blocks which bring about this second stage of birth, is not only the invocation of the Laws -- but the nourishment of thoughts and impressions which bring about the spiritual objective presented in the above Spiritual objective of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness”.  

While men and women have interacted sexually, emotionally and culturally since the dawn of time itself, their gain is usually at a snails pace at best.   It is not until both the man and woman become cognizant of the mental void that immersed each of them in opposite prisons -- becoming conscious of their own shortfalls and genetically inherited strengths -- that they can begin to solve the perplexing riddle of the gender differences.    And becoming cognizant of ones voids as a man or woman, is merely the beginning of the path to overcome the shackles of those voids that inhibit man's progress.

Spiritual Alchemy represents the transformation of self that fulfills the requirement that makes the two "one flesh" -- and by brining this transformation about, enables the seeker/disciple to restore Wholeness within themselves.   In the many allegorical accounts presented in the Gospels, Jesus healed by brining about Wholeness -- but few believers understand what this means.    In the allegorical account of Genesis, Adam was in Wholeness only when Eve was united to him -- and they are often portrayed as such in Jewish Mysticism.    In the same way that the second day of Creation is the only day not portrayed as being good, all division and separation brings death from the perspective of the higher reality of being.   Adam and Eve were warned not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Duality (aka Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) -- and yet, few biblical students are able to take this allegorical reality, and extend the pattern into every aspect of life.   

On a level of mind, the individual thoughts of a man or woman, represent the fruit of the Tree of Duality.   And in the same way that an ovum or sperm can be seen individually, it must also be understood that from an individual perspective, the destiny of an individual ovum or sperm is death.    And in taking the pattern to the next level of Creation and birth, this is also true of man and woman.   On a mental level, the thoughts, perceptions and impressions of a man and woman, represent the fruit of the Tree of Duality.   And in the same way that in the allegory of the Genesis Account, man was banished from the Garden so they could not put forth their hand and eat also of the Tree of Life and inherit Eternal Life, the duality of man and woman can only be overcome when they join and become "one flesh", in a Divine Marriage .   And you must take the fruit of duality which is the gender based mindset, thoughts and impressions, and bring about a third-force balance that bears the fruit of the Tree of Life.

In revisiting some of the foundational concepts that reveals to us the higher spiritual reality, the statement in the Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading, The History of Christian Mysticism, that "...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” (see Heightening And Expansion Of Mind), with that of Einstein's that "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." (see Intuitive vs Rational-linear) -- it is the interaction of higher elevated thoughts and impressions (see Impressions As Food), and the resonance of the husband and wife within a Divine Marriage builds what Rupert Sheldrake portrays as a Morphic Field (see Gender Blindness And Birth) that only the husband and wife have access to -- which evolves the Union through the interaction of the Intuitive-Feminine and the Linear-Male.   

  Breaking Out Of The Time Continuum Box: It is virtually impossible to walk the path of True Enlightenment, without breaking the Time-Continuum Box in which man's organic three-dimensional consciousness remains a prisoner of.    Our reality is this: While organic man is locked into his present time-frame, his True-Self is not.  And in view of the fact that Time is a dimension of mind and consciousness, the mind of our True-Self spans and encompasses all the personalities that the Soul has lived (soul-personalities) since the Alpha or Dawn of Time, right up to the Present, and is projected into what we would call the Future into the Omega of Creation. 

While man in his organic condition of mind observes or experiences an event in his life, what he fails to see is the pre-existing condition that initiated that event, and the downstream result of his actions.   In fact, modern man for the most part remains totally ignorant of the pre-existing causal factors which initiate all events in his life that he experiences.   And in like manner, modern man remains ignorant of the reality that by virtue of his words, thoughts, actions and deeds, he is orchestrating his future.   But even more important is the fact that because of the paradoxical reality that both the linear and non-linear realities of Time are both True -- and the Duality of Time can only be resolved within the higher reality of the Soul -- and ultimately within the Mind (Logos) of Creator-God -- until the seeker is prepared to embrace the fact that both paradoxical realities of Time are equally true, and open their minds to the higher Third-Force Balance that merges both sides of the paradox into ONE, then no spiritual progress can be made beyond a certain point. 

While I considered making this subject a stand-alone web article, without understanding the higher reality of the Soul and the Pattern or Cosmology of Mind and Being that is presented in the foregoing article, it would be impossible to break out of the organic limitations of physical consciousness.   In the Bible these three-dimensional limitations are portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- which has it parallel in the analogy of Plato's Cave (see Plato).    When the disciples ask Jesus why he spoke only in parables to the people, it was because of their organic three-dimensional limitations imposed upon them by the physical body and consciousness -- i.e., "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) -- having explained to his disciples with respect to those who were portrayed as being "without": "Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all 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 ASV).   These profound statements should provoke the reader to ask: It, as it is stated, Jesus could only speak to the multitudes of hearers in parables, then what enabled the very few to comprehend the true spiritual meaning of what Jesus was stating, while the vast majority only understood the outer facade of the allegorical story?   And unless you come to the reality of this statement and question first, it will be in vain that you read the Gospels. 

In the Gospel accounts, there were the very few who were portrayed as being In The House who could receive the higher spiritual knowledge, which the vast majority of people could not.   Why couldn't the vast majority of hearers -- as well as those who today attempt to read the Gospel accounts -- not be able to comprehend the Higher Spiritual Meaning of what was and is being conveyed?   Because they dwelt in the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   The word translated "explained", in the phrase "And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples", literally translated from the Greek into English means to "unloose or untie" -- i.e., what has been "bound or sealed up" -- and "what is obscure and hard to understand" (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon).   And the word translated secret or mystery, makes reference to an esoteric knowledge that can only be revealed spiritually to one who is "in the House", because it is beyond the organic comprehension of those who are portrayed as being "without", or "outside" the House.    The term "open and unloose" the mind, was also used in the Gospel as the path to entering the Inner Kingdom (see Open & Unloose The Mind).  With respect to the reality of those who are portrayed in the Gospels as being "without", in contradistinction to those who are said to be In The House, the quotation of the early Church Father Origen represents an excellent portrayal of the reality of mind and being that is presented in these words of Jesus -- wherein, Origen writes in reply to the allegations of Celsus that the Church is a secret system (see The Secret Doctrine): “I have not yet spoken of the observances of all that is written in the gospel, each one of which contains much doctrine difficult to be understood, not merely by the multitude, but even by certain of the more intelligent, including a very profound explanation of the parables, which Jesus delivered to 'those without' while reserving the exhibition of their full meaning for those who have passed beyond the stage of exoteric teachings, and who came to him privately in the house. And when he comes to understand it, he will admire the reason why some are said to be without, and others in the house”.

The "outer darkness" portrays the people of this world who in the parable of the prodigal son, is representative of the people who dwell in this, the Far Country.   And the journey that every person as the prodigal son must make to return Home, through the "narrow gate" ("Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" [Matt 7:13-14]), and it is an inward journey which is accomplished through the expansion and deepening of mind, consciousness and being.   But before any real progress can be made with respect to this Inner Journey, the seeker must have a working knowledge of the Pattern and Cosmology of Mind and Being -- the ignorance of which was the basis of the foregoing assertion by the Apostle Peter in the Epistle of Peter To James where it is stated that if the exoteric knowledge (spiritual meaning of the parables and the scriptures) was to become lost and thrown away, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error"  (see Always To Wander In Error).   And this is true not only of the modern Christian world, but also all the other world's religions.   With the problem even made worse, by our present-day educational systems which totally alienate the people from the knowledge of their own Inner Self and Reality.      

What is the Outer Darkness?   Which can be portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son?   Both of which is portrayed in the analogy of Plato as the Cave of Illusions?   It is a condition of mind and consciousness that only perceives and functions within a very limited three-dimensional reality -- wherein, our True or Soul-Self dwells in a twelve-dimensional reality that is beyond man's organic comprehension (see Mystery Of The Gospel).   And the primary objective of the Original Gospel Teachings, was to provide to organic man who is portrayed as the lost prodigal son, the necessary instructions and knowledge to return Home to the Kingdom of God.   But to accomplish this, the mind of man which is presently in an embryonic condition, but become planted in what is portrayed in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, as teh "good ground".   Thus, the conditions must be present, along with the proper nourishment, that will enable the embryonic three-dimensional mind of man to expand and deepen, in the manner of a fine seed which has been planted in the finest earth, in conditions that stimulate and bring forth the maximum of growth and development.    And as presented throughout the foregoing article, an important element in the equation of bringing forth growth and development is Self-Knowledge -- as presented in the words of the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" -- and it is at this point in this article on Self and the Cosmology of Mind and Being, that we must begin to explore the Inner Rooms of the seekers own Mind -- i.e., "The soul...", writes St. Teresa, is as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila).   

  Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image: The very opening statement in the Gospel Of Thomas declares: "These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.  And he said, Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death.  Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."    What most people who read these words fail to understand is the fact that, what is presented in the opening statement of Thomas is not a series of secret teachings in the words of man that one must learn and be taught the meaning of in order to enter into the Life that Jesus revealed to mankind -- but rather, the true meaning of not only the Gospel of Thomas, but of all Gospels and scriptures, cannot be known, perceived, understood and comprehended, without Personally Experiencing the Inner Kingdom (Lk 17:20-21) by walking in TheWay (see http://GateOfEden.com ).    To find the true meaning of the sayings of Thomas, the seeker must through their own spiritual experiences, begin to draw near to the Inner Kingdom.   This can also be portrayed as picking up one's own cross and travailing in TheWay in the footsteps of our elder brother Jesus who was the first of the prodigal sons to return Home to the Edenic Kingdom.   Therefore, the Knowledge of the Many Rooms within the House of the Soul, begins with the knowledge of the person you are in this world in relation to your True or Soul-Self.

-  The Evolving Soul: In our True Form -- i.e., the True Being that we are -- we are a Being of Light ( BeingOfLight.com ).    Building upon what I wrote a number of years ago in answer to questions set forth by forum members (see 600 Series), in the Alpha of Creation all Souls came into being and were as sparks of the Divine.   Quoting from above, Always To Wander In Error:

While Creator-God brought forth all souls in the beginning -- and these souls were themselves sparks of the Divine -- i.e., quoting from The Allegorical Fall Of Man: In the beginning all souls existed as sparks of the Divine. In what I portray as the realm of souls, each individual soul would be perceived as a weak flickering light -- like a distant star. Quoting The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of: “The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which was especially accepted by the Karaites… 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”.  Thus, the pre-existent soul of man which is portrayed as "..sparks of which form the individual souls..." are in fact the Beings of Light -- encountered by some people in a Near Death Experience -- and it is this Being of Light that is each person's true form and self.   Moreover, in our natural state we are a Being of Light -- and our body-vessel which we inhabit in this world, is merely an allegorical projection of mind and spirit into the image of the body.   That the journey of the soul over the course of many lifetimes was an integral part of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and was removed by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the doctrines of the Church (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors) -- is further demonstrated conclusively in The Ten Reasons Why The Church Rejects The Teaching On The Pre-Existent Soul.

In the Zohar 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”.   In order to begin to understand Soul-Evolution, we must focus on the above words:   "...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; ...until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”.    Which is expressed in the Sermon on the Mount in the words of Jesus when he stated: "You, therefore, must be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt 5:48).   But what constitutes perfection?   And how is this condition brought about in the Journey of the Soul?

The soul of every person began their existence in the Alpha of Creation as "sparks" of the Divine Mind of Creator-God.   But to even begin to contemplate the Higher Reality of Creator-God and our relationship thereof, we must understand the statement in one of the most ignored Gospel statements in the New Testament where mankind is portrayed not only as the offspring of God, but as dwelling within the Mind of God -- i.e., “‘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 NIV).    Put this together with the statement by  James Jeans (see Science, Religion, And The Field/Mind) that: “...the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”.    Or the words of Arthur Eddington:  “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.  And you have portrayed a higher reality that few people are even prepared to contemplate -- much less, understand with a sufficient degree to even form a realistic opinion.    Further, if you attempted to convey this reality to the common man of the first century, they would very much reject what you are saying as "foolishness" -- much like the vast majority of mankind today.   

Those who are able to enter what I call the Realm of Souls -- i.e., a Higher Reality that must be entered by going within self -- upon entering this Sacred Realm where everyone exists in their Pure State as a Being of Light, one is immediately struck by the fact that most Souls appear as a weak flicking light -- like a distant star.   The more advanced the Soul, the bigger and bright the light.   In the case of the few who can be categorized as Spiritually Advanced -- such as the Soul who lived as the historical man Jesus -- is a Soul of great Intellectual and Knowing Light, Depth and Expanse.   And where all Souls including the Soul of Jesus all began in the Alpha as sparks of the Divine Mind, the Laws have been put into place (see The Laws As A Living Bio-Feedback Organism) whereby Every Soul will in the Omega of Creation evolve to a Great Being of Light.   Which provokes the questions: What Process causes the Light of the Soul to evolve and grow from a mere spark, into a Great Light?   And if it can be stated that as presented in the Gospel of Thomas that: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" -- how much more in the case of those who fail to understand the process that evolves the Light of the Soul?  

When the first century elder Ignatius wrote to the Christian congregation of believers that: “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” -- he said this because if he was to begin to even convey the truth and reality of man's higher soul and spiritual nature and the Kingdom, these Christians would very quickly dismiss him as a crazy lunatic, and would no longer listen to a thing that he says.   Therefore, Ignatius, as with all the biblical authors (see Mystery), understood that the mind of the believer must be matured -- the dormant spheres of mind that do not correspond to this physical world must become activated and developed -- in order for the believer to begin to perceive and grasp his own higher soul and spiritual reality.   And this expansion of organic human conscious beyond normal physical limits is what is portrayed in the process: "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).    In the same way that an infant grows into a child and adult one step at a time, so too does the process of mental-expansion take place line upon line.  

Perhaps the key to bridging the visionary perception of the Gnostic Mystic who authored the scriptures (see An Inconvenient Truth), with that of modern cyberneticist David Foster who described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source, is in beginning to understand why we see allegorical images.   The reality of the holographic theory says that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space.   The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”   And only then can we begin to grasp why Jesus stated that organic man dwells in the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness ), and why Plato portrayed man as dwelling in a type of Cave of Illusion (see Illusions ) -- illusions that are shadow-images of an unseen reality.   And the answer is provided in the above words that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space."    Explaining that our "...brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”  

What this means is that we dwell within the Great Mind of Creator-God as "sparks" of the Divine -- each of our Souls are as a single neuron in the Mind of God -- and based upon the frequencies of thought that we perceive and interact with our physical senses, our brains interpret these frequencies in the allegorical forms that we perceive as being concrete matter.   Each aspect of thought is represented by a (universal) symbol that our brains interpret in the form that we observe when we look out at the world.   But if we pose the question: Is what we see concrete matter?   And why are these forms in the outer world said to be an illusion (see The Outer Darkness)?   What we are in fact seeing is animated thought-generated symbols -- i.e., thoughts that our brains (organic consciousness) interpret in the context of an allegorical symbol that we perceive as the shapes and forms that our physical consciousness interprets in the appearance and meaning that we see it as.   Thus, the words of Karl Pribram in the February 1979 Psychology Today interview where it is stated that: “It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t objects out there, at one level of reality.  It’s that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different reality, one that can explain things that have hitherto remained scientifically inexplicable: paranormal phenomena… synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events”.   In the words that “It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong..." -- what is being conveyed is that what you see -- or think you see -- in the outer world of appearances, is thought portrayed in an allegorical form that permits the people stuck in the limitations of this realm, to interact with a higher reality (of mind) that is beyond their conception -- and even beyond their wildest imaginations.  

Why is this interaction necessary?  In the beginning -- i.e., the Alpha of Creation -- no experiential knowledge existed -- and thus, this period in our Soul's existence can very much be portrayed as the Alpha of Absolute Ignorance.    And where in Jewish Mysticism the Soul is portrayed as "sparks" of the Divine -- and these sparks are in fact White Light -- it is important to recognize that what we see as White Light is actually comprised by what we call the seven colors of the rainbow -- and it is these seven primary colors that make up and manifest White Light.  Which in sound, the seven colors correspond to the seven notes of the Octave.  Why is this important?  Because of the holographic nature of Creation where the pattern of the Macrocosm is replicated into each of the parts of the microcosm that make it up -- i.e., expressed in Genesis as: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen 1:27 KJV).  

Holographically, what this means is that the Pattern of the Whole is replicated into each of the lesser parts -- often expressed in the term The Divine Pattern of Creation.  With the Control of these major and lesser realities portrayed as The Law -- the Natural Laws of Creation -- expressed in the Deist term The Laws of Nature and Nature's God (see ThomasPaineRedux.com).   But what this means is that all of Creation is controlled by Natural Law -- Natural Law controls all events and realities of Creation -- and everything is a direct expression of these Natural Laws -- to the degree that Jesus taught that not even a sparrow can fall to the earth apart from the Will of God as expressed in the Laws.   And the reality of the Natural Laws Includes the development and evolution of the Soul as encountered and expressed in the Laws of this realm which can be portrayed as a Living Bio-Feedback Organism that develops the Soul by returning back that person's words, thoughts, desires and deeds (see Living Bio-Feedback Organism). 

Holographically, what this also means is that the pattern of the whole is replicated into each of the seven colors that comprise White Light -- or the notes of the Octave Scale.   And because in the Alpha of Creation there was no Experiential Knowledge -- and all that existed, existed in an undeveloped and unknowing state -- on one level the seven that made up the whole became separated and disconnected from each other.   And when rightly understood, this separation within itself is allegorically portrayed as the Fall of Man (see The Folly Of Original Sin and  The Allegorical Fall Of Man).    Paradoxically and holographically, on one level, each of the seven became whole within themselves, and therefore functioned independently of the other six -- while paradoxically, on another level, they remained on a deeper level connected.   And it is this inability of organic man to comprehend paradoxical truths where two seemingly opposing truths are equally true -- within the reality of a hologram that totally inhibits his ability to comprehend not only his own higher Soul-Realty, but anything beyond the very limited perception of what he sees with his physical eyes.   And this inability to perceive and comprehend in Wholeness, is personified in the Gospel of Thomas saying: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you."     

Mankind is portrayed as the prodigal son who has become lost in this, the Far Country ( see Parable Of The Prodigal Son).   And man's inability to perceive and understand with wholeness, is portrayed in the Gospels as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   But what is the Outer Darkness?   When rightly understood, what Jesus portrays as the "outer darkness" parallels the analogy of Plato's Cave of Shadow-Images and Illusions (see Plato's Cave).   And if we pose the questions as to what causes mankind to perceive what can be portrayed as allegorical shadow-images?   It is a reality that Mystics have long known -- which modern physicists have only now proven to be true -- as demonstrated in the statement of physicist Walter Thirring in his book, Urbausteine der Materie where he wrote about the true nature of matter that modern physics “...has put our thinking about the essence of matter in a different context.   It has taken our gaze from the visible - the particles - to the underlying entity, the field.   The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’.   Accordingly, there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary particles… Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field.”  Einstein experienced shock when he first came into contact with the new reality of atomic physics, and wrote in his autobiography: “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundation of physics to this [new type of] knowledge failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built”.  In much the same fashion, the European physicist Niels Bohr stated that “…The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”  The vast difference between what would be called the common knowledge of man, and the higher spiritual reality attested to by the mystic and visionary of man's distant past, has begun to be demonstrated by the modern scientific community.   What the physicist portrays as a "blemish" where the intersecting forces of the field manifest what we call matter -- which images the analogy of Plato's Cave portrays as shadow-image of a higher unseen reality that man's organic senses are unable to perceive -- is the result of the fact that this world is a three-dimensional realm (allegorically) expressing a higher twelve-dimensional non-physical reality (see The Truth).   

If God is LIGHT -- and our souls which were Created in the Image and Likeness of God are Light-Beings who are individual sparks of the Divine Mind -- and Light is comprised of the Seven Primary Colors of the Rainbow as expressed when white light is projected through a prism -- and the seven colors of the rainbow also correspond to the seven notes of an Octave (see Law Of Octaves) -- and while on one paradoxical level the Light exists because the seven segments that make it up remain in balanced harmony -- while on another paradoxical level, they remain divided and independent of each of the other segments -- then what we have is one of the Primary Blueprints of both the Whole, the Individual Souls, as well as ourselves as mankind.   But to begin to understand this higher reality we must come to comprehend that when the allegorical account in Genesis states that "God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them".   And what is called the Divine Pattern of Creation which is Mother/Father God and the Third-Force Balance which is portrayed as the Logos or Son of God, is replicated into every aspect of Creation -- i.e., positive/negative and balance.   As Sparks of the Divine Mind, our Souls retain their reality as Beings of Light, because as Adam was initially portrayed as Adam/Eve prior to the separation of male and female, so too is our Soul the balance of male and female -- i.e., as stated in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia which quotes the Zohar: .. "...The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.   And our Soul or True-Self remains a Being of Light, because at that level of Creation the division of male and female does not exist, and the seven primary colors and notes remain as ONE.   But in the same way that the Light of Creator-God is comprised of the Seven Primary Colors, so too is each Spark of the Divine Mind that forms our individual Souls.  

Why were the Individual Souls Created and came into being?   In the Alpha of Creation, ignorance prevailed because experiential knowledge did not exist.   And without knowledge based upon actual experience, True Knowledge and Knowing cannot exist.   So, the Individual Souls came into existence so that Creation could emerge out of the Alpha of Ignorance and Unknowing, and begin to possess actual Knowledge and Knowing based upon Experience.   And as the Individual Souls began to interact, Experiential Knowledge came into existence -- and from the perspective of the Divine Mind that was Expressing Self through the experiences of the Individual Souls, actual Knowledge came into Existence.   And through this body of Experiential Knowledge, Creation itself began to move toward the Omega of Enlightened Light and Knowing.  

As a point of reference, I often portray each Soul as a single Neuron in the Mind of God (Logos).   And in the same way that holographically, our own mind is comprised of a great number of neurons or points of influence and control over our thinking, actions and body functions, so too is the Logos or Divine Mind of God.   Both man and an amoeba can be portrayed as being individualized and one -- and the differences are so vast, that the two cannot even be compared with each other.  Higher Perception, Knowledge and Comprehension requires a complexity of Understanding.   While both man and an amoeba can be portrayed as ONE, because of the complexity of mind and body that makes up man, no comparison can be made with respect to intelligence, intellect and reasoning.   In the same way that the organs and systems of man's body are segmented in order to create a harmonic segregated environment for the mind to function at a higher level -- with the amoeba being the opposite of man -- it is important to understand that the very complex human body and mind were all drawn from the One Primary Cell -- and that within the One exists the genetic structure that manifested the complex organism known as man.   Thus, in the same way that the very complex mind of man is comprised of the great number of neurons that make up the networked perceptive-intellect that perceives from many perspectives, holographically the mind of man is an image of the Soul-Mind -- which Soul-Mind as a single Neuron in the Mind of God, is an Image of the Mind or Logos of Creator-God.   And what is holographically true of the Divine Pattern of the Mind of God, is also replicated into each Soul, as the pattern is also replicated into the mind of man.   Which of course provokes the question: Where, then, is the individual neurons that comprise the Soul-Mind?  

Further quoting from: The Great Allegory Of Mind And Matter - What Do We See? http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#AllegoryOfMindAndMatter

That the organic mind of man only sees the outward allegorical form that has been imbedded in nature as a symbol of what that form indicates, is the illusions of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness", and what Plato portrayed as the Cave of illusions.   Only as your higher aspects of mind develop, do you begin to see the meaning of the allegorical symbols of this world -- i.e., "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you".  

If all that we see in the outer world is the result of the forces exerted in the underlying Field -- i.e., the words of Einstein that “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” -- the form that is impressed into the shape that we see, is an allegorical representation of the aspect of mind that the symbol expresses.   In the same way that a phallic symbol which was used by the ancients expresses the male generative power, the penis itself expresses an aspect of mind that is universal.   And this is true not only of all the parts of the body, but also everything that exists in the outer world -- which is merely a larger scale and pattern of mind expressed and impressed into matter -- i.e., mental-imagery.    Which means that a dog, appears to us in that physical form that we see and interact with as a K9, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the physical form of a dog.   A dog, therefore, is an aspect of mind impressed into the form of nature which we observe.   When Jesus warned not to give what is holy to dogs, what he was presenting was the reality that a dog represents a condition of mind projected into the forms of matter that we see -- and people who are ruled over by this condition of mind, are incapable of comprehending what is holy.   And from an enlightened perspective, a swine, is a swine, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the form of the swine.   

  Thought Animated Symbols: The Egyptians expressed themselves in hieroglyphs -- and much of the Chinese languages represent thoughts impressed into symbols -- and when properly understood, everything that we see and interact with in the outer world is merely the thoughts of the Great Mind expressed in the allegorical forms of matter -- i.e., mental-imagery.   If you could take the vast realities of our own mind and express each aspect of mind in the form of a symbol that would animate the thought that each represents, then you would begin to grasp the reality of man as dwelling within an illusion that is an allusion -- i.e., a Matrix of mind expressed into symbols which animate each thought that is the building blocks of consciousness.   And thus, we can begin to grasp the higher reality expressed by G.R.S. Mead, a foremost authority on the Gnostics, in his book entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, where this explanation of the true nature of the scriptures is put forth: “…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”.   And upon encountering these same patterns of thought in the dreams and thinking of his patients, was the reason that Carl Jung called the Gnostic Christians the worlds first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human consciousness.   Why did he come to recognize what the Gnostics were presenting?    He found that many of his patients who knew absolutely nothing about either the Gnostics or scriptures, were in fact dreaming in these same symbolic symbols -- and thus, he began to recognize that the authors of the scriptures wrote in what is called the (allegorical) Universal Language of the Soul.

It as if we are looking at a child's picture-book where aspects of mind are presented to us in enigmatic and allegorical forms and images that have been impressed into Nature.   And this is why the Gospel of Thomas proclaims: "Jesus said, Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you...".    When rightly understood, what you are observing when you gaze outwardly are animated aspects of Mind impressed into the forms of Nature you are observing and interacting with you, that convey to you the qualities what these aspects of mind represent within your own consciousness.   Jesus warned "...not to give what is holy to dogs" -- and it is not the four-legged variety of dogs that he was making reference to.  The unclean animals in the Torah are representative of aspects of consciousness that must be transformed within the seeker's own mind and being, to make them serve their higher heavenly opposite (see Animal Sacrifice).  When Jesus therefore portrays some people as dogs, this is because they are ruled over by what the consciousness of the dog manifests in both the Divine Mind and the Soul-Mind -- that is ruling over the person who can be likened to the qualities personified in a dog.  And this is also true of all the animals of nature -- each impressed with a fragmented consciousness of the whole of the animal kingdom.  But it is important to recognize that in the same way that on one level the animal consciousness appears to be independent, on another level is it intimately connected -- both to God, our Higher Soul-Self, as well as our own consciousness.  And there are people who can look at a person's (undressed) body, and see the faces of the animals that comprise that person's lower nature.  And the ability to actually release the lower animal nature and consciousness to accomplish tasks for the person, is an integral part of the ancient Hawaiian religion of Huna -- as well as other indigenous religions that were more in tune with man's lower nature.  The movie, The Emerald Forest (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emerald_Forest and the DVD at https://www.amazon.com/Emerald-Forest-Powers-Boothe/dp/B0000542C6 ) presents an indigenous tribe who possess this ability.   And if the Europeans who crossed the ocean had learned from the Native Americans how to release their lower animal nature to perform tasks -- as a person would use a trained dog -- then their understanding of the life they were living would have been greatly enhanced. 

When the biblical authors stated that man's higher soul-reality was beyond his comprehension (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ), a really big obstacle to his comprehension is in his inability to understand his own lower animal nature.  We enter this life to achieve Wholeness across the spectrum of the seven kingdoms that provide us the bio-energy or vital life-force upon which our consciousness is manifest.  Being holographically created in the image of our Source of Being, we are allotted a vertical slice of our Higher Soul-Self, which is imbued with a vertical slice of the Divine Mind -- which means that our lower animal nature is an integral part of our mind and consciousness -- and the evolution and development of our lower animal nature is what is allegorically set forth in the Torah as Animal Sacrifice (see Animal Sacrifice And The Living Temple http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#AnimalTemple ).  All Opposites are male/female in relation to each other  -- and the three kingdoms of your lower nature are the reflective (feminine) opposites of your higher heavenly nature -- and the two must be joined in order to achieve Wholeness in the Center -- i.e., "...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".   How much you achieve in this life will be dependent upon how much of your lower nature you can merge and make ONE with your higher heavenly nature of the upper three kingdoms above the fourth kingdom of man.  And this esoteric reality is explored in the subheading The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#GospelEnigma . Quoting from this link:
 

When this crucial teaching of Jesus that was removed from our traditional Gospels portrays "...the above like the below", it is making reference to the lower three earthly kingdoms with the upper three heavenly kingdoms. When the above teaching states "when you make the male and the female one and the same", it is making reference to the male/female outer columns of the Tree of Life.  The inside and the outside is of course when you are able to bring the reflective images of the outer world with the reality of the inner.  And when you can bring the whole shebang into the Center, only then can you achieve Wholeness -- experiencing the next stage of birth -- and becoming a Child of the Kingdom.   Now if the above is complex, the next part must be considered ultra-complex. Because TIME is a dimension of mind and consciousness -- and all the (failed) images portrayed in Gospel of Thomas saying 84 (see beginning at Man As An Embryonic Soul Image http://SoulSelf.org#EmbryonicSoulImage ), where in the Soul Mind-Matrix each of the (failed) images continue to exist as nerve endings or dendrites that connect the upper three kingdoms with the Soul with the lower three kingdoms -- thereby creating a type of permanent connection between the upper mind of the Soul with the lower mind.   And this is one of the Higher Soul Realities that Paul warned would be rejected as "foolishness" by Christians of the simple-faith, as well as all of organic man. 

If you entered what I call the Realm of Souls, you would encounter each person in their true form as a Being of Light.   What is the Source of this Divine Light?  Each Soul is the embodiment of the Light that it has developed over the course of all the lives that Soul has lived from the Alpha of Creation to the Present.  Most Souls have made very little progress -- they are followers of the various groups they are attached to -- and they exist as weak flickering distant stars.  The more advanced the Soul, the greater the depth and intensity of the Light of that Soul.  Political, cultural, philosophical and religious leaders are what can be portrayed as advanced souls -- and they re-enter from life to life with other souls who are part of their entourage of souls who are attached each other to the group.  While all groups enter to grow and develop, other groups are subject to what can be portrayed as negative-karma because of that soul-groups past actions where they violated the freedom and rights of others.   Many of these groups dwell in what Jesus portrays The Prison (see http://outerdarkness.nazirene.org/#ThePrison ).  The leaders today, are the same leaders written about in the history books.  All the despots of the past, are on the worlds stage at present continuing their struggles with their adversaries.   Often, the sides have been switched -- with past victims becoming aggressors, while aggressors in the past recast in the role of victims.  

Many of the mainstream Reform and Conservative Jews were angered when Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan, the former chief rabbi of Israel -- a religious scholar who was also the spiritual leader of the Shas party -- made the statement that no innocent Jews died in the Holocaust.  What Rabbi Yosefan said was that the 6 million Holocaust victims "were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done.”   Rabbi Yosefan explained that these souls who had previously lived lives of sin, “…had been reincarnated in order to atone.”   Immediately, all sectors of the population -- from then Prime Minister Barak, to the Holocaust survivors -- condemned the rabbi's remarks.   In a communiqué issued from his office, Barak stated: “His words are liable to harm the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and are liable to hurt the feelings of their families and the feelings of the entire nation.”

Legislator Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, who had been himself a Holocaust survivor who at that time headed the secularist Shinui party, condemned Rabbi Yosef’s statements and said he was “… in effect confirming what Hitler said, that the Jews are sinners.”    Holocaust organizations and the two main Israeli radio stations reported that they were inundated with phone calls and fax messages, most of them criticizing Yosef's statement.   The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum labeled Yosef's remarks “miserable” and said they “seriously harm the memory of the victims.”    In a released statement the museum said: “With all due respect to such a leader, it's hard to understand where Rabbi Yosef gets the courage to explain the intentions and ways of the supreme authority.”    Attempting to clarify his words in the following week to a populace that did not comprehend one of the most paramount teachings of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, Rabbi Yosef cited a 16th century Jewish mystic, Isaac Luria, who wrote: “If the soul was not purified entirely the first time, and it left this world, that soul must come back in a reincarnation, even a few times, until it is entirely purified.”

What Rabbi Yosef stated was that all those Jews who died at the hands of Hitler, were merely reaping their own debts they had themselves committed in a previous life (see The Laws That Control Our Lives http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ).   And while the secular Jewish leaders were offended by his statement, Rabbi Yosef did not state that they were Jews when they committed the sins that invoked the Laws of Cause and Effect upon them.   From the perspective of the Laws that pseudo-authorities are in denial of, the scriptures state: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).   And this could just as well be expressed in the words: The chickens of those people who suffered under Hitler, had come home to roost -- and in that life they inherited the fruit of their own past actions.  

What the Rabbi suggested was that, even though we may appear to be the innocent victim in this present life, this was not always the case -- and each of us inherits both the good and the evil that we have personally and collectively engendered in the previous existences our soul has lived prior to our being born into the present life we are now living -- as so clearly stated in the words of the Church Father Origen when he wrote: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).   Thus, the common message proclaimed, was the confirmation of the great biblically defined truth that what goes around comes around: “Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8 NKJ); “Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies” (Prov 1:31 NKJ); “But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception” (Hosea 10:13 NIV); “God will give to each person according to what he has done” (Rom 2:6 NIV); “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life” (Gal 6:7-8 NIV); “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); “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man” (Gen 9:6 NIV); “His disciples asked him [Jesus], Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (Jn 9:2 NIV).   Yet, because certain New Testament teachings were removed by the Pagan Church of Rome, modern Christians are at a total loss when they attempt to explain how the Laws work in the life of man -- and even the very reason why bad things seemingly happed to good people -- or why a benevolent God ordains the good and evil that man is incapable of understanding.

  Scriptures And The Light Of Spiritually Advanced Souls: In Spirit, those who can be portrayed as a Spiritually Advanced Soul would appear as a Great Light.  And this Soul-Reality should provoke a number of important questions: What is the source of this Great Light?   Why are the vast majority of souls perceived as weak flickering lights -- while more advanced souls as more intense lights with greater depth -- while Spiritually Advanced Souls would be perceived as Great Lights?   Thus, the question must be asked: What is the source of the Light of the Soul?   And because few people possess the Light of Higher Understanding, this also is one of the major flaws in the thinking of those people who imagine that the body is a mere vessel they are inhabiting that will be cast away when they have competed their present lives.  I have heard the statement that the body is like an automobile -- and in the same way that one gets rid of an old car, the soul discards an old body and acquires a new one as a vehicle while in this world.  We have all heard the rhetoric: "I am a spiritual being, living a physical life" -- but this concept embraced by many, is simply not exactly true.   The body that you are presently inhabiting is a vertical slice of the lower nature of your own Higher Soul-Self that you have entered into the physical to refine and transform.   In the same way that each Higher Soul-Self inherits a vertical slice of Creation -- you, as a soul-generated personality, inherit a vertical slice of your Higher Soul-Self.  As explored in the subheading, The Folly Of Original Sin: http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#OriginalSin where the Wisdom of Solomon is quoted as stating: “Now I was a child good by nature, and… being good, I came into a body undefiled”.  

Each person's ability to learn, advance, and comprehend man's higher reality, is all dependent upon the Condition of the lower three kingdoms of that Soul which the soul-generated personality inherited when entering into a life.   Again quoting the Church Father Origen from the previous link on Original Sin: “For God the Creator makes a certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but that vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity [an untarnished wedding garment] He makes a vessel unto honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice He makes a vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor. And if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in harmony with all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear absurd that, in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the same method, we should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature of souls, and (believe) that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved before he was born into this world, and Esau hated, while he still was contained in the womb of his mother”.  

When Origen makes reference to the reality that each person, "...according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor", what is being presented is the Laws of Creation that orchestrate each one of the lives a Soul lives based upon the accomplishments of that Soul (see The Laws That Control Our Lives http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ).   And because the Laws of Creation are imbued with the power to evolve each and every Soul from the Alpha of Ignorance to the Omega of Enlightened Light -- presenting to each Soul a Labyrinth of choices that test and open the opportunity of advancement -- what the Church Father Origin portrays is a great Truth that is not at all understood in modern times.     

What Origen is stating is that when a soul-generated personality enters this life and inherits a physical body that has been put through the process of refinement -- with the animal nature evolved, domesticated and made a faithful servant to that Soul's Higher Spiritual Nature -- that soul-personality as a "vessel of honor", is able to make great gains based upon the opportunities and choices that soul-generated personality makes.   When Paul speaks of organic "natural" man's inability to comprehend man's higher Soul-Reality because he is of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature), it is because the vertical slice of that Soul's lower (animal) nature which the soul-generated personality inherited, was never refined and evolved -- a reality that Origen portrays as a "vessel of dishonor".   And this is why organic man in the Gospel of the Nazirenes is portrayed as beasts who walk in the form of man.   Further, this is why Paul wrote of the necessity to "…beat my body and make it my slave..." (1 Cor 9:27 NIV) -- and why Christians are commanded to "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV) -- with the warning: “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).   When Gospel of Thomas saying 22 states the requirement to make the "below and the above" one and the same, it is because the lower three earthly Spiritual Centers serve as a (reflective) foundation for the upper three heavenly Spiritual Centers -- and all seven Centers must be in balanced-wholeness, in order to manifest the White Light that forms from the segments of the rainbow -- i.e., Genesis 9:13 reads: "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth". 

When Jesus taught the multitudes of people in parables -- i.e., "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) -- those people among the multitudes who had entered that life with a refined and evolved lower nature, were able to understand with greater clarity and comprehension the spiritual meaning of the parable.   While the multitudes only heard parabolic accounts, those more evolved Souls who entered life as a "vessel of honor", perceived and comprehended what the vast majority of the multitudes of people could not.  Which reality of carnal imposed deafness, blindness and barrier to higher understanding prompted the Wycliffe Bible Commentary to write that: “…the initiate was instructed in the esoteric teaching... 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...”    With the far-reaching implications embodied in the reality that "...spiritual understanding is restricted to those who have become spiritual...”.   And while this is true, what must be examined is the meaning of the term "initiate" as one who has evolved to the level where they can be portrayed as IN THE HOUSE -- where the multitudes are portrayed as being "without" (see In The House). 

What Jesus stated was of such a profound importance to comprehend if the seeker/disciple was to begin to understand the true meaning of the scriptures as set forth in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, that Jesus then warned: "And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?" (Mark 4:13 ASV).    And what this means is that if you fail to understand the meaning of the parable of the Sower and the Seed, and put its teachings into practice in your daily lives, that it will be impossible for you to understand any part of the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings.   And if you fail to understand the meaning of the term "In The House", and the difference in the reality of those who Jesus portrayed in the words: "...but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables: that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand" -- that you will dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- walking upon what Jesus portrayed as the "broad-way of self-destruction" (Matt 7:13-14).  To become what is conveyed in the parable of the Sower and the Seed as the "good ground", it is absolutely necessary to live in strict accord with the Gospel Teachings.  Which transformation of self into the "good ground" refines and evolves the lower nature within which the seed of the Soul has been planted at conception, and creates within self the necessary environment for the the Logos to In-Dwell -- i.e., "Jesus replied, If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me" (John 14:23-24 NIV).    But this becomes impossible for those who believe in accord with the dogma and traditions of men, and live a lifestyle in accord with the ways of this world. 

The word "initiate" as used by the Wycliffe Bible Commentary, should be understood as a person who has inherited a refined and evolved lower nature by virtue of the previous accomplishments of their Higher Soul-Self.   And this is why Jesus could talk to the multitudes, and only the more advanced souls would understand the spiritual meaning.   This is also true with respect to the allegorical meaning of the scriptures (see An Inconvenient Truth http://AnInconvenientTruth.org ) -- wherein, the perception and comprehension of each reader is in relation to not only their own ability to comprehend -- but even their ability to understand why the scriptures are composed in the allegorical Language of the Soul, is contingent upon the refinement and evolution of the lower nature they inherited when soul-generated into any given life.   The authors of the scriptures understood this reality of mankind and human nature -- and they therefore composed the whole of their sacred writings in allegory and parables within a parable.   The authors of the scriptures were Mystics Who Were Hunted Down As Heretics -- and they understood the need to employ the body of faith-based believers as a type of Mule who would perform the important function of preserving the essential (esoteric) body of knowledge that was concealed and hidden within the body of the written text of the parabolic writings.  In view of the fact that the authors of the scriptures all understood that their more advanced Souls would return in the future, in many instances the body of concealed knowledge that was transported by the faith-based mules, enabled them to restore and regenerate themselves in soul-generated future lives.   After regeneration and rebirth, they would then be in a position to assist and guide the faith-based believers into a greater understanding of the scriptures and a more spiritual comprehension of man's true reality.

Is the mind of an infant empty?  Or does the infant possess the innate ability to tap into a pre-existing source of knowledge within himself that exceeds all of the wisdom of this world that he could be taught in the traditional manner?   Modern academia, our culture and mainstream religions, all base their teachings upon the empty-mind philosophy -- which is in total opposition to the scriptures and the wisdom of the wise and enlightened ancients.   And when rightly understood, modern faith-based believers fail to understand the very foundation of the scriptures they promote, because they fail to understand even the nature and purpose of the Gospels.  The scriptures are based upon the process of anamnesis -- or, drawing from a pre-existing source within the child/person's own mind.  Under the heading of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the Wikipedia states: It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The article then goes on to say: "Socrates' response is to develop his theory of anamnesis. He suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity...  What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. (Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.) And thus Socrates (and Plato) sees himself, not as a teacher, but as a midwife, aiding with the birth of knowledge that was already there in the student."   And this is why the Apostle Peter is quoted in the writings of his disciple Clement as stating with respect to the scriptures: "...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"   Why should the scriptures not be read and understood in accord with "an extraneous sense, which you have brought from without"?   Because the whole of the scriptures are an allegorical presentation using and employing catalysts that connect the outer physical consciousness with the pre-existing inner soul and spiritual consciousness -- which when rightly understood, is the very essence of the process of anamnesis.  Therefore, when you attempt to teach the meaning of the scriptures, you negate the catalysts and symbols that are contained in the scriptural body, and you inhibit and atrophie the development of those areas of mind that must be developed in order to tap into this inner Source of Knowledge.  Further, this is why Jesus commanded his disciples that they can only have ONE TEACHER -- the True Prophet or Logos -- that dwells within them at the very Core of their Consciousness (see True Prophet).   With respect to this ONE TEACHER that the followers of Jesus were commanded to seek out exclusively, Peter taught that 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."  In their abandonment of the Gospel First Principles and the One Source of the Truth of all Truths that is drawn out through the process of Anamnesis, the modern Christian world has virtually nothing in common with the purpose and objective of the Original Gospel Teachings.  But what this also means is that the more we learn in the traditional manner as embraced by academia, the more we suppress those innate resources of mind that have the ability to tap into this Inner Source of Ultimate Truth (see Academia And The Feminist Cultural War On Women http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AcademiaWarOnWomen ).  And with respect to the true meaning of the scriptures: the more we study commentaries, attend Bible study groups, and the teachings of traditional religious institutions and authorities, the more we alienate ourselves from the True and Spiritual meaning of the Gospels.

Mankind is portrayed in the parable of the two sons as the younger son who abandons the Kingdom of the Father, and squanders away his divine inheritance on "riotous living" in this realm which is called the Far Country -- also portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- which, when rightly understood, parallels the analogy of Plato's Cave of Illusions (see Cave).  In the Gospel of Thomas this world is portrayed in the rather profound statement: (56) Jesus said, "He who has come to understand this world shall discover (only) a corpse, and whoever has discovered a corpse shall transcend beyond this world."    Which implies the reality, that the only means by which mankind can be restored to his original condition, is to transcend and move beyond the limitations of this world -- i.e., the Far Country that is not his place of origin.   And this was and remains the ONLY objective of the authors of the scriptures in the composition of their Sacred Writings.  

In the fourth century the Church of Constantine took the most corrupted copies of the scriptures and further edited them to make them reflect the (Mithraic) beliefs of Pagan Rome.   What they did was inhibit the Christian world from using the scriptures for their intended purpose as the Key of Knowledge -- removing the most important spiritual teachings and concepts -- and reframing them as mere historical accounts.  And in this respect the Church Father Origen portrayed the historical facade of the literal text as virtually worthless -- i.e., “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).   In the same way that the Gospel of Thomas portrays the wisdom and knowledge of this world as a "corpse", Origen correctly portrays what we teach in academia, our churches, and our cultural wisdom as worthless "shadow" faux-knowledge.  Why?  Because whatever is genuine in this world connects the outer with the inner, the below with the above -- i.e., 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" (Gospel Of Thomas).   The objective of the scriptures was to connect the prodigal sons and daughters who are lost in this, the Far Country of the Outer Darkness of Mind and Being, with their Inner Source.   Using the process of Anamnesis and the symbols of the scriptures as catalysts to connect "...the inside [with] the outside ...and the above [with] the below ..[thereby] making the male and the female one and the same" -- enabling the prodigal sons and daughters to be restored to the Kingdom.   But the rewriting and corruption of the scriptures in the Churches attempt to only support the historical facade, has inhibited the faith-based believers from fulfilling the Original Objectives and Purpose of the Gospels.  

To their own detriment, the leaders of the modern church ignore the warning of the Apostle: “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).    What the Apostle is herein very clearly predicting is that there would come a time when the god of the Christian Church will be a false god.   Historically speaking, it has been almost universally recognized that the period in time that the Apostle could have been referring to was in the fourth century when the church made a covenant with the Roman Emperor Constantine.   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).    Not to depreciate or make less the significance of any one of the individual statements presented in the above words, what the modern believer must recognized is the far-reaching totality of the statement: “But what this apostasy means is a question which has not yet, and perhaps never will be, answered to general satisfaction”.   Ultimately, what this means to the modern believer is that each and every church authority from the fourth-century to the present, as well as every single preacher of the gospel, speaks from the position of concession -- which concession is that there is a great void in their knowledge of the truth.   Thus, one of the core presumptions upon which our present-day doctrine of faith is based, is that these words of the Apostle Paul are not true.        One of the major causes of the present state of doctrinal chaos is the failure of modern pastors and church authorities to recognize that the key to their dilemma is found in the prediction of the Apostle that there would come a time of total abandonment of the Gospel with respect to the desolation of all genuine spiritual Christian ideas and concepts.   

The purpose of the Gospels was to restore the prodigal sons to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination which is their True Source.   The objective of the god of this world which in the parable is portrayed as the Citizen of the Far Country, is to keep the prodigal sons shackled to the things of this world.   Which meant that the most important spiritual teachings in the Gospels had to be removed, while the scriptures themselves rewritten to support only the historical facade of the written word which Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).  The first of the scriptures to get a rewrite and pagan makeover, was the Book of Acts.  When the further corruption of the scriptures was seen by both the Ebionite Nazirenes and the Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians, they buried seven (7) caches of scriptures in accord with the numbers and places in the already edited Book of Acts, that would enable these more pure copies of scriptures to be recovered in the future.   And because of the advent of a coming spiritual rebirth, this is why both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library of scriptures was discovered in the 1945-47 timeframe.  And the importance of these scriptures is explored in my introduction to the Gospel of Thomas (see http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org ).   Because the more spiritually advanced souls were born into physical bodies where the lower animal nature was more refined and evolved, these more advanced souls could read these more pure scriptures, and begin to perceive the deeper spiritual meaning that lied concealed beneath the facade of the written text.   Thus, in the same way that it was written of Jesus that: "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) -- those whose lower animal nature was more refined and evolved, were able to comprehend the higher spiritual meaning of the parable.   And in much the same way, the many healings and miracles in the written text of the scriptures, possess a deeper spiritual meaning that could only be seen and comprehended by those with the spiritual eyes and understanding to perceive the deeper spiritual meaning that was lying concealed beneath the facade of the written text that Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). 

Thus, the great looming question: What is the Source of the Great Light of a Spiritually Advanced Soul?  The Answer that is not at all understood in modern times: Because, as stated above, TIME is a dimension of Mind -- and the past lives of each Soul continue to dwell within what can be portrayed as the Soul Mind-Matrix -- portrayed by St. Teresa of Avila in the reality that "The soul...", writes St. Teresa, is as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila).  Each soul-generated personality which the soul has lived through, dwells in what St. Teresa portrays as a single room within the Soul-Manson or Matrix.   And when this Higher Reality is understood, the Light of the Soul is the product of the above personification of Gospel of Thomas saying 22 -- i.e., the merger of the lower with the upper, the left with the right, and the inner and the outer -- across the spectrum of TIME -- manifesting in the present in the Light of Each Individual Soul.  Which means that the Intensity and Depth of Light of each Soul is the product (across the dimension of Time) of the connections and merger of male/female opposites as manifest in the upper/lower, left/right and inner/outer aspects of Soul-Mind through the personalities that the Soul has lived. 

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In the same way that within the Mind of God the ALL Exists across the spectrum of the Seven Kingdoms -- and each Soul is as a vertical slice of the Divine Pie Of Creation, holographically containing all aspects of Creation -- the animal kingdom is an integral part of the Mind of God, also the Mind of the Soul, and as well the mind of man.  And when the soul-personality/image is generated and made part of the body at conception, the body of that person is formed by the lower three kingdoms coming together within the womb of the mother -- which lower nature collected from the lower three kingdoms, then forms the physical body of the fetus.  Man is of the Fourth Kingdom -- and brings together within himself the three upper Heavenly Kingdoms and the three lower Earthly Kingdoms.   But at physical death, the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms are released back into nature where they continue their existence as the animals of this world.  This process is somewhat explored at the subheading Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature.  Which means that the animals that man interacts with in the outer world, are very much the lower nature of people who are not presently manifest in the earth -- but it is important to understand that these animals in the outer world are acting as catalysts for each person to interact with their own lower animal nature.  Which means that if you eat the flesh of dead animals, you are strengthening the beast of your own lower nature -- thereby inhibiting the process of refinement and and evolution -- and karmically, your own lower animal nature once released back into the world, will suffer the same fate you subject the animal kingdom to. Quoting from the foregoing link:

Once again we must pose the question as to what is the level of consciousness of those who can be portrayed as a cosmic ovum and sperm? A reality that modern Christians are not even prepared to come to terms with is presented in the statement by one of the earliest of Christian writers named Justin Martyr where he makes reference to the doctrine of transmutation -- i.e., the embodiment of a person in the body of a beast which is portrayed as punishment for the misdeeds of a previous life -- when he (Justin) answers the question of Trypho, the Jew, and writes: "And what do those suffer who are judged to be unworthy of this spectacle? said he. They are imprisoned in the bodies of certain wild beasts, and this is their punishment" (Dialogue of Justin With Trypho, a Jew). Which provokes the question: Is this really a teaching of Jesus and the original Ebionite Nazirene Christians?  Where could such a thought have originated?  If the Gospels had not been corrupted, Christians would have access to the teaching which has been preserved in the 88th chapter of The Gospel Of The Nazirenes where Jesus states: "Love you one another and all the creatures of God, Yet I say to you, not all are men, who are in the form of man. Are they men or women in the image of God whose ways of violence, of oppression and wrong, who choose a lie rather than the truth? No, truly, till they are born again, and receive the spirit of love and wisdom within their hearts. Then only are they sons and daughters of Israel, and being of Israel they are children of God, And for this cause came I into the world, and for this I have suffered at the hands of sinners." Going even one step further the Church Father Origen explains that: "By some inclination toward evil, certain spirit souls come into bodies, first of men; then, due to their association with the irrational passions after the allotted span of human life, they are changed into beasts, from which they sink to the level of plants. From this condition they rise again through the same stages and are restored to their heavenly place" (Origen, On First Principles, B. W. Butterworth, translator).  What is being said is that while man is of the fourth kingdom -- i.e. with the mineral, vegetable and animal below him in the first three kingdoms of Nature -- the Soul's birth in the physical body presents to that Soul the opportunity to become of the Fourth Kingdom which we associate with the Kingdom of Man.  And what the soul-generated personality achieves in this life, will determine whether that person is able to achieve the necessary subsequent stages of birth.

With respect to the Fourth Kingdom and the upper three heavenly and lower three earthly kingdoms, Manly P. Hall wrote in The Secret Teachings Of All Ages: "Man’s three bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by an inverted triangle. These two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews 'the Star of David,' 'the Signet of Solomon,' and are more commonly known today as 'the Star of Zion.' These triangles symbolize the spiritual and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature and Divinity. Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator.” ( Manly P. Hall).    So long as man is motivated and controlled by the appetites and the consciousness of the lower three kingdoms, he will remain immersed in what Paul portrayed as "animal-soul" consciousness that is incapable of higher comprehension.   And while man can attempt to negate and suppress his carnal animal appetites and consciousness -- while focusing on the upper three centers in the head -- without the balanced development of all the spiritual centers it will remain impossible to achieve Wholeness -- and without Wholeness, it will remain impossible to initiate and achieve the next stage of Soul-Birth.   Where it is written in the above that man's "human nature" must be the moderator between the upper three and lower three kingdoms which must be brought into the Center as portrayed in the version of Gospel of Thomas saying 22 that has been preserved in the Gospel of the Nazirenes: "And one of the disciples asked him, 'How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?" And he answered and said, "If you don't make below as the above, and the left as the right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center and passing into the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God.'"   To enter into the Center requires all twelve spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life ( http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ) to be fully evolved and existing in a state of harmonic-balance -- which means that the male/female outer columns of the Tree of Duality must be brought together in the Center -- which can only be accomplished when the division of the upper three and lower three spiritual centers are brought together in the Center.    

A most important reality is presented in the above quotation that has perpetually confused the modern Bible reader -- i.e., "No, truly, till they are born again, and receive the spirit of love and wisdom within their hearts. Then only are they sons and daughters of Israel, and being of Israel they are children of God..." This verse explains and supports the statement: "These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, 'Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand’" (Matt 10:5-7) -- and again Jesus said: He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24).  Why was Jesus sent ONLY to the children of the House of Israel? Because only those who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel -- who have themselves been nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life and are in the process of achieving the next stage of birth -- have attained the necessary level of Completion within themselves -- and are therefore able to receive the Whole of the Gospel Teachings directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God who was called The True Prophet http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TrueProphet .  When rightly understood, the leaders of the Jews were condemned by Jesus, because they were the personification of counterfeit Israel who were portrayed as blind guides -- because having received the Royal Law of the Most High, they observe it outwardly in ritual and tradition.  Only Spiritual Israel is no longer controlled by their lower animal nature -- and have either achieved or are in the process of achieving the next stage of birth into the Kingdom of Man.  If, as stated in the above, there are beasts who walk in the form of man -- and exist at varying levels in the process of achieving the next stage of birth that would make them of the fourth kingdom of man -- then humanity exists at greatly varying levels between walking the earth as a beast in the forum of man, and actually achieving the next stage of birth that would manifest them in the fullness of the fourth kingdom.  Further, only those who are portrayed as the Spiritual House of Israel, are able to enter through the "narrow gate" within them, into the Kingdom, and learn in the presence of the Logos/Son of God.
It isn't that man incarnates as an animal -- but rather, at physical death his animal nature is returned back into nature in accord with the (consciousness) form it has evolved to.  And this same animal nature will once again form the physical body the next time the Soul incarnates into another soul-personality.  And this is why in the Gospel of the Nazirenes (see http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org ), the animal kingdom is portrayed as our lesser brothers.  And karmically, as we do to the animals we encounter in this life, the same will be returned back to your own animal nature.  On the other hand, the vegetable kingdom is very much as the soul of the lower three kingdoms -- which is why the Alice Bailey writings (see http://theconsecratedlife.ebionite.com/#Theosophy ) can be quoted as stating: "One point of interest might here be noted. It is known esoterically that the vegetable kingdom is the transmitter and the transformer of the vital pranic fluid to the other forms of life on our planet. That is its divine and unique function. This pranic fluid, in its form of the astral light, is the reflector of the divine akasha. The second plane therefore reflects itself in the astral plane. Those who seek to read the akashic records, or who endeavour to work upon the astral plane with impunity, and there to study the reflection of events in the astral light correctly, have perforce and without exception to be strict vegetarians".

In the same way that the vegetable kingdom supplies organic life with life-giving oxygen, the vegetable kingdom supplies man with life-giving Light that is the balance of the three lower kingdom -- and is the only food that a sincere seeker should eat:  "And God said, See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day" (Gen 1:29-31 NKJ). 

  The Matrix Of Soul-Mind: How does the Soul Grow It's Light?  In the subheading entitled The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man, it is demonstrated that time is merely a dimension of mind within the higher reality of the soul-self -- existing within the Great Matrix of Mind of the soul.    Thus, the Encyclopedia states that: In mathematics, a matrix (plural matrices, or less commonly matrixes) is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions. The individual items in a matrix are called its elements or entries" -- and in the mental matrix of the soul, each previous image represents a point of consciousness within a field of dynamic life-experiences of the soul-self that is the sum total of all the experiences of all the lives that the soul has lived.    Where Eastern, New Age and Pop-Psychology that ascribes to the Collective Consciousness philosophy that often imagines God as a Great Amoeba where oneness means the same -- just the opposite is true -- and oneness is the sum total of a great diversity of different experiences and conscious realities that Complete and bring about Wholeness.   And since the soul was created in the (holographic) image of God, then the soul in like manner is the sum total of all the life-experiences of all the images that exist as points of consciousness and being within the mansion of the soul-self.   And in many respects, this higher soul-reality can be portrayed as the embodiment of what the Church portrays as Hell, because each image-personality within the matrix of the soul-mind continues to dwell in the reality of the life that it lived here on earth.  

The Church Father Origen stated that “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis) -- and these strengths and weaknesses are the direct expression of the victories and/or defeats dynamically manifest within the matrix of the soul-mind that each person in the present life draws upon.   Where man envisions memory as being stored and ingrained in a computer like storage disk that can be looked up, such a scenario is simply not the case.   All the past images that the soul has lived as, continues to exist within the matrix of the soul-mind -- and as portrayed by St. Teresa, it can be said that each has its own room or space within the countless segments of the castle of the soul.   And since time is a dimension of mind (see The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man), each of these past image-personalities exist as points of consciousness within the soul-mind matrix.   Within the matrix of the soul that lived as Hitler, the personality of Hitler still dwells as a point of consciousness that continues his former existence.   And in like manner, Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan expressed the mystical teachings of the Jewish sage Isaac Luria when he stated that the 6 million Holocaust victims "were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done”  (see The Chickens Come Home To Roost).   Which means that within the matrix of mind of the soul who lived as Hitler, exists a previous image-personality who were victimized by the people who lived as Jews under Nazi Germany.   In the same foregoing link I present the example of Barack Obama's spiritual advisor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who subscribes to what is called Black Liberation Theology.   And within the matrix of the soul-mind of the Rev. Wright exists an image-personality that previously lived as a white slave owner.   Which means that the Rev. Wright's hatred of white people is the result of his abominations towards the black race by a previous soul-image that continues to dwell within the matrix of the Rev. Wright's soul. 

Mankind, who Jesus portrays as dwelling in the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- or what Plato portrays as a Cave of illusions -- dwells within a holographic reality that exists within a larger holograph that he cannot gain access to without the proper development of mind.   And while the Laws of Creation orchestrate the events based upon man's own past experiences in the present -- and it is these Laws and Forces which the Deists portrayed as being "...endowed ...with self-sustaining and self-acting powers ...acting as second causes" which orchestrate and even script the lives of man in the present that cause him to confront his own self -- i.e., “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV) -- it is the development of man's intuitive spheres of mind that provides him direct access into the previous soul-images within the matrix of the soul-mind that has orchestrated the events that man is experiencing in the present (see Spiritual Intuitive Development).   If Hitler had been able to directly draw upon his previous experiences as a victim of the aggression of those people who in his life were born as Jews who Rabbi Yosefan portrayed as having previously lived as "...sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done”, then he might have been able to draw upon the insight to break the perpetual loop of the Laws (see Groundhog Day in What's Wrong With Wearing A Seat Belt? ), and he would have been able to overcome the Laws which the Deists portrayed as being "...endowed ...with self-sustaining and self-acting powers", and free himself from the shackles of what Jesus portrayed as The Prison -- or the Conditions of Birth.  

Did the Jews who prayed for deliverance from Hitler invoke the Law of Grace by repenting from their own past actions which had orchestrated their lives in the present?   Perhaps the best answer to this question is found in another question: Has the Rev. Wright repented from his own past as a white slave owner?   And in accord with the conditions of The Prison of which Jesus stated “Thou shalt by no means come out from there, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (Mat 5:26) -- would people act differently if they realized that their present experiences is a direct result of the previous actions of their own past soul-images?   In most instances, the religious/philosophical and political leaders in the present, were the leaders in the past, and they are merely confronting their own previous actions.   That their followers who blindly attach themselves to these leaders, share in the fate of what the Laws orchestrate, as each man confronts his own past actions, is a reality that can be portrayed as a common destiny under the Laws.    The Germans who followed Hitler, will in the future follow their leader into a type of future hell.   In like manner, those who sit in the congregation of people such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who blames the white race from it plight as a black man, will continue in the future to share in the destiny that awaits them based upon their present allegiance to the Rev. Wright.    And this is true of all of mankind with respect to the good, the bad and the truly ugly events of this world.   The Law is that as you do unto others, the same will be returned to you.   And while this return may not be in the present life, it will come back upon the soul until the last debt is repaid and neutralized -- i.e., "...till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (see Getting Out Of The Prison).    And of even greater importance is the fact that so long as debts are owed to one's brothers and sisters, it remains impossible to fulfill the Laws and manifest the Final Temple within one's self (see The Laws - The Gift On The Altar) -- which renders such a person totally incapable of true spiritual development and advancement, and incapable of understanding the higher reality of the soul.   Which means that such a person is doomed to failure as a generated soul-image, until the debts under the Laws are first satisfied and overcome.

To understand the Source of Soul-Light, it is imperative to understand the Cosmology of Mind and the Soul Mind-Matrix where all the previous soul-generated personalities that the Soul has lived as, not only continue to dwell in what the mystic St. Teresa portrayed as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila).  In the castle or mansion of the Soul exists the previously soul-generated personalities that continue to make the connection between the upper three Heavenly Kingdoms and the lower three Earthly Kingdoms in that Soul's individual slice of the vertical pie of Creation.  Light, is the product of the merger of Opposites within each Soul -- as portrayed in Gospel of Thomas saying 22: 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".  In each life the Soul lives as a soul-generated personality, connections are made that connect the foregoing opposites within the Mind of the Soul=Self -- i.e., "...the inside [with] the outside ...and the above [with] the below ..[thereby] making the male and the female one and the same" -- and once the soul-generated personalities are re-attached to their Source in the Higher Soul-Self, they act as dynamic neurons in the Mind of the Soul that grows the Light of the Soul.   

How much Light each soul-generated personality can add to the Soul-Self, is totally dependent upon the degree that they accomplished and fulfilled the above requirement of the Gospel of Thomas:  "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".   And it is those soul-generated personalities that actually achieve the next stage of birth and fulfill the Law and the Gospel within themselves, that become the Source of the Light of the Soul.   And it is this reality within the Soul Mind-Matrix that is presented in Gospel of Thomas saying 84, and is conveyed in the words: (84) Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!"   What is being stated?   Saying 84 presents what is portrayed as YOUR LIKENESS, and YOUR IMAGES.  The images that failed to become manifest, are those soul-generated personalities that were basically followers to the thinking, mindset and cultural/religious lifestyles of this world -- and being of this world, they failed to achieve the next stage of Soul-Birth that is necessary to become Manifest.   And this is why the vast majority of Souls appear as weak flickering lights.   Yet, even in the failure of these soul-generated images/personalities, they continue to exist as building-blocks that act as a connection and catalyst of advancement by connecting the upper three Heavenly Kingdoms with the lower three Earthly Kingdoms -- thereby bringing together the Seven Spiritual Centers that Create the White Light of the Soul-Self.   While it is true that each life that can be portrayed as a failed-image does not become Manifest, these soul-generated personalities continue to act as low-level catalysts that connect the Upper and the Lower across the spectrum of the Seven Kingdom as they continue to exist within the Soul Mind-Matrix.   

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  The Way Of The Monk: The way of the monk, the yogi or the quasi-Gnostic who strives to negate the lower centers of their earthly nature in order to make themselves more spiritual by aligning themselves to the upper three heavenly spiritual centers, all fail to comprehend the reality of Wholeness within the construct of the Cosmology of Mind and Being.   These paths which we can group together and portray as the way of the monk, when properly understood, are paths which attempt to circumvent the Laws as set forth in the Gospel of Thomas -- i.e., "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" -- and only when you succeed in bringing the opposites within your mind and being into the Center -- and evolve the twelve-segments of the embryo of self to the level where the next stage of birth can be achieved, only "...then will you enter the kingdom."   Which means that when any part of self is negated, achieving the formation of the twelve-segmented embryo as patterned in the Tree of Life ( http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ), will remain impossible to achieve.   Therefore, it must be understood that the way of the monk (and all religious systems which negate and suppress aspects of self), work in opposition to initiating the subsequent stages of birth which bring about the expansion of mind and consciousness in the endeavor to bring about Wholeness, Completion, and man's ultimate Perfection.  

  Why There Is No Such Thing As Reincarnation? - Or Heavenly Glory? Once again man's inability to comprehend his own higher soul-reality, is largely because of his inherent inability to understand the nature of Duality and Paradox.     And while some people attempt to merely dismiss both Duality and the Paradoxical reality of this world, such people do not possess either the necessary depth of vision, or a mature comprehension, that would even allow and permit them to perceive beyond the limits of their dogmatic and ideological beliefs.    Therefore, to even begin to understand the dilemma of life and man's fate when he passes from this world with greater depth, it is imperative to understand the nature and resolution of the paradoxical reality that confronts every single seeker that has ever -- or ever will -- walk upon the face of the earth.   Paradoxical Truths exist on a lower plane as diametrically opposite polarities of truth that, on this level of divided reality, not only oppose and seemingly conflict with each other -- but like male and female opposites, must be merged and raised up within the construct of a third-force higher realty, in order to solve the dualism of the equation.   

There are people who not only claim to remember past lives -- but there is a body of factual evidence to substantiate their claims.   On the other hand, there are those who say that there is no such thing as reincarnation -- and from one paradoxical perspective, there is truth to their position.   Yet, there are others who not only proclaim reincarnation as a provable fact -- but in many instances, they can remember events drawn from their own and others past lives.   And thus, it is important to pose the question: What if both positions are true -- i.e., that while the soul does live many lifetimes in its journey toward perfection and completion -- and yet, the person you are in this world has not only never lived prior to your own physical conception in the womb of your mother, and when you pass from this life you will never be reborn as another person.   What if both seemingly conflicting positions possess truth -- and yet, they are both lacking a higher Truth that brings the paradoxical opposite positions into Oneness.    Which means that those who believe in reincarnation, as well as those who reject reincarnation, while possessing degrees of truth, are not only equally in error from the perspective of the Greater Picture of Reality -- but that they will each remain hopelessly flat-lined, until which time their thinking, awareness and knowledge has evolved beyond their present dilemma.  

The Eastern doctrine of reincarnation is built upon the foundation that the Soul of man incarnates into the body -- passing through what they portray as the cloud of forgetfulness where the person is stripped of any past live recall -- and the objective is to break the cycles of what they call the Wheel of Rebirth.  On the other hand, the teaching on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to Wholeness and Completion over the course of many (incarnations) lifetimes, is based upon the reality that the Soul is far too vast to incarnate into our three-dimensional realm -- especially when it is understood that what we call Time, is a dimension of Mind and Consciousness (see The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man ) -- and all the lives that the Soul has lived are unique expressions of the Soul that continue to dwell within what can be portrayed as the Soul Mind-Matrix (see The Evolving Soul).   Which means that while each of us is a unique expression of our Higher Soul-Self (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) -- and our Higher Soul-Self that is our True-Self, evolves to Wholeness and Completion over the course of many Unique Incarnations. 

Many of the teachings that were suppressed and removed from the Gospels by the Roman Church have been preserved in the Gospel of Thomas.   While what is revealed in the Gospel of Thomas saying 84 may sound strange to the modern Christian, it represents an important foundational teaching that was removed from the Gospels by the later Pagan Church of Rome (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).   What is our true nature and form?   Our Soul is our True-Self, and is the Being of Light that many people encounter in the published accounts of what is known as the Near Death Experience (see Being Of Light).    And one of the realities that is unknown today, is the fact that you need not physically die, in order to come into the presence of the Being of Light within you -- i.e., your true soul-self.    In fact, one of the primary objectives of the Gospel is to enable the believer to draw near and actually become At-One with their higher Soul-Self who is a Being of Light -- and thereby prevail over the forces of this world -- manifesting the Heavenly Kingdom within one's self -- and walking the earth as a one's true self, a Being of Light.   But herein lies the problem: Men and Women look at their reflected image in a mirror, and they think they are seeing the true being that they are.   And thus, because of man's own ignorance of his true self and form, this higher reality could not be revealed to men of a carnal mindset who Paul correctly portrays as being of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature ), it remains impossible for organic man to grasp the higher realities of the soul and the Kingdom of God.   Yet, if each person is to overcome the ignorance of this world with respect to our true nature and form, then it is important to begin to recognize the reality of self that is being portrayed in the Gospel of Thomas saying 84, and is conveyed in the words: (84) Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!"   What is being stated?   Saying 84 presents what is portrayed as YOUR LIKENESS, and YOUR IMAGES.   It does not say: When you see God -- and this is because you dwell within the reality of your own soul-self -- and it is your soul-self that is in the above portrayed as "your likeness" that dwells within God.   When rightly understood, we only dwell within God by proxy.   In the teaching where it poses the question: "...But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest" -- it is making reference to all the previous incarnations the Soul lived which failed to achieve the necessary subsequent stages of birth -- and are therefore portrayed as failed images that did not become manifest or At-One with their True-Self.      

In the Book of Genesis it is proclaimed that if the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (aka Tree of Duality) were to be eaten, that the eater thereof will die.    And while critics of the Bible have often pointed out that after eating the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve did not die as promised -- what the critics fail to understand is that death from a biblical perspective, is not the same as physical death (see The Dead Know Nothing).   And this is why Jesus said of the people of this world: "...let the dead bury their own dead" (Matt 8:22 NKJ).    When the inherent paradoxical duality of this world is understood as being of the mind -- and the duality of the male and female columns of the Tree of Life is understood --  along with the duality and division of what is portrayed in the diagram at the right as the Heavenly Kingdom and the Earthly Kingdom -- then it is the duality of the fruit or knowledge of the paradoxical truths of this world that is portrayed as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that brings death to the eater thereof.   And a prime example of this forbidden paradoxical truth is demonstrated in the beliefs in either Eastern reincarnation or that of the Western idea that believers go to Glory.   The problem is seen in the fact that both beliefs hold a degree of truth as well as error -- and like all paradoxical truths, greater error is embraced when you embrace the one polarity and reject its opposite -- which is from a higher soul-perspective, equally true. 

  The True Self: The Gospel of Thomas warns that if you don't know thyself, that you will dwell in a state of poverty.   The Epistle Of Peter and James goes as far as to warn that if the body of esoteric knowledge of the Gospel become lost, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error."  (see Always To Wander In Error).  The Gospel itself teaches that if the Key of Knowledge is dogmatically thrown away and not properly applied to the interpretation of the scriptures, that the believer will be inhibited from entering into the Kingdom.   

Jesus posed the question: "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?" (Luke 9:25).    Therefore, how can you "...lose or forfeit [your] very self?"  In Emerson's article on the Oversoul it is stated that "...our conscious ego is slight and limited in comparison to the soul, despite the fact that we habitually mistake our ego for our true self" (see The Oversoul).  And in like manner, in The Ten Principles Of Gnostic Revelation Philip K. Dick writes: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor" (see The Divine Counterpart).    In the teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff the people of this world are portrayed as "false personalities".    In the Gospel of Thomas saying 84 the people of this world are portrayed as previously generated failed images (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image).   Moreover, The Apocalypse of Peter also contains a description of Jesus’ death that differs drastically from the New Testament gospels.  When Peter sees Jesus being arrested he asks, “Who is the one smiling and laughing above the cross? Is it someone else whose feet and hands they are hammering?”   Jesus answered, “The one you see smiling and laughing above the cross is the living Jesus. The one into whose hands and feet they are driving nails is his fleshly part, the substitute for him. They are putting to shame the one who came into being in the likeness of the living Jesus. Look at him and look at me.”  And from this higher perspective  The Second Treatise of the Great Seth reads, “It was another who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I. They struck me with the reed; it was another.  It was another upon whom they placed a crown of thorns. But I was rejoicing in the height over their error. And I was laughing at their ignorance.”  

From the perspective of Plato's Cave, the ultimate illusion is that man in his physical organic form is his true self.   That man is a shadow image of his true self that is not manifest in the physical body-vessel -- an embryonic projection of our true self (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) that is very much like the seed that is cast into the ground in the parable of the Sower And The Seed -- and the development of the seed-essence is wholly dependent upon the condition of the body-consciousness.   From a scriptural perspective, the seed that brings forth one hundredfold and can be portrayed as the "good ground", is representative of that person who travails in TheWay and transforms his body and physical consciousness into the Final Temple -- and as the High Priest of the Living Temple, the disciple of TheWay is then able to enter within the "narrow strait gate" within himself -- enter the Kingdom of Light through the presence of the higher soul and true self -- there by escaping what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- which can also be portrayed as escaping the illusions of Plato's Cave.    

If it is indeed true that we are an "image" of our true soul-self that is not manifest in the body-vessel, then we would be forced to not only perceive the scriptures from a totally different perspective, but also we would have to re-think the reality of self we are in this world and our inherent relationship to our true self -- i.e., our soul-self.   In the early scripture known as the Dialogue of the Savior, which was found in the Nag Hammadi Library of Christian Scriptures, Jesus explained that our natural dwelling place is a “place of life” where “the true mind dwells” that is “only pure light.”   Thus, confirming our true soul-reality as a Being of Light.   It is also important to note that there existed a segment of the Church as late as the 6^th century that possessed the soul-knowledge that man's true reality and form was a Being of Light.   Among the condemnations of the Emperor Justinian against Origen in the 2nd Council of Constantinople in the year 553 where the teachings on the preexistent soul was condemned and deemed heresy from a dogmatic Church perspective, where this statement: "If anyone says or thinks that, at the resurrection, human bodies will rise spherical in form and unlike our present form, let him be anathema" (see Council Agenda).    The problem is that the true form of the soul is a spherical Being of Light -- and the human body is merely an allegorical manifestation of the mind projected into the symbols of matter.   Moreover, in our natural state we are a Being of Light -- and our body-vessel which we inhabit in this world, is merely an allegorical projection of mind and spirit into the image of the body.   That the journey of the soul over the course of many lifetimes was an integral part of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and was removed by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the doctrines of the Church -- is demonstrated conclusively in The Ten Reasons Why The Church Rejects The Teaching On The Pre-Existent Soul.  

In each instance it is demonstrated that the person you are in this world is not the true being that you are -- but rather, a projected image of your soul which is your true self that does not incarnate into this world.   Which means that the person you are as an embryonic soul-image projected into this world at conception, and it can therefore be stated that you have never lived previous to your present birth.   Moreover, if you fail to attain the next stage of birth that Jesus said is necessary to enter into Life, as a soul-image that has failed to become manifest, as portrayed in Gospel of Thomas saying 84, you can neither reincarnate or can you go to Glory as the dogma of the Church assumes.   Which means that a more enlightened understanding of the Cosmology of Mind would convey to us the correct understanding of the warning of Jesus with respect to the words: "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NKJ) -- the word translated "destruction", in no manner represents what is actually being presented.   Quoting the footnote on this word in the Schofield Reference Bible which reads: “There is no thought in these various words of annihilation but of something that is ruined and thus unsuitable or unable to fulfill its original purpose”.    And in the same way that a woman does not perish if one of her eggs fails to evolve into a fetus, neither does the soul perish when one of its images which is projected into this world, fails to evolve through the three stages of birth.    And in the same way that the woman's egg that fails to become an embryo is "...thus unsuitable or unable to fulfill its original purpose”, so too is the embryonic image of the soul that is projected into this world "...unsuitable or unable to fulfill its original purpose.”    And this purpose, is to bring about the necessary threefold birth that enables the soul to enter into what Jesus portrayed as Life.  To further demonstrate the higher reality of birth that was portrayed to Nicomedus in the Gospel of John (see Cosmic Ovum And Sperm), Jesus stated: "...Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" -- and this fact is a true reality of life. 

It is important to understand the principle of Wholeness -- as when Jesus healed the people -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of a physician" (Matt 9:12).   And when the scriptures are understood in their original context, this is in fact the question that is posed to everyone: "When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been now a long time in that condition, he said unto him, Will you be made whole?" (John 5:6).   And this lack of wholeness -- or, division between the person you are in this world, and your higher soul-self who is your true-self and Being of Light -- is what is being referenced to in the Epistle of James where it states: "a two-souled man is unstable in all his ways" (James 1:8) -- which Barns Notes On The Bible states: "A double minded man - The word here used, δίψυχος dipsuchos occurs only here and in James 4:8. It means, properly, one who has two souls"    And James 4:8 reads: "draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!"   And of those who are portrayed as being divided -- i.e., two-souled -- James writes that "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord" (James 1:7).   And with respect to the original Gospel Message, achieving a state of Wholeness and becoming ONE with one's higher soul-self, is the initial objective of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.  

In the Key of Knowledge I raise and answer the question: Is the Gospel Copied From Another Source?   Briefly quoting from this article: What the Atheists and critics have never considered is this:  The fact that what is presented is in the scriptures is not at all an historical account (see An Inconvenient Truth) -- but rather, what is presented is a series of Universal Allegorical Symbols of Laws, Natural Forces and Higher Consciousness that is totally relevant to every person who has ever walked upon the face of the earth.   What this means is that such allegorical symbols as the Virgin Birth,  the Twelve Disciples, the symbol of Joseph that is not at all understood, the crucifixion, and even the name Jesus, all portray realities and conditions of mind that are as universal to the Ebionite Nazirene authors of the Gospels, as these universal allegorical symbols are to all the people's of the earth -- even those who live on a remote island.   As a mystic begins to comprehend the reality of what is portrayed as the Illusions of Plato's Cave -- and he begins to discover that what is portrayed as illusions, are in fact allusions -- and all the forms of nature are imbued with aspects of mind impressed into the forms that man sees and interacts with on a physical level -- only then can such a mystic begin to evolve to the degree that they fulfill the statement in the Gospel of Thomas: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you . For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest."    The fact that this world is very much a mental-womb (see The Womb Of Mother-Earth) -- and what man observes in the outer world are aspects of mind projected into the forms of nature that when rightly understood, have the power to nourish him in the Gospel objective of bringing about the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind -- culminating in the initiation of the next stage of soul-birth where the person you are in this world as an Embryonic Image Of Your Higher Soul-Self (see also The Reality Of The Soul), is then able to be nourished by the higher impressions of the soul which act as food for the mind, in conjunction with the Universal Laws and Forces of Consciousness acting within the Cosmology of Mind which has been preserved in the esoteric base of knowledge concealed within the allegorical scriptures (see An Inconvenient Truth) -- as the seeker/disciple brings about that condition of mind portrayed in the name Jesus (Yeshua/Joshua), as the prodigal son/daughter is reborn in the Edenic Kingdom of Origination (see http://GateOfEden.com ).

What believers, critics and pseudo-intellectuals all fail to understand is the reality that man does not make up the allegorical symbols that are used in the scriptures -- but rather, he interprets from a higher state of mind what already exists.   In the analogy of Plato's Cave, the forms and images that are danced upon the wall of the Cave that those imprisoned erroneously believe is real, are created by objects of a higher reality that are real.   And this is why the Gospel of Thomas declares the necessity to "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you..."   The fact that EVERYTHING that you observe in Nature is aspects of mind allegorically impressed into the forms that organic man observes with his very limited physical senses -- and the meaning of these allegorical symbols are the expression of Divine Providence -- the authors of the scriptures merely used what is called the "language of the soul" to compose the scriptures in a language that already exists and is Universally Comprehended by the higher soul-self of each person that is not manifest in the physical body (see  Man As An Embryonic Image Of Your Higher Soul-Self ).   That the symbolism themselves in their original scriptural native environment has the power to act as a catalyst that connects the seeker/disciples mind with what these symbols represent within the Mind of the Soul-Self -- and that as a catalyst, the allegorical scriptures composed in the language of the soul has the potential to bring about the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind -- is a reality that those who reject the scriptures as mere myth, do not at all understand.

If we begin to understand the above -- and the fact that the ancient Mystery Religions were all in search of escaping the illusions of this world -- prevailing against the Forces and Laws of Mind and Consciousness -- and with respect to Pythagoras the article on his religious system tells us: "Pythagoras and his followers were important for their contributions to both religion and science. His religious teachings were based on the doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that the soul was immortal and was destined to a cycle of rebirths until it could liberate itself from the cycle through the purity of its life. A number of precepts were drawn up as inviolable rules by which initiates must live.  Pythagoreanism differed from the other philosophical systems of its time in being not merely an intellectual search for truth but a whole way of life which would lead to salvation. In this respect it had more in common with the mystery religions than with philosophy."

Thus, it was the objective of Pythagoras to embrace "Wholeness" -- and if one can begin to comprehend the Laws and Forces controlling one's own mind and being -- in conjunction with the Law of Octaves (see The Law Of Octaves) -- this knowledge of numbers as it applies to one's own mind and being, is of the utmost importance.   

When our astronauts flew to the moon, while it is true that rocket propulsion was used to escape the earths gravity and limiting factor of its organic atmosphere, the astronauts then utilized the Natural Laws to escape the pull of the earth, and permit the spacecraft to be pulled to its destination.   Scientifically, this would be portrayed as slingshot paths that are called Gravity Assist Trajectories.  They use the gravity and motion of planets to pull a spacecraft into a new path.   Quoting the article on Navigation in space: "Gravity is a very important force. Every object in space exerts a gravitational pull on every other, and so gravity influences the paths taken by everything traveling through space. It is the glue that holds together entire galaxies. It keeps planets in orbit. It makes it possible to use human-made satellites and to go to and return from the Moon. It makes planets habitable by trapping gasses and liquids in an atmosphere. It can also cause life-destroying asteroids to crash into planets.   ...Consider Voyager 2 ... the spacecraft's arrival was carefully timed so that it would pass behind Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun. As the spacecraft came into Jupiter's gravitational influence, it fell toward Jupiter, increasing its speed toward maximum at closest approach to Jupiter. Since all masses in the universe attract each other, Jupiter sped up the spacecraft substantially, and the spacecraft slowed down Jupiter in its orbit by a tiny amount, since the spacecraft approached from behind. At this point, Voyager 2 had been sped up enough by Jupiter's gravity to get a speed greater than Jupiter's escape velocity. As it left, it slowed down again, but it never slowed all the way to the speed it was before getting to Jupiter. It left the area near Jupiter faster and in a different trajectory. This technique was repeated at Saturn and Uranus.  Gravity assists can be also used to decelerate a spacecraft, by flying in front of a body in its orbit. When the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, passing close in front of Io in its orbit, Galileo experienced deceleration, helping it go into orbit around Jupiter. "    

So, our scientists in understanding the Natural Laws, timed their sequences where they initiated rocket burns to take advantage of the natural movement of the planets, where they could then manipulate these Natural Forces to bring about the results which they envisioned.   In the  The Law Of Octaves there is a natural twisting of the sequence between the third to fourth sequence-step -- and when this twisting sequence is applied to our own minds, it is this twisting of the Laws that keeps our thinking earth-bound and carnal.   But in living a Wholistic Lifestyle, Pythagoras, the core of the ancient Mystery Religions, as well as Jewish, Christian and Sufi Mystics, came to understand how the proper impressions at the right interval of the progression of one's thinking, had the effect of a rocket-burn that broke the pull of the earth-carnal -- enabling the seeker/disciple to begin to break through the barrier of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- which can also be portrayed as escaping the illusions of Plato's Cave.   And when what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge is applied to the scriptures in the endeavor to turn them within to unlock the inner "narrow strait gate" within one's self -- entering the Kingdom of Light through the presence of the higher soul and true self -- by achieving what Jesus portrayed as the next stage of soul-birth, the image-self was then able to prevail over the Laws and Forces of the physical body and mind, and enter into the Permanence of the Higher Soul-Self -- and ultimately, the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.      

In the approximate year of 178 of our Common Era, Celsus, the Epicurean Philosopher and opponent of Christianity published a rather embarrassing work in opposition to Christianity known as The True Word or Discourse.    It is said that this work was widely published and used by the Pagan world as an attack on the Church.   Seventy years after its publication The True Word was still so widely circulated, that the Church Father Origen was commissioned by St. Ambrosius to refute this attack by Celsus.   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?” 

Fundamentally, what Origen enumerated was elementary Christian doctrine 101 -- i.e., what the Apostle Paul refers to as the “milk” -- or that basic doctrine which still exists to this very day (see Mystery Of The Gospel).    Modern Christians have no idea that the position of the pre-Nicene Church was that the allegorical doctrine that is believed today as an article of faith is representative of entry-level Christianity that was “preached in the Churches… for the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief” (see Exoteric Doctrines Designed For Entry-Level Believers).   The Church Father Origen who was commissioned by the Church acknowledged these doctrines -- refuted Celsus by stating that these beliefs are openly expounded as articles of Christian faith, and then Origen explained: “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”.

Thus, the question: Why could Pythagoras only reveal the esoteric knowledge of the Forces and Laws of Mind to his closest of disciples -- i.e., "...while others were taught in secret those doctrines which were not deemed fit to be communicated to the profane and insufficiently prepared ears."    And why was the pre-Nicene Church portrayed as a "secret system" wherein the inner spiritual core believed very different than the congregation of faith-based believers (see The Secret Doctrine Of Christianity).   Because this sacred body of esoteric knowledge could only be revealed to those who had themselves become Whole.   Unlike the very simple presentation of  The Law Of Octaves in the example provided, the human mind is complex -- with each of the 12 spheres of the Pattern of Mind as portrayed in the diagram of the Tree of Life each initiating a Major Sub-Octave -- wherein each from the perspective of mind holographically manifest in the pattern of the microcosm, which can be very much portrayed as the influence and gravity of a planet on the larger scale of the Macrocosm.   Thus, this body of esoteric knowledge which appeared to be the study of the intervals of the music scale and the cosmology of the universe -- i.e., in the words of Origen: "...Some of the heroes of Pythagoras were content with his ipse dixit" ("In the field of Logic, the Latin phrase Ipse dixit ("He, himself, said it") is known as the bare assertion fallacy, wherein it identifies and describes a dogmatic statement asserted, but unproved, which the speaker expects the listener to accept — on faith — to be true" Wikipedia) -- which as in the esoteric teachings of Christianity as well as all such systems, it is necessary to "accept — on faith — to be true"  until which time the seeker/disciple can achieve the necessary Wholeness and Heightening And Expansion Of Mind, necessary to prevail over the Forces and Laws of Mind and Consciousness, and achieve the next stage of soul-birth.  

In the 16th century Giordano Bruno (see Spiritual Religion) who was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, also portrayed the cosmology of the universe as a cloak for his body of esoteric teachings.   As can be seen in the following quotation, Giordano Bruno understood the higher reality of the soul or soul-self that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes (quoting) He then proceeded to explain how this knowledge could be acquired. "Within every man," he said, "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." It is Spirit, the Real Self, "in which, from which and through which are formed the different bodies, which have to pass through different kinds of existences, names and destinies."  Giordano Bruno taught that the Law of Reincarnation is indissolubly connected with its twin doctrine of Karma, or "High Justice."  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.  And then, to show that the doctrine was not original with him, he carefully explained that it had been taught by Pythagoras, Plato and the Neoplatonists, and that he was merely passing on what he had learned from his predecessors.  (Giordano Bruno - Homage To The Forgotten Philosopher).

The question raised in the foregoing confronts every person who has ever walked the face of the earth -- i.e., how this sacred knowledge can be acquired.   And when understood, his words parrallel those of Philip K. Dick where Giordano wrote: "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" -- or, in the words of Dick: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us" -- and one of the primary objectives and purpose of all religious teachings, is to tap into man's higher soul-self and acquire this sacred knowledge that can bring about one's transformation which first brings one's union with our true self -- i.e., our higher soul-self -- and ultimately, with our own divided nature overcome, our Union with God which was accomplished by our brother the historical Jesus.   And this is in fact the position of the first-century followers and disciples of the man Jesus who taught that by fulfilling the Law within himself he became 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 -- see http://Ebionite.com ).   And who is this Son of God that the man Jesus became in Union with?   The mystic visionaries portrayed the Son of God as the Logos -- or Mind of God (see Logos).   Which is why Jesus taught that all his followers and disciples are to seek out the One Teacher which in the Clementine Homilies the Apostle Peter portrays as the True Prophet -- stating: "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”.

Once again, before you can even begin to draw near the Indwelling Logos, you must first achieve Unity with your inner soul-self that is a Being of Light that is neither manifest in, nor can the soul "...be constrained by" the physical body of man.   And to preserve the esoteric knowledge that the Church Father Origen portrayed as the "minor mysteries", the authors of the scriptures preserved and protected this base of knowledge by concealing it within the text of the allegorical scriptures -- composed in the Language of the Soul with which all of Creation is holographically written in.   And this is why the Deists who emerged out of the Age of Enlightenment proclaimed that the reasoning powers of the mind could be evolved and expanded, and God could then be seen and understood through a higher understanding of the Created Universe -- which, being holographically composed in the Language of the Soul, has the capacity to reveal its Author as stated by Paul where he writes: "...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 NAS).    And if we ask why and how can God be understood through the attributes of Creation and the Laws of Nature?    Because there is a Divine Pattern that all of Creation is holographically imprinted with the Spiritual DNA of its Creator -- and if you understand the pattern that the Laws of God imbued into all that exists, you will then begin to perceive and comprehend the Source that brought forth the ALL that exists. 

Why, then, can this Language of the Soul be understood by a few, and is not at all understood by the vast majority of mankind?   Because the vast majority of mankind neither understand, nor have they ever sought, to bring about that condition of mind that can be portrayed as Wholeness.   Further, in lacking self-knowledge, they remain in what the Gospel of Thomas portrays as endemic carnal poverty -- i.e., "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   And it is imperative that the questioning mind come to the realization and recognition that each person who looks out at the world does so through the filter of their beliefs which are predicated upon their condition of mind as directly determined by the degree that they have each undergone the process of the Heightening And Expansion Of Mind, in conjunction with the Spiritual DNA which is the result of what the soul of each person has accomplished in the preceding lives that they have lived -- which, in the words of the Church Father Origen is expressed in the statement that “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see The Chickens Come Home To Roost).     And it is further explained by Origen that: "If it can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body and that it is worse off in the body than out of it, then beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrawise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are thus ever vanishing and ever reappearing" (Origen, from A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, P. Schaff and H. Wace editors)

Man in his organic "natural" condition of mind is blind to his own higher soul-reality -- and this condition of mind was portrayed by Jesus as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).  Which is why the (Gospel of Thomas) states: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you...".    And to assist in this process of healing one's inherent blindness due to the human condition of looking out at the world through the limited earth-bound senses and cognitive understanding of the physical consciousness imposed upon man by virtue of his body-vessel, scriptures were composed which were written in the same Language of the Soul with which all of Creation is composed in.   And that organic man is blind to the true meaning of the scriptures -- and his reasoning and intellect is incapable of comprehending anything beyond the mundane so long as he remains divided from this true self -- his higher soul-self -- that the Apostle Peter warns in the Clementine Homilies with respect to the true meaning of the scriptures: "...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".      

In much the same vane, the Apostle Paul warns: "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..." (Col 2:8 NIV).  But what does this means?   In the above Peter had warned "...For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".   

In making reference to The True Prophet who Jesus portrayed as the One Teacher, 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.   Which inability of organic man to comprehend higher soul and spiritual reality is expressed in the words: "There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12).  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.   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.

Those personalities who are portrayed as false-personality by Gurdjieff -- the ego-self by Emerson and Dick -- or, the illusion of self in the analogy of  Plato's Cave that Jesus portrayed as dwelling in the  "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- or, the failed-images of the soul in Gospel Of Thomas saying 84 -- were said to have very limited salvation beyond the grave by Valentinus, simply because only the true being that we are can either (re)incarnate, or go to Glory in the Christian understanding.   Jesus taught to "Enter by the narrow gate"  -- and unless the ego-self is able to bring about the next stage of birth they "...cannot see the kingdom of God".   Being not the real self, Gospel of Thomas saying 84 correctly portrays them as un-manifest (failed) images of the soul.   And it can therefore be stated that these failed images are not "known by God", because they are the direct expression of the soul -- and their connection to God is by proxy through the soul.   In like manner the Deists or American Gnostics stated that Creator-God did not directly intervene in the affairs of man -- i.e., that Creator-God "...endowed the world at creation with self-sustaining and self-acting powers and then abandoned it to the operation of these powers acting as second causes" -- and when properly understood, if Creator-God directly intervened in the lives of man, that would be synonymous with intervening in the thought-images of the soul that is being perfected by the "self-sustaining and self-acting powers and Laws" of God that controls the development of the soul in order to bring about its ultimate destiny.    

The Eastern concept of reincarnation where the soul passes through a cloud of forgetfulness upon entering the body in the process of rebirth, is based upon a profound ignorance of the soul or true self that remains in what is portrayed as the realm of souls.   And in the same way that Gospel of Thomas saying 84 portrays the plight of the failed image as having come into being after the previous failed images of the soul -- i.e., "...But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!" -- those failed images can neither reincarnate, nor can they go to Glory as the Christians imagine.    As failed images, they are very much as portrayed in the (above) Schofield Reference Bible as "...unsuitable or unable to fulfill its original purpose”.    And yet, when the higher reality of the soul is understood as being segmented and comprised of almost countless separate holographic conscious parts that comprise the Whole -- i.e., "The soul...", writes St. Teresa, is as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila in Soul Symphony - Time - Soul-Octaves - Spiritual Cathedral) -- only then can we begin to comprehend the plight of the failed images which the soul has generated into this world.   And at the forgoing link I explore what St. Teresa portrays as  “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms", as the spiritual and mental embodiment of a Great Matrix of Mind within which each of the previous images which the soul-self has generated and lived, as existing in separate rooms within the mansion of the soul.  

  Prayer - And Man's Interaction With The Laws: When the Spiritual Americans who were known as Deists portrayed Creator-God as having "...endowed the world at creation with self-sustaining and self-acting powers and then abandoned it to the operation of these powers acting as second causes" (see American Spirituality), this same exact pattern of the Laws is presented in the parable of the prodigal son.   Regardless of the son's suffering and hardships while he was dwelling in the Far Country under the control of what Jesus portrayed as the Citizen of that realm, at no time did the Father or any of his Servants come to the assistance of the prodigal son.   What is not at all understood is the reality that the prodigal son could not return to the Father, without first completing the objectives of this world which is to bring about Wholeness and Completion -- and this is personified in the example for all of mankind in the pattern of Jesus.   Yet, the whole life and purpose of the example of Jesus was rendered worthless, when the fourth century Church of Constantine declared that Jesus was God Incarnate -- and corrupted the Gospels to make them support the dogma of Rome as seen in the editing of the statement of the Father at Jesus' baptism in the Jordan where the original Gospels declared: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" (see TheTenWords.com).   If, as the Gospels originally stated, Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at his baptism -- and his original disciples were correct in their assertion that he was a holy man who fulfilled the Law within himself -- thereby, becoming the first prodigal son to return to the Kingdom of the Father, and the example and pattern for all of mankind to imitate and follow --  then when the Church of Constantine declared Jesus God incarnate, they rendered the example of Jesus in the Gospels worthless.   It means absolutely nothing for God incarnate to accomplish what Jesus did -- after all, he would have been supernatural, all knowing and all powerful.   But if Jesus was a man who accomplished these things when he fulfilled the Law of God within himself, then the life and example of Jesus takes on an entirely different meaning than it does today.   That Jesus was a man, just like all other men, is the reason why he stated that his followers would be able to accomplish even more than he did.   And why he portrayed mankind as his brothers -- i.e., "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 NIV).   That the Virgin Birth was not in the original Gospels -- but was a later addition -- and is an allegorical portrayal of the next stage of birth that all of mankind must bring about within themselves (see Virgin Birth), is representative of a Spiritual Objective that all the prodigal sons must experience in order to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.

Paul portrayed the Law as being given to man by the Angels (see Two Creation Accounts) -- and in the allegorical account of the scriptures with the Key of Knowledge properly applied, what is portrayed as Angels is an allegorical portrayal of the Laws that Jesus taught all of mankind must prevail over -- i.e., "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 5:18-20 NKJ).   But the Church remains totally ignorant of the reality of the Laws, because they have totally discarded the Laws by virtue of their dogma whereby they promote the belief that Jesus did away with the necessity of observing and fulfilling the Law and the Commandments.     And in not understanding the Laws of the Far Country that moderates man's thoughts and actions in the manner of a Living Bio-Feedback machine, Christians remain ignorant of the fact that mankind has the ability to interact and invoke these Laws with both his thoughts and actions.   But, in order to invoke the Law of Grace, the person must have repented, had a change of mind, and demonstrate this change of mind through one's actions towards their brothers and sisters.   

In the above subheading on The Divine Counterpart, Philip K. Dick portrays man's relationship to his higher soul-self in the words: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor."    But without a change of mind demonstrated through our actions, it would be impossible for the image-personality that is manifest in this world, to be helped by the higher soul-self who is portrayed as our divine counterpart that is un-fallen -- meaning, is not in any manner ruled over by the Citizen of the Far Country in the manner that the lost prodigal son is.    Christians, who have themselves rejected any knowledge of the Laws, imagine that Creator-God is going to intervene in the life of man whose plight is being orchestrated and scripted by the Laws of God that returns each person's actions back upon themselves -- and in their ignorance, they imagine that Creator-God will bypassing man's unfallen soul-self who is his true self -- and come to the rescue of fallen man without a repentance and change of mind on his part.   Thereby rejecting the words of Jesus when he warned with respect to the conditions of The Prison: “Thou shalt by no means come out from there, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing”.     

In the subheadings on  American Spirituality the Laws of this world are portrayed as a Living Bio-Feedback machine that responds back to each person's thoughts and actions.     The whole of what is called the New Thought religious movement is based upon the reality that the Laws of this world respond to our thoughts -- and the projection of positive thoughts, returns back to man positive results.   New Thought is based upon the work of Phineas P. Quimby (see Father Of New Thought) -- and what is known as the Quimby Manuscripts is available for study.    But more important is the fact that Quimby proved that the Laws responded to the thinking and actions of the person.  

In the same way that the practitioners of New Thought could interact in a positive manner with the Laws -- bringing about positive results in their lives -- when Christians or other religious people pray or beseech the Lord for help, if their request is sincere and for the greater good, they are able to invoke the Laws to bring about the conditions they seek.   Moreover, if there is a genuine change in mind and actions for the good, then their own higher soul-self is able to reach down and assist them -- i.e., in the words of Philip Dick: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us".   

  The Dynamic-Matrix And Cosmology Of Mind: Why is man of a greater intelligence than the animal kingdom?   Why are some men said to be wise and full of wisdom, while others are ignorant and unknowing?  What makes God the Supreme Intelligence?   What does it mean to Know Thyself?   While these questions are of the utmost importance, few people could correctly answer them with any wisdom and understanding.   Why?   Because they lack an understanding of the reality of thought and mind that has the power to enlighten.  

Many in the New Age can be portrayed as worshiping a god that is perhaps best portrayed as a divine amoeba -- where the concepts of equality and oneness, is interpreted to be the same.     What is not realized is the fact that Supreme Intellect and Knowing is dependent upon the wisdom gained through experiential knowledge -- which is itself drawn upon a great diversity of experiences that are raised up to a Higher Order and Perception of Reality.   A wise man is wise, because he is able to draw upon a great body of diverse experiences in the endeavor to arrive at an intelligent and enlightened position.   An immature child or adolescent lacks wisdom and insight, because the immature mind cannot draw upon the diversity of experiences that the person of great wisdom does.     But because this great diversity of experiential knowledge must be dynamic -- and able to be accessed across the spectrum of paradoxical opposites -- only the most enlightened of mankind possesses the depth to comprehend and draw upon the Cosmology of Mind.   

In the foregoing I make reference to the eternal soul of man -- or soul-self -- that is the accumulative total of all the lives that the soul has ever lived.   That our soul-self is our true self that is a Being of Light -- and that we dwell within the higher reality of the soul.   While the soul itself does not and cannot incarnate into the body-vessel, what does incarnate is portrayed as an embryonic image of the soul that is projected into the body-vessel at the time of conception.   Which means that the whole New Age and Eastern concept of reincarnation where the soul is said to pass through a cloud of forgetfulness as it is reborn in this world, is simply not true.   In the foregoing link,  The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man, it is demonstrated that what we call Time is a dimension of mind that can be dynamically accessed by the soul-self -- that all of the previous soul-images as represented in the past lives of the soul, still exist within what is often portrayed as the Mansion of the Soul -- and that the experiential knowledge of each lifetime that the soul has lived, can be drawn upon in the present.  

The problem is that while we, as an image of our higher soul-self, did not consciously live and experience what our soul's did in previous lifetimes, the person who develops their intuitive spheres of mind is able to access this experiential knowledge gained in past lives through the dynamic matrix of mind, and draw upon those past experiences in the present.     

And as such, they can't come to terms with how the Gospel teachings states that there are two ways -- i.e., the narrow path to Life that few are able to follow, and the broad-way to self-destruction.   After all, if you are born again in another life, then how can the Gospel teachings be true?   If mediums and psychics can communicate with people who have passed over to the other side and even Atheists survive physical death, then how can the Gospel teachings be true.   The problem is that their organic limitations inhibit them from comprehending the Matrix of the Soul wherein all the images dwell in what St. Tereasa portrayed as the Manson of the Soul -- and the fact that each of the images which the soul generated into this world, only lives one life.   Which means that the confusion that exists between the religions of the east and west, is purely organic -- and the dogma of both are equally corrupted.