Who was Jesus?  Man, Myth or God?   Theologian Albert Schweitzer suggested that there will never be one answer to that question.   He said that looking for Jesus in history is like looking down a well: You see only your own reflection.  The “real” Jesus, Schweitzer says, will remain “a stranger and an enigma”.   While what Albert Schweitzer stated is true with respect to those who even imagine that they know who Jesus was by reading a book -- this day Schweitzer has been proven wrong.   Why?   How?   Because this day one who has in the more distant past authored one of the foundational primary Gospel accounts, is here to reveal to you the truth with respect to the nature and reality of these Gospel accounts that have remained an enigma for nearly 2000 years.    And most importantly, those who begin to properly apply the Key of Knowledge to both the scriptures, and then to the enigma of life itself, will be able to confirm the great truths that will be revealed herein.

 

  A Confrontation With A Long Ignored Reality - Because they see only their own reflection -- or, the reflection of their own predetermined beliefs -- believers, their clergy and alleged scholars alike hold almost countless opinions as to the meaning of the scriptures.   Sadly, "the eye of the reader sees only what the mind of the person is prepared to comprehend"  -- and as stated in the song The Boxer: "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest" -- to their own detriment, those who read and study the scriptures overlook the most important part of the equation -- i.e., that the scriptures are exactly what the original authors intended them to be.   And if we then pose the question: What are the implications of this fact?   While you may have read and even studied countless opinions of scriptural interpretation and commentary -- and you may have even undergone the formal study of the scriptures yourself -- but unless you understand how to apply what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge -- and unless you properly apply the Key of Knowledge in accord with the original intent and objectives which the authors composed these sacred writings -- then your assumptions about the meaning of the scriptures will amount to just one more of the infinite often meaningless opinions as to just what the scriptures mean -- i.e., "Jesus said, ...How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You throw away the Key of Knowledge and you shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in".

 

  The Long Ignored Facts: The Gospels were not written to teach you what to believe.  They were written to develop your mind to your full potential.  This potential can be portrayed in the term Wholeness -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  Before this verse can be understood we must first understand what it means to be Whole. Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved? Contrary to the dogma of the modern Church, if Jesus is the savior who every person needs for salvation, then Jesus himself said the Church was wrong, and those who are Whole do not need him. And as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only for those who are sick and in need of a physician. And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time the historical man Jesus walked the face of the earth, there existed people who he portrayed as both  "whole [and] righteous" -- people who did not need Jesus the physician.  Therefore, Jesus openly stated that his mission as a spiritual physician is not for them, because they achieved the necessary Wholeness without him.  Which provokes the question: Does everyone need Jesus as the modern Christian maintains? While Jesus himself said that those who had achieved Wholeness did not need him as a spiritual physician -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician..." -- and that with effort, all of mankind is capable of achieving a condition that Jesus portrayed as "whole [and] righteous", which means that these people who did achieve Wholeness, were not sick, and in Jesus' own words were not in need of him (Jesus) as a physician to heal them.  But even more important is the fact that the whole foundation of modern Church dogma is man-made and in error.  The foundational doctrine of the modern Church can be summed up in the words:  "You must believe in salvation by grace alone, and that salvation is immediate and eternal upon acceptance of Jesus as a one-time sacrifice for your sins, and not obtained through works, sacraments, traditions or merits of our own".  Ultimately, regardless of the fact that good and sincere people believe this, the brother of Jesus who was Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by the Holy Spirit, and was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church -- demonstrated the defectiveness of this doctrine of belief when he wrote: "But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" (James 2:20). Why? Because in order to be a follower of Jesus, the believer must live in the manner that was prescribed by the Lord that enables that person to become Whole and Complete. 

  The Dilemma: You can't become Whole by worshiping the man Jesus, and not picking up your own cross and travailing in TheWay.  Why?  Because this teaching was absolutely essential to the process of becoming Whole and Complete -- i.e., "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). Jesus did not say that you must believe that he was crucified. What Jesus is stating is that you must "come after [him] by taking up [your own] cross daily" -- that you must carry your own cross "EVERY DAY" (DAILY) -- and with your own cross, you must bring about and submit to your own crucifixion.  But what does this mean? What does carrying your own cross DAILY, entail?  Belief in the cross as an event in the life of the historical man Jesus, does not in any manner equate to taking up your own cross every day of your life, and carrying it to your own crucifixion. Thus, while our knowledge of the cross that each person must carry is crucial, few Christians possess the in-depth knowledge to understand the symbolism and meaning -- especially when they rely upon the historical image of the crucifix that portrays the Cross in an historical context that is relevant only to the historical man Jesus (see The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion  http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross ).

No other words have been more misunderstood than what is personified in the deeper meaning the Cross than the critical concepts of crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Let us just say they are so loaded with heavy dogmatic baggage, that their actual spiritual meaning is hopelessly lost when it is realized that the words apply to each and every person in human existence. While crucifixion obviously refers to an old method of executing people by hanging their bodies’ up on a cross and letting them die. If we believe that is the meaning of crucifixion when used in the scriptures, then it prevents us from understanding that it can have many other spiritual meanings pertaining to the nature of life and how the lost prodigal son gains freedom from the Citizen of this, the Far Country, in his quest to return to the Edenic Kingdom.

  The Answer To The Dilemma: Jesus taught that the Kingdom is within us  (Luke 17:20-21) -- but what does that mean?  It means that God dwells within you -- at a deeper level of consciousness portrayed as the Kingdom -- where all the hierarchy of angels, all the heavenly hosts, all dwell in the Majesty of the Kingdom of God -- and the whole of the Kingdom can never come upon the earth, because it already exists within you.  Which means that those who teach you to look for the Kingdom or the Christ outwardly, are the blind guides who are leading you in the wrong direction.     What this also means is that beneath each of our organic earthly consciousness, lies deeper levels of consciousness that is beyond organic man's awareness and level of comprehension.  What this also means is that beneath man's organic level of consciousness lies a deeper level of Self that carnal man knows nothing about.  When Jesus portrayed those who failed to put on the "wedding garment" as being cast into the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- "Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' For many are called, but few chosen" (Matt 22:1-14 @ TheCall To The Wedding Banquette http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ) -- Jesus was portraying the mind of organic man who is blind and unconsciousness of the inner reality of Self and the Kingdom within them.  Therefore, in order to see and enter the Edenic Kingdom which every person abandoned as the prodigal son/daughter in the Alpha of Creation, you must put on the necessary "wedding garment" and enter through the "narrow gate" within you (see The Narrow Gate And The Enigma Of The Law Of Octaves http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Intro ). 

The fact that the clergy, the teachers, and the philosophers of this world do not know how to gain entrance into the inner Kingdom through the "narrow gate" that Jesus taught to enter, confirms the commandment of Jesus to seek only the One Teacher within you (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).  The required "wedding garment" is the sacrament of Spiritual Baptism that can only be brought about when the believer seeks to enter into a Divinely Consecrated Union/Marriage with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God. And this commandment and teaching is especially seen in the Homilies of Clement where the Apostle Peter conveys to the believer that it is a sin to seek out any other teacher than the True Prophet -- as seen in the words: "But the ways in which this garment may be spotted are these: If any one withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher besides Christ, who alone is the faithful and True Prophet, and who has sent us twelve apostles to preach the word; if any one think otherwise than worthily of the substance of the Godhead, which excels all things; — these are the things which even fatally pollute the garment of baptism. But the things which pollute it in actions are these: murders, adulteries, hatreds, avarice, evil ambition..."  Thus, the clergy, teachers and philosophers of this world do not possess the knowledge of how to enter the Inner Kingdom, and most of them condemn and reject what can be portrayed as "esoteric knowledge" as heresy -- esoteric being defined as inner knowledge that is not apparent to the organic mind of man.  Biblically, this body of esoteric knowledge can be portrayed as the Divine Manna of the Kingdom.   Quoting from The Divine Manna - The Gospels - The foundation of the New Covenant http://BrotherOfJesus.org#NewCovenant : "Divine Manna is not the knowledge and wisdom of man -- it cannot be read in a book -- it cannot be taught in a school -- it cannot be taught by another person -- and can be best portrayed as the Sacred Knowledge that can only be received directly from God -- i.e., the Logos (Mind of God (aka Son of God) that dwells at the core essence of our Being. What is often portrayed as esoteric teachings, is not the Divine Manna.  The esoteric teachings of man are designed to lead the seeker along the path of TheWay -- and as they evolve through the process of travailing in TheWay, the process that develops the mind begins to enable the seeker to begin to receive the Divine Manna -- which can only be imparted to the mind of the seeker in accord with that person's ability to receive it.  In the parable of the Sower and the Seed, the seeker must become the "good ground" to begin to receive the Divine Manna or Sacred Knowledge of the Kingdom".

 

Each person has a pre-existent Soul or Soul-Self that is eternal and is our True-Self.  We hear the terms ego-self, earthly-self, false-self, carnal-self and lower-self used in conjunction with the mind of man -- and if this is true, then what is our True-Self?   It is the Self that is portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself.  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.  In the parable of the prodigal son, this deeper level of our own mind is allegorically portrayed as the elder son who remains with the Father in the Kingdom.   

When Jesus taught not to seek the things of this world, he said: "For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you" (Matt 6:32-33) -- what he was stating is that his followers should let go and release themselves from the things of this outer world, and seek the Kingdom within them -- each of them.   The meaning of the word Ebionite is "the poor" -- and this is why Jesus said: "Looking at his disciples, he said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God'" (Luke 6:20).  Meaning, that unless you are poor to the ways of this world and seeking the inner Kingdom, you could not be a disciple of Jesus. 

  

 

then pose the question: What are the implications of this fact?   While you may have read and even studied countless opinions of scriptural interpretation and commentary -- and you may ha

 

 

 

  Written By An Original Gospel Author: If you use the Gospels for their intended purpose as the Key of Knowledge ( http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), you will not only be able to prove all that I write as the Truth, but you will Know the Truth by virtue of the Divine Manna (Spiritual Knowledge) revealed to you directly by the Living Word or Logos (aka Son of God/True Prophet) within you.  You are presently dwelling in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   And as the prodigal son/daughter, you are the victim of Spiritual Amnesia, and you are blindly wandering this, the Far Country, without recalling when you dwelt in the Kingdom with your Heavenly Father.   And if you began to utilize the Gospels for their intended purpose, not only would your affliction of Spiritual Amnesia be restored and your inherent organic blindness be healed, but you would be restored to the Edenic Kingdom. 

Who were the original authors of the scriptures?  In view of the fact that Jesus emerged out of the Essenes (see Original Gospel http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com  ), his original followers were Ebionite Nazirene mystics who are historically described as being “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).  Why were the original disciples condemned by Jews and Gentiles alike?  Because the Essene, Ebionite Nazirenes had nothing in common with Judaism proper, or pagan based Christianity.   Which means that with the restoration of the Gospels teachings, this will be the first time that an original understanding and objective of the scriptures will be presented to the world from an original author who has drawn upon Soul-Memory from the life myself, as the author, lived in the first century to convey to the modern reader the real story and account of the scriptures (see Brother Of Jesus).  In the below article it is easily proven that the foundation of the Gospels is the Essenes -- and the Essenes were mystics who had virtually nothing in common with the Jews who Jesus portrayed as counterfeit Israel.  And in this respect, the Jews are not and never were the "Chosen people of God" -- and their portrayal as such has inflicted grave spiritual harm upon the Christian religion.  In contradistinction, the Essenes were very much the Enlightened foundation of the Church -- i.e., Spiritual Israel who are portrayed as the Sons Of Light in opposition to the Jews who were the sons of (carnal) darkness -- and as such, they fully understood the evolution of the Soul over the course of many unique lifetimes (see The Paradox Of Soul-Reality ).   And the scriptures were written to enable the lost prodigal sons and daughters to become restored to their True Source of Being in the Edenic Kingdom.  The Gospels were written to free the people from the spiritual folly of the leaders of the Jews who ignorantly attempted to observe the Royal Law of God outwardly, in empty ritual and tradition and animal sacrifice, and who threw away the Key of Knowledge and blindly led the people in the wrong direction.  

The Old Testament IS NOT the forerunner of the New Covenant Gospel Scriptures.  When Christians read the Torah and Tanakh to learn about God, without understanding the allegorical nature of the writings, they are not only being gravely misguided, but by embracing the image of the god of the Tanakh, they spiritually disenfranchise themselves and create a wall between them and the Truth as presented in the Original Gospel teachings ( http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ).  And I use the word Tanakh instead of Old Testament, because it is sacrilegious to unify the literal text of the Tanakh with the supreme message of the Gospels.  Throughout this article I will demonstrate that the authors of the scriptures were the Essenes who wrote the Old Testament as an outreach project to assist in the development of the nomadic animal-sacrificing heathen Jews.   What the literal text of the Torah and Tanakh (Old Testament) therefore is, is the beliefs, myths and folklore of the heathen tribe of Jews that was re-engineered into a sacred writing that employs allegorical symbols in conjunction with sacred numerology which is used as a catalyst to develop the mind -- using these imbedded mental-catalysts to develop the Intuitive spheres of mind, which connect the outer person with their inner Self, and ultimately the Indwelling Logos (Mind of God - aka Son of God).  When the Church Father Origen wrote that: “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) -- what he was making reference to was the fact that the literal body of the scriptures were little more than "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14).  Why?  Because the Jewish fables and folklore were the basis of the people's beliefs.  And while those who only saw the literal interpretation of the written word can be portrayed as having been (in the words of Paul) slain by the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6), those who sought to understand the underlying truth beneath the cloak of the written text, were able to perceive the Living Word of God. 

The Gospels are based upon the foundation of the Soul that evolves over the course of many lives to achieve Wholeness and Completion -- and this important foundation was removed and suppressed from the Original Gospels (see The Early Church On Predestination http://ChristianReincarnation.org#predestination ).  As the Soul who lived as Jacob who they call James, the Brother of Yeshua who they called Jesus, in that life with the assistance of my Brother Yeshua, my Soul composed the Original Core Gospel in Biblical Hebrew Characters (see The Original Spiritual Language Of The Gospels http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalLanguage ) which were later translated into inferior and dumbed down Greek copies which the Gentile Church corrupted and spiritually defiled.   Yet with the creation of this and the other writings associated with the Movement to Restore the Original Gospel teachings that were corrupted by the Church, is the answer to the many prayers of modern Christians to better understand the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings.   Lastly, Christians have been robbed and dogmatically ravished by pagan Rome in the suppression of Core Gospel teachings -- and unless a believer understands The Paradox Of Soul-Reality , it will remain impossible for them to understand the very spiritual meaning and purpose of the Gospel teachings.   Thereby rendering their belief in Jesus as “a stranger and an enigma” of their own creation.   Which means that the Church itself is guilty of the Original Sin of alienating the Christian believer from the True Path of Salvation that Jesus taught (see The Unforgivable Sin Of The Church http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheUnforgivableSinOfTheChurch ).  

 

 “My teaching is not My own, Jesus replied. It comes from Him who sent Me. If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.…" (John 7:16).  What this means is that ANYONE who embraces the Original Gospel teachings in word, thought, desire and deed -- using them for their intended purpose as the Key of Knowledge -- will be taught the Truth directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God that the Original Disciples of Jesus called the One Teacher and True Prophet (see The True Prophet ).  As the Soul who lived as the Brother of the historical man Yeshua/Jesus, what I have written herein is not my own -- but has been drawn from the Original Teachings that were corrupted and suppressed by the Church of Pagan Rome.  As I am merely a messenger and guide who has been sent on a mission to restore the Original Teachings of TheWay, the spiritual Truths that I write about are not my own.  And what I write is based upon the same guarantee that my Brother Jesus stated when he revealed these same Universal Truths of our Heavenly Father to all of mankind -- i.e., that as the prodigal sons and daughters, any person who sincerely seeks the Truth -- who is willing to live the level of Truth that has been revealed to them -- and desires to do the Will of God -- will be taught the Truth directly from the Indwelling True Prophet.  Thus, in the words of the Apostle Peter as preserved in the Homilies of his disciple Clement 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" (see The True Prophet) -- fulfilling the objective "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 who is it that true believers and disciples will come to?  The One Teacher who is portrayed as  The True Prophet.  I was sent therefore as a messenger to restore the Original Gospel Teachings, and to make TheCall to the Wedding Feast (see The Call).   And if you are a sincere and true believer, then you will properly prepare yourself by putting on the required "wedding garment" -- living the necessary Consecrated Life that transforms your body and mind into the Final Living Temple (see Animal Sacrifice And The Living Temple) -- and as the High Priest of your Consecrated Temple, you will be able to use the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge to enter in the Holy of Holies and dwell in the Presence of the Lord in the Kingdom.   Thus, fulfilling the Commandment: "Enter in at the narrow strait gate" (Matt 7:13-14) -- in fulfillment of the Promise: "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12) --  "To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:8-17) -- and having overcome, enabling the person to enter within the reality of the Inner Kingdom -- i.e., "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city" (Rev 22:14 KJV).   The message of TheCall has been set before you -- the promise of being nourished by the Divine Manna has been made to you -- and only you as the prodigal son or daughter can make the commitment to come and be restored to the Edenic Kingdom that you abandoned when you journeyed into this, the Far Country (see The Outer Darkness of Mind and Being).   With the Original Gospel teachings restored, it can again be said: "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin" (John 15:22). 

 

 

Are You A Genuine Christian Believer?  Do You Believe God?  Or Man? 

When God spoke to mankind, the Church totally rejected what God stated.  There is only one instance in the Gospels where the Voice of God spoke directly and openly to mankind, and provided the prodigal sons and daughters an ultra-important message -- but the leaders of the fourth century Church did not like what the Voice of God said, so they changed the very words of God in order to totally change the teachings of the Church.  The problem is that the Truth of the Gospel is based upon the Words spoken directly by God to mankind -- and the corrupting of the Words that God spoke directly to man has totally alienated believers from the spiritual meaning of the Gospel and the New Covenant.  Which reality provokes the question: When the leaders of the Church change the very words that God reportedly spoke to mankind -- making them mean something totally different than their original meaning -- and then the same institutionalized Church hunted down the spiritual Christians who rejected the faux-religion of the emperor as heretics -- can modern believers then claim that they are following the Word of God?  This is the question that every Christian will be confronted with when they arrive in the hereafter.  Thus, the spiritual line has bee drawn, and each person will be required to affirm their belief either in the Words of God, or the words of Roman Emperors and the leaders of their Churches.   And if we pose the question: How serious was the corruptions of the Gospels by the institutionalized Church?  So many important teachings were either removed or changed, that it provoked the Spiritual Christians to hide and preserve whole libraries of scriptures for when they were needed to restore the teachings of Jesus in the future.  The Hand of God has again moved, and that time has arrived.  Will you believe and embrace the Words of God?  Or the doctrines of Roman Emperors? 

The Message Is This: If you embrace the Words of God as set forth in the Original Gospels, and use the Gospels for their intended original purpose as the Key of Knowledge, committing your life to Living the Gospel Teachings, then you will EXPERIENCE THE TRUTH that will set you free. 

Christians reject the well proven and documented assertion that their Bibles have been severely corrupted (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).  In a total denial of the actual facts, Christians reply with the manmade dogma the Church has taught them.  They traditionally employ quasi-reasoning that if God permitted the Gospels to be corrupted, that people would not know what to believe.   But those who are even mildly aware of the facts, portray this denial of the truth as a canard -- i.e, a bold face lie and deception intended to preserve and protect the man-made doctrines of the Church that has totally alienated the congregation of believers from the Truth and the Kingdom they seek.  Why did God allow the Gospels to be corrupted?  With respect to the position of the Church, seekers of higher wisdom recognize that just the opposite is true -- i.e., if the Gospels had not been corrupted -- thereby making them relevant and applicable o the lives of a much greater number of people -- this large body of people would never have been converted to a quasi-form of Christianity that they could relate to and embrace.  Why was it necessary to convert a large number of people to a corrupted form of the Gospel which they could embrace in their carnal condition of mind?  In order for a change in consciousness to come upon the earth while preserving mankind's choice and freewill, it was more important to convert a large number of people to a series of Gospel teachings that they could accept.  It was therefore the foundation of the Gospels that was necessary to -- when the time was right -- to a higher level of spiritual maturity.  

The original Essene and Ebionite Nazirenes lived a Wholistic Spiritual Lifestyle that enabled them to comprehend man's higher Soul and Spiritual Realities -- a.k.a., the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. As it is written:  "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:17).  Unless you have fulfilled the requirement to "overcome", it is impossible for you to receive the "hidden manna" of the Kingdom.   Which means that ONLY those who live the necessary Wholistic Spiritual Mindset and Lifestyle are able to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, and the life that all of mankind is presently living -- i.e., “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12). When Paul stated to the Corinthians who he had himself taught what he portrayed as the (quasi-historical) "traditions" of the Gospel 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).  Paul was stating that it was not a matter of teaching or instruction -- but rather, of the "natural" mind of man evolving beyond man's organic limitations, that would raise them up to a level of higher spiritual maturity.  The Church Father Origen who was portrayed as the greatest teacher second only to the Apostles stated of the physical resurrection that it 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”.   Why?   Because of their untransformed carnal condition of mind and being, this was all that they were capable of comprehending.  

Why was it important for the people to embrace a corrupted form of the Gospel?  Another important fact that the Christian world has ignored to their own demise, is the witness of the biblical authors that it is impossible for the faith-based Christians who are of a Natural Organic mindset, to comprehend the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ).  And that because it is impossible for people of ordinary human consciousness to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of not only the Gospels, but also the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, it is necessary to provide the congregation of believers with an elementary allegorical text that contains important catalysts that are employed within the written text to bring about a development of the mind of the believer.  When Paul stated that he was only able to nourish the faith-based Christians with "milk", the purpose of the Gospel teachings was to develop their human consciousness through the process of the deepening and expansion of their mind, in order to enable them to evolve into spiritually mature Christians who were able to be nourished by the "solid food" of the  Divine Manna of the Kingdom.  The very foundation of the New Covenant which few people understand today, conveys the reality that spiritually mature believers will not be dependent upon the written word which Paul correctly portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14) -- but rather, with the necessary spiritual maturity they will be taught directly by God -- i.e., "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God'" (John 6:45 NKJ).  But this ability to learn and be taught directly by God, requires a Wholistic mindset and lifestyle that enables the seeker to receive the "solid food" of the  Divine Manna of the Kingdom.  

The Law that controls and evolves the consciousness of mankind, is that you can never possess any greater level of truth than you are desirous to live in word, thought, desire and deed.  And this is why it was written: "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46 KJV).  Advancement and development can only be brought about one level at a time, with change. Therefore, while it was impossible to convert a large number of people to live the necessary Wholistic lifestyle that would enable them to be nourished by the Divine Manna that can only be received by a serious and sincere seeker of Truth, the corrupted dumbed down version of the Gospels promoted by the institutionalized Church was equally important, because it enabled a large number of people to embrace important lesser ("milky") concepts that could be slowly evolved as change to the mindset and lifestyle was slowly brought about.  Those who ardently live the Truth possess the innate ability to tap directly into an Inner Source of Truth in accord with their personal desire and commitment to fully embrace the level of knowledge in accord with the Truth they have received.  As a spiritual physician, Jesus stated that there were others who had achieved the necessary Wholeness -- who did not need him as a spiritual physician (see Wholeness of Mind & Being http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#wholeness ) -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  This statement is largely ignored because Wholeness is not understood, and the statement itself is in total opposition to the primary doctrines and dogma of the modern Church.  But while it is factually true that the vast majority of Christians did not possess the spiritual maturity to comprehend the Original Gospel (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ), it is also true that by embracing a corrupted Gospel, they would then be in a position to begin to develop the necessary attributes of mind to begin to be "...taught [directly] by God'".  And the fact that modern Christianity is divided by an uncountable number of sects -- each promoting a different doctrine -- demonstrates that these Christian sects continue to exist in a condition of immaturity who are yet too carnal to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel -- i.e., "...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".  It is therefore imperative that modern believers understand Paul's words when he stated to those who he had personally taught: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14).   What this means is that even after Paul has personally taught the congregation of baptized believers the Gospel teachings, that if he had even attempted to convey to them the spiritual meaning of the Gospel, they would have rejected what he was even attempting to convey to them as utter "foolishness".  Why?  Because the mind or organic "natural" man is too immature and undeveloped, to understand his own higher Soul and Spiritual reality.   And the primary purpose of the Gospel was to enable the believer to "overcome" organic human limitations, thereby enabling them to begin to receive "...the hidden manna" (Rev 2:17).   

Can The Original Gospel Be Restored?  What is also not known today, is the fact that when the Gospels were corrupted, the Hand of God Moved, and important measures were put into place to insure that the Original Gospel Teachings could be restored (see Can I Get An Original Pure Copy Of The Scriptures http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#PureCopyOfScriptures ).  Which means that at any time a body of sincere Christians arose who lived the necessary Wholistic Mindset and Lifestyle, they would be supplied with the necessary pure scriptures that would enable them to totally evolve to the Wholistic condition of Spiritual Maturity.  Therefore, while it was necessary to corrupt the copies of the scriptures which were used by the Institutionalized Church of Rome, in that same time-frame more pure copies of the scriptures were preserved in order to serve the needs of a body of Christians who would arise in the future, and in need of the Pure Original Gospels.  The spiritual bottom line is this: Over the past 2000 years -- regardless of the condition of the Church that has for good reason been portrayed at times as diabolical -- those Christians who were sincere in their search for Truth, were always provided that Truth -- even during those times when the few who openly spoke the Truth were subject to a series of Inquisitions and hunted down as heretics -- sometimes being burnt at the stake for speaking the Truth that was suppressed by the Church political authorities (see Giordano Bruno And Spiritual Based Religion at http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#SpiritualReligion ).  Many of the copies of the more pure and uncorrupted scriptures were hidden away from the authorities of the institutionalized Church, and by using these scriptures as the Key of Knowledge (see http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), a small body of enlightened believers always existed within the structure of the Church.  Those believers who possessed the sincerity and desire to live the necessary Consecrated Life, were always guided to one of these spiritual congregations that secretly existed within the Church.  When these spiritual groups were discovered, Inquisitions were held to hunt the Spiritual Christians down and murder them -- as they did when they burnt Giordano Bruno at the stake.  

The pre-Nicene biblical texts and the earliest of Church writers prove that at the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan the voice of God said:  "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee"  (see http://TheTenWords.com ).  What this means is that what the original Gospels therefore stated was that Jesus was a holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at his baptism in the Jordan. And the fact that the copies of the scriptures that were used prior to the fourth century by the Church Fathers reflect the original words of God, demonstrate that it was the Roman Emperor Constantine who was a Mithraic sun-worshipper, demanded that the words spoken by God to mankind be changed to make them reflect the doctrines of Mithraism.  Constantine believed that Jesus was the latest incarnation of the Mithraic sun-god, and that the original disciples of Jesus and the Spiritual Christians were wrong. 

In order to prove and confirm that the Mithraic infused doctrines of the Church was not true, the Hand of God moved and we are provided the witness of the The Essenes And The Dead Sea Scrolls http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Essene -- which the Church has continued to totally ignored.  As just one example of the facts that have been confirmed, is the witness of  Prof. John Allegro who was quoted as saying that what has been revealed in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a great amount of overwhelming evidence that “...may upset a great many basic teachings of the Christian Church. This in turn would greatly upset many Christian Theologians and believers. The heart of the matter is, in fact, the source and originality of Christian doctrine” (August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine). What all the many recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed and demonstrated is that Prof. Allegro was correct in his assertion that our modern-day understanding of “the source and originality of Christian doctrine” is defective -- and the doctrines of the modern Church have virtually nothing in common with the Original Gospel teachings (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.co ). 

Those who walked and talked daily with the man Jesus, had nothing in common with the Mithraic based doctrines of the modern Church.  Why?  Because their understanding was in perfect harmony with the Words that God spoke to mankind at Jesus' baptism in the Jordan.  Historically, those who were taught directly by the man Jesus understood that he was a Holy Man who fulfilled the Law within his own Mind and Being, and became At-One with the Indwelling Logos (aka Son of God).  These original disciples were known as Ebionite and Nazirenes http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Ebionite -- meaning the "poor ones" to the thinking and ways of this world who strove to fulfill the adage to be in the world and not of it.  In the same way that Jesus taught that he was our brother -- 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) -- and his disciples understood that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the spiritual meaning and essence of the Law within his own mind and being -- i.e., quoting the Church writer Hippolytus on the Ebionites: that Jesus "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   One of the most important elements to this original teaching was not only that Jesus was a man who became of an Enlightened Anointed Mind (Christ/Messiah) by fulfilling the Law within his own mind and being, but also that that if  "...any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ" -- and this ultra-important teaching is reflective of the Words that God spoke to mankind when the man Jesus became the first of the prodigal sons to become At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God - which set the example and standard for all other prodigal sons and daughters to follow.   With respect to the Ebionites, it is documented that the mother and brothers of Jesus were Ebionites -- and because they were faithful to the words that God spoke to mankind, the historian portrays them as being “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).  Anyone who embraces the Original Teachings of the Gospel today, will be rejected and banned from the Churches (see The Reality Of The Original Gospels http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ).

The Original Gospel teachings did not tell people what to believe -- but rather, how to tap into the Universal Source of Truth within them, and Experience the Truth.  Jesus taught he followers: "If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you" (John 8:31-32 TheMessage).  Jesus didn't say that they would believe the truth -- or that they would discern what they believed would be dogmatic truth out of the scriptures or some book written by other men -- but rather, Jesus conveyed to them that if they follow in TheWay of the New Covenant that he inaugurated, that they "...will experience for yourselves the truth, ...and it is this SELF-EXPERIENCED TRUTH that...will free you" from the error and ignorance that consumes the people of this world -- and especially the blind guides who portray themselves as rabbis, teachers, clergy, religious leaders and authorities. 

In order to present the foregoing facts and explain the purpose and objective of the Gospels, the Lord sent the Soul who authored the Original Core Gospel written in Hebrew Characters (see The Original Spiritual Language Of The Gospels http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalLanguage ) back into the world to free the people from the shackles of blind belief in the doctrines of Roman Emperors and the spiritually disenfranchised Church -- and explain to modern Christians how they can prove the Truth for themselves (see Intro To Original Gospel By The Soul Who Lived As The Brother Of Jesus http://BrotherOfJesus.org#Introduction ).  How was my distant Soul-Memory restored that enabled me to author this and other articles that restore the Original Gospel Teachings?  By embracing the Words that God spoke to mankind, and by using the Gospels for their original intended purpose.   And by embracing the original purpose of the Gospels, I was able to overcome the human plight of Spiritual Amnesia and organic blindness. 

It is important in order to fulfill the very purpose of life in this world, that the prodigal sons and daughters have freewill and be able to make and live out the choices they have made.  Christians are being tested to see if they are willing to seek truth over the dogma of Roman Emperors and men who dress in the garb of priests and clergy.   But the critics of the Church are also being tested -- i.e., are they motivated merely to oppose, or are they willing to assist their brothers and sisters in the journey of the pursuit of higher truth?  While the critics have been given the reasoning and intellectual power to discern the great hoax that their faith-based brothers and sisters have been shackled by, their test is whether they are willing to open the door to higher learning and enlightenment for the spiritually destitute blind believers who dwell under the satanic umbrella of the Church.  While the critic has been bestowed the ability to see through the facade of man-made Roman dogma, unless they use this intellectual ability to guide their brothers and sisters onto a higher plane of awareness, they will have failed and thrown away their opportunity that has set them free of the faux-religious fraud perpetuated by what Thomas Paine portrayed as "priest-craft". 

The eyewitness account has been made available to faith-based believer and critic alike.  And it will be the exercise of each person's own freewill and choice that will determine their future -- i.e., will they explore the facts that are not available anywhere else, and prevail over the cloak of ignorance that has shackled their brothers and sisters to lives of suffering and even death; or will they squander away their opportunity to arise and make positive change, and free their brothers and sisters from the dungeons of abject ignorance where they presently dwell.  Ultimately, the Truth is not in the rejection of the Gospel Teachings - but rather, in their restoration.   And unless a believer or a critic is able to guide the people they effect and enable them to open the door to higher Truth that can be proven and confirmed by their own experiences, then whether you are a believer, a critic, a clergy or a scholar or authority, you will have failed the purpose and objectives of this life, and you will be deemed a failure.  Every person possesses the innate ability to tap into the inner Source of Knowledge and Truth, and become Enlightened and of a Spiritually Anointed Mind (see Anamnesis - The Innate Knowledge Of The Truth Of All Truths: http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#Innate ).  And since every person possesses this inherent innate ability, no one has an excuse for their ignorance -- whether their ignorance takes the form of a believer, a critic, an alleged scholar or clergy, or even a teacher of any academic school of thought.  All paths that embrace the core Original Gospel teachings and concepts, arrive at the same ultimate destination.  And if the Original Gospel concepts were understood, Jesus would have been seen as a professor who taught the Natural Laws of Creation and the Lives we are presently living.  And when rightly understood, it is the Natural Laws of Creation (see The Laws That Control Our Lives http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ) that when embraced, insure each of our success in achieving our Ultimate Destiny.    Therefore, the bottom line of life is that no person has a reason for blind belief -- whether they blindly believe in religion, philosophy or science -- each of us possesses the innate ability to tap into and learn the Truth of all Truths.  And since each person possesses this innate ability to tap into the Source of Truth and Knowledge within them, means that anyone who promotes systems of belief that fail to enable the people to tap into that Inner Source, is convicted by their own faux-doctrines that they promote.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiritual-Amnesia: Our True Identity is defined by our Eternal Soul that is not manifest in the body -- of which, we are an expression of.   Which provokes the question: Why is our Soul or True Eternal Self not manifest in the body?  Because our True-Self is a twelve-dimensional Being of Light that cannot manifest in this three-dimensional realm.  In the same way that we began our present journey in this world as a embryo that was evolved by the Natural Laws into the person we are at present, these same Laws are in the process of evolving us mentally and spiritually.  And therein lies the problem that we encounter in this realm of learning through development of mind and spiritual advancement -- i.e., in order to develop mentally, we must possess choice and freewill.   And because our exercise of choice and freewill impacts our development -- it being necessary to live out the result of our choices and freewill to learn and develop from the experience, development of mind and spiritual advancement is much more complex than what is required in physical development.  Therefore, it is impossible to achieve what the Gospels portray as Wholeness, Completion and Perfection in any one lifetime.    In accord with the Natural Laws of Creation (see The Laws That Control Our Lives), the Soul evolves by inheriting the fruit of one's own words and actions, as presented in the words: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).  And what this means is that each Soul perpetually confront our own Self -- or, in the words of the Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).  And modern Christians remain totally ignorant of this ultra-important Gospel teaching, because it was suppressed and outlawed by a Roman Emperor who exerted virtually total control over what the Church was permitted to teach.   

In the same way that the Natural Laws initiate physical changes as a child evolves into adulthood, these same Natural Laws bring in changes with respect to a higher state of consciousness as the mind evolves.  If the person has failed to achieve a condition of mind that is prepared to receive this state of higher consciousness, then the person becomes mentally flat-lined because the Natural Laws cannot bring about the process of mental expansion and deepening.  By Divine Design, at a certain point in our development we begin to connect with our Higher Soul-Self, and at this point in our development we begin to acquire what can be portrayed as Soul-Knowledge.   But because the development of the mind requires choice and the exercise of freewill, it can be stated that those who lack Soul-Memory or Soul-Knowledge -- which includes the memory of the previous lives our Soul has lived (see Reincarnation - The Key To Christianity ) -- must be understood as being the victims of Arrested Mental Development which results in the affliction of Spiritual-Amnesia.   In the same way that the Natural Laws develop the body and evolve our physical form from an embryo, a fetus, an infant and all stages of development into adulthood -- the same Natural Laws possess the innate capacity to evolve the mind to the absolute zenith of Enlightened Consciousness.  But, in order for the mind to evolve to a higher level of consciousness, physical, mental and spiritual provisions must be manifest in order to accommodate the expansion and deepening of mind.  And because choice and freewill is a necessary element in the preparation of the mind to receive and accommodate the levels above and beyond the organic "natural" levels of consciousness that Paul portrayed and defined as an "animal-soul" level of consciousness that was incapable of comprehending man's own higher Soul and Spiritual Reality, in the development of the mind our beliefs and mental construct and framework of thinking and consciousness has the power to totally derail and inhibit the process of evolutionary-development -- delaying each level of development until those beliefs that act as obstacles to our development have been corrected.   Erroneous beliefs cannot serve as a building platform to achieve higher growth and development.   As an integral part of the development of the mind, beliefs that are defective or untrue, must be overcome before the developing mind can move beyond that level of understanding.   Therefore, if is wasn't for physical death and the ending of a life-cycle, many people would remain stuck in a thinking pattern, mindset, system of belief or lifestyle forever.  

When rightly used for their intended purpose which their authors composed them and intended them to be used, the scriptures are designed to be a catalyst to initiate mental-development, bring about Wholeness of mind, in order to restore Soul-Memory and the prodigal son's connection with his Spiritual Source of Being.   From the perspective of mental deepening and expansion, rote memorization of quasi-historical accounts in the scriptures is worthless in the process of mental-transformation through the process of achieving Wholeness through the development and integration of the mental paradoxical opposites that divide and fragment the many divisions of mind that disconnects and alienates us from our inner Source of Being.  Rote programming of quasi-historical events that may or may not have actually happened, is in fact a detriment to the process of mental-development.   And when these scriptures are used as if they were a history book of meaningless accounts that may or may not have happened -- thereby, throwing away the Key of Knowledge in the manner of the scribes and Pharisees -- the scriptures not only render the person spiritually impotent, but actually inhibit the necessary development of mind and inner spiritual connection to that person's Higher Source of Mind and Being.   "This is what the LORD says: 'Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD'" (Jeremiah 17:5).  The scriptures are not historical accounts -- but rather, accounts of the body, mind and spirit that must be experienced by the faithful and sincere seeker.  To use the scriptures in accord with the thinking of men who read the sacred writings as if they were a history book -- thereby rendering them worthless for their intended purpose -- instead of seeking the meaning of the allegorical writings directly from the Lord -- is the folly of carnal men whose rejection of the Lord as their Teacher, is the self-imposed curse of the Word of God.  As it is written: "Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment" (James 3:1).  Those who teach without first restoring Soul-Memory, teach and lead blindly, and have yet to first remove the beam from their own eyes!  And when a person follows the blind leaders, they are led in the wrong direction.  Ultimately, all of mankind has the innate potential to evolve through the necessary levels of mental-development to achieve the absolute Celestial Level of an Enlightened Mind and Being -- but because of bad choices and self-defeating actions, the vast majority of people inhibit their own potential and birth-right, and embrace the choices and paths that derail their development.   No one can be a teacher or authority -- whether religious, academic, or cultural -- while failing to have achieved the necessary level of self-knowledge that has enabled them to have acquired Soul-Memory -- thereby overcoming their own affliction of Spiritual-Amnesia, and restoring their mind and consciousness to their True Source of Being.   

From a Wholistic Perspective -- or what can be portrayed as the Higher Enlightened Vision of Self from the perspective of the Whole of our Being -- in contradistinction to the very limited human vision and fragmented understanding of self -- our ego-driven self-destructive nature causes us to be people who must rightly be portrayed as spiritual-imbeciles -- who by virtue of their thinking, mindset and lifestyle, have permitted themselves to be disenfranchised from their True-Self -- i.e., their unknown pre-existent Eternal Soul-Self ( http://SoulSelf.org ).    An imbecile can be defined as "a mentally deficient person" -- and those who lack Soul-Memory, are themselves the victims of arrested mental development.  Therefore, when it is understood that Soul-Memory is an integral part of the developmental process of mind that IS NECESSARY to evolve each of us to a condition of true higher mental and spiritual maturity, then what we have is conformation of the statement: "For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion" (Isaiah 9:16 NASB).   How would you like to portray people who have what would constitute a mental affliction that causes them to utilize only a fraction of their own resources of mind?   Whatever you choose to call such people -- i.e., teacher, rabbi, professor, expert authority -- they are presently your leaders.   And it is because the people are being led by mentally undeveloped spiritual-imbeciles whose thinking, mindset and lifestyle present an obstacle to mental and spiritual development, they have caused the people they lead to dwell in a state of abject confusion and self-ignorance.    In the same way that leaves grow on a healthy tree -- and puberty, adolescence and sexual maturity arrives when the body has evolved to a certain level of physical development -- Soul-Memory begins to arrive naturally as the mind begins to expand at a certain stage and level of man's mental development.  If a person fails to develop Soul-Memory, then this failure is caused by something in their life that has derailed the advanced stages of their mental development.  And herein lies the problem: While it can be said that in the majority of people the body-development is on autopilot which insures predictable changes tied to the physical age of the child -- this is not at all true of mental development.  And it is a demonstratable fact that the mind can only develop beyond the lowest human level, when this development process is not obstructed by man's beliefs, thinking, mindset and lifestyle.   Unlike achieving puberty that is an integral part of physical maturity, the mind can only mature when the proper conditions are in place.   Children who are sent to deficient schools, often fail to complete the educational process -- whereas, those who are able to attend the elite schools, are in many cases able to develop to a higher level of educational-maturity.   The same is true in the School of Life -- those whose thinking and lifestyle are nourished with junk-mental food, are incapable of mental development beyond a very low-level point of mental and spiritual maturity.   And from a Wholistic Perspective, the teachers and authorities of both our institutionalized religions and academia lack the necessary foundational structure to evolve the minds of the people beyond an important level in the process of their developmental-maturity.   

One of the essential elements and aspects of the Original Gospel Teachings, was to initiate Soul-Memory in the sincere seeker of Truth and the Kingdom.   In the same way that physical maturity can only come and manifest in stages, this is also true of mental-development -- and is even more crucial in the individual person's spiritual-development.  When we came into being at conception, we evolved to a certain point in the darkness of our mother's womb -- and this enclosed dark environment was necessary in our development of a fetus.  When rightly understood from a Wholistic Perspective, when we were born into this world we entered what can best be portrayed as the Womb of Mother-Earth (see Mental Womb ) -- and because the development of mind requires choice and freewill to attain the proper mental-growth and development, it can be said that our present womb-environment presents a different type of darkness that is necessary for the maturation process to be efective.  The problem is that choice requires freewill -- and improper beliefs, thought-patterns and lifestyle have the ability to derail our mental development.   And while each of us has a physical body that has the potential to achieve the next stage of birth that enables us to arrive at a completed level of mankind's potential (see Entering The Kingdom Of Man ), it is because mental development MUST result from the choices and the exercise of freewill that is conducive to the mental-developmental process -- and the fact that our leaders lack the necessary Soul-Memory because of their own arrested development, where we find ourselves being guided down the path of self-ignorance and derailed mental development.   In the same way that a fetus that fails to properly develop cannot be born -- and is often the victim of miscarriage or spontaneous abortion --  unless the person embraces the proper thinking, mindset and lifestyle that promotes achieving the next stage of Soul-Birth, their development will be derailed, and they will be unable to achieve the next stage of birth.  

In the same way that we emerged out of a type of darkness during the developmental process in our mother's womb, we presently dwell in what can be portrayed as a form of mental-darkness which is necessary for each of our advancement at this stage of our developmental process.  A developing fetus that dwells in the darkness of the womb cannot know its mother and father until it emerges from the womb -- and neither can a developing spiritual fetus know its Mother and Father until the person develops to the level where they can emerge from the Womb of Mother-Earth -- a womb that is not existed through physical death -- but rather, only through the inner "narrow gate" that is personified in the Gospels.   Therefore it can be stated that virtually all of mankind is presently dwelling in what the Gospels portray as the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- i.e., and in the same way that for the educational process to be effective in our system of education -- requiring a certain mindset and behavior -- this is also true in the School of Life that we were physically born into when we emerged out of our mother's womb.   And the Original Gospel teachings presented to us the necessary path to achieve mental and spiritual development in pursuit of achieving the next stage of birth.  It is written in the Gospels: "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.  This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.  Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?  Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  Which invokes the question: How is this subsequent stage of birth brought about?  When it is understood that this next stage of birth can only be achieved through the development of mind and spirit as seen in the choices we make and our exercise of freewill, then we must understand that this necessary mindset and lifestyle was portrayed in the Gospel as putting on the required "wedding garment" that allegorically reunited what can be personified as Adam and Eve within us -- which would restore us to Spiritual Eden -- and as the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High, would bring about a restoral of our Union with God.   Among the important teachings that were suppressed by the Church, is the teaching that was preserved in Gospel of Thomas saying twenty-two (see The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend ) which sets forth the requirement for our return to Spiritual Eden as demonstrated when the Disciples asked Jesus how the Inner Kingdom is entered, and "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 the process of restoring the oneness of Self that is allegorically portrayed as the restoral of the divided Adam and Eve through the process of eating the Divine Manna/Fruit of the Tree of Life -- and therefore making "...male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female",  we are then able to achieve the next stage of birth that restores us to Spiritual Eden and a condition of At-Oneness with God.   The necessary thinking, mindset and lifestyle was portrayed as putting on the required "wedding garment" is what enables us to achieve the next stage of birth -- wherefore mankind who chooses not to put on the "wedding garment" is portrayed as dwelling is what is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being as personified in the words: "Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' For many are called, but few chosen" (see TheCall).  Those who dwell in the undeveloped levels of the "outer darkness" do not possess Soul-Memory.   They are ignorant of their own Higher Eternal Soul -- and in their present separated condition, they are the epitome of self-ignorance -- i.e., "Jesus said, ...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".  And mankind dwells in this condition of self-ignorance that has been portrayed as a type of death.  

The Outer Darkness has also been portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son -- wherein mankind is portrayed as dwelling in a state of mental-suppression -- incapable of comprehending anything of a true higher reality.   Mental Suppression can in many ways be likened to being the victim of retardation -- organic physical limitations that can almost be portrayed as a spiritual form of Down Syndrome.   And while organic (physical) man possesses the innate ability to overcome and prevail over these limitations, few are willing to even make the effort.   For thousands of years faux-clergy have been peddling "get-in-the-kingdom free tickets" that complacent people have been spiritually defrauded when they bought into the great hoax.  The Gospel portrays these faux-clergy as wolves in sheep's attire who live off the various forms of the collection plate.   And in truth, what this means is that you have yourself been learning from religious clergy and authorities, teachers and professors in academia, and political and philosophical leaders, who by virtue of their own arrested-development, are themselves the victims of this same organic mental retardation.   And this condition is so all-pervading, that Paul openly stated that he could not convey to the people who he, himself, taught what he portrayed as the "traditions" of the Gospel, the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel, because they would reject this spiritual meaning as "foolishness" (see below: What Difference Does It Make).

   Ignorance Of The Causal-Factors: The vast majority of mankind dwell in a state of self-imposed abject ignorance, because they possess no understanding of the Natural Laws -- how the Natural Laws effect every aspect of the life they are living -- and because they can't intellectually conceive of the Causal Factors of life, their countless questions remain unanswered.  Because the most crucial questions pertaining to life remain unanswered, the great void in man's understanding causes his intellect to remain hopelessly immature and undeveloped.  What is being personified in the foregoing words, is an elementary understanding of the Natural Laws that provide a crucial comprehension of the Causal Factors of the life that you are living.   Which means that without understanding the Natural Laws, science, religion, academia and philosophy all remain shackled to abject ignorance -- unable to answer crucial questions that are necessary to comprehend man's own true higher reality.  All the confusion in life -- all the great voids in the quest of science -- all the conflicting Bible interpretations -- all the opposing sects, schools of philosophical thought, and the countless conflicting opinions among mankind -- are all caused by this self-imposed arrested mental developmental condition that causes man to dwell in a state of Mental-Suppression.   Unless you understand the Causal-Factors of life -- and especially the life you are presently living -- including the Causal-Factors of the events you have been experiencing and sometimes confronting in life -- then your whole perception of life will be either defective, or hopelessly immature -- and it will remain virtually impossible for your mind to evolve and mature beyond its present level of comprehension.   Science has already proven the wisdom of the analogy of Plato's Cave and the parallel Gospel portrayal of the Outer Darkness of mind and being (see The True Facts And Realities Of Life http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#TrueFactAndRealitiesOfLife ) -- and because they close their minds to the Causal Factors of the Natural Laws, they choose the path of blind-ignorance.  While modern science has proven that this physical realm of appearances is a projection of a Higher Unseen Causal-Reality that they know virtually nothing about, their fossilized Linear-based foundation inhibits them from perceiving and understanding the crucial Causal-Factors that would provide an answer to their most crucial of questions.  In an article Things That Science Can't Explain by Dr. Claude Swanson, he writes: "There are many things modern science cannot explain, and yet they occur anyway. This includes phenomena in the "hard sciences" as well as in the paranormal. These effects are now being proven in the laboratory, even though they defy present scientific theory. These unfolding mysteries point the way to a new, deeper science, a science which no longer denies spirit and consciousness, but acknowledges and embraces them.  In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken."  The problem is that the emerging body of science demonstrates that the vision of the mystic in the analogy of Plato's Cave is valid -- and what man sees with his physical senses is not the Source -- which Source exists in the unseen Forces and Realities that are beyond man's organic vision.   If they can't see it, then from their perspective, it does not exist.   The reality portrayed by modern physicists that what organic man sees with his physical eyes is a shadow-image of a higher unseen reality, simply boggles their mind.   Because they have been proven wrong, they remain in denial of the fact that because what is portrayed as the Source is not within the spectrum of frequency that man can perceive with his physical eyes, then it does not exist.  In like manner, Christianity knowing continues to use corrupted biblical texts with the most important teachings suppressed and removed, because they have permitted themselves to remain totally alienated from the Original Gospel Teachings (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ).  

Without the essential knowledge of the Natural Laws that are the motivating force of the Causal Factors of your life, you will continue to dwell in abject confusion -- forced to interpret the events of life as chance, an accident, good fortune, or the stoke of good or bad luck.  And when the Causal-Factors are understood, nothing could be farther from the Truth.  Everyone's life is pre-destined and orchestrated by the Causal-Factors based upon each Soul's own previous actions -- i.e., "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).    Which reality is confirmed in the profound statement by the Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see The Early Church On Predestination).   Origen then goes on and writes with respect to each person's station in life "...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 [person] 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, as stated in the foregoing, each person's birth into this life is determined by that person's own past actions -- i.e., "...either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor".  Without understanding the Causal-Factor of all the events of life, it is impossible for the mind to evolve beyond a certain level of comprehension.

The primary purpose and objective of the scriptures, is to assist as a guide for those who are cognizant of their organic human-plight, and desire to overcome the genetic organic human limitations of the physical body that has been imposed upon them.  If we therefore pose the question: What is the nature of the scriptures?  To even assume that the enlightened authors of the scriptures wrote about the history of the retarded mentally disenfranchised men of the past, is simply not worthy of the plight of mankind in this world -- a physical realm that has been personified as the Far Country in the Gospels, and a realm of shadow-image illusions in the analogy of Plato's Cave.   The sole purpose of the Gospels is to convey to those who are dwelling in the Far Country -- those who have become cognizant of their affliction that has caused them to have been stricken with spiritual-amnesia -- what they must individually do and accomplish in order to restore their memory, and escape what the Gospel account of Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" that inhibits man's mental development -- keeping him a prisoner in a state of abject ignorance.  

In the Gospels, Jesus presents Universal Truths that are Relevant and True with respect to all of mankind -- regardless of each person's station in life -- or their religious or philosophical beliefs or associations.  In the parables, all of mankind is universally portrayed in the parable of the Prodigal Son (see Parable).   And the fact that the vast majority of people suffer from spiritual-amnesia -- and therefore fail to remember when they dwelt in the Kingdom prior to journeying out into this realm that is personified as the Far Country, is because they presently dwell in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being ( http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ).   They therefore fail to remember their more distant past because they have been stricken with spiritual-amnesia, and presently dwell in a suppressed mental and spiritual condition that can only be overcome when they come to what is portrayed in the Gospels as TheCall to the "wedding banquette" (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ) -- where they must put on the required "wedding garment" -- and as portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son, "come to their senses" and begin the Journey in TheWay that will restore them to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- which the Gospels state all of mankind abandoned to dwell in this, the Far Country.   And this fact is important because this reality of the journey of the prodigal son goes to the very core of the purpose and objectives of the scriptures -- which is to provide the sincere seeker with the means to reverse the spiritual-amnesia they have been stricken with -- which restored memory will remove the cloud of forgetfulness and suppressed mentality -- permitting them to remember their more distant past and become restored to their Source in the Kingdom.  

  Blind Faux-Clergy And Counterfeit Teachers: A clergy who portrays himself as a Christian or religious teacher and lacks any degree of Soul-Memory -- i.e., who fails to recall both the previous lives their Soul has lived, as well as when they dwelt in the Kingdom before venturing out into this world which in the parable is portrayed as the Far Country -- such a clergy is a blind-guide that leads the congregation of believers in the wrong direction.   When the Gospel account of Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees for throwing away and failing to use the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge to enter the Kingdom (see The Fatal Error Of The Church ), it is the return of the prodigal son to his True Source in the Kingdom while still dwelling in the physical body, which is the purpose and objective of the scriptures.   A genuine clergy is not a preacher who delivers man-made interpretations of the scriptures to a congregation of blind believers -- but rather, a genuine clergy is a guide who assists the flock of believes to gain entrance to the Light of the Inner Kingdom within them.  

The journey in TheWay must come by level upon level of mental development and spiritual achievement.  Acquiring Soul-Memory is an integral part of the process of the journey of the prodigal son back to the Edenic Kingdom which he had himself left when he began his sojourn in this, the Far Country.   That faux-clergy who are wolves in sheep's attire lack the necessary Soul-Memory to understand the true application of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge, means that they are the more the blind guides than even the scribes and Pharisees.  Therefore, it is impossible to understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures without understanding the journey of the Soul that evolves to Completion and Wholeness over the course of many lifetimes (see The Key To Christianity).  The Biblical Mindset Foundation is built upon an understanding of the Journey of the Soul (see Biblical Mindset ).   The early pre-Nicene Church openly taught the pre-existence and predestination of the Soul (see http://ChristianReincarnation.org#predestination ).  And it is easily proven that this important foundation teachings was suppressed and outlawed by a series of Roman Emperors who dictated to the Church what they were permitted to believe (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors ).   And it is this corrupted and spiritually castrated gospel that is preached from Christian pulpits today.  Therefore, the pseudo-clergy who ascribe to the man-made dogma of Pagan Rome, are the blind guides and wolves in sheep's attire that the Gospels warn about.   "My People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge. Because You Have Rejected Knowledge, I Reject You..." (Hosea 4:6).  Because the faith-based congregations have failed to put on the required "wedding garment" and come to TheCall, -- entering in the inner Kingdom and taking their place at the Table of the Lord -- it is impossible for them to be nourished by the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- i.e.,  "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:17)

It is impossible to progress in one's understanding of the Word of God -- to understand the true meaning of the scriptures -- and begin to evolve into a state of spiritual maturity, without possessing Soul-Memory and becoming at least cognizant of the past lives one's Soul has lived.   Why?   Because the Foundational Mindset of the scriptures is built upon this ultra-important teaching which can be portrayed as either the pre-existent soul, or the Journey of the Soul.   As stated in the words: "These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men” (Matt 15:8-9).   Which means that the only valid interpretation of the scriptures was derived from the Foundational Mindset that Jesus taught -- and not in accord with the doctrines of Roman Emperors or the dogma of men.   If you therefore fail to read the scriptures from the same Foundational Mindset -- or fail to live your life in accord with the essential Gospel teachings -- then it will remain impossible for you to comprehend the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures, or the Word of God.   Which means that because the Biblical Foundational Mindset and the Pre-Nicene Church Teachings were built upon the reality of the journey of the Pre-Existent Soul -- which ultra-important foundational teaching is unknown today because it was anathemaed by the ruling emperors of the post-Nicene Church -- the modern-day clergy who cling to this man-made dogma has been so alienated from the True Original Gospel Message and Teachings, that they are even more blind to the Word of God than the Pharisees and Scribes who the Gospel account of Jesus condemned for throwing away the Key of Knowledge and leading the people in the wrong direction (see The Fatal Error Of The Church http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third ).   And it is because of this fatal error and the rejection of core biblical mindset and lifestyle principles and teachings, that have spiritually castrated the Church.   Show me a clergy who can't recall the previous lives their Soul has lived, and you have shown me a clergy who has yet to bring about the necessary spiritual maturity to Know the True Word of God.  

  The Historical Record: While the Soul of the historical man Jesus was the first of the prodigal sons and daughters to return to the Edenic Kingdom, others such as myself have chosen to remain herein as a spiritual messenger and guide through whom the Logos/Son of God can manifest though.   As the Soul who lived as the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus (see http://BrotherOfYeshua.com ), over the course of many lifetimes my Soul has chosen to remain a messenger and guide to my brothers and sisters who seek Higher Truth.  In the same way that Down Syndrome is a physical condition that creates a mental suppression that is genetic and physically based, when rightly understood, so too does the condition of mental suppression and spiritual amnesia that overwhelmingly pervades the vast majority of mankind.   We are told in the allegorical account of Genesis that when mankind (Adam) eats the fruit of the Tree of Duality, that this fruit brings death upon the eater thereof.  The Hebrew word translated Adam is not a name -- but rather, it means man -- personifying the condition of all of mankind.   Because we lack the necessary Soul-Memory to understand the meaning of what is being allegorically set forth in the Genesis account, we fail to comprehend that it is each of us that has eaten of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality -- which has caused us to be cast out into the "outer darkness" of mind and being.  And we will continue in the fallen state so long as we continue to eat the forbidden fruit, and dwell in a divided state (see The Tree of Life).  The Genesis account portrays those who eat the fruit of the Tree of Duality as bringing death upon themselves -- but death must be understood as more of a condition of mind, than of an actual cessation of life.   In the parable of the prodigal son, after squandering away his inheritance on what is personified as "riotous" living, which caused him to fall under the control of the "Citizen... of the Far Country", the prodigal son who dwells in what is portrayed as the "outer darkness" (see Outer Darkness), is portrayed as being dead -- i.e., which is a condition of mind that Jesus portrayed as a condition of organic human consciousness when Jesus said of the common people, "...let the dead bury their dead" (Matt 8:22).    Were those who were being referenced to physically dead?  No -- and the reference to them being dead was a portrayal of their suppressed mental condition.  The same is true of the statement that "...the dead do not know anything" (Eccl 9:5) -- because having been subject to the organic condition which has caused them to be cast into the "outer darkness" and/or Far Country, they have invoked upon themselves a condition of spiritual death.  And this condition of death is confirmed in the words: "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found" (Luke 15:24).   Being (spiritually) dead, and having squandered away their inheritance and dwelling in the "outer darkness", mankind is oblivious to the cause of his plight.    As enlightened men who possessed Soul-Memory, the authores of the scriptures understood that until the prodigal sons and daughters fulfill the requirement to pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay, that they will remain in their suppressed mental condition under the control of the "Citizen of the Far Country" -- i.e., “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.”   You must become all that is personified in the Gospel account of Jesus -- as stated: "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48). 

The authors of the scriptures were themselves highly evolved spiritual men who created the scriptures using the allegorical garb of history -- which was necessary in order to circulate the writings among the common people.   What the scriptures actually present is not at all historical accounts of man's past -- but rather, they are a blueprint or a picture of man's Divine Pattern of Mind -- presenting to those who had sufficiently begun the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-evolution, the Laws and Forces of Consciousness -- including an understanding of The Natural Laws Of Creation http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsOfCreation that evolves each Soul from the Alpha of Ignorance to the Omega of Enlightened Light -- as well as The Laws That Control Every Aspect Of Our Lives http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives throughout the stages of development in this realm that can be portrayed as God's School House for his divine offspring.  The scriptures reveal to the seeker who has distant memory restored, and therefore possesses the "eyes to see", the absolute need to achieve the subsequent stages of birth -- and the reality that this realm that is portrayed as the Far Country, is very much a Mental Womb http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#MentalWomb that is designed to bring about the next stage of birth that enables man to become At-One with his Higher Soul-Self (see http://SoulSelf.org ).  And beyond this, the necessary Spiritual-Birth that enables the Soul to become At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God in the manner that our elder brother Jesus did.   And this historical fact is witnessed by those who Jesus personally taught and walked with daily who affirmed that the original Gospels were correct prior to be corrupted by the Church (see http://TheTenWords.com ) that Jesus was "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   When the Ebionite Nazirenes  make reference to the Law, this very much includes the Laws of Creation as portrayed in the words "...the designs/laws found throughout Nature and all of Creation".    That the historical man Jesus was a pattern for all of mankind because he was the first prodigal son to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination because of his success in overcoming the Laws within his own mind and being, is demonstrated in the words: "He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ..."   And this confirms this statement with respect to the true potential of all of mankind that Jesus taught, as demonstrated in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Hippolytus when he wrote that they believed that when any of the prodigal sons "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).   And this is why Jesus taught that he was our brother -- 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 historical Jesus was a true holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within himself, is attested to at Acts 2:22 where Jesus is portrayed as "a man, attested to you by God" -- and this was demonstrated by God performing "mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst".   If Jesus was himself God incarnate as believed by the later Romans, then these words portraying Jesus as a man approved by God through the works and wonders that God did through him, never would have been presented in this manner.   The heathen and pagan mind of the mainstream of Gentiles always had great difficulty in understanding the difference between the man Jesus, the Indwelling Logos/Son of God which is representative of the Mind of God (see The Logos), and the One Teacher which Jesus commanded all who would call themselves his disciples and followers, were to seek out and learn from (see The True Prophet).   And it was the living of the necessary Consecrated Life that Jesus ordained, and the seeking of the Kingdom within, that enabled the historical Jesus to become the Messiah, and At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   And this is especially demonstrated in the words of Edward Gibbon with respect to the original position of the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).  The historical and spiritual factualness of these words can be proven when one understands the original words that were spoken to the man Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan River -- when the Voice of God stated: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" -- which means that the historical man Jesus was a man who became the Messiah/Christ when he overcame the Laws and became Anointed by God.    That the later Church of Rome which existed as a puppet under the pagan sun worshipping Emperor Constantine, censored and changed the very words of God spoken to mankind, is the primary reason why the Christian world remains shackled to the abyss of spiritual ignorance to this very day.  

The authors of the scriptures were spiritual men -- and concealed within the allegorical body of the written text their sacred writings possessed the knowledge that enables the lost prodigal sons and daughters to escape the "outer darkness" of the Far Country -- overcome the affliction of spiritual-amnesia that robs and deprives the offspring of God the memory of when they dwelt in the Kingdom -- as well as the memory of all the lives their soul has lived in their individual journeys from the Alpha to the Omega.  That the lost prodigal sons and daughters have been stricken with spiritual-amnesia, and fail to remember their more distant past while dwelling in this, the "outer darkness" of the Far Country, is one of the primary objectives of the scriptures.   That organic natural man fails to remember when he dwelt in the Kingdom, as well as all the lifetimes man's Soul has lived in the Journey of the Soul, is due to the loss of man's inheritance in the form of squandering away his vital life-force, and his adherence to dogmatic and carnal shackles that the Citizen of the Far Country uses to enslave the prodigal sons and daughters to lives of hardship and suffering -- primarily due to their own ignorance of self and their divine origin.   And this self-ignorance is attested to by Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas in the words: "(3) Jesus said ...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" (see http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org ).     

When Paul portrayed the baptized and committed Christians who he personally taught as incapable of comprehending man's higher soul and spiritual reality because they were of a "natural" and "animal-soul" level of consciousness (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature ) -- he confirmed the important reason why the Gospels are parables within the framework of a larger body of parables: "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 -- see below: In The House - Taught In Parables - The Key Of Knowledge).   What is a parable within a larger parable framework?  A parable portrays essential higher truths at a variable level of understanding so they can be understood at the level of the person reading or hearing the parable -- and as the level of the reader or hearer begins to evolve, greater truths are perceived and understood.   A parable within a parable presents universal parabolic truths within short presentations that must be understood in order to begin to comprehend the higher truths of the parabolic whole.  

This parabolic framework is necessary, because mankind who is at an "animal-soul" level of consciousness is incapable of comprehending man's higher soul and spiritual reality.  And because of the Laws of Creation, the Spiritual Visionary and Mystic understands that they cannot do the impossible -- what neither Jesus, Paul or any of the biblical authors were capable of doing -- which is to convey the higher reality of the Soul and the Kingdom, to mankind in his "natural" and/or "animal-soul" level of being.   In the same way that an infant cannot do and accomplish what an adult can, neither can man in his organic condition of mind comprehend what can only be understood by those who have embraced the process of evolving the mind into a condition of highly developed and refined spiritual maturity.  And when rightly understood, this world which is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son, is a three-dimensional shadow-world (see OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ) to those who in the manner of the example of those who had yet to bring about the transformation of the physical body and mind, refuse to make the change within themselves necessary to prove the Truth by travailing in TheWay.  The Law is that only those who are themselves spiritual, can receive the higher spiritual knowledge.   The mystic and spiritual visionary who must be understood as spiritual scientists and seekers of Ultimate Truth, have long attempted to explain to "natural" organic man that in order to see and comprehend the higher reality that the mystic perceives, the seeker must themselves bring about the same developmental changes within their body and mind.  At the foregoing link I explain that this realm is a three-dimensional image of a higher twelve-dimensional reality -- which is why it is portrayed by mystics as a shadow-world of illusions.  And BY DESIGN, the only means that you or any other of the lost prodigal sons have to prove the truth, is to bring about the necessary changes within yourself to prevail over the human limitations which Paul portrays as "natural" and of an "animal-soul" level of being (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature ).   In the same way that you can't enroll an infant in a university, if you desire to Know the Truth, then you must make the necessary changes and transformation within your own mind and being that permits you to Know the Truth -- and  like the infant who can't comprehend at a university level, this is BY DIVINE DESIGN.  In the parable of the Sower And The Seed, this necessary environment of purified and refined body and mind is portrayed as the "good ground".    And in the same way that when man provides the proper purified and refined foundational environment within one's own body and mind, each person possesses the innate ability to Know the Truth of all Truths -- and the only requirement is for them to begin to live the Truth that has been revealed to them in word, thought, desire and deed.   In the below I will demonstrate the reality of the statement in the Wycliffe Bible Commentary that only the sincere disciple could be: “...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...”. And the fact that you may be an acknowledged genus from the perspective of man's modern academia, means absolutely nothing with respect to your ability to comprehend the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures.   And the problem is not only one of comprehension, but also the fact that the scriptures are composed and written in a spiritual language that the seeker or student of the scriptures can only learn from inner spiritual Sources that are largely incomprehensible from the perspective of modern academia.

 

  Innate Knowledge Of The Truth Of All Truths - Anamnesis: Every person who is alive today -- and has ever lived and walked the face of the earth -- possesses the innate ability to prove the Truth of all Truths -- within their own mind and being.   Therefore, ultimately, no one has an excuse for not knowing the Truth of all Truths -- and following faux-clergy and counterfeit teachers in the wrong direction.   In the same way that the faith-based followers of Jim Jones were seduced into following their leader through the gates of tragic and absurd evil, the same is true of the intellectuals who preside over the halls of modern academia.   In the same way that entry-level requirements exist for virtually every one of life's endeavors, this is also true of the individual person's approach to studying and understanding the scriptures, as well as the higher purpose and realities of Life.   And in clarification, I am not at all insinuating that everyone has the ability to believe the truth -- or to read the truth out of some book -- or to be taught the truth in any of the ways that mankind teaches or conveys opinions and human knowledge -- but rather, every person has the innate ability to Know the Truth by virtue of their becoming a Direct Expression and embodiment of the Truth through their own Experiential connection with the Source of all Truths.   And it is the development of this Innate Ability that was the objective of the authors of the scriptures.   So much so, that it was for this reason that Paul wrote and warned that everyone is ultimately responsible for Knowing the Truth of All Truths (Rom 1:19-20 and The Sacred Language Of Creation).    As Paul wrote and warned, no one has an excuse for not Knowing the Truth of all Truths -- and they will be ultimately held accountable for their desire to seek and learn the Truth of all Truths.   Further, the only real obstacle to knowing the Truth, is man's own ignorance of their True-Self -- and their True-Self's relationship to Creator-God.   Which is why the Gospel of Thomas proclaims: "But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty...".    Therefore, the only obstacle to Knowing and becoming the Living Embodiment of the Truth, is Self Ignorance. 

  The Great Question: 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?   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.   While the English language is spiritually dead, Jñāna in Sanskrit means "knowledge" -- but, like the Greek word Gnosis, the word Jñāna portrays Knowledge acquired through Meditation -- i.e., looking within one's own mind at a deeper level.  

This reality of the existence of a deeper level of consciousness and an inner Source of Knowledge is portrayed in the statement by the Church Father Origen on using the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge where he wrote: “But all the narrative portion [of the scriptures], 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".   It is important to take note of Origen's statement that "...As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn" -- where reference is being made to an Inner Source of Knowledge that mankind possesses, even before they even begin to learn in the traditional outward manner.   Further, Origen correctly states with respect to the (allegorical) text of the scriptures that "...all the narrative portion [of the scriptures], relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever", do not at all pertain to historical accounts of man's more distant past -- but rather, are allegorical presentations of the Forces and Laws that are presently working within man's own mind and being.   Why?   How could Origen who was called the prince of Christian learning second only to the Apostles themselves, state that the historical interpretation of the scriptures is "worthless"?  And that what is presented in the written text as marriages, the begetting of children, and the many various wars and battles are not at all historical -- but rather, an allegorical portrayal of the Forces and Laws working within one's own mind and being? 

Paul correctly portrayed the written text and narrative of the scriptures as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).   Why?   Because the literal text of the scriptures is a quasi-historical facade that is necessary for the very limited instruction of the immature seeker -- with the true spiritual meaning remaining preserved and concealed beneath the garb of allegory (see An Inconvenient Truth).   The Church Father Origen explained that “Scripture contains an unhistorical element in-woven with the history, in order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics).   Further explaining in De Principiis that: “Where the word found that things done according to the history could be adapted to these mystical senses, he made use of them concealing from the multitude the deeper meaning; but where in the narrative of the development of super-sensual things, there did not follow the performance of those certain events which were already indicated by the mystical meaning, the scripture interwove in the history the account of some event that did not take place, sometimes what could not have happened; sometimes what could but did not.”   And that the carnal mind of both the blind believer, as well as the skeptic critic, both attempt to ignore these important inconsistencies (see Inconsistencies Purposely Written Into Body Of Scriptural Text), and attempt to read the scriptures as an historical account, inhibits them from perceiving and understanding the great truths that lie concealed beneath the allegorical texts.    

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.   Instead of developing those areas of the mind that permit us to tap into and learn directly from the Source of all Knowledge and Truth, we turn instead to the (carnal) opinions of men -- which is outlawed in the New Testament (see The Rejection Of All Human Opinion:  http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#HumanOpinion .

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 same way that Paul was forced (because of the spiritual immaturity of the congregation of believers he taught) to limit his teachings to a quasi-historical "testimony" of  "...Jesus and him crucified" -- warning that even if it were possible to convey to these baptized and confirmed Christians anything beyond what Paul portrayed as the "milk" of the Gospel which is necessary for babes in Christ who would reject the higher spiritual knowledge and teachings as utter "foolishness" if he was to openly present the Truth to them -- the authors of the scriptures had no other choice than to utilize this entry-level "milk" designed for spiritually immature Christians in the literal presentation of the scriptures.   

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 any detail and depth 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.   The Law is that you, as a sincere seeker, can never know any greater level of Truth, than you are willing to live and manifest in word, thought, desire and deed -- which means that modern mainstream liberal Christianity is virtually worthless.

Christians maintain that they are saved by faith totally apart from their actions and works -- and their salvation is guaranteed from the moment they accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.   But is this the original teachings of Jesus?   The Flawed Doctrine Of Perpetual Redemption totally ignores the many statements by Paul where he warns: "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).   Why did Paul make such a statement?   Because the original Gospel teachings in their original form was one of spiritual transformation -- a process that would evolve the mind of the seeker/disciple from their embryonic infantile condition, to that of higher spiritual maturity and Wholeness.  Those who reject these teachings and fall back into the thinking and lifestyle of this world -- who willfully sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message -- are not only unbelievers and apostates to the teachings of the Gospels, but in Paul's words these counterfeit believers crucify the Son of God afresh.  And, in total opposition to what is preached in the modern Churches, Paul warns that "...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."   These, and other such spiritual concepts, were totally unacceptable to the fourth century heathen Church of Rome -- and while these few passages continue to exist, the scriptures were corrupted (see http://BibleCorruption.com ) in order to make the Gospels support the doctrines of a series of Roman Emperors who ruled over the Church from the fourth century onward.     That the Church has abandoned the original teachings of Jesus -- to the degree that when it is proven that the fourth century Church even edited and corrupted the very words of God spoken to man (see http://TheTenWords.com ) -- means that until the Church itself repents of this great sin against the Holy Spirit, they will remain under a cloud of ignorance in an exiled state in a Spiritual Diaspora.   What does Paul, the Apostle of faith say?   To the Romans he warns: "Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.  For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.  Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off" (Rom 11:20-22 NIV).    Because the fourth-century Christians entered into a covenant with Pagan Rome -- installing the emperor who was not even baptized, as the head of the Church -- and in a state of absolute arrogance, hunted down and murdered all sincere spiritual Christians and original Ebionite Nazirenes who did not accept the religious doctrines of the emperor -- even editing and corrupting the very words of God spoken to mankind -- the Church has not only been "cut off" -- but the Christians themselves dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora under the cloud of spiritual ignorance. 

I always found it truly amazing that readers of the scriptures could read the words of Paul where he states that the "natural" mind of the Christians who he had himself taught, would reject the truths pertaining to the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness" -- portraying himself as an "ambassador in bonds" who was unable to speak plainly.   And from this perspective, the best that Paul could do for those who he portrayed as entry-level Christians who were "babes in Christ", was to provide them a series of do's and don'ts that would assist them in evolving through the stages of spiritual immaturity that made it impossible for them to comprehend the True Gospel Meaning and Objectives.   And then, these same people who call themselves believers, ignore the very core Gospel teachings to their own demise (see The Lie).

 

  Animal-Soul Consciousness:   "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:17) -- and Spiritual Manna which is Spiritual Knowledge, can only be imparted to man directly by God -- and can only be received by those who "overcome", and are prepared to receive it.   The Greek word for this secret spiritual knowledge that can only be imparted directly from God to those who are prepared to receive it, is called "Gnosis" -- aka Spiritual Manna.   Paul correctly stated that the faith-based Christians who are totally versed in what he called the (historical) "traditions of Jesus and him crucified", were too carnal to receive the Spiritual Manna or Gnosis.   Paul portrayed the baptized and committed Christians as still being of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness who were incapable of receiving the Divine Manna or Gnosis.   And this reality is expressed in the meaning of the Greek text of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (2:14) where Paul states that the "natural" organic man cannot comprehend the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom.   Which profound statement provokes the question: What is meant by the term that Paul used when he described the very people who he had himself taught who were incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom when he portrayed them as being of a "natural" organic level of mind and consciousness?   The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary writes with respect to the meaning of the word in the original Greek language: "natural man—literally, 'a man of animal soul'."  Further,  the Treasury Of Scriptural Knowledge states of this ignored and profound statement at 1 Cor 2:14 which reads (quoting Paul): "But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" -- wherein the proper interpretative-meaning of Paul's words with respect to the reality of what is portrayed by Paul as the natural man is then presented: [Psuchikos,] the animal man, one who lives in a natural state, and under the influence of his animal passions; for [psuche] means the inferior and sensual part of man, in opposition to the [nous] understanding, or [pneuma,] the spirit. And this is not only true -- but is a fact of life that all mystics and enlightened souls must deal with when interacting with organic man.   Which is exactly why Paul profoundly stated to the very people who he had personally taught the Gospel message: "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).   Stating to the body of confirmed and baptized believers who he stated had received all truth and knowledge pertaining to the elementary "traditions" of Christ: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ). 

Mankind is of the Fourth Kingdom -- i.e., mineral, vegetable and animal -- and his lower nature and body consciousness is comprised and immersed in these three lower kingdoms as personified in the subheading: Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature.   Which is why in his Epistles Paul commanded to "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV) -- further warning that “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).   Yet, because important teachings were removed from the Gospels, and modern man does not at all understand the reality of his lower animal nature, he fails to understand that he can very well be portrayed as being of an animal consciousness who is walking the earth in the outward form of man -- i.e., the fourth kingdom being ruled over by the lower three that comprise the consciousness of his physical body.    Therefore, what Paul warned with respect to comprehending the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom is that “But the natural man [who is still of an animal-soul] does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually received” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).   Therefore, the baptized and confirmed believers who Paul had personally taught were incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul and the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel, because they were yet too immature to comprehend man's higher spiritual reality -- i.e., "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).   And this fact of reality remains true unto this very day.    Without doing as Paul commanded with respect to the transformation of the lower animal-consciousness of the body, it will remain impossible to perceive and comprehend the true spiritual meaning of the Gospels.   And it will make no difference if you study the scriptures in a university or seminary -- in the same way that Paul himself could not convey to those he personally taught the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, neither can any man teach this meaning without the seeker/student undergoing the process of transforming the "natural animal-soul" consciousness of the physical.

The authors of the scriptures were Spiritual Seekers in search of Spiritual Knowledge -- i.e., Gnosis or what can be defined as the Sacred Knowledge or the Divine Manna revealed directly from God to the Seeker of the Truth and the Kingdom.   Gnosis has absolutely nothing to do with an historical people who were portrayed as Gnostics.   There is no formal Church or secret order that can reveal Gnosis.   Contrary to popular opinion, the term Gnostic does not in any manner denote an alternative historical tradition which the Church suppressed.   Gnosis  is not a set of dogmatic beliefs -- or any phenomena pertaining to this world.   In fact, all genuine scriptures are Gnostic at their core -- i.e., Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- and the whole foundation of the esoteric knowledge concealed within the body of the scriptures, deals entirely with the Forces and Laws that control the Consciousness of Man, and Cosmology of the seekers own Mind and Being.   But even more important is the fact that this body of knowledge exists no where else -- i.e., it is totally absent from our modern colleges and universities -- and therefore, it is impossible to teach Gnosis in a university or seminary.   The very existence and  reality of True Gnosis in fact remains an enigma to virtually all of man's religions and philosophical systems today.   Therefore, it is impossible to read and study that body of Knowledge which can be defined as Gnosis in any of the books written by man   To the degree that Gnosis cannot be researched or studied in even the greatest of man's libraries.   And yet, it is the most important body of knowledge that man could possibly possess.   To the degree that the Gospel of Thomas declares: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   And while it is true that this esoteric body of knowledge lies concealed within the textual cloak of the scriptures, it remains an unseen and camouflaged enigma to the eyes and understanding of the vast majority of mankind who gaze into the textual-body of the scriptures, and who see only the reflection of their own beliefs and/or condition of mind reflected back to them.    Which means that if we pose the question: What Difference Does It Make?   It makes all the difference in the world!!!  

 

  Animals That Walk In The Form Of Man:  There is truly great wisdom in the Gospel of Thomas teachings: (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you..." -- the degree that this is true beyond organic man's very limited perceptive-vision and imagination, is a demonstration of his blindness to man's true reality.   In the acknowledgement in the foregoing that Paul portrayed the organic "natural" people of this world as being of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness, few people can even begin to envision the reality of what Paul's words convey -- which confirms the statement 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..." (see  Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature).   As explained in the foregoing link, mankind being of the Fourth Kingdom, has the lower three earthly kingdoms (mineral, vegetable and animal) within him -- and the evolutionary condition of these lower three kingdoms can and does not only intimately affect and often control our lives -- but in accordance with their condition, inhibits both our behavior and ability to understand all things.  

While there are many references to man being ruled over by his lower animal nature at the foregoing link, from the perspective of being able to receive and comprehend the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, and the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, there is a statement in the Gospel of Philip that explains this incomprehensible reality -- i.e., "A householder acquired everything— whether son or slave or cattle or dog or swine, whether wheat or barley or straw or hay or [bones] or meat (or) acorns. Yet he (was) wise and knew the food of each [one]. Before the sons he indeed set bread with [olive-oil and meat; before] the slaves he set castor-oil with grain; and before the cattle [he set barley] with straw and hay; to the dogs he cast bones; yet before [the swine] he threw acorns and crusts of bread. So it is with the Disciple of God— if he is wise, he is perceptive about the Discipleship. The bodily forms will not deceive him, but rather he will observe the disposition of the soul of each one in order to speak with him. In the world there are many animals made in human form— these he is accustomed to recognize. To the swine indeed he will throw acorns; yet to the cattle he will cast barley with straw and hay; to the dogs he will cast bones; to the slaves he will give the elementary; to the Sons he will present the perfect".     

What is presented is both the level of consciousness that rules over the people, and the type of instruction and knowledge in the form of food that can be provided to them in accord with their Condition of Mind.   When Paul stated that he could only provide the Christians who he had taught the "elementary" quasi-historical teachings of "Christ and him crucified", what he was stating was that they could only comprehend the allegorical symbols of the Gospel designed for "babes" in Christ.   Which provokes the question: What level of teachings can be conveyed to Christians who have yet to travail in TheWay and transform their lower animal nature?  In the above verses of the Gospel of Philip, the Householder who is portrayed as being wise, is cognizant of the ruling-consciousness of others as seen in the statement: "...The bodily forms will not deceive him, but rather he will observe the disposition of the soul of each one in order to speak with him. In the world there are many animals made in human form— these he is accustomed to recognize".   While each person appears to be in human form, the wise man will not be deceived, and will understand that in the case of the vast majority of people, their lower animal nature will so rule over their thinking and life, that they will factually be beasts who walk in the form of man -- existing at various levels in the Soul's attempt to be fully born into the Kingdom of Man (see Entering The Kingdom of Man).   But it is also important to recognize that the animals presented in the above quotation from the Gospel of Philip only portrays those animal-natures of people who are associated with the believer-community -- and not those outside the body of believers.   Quoting from http://SoulSelf.org : 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. 

A wise man understands that every day he encounters people who are the ravenous beasts who walk the earth in human form.  Lions, tigers, bears, snakes and every type of predator.   Men prone to extreme violence and suffering perpetrated upon the unaware peoples of the earth.   Which means that an important aspect of the question as to why there is evil in the world?   Each Soul exists at greatly varying stages of evolution of mind and spirit (see The Evolving Soul) -- and there are countless cultures and philosophies that support the lower animal-nature of the people to manifest and rule over the consciousness of the society.   While the whole of the animal kingdom is represented in the lower nature of mankind, the portrayal of dogs, swine, cattle and sheep apply only to the community of faith-based believers.   And thus, in accord with the "animal-soul" level of consciousness of each believer, the Householder in the Gospel of Philip provides quasi-human people instruction and knowledge as presented in the allegorical food -- i.e.,   "...To the swine indeed he will throw acorns; yet to the cattle he will cast barley with straw and hay; to the dogs he will cast bones; to the slaves he will give the elementary; to the Sons he will present the perfect".   

Those people whose consciousness can be portrayed as that of a swine, are those who seek God only when they are in need -- and instead of change, they remain immersed in the thinking and lifestyle of this world -- dwelling in the muck and mire of life.   These people can only be provided allegorical instruction in the form of seeds as personified in the acorn.   Seeds can be defined as allegorical instruction that under the right conditions, may eventually begin to evolve and grow sometime in the future.   And to those people whose minds are ruled over by the consciousness of a swine Jesus warned: "...do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces" (Matt 7:6).   When the  Dominican friar Giordanio Bruno told the people the truth, the authorities of the Church imprisoned him, and eventually burnt him on the stake (see Spiritually Based Religion) -- as swine who turned upon Bruno for conveying to the people truth that opposed the man-made dogma of the Roman Church. 

Those portrayed as cattle can be given "...barley with straw and hay".  There were no sheep in Egypt, but Pharaoh made the Children of Israel "rulers" over his cattle.  Cattle represent physical strength, which like all the powers of man on the natural plane, must be spiritualized.  The faculties of mind, having come down into a more material state of consciousness (Egypt), take dominion over and lift up the animal thoughts and tendencies in the body and unify them with Spirit.     "To the dogs he will cast bones -- i.e., that which is drawn from the death of slain beasts.   The spiritual meaning of the Gospels and the esoteric knowledge of TheWay could not be given to those people whose lower animal nature can be portrayed as dogs and swine -- i.e., "Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you" (Mat 7:6 ISV).   Of the meaning of this passage, Gill's Exposition of the Bible states: "Here the phrase is used in a metaphorical sense; and is generally understood of not delivering or communicating the holy word of God, and the truths of the Gospel, comparable to pearls, or the ordinances of it, to persons notoriously vile and sinful: to men, who being violent and furious persecutors, and impudent blasphemers, are compared to 'dogs'; or to such, who are scandalously vile, impure in their lives and conversations, and are therefore compared to swine"   And this commandment not to reveal the esoteric knowledge of the Gospel is confirmed in the Homilies of Peter's disciple Clement were Peter is quoted as stating: “We remember that our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us, guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples, privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the heavens.”   With respect to dogs: They will take food (knowledge) from any hand that feeds them -- wherein, the Children of the Kingdom are commanded to seek only The True Prophet.   Dogs will eat their own vomit.   Thus, those people whose consciousness can be portrayed as a dog, are consumed with the faux-knowledge of this world, and are incapable of comprehending what is Holy.  Of those people whose consciousness can be portrayed as dogs and swine the Apostle Peter stated: "Of them the proverbs are true: 'A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud'" (2 Peter 2:22).  

The teaching in the Gospel of Philip then states that "...to the slaves he will give the elementary" -- i.e., while one portrayed as a slave is immersed in spiritual work or service, their immature thoughts and consciousness remains in the bondage of a servant, slave or faith-based worshiper.   Of those who have travailed in TheWay and have become children of the Kingdom, the above translation states  "...to the Sons he will present the perfect".   In the alternate translation   it is stated that "To the slaves he will give only the elementary lessons, to the children he will give the complete instruction".   Only the Children of the Kingdom who have transformed and overcome their lower animal nature -- overcome all inner division which enables them to be nourished by the Life-Giving Fruit of the Tree of Life -- are able to receive and comprehend with Wholeness the "complete instruction" directly from The True Prophet.    

Of Slaves And Sons Of The Kingdom: The reality portrayed in the above as "..."the slaves [who receive] only the elementary lessons [versus] the children [who receive] the complete instruction".   A similar realty with respect to the spiritual condition and level of believers is presented by the Church Father Origen where he observes this same great truth being conveyed in an early Christian scripture known as the Shepherd of Hermas, and he writes: “Hermas is commanded to write two little books, and afterwards to announce to the presbyters of the Church what he learned from the Spirit. For these are the words that are written: 'And you will write,' he says, 'two books; and you will give the one to Clement, and the other to Grapte. And let Grapte admonish the widows and orphans, and let Clement send through all the cities which are abroad, while you will announce to the presbyters of the Church.' Grapte, accordingly, who is commanded to admonish the orphans and widows, is the pure understanding of the letter itself; by which those youthful minds are admonished, who have not yet deserved to have God as their Father, and are on that account styled orphans. They, again, are the widows, who have withdrawn themselves from the unjust man, to whom they had been united contrary to law; but who have remained widows, because they have not yet advanced to the stage of being joined to a heavenly Bridegroom. Clement, moreover, is ordered to send into those cities which are abroad what is written to those individuals who already are withdrawing from the letter -- as if the meaning were to those souls who, being built up by this means, have begun to rise above the cares of the body and the desires of the flesh; while he himself, who had learned from the Holy Spirit, is commanded to announce, not by letter nor by book, but by the living voice, to the presbyters of the Church of Christ, i.e., to those who possess a mature faculty of wisdom, capable of receiving spiritual teaching”.

When James, the brother of Jesus writes that: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27 NIV), he is not saying that pure religion is to look after the wives and children of those whose husband and father has died.   Widows and orphans are those believers who are still carnal in nature.   It is these believers who see only the letter -- or body -- of the scriptures, of which Origen writes whose “youthful minds are admonished, who have not yet deserved to have God as their Father [not yet Children of the Kingdom], and are on that account styled orphans”.   With regard to widows Origen writes: “They, again, are the widows, who have withdrawn themselves from the unjust man, to whom they had been united contrary to law; but who have remained widows, because they have not yet advanced to the stage of being joined to a heavenly Bridegroom”.   The unjust man is the citizen of the far country in the parable of the prodigal son -- i.e., the god of this world. Thus, widows and orphans do not represent widows and orphans in accordance with our understanding of these terms, but rather they represent stages of spiritual growth.   Moreover, because of our modern politically correct mindset where the Bible is at time viewed as sexist, in these words we must perceive that the term widows is used with respect to both men and women.   We can never get a right sense of either the scriptures, or life, until we begin to realize that all of us are reflective with respect to our soul, and therefore we are often rightfully portrayed in the feminine gender.

In the words of James: Pure religion consecrated by the Father is for the disciple to be of the spirit, minister to the orphans and widows, while keeping oneself “unspotted from the world” (KJV).   Unspotted denotes that condition where one has absolutely no part of the world, with the exception of ones manifestation as a spiritual presence.   It is these unspotted individuals who are those who have been reborn into the spirit, and have totally manifested the Light of Christ in their lives.  Widows and orphans see only the body of the scriptures, and are yet carnal believers who the Apostle Paul describes as the Christians of the simple faith.   We can see the next stage of development in Origen's words as he describes those who are more mature: “Clement, moreover, is ordered to send into those cities which are abroad what is written to those individuals who already are withdrawing from the letter -- as if the meaning were to those souls who, being built up by this means, have begun to rise above the cares of the body and the desires of the flesh”.   Those who are abroad are the people who have transversed the sea of spiritual cleansing, and have risen above the “cares of the body and the desires of the flesh”.   It is these men and women who have consecrated their lives in the pursuit of Truth, that will see the mind of the scriptures in their quest to walk in TheWay.

With regard to the more mature in Christ, Origen writes of Hermas: “…while he himself, who had learned from the Holy Spirit, is commanded to announce, not by letter nor by book, but by the living voice, to the presbyters of the Church of Christ, i.e., to those who possess a mature faculty of wisdom, capable of receiving spiritual teaching”.   The name Hermas means the “messenger” -- thus it is only the spiritual Christians who have overcome their lower animal natures, and have become true Children of the Kingdom, are able to hear the Shepherd -- or in the Shepherd of Hermas, the Living voice of the Indwelling Logos.   Clement means merciful -- and it is only those who are themselves walking in TheWay, who receive the mercy of the Lord.   The widows and orphans -- or those believers who remain of the flesh and see only the letter of the scriptures and the exoteric doctrine or good news of the Christ -- must spiritually mature in order to begin to receive from the Lord, perceive the Gospel of God, and enter the Kingdom.   As stated in the above, those who are ruled over by their lower animal natures are blind to both the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, and the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom. 

  The Audacity Of Abject Ignorance: After reading the foregoing where the biblical authors warn that it is impossible for a man of a "natural" human consciousness to read the literal text of the scriptures and discern the truth, and understand the inner spiritual meaning of the written word, every SINCERE Christian should want to know why Paul warned that it was impossible for the baptized and confirmed Christians to understand the true meaning of the scriptures, and why these same baptized and confirmed Christians would reject the higher knowledge of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness"?   This is not a reality that the intelligent and conscientious seeker can just skim over and ignore.   Further, that the body of Bible readers are warned that whatever is written in the text possesses a deeper unseen meaning that is incomprehensible from a "natural" human perspective, also simply skipped over and ignored by the vast majority of faith-based believers.   Which is why Paul warns that you cannot simply read the written word of the scriptuers and discern the higher truth of the Gospel -- even portraying the literal text of the scriptures as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).   Yet, the vast majority of Christians throughout history have chosen to totally ignore this warning -- to the degree that the Christian world has come to embody the reality portrayed in the very words of Jesus when he was asked why he only spoke to the multitudes in parables, and stated: “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).   Which reality of imposed deafness, blindness and barrier to 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...”.  

What is clear is the fact that neither Jesus or Paul could speak plainly to the people they taught.  Jesus went as far as stating that the  "...secret of the kingdom of God" only belonged to his select few disciples who had left home and totally abandoned the ways of this world -- which embodied the meaning and condition of mind portrayed in the word Ebionite, meaning the "poor-ones" -- and followed Jesus daily.   Allegorically, in the greater parbolic foundation of the scriptures, each of the cities and villages that Jesus and his disciples are portrayed as entering -- teaching and healing the people by restoring them to Wholeness -- corresponds to the centers of the seeker's own mind that must be evolved and transformed.   But this is only understood by the few who themselves travail in TheWay, and strive to bring about their own threefold (physical, mental and spiritual) transformation that enables them to evolve beyond the "animal-soul" level of organic man.  

Paul portrayed the faith-based Christians as "babes in Christ" who were only capable of receiving the "milk" of the Gospel because they were still "natural" organic men who was said to be of an "animal-soul" level of spiritual immaturity.    Which provokes the question: What makes the modern person -- and even the modern believer -- any different than the baptized believers who Paul personally instructed and taught?   Sadly, the only answer is: Absolutely Nothing!   In the same way that Paul warned that because of the immature condition of mind that he portrayed as still being of a "natural" (human) consciousness, the Christians who he personally instructed into the "traditions" of the Christ, were only capable of receiving the "milk" of the Gospel -- and would reject the higher knowledge of the Gospel as utter "foolishness" if he was to dare to even speak of man's higher soul and spiritual reality.   Why?   Because in the same way that an infant does not possess the developed facilities of mind to comprehend at a university graduate level, neither does "natural" organic man possess the necessary facilities of mind to comprehend either the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, or the higher reality of their own Soul.  And this inability of those who Paul portrayed as "natural" organic man to comprehend the higher knowledge of the soul and spirit was referenced by the 2nd century Bishop Clement of Alexandria in the profound statement: “The Lord… allowed us to communicate to those Divine Mysteries, and of that holy light, to those who are able to receive them. He did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many; but to the few to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving and being molded according to them”.  

That the higher spiritual knowledge and meaning of the Gospel could only be received by those who had properly purified and prepared themselves to receive this higher knowledge, was presented in the words of the Church Father Origen when he explained: “Whoever has clean hands, and therefore lifts up holy hands to God… let him come to us… Whoever is pure, not only from all defilement, but from what are regarded as lesser transgressions, let him be boldly initiated into the mysteries of Jesus, which properly are made known only to the holy and the pure… To those who have been purified in heart, he whose soul has for a long time, been conscious of no evil, especially since he yielded himself to the healing of the Word, let such a one hear the doctrines which were spoken in private by Jesus to his genuine disciples”.   Which provokes the all-important question: How does a person become spiritual?   The long ignored answer is that there are no shortcuts or dispensations --  and that the only means to fulfill the requirement which brings about the transformation of the seeker is for them to live and sincerely embrace the Original Gospel Teachings in word, thought, desire and deed.   With the bottom line being that to Possess the Truth, one must surrender and themselves become Possessed by the Truth -- and the Truth, alone.   And until the seeker/disciple begins to bring this transformative condition about in their daily lives, they will remain deaf, dumb and blind to both the true meaning of the scriptures, as well as the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.   Which is confirmed by the Apostle in the words: “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught” (1 Cor 2:6 KJV).   Throughout all of Christian history, the body of believers who Paul portrayed as too "carnal" to receive and understand the higher knowledge of the spirit, have been unable to understand the Apostle's words when he wrote: “But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 Cor 13:10 KJV). The dilemma is that if a Christian fails to go beyond the milk of the gospel, “that which is perfect” can never come. The carnal believer never embraces the words: “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim 3:17 KJV).

As stated in the above, while the word Gnosis portrays a type of Knowledge, it in no way means the knowledge of this world that can be taught by other men, written in books, or received from any other Source than directly from God.   Under the heading of Gnosticism, the Encyclopedia Britannica states: “Among the majority of the followers of the movement, 'Gnosis' was understood not as meaning 'knowledge' or 'understanding', in our sense of the word, but 'revelation'. These little Gnostic sects and groups all lived in the conviction that they possessed a secret and mysterious knowledge, in no way accessible to those outside, which was not to be proved or propagated, but believed in by the initiated, and anxiously guarded as a secret. This knowledge of theirs was not based on reflection, on scientific inquiry and proof, but on revelation. It was derived directly from the times of primitive Christianity, from the Savior himself and from his disciples and friends, with whom they claimed to be connected by a secret tradition, or else from later prophets, of whom many sects boasted. It was laid down in wonderful mystic writings, which were in the possession of the various circles”.   Those Christians who had prepared themselves to receive the Higher Knowledge imparted directly to them by the Logos, must be understood as the Christians who Paul portrayed as having gone beyond the "milk" of the Gospel, and were able to receive the "solid food" from Spirit -- i.e., “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit” (1 Cor 2:10 KJV).   

Regarding these two groups of Christians -- i.e., the faith-based entry-level Christians who could only be given what Paul called the "testimony" of Christ- - and the mature Christians who were no longer in need of the "milk" of the Gospel intended to nourish "babes in Christ", Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography states: “We have no reason to think that the earliest Gnostics intended to found sects separated from the Church and called after their own names. Their disciples were to be Christians, elevated above the rest as acquainted with deeper mysteries, and called Gnostikoi because possessed of a Gnosis superior to the simple faith of the multitude… They also boasted to be in possession of genuine apostolical traditions, deriving their doctrines, some from St. Paul, others from St. Peter, and others again from Judas, Thomas, Philip, and Matthew. In addition moreover, to [this] secret doctrine which they professed to have received by oral tradition, they appealed also to alleged writings of the apostles themselves or their disciples”.  Which, while ignored by the faith-based Christians, is confirmed in the ignored words of Jesus when he was asked by his disciples why he ONLY spoke to the multitudes in parables: “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 disciples and original Ebionite Nazirene followers of Jesus understood that they could know and possess all the Spiritual Knowledge (Gnosis) that Jesus possessed -- and they were able to do all the works that Jesus did -- because he was a man just as they were.   The original Gospels taught that Jesus was a holy man who became At-One with the Indwelling Logos -- with the voice of the Father saying to mankind at the baptism in the Jordan: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" (see TheTenWords.com ).  But these words of God that were spoken as much about Jesus as they were about all of mankind -- and in reference to Jesus becoming the Son of God at his baptism in the Jordan -- was changed and corrupted in the fourth century.   To even suggest as the Church has done, that the very disciples who walked with Jesus daily -- talked with him daily -- the disciple who Jesus personally taught about God and both his and their relationship to the Father -- those who Jesus said were a witness to the Truth and TheWay -- that these same disciples (in the words of the later Church leaders) were too ignorant, or too Jewish, to understand what Jesus taught -- must be representative of the greatest religious fraud and deception known to man.    And yet, regardless of the facts, this same fraud and deception continues to be preached from the pulpits of most Churches -- spiritually disenfranchising the Christian world to this very day!!!  

Contrary to what the later deception which the Church of Rome promoted, the Gospels emphatically state that these same disciples were representative of a witness to the Truth and TheWay that Jesus taught -- and to even suggest that they were themselves too ignorant, or too Jewish to understand these teachings, is representative of the greatest religious hoax that has ever been perpetuated upon mankind.    The Book of Acts testifies to the fact that Jesus further instructed the disciples through the Holy Spirit -- i.e., "after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen" (Acts 1:2-3 NIV).   And these same disciples witnessed to the fact that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him" (Acts 10:38 NIV).   They portrayed Jesus as "...a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst" (Acts 2:22 NKJV).   But in the fourth century the segment of the Church who entered into a covenant relationship with the Pagan Emperor Constantine not only rejected the witness of the disciples who personally knew Jesus, that he was a man who was Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by God -- but they changed the very words of God spoken to mankind -- i.e., "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee".

What these original Ten Words spoken by the Father to mankind presented, was that the original Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus remained totally faithful to the Gospel teachings.   If, as the very words of God spoken to mankind stated, that Jesus became the Messiah (Anointed) and Son of God by living the necessary Consecrated Life that enabled him to fulfill the Law within himself, then the truth of the Gospel is found in the witness of the Ebionites who held firmly to the position that Jesus "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ" see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   With the true objective of the original teachings presented in the words of Hippolytus where he stated that the original Ebionite Nazirenes "...assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   Which means that every man and woman who walks the face of the earth has the same potential as their elder brother Jesus -- if the Gospel teachings of TheWay are intimately embraced and followed to their spiritual conclusion.

When the Ebionite Nazirenes  make reference to the Law, this very much includes the Laws of Creation as portrayed in the words "...the designs/laws found throughout Nature and all of Creation".    That the historical man Jesus was a pattern for all of mankind because of his success in overcoming the Laws, is demonstrated in the words: "He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ..."   And this confirms this statement with respect to the true potential of all of mankind that Jesus taught, as demonstrated in the words of Hippolytus when he wrote that they believed that when anyone "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).   And this is why Jesus taught that he was our brother -- 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).   

When the scriptures portray the need to fulfill the Law, it is not the allegorically portrayed Law presented in the Torah and Old Testament scriptures -- but rather, the Law that evolves our mind and consciousness which enables us to attain Spiritual Maturity.   All of Creation is moved and controlled by Laws.   When a sperm and ovum are united to form an embryo -- and that embryo begins to evolve into a fetus and infant -- it is the Natural Laws that brings about the necessary development that forms the living body that is able to accommodate the mind of man.   When mankind emerges from the womb of its mother, man enters what can be portrayed as the womb of mother-earth -- and this secondary womb provides the environment for the mind of man to develop and mature.   BUT, while the formation of a physical body is completed in accord with the universal requirements of mankind -- in the development of mind the very process requires the person to make choices in their lives.   Where the formation of the body can be portrayed as robotic, this is not the case in the formation of the mind that must be built level upon level of comprehension.   And while The Law functioning within our mind has the potential to evolve each of us to the zenith of comprehension, true development can only be brought about when man has the ability to make choices, and then learn from the choices he has made.   And it is the Natural Laws functioning within each of us that is the controlling factor of our development -- and the catalysts for the controlling factor of the Laws working within us, is based upon the choices we make as set forth in the subheading The Living Bio-Feedback Organism that molds and interacts with us, step by step, in accord with the choices we make throughout every aspect of the life we are living   And while what is referred to as the Law or Torah of God has been set forth in the written text of the scriptures, what is presented is an allegorical portrayal of the Laws and Forces of Mind and Consciousness within the spectrum of the Cosmology of Mind and Being.   And that what is presented in the literal text of the scriptures is allegorical, is why Paul portrayed the written text of the scriptures as "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).  And it is the Higher Law that is spiritual and allegorically portrayed, that the historical man Jesus fulfilled within himself to become the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) and move into a state of At-Oneness with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God. That the historical Jesus was a true holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within himself, is attested to at Acts 2:22 where Jesus is portrayed as "a man, attested to you by God" -- and this was demonstrated by God performing "mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst".   If Jesus was himself God incarnate as believed by the later Romans, then these words portraying Jesus as a man approved by God through the works and wonders that God did through him, never would have been presented in this manner.  

  Animal Sacrifice And The Living Temple: When the original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers of Jesus expressed the need to fulfill the Law, it was not the literal allegorical text of the Torah which is observed in outward ritual and tradition in the manner of the Jews that was being made reference to -- but rather, the Universal Law of Mind and Spirit that is allegorically presented and functioning within each and every one of us.   Therefore, when the Ebionite Nazirene were portrayed as being Torah Observant, the Law was therefore observed in the exact manner that Jesus said was necessary -- i.e., "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life" (John 6:63).  
The early Church writer Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   For them to be accused of "blaspheming most of the legislation",  means that they did not at all observe the Torah outwardly in accordance with the letter of the written word in the manner of the Jews -- but rather, they understood the allegorical symbolism that was applicable to unlocking the inner door to the Kingdom.  

In recognition of the existence of man's lower animal nature that not only rules over man's consciousness, but in the words of Paul presented above limits his comprehension and development, it is important to understand man's motivation to perform animal sacrifice as a part of his religion.  Which provokes the question: Did God in the Old Testament require animal sacrifice? Lets begin my answer to this question by quoting the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”. 
When understood from the perspective of the original authors of the scriptures, what is presented in the scriptures is a blueprint of the seekers own mind -- the levels and forces of consciousness -- and the Laws that control every aspect of the person's life.  And while the scriptures may appear as historical accounts, this is merely the facade that enables the authors to present the inner spiritual meaning which portrays the mental development and spiritual events in the life of the seeker in search of Higher Truth.   Which raises the question: Why would the scriptures contain (allegorical) fabricated "...stories which is repugnant to both reason and common sense" -- which I might also add was why Paul portrayed these stories as the "letter that killeth" [and] "Jewish fables" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).  Why?  The answer goes to the core of our own holographic reality -- and the fact that whatever we perceive in the outer world, is merely a reflection of the inner reality of our own mind and being.  And that primitive man the world over is often observed performing animal sacrifice, is because he is externalizing his own animal nature which he perceives in the outer world.  Innately he senses that his own animal nature must be transformed -- and so, he engages in the (outward) ritual of animal sacrifice -- doing outwardly, what he must accomplish within himself. Quoting from http://TheConsecratedLife.com :

And when AskMoses.com states that we must sacrifice our inner animals, is this any different than the teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of the Nazirenes: "For they, making a god of their belly, sacrificed to their God the innocent creatures of the earth, in place of the carnal nature within themselves. And eating of their flesh and drinking of their blood to their own destruction, corrupted their bodies and shortened their days, even as the Gentiles who did not know the truth, or who knowing it, have changed it into a lie."
Only those who make their body-vessel a Living Temple -- and in the words of AskMoses.com, they must "...sacrifice our inner animals—our hormones, our lusts, our desires, our beastly compulsions" -- and is this any different than the words of Paul when he commanded the Gentiles to "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV)? Or the requirement that “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): Which means that we must transform the beastly predator of carnal man's lower nature, into an unblemished perfect lamb that is a fit sacrifice on the altar of our Inner Living Temple.   And this state of required purity and consecration is exactly what is stated by Isaiah where it is written: "And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it" (Isa 35:8 NIV).
It is important to recognize that under the Law of Moses, the Jews were ONLY permitted to perform animal sacrifice in ONE place -- i.e., the Jerusalem Temple.  And when it is understood that the temple in Jerusalem was an allegorical portrayal of the Living Temple that the seeker/disciple must transform in their own body-vessel (see The Living Temple), then it is their understanding that it is their own lower animal nature that must be raised up as an unspotted lamb, and sacrificed on the altar of their own transformed body-temple. Which is why the literal text of the Old Testament is portrayed as the "letter that killeth" when the Jews fail to understand the spiritual meaning of the allegorical text, and apply what Jesus call the Key of Knowledge ( http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ) -- turning the scriptures within their own consciousness, mind and being.  Yet, the message and meaning is of the utmost importance.

As explained above (What Difference Does It Make), man is of the fourth kingdom -- with the lower three kingdoms of mineral, vegetable and animal as part of his earthly consciousness.  That man's lower animal nature in many instances rules and controls his consciousness and being (see Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature), which is the cause of much of the violence and brutality in the world.  And because we fail to comprehend the Cosmology of Mind and Being ( http://SoulSelf.org ), and remain ignorant of the fact that in many people what we have is the beast walking in the forum of man, there are countless elements within our modern culture that actually causes and supports the beast in man to prevail in our society.  Further, Paul emphatically warns that Christians and Jews who remain at the level of what he portrays as of a "natural" organic human consciousness, are incapable of comprehending either the higher reality of the Soul, or the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures, because as Paul asserts the faith-based believers of a "natural" mind are of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness and understanding (see What Difference Does It Make) -- and therefore remain totally carnal and earth-bound in their thinking because they are ruled over by their lower animal nature.

The heathen and pagan mind of the mainstream of Gentiles always had great difficulty in understanding the difference between the man Jesus, the Indwelling Logos/Son of God which is representative of the Mind of God (see The Logos), and the One Teacher which Jesus commanded all who would call themselves his disciples and followers, were to seek out and learn from (see The True Prophet).   And it was the living of the necessary Consecrated Life that Jesus ordained, and the seeking of the Kingdom within, that enabled the historical Jesus to become the Messiah, and At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   And this is especially demonstrated in the words of Edward Gibbon with respect to the original position of the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).   

The historical and spiritual factualness of these words can be proven when one understands the original words that were spoken to the man Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan River -- when the Voice of God stated: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" -- which means that the historical man Jesus was a man who became the Messiah/Christ when he overcame the Laws and became Anointed by God.    That the later Church of Rome which existed as a puppet under the pagan sun worshipping Emperor Constantine, censored and changed the very words of God spoken to mankind, is the primary reason why the Christian world remains shackled to the abyss of spiritual ignorance to this very day.    In the article The Ten Words,  it will be demonstrated that all the pre-Nicene Christian authors who quoted the baptism sequence in their copies of the Gospels, confirmed that prior to the fourth century editing of the scriptures by Pagan Rome, that the Gospels confirmed that Jesus was a holy man who became the Lord's Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling and overcoming the Laws.    Moreover, in addition to the six (6) pre-Nicene Christian authors who are cited in The Ten Words, this fact is further confirmed in the more ancient surviving biblical texts that modern translators continue to ignore to the spiritual pearl of the Christian world today.     That the modern Church continues to reject the very words of God spoken to mankind, in favor of the censored and corrupted words of the fourth century Emperor of Pagan Rome, is the reason why the modern Church which has caused itself to be spiritually flat-lined, only possesses what Paul portrayed as the "elementary" doctrines that the Church Father Origen defined as being “...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 Origen, Contra Celsum). 

If the original Gospels and the witness of the original disciples and followers of Jesus is true -- and the objective of the original teachings is to bring about a condition of mental and spiritual maturity -- thereby enabling each follower of TheWay to become the Anointed (Messiah/Christ -- then it can be stated that the modern Church dogma has virtually little in common with the original teachings of TheWay.   The difference being whether Jesus was a holy man who became At-One with the Indwelling Logos (aka Son of God/True Prophet), or whether the Church of Constantine was correct in their assertion that Jesus was God-Incarnate?   The Adam Clark Commentary with regard to the passage at Hebrews 1:5 where Paul quotes the original Gospel statement that the Father said of Jesus: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee"  Where the Adam Clark Commentary states: “This most important use of this saying has passed unnoticed by almost every Christian writer which I have seen; and yet it lies here at the foundation of all the apostle's proofs. If Jesus was not thus the Son of God, the whole Christian system is vain and baseless:..."   If the original Gospels are correct -- which teaching was confirmed by the original (Ebionite/Nazirene) disciples and followers of Jesus -- that he was a Holy Man who became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God who was portrayed as The True Prophet, then the whole focus of the modern Church dogma is indeed "...vain and baseless".

"I worship the God of our fathers

As a follower of The Way"
(Acts 24:14 NIV)

  The True (Unknown) Nature And Reality Of The Scriptures: If you had an original copy of the Gospels, you could use them as a catalyst to achieve an Enlightened and Anointed State of Mind -- prevailing over self, mentally and spiritually evolving to your full potential, and overcoming the division between you and your Heavenly Father.  If you had an original copy of the Gospels and used them as the authors intended them to be used, at this moment you could have been Restored to the Edenic Kingdom -- and having overcome even death, you would dwell with your elder brother Jesus who as the first of the prodigal sons to fulfill the Royal Law within himself, completed the Journey in TheWay before you. 

Critics claim that the Gospels are poorly written -- that they contain countless inconsistencies and discordances -- and that they totally lack continuity with both the Old Testament and other Gospels.  Yet, they fail to understand that the alleged inconsistencies and conflicts in the biblical text were intentionally inserted for an ultra-important reason that modern Christians fail to understand.  Further, the removal and editing of these alleged discordances, inconsistencies and supposed conflicts in the scriptures by the scribes and translators, has directly inhibited the Gospels from fulfilling their intended core purpose as the Living Word of God.  The great looming fact is that the scriptures are not historical accounts -- and when used in this manner, they are rendered virtually worthless with respect to their original purpose and objectives.  Moreover, the acceptance of the Old Testament as the forerunner to the Gospels, the Jews as the chosen people, and the adoption of Replacement Theology, has alienated the Church from its True Source, and has caused the spiritual disenfranchisement of Christianity.   The term Old Testament is a deception, because the Gospels are not a replacement for the scriptures of the Jews, because they better reflect the Source than does both Judaism and the Torah.  The Jews were not -- and are not -- the chosen people of God -- and other than the fulfillment of the allegorical spiritual meaning of the Old Testament in ways that are not at all understood, the Gospels have nothing in common with the Old Testament.  Ignorance of the true meaning and purpose of the Gospels, has totally destroyed the Christian path into the Kingdom.   But the good side is seen in the fact that if you are a sincere seeker -- whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim -- after you understand the true spiritual value and reality of the Original Gospels, I will tell you how to get possession of a copy of the Original Gospels.   Why is this important?   Because these sacred writings contain invaluable essential wisdom and knowledge that is not available anywhere else in this world.  

The greatest error of the Gentile-Church which portrayed itself as Orthodox, was made when they attached their religion to the Old Testament of the Jews -- portraying the Jews as the forerunner of the Church.  Why did the Church do this?   To provide the Church with a perception of authenticity -- but what is known as Replacement Theology has been one of the major causes of the demise of Christianity.   In the Homilies of his disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter is quoted as saying:  “Neither, therefore, are the Hebrews condemned on account of their ignorance of Jesus, by reason of Him who has concealed Him, if, doing the things commanded by Moses, they do not hate Him whom they do not know. Neither are those from among the Gentiles condemned, who know not Moses on account of Him who hath concealed him, provided that these also, doing the things spoken by Jesus, do not hate Him whom they do not know."   Which provokes a number of important questions; i.e., each have a separate path into the Kingdom, because they have emerged from totally separate traditions; and, the path which is associated with the Gospels is closer to the original source.   Which further provokes the questions: Who concealed Jesus from the Jews?  And who concealed Moses from the Gentiles?   The answer is, The Laws of God.  By design, Judaism and Christianity were not only supposed to be separate entities, but their very systems of religion are drawn from totally different paths.  And what Peter is correctly stating is that by divine design, they are not only supposed to be separate -- but when Christians judge Jews, they lose access to their own covenanted path.  While it is true that the Gospels are superior to the Old Testament -- it is also true that when the Gentile Church connected itself to the Jews and aligned themselves with the Old Testament, they undermined and suspended their own New Covenant which is founded upon a very different systematic path than is the Old Covenant.   And this is why Paul warns: "Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either" (Rom 11:17-21 NIV).   Paul portrays the Essene, Ebionite Nazirenes as a "remnant" (Rom 11:5) that is representative of a "cultivated olive tree" that the Gentiles are dependent upon to be grafted into.  Yet, the Church of Rome rejected what Paul portrayed as the "cultivated olive tree".  In contradistinction to the fact that it was from the Essene Ebionite Nazirene "cultivated olive" source that the New Covenant was drawn from.  But with the Church's adoption of the Old Testament scriptures that Paul correctly portrayed as the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) which was comprised of "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14), that have totally undermined the spiritual foundation of the Gentile Church.   Why did Paul portray the Torah as  the "letter that killeth"?  Because when it is read literally, it not only has no historical basis -- but because the literal text is a collection of "Jewish fables", more people have been negatively impacted than helped by it. 

In the PBS series, The Bible's Buried Secrets,  archaeologist William Dever of the University of Arizona stated: "It challenges the Bible's stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people."   In further examining the problem it was aserted: "The farther you go in the biblical text, the more difficult it is to find historical material in it," says David Ilan of the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. "The patriarchs go back to Genesis. Genesis is, for the most part, a compilation of myths, creation stories, things like that. And to find a historical core there is very difficult."   For instance, archaeologists have found evidence that a small group of Canaanite slaves escaped from Egypt — not the mass migration described in Exodus.    What both the believers and the critics have yet to understand and acknowledge, is the fact that the biblical authors who were Mystics, purposely wrote the scriptures with unhistorical assertions and events intertwined into the text, in order to inhibit the people from reading them literally or historically -- thereby forcing the intelligent seeker to look beyond what Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth", and seek the inner esoteric meaning.  And it was this alignment with the Old Testament on the part of the Church, that evolved into what can be portrayed as a defilement of the Gospel teachings and a total abandonment of the New Covenant.   Further, the question must also be posed: If salvation was by Grace, then why did Paul warn the Gentiles that if they judge the Jews they should "...be afraid" -- and because of their arrogance, God "...will not spare you either"?  The bottom line is that the Jews are not -- and never were -- the Chosen People.   And when rightly understood, like the people personified in the symbology of dogs and swine who cannot receive what is Holy, the Jews are used as symbols that personify what not to be -- because as the dogs and swine, the Jews cannot receive the Holy Divine Manna of the Kingdom.   Further, in their judgment and condemnation of the Jews as "Christ killers" -- and their attempt to portray themselves as the new chosen people -- they not only blinded themselves to the true spiritual meaning of the Gospels, but also surrendered any claim to be the people of the New Covenant.   Where Paul warned them to "...be afraid" -- they arrogantly chained themselves to a self-imposed diaspora of abject ignorance.   In condemning the Jews in their failure to understand the meaning of the symbol of the Jews, to their own spiritual demise they brought the plight of the Jews upon themselves. 

The foregoing provokes the question: Why were the original Gospels written?  In the same way that Theologian Albert Schweitzer suggested that each person's perception of Jesus is a reflection of their own beliefs (see A Confrontation With Reality) --  and Peter is quoted by his disciple Clement as stating the same truth in relation to what each person sees in the scriptures (quoting from Order Of Inquiry): "...For the Scriptures say all manner of things, that no one of those who inquire ungratefully may find the truth, but simply what he wishes to find".  Which means that each person who opens the scriptures will only see what they already believe to be true.   Yet, Peter warns that the disciple must seek out and learn the correct meaning of the scriptures ONLY from the Shepherd and True Prophet.   Which means that By Design, the scriptures are a reflection of self -- interpreted in accord with the readers already defined beliefs -- and by design, everyone is supposed to perceive and find their own predetermined beliefs in the pages of the scriptures -- believing that the scriptures confirm what they already believe.   And it is this personal vision of the scriptures that enables them to begin to mature and evolve the individual believer.

Using scriptures as a catalyst to bring about an Enlightened Mind was for the most part foreign to the Gentiles.  In the case of Mithraism which was portrayed as the universal religion of the empire, no written narratives or theology from the religion survives today, because they did not use writings for the same reason and purpose as the disciples and followers of Jesus.   As a Mystery religion, Mithraism relied upon a system of teachers and initiation into what they called the seven levels of instruction.  And while Judaism was also an ancient Mystery Religion, it used teacher/rabbis to reveal the inner spiritual meaning of the Torah and associated scriptures.  But the very nature and reality of the extreme allegory used in the Old Testament created an often insurmountable obstacle to the seekers spiritual development.   Thus, in the Zohar which is the foundational writing of Jewish Mysticism is warns with respect to the Torah: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak.   The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not.   The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”.   The Jewish mystic who spends his life seeking the inner meaning of the written word that the natural mind of man is incapable of seeing, has warned: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world..." (The Zohar; Edited by Gershom G. Scholem, Zohar- The Book of Splendor, Basic Readings from the Kabbalah [New York, Schocken Books, 1949]. )What this means is that a person cannot simply read the Torah and ascertain the true meaning.   This profoundly important statement is not only true with respect to the greater body of Jews who can only see the literal text of the Torah, but also the Christians who adopted the literal interpretation of the Torah and Old Testament as the infallible word of God.   Thus, the statement that "...such a man [who sees only the literal text] will be deprived of portion in the next world" is true not only of the Jews who lack the ability to see the spiritual Torah that allegorically lies concealed by the written words, but also the (Orthodox?) Christians who abandoned the Gospels when they embraced the error and folly of the Jews.  With regard to reading the narrative as actual events in history in the manner of the Fundamentalist, or to ignore the meaning of the symbolism in the manner of the skeptics and critics, the Church Father Origen wrote: “What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).  When Clement, the disciple of the Apostle Peter asked him about the true meaning of the scriptures (see Clementine Homilies), Peter confirmed the above statement of Origen and said: “Truly I rejoice, and I give thanks to God, who in all things doeth well. However, he knows that I shall be able to think nothing other than that all things are for God. Wherefore do not suppose that I ask questions, as doubting the words concerning God, or those that are to be spoken, but rather that I may learn, and so be able myself to instruct another who is ingenuously willing to learn. Wherefore tell me what are the falsehoods added to the Scriptures, and how it comes that they are really false. Then Peter answered: Even although you had not asked me, I should have gone on in order, and afforded you the exposition of these matters, as I promised. Learn, then, how the Scriptures misrepresent Him in many respects, that you may know when you happen upon them”.   In his Ecclestical History Eusebius writes that: “Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees”.  

The pre-Nicene Church Father Origen portrays those who see only the written text of the scriptures as "idiots", because the scriptures were written in such a way that the more intelligent will immediately reject the folly of the written word, and seek out the Inner Spiritual meaning.   Therefore, from the perspective of the authors of the scriptures who used the myths of the nomadic and heathen tribe of animal-sacrificing Jews to weave an allegorical portrayal of essential universal truths that were concealed beneath the literal text, only an "idiot" would surrender their gift of reason and sense, and believe in the god of the Old Testament who has been insightfully portrayed as resembling the Wizard of OZ -- i.e., a magical nut case behind the curtain who liked physical circumcision, genocide of non-Jews including killing every woman & child -- a god who made man, then repented he even made man and killed everyone on earth but Noah and his immediate family -- a god who kills a man for trying to steady the ARK, a voodoo god who loves animal sacrifice and blood sprinkling.     

The scriptures themselves bear witness that only those whose eyes and understanding have been opened to the Spirit, are able to discern the True Spiritual Torah that lies concealed beneath the letter of the allegorical written text that is rightly portrayed as "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14).   Where many people think of themselves as a Jew, the name itself has a significant meaning that few who call themselves by this name understand.  Allegorically, the twelve tribes of Israel are representative of the twelve spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life.   A Jew therefore, portrays a person who has received the Law of God -- but because they are carnal in their thinking, and only able to function at 1/12th of their potential of mind -- and in their carnal mindset that Paul portrays as an "animal-soul" level of consciousness, is only able to expresses their very limited understanding of the scriptures outwardly in ritual and tradition.   And this is why Paul correctly stated that there is no salvation in the works/rituals of the Law.  That the Ebionites like their Essene forerunners understood the allegorical nature of the Torah, is the reason why the early Church writer Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites "..do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   For them to be accused of "blaspheming most of the legislation",  means that they did not at all observe the Torah outwardly in accordance with the letter of the written word in the manner of the Jews -- but rather, they understood the allegorical symbolism that was applicable to unlocking the inner door to the Kingdom.   So, with respect to the reason as to why the Ebionites continue to embrace the Torah and the Spiritual Observance of the Law?   Because the scriptures are the means to bring about the necessary expansion and deepening of mind by using the allegorical symbols as catalysts that can't be expressed literally, and have the capacity to develop the Intuitive spheres of mind which enabled them to gain access to their Inner Source of Knowledge that possesses the transformational power that enables the seeker to become Spiritual Israel.      

In contradistinction to the Jews, Israel is a portrayal of a seeker/disciple who has undergone the process of transformation of the physical into the Living Temple where the mind has been brought into a condition of Wholeness -- thereby enabling such a person to utilize the fullness of the twelve spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life.   After eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality (aka Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil) -- which is representative of the division of the male/female spheres of mind as allegorically portrayed in the separation of Adam/Eve into Adam and Eve (see The Restoral Of Adam And Eve ), the statement was made in the allegorical account of Genesis: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever" (Gen 3:22-23).   Thus, the promise is that those who eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, will live forever.  That the Tree of Life is something that all of mankind can gain entrance to, and eat the fruit thereof, is demonstrated in the statement in the Revelation: "'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7).  And the Ebionite Nazirenes are portrayed as being Torah Observant by virtue of their using the scriptures as Jesus taught as the Key of Knowledge by turning the scriptures within their own mind and being -- employing the allegorical symbols and catalysts that are necessary to bring about this necessary Wholeness through the process of the expansion and deepening of Mind and Being -- which was and is the primary objective of the Gospels -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   The Essene Ebionite Nazirenes understood that the integration of the male and female spheres of mind cannot be accomplished through Linear instruction in the manner of modern academia programming of the person -- and the transformational source must employ catalysts that balance out the divided male/female spheres of mind -- enabling the seeker to begin to develop the process of Anamnesis -- which is necessary to develop the ability to tap into the Inner Source of Truth and Knowledge.

Thus, of the Jews of the flesh and the Christians who abandoned the New Covenant in order to embrace the way of the Jews and the Old Testament, these words are applicable that "...woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world".  What this means is that those who see only the outer garb -- regardless of how dedicated they are to the study of the outer words -- have never actually gazed upon the True Torah!  Why? Because only those who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel can see beneath the garb of allegory and perceive the Sacred Wisdom of the scriptures.   But as with all mystery religions that utilize what can be portrayed as extreme allegory which the Apostle Peter portrays as Books With The Power To Deceive which promote Bad Beliefs About God to the masses, more people have been spiritually harmed by the Old Testament than the very small number who have successfully used the Old Testament scriptures for their intended purpose.   And this is why Paul portrayed the literal text of the Old Testament as the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6).  Which means that when the Gentile (Orthodox?) Church adopted their Replacement Theology -- attaching the Church to a literal/historical interpretation of the Old Testament -- they totally alienated the congregation of believers from both the original meaning and objective of the Gospels, as well as the tenets of the New Covenant teachings. 

When rightly understood with respect to the systems being very different, for those few who have developed the capacity and the perceptive spiritual vision to understand the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures, there is absolutely no difference between the inner spiritual meaning of the Old Testament that is immersed in a cloak of extreme allegory, and what is more plainly presented in the New Testament -- which though being allegorical, was written so that the literal text and meaning of the Gospels was useable to the immature seeker.   When rightly understood, the inner spiritual meaning of the Torah is exactly the same as the inner spiritual meaning of the Gospels.  As stated in the words of the Apostle Peter as quoted in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where he explained: "Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old.”    If a Jew had arrived at a condition of spiritual maturity and enlightenment, they would gaze upon the Gospels and conclude that these scriptures are truly the fulfillment of the spiritual objectives of the Torah.  And to both Jew and Christian the words of Peter quoted in the Homilies of Clement confirm the foregoing where Peter is quoted as stating: “For on this account Jesus is concealed from the Jews, who have taken Moses as their teacher, and Moses is hidden from those who have believed Jesus. For, there being one teaching by both, God accepts him who has believed either of these" (see Things Christians Never Tell Jews About The New Testament).    If the Laws of God inhibited the Jews from understanding the Gospels -- and these same Laws inhibited the Christians from understanding the Torah -- then both Jews and Christians should re-evaluate many long-held beliefs.   And if both Old and New present the same exact message in the inner spiritual meaning, only those who have been "...thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine" can rightly be portrayed as understanding their own religious teachings (see The Final Temple And The Primary Lie Of Judaism).   What is allegorically set forth in the Old Testament, must be brought about and fulfilled within the body and mind of the sincere seeker as the physical body itself is transformed into the Living Consecrated Temple as personified in the allegorical symbolism of the Old Testament.   Therefore, the Spiritual Meaning that has been concealed in the allegory of the written word of the Old Testament, is exactly the same as the Gospels -- with the Gospels being written in order to alleviate the need for a rabbi or teacher.

The True Miracle of the Gospels is in their ability to be used as a Spiritual Catalyst which employs allegorical symbols used in the process of Anamnesis to supply the necessary Divine Manna that enables the seeker/disciple to attain an Enlightened and Anointed (Messiah/Christ) state of mind -- a condition of mind that ultimately has the potential to initiate the subsequent stages of birth that restores the lost prodigal son to the Edenic Kingdom which is man's true Source of Being.  In the same way that in the Torah, the Children of Israel had to first be released from a state of slavery -- allegorically, Egypt portrays a condition of "bondage" -- and the simple objective of the written word of the Gospels is to free the seeker/disciple from the bondage and shackles of this world.   In the Torah the Children of Israel had to travail 40 years in the (spiritual) wilderness -- being nourished only by "manna from heaven".   They could not make this manna themselves.  They could not obtain manna from any source in this world.  There was no manna peddlers or clergy-type manna dispensers.   Manna could only be provided by One Source -- directly from God.   And with the exception of the sixth day, no more manna was given than could and would be consumed in that day -- allegorically indicating that Divine Manna could not and can not be dispensed in bulk -- but has to be provided as the seeker progressed upon each level of evolving spiritual maturity.   And this is why the first century Elder Ignatius -- as with all the biblical authors -- 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.     

In their original condition the Gospels contained important spiritual teachings and concepts that prepared the seeker/disciple to employ the process of Anamnesis to receive the Divine Manna of the Kingdom.   The Gospels were not themselves the manna.   No one could read the Gospels and perceive the manna.  Because the Gospels were a text-book on the transformational changes that the seeker/disciple had to bring about in their own lives to begin to receive the Divine Manna that can only be imparted to a seeker in accord with their condition and ability to receive the Spiritual Nourishment (Knowledge) that can only be received directly from God.    In the parable of the Sower and the Seed, the ability to receive the Divine Manna is in direct relation to that person's ability to become the "good ground" that permits the Living Word to evolve them into a condition of Spiritual Maturity.  To ignore this parable as modern Christians do, is to render them spiritually impotent and disenfranchised.   When the disciples asked Jesus about the meaning of the parable of the Sower and the Seed, Jesus replied: “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).  Which means that only those who have become a sincere and genuine disciple of TheWay -- abandoning the thinking, mindset and lifestyles of this world -- and travailing in TheWay in strict accord with the original Gospel teachings -- can understand the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel.  As Jesus confirmed: “Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” (Mark 4:13).   Which means that unless you transform yourself into what is portrayed in the parable as the "good ground", it will remain impossible for you to perceive beneath the allegorical facade of the Gospels, and understand the true spiritual meaning.  And while the literal text of the Gospels were designed to be used as a basis for one's life -- and does not inflict that damage that Peter portrays as Bad Beliefs About God as is the case with the Old Testament -- unless you undergo the transformation that opens your heart and mind to the inner spiritual meaning -- enabling you to receive the Divine Manna directly from the indwelling Logos/Son of God -- you will remain immature and undeveloped.  

In the Greek language this higher Knowledge is rendered differently than the knowledge of man -- thereby differentiating the difference between the wisdom and knowledge of man -- and in the Greek language this very different form of Experiential Spiritual-Received Knowledge is portrayed as Gnosis.  And when rightly understood, there exists words and realties that cannot be redefined by man.   Therefore, Gnosis is a portrayal of one of those words that are beyond man's ability to redefine -- and it indicates Spiritual Knowledge revealed and received directly to man by God.   What is portrayed in the Greek word Gnosis, cannot be written in a book.   It cannot be taught by one man to another.   Gnosis is not at all an alternative historical tradition that was suppressed by the Church or any other group.   Gnosis has nothing to do with the wisdom of this world.   It is impossible to study Gnosis in a school, college or university.   Those scriptures which have been labeled Gnostic Scriptures, are not -- and they contain no Divine Manna whatsoever.   And while the allegorical text may present differing accounts in the historical facade of the written word, what is being presented is nothing more than a different allegorical cloak.   When it is acknowledged that it is impossible to portray or present the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom in a comprehensible format -- whether spoken or written -- to man in his untransformed "animal-soul" level of natural organic consciousness (see Animal-Soul), the whole fabrication of Gnostic Gospels is a bogus spiritual fraud created by the self-proclaimed Orthodox Church.   The fact that different groups use a different allegorical facade in their sacred writings, does not at all mean that these writings contain the Divine Manna or Gnosis.   Many Christian groups did not want any connection to the Old Testament that Peter correctly portrayed as the Books With The Power To Deceive which promote Bad Beliefs About God to the masses that causes them to be spiritually disenfranchised.  These Christian groups understood that the Jews were not the chosen people of God as the self-proclaimed Orthodox Church proclaimed -- and did not want their own body of believers to suffer the same fate as those who embraced the folly of Replacement Theology.   They therefore used different allegorical accounts that did not make any connection to the Jews.  

The Gospel of Thomas portrays this world as dwelling in a state of abject intellectual poverty, because the wisdom of this world is devoid of the essential elements of what can be portrayed as Higher Spiritual Knowledge -- the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- or, in the Greek language what is portrayed as Gnosis.   Therefore, any religious group that is anti-Gnosis, is against receiving the Divine Manna of the Kingdom that only God can dispense -- and has no part in the True Original Gospel purpose, meaning and objectives of the scriptures -- which must be used as a text-book to be fully embraced by those seeking the Divine Manna of the Kingdom.  In the Book of Numbers, chapter 11, those who desire the doctrines and dogma of men -- i.e., the wisdom of this world -- are allegorically portrayed as those seeking to eat the meat they had previously consumed when they were slaves in Egypt.   In the allegorical account, they were provided quails to eat instead of the manna which they rejected.  And while the dead-flesh was still in their mouths, they were struck down and perished.   And allegorically, what is portrayed is the fate of those who cling to the doctrines and dogma of men for their nourishment, while rejecting and standing in opposition to receiving the Divine Manna (Gnosis) that can only be received directly from the Hand of God by those who transform themselves into the "good ground" that is able to receive and receive the Divine Manna while they travail in TheWay (see The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma ).   The primary purpose of the scriptures is to be used as a text-book that brings about the expansion and deepening of mind and consciousness, thereby enabling the seeker to begin to receive the Divine Manna (Gnosis) of the Kingdom -- which can only be received in accord with each person's desire and ability to transform their body and mind into the "good ground".    

One of the primary purposes and objectives of the Gospels was to employ the process of Anamnesis as a means to nourish the mind of the seeker/disciple by the Divine Manna of the Kingdom while they are in their transition stage of travailing in the spiritual wilderness of TheWay.    In the same way that while in the wilderness the Children of Israel were nourished by the manna from heaven, the true seeker is nourished by the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- both of which in the Greek language is portrayed as Gnosis.  Under the heading of Gnosticism, the Encyclopedia Britannica states: “Among the majority of the followers of the movement, 'Gnosis' was understood not as meaning 'knowledge' or 'understanding', in our sense of the word, but 'revelation'. These little Gnostic sects and groups all lived in the conviction that they possessed a secret and mysterious knowledge, in no way accessible to those outside, which was not to be proved or propagated, but believed in by the initiated, and anxiously guarded as a secret. This knowledge of theirs was not based on reflection, on scientific inquiry and proof, but on revelation. It was derived directly from the times of primitive Christianity, from the Savior himself and from his disciples and friends, with whom they claimed to be connected by a secret tradition, or else from later prophets, of whom many sects boasted. It was laid down in wonderful mystic writings, which were in the possession of the various circles”.  Those Christians who had prepared themselves to receive the Higher Knowledge imparted directly to them by the Logos, must be understood as the Christians who Paul portrayed as having gone beyond the "milk" of the Gospel, and were able to receive the "solid food" from Spirit -- i.e., “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit” (1 Cor 2:10 KJV).   

Regarding these two groups of Christians -- i.e., the faith-based entry-level immature Christians who could only be given what Paul called the "testimony" of Christ (see Animal-Soul) which the Church Father Origen defined as being “...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 Origen, Contra Celsum) -- and the spiritually mature Christians who were no longer in need of the "milk" of the Gospel intended to nourish "babes in Christ", Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography states: “We have no reason to think that the earliest Gnostics intended to found sects separated from the Church and called after their own names. Their disciples were to be Christians, elevated above the rest as acquainted with deeper mysteries, and called Gnostikoi because possessed of a Gnosis superior to the simple faith of the multitude… They also boasted to be in possession of genuine apostolical traditions, deriving their doctrines, some from St. Paul, others from St. Peter, and others again from Judas, Thomas, Philip, and Matthew. In addition moreover, to [this] secret doctrine which they professed to have received by oral tradition, they appealed also to alleged writings of the apostles themselves or their disciples”.  Which, while ignored by the faith-based Christians, is confirmed in the ignored words of Jesus when he was asked by his disciples why he ONLY spoke to the multitudes in parables: “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).

When Paul uses the term Christ -- the English translation of the word is the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) -- and the objective of the teachings of the New Covenant is embodied in the words: "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you" (Gal 4:19 KJV).   If the believer received Christ with baptism, or the saying of a prayer accepting the Lord as their personal savior, then these words could never have been written by Paul to the congregation of the Galatians.   Even though the congregation had turned to Christ, Paul speaks of the process of birth that must be brought about "...until Christ be formed in you".   The dictionary defines the word travail:  "(1) very hard work; toil (2) labor pains; pains of childbirth (3) intense pain; agony".   Thus, the birth process that transforms the believer from a "babe in Christ", to a "mature and perfect" disciple who has experienced Christ formed in them, requires great effort that is not in any manner represented in modern Christian Church doctrine.  

The arduous objective of striving to achieve the next stage of birth, is further presented in the goal that all those who are of an organic mind and spiritually immature, will over the course of many lifetimes evolve "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13 NKJ).   But to understand what Paul is presenting, it is important to understand one of the surviving quotations of the Original Matthew  known as the Gospel of the Hebrews/Ebionites where St. Jerome preserved the text at the baptism (quoting Jerome): "But according to the gospel which the Nazaraeans read, written up in Hebrew speech: The whole fount of the holy spirit shall descend over him.... Further on in the gospel of which we made mention above we find these things written: But it happened that, when the Lord ascended from the water, the whole fount of the holy spirit descended and rested over him, and said to him: My son, in all the prophets I was expecting you, that you should come, and I might rest in you. You indeed are my rest. You are my firstborn son, who reigns in eternity."   To which Jerome correctly explains  "not partially as in the case of other holy men."

While the prophets and holy men of the past had received the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) that enabled them to understand the Mysteries of the Kingdom to the degree that they were able to receive the Anointing, only the historical man Jesus had so fulfilled the Law within himself, and was therefore able to receive "...the whole fount of the Holy Spirit".   Thus, this original teaching is preserved by the early Church writer Hippolytus when he stated that it was the position of the Ebionite followers of Jesus that he "was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ."  And in speaking of this original Ebionite Nazirene position, he writes that when each disciple "...thus fulfills the law, they are able to become Christs, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity."  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   And it is this spiritually evolved objective of the teachings of the New Covenant that Paul is making reference to when he states that each believer is to be matured into "...a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13 NKJ).  

After reading the foregoing where the biblical authors warn that it is impossible for a man of a "natural" human consciousness to read the literal text of the scriptures and discern the higher truth and understand the inner spiritual meaning of the written word, every SINCERE Christian should want to know why Paul warned that it was impossible for the baptized and confirmed Christians who he personally taught, would reject the higher knowledge of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness"?   This is not a reality that the intelligent and conscientious seeker can just skim over and ignore.   In fact, it is one of those immutable red lines that have been drawn in the sands of life.   It is in fact parallel to the statement of Jesus with respect to the parable of the Sower and the Seed where it is stated: If you don't understand this parable, it will remain impossible for you to understand ANY parable -- or enigma of scripture and all of Life.   To the degree that believers, clergy and critics alike have spent their lives studying the scriptures -- and because they failed to heed these words presented in the scriptures -- they have never been able to evolve their thinking and knowledge beyond an infantile level of comprehension.

Further, that the body of Bible readers are warned that whatever is written in the text possesses a deeper unseen meaning that is incomprehensible from a "natural" human perspective, is also simply skipped over and ignored by the vast majority of faith-based believers.   Which is why Paul warns that you cannot simply read the written word of the scriptures and discern the higher truth of the Gospel -- even portraying the literal text of the scriptures as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14).   Why?   Why did Paul portray the written text in this manner?  Because the written text is an allegorical cloak that preserves and conceals the inner unseen meaning that only those with the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the evolved and spiritually matured comprehension to understand, will be able to discern the true meaning of the scriptures.   Yet, the vast majority of Christians throughout history have chosen to totally ignore this warning -- to the degree that the Christian world has come to embody the reality portrayed in the very words of Jesus when he was asked why he only spoke to the multitudes in parables, and stated: “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).   Which reality of imposed deafness, blindness and barrier to 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...”.  

What is clear is the fact that neither Jesus or Paul could speak plainly to the people they taught.  Jesus went as far as stating that the  "...secret of the kingdom of God" only belonged to his select few disciples who had left home and totally abandoned the ways of this world -- which embodied the meaning and condition of mind portrayed in the word Ebionite, meaning the "poor-ones" -- and followed him daily.  Paul portrayed the faith-based Christians as "babes in Christ" who were only capable of receiving the "milk" of the Gospel because they were still "natural" organic men who was said to be of an "animal-soul" level of spiritual immaturity (see Animal-Soul).    Which provokes the question: What makes the modern person -- and even the modern believer -- any different than the baptized and confirmed believers who was portrayed as having received all the gifts of the spirit who Paul personally instructed and taught?   Sadly, the only answer is: Absolutely Nothing!   In the same way that Paul warned that because of the immature condition of mind that he portrayed as still being of a "natural" (human) consciousness, that the Christians where were only capable of receiving the "milk" of the Gospel -- and they would reject the higher knowledge of the Gospel as utter "foolishness" if he was to dare to even speak of man's higher soul and spiritual reality.   And this inability of those who Paul portrayed as "natural" organic man to comprehend the higher knowledge of the soul and spirit was referenced by the 2nd century Bishop Clement of Alexandria in the profound statement: “The Lord… allowed us to communicate to those Divine Mysteries, and of that holy light, to those who are able to receive them. He did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many; but to the few to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving and being molded according to them”.  

That the higher spiritual knowledge and meaning of the Gospel could only be received by those who had properly purified and prepared themselves to receive this higher knowledge, was presented in the words of the Church Father Origen when he explained: “Whoever has clean hands, and therefore lifts up holy hands to God… let him come to us… Whoever is pure, not only from all defilement, but from what are regarded as lesser transgressions, let him be boldly initiated into the mysteries of Jesus, which properly are made known only to the holy and the pure… To those who have been purified in heart, he whose soul has for a long time, been conscious of no evil, especially since he yielded himself to the healing of the Word, let such a one hear the doctrines which were spoken in private by Jesus to his genuine disciples”.   Which provokes the all-important question: How does a person become spiritual?   The long ignored answer is that there are no shortcuts or dispensations --  and that the only means to fulfill the requirement which brings about the transformation of the seeker is for them to live and sincerely embrace the Original Gospel Teachings in word, thought, desire and deed.   With the bottom line being that to Possess the Truth, one must surrender and themselves become Possessed by the Truth -- and the Truth, alone.   And until the seeker/disciple begins to bring this transformative condition about in their daily lives, they will remain deaf, dumb and blind to both the true meaning of the scriptures, as well as the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.   Which is confirmed by the Paul in the words: “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught” (1 Cor 2:6 KJV).   Throughout all of Christian history, the body of believers who Paul portrayed as too "carnal" to receive and understand the higher knowledge of the spirit, have been unable to understand the Paul's words when he wrote: “But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 Cor 13:10 KJV). The dilemma is that if a Christian fails to go beyond the milk of the gospel, “that which is perfect” can never come. The carnal believer never embraces the words: “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim 3:17 KJV).

When rightly understood, there is no such thing as what is ignorantly portrayed as Gnostic scriptures today.   By virtue of the very nature of Higher Spiritual Knowledge, no scripture or spiritual writing composed in the words of man can literally contain the Divine Manna -- or, in the Greek language, Gnosis.  The scriptures act as a catalyst that enables the seeker/disciple to fulfill the prophesy: "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).   The scriptures themselves are not the Divine Manna or Words of God -- but when used in accord with the right mindset and lifestyle, enable the symbols and catalysts used in the scriptures to develop those areas of mind that permit the seeker/disciple to begin to tap into the Inner Source of Truth and Knowledge that is impossible to express in the words and languages of mankind.  As stated in the 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”.  One of the primary objectives and purposes of the Gospels was to bring about the necessary deepening and expansion of mind that enabled the seeker/disciple through the process of Anamnesis, to begin to tap into this Inner Source of Divine Knowledge and learn directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God that was portrayed as The True Prophet -- quoting 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".   And what this means is that the scriptures are not themselves the Word of God -- but rather, the means by which the seeker/disciple can attain the necessary Spiritual Maturity to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom and receive the Divine Manna directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   But this is possible only when the scriptures are used for their intended purpose.  And this is allegorically portrayed in the Torah in the teaching that Moses (the Law) could not lead the Children of Israel across the Jordan and into the Promised Land -- which could only be accomplished by Joshua (a.k.a. Yeshua or Jesus).  Allegorically, neither Joshua in the Torah or Yeshua/Jesus in the Gospels portrayed an actual historical person -- but rather, a condition of mind that enabled the seeker/disciple to receive the Spiritual Anointing and the most Pure Spiritual Nourishment or Knowledge/Manna which is allegorically portrayed as the Body and Blood of Messiah/Christ.   In the parable of TheCall to the Wedding Feast (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), those who come to TheCall must have put on the Wedding Garment of Purity, in order to sit at the Table of the Lord and receive the Bread of the Kingdom (see New Covenant Sacraments ). 

Few even understand the foundation of The New Covenant -- i.e., "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them" (Heb 8:10-11 NKJ).  Yet, the Christian world has rejected the very foundation of the New Covenant by virtue of countless teachers, Bible Commentaries, a mass of Bible interpretations  and the adoption of man-made dogma that inhibits the believer's spiritual advancement.  Thus, the reality of the words of Isaiah have enveloped the modern faith-based believers in the quagmire of their own self-imposed spiritual shackles: "For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Isa 9:6).    And when rightly understood, the resounding truth is that the modern believers have chosen tradition and man-made dogma over the Knowledge of the Original Teachings associated with the New Covenant -- i.e., "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee..." (Hos 4:6).   Christians dwell in a parallel Diaspora of abject spiritual ignorance, because they use and read the scriptures in the same way that the Pharisees did when Jesus condemned them as blind guides for throwing away the Key of Knowledge.   And the fact that the Pharisees had thrown away what Jesus called the Key of Knowledge, and attempted to read the scriptures without first bringing about the necessary spiritual transformation and this opening and enlightenment of the mind, is why Jesus portrayed them as the offspring of the Devil -- i.e., "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).   Thus, what the Gospels state is that in the same way that the Pharisees could not hear and understand the words of Jesus, modern Christians have chosen to shackle themselves to this same blindness and inability to understand the teachings in the Gosples.   The fact that modern Christians read the scriptures in the same exact way as the Pharisees who Jesus accused of leading the people in the wrong direction, means that the modern Christians are no different than the Jews. 

In the same way that carnal Jews are blind to the spiritual meaning of the Torah, so too are carnal Christians blind to the spiritual meaning of the Gospels.   Yet, like the Jews, the Gentiles were in dire need of receiving scriptures that had the capacity to evolve and raise them up.  And in the same way that the most sacred scriptures such as the Books of Enoch were never given into the hands of the Pharisees by the Essenes, neither was the most spiritual of Gospels given into the hands of the Gentiles (see Spiritual Gospels Never Given To The Gentiles).  Therefore, when secondary (dumbed) down versions of the scriptures were given into the hands of the Gentiles, they (the Gentiles) continued to remain shackled by their pagan beliefs -- and, shackled by their carnal mindset that the Bible itself warns causes a person to be blind and incapable of comprehending the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, they maintained that the Ebionite Nazirenes who walked and talked with Jesus daily, were "too Jewish to understand the teachings of Jesus".   As pagan sun-worshipers, they saw something entirely different in the scriptures and Gospel message than did the people of the New Covenant who bore the title Spiritual Israel.   The truth and the facts of the matter is very clearly expressed in the words of Prof. Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, where he warns us that: "...theological disputes, specifically disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy" -- which orthodoxy was to bring the text of the Bible into conformity with the doctrines and tenets of the Church of the Roman Emperor Constantine.   With regard to the condition of the Bible we presently use: In his book The Text of the New Testament, Dr. Vincent Taylor writes that "The manuscripts of the New Testament preserve traces of two kinds of dogmatic alterations: those which involve the elimination or alteration of what was regarded as doctrinally unacceptable or inconvenient, and those which introduce into the Scriptures proof for a favorite theological tenet or practice".  To put Dr. Taylor's words in perspective: What Dr. Taylor is stating is that, whatever doctrine Jesus taught which the Church of the Roman Empire did not agree with, there is overwhelming evidence that the church corrupters removed what was objectionable from their perspective.  In like manner, whatever doctrines the Church regarded as being true, regardless of whether that belief was supported in the scriptures, the Church inserted this belief into the Bible in an attempt to make it authentic.  What Dr. Taylor is warning us is there is good reason to conclude that our scriptures have been rewritten by the Church of Constantine. Now the question that is being posed here is whether you believe the theological tenets of Rome, or the disciples of Christ -- because the two are not the same (see The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma ). Those among the Gentiles who were able to make spiritual progress were often portrayed as Gnostics, because they placed great emphasis on the ability of to be nourished by the Divine Manna while dwelling in the spiritual wilderness of TheWay. 

An Important Truth is contained in the Epistle of Peter to James where it is stated:  "Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error.   Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should  communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others."   Those Gentiles outside of the original Ebionite/Nazirene core of disciples and followers of Jesus, were quick to corrupt all the copies of the scriptures that were given to them.   And this fact is confirmed to us  by Dr. F. H. Scrivener where he writes that: "In the second century we have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious, others positively dishonest". Scrivener states that "it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church" used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament).    Dean Burgon quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the source of corruptions that survive in the early papyri: "The Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously corrupted. Laying violent hands upon them, under pretense of correcting them" (Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323).   Eusebius (Eccleastical History), citing the second century Church Father Clement of Alexandria: "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected originated within one hundred years after it was composed."   In the words of Colwell (What is the Best New Testament Text?, p.119)  "The first two centuries witnessed the creations of the large number of variations known to scholars today.  In the manuscripts of the New Testament most variations, I believe, were made deliberately."   G.D. Kilpatrick (Atticism and the Text of the Greek New Testament, pp 125-131):  "Deliberate changes in all text types appear to antedate A.D. 200..as distinct from errors... all categories of deliberate alteration...  are present in both groups. Tatian is the last author of make deliberate changes. The vast majority of deliberate changes were older then A.D. 200.  They came into being in the period A.D. 50-200."

An Inconvenient Reality: It can be easily understood why the Ebionite/Nazirene disciples of Jesus not only did not give the Greek converts who edited and corrupted the text of their scriptures, but the Ebionite/Nazirenes also withheld the most spiritual and important scriptures to be preserved only in their care.   Thus, Peter writes to James: "Knowing, my brother, your eager desire after that which is for the advantage of us all, I beg and beseech you not to communicate to any one of the Gentiles the books of my preachings which I sent to you, nor to any one of our own tribe before trial; but if any one has been proved and found worthy, then to commit them to him, after the manner in which Moses delivered his books to the Seventy who succeeded to his chair.  Wherefore also the fruit of that caution appears even till now. For his countrymen keep the same rule of monarchy and polity everywhere, being unable in any way to think otherwise, or to be led out of the way of the much-indicating Scriptures. For, according to the rule delivered to them, they endeavor to correct the discordances of the Scriptures, if any one, haply not knowing the traditions, is confounded at the various utterances of the prophets. Wherefore they charge no one to teach, unless he has first learned how the Scriptures must be used. And thus they have amongst them one God, one law, one hope" (see Epistle Of Peter And James).

When Peter wrote to Jacob/James that "...they endeavor to correct the discordances of the Scriptures, if any one, haply not knowing the traditions, is confounded at the various utterances of the prophets" -- the discordances of the scriptures which were the historical untruths that were intentionally inserted into the text for an ultra-important reason.   And with the removal of these discordances by the scribes of the Gentile Church, the scriptures suffered a loss of their effectiveness in relation to their true purpose and objective.   But just as important is the statement that  "...Wherefore they charge no one to teach, unless he has first learned how the Scriptures must be used".   And herein lies the problem: The modern Christian is absolutely clueless as to "...how the Scriptures must be used"!!!   And thus, because of this state of abject ignorance in conjunction with the editing and removal of what is portrayed as the discordances and many of the most important original Gospel teachings, the Church has rendered the study of the Gospels virtually worthless.   In the words of the Church Father Origen: “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).  The authors of the scriptures did not compose historical accounts -- but because of the inability of the faith-based believers to comprehend their own higher Soul and Spiritual reality, the authors used a quasi-historical cloak to allegorically present important teachings and concepts that could not be comprehended by the human organic "natural" level of mind.   And what Peter portrays as the "discordances" of the scriptures -- what Origen correctly portrays as the "...unhistorical element in-woven with the history" -- not only inhibits the person from reading the scriptures literally/historically -- but in most instances presents an ultra-important spiritual truth.  But when the faith-based Gentile Church attempted to correct these discordances and unhistorical events, they ignorantly inhibited the process of mental and spiritual development which was and is the primary purpose the scriptures were written.   Thereby causing them to remain permanently bound to what the Church Father Origen portrayed as the fate of the immature Christian when he stated that the elementary "testimony" of Christ 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 Origen, Contra Celsum).   Leading a better life was the beginning of the Gospel teachings -- evolving and becoming spiritually transformed was the primary objective.

To the people who Paul had taught the Gospel message, Paul confessed that "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ" (1 Cor 3:1) -- yet, he also stated that "However, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing" (1 Cor 2:6).  In their original condition and format, the scriptures were designed to evolve those who Paul portrays as being of an organic "natural" human consciousness (see Animal-Soul), into the "spiritually mature/perfect" transformed consciousness that enables the seeker/disciple to receive the Divine Manna directly form the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   And with respect to the true purpose and objective of the scriptures, the statement of Peter's that is not at all understood today -- i.e, "...Wherefore they charge no one to teach, unless he has first learned how the Scriptures must be used" -- is parallel to a statement of Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where Peter is quoted as explaining with respect to a discussion on the nature of the scriptures when Simon Magus stated to Peter: “Then said Simon: 'You are manifestly avoiding the hearing of the charge from the Scriptures against your God.'" To which Peter then replied: "'You yourself appear to me to be doing this; for he who avoids the order of inquiry, does not wish a true investigation to be made. Hence I, who proceed in an orderly manner, and wish that the writer should first be considered, am manifestly desirous to walk in a straight path’”.  

What, then, the intelligent seeker must ask, is the order of inquiry?  In these words are noted the most profound error of both Bible believers as well as the critics today who only perceive what is literally written in the narrative of the written word.   Believers see and read the scriptures in the manner predicated by their predefined doctrines of belief, while ignoring the very warning of the scriptures that it is their own perception of the Word that is in error.   Simon wants to engage Peter and use the scriptures to prove that the world was created by a lesser god.   Peter states that By Design, anyone can prove almost any doctrine by using the scriptures -- and therefore, before the scriptures can be understood, the “writer should first be considered” -- which means that unless you read the scriptures in accord with their original intended purpose, you render the scriptures worthless.  Quoting one of the opening statements above in the heading of this article: "...the scriptures are exactly what the original authors intended them to be".   And if the person fails to first understand "...how the Scriptures must be used", whatever interpretation they embrace will be in grave error.

  Original Design Of Gospels: The Gospels were designed to evolve the mind of the seeker beyond what Paul portrayed as the "animal-soul" level of "natural" human consciousness, into a condition of mental and spiritual maturity -- thereby enabling the necessary subsequent stages of birth to be brought about (see Mental-Womb).   And the scriptures were able to accomplish this by presenting to the reader important allegorical symbols that employed the process of Anamnesis to connect and prepare the person to receive ultra-important impressions from their Inner Self (see SoulSelf.org ) -- thereby enabling the sincere seeker to begin to tap into the Inner Source of Knowledge and Truth that Enlightens the mind of the seeker.   The problem is that the scriptures can only function in accord with their original design, when used in accord with the original objectives of the authors.   Thus, by using the process of Anamnesis which enables the seeker to evolve their mind and thinking beyond organic ("natural") limitations that has cast mankind into what the Gospel portrays as the "outer darkness" of mind and being, the seeker/disciple is able to bring heaven and earth together within him, and consciously become restore to the Edenic Kingdom.   Which provokes the question: If it is true that the purpose of the scriptures was to initiate the expansion and deepening of the mind in order to attain a spiritually mature level of consciousness, then what did the authors of the scriptures know that is not know today -- either by modern religious leaders, or those who are portrayed as teachers in academia?  The answer to this question will be as difficult for the modern reader to come to terms with, because we erroneously believe that we know and understand a great deal more than the people of the past -- when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.  It is simply inconceivable to modern academia that while their very methods of education impose upon them a condition of being mentally flat-lined and self-imposed stagnation, it will remain virtually impossible for them to come to terms with the reality that there were enlightened people in the past who possessed a base of knowledge that they are totally ignorant of.   And this base of knowledge can best be portrayed as Self-Knowledge -- about which Jesus stated in the Gospel of Thomas: "Jesus said, ...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".   In today's cultural environment no person in modern academia would even seriously consider the reality presented in this statement.   Those who believe they are highly educated and knowing, remain absolutely clueless as to what is being portrayed in the reality of the words, Know Thyself.   It would be virtually impossible for them to understand that they presently dwell in a state of intellectual-poverty.   Yet, because they fail to understand what can be portrayed as the Cosmology of Mind and Being (see Tree of Life) -- in conjunction with the Natural Laws of Creation -- academia remains mentally flat-lined with absolutely no chance of true enlightenment.  Why?  Because they have built their paradigm of thinking upon a seriously flawed foundation that has left them shackled in the dungeon of abject ignorance. 

When rightly understood, the purpose of the Gospels was to present the sincere seeker with a ladder to climb out of the human condition portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- the plight of being a prisoner in Plato's Cave of Illusions -- both of which undeveloped conditions of mind are portrayed as dwelling under the control of the Citizen of the Far Country in the parable of the Prodigal Son.   And what the scriptures provided the sincere seeker was a ladder to climb out -- level upon level -- the plight of organic man to overcome his inherent condition of human ignorance.  

  The Original Spiritual Language Of The Gospels: The Original Living Gospels used by the Ebionite Nazirenes were composed in Living Biblical Hebrew that has been portrayed as Hebrew Characters -- a language and text that did not contain vowels.   With respect to what I portray as the difference between the Living Biblical Hebrew versus the language used by the Jews in the Masoretic Text, quoting Masoretic Text vs. Original Hebrew: "Historical research reveals five significant ways in which the Masoretic Text is different from the original Old Testament: The Masoretes admitted that they received corrupted texts to begin with. The Masoretic Text is written with a radically different alphabet than the original. The Masoretes added vowel points which did not exist in the original. The Masoretic Text excluded several books from the Old Testament scriptures. The Masoretic Text includes changes to prophecy and doctrine."  With respect to the Masoretic versions of the scriptures which are used by the Jews, in the words of the prophet Jeremiah: "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'?  But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie" (Jer 8:8).  Thus, a sincere seeker will ask: Is the position of the Church true that God stood sentinel over the scriptures?  Based upon what we do know regarding the purity of the Bible, Christians today should be greatly alarmed.   Quoting Prof. Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Prof. Burrows writes: “There are those who believe or assume that the Greek and Hebrew texts from which our translations are made are infallible. No person who has studied textual criticism at all could believe that. The most conservative scholars in the most conservative churches recognize that the text has become corrupt at many points in the course of its transmission. If that were not already well known and universally admitted, the Dead Sea Scrolls would demonstrate it conclusively”  (see BibleCorruption.com ).  From a Gospel perspective, more important than the corruptions of what is portrayed in Jeremiah as "...the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie", is the translation of the original scriptures from Living Biblical Hebrew Characters into "...the Masoretic Text [which] is written with a radically different alphabet than the original."  Yet, the Living Biblical Hebrew texts of the Original Scriptures have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and were used by the Essenes -- who were the real authors of both the Old Testament and the New Testament Gospels (see The Essene Foundation Of Judaism And Christianity).   

The vast majority of Jewish rabbis and scholars attempt to ignore the above.   Why?  Because the facts demonstrate a valid spiritual connection between the Essenes and the Ebionite Nazirenes.  In the words of Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro in his book, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity, he writes: “It is a fact that the Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the Johannine writings and many longheld conceptions have had to be radically revised.  No longer can John be regarded as the most Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his Gnosticism, and the whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.”  The Jewish rabbis and scholars attempted to portray the Gospels as being of Greek (Hellenistic) origin.   But this counterfeit position had to be radically revised when it was demonstrated that the spiritual foundation of the Gospels was with the Essenes.   Moreover, to portray the Gospel of John as the most Gnostic, demonstrates that its foundation was the very Gnostic Essenes.   

A quotation of St. Jerome is important to understand why the Original Gospels were written in Hebrew Characters -- Of this Hebrew original of Matthew, St. Jerome wrote to the Bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus: "A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another".  The scriptures composed in Biblical Hebrew Characters could ONLY be used and  "...possessed by the men most religious" who were taught the spiritual meaning of the written word by the Holy Spirit.   And that the most spiritual Gospels were never given into the hands of the Gentiles is confirmed in the Epistle of Peter To James where it is written: "Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error.   Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others."   

The words of Jerome is important where he wrote that "...and its text they related some one way and some another".   Having no vowels, the text could be read and sounded in any number of ways -- often in perspective of the level of spiritual understanding of the reader.  Which is why Jerome wrote that "...For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them."   Jerome not only admitted that the scriptures given over to the Gentiles were (dumbed) down Greek copies intended for the common body of Gentiles who could not comprehend man's higher Soul and Spiritual Reality -- but that this higher spiritual knowledge belonged only to those who were the "...most religious" --  with Peter even requiring the more spiritual among the Ebionite Nazirenes to be tested as demonstrated in the words: "..I beg and beseech you not to communicate to any one ...of our own tribe before trial; but if any one has been proved and found worthy, then to commit them to him, after the manner in which Moses delivered his books to the Seventy who succeeded to his chair."  In the words of Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata: “The Lord… allowed us to communicate those Divine Mysteries, and of that holy light, to those who are able to receive them. He did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many; but to the few to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving and being molded according to them. But Secret things are entrusted to speech, not to writing as in the case with God. And if one says that it is written, 'there is nothing secret which shall not be revealed, nor hidden which shall not be disclosed', let him also hear from us, that to him who hears secretly, even what is secret shall be manifested. This is what is predicted by this oracle. And to him who is able secretly to observe what is delivered to him, that which is veiled shall be disclosed as truth; and what is hidden to the many shall appear manifest to the few”.

The believers of the simple-faith who made no spiritual progress, are portrayed by Clement as those who "the Lord ...did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many" -- and because the faith-based believers remained incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the Soul and Spirit, Paul stated to the faith-based Christians: "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).   In contradistinction, those who used the scriptures in the manner they were intended to be used, are those of whom Clement said that “The Lord… allowed us to communicate those Divine Mysteries, and of that holy light, to those who are able to receive them..."   The Original Gospels used by the Ebionite Nazirenes were written in Hebrew Characters, because it was a spiritual language that was able to contain multiple levels of spiritual instruction for those who possessed the eyes to see and the mind to comprehend the higher spiritual knowledge that could not be imparted to the multitude of believers.  

Thus, the most important scriptures were not only never given into the hands of the Gentiles who further corrupted even the lesser (dumbed down) copies that they had received, but because of their untransformed mindset and lifestyle, they would be incapable of understanding both the true inner meaning of these Sacred Scriptures, or what Paul portrayed as the Mysteries of God that would be rejected as "foolishness" by the "natural" mind of organic man (see Animal-Soul).   But which are the more genuine?   The Original Gospels that were never given over into the hands of the Gentiles?   Or the dumbed down scriptures designed for the spiritually immature Gentiles?  Quoting Prof. Hugh Schonfield: "The Gospel according to the Hebrews is a literary outlaw with a price on its head; but in spite of the scholarly hue and cry it still evades capture. Neither monastic libraries nor Egyptian rubbish heaps have so far yielded up a single leaf of this important document....  For behind Hebrews lies the unknown potentialities of the Nazarene tradition, which may confirm or contradict some of the most cherished beliefs of Orthodox Christianity. It is useless for certain theologians to designate Hebrews as 'secondary' on the evidence of the present fragmentary remains preserved in quotation.... Judged by ancient testimony alone it is indisputable that Hebrews has the best right of any Gospel to be considered a genuine apostolic production;... Here is obviously a most valuable witness, perhaps the most valuable witness to the truth about [Yeshua]... whom even a jury composed entirely of orthodox Christians could not despise, and who ought to be brought into court. But the witness is missing, and all that we have is a few reported statements of his taken long ago... it may be argued that there has been dependence not of 'Hebrews' on the Synoptics but vice versa -- that 'Hebrews' was one of the sources on which one or more of them drew." (Hugh Schonfield; According to the Hebrews; pages 13-18).  

When Edward Gibbon writes: "But the secret and authentic history has been recorded in several copies of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which these sectaries long preserved in the original Hebrew, as the sole evidence of their faith" -- he is speaking about the fact that the original version of Matthew was written in Biblical Hebrew Characters, rather than the Greek text that our Bibles are translated from today.   Additional information regarding the original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew is provided by Jerome in his work, O Illustrious Men, on James the Lord's brother: "Further, the Hebrew itself (or original) is preserved to this day in the library at Caesarea which was collected with such care by the martyr Pamphilus. I also had an opportunity of copying it afforded me by the Nazarenes who use the book, at Beroea, a city of Syria".  Of the Hebrew original of Matthew, Gibbon writes: "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek". Gibbon rightfully calls our copy of Matthew the "unauthorized version of some nameless Greek", because the only true Gospel attributed to Matthew is the original Hebrew version which was never given to the Gentile Church, and the Church does not possess today.  In like manner, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that all of the original -- more spiritual -- signatures of the gospels were also written in Hebrew.  This fact is acknowledged by Montague Rhodes James in his book, The Apocryphal New Testament, when he wrote: "Epiphanius goes on to say that he had heard of Hebrew Versions of John and Acts kept privately in the treasuries (Geniza) at Tiberias".

   The Essene Foundation Of Judaism And Christianity: When Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro questioned the "...the source and originality of Christian doctrine”, what he also should have stated is that the Old Testament is not the Jewish scriptures, and the modern Christian has virtually nothing in common with the Original Gospel Teachings that were suppressed and even outlawed by the Church.  When rightly understood, what Prof. Allegro said about the Christians, equally applies to the Jews -- both of which have virtually nothing in common with their True Spiritual Source.  Further, the fact that the many Christian view the Jews as the Chosen People of God and the forerunners of what has come to be portrayed as the Gospel teachings, in fact demonstrates their own blindness to the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures.   Moreover, in the following subheading (see The Books With The Power To Deceive), I will demonstrate that in accord with the statements of the Apostle Peter, the belief that the Jews are the Chosen People of God can be portrayed as one of the primary "bad beliefs about God" that totally undermines the Gentiles from a true understanding of the scriptures and the Gospel teachings.  When the scriptures are spiritually understood, the Jews are a symbol of abject failure -- i.e., they worship a Demiurge of their own creation -- they worship God in an opposite manner to what is required -- and in numerous ways, they are the epitome of spiritual failure.   And it is the imitation and adoption of the mindset and ways of the Jews in the throwing away of the Key of Knowledge, that has anchored modern Christians in a self-imposed Diaspora of abject spiritual ignorance.  And while in answer to their prayer for greater knowledge and understanding, the leaders and authorities of the Church have ignored and even rejected what the Hand of God has provided them. 

In the `next subheading I will demonstrate that the vast majority of what Peter portrays as "bad beliefs about God" that has anchored Christianity to a self-imposed Diaspora of Abject Ignorance is because of the reading of the Torah and Old Testament.    What can be portrayed as "bad beliefs about God", is one of the greatest causes of arrested mental and spiritual development.   

If we pose the question: What is the True Source of the (Old and New Testament) scriptures and the Gospel teachings?  It is important to understand that the original scriptures possessed the innate power to free and transform the individual seeker/disciple.  How?  This innate power was embedded into the Living Language they were composed in.  And the language that the scriptures were originally written in, reveals a great truth with respect to the true source of both the Old and New Testaments that is not at all understood today.  Among the Dead Sea Scrolls was found copies of the Torah and Old Testament written in Biblical Hebrew Characters -- and when the connection between the Essenes and Therapute are understood with the Ebionite Nazirenes, the use of Hebrew Characters which was the native language that the original Gospels were composed in, was merely a continuation of the Living Spiritual Language of the scriptures (see above The Original Spiritual Language Of The Gospels ).   What language was the original Gospels composed in?  Of the Hebrew originals Gibbon writes in the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek". Gibbon rightfully calls our copy of Matthew the "unauthorized version of some nameless Greek", because the only true Gospel attributed to Matthew is the original Hebrew version written in Hebrew Characters -- and the original Gospels were never given to the Gentile Church, and we no longer possess today.  In like manner, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that all of the original -- more spiritual -- signatures of the gospels were written in Hebrew. This fact is acknowledged by Montague Rhodes James in his book, The Apocryphal New Testament, when he wrote: "Epiphanius goes on to say that he had heard of Hebrew Versions of John and Acts kept privately in the treasuries (Geniza) at Tiberias" (see Original Gospels Written In Biblical Hebrew Characters).  

When the question is posed: How much does the modern Church have in common with the original Gospel teachings?   Perhaps this can be gauged by a recent interview with Pastor Brian McLaren who made the rather profound statement: "One of the problems is that the average Christian in the average church who listens to the average Christian broadcasting has such an oversimplified understanding of both the Bible and of church history - it would be deeply disturbing for them to really learn about church history."   And truth be told, it can easily be demonstrated that the core purpose and objectives of the original Gospel teachings are so radically different than what is preached from our pulpits today, that the Gospel of the first century would be condemned as heresy if it was presented to a modern congregation of believers.   And while Brian McLaren is correct in his assertion that the congregation of believers have been largely kept in the dark, the biblical scholars understood this fact – and this is demonstrated in the words of A. Powell Davies: “Biblical scholars were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls).   If it is true that the origin of Christianity is not what is commonly supposed to be, then what is the true source?  Worse yet, Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls further raised the question as to what difference it makes if “Jesus... had been trained in the discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and that he had learned from it the role that he afterwards lived...” (The Scrolls From The Dead Sea).  To the uninformed and unknowing believer, it made all the difference in the world!   And when Prof. John Allegro was quoted as saying that what has been revealed in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a great amount of overwhelming evidence that “...may upset a great many basic teachings of the Christian Church.   This in turn would greatly upset many Christian Theologians and believers.   The heart of the matter is, in fact, the source and originality of Christian doctrine” (August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine).   What all the many recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed and demonstrated is that Prof. Allegro was correct in his assertion that our modern-day understanding of “the source and originality of Christian doctrine” is gravely flawed.   Why?   Because neither the original teachings or the corrupted scriptures simply does not support the tenets and structure of an organized dogmatic church as we have today.   In the words of Prof. Elaine Pagles, in her book, The Gnostic Gospels:  “It is the winners who write history - their way.   No wonder, then, that the viewpoint of the successful majority has dominated all traditional accounts of the origin of Christianity… It suggests that these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion.  In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as heresy; ideas which implicitly support it become orthodox”. 

The above statement by Edmund Wilson that  “Jesus... had been trained in the discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and that he had learned from it the role that he afterwards lived...”, is in fact parallel to the statement in the Encyclopedia Britannica where it is written: "Most of the features of Ebionite doctrine were anticipated in the teachings of the earlier Qumran sect, as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls. They believed in one God and taught that Jesus was the Messiah and was the true prophet mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:15. They rejected the Virgin Birth of Jesus, instead holding that he was the natural son of Joseph and Mary. The Ebionites believed Jesus became the Messiah because he obeyed the Jewish Law. They themselves faithfully followed the Law, although they removed what they regarded as interpolations in order to uphold their teachings, which included vegetarianism, holy poverty, ritual ablutions, and the rejection of animal sacrifices. The Ebionites also held Jerusalem in great veneration" (Encyclopedia Britannica ).   The acknowledgement of biblical scholars and the Britannica not only demonstrated the important connection between the Essenes and Therapute with the Ebionite Nazirenes, but also the fact that in the same way that the Essenes used Biblical Hebrew Characters in the composition of their scriptures, these same authors also created the Original New Covenant Gospels in Biblical Hebrew Characters.   Add to this the statement in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon notes that the teachings of Jesus was “…embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutae, or Essinians…”, and wrote that: “Le Clerc (Hist. Ecclesiast p. 477, 535) seems to have collected from Eusebius, Jerome, Epiphanius, and other writers, all the principle circumstances that relate to the Nazarenes or Ebionites. The nature of their opinions soon divided them into a stricter and milder sect; and there is some reason to conjecture that the family of Jesus remained members, at least, of the latter and more moderate party”.  

The scriptures were composed and authored by a highly evolved spiritual community of mystics and visionaries.  It is documented that they were strict vegetarians -- and if we pose the question as to why the Essenes, Therapute and Ebionite Nazirenes were strict vegetarians?  Because this is necessary in order to become transformed into a Consecrated Living Temple that can communicate directly with God (see The Holographic Mind ).   Highly evolved spiritual Souls who live in accord with the Nazirene Vow,  neither cut their hair or shave their beard (see The Nazirene Vow And The Holographic Mind ).   As an example of the necessary lifestyle and mindset of the Essene Ebionites it is written about Jacob/James, the brother of Jesus that: “This apostle was consecrated from his mother’s womb. He drank neither wine nor fermented liquors, and abstained from animal food. A razor never came upon his head” (Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, p. 76).   Where the Jews who sacrificed animals in the Jerusalem Temple -- remaining ignorant of the spiritual meaning of the scriptures -- failing to comprehend that it is the lower animal nature of our consciousness that must be sacrificed (see Animal Sacrifice And The Living Temple ).    

If you wanted to curse at an Essene, you would call him a Jew.  Why?  In the same way that dogs and swine are symbols that portray human character failings, when a Jew is portrayed in the scriptures, what is being portrayed is one who has received the Law of God, but continues to observe it outwardly in ritual and tradition -- and because such a person lacks the necessary development of mind, is only able to utilize a fragment of their true potential of mind -- which fragmented mind, causes them to be spiritually disenfranchised.  Because they read the biblical accounts in the manner of a history book -- instead of accounts of mind and spirit -- thereby throwing away the Key of Knowledge in their carnal interpretations -- as stated by Eusebius in his Ecclestical History where he writes that: “Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees”.  

Someone who can be portrayed as a Jew is at an intermediate level where having received the Law (Torah) of God, they have not yet mentally and spiritually evolved to the level where they are able to use the scriptures for their intended purpose as the  Key of Knowledge to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom -- thereby enabling the prodigal son to return to his Source in Spiritual Eden.   In the same way that the Essenes who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel were the authors of the scriptures used by the Jews -- and the Essenes served as a Spiritual Sanctuary, fulfilling the role of spiritual healers or physicians for the Jews who were sincere seekers of Higher Truth.   With respect to the Essenes being the healers and physicians, Jesus himself said: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   Before this verse can be understood we must first understand what it means to be Whole.   Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved?   Contrary to the dogma of the Church, if Jesus is the physician, then Jesus himself attested to the fact that those who achieve and sustain a condition of Wholeness, do not need the physician -- with Jesus himself stating that as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only those who are sick and in need of the physician.   And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time of Jesus, there existed people who he portrayed as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician.    When the historical man Jesus who was himself born an Essene totally prevailed in fulfilling the Law within himself -- and in the very Words of God spoken to mankind, Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) when the voice of God attested to the fact that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) when Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" (see TheTenWords.com) -- what the original Gospels therefore stated was that Jesus was a holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at his baptism in the Jordan.   That the Ebionites who were condemned by the  later Roman Church who created the Jesus-god myth, were correct -- and that the vast majority of Gentiles were too heathen and pagan to comprehend the teachings of Jesus and the original Gospel message -- is a reality that the Dead Sea Scrolls have confirmed.  When Jesus became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God, this completion of the Soul-Journey was declared and set froth in those scriptures known to us today as the Gospels.  And being composed in the Sacred Language of Biblical Hebrew Characters which was used solely by the Essenes, these same Essene sources also composed the Gospels written in the same Living Biblical Hebrew Characters.  Which in conjunction with the findings of the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrate that the New Covent and its Ebionite Nazirene foundation, was the Essene teachings brought to the highest of spiritual levels and completion.

Why is this fact of paramount importance for modern-day Christians?   In Hebrew the word Essene means Healer -- which is synonymous with the Greek word Therapeute.   The Church historian Eusebius portrays the Therapeute/Essenes as the earliest of Christians -- quoting Philo he writes:  "BUT our Lawgiver trained to community of living many thousands of his disciples, who are called Essenes because, as I suppose, of their holiness. They dwell in many cities of Judaea and many villages, and in large and populous societies."   And this acknowledgement in conjunction with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Hebrew Characters used in both the Old and New Covent scriptures makes the Encyclopedia Britannica's article Therapeutes -- which is a Greek word for healer and is synonymous with the meaning of the Hebrew word Essene -- makes a profound statement with respect to the proper interpretation of both the Old and New Covenant scriptures where it is written: “Jewish sect of ascetics closely resembling the Essenes, believed to have settled on the shores of Lake Mareotis in the vicinity of Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1st century AD. The only original account of this community is given in De vita contemplativa (On the Contemplative Life), attributed to Philo of Alexandria. Their origin and fate are both unknown. The sect was unusually severe in discipline and mode of life. According to Philo, the members, both men and women, devoted their time to prayer and study. They prayed twice every day, at dawn and at evening, the interval between being spent entirely on spiritual exercise. They read the Holy Scriptures, from which they sought wisdom by treating them as allegorical, believing that the words of the literal text were symbols of something hidden”.

In the same way that the above statement of Jerome regarding the Gospels written in Biblical Hebrew Characters that "...and its text they related some one way and some another", parallels the above statement how the Essene/Therapeute  ...read the Holy Scriptures, from which they sought wisdom by treating them as allegorical, believing that the words of the literal text were symbols of something hidden”.   And it is important to recognize that these statements when placed side by side confirm the statement of the Apostle Peter as quoted by his disciple Clement in the Homilies that "...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".    What this means is that there can be no valid interpretation from a human perspective.   It means that all the historical interpretations set forth in the pulpits across Christendom, are all preaching grave error.   And these preachers of the Gospel are the blind guides that Jesus portrayed as leading the people in the wrong direction.   Therefore, in view of the fact that the true follower of Jesus is barred from seeking "...a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without" -- as set forth by Peter in the Homilies of Clement it is portrayed as a sin to seek out any other teacher than the True Prophet -- as seen in the words: "But the ways in which this garment may be spotted are these: If any one withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher besides Christ, who alone is the faithful and True Prophet" (see Baptism As A Divine Marriage) -- means that because the modern Church has embraced the dogma of pagan Rome and rejects the foundational teaching to be taught only from the True Prophet within them (see The True Prophet ), they have caused themselves to be "...withdrawn from God the Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher besides Christ".   From an Original Gospel perspective, there can be no valid interpretation of the scriptures drawn from another person, a rabbi or teacher, an authority of a Church, or from one of the countless Bible commentaries.  Why?    Because the scriptures are not historical accounts -- and every aspect of the scriptures are "allegorical ...symbols of something hidden”.    Which is why Jesus had to open the mind of the disciples to the real and spiritual meaning of the allegorical scriptures -- i.e., "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45).   And those who embrace the literal text is exactly as portrayed by Paul portrayed them as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). 

In total agreement with Paul, the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen explained that “Scripture contains an unhistorical element in-woven with the history, in order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics).   Further explaining in De Principiis that: “Where the word found that things done according to the history could be adapted to these mystical senses, he made use of them concealing from the multitude the deeper meaning; but where in the narrative of the development of super-sensual things, there did not follow the performance of those certain events which were already indicated by the mystical meaning, the scripture interwove in the history the account of some event that did not take place, sometimes what could not have happened; sometimes what could but did not.”   Why?   Because the literal text of the scriptures is a quasi-historical facade that is necessary for the very limited instruction of the immature seeker -- with the true spiritual meaning remaining preserved and concealed beneath the garb of allegorical symbols and catalysts.   And while the scriptures possess the ultimately important wisdom and knowledge that is relevant to all of mankind, its express purpose and objective is to bring about the necessary deepening and expansion of mind that enabled the seeker/disciple through the process of Anamnesis to fulfill the objective expressed in the 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”.   And from this perspective of reality, the only valid teacher and revealer of Truth is the True Prophet (a.k.a. Logos/Son of God) who was portrayed by the Apostle Peter as existing "...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" (see The True Prophet ).    And when the historical man Jesus became At-One with the Indwelling Son of God or Logos, it was confirmation of the original position of the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366 - see The Ebionite Nazirenes).  

What this means is that the Old Testament is not the Jewish scriptures -- and neither are the Jews the chosen people of God.  In fact, what is personified in the portrayal of a Jew in the scriptures, must be overcome -- as seen in the death (transformation) of Judas (Jew).   Every aspect of our physical existence from the time we were conceived in the womb, and developed in accordance with a predefined genetic pattern, to our birth, our interaction with the forces of nature and the indigenous laws within which all of Creation is in a continual state of subjective movement, it is the true man of spiritual wisdom who has the perception to embrace the natural order of things. This wisdom was conveyed to us in the words of Jesus when he affirmed the need to keep the Law as seen when he said: “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:18-20).  In our quest for greater understanding, we must ask what is being said to us in these words? What Jesus confirms is that every concept of the New Covenant is in total and complete harmony with the Law that was given to Moses, and that his followers must keep and observe the ordinances of the Law in a more pure and complete manner than the scribes and Pharisees.  And this is why Peter stated that there is no difference between the Old and New Testaments -- i.e., "Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old”  (see The True (Unknown) Nature And Reality Of The Scriptures).   

From an allegorical perspective, we must come to understand that it is not an accident that Jesus was crucified on the Passover. It was not an arbitrary occurrence that Jesus remained with his disciples for a period of forty days (Acts 1:3). Neither is it a measure of distance and time when after the period of forty days it is written that the trip to Jerusalem was said to be a Sabbath days journey (Acts 1:12). These occurrences are of the highest importance to the disciple who is seeking to be born in the spirit.  Christians must cease to read the scriptures in the error of the Sadducees and Pharisees! From a biblical perspective, it is not descriptive of an historical event that the disciples stayed in an upper room for a period of three days until the day of Pentacost. When the Bible states that there were one hundred and twenty names from which the replacement of Judas was drawn, what is conveyed in the numbers has more to do with the spiritualization and completion of the twelve -- i.e., twelve times twelve -- than of any historical enumeration of people. The presence of the mother and brethren, as well as all the other elements of the story, all hold a spiritual significance to those who possess the eyes to look beyond the cloak of the narrative. It is not by chance that the replacement for Judas -- which if properly translated would be Judah, from which the name Jew is derived -- was Matthias, which means the ”gift of God”. What is portrayed to the disciple is not an historical event, but more appropriately, the evolution of mind in its quest for completion. 

What few Christians realize today is that during the second century the gospel of Luke was put though an extensive rewrite in order to obscure certain teachings of Jesus and create an anti-Jewish environment. Under the heading of Marcion (c.100-160) in the Encyclopedia Britannica we read that he was the “founder of a Christian sect, born in Sinope, Pontus (now Sinop, Turkey), and probably the son of the bishop of that city. He went to Rome about 140”, where he was for a time received as orthodox in his beliefs. It is important to realize that Marcion received his anti-Jewish sentiment from his father who was an authority in the Gentile church, and that Marcion himself was viewed as being orthodox by many Christians.  The Britannica then goes on to write that “The Marcionite sect, highly ascetic and celibate, grew rapidly until it was second in strength only to the original church; it had churches and an episcopal hierarchy and practiced the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist… Marcion rejected the Old Testament and almost all of the New Testament… basing his teachings on ten of the Epistles of St. Paul and on an altered version of the Gospel of Luke… Marcionism flourished in the West until about the 4th century…”

Why was the Marcionite sect of the Gentile Church anti-Jewish? For much the same reason that if you wanted to curse at an Essene, you would call him a Jew -- who in the scriptures the portrayal of a Jews was used as an (allegorical) symbol of those who have received the Law of God, but observed it outwardly in ritual and tradition -- thereby throwing away the Key of Knowledge .  "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering" (Luke 11:52).  Thus, in understanding these words spoken to the Pharisees, the questions must be asked: How did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities "...hide the key to knowledge from the people"?   Why did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves? -- i.e., "...You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!   As Jews who are too carnal to understand the scriptures, they look for the Kingdom to come outwardly -- failing to understand that the Kingdom can only come within you.  And how did the religious leaders of the Jews "...prevent others from entering?"   That the primary objective of the Gospel is to prepare and enable the seeker/disciple to enter the Kingdom that is within them, is further demonstrated in Jesus' condemnation of the blind religious leaders as seen in the words: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matt 23:13 NIV).  Which means that the Kingdom of God is not something that will come if we wait for it -- but rather, it is a reality which man must seek and find -- within himself.   The Marcionite sect understood that the Jews were the blind guides leading the people in the wrong outward direction -- and therefore, their god they worshiped was the Devil -- i.e., "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).   And from an Essene and Ebionite perspective, the Jews were the epitome of abject spiritual failure and what not to be with respect to the necessary transformation into Spiritual Israel.    

In presenting a number of surviving quotations from the Original Hebrew Gospel, it states with respect to the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) prophets of the past in relation to Jesus where Jerome writes and quotes the Hebrew Original (Dialogue against Pelagius): "And in the same book: If thy brother (saith he) have sinned by a word and made thee amends, seven times in a day receive thou him. Simon his disciple said unto him: Seven times in a day? The Lord answered and said unto him: Yea, I say unto thee, unto seventy times seven times. For in the prophets also, after they were anointed by the Holy Spirit, the word of sin was found."  In the Old Testament twenty one people were portrayed as being Anointed -- which is of course the English translation of the Greek word Christ and the Hebrew word Messiah.  So, what then was the difference between the Anointed in the Old Testament and Jesus?  Thus, until the Anointing of the historical man Jesus, no one had totally fulfilled the Law within themselves that would enable them to receive the full Anointing of the Holy Spirit.   But in the case of Jesus who had fulfilled the Law (Torah) within himself, it was said in the Hebrew Gospel where Jerome writes (On Isa. xi.2): "(The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him) not partially as in the case of other holy men: but, according to the Gospel written in the Hebrew speech, which the Nazarenes read, 'There shall descend upon him the whole fount of the Holy Spirit'. . . .In the Gospel I mentioned above, I find this written: And it came to pass when the Lord was come up out of the water, the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him, and said unto him: My son, in all the prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldst come, and I might rest in thee. For thou art my rest, and thou art my first begotten son, that reignest for ever."     Which is why it was the original Gospel position preserved by the Ebionite Nazirenes that Jesus "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   The early Church write Hippolytus then states of this original Gospel teaching that the Ebionite Nazirenes were of the position that if any other of the prodigal sons  "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs"  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34) -- which is why Jesus commanded that his followers pick up the same (allegorical) cross as he did, and travail in TheWay. 

By fulfilling the allegorical Law (Torah) within himself -- transforming himself into The Final Temple (see The Gospels And The PreExistent Soul That Evolves To Perfection In Many Lifetimes ), Jesus became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.  Thereby manifesting God in the flesh.  But this is the potential and destiny of all of mankind -- 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 historical Jesus was a true holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within himself, is attested to at Acts 2:22 where Jesus is portrayed as "a man, attested to you by God" -- and this was demonstrated by God performing "mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst".   If Jesus was himself God incarnate as believed by the later Romans, then these words portraying Jesus as a man approved by God through the works and wonders that God did through him, never would have been presented in this manner.   When the people questioned the source of Jesus' words, he called himself a prophet: "So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house" (Matt 13:57). And not only did he call himself a prophet, but spoke of the crucifixion as his ultimate process of perfection:  "On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.  And He said to them, Go, tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.' Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem" (Luke 13:31-33 NKJ).   And when the man approached Jesus calling him good teacher, Jesus rejected the title stating: "So Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God" (Mark 10:18 NKJ).   And when it was recognized that the man was asking Jesus about how to achieve eternal life -- and that Jesus did not reply to believe in him (Jesus) as God -- but to keep the Law and the Commandments -- then the Ebionite position that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Law -- and that it was necessary for Jesus' disciples and followers to in like manner fulfill the Law and keep the Commandments -- is exactly what Jesus the Anointed Prophet taught and expected of those who believed in what he taught.   

Now if you add to the above the very words attributed to Jesus', we can understand both the original Ebionite position that the followers of Jesus must keep the Law, and the profound spiritual ignorance which rejects the requirement of actions as an integral part of the equation: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.  Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-26 NIV).   

Prior to the scriptures being edited to support the Pagan doctrines of Rome (see http://BibleCorruption.com ), the words spoken to Jesus by the Father at his baptism in the Jordan was: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee"  (see http://TheTenWords.com ).   And this original statement is further confirmed in both the Book of Acts, as well as the Epistle to the Hebrews -- wherein, with regard to the passage at Hebrews 1:5, The Adam Clark Commentary writes: "This most important use of this saying has passed unnoticed by almost every Christian writer which I have seen; and yet it lies here at the foundation of all the apostle's proofs. If Jesus was not thus the Son of God, the whole Christian system is vain and baseless..."   Stating that if what Paul states is true -- which the scriptures confirm (see http://TheTenWords.com ), then "...the whole Christian system is vain and baseless...".   That Christianity has virtually nothing in common with the Original Teachings is explored at The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma ).   Why can't the above be understood by either the the vast majority of Jews and Christians?  Because they throw away the Key of Knowledge in their carnal outward interpretations of the scriptures.

In order to begin to tap into the Source of All-Knowing Knowledge within us, the seeker/disciple must begin to bring about the expansion and deepening of the mind and consciousness.  The scriptures are "allegorical ...symbols of something hidden” , and cannot be "...read according to the understanding of our own mind" -- which attempts to interpret the scriptures in the manner of the Jews -- i.e., outwardly as actual historical accounts.  Because the scriptures are allegorical catalysts that when used in the proper environment where the person has become the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, it is necessary to develop the mind to enable the person to learn and be taught by the Indwelling Logos/Son of God.   The Essene/Therapute/Ebionite/Nazirenes who were the authors of the Old and New Covenant scriptures, did not consider themselves Jews -- because the Jews were spiritually disenfranchised and too carnal to understand the proper use of the scriptures.  Thus, when the Pharisees asked Jesus if he was the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) who was appointed to come in the scriptures, they wanted to know when he would inaugurate the Kingdom upon the earth.  The reply of Jesus demonstrated the inability of the Jews to understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures that was understood by the Essene/Therapute with respect to being "allegorical ...symbols of something hidden” that could "...not [be] read according to the understanding of our own mind."   And this was clear in the statement of Jesus on the coming of the Kingdom when he replied to the Jews: "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation: Neither shall they say, See here! or, see there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21).   If the words of Jesus are true -- and the Kingdom is within you -- then the question that both the Jews and Christians should be asking, is how must the Kingdom be entered?   And while this was understood by the Essene/Therapute and Ebionite Nazirenes, because both the Jews and the Gentile Christians are blind to the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures -- subjecting the written word that Paul portrays as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14) -- and failing to understand them as "allegorical ...symbols of something hidden” -- both the Jews and the Christians look for the kingdom that can never come upon the earth outwardly -- and can only come within one's own mind and being.  The answer to the enigma is found in the proper application of the Key of Knowledge by turning the scriptures within your own mind and being -- i.e., "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering" (Luke 11:52).  Thus, in understanding these words spoken to the Pharisees, the questions must be asked: How did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities "...hide the key to knowledge from the people"?   Why did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves? -- i.e., "...You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!   And how did the religious leaders of the Jews "...prevent others from entering?"   That the primary objective of the Gospel is to prepare and enable the seeker/disciple to enter the Kingdom, is further demonstrated in Jesus' condemnation of the blind religious leaders as seen in the words: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matt 23:13 NIV).  Which means that the Kingdom of God is not something that will come if we wait for it -- but rather, it is a reality which man must seek and find -- within himself (see The Fatal Error Of The Church ).  

It was the correct perceptive-understanding of author and visionary Philip K. Dick when he once wrote with respect to the original disciples of Jesus that:  "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here.  He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)."  And in the Gospels this entrance into the Inner Kingdom by the disciples is portrayed as being In The House with the Lord.  That the leaders among the Jews had alienated themselves from the Inner Kingdom -- and they attempted to observe the scriptures in outward ritual and tradition -- is the very reason why Jesus condemned them as heretics who hid the Key of Knowledge from the people, and in their carnal interpretations they "...prevent others from entering".   Because the carnal Jews were under the control of what Jesus portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son as the "Citizen ...of the Far Country", they remained blind to the Inner Kingdom and the true meaning of the scriptures -- i.e., "...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".    And the fact that those who were the leaders of the people were blind to the Kingdom, and unable to spiritually hear and understand, made it impossible to even begin to compose scriptures where the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom were more plainly presented to the reader. 

  The Books With The Power To Deceive - Allegorical Scriptures For An Allegorical World: A reality the Church has never been able to address and come to terms with, is the statement by Peter as quoted in the Homilies of his disciple Clement portraying the scriptures as "...the books which are able to deceive" -- stating that the scriptures contain "falsehoods" written into the literal text.   And it is often these "falsehoods" that are intentionally inserted into the scriptures that are portrayed as inconsistencies and (historical) flaws and anomalies in the written word by religious critics.  But are they?   One of the realities of mind that is not understood is the fact that the scriptures are designed to evolve the Intuitive Spheres of mind that are able to bring about Wholeness of Perceptive-Vision and understanding (see Linear Vs Intuitive Development Of Mind ).  Therefore the authors of the scriptures had no interest in creating an historical account that would be little more than worthless fodder for the Linear spheres of mind -- but rather, a means to open the mind of mankind who is portrayed as the prodigal son the necessary enlightened vision to perceive man's higher Soul-Reality.   And what this means is that each citing and portrayal of a supposed historical event, is unique unto itself -- and is not supposed to reflect or parallel any other similar account.  The people, places, events and things must be understood within their own unique context, in order to understand the aspect of mind and spirit that is being portrayed in the quasi-historical facade. 

In the year 1707, John Mill shattered all faith in the infallibility of the Bible by demonstrating 30,000 various readings which were produced from 80 manuscripts. The findings of, first Mill, and then Wetstein (1751), proved once and for all that the variations in the biblical texts, many of which were quite serious, had existed from the earliest of times.  The problem was that many of these inconsistencies and variant readings were intended by the authors to be in the exact place they appeared in the text.   These discordances and inconsistencies are so divergent and conflicting that it states in the review of the book, In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible (Religion in America)
by Peter J. Thuesen (Author):

As indicated by the title, this book chronicles the vicious debates between American Protestants over the translation and publication of different versions of the Bible, particularly the American Standard Version (1885) and the Revised Standard Version (1952). Limited to this topic, Thuesen does well. But the title is misleading; much of this book deals with other translations and with the Protestant/Roman Catholic controversy over the Bible. If the author had wished to write a longer history of problems with Bible translation, he could easily have found disagreement as early as the fourth century, when Jerome picked and discarded extant Latin texts as he prepared the Vulgate translation; or he could have given more detail about the work of the King James translators. The achievement of this book is that it demonstrates that the historical and literary discoveries of the 19th century became the theological controversies of the 20th century. Many new discoveries about biblical texts have been made in recent years; the information offered here about how the Bible has been translated to suit theological tastes and publishers' expectations of profits is shocking indeed.    

What the translators and body of believers fail to understand, is the fact that the alleged discordances and inconsistencies were intentionally inserted into the text of the scriptures for a number of important reasons.  Admittedly, what is truly difficult for  the untransformed carnal mindset to understand, is that each of the variant readings are unique to understanding that passage of scripture from that particular author from a spiritual perspective.  It has been long noted that there is no unity and common witness of the Gospels on the crucifixion accounts.  The Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke contradict each other's records of the crucifixion, even on the parts that would be seen as the most important.  Each of the Gospel accounts portray Jesus as having died at different times of the day -- wherein he supposedly spoke to different people -- gave different sets of final words and confusingly different accounts of the circumstances surrounding the death of Jesus.  It is not simply a case that they recorded different details: the actions of Jesus in each gospel reflect general differences in opinion about what Jesus' character should be. In Mark's sombre account Jesus is silent and mocked by all around him, and cries out in despair at the end. But in Luke and John Jesus is talkative, gives advice, and is surrounded by followers even while on the cross. Despite the massive impact they would have had on entire communities, the gospel writers also record different supernatural events occurring upon Jesus' death too.   Matthew 27:51-53 describes Earthquakes and the rising of the dead -- things which no-one else at all noticed.  Each gospel writer states their version as fact even though it is clear that no agreement exists among the Gospel accounts.

Where the critics will reject the crucifixion account on what they perceive to be flawed and conflicting accounts, it remains beyond their comprehension that the Gospels are not at all meant to be historical accounts -- and each of the Gospel narratives must be understood as a unique spiritual account -- sometimes portraying the experiences of different spheres and aspects of mind (see http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).  From the perspective of the twelve spheres of mind, each of the spheres experienced what is portrayed as the crucifixion or allegorical portrayal of the Final Stage of Birth differently.   And if we were able to read many of the Gospel accounts suppressed by the Church, we would find no historical agreement among those with the four Gospels we presently possess.      

Sometimes the accounts are intentionally different within the same scripture.  Acts 9:7 reads: “And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man”.  Yet, in Acts 22:9 the narrative reads: “And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me”.  It means absolutely nothing for the modern reader to believe that Saul was converted on the road to Damascus -- there is no spiritual edification or uplifting when we relate this knowledge to an historical event at the beginning of our Common Era.  But what is conveyed spiritually is of great value to the disciple in search of the Light -- and must bring about a change of mind in his quest to open the door to the Kingdom.  Thus the disciple begins to see his own transformation from the death of Stephen as spirit became clothed with flesh, to Saul -- from a Jew to Paul -- from Paul the little one, whose blindness was healed by Ananias -- the gift from God.  The many points at which the scriptures conflict in order to force the reader to look for the inner meaning is so numerous, that an entire book could be written in their compilation. Acts 7:14 has 75 persons coming with Jacob into Egypt -- Gen 46:27; Ex 1:5; Deut 10:22 state there were 70.  Acts 7:16-17 has Jacob buried in Shechem -- Gen 49:28-30; 50:13 buried in Mamre which is Hebron according to Gen 23:19.  If the Holy Spirit wrote both sets of scriptures, there should have been uniformity between them. Moreover, if the New Testament authors were attempting to convince others that they knew what they were speaking about from a literal sense, they would have been very careful to get the facts correct.

Perhaps one of the finest examples of the organic mind's attempt to explain away from a purely physical/carnal perspective what it should be investigating, is demonstrated in the genealogies of Jesus. The fact that the genealogy presented in Luke is not the same as that in Matthew, has long been the source of many dogmatic theories. But the fact that the genealogy in Matthew contains four women, and three foreigners, should immediately send up a red flag warning that these genealogies cannot -- and never were intended -- to be read literally.  Two of the women were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel, Rachab a Canaanitess, and a harlot besides, and Ruth the Moabitess.  In the pedigree of the kings of Judah, between Joram and Ozias (v. 8), there are three left out, namely, Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah -- and therefore Joram could not have begat Ozias.  When it is said (v. 12) that Jechonias begat Salathiel, that Jechonias was the son of that Jehoiakim who was carried into Babylon, the scriptures tell us that Jechonias was childless (Jer. 22:30), and in direct contradiction to what is written in Matthew, it is written that “No man of his seed shall prosper”.  In order to insure that the genealogies cannot be read literally, it is further stated in Matthew: “Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ” (Matt 1:17 NIV). With regard to the many problems presented in the genealogies, the Adam Clark Commentary writes: [Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:] There are three considerable difficulties in this verse.

1. Josias was not the father of Jechonias; he was only the grandfather of that prince: (1 Chr. 3:14-16)
2. Jechonias had no brethren; at least, none are on record.
3. Josias died 20 years before the Babylonian captivity took place, and therefore Jechonias and his brethren could not have been begotten about the time they were carried away to Babylon.

To this may be added a fourth difficulty, namely, there are only thirteen in this 2nd class of generations; or forty-one, instead of forty-two, in the whole  

 

  The Folly Of Bad Beliefs About God: Just as important is the fact that  what the Apostle Peter and other enlightened individuals state about the scriptures is also true -- and it is not only the countless inconsistencies that have been intentionally inserted into the textual body of the scriptures -- but other literal statements that can be portrayed as "bad beliefs about God" which also serve an important higher purpose in the development of the mind of the reader.   And this statement by Peter that the scriptures contain out-right "falsehoods" that if not correctly understood can cause them to be portrayed as "...the books which are able to deceive" is confirmed in the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.  Thus, what is portrayed as "...repugnant to both reason and common sense" is not at all historical -- but rather, an allegorical portrayal of deeply important spiritual truths that those who believe the "falsehoods" of  the literal text as actual historical events are blind to the spiritual meaning.   And in believing the "falsehoods" that were intentionally inserted into the scriptures as what Peter portrays as a "test" for the reader, is representative of a condition of mind that has the power and ability to totally disenfranchise the reader from the true spiritual meaning of the written word.

The ability to bring about High-Level Thought and an enlightened assessment and understanding of man's true reality, is dependent upon the developed and evolved balance of the Linear and Intuitive Spheres of Mind.   And it is the purpose of the scriptures to bring about the development of the Intuitive Spheres of mind that in most people are suppressed by the dominate Linear -- and this necessary development is contingent upon catalysts and symbols inserted into the scriptures that are beyond the limits of the Linear to perceptively comprehend.  These historical "falsehoods" and easily discernable untruths which utilize symbols and catalysts that can only be resolved when the Intuitive is able to connect with the person's inner resources of mind and being, is absolutely necessary to develop the mind beyond what Paul portrays as the "animal-soul" level of organic consciousness.   For an important reason Paul portrayed the written text of the scriptures as the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6).   And referred to them as "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14).   And what he was stating was that those who see only the text of the written word have embraced the "letter that killeth".  To the Galatians who were attempting to embrace the Jewish outward ritual observances of the Torah, Paul states: “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).   What this means is that what in appearance is portrayed historically in the scriptures, was not history at all -- but rather, was an allegorical account that both preserved and concealed important spiritual truths which are not discernable and evident when reading the text of the written word.   And what this means is that all the countless Jewish, Christian and Muslim clergy who read the scriptures as if they are historical accounts, are all in grave error.  

What are the falsehoods of the scriptures that have been inserted as a test to the believer? In the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.   In the account of the Clementine Homilies, the Apostle Peter warns his disciple Clement that Simon Magus has the ability to greatly deceive the Gentiles, because they fail to understand the traditions used by the authors in the composition of the scriptures -- traditions which are not literally/historically true, but are necessary in order to develop the inward-looking attributes of the mind by using allegorical symbolism that can connect to man's inner self.  Where those who fail to understand the objective and purpose of the scriptures with respect to the development and enlightenment of the mind attempt to read the scriptures as literal historical events -- the authors of the scriptures understood the need to restore the lost prodigal sons to the Edenic Kingdom, and this could only be accomplished through the restoral of their Wholeness of Mind.   Since the Gentiles and (carnal) Jews did not -- and continue not to -- understand this higher mental and spiritual objective of the authors of the scriptures, they remain easily deceived and seduced by charlatans and faux-teachers and religious authorities who attempt to read the scriptures as if they presented actual historical events.   Because the vast majority of people are mentally functioning from an organic level of animal-consciousness (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ), they can't conceive of the reality of their own higher consciousness.  Which is why Paul stated: , "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).  In the quotation of Peter preserved in his disciple Clement's writings, because of the believers inability to understand the spiritual meaning and objectives of the scriptures, Peter correctly portrays them as being easily seduced by Simon Magus -- or any other person they perceive as an authority -- because they dwell at a level of mind whereby they hold what Peter portrays as bad and erroneous beliefs about God.  Thus, Peter warns that while those who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel understand the "traditions" which the authors of the scriptures employed, and will therefore understand the deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures -- both the carnal Jews and the Gentiles will be greatly deceived and states: “And with us, indeed, who have had handed down from our forefathers the worship of the God who made all things, and also the mystery of the books which are able to deceive, he (Simon Magus) will not prevail; but with those from amongst the Gentiles who have the polytheistic fancy bred in them, and who know not the falsehoods of the Scriptures, he will prevail much. And not only he; but if any other shall recount to those from among the Gentiles any vain, dreamlike, richly set out story against God, he will be believed, because from their childhood their minds are accustomed to take in things spoken against God. And few there shall be of them, as a few out of a multitude, who through ingenuousness shall not be willing so much as to hear an evil word against the God who made all things.   And to these alone from amongst the Gentiles it shall be vouchsafed to be saved. Let not any one of you, therefore, altogether complain of Simon, or of any one else; for nothing happens unjustly, since even the falsehoods of Scripture are with good reason presented for a test.” Thus, what we are presented with in the above statement is one of the most profound scriptural realities that is not understood at all today by not only the congregations of faith-based Christian believers, but also their acclaimed religious experts, authorities and critics.  The pre-Nicene Church Father Origen wrote with respect to the scriptures: “What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).  Origen portrays those who see and believe only the written text of the scriptures as "idiots", because the scriptures were written in such a way that the more intelligent reader will immediately reject the folly of the written word, and seek out the Inner Spiritual meaning.  Do we believe that God holds us accountable for the sins of our elders as with Original Sin? (see The Original Sin Of The Church http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#TheOriginalSinOfTheChurch )?  Do we believe that God has a chosen people who is regarded above all the rest of the people of the earth?  Therefore, from the perspective of the authors of the scriptures who used the myths of the nomadic and heathen tribe of animal-sacrificing Jews to weave an allegorical portrayal of essential universal truths that were concealed beneath the literal text, only an "idiot" would surrender their gift of reason and common sense, and believe in the god of the Old Testament who has been insightfully portrayed as resembling the Wizard of OZ -- i.e., a magical nut case behind the curtain who liked physical circumcision, genocide of non-Jews including killing every woman & child -- a god who made man, then repented he even made man, and killed everyone on earth but Noah and his immediate family -- a god who kills a man for trying to steady the ARK, a voodoo god who loves animal sacrifice and blood sprinkling.  Those people who believe these accounts in the literal text of the scriptures, are too carnal to understand their own higher spiritual reality.    If it is true that what can be considered inconsistencies and the "falsehoods" of the literal text were intentionally inserted into the scriptures as allegorical catalysts for both an important heretofore unknown reason that is not understood by the faith-based believers, abd their teachers and religious authorities -- and these inconsistencies and the "falsehoods" were intentionally inserted into the scriptures as a "test” imposed upon the reader or student of the scriptures -- then it can be rightly stated that the modern believer has absolutely no understanding of both the purpose and the spiritual meaning of the scriptures they promote.  That the (carnal) Jews could not see beyond the symbols of the allegory, and their eyes and hearts were hardened so they remained blinded to the spiritual meaning, and therefore could not comprehend the true meaning of the scriptures.  The 2nd century Church Father Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata explained: “...now that the Savior has taught the Apostles, the unwritten rendering of the written, this has been handed down also to us”.   What Clement is stating is that it was Jesus who taught his disciples the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures by teaching them to fulfill the Law that kept their understanding at a carnal level of comprehension (see The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com  ), and opening their minds so their understanding could pierce through the garb of the allegorical enigmas that blind the perception of carnal men -- i.e., "Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).   Yet, while the Gentiles will see a very different message than the carnal Jews, both will be equally deceived and turned out of TheWay.

The mind of organic man that Paul portrays as being of an  "animal-soul" level of consciousness, is overwhelmed with grave misconceptions and conclusions pertaining to both himself, the purpose of the life he is presently living, the higher reality of his own Soul and the reality of God.   Organic man is therefore incapable of comprehending his own higher Soul-Reality.   In view of the fact that he is attempting to understand what his organic Linear mind is incapable of comprehending without the necessary integration of the paradoxical opposites of mind that permits and brings about the deepening and expansion of mind and consciousness, he remains overwhelmed with what Peter portrays as the "falsehoods" of the literal text of the scriptures that are necessary for the development of the Intuitive spheres of mind.   In the same way that the mind of an immature child is full of fantasy and misconceptions pertaining to the realities of life, so too is the immature person who is still of an  "animal-soul" level of consciousness.   While the Natural Laws bring about physical development from conception to birth and every step and level of growth of the child into physical adulthood, the fact that mental development is dependent upon choice and freewill -- and the living out and experiencing the fruit of one's choices -- the stages of development must be over the course of many lifetimes whereby the biblical teachings is fulfilled: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).    A most profound statement by the Church Father Origen is basically rejected by the people of the simple faith today who are incapable of reason and engaging the mind in the process of true spiritual growth: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see The Early Church On Predestination).  

In addition to the mind developing by virtue of the choices we make, the process of mental growth and development often requires man to live out what he judges and condemns in others (see Everyday Is Judgment Day AND ALSO Judgment Day - Evolving To Maturity Of Mind And Being ).   By becoming what we judge and condemn, we learn by experiencing the opposite and often conflicting realities of mind with which organic man is imbued (see The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind ).  Each life that our Soul lives, develops a different area of the Soul-Mind.   Those who learn their lessons from the choices they make, develop more quickly.  What is not at all understood is the reality of this world as a Mental Womb -- wherein the subsequent stages of Soul-Birth can be brought about.   Therefore, the solution to the immature divided mind is not to teach in the rote programming manner that the rabbis and teachers of this world attempt to do -- but rather, to use and employ important symbols and catalysts that have the ability to Intuitively connect -- using the process of Anamnesis -- to connect the undeveloped mind of organic man with his own Inner Source of Mind and Being.     

If the scriptures were a mere linear/historical account that one reads and believes as championed by Christian believers and theologians, such accounts would insure that the lost prodigal sons and daughters would remaine shackled to the abject ignorance of this world that is portrayed as the Far Country.  As explored in  Linear Vs Intuitive Development Of Mind, the process of thought can only be manifest when the Interaction of the Linear and Intuitive spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life are interactively engaged in pursuit of an expanded reality of mind and spirit.  Therefore, many of the inconsistencies or even the literal/historical "falsehoods" which Moses Maimonedes portrays as "...repugnant to both reason and common sense", are representative of the negative polarity catalysts that are necessary to draw the understanding from the Intuitive spheres of mind .  And this is why Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement warned that "...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"   When the scriptures are read "...according to the understanding of our own mind" , the catalysts and symbols that are necessary to spawn Intuitive Insight, are all negated when subject to organic human understanding.   And it is the Linear spheres of mind that is portrayed in the words: "...For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".  Why?  Because to free the reader from the intellectual shackles of what Paul portrays as an "animal-soul" level of consciousness, it is necessary to engage and draw upon the Intuitive spheres of mind that perceives and understands often in reverse of the Linear spheres of mind.   And this is especially important because the mind of man is patterned in Four Dynamic and often Paradoxical Opposites that are representative of semi-independent Trinities that must be mentally and spiritually resolved and harmonized in order to expand and deepen man's Consciousness in pursuit achieving Spiritual Maturity and an Enlightened State of Mind and Being.  To begin his return journey, the prodigal son is said to have begun to "come to his senses" -- but what, exactly does this mean?   When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come upon the earth as their carnal  "animal-soul"  levels of consciousness envisioned?  Jesus replied: "...The kingdom of God comes not with observation: Neither shall they say, See here! or, see there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21).  Which means that the Kingdom can only be entered by using the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge through our own inner realities of mind (see The Fatal Error Of The Church ).  And this can only be accomplished in accord with Jesus' teachings on an Inner Kingdom, through the expansion and deepening of our own Mind -- which can only be accomplished through the use of the allegorical catalysts and symbols that have the innate ability to open our inner Resources of Mind.   But this process became virtually impossible every time the scribes and authorities of the Church removed the conflicting divergences and conflicting accounts in order to read the scriptures in the manner of the spiritually disenfranchised Pharisees who read the scriptures literally and as a history book.  Thereby, throwing away the Key of knowledge, and insuring the the body of Christians remain shackled in a self-imposed Spiritual Diaspora of abject ignorance. 

In the Homilies of his disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter portrays the scriptures as the "...books with the power to deceive" -- and those who fail to understand both the traditions, and the nature of these writings, from the perception of the original objectives which the scriptures were supposed to bring about, as people who hold bad beliefs about God.   Further, it was stated by Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement that each person (who does not apply the Key of Knowledge) only sees in the scriptures, what they are predisposed to see and believe -- i.e., “Therefore Simon, who is going to discuss in public with us tomorrow, is bold against the monarchy of God, wishing to produce many statements from these Scriptures, to the effect that there are many gods, and a certain one who is not He who made this world, but who is superior to Him; and, at the same time, he is going to offer many scriptural proofs. But we also can easily show many passages from them that He who made the world alone is God, and that there is none other besides Him. But if any one shall wish to speak otherwise, he also shall be able to produce proofs from them at his pleasure. For the Scriptures say all manner of things, that no one of those who inquire ungratefully may find the truth, but simply what he wishes to find...”.   What this means is that the scriptures are so designed to bring about that condition where each and every person is able to see and confirm their doctrines of belief which they are predisposed to look for in the written text.    And more important is the statement that those who attempt to read the scriptures from a differing mindset and objectives than the intended purpose of the original authors, will remain blind to "...the truth, but simply [see] what he wishes to find...” in the scriptures.

Contrary to what is convenient to believe, the true meaning of the scriptures can only be found when it is in accord with the original vision and perception of its author -- and not what others choose to believe.   Jesus warned the carnal Jews that they did not understand the true meaning of the scriptures, because they attempted to perceive them through the filter of their man-made beliefs, doctrines and traditions.   And in like manner, the true meaning of the Gospels, is that which was envisioned by its Ebionite Nazirene authors.    And the modern Church continues to remain spiritually bankrupt, because they condemned and rejected the objectives and vision of the original authors, while attempting to read the scriptures through the filter of the doctrines of Pagan Rome.  When rightly understood, it can be said that there really are no inconsistencies and untruths in the scriptures?   Yet, for a very important reason the Church has many times failed in their attempt to create a master gospel that synthesized the witness of all four Gospel accounts into one uniform presentation -- and every attempt has been met with failure.  Why?  Because there are such vast difference between the Gospel accounts, that it is virtually impossible to create one synthesized presentation.   Which has empowered the critics to point out that if the scriptures were actually inspired by the Holy Spirit, then why would these many inconsistencies exist?     

In truth, there are no inconsistencies in the scriptures -- and what is portrayed as errors and inconsistencies by the critics were intentionally inserted into the text on purpose.  The Church Father Origen explained that “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).   Why would Origen portray the quasi-historical accounts of the scriptues as "worthless"?   Because historical accounts are interpreted from a Linear perspective of mind -- which unbalanced and one-sided perspective shackles the reader to an undeveloped state of abject ignorance which Paul portrays as an  "animal-soul" level of consciousness.  With respect to the nature of the scriptures, Origen further explains in De Principiis that: “Where the word found that things done according to the history could be adapted to these mystical senses, he made use of them concealing from the multitude the deeper meaning; but where in the narrative of the development of super-sensual things, there did not follow the performance of those certain events which were already indicated by the mystical meaning, the scripture interwove in the history the account of some event that did not take place, sometimes what could not have happened; sometimes what could but did not.”   And that the carnal mind of both the blind believer, as well as the skeptic critic, both attempt to ignore these important inconsistencies, and attempt to read the scriptures as an historical account, inhibits the process of development of mind that enables them to perceive and understanding the great truths that lie concealed beneath the allegorical texts.   And in the proper application of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge, the Church Father Origen writes: “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 does this mean?   What it means is that "...all the narrative portion [of the scriptures], relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever", do not at all pertain to historical accounts of man's more distant past -- but rather, to the Forces and Laws that are presently working within man's own mind and being.   Why?   How could Origen who was called the prince of Christian learning second only to the Apostles themselves, state that the historical interpretation of the scriptures is for the most part "worthless"?  And that what is presented in the written text as marriages, the begetting of children, and the many various wars and battles are not at all historical -- but rather, an allegorical portrayal of the Forces and Laws of Consciousness working within one's own mind and being? 

When it is recognized that this very warning was stated by Paul to the baptized and totally committed believers at Corinth -- i.e., “I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way -- in all your speaking and in all your knowledge -- because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed” (1 Cor 1:4-7 NIV) -- the modern reader who does not pause and reflect on what this means -- personally -- to them, remains a blind believer who is beyond the reach of the Gospel message.   What is Paul stating to the believers at Corinth?   That even though Paul himself had instructed them in the "testimony" of Christ -- and that they had received the entire revelation of the Good News of the Gospel -- to the degree that they were not "...lacking any spiritual gift" -- they had yet to evolve and mature those facilities of mind that would enable them to perceive, discern and comprehend the higher reality of the soul and what Paul portrayed as the Mystery of the Gospel.   And this is especially demonstrated in the second chapter of the very same Epistle where Paul warns these believers who have been given all primary historical knowledge and testimony of Christ: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).   

Why did Paul warn that the person who he portrayed as being of a "natural" (human) mind, was incapable of comprehending the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel?   And with respect to what Paul portrayed as the "testimony" of Christ,  Paul openly stated: "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).    Modern man does not at all understand the true reality of Paul's statements with respect to the inability of the "natural" human mind, because he does not comprehend that his own consciousness is built upon the lower three earthly kingdoms -- and the fact that the consciousness of "natural" man is ruled over by his lower animal nature (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature) -- and when the word that Paul used which is translated the "natural" mind, which portrays the natural organic mind of man as being at an animal level of consciousness -- as demonstrated where the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary writes with respect to the meaning of the word in the original Greek language: "natural man—literally, 'a man of animal soul'."  Further,  the Treasury Of Scriptural Knowledge makes the ignored and profound statement at 1 Cor 2:14 which reads (quoting Paul): "'But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.'  Then provides the interpretative-meaning of Paul's words with respect to the reality of what is portrayed by Paul as the natural man:. [Psuchikos,] the animal man, one who lives in a natural state, and under the influence of his animal passions; for [psuche] means the inferior and sensual part of man, in opposition to the [nous] understanding, or [pneuma,] the spirit". And this is not only true -- but is is a fact of life that all mystics and enlightened souls must deal with when interacting with organic man.   Which is exactly why Paul profoundly stated to the very people who he had personally taught the Gospel message: "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).   Stating to the body of confirmed and baptized believers who he stated had received all truth and knowledge pertaining to the elementary "traditions" of Christ: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).   

The literal seemingly historical text of the scriptures which Paul states is allegorical -- i.e., "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: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all" (Gal 4:22-26).   Paul confirms what the Church Father Origen stated in the words: “But all the narrative portion, relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children ...or to any other histories whatever, what else can they be supposed to be, save the forms and figures of hidden and sacred things?"  Thus, not only is Abraham, his wives and children, allegorical images that denote a spiritual reality of mind and body, but so too is the Jerusalem of this world which is itself an allegorical symbol used to denote the "...Jerusalem which is above is free"  That the literal text are symbols is further presented by Paul when he asks why they are observing the celebrations in the manner of the Jews -- i.e., "...how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain" (Gal 4:9-11).     

In order to understand the meaning and purpose of the scriptures, there is a simple formula that the reader of the scriptures must grasp and understand before they can even begin to understand the scriptures -- and that is the scriptures are not at all historical accounts -- they were never intended to be used as historical accounts -- and while they employ what can be portrayed as an historical cloak in order to make them accessible to the seekers, this historical facade is necessary in order to present important allegorical truths to the reader who is willing to seek out the mental and spiritual meaning.  As stated above, the scriptures employ "allegorical ...symbols of ...hidden” and incomprehensible truths of mind and spirit that could "...not [be] read according to the understanding of our own mind."   The objective of the scriptures is not to document the historical record -- but to connect the person we are in this world, with our inner pre-existent Soul that has access to the Source of all Knowledge of Creation -- and ultimately the Core of our Higher Consciousness that is portrayed as the Logos/Son of God.   And therefore with this objective in mind, it must be then understood that one of the primary objectives of the scriptures is to develop those latent areas of the mind necessary to employ the process of Amnesis to tap into this inner Source of Knowledge that eclipses all the knowledge of this world. 

The perceptive-comprehension of an Enlightened Anointed (Messiah/Christ) Mind is able to grasp all peripheral factors that must be brought together to form and embody the Higher vision of reality.   Throughout man's history there have been countless attempts to rectify and justify the plight of the struggles of mankind in this world -- prompting the saying: The road to hell is often paved with a great many good intentions.   In each instance of failure, the good intentions did not take into account many far-reaching factors that caused the failure of the idea, concept or effort.   On the other hand, the Enlightened or Anointed Mind is able to bring all the peripheral factors into balance, and bring about success.   And only when rightly comprehended, is the very foundation of mind and its necessary complexities understood.   F. Scott Fitzgerald stated: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."    With this being true, we can then state that the Enlightened and Anointed Mind is able to assimilate and bring together the primary four (4) paradoxical trinities within the mind as manifest in the twelve (12) mental spheres, and raise the twelve intricate divisions into One Enlightened Expression.  What can be portrayed as Wholeness of Thought is the product of all the diverse segments that have been brought together to create the Higher Enlightened All-Knowing Expression.  And it can rightly be stated that all the good intentions that paved the road to hell, all failed to consider and merge all the diverse-segments into a Wholistic Single Expression of Higher Reality. 

Most religious-oriented people can often be portrayed as intellectually lazy and spiritually complacent.   To their manner of thinking, there is only one solution.  Often this is expressed in the rhetoric: "All you need is Love".   they expect some Messianic authority to come and zap everyone's mind -- eradicate freewill -- and though some supernatural means invoke a feeling of love throughout all of mankind.   Of course they evade such reason as, why wasn't mankind immersed in love when he first stepped foot on the face of the earth?   Few advocates of unconditional love have the ability to even appreciate the complexity of mind from a truly Knowing and Enlightened Reality.  To their very limited thinking everyone should simply surrender and submit to Higher Power -- failing to understand the relationship of the Higher Power to mankind.   Yet, without understanding the very source and complexity of Love, the solution of love has proved ineffective and lacking on an immensely large scale.  Many envision all of mankind as being homogenized into singleness, and intellectually eradicated and programmed into a single love-thought.   In a Theocratic environment, everyone is often required to unquestionably submit to the commandments of the religious leader.   But history has demonstrated countless time that the theocratic environment is responsible for countless abuses and sufferings for those who disagree with the theological requirements of the leaders.   

Both man and an amoeba can be portrayed as being individualized and one -- and yet, the intellectual differences are so vast, that the two cannot even be compared with each other.  Higher Perception, Knowledge and Comprehension requires a complexity of Understanding -- and this necessary complexity can only be drawn from an evolved intellect that is able to perceptively-synthesize many greatly varying and often opposing factors and divisions.   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.  

A successful business man understands the immense value of having a body of a diverse and well informed advisors that can contribute divergent, contrary and often greatly contrasting opinions that provide solutions to the often conflicting issues that create a  successful endeavor over failure.    It is said that a genus can hold two paradoxical thought simultaneously in his mind -- and by definition, an Enlightened Anointed Mind can merge the four paradoxical-trinities of mind into a Higher Perceptive Vision of man's reality.   Because the mind of man is comprised of twelve (12) separate and often opposing spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life -- with each of the spheres perception and understanding drawn from a very different and often opposite perspective -- the same account can rightfully be presented in different scriptures not only from a different perspective --- but often using different names, numbers and a variation on places and events.  Why?  Because when dealing with allegorical portrayal of aspects of mind, there is also the factor of the Twelve Within the Twelve (see The Twelve Within The Twelve ).   What this means is that because the scriptures are not historical accounts -- but rather, often present the perception of the mind from as many as twelve (12) different segments of consciousness that impact the whole -- there are often major differences between texts.  

In the subheading on The Mystery Of The Gospel, it is demonstrated that Paul taught to seek Spiritual Knowledge from the Source -- which Sacred Knowledge can be portrayed as the Divine Manna that is fed to sincere seekers -- and in the Greek language this Sacred Knowledge is called Gnosis.   More importantly is the fact that Paul openly warned the people that this Spiritual Knowledge is beyond the comprehension of organic ("natural") man -- even when the believer is a committed and baptized Christian who Paul portrays as having received the gifts of the spirit by the laying on of hands by the Apostle himself (see Animal-Soul ).   If those who Paul himself taught what he called the "testimony" of Christ, were incapable of comprehending the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel which he called the Mystery, then an insightful and intelligent reader would conclude that there is far more to the Gospel account than what can be understood by the congregation of believers.

It is also demonstrated that the scriptures are written in a code that conceals the true meaning --  to the degree that Jesus had to open the minds of the disciples for them to perceive the meaning that other (organic) men were blind to -- i.e., "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45).   And what is presented to us in the enigma of the allegorical scriptures that are written in a secret code, is the reason why Peter portrayed the scriptures as the "books with the power to deceive" -- and why Peter warned that "...even the falsehoods of Scripture are with good reason presented for a test.” (see Power To Deceive ).    What, then, is the test that Peter is making reference to?   Peter explains that in the case of most people, all that they see and think they understand, is basically what they already believe -- and that the scriptures are written in such a way, that virtually anyone can confirm their previously held beliefs in the written words of the scriptures.   Why?    Because, few men who do not Know Thyself -- and remain ignorant about their own higher soul and spiritual reality that is beyond man's organic comprehension -- are capable of perceiving the true meaning of the scriptures that remains safeguarded beneath the allegory of the written words.    Why is the esoteric knowledge concealed in this manner?   To both preserve it for those who can put it to use, and safeguard it from those who would destroy it (see An Inconvenient Truth).   

Is The Old Testament About The Jews?  Based upon the reality presented above that the scriptures are "allegorical ...symbols of something hidden” that are not subject to human understanding, then everything in the scriptures are universal allegorical symbols that portray the Laws and Forces of Mind and Consciousness.   While the Essenes/Therapeutae/Ebionite/Nazirenes understood the spiritual nature of the scriptures, the Jews and many of the Gentile Christians were too carnal in their thinking to comprehend the scriptures.   The Jews (Pharisees and Sadducees) who were portrayed as apostates to the Truth and the Kingdom by those who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel (the Essene/Therapute/Ebionite/Nazirenes), were portrayed negatively and the example of what not to be -- i.e., "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).   And anyone who reads the scriptures as if they were historical accounts -- in contradistinction to using them as the Key of Knowledge and turning them within one's own mind and being -- can be portrayed as a Jew and an apostate to the Truth and the Kingdom.  Resulting in the reality that the person remains carnal and of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness that is incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom.   When Edward Gibbon acknowledged in the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire the fact that the Ebionite Nazirene and Gospel teachings were  “…embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutae, or Essinians…”, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls prove that the New Covenant teachings were drawn from the very essence of those who can be portrayed as Spiritual Israel.   And that in the same way that the dogma of pagan Rome was a corruption of these essential New Covenant teachings, so to was the dogma of the carnal Jews who were incapable of understanding how the Torah had to be fulfilled within one's own mind and being -- and not interpreted from an outward human carnal perspective.   

In the below subheading entitled Scriptures Written By Mystics Who Were Hunted Down As Heretics, I demonstrate the importance of the preservation of the scriptures -- and that the faith-based believers who were incapable of comprehending the spiritual meaning, can be portrayed as a type of mule that were      

  Can I Get An Original Pure Copy Of The Scriptures?  The answer to this question -- as promised at the beginning of this subheading -- is a resounding YES!!!   You can have a copy of not only the Original Gospels -- but also other highly spiritual scriptures, if you are either willing to demand them from those who are keeping them from you -- or, that you are part of a group of Spiritual Christians who have prepared themselves to receive these high-level sacred writings.  Gibbon writes in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: ”Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinancy... Not a moment was lost in excluding the ministers and teachers of the separated congregations from any share of the rewards and immunities which the emperor had so liberally bestowed on the orthodox clergy. But as the sectaries might still exist under the cloud of royal disgrace, the conquest of the East was immediately followed by an edict which announced their total destruction”.    Thus, in the same way that whoever did not embrace the religion of the emperor met with the sentence of death, whatever scriptures did not conform to the approved version, was immediately destroyed (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).  

Biblical scholars basically told the people the truth, but the truth was and remains unacceptable to the multitude of Churches.  Quoting from Examination of Modern NT Text Criticism: "Where history records that true sacred text survived this assault and is preserved in the traditional text, Westcott and Hort counter that the whole church participated in a conspiracy to fabricate a blended (and therefore corrupted) text. Westcott and Hort must not have believed the traditional Christian church to be genuine, but a sham. This thesis is supported by the biographies of Westcott and Hort. When J. F. D. Maurice was accused of false doctrine, Westcott commented that Orthodox Christians are like a new Islam persecuting a revival of the true Christians."

In truth, Constantine took the most corrupt New Testament scriptures and further edited and corrupted them to make them support the dogma of Mithraism which represented the common beliefs of the people.  The original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers of Jesus were condemned as heretics -- portrayed as "too Jewish" to understand the meaning of the Gospel -- i.e., “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).    Further, the Spiritual (Gentile) Christians who understood the important purpose of the scriptures as a catalyst to develop the mind and enable the seeker/believer to begin to receive the Divine Manna of the Kingdom, were condemned as Gnostic heretics -- hunted down, their scriptures destroyed and those who did not embrace the religion of the emperor, were put to death.   Resulting in the fact that the whole foundation of the modern Church which is based upon Original Sin, has been imported from the Mithraic based teachings of the Iranian prophet Mani, in order to explain and fill the great void that the Church suppression of important teachings on the pre-existent soul created (see Original Sin).   Thereby creating a pagan foundation to the Church that has rendered Christianity spiritually impotent.  Further quoting from Examination of Modern NT Text Criticism: "Westcott and Hort must have believed that what historians recorded as a defense against heretics was in reality a suppression of the true church. They believed that what the historians recorded as heretically corrupted texts were closer to the true autographs."  And this statement is true beyond the comprehension of the modern believer.    The more pure the copy of the Gospels, the more offensive it was from the perspective of the dogma and religion of the emperor. 

There exist words and realties that cannot be redefined by man.   The Greek word Gnosis is a word that is beyond man's ability to redefine -- and it indicates Spiritual Knowledge revealed directly to man by God.   Gnosis cannot be written in a book.   It cannot be taught by one man to another.   Gnosis is not at all an alternative historical tradition that was suppressed by the Church or any other group.   Gnosis has nothing to do with the wisdom of this world.   It is impossible to study Gnosis in a school, college or university.   The Gospel of Thomas portrays this world as dwelling in a state of abject poverty, because the wisdom of this world is devoid of the essential elements of what can be portrayed as Higher Spiritual Knowledge -- the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- or, in the Greek language what is portrayed as Gnosis.   In the original biblical Greek language, the knowledge of man that was taught by other men, was portrayed differently than the Divine Manna of the Kingdom that could ONLY be imparted to man directly from the Logos -- i.e., this Heavenly Spiritual Knowledge was called Gnosis.   Paul taught the necessity of seeking Spiritual Knowledge which in the Greek language is Gnosis -- i.e., Ephesians 1:17 states: "and asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him"  This Knowledge that Paul teaches to seek out -- Divine Knowledge that only God can impart to sincere seekers who have prepared themselves to receive the Divine Manna -- is called Gnosis in the Greek language.  The early Christian Valentinius quoted Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians when he made reference to Gnosis Kardias -- or, the enlightened eyes of the heart.   "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints" (Eph 1:18).   And that Paul wanted very much to speak about the Mystery of the Gospel to the Ephesians, but could not, is the reason he portrayed himself as an ambassador in bonds: "And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak" (see Eph 6:19-20).   And how did a seeker/disciple obtain these enlightened eyes of the heart? Very briefly, by putting on the "wedding garment" purity (see The Required Wedding Garment -- and by fulfilling the allegorical role portrayed as a virgin (purity of the Word) who awaits the Lord with the oil of purification -- and by becoming the "good ground" that permits the necessary expansion of the facilities of mind to be brought about, which enables the seeker/disciple to be taught by the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet.   And in the same way that in the parable of the ten virgins it was said to those who had failed to prepare themselves with the oil of purification that "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you" -- even though they believed and had called upon the Lord and was awaiting his coming, this reality of the believer who has failed to prepare himself is further explored in the early Christian scripture known as the Shepherd of Hermas.    When rightly understood, one of the primary purposes of the scriptures and the Gospel was to "open the eyes of the heart" as expressed in the words "Gnosis Kardias".   And this is why it is stated: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12 KJV).  Thus, the reality of the words: "To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:8-17).  Why is the manna or spiritual knowledge hidden?  Actually, it is not -- but because it is beyond the vision of man's carnal mindset, the Sacred Manna remains concealed to his physical eyes and senses.  And this is true not only of the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, but also every aspect of the life you are presently living.  God and the answers to all of life lie before you -- and unless you develop the innate aspects of mind, you will remain blind to your own higher Soul-Realty.    

The first scripture that the scribes of Constantine edited and rewrote was the Book of Acts.   Why the Book of Acts?  Because in its original form it portrayed the disciples as performing even more miracles than Jesus did -- possessing all knowledge -- and calling upon their Heavenly Father in the same way that Jesus did.   Quoting from Codex Bezae: One of the oldest copies of the Bible which dates back to the fifth century is the Codex Bezae, of which the Britannica writes: "Codex Bezae… has a text that is very different from other witnesses. Codex Bezae has many distinctive longer and shorter readings and seems almost to be a separate edition. Its 'Acts, for example, is one-tenth longer than usual’".    How can we have a Bible that is said to be "almost… a separate edition"?    If this is true, it is important for us to know which edition is the correct one? And in answering this question, we must also determine the criteria we should employ in our effort to choose which of these separate editions we should use in our Bible translations? The traditional answer to this question is very simple -- i.e., we choose the biblical texts that support our doctrines of belief, and reject the texts that do not -- but is this the means by which we are able to be certain that we have chosen the correct edition?  Regarding this serious problem presented by Codex Bezae, Dr. Vincent Taylor writes that: "It is characterized by a series of remarkable omissions in Luke, especially in chapters XXII and XXIV, and by many striking additions and variations in the Acts" (The Text of the New Testament, Dr. Vincent Taylor). How would these "remarkable omissions" and "striking additions and variations" effect our doctrines of belief? 

When the Ebionite Nazirenes and the Spiritual Christian -- all of whom ardently rejected the religion of the emperor -- saw what Constantine was doing to the scriptures, they called for a council where it was decided that each of the groups would bury and safeguard a cache of scriptures to be preserved for future use.   Thus, seven (7) libraries of scriptures were buried -- using the geographical places and numbers of the corrupted Book of Acts to mark their location.  Why did they use the numbers and places in the corrupted Book of Acts?  It was recognized that once the Book of Acts was corrupted in order to make is support the religion of the emperor, then it would survive across time -- and thus, it would remain pointing to the seven libraries of scriptures that were preserved for future use.   Why were these more pure copies of the scriptures deemed too valuable to loose?   Because of their ability to present the necessary catalysts to the reader to develop the Intuitive spheres of mind that had the innate potential to tap into the Inner Source of Knowledge (see Linear Vs Intuitive Development Of Mind ) -- enabling the sincere seeker to begin to receive the Divine Manna directly from the Indwelling True Prophet (aka Logos/Son of God).   And because the Ebionite Nazirenes and Spiritual Christians understood The Paradox Of Soul-Reality, the body of Enlightened Seekers understood that they would need these scriptures in the futures lives of their Soul in order to regenerate and restore themselves to the Inner Edenic Kingdom.   

What is known today as the Nag Hammadi Library was one of those caches of preserved scriptures -- another one known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri was inadvertently destroyed --  which means that there are still five (5) libraries of scriptures waiting to be found and rediscovered.   Among those preserved libraries of scriptures are copies of the original Gospels.   It was not an accident that the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library of Christian scriptures were discovered in the same time-frame.   These caches of scriptures were important in order to bring about the spiritual restoral and rebirth of the Church.   The Dead Sea Scrolls proved that the foundation of the modern Church was a bogus fraud (see Essenes Dead Sea Scrolls).   The Gospel of Thomas has preserved many important teachings that were suppressed and outlawed by the Church (see Gospel Of Thomas).   In addition to The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend, the Gospel of Thomas restores the proper original foundation that totally rejects the Mithraic doctrine of Original Sin (see The Restored Foundation ).   And most importantly The Foundation Of The Soul And The Threefold Self .   In addition to revealing and confirming the true suppressed foundation of the Christian Church, the Dead Sea Scrolls also provided Judaism with both more pure scriptures and a picture of their true spiritual roots. 

Demand The Vatican To Provide Original Copies Of the Gospels: When Constantine ordered the destruction of those who opposed the religion of the empire, many of the more pure copies of scriptures were collected and hidden away in what is now the Vatican archives.   The Church of Rome has maintained the position that the Truth in whatever form belongs solely to them -- and these more pure scriptures remain hidden away in the Vatican archives.  Therefore, if the Christian world truly desired to return to their original spiritual roots, and really wanted more pure scriptures, they could demand an accounting of these scriptures that remain stashed away in the Vatican. 

The Protestant Reformation was largely the result of the Gospels being translated into the English language, and given into the hands of the believing community by John Wycliffe.  The Pope was so infuriated by his teachings and his translation of the Bible into English, that 44 years after Wycliffe had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river!  One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire.   How corrupt and spiritually disenfranchised was the Church?   In his letter to Pope Leo X on September 6th, 1520, where Martin Luther wrote of the Christianity of his day, that the church, “…once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness” (Quoted in: The Great Thoughts; compiled by George Seldes).   Yet, as predicted by the Apostle Paul, the AntiChrist not only ruled the Church since the fourth century (see Church of the AntiChrist) -- but as Paul predicted, the AntiChrist sat on the thrown of the Church and was worshiped as God.   And with regard to Paul's assertion that these things would come to pass, 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).  

The Problem: Martin Luther and the Protestant reformers who did not understand the original teachings and objectives of the Gospels -- and only had the corrupted copies of the fourth century Church -- could not comprehend the reality of the warning that what was left was "...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" -- and in many respects they further alienated the Christian Community from the original objectives of a Spiritual Religion -- the tenets of which they did not at all understand.   In reading the scriptures as historical narratives, they threw away the Key of Knowledge in the manner of the Pharisees who Jesus condemned as blind guides.  But it is also important to understand that if the present body of Christians were to gain access to the more pure Gospels that have been hidden away from the body of believers by the Roman Church, their access to these Gospels would complete the Reformation that was begun when the English translation of the corrupted Bible was placed in the hands of the people.  In the same way that the Roman Church which has often been portrayed as the Synagogue of Satan could not stop the Protestant Reformation when the believers gained access to the Bibles in their native language, a truly Spiritual Reformation would take place if the body of believers demand the pope to return the copies of the Original Gospels that the Roman Church has denied them access to since the fourth century.       

It has been shown to me that if enough Christians demand that the Vatican return the more pure copies of the scriptures to the congregation of believers, that priests who have access to the Vatican archives will feel the need to restore the Truth, and will supply them to the people.   Further, there still remains important copies of the Gospels that have been preserved in many of the monasteries.   If you beseech and pray to your Heavenly Father to have these scriptures so that you can embrace the Original Gospel in their pure form, then the Hand of God will move the hearts of the priests who are the keepers of the Vatican archives to restore the sacred word back into the hands of the people -- where they rightly belong.      

In answer to their prayers for greater knowledge and understanding of the Gospels, the Hand of God moved and provided the believing community with both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library of Christian scriptures (see The True Gospel Foundation).  For the most part the modern Church has completely ignored what the scrolls have revealed about the true foundation of Christianity.   Regardless of the facts presented, it has basically been a business as usual environment throughout the mainstream of Christianity.    Yet, if a large enough body of Christians arises who are desirous to utilize the resources already provided -- and this body of Christians is in need of more pure copies of the scriptures -- then these additional scriptures will be provided to them through the either the discovery of another library of scriptures that remain hidden away since the fourth century, or some of those original scriptures that have been hidden away from the Christian world will be ferreted out of the Vatican and given into the hands of this more spiritual body of Christians who strive for the restoral and rebirth of the original Gospel teachings.  At the present there does exist priests and other people with access to the archives -- but there is no point to reveal the existence of these more pure scriptures, because there does not exist a body of Christians who are prepared to utilize them.   

Hidden Gospels: Lastly, when the more pure scriptures were in the process of being corrupted by the pagan Church of Constantine and the emperors who succeeded him, many copies of more pure scriptures were hidden away in some of the monasteries.   Throughout Europe individuals arose who had access to these copies of more pure scriptures which had been hidden away in many monasteries, and the Roman Church initiated Inquisitions to hunt the more spiritual Christians down.  Quoting the Wikipedia: "The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. It started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, in particular the Cathars and the Waldensians. Other groups investigated later included the Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites (followers of Jan Hus) and Beguines. Beginning in the 1250s, inquisitors were generally chosen from members of the Dominican Order, replacing the earlier practice of using local clergy as judges. The term Medieval Inquisition covers these courts up to mid-15th century."

One such example of a priest who used the more pure Gospels to bring about his own spiritual regeneration and restoral, is the example of Giordano Bruno who openly taught the reincarnation of the soul -- (quoting) "The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body" (see 30 Quotes On Reincarnation).  And his position on the soul is further presented in the words: "The divine perfection of the individual soul is the aim of all progression" (Giordano Bruno quoted in Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery; Cranston/Head, editors). Thus, on the higher reality of the Soul that is the Being of Light that is our True-Self, Bruno 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." Further stating that: "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" -- stating that "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."  In his Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante, which was published in 1584, Bruno described the condition of a soul who had misused its opportunities on earth, saying that such a soul would be "relegated back to another body, and should not expect to be entrusted with the government and administration of a better dwelling if it had conducted itself badly in the conduct of a previous one."  Thus explaining that there are certain individuals whose "soul-flame" has burned more brightly with each succeeding incarnation, leading them by gradual stages to perfection. "These speak and act not as mere instruments of the divine, but rather as self-creative artists and heroes. The former have the divine spirit; the latter are divine spirits."  With respect to the existence and reality of the Inner Teacher that exists within the self of every person, Bruno wrote that: "The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it" (quoted in Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno : Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600 (1913) by Coulson Turnbull).

Perhaps more importantly is the fact that Giordano Bruno can be used as a demonstration of those Christians who did not subscribe to the dogma of Pagan Rome (see Giordano Bruno).  Quoting the article to present the concepts of cosmology which was foundational to Bruno's positions: "Bruno believed (and praised Copernicus for establishing a scientific explanation for the fact) that the Earth revolves around the sun, and that the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens is an illusion caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis. Bruno also held (following Nicholas of Cusa) that because God is infinite the universe would reflect this fact in boundless immensity. Bruno also asserted that the stars in the sky were really other suns like our own, around which orbited other planets. He indicated that support for such beliefs in no way contradicted scripture or true religion ...Under this model, the Sun was simply one more star, and the stars all suns, each with its own planets. Bruno saw a solar system of a sun/star with planets as the fundamental unit of the universe. According to Bruno, infinite God necessarily created an infinite universe, formed of an infinite number of solar systems, separated by vast regions full of Aether, because empty space could not exist. (Bruno did not arrive at the concept of a galaxy.) Comets were part of a synodus ex mundis of stars, and not—as other authors maintained at the time—ephemeral creations, divine instruments, or heavenly messengers. Each comet was a world, a permanent celestial body, formed of the four elements. Bruno's cosmology is marked by infinitude, homogeneity, and isotropy, with planetary systems distributed evenly throughout. Matter follows an active animistic principle: it is intelligent and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. This animism (and a corresponding disdain for mathematics as a means to understanding) is the most dramatic respect in which Bruno's cosmology differs from what today passes for a common-sense picture of the universe. During the later 16th century, and throughout the 17th century, Bruno's ideas were held up for ridicule, debate, or inspiration. Margaret Cavendish, for example, wrote an entire series of poems against "atoms" and "infinite worlds" in Poems and Fancies in 1664. Bruno's true, if partial, rehabilitation would have to wait for the implications of Newtonian cosmology."

In the presentation of the esoteric knowledge that was revealed to the inner core of Jesus' disciples, I greatly expand upon the reality of matter and cosmology of mind throughout this present article in order to present an enlightened picture that must be considered if the disciple is to begin to seek and manifest their true spiritual potential. In the same way that much of the body of this esoteric Knowledge (Gnosis) was revealed to me by the True Prophet/Son of God, the question becomes: Was Giordano Bruno put to death for expressing the Knowledge that the Inner Logos/Son of God revealed to him directly?  Which means that Giordano Bruno -- as was the case of countless other Spiritual Christians -- was persecuted because he attempted to present to the people important esoteric truths that they must have an understanding of, in order to bring about the fulfillment of the Gospel Objectives within themselves.

 

  The Fatal Error Of The Church: The question must be posed: Can you just read the Gospels and know the truth? After Paul had personally taught the congregation of Christians at Corinth, he warned them that all he could give and teach them -- and all that they could receive and comprehend -- was the elementary Gospel teachings that were allegorically presented in what appeared to be an historical account of Jesus and him crucified.  Paul portrayed these entry-level doctrines as the traditions of "Jesus and the crucifixion".   This fact is explored and proven in the subheading entitled Mystery Of The Gospel.   Even after personally teaching this Christian Congregation, Paul warns them that the higher reality of the soul and the Kingdom is so incomprehensible to man in his "natural" organic condition of mind, that if he even attempted to speak plainly with them in an attempt to convey man's higher reality of soul and spirit which they know absolutely nothing about, they would condemn and reject the spiritual meaning of the Gospel as utter "foolishness"!!!   To even imagine that the modern Christian whose doctrines of belief are based upon what the Biblical scholars point out is the gravely flawed "..source and originality of Christian doctrine” that came into being in the fourth century --  and that the modern believer whose thinking has been imbued with this fourth century pagan dogma can merely open the Bible to confirm their beliefs -- and ignore the warning of Paul and the biblical authors that even those Christians who the Apostles personally taught and were of a more pure understanding could not comprehend the true meaning and the  Mystery Of The Gospel, are a people asking to be deceived.    

The Long Ignored Warning: Paul warns that the higher reality of the soul and the true meaning of the Gospel would be condemned and rejected as utter "foolishness" by the congregation of believers who he had himself taught.   And one of the great inconceivable realities that the congregation of faith-based believers have rarely ever been able to come to terms with, is the fact that in a True Spiritual Religion there is only One Teacher -- and the seeker must therefore learn only from this One Teacher.  To the degree that the Apostle Peter stated to his disciple Clement with respect to learning directly from what the first followers of Jesus portrayed as the True Prophet: “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 True Prophet).     And that man in his organic state of mind is incapable of understanding the true meaning of the scriptures, is demonstrated in the words of Peter when he warns that "...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).     And what this statement warns is that because the people of this world rely upon their natural organic senses and mind to assess what they think they see -- failing to distinguish and understand that they dwell in a world of allegorical symbolism and forms that are an allusion/illusion -- that all those who base their conclusions and assumptions on human (organic) perception and reasoning, will remain dwelling under the cloak of ignorance in the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   And this is why Jesus taught his disciples to seek out and learn only from the One Teacher who is the True Prophet, who is the Only Source of Knowledge.  

Where can the True Prophet and One Teacher be Found?   While there are virtually countless opinions as to the meaning of the scriptures, only when the scriptures are turned within one's own self and used as the Key of Knowledge -- enabling the seeker to enter in at what is portrayed as the "narrow strait gate" within one's own mind and being (see The Third Fatal Mistake - Not Proving The Truth) -- gaining entrance to the Inner Kingdom -- can the seeker enter the Presence of the True Prophet/Son Of God/Logos -- and fulfill the commandment to learn only from the Source of All Truth.    

When the modern believer opens the Gospels and envisions what he believes to be an historical account, they are totally ignorant of the fact that the authors of the Gospels did not at all write about history.   And in the rejection and condemnation of the original Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus, the whole spiritual meaning and purpose of the Gospel remains an enigma to the Christian world today.   Why were the Ebionites condemned and rejected as heretics?   Because they rejected the very pagan doctrines of belief which were held by the Greeks and Romans who were too heathen to understand the spiritual essence of the Gospel teachings -- doctrines and beliefs which were essentially Mithraic, and has little in common with the original Gospel teachings and objectives.   Historically, it is documented and warned that the most spiritual versions of the Gospels were never given over to the Gentiles (see Most Important Scriptures Never Given To The Gentiles).   And because the Greeks and Romans were too heathen and pagan to understand the spiritual concepts that Jesus revealed to his core disciples, it was warned in the Epistle of Peter And James that, if this esoteric knowledge should ever 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).  Why?   Primarily, because they look outwardly for what can only come inwardly.   And because the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus, along with those Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians who faithfully preserved this framework of esoteric knowledge were hunted down and murdered by the Church of Constantine -- and their scriptures burnt and destroyed -- the Church had thrown away what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge which is necessary to unlock both the true meaning of the scriptures, -- which spiritual knowledge must be used to unlock and open the inner "narrow strait gate" that provides entrance to the Kingdom that Jesus taught to seek and find.  

The question must be posed: Why does the Gospel account portray Jesus as rejecting the Pharisees as blind guides?   Because they had thrown away the Key of Knowledge.   "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered" (Luke 11:52 KJV).   And with respect to the proper use of the Key of Knowledge, Jesus stated: "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in" (Matt 23:13 KJV).   There is no way of evading the teaching that Jesus condemned the Pharisees because of (1) their failure to enter into the Kingdom; and (2) their obstructing the path of those who were striving to enter the Kingdom.   With respect to these ignored and gravely misunderstood words: What was the seeker supposed to use the Key of Knowledge to enter in?   Enter in the Inner Kingdom -- coming into the Presence of the True Prophet -- where the Truth of all Creation would be revealed to them.    And the fact that the carnal Jews has thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- in the same manner that the Church of Rome which called itself Orthodox threw away the Key of Knowledge -- was the reality portrayed in the words: "...hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in"  

What is the "testimony of Christ" that Paul taught the congregation at Corinth?   Paul portrays the higher realty of the soul and the Kingdom as the reality of “…things so astounding that they are beyond a man's power to describe or put in words…” -- and the few who possess the Key of Knowledge and are able to open the inner door to the Heavenly Kingdom, after these select few gaze upon these mysteries, what they have witnessed will be of such a profound nature that they will “…not [be] allowed to tell them to others” (2 Cor 12:4 TLB).   So, the question then becomes: How do you start to convey to entry-level faith-based believers what is  "...so astounding that they are beyond a man's power to describe or put in words"???   The only means available is to create a system of allegorical symbols that act as catalysts which begin the process of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness”.    Thus, Paul warns the congregation at Corinth: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).    Spiritually discerned indicated that they are spiritually revealed as the disciple applies the Key of Knowledge to gain entrance to the Kingdom, and is able to receive the Sacred Manna/Gnosis from the True Prophet.   Paul then goes on and warns these believers of a natural mind who were baptized and dedicated to Christ: “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS).   Thus, these believers could only be taught the doctrine of Jesus Christ and him crucified (1 Cor 2:2), because they were not yet spiritual men -- but rather, they were men of flesh and still very much “babes in Christ”.   Paul then explains that: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS - Spiritual Defeat ).    

Why are the scriptures -- as well as the Gospel accounts -- all allegorical symbols that must have the Key of Knowledge applied to them in order to begin to perceive the true meaning of the written word which Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth"??? (2 Cor 3:6).    Because man's higher soul-reality and the Kingdom is utterly incomprehensible to his very limited organic human understanding -- an understanding which must undergo the process of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” in order to perceive and comprehend both the essence of the Gospel, and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.    And in its original form, the Gospel was designed to bring about the necessary physical transformation that fulfilled the Law within the disciple, and manifest within them what is portrayed as the Final Temple that enables the seeker to enter within the Holy of Holies, and learn from the True Prophet.   This transformation is brought about by becoming the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed.    And this process of expansion which brings about the transformation of body and mind, is portrayed in the words which portray the spiritual increase of those who make themselves the "good ground... [which]  …multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times” what was initially received (Mark 4:8).   

The scriptures are not at all historical accounts in the manner that they are thought of by modern Christians.   I have already demonstrated that the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom are incomprehensible even to the congregation of believers who have received the testimony of Christ.   Because man's soul and spiritual reality is incomprehensible to him, the scriptures are an allegorical presentation of symbols that act as a catalyst which, when the Key of Knowledge is properly utilized, can be used to gain entrance to the Kingdom within -- drawing the disciple into the Presence of the indwelling True Prophet -- wherein the disciple can begin to receive the revelation of All Truths.   

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  The Great Human Dilemma: There is a reason and a cause for all things -- and this includes why men and women see the world from a different and often conflicting perspective.   In the allegorical account of the Tower of Babel it is stated:  “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech… But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other’” (Gen 11:1-7 NIV).    This confusion that exists among all of mankind has an organic reason that is the result of the Natural Laws which must maintain Balance and Wholeness of Mind across the spectrum of mankind.   Thus, not only is their an important reason why different people perceive and understand the world and all things from a different and often conflicting perspective, but it is these very differences that when rightly understood, has the potential to unlock the mind and totally eradicate the confusion of organic human consciousness.  

Without understanding the allegory of the Tower of Babel Syndrome and the Natural Laws which cause each man to function from a different aspect of mind -- a condition of mind that causes each individual to think and perceive the world differently than the next man (see The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind) -- and why the biblical authors warned that it was impossible for men of a "natural" organic mind to comprehend their own higher soul-reality and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God (see above Fatal Error) -- then The Great Human Dilemma is manifest in the inability of men to communicate from the same perspective -- but this is even more so the Great Dilemma with respect to a Spiritually Mature person who attempts to communicate his higher vision and understanding of reality to those who the Apostle Paul portrays as being of a "natural" organic mindset.    

Einstein, who, like Plato, Pythagoras and other great thinkers, perhaps put the dogmatic dilemma of man into the proper perspective as quoted in the recent biography by Walter Isaacson where it is written: In 1929, during a dinner party in Berlin, someone asked Einstein if he was religious. " Yes, you can call it that," Einstein replied. "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind the discernible laws and connections there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent, I am, in fact religious."  Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein gave an interview during which someone asked him, "Do you believe in God?" Einstein responded, "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying laws but only dimly understand these laws."  

The word “theology” comes from two Greek words, “theos” meaning “God,” and “Logos” meaning “Word” or Word of God -- but when the core principles of Creation and the Trinity is understood, the word Logos means the Mind of God -- and is the third-force balance between what is portrayed as Mother/Father God (see Logos).   Taken together we have the concept of “knowledge about God.”   Add to this the statement by the Apostle Peter as preserved in the Homilies of his disciple Clement 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. (see The True Prophet) -- fulfilling the objective "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 what we are presented with is the true reality of religion that those who claim to be religious are in denial of.   But to accomplish the primary objective of the scriptures and prevail over the Tower of Babel Syndrome, we must begin to understand the Natural Laws that invokes the mass-confusion in-which organic man finds himself immersed.   Those who are able to begin to attain a higher level of spiritual maturity, are as those who "...are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages."   And in recognizing the mass-confusion that exists among the opinions and perceptions of mankind, those on the path of higher spiritual maturity, are those who "...dimly suspect a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is"  -- recognizing that "...the universe [is] marvelously arranged and obeying laws but only [a very few among mankind are able to] dimly understand these laws."   But those who do, and are able to bring the the great segmentation of language and mind together within themselves to achieve Wholeness, are able to fulfill the Royal Law and "...then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

In understanding what is being presented, it is important to recognize that when Peter stated that one can live a spiritual life and "...hasten the coming of the day of God" (2 Peter 3:12 NKJV), the only possible interpretation is the fulfillment of the End Times within one's own mind and being.   And the Gospels speak of those who will see and experience the Kingdom Coming within them -- i.e., “But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God.” (Mt 16:28; Mark 9:1; Luke 9:27).  And Peter portrayed the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) of the disciples as the fulfillment of the End Times Prophecies: "Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord’" (Acts 2:14-21 NIV). While the the "...blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord’" did not transpire in the outer world -- yet, what is signified in the allegory did happen within the disciples who saw and experienced the Kingdom (second coming) come within them.  Since what is portrayed in the name Jesus is the pattern of salvation, when you pick up your own cross and immerse yourself in the Pattern, only then can the Christ come within you.  The objective of the Gospel is to Enter In The House with the Lord (see  below: In The House).  While those who are portrayed as being "outside", can only be taught in the enigma of parables -- because they dwell in a shadow-world of illusions, and are incapable of comprehending the higher reality of their own souls.  And this is exactly what is portrayed at the end of the Book of Revelation where the people who dwell under the illusions of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" ( see Outer Darkness) as being "outside" -- i.e., "But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie" (Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).  The whole quotation portrays those who have prevailed and overcome, and are able to enter through the gates of what is often portrayed as Spiritual Jerusalem: "Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie" (Rev 22:14-15 NKJ). And the process of "...entering through the gates into the city" is parallel to that of "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NIV).

The Proper Application Of The Key Of Knowledge: Once the scriptures are properly understood, they are very much the Key of Knowledge that if properly turned within and used to open the inner "narrow strait gate", they will enable the seeker to learn directly from the One True Teacher, and bestow upon such a sincere disciple the Life that the Gospels promise to the faithful believer.    Which means that even those who claim to believe, and yet fail to fulfill the spiritual objective of the Gospels within themselves, are those who walk upon the broad-way of self destruction -- i.e., "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).   And when Jesus was asked directly when the Kingdom of God would come upon the earth as Jews and Christians believe, Jesus said it would never come upon the earth, because it is within us all: "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:20-21 NKJ).   That modern Christians walk the broad-way of self-destruction, is because long ago the Church threw away the  Key of Knowledge in the manner of the carnal Jews -- and thus, what was said of the Jews then, is true of the Christians today: "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering" (Luke 11:52).

In the same way that Jesus expected the leaders of the Jews to properly apply the Key of Knowledge and enter the (inner) Kingdom (see GateOfEden.com) -- and thereby become enlightened to the Truth directly from the Source of All Truth (see The True Prophet) -- in their failure to properly apply the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge, they made themselves blind guides who were leading the people in the wrong direction down what Jesus called the "broad-way of destruction", making themselves apostates to the Kingdom of God.   Thus, the reality of the crucial questions that modern Christians close their eyes to is this: (1) How did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities "...hide the key to knowledge from the people"?    (2) Why did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves? -- i.e., "...You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!   And, (3) how did the religious leaders of the Jews "...prevent others from entering?" 

That the primary objective of the Gospel is to prepare and enable the seeker/disciple to enter the Kingdom, is further demonstrated in Jesus' condemnation of the blind religious leaders as seen in the words: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matt 23:13 NIV).   Which means that the Kingdom of God is not something that will come as we wait for it to arrive in this world, which Jesus portrayed as the Far Country -- but rather, it is a reality which man must seek, find and enter -- which is why Jesus warned that those who do not themselves pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay, are neither believers or worthy to be called his disciples and followers.   Allegorically, the restoration of the prodigal son to his rightful place in the Kingdom is portrayed as the resurrection -- and that this resurrection can only be attained and brought about while in the body-vessel, is demonstrated in the statement of the Gospel of Philip in the warning: "Those who say that first they shall die and (then) they shall arise are confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live, they will not receive anything (when) they die" (see Gospel Of Philip).   But perhaps even more important is the fact that the Christians, like the Jews before them, have themselves thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- and they have promoted the doctrines and traditions of pagan Rome -- the Christians have preached a doctrine where they teach the people to "...commit apostasy" where they "...crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt" -- and as an apostate to the New Covenant, Paul warns that "...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins" (see TheLie.org ).   And like the carnal Jews whose heart was hardened by their spiritually apathetic ways, they condemn the Truth and the Gospel Objectives as heresy!

The question should be posed: Can we just read the literal text of the scriptures and know the truth?   In the manner that Christians attempt to do today?   Paul called the written words of the scriptures the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) -- because most of the literal written word that appeared to be historical, was little more than "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14).   He warned the baptized believers at Corinth that until they undergo the necessary process of spiritual transformation, that their natural organic mind will be incapable of understanding the true meaning of the Gospel (see Mystery), and they will look upon the Mysteries of God as "foolishness" -- i.e., “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ).   And he warned these baptized and confirmed Christians of whom it was said that they had received all the gifts and testimony of the Gospel of Christ, that their untransformed mind was yet too carnal to comprehend and begin to grasp the necessary higher realities of soul and spirit -- i.e., “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS).   Further explaining that what is known as the testimony of Jesus Christ and him crucified is the "milk" of the Gospel -- meant for entry-level believers who have only begun their journey in TheWay -- i.e., Paul warns: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).     

To ignore this warning by Paul, as well as a parallel warning by Jesus himself, and a warning by Peter and all the early elders and leaders of the Church, is to cast one's self into a Spiritual Diaspora of profound ignorance that will be near impossible to emerge from -- i.e., biblically portrayed as the "broad-way of death".   Further, unlike the modern believer, the above words were written by Paul to a congregation of Christians who he (Paul) had himself taught the meaning of the Gospel.   And what Paul was stating was that it would be impossible for them to understand the true meaning of the Gospel, until which time their minds became transformed and evolved into a state of spiritual maturity that would enable them to perceive and understand what was incomprehensible to those Christians who could only comprehend the Gospel and the meaning of the scriptures from a human physical perspective.   And this fact was confirmed by Jesus in the parable of the Sower and the Seed when he warned those who had received the Word:  “And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” (Mark 4:13 KJV).  And to put this great biblical truth in the more modern language of the New Living Translation: “But if you can't understand this story, how will you understand all the others I am going to tell?”     And what this means is that if you fail to understand and put into practice the essential teachings of the parable of the Sower and the Seed in every aspect of your life, that there is no means for you to perceive and comprehend anything beyond what Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) -- which was in fact the plight of the Pharisees who had thrown away the Key of Knowledge.