{"id":10580,"date":"2014-11-11T17:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:55:39","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1182\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1182"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ON LOVE; PART\u00a0DCCLXXI<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;<em>The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these<\/em>&#8221; (Mark 12:29-31).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: &#8220;<em>Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 7:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We ended the last essay as we began it, by showing that it IS NOT the actual effort to <em>keep His words<\/em> that IS the KEY to attaining the\u00a0Presence of God in one&#8217;s Life, the KEY to attaining the Kingdom of God, but it IS the reality of <em><strong>Repentance,<\/strong><\/em> the <strong>decision<\/strong> to change the <em>focus<\/em> of one&#8217;s Life away from the things of the world and onto the things of God. <em>Keeping His words<\/em> and <em><strong>expressing<\/strong><\/em> the Love that DOING so demands then become the natural way for the man who in in the process of <strong><em>Transforming<\/em><\/strong> his Life in this world. In this we should see the\u00a0deeper reality in the Apostle Paul&#8217;s ideas regarding the law and the mere DOING of those things that ARE commanded, that it IS the change of <strong><em>heart<\/em><\/strong> that IS first needed in order to make the idea of <em>keeping His words<\/em> a reality. While much of the doctrinal approach sees this as that a man need not DO, that he need only <em>believe<\/em> and have <em>faith<\/em>\u00a0according to\u00a0the doctrines taught by the various denominations and sects, the greater reality IS that one MUST <em>keep His words<\/em> as He Himself tells us and that this IS the natural action of True <strong><em>Repentance.<\/em><\/strong> Much like the idea of Love and the reality of <em>keeping His words<\/em> ARE intimately connected, that to DO one IS to DO both, so this idea of <em>focus<\/em> and <em>keeping His words<\/em> are likewise connected\u00a0albeit in a different dynamic for the man in the world. We should remember here that it IS <strong><em>Repentance<\/em><\/strong> that IS the first of the Master&#8217;s teachings as He built upon the foundation of <strong><em>Repentance<\/em> <\/strong>that John the Baptist had laid, and we should understand here that there IS a reality to this word that IS lost in common usage and even in the teachings of doctrines. In the Master&#8217;s first recorded message\u00a0from the Gospel of Matthew we read that, &#8220;<em>From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 4:17) we have the reality of this most general admonition; this IS NOT <em><strong>Repentance<\/strong><\/em> for a specific action but <strong><em>Repentance<\/em><\/strong> for ALL one&#8217;s thoughts, attitudes and actions that are founded in the world of men. Like so many other scriptural words, this idea of <em><strong>Repentance<\/strong><\/em> IS a difficult idea to accomplish and, in this light, it IS changed and diluted so as to fit in with the carnal lives of men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS in the ideas of men that the Master&#8217;s words are contorted and His references ARE made to be about others and NOT about the oneself as the hearer of His words. Jesus tells us that &#8220;<em>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<\/em>&#8221; (Mark 2:17) and while doctrine may see those in need as those who they may see as sinners, the greater reality IS that ALL men who DO NOT see God as shown us in the first Great Commandment above are those who ARE NOT whole and who need such <em><strong>Repentance.<\/strong><\/em> And we should see here that we DO NOT get <strong><em>Repentance<\/em><\/strong> but that we are called to it by the Master&#8217;s words as they resonate in the <strong><em>heart,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in the consciousness, of men. This IS the reality of Life as the Master teaches us; <strong><em>Repentance<\/em><\/strong> IS the great door through which ALL men must pass as they come to look away from the self and the interests of the self in the world and look to the things of God. And there IS great difference between these two poles of Life in the world, a difference that IS muddied and obnubilated by doctrine but one that IS at the same time clearly pointed out for us by the Master and His apostles. As we looked at the ideas of evil and sin in the last post against the backdrop of Love and <em>grace,<\/em> we saw how that it IS one&#8217;s <em>focus<\/em> upon the Good, the Beautiful and the True, the things of God, that one actually <em>asks, seeks<\/em> and <em>knocks<\/em> on the door of <em>grace<\/em> and Wisdom; this\u00a0IS the parabolic door that leads to one&#8217;s <em><strong>realization<\/strong><\/em> of the Presence of God and His individual sense of Love which IS this Presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Focus<\/em>\u00a0IS ever in the control of the consciousness of the man in the world and here we should see that the more <em>focused<\/em> a man IS on the carnal Life the less likely he will be able to hear the prompting of his own Soul over the clamor of that Life. When we can understand the ideas of sin and of evil as the reality of one&#8217;s\u00a0<em>focus<\/em> being upon the things of the self, we can then understand the depth of their use in the New Testament and in the Old; that sin IS the result of the evil which IS the reality of that <em>focus<\/em> upon the carnal Life. In this view we would see that any deviation from the pronouncements of God and of the Master IS sin and that it IS this sin that we must <em>overcome<\/em> while we live here in this world under the influence of the <strong>illusion<\/strong> and the <strong>glamour<\/strong> of Life in form. And this IS the underlying note that we should take from our selection below from the First Epistle of John; here he shows us quite clearly how that Love and <em>keeping His words<\/em> are intimately tied together and how that one CAN NOT Love God without <strong><em>expressing<\/em><\/strong> that Love toward his fellowman. We should see as well how that this idea of <em>overcoming<\/em> IS also related and how that to NOT Love, as we read in the Great Commandments, the Golden Rule and the many other similar pronouncements and sayings from Jesus and His apostles, IS sin and IS as much sin as any other infraction. We read again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect , that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.\u00a0<\/em><em>Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.\u00a0By this we now that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.\u00a0For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.\u00a0Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God<\/em>&#8221; (1\u00a0John 4:7-5:5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This idea of <em>overcoming<\/em> the world IS the reality of discipleship and the reality of being <em>accounted worthy<\/em> of the Kingdom of God and we should see this through the prism of <em>keeping His words<\/em>. John begins his words here by telling us &#8220;<em>let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God<\/em>&#8221; and in this we find the Truth of the idea of being &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8220;. That the apostle repeats this idea using the idea of &#8220;<em>Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God<\/em>&#8221; DOES NOT detract from this idea of Love but rather enhances it and, as we previously discussed, this IS because the reality of such <em>believing<\/em> would create a man who <em>keeps His words<\/em> as they ARE those of the Christ, the Son of God. The Master tells us that\u00a0&#8220;<em>Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God<\/em>&#8221; (John 3:3) and we should see that the apostle&#8217;s words here are amplifying and clarifying this idea. Further, John tells us that except we &#8220;<em>love one another<\/em>&#8221; we DO NOT have the Presence of God and that except we &#8220;<em>love one another<\/em>&#8221; we CAN NOT Love God. When we can see these ideas and relate them as John DOES to being &#8220;<em>born again<\/em>&#8220;, we can see as well the reality of our ability to &#8220;<em>overcometh the world<\/em>&#8220;; and we should understand here how that ALL of these ideas ARE tied together by John and by the Master in His own words from the fourteenth chapter of John&#8217;s Gospel which we repeat here yet again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.\u00a0Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?\u00a0Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.\u00a0He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father&#8217;s which sent me<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:21-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The reality of His Presence and His Love ARE the result of our Love for Him and this Love IS shown as we <em>keep His words<\/em>. And, the reality of <em>keeping His words<\/em> IS in our ability to\u00a0&#8220;<em>love one another<\/em>&#8221; as John shows us above and as we should clearly see in the\u00a0Great Commandment from the\u00a0Master&#8217;s words above. While men discount and dilute these ideas, this IS the Truth of the message of the Master and His apostles and in the added reality of our ability to\u00a0&#8220;<em>overcometh the world<\/em>&#8221; we should be able to see the great divide between our <em>focus<\/em> upon the self and the things of the world and our <em>focus<\/em> upon the things of God. This IS the choice between &#8220;<em>God and mammon<\/em>&#8221; and, even if we should see <em>mammon<\/em> ONLY as riches and wealth, we should see how that men dilute even this idea so as to allow for their own prosperity. The reality of the Master&#8217;s words offers us this choice, the choice of whom to <strong><em>serve<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;.the selfish interests of the man in the world or the interests of God. Similarly doctrines have painted the idea of the &#8220;<em>treasure of the heart<\/em>&#8220;; while this should be seen as what IS important to a man, what his attention IS on, his <em>focus<\/em> if you will, many see only the interpreted idea of &#8216;love of riches&#8217;. When we can see Jesus words saying &#8220;<em>A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh<\/em>&#8221; (Luke 6:45) as that this IS in regard to this <em>focus&#8230;.that<\/em> it IS evil when on the self and the world and that it IS good when it IS on the things of God, we will have a better understanding of our own ideas of the <em><strong>expression<\/strong> <\/em>of one&#8217;s Life. The &#8220;<em>good treasure<\/em>&#8221; of course comes from above, from the Soul and the Christ Within; the &#8220;<em>good treasure<\/em>&#8221; IS found in His Presence which IS His <em>grace<\/em> in the Life of the man in the world and it IS this <em>goodness<\/em> that becomes the man&#8217;s <strong><em>expression<\/em><\/strong>. It IS this\u00a0&#8220;<em>good treasure<\/em>&#8221; that IS found in &#8220;<em>the spirit which is of God<\/em>&#8221; as we read in Paul&#8217;s words below and it IS to the man who possesses this\u00a0&#8220;<em>good treasure<\/em>&#8220;, this Presence and <em>grace<\/em>, that KNOWS that his IS &#8220;<em>freely given to us of God<\/em>&#8221; if we will but <em>ask, seek <\/em>and<em> knock\u00a0<\/em>for it which IS the essence of our <em>focus<\/em>. We read again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.\u00a0Which things also we speak, not in the words which man&#8217;s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.\u00a0But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned<\/em>&#8221; (1 Corinthians 2:12-14).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here we should understand the simple complexity of these spiritual ideas: by our <em>focus<\/em> upon the things of God, a <em>focus<\/em> that comes in that <strong>decision<\/strong> to change which IS <em><strong>Repentance<\/strong><\/em>, we come to the <em><strong>realization<\/strong><\/em> of His Presence, the <strong><em>realization<\/em><\/strong> of\u00a0&#8220;<em>the spirit which is of God<\/em>&#8221; in our Life. This IS the reality of the Holy Spirit and it IS this <em><strong>realization<\/strong><\/em> that teaches the things of God as this IS the <em><strong>revelation<\/strong> <\/em>of\u00a0the Soul, of\u00a0&#8220;<em>the anointing which ye have received of him<\/em>&#8220;. Here in\u00a0the Apostle John&#8217;s words we have this same reality which we read as &#8220;<em>ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things&#8230;.the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him<\/em>&#8221; (1 John 2:20, 27). We should remember here that this word that IS rendered as <em>unction<\/em> and <strong><em>anointing<\/em><\/strong> IS a kindred word to the Greek word Christos which IS rendered as Christ and that in this we have the reality of the Christ Within; At the same time we should relate this to Paul&#8217;s words above regarding the Holy Spirit and the Master&#8217;s words from John&#8217;s Gospel that tell us &#8220;<em>the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:26). Can we see how that the Christ and the Holy Spirit ARE the same reality, how that the\u00a0&#8220;<em>the spirit which is of God<\/em>&#8221; and the Presence of God ARE the same reality? Can we see how the fullness of the Trinity works out in the Life of the man who Truly seeks God? Here, while doctrines seek to maintain a separation of these Three Aspects of God, we should see that there IS a True singularity to these ideas and one that IS expanded upon by the Master who tells us in His own parabolic way that &#8220;<em>I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;\u00a0Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.\u00a0I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:16-18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This IS the greater reality of the Godhead and its microcosmic reference as the divine man, the Spirit, Soul and their activity in Life. ALL of these scriptural ideas are for the better understanding of men and especially those to whom these ideas were originally presented, men who were yet lost in the ignorance, the superstitions and the traditions of the time. God IS ONE and it IS in this that we find the reality of the Presence of God in the Life of men. This Presence IS shown us above as the Father and the Son and it IS shown us the Comforter as well. It IS ALL of these that become the <strong><em>realization<\/em><\/strong> of the man in the world whose <em>focus<\/em> IS upon the things of God; this IS a man&#8217;s measure of <em>grace<\/em> and his measure of the individual Love of God which He promises to the man who <em>keeps His words<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;to the man that can <strong><em>express<\/em><\/strong> this in Love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect\u00a0<del><\/del>of God<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Potency<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect of Man<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In Relation to the Great Invocation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In relation to the Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"59\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GOD, The Father<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Will or Power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Spirit or Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Center where the Will of God IS KNOWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"57\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Son, The Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Love and Wisdom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Soul or Christ Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Heart of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Truth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"56\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Light or Activity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mind of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Note on the Quote of the Day<\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We repeat here again a saying that is from the Bhagavad Gita, which goes well with our theme of the God Within, the Soul, which we see as the Christ Within and while this is good in the Christian world and is True based upon our understanding of the Christ as the manifestation of God, we should also see in these words below that it does not matter what these divine ideas are called; that it matters not what we call this Inner Man, that he is the same in ALL, he is the Soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Thou carriest within thee a sublime Friend whom thou knowest not. For God dwells in the inner part of every man, but few know how to find Him. The man who sacrifices his desires and his works to the Beings from whom the principles of everything stem, and by whom the Universe was formed, through this sacrifice attains perfection. For one who finds his happiness and joy within himself, and also his wisdom within himself is one with God. And, mark well, the soul which has found God is freed from rebirth and death, from old age and pain, and drinks the water of Immortality.<\/em>\u2014Bhagavad-Gita<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is difficult to tell just what verses of the Bhagavad Gita the above is from; whether it is a paraphrase or a combination. It is from the book \u201cThe Great Initiates\u201d by \u00c9douard Schur\u00e9 which was originally published in French in 1889 and perhaps it is in the translation of the verses that they become hard to recognize. However, the sheer beauty of the presentation caught my attention and so I share it with you. The Path to the Kingdom is the same no matter what religion one professes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let the peace of God rule in your hearts<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON LOVE; PART\u00a0DCCLXXI \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1182\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45,25,39,81,44,41,49,20,38,43,30,24,13,14],"tags":[88,82,95,57,87,22,99,23,94,92,97,9,10,17,83,54,8,6,91,21,31,32,12,52,47,34,33,18,84,93,55,89,26,85,7,15,16,50,98,11],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abundance-of-the-heart","category-born-again","category-children-of-god","category-christianity","category-disciple-of-christ","category-eternal-life","category-faith","category-forgiveness","category-light","category-living-in-the-light","category-reincarnation","category-righteousness","category-son-of-god","category-the-kingdom","category-jesus-words-2","tag-abundance-of-the-heart","tag-aspirant-to-discipleship","tag-born-again","tag-buddha","tag-children-of-god","tag-christ","tag-disciple-of-christ","tag-enlightenment","tag-eternal-life","tag-faith","tag-forgiveness","tag-goodwill","tag-christian-love","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-of-thomas","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus-words","tag-jesus","tag-light","tag-light-of-the-world","tag-merciful","tag-mercy","tag-new-age","tag-new-age-developments","tag-new-birth","tag-peace","tag-pure-in-heart","tag-quote-of-day","tag-rebirth","tag-reincarnation","tag-resurrection","tag-righteousness","tag-sons-of-god","tag-spiritual-reality","tag-the-christ","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-truth","tag-united-nations","tag-unity-in-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10587,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}