{"id":3964,"date":"2012-07-15T22:20:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2012-07-15T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:20:36","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-383\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 383"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law<\/h2>\n

ON GOD; Part CLXIV<\/h2>\n
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“For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.\u00a0A 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>” (Luke 6:44-45).<\/p>\n

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt , and where thieves break through and steal : But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt , and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also<\/em>” (Matthew 6:19-21).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Aspect of God<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Potency<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Expressed as Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Father<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Will or Power<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Electric Fire<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Spirit or Life<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Son, The Christ<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Love and Wisdom<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Solar Fire<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Soul or Christ Within<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Holy Spirit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Light or Activity<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Fire by Friction<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Life Within the Form<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Have we seen the connection between our topics over the last few days and our saying regarding treasure<\/em> and heart<\/strong> <\/em>that we have been posting at the top of our essays? \u00a0In yesterday’s post we created a list of points regarding the\u00a0consciousness\u00a0<\/em>of a man, his heart<\/strong> <\/em>as the Master calls it, \u00a0and we should have the idea now that this consciousness<\/em> IS the man; the form Life that he lives has received its Life and its consciousness<\/em> from the Soul or the True man. We have said frequently that we cannot understand the\u00a0reasoning\u00a0for Life in form, that journey through incarnation after incarnation, as we tread the Path toward what the Apostle Paul tells us is our destiny of being\u00a0“delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God<\/em>“. We cannot discern the reasons for the\u00a0existence\u00a0of Life itself except to be able to say that Life IS and this is True because God IS and God is Life. Perhaps in some distant future when we are again ONE with our own Spirit in this consciousness<\/em> that we have, we may realize the purpose of it ALL but for now we should understand simply that we ARE this consciousness<\/em> and this consciousness<\/em> is the Life of the Soul, the True man, which exists within and is part and parcel of OUR GOD.<\/p>\n

A hint that we gleaned from the words of the apostle, from the same group of sayings as we cite above, which he wrote to the Romans, is found in the very end of these saying which we repeat again here:<\/p>\n

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“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body<\/em>” (Romans 8:20-23).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Our hint is in Paul’s words saying “waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body<\/em>“. In the idea of adoption<\/em> we should remember Vincent’s words saying that:\u00a0We have but a faint conception of the force with which such an illustration would speak to one familiar with the Roman practice; how it would serve to impress upon him the assurance that the adopted son of God becomes, in a peculiar and intimate sense, one with the heavenly Father<\/em>4<\/sup>; and it is in this ONENESS that we should understand this idea. This word and idea is uniquely Paul’s and is not explained as to his meaning, it has given rise to much doctrine which seems to tell us that when we are good Christians we will become as adopted<\/em> children of God. There is some Truth here that does not from our perspective include Christian criteria nor the act of becoming as in reality we are ever His children. The first sentence of this group which we had posted for many days tells us the reality of it ALL and this reality includes adoption<\/em>. Paul says “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God<\/em>” (Romans 8:14), this is the criteria for this adoption<\/em> and one that brings us to the point of this ONENESS with God and the God Within and the purpose in this ONENESS as “the redemption of our body<\/em>“. Can we see that in this state of being we can be seen to be like the Christ at the Mount of Transfiguration and that in this state every cell, molecule and atom of substance in our threefold form will be glorified<\/em> and redeemed<\/em>; words that are likely well beyond our understanding today or the understanding given by doctrine.\u00a0As we said in the many days that we have now spent on these sayings by the apostle to the Romans, there is limitless depth in Paul’s words from which we have been trying to glean but a small part as it pertains to the Life of a man in this Earth and, as his sayings here continue there is yet more revelation which we will get to in future posts.<\/p>\n

This creature<\/em> of which the apostle speaks can be easily seen in the idea of the consciousness<\/em> of the man in form. This\u00a0consciousness\u00a0<\/em>is not the form with its mind and emotions as one would commonly think but it is rather that complex\u00a0interaction\u00a0between the the Soul and these components to which the Soul has lent<\/em> <\/strong>himself which self IS this consciousness<\/em> and IS also that heart<\/strong> <\/em>of which the Master speaks. While we may take this idea of consciousness<\/em> for granted in Life, there are many in whom there is not the proper\u00a0interaction\u00a0and in this we can only surmise that the cause is one of equipment, that is body and emotions and mind, that is deficient for the purposes of this interaction by reason on birth or accident or, that the Soul himself is the cause due to some karmic responsibility that is beyond our ken. We should remember that there is an instance of this nature in the Gospel of John which gives us some bit of information and does point for us to the idea of reincarnation; the text goes: “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him<\/em>” (John 9:1-3). Ponder on this.<\/p>\n

Now we have discussed this idea of the creature<\/em>, this consciousness<\/em>, being “made subject to vanity, not willingly<\/em>” and this is the reality of the plight of the man in form, that he is lost in the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong> of the world of vanity<\/em>. Again, we should see in this word the idea given to us by Vincent saying that in this word\u00a0the reference is to a perishable and decaying condition, separate from God, and pursuing false ends<\/em>4<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/em>We have also discussed the role of duality as it effects the Life of the Soul in form and we have noted that it is at such a time as the\u00a0consciousness\u00a0<\/em>within the form begins to realize that there is more than that which he sees, that this sense of duality begins to play a part in his Life. This can be seen as the beginning of the man’s awakening<\/strong> <\/em>and the True beginning of his struggle to free himself from “from the bondage of corruption<\/em>” and, this is the True beginning of the man’s True realization of his own free will<\/em>. It is to us at this point, this stage, of Life that the Master speaks in the sayings above and it is here that we should recognize the import of His sayings.<\/p>\n

When we view the heart<\/em> <\/strong>as the\u00a0consciousness<\/em> of man\u00a0and the and the treasure<\/em> that the Master speaks of as those things that are important to him, we can begin to understand the reality of the Master’s sayings. The reality of this is not a superficial change in heart<\/em> <\/strong>but rather a dynamic change in the focus<\/em> of one’s Life to the degree that we no longer regard the things of this world as of any importance whatsoever.\u00a0\u00a0This is the stance of a True disciple of the Lord and this change in focus<\/em> brings one into alignment with many of the precepts that the Master teaches about the focus<\/em> of one’s Life. This focus<\/em> of one’s Life echos out in the Master’s sayings and by the very nature of what He says we can see the difficulty in achieving this High Calling.<\/p>\n

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  • On the choice between the things of the world and the word of God, the Master tells us that: “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon<\/em>” (Luke 16:13). There is no doubt in the Master’s words here, He simply sates the fact that it is impossible to do so; a man MUST be focused<\/em> upon one or the other. Men try to be godly without keeping the\u00a0entirety\u00a0of the Master’s words but it takes more than going to church and reading the bible, it takes a commitment to keeping His\u00a0<\/em>words <\/em>and not only those that are convenient.<\/li>\n
  • In Luke’s Gospel this saying follows the Parable of the Unjust\u00a0Servant\u00a0and the Master’s words are in relation to the ways of man in the Earth; He says “…for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light<\/em>.\u00a0Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?<\/em>” (Luke 16:9-12). The doctrinal understandings of these words as well as those in the previous point are tied to money and to possessions but this is not the proper understanding; this must be looked as as the things of the world both physical, emotional and mental. It is attitudes and feelings as well as physical possession of things and looking at the plight of man the\u00a0argument\u00a0can be easily made that riches are the minor component as those of little means are are included in these words as well. It is the focus<\/em> of the Life of a man and be it money or possessions (including those that we buy but cannot afford),\u00a0attachment\u00a0to persons or ideals or, on the negative side, staunch prejudices and national hatreds, these are for him the mammon and in all senses,\u00a0positive\u00a0and negative; the “mammon of unrighteousness<\/em>“. One is of the “children of this world<\/em>” when his focus<\/em> is on the things of this world and the Master tells us here that when we are in this state it is wise to have friends of a similar nature as they may<\/strong> <\/em>help and understand us when we fail; in this idea of friends we should see the nature of the unjust steward who gave that which was not his to his ‘friends’ so that they would help him in his time of need. Thus living as the “children of this world<\/em>”\u00a0is the nature and effect of that vanity<\/em> of the world and we can see from looking around us that this neither works nor is it of any benefit to the True man, the Soul, but rather these things only take him further from his goal. The Master tells us as well that we should, when required to do so, deal with the things of the world in a faithful manner, in honor and with proper care and He alludes to the idea that this worldly action can be a precursor of our\u00a0ability\u00a0to deal with the things of God. There is much food for thought in these statements.<\/li>\n
  • In the like verse from Matthew’s Gospel regarding God and mammon, the wording of the Master’s saying is virtually the same and it does clear up any confusion as regards the\u00a0thought\u00a0of servant from the saying above where it is offered in conjunction with a parable about a servant. Here we have clearly a man: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon<\/em>” (Matthew 6:24). The context here is different insofar as this is said as a part of the Sermon on the Mount which we should see as the everyday rules for a Life focus<\/em> upon the Christ Within, the Soul, and God. Here the Master makes this statement just before another that has so much to say about the focus<\/em> of one’s Life and another of His sayings which is not understood by the doctrines of the Church today; He says: “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?<\/em>” (Matthew 6:25). We should note also that both these sayings follow upon the Master’s words from our saying at the top “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also<\/em>” and we should also note how these three work together to make the point of the Master’s teaching here plainly focus<\/em>. We repeat here a thing that we say earlier in this essay as it is equally fitted for this point:\u00a0the reality of this is not a superficial change in heart but rather a dynamic change in the\u00a0focus<\/em>\u00a0of one’s Life to the degree that we no longer regard the things of this world as of any importance whatsoever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    There are countless sayings in the words of the Master that echo these same ideas to us who would be disciples of the Lord and who are struggling through Life in this world as aspirants who recognize the duality and sense the goal but are yet caught up in that vanity<\/em>, that illusion<\/strong> and that glamour<\/strong> of Life in from. The reality of escape is before us ALL and the Master does tell us both of the severity of the undertaking of discipleship, which is only such when viewed from the perspective of the man in form, and the difficulty of reaching our goal a difficulty that is echoed for us by the Buddha.<\/span><\/p>\n