{"id":8675,"date":"2013-12-28T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2013-12-28T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T23:44:03","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/28\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-900\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 900"},"content":{"rendered":"

ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CDLXXXIX<\/span><\/h2>\n
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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n
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The Gospel of Thomas<\/span><\/h2>\n

These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke. And Didymos Judas Thomas<\/em>\u00a0wrote\u00a0them down.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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(109) Jesus says:\u00a0“The kingdom is like a person who has a hidden treasure in his field, (of which) he knows nothing.\u00a0And [after] he had died, he left it to his [son]. (But) the son did not know (about it either).\u00a0He took over that field (and) sold [it].\u00a0And the one who had bought it came, and while he was ploughing [he found] the treasure.\u00a0He began to lend money at interest to whom he wished.<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

(110) Jesus says:\u00a0“The one who has found the world (and) has become wealthy should renounce the world.<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

(111) Jesus says:\u00a0“The heavens will roll up before you, and the earth.\u00a0And whoever is living from the living one will not see death.”\u00a0Does not Jesus say: “Whoever has found himself, of him the world is not worthy<\/em>“?<\/span><\/p>\n

(112) Jesus says:\u00a0“Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul.\u00a0Woe to the soul that depends on the flesh.<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

(113)\u00a0His disciples said to him: “The kingdom \u2013 on what day will it come?”\u00a0“It will not come by watching (and waiting for) it.\u00a0They will not say: \u2018Look, here!\u2019 or \u2018Look, there!\u2019\u00a0Rather, the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

(114)\u00a0Simon Peter said to them: “Let Mary go away from us, for women are not worthy of life.”\u00a0Jesus said: “Look, I will draw her in so as to make her male,\u00a0so that she too may become a living male spirit, similar to you.”\u00a0(But I say to you): “Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.<\/em>”\u00a014<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We ended the last essay by repeating the twenty second saying from the Gospel of Thomas as it this plus the combination of the third and the one hundred thirteenth that we discussed in the last few essays, where we may find the reality behind this one hundred fourteenth saying which we must remember IS a parabolic saying that where the Truth is hidden behind the outer appearance as IS True for most ALL parabolic sayings. In the common language of the physical man, the carnal man, there IS NO way for a woman to make of herself a man as our current saying says and we should KNOW that this saying IS NOT in reference to sex change at ALL. We should KNOW as well that it IS contrary to the very idea of Christ that any part of the human family be separated and held apart; His teaching on Love precludes this. And, considering these things there IS NO way that the end part here can be understood as it IS written, that the woman who IS such physically, can be kept out of the Kingdom. This is how that we read this part that says that\u00a0“Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven<\/em>“; for us this makes the converse True as well and, of course this act IS impossible to conceive anyone doing except perhaps in that highest state of being where we see the Christ taking on that ability to appear as He wished after His resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the purposes of achieving the Kingdom, of being accounted worthy<\/em>, there can be no physical properties involved as the physical is merely the vehicle for the expression<\/strong><\/em> of the divine aspect of the True man, the Soul. There is likewise no change necessary in the psychic part of one’s physical presence in the world which we understand as the emotions and the mind; there is only the need to change what IS expressed<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by these and it is here that we can find the True reality of this saying. This IS much like the Master’s saying that it matters not what goes into the body but what comes out, what IS expressed,<\/strong><\/em> and we read this clearly in these words to the Apostle Peter saying: “Do not ye yet understand , that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? \u00a0But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man<\/em>” (Matthew 15:17-20). While this may seem unrelated, there is a link here for our understanding; it is the heart<\/strong><\/em> of the man that expresses<\/strong><\/em> whatsoever he IS as any time, be it the self in the world or be it the Soul, and if we can put the ides of womanhood in this list, not as an evil but as an example, we can see then the same thing: that the heart<\/strong><\/em> of the woman, her consciousness in the world, expresses<\/strong><\/em> womanhood or manhood or any thing of the self until such time as the Soul, the Love and the Power of the Soul, is expressed;<\/strong><\/em> it is here that one is accounted worthy<\/em> and this works the same way for the man or for the woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

This IS the greater reality; it IS when the person, man or woman, in the world can come to express<\/strong><\/em> the Love and the Power of the Soul that one can be seen as accounted worthy<\/em> of the Kingdom of God. And here, in this place of expression,<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0ALL things works by degree and we DO NOT KNOW at what degree one attains the Kingdom of God but it IS on this Path that this IS accomplished; the Path of expression<\/strong><\/em> of the True man, the Soul. Here we should understand that there IS NO sex, NO differentiation of sex, as Souls there are only Souls who can and do take upon themselves physical forms which are either male or female; it IS ONLY here in this physical world that sex becomes an aspect of Life. We can see this in the Master’s words to the Sadducees and the Pharisees regarding ‘the resurrection’ as He tells them that: “Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven<\/em>” (Mark 12:24-25). In addition to the right understanding of ‘the resurrection’ the Master offers a picture here that IS missed by most; that there is no marriage because there are no sexes nor need for this particular type of union and that ALL “are as the angels which are in heaven<\/em>“. This obscure language has the deeper meaning that there IS no sex in the Life of the Soul but that they ARE as they were ‘created’ which the Master tells us IS “as the angels”\u00a0<\/em>and which IS as we read from Genesis; that: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them<\/em>” Genesis 1:27).<\/span><\/p>\n

We closed yesterday with the twenty second saying which we repeat here in part to show the Master’s ideas according to Thomas; we read: “Jesus said to them: When you make the two into one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below \u2013 that is, to make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female will not be female<\/em>” (Thomas 22:4-5). Here we should see that same sense of unity of which we ofttimes speak, the Unity of the Soul and his expression.<\/strong><\/em> This IS NOT the same as it appears in the text where one can assume the subject is the union of the Spirit with the flesh and the Apostle Paul gives us this Truth in equally cryptic language that must be discerned as He says: “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption<\/em>” (1 Corinthians\u00a015:50). The Master’s words here are revealing the idea of expression<\/strong><\/em>, that when the Soul and his\u00a0expression<\/strong><\/em> ARE one, when the outside is expressing<\/strong><\/em> the qualities of the inside, and when the Wisdom from Above is expressed<\/strong><\/em> by the psyche below, which clearly expresses<\/strong><\/em> our idea here of expression,<\/strong><\/em> of what comes from the heart.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0And this theme then continues to the idea of “to make the male and the female into a single one<\/em>” which idea IS explained in the next phrase that “so that the male will not be male and the female will not be female<\/em>“; it is here that we should see the reality that to enter into the Kingdom of God these expressions,<\/strong><\/em> ALL of them, are required as stated in the twenty second saying and that when these things are accomplished, “then you will enter [the kingdom]<\/em>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we opened today’s essay we mentioned three other sayings that can help us to understand this one; the twenty second above and the third and the one hundred thirteenth which we repeat here:<\/span><\/p>\n