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Biblical Perspective on Cosmic Jesus, Law and Cellular Ascension

May 11, 2022 by Raymond Phelan 13 Comments

Most of us, post Covid, will be re-evaluating our lives against the backdrop of human and environmental destruction. Covid has been a major awakening lesson for us all, a lesson hopefully not be a wasted particularly regards media brainwashing. In this ‘brainwashing’ regard, checking that we’re not returning to same ‘normal’ institutional paradigms is imperative. Like Lazarus – the spiritually dead carnal mind — eternal Christ within whispers LOUDLY /affirmatively: come forth from the tomb of ignorance into the Light of Truth-consciousness.

Due to our early years of fear-based, religious conditioning – including myself at one point – many may still be interpreting Scripture literally. And although during adolescence we may not have latitude of ‘choice’, but once we come to ‘age of choice’, we’re then free to commence transitioning into spiritual maturity, when higher spiritual prompts — as biblical Lazarus received — begin revealing that we’ve been, in religious terms, systematically programmed without our adult consent and which now doesn’t feel right, as brainwashing it’s not in accord with natural evolution.

We’re not intended to remain at base camp standards simply because a preacher indoctrinated us or our family into ‘their’ indoctrinated belief system. Those primitive, imprisoning and even immoral ways of soul controlling are well and truly over. For, rendering the soul to institutional conformity represents agreement to becoming an automaton , when — due to muting self-expression — we sacrifice the mind’s potential of true ‘inner freedom’

Restricting the soul to man-made paradigms and limiting belief systems does not meet spiritual or cosmic evolution’s protocol.

As many already know, ancient bibliography is an expose in mental science, relating to inner mechanisms and their potential, but expressed through myth, metaphor and symbolism. Sadly, formal religion has turned these wonderfully composed biblical masterpieces into unrecognizable content not intended by their divinely-endowed authors. Literal interpretation has rendered much of Scripture meaningless to so many Truth-seeking souls.

So, let us look esoterically at some powerful and enabling scriptures and see how practically we may relate these to our own inner universe, and how one’s state of faith-silence-consciousness is sufficient dynamic to propel our soul out of the fixed orbit of sin, propel our soul’s evolution more speedily, more beautifully and more meaningfully in ways not previously reflected upon by formal religions.

Let us approach this inner journey from the perspective that, vibrational silence is the initiating ‘go-between’ which triggers the spiritual dynamic latent within each heart /mind and cellular grids.

So, to commence.

Metaphysically, the title / term Jesus is referring to ‘life principle’, or, that ‘vital spirit-energy,’ or ‘vital life force,’ present within each soul. In Yoga, ‘Jesus’ would be termed prana. The Sanskrit word means universal principle or ‘breath of life’ permeating the entire creation.
In this context, Jesus said to the apostles – the twelve mental faculties in the brain:

“Go forth and multiply” — Genesis 9:7

At a basic level of understanding, this scripture is particularly pertinent to cellular evolution: creating harmonious cell division for the spiritual well-being of the Whole.

Transcendent God-nature is utter silence, while karma is action — two totally opposing forces. One representing the ever-changing field of phenomenal life, the other, the never-changing Absolute state.

We know that when the body inhales, it takes in O2 or oxygen, and breathing out it exhales CO2 or, carbon dioxide: the ‘waste’ or fumes of each breath cycle; which ‘waste’ then goes to feed the forestry kingdom, which inhabitants reciprocate by breathing out their waste — in the form of pure oxygen — enabling us humans to breath in again, to include also the animal and bird kingdoms, plus the countless other unseen tiny lives. And man — as the superior species — cuts these trees down mindlessly solely for financial profit without thought or concern for the utter dependency by all of us on this God-given life-sustaining breath of life.

Reducing carbon dioxide production in the body helps achieve cellular purity. To this end, when we meditate, the body’s respiratory system reduces to its least production of carbon dioxide, thus stimulating greater cellular intelligence within the body — when cellular decay or, ageing is absent for the period of meditation.

Considering the estimated 50 trillion cells of the body, it’s possible, therefore, by transcending in meditation, for the cellular universe to reflect eternality-imbibed nature, thus on-going cellular ascension unto advance life forms. With our cells constantly vibrating and creating electromagnetic energy waves, cellular intelligence represents a vast untapped universe in evolutionary potential. “Go forth and multiply” is also linked to expansion of consciousness, which will be dealt with as the article progresses.

Jesus then said (universal Life Principle):

“What ye do unto the least of these my brethren, ye do unto me” Matthew 25:40.

‘Point’ and ‘infinity’ both contain the eternal memory of each other. So, breaking this down, let us re-term ‘point’ as transitioning to realization of ‘infinity’– transcendent state– with ‘point’ in transition to realizing ‘infinity. In other words, through the instrumentality of vibrational sound, when intellect reduces or converges to zero mind then touches infinity. Thus, in deep meditation point and infinity are realized simultaneously as equal, when, ‘unto least’ becomes ‘unto Me’. While metaphorically, ‘point and infinity are the same, ‘point’ just needs to be initiated unto realizing Transcendent consciousness, which initiation is through mantric sound.

As all present-day cells are descended from a single primordial sound, could this quantum ‘sound-atom-point’ be our ancestral Abraham from which we’re each said to be a descendant of, with Jesus representing the photon of light? – the difference only being scale.

The difference between cells and atoms are: cells are biological while atoms are chemical. A cell comprises molecules composed from atoms – which makes the atom responsible for the creation of the cell. In this context, from the Genesis ‘Adam and Eve’ perspective, the concept is best understood as not two separate beings as such, rather aspects of a single atom-splitting affair, a negative-positive interactive process involving protons and electrons where opposites attract to make spiritual electricity thus ‘point and infinity ‘coming into practical play.

As the cell represents the least ‘living’ biological entity in the body, this scripture can be understood in terms of: ‘what we do unto the cells thus we imprint onto the manifesting law of karma: attracting either positively (love) or negatively (corrosion /decay) either of which affect cellular evolution upward or downward.

Remembering, that, biblical Jesus (higher life principle) ‘spoke his Word’, meaning vibrational wisdom /intelligence unto the twelve apostles, the cellular aspect of the inner faculties.

Thus we can see that the quantum body actually represents /contains a blueprint designed to expand embryonically beyond its apparent confinement, beyond the obvious tiny status of limitation within the human body.

So, how are cells assisted in their ascension process?

Cells reflect ‘excited’ tendencies in direct proportion to the state of consciousness permeating them. Put another way: cells reproduce according to the operational law of their master’s intellect, meaning, the conscious discerning capacity of our mind: is it rooted one-pointedly in cosmic order or, primed in lawless dis-order, corruption and negativity. Thus, the first law of ANY universe is order (symbolized by James) and single-mindedness thus mind’s harmonious functioning.

Descendants of Vibrational Life Force

When broken down acoustically, the word ‘atom’ resembles the vowels A-U-M, the vibrational dynamic behind all creation. Thus the sound ‘A-T-OM’ (atom) also becomes directional to its own source of creation. Even the vowels AB-RA-Ham I believe are symbolic of vibratory life force and creation. These words, and many like them, are specific vowels chosen to highlight the resonances required for entry into the right brain hemisphere and, by extension, stimulate the nervous system into consciously knowing /experiencing two states of consciousness simultaneously — time and no-time, eternity and relative life..

In this context, we each carry the responsibility of triggering our own fathering process of healthy cellular /nervous system development through inner primordial resonance. At cellular level our brain and body are decedents of this eternally multiplying sound wave. When initiated in meditation, these vowels carry the vibratory cosmic waves whereby mind can transcend the three ever-changing gunas of nature unto reorientation in never-changing, never-ageing Self.

Hindu culture has that beautiful word A-T-MA which carries the same awakening dynamic as A-U-M and A-T-OM and, AB-RA-hAM. Thus, in realizing eternal Self or Atman, mind /brain first undergoes vibrational activity, scripturally phrased “no one comes to the Father but through Me” John 6: 44 (or, our connection with God is through vibration).

In realizing ‘connection’, mantra vibration stirs the mountain of deeply embedded sin or, stress rooted in the cells for eons thereby purify the accumulations of toxin carryover — when we say to the mountain of fear, stress, and phobia ‘be gone into the sea’ of pure faith-silence in meditation. Mark 11: 23.

Humans accredit creation unto God, and, yes, that’s true. But, that, it’s God the Holy Spirit which creates — third person /aspect in /of the blessed trinity – through creative wave resonance. But, that, God the Absolute or, Self does not create, rather remains the silent ocean, the witness of creation.

Genesis 1:27 ESV puts it: “So God (Vibration) created man (mind) in his own (Light) image, in the image (imagination) of God (the Holy Spirit) he created him; male and female (proton/electron aspects of atom) he (through vibrational holy spirit) created them” – the yin/yang, dynamic of cellular status. But that, Self or Absolute is uncreated.

To facilitate the spiritual evolution of creation, a healthy medium or conduit needs to be in place. Thus the human medium /channels of creation and evolution are as follows:

Brain is end organ of consciousness.
Consciousness is end ynamic of Vibrational God the Holy Spirit, — of A-U-M sounding resonances.
Nervous system is end organ of the brain.
Body is end organ of nervous system.

Telomerase Decrease

As mentioned earlier, a single cell is the smallest entity of all ‘living’ things. But here it’s worth remembering, that, through chronic psychological stress, rooted in conditioning from all quarters of religious, political and social life, an enzyme called telomerase decreases with each cell division.

To offset this decrease, daily meditation results in greater telomerase activity, indicative of optimum mental-physiological health and immune cell longevity. Meditation prevents shortening of telomeres by activating the gene that makes the anti-ageing enzyme, telomerase, not normally active in our cells. By influencing the genetic code within each cell, meditation achieves — “doing unto the least of my brethren”– the process of reprogramming cells for ascension consciousness.

Spiritual evolution thus is regards harnessing Nature’s creative, multiplying /maintenance principle, the cosmic intelligence, or law, presiding over the physical cosmos /universe, which Law, at individual level, amounts to pure silence or, pure transcendental consciousness.

Our own body, to the individual cells, represents God. But these same cells, to becoming spiritually mature, are fully dependent on the level of evolved consciousness which they are feeding on. The responsibility of providing advance cellular growth soil lies with the successful resurrection of our own intellect thus resurrection of our consciousness. This is why transcending ‘the laws of decaying negative karma’ is vital.

Through the incomprehensible organizational power of Nature, cellular /molecular intelligence is constantly vibrating and creating electromagnetic energy waves, thus potentially parenting unfathomable depths of beauty and advance life forms, into eternal; existence.

Vibrating Substance

We can now state that pure consciousness is also the substance of evolution And, that, what ‘we do unto the least’ — unto the cells – will be in accordance with the vibratory level of one’s consciousness-substance.

At the practical level, mental energy is formed by creating more neural pathways, synapses or, neural sparks in the brain. In this context, the brighter our love-infused heart spark, the more synapses or connections are created in the brain.

It’s estimated there are 100 billion connections in the average human brain which is more than the amount of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and, there are an estimated 100 billion galaxies. Truly these ‘inner’ brain sparks and physical universes are divinely interconnected.

“If ye love me keep my commandments” – John: 14:15

This scripture, of course, is not referring to the literally-interpreted ten commandments espoused by formal religions, but to the cosmic Life Force functioning through the brain and seven chakra centres located along the spinal column — culminating in awakening the vital pineal and pituitary glands in the brain.

Chakras are energy Command centres, they distribute the life-force responsible for awakening the right brain hemisphere – home of the cranial nerves – unto becoming aligned with the cosmic harmonic resonance, triggering consciousness to reflect spiritually.

The verse is stating that, as our every pre-awakening activity stems from ‘law of sin’, then this mental law impulse should be transformed, made harmonious to reflect in accordance with spiritual evolution — alignment in rejuvenating divine resonance as opposed to decaying sin toxicity. In other words, as the nature of every expressed thought ultimately finds its way into our physiology and cellular system our priority thus is with our thoughts thereby avoid negative karmic response from the laws of nature through the out-of-tune mental mechanisms.

Biblical commandments essentially are impulses of Nature’s organizational intelligence operating in the brain. Subtle prompts from the depths of Being that align our mind-body-spirit harmoniously through every stage of the evolution process. Commandments are naturally kept while in meditation, when, post meditation life simply involves living consciously or cosmically through higher wisdom.

As spiritual beings, commandment-keeping is our intended way of living, where any level below this vibration is considered animal frequency.

The word “If” you love me” is significant. Paraphrased it translates: ‘now that we’re inner awakening and have realized bliss-consciousness or Self as separate from the outer world, that we establish, and apply, this conscious awareness at resisting the ever-tempting lower senses.

“Do not tempt the Lord, thy God” Matthew 4:7 KJV

Depending on our mode of consciousness and mental activity, the operating law in which our mind is established becomes the operating law in our life. Thus, our mental /emotional state tempts /triggers similar previously stored emotions into the mind/body physiology.

By transcending these laws of mind /body — the three gunas — in meditation, the inner faculties become ‘neutralized’, free of unwitting law violation, thus avoid storing negativity seeds for future incubation into the physiology.

Transcendence is totally about entering into mental silence thereby culture steadfastness of thought and emotional balance; when temptation to judge — the eternal perfect moment — is resolved through calm-full Presence and understanding.

“As above so below” (co-existence of spiritual and natural or, brain /universe synergy)

Matthew 6:10 KJV puts it: “Thy will (as opposed to karmic law) be done ‘in’ earth (mind /body) as ‘it’ (Transcendent law) ‘is’ in heaven (bliss-consciousness)”.
Matthew represents divine Will.

Put another way: microcosm and macrocosm.

So, the human brain represents a microcosm of the macrocosm universe.

Like the universe, the human brain cells – and by extension, the entire physical cellular /nervous system ‘earth’ – are created for presently unimaginable spiritual expansion into new life-formations. Thus as everything in the heavenly creation is in different stages of vibratory evolution, therefore, every cellular life form has a specific purpose to fulfill, when not even silence and consciousness remain static.

By harnessing transcendental silence thus the cellular system /consciousness reflect ‘Above’ status: or, when cell ‘point’ becomes ‘infinity’ thus ‘infinity’ becomes cell ‘point’.

Jesus and the Holy Spirit

Jesus said: “I (Holy Spirit) have come (resurrected intellect) not to abolish the Law (of karma) but to fulfill the Law” (establish divine standard of consciousness) – Matthew 5:17

Biblical “Jesus” represents the eternal Life Force within each of us, and the word “said” — which is not a spoken word — is referring to the all-vital emanative qualities of the universal Holy Spirit. Qualities such as: love, peace, goodness, patience, happiness, joy and, self-control.
‘Jesus’ is another title for Kundalini the transformative life force expanding the heart-cosmos. Without this transmutation, human awareness remains under law of sin — Romans 8:7.

Thus, it’s the unwitting misuse of the laws of nature which is causal of all suffering – biblically put: “By their fruits shall ye know them” Matthew 7: 16–20. in other words, inner and outer environment reflect in exact proportion to our habitual thought patterns. This reflection demonstrates unerringly which law of mind we’re operating through – compelling law of sin or compelling law of God the Holy Spirit.
Instead of the innumerable laws working against us – through ignorance — the mind, when transcendentally-infused, becomes cosmically charged so that these laws reflect ‘Will of God’ automatically. When, eventually, intellect becomes Master, or Lord, over our entire inner universe. When ‘fulfilling the Law’ fulfills Jesus’ words “it is done”: Ascension of Consciousness is Realized.

Now, as we can see, the term(s) ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ becomes of major significance within each of us. Words, which, when interpreted metaphysically, represent vastly different understanding from what we were choicelessly indoctrinated into by institutional religion.

Practically put:

‘Lord — relating to our becoming Master of the lower senses,

‘Jesus’ — relating to flowing the holy spirit through our heart,

Christ’ — relating to having Self-Realized Christ within.

The trinity of our own Soul reflecting as Lord Jesus Christ, heralding ascension of consciousness, to miraculously include the cellular intelligence kingdom unto ever-renewing spiritual frontiers.

Scriptural Way of Creating Permanent Peace and Stability Within Consciousness

March 29, 2022 by Raymond Phelan 29 Comments

Have we ever reflected on how everything in nature is constantly in process of praying, and without ever needing reminding? From trees, plants, rivers and oceans — in growth, flow and overcoming — these guys are expert at praying, in maintaining their natural environment.

Likewise, for instance, have we ever dwelt upon how birds pray, or even how fish pray?

Birds are in prayer while swooping and diving in group unison, no one bird is leading the other; their synchronized flock-diving ability puts them in direct communication with Nature. Similarly, when fish shoals dart and spin rapidly in the deep silent ocean, they too are praying blissfully. By praying is meant, they are in communication with their god, the energy of Nature. Such is when they receive the latest up-dates on their evolution, such as some new-forming habits and likely migratory routes to new feeding grounds for their survival. But more vitally, their prayer activity is carried on through intuitive group silence from where they each receive instinctive insight simultaneously.

So, bringing this nature scenario into the biblical / human context: how are humans designed to pray? This, ‘how to pray’ forms the basis of the Lord’s Prayer, when the 12 disciples (aspects of soul) went to Jesus (higher life principle) and asked this very question – ‘Master [of discipline – the Resolute intellect] teach us how to pray’, teach us how to know AUM.

Being heavily coded, the Lord’s Prayer, for practical implementation needs simplified understanding rather than just reciting from memory.

The Developing Intellect in Biblical Symbolism: Part One

February 12, 2022 by Joshua Tilghman 99 Comments

Let’s approach the story of Adam and Eve from the angle of the developing intellectual mind. What is the Bible inferring about the purpose the mind provides to the human soul’s evolutionary experience? We will look at some angles not covered in mainstream Christian thought. I will provide an alternative, albeit a logical framework for you as we extrapolate a contextual meaning based on symbolism. Hopefully we will spark some much needed thoughtful conversations on the importance of the intellect in relation to man’s spiritual and moral development, and why it is so vital in the soul’s progress of what we term the developing spiritual qualities or faculties latent in man.

There are some subsets of the spiritual New Age movement today which seem to demonize rational thinking. They proclaim it as antithetical to the spiritualization of man’s soul. “Stop thinking, and just be,” I have read, or, “thinking is the problem.” At the very least, popular modern gurus making such statements popular like Eckhart Tolle in the Power of Now are often taken out of context and the real essence of what he is saying has been totally subverted to the point of being ludicrous. Eckart Tolle is not saying humans need to stop thinking rationally, but rather, that most human beings DON’T think rationally, which IS the problem. Many of us are caught up in a systematic way of uncontrolled and undisciplined thought patterns which are negative, leading to much suffering. Tolle provides solutions for finding the space between this delusional systematic and automatic thinking process that can lead to a better and more intelligent, self-aware realization of the true power of thought, even if his writing doesn’t always seem to make this point clear enough.

And make no mistake. In the scripture, the horse often symbolizes the intellect. Paul was thrown off it by the blinding light of Christ in a spiritual vision on the road to Damascus. In other words, Paul’s own intellectual pride was revealed for what it was, and he was blinded, metaphorically, because his intellectual pride (which always comes before a fall, even off a horse!) symbolically revealed in the story as man’s carnal thinking process. So yes, and again, down get me wrong. Thinking is a problem for many of us. But this is because the thoughts are corrupt, not because thought and thinking in and of itself is bad!

The great mystic and spiritual writer Blavatsky once stated:

“Destroy your thoughts…go beyond mind…give up thinking…live in the realm of no-mind, not-thought and not-thinking,” they urge us, apparently unaware that we are minds and thinkers in evolution, for “mind is a term perfectly synonymous with Soul.” (H.P. Blavatsky, “Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge” p. 29)

It is important to reiterate what Blavatsky states: “mind is a term perfectly synonymous with soul.”

It has been stated before that a true spiritual seeker should not be a cold-hearted intellectual, nor a warm-hearted anti-intellectual. There is always a balance between mind and heart. Always. And both should be developed equally alongside one another!

And what is it that corrupts thought, then, and the soul? We will now explore some possibilities. So let’s return to the Bible and try to shed some deep metaphysical knowledge on this entire subject!

In order to see Adam and Eve in their true symbolic significance, we have to set a proper foundation which challenges the mainstream Christian view. Metaphysical interpretations have existed throughout history that show Adam and Eve were not physical beings existing in a physical place, both before and after the allegorical expulsion. Rather, the emphasis is placed on what they represent as the developing mind or soul after the fall.

These metaphysical interpretations make more logical sense, even when outside sources are not consulted and we just use the Genesis text itself! Consider: it was not until after the fall from Eden that God clothed Adam and Eve with “coats of skin.”

“And unto Adam and Eve did the LORD God make coats of skin, and clothed them (Genesis 3:21).

What does it mean that they were clothed with “coats of skin.” Are these coats of skin, as mainstream Christian thought has taught us, actual animal skins, used to cover their already developed physical bodies? As we read on, we see that such an interpretation is based on illogical dogmatism.

The metaphysical scholar, G.A. Gaskell, defines the Biblical word for Coat in English as: “Symbols of mental coverings or forms of truth or error.

Gaskell also further defines the concept for Skin as Clothing as: “Symbolic of the mental, astral, or physical sheaths of the soul.”

The term“Coat “is strictly reserved for a type of “mental” covering of the spiritual soul, whereas “clothed” could be related to mental, astral (emotional), or a physical covering. Based on the context of everything we will consider in this story, when God clothed Adam and Eve, we are speaking of a mental-emotional covering for the pure spirit. With a little bit of patience, it will be shown, through scriptural evidence, that this is the case. We aren’t really talking about two individuals here, but the human soul (mind) in its rudimentary stages of development. We will find support for such reasoning, that their “coats” of “skin” had to do more with developing mind and emotion than physicality. Physicality will come in much later offspring, which we will explore in another post when I have time.

Before we show other scriptures which provide logical evidence for that stated above, let’s consider the mainstream and traditional Christian view: God killed an animal and used those skins to cover the naked physical body of Adam and Eve, as a foreshadowing of the blood sacrifice of Christ, the first blood sacrifice!

There are several problems with this interpretation. It supposes that God, as a spirit, physically slaughtered some type of animal, skinned it, and gave these skins to them as coverings. A bloody spirit indeed! One which murders the spirit of logic. Such an interpretation baffles the mind as it diminishes the idea of God as a spirit, and creates God into man’s image, something which a man does!

If the metaphysical scholar Gaskell truly understood the metaphysical mind of the early Jewish sages and his symbols are correct, then the better interpretation would be that Adam and Eve’s nakedness had nothing to do with being physically naked, but rather that they had no mental perception of “knowing” good from evil, and this IS their innocence! In order to experience “knowledge” of anything, spirit, an abstraction, needs a form, or a soul to express through. In other words, Adam and Eve were mentally and emotionally naked. Nakedness, viewed through the concept of a mental phenomenon, explains Adam and Eve’s innocence by the absence of such a condition as their eyes were not yet opened to “know.” Genesis seems to make this clear, and it is often ignored by the more literal view. For after eating of the “fruit” of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, something quite significant happened!

“And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked…” (Genesis 3:7).

In the literal interpretation of dogmatism, we are conditioned to think this was an “disobedient” act or decision that caused a fall from grace. This is silly. How can Adam and Eve make a decision to act in disobedience when they had no knowledge yet of what good and evil even were? Can a baby be held responsible for disobeying a rule from a parent when they don’t understand what a rule is? Of course not! And any sane parent wouldn’t place a rule upon a baby unless he or she knew that the child was old enough to cognize, or at least have the capacity to cognize, why such a rule is put in place if they break it. Any sane parent wouldn’t demand a one-month old not touch a stove. They would wait until the child had developed certain mental faculties to understand a parent’s demand should such laws of the household be broken.

But returning to the allegory of Adam and Eve, what caused them to “know?” Could this be a new acquired mental phenomenon?

Let’s explore further? What caused their “eyes” to be “opened?” No doubt the Genesis author attributes it to eating this fruit of the tree. But I am going to propose, as Gaskell does, that this fruit, or type of food, is a symbol of something mental, not physical. Just as physical food is sustenance for the physical body, food in the Bible is a symbol for mental phenomenon, i.e., facts and opinions and ideas, which become sustenance for the evolvong and growing mind. As we will see, the command to be “fruitful and multiply” has to do with children, sons and daughters, which are ideas (sons) and emotions (daughters) through the intercourse of man’s subjective mind with his or her objective external reality.

And how do we get from this innocence, this nakedness of not “knowing,” to “knowing something?” Was the spiritual condition of Adam and Eve a type of perfection in the realm of spirit simply because they were innocent of any content of duality?

Now let’s consider the possibility that Gaskell is correct. Eating and drinking in scripture metaphysically refers to mental phenomena. In other words, scripturally, the eating of food is a symbol for the acquisition and interplay of mental and emotional experience. In some instances, this would symbolize the human soul (mind) operating through the animal soul, and in others, operating through the spiritual soul, depending on context.

Perhaps in this light one can better understand Jesus’ commandment to eat his body and drink his blood. We are talking about assimilating Jesus’ spiritual teachings by the mind, which is why Paul says to renew one’s mind in Christ, or its regeneration according to spiritual principles. In the context of Adam and Eve, eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil means assimilating ideas and opinions and facts which can only be birthed in a world of duality, where the divergence and confluence of thought and emotion based on one’s sense perception of reality as a conscious phenomenon, allows for the building up of the mental principle, or mind in man. A child must develop his or her mind in the same way from being a newborn to an independent thinker that is consciously aware of themselves as a subjective mentality vs the objective environment.

Even Isaiah 55:2-3 states:

“Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.”

Here, eating that which is good refers to mental ideas and concepts derived from truth, which sustains the soul (mind). In this context, eating to the “soul’s delight” would seem to imply that the “soul” is in fact referring to a type of fruitful mental perception and accumulation of good, or spiritual ideas.

To nail down the concept that eating refers to mental phenomena, one only has to look closely at the symbolism in the story of the risen Christ and the disciples on their way to Emmaus. The disciples reasoned together about what Chrit’s resurrection meant in great sadness. Jesus joined them on their walk, but their eyes were not yet opened to who he was. Jesus then reasons with them, expounding upon all the Old Testament scriptures.

“And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24: 27).

A few verses later, we have our connection with food and mental phenomenon, which has an eerily similarity with how the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened after eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

“And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took break, and blessed it, and brake, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him…” (Luke 24: 30-31).

Did you catch the connection there? In both instances eating something resulted in “eyes” being “opened” and “knowledge” conferred! There is no awareness or major shift in mentality until the food is somehow involved. This should clue anyone in to the fact that the food is just symbolic of an inner psychological process.

In this story of Luke, it wasn’t until after the disciples ate bread with Jesus that their eyes were opened, and they came to mentally perceive who Jesus was as the risen Christ. Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and their eyes were also opened. But there’s a difference. In both cases the opening of the eyes means that they mentally perceived, or “came to know something. However, and here’s the kicker: the first incident relates to external knowledge; the second incident relates to internal knowledge. And now think about the statement of Christ, that the Kingdom of God is within you!

So why do I say internal knowledge? It is because the disciples, symbolizing “disciplined” attributes of the human soul or mind, unlike the earlier Adam and Eve, were able to perceive the truth of who Jesus was as the Christ simply because they were soul qualities that had been called out, chosen, and disciplined to such a degree by the spirit’s influence that were able to see clearly that true bread (or truth) from heaven (higher, spiritual mind). This doesn’t mean that they received enlightenment. It simply means that they could perceive something of the truth that they didn’t cognize before.

Another similar incident is told in John chapter twenty-one, where they dined together and “knew” it was the Lord.

Let’s look at a few symbols again with a little more detail and the authority of Gaskell.

Now as soon as Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, “…the eyes of both of them were opened…” (Genesis 3:7).

Gaskell defines the term for Eye, or Eyesight as: “A symbol of mental perception. Discernment of ideas and feelings as externalities of consciousness.”

So as the “eye” in scripture signifies mental perception, the ability of mind, eating food after seeing it means to sustain the mind and inform it with the nutrition of ideas, whether those ideas relate to truths or errors. Remember, Jesus stated that if the “eye” (not eyes) was single, then the whole body is full of light. So many metaphysical correlations here!

We can also infer from Genesis 3:7 that before man’s eyes were opened, there was no mental sustenance or discernment of ideas and feelings. In other words, there was no self awareness, or personal consciousness, or an individualized mind to contain them and produce personal choice. And this is the reason for their nakedness, or mental innocence. Without “self-consciousness” and personal choice, there is an innocence of mentality. Therefore Adam and Eve did not KNOW the DIFFERENCE between good and evil. This is another way of saying that there was not a self-aware mental nature to distinguish between concepts, facts, opinions, ideas, etc.

Let’s break this down a little further as it also makes sense in relation to another scripture:

“And when the woman saw that tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise…” (Genesis 3:6)

Now according to Gaskell, if the eye symbolizes a discernment of ideas and feelings as externalities of consciousness, we can understand why the scripture directly above emphasizes the concept of desire through Eve’s direction of her “eye” (or mental desire) on the fruit.

Now one could say, wait a minute, if Adam and Eve were still innocent of mental sustenance, how could Eve have desire before she ate? Does the six-month old baby have any desire before he or she develops responsible, self-aware thought? Of course not! But the undeveloped mind is still active in this desire, for a six-month old baby still has a desire to be fed and held, even though it might not be a self-conscious choice, but rather a blind instinct, but quite active in the instinct of bodily feeling. In Genesis, we also have a similar desire-mind instinct crawling around the Garden:

Gaskell defines the serpent as: “A symbol of the desire-mind, which is more penetrative and captivating to the ego than any of the lower desires (beasts of the field).

Eve was captivated by the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil by instinct, not personal, self-conscious choice. And I propose that this “instinct” is the intelligence of the spirit’s unfoldment beyond self-conscious choice. We can therefore plainly see that Eve was deceived, not because she “knew” better, as a choice between something right or wrong, but because she was blind to an instinctive element which she herself represents as a motive to experience life.

As we study the nature of the intellect, we are going to see why this process, as it is explained allegorically, was necessary. The great mystic Blavatsky once stated that the intellect is developed at the expense of the spirit. This is a very important concept to understand. At first it sounds negative, but it is an important part of spiritual evolution, as the universal mind must first experience an allegorical “fall” into the lower aspect of matter to develop a self-conscious awareness so that THAT universal mind, as an individuated experience of spirit (man!), can rise again as a self-consciously aware spiritual entity! It is simply one of the aspects inherent in consciousness that unfolds in degrees and stages according to universal law.

This is a process whereas to “self-realize,” the infinite potential of spirit as an abstraction, or conscious fiction, has to walk out and realizes its potential becoming actual, by manifesting it through FORM as a self-aware, conscious soul, i.e., the human soul, or mind. The allegory of the fall explains then, metaphysically, that the first great sacrifice of spirit in a world of form was in order to express, or actualize its qualities. These qualities start out as divine ideation, or divine potential, but they are manifested through forms (matter), i.e., psychically, mentally, and spiritually as truly actualized souls. Adam and Eve then, with their fall, symbolize the development of that self-conscious individuated entity. The story of the risen Christ and the disciples on the way to Emmaus symbolize a further step of this process, as the mental faculty rising to understand, and perceive, life in the spiritual soul, which is above the thinking mind, and with which the the thinking mind has to link itself to. But just because it is beyond the thinking mind in degree, doesn’t mean that the thinking mind is dissolved or done away with. It still functions, but is now imbued with a more spiritual overview and understanding of the bigger picture.

This also explains the necessity of the lower mind experiencing its false personal self in the lower realms of matter. It has to TRANSCEND these limitations, or illusions, in order to KNOW itself.

Do we now understand that God is a God of becoming? I AM THAT I AM means, when more correctly translated, I become that which I BECOME. As a man thinketh in his heart (Ne’Fesh – the vitality of life principle, Eve), he or she BECOMES.

Let me repeat this important concept that is taught by Blavatsky and Gaskell and many other great metaphysicians of the world over: the thinking principle, i.e., our bundle of moral, ethical, and mental attributes, must cement itself to true spiritual intelligence, which then immortalizes its essence. The lower personal and thinking mind dies at physical death if it does not accomplish this process. In other words, and as Jesus said, in order to save one’s soul, one must lose it. What he means is that one’s personal thoughts and desires predicated upon carnal thinking rooted in selfishness must be given up for the sake of the spiritual soul within. In other words, the personal, egoic lower mind of personal selfish desire must be paralyzed, so that the spiritual influx of the higher mind can influence it, thereby resurrecting it to its true stature. Practices like meditation, concentration, and contemplation aid in paralyzing the lower thinking principle which is filled with carnality and thoughts that seek personal gratification. And now we may understand truly why even Eckart Tolle states that the personal thinking mind is an affliction which is hard to stop. His words for finding the free space in between personal thinking predicated upon the personal self is uncontrolled and undisciplined runaway thought that forms systematic destructive behavioral patterns of grasping the lower or carnal mind’s continued existence. True intellect, true intelligence, takes an influx of spiritual understanding, which is really nothing else than that which is predicated upon the universal truths and the laws of nature, the TRUE TORAH, or LAW, which involves all life and evolution of mental and spiritual faculties becoming established in the individual life of experience. When I state true law and Torah, I am speaking of all the ancient scriptures which ALL teach the same thing when understand in their esoteric significance beyond the dead letter of the law, or literal interpretations.

Now the bigger picture of the entire story of Adam and Eve begins to make more logical sense. The element of desire, as symbolized by the serpent, in conjunction with Eve, is already inherent in the innocence of Adam and Eve, and this paradise called Eden. Desire in and of itself is not evil. It is only when it combines with the rudimentary aspects of the mind (the serpent, or desire-mind) that desire, in conjunction with a personally aware ego, takes a spiritual negative turn. Desire manifests itself in the animal kingdom as pure instinct, but with man, through “thinking, self-reflection, and proper reasoning,” it can begin to rise again in conjunction with its spiritual origin and begin to function as the internal organ of the developing spiritual man. And this is why Moses and the prophets must come first, before Elijah (the higher emotions) and culminating in Jesus Christ.

Now, the practice of meditation is important as the process of paralyzing the lower egoic mind so that the soul can liberate itself from Egypt, or sensual pleasure and the attachments of such conditioning. However, and just as important, is balancing this with the heart where we view Jesus’ statements as the law being summed up on loving thy neighbor as thyself. There is then a balance between the “emotional” and “intellectual” aspect of the mind. Or, in other words, by loving others and the world at large, we are also in the process of paralyzing the personal desires which give us what we want only. But can we think that none of this takes “personal effort on our part? Our personal efforts ARE the process of denying the personal self to live for other. And understanding this spiritual process is where the intellect truly begins to shine once it realizes its need for cementing itself to our true spiritual natures, the eternal part of us. True intelligence is never prideful. It is that which understands the need to incorporate all of nature as part of the divine ideation for the evolution of all individuals in experience in relation to one another.

Adam and Eve falling from grace produces Cain and Abel. The two opposing lines of development, although both have their place. One centered in spiritual aspiration, the other in personal desire.

We will end here and take up part two going into some deeper aspects of Adam and Eve and what they represent as humanity.

The Mystery of Gethsemane: Grasping the Importance of Meditation

February 8, 2022 by Elizabeth Scott 54 Comments

In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 St. Paul teaches, “Pray constantly; and for all things give thanks to God, because this is what God expects you to do in Christ Jesus” (Jerusalem Bible). A simpler translation renders this verse as “Pray without ceasing.” Tertullian of Carthage instructs, “Of prayer, nothing at all has been prescribed, except clearly ‘to pray at every time and every place…’ why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray?” This admonition — that we must work to achieve an omnipresent state of “perfectly indifferent” prayer, or in simpler words meditation — might come as a shock to contemporary Christians who, unfortunately, are increasingly distant from the original meditation tradition. Many Christians now associate meditation with non-Christian eastern traditions, but really, the prolonged “indifferent” Christian prayer that we ought to pray is not much different than oriental meditation. For the sake of ease, I will now be referring to this specific style of prayer as “meditation.”

When we are taught to “Pray without ceasing” St. Paul doesn’t mean you should spend all of your waking hours prostrated in prayer! Rather, he is talking about being in a constant state of thanksgiving, echoing the Psalmist in Psalm 105: “Give thanks to Yahweh, call his name aloud/proclaim his deeds to the peoples!/Sing to him, play to him/tell over all his marvels!/Glory in his holy name/let the hearts that seek Yahweh rejoice!” (Psalm 105:1-3). The easiest way to maintain this state of mind is to train the mind to be able to reach prolonged states of intense contemplation. Sitting down to devote an hour or even 30 minutes to God can help you to feel the Holy Spirit at that moment, but more importantly, you are cultivating your mind and attaining insights that you continue to carry with you. Spontaneous prayer arises out of having insight into the all-encompassing significance of prayer, an insight that is best taught experientially through cultivating various states of contemplation.

The key to meditation practice is found in an esoteric reading of the Bible and careful study of ancient wisdom traditions which, east or west, all testify to the power of deep contemplation. People sometimes oversimplify meditation to be just about “clearing your mind” or sitting down for a long time focusing on your breath. That is fine, but decontextualizing your meditation practice from religious teaching is unlikely to have as lasting an impression. Jesus said, “I tell you solemnly, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the Law until its purpose is achieved” (Matthew 5:18). Esoterically, this verse means that awakening the Christ nature within requires the mastery of not just the higher mind, but also the lower mind. To awaken Christ mystically, you must first awaken Christ intellectually. In the spirit of “precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little” (Isaiah 28:13) let us proceed to look at the Bible in an esoteric way to uncover the teachings of attaining the Christ nature within.

Phillippians 2:6-8 reads “His state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and become as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.” Here we can see that death does not just mean physical death, but a deeper rift between Jesus’s godly nature and His descended condition, which is echoed in His cry of abandonment on the cross (“My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”). This is not unique in the Bible; death usually signifies something deeper than just the end of mortal life. This is shown when Yahweh God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree. Genesis 2:17 says, “The day you eat of it you shall most surely die.” Obviously, this didn’t refer to physical death, because when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree they did not physically die. Like with Jesus’s Passion, death here signifies being abandoned by God. Jesus, being fully man as well as fully God, echoes our anguish in being separated from God, but through the mystery of His Incarnation, the hope of reconciliation manifests. Jesus’s prayer to His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane is a divine mystery through which Jesus’s Ascension back to His Father is foreshadowed even as He experiences the bitter pain of abandonment. And as we too have the hope of reconciliation with God, we too must follow His example and pray. Jesus told St. Margaret Mary Alacoque “I will make you partake of that sorrow unto death which it was My will to suffer in the Garden of Olives. United with Me in the humble prayer which I then offered to My Father.” Understanding the profound significance of this event, not only as part of Jesus’s redemptive passion which would provide for the remission of sins but also as a mystery in which we are called to partake in, let us examine the account of the garden of Gethsemane esoterically.

“After psalms had been sung they left for the Mount of Olives.” (Matthew 26:30) First, we must establish what the Mount of Olives signifies. The Mount of Olives, or the Garden of Gethsemane, like other gardens in the Bible, signifies purity and fruition. In Genesis we read, “Yahweh God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15). The garden represents the plane of the mind that is fertile (“From the soil, Yahweh God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of Heaven” — Genesis 2:19) where virtues of the soul are brought forth. Singing psalms implicates the elevation of the self; through psalms, one acquires the spirit of thanksgiving proper to ascend to the Garden of Gethsemane.

“Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Stay here while I pray.’ Then he took Peter and James and John with him” (Mark 14:32-33). Peter, James, and John are generally considered Jesus’s most favored of the disciples; this exact trio shows up several times throughout the Bible. They signify faith (Peter), the intellect (James), and love (John). Notably, these are the only disciples, and therefore the only qualities of the self, that are permitted to ascend to the Garden.

“When they reached the place he said to them, ‘Pray not to be put to the test’” (Luke 22:40). As Peter, James, and John represent faith, the intellect, and love, here Jesus is saying to treasure the virtues of faith, the intellect, and love, and to pray that they do not waver. As we will read, even these virtues are not infallible; however, preemptively rejecting them prevents us from transcending them. To the contrary of rejecting the virtues, Jesus tells the disciples, “My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here and keep awake with me” (Matthew 26:38).

“Then he withdrew from them, about a stone’s throw away, and knelt” (Luke 22:41). Here, the soul is still very near to the three virtues, only a stone’s throw away, but it has “withdrawn” from them, prepared to transcend.

“He threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, this hour might pass him by. ‘Abba (Father)!’ he said. ‘Everything is possible for you. Take this cup away from me. But let it be as you, not I, would have it’” (Mark 14:35-36). The “cup” in esoteric literature is traditionally understood to be a receptacle of wisdom; so the Pistis Sophia says “A higher power bringeth a Cup full of intuition and wisdom.” This verse is demonstrating the disconcerting quality of wisdom; our primal instinct flees wisdom, but the Christ nature turns over the instinctive self to God. The human aversion towards wisdom is well documented throughout theology, psychology, and history. The primordial human problem can be seen to be the human preference of illusions over reality; indeed, the comical lengths that each one of us will go to in order to maintain the illusion is inexplicable. The triumph over the instinct of delusion is fulfilled only in the elusive Garden.

“Then an angel appeared to him, coming from heaven to give him strength” (Luke 22:43). This verse demonstrates that despite the utter isolation experienced by Christ in the Garden, it is impossible for Him (or for us) to ever be completely severed from the Heavens above, and always the Father is with us sending His heavenly messengers to embolden us for the coming battle.

“He came back and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, ‘Simon, are you asleep? Had you not the strength to keep awake one hour? You should be awake, and praying not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’” (Mark 14:37-38). Here we see the failure of the three virtues. Sleep signifies oblivion; this passage shows that the three virtues do not together contain all wisdom, but that the Christ nature transcends them. “Flesh” represents the lower nature of the self; spirit, as Gaskell put it, is the “formative aspect of the Divine outpouring.” In other words, the spirit is the receptacle in which God resides in us. When we are “put to the test,” for the Christ nature to rise within us the spirit must ultimately transcend the weaker virtues of the flesh.

“Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words…He came back a third time and said to them, ‘You can sleep on now and take your rest. It is all over. The hour has come’” (Mark 14:39;41). The number “three” represents completeness, as in the Holy Trinity and the Resurrection (Jesus arose from the dead on the third day). The number denotes that something transformative has transpired here. By saying “It is all over,” Jesus is foreshadowing His final victory on the Cross — “It is consummated” (John 19:30). The spirit has finally triumphed over the weaker aspects of the self, and the weaker self can “rest.” This calls back to Genesis 2:3; “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on that day he had rested after all his work of creating.” Of course, the word “day” does not refer to a 24 hour period but to the final stage that follows the creative period. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus has finished His anguished mystery, and His disciples, not destroyed but in a state of repose, are justly restored to the rest that has no end.

An esoteric reading of the Garden of Gethsemane provides us with a template wherein the Christ nature in us triumphs over the weaker flesh. Through understanding the significance of the Garden, may you feel driven to start a practice of contemplation so that you may experience this elusive mystery yourself.

Miracle Consciousness and How to Develop It

July 14, 2020 by Raymond Phelan 12 Comments

By means of the following amazing scripture, this article sets out how we may each come upon Divine Potential, that of miracle consciousness.

Matthew 7: 13-14 puts it: “enter ye through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate that leads to hell”. A most telling verse indeed. But, where exactly is this instructional verse guiding us?

So, let us put some meat onto this skeleton sentence and see what esoteric nourishment can be gleaned from it. Let us discover how this particular scripture can change our life dramatically for the good.

We’re each inner equipped for spiritual awakening. But, until we connect consciously with the faculty or dynamic of awakening, then scriptures as these remain at their intellectual value only. Literal reading of this scripture is not sufficient, such does not touch upon the faculty means of soul awakening and ability of directly knowing miracle consciousness.

More than ever now, it’s time for moving into personal empowerment, into direct experience of the Divine within each of us. In this context, no outer means — including spoken or written words which are guiding and inspirational only — can give us God, simply because you already have God. Evolution-wise, it’s way past time for evolving beyond limiting religious dogmas and fear-driven belief systems into authentic reality and spiritual maturity, into direct God-Presence or miracle consciousness.

It’s important here to remember that, biblical ‘church’ is not referring to a physical building, but to one’s consciousness. Similarly, the biblical term ‘Jew’ refers to being ‘inwardly’ — one seeking God within. The term is not referring to the Jewish nation or its people. Thus the words on top of the crucifixion read: ‘hail king of the Jews’ meaning, praise (awakening) be the inwardly directed soul seeking their own Christ within.

At our core, we’re each wired for ‘inwardly’: each encoded for divine seeking. Thus the Matthew scripture above is referring to spiritual awakening through our own inward means of mind only.

Questions

In the context of ‘inwardly’ and spiritual awakening, what exactly does narrow and wide gate mean, to what and where within are they referring?

Answers

Narrow gate is referring to becoming ‘least’ or smallest in lower ego, and wide gate referring to the outer world, to the carnal mind’s addictive attraction and association with the conditioned five senses and their animalistic standard.

So, there are two gates. One leading to heaven the other to hell. The gate to heaven is the strait, or narrow gate – being inwardly seeking – and the gate leading to hell is the outer wide gate of ‘world’ sense consciousness.

Three more questions

What practicalities are involved for entering into this narrow gate: how does one enter through it? Do we enter with our belief systems, our creeds, our social status, our religious faith flags? And, where specifically within is this narrow gate located?

In other words, what’s the password to heaven, to miracle consciousness?

The password to heaven is CONVERGENCE.

Narrow gate — meaning mental convergence — is triggered in the brain, while the wide gate functions under law of spiritual ignorance: lower-self or animalistic standard, here referred to as hell.

Becoming Inwardly

At the functioning level, both gates represent polar opposite states of mind. The reason being, is that, we must learn from our wide gate experiences and, through such learnings, choose one gate standard over the other. Thus, having chosen to be inwardly or, narrow gate, we take practical steps in that direction, of realizing direct narrow gate awareness.

Making this choice of becoming inwardly and taking the initial inward steps in that regard, takes individual courage. But the process — which will be explained here — is really not difficult but does require commitment and dedication. In other words, we make our choice and follow through no matter what our wide gate experiences throw at us. In this context, we member the biblical verse: “and it came to pass…”, meaning every personal situation, struggle or challenge, changes or, comes to pass. So that’s our biblical encouragement throughout this process of becoming ‘inwardly’.

Wide gate consciousness represents and satisfies the lower-self only — the conditioned mind-senses personality – here termed suffering or hell — while narrow gate satisfies or raises the soul/heart into conscious Eternal standard.

Narrowing the focus

By creating a false persona, wide gate identification results in loss of spiritual identity — hence the expression ‘what good in conquering the world, if in doing so, we lose our soul’.

So, ‘narrow gate’ initially is about NARROWING the wide gate persona: narrowing the scattered irresolute intellect: narrowing the activities of the incessant surface thinking mind and its attraction with wide gate or ‘the world’ level of sense consciousness.

Similar to the tortoise withdrawing its limbs into its shell, narrowing the mental focus is how the senses become withdrawn or detached from their objects of attraction — both mental and physical. This is the ‘inwardly’ process of transforming wide gate addiction experiencing into spiritually fulfilling narrow gate awareness.

Miracle of Convergence

Part of the crucifixion’s symbolic or esoteric message is revealed in the image where Jesus’ eyes – on the cross — are converged. Narrowing the mental wide gate through convergence thus replicates personal crucifixion of the created false persona, carnal mind or lower ego.

Daily practice in ‘convergence’ allows the brain adapt to handling two states of awareness simultaneously: world consciousness and eternal consciousness (wide gate and narrow gate). Prior to this functional ability, the brain-nervous system functioned only in mono or single state attention. We’re now entering the realm of miracle consciousness of where narrow gate discernment becomes as spiritual Conqueror over false persona-driven wide gate intellect.

As convergence becomes established, we’re no longer under the compulsion and dominance of the false persona, of wide gate attractions: we now make conscious decisions formulated through the Resolute intellect as opposed to the irresolute. The brain / intellect re-calibrate from animalistic mono into facilitating time and timelessness — relative and absolute – simultaneously within the nervous system. Remembering that we come in to this world uploaded in mono only. Now, a New capacity of consciousness has been triggered, revealed, awakened, that of knowing ‘heaven on earth’ at individual level. Biblically phrased: “heaven and earth (within) are full of thy glory” – full spiritual potential is always available through being ‘inwardly’ converged.

Tolerance to convergence needs time to mature. I say mature, because, there is so much bliss on contact with converged point — mature narrow gate — that the nervous system needs time to acclimatize, become cultured into withstanding waves of pure bliss (biblical rapture). It takes repeated ‘dating’ for this mind/body physiology relationship to eventually ‘marry’, adapt to the surge of pure energy without the dilutor influence of the artificial wide gate persona. At this level, one experiences Divine Presence within as separate from outer world gate activity.

Diving within and the relevance of the mantra

The word ‘least’ biblically can also translate ‘point’ as in, point awareness. Once mature point, or least, becomes established in consciousness, the human soul – in its combined aspect — becomes liberated into conscious infinity – transcendence or, the non-permeated state of Being — without risk of re-capture by the glare of wide gate experiencing. In other words, new desire seeds no longer take deep root for future re-enacting, or future karmic debt.

The secret of deep-sea diving is entering the water at the correct angle. To aid in diving deep within the mind, let us introduce ‘the correct angle’ vehicle, the mantra, Aum. Mantra takes the mind naturally and effortlessly from its familiar conscious terms of reference to the non-familiar unconscious spiritual level.

Mantra is the mind’s natural means of convergence which convergence introduces the mind to the unified field of awareness. It achieves this by way of converged eyes and focussed inner hearing. Focussed eyes and inner hearing take the mind to the mid-brain point, which point triggers the pineal gland into service.

Bearing in mind that the conscious and unconscious are not two separate minds, rather, two aspects of a divided mind. Thus the mantra – meaning mind vehicle – integrates or unifies this thought-created separation by taking the mind through all the levels of the unconscious aspect thereby making it conscious or full. In this context, mantra functions like a deep-sea vibratory torch bringing conscious awareness to unconsciousness, to the non-awakened aspect of mind.

Aum replicates the subtle sound of the universe to which inner hearing attunes. This sacred sound as mentioned with practice recalibrates the brain to oscillate at between 1-3 cycles per second — the Delta or Divine state.

During Aum, the eyes and inner hearing converge naturally between the eyebrows, which ‘point centring’ activates the pineal and pituitary glands. This is how left / right brain harmonization or full spectrum brain awareness, comes about, or, expansion of consciousness.

In this new mind dynamic, awareness functions through unconscious attention – free-flowing thought — as opposed to selective ego-driven conscious mind content or compulsive surface mind thinking. In other words, as the conscious capacity of mind expands, awareness is no longer filtered THROUGH something, through mind-set conditioning, as previously.

As reality begins revealing itself through the eternal Present Moment, the Now, life is no longer experienced through the rear-view mirror of conditioned mind-sets and blinkered societal vision.

Our life no longer reflects fear-driven agendas, that of automatic response activity to previous conditioning. We’re now free to LIVE and not merely exist prisoner-like THROUGH the looped content of one or many controlling mind-sets. Remember, mind-set dictates your life.

Because life is now perceived and experienced through higher awareness, it’s like touching base with our spiritual landscape for the very first time. Convergence has freed us from the illusion of the thought-created world.

There is a bust statue of a Pine cone in the garden section of the Vatican. This symbol – referring to the pineal gland — is rarely spoken about in religion, yet its esoteric message is paramount to the spiritual awakening process.

Entering mind at the right angle

Many are familiar with verbal chanting, particularly that of Aum or Omm.

We’re now going to show just how this mantra can be experienced more purely, subtler other than surface decibel hearing.

To start

Chant at normal surface level for about 20/30 seconds. Now, reduce and cease outer verbal recitation and continue inner hearing of mantra non-verbally or silently within from this deeper angle. In other words, go into ‘minus’ decibel hearing and continue deepening the minus level of the inner hearing.

We’re now bringing surface mantra hearing from 14-21 cycles per second of Beta brain speed to 4-7 cps inner hearing of the Theta unifying state. This level represents true biblical silence and stillness, as in “be still and know that I am God” psalm 46-10

With sustained practice, we can lower the brain’s oscillations even deeper to 1-3 cps, which is the Delta state. This level equates to Transcendence or God-Vibratory state.

If the mind drifts into wide gate, and it will — this is why we practice — pause for about 3 seconds, then recommence ‘inner hearing’. Each recommenced ‘inner hearing’ is from a deeper level, thus, every mantra restart represents progress in expansion of consciousness, nothing is lost, only gain.

Point and Infinity

As miracle consciousness develops, we come to understand, that, converged point and infinity are equal: neither are permeated by time, space and causation. Point, on inner contact, equates to concentrated bliss or natural happiness which explodes into Infinity, unboundedness, which infinity collapses back into point to explode again and again every time ‘point contact’ is achieved in meditation. Point and Infinity both contain the eternal memory of each other.

The need now as a species, I feel, is toning back on literal religiosity and instead view scriptures as intended – instructional in consciousness development. It’s worth noting that, many of the early scriptures were composed by advanced Yogis and Rishis — dealing with how the mind functions, and how, through misuse, mind can work either for us or against us – our best friend or worse enemy. Individual convergence indeed is the way of developing and establishing a miracle-functioning consciousness beyond doctrinal dogma and belief systems.

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Coronavirus and the Scriptures

March 13, 2020 by Raymond Phelan 55 Comments

I recently read about a group of people who became lost in the wildest region of the jungle, and were in great danger. The leader of the group bravely suggested that we might pray. To which, someone replied ‘oh, no, has it come to that’?

Generally speaking, whenever the term prayer is mentioned, it conjures up petitioning words to God. And of course there is nothing wrong with this positive approach. Accept, after we’ve put out our ‘urgent’ petitioning words, there is this perceived delay period of waiting for God to evaluate matters, weigh up the facts and then respond in some way to our words.

But, there are many wonderful verses in scripture — with regard to our overall concerns — which direct our attention to that of silent prayer activity.

The Bible further reminds us of the need to be healthy in every aspect of our Being — of mind, body and soul – that all three elements are to be functioning harmoniously. The Bible is more than a great work of spiritual insight for the mind to muse over, for mental comfort or ego gratification.

But, with regard to the present threat to human well-being, where does the Bible provide direct practical assistance in our defense against the Coronavirus?

It’s time now to really stretch the Bible’s interpretations beyond narrow religiosity and literalism, and expand its interpretation into general physiology-relating areas. I mean, when the scriptures were being compiled — by the learned of the day — they too must have been confronted with ‘plagues’, or viruses of that era.

So, in this context, in biblical language, where specifically does it tell us how we may deal successfully with the situation that now threatens the well-being of the individual soul globally? Where in the Bible can we turn to with certainty beyond petitioning words.

For being spectacularly obvious, I’ve chosen first, Ephesians 6-11-16 and later, Matthew 25:40-45 as prime qualifying examples regards defense against Coronavirus.

“So put on God’s Armour Now” Ephesians: 6-13

Regards coronavirus, relating esoterically to these chosen scriptures is of the utmost importance, in fact, it’s vital!

Ephesians 6-11 further states: “put on all the Armour that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the devil’s evil tricks”.

And again Ephesians 6-16 “at all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the evil one”.

When we read “put on ALL the Armour that God gives you”, and, ‘put on God’s Armour now’, how does all this then fit, in relation to coronavirus?

Literal reading of these scriptures don’t offer the immediate assistance demanded globally, but, esoterically, they do, as we shall see soon.At this point, we need to introduce the word antibodies. For, when we talk of God’s full Armour, this Armour is referring to strengthening our immune system which comprises antibodies known as immunoglobulins or immune blood cells. These antibodies are the miracle workers which carryout God’s work within the physical body, and have done so for thousands of years BC.

Stress

The enemy to a healthy immune system basically is chronic stress: unabated stress is public enemy number one to the immune system. Putting on God’s Armour therefore initially involves combating stress and eliminating it from our system. We do this by activating the flow of serotonin – the happy hormone — in the brain, which, in the process, produces more and more antibodies to defend against any virus entering our body. Without a healthy-functioning immune system, the body, and all its health-giving workers, the antibodies, are left to the ravishes of the antigens.

It’s these antibodies, the good guys, or immunoglobulins, which ensure against the antigens, the bad guys, from depleting or weakening our immune system.

The next verse makes this point even more clearer.

Matthew: 25-40 “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me”

This scripture is truly the greatest verses for assistance regards the present global situation. It has always fascinated me. And even more fascinating is that much of this information was dramatically expounded so long ago by the great Socrates, and also by the ancient enlightened Rishis of India, from where much of today’s Christianity originated.

The obvious and most compelling question is: who are ‘the least of these my brethren’? Truly this is ‘the’ most critical question.

The answer

‘the least of my brethren’ are the atoms, the molecules, the cells, in the body.

The atom is the smallest unit of matter and retains all the chemicals of an element. Thus, the atom can be referred to as pure energy-matter. A typical atom consists of protons, neurons, and electrons.

The atom cannot be destroyed but only transformed. In other words, our entire energy-physicality field can undergo change from a lower vibratory state to a higher vibratory state, but can never be destroyed.

Now, of course, there are many fine morally-based reasons for being kind to other people who may be less well-off spiritually, mentally or even financially, than ourselves. That goes without saying. We don’t need a scripture to remind of us that – it’s in our DNA.

Thus, the words ‘the least’ and ‘brethren’ are reference to the individual atoms and molecules, the molecular/ cellular structure which make up the body’s indestructible eternal energy force pattern.

Without healthy molecular/cellular formation, of course, we cannot know healthy physicality. And, through this mind-physicality dynamic, any activity which causes ‘brethren’ or atom/molecule/cell suffering and decline from optimal functioning, is equivalent to our doing unto our own inner Christ, which potential Christ expression resides within each atom/molecule/cell.

Any ignorance-induced life-style which prevents healthy atom proliferation into becoming a spiritually functioning unit, is doing unto the least, or, we doing unto our own Christ within. We do this unwittingly and spectacularly by lowering the standard of our neuroendocrine system and its participation in producing healthy immune cells in the body temple.

Matthew 26:44-45 qualifies this unwitting behavior even more amazingly. “Then they will answer him, when, Lord, did we ever see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and would not help you? The King will reply, I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.”

In other words, it’s during the stillness of meditation, when transcendental silence is potently to the fore, that each of ‘the least’ — the atoms, cells, molecules — become nourished, showered and cloth in immune strength, consequent of a divinely-empowered Thymus gland and its outpourings of mature antibodies into the blood flow.

What Matthew 26-40-45 boils down to is a lesson in quantum physics, and is particularly relating to the neuroendocrine system, or the glandular system. This scripture is not anything about the literal-religion teachings most of us have been brainwashed into believing.

As expounded here in Matthew, the emphasis now globally is on the need to increase immune-cell activity into the body.

Building Immunity within

While the Armour of God also includes faith, such faith, of course, has to be developed over time. Thus, for many people, the development of spiritual faith is seen as long-term, therefore is not particularly straight forward for some at this time. For dealing with Coronavirus today, many are in need of an immediate practical approach, solution, one that works effectively at the atom/cellular/molecular level. But, of course, in practicing the method I’m about to reveal, one’s faith — from whatever culture or generation we’re expressing through – will automatically be activated.

Thus God has unconditionally given ALL people, in ALL generations, the ALL for practically dealing with vital health issues. These viral events happened many times in history before, and is why they’re mentioned in scriptures.

The God-Given Method of achieving a healthy immune system

This, of course, is not a medical overview, obviously. Rather it’s the accumulation of spiritual knowledge based on my own meditative experiences and Self-revelation understanding of the scriptures from their practical perspective.

The practical means, therefore, of dealing with the present world situation, is daily meditation. Meditation essentially is seated yoga also known as Raja Yoga, meaning, ‘Royal Union’. But don’t get caught-up in these fancy descriptive titles. It’s the practice and results that matter totally.

Repeated daily meditation dissolves stress, which in turn allows for production of extra vital antibodies. Which in turn scavenge away any foreign invader(s) antigens which may be thinking of taking up residence in our body due to the invite-nature of residual stress. In other words, don’t make our body attractive to antigens by storing accumulations of deep stress brought on by unresolved emotional issues and wrong life-style choices. Thus prevention eliminates the need for cure.

Often referred to as the ‘floating brain’, thus a healthy functioning immune system knows only to dissuade, disarm and destroy any foreign invaders (antigens) from entering our body — effectively and efficiently.

To further strengthen the immune system, the body, in meditation, secretes Growth Hormone from the pituitary gland. This naturally-occurring process declines with age, hence the need of meditation for its continued vital production.

The Method and how to do it

To start, sit on a chair. Commence with a few left-right alternate nostril breathing: breath in through left nostril and out through right nostril, breath back in through right nostril and out breath again through left nostril – complete about 3-4 repetitions over a two-minute period. In yogic terms, this is known as pranayama. This practice helps induce calm while also originating the brain cells.

Remaining seated, now, with palms facing upwards, thumb and index fingers joined easily, bring the awareness lightly between the eyebrows. Do not force an experience. Just park the awareness here for now.

When feeling settled, repeat the biblical word: Ma-Ra-Na-Tha quietly and silently to oneself. This mantra simply means ‘come holy spirit’. The mantra is only a means of quietening the mind, it does not have any other purpose whatever.

If the mind drifts — and it will, this is normal — pause for a couple of seconds, then calmly, without rushing, bring the awareness back to the mantra and recommence thinking/hearing the mantra silently within. Repeat this momentary ‘pause’ after each ‘mind drift’. This, with practice, deepens the meditative experience.

Start with at least ten minutes per session building up to twenty minutes twice daily. Make this a daily routine of our life.

With repeated practice, the brain/body mechanisms – particularly the Thymus gland — become trained in producing extra amounts of mature antibodies for which to attack and disarm ANY virus from entering our inner territory. And, if we can meditate three times daily, fine, this will further increase antibody production from the Thymus gland – also known as T-cells for this reason. Thus we have the means now of re-enforcing the immune system even greater against Coronavirus. Gradually, as we advance with our daily meditation, a feeling of spiritual growth, of expansion, begins to emerge within consciousness. An understanding, that, yes, none of these viruses can really touch me now. The armor of God is truly on and my immune system is becoming invincible! The least of my brethren are now dancing and smiling joyfully in praise and thanks-giving!

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I read recently, about a group of people who became lost in the wildest region of the jungle, and were in great perceived danger. The leader of the group bravely suggested that we might pray. To which, someone replied ‘oh, no, has it come to that’?

Generally speaking, whenever the term prayer is mentioned, it conjures up petitioning words to God. And, of course there is nothing whatever wrong with this positive approach. Accept, after we’ve put out our ‘urgent’ petitioning words there is this perceived delay period, of waiting for God to evaluate matters, weigh up the facts and then respond in some way to our words.

But, there are many wonderful verses in scripture — with regard to our overall concerns — which direct our attention to that of silent prayer activity.

But, with regard to the present threat to human well-being, where does the Bible provide direct practical assistance in our defense against the coronavirus?

For being spectacularly obvious, I’ve chosen first, Ephesians 6-11-16 and later, Matthew 25:40-45 as prime qualifying examples regards defense against coronavirus.

“So put on God’s Armour Now” Ephesians: 6-13

Regards coronavirus, relating esoterically to these chosen scriptures is of the utmost importance, in fact, it’s vital!

Ephesians 6-11 further states: “put on all the Armour that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the devil’s evil tricks”.

And again Ephesians 6-16 “at all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the evil one”.

When we read “put on ALL the Armour that God gives you”, and, ‘put on God’s Armour now’, how does all this then fit, in relation to coronavirus?

Stress

It’s these antibodies, the good guys, or immunoglobulins, which ensure against the antigens, the bad guys, from depleting or weakening our immune system.

The next verse makes this point even more clearer.

Matthew: 25-40 “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me”

The obvious and most compelling question is: who are ‘the least of these my brethren’? Truly this is ‘the’ most critical question.

The answer

‘the least of my brethren’ are the atoms, the molecules, the cells, in the body.

As expounded here in Matthew, the emphasis now globally is on the need to increase immune-cell activity into the body.

Building Immunity within

While the Armour of God also includes faith, such faith, of course, has to be developed over time. Thus, for many people, the development of spiritual faith is seen as long-term, therefore is not particularly straight forward for some at this time. For dealing with coronavirus today, many are in need of an immediate practical approach, solution, one that works effectively at the atom/cellular/molecular level. But, of course, in practicing the method I’m about to reveal, one’s faith — from whatever culture or generation we’re expressing through – will automatically be activated.

The God-Given Method of achieving a healthy immune system

The Method and how to do it

Start with at least ten minutes per session building up to twenty minutes twice daily. Make this a daily routine of our life.

With repeated practice, the brain/body mechanisms – particularly the Thymus gland — become trained in producing extra amounts of mature antibodies for which to attack and disarm ANY virus from entering our inner territory. And, if we can meditate three times daily, fine, this will further increase antibody production from the Thymus gland – also known as T-cells for this reason. Thus we have the means now of re-enforcing the immune system even greater against coronavirus.Gradually, as we advance with our daily meditation, a feeling of spiritual growth, of expansion, begins to emerge within consciousness. An understanding, that, yes, none of these viruses can really touch me now. The armour of God is truly on and my immune system is becoming invincible! The least of my brethren are now dancing and smiling joyfully in praise and thanks-giving!
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The Significance of Jesus’ First Miracle at Cana

January 20, 2020 by Joshua Tilghman 12 Comments

At first it might seem a little strange…

The Gospel writer of John chose to unveil Jesus’ power of miracles at a wedding. This is no coincidence. The writer is using the narrative technique of foreshadowing. But in this case, rather than foreshadowing an event, it’s foreshadowing the esoteric symbolism of Jesus and what Jesus is.

In ancient scriptures, initiations, marriages, and sacred ceremonies symbolized something inwardly. If you focus on Jesus attending a literal marriage and turning literal water into wine, then you’ve missed the bigger picture and wisdom related through the Gospel narrative. It’s funny how the human mind can work; many religious authorities abhor alcohol, and yet they have to acknowledge that a literal reading shows Jesus turning enough water into wine to get dozens of people plastered! Some will try and sidestep the issue of God himself being responsible for something so wrong by saying the wine way back then was about 1/7 the strength of today. Regardless of whether that is true or not misses the point! Jesus wasn’t making the first equivalent of O’douls. No one in scripture actually DRINKS wine. Wine is a powerful symbol.

But I digress. If you read my last blog post on decoding the symbols in Genesis chapter one, then you’ll be ready for this one. Except this miracle is symbolic of actually fulfilling the potential within the human / temple blueprint we broke down in every verse of Genesis chapter one. I recommend reading that first HERE to understand this post better if you haven’t already. Now let’s jump into today’s content.

I’ve written about this subject before on the blog, but today’s post will go a little deeper. Wine is a symbol of the effects of spirit. More importantly, the effect that the higher spiritual Self has on the lower nature when consciousness expands its expression in our bodies. It can be described as intoxicating. Awareness expands, and the higher nature feels joyful, peace and contentment as wisdom and love is directly experienced. At the same rate, it can be said that the lower nature becomes dulled, and takes a back seat. (Funny how things in the natural world directly reflect higher spiritual realities!).

The Bhagavad-Gita states, “The wise man should raise the self by the Self; let him not suffer the Self to be lowered; for Self is the friend of self, and in like manner, self is it’s own enemy.” The lower self does not understand itself, but the higher Self does. The story here with Jesus at Cana is speaking the same wisdom. Jesus is the Self. As we’ll see, the water pots resemble all aspects of our natures, from the lower to the higher. The goal is that the lower self must be raised by the permanent Self, so that there is a union of the two. A marriage. And Jesus is at the marriage performing a miracle because through this miracle he makes the marriage of the two selves happen.

As I mentioned in a former post years ago, Jesus’ mother symbolizes the divine feminine. This is the receptive aspect of spirit. Seen as a mother symbol, it births and directs the evolution of human consciousness by intuition. In the natural world, loving mothers will push their children towards bettering themselves and teach them many important things about life through tender care and devotion. Jesus’ mother symbolizes this directing aspect of consciousness’s evolution at the wedding. Jesus tells her his hour is not yet come when she demands that people at the wedding do what Jesus (the higher Self principle) tells them. In other words, be obedient. And although Jesus states his hour is not yet come, he performs the miracle anyway. Can a child / man / truly resist the demanding nature of their mothers / spouses? (Maybe for a time:)

Jesus then orders them to bring six water pots and fill them to the brim with water. The six water pots symbolize all of our vehicles of conscious expression, from the physical to the spiritual. The six water pots also symbolize the six days of creation we looked at in Genesis chapter one from our last post. Remember those days show the blueprint of man’s soul? Those six days show the creation of each aspect of man’s soul. Jesus wants all of the water pots of stone filled. Each stone pot symbolizes the physical-etheric, emotional, lower mental, causal [upper mental], and buddic [Holy Spirit]. (Don’t let the above words be confusing. It’s just a way of expressing through language different aspects of conscious expression in the human temple. Read my post on Genesis chapter one to understand more). The water will be changed to wine when the Self (Jesus) has attained the resurrection within the soul, symbolized by the gift of the spirit that Christ sends. The process is symbolic of the natural man beings changed to the spiritual man. Jesus’ hour had not come yet because the narrative of John must show all that Jesus would do before the final resurrection, but the marriage miracle at Cana foreshadows the resurrecting power of the Self when the lower and higher union is consummated. And that is why Jesus’ first miracle (foreshadowing his power) must be told at a wedding! Remember, St. Paul tells us he’s never addressing literal men, women, and marriages. He is speaking about the bigger mystery (spiritual truth) of Christ (the true Self) and the Church (the permanent aspect of your soul within the Self).

The above is a very simplistic breakdown of the esoteric meaning within the story. But what is it saying on a deeper level? How can we make it somewhat practical to us today? I’ll share some of my own personal thoughts and opinions below which I think scriptures hint at, but you’ll have to discover for yourself.

God rests on the seventh day when the blueprint for man is completed. The sixth day, when man’s soul had all the ingredients needed (down to the astral and physical nature) to evolve with self-experiential knowledge integrated through the arena of life, God rests because it is in the stillness of God’s rest that we rest. In other words, our turning away from nagging desires of the lower nature gives way to the operation of the higher Self more fully expressing itself as rest, stillness, and peace through uplifting our lower nature. Why do we have these physical natures if we are not suppose to succumb to the illusory trap it conceals consciousness in?

I like to think of it as such: physical life is a beautiful thing. Consciousness discovers itself physically in ways in which other expressions of consciousness in higher realities could not. Some of the experiences are quite painful. Some joyful. But when we learn to direct the lower nature through correct aspirations, then the soul records a greater sense of Knowing the difference. It takes back the experiences from physical existence and adds them to the permanent causal self (the Church), symbolized also by the ark of the Covenant and Noah’s ark in the Old Testament. (Interestingly Noah also makes wine after the Ark, humanity’s causal body, is elevated above the highest mountain top). As consciousness evolves it becomes a more complex creator, and you are becoming an individualized creator. 2 Timothy states we will one day rule with Christ. Revelations mentions that those who overcome will rule nations. Nations are symbolic of qualities within the soul, both the higher and lower qualities. In other words, our destinies are to be rulers with Christ (the Self) and masters of our own vehicles of consciousness (in matter) by becoming creators in the image of God. Personally I believe we will become creators in higher realities. But it begins on earth. The meek shall inherit the earth. In other words, the meek shall inherit the wisdom the soul has acquired through this physical existence and be able to apply it later in a way that will be expressed through greater wisdom and love, as a creator. It is my personal belief that while we have some free will in this physical existence, the lessons we learn here, when directed by the higher Self, will allow us to have greater free will in higher realities. And the evolution of consciousness continues as a creator.

You are already a creator. You may have children, and you learn about yourself through raising them. You are creators in many other ways too. Your job, your household, your hobbies, etc. In a sense, life is about becoming a more responsible creator, as in the true image of God.

I talk about inner reflection and meditation on this site so much because I personally believe it is the method of accumulating wisdom to understand ourselves through our lessons in physical existence. If we don’t grasp physical existence, we aren’t ready yet to create in higher realities. Meditation helps us to shut out the noise of limited physical existence and better hear the noise of the Self through higher realities. Intuition then guides intelligence in new creative ways based on the truths in these higher realities, guided by the principles of love and wisdom. The marriage at Cana is the proper integration with love and wisdom of the Holy Spirit within the individualized permanent Self on the higher metal plane. Being still and knowing God has a profound effect on the psyche, through accumulated time of practice, and is the method for expanding conscious awareness.

I hope this post spoke something of meaning to you. Blessings!

Who, or what, is your God? And how do you Worship?

August 10, 2019 by Joshua Tilghman 25 Comments

Defining God… at some point, most of us are guilty. What begins as a seemingly noble attempt to answer one of life’s greatest mysteries, usually leads to prejudice, judgement, separation, condemnation, war, and even death. At least, history bears that record. Perhaps this is why so many sages–spanning all the great spiritual traditions of the world–tell us that defining God is an attempt at futility. Their wisdom proclaims that attempting to do so, even by name, places boundaries and limitations to an ineffable source. Thus, any attempt to define God is an act of self-deception. Why? Because defining God with our thoughts and feelings creates God in OUR image. The Old Testament calls this idolatry, which is transgression of the first commandment. [Read more…] about Who, or what, is your God? And how do you Worship?

The Real Reason Women are to be Silent in Church

June 9, 2019 by Joshua Tilghman 51 Comments

Throughout the scriptures we get the fascinating job of uncovering the clues to a spiritual meaning. Sometimes they are more direct, and sometimes they are more subtle. In the case where they are more subtle, the meaning is still very clear, but we may have to dig through more scriptures to unveil it.

The scripture in question today is 1 Corinthians 14:33-34. They read: [Read more…] about The Real Reason Women are to be Silent in Church

Original Sin: It is not what your Forefathers Taught

December 9, 2018 by Joshua Tilghman 38 Comments

What’s the real meaning behind of the concept of original sin? And why is it assumed that Adam and Eve are the first human beings to blame for bringing sin into the world?

This is a rather silly notion that many have blindly swallowed because they do not think deeply enough about the book they are reading.

The true meaning of sin is to miss the mark. And it has nothing to do with the physical actions. Original sin is a beautiful concept explaining the reason that you seem alienated from God as you dwell in a physical body.

When Paul stated that the wages of sin are death, he was speaking spiritually. We can see this is true from the story of Adam and Eve. God told them that they would die upon partaking of the tree of knowledge. But the author of Genesis was speaking spiritually, not physically. They died spiritually, but were given physical life.

All physical things eventually die, and physical things died for millions of years before man came onto the scene. The actions of man did not originally bring death into the world. Death of the physical body is part of the cyclical state of nature.

In fact, it would be more correct to say that in the case of the story of Adam and Eve, partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil gave them physical life. They were removed from paradise (consciously) and placed into the physical world we know today. It is a world full of thorns and thistles and physical suffering, even though it is also a place of physical beauty. The symbolism and metaphor is strikingly obvious when we stop to think about it.

The Adam and Eve story was a brilliant attempt by the authors of Genesis to explain why we are separated from what we term “God.” Spirit, or Ruach, is simply an ancient term somewhat analogous to consciousness today. It is likened unto wind, which cannot be seen but has force. Consciousness is the spark of life, but it must have a body to experience through, to learn through, and to grow through. Adam and Even are metaphorical representations of mankind’s beginnings into a physical experience. Even the term Adam means humanity, and it is not the name of one man.

Eden is not a physical location either, but a state of consciousness. Consciousness allows the creation of the lower self and ego (the “I”) when it is active in a physical body. It becomes more complex and diversifies as it evolves through the physical bodies it operates through. The story of Adam and Eve explains this process through the language and culture of ancient times. Mankind’s fall from paradise is really the story of consciousness playing in a physical world.

Where Original Sin Comes In

Original sin is simply the state of ignorance man now finds himself in. It is his ignorance of spiritual things. And this is what the Apostle Paul was speaking of. The wages of sin leads to death because as man is ignorant of his true nature, he is spiritually dead. Paul taught that faith in Jesus Christ (even without works) was the answer to this dilemma. Have you ever wondered why some argue whether Paul really believed in faith without works? They are arguing over something that isn’t even an issue. Since Paul is speaking completely spiritually, physical acts aren’t even in the equation. They are therefore wasting their time and debating about a religious idea that was born from Paul’s hard-to-understand writings.

So what is it that Paul means exactly when he states that Jesus Christ is the answer to our spiritual death problem? Is he stating that belief in one man’s act on the cross who was really God makes us become spiritually alive?

Well, yes and no. If it were possible to have a conversation with Paul today about his meaning, he would probably chuckle at how the ideas in religion have evolved over these past thousand years. For Paul, Jesus Christ was the symbol for spiritual truth and life. For Paul, Jesus Christ was the escape from spiritual ignorance. But not just because you believed in the actions of a man that was really God, but because you believed that Jesus Christ was the symbol for the truth of your true spiritual nature. The act of Jesus Christ and the cross is the grand metaphorical theme of your redemption.

You see, when Paul was penning his letters, the Gospels hadn’t even been written yet. When he spoke to Timothy about scriptures being the only inspired word of God, he was speaking of the Old Testament. And Paul made it crystal clear that the symbol of Jesus Christ, as a type and metaphor, was prevalent throughout the inspired writings of the Old Testament. Paul never mentions the virgin birth or lineage of Jesus because he wasn’t concerned with such things. He was concerned with the Jesus Christ nature that is birthed within man as his spiritual ignorance is overcome with the knowledge and understanding of God, that is within man’s true spiritual nature.

If you want to retain the idea that you must believe that a literal human who was God died on a cross for your sin, there’s nothing wrong with that, as long as you understand the deeper meaning of the Gospel’s Jesus as well. You see, a belief in something is simply an idea you hold with conviction, and a belief can never open the eyes of your spiritual ignorance to you. That can only happen if what Jesus Christ represents is actually birthed inside of you, as Paul advocates. Even Jesus himself stated that you must go within yourself, to your true spiritual nature, to see the Kingdom of God. Religious people look to religion and belief systems to save them, but they retain their ignorance of spiritual things unless they go within themselves, to an aspect of you that is much greater than the limited physical body and personality that you operate through now. Your physical body is fearfully and wonderfully made, but the spiritual aspect of you is so much more wonderful that when Paul went within himself (to the third heaven), he stated that he could not even talk about what he experienced, because it would not make sense to our conscious “I” operating in this limiting physical world.

It would seem today that many religious people cannot understand even the basics of Paul’s writings, which was also true with the church back then. This is not to speak badly of anyone, because we are all immersed in a religiously minded culture that is responsible for us reading Paul’s text, and the entire Bible, with blinders on. Our religious biases (most of us have them to a certain extent), cloud every verse and line we read until we learn to read the Bible with spiritual eyes instead of physical ones.

But you can detour all this religious thinking by just taking Jesus’ advice. Go within yourself and learn what the kingdom of God is truly about. That’s where the real knowledge of Jesus resides. The entire Bible explains this process perfectly, if only we could see what the spirituality of it, or the metaphor and symbolism of it, is all about. Even the scientist and hard skeptic could then appreciate the Bible for what it really is, instead of what religion tries to make it be.

Blessings!

Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

July 29, 2018 by Raymond Phelan 15 Comments

Abstract concepts are almost valueless unless we can nail them down practically in our own daily life.

The story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, riding on a donkey and her foal simultaneously, is truly one of those great biblical conundrums: how this double riding feat is achieved, while also considering: Mark 10-32 “Jesus and his disciples were now on the road going up to Jerusalem”.

As we set out examining this amazing parable esoterically, I’m hoping that it becomes obvious that the author of this scripture is not describing or reporting on a physical, historical or a geographical event. [Read more…] about Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

Realization the Image and Likeness of God

April 15, 2018 by Raymond Phelan 9 Comments

Humankind is acknowledged as the crowning jewel of God’s creation: the only creature made in the image and likeness of God-nature. This is by virtue of the fact that man can self-realize individuality whereas animals cannot.

Col 1:19 puts it “For it was by God’s own decision that the Son (Christ within) has in himself the full nature of God”.

This scripture makes it abundantly clear that humankind is indeed made in the image and likeness of God, and, more specifically, expression of image and likeness.

But two vital questions remain. How is the immensity of God’s full nature accommodated physically in humans, and through what mechanisms? [Read more…] about Realization the Image and Likeness of God

Seventh Day Rest, Karma and the Forbidden Fruits

April 5, 2018 by Raymond Phelan 22 Comments

We’re all fairly familiar with Hebrews 4:4: “On the Seventh Day God Rested from all His Work”, and its seemingly straight forward literal understanding until examined esoterically. We shall explore. Also, how straight forward is the scripture a few lines down from it: “For whoever receives that rest which God promised will rest from his own work, just as God rested from his” Hebrews 4:10.

Many, while professing a literal understanding of these particular scriptures, remain in ignorance I feel of the vital points to which they are alluding. To obtain any meaningful benefit from these two scriptures, literal interpretation will have to be suspended. For, in their literal evaluation the scriptures offer no substantial insight for the individual’s spiritual growth—nothing remotely close to the dramatic truth which esoterically they contain. [Read more…] about Seventh Day Rest, Karma and the Forbidden Fruits

The Spirit of the Scripture

Unveiling the Bible