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Prayer

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.

More on this further on.

We’re all familiar, I’m sure, with the Biblical term, Alpha and Omega as representing the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet.
But, beyond their alphabetical connotation, what else majorly is significant regards Alpha, for us. Like, similar to bird flock-diving synchronization, what value do these letters offer in soul evolution terms to humans?

To answer this vital question, we must first pose the following question, like, what is the significance of the word Aum?

Here let’s reflect briefly how Jesus instructed the apostles to pray. The Lord’s Prayer primarily is an instruction on how to inner pray – it states in present tense: “Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, thy king come” meaning: Holy, Hallowed or Healing is thy Nature, is thy ever-present AUM vibration. Hence the significance of the term Alpha and Omega and the Word Aum — they’re both referring to the same inner dynamic of diving in prayer thereby accessing the kingdom of God. In other words, we’re in full prayer while inner hearing AUM. Such is when our soul becomes vibrationally attuned with the Word, with God, which Word is Aum, thus stirring Alpha and Omega into vibratory action as opposed to merely adoring these alphabetical letters visually and intellectually.

Thus Alpha and Omega are one and the same vibratory activity as, AUM – they represent the same outcome or means of inner dynamic prayer. The Bible refers to Aum as Amen.

John 1—3 puts it:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him God made all things”.

So, what does ‘Him’ and ‘God’ in John’s verse mean in relation to AUM?

AUM thus is the transmuting vibration which alone contains the transformative dynamic necessary for advancement out of, and beyond, basic human animal consciousness into Christ /cosmic consciousness and ultimately on to God-consciousness. Aum, being the Primordial Sound of the universe, is the starting point through which human consciousness commences the transformative journey into Higher Consciousness thus higher Awareness; the gateway unto God the Supreme Liberation, the eternal peace and joy we’re each encoded to seeking and finding and becoming in consciousness.

The Vedas (meaning knowledge) confirm this: “In the beginning, God first manifested as sound.” The Mandukya Upanishad states that, “The sound of Aum is the eternal Godhead, manifesting the whole universe.

So, similar to the universe, we’re each vibrational sound at our core. And while contact with our core is through AUM, the sound vibration first commences in the mind which travels to the base of the spine, thereby awaken the unconscious aspect of our spiritual inheritance, thus leading to expanded cosmic awareness, to the latent cosmic faculties within each soul. This subtle vibration, when picked up by the inner hearing, stimulates and aligns the soul into directly knowing divine bliss – divine consciousness revealing Itself unto Itself AS our Transcendent Self.

John 14:6 puts it:

“I Am the Truth, the Way and the Light. No one comes to the Father except through Me”.

Esoterically understood, John is stating: no one can experience the higher Self or Christ without undergoing the inner diving, the inner awakening process — awakening out of self ignorance, out of the repetitive sin-seed cycle thus unto expanded transcendental consciousness. That, the human soul must first enter into, Aum, (Me), go through Alpha unto Omega.

John 14:6 is stating: ‘I Am’ is the eternal Now, Life, or, Truth – Truth, meaning Absolute Existence which state never changes. Truth is which sets the soul free from the bondage of suffering and its causes.

‘The Way’ in John, is referring not only as means of soul coming unto eternal Truth, but, that, this Way becomes our daily living standard, of living Aum nature outwardly through the inner faculties (the potential apostles) consequent of knowing Aum, or Him, or Jesus the higher life principle.

Direct knowing of ‘I Am’ leads to the Transcendent within consciousness but minus the AUM, for, the Absolute or Transcendent, being Pure Consciousness, does not Itself vibrate, evolve, it remains ever-full and changeless.

In meditation the mind eventually transcends Aum to become the very nature of the Transcendent, when Divine peace and bliss is naturally lived through the mind, senses, nervous system and cellular physiology. This experiencing and outward living of divine standard is what roots the physiology in spiritual synchronization awareness, into living Divine Will, meaning, perfect evolution is being brought into the world through our spiritual consciousness. Thus, our soul, like the butterfly, transforms to become the Angelic channel in generating perfect evolution on Earth and in the cosmos – and the Word was made flesh, or, manifest creation sourced through AUM.

But soul transformation ultimately incorporates transcending the three gunas in meditation. This divine practice was described by the Buddha as “the Middle Way”, that of centring our consciousness for peace, balance and spiritual harmony in daily life. Vibrational Aum in meditation facilitates transcending these three gunas, the inherited forces of nature active in the mind and body known as Rajas, Tamas and Sattva. These three elements combined are responsible for our every action good or otherwise, both within and without. They form the binding-root of attachment to the material world. Thus, to escape their cyclical influence unto eternal soul liberation, we must transcend the three gunas. We do this by aligning our subtle inner hearing to Aum or OM in seated meditation, referred to as Raja or Royal Yoga — Yoga of mind, body, soul simultaneously — the ultimate Yoga or prayer for humans.

Let us develop John 14:6 further, by breaking down Mark 4:10-11.

10 – “when Jesus was alone, (in meditation) some of those who heard him (developing understanding) along with twelve disciples (inner creative faculties) asked him to explain the parables”.

Mark 4:11 –Jesus said: “You have been given the secret (capacity of knowing pure silence) of the kingdom of God. But the others, who are on the outside, (souls in ignorance of their divine nature within) hear all things by means of parables, (others’ surface explanation as opposed to inner revelation – including daily media conditioning) so that they look yet not understand, for if they did, they would turn to God, (Aum vibration) and he (AUM) would forgive them (integration of generational ignorance)” the means of establishing cosmic unity, peace and coherence within consciousness.

Similarly, with Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God”
“Be still” (meditate) and “Know” (direct experience) [of] “I Am” (eternity Awareness) “God” (as vibrational Aum) or, Truth realized within consciousness.

The ‘I’ as in, ‘I Am’ is not referring to the conditioned or lower individual personality of ‘I’ am.

‘I Am’, as mentioned in John, is referring to the eternal Now’ and not to time, or the ‘me’ ‘mine’ ‘I’ embedded in the lower intellect condition, but which ‘me’ ‘mine’ ‘I’ eventually dissolves into ‘I Am’ through AUM vibration.

‘I Am’ consciousness must first be stirred into awareness by direct experience of deep vibratory sound, such as AUM, and then, by transcending AUM, our soul returns to the creator of AUM, the Transcendent Self or, the unified field of Pure Consciousness, the state which never undergoes change. Thus, the unified field of pure consciousness is the Source of the innumerable laws of nature (often referred to as the gods) therefore, is not subject to the laws of nature, to evolution. These laws of nature came into existence out of the Transcendent, the Absolute. Hence the Bhagavad-Gita – regards reaching pure consciousness — states in ch2 v45 to Arjuna, “Be without the three gunas” meaning, transcend the laws of nature thereby is how the lower intellect becomes Resolute, one-pointed, out of the influence of the binding influence of compulsory sin — the subconscious negative mind-sets.

Vibrational AUM thus exposes subconscious addictions and their reactive patterns causal of endless, needless suffering.

In bringing light to rid darkness, thus generational suppressed addiction-based consciousness becomes integrated, made conscious, raised spiritually, thus commences our way back Home. Like the river becoming unblocked, it realizes the Ocean, the eternal unbounded Ocean of Self, the state of Pure Consciousness.

So, let us look more closely at the make-up of Aum particularly the letter A.

The letter ‘A’ has three lines or aspects which symbolize Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, the character values contained in A—U—M, the three gunas: one guna supporting life, another opposing, and the third complimentary to both.

The point atop of ‘A’ signifies where the three gunas meet, (point of intellect convergence) denoting the need of transcending the three elements of nature responsible for its innumerable laws. By not transcending the gunas, we remain under their influence subconsciously.

Thus the Word ‘God’ – which is best seen as a verb and not a noun – is relating to a particular vibratory sound quality: the sound of God is a vibratory Vowel of divine standard as in, G AAHH D.

Again we have the words, God and Good. The center section of both these words are indicative of Alpha and Omega, or, A & O, as in, the Vowel ‘Ah’ within God, and ‘Uh’ sounding Vowel within Good, which together make up the universal sound, AUM. So, the words ‘Good News’ appearing on many Bibles are referring thus to revelations from within a vibrational soul in awakening. And although sourced through previous enlightened souls, the same ‘Good News’ of unfolding inner wisdom applies equally to you /me today.

In summary:

Alpha represents creation or, beginning of time, and Omega signifies end of time within for that individual mind in meditation. In other words, when the limited time-bound self realizes the unbounded nature of higher Self, as Oneself, as Truth – you as soul become Truth, become Aware in eternal Life – termed Moksha, meaning the transcendent state or, soul liberation from the cycle of rebirth, a rebirth which is maintained by the laws of subconscious reactive patterns operating in the mind and body. Thus its these laws which one transcends in silence meditation leading to transcendence. But that the addictive karmic patterns such as alcohol, gambling, smoking, paid for sex, pornography, overeating, anger, and so on, still require conscious integration which may in fact require professional counseling and supervision.

And yes, this journey unto Truth indeed can take many reincarnations (which it has until now). BUT, realization of Truth can also be achieved in a single lifetime, this lifetime, the incarnation in which we’ve had the aha moment leading to inner inquiry as opposed to outer. When, for the first time. we payed conscious attention to within and decided to explore this domain. Or, one day, we listened esoterically to a particular scripture and its undeniable calling to inner silence meditation, such : “be still”.

For in truth, this outer journey of time and relativity must eventually lead to an inner journey of Self-discovery and eternal Truth.

When intuitively understood, that, each transcendence meditation represents an inner ‘end of time’ cycle or, Omega or, one lifetime, and, that, on coming out of meditation and transcendence this coming out represents commencement of a new incarnation. In other words, we return from Omega to Alpha once more, now, to live our newly gained level of transformed consciousness through the entire physiology and nervous system, to vitally include cellular and molecular systems. This cyclical process of returning from transcendental pure silence, represents a new biblical Day, a period of spiritual growth, until our next meditation and transcendence, when the soul once again journeys beyond time (Omega) and reincarnates once more to Alpha thereby create and develop even higher evolution and spiritual awareness to live through our physiology. Development of our consciousness is the eternal soul’s means of furthering God’s Will, or Idea for humanity, on this planet Earth.

From all that has been expressed here, we can see that, Genesis primarily is about the unfolding from within dynamic: Genesis is revelations of the ancient seers regards the inner processes mentioned, that of stirring the deeper silence into active bliss consciousness through vibrational AUM, thus furthering divine evolution both within and without.

Thus the significance of the scripture: “what ye do unto the least of my breather, ye do unto me”.

So, now, the age-old question: when is one fully Enlightened?

From the AUM and Genesis perspective, enlightenment is regards inner revelations of our own spiritual progress through the long corridor of time, to this point. The road of enlightenment is regards overcoming and integration of generational conditioning and our ignorance conditioned reaction to such. In its practical application, mature enlightenment is regards the wisdom to know the difference, or, the capacity of right action every time. Enlightenment thus is revelation which initially takes place transcendentally: our soul’s means unto the state of full mind functionality, of total brain coherence. In other words, when man’s lower intellect – our born into basic animal standard — has ascended unto resolute status, unto cosmically discerning ability, then one can claim conscious enlightened standard. By this enlightenment — regards our life on planet Earth — all the scriptures have been fulfilled, when personal enlightenment equates to our being a natural channel of divine wisdom.

Post meditational consciousness thus requires practical expression, which expression roots to form cosmic consciousness thus to form the criteria or bases of Right action or, enlightenment in action. Which right action is really the reverberations of direct AUM influencing. Ultimately, we will ‘know’ enlightenment to be Mature love and blissful peace sourced through our AUM-quickened thymus gland — the AUM-infused Higher Heart Love chakra.

Pure Consciousness – the Previous Cause

Finally, guna is a Sanskrit word meaning quality or tendency. Thus the combined tendency and quality of the three gunas make up the innumerable laws of nature. But, that, these laws in turn are resultant of a previous cause, which previous cause is the Almighty, the Absolute, the Transcendent or, Pure consciousness. In other words, before the manifest universe, before AUM, there was the Un-manifest, or, Pure Consciousness, but without knowing Itself AS pure consciousness or eternal Bliss. Thus, the laws of nature came into being, are birthed – through Pure Consciousness and Its own creative intention or, Idea — to facilitate Pure Consciousness in knowing Itself through Itself.
Put another way, Pure Consciousness cannot be known through a sin-riddled consciousness directly, thus, “No one comes to the Father except by Me” – lower consciousness must first be quickened, purified unto Pure Consciousness in silence meditation.

Thus, out of the eternal silence of Pure Consciousness came the laws of Creation, Maintenance and Renewal, which ‘Creation’ is often referred to as the big bang. But as we can now understand, creation – Creator — and renewal emerged out of the eternal Big Silence, out of Pure Consciousness as vibrational AUM, and, as such, we’re each innately equipped of all the attributes and potential of Pure Consciousness, thus the term, ‘made in the image and likeness of God’, which glorious state is fulfilled on realizing the Self as separate from the world of chaos.

In this context, through our chosen meditative practice, we each have the God-given ability of realizing Self, of creating perfect cosmos, stability of mind, stability of peace, bliss and coherence in the global consciousness.

As all peace-infused vibration registers in the collective consciousness, each meditator, through their meditational peace practice, contributes enormously in reaching many thousands who are not yet meditators: to upgrade their consciousness unto eternal cosmic status, unto soul-serving values which serve all of humanity spiritually. As co-creators with God, evolution needs you, me and the global brotherhood to create invincible peace and coherence in our minds, thus in the world, at this vital juncture in time.

Permanent world peace is the global imperative for each of us and for every generation. And yes, while it’s doable, peace must first be Self-realized thus stabilized within individual consciousness. Hence, “first seek ye the kingdom of God and all else shall be added” — peace becomes established or ‘added’ unto consciousness while in vibrational AUM meditation — humans highest form of prayer.

The Developing Intellect in Biblical Symbolism: Part One

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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.

Comparing Prometheus and Biblical Characters Continued…

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We now begin our second post in the series of Prometheus and Biblical characters. In the first post, we provided some foundational thought on the concept of the Logos. Metaphysically, we concluded it is the life-principle of spirit manifested physically as God’s garments. Mr. W. R. Inge, a professor of Divinity at Cambridge, once summed up this ancient philosophical concept of the Logos as used by Philo of Alexandria:

“It seems to have been a name for the rational self-evolution of the universe, to be apprehended by the human mind which is capable of identifying itself with it….Philo’s Logos is a God who reveals himself, in contrast with a God that hides himself.”

I am providing Mr. Inge’s quote above so that we understand that I am not limiting the idea of the Logos to spirit manifesting in the physical universe only. I mean that the physical universe is it’s outermost expression. Physical matter is the expression of spirit in its most outer form. Put another way, it is God’s most outer garment. But to reflect again on Mr. Inge’s thoughts, it is the self-evolution of the universe from it’s highest to lowest octave in the mind. Remember, the New Testament writer, who identifies Christ with the Logos, also states that all things were made by Him, and the author of Colossians also states that all things both visible (God’s most outer garments) and invisible (God’s inner garments) were created through Christ. Thus, the unfolding Logos is the entire metaphysical and physical universe being expressed through that which we might dub, the self evolution of the divine mind, i.e., the God that reveals himself by himself through us. 

We are now going to switch gears and explore Satan, Lucifer, and the Serpent. We are also going to talk some about Adam and Eve. We have to set a proper foundation here too in order to understand that the Prometheus story allegorically symbolizes the same, culminating in the Christ principle through the suffering even Prometheus endured in the Greek mythologies. So bear with me 🙂

The Serpent

The serpent of scripture is an ancient universal symbol. The allegorical part it plays in the Eden drama reveals the nature of the divine mind involving and evolving from the mind of man. It also brilliantly unveils the psychological state in which most of mankind finds itself today. But we can’t fully understand the symbol of the serpent until we also understand the symbol of Adam and Eve. 

Philo, the ancient Jewish philosopher mentioned above, once stated:

“God, when first of all he made the intellect called it Adam.”

In order to get a true grip on this as it relates to Adam in the Garden of Eden BEFORE Eve was created out of him, let’s imagine what a pure intellect would be like. Along these lines, imagine pure intellect, unimpeded by any kind of emotion or desire (before Eve). What would it be like?

Most importantly, it would experience no internal conflict. Man’s mind today is bombarded in the decision making process by a myriad of sensory input, his or her accumulated emotion, and divergence of thought. But a purely intellectual nature itself would be free, and in direct accordance with divine law. It’s every expression would be less of an individual decision, but more of just an expression of itself unimpeded by anything. In fact, it wouldn’t be very conscious. We could call it something close to perfection, because every action would be in the perfect alignment with God’s law. But it would have no depth or breadth, so in another way, although we might call it perfect, we could also call it very limited in self-experience and true self-consciousness. Although it might act perfectly in accordance with God’s laws, it certainly wouldn’t have much of a personality. In fact, it wouldn’t have anything we could call a personality at all because it would be so purely logical that every expression would be based on what is true to its nature. Almost like a computer program that flawlessly executes it’s programming. Sure, it’s flawless, but it lacks self-awareness and true knowledge of itself, and the wisdom gained through experience in a world of duality. 

So what is it that adds an extra layer of depth and breath of this pure intellect (or logic machine)? It is the emotional nature moved by desire (e – “motion”). 

This is where Eve, the mother of all living, comes into the story. Eve is called woman, because she comes out of man (or mind). There is a hint of separation here in the mind. At first it is untainted. This separation is good. It represents the faintest beginnings of the mind that can begin to explore its greater potential in the act of self-awareness. This dual nature of the mind now has more of an experience to operate in, a potential to draw conclusions about itself in a self-experiential manner which is different then its more undifferentiated aspect. 

The phrase “mother of all living” has a very important esoteric significance, and gives us the understanding of the symbolic nature of Eve, or that which she will become after the fall is complete.

Eve symbolizes the emotion nature united to the mental nature of the lower mind. I will explain the “lower mind” soon, because it is not considered the lower mind until after its fall. But when God states that man (mind) had no help-meet in life (Eve), it means that man (mind) had no depth and breath of life and self consciousness. The mind’s “eyes” were not opened yet. It had no e – “motion.” Emotion is the beginning of the life principle, because it drives experience from desire. It is the attraction and repulsion of opposites. It is, in a metaphysical sense, experience and motion, or life itself in the human body. In its lower (tempted) nature, it draws the mind of mental thought into the Maya of separation and continued unconsciousness, or decision based on desire instead of will. Notice how the serpent tempted Eve, not Adam. Once the serpent tempted Eve, only then could Adam be tempted, because it is only through desire the mental principle is tempted. However, in its higher nature, the higher emotions are positive for the mind, and adds to it true self-consciousness, wisdom, and understanding.

For spirit to create and unfold into man as the first Adam, it must involve into mind and emotion. It must contain the ability to think, but also to feel. It must produce thought, initially with desire, which gives motion to the thought. It gives a deeper sense of self-consciousness and “I” to the thought. It brings more awareness of separateness to thought. The emotional nature united with the mind principle becomes “the mother of all living.” 

But there is a problem. This separateness, this “I,” becomes trapped in the lower aspect of it’s dual nature because of the more separateness it is experiencing. At least at first. How is this shown metaphysically in the first few chapters of Genesis?

It is shown through the allegory of the serpent. 

The serpent causes spiritual death because it symbolically represents the force of desire in the mind. This force of desire is expressed as temptation to the fruit pleasing to the eye. By fruit we mean everything that engages and tempts (attracts) all the lower aspects of mind and emotion. Spiritual death occurs because the mind experiences a separateness of existence from the rest of the universe (i.e. God). It is still one with God, but this separate “I” doesn’t KNOW it through the direct experience it once had when God walked in the cool of the Garden with Adam. And thus we find most of mankind in this spiritual death. However, through the fall of mind by the serpent, mankind achieved a physical body and the temple of the lower nature is now complete.

“And unto Adam also and unto his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen. 3:21).

This skin is not the skin of animals (that god killed) to give to man as we have been taught. It is symbolic of the flesh itself, all of your physical temple-body. It is a metaphor for the completion of the human-body-temple, in which the indwelling spirit comes to inhabit, evolved by itself as it further differentiated itself. And please understand. This allegory isn’t about an anthropomorphic being clothing Adam, it is the history of how the mind fell into the lowest plane of matter. The story of Prometheus, we will see later, is exactly the same!

More on the Serpent

While the serpent symbolically represents the desire-mind on one level, it also depicts the truth of karma, for the mind must reap what it sows. Spirit’s slow descent into matter reaps a body-temple for this new aspect of self-consciousness to begin exploring in the arena of life (a complicated web of maya, or duality). For spirit to evolve into a more self-conscious being, the mind had to fall (create) a proper vessel for this new kind of expression. The human-body-temple, with its nerve centers, it’s highly advanced brain, and its complex array of endocrine glands allow emotion and thought to express itself in ways that can lead to a greater sense of self-consciousness when thrust in the maya of experiences it is confronted with. 

“…the man is now become as one of us, to KNOW good from evil…” (Gen 3:22).

More accurately expressed, “The mind is now become as one of the Elohim, to KNOW opposites, and the potential for true self-consciousness.”

In other words, the mind, through it’s new temple, now has the ability to choose the path towards Godhood. Yes, mankind will now experience pain and suffering along the way, but he has the ability to choose, for:

“…the eyes of them both were opened…” (Gen 3:7).

Jesus alludes to this in Luke 24:31. The disciples did not know the risen Christ, but after they ate (metaphorically) what Jesus provided their eyes were opened and they recognized him. After Adam and Eve ate what the serpent tempted them with their eyes were also opened. However, Adam and Eve’s eyes were only opened physically, the lower mental and emotional nature, while the disciples eyes were opened spiritually, to the second Adam, or Christ within themselves.

Another way to put it would be that the Mind has now been imbued with the potential for choice, or self-conscious development. To do so, the mind will have to claw its way back to the Tree of Life through tilling the ground (disciplining the body temple of thought, emotion, and sensation) amongst the thorns (the trials of life) of the ground (the body temple) to yield its fruit (it’s potential of newfound self-consciousness). 

The allegory of mankind being kicked out of Eden means through physical suffering he will have to learn how to discipline his lower nature as not to be the servant of it, but rather it’s ruler.

And how does one do this?

Jesus made it clear as day. Please pay very close to attention, as it relates to all that we have discussed:

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up…” (John 3:14).

Meaning, Moses, as the law-giver and symbol of the moral nature in man, which had to come first, begins through correct thought, action, and speech, the process of raising the serpent from the curse of the dust of the ground upwards for healing. In other words, following the universal law of karma (of reaping and sowing), the free will choices that man now has can either lead to a continued sense of separateness and pain, or it can begin to choose the path of liberation from Maya (the illusion of separateness created by the dual mind) through self-conscious liberation.

But that’s not all! The verse spoken by Jesus right before him mentioning the serpent brings the entire meaning of what happened originally in the garden into crystal clarity:

“And no man ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is IN heaven” (John 3:13).

In other words, no man can ascend up to heaven (blissful state of peace and unity of mind) until one has first descended down into earth, just as his example shows us!

By son of man, Jesus means son of MIND, the universal divine mind, which “came down from heaven” (the fall of mind into matter), in order to work it’s way back up again. Here we have the allegory of Adam and Eve repeated in these two verses by Jesus. 

Also, remember where Jesus tells the disciples that in the beginning, God made them (separate mankind and minds) both male and female (a unity). This means the state of the mind before Adam and Eve. This unity was just Adam.

When Moses raised the serpent, all the people who were bitten by the fiery serpent (self-consciousness, the spark of the inner immortal thinking principle), became healed. In other words, even though the Israelites had this fiery spark of the immortal thinking principle within them, because of selfishness and being controlled by the lower nature, they were sick! They were utterly lost and separated (sin) from their own indwelling divine nature. 

Jesus also teaches us the same path by alluding to the lawgiver, Moses, who, again, the law of God teaches us that we reap what we sow. Remember, the Torah of God is not very far from you Moses tells the people, it is near to you, it is IN YOU! (Duet. 30:14).

So the path to liberation, to uplifting the mind from the world of Maya, is threefold:

  1. Service to humanity…developing the higher emotional qualities that lead to unity, not more separation.
  2. Discipline, by developing the unlimited power of will given to the steady mind which has the ability to portray thoughts that are uplifting, noble, loving, peaceful, and intelligent. Meditation is a part of this path to tame the mind and thoughts which run wild by the lower nature. 
  3. Study and the further development of the mind, especially upon metaphysical subjects that show the nature of God and reality is Echad (ONE). Studying subjects such as history, math, the sciences, philosophy, etc. is also highly beneficial towards improving one’s mental focus and the intellect. 

In the vast ocean of the reincarnating ego, or the immortal thinking principle within, any individual can be working on all of the above in combination, or focusing on one more in particular. It depends on that soul alone, and at different stages in life a soul will probably oscillate between them. The point is balance. A towering intellect can become prideful and more separate. But a towering intellect that incorporates the first and second principles stated above will use that intellect for good and not evil. There must be a balance brought back to the mind, to achieve an equilibrium. Intellect devoid of the heart remains dead. The heart without the guiding principle of the intellect remains undeveloped. The mind needs to incorporate the heart, and the heart needs to be guided by the higher intellect (combined with intuition), which can only become perfect intuition alongside the heart. 

Remember, the scripture tells us that as a man “thinketh” in his heart, so is he. As he “thinketh,” so IS HE. Let that sink in.

The word man comes from the term manas, which means the thinker. In esoteric doctrine the thinker (not the thoughts themselves, but that which is able to think), is the immortal reincarnating principle. The great will power to do, speak, and think that which is right and pleasing before the Lord comes forth as the Christ (Logos) within when the mind is transformed and renewed. If one does not develop this will power inherent in the Logos, then the mind is carried off by the tempting serpent which is cursed to crawl on the ground, in the dust (remain mired in the mud of the lower nature body temple, swayed only by it’s untrained passional nature). This mind is always barred from the tree of life by the flaming sword which is double-edged, and it crucifies the Christ nature anew.

Scripture also strongly correlates man with trees (Psalms 1:3). Why would man be compared to a tree? The esoteric meaning of the tree is man on all the planes of being. It has its roots in the ground (the lower nature body-temple), it’s trunk above the ground in the air, and its branches higher in the air (towards heaven) that soak up sunlight and convert this light into life-given energy. We can take this idea further and relate the idea of trees to the mind of man, or his very soul, which is a mind, that exists in the same duality that the tree metaphysical does. This is true for the Garden of Eden as well. The two trees in the Garden (although they are really one tree as they both are in the midst of the garden) symbolize which direction the mind of man gravitates towards. The tree of KNOWLEDGE of good and evil, is a tree symbolizing knowledge, or the ability to know, through experience. Why does the spirit incarnate in matter? It is to build and evolve the soul, or the mind, through experience, to which the mind then comes to KNOW. The Tree of Life, which is also in the midst of the Garden, is the mind which KNOWS no longer through good and evil, or the comparison and contrasting of opposites, but comes to KNOW, after its long journey and pilgrimage, the source of life (the Logos) itself. 

The serpent is more cunning than any “beast” of the field. Desire is just that. It is not more cunning because it is smarter, it is more cunning because it is the grand trickster, the grand illusionists, that convinces the mind to participate with it. It tricks the mind into separation from its parent source, so that it melds (and identifies) with desire instead of being the ruler (WILL POWER) of desire. Thus the great truth. God tells Adam to rule over his wife. Esoterically, this means that the intellectual principle must guide the lower passionate nature of man, and when done properly, the emotional aspect returns an emotional maturity to the intellect. It is the mother life principle in action upon the intellect. The intellect can only sacrifice itself by being the guiding principle by loving the emotional nature which came out of it, and then the emotional nature provides true life back to the intellectual nature. 

It is obvious that Genesis is telling us an allegory of how the mind received an addition to its potential, i.e., the ability to reason by comparing and contrasting opposites, or the ability to choose this or that. Before the fall, the soul wasn’t in a physical temple or body with a physical brain organ containing the prefrontal cortex that can reason. The soul had a different kind of intelligence, an intelligence that wasn’t choosing this or that, but worked with an intelligence that wasn’t so differentiated. The soul didn’t have to make choices because it walked with the spirit of God in the Garden, meaning, the soul, or mind, had not yet evolved it’s most outer garment. 

Lucifer

Lucifer is a bit of a tricky subject because of the emotions the name alone itself can invoke in religiously-steeped doctrine and dogmatism. To a certain extent we have all been socially conditioned in this way. So it is understandable. I do not have the time to write about how the concept of Lucifer has been wrongly interpreted, so I will give only some brief revelations. 

Jesus tells us that he saw Lucifer, the great dragon, kicked out from heaven…as lightning! He is alluding to the same story which the allegory of the Garden of Eden teaches us, again!

Heaven is a state of bliss and unity of mind. Lucifer, which means the “light bearer,” which is the immortal thinker aspect, was kicked out of union or bliss, and cast to the earth. In a sense, Lucifer is the first Adam as expressed through his son Cain, our lower nature as opposed to Abel. Cain and Abel are allegories of the two natures within man, or the offspring of mind and emotion expressed through the desire principle with a hint of aspiration for higher thoughts and love (Abel) which can be pleasing still to god. God tells Cain, you have the choice to do right, but sin is at thy door. In other words, separation from me, through the mind, is before you. What will you choose? 

Lightning, when hitting wood, sparks fire. This fire or flame symbolizes the thinking principle of man, which is a potential in unity, but burns bright when cast into a body temple. This is what the serpent metaphysically understood also gave to man. “Their eyes were opened, and they became as the Elohim.” But at first it is still in a fallen state. But it now has the ability to gain true self-consciousness and awareness. Lucifer is also called the bright and morning star, curiously, just as Jesus is alluded to in Revelation. 

Lucifer becomes the Satan (adversary) principle when the mind is not disciplined and expressed through will, but subject to desire. It is then an enmity with God, and subject to the serpent cursed to crawl on the ground. It can then and does manifest itself as an adversary to God and our higher God-given nature. Religion has chosen to cast these allegories as two anthropomorphic beings outside of us instead of realizing the inherent meanings within us. 

Even Jesus, after he was filled with the spirit, was driven into the wilderness to be tempted by this adversary, or principle that is at enmity with God. Notice something important here. Jesus had no choice. Even after being filled with the very spirit of life, he was DRIVEN, as if by force, to face the temptations of the adversarial mind. He overcomes the adversarial nature within him through strict discipline of the mind, which all of his temptations symbolize when studied carefully. Remember, the moment of the crucifixion happens at Golgotha, which means place of the skull. The battle ultimately culminates in the area of grey matter underneath your skull 🙂

This is all I will say for Lucifer, Satan, and the Serpent now. While I originally intended to get to Prometheus in this second post of the series, I realize it would be better to end part two here and continue with Prometheus in part three. Please feel free to share any thoughts you have in the comment section below for further engagement of what was discussed above. Oftentimes you at the SOS community bring so much more clarity through your comments. 

Blessings. 

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Jesus, Peter, and the Fish: Esoteric Biblical Psychology 101

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Me near the Appalachian Trail: August 2, 2020.

The fish has been an important Christian symbol for almost two thousand years. Much like the lion, the serpent, the dove, cattle, the bull, and the lamb, the fish is emphasized in several places in both the Old and New Testaments. It is easy to gloss over it’s symbolic meaning, but when studied, I believe it provides a master key to unlock a large portion of scriptural symbolism.

In order to properly understand the symbol of the fish, we will have to juxtapose it with other important symbols and see how they all fit together. But first I want to introduce Gaskell’s definition of fish:

Fish of the Sea and Lakes

“A symbol of facts of the lower experience, namely, concepts, percepts, ideas, feelings, emotions.”

We can extend the definition above to any external knowledge and belief systems. It is the knowledge that we assimilate through the senses, including what our parents taught us, what we learn in school, from our peers, books, and our political and religious systems. These are the fish that swim in the lakes and seas of our subconscious mind. 

It is not that knowledge is bad. Quite the contrary. Knowledge is assimilated and analyzed through the mind and is necessary to develop the intellect. The problem comes when we identify ourselves with that knowledge, and take pride in it. Jesus rebuked the Pharisee for this reason. The Pharisee is like the rich man (lots of Torah intellectual knowledge), but was actually destitute and poor in spirit, or lacking in wisdom and understanding (the spirit and essence of the Torah).

How do we, as spiritual aspirants, avoid this trap? 

Genesis chapter one tells us that the soul (higher mind, or heart) is to have dominion over knowledge. Remember, fish are the accumulated ideas, emotions, and belief systems the lower mind has acquired.

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:17). 

The death described is an allegory for how consciousness becomes identified with the thought and the emotion itself instead of remaining aware of it as just a temporary experience.

Mind has the ability to consciously express itself as a complete soul unit, which is the allegorical Tree of Life.

Let’s move on to those scriptures which teach us how this process happens allegorically. As we’ll see, Jesus aims to transform Peter (the lower mind) to a fisher of men (the mind as a complete soul unit). 

Without Christ, Peter (the lower mind) cast his net but cannot catch fish, meaning he does not yet have dominion over his own thoughts. But with the help of Christ, the spiritual energizing factor of the higher mind, Peter catches an abundance of fish! This signifies the higher mind having complete dominion and control over the mind’s lower vehicle of thought and emotion. Christ in this function is the divine life that is seeking to become ever more active in the soul (higher mind) of man. Peter, the natural man, must evolve. At a certain stage of spiritual evolution, we are all Peter in need of the spiritual influx of Christ, that anointing which can only operate in it’s full function through the power of the Holy Spirit, which IS the fullness of Christ’s unlimited power poured out from heaven into the mind. We’re also going to learn that at a certain stage of spiritual evolution, one of the twelves faculties of all mankind is a Jonah (limited lower mind), that becomes Simon Barjona (Peter), where Christ is recognized and the lower mind realizes, through a self aware process of cognition, its own limitation and the very great need for Christ to become more activated. 

Peter and the Fish

Let’s look at Luke chapter five. Jesus is at the lake of Gennesaret preaching truth to the masses. He even climbs in Simon Peter’s ship and asks him to cast off from shore so he can teach from there. But when he is finished teaching to the masses (symbolic of the outer court), he turns his attention to the inner court, those nearest to him (specifically the faculty of mind that Peter signifies). The esoteric scene is now set to bring a plethora of spiritual concepts together! 

From former blog posts you may remember that Peter signifies the lower mind; the mind that must be transformed, or renewed. How can we be sure that Peter signifies the lower mind? Jesus makes it clear when he rebukes Peter for trying to save him from Roman soldiers in Matthew 16:23:

“…for thou MINDEST not the things of God, but the things of men.”

Not only did Jesus also refer to him as Satan earlier (the momentary adversary of the higher mind), but the Apostle Paul rebuked him in Galatians as well for following the letter of the law. As we’ll see shortly, the natural man (lower mind) is imprisoned through its own knowledge. This imprisonment is separation / sin from the natural state of consciousness: identification with awareness, not thoughts themselves. 

How so?

The lower mind, in its early stages of spiritual evolution, is veiled from the indwelling spirit. The lower mind is full of error because it identifies with beliefs, opinions, and ideas (it’s accumulated knowledge). This is Peter’s condition as he meets Jesus. As we begin the spiritual journey, we are ALL a Peter. But there is something special about Peter. While he symbolizes the lower mind, it is the lower mind which has evolved the capacity to recognize the indwelling Christ, and that it is this Lord that infuses the lower mind with its spiritual power. Let’s return to Luke chapter five to see this Biblical truth unveiled.

In this chapter of Luke, Jesus is the higher self. He climbs into the “ship” of Peter on the “lake.” The lake, or waters, represent the lower mind which is easily stirred up by the external influences of our life and the knowledge it has accumulated. The lake is the astral waters within the mind, where thoughts, emotions, ideas, and concepts are constantly moving within the lower mind’s illusory nature. Just as wind causes waves and currents and changing lake and sea beds, so do emotions, ideas, and concepts churn around in the lower mind of our subconscious affecting the sea and lake beds of our personalities. 

The “ship” represents the lower mind floating on the lake of our subconscious. We all have a ship in our minds too. It is the aspect of your mind where Christ expands it’s spiritual influence. Jesus, the higher self, is within Peter’s ship. The esoteric scene that is about to unfold reveals how the higher self makes itself known to the lower mind that recognizes and accepts it’s authority.  

Notice what happens:

“Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught” (Luke 5:4).

The higher self leads Peter, or the lower mind, to cast its “net” into the “deep.” The mental qualities of the lower self have to be gathered together and “caught” at the command of the higher self. There’s a lot of accumulated stuff swimming around in our subconscious minds. This reveals the idea that all of our thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and belief systems have to be captured and directed by the influence of indwelling Christ. We know that this happens through the power of conscious thought in the lower mind, because Jesus gave Peter the “keys” to unlock the kingdom within. In other words, it all begins with the conscious input of correct thought into the subconscious. The lower mind must condition itself to the influence of the higher mind. Let’s continue with Luke chapter 5:

“And Simon answered unto him, Master, we have toiled all night, and have taken nothing. Nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.” (Luke 5:5).

The lower mind admits its confusion. It fishes for the truth in the knowledge accumulated in the subconscious, but to no avail. The lower mind cannot find the truth within its own thoughts, opinions, and belief systems. That is because the truth cannot be found through our external experience of reality and the knowledge acquired there. It cannot be found through the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or through the world of duality, which is a constant changing illusory environment. Yes, we can learn lots of facts and ideas, but they are just that. What good do facts and ideas and opinions of the external world do for the inner man? Sure, they can bring more knowledge (riches), but they cannot impart life that is beyond that knowledge.

Let’s continue and reread the last statement of verse five again:

“…Nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.”

Peter is willing to test the power of the higher mind through faith, and put his trust in something other than his own facts, opinions, ideas, and beliefs. This shows the willingness of that natural mind that is able to take a leap of faith and trust in the higher over the lower. 

“And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake” (Luke 5:6). 

The casting of the net is symbolic of man’s lower mind that toils within itself to find answers. It represents the dark period of our lives, when we aren’t satisfied with the knowledge that the world can give us, even as we try over and over to figure out life based on external circumstances. It is the mind’s absence of light (intuition) in all it’s thoughts, opinions, emotions, etc. Knowledge remains dark until it is illuminated by the higher mind. 

Jesus said when the eye becomes single the entire body is filled with light! A great secret to understanding this process is that knowledge is not bad, but that knowledge must be transformed also into understanding. The rich man is destitute and poor until his riches (knowledge) is illuminated by the indwelling Christ. It is not the knowledge itself that is important, it is understanding the cause and effect behind all facts, opinions, and ideas of this world that true understanding is achieved. Then knowledge is transformed into understanding (silver) and wisdom (gold). The union of this process is what’s known as love. The love aspect is known as higher emotions, because higher emotion is the vehicle of unity (non-judgment) between different ideas, opinions, and concepts. And it can work with the intellect. One who perceives with the single eye (pineal gland) unites love and wisdom, which is wisdom and love united in the higher mind. 

That power of control over our thoughts is the beginning of the birthing of Christ in the mind. Let’s see how this works in the rest of Luke chapter five:

“When Simon peter saw it [the multitude of fish that Jesus’ command caught], he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

I cannot emphasize how important this scripture is in encompassing the entire spiritualization process that begins in the lower mind. Why did Peter recognize Christ as Lord here? What was the catalyst? It was the catching of the fish! Nothing more and nothing less. That which the lower mind toils for, but cannot succeed in finding truth through, until the lower mind recognizes it is the Christ mind which has the ability to turn knowledge into understanding.

This signifies that the natural mind realizes it’s sin (that it is separated from the higher self, Christ), and that it is only the Christ through the higher mind that can make sin, or separateness recognizable, and heal the mind itself. It is the power of the indwelling Christ that illuminates this knowledge to us, not from an external process, but through an inner one. And how is this accomplished?

Let’s look at another Gospel. We have a similar version of this story in John chapter 21, with a few key differences. Here, Jesus commanded them to cast the net on the “right” side of the ship. This means that the mind ceases to analyze external thoughts, opinions, and ideas from the left brain. It goes within, to the right side, which is towards the east, the rising sun. Remember, Jesus sits at the right hand of the father and is the illuminating light of consciousness. 

John chapter 21 also states that Peter caught 153 in the net, and this time the net does not break.

153…

1 + 5 + 3 =9

Nine, according to Gaskell:

“The number three is the number of perfection and completeness. Nine, which is three squared, refers to the attainment of perfection on the three lower planes.”

In Luke, it was early in Jesus’ ministry and the disciples were undisciplined and still being gathered. In John we have a spiritual evolution of MIND in the text. It is after Jesus’ ministry on earth (the lower nature and mind). Peter is the one that brings the net of fish up, but there is something different about the natural mind now. It has walked with the indwelling Christ for some time, and it is ready to become the “evolved personality.” This is why Jesus asks Peter if he loves him three times (three signifying the discipline of all three qualities of the lower nature). The natural mind has finally gathered together it’s mental qualities and is ready for the next stage of spiritual growth on the mental plane. It now has the ability to bring the lower mind under disciplined control. Nine then refers to the three perfected of the lower plane. The three are the lower mental, emotional, and physical aspects of man. The mind has gained discipline over all three: sensations, emotions, and thoughts. The mind now has dominion over the fish of the lake and the sea!

Of course this does not mean that the lower mind is perfect. Peter will continue to make mistakes, which is why Paul rebukes him later on. The Apostle Paul symbolizes a further evolution of the mind, which is the actual birthing of Christ in the mind. This process follows the lower mind which has taken control over its course of thought, speech, and action through conscious will power. And this process is what is meant through concentration of the mind, which is a discipline of the thoughts that precedes true meditation. 

Fish as a symbol of the Old Testament

The Old Testament version of this healing in the lower mind takes place in Ezekiel. Before we proceed there are some things we should discuss about the Book of Ezekiel. Similar to the Gospel of John, which goes deeper in the esoteric sense than the rest of the Gospels, Ezekiel does the same. In fact, the Book of Ezekiel almost didn’t make it into the Biblical canon, and many Jewish boys were hindered from studying it until they reached a certain mature age. In certain Jewish mystical traditions it was forbidden completely to the uninitiated. Why? Because it is a highly esoteric book containing concepts that require a certain spiritual maturity to understand. 

First a scripture about the healing waters which flow from underneath the altar within the Holy of Holies. 

“And it shall come to pass, that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of FISH, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and everything shall live wither the river cometh” (Ezekiel 47:9). 

This river of living water coming from man’s innermost being, the higher self, is the same idea taught through Jesus in the New Testament. Remember the woman at the deep well who wanted water? Jesus told her the water from that well would make her thirst again. Jesus tells her that he could provide the water of truth that would keep her from thirsting again. But in Ezekiel, notice that this river of water heals the very great multitude of fish. Another example of the subconscious and conscious mind healed through the unity of wisdom and love? 

Ezekiel’s temple by the way, with all it’s passages and structures, is a map of the human brain 🙂 The altar in the Holy of Holies, at the very center of the temple (brain), is the pineal gland again. 

Simon son of Bar Jonah

I wanted to conclude by showing how awesome the entire Bible fits together and the continuity between the Old and New Testaments. Notice how after Peter recognizes the Christ as the Son of the Father, Christ states:

“…blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood (the natural mind) hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father (spirit) which is in heaven (the realm of the higher mind)” Matthew 16:17.

Jesus is referring to Peter as Simon Barjona because he is associating him with the son of Jonah of the Old Testament. Not a literal son, but the son of the soul in evolutionary progression, in much the same way that John the Baptist was an evolved Elijah who had to come. 

Jonah of the Old Testament was cast in the sea and swallowed by a great fish. Do you see the similarities here? Jonah is the natural mind in a period of evolution as well. Peter is the more advanced natural mind who finally is ready to recognize the Christ, while Jonah is symbolic of the mind that is meant to eventually be consummated by the Christ, which is accomplished through Peter’s actions finally. It is interesting that at the end of the Book of Jonah, Jonah is still quite angry with the Ninevites. God gives him a slight rebuke at the end, and then it is over. The Book of Jonah is only four short chapters, and it ends on a very sad note. God questions Jonah at the end and points out the fact that the Ninevites are spared because they can’t tell their left hand from their right. This refers to the mixed up state of the mind that is still quite divided. I don’t have time here to delve into all the symbols of Jonah here, but if you think hard enough, I bet you can find many more similarities in the story. 

One more side note to tie in an extra knot: Jesus said no sign would be given except that Jonah was three days and nights in the belly of the whale/fish. This is the evolution of mind, and the stories of Jonah and Peter unveil the spiritual evolution process of just one of the faculties of mind in conjunction with the other eleven (disciples). The Bible is so perfectly connected and reveals a deep psychological process of the mind. If only modern psychologists began to see the validity of the Biblical stories in this light, the Bible would become more authoritative than anything Freud and others have accomplished.  

I hope this article has given you some food for thought. 

Blessings.

Why Jesus said He Came to Bring Division

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In Luke chapter twelve, it is recorded that Jesus said he came, not to bring peace on earth, but division; even in one’s own household, two against three and three against two. In this post we will unveil the esoteric meaning. We will also dismantle the misconceptions of its exoteric interpretation that has promulgated in religious circles from this portion of Luke, which, ironically, has led to actual division of families and humanity at large. I have actually dealt with this subject before many years ago on the blog, but this post will offer some more depth and some other corroborating scriptures as well.

Let’s look at the specific verse in detail. Jesus states:

“Suppose ye that I have come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division. For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three” (Luke 12:51-52).

Some religious leaders and commentators of the past have believed this verse means that Jesus is foretelling the split that will come from individual families over believers (Christians) and non-believers (non-Christians). While this sometimes is the natural outcome of individuals who delve into the spiritual journey, it has nothing to do with what Jesus is referring to. The danger in this kind of thinking is that when this happens, certain individuals believe they are justified in the divisive outcome because “Jesus said it,” so everything is happening as it should. It can reinforce the “me” vs “other” mentality. This is sad, because anyone embarking on the inward spiritual journey to Christ should never use Jesus’ words as a justification for any kind of division or strife between human beings. Rather, we should love others as ourselves.

So what did Jesus really mean? To answer that, we must unveil the symbols, for the truth of all scripture is veiled beneath the literal / outward interpretation. 

The “one house” of Jesus’ statement is not a building. House refers to one of your vehicles (bodies) of consciousness. In this specific instance, Jesus was referring to the house which is the vehicle of thought itself. I will explain this in more in detail shortly. But first I want to direct you to another scripture by the Apostle Paul which will set the correct foundation for a proper, enriched understanding.  

Hebrews 4:12 states:

“For the WORD of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the DIVIDING asunder of SOUL and SPIRIT, and of the joints and marrow, and is the discerner of THOUGHTS and INTENTS of the HEART.”

Paul speaks of the word, or LOGOS, that divides the soul and spirit of man. The Greek word used for “dividing asunder” portrays the idea of a partition. This partition illustrates the dual nature of the man’s mind. Try to think of the mind as the center, or partition between two natures. These two natures are your soul and spirit. The thoughts of man can gravitate toward desire, through the soul, or, by will, our thoughts can be carefully guarded and chosen to reflect the spirit.

In our scripture from Hebrews 4:12, it must be emphasized that the “word” is not the Bible itself, but simply the LOGOS. The Logos is the creative energy of spirit, or Christ, which manifests will (as opposed to desire), Wisdom (as opposed to error), and action (as opposed to unconscious action). These positive influences on the mind is what exposes the division, or partition, of the spirit from the soul. The soul of man, or carnal mind, is at enmity with God, until it is perfected. The coming of the man Jesus symbolizes the awakening of the soul to these positive influences, and therefore, there is for a time a great division and strife that is stirred up between soul and spirit. Paul explains this sort of war that is not against flesh and blood, but it is a war of the rulers within in our mind.

Now back to Jesus’ statement in Luke. The “house” he is referring to contains the mind, which includes the potential of the LOGOS personified through you. Notice how the author of Hebrews states that this division between soul (the lower mind containing your intellect, emotions, and senses) and spirit (or higher mind combined with the Holy Spirit) is caused by discerning of “thoughts” and “intents” of the heart. “Heart” here is another word for the greater mind, both its intellectual and spiritual or intuitional-wisdom-love nature. It is not until the spiritual ego, or “the thinker” that you are, turns its focus inwards to the still small voice that the division between soul and spirit begins its maturity towards unity in the divine marriage of soul and spirit. But at first there is always division, just as Jesus had to clean house in the temple when he had to flog away all the money changers that defiled the temple (or mind) itself.

Another scripture which brings clarity here is Jesus’ statement on the original condition of the mind, BEFORE it’s division between soul and spirit:

“But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this cause a man (mind) shall leave his father and mother (the parents of the desire mind which seeks external world knowledge) and cleave to his wife (the emotion-nature of intuition/Holy Spirit), and shall become one flesh” (Mark 10:6).

Now we must go back a few verses before Jesus talks about division in Luke chapter 12. Let’s read 12:49, which states:

“I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?”

This fire is symbolic of spirit and love and truth. It is the fire (Holy Spirit) that “divides” because its essential wisdom dispels the ignorance of the lower mind which derives its truth from external sense reality instead of the higher spiritual realities. The process of destroying ignorance can seem very divisive within ourselves as we have to let go of certain false narratives and reclaim the truth. The arrival of Jesus signifies this beginning in the mind, and at first it is divisive, because the individual thinker, the spiritual ego, or mind, begins to identify not with the soul, but with spirit, and thereby realizes the soul needs to be disciplined with the love and wisdom nature, so that it can be raised into the higher mind. 

Remember, the first man (Adam after the fall) is earthy. Earth being a symbol for the soul (intellect, emotion, and physical sensation). The second Adam is a spiritual being, the potential Christ now fully manifested in the higher mind, who has united his lower nature with his spiritual nature.  

What is Christ? What is Man?

When one reads the New Testament, one has to understand what he or she is reading. If he or she believes they are reading history, then he or she will only learn about Christ. If he or she understands they are reading about themselves, as the expression of the living WORD, then he or she is on the path to KNOW Christ. The Apostle Paul makes it clear: “…Christ in you, your hope of glory.” All scripture points us to the inner Christ we all have the potential to express. Within that journey is the “mystery” that Paul is instructing us to partake of. 

One who wishes to understand the mystery should not ask what is Christ without first asking, what is man.

And what is man?

Man is MIND. Man is mind, and mind is man. In other words, man is “a thinker.” The Psalmist gives us this revelation when he states:

“Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). That which a man thinks, he is, and becomes.

The man of higher thought is of a spiritual nature, and the man who thinks lower thought is of a soul nature. But everything that a man is stems from the “thinker” and is expressed through the QUALITY of his or her thought. This quality of thought is not produced just by the intellect, but rather the combination or union of intellect with intuition (the Holy Spirit).

Paul provides further clarification:

And be ye renewed in the spirit of your MIND; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:23-24).

Renew the mind how? Renew it from that of the lower nature (soul) to your higher nature (spiritual mind), all within the realm of thought and the QUALITY of it’s expression. The quality an accuracy of our thoughts become especially acute when the intellect is in union with the intuition of love and wisdom provided by the Holy Spirit. Then the ignorance of the external world will be revealed, and the truth of the higher realities revealed.

Some further scriptural thought on man, mind, and the true individuality, the THINKER

For what reason does Genesis state that God sent the flood on the earth? And for what reason did God spare Noah and his family? You guessed it! It had to do with wrong thought!

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).

Esoterically, this means that God allegorically baptized the earth (lower nature / soul). It is an allegory of God baptizing the lower mind, to cleanse it. This is what the ritual of baptism symbolizes: the washing of the mind in the WORD, even Christ (the perfected ideal mind), within man. The concept infers the cleansing of the flesh, flesh being the carnal mind (soul) of man which thinks such thoughts which stem from envy, lust, greed, pride, selfishness, arrogance, etc. These are all products of one culprit: the desire mind, the serpent which caused the so called “fall of man.” A better expression would be, “fall of mind!” The larger symbolism in the story of Noah is spirit cleansing the earth (soul) of evil thought. 

Noah escaped the flood because he didn’t “think” like his fellow evil doers. Noah is the true individuality, the thinker, that raised his thoughts above the highest mountain top into heaven, the upper firmament the mind, which contains the waters above (Gen. 1:7), which are of truth (Christ addressed himself as this water of truth which enables one to never thirst again to the woman at the well).

Noah, the individuality, or I AM nature (the spiritual mind), then planted a vineyard (remember Christ is the vine, and we are the branches). From Noah and his family, mankind came forth upon the earth. In other words, the branches of the earth (soul) came forth. The branches are of the lower nature, but if they abide in Christ, they will produce fruit. Those do not abide in Christ, will be burned up (extinguished). 

This is why Ezekiel 14:14 states that Noah was righteous enough to save himself, along with Job and Daniel who also could do so Why? If we think of them as literal people, it would make now sense. But because they are symbolic of the true individuality, the thinker, we understand we have the choice through will (the opposite of desire) to raise the soul by the spirit.

Conclusion

We started with Jesus’ statement about bringing division between the soul and spirit within the “house.” We discussed the importance of where our “thoughts” are directed, or drawn to within the house. Do they cater to the whims of desire, through the soul and external world, or earth? Or do we use will to go within and let the Holy Spirit do its work?

I want to explain this concept one more way in case any confusion still resides. I used the term “individuality” throughout the article. This can be confusing. The individuality I am speaking of is the same “I AM” aspect of being that God says will deliver Israel from Egypt (the lower mind).

The difference between the individuality and the soul is this: the soul is the “I AM me” feeling you have. Noticed how I (originally explained by Blavatsky) attached the “me” to the I AM. This “me” is your lower nature, or soul, that is attached to the individuality which consciousness has produced through it’s dual manifestation. The soul is… (insert your name and social conditioning and heredity, etc). Remember from earlier articles that when consciousness manifests, through any body or vehicle, its expression is dual. That is why we have a higher mind and a lower mind. This “me” aspect, the lower, is all the sensations, emotions, and thoughts one can have expressed through the lower mind (which encompasses expression in your physical brain and body). When the individuality, or the thinker, uses will to uplift his or her thoughts, such as compassion, joy, contentment, selflessness, etc., the individuality begins to associate itself with the higher mind, and the strong feeling of “me” that you have begins to drop away. This is why John the Baptist (the purified moral nature) stated, “I must decrease so that He can increase.” Instead of “me” vs “other” you develop an attitude of unity with others, and express that thought and emotion through acts of virtue. This doesn’t mean the “me” vanishes, but it becomes less important, and your attitude begins to shift towards a sort of unity with everything. Judgments and strong egoic opinions or dogmatic beliefs begin to become less and less important as intuition unites with your intellect and you truly begin to understand the cause and effect behind the external world with all it’s ills. It doesn’t mean you forget or ignore it, but you becomes less identified with it, personally, and more identified with the part of you that is truly immortal and is the real, greater aspect of the self. This allows you see the true problems behind the insanity of the world and can give you true solutions and insight into how to deal with problems or ills that plague our world or even your own life.

Why must we go within? Because the total mind (not just the intellect) is there, and the more inward we go, the more we can explore the true mind. Many today think the mind is created in the physical brain. This is a great problem. Consciousness only expresses a very limited portion of itself through the organ we call the physical brain and body. It does not originate there, and therefore what the physical senses interpret for us through the brain, we cannot trust. It is but a tiny fraction of mind, or man. In order to gain wisdom, we must allow access to portions of the mind that draw spiritual knowledge into the soul. Through this process the Christ is also raised in the soul.

I will discuss this more in future articles with more scripture. For now, blessings!

Judas to Christ-Consciousness—Esoterically

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The story of Judas and the 30 pieces of silver has as many literal interpretations as it has characters. And, depending weather we’re literal or esoterically versed, each interpretation resonates validity in its perspective contexts. One version attempts a literal validation of Lazarus, Judas, Mary, Martha and Matthias, and so on, as historical people, while esoteric perception advances the Good News from the practical: ‘Good News’ translated as a ‘Spiritual Revelation’ from within.

Many of these literal characters actually conjure more questions than the story attempts to explain away. The brain is not presented with cognizable detail. Instead, it’s presented with man-made contrivances to the extent that the brain rejects these supposed historical events as non-nonsensical. Failing in this approach, we are encouraged to relate through programming—sound-bites directing us what to see and what to hear. This conditioning, I feel, succeeds only at stifling spiritual growth. [Read more…] about Judas to Christ-Consciousness—Esoterically

The Mind of God and Man

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I took a break from working on the book today to very briefly elaborate on a portion of Genesis which I thought you guys might find enlightening in the story of Adam and Eve, as well as a sort of part 2 to our last post. This will be a very brief overview.

In our last post, we discussed Paul’s meaning of wives submitting to husbands, and how we interpret it esoterically. Today we’re going to look at the state of Adam before there was Eve, as well as the state of humanity after, and what this may also mean. [Read more…] about The Mind of God and Man

“…so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – An Esoteric Interpretation

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Conscious and SubconsciousThe scripture mentioned in the title of this post has caused much controversy. This can be expected, because millions across the globe see the scripture as literal, even when Paul clearly indicates this is the not the case.

Are we really to assume that wives should be in subjection to their husbands – in everything? You can imagine the problem here.

It’s quite interesting. I have seen many theologians use the padding of other scriptures to bring more common sense to this issue, such as husbands ought to love their wives properly, and when that’s done, it somehow makes a literal interpretation in the title of this post OKAY because now there is the proper balance and understanding of what Paul truly meant. [Read more…] about “…so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – An Esoteric Interpretation

Take up Thy Cross and Follow Me

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jesus before pilateIn the Bible, Pontius Pilate (the Roman governor) found no wrongdoing with Jesus. Jesus was then sent to Herod who also found nothing wrong with what he did or preached. Finally, Pilate asked the people, “What shall he do with Jesus,” and they replied, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” The “him” being referred to is the son of man, or the non-integrated ego, further implying the fruits of the binding influence of spiritual ignorance. [Read more…] about Take up Thy Cross and Follow Me

The Bible Code Controversy

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The Bible CodeMany readers of SOS may remember a book called The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin. It was first published in 1997 and remained on the New York Times best seller list for months. I was recently sent a copy of this book by a friend, and we had a brief discussion on its relevance to Biblical interpretation. [Read more…] about The Bible Code Controversy

Merry Gnosis

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journey of sunWhat kind of title is that? The answer to the title lies with the Sun. As I’m sure you have already guessed it has something to do with Christmas as well. From my last post I mentioned that the “mas” from Christmas is from the Egyptian “mes” which means birth so Christmas is the Christ Birth and “messiah” is the New Born god – us. From another post I mentioned that Gnosis is Enlightenment, Spiritual Transformation, and Christ Consciousness.  But how do all 3 (Sun, Christmas and Gnosis) fit together? One of the ways is through the Zodiac and is the story of the journey of our soul. There is a MP3 by Stephan Hoeller about this journey named “The Hymn of the Pearl” which I highly recommend. Can you guess what the Pearl is? In my view his version is very beautiful. There might be 1 or 2 things I don’t agree with but not everybody agrees with me either so just take what you want from any source and assemble the puzzle the best you can. That’s the whole point, have fun and explore. [Read more…] about Merry Gnosis

The Esoteric Meaning of the Tetragrammaton

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Tetragrammaton_SefardiWestern religion has a terribly inaccurate and limited view of the body, soul, and spirit. Such a view has led to the church’s failure to properly portray and instruct how we advance in the kingdom of God. Jesus plainly stated God’s kingdom was within us (Luke: 17:21), and Paul teaches us that God dwells within us. We are His temple. Thus both God and His kingdom are found within us, and are both one harmonious relationship.

But what does this mean. It’s easy to quote scripture and say that God and His kingdom are in us, but how are we to really grasp this concept.

Breaking down the esoteric meaning of the Tetragrammaton can help. [Read more…] about The Esoteric Meaning of the Tetragrammaton

What is the Symbolic Nature of Paul and His Christ: Part 3

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Religious symbolsWas Paul’s Christ really the Christ of Orthodoxy? Most likely not.

In parts 1 and 2 of this series we concluded that Paul’s own words from Galatians do not agree with the historical timeline of Acts. We also examined Massey’s reasoning for stating that Paul’s gospel had nothing to do with the literal, historical Christ of orthodoxy, but was rather the gospel of the mythical Christ birthed within through direct experience. We analyzed internal evidence from Galatians that seems to support this theory.

In part 2 of this series I also hinted [Read more…] about What is the Symbolic Nature of Paul and His Christ: Part 3