Gnostics - Heretics Or Enlightened? Being Of Light

Yeshua/Jesus said that the God of the Jews was the Devil. Paul called the reading of the literal written word of the Old Testament in the manner that Fundamentalist do today the "letter that killeth" -- meaning that it is the path to spiritual death. Peter called the Old Testament written word the "books with the power to deceive". And the Jewish mystic who spends his life seeking the inner meaning of the written word that the natural mind of man is incapable of seeing, has warned: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world..." (the Zohar quoted in No Jew Has Read The Torah). The Church Father Origen proclaimed those who are so gullible to believe the literal written word of the Old Testament idiots! Peter said what appears to be historical never happened. Paul called the literal text an allegory.

In the exact same manner as the enlightened Jewish Rabbi's, the early Christian Church Father Origen writes: “It is sufficient however, to represent in the style of a historic narrative what is intended to convey a secret meaning in the garb of history, that those who have the capacity may work out for themselves all that relates to the subject.” And with regard to what would otherwise be historical symbols and events that would appear to us as the knowledge of superficial episodes of the past, Origen writes: “I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142). Students of Hebrew Mysticism will perceive that what the third-century Christian Church Father Origen wrote was no different than what is contained in the Zohar, where it states: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”.

These great truths are again demonstrated in the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”. These same truths are again conveyed to us in the words of the Church Historian Eusebius: “Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees”. What these symbols truly mean is perhaps best expressed by G.R.S. Mead in his celebrated work, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, where he explained that, once properly understood, the true meaning of what is “…projected onto the screen…” of the scriptures, “…was in reality a picture of their [man’s] own minds”. In view of the fact that Yeshua himself taught that the Kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:20-21), that the scriptures were in fact a blueprint of man’s own mind begins to make a great deal of sense.

What Moses Maimonedes is stating, then, is that there exist many parts of the scriptures that are literally and historically not true. Isn't Paul stating this exact same truth when he writes to the Galatians who are attempting to embrace Jewish ritualistic ways, and states: “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?” And then Paul goes on to explain to those who want to attempt to read the written word literally, in an historical context as Christians do today: “For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory” (Gal 4:21-24 KJV).

That the Jew who remained of a natural carnal mindset could not see beyond the symbols of the allegory, and their eyes and hearts were hardened so they could not comprehend the true meaning of the scriptures, is readily understood where Paul states that “their minds were blinded” by God, “for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament… even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart” (2 Cor 3:14-15 KJV). The time has come for this vail to be removed from the eyes of all Jews. What modern non-Jews fail to realize today, is the reality that all men of the flesh are equally blind to the Truth Torah of God!

From a spiritual perspective, when the Jews worship the god of the literal word -- with rituals, animal sacrifices, incense, in a temple made with the hands of men, it can truly be said that the Jews worshiped a false god. And what was it that the scriptures used by the Jews said: "The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me? says the LORD. I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your evil assemblies. Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow" (Isa 1:11-17 NIV).

Why does the Most High God take no pleasure in rituals, sacrifices, incense, Sabbaths and New Moon festivals? In the words of the Church Father Origen: “I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed.” And in the words of Paul: "Which things are an allegory.” And in the words of the Jewish Mystic: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”.

The Devil -- The God Of The Jews!

Judaism is one of the last surviving ancient mystery religions -- and what is a mystery religion? When Paul wrote: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14 NKJ) -- what he was making reference to was the inability of man in his natural state of mind to even begin to envision man's own higher spiritual reality that is beyond even the contemplation of his imagination. And this is why Paul warned that while he could only tell the baptized and confirmed believers at Corinth about Jesus and him crucified, he could in no manner convey to them the inner knowledge and mysteries of the Gospel -- i.e., “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS). Paul then explains that: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).

When Paul was taken up into the Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21), he said that he saw “…things so astounding that they are beyond a man's power to describe or put in words…” -- and warned that those who are permitted to gaze upon the Mysteries of the Kingdom, will have witnessed a higher reality that will be so profound, that they will “…not [be] allowed to tell them to others” (2 Cor 12:4 TLB). And Paul warned those who are under the grave misconception that they can simply read the literal text of the scriptures and ascertain the Word of God, that they were greatly deceived -- i.e., “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Cor 8:2 NKJ). For if it were possible for a man to simply open the scriptures and be able to discern the Truth and Reality that was beyond natural human comprehension, Jesus would not have said of his disciples: “For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it” (Matt 13:17 NIV).

Surely, if the natural mind of man was capable of understanding, the prophets and righteous men of old could have opened the scriptures and learned the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God -- but as Paul confirmed, such a thing was impossible. And it was for this reason that Jesus had to open the minds of his disciples to the inner meaning of the scriptures -- i.e., "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45 KJV) -- but if the inner revelation of the scriptures was limited to the testimony of "...Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor 2:2 KJV) -- but the spiritual revelation that can only be revealed to the mind of those who are mature, and have undergone the process of spiritual transformation: "However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.' But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 'who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Cor 2:6-16 NKJ).

The Demiurge -- God Of The Jews: The earliest Christians affirmed these words of Paul, and stated that the god of the Jews of a natural mind was a lesser god, and not the God of Jesus. And because most Christians lack insight into the manner in which the scriptures are written, they make the fatal mistake of judging what they don't understand. Once properly understood, it was for good reason that the Spiritual Christians who were the disciples of Paul called the god of the Jews a Demiurge -- a lesser god. In full agreement, Yeshua said that these ritually Torah observant keepers of the Law worship the Devil -- "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).

The later Church of Rome condemned the Spiritual Christians because they said that the god of the Jews was not the God of Yeshua -- and in the above Yeshua confirms that position to be true. And in the same way, because the modern Christians have all been shackled to the worship of the same lesser god of the Left Hand, what Yeshua said to them is true of the Christians today. And because people fail to comprehend the nature of what Peter describes as the Mystery of the Books that have the power to deceive -- wherein, the Left Hand which is the karmic-corrective Mosaic Law of Retribution which is portrayed in the literal text, while it is the inner Spirit that reveals the Right Hand that heals and frees men from the karmic shackles of their own past -- in worshiping the god of the literal, they worship the devil. But because they lack an understanding of the manner in which the scriptures are composed in the language of the soul, the vast majority of Christians reject the Spirit and embrace the letter that killeth -- and thereby worship the Demiurge of the Pharisees.

The Church Of The AntiChrist

The Prediction That Satan Would Rule The Church: In total disregard of the admonition of the scriptures themselves, the greater majority of Christians believe that the church is beyond the reach of Satan -- that God somehow drew a line that Satan cannot cross over -- and because of this force of Divine protection, Satan has not immersed himself in every aspect of their lives! Yet, to their own detriment, the leaders of the modern church ignore the warning of the Apostle: “let no man beguile you in any wise: for (it will not be,) except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God” (2 Thes 2:3-4 ASV).

What the Apostle is herein very clearly predicting is that there would come a time when the god of the Christian Church will be a false god. Historically speaking, it has been almost universally recognized that the period in time that the Apostle could have been referring to was in the fourth century when the church made a covenant with the Roman Emperor Constantine. With regard to this falling away, the Adam Clark Commentary writes of this passage of Paul's Epistle: “[Except there come a falling away first] We have the original word apostasia in our word apostasy; and by this term we understand a dereliction of the essential principles of religious truth, either a total abandonment of Christianity itself, or such a corruption of its doctrines as renders the whole system completely inefficient to salvation. But what this apostasy means is a question which has not yet, and perhaps never will be, answered to general satisfaction” (from the Adam Clarke Commentary).

Not to depreciate or make less the significance of any one of the individual statements presented in the above words, what the modern believer must recognized is the far-reaching totality of the statement: “But what this apostasy means is a question which has not yet, and perhaps never will be, answered to general satisfaction”. Ultimately, what this means to the modern believer is that each and every church authority from the fourth-century to the present, as well as every single preacher of the gospel, speaks from the position of concession -- which concession is that there is a great void in their knowledge of the truth. Thus, one of the core presumptions upon which our present-day doctrine of faith is based, is that these words of the Apostle Paul are not true. One of the major causes of the present state of doctrinal chaos is the failure of modern pastors and church authorities to recognize that the key to their dilemma is found in the prediction of the Apostle that there would come a time of total abandonment of the Gospel with respect to the desolation of all genuine spiritual Christian ideas and concepts.

What this means is that the Apostle predicts that in the near future, the true religion of Jesus would cease to exist in this world. In this respect, the words of the Apostle are quite clear in their assertion -- i.e., from the time period of the first century of our Common Era when it was written by the hand of Paul, it prophetically speaks of a time in the near future when the teachings that Yeshua placed in the hands of mankind would cease to exist -- and it is the correct assertion of many Christians that this in fact took place in the establishment of an institutionalized church under the control of Pagan Rome in the fourth century. What the modern Christian fails to realize is that the total corruption of the doctrine of the church which the Apostle speaks of was in fact brought about by the adoption of the Christ of Constantine, which resulted in the rejection of the Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth. While it is true that believers use the name Jesus, and call themselves his followers, what Christians have lost sight of is that the essence of the religion of the New Covenant is spiritual -- and where the physical body of Messiah/Christ was crucified by the carnal Jews in the first century, the spiritual body of Messiah/Christ was crucified in the fourth century.

In further explanation with regard to this crucial prediction of the Apostle, the Adam Clark Commentary then goes on to provide us a vivid description of Constantine and the formation of his new church: “[Who opposeth and exalteth] He stands against and exalts himself above all divine authority, and above every object of adoration, and every institution, relative to divine worship, sebasma, himself being the source, whence must originate all the doctrines of religion, and all its rites and ceremonies; so that sitting in the temple of God -- having the highest place and authority in the Christian church, he acts as God -- taking upon himself God's titles and attributes, and arrogating to himself the authority that belongs to the Most High” (from the Adam Clarke Commentary). That these events came to pass is well documented from a historical perspective -- i.e., the church was ruled by Satanic forces that dictated every aspect of Christian doctrine. And while it is true that many faithful believers, clergy, pastors and religious authorities today have recognized the defilement of the church that took place beginning in the fourth century, what could not be revealed until now was the absolute certainty that, because the Church has never fully recovered from the darkness and corruption that was imposed upon the teachings of the church by the ruthless political despots of the past, essential foundational principles, as well as indispensable elements of New Covenant knowledge of what is constantly referred to in the Bible as the Mysteries of God, is presently absent from the thinking of the body of the faithful believers to this very day.

Satan Speaks To The Christian Elect: The Apostle warned: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph 6:12 NKJ). From a biblical perspective, the supernatural being referred to by Paul as Satan, who the Apostle refers to as the god of this realm, easily speaks to Christians and impersonates God, Yeshua, or an angelic being, and thus successfully gains control over the thinking of the religious people of any given generation by speaking to their imagination. What does this mean? He begins the process by inspiring within them a vision of a kingdom that is to come at some later time. Where Yeshua preached that the Kingdom is here -- at hand, and could be entered through a change of mind -- the forces of darkness blinds the hearts and minds of the believer to the Kingdom that is already present and has been set before them. The result is that the Prince of Darkness continues to rule over the hearts and minds of the believers because, in their state of spiritual complacency, they continue to live in accordance with the culture of this world, and never actually take up their crosses and follow in the footsteps of Yeshua. And while they think they are different than the unbeliever, often it is found that they are different only in the words they speak. Thus, while they believe and have faith, their faith is misdirected. In failing to recognize the warning of Paul with respect to the total “…dereliction of the essential principles of religious truth, either a total abandonment of Christianity itself, or such a corruption of its doctrines as renders the whole system completely inefficient to salvation…”, Satan successfully alters the believers perception of the scriptures, and induces them to wait -- rather than begin the journey into the Kingdom where the Son of God awaits them.

The Satanic powers of darkness that are revealed in the scriptures gains the upper hand by moving the hearts and minds of unsuspecting men and women to become attached to this world by whatever means possible. He controls religious people by seducing them into adopting a life of spiritual complacency and impotence -- using religion to effect within the believer a false vision of their own level of spirituality as being exalted and heightened. He often accomplishes this deception by inducing them to judge and compare themselves to non-believers, and those who have already surrendered their soul over to the Prince of Darkness. It was easy for Lot to perceive himself a righteous person in comparison to the inhabitants of Sodom. It is in like manner easy for the average Christian today to view themselves as being a faithful and believing people in relation to the criminal element that is portrayed in our newspapers and media. The flaw in this perception is seen in the fact that the Bible does not require us to be better than the unholy -- but rather, to be Christ-like -- and ultimately as perfect as our Heavenly Father (Matt 5:48). Thus, because we judge ourselves in accordance with the standards of this world, the result is that the religious person sees himself as being in accord with the gospel message, because he can easily perceive a difference between himself and the people he views as being turned out of The Way. From the perspective of what the Apostle calls the god of this world, this false vision of righteousness is absolutely necessary in order to implant within their minds a strong delusion that induces them to believe that they are fulfilling the Word of God.

The Ministers of Satan: A great truth that the Bible continually warns the religious person about -- a truth that he must come to terms with if he is to become a disciple of the Light -- is that this supernatural being which the Apostle calls the god of this world has the power to ordain servants to mislead the flock of believers -- and more importantly, even those servants are unaware that they have become the ministers of Satan. More importantly, the servants of Satan are very often the people who the flock of believers regard as the most well meaning of individuals -- men and women who the believing community perceives as religious allies, and perhaps even saintly.

Throughout the course of human history it can be demonstrated that large numbers of true believers have permitted themselves to be deceived and led into error and captivity, because they failed to heed the lesson of the biblical account of Samson and Delilah -- where the betrayer appears to be good, and yet saps their strength, and then attacks the believers in order to enslave them. If, then, we are to break the bonds of slavery, and succeed in safeguarding ourselves from being deceived, we must become acutely aware of the important biblical warning that: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov 14:12 KJV). From the perspective of the Prince of Darkness, we are more easily conquered and led into a life of servitude by those who appear to us as allies and champions of the faith, than those who would oppose us. No doubt many Christians will immediately reject this argument -- saying, God would not permit this to happen to His church. But this claim is quickly proven counterfeit when it is demonstrated that God has indeed permitted the church to fall into error.

Can the believer trust the affirmation of the leaders of the church with respect to their claim of doctrinal purity and Divine protection? The Bible very clearly states that the opposite is true, and it is the leaders of the church who will be in error when they make this claim. In confirmation of what was predicted by Paul, Yeshua said that the powers of darkness which seek to enslave us, and will accomplish this by fooling the very elect of the church (Mat 24:24; Mk 13:22). The Apostle warns that Satan will appear as an Angel of light, and he will transform his ministers and servants of darkness to make them falsely appear to you as good, in order to deceive you (2 Cor 11:14). In this respect, the Bible warns us that what seems right to the carnal mind of man, is the very thing that will bring about the ways of death (Prov 14:12). This reality is truly manifest among believers who are under the deception that they have fulfilled the requirements of walking in TheWay, by merely saying a prayer to the Jesus-god, and then living their daily lives no different than those who dwell in Sodom and Gormorah.

What Yeshua warned his followers was to: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matt 7:15-16 KJV). In understanding the far-reaching reality of these words, we must comprehend exactly what the fruits are that Yeshua makes reference to which we should use to judge the validity of our religious leaders! Fruits in the scriptures relate to works and accomplishments -- and the works of the spirit is seen in the ability of the shepherd of the flock to place within the hands of the believer the Key that opens the door to what the Bible calls the house of knowledge -- and then demonstrate how to use that knowledge to guide the believer into the Kingdom -- a Kingdom that will never come upon the earth as our present-day church authorities proclaim (Luke 17:20-21), but exists at this very time in a parallel dimension.

The Written Word Portrays The Left Hand Of God

The Inner Spiritual Meaning the Right Hand Of God

Jesus said the god of the Jews was the Devil -- the Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics said the god of the Jew was a lesser god who was a Demiurge -- and Paul warned that you can't be saved by the works of the written word of the Law -- that the reader of the scriptures who failed to understand the allegorical manner they were composed in, embraced the "letter that killeth" -- and Peter called the written word the books that have the power to deceive -- because the literal word of the scriptures portrays the Left Hand of God, while the inner spiritual meaning that lies beneath the allegorical garb, reveals the Right Hand that can save. The Left Hand is the reflective reality -- i.e., Lucifter -- and this reflective reality is called the Bringer of Light, because the reflective reality is a corrective response to our word, thoughts and deeds that forces an upward movement towards completion. When a child misbehaves, a parent applies a corrective action in accordance with the needs of the child. And in the scriptures this great truth is revealed in the words: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).

Speaking of Simon Magus in the Clementine writings, the Apostle Peter states: "He is a power of the left hand of God, and has authority to do harm to those who know not God, so that he has been able to involve you in diseases; but by these very diseases, which have been permitted to come upon you by the good providence of God, you, seeking and finding him who is able to cure, have been compelled to submit to the will of God on the occasion of the cure of the body, and to think of believing, in order that in this way you may have your souls as well as your bodies in a healthy state."

And in another place in the same writings Peter explains: "For thus from the beginning was a law laid by God, the Creator of all things, on each of the two princes, him of the right hand and him of the left, that neither should have power over any one whom they might wish to benefit or to hurt, unless first he had sat down at the same table with them. As, then, when you partook of meat offered to idols, you became servants to the prince of evil, in like manner, if you cease from these things, and flee for refuge to God through the good Prince of His right hand, honoring Him without sacrifices, by doing whatsoever He wills, know of a truth that not only will your bodies be healed, but your souls also will become healthy. For He only, destroying with His left hand, can quicken with His right; He only can both smite and raise the fallen."

Again Peter explains: "But that this is so, has been said even by the law in the person of God: ‘I will kill, and, I will make alive; I will strike, and I will heal. For, in truth, He kills and makes alive. He kills through the left hand, that is, through the evil one, who has been so composed as to rejoice in afflicting the impious. And he saves and benefits through the right band, that is, through the good one, who has been made to rejoice in the good deeds and salvation of the righteous."

And in prayer Peter states: "Deliver me, O Lord of all, from Thy fearful judgment. Do not give the enemy power to swallow me up, and to become heir of my soul, as of that of him who is hanging on the left; for I see how the devil joyfully takes his soul, and his body disappears." But Christians today are as the men of Nineveh of whom it is said: "And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" (Jonah 4:11 NKJ). For as it was said to Job: "Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you" (Job 40:14 NKJ). And in the Psalms: "You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore... Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; you will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me" (Ps 16:11;138:7 NKJ). Which is the reason why Jesus said that those on the right will enter into life, while those on the left will inherit the tribulation of their deeds and ways: "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt 25:41 NKJ)

The Left Hand is portrayed in the literal text -- and is especially seen in the Mosaic Law of Karmic-Retribution that perpetually returns back to us the fruit of our own thoughts, desires and actions -- i.e., "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ). A most profound statement by the Church Father Origen is basically rejected by the people of the simple faith today who are incapable of reason and engaging the mind in the process of true spiritual growth. What does Origen state: “What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).

Once these words are understood, they are in essence no different than what Paul stated, Peter in the Clementine Homilies, the Zohar, and even St. Augustine in the words: “He is a slave to a sign who uses or worships a significant thing without knowing what it signifies. But he who uses or venerates a useful sign divinely instituted whose signifying force he understands does not venerate what he sees and what passes away but rather that to which all such things are to be referred. Such a man is spiritual and free, even during that time of servitude in which it is not yet opportune to reveal to carnal minds those signs under whose yoke they are to be tamed” (De Doctrina Christiana).

The Fundamentalists who insist that the literal text of the Old Testament is the un-errored word of God, insist that the earth is only 6,000 years old. They reject the higher wisdom that teaches that the scriptures are an allegory that conveys inner spiritual truths of the mind and spirit in a series of forms and symbols, and they demand that Genesis be taught as historical truth. Yet, even a casual examination of the facts by a high school student proves them wrong. Then, the secular left uses this weak link to condemn the Bible as a whole, and thereby successfully undermines the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay. Yet, what we have in Darwinism is grave error opposing gross ignorance of the manner in which the Old Testament and all scriptures are written -- thus, we have ignorance opposing ignorance.

While Christianity has been relegated to the junk-heap in Europe -- which has permitted Islam to thrive -- in the United States the failings of the left have actually fed the religious right. Because the left has created an environment where the only means to cure the rampant alcohol and drug addiction is through belief in the Jesus-god, the churches are overflowing with ex-addicts who are often incapable of embracing higher thought. And while these people have found great strength and solace in their beliefs -- and have thus found healing from their addictions -- the very fact that they cling to a Fundamentalist interpretation of the Old Testament gives the left overwhelming ammunition to undermine genuine religious teachings. So it becomes a vicious circle of people on both the left and the right who are incapable of even envisioning higher reality, undermining the very foundations of our culture by attacking the weaknesses of the opposing sides.

The Gnostics Were Right: In an Orthodox Jewish community the study of Torah is a strength -- but in view of the fact that 95% of American Jews are non-Torah observant, most are Atheists, and they embrace every garden variety of immorality of the left, then in the lives of the majority of people the Old Testament is an anchor that shackles them to a gross misunderstanding of God and man's higher reality. The people who come here are those who know intuitively that there is something more than what is embraced by either mainstream of Fundamentalist Christianity. And we nourish them by assuring them that the God of Jesus has nothing in common with the counterfeit portrayal of God in the allegorical Old Testament -- i.e., the vengeful god that chooses one group of idol worshipers over all the peoples of the earth -- kills innocent men, women and children -- commands the people not to kill, and then is the first to break this commandment -- and judges the children of sinners to the third and fourth generation.

In the allegorical text, in order to demonstrate to mankind God's absolute power and authority, it is observed that God often chose the most morally degenerate men to inherit the good. King David, for example, was a murderer and an adulterer, as demonstrated by The New Unger's Bible Dictionary in their sighting under David for First Samuel 13:14: “How, ask some, could a man after God's own heart have murdered Uriah, seduced Bathsheba, and tortured the Ammonites? An extract from one who is not a too-indulgent critic of sacred characters expresses at once the common sense and the religious lesson of the whole matter. ‘David, the Hebrew king, had fallen into sins enough -- blackest crimes -- there was no want of sin. And, thereupon, the unbelievers sneer, and ask, ‘Is this your man according to God' s heart?’” (Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-worship, 1:277; from New Unger's Bible Dictionary, originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (C) 1988).

It would appear that God chose David -- a true sinner -- over Saul, because Saul possessed a conscience, and did not unmercifully wipe out his enemies, as seen where it is written under the heading of Saul: “But he disobeyed the divine injunction by taking alive Agag, the king, and sparing all the best of the cattle and all that was valuable, destroying only that which was despised and worthless. Instead of pursuing the campaign and finishing the destruction of the fugitives…” (New Unger's Bible Dictionary). Thus, Saul failed in his mission -- which was to totally wipe out all the men, women, children, and everything that breathed among the enemies of Israel.

Anyone who believes that the Bible is literally true where it is written: “And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining” (Deut 2:33-34 NKJ); is simply unable to perceive the Divine Essence of God. What does this killer of the innocent have in common with the Heavenly Father revealed by Yeshua? Absolutely nothing! In the Clementine Homilies it is written: “Then Peter answered: Assuredly, with good reason, I neither believe anything against God, nor against the just men recorded in the law, taking for granted that they are impious imaginations. For, as I am persuaded, neither was Adam a transgressor, who was fashioned by the hands of God; nor was Noah drunken, who was found righteous above all the world; nor did Abraham live with three wives at once, who, on account of his sobriety, was thought worthy of a numerous posterity; nor did Jacob associate with four women - of whom two were sisters - who was the father of the twelve tribes, and who intimated the coining of the presence of our Master; nor was Moses a murderer, nor did he learn to judge from an idolatrous priest - he who set forth the law of God to all the world, and for his right judgment has been testified to as a faithful steward”. It was of these symbols that Origen said: “I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed”.

So every source of wisdom declares that the literal text of the Old Testament is not literally true -- and yet, it is from this antiquated Mystery-religion text that the vast majority of people form their opinions and beliefs about God -- to their own spiritual demise. Since the people are not initiates into the secret system, and are incapable of understanding the true meaning of the text, then from a spiritual perspective it would be best to discard it in the manner that the first Spiritual Christians did. While the Old Testament is a source of knowledge to the few who understand the allegorical language, what is important with respect to the essential teachings for seekers to embrace, is already presented to us in the New Testament and such additional writings as the Gospel of the Nazirenes.

The Mystery Of The Books

With The Power To Deceive

It is the position of many Biblical researchers that most of the Old Testament comes from other, more ancient writings. Even Jewish writers admit that most of the Hebrew writings were merely taken freely from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and even Greek sources. Horace Meyer Kallen, at one time a professor at the Jewish New School of Social Research, said that the Book of Job was lifted bodily from an early and obscure Greek play. Scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky admitted that there are "many parallels" between the Vedic Hymns and the Books of Joel and Isaiah. Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the Book of Genesis is based on the Sumerian creation myth. The story of Noah comes from the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh. The Psalms were taken word for word from Akhenaton's Hymns to the Sun, written 600 years earlier in Egypt. The Ten Commandments were taken wholly from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. And so on through the books of the Old Testament.

In our present time the vast majority of believers and non-believers are not only totally ignorant of the above reality, but fail to comprehend the reality of the very true words of the Zohar where it states: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”. And while Paul warns the people that the Old Testament is an allegory -- and the written word is not on untrue, but he portrays the written word as "...the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life" -- we can see the reality of these words in the world today in both believers misconceptions pertaining to God, and people's rejection of God based upon an ignorance of the allegorical manner in which the Old Testament is written. And the results of this misconception is so grave, that the Zohar warns those who are under the delusion that they have read the Word of God: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world..."

What is being said? That those who read the Old Testament without knowing the secret code possessed only by initiates into the Jewish Mystery religion that requires a lifetime of study and dedication to master, will have so wasted their time on the study of the written word, that they will be deprived of the promise of entering into Life. On the other hand, if you are a Jew, and you live in a Hasidic fully Torah observant community that studies Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, only then will you be able to get a more correct perception of God and Higher Reality.

Speaking of the ability of Simon Magus to deceive the people through the allegorical nature of the Old Testament, in the Clementine Homilies Peter warns: “And with us, indeed, who have had handed down from our forefathers the worship of the God who made all things, and also the mystery of the books which are able to deceive, he will not prevail; but with those from amongst the Gentiles who have the polytheistic fancy bred in them, and who know not the falsehoods of the Scriptures, he will prevail much. And not only he; but if any other shall recount to those from among the Gentiles any vain, dreamlike, richly set out story against God, he will be believed, because from their childhood their minds are accustomed to take in things spoken against God. And few there shall be of them, as a few out of a multitude, who through ingenuousness shall not be willing so much as to hear an evil word against the God who made all things. And to these alone from amongst the Gentiles it shall be vouchsafed to be saved. Let not any one of you, therefore, altogether complain of Simon, or of any one else; for nothing happens unjustly, since even the falsehoods of Scripture are with good reason presented for a test.”

Notice the words in RED. If those who are not initiated into the secret code of the allegory will be greatly deceived -- to the degree that they will be deprived of entering into Life -- then why would anyone in their right mind even promote such a system in our present time? The deception is so rampant, and so all consuming, that the Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics, rejected the Old Testament entirely, and began their scriptures with Yeshua after the resurrection. Check out Pistis Sophia (see http://alchemy.nazirene.us/pistis1.htm ), and see for yourself. They did this because so many people are deceived by the allegorical portrayals of God -- which is in reality the portrayal of the Left Hand of God which we often refer to as Satan -- that they wanted no part in promoting these antiquated scriptures of the ancient Jewish Mystery religion that Peter correctly portrays as the books that deceive.

A truly important statement is made by Peter in the Clementine Homilies where it is written: “Neither, therefore, are the Hebrews condemned on account of their ignorance of Jesus, by reason of Him who has concealed Him, if, doing the things commanded by Moses, they do not hate Him whom they do not know. Neither are those from among the Gentiles condemned, who know not Moses on account of Him who hath concealed him, provided that these also, doing the things spoken by Jesus, do not hate Him whom they do not know. And some will not be profited by calling the teachers lords, but not doing the works of servants. For on this account our Jesus Himself said to one who often called Him Lord, but did none of the things which He prescribed, ‘Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?’ For it is not saying that will profit any one, but doing. By all means, therefore, is there need of good works. Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old.”

Those very few who possess the depth of insight to be able to pierce beneath the garb of the allegorical text of the Old Testament, know that there is no difference between what is written in the Old and New Testaments -- with the exception that the New presents a more realistic portrayal of God and what is expected of man in his search for the Kingdom within. Prior to the fourth century, many Christians did not even use the Old Testament because of its power to deceive -- and the Old Testament was used by the Church of Constantine as a means to promote their violence against their opponents. How could they kill in the name of the God of Yeshua who required all men to turn the other cheek? They could not! So they drew their image of God out of the literal text of the allegorical Old Testament, and worshiped the Left Hand of God.

In our present time there are groups who call themselves Nazarenes who are born again Pharisees who desire to build the third temple and begin to sacrifice animals in accord with the literal text of the Old Testament. These people are thoroughly deceived by these ancient Mystery religion writings that can only be understood by initiates of the system. The Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelical Christians, and other groups all derive their perception of God from the Old Testament -- to their own spiritual demise. Peter states to his disciple Clement: "...Let not any one of you, therefore, altogether complain of Simon, or of any one else; for nothing happens unjustly, since even the falsehoods of Scripture are with good reason presented for a test.” The test is that those who hold unworthy ideas pertaining to God, and fail to live in accord with the Royal Law, are themselves banished from the Kingdom and the Knowledge of the Truth. So why would I want to begin with writings that are a source of spiritual deception? And this is why though I understand the inner meaning of the allegory, I rarely quote the Old Testament.

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(see http://messianic.nazirene.us/never_told.htm ), we see two warnings -- one from Paul which is taken out of Romans, and the other from Peter which is found in the Clementine Homilies -- and both of these represent a warning with respect to the Christians judging the Jews about their unbelief, and vice versa. So a church person will reason: If Yeshua spoke the truth, then the Jews are heretics -- and even Christ killers. And that is when they make the fatal mistake of judging God! Why? Because both Peter and Paul warn that it is the Laws of God that has made the Jew reject Yeshua -- and it is the Laws of God that have made the Christians reject the Law of Moses. So the Laws of God wanted each of the two systems preserved -- and as with all such feeble conflicts and arguments which limit and separate men, Peter presents us with a very important reality that if we desire to evolve beyond the church or group mentality and become disciples of TheWay, we must become extremely cognizant of in all aspects of life. Peter said of the two groups which to the unenlightened Jew or Christian appears on the surface to be very different: "Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old.”

In the model that we have created, we are presented with three realities of truth -- and only one perceives the higher truth that the disciple is in search of. It is the Laws that limit one group of people's thinking to perceive truth only from a Jewish perspective -- and it is the Laws that limit another group of people's thinking to perceive truth only from a Christian perspective -- and in being limited by these fragments of truth, each of the people in these religious groups remain anchored to a perception of truth from the perspective of a lesser mind -- because the person who has evolved to a higher level of mind has been found worthy to recognize the truths that each group possesses, as well as the higher truth that neither of the two perceive. And while each of the two (Judaism and Christianity) each possess a fragment of truth -- both religious groups have traditionally limited themselves by the judgements and condemnations of the other group -- as Paul warns the believers in Yeshua: "Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either" (Rom 11:17-21 NIV). Like most people in a church mentality, while they possess a fragment of the truth, they simply lack the wisdom to "be afraid"!

Now to this model we can add another group that from a philosophical perspective, perceives all religion as limiting and based upon superstition -- and to a degree, they are right also. Then we can add in another group that is sensual and sexual in their mindset, and these people reject both groups because in what is perceived to be sexual repression, both religions are far too limited. Then we can add in another group that is secular in their thinking, and they also reject the limitations of traditional religion. Yet, only those very few who can perceive life and reality from each of the 12 paradoxical spheres of mind SIMULTANIOUSLY, and can understand the fragments of truth that are championed by each of these people who by Law are of a limited lesser state of mind, is able to be a disciple of TheWay and evolve beyond carnal human reasoning. Further, each of these lesser groups possess their own prophets and philosophical/religious authorities who each often receive inspiration from God with respect to the truth maintained by their own respective group -- and yet, only the very few receive from God the nourishment of the higher reality that cannot be given to these groups of a lesser mind because of the limitations of the Laws of God working upon them. Now the carnal man will reason: How can this be? Why would God present only truths from a Jewish perspective to the Jew -- truths from a Christian perspective to the Christian -- truths from an Atheist perspective to those who reject religion -- as well as philosophical, secular and cultural truths to each of these lesser groups? Actually, God does not -- and this is confirmed in Peters statement that ONLY a certain few will possess the unrestrained wisdom and perception to perceive the harmonious Truth in all of the fragmentary lesser groups -- and it is the Laws that divide the mind into 12 spheres that takes the One Truth and fragments it into 12 separate lesser realities -- and then polarizes the minds of men so that they only perceive the truth and reality from that limited sphere of mind -- i.e., the Tower of Babel syndrome that has brought the world into a state of confusion. And while each of these groups possess a degree of truth -- i.e., the Jew who says that Yeshua was a heretic, the Christian who states that only their very limited perception of Yeshua's teachings can be accepted as the truth, the New Ager who states that God does not create division among men, the Atheist who perceives all religion as folk-law and superstition, the feminists who condemn the Bible as sexist, as well as every other perception of truth which is itself the result of the Laws forcing each of these groups to think and perceive life from a lesser mindset -- only the truly enlightened disciple of TheWay is able to perceive the reality of all these lesser truths, while at the same time gazing upon the higher truth that the vast majority of (church-group) people are inhibited by the Tower of Babel syndrome from perceiving.

From the perspective of man's higher soul and spiritual reality, our soul/higher self (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) dwells in a realm where the duality of this world does not exist. Our true self is not a man or woman who are themselves limited by gender to their respective polarity of vision and thinking that is each paradoxically opposing and opposite to each other -- our true self does not perceive the world through the filter of the races -- our true self is not imbued with the cultural thinking of the nationalities of this world -- and our true self is neither a Jew, Christian, Muslim, or any other of man's religions. Our true self is not only the sum totality of all that we have ever experienced in all the lives we have ever lived since the dawn of time, but perceives this life from the higher reality that natural (carnal) man is blind to by virtue of the organic limitations of the body, as well as the limitations of the Laws that s/he was born under that forces him to think and perceive all of life from one of the 12 spheres of mind.

Now comes the really serious obstacle for all those who desire to climb Jacob's Ladder and become disciples of TheWay -- i.e., you must be able to perceive both the strengths and weaknesses of each of these lesser groups -- you must be able to perceive the Laws working in the world that move the hearts and minds of men as manifest in the events that transpire around us -- you must be able to emphasize with each of these groups and people of a lesser mind where in you are able to both perceive the strengths and weaknesses of their mindset and associated lifestyle -- and you must possess the wisdom and understanding necessary to gaze upon the higher reality that the vast majority of people are blind to because of the Tower of Babel syndrome that causes each person to speak from the perception of the language of each of the 12 spheres of the mind, and be able to merge these fragments of truth within yourself as you pursue the higher soul reality that perceives all of life from an enlightened perspective that is beyond the thinking and mindset of the people of this world.

So while you have gleaned little sound bites out of larger thoughts in what you present below, each of these statements are not only true, but are fragments of a higher reality that only disciples of TheWay are able to perceive. Moreover, very often it is the Laws of God that moves the events in life in order for men and women to take a position that forces themselves into an often opposite karmic role in the future that they are creating by their desires, words and actions in the present. In many respects the Feminists set forth many valid points in what they said -- and yet, when they gave Bill Clinton a free pass in the manner he (mis)treated women, they condemned themselves because they condemned others for the same abuses they looked the other way in Clinton's case. It was not an accident that Hillary Clinton was one of the major opposition forces against the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court -- and yet she defended her husband who made Justice Thomas appear as a boy scout in comparison. Neither was it an accident that the left remained quiet when Bill Clinton bombed Iraq because of their weapons of mass destruction -- including what Clinton warned was a program that was developing nuclear weapons that would be a threat to the US. And when the Laws brought about the events that George Bush saw as a reason to get rid of Saddam Hussein, these same people who gave a pass to Clinton condemned themselves when they opposed Bush. And the fact that the events that brought George Bush onto the stage of life was brought about by the movement of the Laws, this will not negate the karma of the Americans who not only murder the unborn through abortion, but also destroy the soul of the children in secular schools. And in like manner, the fact that the ludicrous portrayal of God by the religious right is in part responsible for alienating the rational minded person from rejecting religion, does not give the Atheist a free pass with respect to his own folly, or alleviate the non-believer from seeking the higher truth that is revealed in the symbolism of the religious symbols which are embraced by the religious right. And the fact that each has actively opposed the other, insures that the Atheist activist today will be the Fundamentalist activist of tomorrow -- and vice versa. Meanwhile, this does not negate the fact that each of these opponents possess a fragment of truth -- and it is the Laws of God that forces them into their respective roles.

In our politically correct world religious people have been censored and condemned when they speak out against homosexuals and reject the concept of homosexual marriage. Yet, homosexuals take pride in dressing up as nuns in their parades and making fun of the Catholic Church. So while it is true that homosexuality is an obstacle to a biblical lifestyle -- it is an obstacle to becoming a disciple of TheWay -- it is also true that homosexuals have their present-day freedom by virtue of the Laws which brought our politically correct cultural environment about. This places the Fundamentalist Christians in a similar role as those Christians who condemned themselves when they judged the Jews who did not believe in Yeshua -- and is has also bound over the homosexuals in the future to lives of rejection because of the manner they used their freedom with respect to their condemnation of traditional religious teachings. So which side would you choose to take? Actually, the problem is government which has about as much comprehension of the Constitution as does the average Christian the Bible. If a place like San Francisco is a gay haven, then they ought to possess the freedom to define their own relationships and pursue their happiness from a homosexual perspective. But government lacks the wisdom to perceive the higher reality of life from the perspective of the Tree of Life that divides higher reality into 12 lesser realities. Government denies the individual rights granted under the Constitution, and attempts to homogenize the thinking of the people into whatever is cultural at that moment -- and it is for this reason that left leaning socialism is always satanic and anti-God and the Rights of Man. Government which has a church mindset, picks and chooses from among the 12, one lesser truth, and then forces that paradigm of thought and lifestyle upon the other 11. And while our Constitutional forefathers protected us from becoming a theocracy and being forced to subscribe to any one religion, our present Supreme Court lacks the wisdom to protect the religious people from the onslaught of left leaning secular socialism which is forcing its agenda upon the thinking of children in government schools and the lefts agenda to prohibit the acknowledgement of God in the cultural arena of society.

Because my forum is a discipleship group, rather than a church group, I often discuss a far-reaching topic of issues that each person must examine the pros and cons of in their endeavor to perceive the wisdom in each of the fragments which comprise the groups of a lesser mind -- groups which are brought about and maintained the the Laws of God which imposed the Tower of Babel syndrome upon mankind in order to bring about his own growth and development -- while offering the nourishment of a higher reality for those who are attempting to open their minds to their own soul-self who perceives all things in the stark nakedness of a Truth that is incomprehensible to the mind of natural (carnal) man. So while I point out that those who were terrorized by the likes of Saddam Hussein were forced to live under this tyrannical dictator because of their own past karma, that does not negate the fact that it was the Laws of God that raised up George Bush in order to bring an end to their suffering, and permit them to make new choices so they could create their future in ways that they cannot presently conceive of. For 30 years the Muslims in Iraq have been inhibited from practicing their religion -- and when they prayed to their God and their prayers were answered, and they were liberated by possibly the only force on earth that the Law could use to free them -- were they thankful for being released from their prisons? And those left leaning people who remained quiet when Bill Clinton bombed Iraq because of their weapons of mass destruction, condemned George Bush while offering no workable solution for bringing about the liberation of the suffering people under Hussein, they too made their choices with respect to their future when they find themselves under the rule of a dictator like Hussein. And at that time they will say: Woe is me! Woe is me! Why does God not save me from being ruled over by this tyrannical dictator? And at that time those who were in the present shackled by a tyrannical ruler, will be presented with the opportunity to free those who will be enslaved -- and each will be judged and creating their more distant future by the manner in which they respond to their choices which the Laws will at that time present to them.

This brings us to another hot topic -- i.e., while both parties are in many respects equal, there is a number of important differences from the perspective of future karma. Those who take the life of the unborn -- or support the culture which denies that abortion is murder -- will themselves be murdered or denied life in the future. And those who support the secular left who are presently using forced internment in government schools which alienate the child from any understanding of God, and guide the child into an immoral lifestyle which is supported by the Hollywood and Madison Avenue culture, will themselves be force into lives in the future where they will be alienated from God and higher reality by both the secular mindset, and an immoral lifestyle which Yeshua portrayed as dead when he said to let the dead bury their dead. And while I can respect those who don't want to take a stand, don't complain in the future when you have little say over the circumstances of the life you will be forced to live by the Laws that will control every aspect of your life and thinking.

While the Laws will force the vast majority of people into lives where they will be under the control of the Left Hand of God because of past karma, those who seek God must protect their children from what is being taught in secular schools -- because the scriptures require us to bring up our children in accord with the Nazirene Vow -- i.e., "Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel? Says the LORD. But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets saying, 'Do not prophesy!'" (Amos 2:10-12 NKJ). The wine, of course, signifies the cultural mindset and spirit of this world. Because the people of God are not to even touch the unclean of this world: "And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins" (Num 16:26 NKJ). And why are the unclean consumed in their sins? Because of the Laws that have cast them into the lower levels of a lesser mind which is brought about by the Tower of Babel syndrome. And those who fail to comprehend the plight of those of this world -- how it is the work of the Laws of God that brings all circumstances of life about -- will themselves be bound by their own limitations of mind.

(see http://EpistleOfLight.com ). In like manner, those here who understand the Laws and the conflict of the groups of a lesser mind, and have in turn followed my lead and advocated the solution that is presented in the Epistle of Light as an alternative to the struggles of these lesser groups, will themselves be free in the future to pursue man's higher reality. And while it remains true that each one of these lesser groups have been created and are maintained by the Laws of God, those who condemn without understanding, will themselves inherit the fruit of their own judgement. The left-leaning secularist, will be the right leaning Fundamentalist of the future -- and vice versa -- and they will be given an opportunity to perceive life from an opposite perspective, and if they mend their ways, they will then be given an opportunity to move beyond the limitations of these groups -- groups which are created and maintained by the Laws of God for those who are imbued with the Tower of Babel syndrome.

Because I tend to present things in a no-nonsense very straightforward manner -- i.e., from the perception of the soul/higher self -- many people become offended by the reality of my presentations. They fail to see how on one hand I can say that war in wrong, while on the other hand I can say that war is brought about by the Left Hand of God as a corrective action in the lives of men. Most people lack the vision and understanding to see the wisdom in the manner that God deals with those who are of a lesser mind because of the Tower of Babel syndrome, and at the same time be able to pursue the higher reality where all becomes ONE -- i.e., "And the LORD said, Indeed the people are ONE and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Gen 11:6-7 NKJ). And this formula can also be used in the often misunderstood statement of Yeshua where he said to the man who called him good: "So He said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt 19:17 NKJ). Having not yet evolved through the final stage of birth as presented in the symbolism of the crucifixion, he was yet not ONE with God and thus could not be called good. Which of course gives a rather insightful meaning to the words of Paul: "that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ". And since you remain intimately connected to every person you had sex with in this life, perhaps the words of Paul were not too narrow minded when he condemned sex outside of the proper marriage relationship: "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" (1 Cor 6:15-19 KJV). And yet, the Bible states that it is the Laws of God that make wives and people unfaithful: “Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your companion, and he shall lie with your wives…” (2 Sam 12:11 NAS).

So if I say that many people are driven into infidelity and sexual excess by the Laws of God working upon them, those of a lesser mind will condemn what I say because the Bible also condemns fornication and infidelity. And if I say that the Laws bring about the wars of man, I will be condemned because war is wrong. And if I say that Yeshua taught the truth and TheWay, those of a lesser mind will condemn when I say that the Laws of God inhibited many Jews from following Yeshua. Those who desire to evolve beyond the limitations of the church mentality which has been brought about by the very Laws of God which manifested the Tower of Babel syndrome, must learn to perceive the strengths/weaknesses, good/bad, darkness/Light in all the many fragmented expressions of the 12 spheres of the Tree of Life as manifest in the lives of men and women.

Grace is received when you have had enough of the darkness of this world -- you repent -- and the Laws invoke which make the journey in TheWay easy. If you truly repent and cease to sin -- seeking Knowledge and Light so you can change your condition -- the Laws pardon you as one who is no longer under the dominion of the Left Hand of Correction, and is seeking to be a disciple of the Right Hand of Love and Light. If you say that you are therefore a believer in Yeshua, but you fail to have a change of mind and heart, and you continue to dwell in accord with the thinking and mindset of this world -- attempting to use Yeshua as a free-ticket to Heaven -- then your future will be worse than if you called yourself a Christian. And believe me, there are many unbelievers who have a much easier time in an after-death state than do the Christians who are beyond the reach of those who can help them.

What you have to understand is that Christians are very much like the Pharisees who embraced their doctrine and ignored the meaning of the scriptures. Paul warned: "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body" (1 Cor 11:27-29 NKJ). Paul again warned in the Epistle to the Hebrews: "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries" (Heb 10:26-27 NKJ) -- which means that if a person sins after coming to the knowledge of the truth, that there is no sacrifice that can save them. Why? "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame" (Heb 6:4-6 NKJ).

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And the all-time classic portrayal of the Gnostic path: ”Cease to seek after God as without thee, and the universe, and things similar to these; seek Him from out of thyself, and learn who is once and for all appropriates all in thee himself, and say, My God, my mind, my soul, my body... And if thou closely investigate these things thou wilt find him in thyself..." (Quoted from 2^nd century Gnostic sources by G.R.S. Mead; Fragments of a Faith Forgotten).
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Scripture is used to instruct and invoke growth in the seeker. In the beginning of this growth period, the seeker reads the literal body of the scripture and builds upon certain doctrines that assist them. In time, though, as the seeker begins to live their lives in accordance with the doctrine, the process of spiritual transformation begins, and they start to see both the scriptures and life with new and greater depth. Your statement below about Lucifer being the farthest from God brings to mind a quotation from Origen: “No one, I think, can doubt that the statement that God walked in the afternoon in paradise, and that Adam lay hid under a tree, is related figuratively in Scripture, that some mystical meaning may be indicated by it. The departure of Cain from the presence of the Lord will manifestly cause a careful reader to inquire what is the presence of God, and how any one can go out from it. But not to extend the task which we have before us beyond its due limits, it is very easy for any one who pleases to gather out of holy Scripture what is recorded indeed as having been done, but what nevertheless cannot be believed as having reasonably and appropriately occurred according to the historical account. The same style of Scriptural narrative occurs abundantly in the Gospels, as when the devil is said to have placed Jesus on a lofty mountain, that he might show Him from thence all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. How could it literally come to pass, either that Jesus should be led up by the devil into a high mountain, or that the latter should show him all the kingdoms of the world (as if they were lying beneath his bodily eyes, and adjacent to one mountain), i.e., the kingdoms of the Persians, and Scythians, and Indians? or how could he show in what manner the kings of these kingdoms are glorified by men? And many other instances similar to this will be found in the Gospels by any one who will read them with attention, and will observe that in those narratives which appear to be literally recorded, there are inserted and interwoven things which cannot be admitted historically, but which may be accepted in a spiritual signification”.

If there is nothing but God -- and God is All that there is -- how can Lucifer be further away? As Origen points out, these inconsistencies in scripture are placed there for the seeker to begin to think about and contemplate -- and as the mind begins to transform, greater knowledge and understanding can be embraced. With respect to your fall that was a necessary process for our own eventual spiritual transformation, Origen writes: “What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).

The scriptures are intended to make you engage your mind and seek the answers. With regard to many of the outright absurdities that have been believed by the Gentile mind with respect to the symbols in the scriptures, Peter again states in the writings of his disciple known as the Clementine Homilies: “Then Peter answered: Assuredly, with good reason, I neither believe anything against God, nor against the just men recorded in the law, taking for granted that they are impious imaginations. For, as I am persuaded, neither was Adam a transgressor, who was fashioned by the hands of God; nor was Noah drunken, who was found righteous above all the world; nor did Abraham live with three wives at once, who, on account of his sobriety, was thought worthy of a numerous posterity; nor did Jacob associate with four women - of whom two were sisters - who was the father of the twelve tribes, and who intimated the coining of the presence of our Master; nor was Moses a murderer, nor did he learn to judge from an idolatrous priest - he who set forth the law of God to all the world, and for his right judgment has been testified to as a faithful steward”.

The ego like all things has both good and bad elements. If Carolyn didn't have an ego, then she wouldn't oppose and get me to reveal all these concepts that she does not know. If she would engage her mind and spirit she would realize that since there is nothing but God, understanding that the Left Hand is what engages the negative Laws that returns to man his negative karma, would begin to make sense. But she is so full of doctrine and rhetoric, that she is enveloped in an impenetrable shield that obstructs Truth and Light. Where does what we call evil come from? "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things" (Isa 45:7 KJV). "Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6 KJV). What Carolyn does not comprehend is the fact that even the evil is for the good of man. You reap what you sow! And when you sow evil, it is the Left Hand of God that rules over your life. When you sow good, it is the Right Hand. The system is very simple, but Carolyn does not comprehend anything of depth, and her ego wouldn't let her see beyond her own rhetoric. As a woman, Dawn, perhaps you can help her open her eyes.

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Lucifer is the left (reflective) hand of God. When the left hand functions independently of the Right, then this is referred to as evil -- i.e., the unmarried or unfaithful woman in the scriptures. When the right and left hand function in harmony, the balance is achieved and this is the third force or Son of God. Lucifer is the Bringer of Light, because the Laws act as a dyke that holds all things at various levels until they have reach a level of maturity for that level. In the same way that a woman's body provides for the need of the fetus and infant at every level of development, and her mind and being is supplies the physical, emotional, and intellectual nourishment for the growing child, so does the Reflective Hand of God provide for each of us in accordance with our thoughts, desires, actions, and spiritual consciousness. That most people don't like what life gives them, is merely their own dissatisfaction with the world they have created for themselves.

If we were to promote a child to the next level when they have failed to achieve the goals of the previous level, then we would be doing the child harm because they are not ready to function at the higher level. So as the Laws of restriction are overcome at each level, true growth is attained to. What we discuss on this forum has no place among the spiritually immature -- and it was for this reason that the Bible clearly portrays Yeshua teaching the multitudes by parable, and only his most faithful and dedicated disciples in the house! In this respect, Lucifer and these Laws of the Reflective Reality are good because they are there to bring True Growth and development to the Divine Offspring of God.
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The Objective Of Life Is Oneness

With Our Soul/Higher Self

And Ultimately Our Heavenly Father God

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The below web sites are written in the name of Allan Cronshaw, which is my birth name in this present life. The manner in which these other web sites are composed is very different than on this one -- wherein, on these other web sites there is an attempt to document and demonstrate every proof and concept of TheWay using a multitude of resources and biblical verses -- while on this web site there is no other authority than Jacob writing to you as the Brother Of Yeshua who was the leader of the Hebrew/Christian movement of TheWay. In the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas it is written: (12) The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being." So to once again restore the teachings of TheWay which is today known as Christianity, the Lord has sent Jacob/James, the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus, back into the world in order to guide the faithful flock into the Truth, the Light, and the Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21). It is there that my brother Yeshua/Jesus awaits you.

The above warning with respect to the predicted corruption of Yeshua's teachings is further stated in the first century writings known today as the Clementine Recognitions where it is written: "Our Lord and Prophet, who hath sent us, declared to us that the wicked one, having disputed with Him forty days, and having prevailed nothing against Him, promised that he would send apostles from amongst his subjects, to deceive. Wherefore, above all, remember to shun apostle or teacher or prophet who does not first accurately compare his preaching with that of James, who was called the brother of my Lord, and to whom was entrusted to administer the church of the Hebrews in Jerusalem, — and that even though he come to you with witnesses: lest the wickedness which disputed forty days with the Lord, and prevailed nothing, should afterwards, like lightning falling from heaven upon the earth, send a preacher to your injury, as now he has sent Simon upon us, preaching, under pretense of the truth, in the name of the Lord, and sowing error. Wherefore He who hath sent us, said, ‘Many shall come to me in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them.’"

Again it is warned by Clement: "Wherefore observe the greatest caution, that you believe no teacher, unless he bring from Jerusalem the testimonial of James the Lord’s brother, or of whosoever may come after him. For no one, unless he has gone up thither, and there has been approved as a fit and faithful teacher for preaching the word of Christ, — unless, I say, he brings a testimonial thence, is by any means to be received. But let neither prophet nor apostle be looked for by you at this time, besides us. For there is one true Prophet, whose words we twelve apostles preach"

As predicted, the ministers of Satan have succeeded in altering the teachings of my brother Yeshua, and continue to lead many into the abyss of darkness. But have no fear my brothers and sisters, for the teachings of TheWay has been restored so that you might be able to overcome the darkness, and enter the Kingdom of Light within you (Luke 17:20-21).

		The Brother Of Yeshua/Jesus: 2000 years ago I lived as Jacob who many all James, and I was known as the Brother of Yeshua and the first leader of the New Covenant movement of TheWay which is today known as Christianity. I was sent back into the world to restore the teachings of my brother Yeshua to their original spiritual essence, and to guide you in TheWay that is "narrow" so you will be able to open the "strait gate" within you and enter the Kingdom that Yeshua declared must be attained through the second birth.
		The Ebionite HomePage: If you call yourself a Christian, Jew, Messianic believer, Evyonim, Nazarene or Muslim, then it is imperative that you learn of the Ebionites who are True Spiritual Israel -- They are the Poor Ones to the ways and thinking of this world -- The Ebionites were the Israelites of the Nazirene Vow They are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus who are in the world and not of it!
		The Gate Of Eden: Why were the Disciples and followers of Yeshua vegetarian? Why did they live in accordance with the precepts of the Torah/Law? Why did they live separate and apart from both Jews and Christians? The answer is very simple: The Gate of Eden is within us, and if we fail to enter therein while we are still physically alive in the body, we will have failed in our opportunity to enter into Life. And while it can be countered that we are saved by our belief in Messiah/Christ, faith, or the blood of the lamb, the truth is that if we were truly faithful disciples of TheWay, that we would experience the opening of the inner door and the Kingdom coming within us. The GateOfEden article explores all aspects of the need to pick up one's own cross and follow the narrow path that leads to the inner gate to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.
		The Nazirene HomePage: The original spiritual teachings of Yeshua/Jesus as practiced by the people of The Way who where known historically as the Essenes, Ebionites, and Nazirenes. The teachings of The Way are Spiritual -- and provide a means to open the "strait gate" into the Kingdom while still physically alive in the body/vessel.
		The Light Of Yeshua -- The Messianic Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: While many teach that believers are saved by faith, the journey of the disciple of Yeshua is one of absolute dedication to The Way. The disciple who becomes a brother to Yeshua must live as he lived, and become a Nazirene who is consecrated and wholly set apart as they walk the Narrow Way, enter into the Kingdom through the Strait Gate, and learn directly from the L-rd -- the One Rabbi and Teacher of the Mysteries of G-d.
		TheWay of the Nazirene Rings HomePage: This is the Ring Home page of TheWay of the Nazirene. It will provide you with a listing of all the Nazirene Rings, and a brief description of the importance of walking in The Way and entering the Kingdom of God before physical death occurs. Come visit and learn the essence of the teachings of Jesus/Yeshua that were lost by the institutionalized church.
		The Long Island Mystic and Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: The Organizational HomePage of The Nazirene -- the Long Island Mystic, Evangelical Minister, and Prophet of TheWay -- who God bestowed upon him the gift of the recall of his previous life as a Disciple and Brother of Messiah/Christ -- and thus has re-entered this world at the present time in order to restore the Spiritual Essence and Teachings of his Master, Yeshua/Jesus. The Kingdom is within! And we must sojourn the narrow path of TheWay, enter the "strait gate" to the Inner Spiritual Temple, while still alive in the physical body. Thus, modern Christians have misunderstood the words of Yeshua -- he never said that we must physically die to enter the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- but rather, we must die to the culture, mindset and ways of this world in order to enter the Kingdom!

Jesus Said: The God Of The Jews Was The Devil

And Because The Church Has Embraced The Way of the Jews

The Devil Is The Christian God Today!