Further, two of
the women were
strangers to the
commonwealth of
Israel, Rachab a
Canaanitess, and
a harlot
besides, and
Ruth the
Moabitess. In
the pedigree of
the kings of
Judah, between
Joram and Ozias
(v. 8), there
are three left
out, namely,
Ahaziah, Joash,
and Amaziah --
and therefore
Joram could not
have begat Ozias.
When it is said
(v. 12) that
Jechonias begat
Salathiel, that
Jechonias was
the son of that
Jehoiakim who
was carried into
Babylon, the
scriptures tell
us that
Jechonias was
childless (Jer.
22:30), and in
direct
contradiction to
what is written
in Matthew, it
is written that
“No man of
his seed shall
prosper”.
In order to
insure that the
genealogies
cannot be read
literally, it is
further stated
in Matthew:
“Thus there
were fourteen
generations in
all from Abraham
to David,
fourteen from
David to the
exile to
Babylon, and
fourteen from
the exile to the
Christ”
(Matt 1:17 NIV).
The number
fourteen (14) is
significant,
because it
portrays the Son
of Man in the
Kingdom.
With regard to
the many
problems
presented in the
genealogies, the
Adam Clark
Commentary
writes:
[Josias begat
Jechonias and
his brethren,
about the time
they were
carried away to
Babylon:] There
are three
considerable
difficulties in
this verse.
1. Josias was
not the father
of Jechonias; he
was only the
grandfather of
that prince: (1
Chr. 3:14-16)
2.
Jechonias had no
brethren; at
least, none are
on record.
3. Josias
died 20 years
before the
Babylonian
captivity took
place, and
therefore
Jechonias and
his brethren
could not have
been begotten
about the time
they were
carried away to
Babylon.
To this may be
added a fourth
difficulty,
namely, there
are only
thirteen in this
2nd class of
generations; or
forty-one,
instead of
forty-two, in
the whole.
When rightly
understood, the
number forty-one
instead of
forty-two among
other things
would signify
that the last
stage of birth
was not Complete
-- and the whole
of the Gospel
portrays the
Completion of
the final stage
of birth in the
allegorical
account of the
crucifixion.
While it remains
virtually
impossible to
interpret
the above
genealogy of
Jesus from a
literal/historical
perspective, it
is generally
ignored by most
students of the
scriptures
because they
lack the ability
to uncover the
spiritual
meaning.
The sequence of
the numbers
fourteen,
fourteen and
fourteen,
signifies the
Son of Man as
signified in the
number four, and
personified in
the name of
David.
When we add in
the number ten
which gives us
the number
fourteen, what
we have is the
Son of Man
reigning in the
Kingdom.
And while the
sequence of
fourteen,
fourteen and
fourteen would
signify
achieving the
three subsequent
stages of birth,
the fact that
the numbers
actually present
to us the
sequences of
fourteen,
fourteen and
thirteen,
conveys to us
the necessity to
achieve
Completion and
Perfection in
the final stage
of birth that
the man Jesus
accomplished in
the allegorical
portrayal of the
crucifixion.
And while it is
impossible to
interpret the
genealogy in
Matthew
literally/historically,
alleged biblical
experts are
clueless to
understand not
only the
spiritual
meaning, but
also what the
implications are
in the life of
all of mankind.
If the
historical man
Jesus had to
achieve the
three stages of
birth prior to
his becoming the
Anointed
(Messiah/Christ)
in that life,
then the
question
becomes: When
were these
subsequent
stages of birth
achieved?
Certainly not in
the life as the
man Jesus.
Which means that
the historical
man Jesus lived
many previous
lives where his
Soul evolved to
the degree that
the subsequent
stages of birth
could be
achieved, and
when his Soul
entered the life
of Jesus, he was
only then able
to achieve
Completion,
Wholeness and
Total
Perfection.
But this raises
the
ultra-important
question that,
if the Soul of
the historical
man Jesus lived
many lives in
this world in
order to achieve
the necessary
subsequent
stages of birth,
which enabled
him to become
At-One With The
Logos/Son Of God
(see
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement
).
And if it is
true that the
Soul of the
historical man
Jesus evolved to
the perfection
over the course
of many
lifetimes, this
would indicate
that all of
mankind is
presently
evolving to this
same level of
perfection as
presented at
Matthew 5:48
which sets forth
the requirement:
"You
therefore must
be perfect, as
your heavenly
Father is
perfect".
If
each Soul must
achieve the same
level of
perfection that
the historical
man Jesus did,
then each Soul
will have to
achieve this
perfection over
the course of
many lifetimes.
By achieving the
subsequent
stages of birth
the person
receives the
Divine Manna or
Sacred Knowledge
of the Kingdom
-- i.e.,
"To him who
overcomes will I
give to eat of
the hidden
manna"
(Rev 2:8-17).
And it is this
Spiritual
Nourishment or
Divine Manna that
neither the
Gentiles or the
Jews could
receive
(see The Divine
Manna - The
Gospels - The
foundation of
the New Covenant
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#NewCovenant
) of the Kingdom
that only those
who reject the
teachers and
authorities of
this world and
seek inwardly
can receive.
Why? Because
their beliefs
act as obstacles
to their higher
development of
mind and
spirit. Unless
they understand
that within them
is the True
Source of
Knowledge that
they must seek,
they will be
functioning in
an Old Covenant
Mode -- even
when they read
the New
Testament.
Further, because
of the removal
of a number of
key teachings
from the
Gospels, the
lack of this
self-knowledge
has flat-lined
those who seek
the knowledge
and wisdom of
this world in an
Old Covenant
mode of thinking
and teaching.
Jesus said to
Nicodemus that
you must be born
again to enter
the Kingdom. In
order to
demonstrate this
reality, lets
quote the
account of
Nicodemus from
the
Gospel of the
Nazirenes
instead of the
Gospel of John
where this
ultra-important
teaching has
been removed
from the
canonical
Gospels by the
Gentile Church.
Thus, in the
Gospel Of the
Nazirenes we can
see preserved
the more
complete
interaction with
Nicodemus on the
need to be born
again to enter
the Kingdom
which is
presented in the
37th Chapter:
"Jesus sat in
the porch of the
temple, and some
came to learn
His doctrine,
and one said to
Him, Master,
what do you
teach concerning
life? And He
said to them,
Blessed are they
who suffer many
experiences, for
they will be
made perfect
through
suffering; they
will be as the
angels of God in
heaven and will
die no more.
Neither will
they be born any
more, for death
and birth have
no more dominion
over them. They
who have
suffered and
have overcome
will be made
pillars of the
temple of my
God, and they
will go out no
more.
I say to you,
except you be
born again of
water and of
fire, you cannot
see the kingdom
of God. And a
certain Rabbi,
Nicodemus, came
to Him by night
for fear of the
Jews, and said
to Him, How can
a man be born
again when he is
old? Can he
enter a second
time into his
mother's womb
and be born
again? Jesus
answered Except
a man be born
again of flesh
and of spirit,
he can not enter
into the kingdom
of God. The wind
blows where it
lists, and you
hear the sound
of it, but can
not tell from
where it comes
or to where it
goes. The light
shines from the
East even to the
West; out of the
darkness. The
sun rises and
sets into
darkness again;
so is it with
man, from the
ages to the
ages. When it
cometh from the
darkness, it is
that he has
lived before,
and when it goes
down again into
darkness, it is
that he may rest
for a little,
and there after
again exist. So
through many
changes must you
be made perfect,
as it is written
in the book of
Job,
'I am a
wanderer,
changing place
after place and
house after
house, until I
come into the
city and mansion
which is eternal.
And Nicodemus
said to him, How
can these things
be? And Jesus
answered , You
are a teacher in
Israel, and do
not understand
these things?
Truly, we speak
that which we
know, and bear
witness to that
which we have
seen, and you do
not receive our
witness. If I
tell you of
earthly things,
and you do not
believe, how
will you believe
if I tell you of
heavenly things?
No one ascends
into heaven,
unless they
descended out of
heaven, even the
son or daughter
of man which is
in Heaven."
If it is true
that each person
is
"...a wanderer,
changing place
after place and
house after
house, until I
come into the
city and mansion
which is
eternal",
then each Soul
is returned back
into this life
if they fail to
achieve the
subsequent
stages of birth
that is
necessary for
the prodigal
sons and
daughters to
return to the
Edenic Kingdom
of
Origination.
On page 220 of
the book,
Fragments Of A
Faith Forgotten
by GRS Mead, he
quotes the
Septuagint and
writes:
"Job ii. 9:
And I am a
wanderer,
changing place
after place and
house after
house. The...
passage is found
in the version
of the Seventy,
but is omitted
in the English
translation."
Why is this
passage deleted
in the English
translation?
That this saying
is authentic is
demonstrated in
the fact that it
is quoted by the
Church Father
Hippolytus in
his Refutation
of All Heresies,
Bk VIII, 3,
where he writes:
"And that
these things are
so, says (the
Docetic), it is
possible also to
perceive from
Job, when he
uses the
following words:
"And I am a
wanderer,
changing both
place after
place, and house
after house.'"
What does it
mean that
"I am a
wanderer,
changing place
after place and
house after
house, until I
come into the
city and mansion
which is eternal."
Especially since
it appears that
those who
function in and
Old Covenant
Mode and walk
the broad-way of
destruction,
cannot bring
about the
necessary
subsequent stages
of birth. It
is therefore
imperative to
understand that
the word
translated
"destruction",
in no manner
represents what
is actually
being presented
by the
interpreters of
the Greek
biblical
texts. Quoting
the footnote on
this word in the
Schofield
Reference Bible
which reads:
“There is no
thought in these
various words of
annihilation but
of something
that is ruined
and thus
unsuitable or
unable to
fulfill its
original
purpose”.
Which
demonstrates the
validity of the
statement by the
Church Father
Origen who
wrote:
“Every
soul... comes
into this world
strengthened by
the victories or
weakened by the
defeats of its
previous life”
(Origen, De
Principiis).
Which confirms
that statement:
"Do not be
deceived, God is
not mocked; for
whatever a man
sows, that he
will also reap"
(Gal 6:7 NKJ).
And of
interesting note
is the statement
by The
Hastings-Scribner
Dictionary Of
The Bible (New
York, 1903. Bk
4, p. 63) which
proclaimed that
"To affirm
that Jews in
Christ's time
did not believe
in pre-existence
is simply
incorrect". Which
is why the
disciples of
Jesus ask the
question:
"The disciples
of Jesus were
persuaded that a
man might have
sinned before he
was born, (John,
ix. 2,) and the
Pharisees held
the
transmigration
[reincarnation]
of virtuous
souls, (Joseph.
de Bell. Judaico,
l. ii. c. 7;)
and a modern
Rabbi is
modestly
assured, that
Hermes,
Pythagoras,
Plato, etc.,
derived their
metaphysics from
his illustrious
countrymen"
(Gibbon; Decline
& Fall).
What is being
made reference
to is the
question asked
of Jesus about
blindness:
"Now as Jesus
passed by, He
saw a man who
was blind from
birth. And His
disciples asked
Him, saying,
'Rabbi, who
sinned, this man
or his parents,
that he was born
blind?'" (John
9:1-2). In the
Gospel of the
Nazirenes this
same verse
reads:
"And at
another time as
Jesus passed by,
he saw a man who
was blind from
his birth. And
his disciples
asked him
saying, Master,
who did sin,
this man, or his
parents, that he
was born
blind? Jesus
answered, To
what importance
is it whether
this man or his
parents sinned?
The rewards of
our actions
return again to
us so that the
works of the
Lord are made
manifest."
How are the
works of the
Lord made
manifest?
Again, in the
Gospel of the
Nazirenes it is
explained:
"As in Adam
all are bound to
cycles of
rebirth, so in
the Messiah
shall all be
made alive.
Blessed are the
dead who die in
me, and are made
perfect in my
image and
likeness, for
they rest from
their labors and
their works do
follow them.
They have
overcome evil,
and are made
pillars in the
temple of my
God, and they go
out no more, for
they rest in the
eternal. For
them that
persist in evil
there is no
rest, but they
go out and in,
and suffer
correction for
ages, till they
are made
perfect. But for
them that have
done good and
attained to
perfection,
there is endless
rest and they go
into life
everlasting.
They rest in the
eternal. Over
them the
repeated death
and birth have
no power, for
them the wheel
of the eternal
revolves no
more, for they
have attained to
the center,
where is eternal
rest, and the
center of all
things is God."
In the question
presented to
Jesus -- i.e.,
"Rabbi, who
sinned, this man
or his parents",
a reality that
the modern
Christian does
not at all
understand is
the fact that
the Gospels
portray three
reasons for
people being
born blind from
birth -- i.e.,
(1)
the sins
committed in the
Soul's previous
lives;
(2)
the sins
committed by the
parents;
(3)
and the inherent
blindness as a
condition
affecting all of
organic
"natural"
man when his/her
development has
been derailed
(see
Arrested Mental
Development
). Basically,
all the people
who function in
an Old Covent
Mode and walk
the
"broad-way",
fail to develop
the areas of
mind that enable
them to begin to
tap into the
inner Source of
Knowledge, and
therefore their
development of
mind is
derailed. Jesus
portrayed the
Pharisees as
"blind
guides",
because their
thinking,
mindset,
religious
framework of
thinking and
their lifestyle
inhibited their
higher
development.
Because of their
inherent organic
blindness, they
saw only the
literal text of
the scriptures
that Paul
portrayed as the
"letter that
killeth [and]
Jewish
folktales"
(see 2 Cor 3:6;
Titus 1:14) --
unable to
perceive or
comprehend the
inner spiritual
meaning of the
scriptures.
And Jesus made
note of this
condition of
organic
blindness when
he stated to the
Jewish leaders:
"Why do you
see the speck
that is in your
brother's eye,
but do not
notice the log
that is in your
own eye? Or how
can you say to
your brother,
'Let me take the
speck out of
your eye,' when
there is the log
in your own eye?
You hypocrite,
first take the
log out of your
own eye, and
then you will
see clearly to
take the speck
out of your
brother's eye"
(Matt
7:3-5).
What is not at
all understood
is the fact that
Organic
Blindness is the
normal
undeveloped
embryonic mental
condition of
mind. And what
this means is
that because of
undeveloped
immaturity, all
of mankind are
born blind to
their own higher
Soul and
Spiritual
Reality. All of
mankind remains
blind, so long
as they are
functioning in
an Old Covenant
Mode and as what
Jesus portrays
as
"dogs"
(
"do
not give what is
holy to dogs"), seek their
knowledge from
the authorities
and wisdom of
the outer world
-- thereby,
rejecting the
New Covenant
mode that
enables the mind
to develop
beyond organic
human levels of
limited
consciousness.
And as the mind
of man matures
and evolves to a
condition of
Wholeness--
i.e.,
They that are
whole have no
need of the
physician, but
they that are
sick: I came not
to call the
righteous, but
sinners to
repentance"
(Mark 2:17) --
the fullness of
perceptive-vision
and enlightened
understanding
will come --
unless the
process of
developmental-maturity
of mind and
consciousness is
derailed by
mental obstacles
and/or a carnal
lifestyle
immersed in the
ways and
thinking of this
world (see
Spiritual
Amnesia
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia
).
Another
ultra-important
teaching that
was removed from
the canonical
Gospels has been
preserved at
Gospel of Thomas
saying 84 which
reads:
"Jesus said,
When you see
your likeness,
you rejoice"
--
and it is this
likeness that is
our own source
of Being -- our
soul-self, who
is the Being of
Light in the
Near Death
Experience. And
the Gospel of
Thomas asks the
question:
"...But when
you see your
images which
came into being
before you, and
which neither
die nor become
manifest, how
much you will
have to bear!"
These images
which came into
being before
you, are the
past lives that
your soul-self
has previously
lived, that have
all failed to
bring about the
next stage of
soul-birth that
Jesus taught was
necessary to
enter the
Kingdom. And
thus, these past
images which
your Soul and
True-Self has
lived, remain
within the House
of the Soul as
the experiences
of failed lives
that never
became
manifest.
Which means that
as a
failed-image,
you will neither
go to Glory with
God, nor will
you reincarnate
-- and lacking
the permanence
of the Soul, you
will remain
forever as an
experience in
the House of the
Soul.
The reality of
man’s plight in
this world is
that he is an
embryonic image
of his
pre-existent
soul that has
entered into
this realm in
order to perfect
those laws and
elements that he
must overcome.
In the same way
that a fetus is
an embryonic
copy of its
parents, our
mind is an
embryonic image
of our soul.
In the same way
a fetus must
grow and mature
in accordance
with the pattern
of its parents,
our mind must
grow and mature
in the pattern
of our soul.
When our mind
grows in the
culture of this
world, and
becomes
alienated from
our soul, then
our life becomes
synonymous with
the miscarriage
of a fetus whose
defect fails to
develop it in
accordance with
its physical
genetic
pattern. What
this means is
that the
Original
Teaching on the
pre-existant
Soul that
evolves to
Completion over
the course of
many
incarnations,
has virtually
little in common
with the Eastern
doctrine of
reincarnation.
But the fact
that the failed
images of the
Soul that did
not become
"manifest",
continue to
dwell as a
sub-personality
within the House
of the Soul,
means that both
doctrines must
be recognized as
"entry-level",
and both are
misconceptions
of a higher
reality that
"natural"
man in his
organic
condition of
mind, is
incapable of
comprehending.
The Higher
Reality of the
Soul that Paul
warns is
incomprehensible
from an organic
condition of
mind, is
explored at
http://SoulSelf.org
.
What this means
is that the vast
majority of
people don't
remember the
previous lives
their Soul has
lived, because
the soul-image
that they are in
the present,
never lived
those previous
lives. Why
does the Soul
generate images
into this world
at conception?
Because the Soul
is a
twelve-dimensional
Being of Light (
http://BeingOfLight.com
) that cannot
directly
incarnate into
this
three-dimensional
realm or
earthly-womb.
In much the same
way, Creator-God
cannot directly
incarnate into
this world,
because the
dimensions
within the Mind
of God are
Infinite. In
order to
manifest in this
world, the
soul-generated
image must bring
about the next
stage of birth
that would make
the person
At-One with
their
Soul-Self. And
in order for God
to manifest in
this world, a
Soul the
Spiritual
Stature of Jesus
must achieve the
third-stage of
birth that
enabled him to
become At-One
with the Logos (aks
Son of God and
True Prophet)
which
Spiritual-Birth
is explored at
At-Onement
With The
Logos/Son Of God
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement
.
W
ithin
the Higher
Reality of the
Soul, all the
previous
incarnations
that are
portrayed as
soul-images in
the Gospel of
Thomas, continue
to live and
dwell within the
House or
Mind-Matrix of
the Soul (see
The
Matrix Of
Soul-Mind
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#MatrixOfMind
). In the words
of St. Teresa:
"The soul is
as
a castle made of
a single
diamond… in
which there are
many rooms, just
as in Heaven
there are many
mansions”
(Interior Castle
by St. Teresa of
Avila). When
rightly
understood, each
soul-generated
image must
return to their
Source in the
Higher Realty of
the Soul. What
this means is
that the higher
Soul-Self
generates
embryonic images
at the
conception of
the body -- and
these
soul-images then
begin the
process of
evolving through
the levels and
stages of birth
that Jesus
portrayed in the
words:
"...Most
assuredly, I say
to you, unless
one is born
again, he cannot
see the kingdom
of God"
-- means that
those
soul-images
that, after
emerging out of
the physical
womb of their
mother, and into
the environment
of this world,
have begun the
next phase
necessary in
order to bring
about the next
stage of
birth. That
you are a
thought-image
which has been
generated by
your higher
soul-self --
i.e., you exist
as a projected
embryonic
seed-image which
has been
impressed into
the physical
body at
conception --
is the reason
why Paul and the
earliest of
biblical texts
warn that carnal
man is not even
"known by
God"
(see
Soul-Image).
Therefore, you
exist as a
Creation of God
only by proxy --
and by virtue of
the fact that
you are a
thought
projected by
your soul -- and
it was your soul
that was Created
by God in the
beginning. And
thus, the
reality of the
words to Know
Thyself -- and a
house that is
divided, cannot
stand.
With respect to
The Two Ways as
taught in the
words:
"Enter by the
narrow gate; for
wide is the gate
and broad is the
way that leads
to destruction,
and there are
many who go in
by it. Because
narrow is the
gate and
difficult is the
way which leads
to life, and
there are few
who find it"
(Matt
7:13-14 NKJ) --
it is imperative
to understand
that the word
translated
"destruction",
in no manner
represents what
is actually
being presented
by the
interpreters of
the Greek
biblical
texts. Quoting
the footnote on
this word in the
Schofield
Reference Bible
which reads:
“There is no
thought in these
various words of
annihilation but
of something
that is ruined
and thus
unsuitable or
unable to
fulfill its
original
purpose”.
That the higher
soul-self
generates
embryonic images
at the
conception of
the body -- and
these
soul-images then
begin the
process of
evolving through
the levels and
stages of birth
that Jesus
portrayed in the
words:
"...Most
assuredly, I say
to you, unless
one is born
again, he cannot
see the kingdom
of God"
-- means that
those
soul-images
that, after
emerging out of
the physical
womb of their
mother, and into
the environment
of this world,
have begun the
next phase
necessary in
order to bring
about the next
stage of
birth. That
you are a
thought-image
which has been
generated by
your higher
soul-self --
i.e., you exist
as a projected
embryonic
seed-image which
has been
impressed into
the physical
body at
conception --
is the reason
why Paul and the
earliest of
biblical texts
warn that carnal
man is not even
"known by
God"
(see
Soul-Image).
Therefore, you
exist as a
Creation of God
only by proxy --
and by virtue of
the fact that
you are a
thought
projected by
your soul -- and
it was your soul
that was Created
by God in the
beginning. And
thus, the
reality of the
words to Know
Thyself -- and a
house that is
divided, cannot
stand.
That for
countless
reasons these
soul-images
which enter this
world in the
bodies of man
and woman mostly
fail to bring
about the
objective of
achieving the
next stage of
birth that Jesus
said was
absolutely
necessary to
achieve
permanence in
Life, is very
much true that
they have become
as portrayed in
the Schofield
Reference Bible
as being
"...ruined
and thus
unsuitable or
unable to
fulfill its
original
purpose”.
As soul-images
that failed to
evolve through
the next stage
of birth, they
are for the most
part temporal --
being temporal,
they can never
reincarnate as
many in the New
Age believe --
and neither can
they go to Glory
as the Church
promotes. The
fact that some
people claim to
see their past
lives, have been
deceived when
they mistakenly
believe that
they lived those
lives, and the
memory has been
suppressed.
What they are in
effect seeing,
is the images
which their
higher soul-self
has previously
generated --
failed images
which is the
Gospel of Thomas
saying 84 are
portrayed in the
words that
"...when you
see your images
which came into
being before
you, and which
neither die nor
become manifest,
how much you
will have to
bear!"
And these failed
images which
walked (what
Jesus portrayed
as) the
broad-way of
self destruction
-- i.e.,
"...ruined
and thus
unsuitable or
unable to
fulfill its
original
purpose”
-- neither
reincarnate, nor
go to Glory in
the Christian
sense of the
understanding --
and yet, they
remain within
the higher
reality of the
soul in that
dimension of
mind which man,
in his very
limited
understanding,
calls time (see
The Enigma Of
Time And The
Soul Of Man).
