Does One Religion Copy From Another?
Does One Religion Copy From Another?
The entrance to the Kingdom is within you. There is a Universal Language of the Soul that is used by mystics when they communicate with the Logos/Son of God within them. Would it surprise anyone that the students attending the same class and listening to the same teacher would all use the same common terms? Such allegorical symbolism as the Virgin Birth is part of that Universal Language of the Soul that all of mankind who seeks the One Teacher within, has direct access to (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).
The allegation that one religion copies from another religion is the epitome of self-ignorance. No one has ever entered this life without being physically born from a mother and father -- as stated by those who walked and talked daily with the historical man Jesus as preserved by the historian Edward Gibbon: the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus witnessed that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366). Thus, to achieve this level of spirituality where the man Jesus could enter into a Coverture-Union with the indwelling Logos/Son of God, Jesus had to evolve through the transformational process of the Universal Virgin Birth that is a common reality across the spectrum of all religious teachings. Which means that Horus, Mithra, Krishna, Dionysus, and Jesus all had to evolve through the next stage of birth which is spiritually portrayed as being born of a (non-physical) Virgin. And this process of subsequent birth is a Human Fact of Existence that is true of all of mankind -- i.e., "Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again" (John 3:3-7).
The statement of Jesus is factually true across the spectrum of human reality -- i.e., "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." And this reality is as true as the statement that unless a physical man and woman come together in sexual union, no child can form in the womb and enter this world -- the same is true on the next level of birth that what is allegorically personified when the purity of the power of the feminine-virgin becomes united with the generative power of the Kingdom in the womb of Mother-God, the prodigal sons cannot achieve the next subsequent stage of birth and be restored to the Edenic Kingdom of their Heavenly Father. And what this means is that the accounts of Horus, Mithra, Krishna, Dionysus and Jesus are not historical -- but rather, are allegorical accounts of the process of the subsequent stage of birth that each person must bring about, so they do not become the victim of a spiritual-miscarriage or spontaneous abortion as is the fate of those who walk the "broad-way" of self-destruction.
In accord with the witness of the original followers and disciples of Jesus that "...the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry”, then this is true of all of mankind across the spectrum of humanity of those who achieve the next stage of (virgin/spiritual) birth. These same original followers of Jesus also stated that he (Jesus) "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34). Which means that any of the prodigal sons and daughters who fulfill the Royal (Spiritual) Law of God, will themselves receive the Power of the Indwelling "...Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity". And to confirm this higher reality of life, Jesus stated and witnessed to the fact that: "I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matt 8:11-12) -- indicating that only those who achieve the subsequent stage of non-physical birth which is allegorically portrayed as being born from a Virgin -- and therefore they achieve that level of Wholeness where they are able to enter into a Coverture-Union with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God -- can "...share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven". (see Coverture-Marriage - Was Jesus God? http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CovertureMarriage ). And in the same way that a physical birth can only be brought about by the union of a physical man and woman, so too must the next stage of birth be brought about when each person is conceived in the Womb of the Feminine Power that is allegorically portrayed as a Virgin, and the Generative Power of the Kingdom -- and they then travail in The Way and bring about the subsequent stage of spiritual-birth.
In the same way that it is a fact of life that when the earthly Law is fulfilled, and a man and woman come together in sexual congress, an embryo forms that has the potential to be born into this realm -- it is also a fact of life that when a person's body is made pure and undefiled in the manner that is allegorically portrayed as a Virgin, and the Royal Law is fulfilled where the Soul of that person unites within them with the Generative Power of the Indwelling Logos/Son of God that universally exists within all of mankind -- then as the prodigal son, they too will "...share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven". And therefore what we are presenting in these images of higher reality, is not a myth -- but rather, a human fact of life which is as valid across the whole spectrum of humanity who are portrayed as the prodigal son's and daughter's. After all, Jesus himself stated: "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). Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved? The witnesses to Jesus' teachings stated that Wholeness is achieved by fulfilling the Royal Law within one's own mind and being. Therefore, contrary to the dogma of the modern Church, if Jesus is the savior who every person needs for salvation, then Jesus himself said the Church was wrong, and those who are Whole do not need him. And as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only for those who are sick and in need of a physician. And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time the historical man Jesus walked the face of the earth, there existed other people who he portrayed as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician. Jesus openly states that his mission as a spiritual physician is not for them, because they achieved the necessary Wholeness without him. And these original teachings that were corrupted and suppressed by pagan Rome, has been restored at http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com .