The Folly Of The Closed-Minded Person

The folly of a Close-Minded Person

If you shatter a plate, which piece of the shattered plate is the real plate? Actually, all the pieces when brought together, restore the plate to Wholeness -- which is why Jesus said: "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). Before this verse can be understood we must first understand what it means to be Whole. Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved? 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 people who he portrayed as being "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. Does everyone need Jesus as the modern Christian maintains? While Jesus himself said that those who had achieved Wholeness did not need him as a spiritual physician -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician..." -- and that with effort, all of mankind is capable of achieving a condition that Jesus portrayed as "whole [and] righteous", which means that these people who did achieve Wholeness, were not sick, and in Jesus' own words were not in need of him (Jesus) as a physician to heal them. Which means that the whole foundation of modern Church dogma is man-made and in error. Simply believing that the historical man Jesus lived and overcame, does not bring about the necessary Wholeness of Self that Jesus taught was necessary.  But what this also means is that the modern congregations of Christians who think that mere belief equates to Wholeness of Mind and Being, are those who are sick, and in dire need of the physician.  But because they are of a closed and highly programmed mind, they would turn on Jesus the physician as a heretic.

How does a person become Whole? After eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality (a.k.a. Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil), the statement was made in the allegorical account of Genesis: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever" (Gen 3:22-23). Thus, the objective of life is to become nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life -- i.e., "'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7). And respecting the Tree of Life it is written: "Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations" (Rev 22:1-2). With the final statement pertaining to the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Life in order to achieve Wholeness, and thereby gain entrance to what is often portrayed as Spiritual Jerusalem in the words: "Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates" (Rev 22:14).

The Tree of Life (see http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ) is the blueprint of each person's mind that is divided into twelve spheres that all see and understand both self and the outer world from different perspectives. Because of the limitations on organic human consciousness, each of us is born polarized to a segment within each of the twelve spheres of mind -- meaning that each person therefore sees and understands from a different segment of mind (see The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#SegmentedMind ). And Wholeness can only be achieved when you begin to see and understand through the eyes of a person polarized to a different segment than you are. Which is why Jesus taught that when you judge, your own judgments come back upon you in your failure to achieve the necessary restoral of the pieces that enables you to begin to see through the eyes of Wholeness.

Jesus taught not to judge -- but rather, to discern -- and when you empathetically discern through the eyes of your brother or sister who perceives through a different fragment of mind than you do, then you begin to reassemble the fragmentary pieces of your own mind -- and begin to see and understand with Wholeness. And this overcoming the fragmentation of organic human consciousness is in fact the essence of the Original Gospel teachings that were suppressed by the Church (see http://SpiritualGospel.org ). Each person sees and understands the world and self from a different and often conflicting perspective. And only those who achieve Wholeness and overcome, are able to be nourished by the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- i.e., "To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:8-17). "My People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge Because You Have Rejected Knowledge, I Reject You..." (Hosea 4:6). "Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie" (Rev 22:14). "Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit" (1 Thes 4:8)