The Allegory Of The Biblical Slave

Being a Slave from an allegorical biblical perspective is good.  The scriptures are not historical narratives -- but are in fact an allegorical portrayal and blueprint of your own mind. A slave from a Gospel perspective, is a more spiritually evolved person than many of the other mindsets portrayed -- as explored at Animals That Walk In The Form Of Man http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#WalkInFormOfMan 

Quoting: While there are many references to man being ruled over by his lower animal nature at the foregoing link -- i.e., dogs and swine -- from the perspective of being able to receive and comprehend the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, and the higher reality of the Soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, there is a statement in the Gospel of Philip that explains this incomprehensible reality -- i.e., "A householder acquired everything— whether son or slave or cattle or dog or swine, whether wheat or barley or straw or hay or [bones] or meat (or) acorns. Yet he (was) wise and knew the food of each [one]. Before the sons he indeed set bread with [olive-oil and meat; before] the slaves he set castor-oil with grain; and before the cattle [he set barley] with straw and hay; to the dogs he cast bones; yet before [the swine] he threw acorns and crusts of bread. So it is with the Disciple of God— if he is wise, he is perceptive about the Discipleship. The bodily forms will not deceive him, but rather he will observe the disposition of the soul of each one in order to speak with him. In the world there are many animals made in human form— these he is accustomed to recognize. To the swine indeed he will throw acorns; yet to the cattle he will cast barley with straw and hay; to the dogs he will cast bones; to the slaves he will give the elementary; to the Sons he will present the perfect".

What is presented is both the level of consciousness that rules over the people portrayed as animals, and the type of instruction and knowledge in the form of food that can be provided to them in accord with their Condition of Mind. ...and thus, in accord with the "animal-soul" level of consciousness of each person, the Householder in the Gospel of Philip provides quasi-human people instruction and knowledge as presented in the allegorical food -- i.e., "...To the swine indeed he will throw acorns; yet to the cattle he will cast barley with straw and hay; to the dogs he will cast bones; to the slaves he will give the elementary; to the Sons he will present the perfect".  Which was the reason why Jesus said of those who has achieved that level portrayed as "sons of the kingdom" who was able to comprehend the higher spiritual knowledge when he said: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12 KJV).

The teaching in the Gospel of Philip then states that "...to the slaves he will give the elementary" -- i.e., while one portrayed as a slave is immersed in spiritual work or service, their immature thoughts and consciousness remains in the bondage of a servant, slave or faith-based worshiper. Of those who have travailed in TheWay and have become children of the Kingdom, the above translation states "...to the Sons he will present the perfect". In the alternate translation it is stated that "To the slaves he will give only the elementary lessons, to the children he will give the complete instruction". Only those who have achieved the level of being the Children of the Kingdom who have transformed and overcome their lower animal nature -- overcome all inner division which enables them to be nourished by the Life-Giving Fruit of the Tree of Life -- are able to receive and comprehend with Wholeness the "complete instruction" directly from The True Prophet (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher  ).  To all others -- because of their immature level of consciousness -- Jesus could only speak in the enigma of parables as stated in the words: "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34). 

Of Slaves And Sons Of The Kingdom: The reality portrayed in the above as "...the slaves [who receive] only the elementary lessons [versus] the children [who receive] the complete instruction".  A slave, then, from the perspective of the scriptures, is an allegorical symbol of the person's level of consciousness that precedes those who have achieved the spiritual level associated with being the Sons of the Kingdom. From a spiritual perspective, the allegorical slave is a good thing, as a slave to the Kingdom portrays one who is in transition to becoming a Son of the Kingdom.

 

The Self-Imposed Blindness Of Science

 The Self-Imposed Blindness Of Science

Seeing God, Spirit, Light
 
 While Carl Jung is correct in his statement pertaining to blind theologians: "it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see", must also be recognized as the reason why science is even more deceiving and in opposition to Truth than is the misguided theologians.
 
 Nikola Tesla correctly stated: “If you wish to understand the Universe think of energy, frequency and vibration.“ If we pose the question: What is the domain of science? A simple definition is that Science is the study of things by observation and experiment. The observation and experimentation must be repeatable – peer- reviewable -- in order to be dependable. Therefore, by definition, science has proven that it is incapable of providing any meaningful answers to life. Why? In an article Things That Science Can't Explain by Dr. Claude Swanson writes: "There are many things modern science cannot explain, and yet they occur anyway. This includes phenomena in the "hard sciences" as well as in the paranormal. These effects are now being proven in the laboratory, even though they defy present scientific theory. These unfolding mysteries point the way to a new, deeper science, a science which no longer denies spirit and consciousness, but acknowledges and embraces them. In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken." Modern physics has begun a Scientific Revolution -- proving the inadequate foundation upon which the very definition of scientific investigation has been built and is easily proven to be in error. When physicist Walter Thirring stated in his book, Urbausteine der Materie about the nature and reality of physical matter that modern physics “...has put our thinking about the essence of matter in a different context. It has taken our gaze from the visible - the (physical) particles - to the underlying entity, the (unseen spiritul) field. The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’. Accordingly, there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary particles… Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field” (see The Scientific Revolution http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#ScientificRevolution  ). What he was confirming is the fact that what man sees with his physical eyes, is an image that has been projected into this world of appearances from an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD which the true investigators who are portrayed as Mystics, follow the investigative path that enables them to see and interact with the Unseen Field-Source which the traditional physical-only scientific investigator rejects. Modern cutting-edge science has confirmed the fact that what is seen and observed by our physical eyes is a shadow-image that Mystics have long maintained is a mere symbol of man's higher Unseen Reality Source. What this confirms is the fact that the Source of concrete matter is metaphysical -- i.e., outside of the vibratory frequency of our physical senses to perceive -- with the term metaphysical being defined as referring to realities that exist beyond man's physical vision and senses -- and therefore, it indicates the investigation of what cannot be reached through objective studies of material reality. If the Source of what we physically see lies beyond the ability of our physical senses to observe, then the whole paradigm upon which scientific inquiry is founded, is totally defective and a blind-faith fraud.
 
 When Nikola Tesla stated that "Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing", his words portray the folly of science that attempts to understand the physical without any conscious understanding of the Source that exists in the UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD. Nikola Tesla also stated that "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence" -- and this fact is especially true in light of the findings of modern physicists that the Source of all that we see and observe with our physical senses is all "non-physical". And to see and understand the source, we must do as Jung noted, by developing those attributes of mind that enables us to see the Source. Deficient Observation is the fruit of only seeking one aspect of an equation -- i.e., what the mystic portrays as an incomplete projection of physical symbols -- which in this case portrays the person who fails to develop the ability to perceive and understand the meaning and purpose of the Source of the physical image that man's limited vision cannot perceive. Modern physics has therefore relegated traditional Scientific inquiry to the level of looking into a crystal ball and interpreting life through our blind interpretation of the shadow-images that appear in our imagination. And since we can't even see and observe the Source -- and all finding are subject to our own beliefs and imagination of the meaning of the UNSEEN Source that is generating the shadow-image -- then what we portray as repeatable peer-reviewable, is little more than previously agreed upon fairy tales by those who are blind to the actual Source-Image. Which means that what we portray as scientific inquiry, is actually based upon a type of Psychic or Magical Thinking -- which is defined as referring to a thinking style that involves reasoning based upon a paranormal interpretation of unseen realities.
 
 Einstein experienced shock when he first came into contact with the new emerging reality of atomic physics, and wrote in his autobiography: “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundation of physics to this [new type of] knowledge failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built”. In much the same fashion, the European physicist Niels Bohr stated that “…The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.” What this means is exactly as stated by Einstein when he stated: “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” (quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics). What is being stated is that the primary focus of science where only what was seen with one's physical eyes, has now been rendered inadequate and incomplete -- it being focused totally on observable matter -- because the emerging body of facts and evidence now demonstrates that what we perceive physically, is a projection from an UNSEEN Source where True Reality exists. Which provokes the question: What is being projected? Thus, the statement by astronomer James Jeans: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff” -- both demonstrate the reality that there is nothing but Projected Thought.
 
 The adage Know Thyself, reveals the fact that our True-Self is not only Metaphysical -- and self-knowledge begins to develop your inward-looking attributes of mind that enable you to begin to tap into your True-Self -- i.e., your Soul-Self that is a Being of Pure Intellect and Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com  ). And it is this development of Mind that is the purpose of the Gospels (see The Purpose Of The Scriptures http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#PurposeOfTheScriptures  ).