Self-Knowledge -- The Wall Of Separation Dividing All People And Groups

Does Religion separate us?  No.  Isaiah present us with the facts and the truth that both critics and believers of religion have chosen to ignore -- i.e., "Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray".  The Essence of all religious paths is based upon the quest for Self-Knowledge -- i.e., Gnosis or Divine Manna -- as in the adage to Know Thyself.  People who possess Self-Knowledge can't be led by blind-belief.  And in all cases, secular-political authorities corrupt the teachings, in order to control the thinking of the people.  Thereby de-spiritualizing the teachings, and rendering the them virtually worthless with respect to fulfilling the original purpose and objectives of the religion.  Which provokes the question: Is it religion that divides the people?  Or is it faux-authorities that invoke fear in the people, who are afraid to oppose the larger group who are controlled by the counterfeit leaders.  And through this fear, faux-authorities rule over the minds of the people and inhibit them from seeking Self-Knowledge -- which was and is the primary purpose of all religions movements.  Quoting from The Esoteric Gospel Teachings http://TheLawOftheGospels.com#EsotericGospelTeachings :

When Jesus accused the leaders of the Jews of throwing away the Key of Knowledge -- i.e., "Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering” (Luke 11:52) -- it is important to understand the source and type of knowledge he accused the Jews of throwing away. The word Knowledge that was being referenced to is translated from the Greek word Gnosis, as seen in the Greek Interlinear where it shows "knowledge" in this verse is translated from the word "gnosis" at https://biblehub.com/interlinear/luke/11-52.htm . Gnosis, from a biblical perspective is defined as: "Gnosis refers to knowledge based on personal experience or perception. In a religious context, gnosis is mystical or esoteric knowledge based on direct participation with the divine." TYet, the vast majority of faith-based Christians have been programmed to believe that Gnosis is heresy.  Regardless of the fact that the word Gnosis indicates Spiritual Knowledge that is revealed or taught to the person directly from the Divine Mind within them. This Divinely Revealed Spiritual Knowledge cannot be read literally in the writings of man -- it cannot be literally written in scriptures or religious writings -- it cannot be taught by a teacher or rabbi -- because it can only be taught to the person individually by the Divine Mind whose thinking and mindset is capable of receiving the Higher Spiritual Knowledge.

When Jesus stated to the Jews that the Kingdom would never come outwardly, because it is "within you" (Luke 17:20-21), this is "...knowledge based on personal experience ...based on direct participation with the divine" within the Mind of the disciple, as the person begins to open what is portrayed as the "narrow gate", and experiences the Kingdom coming within them -- i.e., "Then Jesus said to them, Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power" (Mark 9:1). Which is why Peter acknowledged the coming of the Kingdom when he stated: ”looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God” (2 Pet 3:12). Which provokes the question: How could the believers in that time-frame of the first-century, hasten or speed up the coming of the Kingdom, if it was coming externally in the outer world? Yet, in every generation, doomsday prophets have predicted Armageddon and the coming of the Kingdom in their lifetime. That modern Christians continue to preach their End Times doctrines, is because they are as the Jews who threw away the Key of Knowledge/Gnosis -- which is the application of the Gospels within them.

If the Spiritual Knowledge could not be read literally in the scriptures where it could be learned and discerned by the Jewish scholars, then what is indicated is the fact that Jesus taught that there is an esoteric meaning to the scriptures that is not apparent or even understood by reading the literal text of the scriptures. And if the meaning of the scriptures could be simply understood by reading the text, then Jesus never would have portrayed the leaders of the Jews as the "spawn of the devil" who threw away the Key of Knowledge/Gnosis. And this is demonstrated when Jesus said to the Jews: "Why do you misunderstand what I am saying? It is because your spiritual ears are deaf and you are unable to hear the truth of My word" (John 8:43 Amplified Version). As to why the Jews could not understand the spiritual teachings and concepts, Jesus explained: "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:43-44).

Jesus did not come to be worshipped -- i.e., "Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting?" Jesus rejected being called "good master" -- as seen when Jesus answered him: "And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone" (Luke 18:19). Which means that Jesus came to provide the Key of Knowledge/Gnosis that would enable the lost prodigal sons to open the inner "narrow gate" -- as seen in his words: "...you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering” into the Kingdom, and return to their Heavenly Father. Which provokes the question: What if you worship Jesus and throw away the Key of Knowledge/Gnosis -- rejecting the Message and the body of essential knowledge/gnosis as hearsay -- and in worshipping Jesus you are obstructing those who were attempting to enter as the Jews did -- portraying those who seek the esoteric knowledge as heretics -- then the god you are worshipping is in fact the Devil -- i.e., "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires...".

In the same way that the Jews could not comprehend the Mysteries of the Kingdom because they threw away the Key of Knowledge, the Christians in their worldly carnal misinterpretation of the Gospel teachings, rejected even the sacred body of Knowledge that Jesus taught. And this fact is demonstrated throughout most of the Christian world where the word Gnosis is condemned as heresy -- and from a faith-based Christian perspective, is to be rejected. So, what this means is that Jesus accused the Jews who he portrayed as "...experts in the law", of throwing away the Key to acquire Gnosis -- which means that both Christianity and Judaism should be religions that seek to acquire Spiritual Knowledge or Gnosis that is not presented in the literal text of the scriptures where even those who are "experts in the law" remain blind to the spiritual meaning -- which Spiritual Knowledge can be portrayed as the Divine Manna of the Kingdom. In the case of modern Christians, they reject even seeking Knowledge/Gnosis -- they remain totally ignorant of using the Key of Knowledge to open the inner "narrow gate" to the Kingdom -- and they slam the door for those seeking to enter. Which means that modern Christianity is representative of Gospel Apostasy that rejects the teachings of Jesus, and opponents of Christ. Therefore, the question must be asked: Would Jesus praise Christians for rejecting the Spiritual Knowledge he came to impart to mankind? Hosea 4:6 warns that Christians will be rejected and -- "...destroyed for lack of knowledge." Isn't this the rejection of Christ by the modern Christian?

If the question is posed: Why should the word Gnosis be translated Divine Manna instead of the common knowledge drawn from the literal text of the scriptures? In the allegorical account of Exodus when Moses was guiding the Children of Israel through the wilderness, the substance they were provided for physical nourishment was portrayed as manna. Therefore, Divine Manna must be recognized as God-Given -- and is that knowledge-substance that only the Divine Mind can impart and reveal to those who embrace the Gospel teachings with the Whole of their Mind and Being -- Manna that cannot be read and found in the literal text of the scriptures without applying the Key -- Manna that cannot be written by the hands of men -- neither can Gnosis be written in any of the languages of man -- Gnosis cannot be taught by a rabbi or teacher -- and can only be taught and received in accord with the person's spiritual level of Consciousness -- and this Spiritual Knowledge/Gnosis can only be taught and imparted into the person by the Divine Mind -- i.e., "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me" (John 6:45). What we call religious teachings is the mindset and thinking that a person must embrace, in order to begin to receive the Divine Manna that can only be received directly from the Divine Mind of God. Therefore, this verse demonstrates conclusively that (1) even when a person is an expert in the written word of the scriptures, they are lacking the essential Knowledge that can be portrayed as the Spiritual Knowledge/Gnosis or Divine Manna of God and the Kingdom; and (2) there is no such thing as Gnostic scriptures that a person learns Gnosis from writings composed by the hands of man. All scriptures portray the inner journey that the person must travail, in order to begin to receive the Divine Manna in accord with the development and depth of the person's mind -- i.e., "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). Further stating: "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me" (Matt 10:38). And the Gospel of Mark quotes Jesus as stating: "Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me" (Mark 8:34). .

 

In response to this link at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEojHRVT4f4  -- Your Bible is CORRUPTED | Bart D. Ehrman 

Bible Corruption: Does It Matter?

The question must be answered with another question -- i.e., do you read the Gospels in the manner of a Pharisee?  Or do you apply the Gospels to bring about their intended purpose as the Key of Knowledge?  the Pharisees read the scriptures as if they were historical narratives.  Whereas, the scriptures were composed by spiritual adepts who rejected this world, and sought to regain entrance to the Inner Kingdom by bringing about the subsequent stages of birth.  And those few who understand the difference, understand that the Gospels will still support their Original Purpose -- i.e., to guide you into the Kingdom within you.  How?  Because the scriptures are a series of allegorical catalysts that present to the seeker the blueprint of Mind that you need to make the inward journey in TheWay -- i.e.,  "I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of The Way" (Acts 24:14).  What this means is that every person, place or thing in the scriptures, is presented therein as an allegorical symbol of consciousness.  The twelve disciples represent the twelve spheres of mind of the Tree of Life (see Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).  The cities though which Jesus and the disciples travel, are the seven spiritual centers or chakras that are representative of the seven kingdoms that empower our consciousness -- i.e., the upper three portraying the Heavenly; the lower three portraying the earthly; and the Center heart spiritual center the one of Mental and Spiritual Birth as explored at The Divine Marriage http://DivineMarriage.org .  Which means that when the seeker embodies the higher qualities of Jesus -- and fulfills the Law in the manner that the Original Gospel Teaching taught (see Jesus Fulfilled And Taught The Natural Fulfillment Of The Laws Of God: http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#JesusFulfilledTheLaw ) -- that the subsequent stages of birth can be brought about, and the seeker as the prodigal son is able to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom.   And what this means is that any sincere seeker who uses the scriptures for their intended purpose as the Key of Knowledge (see http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), and lives the spiritually holistic lifestyle of the original Ebionite followers of Jesus, will find themselves being drawn into the Inner Kingdom through their Transformation of Consciousness.  With respect to using the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge, our culture's attempt to erase the feminine abilities of woman, has been our self-destruction.  Quoting from Birth Development Of Mind Using Scriptures http://DivineMarriage.org#BirthScriptures

Those who understand the Natural Laws of Birth, understand that the mind develops through the interaction of the Male with the Female, who possess the ability to spiritualize and raise up the Earthly lower nature and the Higher Spiritual Nature and bring the Four Gates of the Mind into the Center Narrow Gate and evolve into a Child of the Kingdom (see The Four Gates Of The Mind http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#FourGates  ). In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the need to develop and bring about the subsequent stages of birth through the process or rejoining Adam and Eve to restore AdamEve as stated in the Gospel of Philip: “When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again and attains his former self, death will be no more”. Thus, this teaching in the Gospel of Philip is the same as the teachings in the Gospel of Thomas: "...when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female... then will you enter the kingdom." In the allegorical Genesis account, Adam/Man and Eve/Woman were separated, so they could directly interact with each other -- thereby bringing their higher heavenly and lower earthly natures together -- and in the interaction of paradoxical opposites, the two halves that are One is then able to develop the Mind -- thereby enabling the person to achieve Wholeness, Perfection and Completion. Most Men remain intellectually and spiritually lost, because they fail to understand the transformational ability and power of Woman -- as their other half of Mind and Being. Which means that their relationships and marriages remain carnal and earthly.

An extremely important core Gospel teaching has been preserved in the Homilies of Clement in the quotations of the Apostle Peter. When you apply the Key of Knowledge to the scriptures, you turn them within your own mind -- not interpreting them outwardly or historically, in the outer world. When used as the Key of Knowledge, the journey is within one's own mind as the person is able to begin to tap into the Core Source of Consciousness within them. That the Pharisees interpreted the scriptures outwardly -- interpreting the sacred writings as historical accounts -- is why Jesus portrayed them as the "devil's spawn" who could not understand his teachings (see The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com  ). That the modern Christians read the scriptures outwardly and historically in the manner of the Pharisees, is why the modern believer fails to make spiritual progress. And this is why In the Homilies of Clement the Apostle Peter is quoted as warning: "...therefore great care is to be taken, that when the law of God is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind. For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without". What does this mean? By design, the scriptures cannot be understood by the Linear (male) outward-looking spheres of mind that is blind to the allegorical symgolism. And this fact is confirmed when Peter stated: "when the law of God (scriptures) is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind"? Why? Because it is composed in a symbolic language that can only be interpreted and understood by the inward-looking (feminine) Intuitive spheres of mind. The (male) outward-looking Linear spheres of mind attempts to interpret all things literally and historically in a three-dimensional understanding -- which is why Peter warns that "...For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for himself". Further, Peter warns that "...For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without". What this means is that if you attempt to interpret the scriptures in accord with a Biblical Commentary -- or in accord with the teachings of a Church -- or from a three-dimensional human thought-perspective -- that you will not only fail to understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, but you will alienate and disenfranchise your mind from the true spiritual meaning. Why? Because the scriptures are composed in the allegorical language of the Soul that employs allegorical catalysts that are used to develop the inward-looking Intuitive Spheres of Mind.

The scriptures are designed to develop the mind and enable the marriage partners to develop themselves to the level where they are then able to achieve the next subsequent stage of birth. The strength of the Feminine-Intuitive spheres of mind which look inward, is in the relevant meaning of the allegorical symbolism of deeper inward levels of Consciousness. While the strength if the Male-Linear, is the process of seeing and understanding the larger reality to achieve Wholeness. As the Husband and Wife seek the deeper meaning of the symbolism and allegorical language of the scriptures, they begin to connect with their deeper levels of Consciousness -- which is their embracement of the Divine Design of Creation to advance from the Alpha to the Omega of Advanced Enlightened Consciousness (see The Law Of Jacob's Ladder And Mental Advancement http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#LawOFJacobsLadder   ).
Traditionally, to study Jewish Mysticism, a man had to be thirty years old, married, and living a Torah-oriented lifestyle. Why? The man develops the mind by embracing the scriptures from a Liner-driven mindset, in order to embrace the written word and Intuitively learn the meaning of the allegorical symbols. By studying the scriptures in conjunction with his wife, he is then able to bring the Male-Linear and the Female-Intuitive together, to bring about the Higher Development process of Mental-Expansion and Spiritual-Deepening. Which answers the question as to why the man studying Jewish Mysticism had to be married. When the male and female differences in consciousness is understood, we can begin to understand the answer as to why the man needs a wife to study Jewish Mysticism. An interesting reality is presented in the movie Yentl, which starred Barbra Streisand. Quoting the Wikipedia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yentl_(film)  ) : "Yentl is a 1983 American romantic musical drama film directed, co-written, co-produced by, and starring American entertainer Barbra Streisand. It is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'. ...Yentl Mendel is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Rebbe Mendel, secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man. After the death of her father, Yentl decides to cut her hair short, dress like a man, take her late brother's name, Anshel, and enter a Yeshiva, a Jewish religious school in Bychawa."

Why did a traditional Orthodox Jewish family reject teaching a Jewish woman the Talmud? Because teaching a woman from a Male-Linear perspective, inhibited and even atrophied the development of her crucially important Feminine-Intuitive attributes of mind -- thereby robbing her of her greatest mental strength and God-Given Gift. In an Orthodox Jewish community, other women taught young girls how to develop their intuitive feminine strengths into a transformative power that was both equal and opposite her future husband who was a student of Torah and Jewish Mysticism. And through the process of working with his wife who provided him insight into the spiritual meaning of the allegorical symbolism of the scriptures, the man and woman in a Consecrated Marriage Union could begin to develop the necessary attributes of mind that enabled them to begin to achieve the next stage of Mental-Birth. Of the original movie Yentl, the Wikipedia writes: "In Singer's story, this dual betrayal of nature and the divine plan dooms Yentl to a life of pain, alienation, and shameful dishonesty. After her marriage ends in disaster, Yentl remains trapped forever in her disguise, unable to find redemption from her rejection of a normal life—a take on the legend of the Wandering Jew". The Wikipedia then states: "In Streisand's film, Yentl's defiance of expectation and definition, a rejection of sexist gender roles, is treated as a virtue".
 
One of the greatest lessons the people of our modern culture must learn is that equal does not mean the same. Perhaps this is best expressed in the introduction of the long ignored book Brain Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, where they wrote: "Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. To maintain that they are the same in aptitude, skill or behavior is to build a society based on a biological and scientific lie". The key to the dilemma that confronts us today is further seen in the words of the authors with respect to their opposition to the ideas we teach our children in our modern-day politically correct culture: "What you will read in this book about the differences between men and women may make both sexes angry or smug. Both reactions are wrong. If women have reason to rage, it is not because science has set at naught their hard-won struggle towards equality; their wrath should rather be directed at those who have sought to misdirect and deny them their very essence". The book then goes on to embrace the very real statement that "Women should contribute their specific female gifts rather than waste their energies in the pursuit of a sort of surrogate masculinity. A woman’s greater imagination can solve intractable problems - be they professional or domestic - at one apparently intuitive stroke." More recently another (female) researcher named Dr Luan Brizendine has authored a book named The Female Mind. Dr. Brizendine, whose book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality. I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us. I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men. If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives." These more informed decisions are basically impossible for most women in today's culture because of the biological lie that is being promoted due to political correctness. The problem is that because we dwell in a world that is generally defined by a male linear perspective -- and even striving to erase the intellectual differences between man and woman -- the true nature and depth of the feminine mind is largely an unexplored realm of vast substance and opportunity. In fact, once this far reaching reality is truly realized, one must begin to acknowledge that even men are severely anchored and inhibited by their own and societies ignorance with respect to the higher purpose and untapped potential of the female mind and the spiritual purpose of the subsequent stages of birth. In this respect, woman is the missing element in (male) man's search for God and the meaning of life -- and vise versa.

 

 

The Purpose Of The Natural Laws And The Prison

If you Google the word Karma, you get a great number of references to Hinduism and Buddhism. Which means that those who relate the word Karma to the Eastern Religions, have no clue as to the understanding of the Natural Laws as taught by Jesus who warned: "Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison" (Matt 5:25). 

 

This teaching on the prison that is rarely mentioned by the modern-day authorities of the Church is so important, that it is also found in the Gospel of Luke (see Luke 12:58-59). But what does this mean? When you interact with your brothers and sisters, you are interacting with the Natural Laws -- wherein your own actions are returned back to you. Therefore, Jesus warned that if you fail to come to terms with the Law through your interaction with your adversaries (your brothers and sisters), that you will be cast into a type of prison -- i.e., "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing" (Matt 5:26) -- and you will remain in that prison until you have come to terms with your adversary, and "...,hast paid the uttermost farthing". Which of course confirms that biblical teachings that "A man reaps what he sows ...For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you ...He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity". This last teaching is perhaps one of the most important, because it states that if you force your will upon another person, that you will be deprived of your own freewill in the future. An important teaching that was removed from our Gospels but has been preserved in the Gospel Of the Nazirenes reads: "And if you desire something as strongly as you desire life, and it turns you from the truth, cast it out from you, for it is better to enter life possessing truth, than losing it, to be cast into outer darkness. And if that which costs others pain or sorrow seems desirable to you, cast it out of your heart; in that way you will attain peace. It is better to endure sorrow, than to inflict it, on those who are weaker. Be you therefore perfect, even as your Parent who is in heaven is perfect" (see http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org  ).

What this means is that like the movie Groundhog Day, you will continue to interact and confront with the same adversary or situation -- from life to life in however many lives is required for you to "Settle matters quickly with your adversary..." -- until, in the words of Jesus, you "...,hast paid the uttermost farthing" of what you owe in the debt under the Laws. In fact, you cannot advance beyond that point in your development in however many lifetimes is required, until you can "Settle matters quickly with your adversary..." as Jesus taught. The vast majority of Christians can't understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures or comprehend their own higher Soul-Reality, because they can't mentally and spiritually advance beyond the level of their self-imposed imprisonment. And while they lead lives embracing the Gospels with their words, because they fail to live in accord with those teachings, they can't advance beyond an immature level of understanding so long as they remain imprisoned. They reason that Jesus nailed the Law to the cross, and they therefore have a disposition with respect to their accountability to the Law. They therefore ignore the warning: "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" (Matt 7:15-23).

Once properly understood in light of the genuine teachings of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount is basically a means to (1) fulfill the Law and avoid the obstacles of imprisonment of our path of advancement; and (2) for those imprisoned, to get out of their self-imposed jail that is maintained by the Laws that require that "...till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” (Mat 5:26). Of course, because of our inherent organic human blindness in conjunction with the inherent Spiritual Amnesia ( http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia  ), we cannot make any higher mental and spiritual progress so long as we dwell in a state of self-imposed imprisonment. With respect to the Law that Jesus portrays in his teachings, even this can be taken to the next level of understanding in the words: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets" (Matt 7:12). But to release yourself from the Laws that imprison you by restricting you to your present level of mental and spiritual advancement -- Laws that can keep you bound until you overcome and prevail over the issue of imprisonment -- you must continue to repeat the tests in life that you have yet to overcome. In each life you must once again re-enter the vibration of mind and reality that caused your imprisonment. If you are a thief, then you must see the error of your ways when you are either a thief, or the victim of a thief when you pray for the soul of a thief. If you are a whore, a rapist, a murderer, or whatever in life is your cause of imprisonment, you will remain at that level and position in life to life -- with “...no means to come out from there, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” or debt to your brothers and sisters.

The vast majority of people journey through life blindly. They are as ships without a rudder -- being driven too and fro by the external winds and currents of the earth and man's various cultures. Men of great wisdom who have sought self-knowledge have attempted to convey to the multitudes that when the Laws are understood, we in effect create the lives we live by virtue of our own actions towards our brothers and sisters. When the disciples of Jesus ask the question: "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), the disciples were continuing a teaching with Jesus about the causal-factors of blindness. No Christian in our modern society would ask their pastor if the sins of a person in a former lifetime was the cause of the person being born blind. The question was (1) whether the causal-factor of the man's blindness was from the sin of the man in a former life; (2) the manner and environment in which the man's parents reared him; (3) and Jesus then explained that the man's blindness was due to the human condition that all of mankind who dwell in the "outer darkness" of mind and being are subject to (see The Three Causes Of Human Blindness http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#ThreeCausesOfHumanBlindness ). Jesus was making reference to the organic human condition of blindness with respect to those who have been cast into the "outer darkness" of mind and being when he explained this blindness to his disciples: “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). And this third condition of organic human blindness can only be cured by seeking the Truth and receiving the transformational Anointing/Christing of the Mind (see Jesus Taught To Become The Christ http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#BecomeTheChrist ).

When Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders that the “…tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you” (Matt 21:31 RSV), such a statement simply has no place within the present day understanding of Christian teachings. Why? Because from the perspective of the dogma of the Church, modern Christians are without a means to explain Jesus' words. Therefore, most Bible commentaries simply ignore the implications of this passage of scripture . One widely used commentary attempts to correct the text by changing the words to “instead of” -- which would then make the meaning dogmatically correct and read: “The tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God instead of you”. In this verse of scripture we are presented with one of the core reasons why the original followers of Jesus believed differently than most Christians today -- inquiring whether the man was born blind because of the sins incurred in a previous life. Therefore, the question that must be posed is: When will the chief priests and elders enter into the kingdom? Modern Christian doctrine states that because of their disbelief and rejection of Christ, they will be cut off from the face of God, and condemned to eternal judgment. And yet we cannot deny the fact that Jesus' own words convey the message that there will come a time when the chief priests and elders will also enter the Kingdom of God -- and it will be at a time after the tax collectors and harlots who believed, repented, picked up their own crosses and followed in TheWay.

In the same way that the disciples asked Jesus the question: Was the man's present blindness caused by the sin in the man's previous lives, unresolved causal-factors can imprison you until they are resolved. Jesus conveyed this reality in the words: "Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison" (Matt 5:25). How long can our actions imprison us? In the words of Jesus: "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." Therefore, the answer is: Like the movie Groundhog Day, How many lives will be required for you to resolve the issues with your adversary that is the causal-factor inhibiting your progress in this and the subsequent lives your Soul will live? Thus the oft ignored warning: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7). Or, in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen who is known as the Prince of Christian learning in the third century: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis). That the Natural Laws of Creation monitor every event in our lives, is the basis of the statement: "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14). The answer to this dilemma is revealed in the fact that each of us is moving through life in a Labyrinth Of The Natural Laws (see The Laws That Control Our Life http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsThatControlOurLives ) -- and these Laws within which the whole of our life is immersed, responds directly to the everyday choices that we make.

How does "a worse thing come unto thee" based upon each person's actions? And what this means is that the judgments of the Natural Laws that are initiated by each person's actions against them in their future tribulations, will have been invoked by the causal-factors of the man's previous actions -- which cannot be resolved until the man "hast paid the uttermost farthing." How is each person imprisoned until they have repaid the "...uttermost farthing"? And what is the fate of each person when they finely have repaid the "...uttermost farthing"? What then? Thus, this reality that is no longer understood by the modern Christian is why the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen writes with respect to each person's station in life "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel [person] has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor" (see http://ChristianReincarnation.org ). Which confirms that question of the disciples when they asked whether it was the sin of a previous life that caused the malady of the man's present life -- the sin of his parents and the environment in which the person was reared -- of has the person yet to reap the benefits of living a Godly Life and is in the process of picking up their own cross and travailing in TheWay in pursuit of achieving the Anointing/Christing as taught: Jesus Taught To Become The Christ http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#BecomeTheChrist ). .

 God's Words To Mankind Corrupted By The Church

The pre-Nicene biblical texts and the earliest of Church writers prove that at the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan river, the voice of God said: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee". By using the earliest of biblical manuscripts in conjunction with six (6) separate quotations from the pre-Nicene Church Authorities prior to the year 325AD (see http://TheTenWords.com  ), it can be demonstrated that the very same scriptures that we use today, read differently prior to the adoption of Christianity as the state puppet religion of the Roman government -- a Theocracy that was first ruled over by the Emperor Constantine -- and then a succession of equally pagan emperors who followed him. But, the witness of the disciples of Jesus also verifies the words that God spoke to mankind when Jesus was baptized. In the Book of Acts the disciples witness to their own Anointing/Christing in the words: "And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father’" (Acts 32-33). The disciples are affirming that the promise of God was brought about when they too were adopted and became Sons of God and Anointed (Messiah/Christ). That the fourth century Church of Constantine corrupted the words that God spoke to mankind, does not recreate the man Jesus as God Incarnate (see Jesus Taught To Become The Christ http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#BecomeTheChrist ).

What this confirms is the position of the Ebionite followers who walked and talked daily with Jesus -- those who asked him many questions -- have witnessed that on the day that Jesus was baptized in the Jordan, he became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) for the first time. In further confirmation, the Adam Clark Commentary with regard to the passage at Hebrews 1:5 which quotes the Original Words that God spoke to Mankind, states that if this quotation which was used by Paul and is also confirmed in the Book of Acts is true with respect to the words spoken of Jesus by God, then “...the whole Christian system is vain and baseless". These sacred words spoken by God to mankind were not only true of our brother Jesus, but are equally true of all of mankind. The objective of the Gospels is for all the prodigal sons and daughters to become a Congregation of Holy and Anointed people who are taught directly by the Indwelling Logos/Son of God. The true followers of Jesus must turn away from the ways and thinking of this world as stated: "Therefore, Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you" (2 Cor 6:17). Why is it important for the follower of Jesus and the New Covenant to "...be separate, [AND] ...Touch no unclean thing"? -- i.e., to become a "poor one" (Ebionite) to the thinking and lifestyle of this world?  Because the core of the New Covenant teachings was to prepare the mind of the believer to be taught directly by the One Teacher as stated: "It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God'" (John 6:45 see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher  ). And thus, when the Church corrupted the Words spoken directly to mankind by God, the congregation of believers were cast into a Spiritual Diaspora which they have yet to emerge out of.

What is the evidence that the above is the true Words that God spoke to mankind? In addition to the most ancient copies of the Gospels, this wording which reflected the original non-corrupted Words of God to Mankind is found in the writings of six (6) pre-Nicene Church Fathers who copied the statements of God into their own writings (see The Pre-Nicene Gentile Witness http://TheTenWords.com#Gentile ). What this means is that what the original pre-Nicene Gospels therefore stated was that Jesus was a holy man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at his baptism in the Jordan river. And the fact that the copies of the scriptures that were used prior to the fourth century by the Church Fathers reflect the original words of God, demonstrate that it was the Roman Emperor Constantine who was himself a Mithraic sun-worshipper, demanded that the words spoken by God to mankind be changed to make them reflect the doctrines of Mithraism (see The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity  ). Constantine believed that Jesus was the latest incarnation of the Mithraic sun-god, and that the original disciples of Jesus and the Spiritual Christians were wrong.

In order to enable the Congregation of believers to prove and confirm that the Mithraic infused doctrines of the Church was not true, the Hand of God moved and we were provided the witness of the The Essenes And The Dead Sea Scrolls http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Essene  . But to the spiritual demise of the faith-based modern believers, the Church has continued to totally ignored the historical facts and truths that was given unto them. As just one example of the facts that have been confirmed, is the witness of Prof. John Allegro who was quoted as saying that what has been revealed in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a great amount of overwhelming evidence that “...may upset a great many basic teachings of the Christian Church. This in turn would greatly upset many Christian Theologians and believers. The heart of the matter is, in fact, the source and originality of Christian doctrine” (August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine). What all the many recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed and demonstrated is that Prof. Allegro was correct in his assertion that our modern-day understanding of “the source and originality of Christian doctrine” is defective -- and the doctrines of the modern Church have virtually nothing in common with the Original Gospel teachings (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com  ).

Those who walked and talked daily with the man Jesus, had nothing in common with the Mithraic based doctrines of the modern Church. Why? Because their understanding was in perfect harmony with the Words that God spoke to mankind at Jesus' baptism in the Jordan. Historically, those who were taught directly by the man Jesus understood that he was a Holy Man who fulfilled the Law within his own Mind and Being, and became At-One with the Indwelling Logos (aka Son of God). In fact, the whole foundation of the New Covenat was built upon the foundation that each person by birth-right, possesses the innate ability to learn directly from the Indwelling Logos (a.k.a., Son of God). And thus, the original disciples and followers of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily, were known as Ebionites and Nazirenes http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Ebionite  -- meaning the "poor ones" to the thinking and ways of this world who strove to fulfill the adage to be in the world and not of it. In the same way that Jesus taught that he was our brother -- i.e., "Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'" (John 20:17) -- and his disciples understood that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the spiritual meaning and essence of the Law within his own mind and being -- i.e., quoting the Church writer Hippolytus on the Ebionites: that 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). One of the most important elements to this original teaching was not only that Jesus was a man who became of an Enlightened Anointed Mind (Christ/Messiah) by fulfilling the Law within his own mind and being, but also that if "...any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ" -- and this ultra-important teaching is reflective of the Words that God spoke to mankind when the man Jesus became the first of the prodigal sons to become At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God - which set the example and standard for all other prodigal sons and daughters to follow. With respect to the Ebionites, it is documented that the mother and brothers of Jesus were Ebionites -- and because they were faithful to the words that God spoke to mankind, the historian portrays them as being “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416). Anyone who embraces the Original Teachings of the Gospel today, will be rejected and banned from the Churches (see The Reality Of The Original Gospels http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com  ).  The Original Gospel Teachings have been restored at The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com