Soul-Merge As Our Destiny

 

Quoting from Soul Self  http://SoulSelf.org

The idea that you must find and come to Know Thyself seems so antithetical to not only the message of the Gospel, but also most religious monastic mindsets -- with the added fact that very few people would even be able to define what it is about the self that one is required to know. And what this means is that the whole concept of Knowing Thyself, from the perspective of the modern dogmatic and politically correct world, is representative of an incomprehensible enigma. And this great enigmatic void is not only true of the religious world, but is equally true of the educational and scientific institutions that serve as the bedrock foundation of our modern culture. And yet, if the Gospel of Thomas saying of Jesus is correct -- and even representative of the "Q" source that Bible scholars look for -- then it should be disconcerting to the modern believer that Jesus portrays them as dwelling in a great poverty of mind and being -- i.e., "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty". But perhaps even more confusing is when this statement to Know Thyself is seen in the context of whoever attempts to save his life will loose it (Matt. 16:26) -- to the degree that one must totally deny one's self: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). Thus, the questions must be posed: How can one Know Thyself, and yet must lose one's self? What is there to know, if whatever is of the self must be gotten rid of? By all accounts, this enigma of paradoxical opposites appears to undermine all that most believers think they know about the Gospel message. And if it is true that there is something to know about the self that, if one is ignorant of this reality of self, that one dwells in a state of abject poverty and knows nothing of any real value, then even what a believer thinks they know and believes, will remain in perpetual error. Thus, confirming the long ignored warning: "There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12). Which would confirm the validity of the warning in the Epistle of Peter and James that if this paradoxical enigmatic knowledge is not understood, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error"!!! Could such a thing be true?

The Reality Of Self:

What if the person you are in this world is not your real or true self? What if your true self is more of a stranger to the person you are in this world, than to a person living on the other side of the world who you have never in your life met? In the same way that the Islamic term Jihad is the portrayal of an inner spiritual struggle, what if the command to be fruitful and multiply is making reference to the expansion of mind and being of the physical you as an organic seed-self, to a condition of spiritual maturity where your Whole or True Self can manifest in the body-vessel? How can this be, you ask? What if you are what is often portrayed as the ego-self? Or, what G.I. Gurdjieff, Philip K. Dick and other mystics portrayed as false-personalities? The first to second century Christian Bishop Valentinus portrayed the false self as "nature-man" who had no continuation beyond physical death, because he lacked a connection with his real or true self. When Jesus stated that you must lose yourself, what if he was making reference to the false-self that is in this world? What if the person you are in this world is an expression of the True Self that remains UnKnown to all but those who seek to Know Thyself? In Eastern teachings our True-Self or Soul-Self is called the Atman. Eastern or Western the question remains the same: What if your True Self is unable to manifest in this world because of the physical and three-dimensional limitations on the organic body in which you are presently dwelling? Which would mean that when Jesus made reference to the "House Divided" that cannot stand, what if he was stating that, so long as the person you are in this world remains divided from your true-self that is not manifest in the body -- primarily because of the limitations of the organic physical body -- that you, in your divided state of mind and being, cannot stand? What if your true self is locked deep beneath your being -- at a depth of mind and being that you cannot readily access because of the limitations of the physical body-vessel -- and the ancient adage that is proclaimed in the Gospel of Thomas is a statement of fact that unless the false or ego-self brings about an inner union or marriage with their true-self that is not manifest in the body-vessel, that you can have no real permanence -- dwelling in a state of profound mental and spiritual poverty, as seen in the words of the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty". And if this is true, then it must be recognized that the false ego-self can't replace the true-self and go to Glory in the hereafter -- and neither can the false ego-self reincarnate -- and while the essence of the person you are in this world will survive physical death, your after-death reality will not be what you imagine based upon any of the present world's religions and philosophies.

Quoting FromThe Spiritual Castration Of Christianityhttp://divinemarriage.nazirene.org/SpiritualCastration.htm 

In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the fact that when our Soul entered this physical realm that is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son, that the mind of Mankind became divided across the polarities of Male/Positive and Female/Negative when we entered this world. What this means is that when man meets woman, it is in reality one half of the mind meeting and interacting with the other half -- both of them divided opposites with greatly differing mental perceptions and abilities that must be joined together as One, to bring about Wholeness -- which is in fact the purpose and objective of the Gospel teachings as seen in the statement: "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).

 

What Jesus was stating was that those people who he portrayed as "righteous", (1) did not need him as a physician who came to heal the sick; and (2) existed people who had achieved Wholeness apart from Jesus; and (3) Jesus portrayed these people who did not need his teachings as "righteous". Why? The people he referenced who did not need Jesus to heal their sickness, had correctly embraced and brought the Duality of Man and Woman into Wholeness, Perfection and Completion -- in accord with the Original Design of Creation. Thus, those who are Whole, have reunited the halves of the mind that are allegorically portrayed in the Gospel of Philip as Man and Women, and bought about the necessary Restored Oneness when he stated: "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 (undivided) self, death will be no more". But what does this mean? 

It means that mankind will continue to incarnate as either a man or woman -- i.e., what can rightfully be portrayed as a Mental-Sperm or Mental-Ovum -- until which time each person overcomes their inherent duality as Male/Adam or Female/Eve and is restored to AdamEve in Wholeness -- as in the reality of their Higher Soul-Self that is the Source of their Consciousness. The post-Nicene Church became corrupted in the fourth century by the Emperor Constantine and other emperors who took total control of the Church and the Gospels (see The Corruption Of The Gospel Texts http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#GospelCorruptions   ).  That the Soul evolves over the course of many lives was removed and outlawed by the Church -- see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html   With the corruption of the original Gospels and Teachings, the vast majority of Christians could no longer understand what the people in an NDE attempt to explain as Soul-Merge 

 

The process of higher mental and spiritual development is also presented in the Gospel of Thomas in the words: "Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and 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." If it is the Purpose of Woman to "lead a prodigal son back to his Soul, so as to unite him with his Source", then the man must understand the inherent feminine abilities that are inherent in his wife, and he must assist and develop Woman's Unique Intuitive Abilities that the base majority of men lack any real understanding of. And as the man's wife with his assistance, begins to develop her Intuitive abilities and tap into her Power of Transformation where the Physical-Marriage begins to support the development of Higher Mind and Spiritual Powers of Consciousness, only then can Man escape the cycles of reincarnation (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/.../the-pre-nicene... ) that enables the Soul to develop over the course of however many lives is required to achieve Wholeness and Perfection -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt 5:48).

 

For articles explaining the relationship of NDE's to the Original Gospel teachings, see A Safe Space For Spiritual Seekers at https://www.facebook.com/groups/safespaceforseeker   

 

The Restoration Of The Gospel Teachings http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#GospelRestoration