The Feminine-Intuitive Source Of Knowledge That Brings Wholeness  

In the allegorical account of The Secrets of Mary Magdalene, Peter as representing the (male) linear-rational spheres of mind, states of the intuitive visions and wisdom of Mary Magdalene: "...These are certainly strange ideas". The allegorical symbols of the scriptures are not historical accounts. When Jesus taught that the Kingdom that all the prodigal sons and daughters seek is within each of us (see Luke 17:20-21), the scriptures were composed as an allegorical roadmap designed to make the inward journey to the Source of our Consciousness. And in this respect, such biblical figures as Mary Magdalene does not represent the personification of an actual historical person named Mary -- but rather, the purification, development and raising up of the (feminine) intuitive aspects of the disciples own mind. In the Gospel associated with Mary Magdalene it is written:“She speaks to the other disciples about Jesus and what she’s seen, and Peter says, ‘I don’t believe the Lord said these things. These are certainly strange ideas.’ And she replies, ‘Well, do you think I made them up? Do you think I’m lying about the Lord?” In this allegorical representation of the symbols of the scriptures, the linear-rational aspect of mind is represented in Peter's inability to comprehend what the feminine-intuitive as represented in the allegorical personification of Mary Magdalene reveals. And since these intuitive visions, impressions and wisdom does not support the linear reasoning of the masculine vision of this world and Creation, in most people they are rejected and/or even outlawed -- often which the threat of death.

When Jesus taught that the Kingdom is Within You (Luke 17:20-21), what this means is that each of us must develop our in-ward looking spheres of mind that will provide us the necessary vision and balanced Wholeness to receive and understand the Sacred Divine Manna of the Kingdom at the Source of our Consciousness. In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the fact that the mind of mankind became divided across the polarities of male and female 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 -- each with the capacity to fill the mental void of their spouse -- and when brought together in Balanced Wholeness, Pure Intellectual and Spiritual Enlightened Genus can be the result. Therefore, when man meets woman, two halves of the Mind are brought together with the capacity to interact, grow and evolve to Wholeness and Completion.

 

In the allegory of the Genesis account, 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 Jesus as a physician who came to heal the sick; and (2) were 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 each individual Soul will continue to incarnate from life to life as either a man or woman, until which time they overcome their inherent duality as a male or female. Why? To evolve each Soul to their true potential. 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 unique feminine abilities that are inherent in his wife, and he must support and assist in the ,develop these 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).

 

Souls incarnate together in groups (see Christian Reincarnation http://ChristianReincarnation.org ). What this means is that your Soul has lived many lives with all the people you know at present. From a woman's perspective: How has a perspective spouse treated you in your Soul's previous lives? By utilizing her natural intuitive abilities, most women have the ability to tap into the past lives that she has spent with a prospective husband, and and is therefore able to review their past lives together. After almost 50 years in this present life of assisting seekers to recall their Soul's previous lives, it is my own, and those who have worked with me, to conclude and confirm that virtually all the women were able to be regressed and recall their own Soul's past lives. Yet, only a handful of men could recall their own Soul's previous lives. And these and many other intuitive abilities are manifest in women, because their minds and abilities are an opposite polarity to that of their male counterpart. In the same way that parents train their sons to utilize their inherent strengths, if they did the same for their daughters -- teaching their daughters how to develop and utilize their intuitive strengths and abilities, young girls would make better choices in their lives. Further, with respect to the parents, the greatest spiritual gains are accomplished by those who properly prepare their children to achieve their greatest spiritual lives. And this Fact Of Life is demonstrated in the words of Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls when he raised the question as to what difference it makes if “Jesus... had been trained in the discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and that he had learned from it the role that he afterwards lived...” (The Scrolls From The Dead Sea). Why? Because it was the spiritually holistic mindset and lifestyle of the Essenes, that is the foundation of achieving the Anointing/Christing that the man Jesus received. And the fact is that every Essene lived their daily lives in the process of achieving the goal of becoming Anointed/Christed by fulfilling the Spiritual Law that enabled the man Jesus to achieve At-Oneness with the Logos/Word/Son of God which the Essenes portrayed as the True Prophet (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ). And this fact was presented by 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. Why? Because neither the original teachings or the corrupted scriptures support the tenets and structure of an organized dogmatic church as we have today -- see When Suppressed And Corrupted http://LawOfTheGospels.com#WhenChangedAndCorrupted .

 

The Feminine-Intuitive as manifest more deeply in Women, possesses crucial inward-looking attributes of mind and consciousness that is suppressed to some extent in her male counterpart -- attributes of mind that he desperately needs to escape the shackles of his inherent intellectual and spiritual poverty that causes him to be a prisoner of his own making. When rightly understood, the higher purpose of Sex is to empower the Transformative Power of Women that Man needs to release himself from his own intellectual shackles that enslave and suppress his consciousness. But history is also proof that few Men possess the intellectual insight to understand the dynamic equation of Man and Woman. It's not that women know more than men -- but that these intuitive abilities remain latent in woman unless they are developed in a Spiritual Marriage (see The Divine Marriage http://DivineMarriage.org ), is the foundation of the process of Mental-Development and Spiritual-Deepening that advances his/her Consciousness beyond the limitations of carnal reasoning, and enables Mankind to escape the Illusions of Plato's Cave and the return of the prodigal son to the Edenic Kingdom of his Father.

 

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I am Woman -- Created As Man's Transformational Savior

When Man Meets Woman: In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the fact that the mind of mankind became divided across the polarities of male and female 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 -- each with the capacity to fill the mental void of their spouse -- and when brought together in Balanced Wholeness, Pure Intellectual and Spiritual Enlightened Genus can be the result. Therefore, when man meets woman, two halves of the Mind are brought together with the capacity to interact, grow and evolve to Wholeness and Completion. 

 

Creator-God did not create teachers, gurus or Rabbis -- which is openly rejected in the Gospels (see The One Teacher https://brotherofjesus.org/#TheOneTeacher ). God Created the Natural Form of Mental and Spiritual Evolution when God separated Man and Woman in an environment where they could interact, develop, and restore Wholeness. The Gospel of Thomas presents the teachings that Wholeness must be achieved for each of us to be restored to our True Source -- i.e., "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) people who had achieved Wholeness existed 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 se 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 a man or woman -- i.e., a Mental-Sperm or Mental-Ovum -- until which time they overcome their inherent duality as male of female. The process of higher mental and spiritual development is 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 begins to develop her Intuitive abilities and tap into her Power of Transformation where the Physical-Marriage begins supports the development of Higher Mind and Spiritual Powers of Consciousness, only then can Man escape the cycles of reincarnation 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).

 

To enter into Life we must overcome our duality -- i.e., "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" (Matt 19:5). If you fail to achieve the necessary Wholeness, you can't gain entrance into the Kingdom in the hereafter -- and your Soul will once again reincarnate. Jesus taught there is no marriage in Heaven. Why? Because there are no Male or Female Separate Beings in the hereafter. Why? Because your Soul or True-Self is a Being of Light in which the balance of the opposite polarities of Positive/Male and Negative/Female are Self-Contained -- i.e., “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection" (Luke 20:34-36). Which means that Wholeness must be restored, before you can gain entrance into the Heavenly Kingdom. Each of our present journey into this life began when the sperm of our father divided, so it could join with the ovum of our mother -- i.e., the joining of male and female in the formation of an embryo that possessed the capacity to evolve into a fetus that develops and achieves physical birth. And those who comprehend the Natural Laws and their holographic reality that is replicated into all levels of Creation, understand that the functioning of the Laws that are true on a physical level of our being, is also true on a mental level of our being, and is also true on a spiritual level of our being. What this means is that when we were born into his world, our being could be rightly portrayed as that of a Mental-Sperm or Mental-Ovum that needed to Join and become a Mental-Embryo, in order to evolve to our Full Mental and Spiritual Potential and Wholeness -- i.e.,"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).

 

From the perspective of Plato's Cave, physical birth is a symbol of the process of mental birth that is possible when Man and Woman come together in a Spiritual Marriage (see The Divine Marriage http://DivineMarriage.org ). The higher spiritual purpose of sex, then, is to connect the two halves of the mind together so that the process of mental-development and spiritual-deepening within the Joined Union where the two opposite polarities of Mind can interact in an environment that can be portrayed as a Mental-Embryo which is in the process of developing into a Mental-Fetus, thereby making it possible for the husband and wife to achieve the subsequent non-physical stages of birth -- non-physical allegorically portrayed as the Virgin Birth. And from the perspective of man and woman, as the man assists in the mental development of those unique Intuitive abilities possessed by his wife that are suppressed and often absent in himself, his own Intuitive spheres of mind begin to develop. And as the woman channels, transforms, raises up and returns the Mental-Impressions of her husband back to him, both the husband and wife begin to evolve beyond organic male and female levels of mind and consciousness. Show me a man who is a Spiritual Genus or Adept, and you will find the Woman who evolved such a man into a state of Wholeness and Completion.

 

Quoted From The Real Facts Of Life You Were Never Told About http://TheRealFactsOfLife.Ebionite.com

 

 

 

 

 

When Man Meets Woman: In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the fact that the mind of mankind became divided across the polarities of male and female 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 -- each with the capacity to fill the mental void of their spouse -- and when brought together in Balanced Wholeness, Pure Intellectual and Spiritual Enlightened Genus can be the result. Therefore, when man meets woman, two halves of the Mind are brought together with the capacity to interact, grow and evolve to Wholeness and Completion. 

 

In the allegorical account of The Secrets of Mary Magdalene, Peter as representing the (male) linear-rational spheres of mind states of the intuitive visions and wisdom of Mary Magdalene: "...These are certainly strange ideas". And in this respect, such biblical figures as Mary Magdalene is not the personification of an historical person named Mary -- but rather, the purification, development and raising up of the (feminine) intuitive aspects of the disciples own mind. In the Gospel associated with Mary Magdalene it is written:“She speaks to the other disciples about Jesus and what she’s seen, and Peter says, ‘I don’t believe the Lord said these things. These are certainly strange ideas.’ And she says, ‘Well, do you think I made them up? Do you think I’m lying about the Lord?” In this allegorical representation of the scriptures, the linear-rational aspect of mind is represented in Peter's inability to comprehend what the feminine-intuitive as represented in the allegorical personification of Mary Magdalene reveals. And since these intuitive visions, impressions and wisdom does not support the linear reasoning of the masculine vision of this world and Creation, in most people they are rejected. 

 

How deep can you take your Marriage? By design, Marriage was intended to take you to the very Core and Essence of Self -- and eventually to God as the Common Source of Consciousness of all that exists. The teachings of Jesus was founded upon a spiritual mindset and lifestyle that was the Natural Environment to bring about spiritual growth and development -- built upon Consecrated Marriages that spawned natural growth and development beyond organic human consciousness, in Spiritual Communities that acted as a Cocoon for Spiritual Advancement and Manifestation. As a Spiritual People who were seeking the Anointing/Christing of their Consciousness, the followers of Jesus were strict vegetarians who in accord with the Nazirene Vow, never touched the dead. 

 

The original Ebionite Nazirenes lived a Holistic Spiritual Lifestyle in Consecrated Marriages and highly advanced Spiritual Communities that enabled them to refine their lower earthly nature -- and this refined lower physical nature permitted them to comprehend man's higher Soul and Spiritual Realities that is beyond the comprehension of organic"natural"man. This Higher Spiritual Knowledge has been portrayed as the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. As it is written: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna" (Rev 2:17).

 

The Feminine-Intuitive Powers of Mind as manifest more deeply in Women, possesses crucial inward-looking attributes of mind and consciousness that is suppressed to some extent in her male counterpart -- attributes of mind that each man desperately needs to escape the shackles of his inherent intellectual and spiritual poverty that causes him to be a prisoner of his own making. When rightly understood, the higher purpose of Sex is to empower the Transformative Power of Women that Man needs to release himself from his own intellectual shackles that enslave and suppress his consciousness. But history is also proof that few Men possess the intellectual insight to understand the dynamic equation of Man and Woman. It's not that women know more than men -- but that these intuitive abilities remain latent in woman unless they are developed in a Spiritual Marriage (see The Divine Marriage http://DivineMarriage.org ), is the foundation of the process of Mental-Development and Spiritual-Deepening that advances his/her Consciousness beyond the limitations of carnal reasoning, and enables Mankind to escape the Illusions of Plato's Cave and the return of the prodigal son to the Edenic Kingdom of his Father.

 

How many lives have you and your spouse been together as sincere seekers? The Intuitive abilities of Woman have the ability to develop the ability to see their own and their spouses past lives -- see Jesus Taught Why Most Christians Can't Recall Their Soul's Previous Lives https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/.../jesus-taught-why...

 

 

Jesus Taught Why Most Christians Can't Recall Their Soul's Previous Lives

 

Quoting from The Christian Secret Doctrine http://SecretDoctrine.Nazirene.org : In the approximate year of 178 of our Common Era, Celsus, the Epicurean Philosopher and opponent of Christianity, published a rather embarrassing work in opposition to Christianity known as The True Word or Discourse, which portrayed the Church as a "secret system" which taught the elect the doctrine of the soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes, while teaching the unenlightened entry-level Christians the doctrine of Heaven and Hell. It is said that this work was so widely published and used by the Pagan world as an attack on the Church. Seventy years after its publication The True Word was still so widely circulated, that the Church Father Origen was commissioned by St. Ambrosius to refute this attack by Celsus. Who was Origen that he was asked to present the official position of the Church? Origen is called “…the most prominent of all the church fathers” (Encyclopedia. Britannica), and was considered by Jerome to be “the greatest teacher of the Church after the Apostles.” St. Gregory of Nyssa called him “the prince of Christian learning in the Third Century.”

 

Among the mysteries that were concealed from the faith-based believers who were too carnal to receive the deeper truths of Christianity, was the doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul that evolves to Wholeness and Perfection over the course of many lives -- i.e., the transmigration (reincarnation) of the Soul. And if you can't recall your Soul's previous lives, then Jesus openly stated that your have yet to achieve the necessary spiritual transformation the is necessary to begin to recall your Soul's previous lives.  And once again, in his writing known as The True Word, Celsus accused the Christian Church of teaching the masses the spurious doctrine of heaven and hell in an after death state, while teaching the elect the doctrine of reincarnation. 

 

Though this may astonish the modern believer, Origen does not refute Celsus, but rather explains that: “But on these subjects much and that of a mystical kind, might be said; in keeping with which is the following: It is good to keep close the secret of a king, (Tobit xii, 7), in order that the doctrine of the entrance of souls into bodies, not, however, that of the transmigration from one body into another, may not be thrown before the common understanding, nor what is holy given to the dogs, nor pearls be cast before swine. For such a procedure would be impious, being equivalent to a betrayal of the mysterious declaration of God's Wisdom”. In other words, Origen openly acknowledges that the pre-existence of the soul, as well as the doctrine of transmigration (reincarnation) are openly revealed to Christians who have been purified and matured sufficiently to comprehend the mysteries of God, while the knowledge of why the soul even came into this world is kept secret, and is not openly revealed to carnal minds.  The transmigration of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom could not be taught or revealed to the majority of Christians, because they believed instead of following Jesus -- 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).   Jesus did not say that you must believe that he was crucified.  And this is further clarified where Jesus states that you must carry your own cross: "And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple" (Luke 14:27).  What this means is that you must transform your earthly-self -- becoming a Consecrated Temple whereby you are able to enter into the "holy of holies or narrow gate" within you, and achieve the necessary Wholeness to connect with the Divine Mind at the Core of your Mind and Being -- i.e. "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", did not need him as a physician who came to heal the sick, because they had on their own taken advantage of the Original Opportunity to bringing about Wholeness, Perfection and Completion.  In explanation, Origen quotes scripture and writes “It is good to keep close the secret of a king”, and affirms that certain mysteries only belong to the spiritually mature in the Word, and that one should not permit “what is holy given to the dogs, nor pearls be cast before swine”.

 

The position of the Church was that only the believer who sincerely and fully embraced the teachings of Jesus -- becoming the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see http://SowerAndTheSeed.Ebionite.com ), could fulfill the purpose and objective of the Gospel teachings. Preparedness to understand man's higher Soul-Reality, is why Jesus spoke only in parables to the masses of people who lacked the necessary spiritual maturity to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the core Gospel teachings -- i.e., "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). Only those who had achieved degrees of spiritual maturity, could the mysteries of the Kingdom be revealed to -- i.e., Jesus explained: “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). Which is why St. Jerome wrote: “The doctrine of transmigration (reincarnation) has been secretly taught from ancient times to small numbers of people, as a traditional truth which was not to be divulged.” Why in the pre-Nicene Church were the more spiritually mature taught differently than those who failed to advance? Origen responded to the allegation of Celsus by explaining that: “For there are in the divinity of the Word some helps towards the cure of those who are sick”, meaning the sinners. And this is true, as Origen explained, that the doctrine of the (physical) resurrection of the body, says Origen, is misunderstood by the spiritually unaware, and writes that it was “preached in the Churches… for the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief”. 

Why would Origen in his official response by the pre-Nicene Church, portray one group of faith-based Christians as being "...simpleminded", and incapable of comprehending the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings? To answer this question, it is important to understand why Jesus is portrayed as not being able to speak plainly to the people when he was teaching them about the Kingdom when he explained 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). Why could Jesus convey the mysteries of the kingdom to his disciples, but not to the multitudes who came to hear him teach? When the reason is rightly understood, the answer is the same as to way Paul could not speak plainly to the baptized Christians who are portrayed as having received the "testimony about Christ [which] was confirmed in" the people (1 Cor 1:4-) -- and yet Paul warned them: "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal" (1 Cor 3:1-3). Why was Paul unable to convey the spiritual concepts and meaning of the Gospel to the baptized and committed Christians who had received the "testimony of Christ [which was] confirmed in them"? He explained that as organic humans, they could not receive and comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospels and the higher Spiritual Kingdom -- i.e., “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14). Why would the mind of organic man reject the higher spiritual wisdom as "foolishness"? When the promise of eternal life was made in the Gospels, it was not made to the complacent believer who failed to fully embrace the teachings and spiritually advance. Jesus taught a Spiritual Holistic Lifestyle that is necessary to advance spiritually -- see http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#TheSpiritualHolisticLifestyle  

 

In his famed work De Principiis, Origin explains who can be a recipient of the Mysteries of the Kingdom and the Gospel of God: “Whoever has clean hands, and therefore lifts up holy hands to God… let him come to us… Whoever is pure, not only from all defilement, but from what are regarded as lesser transgressions, let him be boldly initiated into the mysteries of Jesus, which properly are made known only to the holy and the pure… To those who have been purified in heart, he whose soul has for a long time, been conscious of no evil, especially since he yielded himself to the healing of the Word, let such a one hear the doctrines which were spoken in private by Jesus to his genuine disciples”. Paul made reference to the inability of entry-level Christians who he, himself, had taught, to understand the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings when he said: "...I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal". It is therefore imperative that modern believers understand Paul's words when he stated to those who he had personally taught: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor 2:14). Thus, it is not a "secret system" when it is recognized that teachings such as the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lives, cannot be understood by the Christians who fail to advance to an intellectual level where they are able to comprehend man's higher Soul-Reality. As a sincere seeker makes spiritual advancement, they begin to naturally recall their Soul's previous lives. Within the official reply to Celsus by the Church is this teaching on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to Wholeness and Perfection over the course of many lives: "Is it not rational that souls should be introduced into bodies, in accordance with their merits and previous deeds, and that those who have used their bodies in doing the utmost possible good should have the right to bodies endowed with qualities superior to the bodies of others?... The soul, which is immaterial and invisible in its nature, exists in no material place without having a body suited to the nature of that place; accordingly, it at one time puts off one body, which was necessary before, but which is no longer adequate in its changed state, and it exchanges it for a second". And in his famed work De Principiis the Church Father Origen explains: "The soul has neither beginning nor end... Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life. Its place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor is determined by its previous merits or demerits. Its work in this world determines its place in the world which is to follow this..."