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Though many of you call me James, my real name is Jacob

 

"My People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

Because You Have Rejected Knowledge, I Reject You..."

(Hosea 4:6)

Spiritual Knowledge Is The Fruit Of The Tree Of Life

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life,

and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral

and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Rev 22:14-15
 

 

“Woe to you lawyers! 

For you have taken away the key of knowledge; 

you did not enter in yourselves, 

and those who were entering in you hindered”  

(Luke 11:52 NAS)

 

 

 

Without the Key of Knowledge, 

Seekers can't enter the Inner Kingdom!

Ten Questions Every Believer Must Ask?

What is the Key of Knowledge?

How could Yeshua/Jesus say that the Key of Knowledge was possessed by the Pharisees?

How did the Pharisees take away the Key of Knowledge?   

What did the Pharisees not enter in themselves?

How did the Pharisees hinder those who were attempting to enter in?

Since the Pharisees did not possess Yeshua, what was it that they did possess?

Did the disciples of Yeshua possess the Key of Knowledge?

Did the early Christian Church possess the Key of Knowledge?

Do Christians today possess the Key of Knowledge?

 

 

There are two ways,

one of life and one of death,

but a great difference between the two ways

 

 

 

  

The Netzarim

Jewish? Christian? Or Something Else?

Like the Pharisees who Yeshua condemned as the "offspring" of the Devil, those who today portray themselves as Netzarim, Ebionites, Messianic Jews and Jews for Jesus (hereater Messianics), all have one thing in common?   With few exceptions they all have followed in the footsteps of the Pharisees, and are the blind guides who have themselves thrown away the Key Of Knowledge.

In the case of the true meaning of the scriptures, ignorance is not bliss.   In the same way that Yeshua/Jesus condemned the Jewish leaders in his day for throwing away what he called The Key of Knowledge -- resulting in his portrayal of the Pharisees as blind guides who were leading the people into the proverbial ditch of this world -- absolutely nothing has changed.   For good reasons Jesus portrayed the Torah (ritually) Observant Jews as the offspring of the Devil -- i.e., "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ) -- and to ignore these words by abandoning the this warning, without understanding why Jesus portrayed a ritual observation of the Torah as the embodiment of ignorance and evil -- has the capacity to immerse even sincere seekers in this same folly that Jesus condemned.   Even in our present day the vast number of religious leaders whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim or the varies sects of Messianic and those who call themselves Nazarene Jews, are all well within what Jesus portrayed as blind guides.    And perhaps those Christians who begin to recognize the paganism of the Church, and attempt to reconcile this paganism by embracing Messianic or Nazarene Judaism, are very much the embodiment of the saying that they are unknowingly jumping from the frying pan directly into the fire.   

  The Original Teachings Of TheWay:  With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many Christians began to rethink the clearly pagan roots of the Christian Church, and began to embrace a new form of quasi-Judaism.   Some called themselves Messianic Jews, others Jews for Jesus, still others called themselves Netzarim, and then there were variant groups who portrayed themselves as Ebionites.   Why?   The profound long-suspected truth about Christianity became an indisputable fact when Dead Sea Scroll expert and biblical scholar A. Powell Davies expressed the immortal words when he said: “Biblical scholars were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls).  Worse yet, Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls further 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).  To the uninformed and unknowing believer, it made all the difference in the world!   What did the Dead Sea Scrolls prove beyond any doubt?   That the Ebionits who were condemned by the Gentiles and later Roman Church were correct -- and that the Gentiles were too heathen to comprehend the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay.   Thus, the Encyclopedia Britannica writes: "Most of the features of Ebionite doctrine were anticipated in the teachings of the earlier Qumran sect, as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls. They believed in one God and taught that Jesus was the Messiah and was the true "prophet" mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:15. They rejected the Virgin Birth of Jesus, instead holding that he was the natural son of Joseph and Mary. The Ebionites believed Jesus became the Messiah because he obeyed the Jewish Law. They themselves faithfully followed the Law, although they removed what they regarded as interpolations in order to uphold their teachings, which included vegetarianism, holy poverty, ritual ablutions, and the rejection of animal sacrifices. The Ebionites also held Jerusalem in great veneration. (Encyclopaedia Britannica Online)

When rightly understood, what the Britannica portrays as Ebionite doctrine had virtually nothing in common with either Roman Christianity that is practiced today, or Judaism -- which prompted the historian to write and acknowledge: “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).  Why?   Because the original teachings of Jesus known as TheWay has absolutely nothing in common with Roman Christianity of Judaism proper.   The teachings of TheWay was the means for what Yeshua portrayed as the lost prodigal son to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination (see GateOfEden.com).   When Yeshua taught that one must "Enter by the narrow gate..." (Matt 7:13-14 NKJ) -- the narrow gate is the opening to the Kingdom within the seeker/disciple.   And when Yeshua taught that "...for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it" -- he was making reference to those who remain attached to the thinking, ways and lifestyle of this world.   The lost prodigal son is portrayed as being dead -- controlled by the Citizen of this, the Far Country -- and is not returned to Life, until which time he makes the journey in TheWay to the Kingdom of the Father.       

 

 

Unlocking The Scriptures

The Key Of Knowledge

"How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law!

For you hide the key to knowledge from the people.

You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves,

and you prevent others from entering."

(Luke 11:52 NLT)

The Question: The Jewish Scribes and lawyers had a perfect theological knowledge of the Old Testament but Jesus said, “Woe unto you, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge!”  The idea that Jesus condemned the Scribes and Pharisees because they did not believe in him in the manner proclaimed by modern Christians, has absolutely no basis in biblical fact.   When it is realized that the original Gospel accounts portrayed Jesus as a man who fulfilled the Law within himself to become the Anointed (see TheTenWords.com ) -- and that the Virgin Birth account which was a later addition, is purely allegorical, and was not part of the original Gospels (see Virgin Birth) -- then a totally different Gospel objective begins to emerge.   And in not understanding the original objectives that very quickly became altered and corrupted, the Christian world has itself thrown away the Key of Knowledge.

The Answer: What is ignored by the Christian world is the reality that Jesus condemned the leaders of the Jews because they had thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- and by so doing, had inhibited the people from fulfilling the objective of the scriptures which was to enter into the True Spiritual Promised Land which Jesus portrayed as the Kingdom -- a Kingdom that Jesus stated was within each person.   When Jesus said that the blind guides should first remove the beam from their own eyes, before they attempt to remove the splinters from the eyes of their brothers and sisters, he was making reference to their own inherent organic blindness caused by their failure to properly utilize the scriptures in conjunction with the proper use of the Key of Knowledge.  

The Proper Application Of The Key Of Knowledge: In the same way that Jesus expected the leaders of the Jews to properly apply the Key of Knowledge and enter the (inner) Kingdom -- and thereby become enlightened to the Truth directly from the Source of All Truth -- in their failure to properly apply the Key of Knowledge, they made themselves blind guides who were apostates to the Kingdom of God.   Thus, the reality of the questions that modern Christians close their eyes to: How did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities "...hide the key to knowledge from the people"?    Why did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves? -- i.e., "...You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!   And how did the religious leaders of the Jews "...prevent others from entering?" 

That the primary objective of the Gospel is to prepare and enable the seeker/disciple to enter the Kingdom and learn all Truths and Mysteries directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God (see Logos and True Prophet), is further demonstrated in Yeshua's condemnation of the blind religious leaders as seen in the words: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matt 23:13 NIV).   Which means that the Kingdom of God is not something that will come if we wait for it -- but rather, it is a reality which man must seek and find.   Allegorically, the restoration of the prodigal son to his rightful place in the Kingdom is portrayed as the resurrection -- and that this resurrection can only be attained and brought about while in the body-vessel, is demonstrated in the statement of the Gospel of Philip in the warning: "Those who say that first they shall die and (then) they shall arise are confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live, they will not receive anything (when) they die" (see Gospel Of Philip).   But perhaps even more important is the fact that the Christians, like the Jews before them, have themselves thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- and they have promoted the doctrines and traditions of pagan Rome -- the Christians have preached a doctrine where they teach the people to "...commit apostasy" where they "...crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt" -- and as an apostate to the New Covenant, Paul warns that "...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins" (see TheLie.org ).   And like the carnal Jews whose heart was hardened by their apathetic ways, they condemn the Truth and the Gospel Objectives as heresy!

The question should be posed: Can we just read the literal text of the scriptures and know the truth?   In the manner that Christians attempt to do today?   Paul called the written words of the scriptures the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) -- because most of the literal written word that appeared to be historical, was little more than "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14).   He warned the baptized believers at Corinth that until they undergo the necessary process of spiritual transformation, that their natural organic mind will be incapable of understanding the true meaning of the Gospel (see Mystery), and they will look upon the Mysteries of God as "foolishness" -- 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 NKJ).   And he warned these baptized and confirmed Christians of whom it was said that they had received all the gifts and testimony of the Gospel of Christ, that their untransformed mind was yet too carnal to comprehend and begin to grasp the necessary higher realities of soul and spirit -- i.e., “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ (1 Cor 3:1 NAS).   Further explaining that what is known as the testimony of Jesus Christ and him crucified is the "milk" of the Gospel -- meant for entry-level believers who have only begun their journey in TheWay -- i.e., Paul warns: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).     

To ignore this warning by Paul, as well as a parallel warning by Jesus himself, and a warning by Peter and all the early elders and leaders of the Church, is to cast one's self into a Spiritual Diaspora of profound ignorance that will be near impossible to emerge from.   Further, unlike the modern believer, the above words were written by Paul to a congregation of Christians who he (Paul) had himself taught the meaning of the Gospel.   And what Paul was stating was that it would be impossible for them to understand the true meaning of the Gospel, until which time their minds became transformed and evolved into a state of spiritual maturity that would enable them to perceive and understand what was incomprehensible to those Christians who could only comprehend the Gospel and the meaning of the scriptures from a human physical perspective.   And this fact was confirmed by Jesus in the parable of the Sower and the Seed when he warned those who had received the Word:  “And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” (Mark 4:13 KJV).  And to put this great biblical truth in the more modern language of the New Living Translation: “But if you can't understand this story, how will you understand all the others I am going to tell?”     And what this means is that if you fail to understand and put into practice the essential teachings of the parable of the Sower and the Seed in every aspect of your life, that there is no means for you to perceive and comprehend anything beyond what Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth" (2 Cor 3:6) -- which was in fact the plight of the Pharisees who had thrown away the Key of Knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

The Religious Doctrinal Band-Aid: In the confirmation of the very pagan roots of Christianity, many believers attempted to correct the corruptions of Christianity by embracing the Torah and books of what is often referred to as the Old Testament.   And thus, a whole new problem arose as seen in the fact that while these believers were often sincere, they endeavored to apply human reasoning to the doctrinal problems they attempted to correct.  The result was a mishmash of beliefs that attempted to apply Christian doctrines to the Torah from a totally different perspective than ever before envisioned.   In their attempt to apply human reasoning to the written word of the scriptures, they retained such doctrines as the virgin birth, the divinity of Yeshua/Jesus, and the portrayal of Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah.   Many of the leaders in the Messianic and Netzarim groups, were previous Baptist clergy who, in the realization of the paganism of the Church in conjunction with the message of the Dead Sea Scrolls, attempted to translate many of their previously embraced core doctrines of belief, into a totally new Christianized version of Judaism.

While much of this article is taken from the substance of letters to various Messianic/Nazarene leaders, let me begin by quoting from another article appropriately named An Inconvenient Truth:

A Confrontation With A Long Ignored Reality - While many people today hold almost countless opinions as to what the scriptures are, the vast majority overlook the most important part of the equation -- i.e., they are what the original authors intended them to be.   Because both modern believers and critics all fail to understand the nature of the scriptures from the vision of the original authors, the scriptures remain a perpetual enigma to all who open them.   The bottom line is that it makes little difference as to what YOU believe the nature of the scriptures are, if you fail to understand the sacred writings from the same perception and understanding as the original authors who composed them.   From the perspective of a long ignored reality there are a number of important points that each person must come to terms with:  (1) In the first place, the scriptures are not historical narratives -- and when understood within their original context, they possess virtually little to no historical value whatsoever.  (2) Secondly, they are composed by mystics who would be deemed heretics if they spoke openly what they knew and witnessed as truth -- and even then, most of these very same mystics have been perpetually hunted down and murdered.  (3) The authors of the scriptures were Gnostics -- and the true meaning of the word Gnosis (see Gnosis) which was declared to be heresy by the Church of Rome, is the Divine Manna or Knowledge of the Kingdom which can only be revealed directly from God to those who could receive it -- and the primary objective of the scriptures is to conceal and preserve esoteric truths for fellow Gnostics in both the present, and even more importantly in the future.  (4) The objective of Mysticism is to circumvent the very limited knowledge of this world, and position themselves to receive Gnosis (Spiritual Knowledge) from God -- and all true mystics and Gnostics must understand the evolution of the soul over the course of many lifetimes.    While it is true that we were all Created equal -- equal is not the same -- and each of us is the product of our past experiences that have develop us since the very dawn of Creation itself.   What this means is that the mystic authors write what man calls scriptures, so that when their souls return to this world, the sacred writings will be preserved for them to renew and restore their spirituality, so they can continue their soul-journey from where they left off.  (5) This last primary requirement means that they must compose the body of the scriptures in such a way, that the carnal people of this world whose thinking, mindset and lifestyle remain under the control of what Yeshua portrayed as the Citizen of this world (The Far Country), will unknowingly preserve the sacred writings.   Thus, out of necessity, the Gnostic/Mystic uses the blind ignorance of the common people who remain entangled in the "outer darkness" (see Outer Darkness), to act as a (drug) mule or unwitting carrier -- and this is necessary because the Citizen of the Far Country (aka the god of this world) would induce the people under his control to destroy and/or corrupt the scriptures.  (6) It is therefore important to recognize that the biblical authors were correct in their assertion that the people of this world who remain under the dominion of the Citizen of the Far County, cannot understand the higher reality of the soul and what Yeshua portrayed as the (esoteric) knowledge of the Kingdom of God -- which Paul openly states they will reject as utter "foolishness" (see Mystery Of The Gospel).   (7) In view of the fact that the carnal people -- even those who are baptized and committed believers -- can't utilize the esoteric knowledge -- this inability to understand along with the threat of annihilation because of the charge of heresy, forces the authors of the scriptures to act in a way not at all understood by the congregation of believers.   In the example of Paul who references himself as an ambassador in bonds who cannot speak about what he knows openly -- openly warning the congregation of believers that he had himself taught, that if he did in fact speak to them openly about the Spiritual Gospel, they would reject what he said as utter "foolishness" (see Mystery Of The Gospel).    Further, Paul explains that because it was declared from On High to be "unlawful" to reveal to the faith-based believers the Spiritual Gospel of Christ and the Mysteries of the Kingdom (see Gnostic Spiritual Dilemma), there are two doctrines -- i.e., one for the immature congregation of believers who are incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom -- and the other which can only be spiritually received directly from the Mind of God (Logos/Son Of God/True Prophet). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Netzarim - Jewish? Christian? Or Something Else?

The Original Teachings Of Yeshua And TheWay

The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge

 

Letters To James Trimm

Why Jews Reject Yeshua?

The Spiritual Folly Of The Untransformed Mind

The Censorship Of The Teaching On The Pre-existent Soul

Predestination Vs Freewill 

Biblical Predestination 

Yeshua's Yeshiva - A Spiritual Canard 

Were The Ebionites Torah Observant?   Or Spiritually Observe And Fulfill The Law?

Modern Pseudo-Ebionites

Judaism - The Mystery Religion

The Plight Of The Jewish Mystics

Why Did Christians Abandon The Torah?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply To The Netzarim

Recently I was contacted by a member of the Netzarim about a reply I had made on the Brother of Yeshua Blog about a DVD entitled The God Who Wasn't There.   The person's name was Anders Branderud -- and in my reply I address the failure of the Netazrim attempt to apply human reasoning to a doctrinal dilemma that could only be resolved by going directly to the Inner Spiritual Source of Knowledge.  

 

Shalom Anders:

I found your comment to my Blog entry Reply: The God Who Wasn't There, very interesting.  

The first consideration in my reply to you, is seen in the fact that the author of the article and DVD that I was replying to -- i.e., The God Who Wasn't There -- is an atheist.   And perhaps my reply to you, will be as difficult for you to come to terms with, as would be my reply to an Atheist, a Christian, a Muslim, or any of the other of the countless religions and philosophies of the world.  

In the first place, if you truly practice Torah, then you can both spiritually elevate yourself, and make the world a better place.   But the problem that arises is seen in the fact that the Torah was written for the Jews, and few Jews understand it with any true depth.   As an example: In a sub heading entitled The Chickens Come Home To Roost on the web page at http://DivineStrategery.com , I make note of the teachings of the Jewish Mystic Isaac Luria.   Yet, few Jews would ascribe to many of Isaac Luria's vision of the Torah, and fewer yet possess the insight to understand the spiritual essence of what he taught.   In the article No Jew Has Read The Torah, I briefly examine the teachings of Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer who came to be known by Chassidic Jews as the Baal Shem Tov (The Master of the Good Name).   Yet, in my experiences, few Chassidic Jews understand the great depth of insight of Rabbi Eliezer.    

In the case of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572), who was renowned as the greatest of the Jewish sages, and was often referred to as “the Godly”.   It was said that at times, Elijah revealed himself to Isaac Luria in order to teach him the wisdom of the scriptures, and that every night his soul ascended to heaven, escorted by angels asking which heavenly academy he wanted to visit.   This account is important to all students of Judaism and the Torah, because he was not transported into outer space -- but rather, the Heavenly Kingdom within himself.    And ultimately, this should be the objective of every student of the Torah.   Isaac Luria was no ordinary Jew -- having been born in Jerusalem, and by the time he was eight, he was recognized as a wonder child -- i.e., a prodigy who already outshone the greatest of Jewish minds of Jerusalem.   It is said that he reached the highest levels of holiness and became enlightened to the Mysteries of God after spending fifteen years in a state of prayer and meditation -- returning home only just before dark in order to observe the Sabbath with his family. 

Both the Ba'al Shem Tov, and Rabbi Isaac Luria claimed that as the individual Jew evolves through embracing the inner spiritual meaning of the Torah, that they achieve Oneness with that principle known as the Ein Sof -- which is defined as the Limitless Light of HaShem.   That Yeshua portrayed the Pharisees as the offspring of the Devil (see http://DivneManna.org#devil ), is because they threw away the Key of Knowledge (see http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ).   And it is this this most important principle that that must be recognized, and should be the objective of every Jew -- which objective is to be taught directly through mystical union with Ein Sof.   Unlike the modern spiritually disenfranchised Christians, the earliest disciples of Yeshua referred to Ein Sof as the True Prophet (see http://TheThreeLies.com#TrueProphet ).   And not only do these three which clearly represent the absolute greatest of Jews all teach that the soul evolves to Perfection over the course of many lifetimes -- but the inner core of Yeshua's disciples all learned from their own union with Ein Sof.   Yeshua was a vehicle that spoke the Words of the Father -- and as Jacob (see http://BrotherOfYeshua.com ) who is known historically as James, the Brother of Yeshua, everything that I knew, I learned or was revealed to me, was taught by the Limitless Light of Ein Sof.   And you can confirm this for yourself, by seeking the One Teacher who Yeshua said was the Only Revealer of All Truth.  

Universally, mystics of great spiritual insight and wisdom, have all been confronted by the same dilemma - i.e., it is near impossible to convey man's higher soul-reality and the Mysteries of the Kingdom to the organic people of this world -- which Paul portrayed as the people of a "natural" mind who would judge and condemn the Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness" (see http://DivineManna.org#literal ).   This is also attested to in the analogy of Plato's Cave, where the few who escape the illusion of this world, are condemned as "madmen" when they attempt to convey to others what they witnessed and experienced (see http://DivineStrategery.com#Plato ).   Yet, it is of great importance that this mystical insight and knowledge be preserved, so it could be used by other true seekers in the future.   But thus the dilemma is seen in the fact that if they were to openly write of the spiritual insight and knowledge that had been revealed to them, not only would their writings be very quickly destroyed as heresy -- but they would themselves be condemned as heretics.    So, from the Source of all True Knowledge -- i.e., the True Prophet, Teacher of Righteousness, Logos, Son of God, or the Light of Ein Sof, they learn how to code their wisdom and knowledge within the text that will be accepted by their respective community of believers -- concealed within the written body -- and preserved for future use by those who prove worthy to receive it.   And this is why it is warned in Kabbalah that "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world..."  (see http://Ebionite.com/Torah.htm quoting The Zohar; Edited by Gershom G. Scholem, Zohar- The Book of Splendor, Basic Readings from the Kabbalah [New York, Schocken Books, 1949]).    And what this means is that those who see and study only the written words of the Torah which Paul called the "letter that killeth" (see http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm ), remain blind to the True Spiritual Torah that can only be revealed to those who have themselves become spiritually transformed.   

The disciples of Yeshua were known as Ebionites (the poor one's), and Nazirenes (the people of the Vow who were the Keepers of TheWay).   In order to be an Ebionite ( http://Ebionite.com ), you had to be of the Nazirene Vow of Consecration (see http://LightOfYeshua.org ).   And as Spiritual Israel, they observed the Torah in a spiritual manner.   Quoting the early Church writer Epiphanius: The Ebionites "...do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blespheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of the Ebionites/Hebrews where Yeshua states: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" (ibid. 30.16.5).   They were Observant of the Law -- but this was the Royal Law that is Spiritual.  In reference to the Ebionites, Epiphanius states: "They are Jews. They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them. They consider water to have sacred properties... they often baptize themselves in water, summer and winter, for sanctification..." (Panarion, 19:28-30).  So to say that the Ebionites are Torah Observant in the manner of the Pharisees, in view of the recorded fact that they "...blespheme most of the legislation ...They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them" -- is a lie that was promoted by the Gentile Church that was too heathen in their mindset to comprehend the spiritual nature of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay    

Unlike the Pharisees, Yeshua and his Ebionite Nazirene Disciples turned the Law within themselves -- in their quest to open the inner "narrow gate" to the Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   And their spiritual objectives were very well presented in the AskMoses.com portrayal of the Final Temple (see http://TheThreeLies.com#temple ) where it is stated: The Final Temple: With the destruction of the Second Temple, G-d changed His mode of interaction with the universe. Until the destruction, the Temple was the window to G-d; spirituality had a physical home in Jerusalem. The Kohanim offered the daily sacrifices, the daily routines went uninterrupted, daily personal prayer was redundant.  With the destruction, G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made it a spiritual place... We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find Him in us.  With the destruction, G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made it a spiritual place. He took that window and placed it within us. Instead of traveling to Jerusalem, G-d wanted us to find Him in our inner Jerusalem. Now, our bodies are our Temples, our souls are our windows, our minds are our Kohanim and our animal instincts are our sacrifices. We cannot offer physical sacrifices three times a day, but we can pray three times a day. We cannot attend Temple services three times a day, but we can tap into our souls three times a day. We cannot atone for our shortcomings by sacrificing animals, but we can sacrifice our inner animals—our hormones, our lusts, our desires, our beastly compulsions. We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find Him in us.  This was G-d’s Master Plan. By exchanging a sweeping, dramatic outdoor concert of public spirituality for an internal, personal, private experience, G-d was bringing Himself even closer to humanity, laying the groundwork for the Third and final Temple—an age that will synthesize G-d’s presence inside our hearts and minds and in the world around us in a totally new reality: the Era of Moshiach

What I would disagree with in the above portrayal of the Final Temple in AskMoses.com, is the statement that "...With the destruction of the Second Temple, G-d changed His mode of interaction with the universe."    In reality, the true spiritual objective of the Torah has always been for the seeker of Truth and the Kingdom to become the Final Temple -- but since the organic mind of man who is portrayed as the lost prodigal son, cannot comprehend his higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, the Torah as well as all scriptures is an allegory that conceals important spiritual truths to the eyes and understanding of those who are in the process of bringing about their own spiritual transformation.   In the Gospel of the Hebrews/Ebionites, Yeshua is stated as saying: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" -- because, the animals in the Torah are portraying our baser animal instincts that must be transformed -- i.e., "...We cannot atone for our shortcomings by sacrificing animals, but we can sacrifice our inner animals—our hormones, our lusts, our desires, our beastly compulsions."     And the true objective of both the Torah, as well as all the scriptures, is to transform our baser lower animal natures as we become a Consecrated (Nazirene Vow) that makes us a Living Final Temple -- enabling us to enter within the Holy of Holies within ourselves -- entering the Inner Kingdom that Yeshua declared ( http://GateOfEden.com ) -- and learning directly from what the disciples of Yeshua called the True Prophet ( http://TheThreeLies.com#TrueProphet ) -- what the Essenes allegorically portrayed as the Teacher of Righteousness -- what the Spiritual Christians who were murdered by the Church of Constantine portrayed as the Logos/Son of God -- and what Jewish Mystics portray as the Limitless Light of Ein Sof.

In the article The Three Lies ( http://TheThreeLies.com ) I demonstrate the folly of the carnal Jews, the carnal Christians, and the carnal Muslims.   Islam was born out of the absolute corruption of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, by the Church of Rome.   But Islam was very quickly corrupted with the insertion of what I call the Satanic Verses (see Satanic Verses) written into the Qur'an, in much the same way that the New Testament was corrupted (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).   The Distant Mosque in not in Jerusalem -- and because the Qur'an has been corrupted, the Muslims no longer understand the journey to the Distant Mosque (see Journey), which they are required to take -- which parallels that of the Christians journey into the Inner Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ), and the Jewish objective of becoming the Final Temple.    And what is needed in the world today, is the rebirth of Spiritual Israel in the form of the original Ebionite Nazirene Community that can be a Light to the world of the lost prodigal sons and daughters.   But so long as the Netzarim clings to the "letter that killeth" in the manner of the Pharisees, and the Jesus-god of the Church of Constantine -- and remains ignorant of the Spiritual Journey of TheWay that can only be brought about when a congregation of the "poor ones" of the Nazirene Vow of Consecration begin to recognize the Truth in the words that "...We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find Him in us.  With the destruction, G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made it a spiritual place. He took that window and placed it within us."     And this cannot be accomplished with an outward ritual observance of the Torah -- or the worshiping of the Jesus-god of Constantine -- but only by those who are willing to live the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay that open the inner Holy of Holies and provides them entrance to the Kingdom that Yeshua declared (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   In time other libraries of scriptures will be found that were hidden from being destroyed by the Church of Constantine (see http://Ebionite.com#purescriptures ), and what I have written on these web sites will become very useful to those who seek the Truth and the Kingdom.    

GodSpeed in TheWay,

Allan Cronshaw

 

 

 

Often, those who call themselves Netzarim or Nazarene Jews, are confused by their past Christian beliefs, and they attempt to superimpose the doctrine of the Trinity or the Jesus-god of the Church of Constantine, into an environment of Torah Observance, and they create a new faction that is just as spiritually limited as the original Christian and Jewish ones they attempt to synthesize.

In the first century of our Common Era, the Gentiles worshiped virtually everything under the sun -- and if one comes to understand the true meaning of Christmas and Easter (see http://Ebionite.com/Easter.htm , they not only literally worshiped the sun -- but the emperor of Rome was worshiped as a god incarnate.   And the fact that the thinking of the Gentiles was heathen and pagan, it was extremely difficult for people emerging from this heathen mindset to grasp the higher concepts and teachings of the New Covenant.   Among the Gentiles in the first three centuries, there were many opinions -- and at best, they represented partial truths.   And if one is to understand this fact, then you have to first understand the biblical warning that the organic mind of man is incapable of understanding his own higher soul-reality, and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God (see http://DivineManna.org#literal ).   To their own demise, even sincere Bible students ignore the statements at this link that warn that the congregation of believers will judge the esoteric knowledge of the soul and the Mysteries of God as utter "foolishness" -- even stating that it is "not lawful" for those who have experienced the Inner Kingdom, to convey what they experienced to the congregation of believers who are yet too carnal to understand the higher knowledge.    And if a person reading these words is one of the few people who are willing to acknowledge the biblical statements at the foregoing link, then the problem is further complicated by what would be called the Tower of Babel Syndrome (see http://DivineStrategery.com#babel ).   And this goes to the very heart of the KJV usage of the word Wholeness in the Gospels.    

While it is true that the historical man Yeshua was not an ordinary person, it is also true that the mind portrayed in the biblical presentation of Yeshua represents the ultimate in Wholeness -- and he could see and understand what few others could comprehend, because of this Wholeness and Spiritual Completion.   Organic man, which in the above link, Paul portrays as the "natural" mind that is too "carnal" to understand the esoteric spiritual meaning of the Gospel, is only able to perceive and comprehend from a very fragmented perception of mind -- and this is why each person, and each sect or philosophy, often sees the same thing from a different and often conflicting perspective.   And in recognizing the Tower of Babel Syndrome which is inherent in the organic mind of man, Paul portrayed men who embraced and promoted doctrinal opinions as heresy (see http://messianic.nazirene.org/no_sects.htm ).   Which means that from the original perspective of the Gospel, all of modern Christiandom with its countless opinions, doctrines and sects, is the perfect example of heresy from a New Covenant perspective -- and the attempt to Judaize the Gospel in the manner of the Netzarim, Messianic, Nazarene, or Jews for Jesus, merely further complicates the heresy that Paul warned about.   And as Paul states, the very existence of doctrines and sects is proof that they have been all turned out of TheWay.    Why?   Because the original objective of the Gospel is to guide each believer in TheWay, where they will know the Truth as revealed to them directly by the Son of God or Logos/True Prophet.   And the fact that the modern-day community of believers do not understand the human organic reality that is presented in the above first links, and they ignore what is presented in Paul's condemnation of doctrines and sects, means that they are (by Paul's definition) heretics who are are apostates to the Kingdom -- even when they profess belief in Yeshua.  

 

The original Ebionite Nazirene teachings of Yeshua were called The Way -- i.e., written TheWay in these web sites.    They were called TheWay, because when intimately embraced and followed, the disciple became Whole, and the Truth was revealed to him in accord with his ability to receive the direct revelation from the Son of God.   One of the key teachings to bring this evolved spiritual condition about, is the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see http://SowerAndSeed.com ).   And while the seed-essence of the Word of God exists within each of us, we must become the "good ground" in the parable, in order to become Whole.   Which means that the original teachings of Yeshua and TheWay was not some doctrinal philosophical belief as embraced today -- but rather, a lifestyle and mindset that nourishes and expands the implanted indwelling seed-essence, and brings about a state of Completion and Wholeness that fulfills the requirements of Perfection at Matt 5:48.    And that the creation of New Covenant communities was the first order of business in the Book of Acts, because these (New Covenant) communities are absolutely necessary for the development of both the people, and the children in the family environment, as the "good ground" that is imperative to bringing about Wholeness.    

In the same way that Paul commanded to "…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5 NIV)  -- and that Yeshua said that we are held accountable for every word: "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" (Matt 12:36 KJV)  -- and Paul further warned that the disciple must "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV) --  To the degree that Paul warned: “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:13 KJV) -- the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay is not faith in philosophical doctrines of belief which Paul defines as being turned out of TheWay -- but rather, the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay is a Lifestyle that transforms the lower earthly nature, and brings about Wholeness of mind and being (the above quotations are detailed at http://GateOfEden.com/#ArmageddonLost ).   And it is this transformation and Wholeness that brings about what is often portrayed as the Second Coming and the Kingdom within the disciple.  

Few people who study the New Testament today can understand the above concepts, or the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, because they do not live the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay that engenders this condition of Wholeness portrayed in the parable of the Sower and the Seed.    And, as Paul warns, the result is that the very community of believers who call themselves believers in Messiah/Christ, condemn the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter "foolishness".     In truth, the vast majority of the Gentiles over the first three centuries who called themselves Orthodox, were too heathen in their thinking and lifestyle to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel.   And while some among the Spiritual (Gentile) Christians who came to be called Gnostic, possessed a deeper understanding, most existed at varying levels in what is portrayed in the parable of the Sower and the Seed as thirtyfold -- with few achieving that level of spirituality portrayed in the terms sixtyfold, and one hundredfold.   But since the vast majority of the Gentiles were themselves too heathen in their thinking and lifestyle to understand with Wholeness of mind, there existed many sects and divisions that even at best, promoted fragments of truth.        

There were disciples of Truth and TheWay among both the Gentiles, and the Ebionite Nazirenes -- but as the Church began to become more and more institutionalized in Rome, it became accepted among a greater number of people because it became Pagan (see  The Christian Judas @ http://nazirene.org/unfaithful.htm ).   The result was that those groups which represented the True Spiritual Disciples of Yeshua (both Ebionite Nazirene and Gentile) became obscured -- often condemned as heretics by the heathen mainstream.   Ammonius Saccus, a Greek philosopher and founder of a Neo-platonic school taught that: Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same thing” (see Taylor’s Diegesis, p.329).   And from the perspective of those Christians who called themselves Orthodox, there was no difference.    To the degree that Celsus, the Epicurean philosopher, wrote that: “The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with heathens; nothing new, or truly great” (see Origen, Contra Celsus).  

In a letter from Faustus to St. Augustine this Pagan-Christian connection is embellished upon: “You have substituted your agape for the sacrifices of the Pagans; for their idols your martyrs, whom you serve with the very same honors. You appease the shades of the dead with wine and feasts; you celebrate the solemn festivities of the Gentiles, their calends, and their solstices; and, as to their manners, those you have retained without any alteration. Nothing distinguishes you from the Pagans, except that you hold your assemblies apart from them” (Quoted in Draper: Science and Religion, p.48).   How could “nothing” distinguish Christians from the Pagans, with the exception of where they hold their assemblies?   How could Christians “retain”  the manners of the Pagans, “without any alteration”?   If their lifestyle, celebrations, festivities and manner of worship are the same, then how could they be called the followers of Yeshua?   In many instances, conversion was the result of Jesus being installed as the replacement for the former Pagan gods.   In his book, Jesus, The Evidence, Ian Wilson writes: “A third-century mosaic from the Mausoleum of the Julii underneath present-day St. Peter’s in Rome actually portrays Jesus as Sol Invictus, driving the horses of the sun’s chariot. That Constantine himself mixed Christianity and the Sol Invictus cult is clear from a second commemorative medallion issued by him within two years of the first, on which he represented himself with a Chi-Rho monogram on his helmet, and with a leaping Los chariot below”. 

That the clergy who were in the position of leadership within the Gentile Church which called itself Orthodox, were themselves apostates to the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, is easily demonstrated.   And perhaps the perfect example of this which Gibbon uses, is Paul of Samosata (see http://nazirene.org/unfaithful2.htm#clergy ).     And it was this very corrupt clergy in what was called the Orthodox Church, which in the fourth century entered into a covenant with the Emperor Constantine -- who then used his power to legislate the accepted doctrines of the Church -- and used his armies to silence all who did not accept the religion of the emperor.    Being the head of the Church, Constantine then used his armies to hunt down both the Ebionite Nazirenes, as well as the Spiritual Christians who refused to accept the religion of the emperor (see http://Ebionite.com/prologue.htm ) -- putting them to death, and destroying their more pure and spiritual scriptures.

While the scriptures themselves had been corrupted by each group of Gentiles since the first century, the most corrupted copies were further corrupted in the fourth century in order to make them support the pagan doctrines of Rome as demonstrated at http://BibleCorruption.com .   Yet, over the course of the last two thousand years there have been communities of Christians who have travailed in TheWay, and have fulfilled the Gospel objectives and teachings within themselves.   The problem from an historical perspective, is that these true Spiritual Christians had to hide out and conceal themselves from the apostate Church of Rome, and there is very little knowledge of even their existence.    The condition of the Church itself is perhaps best portrayed in a letter to Pope Leo X on September 6th, 1520, where Martin Luther wrote of the Christianity of his day, that the church, “…once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness” (Quoted in: The Great Thoughts; compiled by George Seldes).    Yet, behind the scenes there were communities of Christians who were guided in TheWay, and they knew the Truth even while the Church itself fulfilled the portrayal of Paul as the Church of the AntiChrist (see http://ebionite.com/AntiChrist.htm ).   These small groups of faithful Christians were not recorded in the history books, and were often portrayed as heretics by the mother Church.   Which in fact presents the fact that the framers of the (Protestant) Reformation did not themselves understand the original Gospel teachings -- their movements often became political -- and these break-away groups were themselves only fragmentary in their understanding.     

In addition to many of the ancient texts noted in the Revised Standard Version, it can be demonstrated using the writings of the Anti-Nicene Church Fathers, that the words spoken to Yeshua at his baptism in the Jordan was "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" (see http://TheTenWords.com ).   This fact is further attested to at Acts 13:33, and Heb 1:5.    And this is why Yeshua is referred to by Paul as “the first-born among many brethren” (Rom 8:29).     What this confirms is the fact that Yeshua became the Messiah/Christ and adopted Son of God for the first time, at his baptism in the Jordan.   But since few modern Christians understand the difference between the man Yeshua, and the indwelling Logos/Son of God -- who was often portrayed as the Teacher of Righteousness and True Prophet -- and the vast majority of Christians worship their brother Yeshua as God, instead of imitating him and living the Consecrated Life -- then the vast majority of the congregation of believers remain infantile in their understanding -- i.e., quoting http://DivineManna.org#literal “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS).   Thus, these believers could only be taught the most basic doctrine of Yeshua Christ and him crucified (1 Cor 2:2), because they were not yet spiritual men -- but rather, they were men of flesh and still very much “babes in Christ”.   Paul then explains that: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).  

With respect to the true words spoken to Yeshua at his baptism: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee"  -- this is why the original disciples of Yeshua who were known as Ebionites of the Nazirene Vow, understood that (quoting Hippolytus) Yeshua "...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."   Hence, when a disciple of TheWay who picks up their own cross "...thus fulfills the law, they are able to become Christs, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity."  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).     And this is why they asserted that Yeshua was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).

All of us are equally the lost prodigal sons of our Heavenly Father -- some of us who have squandered away our divine inheritance dwell in what Yeshua portrayed as The Prison ( http://DivineStrategery.com#ThePrison ) -- others dwell in what Yeshua portrayed as the "outer darkness" ( http://DivineStrategery.com#OuterDarkness ) of mind and being -- and these lost prodigal sons are oblivious to the Kingdom within ( http://GateOfEden.com ).   When Gibbon writes of the original positions of the Ebionite Nazirene disciples that Yeshua became one with "...the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” -- the Apostle Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement portrays the indwelling Logos/Son of God as the True Prophet, and explains: "And therefore I advise not only wise men, but indeed all men who have a desire of knowing what is advantageous to them, that they seek after the true Prophet; for it is He alone who knoweth all things, and who knoweth what and how every man is seeking. For He is within the mind of every one of us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall learn anything from any other. But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose souls are not taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present with those who desire Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one think that he can find Him by his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself to his knowledge”.  

To even suppose that Yeshua did not have countless conversations about God -- his relationship to God -- the meaning of the term Anointed (Messiah in Hebrew, Christ in Greek) -- and to conclude that his disciples who were to be a witness to these spiritual truths and the Inner Kingdom that he taught -- were ignorant of the Truth -- is the folly of the modern believers.    Disciples such as Peter who is quoted in the Homilies of Clement in the above words, understood the difference between the historical man Yeshua, and the indwelling Logos/Son of God who was portrayed as The True Prophet, because the historical Yeshua taught his disciples how to seek and find the Indwelling Logos.   That Yeshua himself was the first of the prodigal sons who became One with the Indwelling Logos, represents an essential teaching in order to bring the Gospel Spiritual Objectives about in the life of the believer.   And the position of the Church that with the exception of Paul, the disciples were too Jewish to understand the teachings of Yeshua -- with the additional claim that the heathen Gentiles who worshiped virtually everything under the sun could understand what the disciples who knew Yeshua, and lived with him over the course of years -- to even accept this folly as having any validity whatsoever, is spiritual suicide -- and it is this mindset and thinking that has spiritually flat-lined the modern believer today.  

That the man Yeshua became One with the Indwelling Logos -- a word which is defined as the Mind of God or the Living Word -- and that it was God speaking through and doing the works through the man Yeshua, is the reason it was written: "Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself..." (John 5:19 KJV).    And this is why Peter witnessed that Yeshua was a man who was approved by God -- i.e., "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst..." (Acts 2:22 NKJ).   And this is why Yeshua himself taught that he is our brother -- i.e., "...go to My brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God'" (John 20:17 NKJ).   Making reference to himself as being a prophet -- i.;e., "Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem" (Luke 13:33 NKJ).  

That as the lost prodigal sons, each of us has the ability to learn from -- and become One with the indwelling Logos/Son of God or True Prophet -- was the essence of the original New Covenant Teachings that the Church of Rome corrupted, and that modern Christians do not understand.   Most of the lost prodigal sons dwell either in The Prison, or the "outer darkness" that Yeshua warned about, and because they do not become the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, they remain divided by the doctrines of men, and cannot be taught directly by the True Prophet.   Paul portrayed Yeshua as “the first-born among many brethren”,  because all who pick up their own cross and follow in TheWay, find the inner "narrow gate" opening within them (see http://GateOfEden.com ), where they begin to fulfill the Gospel objective of learning directly from the indwelling Logos/Son of God that Peter portrays as the True Prophet.    

Christians today are obstructed from moving beyond the most elementary of Gospel precepts -- i.e., that which Paul calls the "milk" of the Gospel -- because they are not faithful even with what would be portrayed as entry-level requirements.   And while they may call themselves Christian -- and call upon the name of the Lord with their lips -- they are apostates to the Kingdom and the Gospel.    In the article The Lie ( http://TheLie.org ), it demonstrates from a biblical perspective that the fate of the apostate believers -- whether Jewish or Christian -- is in fact far worse than the unbelievers.   But since the modern Church uses Yeshua as a pagan mojo that they promote as a means to dwell in perpetual sin, there is no truth in them beyond a very surface understanding of what Yeshua actually taught.

And even seekers who continue to cling to and belong to the apostate congregations of believers who are inhibited from becoming the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed by virtue of clinging to the "milk" of the entry-level doctrines of belief -- i.e., “Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil” (Heb 5:13-14 NIV).   The mature are those who live the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay -- making their body-vessel the Final Temple (see http://TheThreeLies.com#temple ).   Even sincere seekers who permit themselves to be limited by the carnal understanding of the entry-level Christians who cling to the pagan doctrines of Rome -- worshiping their brother Yeshua, instead of imitating his example of picking up their own cross and travailing in TheWay -- will be unable to arise to their true potential spiritual -- and become a vessel of spiritual rebirth.   And when those who call themselves the Netzarim, Nazarene Jews, Messianic Jews, or Jews for Yeshua, continue to cling to the core pagan beliefs of the Roman Church, while attempting to become Torah Observant -- their continued attachment to the pagan folly of Rome, will inhibit them from walking in TheWay.

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While the Netzarim should be the people of the Nazirene Vow (see Nazir) which is a necessary prelude in the transformation of the body into the Final Temple -- and the Netzarim should be the very spiritual environment that gives birth to a spiritual movement that heals the great divide between Judaism and Christianity -- the fact that the original spiritual objectives of Yeshua's teachings are not understood, has only created even greater confusion.   What is not at all understood today is the fact that the disciples of Yeshua were the embodiment of the proof that the teachings of TheWay represented the Ultimate Truth to Jews, as well as all of mankind.   But in the endeavor to create the Jesus-god of the Pagan Church of Constantine, many of the early scriptures that presented the Acts of the Apostles were suppressed and corrupted.   In the same way that Yeshua stated that his disciples would do even greater works than him, the many volumes of  scriptures which presented these works, were destroyed by the later Church.   As an example: In the article on Bible Corruption (see http://BibleCorruption.com ) it is documented:  One of the oldest copies of the Bible which dates back to the fifth century is the Codex Bezae, of which the Britannica writes: "Codex Bezae… has a text that is very different from other witnesses. Codex Bezae has many distinctive longer and shorter readings and seems almost to be a separate edition. Its 'Acts, for example, is one-tenth longer than usual’".    How can we have a Bible that is said to be "almost… a separate edition"?   ...Regarding this serious problem presented by Codex Bezae, Dr. Vincent Taylor writes that: "It is characterized by a series of remarkable omissions in Luke, especially in chapters XXII and XXIV, and by many striking additions and variations in the Acts" (The Text of the New Testament, Dr. Vincent Taylor). How would these "remarkable omissions" and "striking additions and variations" effect our doctrines of belief?

The dilemma that confronts not only the Netzarim, Messianic Jews, as well as all sincere seekers, is seen in the fact that human reasoning cannot solve the enormous doctrinal obstacles that is the legacy of both the Pagan Church of Rome, and the Jews who cling to what Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth" of the Torah (see Spiritual Defeat).   Only a restoral of the original teachings of Yeshua where the objective is to enter in at the "narrow gate" into the Inner Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ) by becoming the Consecrated Final Temple -- and the enlightenment of becoming an Anointed Disciple where one is able to learn exclusively from the Indwelling True Prophet ( http://TheThreeLies.com#TrueProphet ) -- can the great divide that separates Judaism and Christianity be healed and overcome.  

 

 

 

 

In a number of letters to James Trimm who calls himself a rabbi of the Nazarene Jews, we can observe a twofold obstruction to the seeker that few can overcome.   In the long ignored Epistle of Peter And James it is warned that if the esoteric knowledge of the Gospels should become lost, then "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error".    And while the ego of most seekers does not permit them the insight to truly examine this warning, for good reason it remains true even though most of mankind remains in denial of its implications.    While James Trimm is sincere is his study of Torah and its relationship to the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, because he neither understands how what Yeshua portrayed as the Key of Knowledge must be applied, and he is not building upon the proper foundational mindset that permits true growth and development, James Trimm's efforts will not bring about the objectives and results that he envisions.   In the following set of letters to James, the inherent problem of Christians who attempt to become Torah Observant from a Jewish perspective, is demonstrated.  

 

Letter # 1

Why Jews Reject Jesus: While it is true that there have been Jewish Mystics who have become enlightened as to the truth and reality of the historical Yeshua, there was really no point is even acknowledging the truth that had been revealed to them.   Why?   While it is true that the leaven of carnal Jews represents one form of error, the paganism of Christianity represents an equal form of error.    And both variety of errors represent the death of the soul.   Further, as demonstrated in the article, Things Christians Don't Tell Jews About The New Testament , the Gospels themselves openly state that the Hand of God inhibited a great numbers of Jews from believing in the teachings of Yeshua, as well as inhibiting the Gentiles from embracing Moses, in order to maintain an important separation between the two religions.   Moreover, while the written word of the allegorical accounts of the scriptures may appear to be different to the unenlightened who have not themselves been taught by what Peter called The True Prophet , the few who have had their eyes opened to the inner meaning are enlightened to the fact that there is no difference between the spiritual essence of the inner meaning that the vast majority of believers are blind to -- i.e., quoting Peter's words in the Homilies: "Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old.”

While the enlightened spiritual guides in our present time should be the Netzarim, up to the present time their error is perhaps even greater than the carnal Jews, the carnal Christians, and the carnal Muslims as detailed at this link in reply to a Netzarim.   With respect to the vast majority who portray themselves by this name, not only have they embraced the folly of the carnal Jews and the carnal Christians, but they have totally rejected the whole foundational essence of what set the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay apart from all the world's religions.   Quoting a reply to an post by a member of the Netzarim as found at the foregoing link:

In the article The Three Lies ( http://TheThreeLies.com ) I demonstrate the folly of the carnal Jews, the carnal Christians, and the carnal Muslims.   Islam was born out of the absolute corruption of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, by the Church of Rome.   But Islam was very quickly corrupted with the insertion of what I call the Satanic Verses (see Satanic Verses) written into the Qur'an, in much the same way that the New Testament was corrupted (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).   The Distant Mosque in not in Jerusalem -- and because the Qur'an has been corrupted, the Muslims no longer understand the journey to the Distant Mosque (see Journey), which they are required to take -- which parallels that of the Christians journey into the Inner Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ), and the Jewish objective of becoming the Final Temple.    And what is needed in the world today, is the rebirth of Spiritual Israel in the form of the original Ebionite Nazirene Community that can be a Light to the world of the lost prodigal sons and daughters.   But so long as the Netzarim clings to the "letter that killeth" in the manner of the Pharisees, and the Jesus-god of the Church of Constantine -- and remains ignorant of the Spiritual Journey of TheWay that can only be brought about when a congregation of the "poor ones" of the Nazirene Vow of Consecration begin to recognize the Truth in the words that "...We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find Him in us.  With the destruction, G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made it a spiritual place. He took that window and placed it within us."     And this cannot be accomplished with an outward ritual observance of the Torah -- or the worshiping of the Jesus-god of Constantine -- but only by those who are willing to live the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay that open the inner Holy of Holies and provides them entrance to the Kingdom that Yeshua declared (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   In time other libraries of scriptures will be found that were hidden from being destroyed by the Church of Constantine (see http://Ebionite.com#purescriptures ), and what I have written on these web sites will become very useful to those who seek the Truth and the Kingdom.  

God does not want the folly of one group of apostate believers, to prevail over the other two groups of apostate believers -- all born our of the ignorance of the true meaning of their own scriptures.   And what it all boils down to is seen in the fact that the Jews refuse to remove the beam from their own eyes -- Christians who refused to remove the proverbial beam from their own eyes -- Muslims who refused to remove the beam from their own eyes -- and the conflict between the three religions, is merely the product of their own doctrinal blindness that keeps them shackled to the ignorance of this world.   But perhaps the ultimate spiritual apostasy is seen embodied in the Netzarim, who have adopted the error of the Jews, the error of the Christians, and the error of the Muslims, in their attempt to homogenize the complexity of error under one proverbial roof.  

When you pass from this life and arrive on the other side, what will confront you is the message: Why look at the error of others, while remaining complacent to your own error.   And in the end, it will be this factual reality that will confront the people of all religions who embrace the doctrines of men or the folly of the "letter that killeth" (see http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm ) -- when with examination of self, it is within the ability of all believers to fulfill the Law within themselves, and learn directly from the One Teacher that Yeshua commanded to be your Only Teacher (see http://TheThreeLies.com#TrueProphet ).  

 

The above letter was sent to a forum which calls itself Nazarene Judaism.   In an attempt to censor what was presented, the letter was of course rejected.    So the below reply was sent directly to James Trimm.

 

Letter # 2

Shalom James:

I concluded that you rejected the below reply to your forum, because you didn't like what I said.  

For years now I have observed you beg people for money, so you could continue your work.   And I have been waiting for you to recognize the fact that if your work was truly valuable to God, that you would have sufficient money to carry on your work.   But I also understand that within the Ebionite Nazirene environment, your work has the potential to be very important to a great many people.   But like our old friend Shemayah Philips -- an ex-Baptist clergy -- who takes a very narrow segment of the historical record, and attempts to dismiss whatever conflicts with this narrow misguided position -- and arrives at the absurd position that Ebionites believed that Yeshua was just a man who wanted social change.     

While I can respect your love of the Torah, and your work to oppose Roman Christianity as Pagan and turned out of TheWay, it is difficult to understand why you fail to perceive that your many hardships are in fact the Hand of God moving in your life to call you to a higher witness and position of leadership.   While your work is valuable, the purpose of the Torah is to lead men to God -- not in a system of beliefs and rituals -- but rather, to lead the lost prodigal sons and daughters to their Source in their return to the Kingdom.  

While I understand that your scholarship in biblical texts is invaluable, you appear to fear opening the very door that your scholarship brings you to.   In my reply to the Netzarim  (see The Three Lies ) I present the examples of the most renowned Jewish Mystics, Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer, who became known as the Baal Shem Tov and the author of Hasidism.    And many Hasidic Jews have added to the great wealth of wisdom, because they followed in the footsteps of these Jewish Mystics and Visionaries.   And for a Jew, or a seeker of even Jewish affiliation, to simply dismiss the witness of these visionaries, is not only carnal insanity -- but spiritual suicide.   And while they were known as the greatest of Torah scholars, neither were they fearful of opening the door that their scholarship led them to.    And that the Gospels and New Testament only serve to clarify this spiritual door that Torah scholarship leads to, is proven at this link (see The Mysteries ).    And in the same way that the flesh of the written word is incomplete without the mind and the spirit, unless you are willing to open and enter through the door that your scholarship naturally leads to -- and has led the great Jewish Mystics through in the past -- then you will yourself never fulfill your own true potential.

A true rabbi and teacher points out the many possibilities and paths that the Torah and scriptures leads the seekers to find.   To ignore and even reject these possibilities, is to become shackled by manmade dogma -- like the Christians.   To ignore and dismiss the warning of Paul that the "natural" mind of the congregation of believers will dismiss and reject the higher wisdom and esoteric knowledge of the scriptures "foolishness" (see The Mystery ), is simply begging to remain elementary in one's thinking and understanding of the scriptures and the Mysteries of the Kingdom.   And for the Jews, this factual teaching and reality is demonstrated conclusively in the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay.   And the most esteemed of Jewish Mystics have been inhibited from plainly speaking about how the teachings of Yeshua is the fulfillment of the Torah (see New Covenant ) -- that it is the folly of the Jews that has brought continuing suffering and hardships upon them in their failure to arise as the spiritual leaders that they should be (see The Folly Of The Jews ) -- and this fact has been made perfectly clear in my reply to Messiah Truth (see The Folly Of  Messiah Truth ).  

While your knowledge and scholarship of the Torah is necessary, if you are to arise to your true potential, then you must be willing to step through the spiritual door that your scholarship has led you to.   And I am writing this because if Judaism, Christianity and eventually Islam are to come together in the future, then it is necessary for the Ebionite Netzarim to be on the same page -- in support of one another.   In the article entitled The Things Christians Don't Tell Jews About The New Testament , I demonstrate using the scriptures that the separation of Jews and Christians was brought about and maintained by the Laws of God.   And in the same way that the Ebionite Netzarim as presented in the quotations of Peter understood the Higher Order where "Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old” -- if you desire to arise to your potential, then you must present to Jew and Christian alike that only by following in the footsteps of Yeshua, and fulfilling the Law within ourselves -- can we become True Spiritual Israel that is the very purpose of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay.   But to serve the Higher Order and Will of God, then you must begin to open the spiritual door that your scholarship has led you to. 

Allan

 

 

 

One of the primary errors of James Trimm and the Netzarim, Nazarene Jews, Messianic Jews or Jews for Jesus, is seen in the fact that because they have nothing in common with becoming the Final Temple or the necessary Consecrated Life, they lack any understanding of the higher reality of the soul -- the Inner Kingdom that Jesus taught as a foundation of New Covenant Teachings -- or the reality that the Only Teacher which Jesus taught was acceptable, was the Inner Logos/Son of God or True Prophet.   In one communication to others who identified with the group known as Nazarene Judaism, James Trimm made a comparison with the Gospels and the Apocrypha -- one of which was the Book, the Wisdom of Solomon.   Yet, there is an important teaching in the Wisdom of Solomon that James Trimm skipped over, because it demonstrated the limitations of his theology that both himself, and others, are attempting to present as the original teachings of Jesus.   Thus, the following letter was sent to Mr. Trimm: 

 

Letter # 3

Shalom James:

Your work in referencing the New Testament to the Apocrypha is really good -- so I am going to post it to the Nazirene Disciple forums.   There is no point in replying across your forum, because the people there are not prepared to consider these other parallel verses.  

Perhaps you might consider adding to the list the statement at John 9:1, which parallels that of the Wisdom of Solomon 8:20 which reads: "Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled."    Thus, when the disciples asked Yeshua if it was the sin of the man or his parents that caused him to be born blind (defiled), you can immediately see the connection to Wis 8:20.   And if they would translate the Septuagint version of Job 2:9 correctly, it would of course confirm the quotation in the 37th Chapter of the Gospel of the Nazirenes where it reads: "So through many changes must you be made perfect, as it is written in the book of Job, 'I am a wanderer, changing place after place and house after house, until I come into the city and mansion which is eternal.'"  (see Quotations on Preexistence of the Soul ).     The Gospel of the Nazirenes also preserves the uncorrupted text ( http://BibleCorruption.com ) of John 9 where it states: "And at another time as Yeshua passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?   Yeshua answered, To what importance is it whether this man or his parents sinned? The rewards of our actions return again to us so that the works of the Lord are made manifest. I must work the works of the Lord while in this season. As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world...".   The fact that the rewards of our actions return again to us, confirms why Solomon wrote that he came into a body undefiled. 

These important spiritual realities further support and confirm what Origen wrote with respect to the potter in your below reference to Esau and Jacob, as to why God hated Esau even before he came into the body (see The Church And Predestination ).   Briefly quoting this link, Origen writes with respect to the potter in Romans:  Now God, who deemed it just to arrange His creatures according to their merit, brought down these different understandings into the harmony of one world, that He might adorn, as it were, one dwelling, in which there ought to be not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay (and some indeed to honor, and others to dishonor), with those different vessels, or souls, or understandings. And these are the causes… why that world presents the aspect of diversity, while Divine Providence continues to regulate each individual according to the variety of his movements, or of his feelings and purpose. On which account the Creator will neither appear to be unjust in distributing (for the causes already mentioned) to every one according to his merits; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of each one's birth, or whatever be the condition that falls to his lot, be deemed accidental; nor will different creators, or souls of different natures, be believed to exist”.   As Origen further explains: “‘What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?' And that he might furnish us with an opportunity of inquiring into these matters, and of ascertaining how these things do not happen without a reason, he answers himself, and says, 'God forbid.' For the same question, as it seems to me, which is raised concerning Jacob and Esau, may be raised regarding all celestial and terrestrial creatures, and even those of the lower world as well. And in like manner it seems to me, that as he there says, 'The children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,' so it might also be said of all other things, 'When they were not yet' created, 'neither had yet done any good or evil, that the decree of God according to election may stand,' that (as certain think) some things on the one hand were created heavenly, some on the other earthly, and others, again, beneath the earth, 'not of works' (as they think), 'but of Him who calleth,' what shall we say then, if these things are so? 'Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.' As, therefore, when the Scriptures are carefully examined regarding Jacob and Esau, it is not found to be unrighteousness with God that it should be said, before they were born, or had done anything in this life, 'the elder shall serve the younger;' and as it is found not to be unrighteousness that even in the womb Jacob supplanted his brother, if we feel that he was worthily beloved by God, according to the deserts of his previous life, so as to deserve to be preferred before his brother”.

Thus, that statement at Wis 8:20 takes on important parallel meanings that are presented at http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm .  

Allan

 

 

 

 

Predestination Vs Freewill

 

In a post to his forum, James Trimm discussed the belief of the Essenes in the the doctrine of Predestination.   Why is this subject of great importance?   Because the scriptures are composed upon the foundational reality of the preexistent soul that evolves to perfection -- and the station of each person with respect to their present life, is the direct result of what they accomplished in the past.  Quoting the Jewish historian Josephus, James Trimm writes: The Essenes believed strongly in Predestination:  "…the sect of the Essenes affirm that fate governs all things, and that nothing befalls men but what is according to its determination"   (Josephus; Ant. 13:5:9).   James then quotes the Dead Sea Scrolls: "From the God of Knowledge comes all that is and shall be.  Before ever they existed He established their whole design, and when, as ordained for them, they come into being, it is in accord with His glorious design that they accomplish their task without change..." (1QS 3:15f).  

In making a comparison to the Pharisees, James then writes: However the Pharisees had a more moderate view: "When they say that all things happen by fate,  they do not take away from men the freedom of acting as they think fit; since their notion is that it has pleased God to mix up the decrees of fate and man's will, so that man can act virtuously or visciously" (Josephus; Ant. 18:1:3).    The Mishna gives the Pharisaic view as follows: "All things are foreknown, but freewill is given" - m.Avot 3:16.

 

To the above I responded back to James Trimm:

 

Letter # 4

Shalom James:

While what you are writing with respect to the Essenes and Pharisees is true, you are only presenting half of the equation.   The reason why Josephus stated that the Essenes believed strongly in predestination, is because in his Antiquity Of The Jews he presents their doctrine on the soul, and writes that they “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.     

 

That the Pharisees were in agreement with the Essenes is seen in the writings of the Alexandrian philosopher Philo Judaeus.   In his De Somniis (I:22) he wrote  "...the air is full of souls; those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies, return to other bodies, desiring to live in them." In De Gigantes (2 et seq.) he wrote that "...the company of disembodied souls is distributed in various orders. The law of some is to enter moral bodies and after certain prescribed periods to be again set free.  But those possessed of a diviner structure are absolved form all local bonds, of earth. Some souls choose confinement in mortal bodies because they are corporeally inclined, ... Yet those who are wise, like Moses, are also living abroad from home because they chose this expatriation from heaven in order to acquire knowledge and so came to dwell in earthly nature. While here they urge men to return to their original source."

 

Freewill is always a part of the equation with respect to predestination.   In each life you are presented with choices -- and the choices you make, will determine the circumstances of your future life -- and this is explained at http://DivineStrategery.com#TheLaws .   And much on the subject is presented in that section on the early Church on predestination (see http://DivineStrategery.com/#predestination ).   Writing on Jacob and Esau, the Church Father Origen states: “For God the Creator makes a certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but that vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity He makes a vessel unto honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice He makes a vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, 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 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. And if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in harmony with all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear absurd that, in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the same method, we should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature of souls, and (believe) that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved before he was born into this world, and Esau hated, while he still was contained in the womb of his mother”.     

The vast majority of people remain totally unaware of why their life is preordained -- and was orchestrated based upon their choices in previous incarnations -- because they dwell in what Yeshua called the "outer darkness" (see http://DivineStrategery.com#OuterDarkness ).   Yet, those who seek the Truth and the Kingdom as Yeshua taught, are bestowed with the knowledge of the soul, so that they can begin to comprehend what Paul called the Mysteries of the Kingdom.    People such as Calvin, did not at all understand that each person's life is preordained based upon the choices they made in the past, because this important teaching was removed from the scriptures and Church doctrine by the Roman Emperors who ruled over the Church (see http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm ).   Thus, the biblical doctrine of predestination cannot be understood, without comprehending the freewill that was exercised in order to bring about one's present life.   And this is why the Wisdom of Solomon 8:20 reads: "Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled."

 

Allan

 

 

Biblical Predestination

 

 

What the biblical doctrine of predestination which is paramount throughout both the Old and New Testaments is based upon, is that man's actions and choices have consequences -- both good and bad.   And once a certain path is chosen, and walked, the choice must be lived through to completion.   In the same way that when we enter a passage way that has many doors -- and we choose one of those doors and step through -- the experience that follows will be confined to the choice of the door that we have made.   Thus, while we exercised freewill to choose the door, the experiences in the room that we have chosen is preordained.    Once we pass through the door that closes behind us, we must live with the choices that we have previously made.  

The Book of the Revelation states: "If any man have an ear, let him hear.  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints" (Rev 13:9-10 KJV).   If a man was himself struck down when he kills another person, then no man in his right mind would inflict harm or murder another.   If what we did unto others was instantly returned back upon ourselves, then we would treat others with the greatest of love and respect -- i.e., we would do unto them, as we would want done unto us.   But, while Jesus taught that what we do unto others is returned back to us, the fact that most men believe that they will not inherit the same treatment as they do to others, is the cause of the many conflicts and abuses in the world.  But if a test is to be effective, then a person cannot be given the answers beforehand -- and if each person knew that their own actions would come back upon them, then the objectives and tests of life would be totally negated. 

If a person truly believed in the teachings of Jesus, then they would do what he commanded -- i.e. "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46 KJV).   Jesus taught the multitude of hears the concepts of the Sermon on the Mount for a reason -- and those who do not abide in these teachings, are unbelievers -- regardless of what they proclaim with their lips.

As demonstrated by the Jewish Mystics in The Chickens Come Home To Roost, the Jews who died in the Holocaust, were born under that condition, because of the sins these souls committed in their previous lifetimes.   And thus, when tested, the person who believes they can kill their brother or sister, will themselves be slain when the Chickens come home to roost in a future life.  

Perhaps even more important is the statement in the Revelation where it is written: "...He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity" -- and the ramifications of this statement of spiritual reality is so vast, that few people can even conceive of the result of their choices, freewill and actions.   Captivity can be portrayed as any action of one person's part that forces another into a role that denies the person the exercise of their freewill.   Once again, if a person who imposed his will upon another was to instantly inherit the same conditions he imposed upon the other person, then the learning experiences, testing and trials of life would be meaningless.   Thus, the person who is imposing their will upon another person, must be permitted the illusion that there are no consequences for their actions.      Thus, it is warned that: “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).   But if every man instantly reaped what he has sown, then the very purpose of this world which is portrayed by Jesus as the Far Country (see The Prodigal Son), would negate the important lessons in life that teach and test through the trials of life -- and thus, the very higher spiritual purpose of life would no longer be effective.     In order to pass the tests of life, each of us must do what is right, simply because we intuitively know that it is the right thing to do.    Thus, as Jesus taught, we must not render evil for evil -- and wherever possible, it is far better to turn the other cheek. 
This world is God's School House where His Offspring who Jesus portrayed as the lost prodigal sons, is brought to the necessary spiritual completion to fulfill the requirement set forth at Matthew 5:48 -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect".   And this same requirement set forth in the Gospel of Matthew, is presented in the Book of Jewish Mysticism known as the Zohar where it states: “All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them… to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections… if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God.”    In the parable of the prodigal son, the son travels into the Far Country -- and while there, he falls under the control of what Jesus portrayed as the Citizen of this world.   After much tribulation the son begins to come to his senses, and commences the return journey to his Heavenly Father.    Thus, the statements in the Zohar parallel what Jesus taught in the words: “All souls… must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged.  But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them... until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God.” 
The "...absolute substance whence they have emerged" is the Kingdom of the Father from which Jesus taught each of us, as the prodigal sons and daughters, originated from, prior to what is allegorically portrayed as the Fall of Man (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   It is the lessons learned and overcome in this, the Far Country, that matures each of us to a state of Oneness with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God -- which Peter in the Homilies of Clement portrayed as the True Prophet (see True Prophet).   And, having travailed in TheWay by following in the footsteps of our elder brother Yeshua/Jesus who was the first to complete the journey in TheWay, we will have "...developed all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in [us]... until [we] have acquired the condition which fits [us] for reunion with God.” 

This is the reality that Jesus taught to the inner core of his disciples.   To the multitudes who he portrayed as being "without", he taught the concepts of the Sermon on the Mount which has the ability to free Fallen Man from what Jesus portrayed as The Prison ( http://DivineStrategery.com#ThePrison ).   Those who either dwell in The Prison, or what Jesus called the "outer darkness" ( http://DivineStrategery.com#OuterDarkness ), cannot possess the knowledge of their soul's past that has orchestrated their present life.    This knowledge and the sacred mysteries of the Kingdom, can only be imparted to those who travail in TheWay.   In the second century when the Church was attacked by Celsus for being a secret system -- teaching the multitude the doctrines of the simple faith -- while reserving for the inner core such teachings as the Journey of the Soul over the course of many lifetimes.    In acknowledgement that what Celsus was saying was true, the Church Father Origen who was commissioned by the Church to reply to the allegations of Celsus, openly stated that it was the teaching on the entrance into bodies that was kept secret, not the transmigration of the soul -- i.e., quoting the official reply of the Church: “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” (Origen Contra Celsum).

In explaining who what the early Church Fathers called the minor mysteries could be revealed to, Origen replies to Celsus, the second century Epicurean philosopher, when he wrote that the true depth of the Gospel message is difficult for the reader to perceive, “…including a very profound explanation of the parables, which Jesus delivered to ‘those without’ while reserving the exhibition of their full meaning for those who have passed beyond the stage of exoteric teachings, and who came to him privately in the house. And when he comes to understand it, he will admire the reason why some are said to be without, and others in the house”.

What modern believers fail to understand, is the fact that the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus was a purely Spiritual Path -- a Path of return to the Kingdom within that Jesus taught to seek and find by entering in the inner "narrow gate" (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   And this was the objective of freeing one's self from the ignorance of the "outer darkness", which enabled the disciple to fulfill the requirement to become the Final Temple, and come into the presence of the Indwelling True Prophet/Logos/Son of God.  

 

In the same way that Yeshua/Jesus commanded his disciples to call no man upon the earth father -- because they have One Father, who is God -- i.e., "And do not call {anyone} on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven" (Matt 23:9 NAS).   The fact that neither Christians, or their Messianic Jewish offshoot do not understand the reality of these words, is one of the primary reasons why Jesus said that the god of the Torah Observant Jews was the Devil!!!   In the same vain, Jesus commanded his disciples not to be called rabbi, or teacher, because there is One Teacher that the disciples of the New Covenant must learn from -- i.e., "But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers" (Matt 23:8 NAS).   And those who do not abide by this teachings -- and fail to understand why the disciples of Jesus were commanded not to be called teacher or rabbi, are themselves the offspring of the Evil One, and they are apostates to the Kingdom that Jesus declared.   And again, in the same vain, Jesus commanded his disciples not to be called leaders -- i.e., "And do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. But the greatest among you shall be your servant" (Matt 23:10-11 NAS).   Yet, in the total rejection of everything that Jesus taught, those who put themselves forth as the modern-day Netzarim, crucify Messiah/Christ afresh, with the creation of what they portray as the Beit Netzarim Yeshiva .  

The Foundation Of The New Covenant: Can man learn about God from other men?   No!!!    And the fact that men attempt to teach other men about God and the meaning and purpose of Creation, is the source of all the evil, confusion and ignorance in this world.   And one of the core realities that are essential to the New Covenant that Jesus inaugurated, is the total rejection of seeking the knowledge of God from other men, or from the written word of the scriptures which Paul correctly portrayed as the "letter that killeth" (see http://Ebionite.com/defeat.htm ).    What is the New Covenant?   The New Covenant is presented in the words: "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.  In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away" (Heb 8:10-13 NKJ).
Why is the Old Covenant Obsolete?   In the Old Covenant men learned from other men -- they learned from the study of the written words of the Torah -- and from a spiritual perspective, in the life of a spiritual people who are themselves seeking to walk in TheWay and abide by the teachings of Jesus and the New Covenant, this manner of learning was and is not only obsolete -- i.e., "...He has made the first obsolete" -- and the whole concept of a New Covenant Netzarim Yeshiva, school or university, is a total rejection of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, and a spiritual abomination to the New Covenant.   And like their Pharisaic forefathers who crucified Messiah/Christ, those who violate the essence of these New Covenant teachings, are themselves a spiritual abomination to the Heavenly Father.     
That the disciples of Jesus and TheWay are not to be called rabbi or teacher, is further confirmed in the statement of the Apostle Peter as preserved in the writings of his disciple Clement where he warned:
Hence,O beloved Clement, if you would know the things pertaining to God, you have to learn them from Him alone, because He alone knows the truth. For if any one else knows anything, he has received it from Him or from His disciples”.  Which means that the whole concept of a New Covenant Yeshiva, school or university where one man teachers another, is not only a rejection of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, but is one of the primary sources of spiritual ignorance in the world today.   In view of the fact that Jesus taught that he was our brother, and that the purpose of his teachings was to free those who sought to become his disciples from the shackles of ignorance that imprisons the people of this world -- and if the disciple is to become as Jesus, then each disciple has the innate ability to become the Anointed -- i.e., Messiah in Hebrew, Christ in Greek.   And this is exactly what John conveys to believers who others are attempting to deceive -- i.e., "These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.  But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him" (I Jn 2:26-27 NKJ).
What Anointing did they receive?   The words Messiah/Christ mean the Anointing in English -- and this makes reference to the Anointing of the mind of those who travail in TheWay.   And this is why Paul writes: "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you" (Gal 4:19 KJV).   Thus, the very purpose of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, was for each disciple to become the Anointed -- i.e., the Messiah or Christ.   And it is this Anointing of the mind that opens the inner "narrow gate" (see http://GateOfEden.com ) to the Indwelling Logos, Son of God, True Prophet, that Jesus commanded should be our only Teacher -- and is the embodiment of the very essential core teachings of the New Covenant, as demonstrated above.  

When Paul writes: "However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing" (1 Cor 2:6 NKJ) -- those who are portrayed as leaders, are the very sectarian religious and secular authorities of this world that the disciples of Jesus are commanded to reject -- i.e., "And do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. But the greatest among you shall be your servant" (Matt 23:10-11 NAS).    The One Leader is the Anointing (Christ) that the faithful disciples receives as a Power of Enlightenment -- and the One Teacher, is the Indwelling Logos/Son of God or True Prophet that Jesus commanded his disciples to learn from.     Therefore, anyone who puts themselves forth as a rabbi or teacher, not only rejects the teachings of Jesus and the New Covenant -- but they are themselves servants of the AntiChrist.

While faith is necessary, the disciples of Jesus were commanded to pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay -- i.e., "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46 KJV).   And as Paul states, each of us must begin to form the Anointing (Messiah/Christ within us, and that we must each come to the "...fullness of Christ ...that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting" (Eph 4:14 NKJ).    And where the entry-level believers were of a carnal mind -- and it was impossible for them to grasp the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom -- it was the Anointing of the mind that enables the disciples to see and perceive a higher reality that the people of this world are totally blind to -- i.e., "But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.'  But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  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.  But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.  For 'who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Cor 2:9-16 NKJ).   And unless you embrace and live the Commandments which Jesus set forth, it is impossible for you to receive the Anointing which reveals all things to the mind of the disciple -- and is the One Teacher that all those who call upon the Lord must learn from.    

And this objective is further presented in the goal that all those who are of an organic mind and spiritually immature, will evolve "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13 NKJ).   But to understand what Paul is presenting, it is important to understand one of the surviving quotations of the Original Matthew  known as the Gospel of the Hebrews/Ebionites where St. Jerome preserved the text at the baptism (quoting Jerome): "But according to the gospel which the Nazaraeans read, written up in Hebrew speech: The whole fount of the holy spirit shall descend over him.... Further on in the gospel of which we made mention above we find these things written: But it happened that, when the Lord ascended from the water, the whole fount of the holy spirit descended and rested over him, and said to him: My son, in all the prophets I was expecting you, that you should come, and I might rest in you. You indeed are my rest. You are my firstborn son, who reigns in eternity."   To which Jerome correctly explains  "not partially as in the case of other holy men."

While the prophets and holy men of the past had received the Anointing (Messiah/Christ) that enabled them to understand the Mysteries of the Kingdom to the degree that they were able to receive the Anointing, only Jesus had so fulfilled the Law within himself, and was therefore able to receive "...the whole fount of the Holy Spirit".   Thus, this original teaching is preserved by the early Church writer Hippolytus when he stated 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."  And in speaking of this original Ebionite Nazirene position, he writes that when each disciple "...thus fulfills the law, they are able to become Christs, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity."  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   And it is this spiritually evolved objective of the teachings of the New Covenant that Paul is making reference to when he states that each believer is to be matured into "...a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13 NKJ)    
In the case of the historical man Jesus who totally fulfilled the Law within himself, he was in “supernatural union of a man and God... In their [his Ebionite Nazirene disciples] eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366).   The Son of God is the True Prophet (see True Prophet), who was called the Logos among the Greeks, the Teacher of Righteousness among the Essenes -- and for those who correctly understand the original teachings on the Trinity, the Logos is the Mind of God -- and it is this Mind of God that Paul makes reference to the Indwelling Logos as the Power that Reveals to the disciple of TheWay all things, as seen in the words quoted above: "...But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  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." 

The above reality that few people (believers and nonbelievers) understand today, is further elaborated on by the Apostle Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where he states: "...For He is within the mind of every one of us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall learn anything from any other. But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose souls are not taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present with those who desire Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one think that he can find Him by his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself to his knowledge” (see  True Prophet ).    Those who love Him, and desire to seek the Truth, are those who live the Consecrated Life in TheWay which permits the indwelling Logos/Son of God or True Prophet, to manifest -- open the inner "straight narrow gate" -- and teach the disciple by imparting the Divine Manna or Knowledge of the Mysteries of God directly into the mind of the faithful disciple of Jesus and TheWay.

When Paul stated to the believers in the Churches: “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1) -- what he was stating was that until the believers of the simple faith begin to live the necessary lifestyle that is portrayed as the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed (see Sower And The Seed), that it will remain impossible for them to understand the true meaning of the Gospel -- and this sacred Knowledge can only be taught by those who are able to receive Gnosis from the True Prophet/Logos/Son of God (see True Prophet).    The disciples possessed the eyes to see and understand, because as it is written: "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45) -- and this higher enlightened perception and understanding that the mind of organic man is incapable of understanding, is called Gnosis. 

The Galatians had begun to be influenced by Jews who were too carnal to understand that the written word of the Old Covenant scriptures are an allegory -- i.e., speaking of Abraham, Paul warns with respect to the written account:  "...Which things are an allegory” (Gal 4:21-24 KJV).   The 2nd century Church Father Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata explained with respect to the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures: “...now that the Savior has taught the Apostles, the unwritten rendering of the written, this has been handed down also to us”.   What Clement is stating is that it was Jesus who taught his disciples the inner meaning of the scriptures by opening their minds so their understanding could pierce through the garb of the allegorical enigmas that blind the perception of carnal men -- i.e., "Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45 NIV).   Clement then goes on and explains what Paul taught with respect to the Anointing of the disciple's mind that “the mysteries are delivered mystically, that what is spoken may be in the mouth of the speaker; rather not in the voice, but in his understanding”.    And in the allegory of the scriptures, it is this Law that was shattered (Ex 32:19) that the Children of Israel could not receive because they were too carnal in their understanding -- and this is the symbol of the Spiritual Torah/Law that can only be received by those who are of a purified mind/body and live a consecrated life to The Most High.   Thus, the warning of Paul is no different than that of the Jewish mystic who states to those who attempt to find God in the literal meaning of the Torah/Law: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world" (see No Jew Has Read The Torah/Law).   Quoting the Zohar it is further written: "So it is with the Torah. Its narrations which relate to the things of the worlds constitute the garments which clothe the body of the Torah; and that body is composed of the Torah's precepts, gufey-torah (bodies, major principles). People without understanding see only the narrations, the garment; those somewhat more penetrating see also the body. But the truly wise, those who serve the most high King and stood on mount Sinai, pierce all the way through to the soul, to the true Torah which is the root principle of all. These same will in the future be vouchsafed to penetrate to the very soul of the soul of the Torah."

When the Galatians began embracing the rituals and traditions of the carnal Jews, he correctly warned that there was no salvation in outward rituals and traditions -- i.e., "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain" (Gal 4:10-11 KJV).   Because the Old Covenant scriptures were an allegory that concealed the true inner spiritual meaning, Paul portrayed the written words of the Torah a the "letter that killeth" (see (2 Cor 3:6).   Yet, those who call themselves the Netzarim -- who in their apostate and counterfeit creation of a Old Covenant type Yeshiva (school, university - see  Beit Netzarim Yeshiva ), they not only teach others in the manner rejected by Jesus as apostates to the very spiritual essence of the New Covenant, but they immerse themselves in the study of the written word of the "letter that killeth".
It is the folly and rejection of Messiah/Christ (Anointing) of not only those who call themselves the Netzarim that they reject the teachings of Jesus and the New Covenant -- i.e., "...None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'" (Heb 8:10-13 NKJ) -- and because they have rejected the mindset, thinking and lifestyle that Jesus ordained and taught, that they violate the very essence of New Covenant teachings.   The reality of the lost prodigal sons and daughters plight in this, the Far Country, is seen in the quotation of Clement of Alexandria who portrayed the vast majority of people as "...Atheists who destroy and pollute, as far as in them lies, the Deity dwelling in them - that is, the Logos -- by association with their vices”.    Why Atheists?   Because if they truly believed, then they would live the Truth in every aspect of the lives that they live.    The Truth is not known by those who believe from the perspective of the organic mind of what Paul portrays as the "natural" mind of man which is earth-bound and blind to the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God -- but rather, the Truth can only be known by those who become the Final Temple -- and in accordance with each person's success in becoming the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed.   With the ultimate level of spiritual success in the pattern of Jesus who was able to achieve Absolute Oneness with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet.   And this is the purpose of living the Consecrated Life in TheWay that Jesus taught.  

 

Were The Ebionite Nazirenes Torah Observant?

In The Manner Of The Pharisees?

The Great Lie!!!

Published By The Synagogue of Satan

To Deceive and Seduce The Church Elect!

The Ebionites of the Nazirene Vow of Consecration were unjustly condemned as heretics by the later Gentile Church who were too heathen to understand the inner meaning of the Law, because it was said that they were Torah Observant.  Yet, in being Keepers of the Key of Knowledge, they understood that when Jesus said that not one jot or title shall pass from the Law -- i.e., "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-20 KJV).   Yet, to those who are in Messiah/Christ, and have their minds opened by the Anointing of the Spirit, the inner meaning of the Law not only remains in effect -- but must be overcome by each and every disciple of TheWay as Jesus taught.   Moreover, that the ritual and traditions of the Pharisees cannot bring salvation, is the very reason why the disciples of Yeshua must turn the Law within themselves, and overcome in the manner that Jesus himself overcame and fulfilled the Law.   
With respect to the spiritual manner in which the Ebionties of the Nazirene Vow were Torah Observant, and Spiritually Fulfilled the Law, it has been recorded that they rejected all animal sacrifice, were strict vegetarians, and they rejected the literal interpretation of the Law of Moses.   Quoting Epiphanius: The Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blespheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   How did Christ reveal to them?   When it is understood that the meaning of the Greek word Christ in English is Anointing, then it can be understood that the Anoiting that John said was their Teacher, revealed the inner spiritual meaning of the rituals of the Law to them.   Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of the Ebionites/Hebrews where Yeshua states: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" (Panarion 30.16.5).   They were Observant of the Law -- but this was the Royal Law that is Spiritual.  In reference to the Ebionites, Epiphanius states: "They are Jews. They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them. They consider water to have sacred properties... they often baptize themselves in water, summer and winter, for sanctification..." (Panarion, 19:28-30).  So to say that the Ebionites are Torah Observant in the manner of the Pharisees, in view of the recorded fact that they "...blespheme most of the legislation ...They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them" -- is a lie that was promoted by the Gentile Church that was too heathen in their mindset to comprehend the spiritual nature of the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay -- and the Gentile Church condemned the Ebionites in order to adopt pagan teachings, rituals and religious observances which were common to Pagan Rome.

 

 

In the condemnation of the Ebionites and Netzarim as Judaizers by the Gentiles, the Church was not entirely wrong.   There are always entry-level believers who are incapable of understanding spiritual teachings and symbolism with any depth of comprehension -- and it was these entry-level Ebionites and Netzarim from traditional Judaism, that continued to embrace rituals of the flesh such as circumcision.   Yet, the inner core of both the Essenes and Ebionites, understood that such things as circumcision was a symbol of mind -- and they did not practice this ancient pagan ritual in the flesh.   And this is reflected in the Gospel of the Nazirenes which is somewhat parallel to the original Gospel of the Hebrews where it is written in the 91st chapter: "And one asked Him, Master, do you want infants to be received into the congregation as Moses commanded, by circumcision? And Yeshua answered, For those who are in Messiah there is no cutting of the flesh, nor shedding of blood."

While in the Book of Acts there is no requirement of circumcision, the ignorance of the entry-level few who continued to cling to the ways of the Pharisees was propagated for political reasons by those with purely self-serving motives.   Yet, in the example of when a more powerful political authority such as the Marcionites who were Gentile Gnostic monks who rejected the Jewish foundation of the Gospel, focused on what is counterfeit, and then uses the counterfeit as an example of the whole, what you get is a distorted and corrupted historical picture.   And that there were people who called themselves Ebionites, and yet lacked any vision and comprehension of the spiritual essence of Ebionite teachings -- or rejected the Ebionites for largely political reasons -- was not only true in the beginning of our Common Era, but remains true to this day.   And a perfect example of the counterfeit being promoted as genuine, is demonstrated to us conclusively in the example of Shemayah Phillips and his pseudo-ebionite community (see http://ebionite.org ).   But to understand why this group is promoted as genuine by modern-day reference sources for largely sectarian and political reasons of their own, is a prime example of how the pseudo-Ebionites of the past, came to be defined as representative of the whole.  

To understand the modern-day pseudo-ebionites that are being used to conceal the truth by sectarian and reference authorities, it is helpful to understand the background of its modern-day leader.   While Shemayah Phillips may call himself an Ebionite, it remains true that he rejects all known and historically acknowledged Ebionite teachings.   Why?   Why is Shemayah Phillips in denial of the historical facts and eye witness accounts of the Ebionites?   Some say that he was at one time an Evangelical Preacher who came to the realization that Christianity was thoroughly Pagan.   And like Shemayah, there were many clergy in this time-frame who began to question their faith in Jesus and the Church.   The Dead Sea Scrolls had demonstrated that the core doctrines of Christianity and its outward celebrations had absolutely nothing in common with either the teachings, or the foundation of Jesus' teachings.   Further, such things as the virgin birth, the suffering servant, and even the crucifixion, were demonstrated to be parallel to all the (Gnostic) Mystery Religions of the ancient world.   Thus, modern biblical authorities such as A. Powell Davies who studied the Dead Sea Scrolls had demonstrated the long acknowledged counterfeit source of many Church doctrines and corrupted scriptures when he stated: “Biblical scholars”, he writes, ”were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls). 

Worse yet, the authorities within the modern Church itself attempted to conceal from the believers what the Scrolls revealed -- i.e., the words of Dead Sea Scroll expert John Allegro, who was at that time a Professor at Manchester University, who worked extensively on the scrolls and was quoted in the August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine as stating: “The very scholars who should be most capable of working on the documents and interpreting them have displayed a not altogether surprising, but nonetheless curious, reluctance to go to the heart of their matter.   The scholars appear to have held back from making discoveries which, there is evidence to believe, 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”

Shemayah Phillips like many others in his position, felt betrayed at what their research uncovered with respect to what appeared to be the Pagan roots of the Church that has absolutely nothing in common with the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.   But more importantly, Church leaders of very limited understanding have always viewed Gnosticism and Gnostic principles to be the Great Heresy -- and Shemayah Phillips who clings to the literal written word of the Torah which Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth", lacks the necessary depth of vision and understanding to perceive and understand the true meaning of the scriptures -- and in his state of spiritual blindness, is an activist in opposition to everything spiritual and Gnostic.    And when the Dead Sea Scroll scholars began to point out that the Essenes were Gnostic Jews -- and that the Ebionite essence of Christianity is pure Gnosticism, Shemayah Phillips had no other recourse but to abandon and oppose the Church.   The anti-Gnostic fervor of Shemayah Phillips simply could not tolerate the facts set before the Christian world -- an example of which is demonstrated in  in the words of Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro in is book, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity, where he writes: “It is a fact that the Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the Johannine writings and many longheld conceptions have had to be radically revised.  No longer can John be regarded as the most Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his Gnosticism, and the whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.”

If it is true that the Gospel of John is Gnostic -- and it is rooted in the very Gnostic Essenes -- then everything that the modern Christian Church today believes, must be recognized as manmade and counterfeit.   From a Gnostic perspective, the doctrine of second birth, and even the virgin birth, would be understood to mean something totally different than what the faithful flock of Christians believe today.   And when the Gospel of John is portrayed in the words that John's "...Gnosticism, and the whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions” -- this fact totally destroys the whole doctrinal foundation of the modern Church.

If, what the scholars demonstrated was true, and the Gnostic Essenes represented the true foundation of Jesus' teachings -- teachings which evolved directly into Ebionite Gnosticism -- then Shemayah Phillips saw it as his role in life to prove that the Gospels and Christianity are a fraud, and that the Ebionites were nothing more than Torah Observant Jews who rejected the claims that Jesus was a Messiah.    But instead of becoming an Orthodox Jew as did many of his other fellow preachers who felt betrayed by the Church, Shemayah Phillips invented his own version of the Ebionites -- and with the exception of Torah Observant, the Rev. Phillips attempted to ignore and deny every known historical fact pertaining to the Ebionites.  

When Shemayah Phillips states that Christianity is not a biblical religion, the basis of this statement is his position that the Gospels are not valid -- but are of a Greek creation.   When it is pointed out to him that the Original Gospels that were created and used by the Ebionites were all written in Hebrew Characters -- i.e., the statement by Jerome: "A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another" -- Shemayah Phillips not only ignores the historical record, but attempts to dismiss the facts.   If it is true that the original Gospels were composed in Hebrew Characters -- and the original Matthew contained teachings that were too secret to be put before the common understanding outside of the community of Ebionites -- then not only was everything that Shemayah Phillips saying about the Ebionites in grave error, but it is further proof that the foundation of Jesus' teachings were Gnostic.

Of the Hebrew original of Matthew that Shemayah Phillips is in denial of, Gibbon writes: "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek".   The fact that the existence and secret nature of the Original Matthew was  "...attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc…" -- and Shemayah Phillips remains in denial of the facts -- then it is Shemayah Phillips and is community of pseudo-ebionites that are demonstrated to be a bogus fraud.   Yet, it is just this fraud that is being perpetrated by modern references sources, in order to conceal the truth to the modern flock of Christian believers.  In the above quotation, Gibbon rightfully calls the copy of Matthew used by the modern church an "unauthorized version of some nameless Greek", because the only true Gospel attributed to Matthew is the original Hebrew version which was never given to the Gentile Church, and we no longer possess today.   And it is also acknowledged by many authorities, that the Original Matthew did not have the virgin birth narrative that parallels most of the Greek Mystery religions -- and that the virgin birth narrative was added to the "unauthorized version [used by the modern Church by] some nameless Greek."   

Why, in order to perpetuate his fraud, is it necessary for Shemayah Phillips to deny the Gospel of the Hebrews?   Quoting Prof. Hugh Schonfield: "The Gospel according to the Hebrews is a literary outlaw with a price on its head; but in spite of the scholarly hue and cry it still evades capture. Neither monastic libraries nor Egyptian rubbish heaps have so far yielded up a single leaf of this important document....  For behind Hebrews lies the unknown potentialities of the Nazarene tradition, which may confirm or contradict some of the most cherished beliefs of Orthodox Christianity. It is useless for certain theologians to designate Hebrews as "secondary" on the evidence of the present fragmentary remains preserved in quotation.... Judged by ancient testimony alone it is indisputable that Hebrews has the best right of any Gospel to be considered a genuine apostolic production;... Here is obviously a most valuable witness, perhaps the most valuable witness to the truth about [Yeshua]... whom even a jury composed entirely of orthodox Christians could not despise, and who ought to be brought into court. But the witness is missing, and all that we have is a few reported statements of his taken long ago... it may be argued that there has been dependence not of 'Hebrews' on the Synoptics but vice versa -- that 'Hebrews' was one of the sources on which one or more of them drew." (Hugh Schonfield; According to the Hebrews; pages 13-18).   

In his warped anxiety over his being deceived by the Church, Shemayah Phillips has to reject the validity of not only the Original Hebrew version of Matthew -- but all of the Gospels not only because they portray Jesus as a Messiah, but also their very Gnostic roots.   Like most misguided quasi-Jews, Shemayah Phillips maintains that Jesus could not have been the Messiah, because he did not inaugurate the Kingdom upon the earth as the carnal Jews predicted the coming Messiah would.   And thus, in typical carnal folly, Phillips was incapable of understanding the Inner Kingdom that Jesus taught -- a Kingdom that Jesus openly stated would never come upon the earth in the manner that men look for it (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   Therefore, Shemayah Phillips had to somehow prove that the Gospels were a Greek fraud -- that Jesus was not the Messiah -- and that the Ebionites did not accept Jesus as a Messiah.  

If Jesus was a Messiah, why did he not inaugurate the Kingdom upon the earth as carnal Jews and Christians believe?   Because the true essence of Jewish and Christian teachings, is pure Gnostic.   And this is why when Jesus was questioned by Pilate, Jesus said that his Kingdom was not of this world: "Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight... but now My kingdom is not from here'" (John 18:36 NKJ).   The reality of this inner Kingdom was further confirmed when Jesus stated to the Pharisees: "Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21 NKJ).   And that this was the original Ebionite teachings on the Kingdom is further documented by Edward Gibbon in the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire where he writes: "Among the Christians who were brought before the tribunal of the emperor, or, as it seems more probable, before that of the procurator of Judaea, two persons are said to have appeared, distinguished by their extraction, which was more truly noble than that of the greatest monarchs. These were the grandsons of St. Jude the apostle, who himself was the brother of Jesus Christ.   Their natural pretensions to the throne of David might perhaps attract the respect of the people, and excite the jealousy of the governor; but the meanness of their garb, and the simplicity of their answers, soon convinced him that they were neither desirous nor capable of disturbing the peace of the Roman empire. They frankly confessed their royal origin, and their near relation to the Messiah; but they disclaimed any temporal views, and professed that his kingdom, which they devoutly expected, was purely of a spiritual and angelic nature."

In a total rejection of the historical facts, Shemayah Phillips and his community of pseudo-ebionites maintain that Jesus only wanted social change -- and made no claim to being a Messiah.    Thus, the pseudo-ebionites attempt to dismiss the statement by Epiphanius, that in their spiritual interpretation which rejects the outward rituals of the Pharisees, the Ebionites reject and even blaspheme the Torah -- i.e., the Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9) -- had to be rejected by Shemayah Phillips.   How could he say that the Ebionites were just another sect of Torah Observant Jews, when a historical witness who had personally known Ebionites, stated that they "...blasphemed most of the legislation" of the Law of Moses?    The pseudo-ebionites attempt to dismiss the statement preserved from the Gospel of the Hebrews which was the primary scripture of the Ebionites, where Jesus declares: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices."    Again, the pseudo-ebionites attempt to deny the witness of Epiphanius when he writes that "...They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them. They consider water to have sacred properties... they often baptize themselves in water, summer and winter, for sanctification..." (Panarion, 19:28-30) -- then Shemayah Phillips could not portray them as another sect Torah Observant Jews who rejected the Messiahship of Jesus.   Further, the fact that all sources portray the Ebionites as strict vegetarians (see http://Ebionite.com/vegetarian.htm ) -- a fact ascribed to by all the historical accounts -- and the attempt to deny the historical fact on the part of Shemayah Phillips and his community of pseudo-ebionites, was explored by author Keith Akers in his article Shemayah Phillips and Ebionite.org .  

Even more important is the fact that Shemayah Phillips and his community of pseudo-ebionites are in total denial of the statement by Epiphanius that the Ebionites stated 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."  Unlike Shemayah Phillips, Epiphanius had not only personally spoken to certain members of the original Ebionites, but he had a copy of their Hebrew Gospel which he quoted from.   And Epiphanius considered the Ebionites to be heretics not only because they (the Ebionites) maintained the Jesus was a man who had become the Messiah/Christ by fulfilling the Law, but in referencing the original Ebionite Nazirene position, he writes that when each disciple "...thus fulfills the law, they are able to become Christs, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity."  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).   As a scholar and historian, Gibbon relies upon all the historical sitings and writes with respect to the Ebionite portrayal of the historical man Jesus who totally fulfilled the Law within himself, that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their [his Ebionite Nazirene disciples] eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366) 

These last set of quotations on the historical facts about the Ebionites that Shemayah Phillips and his community of pseudo-ebionites are in denial of, are of a primary importance, because they not only confirm the Spiritual and very Gnostic foundation of both the Ebionties, as well as Judaism and Christianity, but they demonstrate the higher spiritual objectives of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.   That all of mankind possesses the innate potential to become of an Anointed (Messiah/Christ) mind -- and learn all esoteric Truths that are beyond the comprehension of organic man -- demonstrates that it is within the ability of man to overcome all ignorance that shackles him to the evils and trials of this world.   Moreover, this whole concept represents pure Gnostic thinking.   And if the Law could be fulfilled within one's self -- and this fulfillment of the Law makes man a Messiah -- then the whole structure of mainstream Jewish teachings is in grave error.    Thus, Shemayah Phillips puts himself forth as a neo-ebionite that is both factually and spiritually a pseudo-ebionite, in order to deny both the historical and spiritual facts about both Judaism, and Christianity with respect to their very Gnostic foundations.   

A Question About Ebionite . org

A question was posed to me about the misinformation promoted on the pseudo-ebionite website of Shemayah Phillips which is important for all seekers to understand.   The quoted the web site pertaining to the rejection of the Virgin Birth, and asked following the quotation: Virgin birth and perpetual virginity ideas are based in Gnostic dualism. In such schemes the physical world is evil, and defiled. The physical body is held to be weak, corrupted, filthy thing the Gnostic longs to shed in order to free his incorruptible soul, the divine spark, or the god part of humanity. Sex as the natural process of the physical world is seen as a reminder of the failure of man to exist in a spiritual state. Sex is the process of entry into a fallen world, perpetuating physical evils. Virgin birth allows the appearance of a god in the flesh while eliminating the evil, physical, requirement of sexual intercourse. Perpetual virginity (of Miryam) frames the mother of Yahshua as a sacred portal between the worlds, while rejecting the act that makes a mother. Such gnostic thinking is unacceptable to us.

The person who has read the above then asks:  This quote is from www.ebonite. org, a website that denounces *this* website and its author. The very fact that it has done this made me question them ( you shall know them by their fruits) and this quote shows a lack of understanding of what Gnostics actaully believe.  I found my way here first, and although I understand very little yet, something about that website does not ring true.  Yet, they make some similar points. Is the difference mainly about how they see Paul? Has anybody else seen that website?

The below is my initial reply:

 

Shalom Charlotte:
 
What you have to understand about Shemayah Philips who is the author of Ebionite.org, is that he used to be a Baptist preacher before he came to the conclusion that (1) Christianity is pagan, (2) Yeshua is not the Messiah and (3) the Gospels were written by Gentiles, and are a fraud.   In the same way that he was clueless with respect to the real meaning of the scriptures when he was a Baptist preacher, he is just as clueless as an anti-Christian activist.  
 
Instead of becoming a card carrying Jew, he decided that he was an Ebionite.   From the existing quotations pertaining to the Ebionites, he chose only one to adhere to, while rejecting all the rest as spurious.   Unlike Paul, the Ebionites did not denounce the Law as no longer being in effect -- simply because they understood the inner spiritual meaning of the Law.   They understood why mystic visionaries are forced to write their scriptures in the allegorical language of the soul.   And they understood that the Torah was written in what I often portray as extreme allegory -- i.e., that is where the text is so allegorical, that it is virtually worthless.   And Paul was not wrong when he portrayed the written word as the "letter that killeth".     But in not fully explaining why he made this statement, Paul brought about greater harm to those who failed to understand why he stated this.   But is must also be stated that the Gospels are just as allegorical -- but they are written from the perspective that the reading of the literal written word will not inflict harm upon the unenlightened.   In fact, the reading of the Gospels literally, is of great benefit to the multitude of people.  
 
Quoting the section of the Ebionite web site entitled The Great Lie ( http://ebionite.com/#observant ): The Ebionites were unjustly condemned as heretics because it was said that they were Torah Observant.  Yet, they rejected all animal sacrifice, were strict vegetarians, and they rejected the literal interpretation of the Law of Moses.   Quoting Epiphanius: The Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blespheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of the Ebionites/Hebrews where Yeshua states: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" (ibid. 30.16.5).   They were Observant of the Law -- but this was the Royal Law that is Spiritual.  In reference to the Ebionites, Epiphanius states: "They are Jews. They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them. They consider water to have sacred properties... they often baptize themselves in water, summer and winter, for sanctification..." (Panarion, 19:28-30).  So to say that the Ebionites are Torah Observant in the manner of the Pharisees, in view of the recorded fact that they ".blespheme most of the legislation ...They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them" -- is a lie that was promoted by the Gentile Church that was too heathen in their mindset to comprehend the spiritual nature of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay -- and the Gentile Church condemned the Ebionites in order to adopt pagan teachings, rituals and religious observances which were common to Pagan Rome.
 
Shemayah Philips rejects all of the above statements by Epiphanius.   But where his ignorance really comes to light, is in his rejection of the fact that the Gospels were originally written by Ebionite Nazirenes in Hebrew Characters, and they were deemed too secret to be given into the hands of the Gentiles.   Thus, St. Jerome writes: "A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another".
 
Of this Hebrew Original Edward Gibbon writes:  "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek".
What this means is that all the above named (Gentile) Church Fathers all knew and wrote about the Hebrew Original, and confirmed the fact that it was held to be too secret to be given into the hands of the Gentiles.   Yet, in typical revisionist history form, Shemayah Philips who is the epitome of ignorance, attempts to state that this is not true -- and the only scriptures that the Ebionites used was the Torah, which they observed to the letter.  
 
Because Shemayah Philips is looking for the Kingdom to come upon the earth in the manner of the ignorant Jews and Christians -- rejecting Yeshua's words that the Kingdom is within each individual, and will never come upon the earth in the outer world so as to be seen by (organic) man.   In view of the fact that Yeshua did not inaugurate the Kingdom in the outer world, (like most ignorant Jews) Shemayah reasons that he was not the Messiah.   So he adopted the doctrine that Yeshua only wanted social change within the traditional Jewish structure, and nothing more.  
 
In addition to rejecting the above witness of Epiphanius, as well as those named by Gibbon, Shemayah Philips also rejects the witness of Hippolytus who was very familiar with the teachings of the Ebionites with respect to Yeshua being the Messiah because he "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."  Hence, when those true seekers who are portrayed as Spiritual Israel and the Disciples and followers of TheWay "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).  
 
Shemayah Philips can't come to terms with the allegorical reality of all of Creation.  When Yeshua taught that you must be born again to enter the Kingdom, the term birth has some specific attributes that cannot simply be ignored.   But to fully appreciate what these specific attributes are, you must understand the qualities and reality of a holographic universe -- which is far above Shemayah Philips very limited comprehension.   In the same way that no child is born into this world apart from the interaction of male and female -- and the infant is always born from the womb of woman -- holographically, when Yeshua stated that you must be born a second time, you must therefore become an embryo via the proper interaction of male and female, and you must be born from the feminine womb.   And in view of the fact that this next stage of birth is not from a physical woman into a physical world, the next stages of birth is always rightly portrayed as a Virgin Birth (see http://brotherofyeshua.com/TheThreeLies.htm#VirginBirth ).  
 
Shemayah Philips who reasons that ONLY the Torah is the valid communications between God and man, takes the position that all the rest of the religious sources the world over are in error.   Based upon this very limited awareness and the fact that all the major religions have a saviour who is born from a virgin, Shemayah Philips reasons that the Gospels were therefore written by Greeks, and are therefore invalid.   In not understanding the threefold birth process, the holistic reality of Creation, or the fact that the potential to bring about these next stages of birth is innately contained within man's Spiritual DNA -- and when the Laws are understood, can be potentially brought about by any group of people -- all religions have a virgin birth, because the members of all religions and all people are confronted by the same obstacles in their development.    Which means that the account of the Virgin Birth, is more real, than is Shemayah Philips -- who is himself the walking dead.
 
Allan

 

Thereafter, member of Shemayah Philips organization named Deu'el sent be a rant by Mr. Philips -- among which the following allegations were presented: What Alan Cronshaw has done, as can be seen even from his list of growing websites, has spent years in new age bookstores and has tried to include them all in his new age religion under whatever catch term is most popular--essenes, ebionites, reincarnation, gnosticism, Egyptian beliefs, on and on. And foolish people like him are attracted to it.  Trying to study the subject of Yeshua is fraught with Hellenists on one side and new age Hellenists on the other. The solution for the reader is simple. If you see Yeshua as actually continuing in the Yahwist tradition you will fall in with us. If you believe the Christian, Gnostic, everyone jump in, no commitment required, no Jew stuff required, and have been hanging at the new age book and crystal shop since 1969 then get with king ding dong in this life or your next reincarnation.

 

Shemayah Phillips uses a book by Glenn Koch to refute the witness of Epiphanius -- a man who personally interacted with the leaders in the original Ebionite Community.   The below is my  reply:

 

Shalom Deu'el: 
 
I am not sure why you sent me Shemayah Philips below rant, but he personifies a Jewish Jehovah's Witness attempting to understand spirituality -- and for that matter, anything beyond a very narrow linear interpretation of what Paul portrayed as the "letter that killeth".    In fact, Shemayah Philips is to the Ebionites, what Judas was to Yeshua.   
 
It would do little good to convey to you that when the surviving quotes of the Ebionites are understood -- as presented in The Three Lies -- proves that the Christian Church under Rome is a fraud -- because what is also proven is the spirituality and higher objectives of the Gospels.    The problem is seen in the fact that Shemayah Philips not only rejects the Gospels, but he is in denial of the fact that the Ebionites used the Source-Gospel in the form of the Gospel of the Hebrews/Ebionites.   Which means that Shemayah Philips is also in denial of the list of Church Fathers provided by Edward Gibbon as quoted in my post below -- i.e., "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek".   Origen had translated this Gospel that was used by the Ebionites, of which St. Jerome writes: "A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another".   In one of my few actual conversations with Shemayah Philips, he attempted to deny the existence of this Gospel which was not only written in Hebrew Characters, but was very much too secret to be handed over to the vast majority of Gentiles.  
 
While Glenn Alan Koch who is the authority that Shemayah Phillips bases his whole Fundamentalist position on expresses his opinion that Epiphanius used the Clementine writings as his source, that does not mean that Glenn Koch who published his book in 1976, was correct.   At that time most of the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls was being withheld by the Church.   A simple query in the Encyclopedia Britannica will demonstrate the folly of Shemayah Phillips where it is written:  "Most of the features of Ebionite doctrine were anticipated in the teachings of the earlier Qumran sect, as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls. They believed in one God and taught that Jesus was the Messiah and was the true "prophet" mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:15. They rejected the Virgin Birth of Jesus, instead holding that he was the natural son of Joseph and Mary. The Ebionites believed Jesus became the Messiah because he obeyed the Jewish Law. They themselves faithfully followed the Law, although they removed what they regarded as interpolations in order to uphold their teachings, which included vegetarianism, holy poverty, ritual ablutions, and the rejection of animal sacrifices."      Unlike Shemayah Philips who rejects all these statements pertaining to the Ebionites -- including vegetarianism -- I have confirmed them to be true. 
 
That the Essenes believed in the pre-existent soul is demonstrated in the quotation of Josephus which you can find where the teaching of Yeshua and the original Gospel is proven at http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm where he is quoted as stating that they: “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”   I have personally proven the Essene position on the pre-existent immortal soul to be correct (see Man As An Embryonic Soul Image).   As I have already demonstrated that modern quantum physics has proven the insight of the mystic and Gnostic to be true (see Science Proves Gnosticism).   And the fact that the physical body of Shemayah Phillips is what the Essenes portrayed as the unclean tomb of dead slain animals, has inhibited him from making any advances beyond the rudimentary carnal level of understanding as detailed at http://TheConsecratedLife.com#unity .   In fact, Shemayah Phillips' failure to understand man's higher soul and spiritual reality, proves what the Apostle Peter wrote concerning those who eat dead flesh (see http://TheConsecratedLife.com#demon ).   But, seeing as only a fool would attempt to prove a negative -- claiming that they have proven error because they have not been able to duplicate an experience within themselves -- or a meat-eater who has never been a vegetarian or lived the necessary Consecrated Life to have proven this lifestyle to be wrong -- then the best that Shemayah Phillips can intelligently state is that he does not believe what others have experienced and proven within their own lives to be true.   But since Shemayah Phillips has never made even an attempt to prove the assertion of those who state otherwise, then no rationally minded person would even consider his position.
 
While Shemayah Philips would like to portray me as being New Age merely because I have proven the teachings of Yeshua, the pre-Nicene Church and the Essenes to be true with respect to the pre-existent immortal soul, perhaps he should also include a long line of Jewish Mystics -- i.e., the following quotation is taken from The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of: “The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which was especially accepted by the Karaites… is generally attacked by Jewish philosophers, but is defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben Israel.  It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized form in the Zohar, it is further developed in the teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572), and in Hasidism it becomes a universal belief.   According to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the individual souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower souls into confusion; as a result, every soul has to pass through a series of incarnations... The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”   And in the Zohar which is referenced in the above, a doctrine of Jewish Mysticism, it is written that: “All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged.  But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”.    Thus, these Jewish Mystics must also be New Age also?
 
Contrary to what Shemayah Philips would like to believe, my only instructor is what the Ebionites and Clementine writings portrayed as the Indwelling True Prophet (see The Search For The True Prophet).   That Shemayah Philips rejects this core Ebionite teaching, is because his whole framework of thought is that of a Pharisee -- and one who rejects everything spiritual.   And this is why Shemayah Philips is very much the equivalent of a Jewish Jehovah Witness that is dead to the spirit.   While Shemayah Philips attempts to dismiss the quotations of Epiphanius -- he is in denial of the assertion that the Ebionites used a Gospel that was considered too secret to be given over to the Gentiles -- Mr. Philips rarely ever even mentions the quotations of Hippolytus, who lived in the second to third centuries.   A simple google search on hippolytus and ebionite, demonstrates that Shemayah Philips remains virtually quiet with respect to what these quotations reveals about the Ebionites.    In fact, when Mr. Phillips opposed what he considers New Age doctrines being present in the Wikipedia, it was the quotations of Hippolytus that he rejected.   Quoting below: The Ebionites revered Yeshua as the Messiah because he "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."  Hence, when those true seekers who are portrayed as Spiritual Israel and the Disciples and followers of TheWay "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).   This fulfilling the Law within one's self, is detailed in the portrayal of the Final Temple at http://TheThreeLies.com#temple .   But Mr. Philips considers these important spiritual concepts and teachings as New Age and Gnostic heresy.  
 
At the time, I stated that these quotations by Hippolytus were the most important to both Jews and Christians today -- simply because they prove that the Kingdom is within as Yeshua stated (see http://GateOfEden.com ) -- and that if the seeker/disciple lives the necessary Consecrated Life in TheWay as Yeshua and the Ebionites taught, that they too will become the Anointed (Messiah/Christ).   And that Shemayah Phillips views these core essential truths as New Age and Gnostic heresy, is merely his own folly that makes him the epitome of what Yeshua portrayed as the dead that know nothing (see Dead Know Nothing).  
 
GodSpeed in TheWay,
 
Allan Cronshaw
 
aka Brother Of Yeshua
 
 

 

Other than labeling everything that Shemayah Phillips in the narrowness of his spiritually estranged thinking as New Age, Mr. Phillips has no answers in reply to the above fully documented positions that are presented -- and simply can't come to grips with the spiritual essence of the Gospel teachings.    The fact that what I write represents the original Ebionite Nazirene Gospel teachings of Yeshua/Jesus -- in contradistinction to most of the positions of the New Age -- is one of the primary reasons why myself and author Keith Akers hold many conflicting positions.   Keith who is a member of the Animal Rights Community and the author of the Compassionate Spirit web site (see http://CompassionateSpirit.com ), both agree on the counterfeit nature of Shemayah Phillips' claim to represent genuine Ebionite teachings.   That the Ebionites were strict vegetarians is proven beyond a doubt on the web site The Consecrated Life.   

While Keith Akers is a vegetarian for compassionate reasons, I am a vegetarian mainly for spiritual reasons.   A most important reality that confronts all of mankind with respect to why Jesus and the Ebionites were vegetarian -- in addition to the Commandment not to kill -- is demonstrated in the experiences of Charles Fillmore who was the founder of Unity Church (see http://TheConsecratedLife.com#unity ).    Thus, Charles Fillmore writes:

I have in years of experiment tested the effect in mind and body of meat-eating and non-meat-eating, and I feel that I am more competent to judge of the effects than one who theorizes about the question.

Some sixteen years ago [i. e., 1887] when I began the study of Truth I was told that it made no difference what I ate if I was in the right thought. This seemed to prove true up to a certain point in my experience. While my spiritual development was confined to the conscious mind there seemed no special need of food discrimination. But gradually a new phase set in. I found that I was having vibrations in the sympathetic nerve centers — the subconscious mind was being quickened, and I was becoming a conscious vital battery. The vital currents gradually grew stronger and stronger until I could hardly control them. Appetite, passion, emotion, etc., were greatly increased. Then my prayers for guidance were answered and a system of communication set up with the higher realms of consciousness. I was shown that the food that entered the organism had to pass through a process of regeneration every day before it was in condition to be built into the new body of Christ. Just how to carry on this regenerative process in the various subconscious centers was also shown, and here is where I discerned the effects of food in body building.

The vitalizing element in food is contained in the cell, which may be termed a mind battery vibrating with intelligence, force, and substance. These elements are present in the living cell — dead cells are those in which intelligence and force have withdrawn and inanimate substance only remains. Man appropriates these cells and they become part of his consciousness according to his capacity to use them. Those who have not developed the capacity to consciously regenerate the cells get but a small part of their energies. (First published in the October 1903 issue of Unity Magazine, Volume 19, number 4)

On the process of transforming the body in order to enable it to begin to accommodate man's innate higher soul and spiritual natures, Charles Fillmore wrote: "I can say about flesh eating that the Spirit has shown me repeatedly that I could not refine my body and make it a harmonious instrument for the soul, so long as I continued to fill it with the cells of dead animals" (The Vegetarian, May, 1920).   And thus, when Yeshua/Jesus states in the Gospel of the Nazirenes (see Gospel) "And again that one asked, If anyone comes to us who eats flesh and drinks strong drink, how shall we receive them? And Yeshua said to him, Let such a person abide in the outer court until they cleanse themselves from these grosser evils; for till they perceive, and repent of these, they are not fit to receive the higher mysteries." -- it is not that the knowledge of the Higher Mysteries are being held back -- but rather, that those areas of the mind that vibrate at the higher frequencies and are able to receive and manifest the Higher Mysteries, remains undeveloped in those who consume a meat-based diet. 

In a web article entitled About Shemayah Phillips And Ebionite.org, Keith Akers presents his own positions which demonstrate the counterfeit conclusions of Shemayah Phillips.   In view of the fact that the positions that Keith Akers sets forth are valid -- though, from a different perspective -- I suggest that anyone wanting to explore the facts to access this well detailed article by Keith at the foregoing link.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Know Thyself

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One of the major flaws in the mind of modern man is seen in his failure to not only understand the ancient Mystery Religions from which many of his doctrines of belief have been drawn -- but to understand why the environment of these Mystery Religions were even necessary.   In man's past, the religions of the common people were controlled by secular governments -- and religion was one of the primary means used to control the people.    If you lived in many Muslim country today, and you espoused beliefs that were different than what is believed by the majority, you would be put to death.   Open the pages of the Torah, and you will see the sentence of being stoned if you thought differently than what was considered orthodox by the community.   Under Rome, if you disagreed with the religious tenets of the empire, you were often fed to the lions.   Socrates was condemned to death by the Athenian government for his teaching methods which aroused skepticism and impiety in his students.   On his day of martyrdom, the priest Giordan Bruno (1548 – Feb 17, 1600), said to those in the Church who burnt him at the stake: “Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it” -- and his crime was that of seeking and expressing Spiritual Knowledge.

The Nature And Reality Of Knowledge: Throughout every time-frame of man's past and present, the Gnostic has been scorned and condemned as a heretic.   Thus, Jesus said of his disciples:  "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.  Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you" (Matt 5:11-12 NKJ).   Further stating to his disciples: "They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service" (John 16:2 NKJ).   And contrary to modern-day religious doctrine, this persecution did not cease because Rome was converted to the religion of Jesus -- but rather, because the religion of Jesus was converted to the Paganism of Rome (see The Death Of The Religion Of Jesus).   And thereafter, anyone who dared openly speak the Truth, was murdered.    But this was true of every society and culture of mankind -- in every time-frame of his existence upon the earth -- and for the most part, remains true even to this day. 

The word Gnosis has only One Meaning -- and cannot be redefined by man to mean something other than its Divine Reality.   Gnosis is the Greek word that denotes the higher Knowledge of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God.   Because the English language is spiritually dead, it does not even contain a word that expresses the meaning of the Greek word Gnosis.    But what is Gnosis?   It has nothing to do with any historical person, earthly sectarian, secular or cultural philosophy, or some future world event, prediction or prophesy.    Gnosis is the Knowledge of Self (see http://DivineManna.org ) and the reality of one's Higher Soul, and the Mysteries of the Kingdom that is within each of us ( http://GateOfEden.com ).      

Who Can Know The Truth?  The Gospels state that Yeshua/Jesus did not openly reveal what was called the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God to the multitude of people -- i.e., "And the disciples came and said to Him, Why do You speak to them in parables?  He answered and said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given" (Matt 13:10-11 NKJ).   It is not that Jesus wanted to hide man's higher soul and spiritual reality from the multitudes -- but rather, that organic man had to first lay the foundation within himself that would expand the mind to perceive and understand what lies beyond the three dimensions of this world.   And that this esoteric knowledge that is called Gnosis, has always been declared to be heresy by those who are blinded by their carnal mind and senses -- and dwell under the illusion of this world -- can be seen to the degree that Paul who had been taken up into the Kingdom, stated that without the transformation of the lower nature, that the believers will look upon the Mysteries of the Kingdom as "foolishness" ( http://DivineManna.org#literal ).   And with respect to the position that all you need do is be Torah Observant in the manner of the Jews, and read the scriptures, Paul portrayed the written word as the "letter that killeth"  ( http://Ebionite.com/default.htm ).   Why?   It is impossible to understand the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures, without the Anointing of the Logos which opens the mind of the disciple -- i.e., "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45).   When many Christians became aware of the Pagan foundation of the Church, they failed to understand the need to bring about the necessary spiritual transformation and the opening and enlightenment of the mind -- and, relying upon purely human reasoning, they promoted the idea that you can simply read the Torah in the manner of the Pharisees who Yeshua/Jesus said were the offspring of the Devil -- i.e., "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).   What these pseudo-religious and philosophical leaders who emerged stated, is that you can not only study the written word of the scriptures "...from [their] own (carnal organic) resources -- but that it's OK that they, "...speak from [their] own resources" -- and thus, the whole framework of Netzarim, Messanic and pseudo-ebionite Jewish thinking presented in the foregoing, is drawn from a Pharisaic mindset.    

 

To understand the above, and why Yeshua/Jesus portrayed the Torah Observant Pharisees as the offspring of the Devil, you must first understand why Yeshua commanded:  “But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren” (Matt 23:8 NKJ).    Who is the One Teacher?   Among the Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Yeshua, the One Teacher was portrayed as the TheTrue Prophet  -- and only those who become the "good ground" in the parable of the Sower and the Seed, can be taught by the True Prophet -- to the degree that they can themselves become Anointed -- i.e.,  "These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him" (1 Jn 2:26-29 NKJ).   Are these Torah Observant Jews attempting to deceive the people?   Am I attempting to deceive the people?   The only way you, the reader and perspective seeker, can answer this question prior to your life here on earth being finished, is if you live the Consecrated Life that Yeshua ordained, and seek to learn directly from the True Prophet.   But what is important is for you to recognize that as the prodigal son/daughter of your Heavenly Father, you have this innate ability in your power.   Quoting the words of Peter that most Jews, Netzarim and Christians condemn and reject as preserved in the Homilies of his disciple Clement: "And therefore I advise not only wise men, but indeed all men who have a desire of knowing what is advantageous to them, that they seek after the true Prophet; for it is He alone who knoweth all things, and who knoweth what and how every man is seeking. For He is within the mind of every one of us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall learn anything from any other. But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose souls are not taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present with those who desire Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one think that he can find Him by his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself to his knowledge”.    And this was the very reason that Yeshua stated to the Pharisees that the Kingdom would never come upon the earth in the manner that carnal men look for it -- for it is within you (Luke 17:20-21).

Jewish Mystics Could Not Speak Openly: Because of the above conditions where the sentence of death was carried out against anyone who taught in conflict with the politically ordained beliefs of the people, the True Torah/Word of God had to be concealed in the garb of allegory which on the surface, would reflect the carnal beliefs of the tribe of people known as the Jews.    And that the written word is not the True Torah -- and is only the outer shell that conceals the True Spiritual Torah from the eyes and understanding of the carnal Jews -- is demonstrated in the words of the Jewish Mystic: "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world..." (see http://Ebionite.com/Torah.htm ).    They will be deprived of entering into Life, because this next stage of birth which is presented in the Gospel of John, can only be achieved while in the body-vessel.   Moreover, because the outer cloak of the Torah in the form of the allegorical written text portrays many of the heathen and pagan beliefs about God and the Heavenly Powers that was common to the base understanding of the untransformed mind of the tribe of golden calf worshiping nomadic Jews, that the historical Yeshua accused the very Torah Observant Pharisees of being the offspring of the Devil -- i.e.,  "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:43-44 NKJ).    And that the Jews worshipped the allegory of the portrayal of God in the written text, is why the Spiritual Christians said the god of the Jews was a demiurge -- i.e., the creator of their own world of illusion.    That the inner core of Jewish Mystics such as the Essenes, understood the inner meaning of the Torah, is what separated them from the Pharisees and Sadducees who were spiritually dead -- i.e., "...let the dead bury their dead" (Matt 8:22).  

It is the position of many modern Biblical researchers that most of the Old Testament comes from other, more ancient writings.  Even Jewish writers admit that most of the Hebrew writings were merely taken freely from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and even Greek sources.  Horace Meyer Kallen, at one time a professor at the Jewish New School of Social Research, said that the Book of Job was lifted bodily from an early and obscure Greek play.  Scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky admitted that there are "many parallels" between the Vedic Hymns and the Books of Joel and Isaiah. Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the Book of Genesis is based on the Sumerian creation myth. The story of Noah comes from the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh. The Psalms were taken word for word from Akhenaton's Hymns to the Sun, written 600 years earlier in Egypt. The Ten Commandments were taken wholly from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. And so on through the books of the Old Testament.

What this means is that what is often considered to be Jewish, is merely an older form of paganism from a different -- often Sumerian -- culture.   If this is true, then many informed researchers have asked: How can we call the Torah and other books of the Old Testament the Word of God?  The problem is that, while what these biblical researches have found is true, there is another whole dimension to the equation that they are totally unaware of -- a spiritual dimension that is simply beyond their ability to perceive.  

With respect to the literal meaning of the Torah and other scriptures the Apostle Paul wrote: "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory.  For these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all" (Gal 4:22-26 KJV) 

To which I might pose the question: If the two sons of Abraham are an allegory depicting the reality of the flesh vs the reality of the spirit, then we must pose the question as to which part of the allegory is historically true?  It is not!  Moreover, if Paul writes that the Jerusalem of this world is the shadow City of God, and the one that is in spirit is the Genuine City of God, then which Jerusalem should we seek to journey to?   That Jews, Christians and Muslims all choose the flesh and the shadow Jerusalem of this world, has totally alienated them from the Truth and TheWay and the Kingdom of God.

From a spiritual and scriptural perspective, it does not matter if there was a man named Abraham -- or whether he had two sons.   What is important is the underlying truths that are being presented beneath the garb of the allegory.   Moreover, if the original authors of the scriptures had attempted to write the Truths that had been revealed to them literally, their writing not only would have been destroyed -- but the scriptural authors themselves would have been stoned.   Yet, men of spiritual insight are obligated to not only preserve the Truth that they have received from God -- but they must find a means to insure that this Truth is accessible to those sincere seekers who deserve to know the Truth.    

Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer who became known as the Baal Shem Tov, and Rabbi Isaac Luria (see Reply To Netzarim) who is acknowledged to be one of the greatest of Jewish minds, were not blessed with their higher spiritual vision and wisdom because of some cosmic luck of the draw with respect to their celebrated births and lives -- but rather, this higher capacity for wisdom and knowledge was the result of their accomplishments over the course of many past lives of studying Torah, striving to become the Final Temple, and seeking the Inner Light of Ein Sof.   And to these great spiritual souls, the Torah was the embodiment of Truth that most men were blind to, because they had themselves become a Living Expression of the Torah and Word of God.    The Torah to these great Jewish Mystics acted as a catalyst from life to life that enabled them to again become immersed in the Truth, the Light and gain access to the Kingdom.    But these were truly spiritual men who dedicated their lives to the pursuit of Truth -- and became themselves possessed by the Truth:  "And the disciples came and said to Him, Why do You speak to them in parables?  He answered and said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.  For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.   Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.   And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive;  For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.'   But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;  for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it" (Matt 13:10-17 NKJ).
To the Pharisees and carnal Jews, Yeshua said: "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.  Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?   Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar" (Matt 23:31-35 NKJ).    Why did the very Torah Observant Jews persecute and murder the prophets and wise men?   Because the whole foundational framework of their thinking and religious rituals, was from a carnal organic perspective.    It was impossible for them to grasp the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures (see Letter That Killeth), because they remained totally unaware of the Kingdom within themselves (see http://GateOfEden.com ).   From a biblical perspective, they dwelt in what is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see http://DivineStrategery.com#OuterDarkness ).  
The Common Plight Of Believer And Atheist: Once properly understood from a higher spiritual perspective, the believer who claims to be Orthodox, and the Atheist nonbeliever, are actually on opposite ends of the same boat -- a boat that is a sinking ship that is drowning them in a sea of confusion in the quagmire of manmade doctrines of belief.   The Orthodox believer is in fact mentally flat-lined and spiritually impotent, for what is often the very same reasons as his Atheist nonbeliever shipmate.   

In the same way that the Atheist does not understand the commonality of religious symbolism as detailed in the Reply To: The God Who Wasn't There (see Reply) because they lack an understanding of the common spiritual connection to the Inner Kingdom from which all scriptures and religious symbolism and teachings are drawn, the typical believer who considers himself Orthodox in his condemnation of other religious systems, shares the same void in his own severed connection to the Inner Kingdom.  

The believers of Orthodoxy use terms such as Hellenist, Babylonian Whore, Gnostic heresy, cult and New Age to portray those of their fold who suggest a common spiritual theme that in their blindness they are lacking an understanding of.   The great Truth that the Orthodox of all religions fail to understand, is seen in the fact that at their core spiritual essence, ALL RELIGIONS ARE GNOSTIC -- AND EMANATE FROM A COMMON SPIRITUAL SOURCE.    Yeshua/Jesus was a Gnostic -- as was Moses -- as was Mohammed -- as is the spiritual core of all religions.   But, because the majority of believers possess absolutely no understanding of even the nature of Gnosis, and how it differentiates from the knowledge, doctrines and philosophies of man, the people of all religions end up condemning that which they profess to seek.   Like the Atheist and nonbeliever, their perception, thinking and understanding is one-dimensional, flat-lined and fossilized.  

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And that they express their truths differently in their respective sacred writings, is seen in the fact that the authors are forced to tailor their scriptures to the beliefs of the common people, in order for these writings to be accepted by the community of believers.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Did The Christians Abandon The Jews?

 

What is not at all understood today is the fact that the majority of the First Century Christians were purely spiritual in their religious understanding, practice and lifestyle, and thus they were Gnostic.   As demonstrated at the subheading All Genuine Religions Are Gnostic, Gnosis is the Greek word for Knowledge derived directly from God.   Jesus was rejected by the Jews because he possessed Gnosis -- as did his original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers -- as did the earliest Christians.    In fact, the very objective of all religion is to free sincere seekers from organic human ignorance that Jesus portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son -- enable them to escape what Jesus portrayed as The Prison of the god of this world -- and enable them to escape the profound ignorance of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being.   

Judaism was a Mystery Religion as presented at the above subheading (see Mystery Religion).   And as a Mystery Religion, it employed what is called extreme allegory that was coded in a way that one had to be an initiate by a master in the Mystery Religion to understand the true meaning of the text.   Why was the Torah and the scriptures of all religions written in this manner?   For two very important reasons -- i.e., (1) the Mystics who composed the scriptures could not speak and write openly because of the sentence of death as presented in the above subheading entitled Jewish Mystics Could Not Speak Openly; (2) the scriptures of all religions employ the same allegorical code with which all of nature is imbued, and they are therefore written in The Language Of The Soul.    

One of the Netzarim organizations which has published a Message To Christians, where the author writes:  "Therefore, the Creator's Life's Instruction Manual" has been available to man at least since the beginning of recorded history. The only enduring document of this kind is the Tor•âh′ —which, interestingly, translates to "Instruction (not "law" as popularly alleged)."   While from one perspective the author's logic may on the surface appear to be rational, the reasoning is convoluted at best -- and it is this convoluted reasoning that Jesus came to do away with, and is the primary objective of the Gospels and the New Covenant.    To even suggest that Creator-God would speak through one people above all the people of the earth -- and that Creator-God would ordain this one people to write down His Laws and Covenants in a language that was subject to not only human reasoning, but also man's corruptions (see Bible Corruption) --  is simply beyond the pale of reason itself.    This is not to say that the Torah, the Gospels, as well as the scriptures of all the earth's peoples are not useful for the instruction of the spiritually immature -- i.e., an entry-level people who have yet to develop the necessary dimensions of mind and being that enables man to fulfill the edict to be "taught by God" (John 6:45 NKJ) -- and begin to discern the voice of the One Teacher that Jesus instructed his disciples and followers to seek out (see The True Prophet).    

While the vast majority of Jews and Christians are in the same boat as the Pharisees and Sadducees who Jesus condemned as the "offspring of the Devil" (see An Inconvenient Truth) because their counterfeit leaders have thrown away the Key of Knowledge -- i.e., “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered” (Luke 11:52 NAS) -- and not to understand the relationship of the Key of Knowledge to the command to enter in at the narrow strait gage -- i.e., "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NKJ) -- is indeed the plight of those who walk the broad-way of destruction.    What this means is that the counterfeit authorities and pseudo-religious teachers who interpret the scriptures in the literal sense, are the blind guides that Jesus portrayed as the "offspring of the Devil" -- or what Paul portrayed as the god of this world -- what Jesus portrayed as the Citizen of the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son -- or what the early Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics, portrayed as the Demiurge.    That the Living Word or Torah of God is within you -- and that only those who enter through the "narrow strait gate" are able to perceive this Living Word/Torah of God -- is the true reason why the first Christians rejected the Torah and the way of the Jews -- which was the broad-way and the way of death.   Returning to the above web sites published a Message To Christians,  the author reasons that:  An orderly—"not capricious," as Einstein put it—Creator (also implying Just), therefore, necessarily had an Intelligent Purpose in creating this universe and us within it and, being Just and Orderly, necessarily placed an explanation, a "Life's Instruction Manual," within the reach of His subjects—humankind. -- and while this is true, it is not true in accordance with man's carnal reasoning.   And thus, contrary to the author's convoluted reasoning, the Living Word/Torah of God has been strategically and spiritually placed within the reach of all of mankind -- beyond the ability of either man or the powers of this world to corrupt or diminish in any manner.    In fact, the Living Word/Torah of Creator-God has remained totally pure throughout every phase of man's existence -- and as the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High, the Living Word has been a bulwark of the faithful against the corruptions that have engulfed this world in ignorance, violence and despair.       

The early Christians rejected the way of the Jews, because they were themselves spiritual, and it was revealed to them by The True Prophet that the literal text of the Torah is an allegory that the Jews were blind to the meaning of, because they had thrown away the Key of Knowledge .  And this is why it was written pertaining to the Ebionites that they "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blespheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   How did Christ reveal to them?   Spiritually -- as they entered in the "narrow strait gate within themselves into the Kingdom, where they learned directly from  The True Prophet .     When it is understood that the meaning of the Greek word Christ in English is Anointing, then it can be understood that the Anointing that John said was their Teacher, revealed the inner spiritual meaning of the rituals of the Law to them.   Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of the Ebionites/Hebrews where Yeshua/Jesus states: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" (Panarion 30.16.5).   Why would Jesus come to destroy the sacrifices of the Jews that is required in the Torah?   Because it is the lower animal nature that each person must sacrifice within themselves, as they seek to fulfill the Torah and become the Final Temple.  

To even begin to understand why the earliest Christians rejected the Torah and the way of the Jews, it is absolutely imperative to understand what is presented in the subheading entitled The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind.    In the original Gospel teachings of TheWay, the warning of the Apostle Peter was understood with respect to the necessity to learn directly from  The True Prophet , as explained by Peter in the writings of his disciple Clement where he warned: "...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?    It means that the written words of the Torah and all scriptures are the cloak which not only conceals the true spiritual meaning -- but that this true spiritual meaning can only be revealed by The True Prophet .   It is important to grasp the meaning of the esoteric reality that the Law/Torah of God cannot be "...read according to the understanding of our own mind."     Neither can the Law/Torah of God be revealed in accord with "...a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".   And the first Christians therefore rejected the Torah and the way of the Jews, because the whole of their doctrines of belief and their understanding was based upon "...the understanding of [human reasoning of their] own mind  [and was representative of] ...a foreign and extraneous sense [of the meaning of the scriptures}, which [the Jews] brought from without".    And thus, they continue in this manner today -- representing themselves as Netzarim and pseudo-Ebionites -- continuing to throw away the Key of Knowledge -- and as blind-guides, leading the people down the "broad-way ...of destruction".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zionism

 

MysticSaint writes and asks:
 
Shalom and Greetings!
 
I would like you to share your neutral opinion on this. many of the readers may feel enlightened from your insight.
 
thanks,
MysticSaint
 
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The Reply

Shalom MysticSaint:
 
After listening to the interview of Rabbi Yisroel Weiss on Neil Cavuto's Fox News which you have linked to on your Blog, as a Mystic you must realize that in this world, even when you are right, you are wrong from the perspective of the opposite paradoxical polarity of the Tree of Duality.   And while Rabbi Weiss is stating the truth from one perspective, he is very blind from many other perspectives.  
 
At its core, Judaism is an ancient Mystery religion that few people today possess the depth of understanding to comprehend even the spiritual objectives of the religion.   In fact, most Orthodox Jews fail to comprehend the spiritual essence of their own religion.   In the article entitled No Jew Has Read The Torah (see http://ebionite.com/Torah.htm ), it is accurately stated in Kabbalah:  "Thus the tales related in the Torah are simply her outer garments, and woe to the man who regards that outer garb as the Torah itself, for such a man will be deprived of portion in the next world."    And as a Mystic, listening to Rabbi Weiss explain his position to Neil Cavuto, conveys to me that he has never perceived the fullness of the Spiritual Torah that provides the seeker a portion in the next world.   Not that everyone ceases to exist -- but rather, what they find when they pass over at physical death, is not what they were led to believe while here on earth.
 
In the interview with Neil Cavuto, Rabbi Weiss explained that Israel should not be a secular Nation of this world, which is correct -- and his explanation is that the Jews have been in exile.   And yet, Rabbi Weiss could not offer any insight as to why the Jews are in exile -- and not to understand why, is to dwell under a great spiritual void that alienates the people from the Truth and the Kingdom they seek.   The few Mystic visionaries who are themselves Whole, and have been able to draw near and manifest their soul-self ( http://BeingOfLight.com ) in this world -- and are able to possess a higher and enlightened understanding of the Laws -- realize that all events that transpire are brought about by pre-existing causes.   Which not only means that there are no accidents -- but that all events which are orchestrated by the Laws are brought about for a purpose and reason that only the truly wise and enlightened possess the ability to perceive and comprehend.   So on the one hand while the rabbi is right, a man of enlightened wisdom would also ask why the Hand of God acting through the Laws has brought forth what is now the Nation of Israel?   And that usually every thought -- and every event -- possesses a twelve-fold paradoxical reality that is often portrayed as the Tower of Babel Syndrome which keeps mankind bound and shackled to what Yeshua/Jesus portrayed as the "far country... outer darkness", and what is also portrayed in Plato's Cave (see http://DivineStrategery.com#Plato ), creates the reality which I referred to above in the fact that in this world, even when you are right, you are often wrong.  Thus, in order to enter that level of higher enlightenment, you must not only perceive each of the separate paradoxical elements that make up almost every aspect of life in this realm, but you must also be conscious of the Higher Reality that merges the twelve spheres and the Tree of Duality, into the higher reality of the Tree of Life where the All dwells in One.  
 
While I could write forever on the Laws and why Rabbi Weiss is correct from one perspective, and yet it was the Hand of God that brought the secular Nation of Israel into being, let me instead dwell upon the more significant solution to the quagmire.   In his interview with Neil Cavuto, Rabbi Weiss states that the Jews are in exile -- but why?   As someone who was physically present in the life of Yeshua as Jacob, in the first century of our Common Era (see http://BrotherOfYeshua.com ), I tend to see everything totally different than not only most people -- but also the modern-day religious leaders from all the world's religions.   There is a reason for everything -- and only when men look to leaders who are able to perceive the higher wisdom and enlightened understanding, are they able to break free of the shackles that enslave them in what is portrayed as the far country... Plato's Cave.   And in the same way that the Laws brought forth the Zionist movement that Rabbi Weiss perceives as a rejection of the spirituality of Judaism, it was these same Laws that actively hindered many of the Jews from embracing the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay (see http://messianic.nazirene.org/never_told.htm ).   And in like manner, all the events that have transpired since that time to both the Jews and the Christians, have been orchestrated and brought forth by the Laws which control the lessons in this life that mankind experiences.   But from a Jewish perspective, the solution to the exile is to begin the process of doing away with the Mystery religion mindset that has inhibited Judaism, and commence to tell the people the Truth.
 
As witnessed to by Peter in the writings of his disciple Clement which are found in the above link, once rightfully understood, there is absolutely no difference between the Torah and New Testament -- and the primary objective of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay was to free the people from enslavement to the ancient Mystery religion mindset and allegorical scriptural quagmire which shackled them to various forms of pagan worship and animal sacrifice.   And this fact is well attested to in the portrayal of the Final Temple given by AskMoses.com which can be found in the article on The Three Lies ( http://TheThreeLies.com ).   And while Yeshua is not the pagan god that the Romans created in the fourth century (see http://TheTenWords.com ), the purpose of the original teachings was to prepare seekers to become a Living Temple that would enable them to learn directly from God, and enter the Kingdom within ( http://GateOfEden.com ).   And the Jews have been exiled, and even a mosque built upon the temple mount, to inhibit the Jews from attempting to rebuild a temple in this world -- in contradistinction to Consecrating their body-vessel as a Living Temple ( http://TheThreeLies.com ) and fulfilling the vision of a Nation of Priests set apart to the Most High.  
 
What this means is that the Jews are in exile, because they are in denial to the very spiritual essence of their own Torah and religious teachings.   And in our present time, they have the opportunity to complete the great work that the soul who lived as Yeshua began 2000 years ago.   And that is to acknowledge the relationship to the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, as what each seeker must do in order to bring about the necessary spiritual transformation that fulfills the Law within themselves ( http://Ebionite.com ), and enables each seeker to become the Living Temple -- wherein, they can enter within the Holy of Holies within them, and simultaneously dwell in the Kingdom in fulfillment of the requirement to be in the world and not of it.   And if the Jews were to do this, they would not only correct the error of the Christians who worship the man Yeshua as God, and they would correct the error of the Muslims who lack an understanding of the true spiritual reality of the Journey by night to the Distant Mosque (see http://brotherofyeshua.com/TheThreeLies.htm#mosque ), but they would be able to fulfill their own Destiny and no longer be an exiled people who have been constantly persecuted and rejected.
 
Because of the conflict between the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, I am going to add my above reply to you with links in the article on The Three Lies and you will be able to directly access it though this link
http://brotherofyeshua.com/TheThreeLies.htm#zionism .   I am also forwarding a copy to Neil Cavuto of FoxNews.
 
GodSpeed in TheWay,
Allan Cronshaw
Long Island, NY
 
 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

The Spiritual Diaspora

That Judaism, Christianity And Islam Dwell Under

In the Epistle of Peter And James is the rather profound statement pertaining to the New Covenant scriptures: "Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error.   Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should  communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others" ( http://BibleCorruption.com ).   And as stated at this link, the most important scriptures of the New Testament were never even given to anyone outside the Ebionite Community.   Why?    The answer is not what most people would think.    It was not that anyone wanted to conceal Wisdom from those outside the Ebionite Community -- but rather, the vast majority of people are incapable of understanding their own higher soul-reality, and the Kingdom of God.    When Paul writes that the baptized, committed believers at Corinth who had received the gifts of the spirit, were yet too carnal to comprehend the Mysteries of God (see The Pursuit Of God By The Letter That Killeth) -- warning the believers: “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 NKJ).    Paul then goes on and warns these believers of a natural mind who were baptized and dedicated to Christ: “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1 NAS).   Thus, these believers could only be taught the very elementary doctrine of Jesus Christ and him crucified (1 Cor 2:2), because they were not yet spiritual men who were able to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and spirit -- and they were men of flesh and still very much “babes in Christ”.   Paul then explains that: “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1 Cor 3:2 NAS).   And from the perspective of the modern believer -- or anyone who reads these words which apply equally to all of humanity -- what should be troubling is the fact that Paul openly admits that the baptized and confirmed Christians at Corinth -- people who had accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior and received the gifts of the laying on of hands and speaking in tongues -- people who were not taught by preachers and priests, but the Apostle himself -- were not yet able to understand and comprehend what Paul referred to as the Mysteries of the Gospel of God.    And Paul goes as far as to declare to the reader that when he was permitted to enter the Inner Kingdom (see Gate Of Eden), not only did he see and hear “…things so astounding that they are beyond a man's power to describe or put in words…” -- but more importantly, after he was permitted to gaze upon these higher realities that are beyond the ability of the natural organic mind of man to comprehend, what he witnessed was of such a profound nature that he was “…not allowed to tell them to others” (2 Cor 12:4 TLB).    Why?   Why would those who have been permitted to gaze upon the Mysteries of God and the Kingdom not be able to convey to the believers in the Church what they have seen?   For the same exact reason that Ignatius, the first century elder, warned that “Might I not write to you things more full of mystery?  But I fear to do so, lest I should inflict injury on you who are babes.  Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able to receive their weighty import, ye should be strangled by them”.   Which is why Paul warned that the believers of the simple faith will look upon the higher reality of the soul and the spirit as "foolishness" (1 Cor 2:13).    Why?   Because in not having evolved through the necessary process of spiritual transformation that enables man to utilize those higher areas of mind that are not supported by the organic body-vessel, they are still of a carnal mind -- a mindset that Paul warns: The... “carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God... For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Rom 8:7-8;13 NKJ).  

It is not that the few who have themselves been enlightened to the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom do not want to tell others what they know and have experienced -- but rather, not only does organic man not want to listen, and does not possess the spiritual maturity to comprehend his own higher soul-reality, but the vast majority of mankind totally reject the very warnings that are presented in the above words taken straight out of the Bible they often proclaim to believe.   And since the vast majority of mankind either believes that they know the truth, or that knowing the truth is not necessary while they are in this world -- or they reason that since no one really knows the truth, that they will have to wait until their present life is over before they can really know the truth -- and it is this mindset that not only makes them complacent to the truth, but insures that they can never come to know the truth.    With respect to those who are under the deception that they know the truth, to their own downfall they ignore the warning of Paul that “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Cor 8:2 NKJ).  

Who are those who "...think [think they know, but] knows nothing yet as they ought to know???”   These people who Paul makes reference to are the men and women who preach the Gospel in your Churches -- they are called rabbis in your synagogues -- in Islam they are called Imams -- but they are also known as priests, ministers, yogis and gurus -- but because all of mankind uniformly ignores the above warnings, they are also called teachers, professors, and philosophers and political leaders.  

 

In the same way that the vast majority of people ignore the above warnings taken right out of the pages of the Bible, the greater number of Gentiles who Paul preached to also ignored these warnings.   In the same way that it is human nature to protect and defend one's own life from attack, it is human nature to protect and defend one's mindset and lifestyle.  

unless they were sincere seekers who were themselves walking in TheWay, then the higher reality of the soul and the Inner Kingdom was totally incomprehensible to them -- and thus, the reality of the above words in RED.   And unless you understand how to apply the Key of Knowledge that Yeshua warned that the Pharisees had thrown away (see http://KeyOfKnowledge.org ), then it is impossible to understand the true inner meaning of the scriptures. 

 

 

 

 

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In the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas it is written: (12) The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."   So to once again restore the teachings of TheWay which is today known as Christianity, the Lord has sent Jacob/James, the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus, back into the world in order to guide the faithful flock into the Truth, the Light, and the Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21).   It is there that my brother Yeshua/Jesus awaits you.  

The above warning with respect to the predicted corruption of Yeshua's teachings is further stated in the first century writings known today as the Clementine Recognitions where it is written: "Our Lord and Prophet, who hath sent us, declared to us that the wicked one, having disputed with Him forty days, and having prevailed nothing against Him, promised that he would send apostles from amongst his subjects, to deceive.  Wherefore, above all, remember to shun apostle or teacher or prophet who does not first accurately compare his preaching with that of James, who was called the brother of my Lord, and to whom was entrusted to administer the church of the Hebrews in Jerusalem, — and that even though he come to you with witnesses: lest the wickedness which disputed forty days with the Lord, and prevailed nothing, should afterwards, like lightning falling from heaven upon the earth, send a preacher to your injury, as now he has sent Simon upon us, preaching, under pretense of the truth, in the name of the Lord, and sowing error. Wherefore He who hath sent us, said, ‘Many shall come to me in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them.’" 

Again it is warned by Clement: "Wherefore observe the greatest caution, that you believe no teacher, unless he bring from Jerusalem the testimonial of James the Lord’s brother, or of whosoever may come after him. For no one, unless he has gone up thither, and there has been approved as a fit and faithful teacher for preaching the word of Christ, — unless, I say, he brings a testimonial thence, is by any means to be received. But let neither prophet nor apostle be looked for by you at this time, besides us. For there is one true Prophet, whose words we twelve apostles preach"

As predicted, the ministers of Satan have succeeded in altering the teachings of my brother Yeshua, and continue to lead many into the abyss of darkness.   But have no fear my brothers and sisters, for the teachings of TheWay has been restored so that you might be able to overcome the darkness, and enter the Kingdom of Light within you (Luke 17:20-21). 

 

 

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The Brother Of Yeshua/Jesus: 2000 years ago I lived as Jacob who many all James, and I was known as the Brother of Yeshua and the first leader of the New Covenant movement of TheWay which is today known as Christianity.  I was sent back into the world to restore the teachings of my brother Yeshua to their original spiritual essence, and to guide you in TheWay that is "narrow" so you will be able to open the "strait gate" within you and enter the Kingdom that Yeshua declared must be attained through the second birth.  
 

The Ebionite HomePage: If you call yourself a Christian, Jew, Messianic believer, Evyonim, Nazarene or Muslim, then it is imperative that you learn of the Ebionites who are True Spiritual Israel -- They are the Poor Ones to the ways and thinking of this world -- The Ebionites were the Israelites of the Nazirene Vow They are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus who are in the world and not of it!   
 

The Nazirene HomePage: The original spiritual teachings of Yeshua/Jesus as practiced by the people of The Way who where known historically as the Essenes, Ebionites, and Nazirenes. The teachings of The Way are Spiritual -- and provide a means to open the "strait gate" into the Kingdom while still physically alive in the body/vessel.  
 

Divine Manna Of The Kingdom And The Gospel Of Thomas: The 114 sayings of the Gospel of Thomas is the Key to entering the Kingdom Within. To know their meaning, you must first explore and Know Thyself.   Thus, the sayings are themselves a catalyst for spiritual transformation.   One of the most important statements within the sayings is that "But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty... Whoever finds himself is superior to the world".   And the finding of self is the primary objective of all scriptures.   And when we add to this the statement from the Gospel of Philip that "Those who say that first they shall die and (then) they shall arise are confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live,¹ they will not receive anything (when) they die" -- we can begin to understand that the doctrines of the simple faith that Paul called the "milk" of the Gospel of Christ, is truly elementary and only the beginning of entry-level teachings of TheWay.   Which means that one of the primary objectives of Jesus' teachings is to become a Disciple of TheWay, and bring about that condition within one's own body-mind Temple, where one can be with the Lord "in the House", and receive the Mysteries of God from the One Teacher of Light.   To accomplish this, you must learn to turn the Key of Knowledge -- i.e., the scriptures -- within yourself.   The True Meaning of not only the Gospel of Thomas, but also of all genuine scriptures, can only be revealed to those who gain the experiential knowledge through direct revelation of the One Teacher within.   Thus, the words: "These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.  And he said, Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death. Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."  
 

The Light Of Yeshua -- The Messianic Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: While many teach that believers are saved by faith, the journey of the disciple of Yeshua is one of absolute dedication to The Way. The disciple who becomes a brother to Yeshua must live as he lived, and become a Nazirene who is consecrated and wholly set apart as they walk the Narrow Way, enter into the Kingdom through the Strait Gate, and learn directly from the L-rd -- the One Rabbi and Teacher of the Mysteries of G-d.  
 

Divine Strategery: How God Fools Mankind - Keeping Him Ignorant Of The Truth: Strategery has become synonymous with when what is portrayed as simple, simpleminded, or even self-evident, is able to dupe and thwart an opposing force that perceives itself to be either superior, or to suppose they know the answers.   Divine Strategery is how God fools all the religious leaders of this world who think they doctrinally know God -- all the would-be teachers and philosophers of this world who think they Know Truth -- all the Atheists and those who criticize and denounce the existence of God by virtue of their limited perception and understanding -- and all the people in this world who think they understand the purpose of life and the world in which we presently dwell.  As prodigal sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, if the people in this life knew the answers, then the learning experience of God's SchoolHouse of this world would not effectively evolve us to become true Brothers and Sisters of our Elder Brother Yeshua/Jesus.  Therefore, in order to insure that each of us is immersed in the necessary learning experience that this life offers, all people are equally fooled into thinking they know, in order for them to be manipulated into embracing a higher agenda that is beyond their ability to even imagine.   Thus, Divine Strategery!!!

 
 
 

The Pre-Existent Soul of Mankind: Jesus taught the reality of the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes. The Church adheres to the doctrine and theology of a Circus Prostitute and a Roman Emperor who maintained absolute control over what Christians were permitted to believe! Christians continue to cling to the theology of this Circus Prostitute today - rejecting the teachings of Jesus, while adhering to the doctrines of Pagan Rome. The mass confusion of an uncountable number of sects today, is the direct result of the void which was brought about when this foundational concept was removed from both the Bible, as well as Christian doctrine. The doctrinal quagmire which was brought about with the removal of this foundational teaching, obstructs Christians growth and maturity beyond the entry-level simple faith. Because they adhere to the corrupted doctrines of men, modern Christians can't inherit the Biblical Promise of entering the Kingdom and Life.

 
 

It was said of the Church Father Origen by St. Gregory of Nyssa that he was “the prince of Christian learning in the Third Century” -- and the Encyclopedia Britannica calls him “…the most prominent of all the church fathers”.  But how did he become the man that St. Jerome considered to be “the greatest teacher of the Church after the Apostles”?   According to the soul who lived as Origen, he had previously lived as the disciple and scribe of Jacob who people call James, who was the Brother of Jesus.   And from that life with Jacob, he learned to write scriptures in Hebrew Characters, and he worked on the original source scriptures which has since come to be called the New Testament scriptures of the Bible.   On his web site, Emmanuel Pohorecki reveals not only the accounts of the many lifetimes that he has lived, but also his own journey into the presence of his soul-self -- i.e., his true self who is the Being of Light.   And once again Emmanuel has demonstrated that you don't need to physically die to communicate with, and enter into the presence of your soul-self who is the Being of Light in the Near Death Experience.   And in his soon to be completed article on the Journey of the Soul and Visions from his Higher Self, he will write about what his soul-self has taught him while in the Realm of Souls.   Emmanuel provides other important insights in man's higher reality with his account of his life with Fr. Francis, as a Native American, and as one of the Constitutional Founding Fathers of the United States.  
 

The Gnostic Way is to manifest the Divine Pattern in the Life of the person in every action, word and desire we express, so as to overcome the divisions that exist in the consciousness of the physical reflections of man.  In order to accomplish this we must come to see life from a higher perspective that overcomes the apparent paradoxes of the lower perspectives.  
 

The Long Island Mystic and Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: The Organizational HomePage of The Nazirene -- the Long Island Mystic, Evangelical Minister, and Prophet of TheWay -- who God bestowed upon him the gift of the recall of his previous life as a Disciple and Brother of Messiah/Christ -- and thus has re-entered this world at the present time in order to restore the Spiritual Essence and Teachings of his Master, Yeshua/Jesus. The Kingdom is within! And we must sojourn the narrow path of TheWay, enter the "strait gate" to the Inner Spiritual Temple, while still alive in the physical body.  Thus, modern Christians have misunderstood the words of Yeshua -- he never said that we must physically die to enter the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- but rather, we must die to the culture, mindset and ways of this world in order to enter the Kingdom!   
 

Being Of Light: Who are we?  What are we? From where have we come?  What is our destiny?  To the demise of those who read these words, only a handful of people today can answer these all-important crucial questions correctly! The rest dwell under the cloud of unknowing -- and if you think you are the person whose reflection you see in the mirror, then you are a stranger to your true self and have made yourself part of the illusion of this world. With great wisdom Yeshua/Jesus is quoted in The Books of the Savior, also known as Pistis Sophia (Faith-Wisdom): "Do not cease seeking day or night, and do not let yourselves relax until you have found all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify you and make you into Pure Light and lead you into the Kingdom of Light."  
 

Gospel of the Nazirenes -- Gospel Of Light: What did the Gospels look like before being edited and re-written by the Church of Rome? What were the original beliefs of the first followers of Yeshua? You will be astonished when you read a surviving text of The Gospel of the Nazirenes which was hidden away from the corrupters of the Roman Church. Are you ready for a truly enlightening experience?  
 

The Gate Of Eden: Why were the Nazirene/Ebionites vegetarian?  Why did they live in accordance with the precepts of the Torah/Law?  Why did they live separate and apart from both Jews and Christians?  The answer is very simple: The Gate of Eden is within us, and if we fail to enter therein while we are still physically alive in the body, we will have failed in our opportunity to enter into Life.  And while it can be countered that we are saved by our belief in Messiah/Christ, faith, or the blood of the lamb, the truth is that if we were truly faithful disciples of TheWay, that we would experience the opening of the inner door and the Kingdom coming within us.  The GateOfEden article explores all aspects of the need to pick up one's own cross and follow the narrow path that leads to the inner gate to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.  
 

Epistle Of Light - Epistle Of James To Pope John Paul II: 2000 years ago I lived as Jacob the brother of Jesus known as James. I was sent back to bring about the restoration of the Church, and the within letter to Pope John Paul is important for you to read and forward. The pope has the power to bring peace on earth if he releases certain early Christian documents that are in his possession. Jesus is calling out to you to help make the truth known! Will you hear the call?