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Though many of you call me
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"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
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“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”
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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?
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There are
two ways,
one of life
and one of death,
but a great
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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).



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The
Netzarim - Jewish? Christian? Or Something Else? |
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The Original Teachings Of
Yeshua And TheWay |
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The
Application Of The Key Of Knowledge |
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Letters To James Trimm
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Why
Jews Reject Yeshua? |
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The
Spiritual Folly Of The Untransformed Mind |
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The
Censorship Of The Teaching On The Pre-existent Soul |
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Predestination Vs Freewill |
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Biblical Predestination |
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Yeshua's Yeshiva - A Spiritual Canard |
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Were
The Ebionites Torah Observant? Or Spiritually Observe And
Fulfill The Law? |
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Modern Pseudo-Ebionites |
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Judaism - The Mystery Religion |
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The
Plight Of The Jewish Mystics |
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Why
Did Christians Abandon The Torah? |
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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:
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.
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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.
left over from mystery 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 ).
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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
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
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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”.
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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To Know
Thyself
To
GOD
One of the primary objectives of all
religious paths is The
Heightening And Expansion Of Mind.
Which means that you not only have
to overcome the limitations of the
brain and physical body-vessel, but
you have to grow and evolve your
facilities of mind that enable you
to bring about the next stage of
birth, and become ONE with your
Unknown Self -- which can be
portrayed as your higher soul-self.
When the Buddha became
Enlightened, he did not arise and
preach God to the people in the
manner of the Hindus, because he
moved past their spiritual
immaturity and found the seat of
self. In like manner, the Gospel
of Thomas which opens with the
statement that you must find the
true meaning to the teachings
herein, if you are to overcome death
-- and thereafter he states: "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 while the spiritually immature
preach and teach God, the focus of
the words in the Gospel of Thomas is
Knowing Self. Why? Because it is
impossible to Know God from a human
perspective, without first Knowing
and Becoming one's True Self. In
Gospel Of Thomas saying 84, the
image-self does not rejoice over
seeing God -- but rather, their
likeness, which is their True Self
-- i.e., their higher Soul-Self.
Saying 84 does not proclaim: When
you see God you rejoice -- but when
you see those (people) who did not
become manifest,
"...how
much you [sorrow] will have to
bear!"
The Law is that all things must
return to its source. The esoteric
truths that could only be revealed
to those who had moved beyond what
Paul portrayed as the elementary and
entry level parabolic teachings (see
Mystery Of The Gospel) -- and
was portrayed as those who were able
to
Enter Into The House -- was the
higher reality of the soul that is a
Being of Light, and does not
incarnate into the body. And in
accordance with the Laws, in the
same way that your soul must return
to it's Source, you must return to
your source. Your source is your
higher soul-self -- of which you
began your existence at conception
in this life as an embryonic image
of (see Man
As An Embryonic Soul-Image).
And it is through these cycles of
birth, development and return, that
the soul-self evolves to perfection
through the experiential knowledge
gained in the life of each
embryonic-image that is generated
into this world. Holographically,
your higher soul-self must in the
Omega, return to its Source, which
is Creator-God. The spiritually
immature attempt to skip over their
True Self, which is their higher
Soul-Self -- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty..." --
and they preach God.
If you
stand before the carnal and
spiritually immature people of this
world and proclaim that God revealed
this or that to you, then they will
not only listen -- but they will do
your bidding and even give you their
money and allegiance. And thus,
the leaders of the spiritually
immature have been preaching God and
depriving their brothers and sisters
of Life, since the dawn of time
itself. If, on the other hand, you
stood before the carnal and
spiritually immature and stated that
your true self revealed esoteric
knowledge to you that will help them
overcome their plight in the "outer
darkness" of
mind and being of this world (see Outer
Darkness), they will
condemn and reject you as a "madman" as
portrayed in the analogy of Plato's
Cave. If, on the other
hand, the person who escaped the
illusions of the Cave of this world
came and told the other prisoners
that they escaped to heaven and saw
God, the prisoners inside the cave
would proclaim this person a prophet
-- or, even God incarnate. But the
very fact that the few who actually
escape the Cave of Illusions of this
world, attempt to convey to the
prisoners the reality of Self that
the Gospel of Thomas states you must
come to Know, causes the prisoners
to condemn these few who escape the
Cave of Illusions as heretics,
madmen, and demon-possessed.
The
forbidden fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil (Tree of
Duality) is in fact the embodiment
of the Divine Pattern of Creation
which is holographically imbued with
the PARADOXICAL duality of male and
female in their infinite forms and
expressions. A paradox is two
opposite and often conflicting
truths that oppose each other even
though they are both equally true.
And when rightly understood,
forbidden fruit of the paradoxical
opposites of the Tree of Duality can
only be rectified on a higher plane
(see The
Triangle in The Way Of The Monk)
-- and if you eat (ingest) the one
truth while discarding or rejecting
its opposite, then the eating of
this fruit/truth sustains you in a
state of (spiritual) death. And
one of the greatest of man's
paradoxes which confront him, is the
reality that while all of Creation
dwells within the Mind of God, man
dwells within God by PROXY --
meaning that while your higher
soul-self is the direct offspring of
Creator-God, you are the direct
offspring of your higher soul-self
-- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty...".
As a
generated thought-image of your
higher soul-self who is neither male
nor female or any of the races --
and is a Being
Of Light of
pure vital life-force and manifest
intellect -- it is impossible for
you to become One with God --
because you dwell within the Mind of
God by proxy -- and it is your
higher soul-self that must return to
its Source, which is Creator-God.
And in not understanding the
Cosmology of Mind and the many
images that make up the higher
Soul-Self, or True Self that is not
manifest in this physical world, you
will mentally and spiritually
flat-line in the manner of the
Hindus who preached God to the
people, in the time of the Buddha.
And since the person you are very
much the ego-self in relation to
your unmanifest higher soul-self
(see The
Divine Counterpart), then you
lose yourself by becoming the "good
ground" within
which the embryonic image of your
higher soul-self has been planted
(see Sower
And The Seed) -- and as you find
and become your True Self, you will
be working to bring about that
condition where your True Self can
then return to its Source -- which
is Creator-God.
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The Shepherd of Hermas
was one of the most popular
books produced in the early
Christian Church, and up
until the fourth century,
was frequently quoted and
regarded as inspired. The
book is a picturesque
religious allegory, in most
of which a rugged figure
dressed like a shepherd is
Hermas' guide. The purpose
of The Shepherd was
to call clergy and laity
responsible for grave
disorders in the Roman
culture to penance. Because
present-day Christianity is
imbued with these same Roman
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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
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What if you are not your
real or true self? And if
you preserve and attempt to
save that which is false,
that you will have
squandered your life away?
What if what is often
portrayed as the ego-self,
is the person you are in
this world, while the true
self exists at a deeper
level of mind and being and
cannot easily manifest in
the person whose thinking,
mindset and lifestyle is
founded upon the temporal
cultures and lifestyles of
this world? And what if
when Jesus makes reference
to the blind, deaf and those
incapable of understanding
with any depth of
comprehension, it is in
reference to those who are
carnal and anchored to this
world -- which condition of
mind is that portrayed as
dwelling in what Jesus said
was the
"outer darkness"
of mind and being? And
what if beyond the barrier
of the inner wall of
consciousness where the true
self dwells, all truths were
seen and known in the Light
of a naked reality? Why,
all of a sudden the enigmas
of knowing one's self,
losing the self in this
world, and ones search for
the Kingdom within, would
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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.
@ AT
WORK HERE
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.
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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".
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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
Blog: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts
Post: The difference between Zionism and Judaism
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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
GodSpeed in TheWay,
Allan Cronshaw
Long Island, NY
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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. |
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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! |
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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
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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." |
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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. |
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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!!!
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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." |
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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? |
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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. |
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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? |
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