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.  

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.

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: 

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:

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.  

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 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:

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:

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.