In what may on the surface appear to be a divergence from the primary religious and spiritual theme of this article, it is important to demonstrate that modern science has not only proven the validity of the path of Mysticism where one seeks to enter and dwell in the Presence of God — and that this learning directly from God is in fact the objective of all religions in the seeking and the acquisition of Gnosis — or the Divine Manna of the Kingdom of God — imparted directly into the mind of those who fulfill the Laws within themselves in the manner that Jesus taught, directly and personally by the Logos. This is true of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as all genuine religions the world over — the objective of which, is to bring about the transformation of the believer into a disciple who manifests the Final Temple within himself. A spiritual reality that is not at all understood is seen in the quotation of the Apostle Peter in the Homilies of his disciple Clement that God inhibited the Jews from accepting Jesus, and the Gentiles from accepting Moses (seeThings Christians Don’t Tell Jews About The NT): “For on this account Jesus is concealed from the Jews, who have taken Moses as their teacher, and Moses is hidden from those who have believed Jesus. For, there being one teaching by both, God accepts him who has believed either of these.” But more importantly Peter then states that when rightly understood, there is absolutely no difference between the Jewish Torah, or the Gospels: “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.” What Peter is revealing is the fact that if you understood the mystical CODE, and were able to look beneath the cloak of the allegory of the written text, you would see the exact same message in the spiritual meaning and revelation of the Torah, as is reveled in the spiritual meaning and objectives of the Gospels. Moreover, while the meaning and objective of the Gospel account is exactly the same as the Torah, the Gospels were intended to free the people from the extreme allegory of the Torah, and enabled the people to gain much greater spiritual insight in the study of the literal written text.
In the same way that Carl Marx portrayed religion as the opium of the people, since the dawn of time the rulers of every variety of governing body have used religion to control the people. When Atheists and critics reject the Gospels as a fraud, the faults they observe is not so much the work of the biblical authors — but rather, with the government enforced secularization of the teachings, and the corruption of the biblical texts that was necessary to make the scriptures conform to secular doctrines (see Bible Corruption). In view of the fact that from an historical perspective, to disagree with the controling secular authorities, the government and/or its established puppet religious orders, in most instances carried the sentence of death — which equates to the rather harsh reality that the critics of the Gospels are synonymous with those who blame the rape victim for the crimes that were perpetrated against her. Add to this the fact that every genuine visionary and mystic have all warned mankind that it is impossible for him to comprehend his own higher soul and spiritual reality so long as he remains organic and carnal in his thinking and being — saying to the non-mystic, when you have done what I have done, only then can you understand what I understand — so long as a man remains carnal and earthly in his thinking and lifestyle, then we can begin to appreciate why all genuine spiritual wisdom was concealed within allegorical religious texts, in order to conceal the sacred knowledge from both the multitude of people who could not use it, and their leaders who would destroy it. The historical account of mankind demonstrates the perpetual struggle between the vision of the Gnostic who makes claim to spiritual insights that the common believers who have traditionally called themselves Orthodox, are blind to. And the fact that only now, in our present time, has modern science been able to shed light on the controversy, is of a primary importance to those seekers of Truth.
Perhaps the greatest folly of both the Atheist and the scholarly critic, is seen in their blind dismissal of the words of Jesus when he commanded not to give what is holy to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine. And that dogs and swine are representative of a type of people, is a reality that is of the utmost importance. In the Homilies of his disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter is quoted as stating: “We remember that our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us, guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples, privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the heavens.” Thus, what is being stated is that those to whom the higher knowledge of the truth is revealed, are to protect and preserve this sacred knowledge from those people who are allegorically defined as dogs and swine. And without understanding what the Church Father Origen portrayed as the knowledge of the “minor mysteries” — and especially the cosmology of self which can be portrayed as a blueprint of ones own mind — and endeavoring to learn how to apply the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge — then whatever knowledge man thinks he possesses, will end up to be useless opinion that is temporal and gravely misleading.
In order to inhibit the reader from seeing only the written words of the scriptures, and failing to seek out the inner meaning that was concealed from the people who Jesus portrayed as dogs and swine, there was intentional errors and inconsistencies purposely placed in the text so a person of higher intelligence would not believe what was literally written. In the Jewish Mysticism book known as the Zohar, it is explained with respect to the written words of the scriptures: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”. In the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”. And this fact is confirmed by the Church Father Origen who wrote: “It is sufficient however, to represent in the style of a historic narrative what is intended to convey a secret meaning in the garb of history, that those who have the capacity may work out for themselves all that relates to the subject.” Therefore, what appears to be an historical account, is not — and it is nothing more than a cloak that conceals important sacred knowledge from those who — because of their carnally dense and worldly mindset and thinking, cannot utilize the wisdom of the minor mysteries that are a prerequisite to overcome carnal organic limitations, and escape the profound ignorance of this world.
Is this fact made clear to those who read the scriptures? Yes, but the ego of each person who thinks they know, causes them to ignore the many warnings that are presented to them. As an example: When Paul warns the baptized and committed Christians at Corinth who he, himself, originally instructed, that they were yet to carnal in their understanding to comprehend the spiritual meaning of the Gospel — which is often referred to as the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God — he conveyed to them the reality that they would judge and even condemn this higher reality of the Spirit as absolute “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). Thus, it is imperative to ask the question: What is the “natural man”? The condition of mankind that Paul is making reference to, would just as well be portrayed as “organic” — or, of the physical body. The “natural man” , is the “organic” human being.
A man of true intellect would want to know why mankind in his organic condition, would reject what Paul calls the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of God as absolute utter “foolishness”??? To the degree that when Paul states that he was “..caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter” (2 Cor 12:4-5 NKJ) — an intelligent man would immediately question as to why “…it is not lawful for a man to utter” what a Disciple who enters the Kingdom experiences? In his Epistle to the Trallaus the first century elder Ignatius speaks of the Mysteries of the Gospel and the Kingdom, and writes: “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”. The only way that Ignatius could have written these words, was if he, himself, understood what was beyond the comprehension of the organic mind of the believers of the simple faith. And while he states that he had himself progressed to the point where he understood what was incomprehensible to the organic mind of man, he also confesses that though he is aware of the minor mysteries, he is not yet “by any means perfect, nor am I such a disciple as Paul or Peter”. If Ignatius or the other early Church Fathers who knew the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God were with us today, what profound mystery could they speak regarding the true teachings of Jesus that believers today would be “strangled by them”? To the degree that Paul proclaimed to the Christians at Corinth: “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 exoteric doctrine of a quasi-historical allegorical account of Jesus 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). And that for the most part the authors of the scriptures were forced to use the common believers as a mule that preserved and carried with them a Spiritual Trojan Horse to be understood only by the few whose mind and being were prepared to understand the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, is a system that has been in effect since the beginning (see An Inconvenient Truth).
If all that Paul could write about was the allegorical “milk” of the Gospel — i.e., a system of allegorical forms and symbols which possessed and concealed a deeper meaning of mind and spirit that was beyond the comprehension of the untransformed mind of organic man — then those who blindly assume that they understand the true meaning of the Gospel which could only be revealed to those who had evolved their mind and thinking to a mature state — then those who ignore this warning and base their beliefs on the written word, are a foolish and misguided people. And this is true of blind believers, as well as blind and foolish critics of the Gospels and religion.
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Intellectual Idiots And Philosophical Pedophiles? (1) In acknowledging the fact that the literal text of the scriptures has absurdities of the letter that was intentionally inserted into what appeared as an quasi-historical narratives; (2) so that a person of intellect would reject what was literally being stated; (3) and one of the reasons the scriptures were composed in this manner, was so that the important inner meaning would be both concealed and protected; (4) and this inner concealed meaning was often portrayed as the soul and the spirit of the scriptures — The Church Father Origen who was esteemed as the greatest Christian authority after the disciples, portrayed those who could believe the absurdities of the written word of the scriptures as being historically and spiritually true, to be simpleminded “idiots”. And these intentional absurdities that were written into the text of the scriptures were so plain, and often so outlandish, that Paul portrayed the written text of the scriptures as the “letter that killeth” (2 Cor 3:6). The Church Historian Eusebius portrays these people who are so gullible to believe the absurdities that are intentionally written into the text of the scriptures, as men of “small intellect”. In the Homilies the Apostle Peter portrays the scriptures as “the mystery of the books with the power to deceive”. Which is why Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.
Once rightly understood, the scriptures were in fact expressly composed in such a way so that people of a rational and intelligent mind will reject the written word of the quasi-historical narrative which Origen portrays as “worthless”, and seek the deeper meaning of mind, soul and spirit. And that the critics and Atheists have long ignored the witness of the most knowledgeable of religious men, and have continually chosen to disparage the ignorant blind believers, is not only evidence of their own folly, but proof of their own intellectual bankruptcy. These critics who ignore the mature men and women of higher spiritual vision and intellect, to ravish the immature, should be portrayed as the intellectual-pedophiles that they are.
What is an intellectual-pedophile? Quoting the Church historian Eusebius who writes of the doctrines conceived by the early Christians Papias and Irenaeus: “Papias reproduces other stories communicated to him by word of mouth, together with some otherwise unknown parables and teachings of the Saviour, and other things of a more allegorical character. He says that ‘after the resurrection of the dead there will be a period of a thousand years when Christ’s kingdom will be set up on this earth in material form’. I suppose he got these notions by misinterpreting the apostolic accounts and failing to grasp what they said in mystic and symbolic language. For he seems to have been a man of very small intelligence, to judge from his books…” (Eusebius, Hist Eccl., Book III, 39.11). Thus, the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists who ignore the most spiritual authorities, while disparaging the immature in the folly of their misguided error, are little more than intellectual-pedophiles!
One of the gravest misunderstandings of modern man is seen in his assertion that the scriptures represent an historical narrative and record of a time in mankind’s past. The second gravest misunderstanding is that the scriptures portray the Creation of a cosmic reality of when the universe came into being. In his book entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, G.R.S. Mead explains that what the authors truly “…projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds.” He then writes of the scriptures: “Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”. It was for this reason that Carl Jung called the Gnostic Christians the worlds first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human consciousness. When rightly understood with what Jesus called the Key of Knowledge properly applied, the scriptures are about you — i.e. the Laws and Forces working in your own mind and body — and they are timeless and relevant to every period in human history. Prompting Carl Jung to conclude that the authors of the scriptures and the original (Gnostic) Christians were the worlds first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human consciousness. Thus, the knowledge that was both preserved and concealed within the allegorical body of the written text, was the preliminary knowledge that was needed to not only unlock the forces and cosmological blueprint of the mind that the sincere seeker needed to know and master in order to unlock the mind’s true potential — but also the means to tap into a Source of Knowledge that exceeds all human wisdom. And thus, the words of Jesus that have been suppressed by the Church, and have not become known by virtue of the recent discovery of the Gospel of Thomas: “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 it is this cosmology of one’s own mind and the forces of consciousness that can unlock the mind’s full potential when the Key of Knowledge is properly applied — knowledge that has the power to liberate the seeker from the ignorance and illusions of this world that is portrayed in the analogy of Plato’s Cave — that is representative of the true meaning of the scriptures. And while on the surface the Gospels may appear to be about an historical man known as Jesus, Jesus is used as an example of one who successfully applied this important knowledge to overcome the Laws within himself. And all the alleged prophecies of a Second Coming, Armageddon and an End Times, is an allegorical portrayal of the Anointing, Liberation and Enlightenment of the seekers own mind.
In describing the vast multitude of people, the Church Father Clement of Alexandria quotes ancient wisdom which states that, “…the majority of people, wise in their own estimation, follow minstrels and make use of laws, knowing that many are bad, few good; but that the best pursue glory: for the best make choice of the everlasting glory of men above all. But the multitude cram themselves like brutes, measuring happiness by the belly and the pudenda [sexual organs], and the basest things in us.”
Thus, the sacred knowledge was concealed from the majority of people within the allegorical scriptures, so that (1) it could be both preserved for those who could use it; and perhaps even more importantly, (2) to be retrieved in the future by those who originally concealed it within the allegorical text of the scriptures. The fact that by writing the scriptures in this manner, the most ignorant would preserve it from generation to generation — often spanning thousands of years — demonstrates the absolute genus of the enlightened authors.