
There
is nothing in the Gospels supporting the doctrine of Original
Sin that portrays a newborn infant as having been born in sin,
or holds a newborn responsible for the alleged sin of those
personified in the Book of Genesis as Adam and Eve.
Neither is there a doctrine of Original Sin in Judaism.
What, then, is the source of this foundational Church teaching
upon which modern Christianity is based? The doctrine of
Original Sin was imported into the Church from the Mithraic
based teachings of the Iranian prophet Mani. What can therefore
be portrayed as The Foundational Paradigm upon which the modern
Church is erected, is built upon the doctrine of Original Sin
and all the similar doctrines which have their existence within
the domain of a savior who must be sacrificed for the salvation
of a sinful fallen mankind (see The Original Sin Of The Church
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#OriginalSinOfTheChurch ).
St. Augustine, one
of the most important figures in the history of the Roman
Church, was a Manichaean before converting to Christianity.
Why did he convert? It is important to note that Augustine's
conversion came after the threat of death -- i.e., quoting the
Wikipedia:
"Augustine of Hippo (354–430) converted
to Christianity from Manichaeism, in the year 387. This was
shortly after the Roman Emperor Theodosius I had issued a decree
of death for all Manichaean monks in 382 and shortly before he
declared Christianity to be the only legitimate religion for the
Roman Empire in 391." With respect to the
Manichaeism of St. Augustine the
Wikipedia
states: "Manichaeism taught an
elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a
good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of
darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human
history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and
returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were
based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements".
Thus, when rightly understood, these Mesopotamian teachings
which have been classified as Gnostic have totally undermined
the original spiritual foundation of the Gospel teachings.
The meme at the right is often used by the opponents of
Christianity to portray the ridiculousness of the doctrine.
The fact is that Jesus portrayed those who attempted to
interpret the scriptures literally and historically, as having
thrown away the Key of Knowledge (see Application Of The Key Of
Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge )
-- portraying those Jews who interpreted the scriptures
outwardly in ritual and tradition as the
"devil's spawn" (see The Devil's Spawn
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ) who were incapable of
comprehending his teachings. In the words of Jesus:
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh
profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and
they are life" (John 6:63).
Jewish mystics convey the same exact message where they state in
the Zohar:
"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...".
Why? Because as Jesus stated:
"...the flesh [or literal word] profits
nothing" In total agreement, Moses Maimonedes,
one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and
Talmudist, writes about the allegorical 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”. Even going beyond
Moses Maimonedes it the statement by the Apostle Peter that is
quoted in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where Peter warns
about the people who will be deceived by the seductive power of
Simon Magus in their belief in the literal text of the
scriptures: “And with us,
indeed, who have had handed down from our forefathers the
worship of the God who made all things, and
also the mystery of the books which are able to deceive,
he will not prevail; but with those from
amongst the Gentiles who have the polytheistic fancy bred in
them,
and who know not the
falsehoods of the Scriptures, he
will prevail much. And not only he;
but if any other shall recount to those from among the Gentiles
any vain, dreamlike, richly set out story
against God, he will be believed, because from their childhood
their minds are accustomed to take in things spoken against God.
And few there shall be of them, as a few out of a multitude, who
through ingenuousness shall not be willing so much as to hear an
evil word against the God who made all things.
And to these alone from amongst the
Gentiles it shall be vouchsafed to be saved.
Let not any one of you, therefore,
altogether complain of Simon, or of any one else; for nothing
happens unjustly, since even the falsehoods of Scripture are
with good reason presented for a test.”
What is a bad belief
about God that will "deceive ...those
who know not the falsehoods of the Scriptures"?
That mankind is held accountable for the alleged sins of others
in an example of what the Apostle Peter portrays as a bad belief
about God.
But to understand why, the question must be posed: Did the allegorical events in the Book of Genesis actually take
place historically? This is a crucial question for every
modern Christian to answer. In the Homilies of Clement the
Apostle Peter is quoted as warning: "...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". If we ask the question: What is
being said to the believer who desires to be faithful to the
Gospel Teachings? By design, the scriptures cannot be
understood by the organic mind of man. And this fact is
confirmed when Peter stated:
"when the law of God (scriptures) is read,
it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind"?
Why? In the same way that Jesus taught that the Kingdom is
within (Luke 17:20-21) -- and Jesus commanded that all his
followers seek out the True Prophet within the person's mind as
The One Teacher (see
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ) -- the scriptures
are composed in a symbolic allegorical language that can only be
interpreted and understood by the inward-looking attributes of
mind. The outward-looking attributes of mind attempts to
interpret all things literally and historically -- which is why
Peter warns that
"...For there are many sayings in
the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which
every one has preconceived for himself".
Further, Peter warns that "...For
you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you
have brought from without". What this means
is that if you attempt to interpret the scriptures in accord
with a Biblical Commentary -- or in accord with the teachings of
a Church -- or from a human thought-perspective -- that you will
not only fail to understand the meaning of the scriptures, but
you will alienate and disenfranchise your mind from the true
spiritual meaning. Why? Because the scriptures are composed in
the allegorical language of the Soul that employs allegorical
catalysts that are used to develop the inward-looking Intuitive
Spheres of Mind. Therefore, the whole of the
doctrine of Original Sin is derived from the religion of
Mithraism and based upon the teachings of the Iranian prophet
Mani (see The Emergence Of Mithraic Christianity
http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#MithraicChristianity ).
Can the Genesis
account of Creation be interpreted literally or historically? The pre-Nicene Church Father Origin,
who is portrayed as “…the most
prominent of all the church fathers” (Encyclopedia.
Britannica), and was considered by Jerome to be
“the greatest teacher of the Church
after the Apostles.” St. Gregory of Nyssa called him
“the prince of Christian learning in the Third Century.”
Stated with respect to the Genesis account:
“What man of sense will agree with the
statement that the first, second and third days in which the
evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and
stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found
such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise
in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of
life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the
eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof
a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold
these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies
concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck,
p. 142). Further explaining that
“Scripture contains an unhistorical element in-woven with the
history, in order that the worthlessness of the latter may drive
us to seek the spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted
under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of Religion and
Ethics). Why would the Church Father Origen portray the
historical interpretation of the scriptures and the Genesis
account of Creation, which is the foundation of the modern
Church as
"worthless"? For the
same reason that Jesus said: "The
Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing." Further explaining in
De Principiis that: “Where the Word
(Logos) found that things done according to the history could be
adapted to these mystical senses, he made use of them concealing
from the multitude the deeper meaning; but where in the
narrative of the development of super-sensual things, there did
not follow the performance of those certain events which were
already indicated by the mystical meaning, the scripture
interwove in the history the account of some event that did not
take place, sometimes what could not have happened; sometimes
what could but did not.”

A most important and
crucial foundational Gospel teaching is presented in Revelation
22:14 in the King James version which reads
"Blessed are they that do his
commandments, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life,
and may enter in through the Gates into the city".
Where the modern Christian world preaches saved by grace,
without any actions or works on the person's part. Yet,
the statement at Revelation 22:14 requires a person to
"do His Commandments".
The reference being made to those who are nourished by the Tree
of Life being able to "enter in through the Gates into the
City", is making reference to entering through the "narrow gate"
and entering the Inner Kingdom while still in the physical body
as explored at The Fatal Error Of The Church
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third .
The original followers
of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily, witnessed to the
reality that Jesus became the Anointed by fulfilling the Law
(Commandments) of God (see Jesus Fulfilled The Law
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#JesusFulfilledTheLaw ).
And when Jesus explained why his original followers could
receive the Sacred Knowledge or Divine Manna that was
incomprehensible to the mind of organic man -- i.e.,
“Unto you it is given to know the
mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without,
all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see,
and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand”
(Mark 4:11-12) -- following the man-made dogma of those
who the Church Father Origen portrayed as
"idiots" who attempted to interpret the Creation
account in Genesis as actual historical events -- thereby
following the emperors of Rome, has had the effect of
spiritually disenfranchising the modern Christians.
When it was stated,
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
(Hosea 4:6), reference was not made pertaining to knowledge that
a person learns and is taught by others -- but rather, the
self-knowledge that one must understand to make the inner
Journey in TheWay where the believer can be nourished by the
fruit of the Tree of Life. In fact, this Spiritual Nourishment
that cannot be received in the outer world -- is the meaning of
the words:
"Blessed are those who wash their
robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and
that they may enter the city by the gates" (Rev
22:14). So, by "washing and purifying
our physical self and detaching ourselves from the thinking and
lifestyle of this world", we begin to be nourished by
the fruit of the Tree of Life. "To
him who overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna"
(Rev 2:8-17), this
"hidden manna"
is the the Sacred Knowledge or the Divine Manna that can only be
imparted to the seeker directly from the Indwelling Logos and
True Prophet (see
The One
Teacher) -- who is the ONLY TEACHER that Jesus commanded to
seek out and learn from.
Organic man remains blind to both the
Causal-Factors of his life, as well as his own higher Soul-Reality, until he has
overcome what can be defined as the Original Sin where Adam and Eve became divided and overcome
by the male or female impressions (of mind) that in their divided condition, is
portrayed as the fruit of the Tree of Duality.
Paul's reference to "...when the perfect comes",
portrays a person who has overcome their own inner division and achieved
maturity and Wholeness -- i.e., "Howbeit we speak
wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the
princes of this world, that come to nought" (1 Cor 2:6). And this
condition of Wholeness and Perfection was set forth in the words of Jesus:
"You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father
is perfect" (Matt 5:48). Perfection can only be achieved when
our own duality is overcome -- enabling us to become Whole and Complete.
When our divided reality of mind is
recognized, it can properly be portrayed as the Original Sin that, as a divided
man or woman, each person is
born into -- and in failing to understand the forbidden fruit of duality, the
divided man and woman fail to be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life.
After eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Duality (aka Tree Of Knowledge
Of Good And Evil), the statement was made in the allegorical account of Genesis:
"The
man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed
to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live
forever" (Gen 3:22-23). Thus, the promise is that those who eat the
fruit of the Tree of Life, will live forever. Therefore, what can be portrayed
as Original Sin is the failure to be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life
by picking up your own cross and following in the footsteps of Jesus to your own
crucifixion. That the Tree of Life is something that all of mankind can
gain access to, and be nourished by the Divine Manna and life-giving fruit
thereof, is demonstrated in the statement in the Revelation:
"'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says
to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life
which is in the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7).
St. Augustine was not
an ignorant man. He belonged to a Gnostic group
known as Manichaeans, and became a Christian when forced to do
so by the emperor (see The Original Sin Of The Church
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#TheOriginalSinOfTheChurch
). The Wikipedia portrays Manichean beliefs as
"a dualistic religion that offered
salvation through special knowledge (gnosis) of spiritual
truth." Augustine understood that
you cannot reveal higher spiritual truths to immature minds --
and therefore they can only receive allegorical symbols that
must be turned within your own mind, in order to understand the
spiritual meaning. And in comprehending this reality of
human nature, Augustine therefore understood that it is
necessary to convey higher truths in the enigma of the universal
language of parables and myths. Augustine outlined this
when he wrote: “He is a slave to a sign
who uses or worships a significant thing without knowing what it
signifies. But he who uses or venerates a useful sign divinely
instituted whose signifying force he understands does not
venerate what he sees and what passes away but rather that to
which all such things are to be referred. Such a man is
spiritual and free, even during that time of servitude in which
it is not yet opportune to reveal to carnal minds those signs
under whose yoke they are to be tamed” (De Doctrina
Christiana). In not understanding the parabolic enigma of
Original Sin, the immature believers are rightly portrayed as
"...worshiping a significant thing without
knowing what it signifies". But those who
understand what is being signified in the parable or myth, are
"...spiritual and free, even during
that time of servitude in which it is not yet opportune to
reveal to carnal minds those signs under whose yoke they are to
be tamed”. What needs to be tamed? Man's
lower carnal nature as manifest in the lower three kingdoms must
be purified and brought together with the upper three heavenly
kingdoms. Why can this only be revealed in the form of
parables and myths? Augustine explains:
“What the apostle says pertains to this
problem: 'For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth',
that is, when that which is said figuratively is taken as though
it were literal, it is understood carnally. Nor can anything
more appropriately be called the death of the soul than that
condition in which the thing which distinguishes us from beasts,
which is the understanding, is subjected to the flesh in the
pursuit of the letter. He who follows the letter takes
figurative expressions as though they were literal and does not
refer the things signified to anything else” (De
Doctrina Christiana). Thus, in the failure to perceptively
understand what is being signified in the allegory and myth of
Original Sin, is portrayed as "...the
death of the soul". As Augustine himself wrote,
"the letter of the doctrine of Original Sin killeth" -- but when
the doctrine is turned within your own mind as the Key of
Knowledge (see Application Of The Key Of Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ),
then what is spiritually presented in the doctrine of Original
Sin not only must be understood in the present-tense, but is a
Sin that the person themselves commits in the present.
In explanation of
these important teachings that can only be presented
allegorically, the doctrine of the physical resurrection of the
body, writes Origen in Contra Celsum, is misunderstood by the
spiritually immature believers, and writes that the doctrines of
the crucifixion and the physical resurrection was
“preached in the Churches… for the
simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on
to live better lives by their belief”. Why? Because
both the crucifixion and the resurrection are representative of
allegorical spiritual events that have to do with the process of
achieving Wholeness and the Spiritual Rebirth of the
seeker/disciple -- i.e., "They that are
whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I
came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance"
(Mark 2:17). Which is why there is documented Sixteen Crucified
Saviors in the world's religions (see The Sixteen Crucified
Saviors
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#SixteenCrucifiedSaviors ).
Why? Because the symbol of the virgin birth and the
crucifixion is a universal allegorical symbol composed in the
Language of the Soul. Therefore, if it is true that
those who are portrayed by Jesus as
"righteous" had achieved
"wholeness" apart from belief in the historical
crucifixion and the resurrection, then the whole position of the
Church that a person is saved without having to pick up their
own cross and travail in TheWay, is gravely flawed.
What, then, must you do in order to
"overcome"? Further, in this respect, we can correctly portray the Original
Gospel Teachings of Jesus as the means to heal and overcome the Original Sin of
Duality and Division -- but this is only true if we follow and embrace the teachings of
Jesus by picking up our own Cross and travailing in TheWay (see The Cross You
Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross
). Original sin is not a condition of birth - but rather, a failure of man
and woman to fulfill their condition of birth. Which from
a Gospel perspective, means that only when the spiritual meaning of the
Crucifixion and the Cross is
understood, and applied daily to every thought and action, can the duality of
Original Sin be negated in the life of that person. Therefore, when Jesus said: "If anyone would come after
me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me"
(Luke 9:23), Jesus did not say that you must merely believe that he was crucified.
What Jesus actually stated is that you must "come after
[him]" by taking up [your own] cross daily"
-- i.e., DAILY -- and with your own cross, you must bring about and submit to
your own crucifixion -- DAILY.
If Original sin and
the forbidden fruit is allegorical, then what does it mean to
the modern believer? An important teaching found in the
suppressed Gospel of Philip states:
“When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was
separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again
and attains his former self, death will be no more”.
The clue to the allegory is in the statement:
"When she (Eve) was separated from him
(Adam), death came into being." Why?
Because of the duality of the opposite spheres of mind as
allegorically portrayed in the separation of Adam and Eve -- and
in the separation, the two opposite Male/Linear and
Female/Intuitive Spheres of mind were functioning separate from
each other. Therefore, it is the separated impressions and
thoughts of the Male and Female outer columns of the Tree of
Life, that causes death (see The Process Of Birth Within The
Tree Of Life
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ). If Adam
(Linear Outward-Looking Spheres of Mind) had restored Oneness
with Eve (Intuitive Inward-Looking Spheres of Mind, Adam never
would have answered: “The woman whom
you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I
ate” (Gen 3:12). If the fruit
(Female-Intuitive Impressions of Eve) had been properly joined
with the other half of the Male-Linear Impressions of Adam, then
Wholeness would have been achieved. But in blaming the
Female-Intuitive Impressions, no degree of Wholeness had been
achieved -- i.e., "If he
(Male-Linear Impressions of Adam) enters again and attains his
former self (where the Male-Linear and the Female-Intuitive are
One), death will be no more”.
This
allegorical foundation of the separation of the Male and Female
columns of the Tree of Life is further explained in the Gospel
of Philip where it is stated:
"There are two trees growing in Paradise. One bears animals, the
other bears men. Adam ate from the tree which bore animals. He
became an animal and he brought forth animals. For this reason
the children of Adam worship animals. The tree whose fruit Adam
ate is the Tree of Knowledge. That is why sins increased. If he
ate the fruit of the other tree, that is to say, the Tree of
Life, the one which bears men, then the gods would worship man.
For in the beginning God created man. But now men create God.
That is the way it is in the world – men make gods and worship
their creation. It would be fitting for the gods to worship
men!" On the other
hand, "If he (Adam) ate the fruit of
the other tree, that is to say, the Tree of Life, the one which
bears men, then the gods would worship man." In
this allegorical portrayal, the gods represent the Natural Laws
that enable mental and spiritual development, would have opened
the inner "narrow gate" that
Jesus commanded all his followers to enter (see The Cosmology Of
Mind - The Law Of Octaves And The Narrow Gate
http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#CosmologyOfMind ). When God
said: “Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the
earth.” (Gen 1:28), this could only be accomplished
when the duality of Adam (Linear Spheres of Mind) function in
conjunction with Eve (Intuitive Spheres of Mind), and bring
about Wholeness of Impressions and Thought which is necessary to
bring about the transformation and refinement of the three lower
earthly kingdoms and the upper three heavenly kingdoms.
The Enlightened non-Jewish followers of Jesus portrayed the god
of the Jews as a demiurge -- i.e.,
"...But now men create god. That is the way it is in the world –
men make gods and worship their creation" --
this was a portrayal of the worship of that god of the literal
allegorical text which was portrayed in the words the
"letter that killeth [and] Jewish
folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). Which
is why the Gospel account of Jesus portrayed the Jews who only
saw the literal text of the scriptures as the The Devil's Spawn
http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com . Quoting the Church
historian Eusebius who writes of the doctrines conceived by the
early Christians Papias and Irenaeus who based their
understanding of the scriptures on the literal text:
“Papias reproduces other stories
communicated to him by word of mouth, together with some
otherwise unknown parables and teachings of the Savior, 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).
The fact that the Church of Constantine and the modern
Christians continue is this error where they worship the gods
that they have created, causes them to remain spiritually
ignorant and disenfranchised -- i.e.,
“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).
While the division of
Male-Linear and Female-Intuitive is necessary to mentally
“Be fruitful and multiply",
the transformative process of bringing about Wholeness, can only
be accomplished in what is portrayed as a Coverture-Marriage
(see The Foundation Of A Coverture-Marriage
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#FoundationOfCovertureMarriage ).
The only way this could be accomplished was to unify and restore
Oneness to the two outer male and female columns of the Tree of
Life. Without this Unified Wholeness, the male and
female impressions and thoughts will remain carnal and of the
earth -- i.e., "Adam ate from the tree
which bore animals. He became an animal and he brought forth
animals. For this reason the children of Adam worship animals.
The tree whose fruit Adam ate is the Tree of Knowledge. That is
why sins increased...". What does this entail? Belief in the cross as an
historical event in the life of the man Jesus, does not in any manner equate to
taking up your own cross DAILY, and carrying it to your own crucifixion.
Jesus did not say that a person's mere belief in his crucifixion
was sufficient. In fact, Jesus warned that mere belief was
not enough as expressed in the words:
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say?" (Luke 6:46). And what did Jesus say?
Jesus said that each person must pick up their own cross and
submit to the transformative process of their own crucifixion. Thus, while
our knowledge of the cross that each person must carry is crucial, few
Christians possess the in-depth knowledge to understand the symbolism and
meaning -- especially when they rely upon the historical image of the crucifix
that portrays the Cross in an historical context that is relevant only to the
historical man Jesus. Which means that it is the condition of
Original Sin which portrays the separation and duality of the Male and Female
realities of Mind as personified in the symbolism of the divided Adam and Eve --
has imbued each person with a type of blindness to his own higher
Soul-Reality -- and it is the Gospel teachings on The Cross which overcomes the
condition of blindness caused by Original Sin of duality as personified in the
Tree of Duality (Knowledge of Good and Evil) -- and Original Sin portrays the
condition of duality as personified in Eve's separation from Adam -- then the
crucifixion is achieved when man overcomes his own divided natures as presented
in the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: "Jesus
said to them,
When you make the two one, and when you make the inside
like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below,
and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not
be male nor the female female; ...then will
you enter the kingdom." When the male and female spheres
within your own mind are At-One -- i.e., when Adam and Eve is restored to
AdamEve, and Wholeness is brought about -- only then you
have overcome the Original Sin of the Tree of Duality.
As presented at TheCall To The
Wedding Banquette
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org , what is portrayed as the Wedding Garment is in
reality the preparatory transformation necessary to initiate the process of
Connecting of Consciousness in pursuit of overcoming man's inherent inner
division and duality. Mankind is the Fourth Kingdom that is the
balance between the upper three heavenly kingdoms and the lower three earthly
kingdoms -- which must be Unified and brought into the Center by the Male and
Female spheres of Mind as personified in the image of the pattern of the Tree
of Life as portrayed at the right and explored at
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org .
The Tree of Duality is then the division of Male/Adam and Female/Eve, and the
division of the upper Heavenly and the lower Earthly Kingdoms. And having
been born a Male or Female, each person has inherited this Duality that they
must overcome as personified in the formula of the above teaching.
Therefore, Original Sin is the failure to bring about Oneness and Wholeness
within your own life -- as your brother Jesus did:
"Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God
and your God'" (John 20:17).
Thus, the all-important question:
What, then, are you connecting in the above teaching of Jesus? You are
connecting the person you are in this world with your inner eternal Soul-Self --
by connecting the lower self of the three earthly kingdoms, with your higher
self of the upper three heavenly kingdoms -- and this is accomplished by the
male and opposite female spheres of mind coming together to overcome the duality
of mind of the ego-self that inhibits the transformative process of
mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening. And
when rightly understood, all of life can be defined as an opportunity to Connect
Consciousness in pursuit of acquiring the vision and perception that provides us
the experiential knowledge that brings about growth and development of Mind.
When Jesus explained to his disciples why he was able to speak differently to
them, then he did with the multitudes of people who came to hear him, he stated:
“Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the
kingdom of God: but unto them that are outside, all these things are done in
parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12). Unlike the multitudes who
were not prepared to overcome the inner duality that inhibited them from
Connecting in Consciousness, the multitude of people could only be taught in
parables which the vast majority could not comprehend the spiritual meaning of
-- i.e., "And with many such parables He spoke the word
to them as they were able to hear it.
But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He
explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34).
When rightly understood, the whole of
the Gospel teachings is focused on the process of Connecting in Consciousness in
pursuit of overcoming mankind's own inherent inner duality that caused the lost
prodigal son to dwell in the "outer darkness"
of the Far Country. Thereby causing him to be a prisoner of Plato's Cave.
And when it is recognized that failure to Connect in Consciousness is inherent
in all of mankind, it can properly be recognized as man's Original Sin that
consigns him to the hells of this world. In fact, all of man's trials and
tribulations -- all of man's evils -- all of man's ignorance -- can be portrayed
as the Original Sin of his failure to Connect in Consciousness in pursuit of
bringing about the condition of Wholeness of Mind and Being -- i.e.,
"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance"
(Mark 2:17).
Consciousness requires Energy or
Bio-Energy -- vital-life-force upon which Consciousness manifests. Energy
requires a Positive/Male and Negative/Female Polarity that is brought together
to manifest the Third-Force of Consciousness. Our True or Higher Soul-Self
is a Being of Light, because it is a twelve-dimensional being wherein the
polarities of Male/Female are Self-Contained. What does Self-Contained
mean? It means that the polarities of Male and Female are functioning
together within the One in a similar fashion as the two sides of the heart
perform together to flawlessly move life-giving blood throughout the Whole Body.
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In the same way that the contraction
of the two atrium chambers of the heart initiate the contraction in the
ventricles of the heart, in this divided reality every action initiates a
reactive-action in its opposite polarity. Which from the higher perspective of
mankind wherein the pattern of the complexity of mind is manifest in the pattern
of the Tree of Life, it means that every word, and every action you make,
initiates an opposite polarity-action that MUST BE BALANCED IN THE CENTER OF THE
TREE OF LIFE. When balance and wholeness is achieved, then growth and
development is brought about. When the active and reflective opposites cannot
be balanced within one's own self, then the action becomes externalized -- which
in the parable of the prodigal son, is portrayed as the squandering away of the
inheritance on "riotous living". But
because the loss or externalization of the bio-energy is stamped with what can
be portrayed as the imprint of our Spiritual DNA, it MUST return back to us --
and this process can and does continue until Wholeness and Completion is
achieved.
Our Soul cannot directly
incarnate into this three-dimensional world, because the higher
twelve-dimensions of consciousness that polarities of male and female cannot be
manifest in a self-contained physical body. And this is why in the allegorical account of Genesis,
Mankind would be represented as AdamEve -- with Eve (Negative-Polarity)
representing one half of the Mind that was drawn from the side of Adam
(Positive-Polarity), portraying a condition of a divided Whole. Why?
Why was the Mind of the Soul divided in half -- with each half seeing and
understanding all of mankind's reality from an opposite and very different
perspective? Because our True-Self -- our Higher Soul-Self -- is a Being
of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com )
that dwells in a twelve-dimensional realm where the polarities of Male and
Female are Self-Contained. And it is this Higher Soul-Self that is the
true being that we are as portrayed in the adage to Know Thyself (see
http://SoulSelf.org ) -- i.e., as stated in
the Gospel of Thomas:
"(3) Jesus said
...But if you will not
know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty".
Which means that
(1) there is no such thing as a male or female Soul; and the
(2)
primary purpose of sexual intercourse is to bring about a Connection in
Consciousness between the two halves of the Mind -- and this Connection is
brought about through the exchange of DNA between the two halves of the Whole,
that enables the two halves of the One-Self to interact and bring about growth
and development of Mind and Spirit. Which means that procreation is
a byproduct of the sexual union of man and woman -- and is not the primary
purpose which is to bring about the possibility of the restoration of Wholeness,
that is the key to the development and higher evolution of the Mind.