What is the mystery of the resurrection that is not understood by the multitude of Christian believers?  To answer this question, you must understand why there exists a body of Christian esoteric teachings that "were not deemed fit to be communicated to the profane and insufficiently prepared ears".  And to even begin to answer these questions, you must first understand why Paul wrote that it was not lawful to reveal the deeper spiritual knowledge to the body of faith-based believers -- i.e., I was "..caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2 Cor 12:4-5).  And why 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”.  Why, if Ignatius was to convey to the Christians who he was writing his epistle to, that if he was to reveal the true spiritual meaning of the Gospel, that it would "...strangle and inflict injury on you who are babes"? 

In total acknowledgement of this body of esoteric knowledge and teachings that could not be revealed to the multitude of believers, the Apostle Peter writes in the Epistle of Peter to James that if this body of esoteric teachings of Jesus was to become lost, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error".  And when rightly understood, it is this loss of the esoteric body of teachings because of secular fiat, wherein a series of Roman Emperors declared the body of esoteric teachings of Jesus to be heresy, that has spiritually disenfranchised the Christian world today. 

What is Origen saying?  Few people will relate Origen's portrayal of the mystery of the resurrection, while also making note of the secret teachings of Pythagoras.  Why, in Origen's explanation, was the mystery of the resurrection relevant to the esoteric teachings of Pythagoras -- of which it was noted that these teachings "...were taught in secret those doctrines which were not deemed fit to be communicated to the profane and insufficiently prepared ears"?  Is there a relationship between the mystery of the resurrection and the teachings of Pythagoras that could not be comprehended by  "...profane and insufficiently prepared ears"?  And even more important is the question: What is the mystery of the resurrection that is not understood by the majority of immature believers?  In explanation, the doctrine of the physical resurrection of the body, says Origen, 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).  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 -- and the mystery of the resurrection has a commonality with the secret teachings of Pythagoras that could not be comprehended by  "...profane and insufficiently prepared ears" -- then we must totally re-evaluate our understanding of the crucifixion and the resurrection in our quest for Truth and TheWay.   

Jesus commanded his followers to enter in at the "narrow gate" that provides the followers of the Gospel teachings the entrance into the Kingdom -- i.e., "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matt 7:13-14 -- see above The Octaves And The Fulfilling Of The Law http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#OctavesFulfillingLaw ) .  Which provokes the questions?  (1) But where is the entrance to the Narrow Gate? And (2) how does the follower of these teachings enter therein?  The fact of the matter is that there is no entrance to the Narrow Gate in the outer world.  And when it is recognized that the Kingdom is within us -- and therefore so too is the entrance to the Narrow Gate -- the answer to the dilemma is  found in The Cross.  And therein lies the problem -- i.e., so long as the Cross is perceived literally/historically in the manner of the crucifix, then it will remain impossible for the believer to embrace the spiritual meaning of the Cross with any degree of Wholeness and understanding -- i.e., “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).  Why was the baptized Christians who Paul taught only capable of being nourished by what can be portrayed as spiritual Pablum designed for immature minds -- i.e., the equivalent of regurgitated bird puke that is portrayed as the "milk" of the Gospel?  "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal" (1 Cor 3:1-3).  Which means that those Christians who see the crucifixion only an actual historical event, as "...the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief”, were unable to comprehend the spiritual meaning.   And even more important is the fact that what Paul was stating is that it was not a matter of teaching or instruction -- but rather, of the "natural" mind of man evolving beyond man's organic limitations, that would raise the immature believer up to a level of higher spiritual maturity where they could then BEGIN to understand the meaning of the allegorical symbols used in the Gospels.  It was the matter of the Christian of the simple faith evolving beyond "bird puke/regurgitation", and the "solid food" that could only be consumed by the mature mind.  And this is why the Church Father Origen who was portrayed as the greatest teacher second only to the Apostles stated of the physical resurrection that it 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” (see Contra Celsum).   Why?   Because of their untransformed carnal condition of mind and being, this allegorical portrayal of the Final Stage of Birth was all that the faith-based believers were capable of comprehending. 

At the time of Jesus, the cross was a universal symbol that was used by many religions, as portrayed in the book that documents Sixteen (16) Crucified Saviors (Click On Image).   Which provokes the question: Why was the cross a universal symbol that was recognized by many religious paths?  It is therefore important to recognize that the usage of the cross which preceded the Gospel accounts, was certainly not used in an observance that had anything to do with the historical man Jesus.  Why, therefore, was a cross used by these other religions?  Because the cross itself is a universal symbol -- and enlightened mystics who composed these sacred writings by presenting them in the Universal Language of the Soul, utilized the symbolism that all of Creation is composed in.  Why?  Because all of mankind must be prepared to bear their own Cross and initiate their own Crucifixion  -- while they are still in their physical body -- in order to enter into The Higher Spiritual Life.  And therein lies the problem as seen in the fact that the Cross is not an historical symbol -- but rather, it is the universal symbol of crucifixion is not at all understood by the modern Christians.   Therefore, if you want to understand this universal symbol -- and comprehend how it must be applied to your own life -- then you must begin to look beyond the doctrines of the Church.  

When Jesus said: They that are whole have no need of the physician" (Mark 2:17), the statement acknowledges that what is personified by Origen when he referred to the "the mystery of the resurrection", can be achieved without being physically nailed to a cross -- i.e., "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23).  Therefore, it is paramount to pose the question: How does a follower of Jesus pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay?  And what this also means is that if you can't spiritually answer this question, then you have not achieved the necessary Wholeness to fulfill the requirement of carrying your own cross and bringing about your own crucifixion as Jesus commanded.  Further, in view of the fact that those who had achieved righteousness and wholeness without -- or prior to the incarnation and crucifixion of the historical man Jesus -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, ...I came not to call the righteous" -- means that what is allegorically portrayed in the Gospels as the cross -- i.e., what Origen portrays as the "mystery of the resurrection" -- means that there exists another means to accomplish what Jesus did without what is personified in the symbols of the physical crucifixion and resurrection.  

In order for the symbols of the Gospels and religion to be effective in bringing about the spiritual transformation of the believer, these symbols must be embraced and used in the person's everyday life.  With respect to the mystery of the resurrection, St. Gregory’s wrote, “the Resurrection is no other thing than ‘the re-constitution of our nature in its original form’” -- i.e., a restoral to our True Spiritual Nature.  In view of the fact that the symbol of the cross was, and is, widely used by many religious paths, then the understanding of the symbol and its application to the individual has nothing to do with an historical event -- but must be understood as a personal event in the life of every person.  Which means that the symbolism of the cross has virtually nothing to do with one's belief -- but rather, the persons transformation.  Therefore, the paramount question then becomes: What does the allegorical portrayal of the crucifixion in the Gospels mean on the larger scale of humanity?  Sadly, no modern Christian can answer this crucial question.

In order to understand what Paul states is not lawful to reveal, and what Ignatius states would inflict harm upon the greater body of Christian faith-based believers, the mind of the immature believer must be evolved through the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  But therein lies the problem -- i.e, the mind can only be nourished by thoughts and impressions that are themselves Whole and Complete.   And when rightly understood, the symbolism of the Cross is the merger of Balanced and Whole impressions and thoughts of the upper/lower and left/right spheres of mind into the Center of the Cross -- i.e., "…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5).  When Jesus stated that "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23), he was confirming the fact that there is only One Way into the Kingdom -- and that it is through the "...‘the re-constitution of our nature in its original form’” through the "narrow gate" that is brought into Wholeness in the Center of our Mind and Being.    The necessary Wholeness is therefore easier to understand using the Cathar Cross in the image on the right.  And when rightly understood, it is what is personified in the Cathar Cross that each believer must take up and experience to bring about the necessary Crucifixion.  Why?  In the first place, the Cathar Cross has four (4) equal projections out of it's Center, and this presents the necessary balance between the upper/lower and the left/right.  The three dots at the end of each of the cross projections, is representative of the three spheres of mind of the Heavenly, the three spheres of mind of the lower Earthly, and the three spheres of mind of the Male and Female spheres of the Tree of Life that must be brought together into the Center (see http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).  Only when the three heavenly spheres of mind, three earthly spheres of mind, the three male and three female spheres of mind are all balanced and merged into Oneness and Wholeness -- and these Whole and Balanced Thoughts and Impressions are channeled into the Center of the Cross and through the "narrow gate", can the mind be evolved through the nourishment of the thoughts taken captive to Christ.   Without this necessary Balance and Wholeness of our Thoughts and Impressions, they cannot be channeled into the Center and made "...obedient to Christ".   And without this Balanced Wholeness -- where the four projections of Mind and Spirit from the Center of the cross are all equal and balanced -- the vital life-force is squandered away and lost into nature -- in the manner of the prodigal son who squandered away his inheritance on "riotous living".  Therefore, what is portrayed in the image of the Cathar Cross is a perfect representation of the necessary Wholeness to achieve the transformative mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening that enables the person to become Anointed (Messiah/Christ), and bring about the next subsequent stage of birth.  

We can begin to understand the requirement of Wholeness through the symbol of the Cathar Cross where we see three dots at each of the cross extensions at the top/heavenly, bottom/earthly, left/feminine and right/male spheres of mind that are represented in the Cathar Cross.   To begin our exploration of the relationship of the Cathar Cross, the Mystery of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, and the Law of Octaves at the Living Bio-Feedback Organism that monitors and sustains our mental and spiritual development, we must quote a paragraph from The Enigma Of The Law Of Octaves http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Intro

Mind and consciousness functions through a flow and presence of (electrical) bio-energy. In order for an electrical flow to exist, there must be negative and positive polarities interacting with each other.  When you use an appliance, the appliance is plugged into a source of electrical energy (positive and negative) that come together separately and flow through the appliance.  Mind, or Consciousness, can be portrayed as the appliance that is utilizing the positive and negative energy flow of the body to bring about and maintain Consciousness. An EEG is a means to test electrical activity in the brain. An EKG measures the electrical activity in the heart. This electrical energy is a means of testing what can be portrayed as bio-energy or vital life-force upon which the consciousness of man is manifest. Without this presence of bio-energy which is manifest in the interaction of positive/male and negative/female opposite polarities, Consciousness or Mind cannot exist. And this is true of both man and Creator-God. Therefore, electrical activity is the direct result of the flow and interaction of the Positive and Negative polarities. No energy can exist or flow, without the positive and negative polarities. A bird can sit on a power line -- a squirrel can run on a power line -- and so long as they don't contact the two polarities of power together, they will not be electrocuted.
 

To understand the above, you must be able to comprehend this following statement: Consciousness is fueled by bio-energy or vital life-force that originates in our Soul -- is drawn out of the Seven Spiritual Centers -- balanced in the Mind as patterned in the Tree of Life -- and optimally, returned to the Source through the Center of the Mind into the "narrow gate" -- and if the thoughts or impressions are Whole, only then can they be used to bring about the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  And therein lies the problem as seen in the image at the right.  The Four Gates of the Mind has often been portrayed as Earth, Water, Fire and Air -- with the Æthers being expressed as representing Spirit.  A thought or impression that is Whole, brings together each of the segments from the Four Gates.   The mind does not grow and expand in jumps. The mind evolves beyond organic levels of consciousness step by step -- level upon level -- each impression or thought providing the bio-energy to expand and deepen the development of the mind -- i.e., "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little" (Isa 28:9-10).  But, in order for the thought or impression to enter into the "narrow gate" where developmental growth of mind and spirit can take place, the thought or impression must possess the Wholeness that brings the Four Gates of the Mind together -- as expressed in the image at the right -- with equal segments combined from the earthly, the heavenly, and the male and female spheres of mind.  And without this balanced wholeness, the vital life-force can only be expelled out into Nature and lost. 

Thoughts that are comprised of equal input from each of the four gates -- uniting the Earthly with the Heavenly -- moved by the Feminine-Intuitive and the Masculine-Linear -- achieving the necessary Wholeness that bridges the divided natures of the mind -- are able to enter into and through the "narrow gate" and bring about the transformational mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening of the mind.  When one of the elements are missing from, or out of balance in the thought-equation -- lacking what is signified in the earthly with the heavenly, and the male with the female -- the progression of the Octaves twist, and the vital life-force is diverted off into nature and lost. 

The three Male and three Female spheres of mind that manifest the Tree of Duality (see Tree of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ), must function together in Oneness, to rejoin the upper heavenly and the lower earthly spheres of mind in Wholeness.  The three lower-earthly kingdoms are the opposite half or polarity of the three upper-heavenly kingdoms.  What this means is that the three male linear spheres of mind, must work in conjunction with the three feminine intuitive spheres of mind, to connect the upper-heavenly with the lower-earthly -- bringing about the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening, by channeling the vital life-force which carries the balanced and whole thoughts and impressions of the person through the center "narrow gate".   

What is absent from the Meme on the left, is the development of the earthly and the heavenly spheres of mind.  While it is true that the male and female spheres of mind must achieve Full Maturity, so too must the Earthly and Heavenly Spheres of Mind.  And therein lies the problem with many religious systems which attempt to negate or even sacrifice the development of the earthly to acquire higher vision and appear spiritual.  Only when it is understood that the lower Earthly is the opposite half or polarity of the upper Heavenly, can we realize that the lack of the development of the Earthly will negate any degree of Wholeness.  The author and visionary Philip K. Dick was able to recall his Soul's previous life in the first century where he lived as an original follower of Jesus.  He also wrote with respect to the original disciples of Jesus that:  "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here.  He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)."    These other mystery religions that Philip Dick was making reference to, sacrificed the earthly in order to achieve amnesis insights and vision.  Under the heading of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the Wikipedia states: It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us".  The article then goes on to say: Socrates' response is to develop his theory of anamnesis. He suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity...  What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. (Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.) And thus Socrates (and Plato) sees himself, not as a teacher, but as a midwife, aiding with the birth of knowledge that was already there in the student. 

While higher vision can be achieved via Anamnesis through the focus on the third-eye associated with the sixth spiritual center -- as well as the raising of the kundalini energy from the base of the spine into the upper spiritual centers -- these practices are be portrayed by Philip Dick when he referenced these  "...other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here."   Many of these mystery religions claim the the goal is to "get above the mind" -- thereby leaving the mind undeveloped.  Unlike the Mystery religions, the understanding of the Law and the Gospel teachings were designed to manifest the Kingdom of Heaven upon the Earthly through Wholeness achieved through the knowledge of the Laws -- i.e., "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, ...He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)."   This is true -- and that the original Gospel message was to develop the mind through the transformative process of expansion and deepening of consciousness, and then enable the disciple of TheWay to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom, is easily demonstrated in the above quotations on the proper use of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge.   All the Power in this world is manifest in the Lower Earthly Centers.  While the upper centers can provide higher insight, it is the lower centers that enable the person to bring about alchemical change and transformation of the base (lead) into gold -- which is necessary to bring about Wholeness. 

When each thought draws through the portals or four gates of the Mind in the Tree of Life as patterned in the teaching -- "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." But what this teaching in the Gospel of Thomas is missing is preserved in the version of the same teaching found in the Gospel of the Nazirenes which reads: And one of the disciples asked him, "How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?" And he answered and said, "If you don't make below as the above, and the left as the right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center and passing into the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God."  The left and right are of course the male/female outer columns of the Tree of Life/Knowledge. And after bringing together and joining the duality of the above (heavenly) and the below (earthly), and in understanding the outer as a reflection of the inner, only then can this balanced wholeness enter "...into the center and passing into the spirit". The bio-energy rides upon the impressions and the thoughts of the mind -- with the vital life-force that is not balanced and made whole, lost into nature. The vital life-force that is balanced and made whole, is able to be drawn into the Center and can then be used in the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.

It is the fruit of the Tree of Life that is the source of the Divine Manna that nourishes the mind and brings about spiritual advancement that provides access and entrance into the Edenic Kingdom.  That the Tree of Life is a reality of Higher Mind 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). 

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. 

He who overcomes, are those who overcome their own inner division and duality of the four gates of the mind as patterned in the twelve points portrayed in the Cathar Cross.  That one must therefore overcome the twisting of the Law of Octaves, is why the original followers and disciples of Jesus witnessed to the fact that the historical man Jesus achieved the Anointing of the Mind (Messiah/Christ), and "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).  Further witnessing to the reality that when a person  "...thus fulfills the law, they are able to become Christs."  (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).  Fulfilling the Law can only be accomplished when your mind is nourished by thoughts and impressions that are Whole, and can be channeled through the "narrow gate" in the Center of your Mind and Being -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, ...I came not to call the righteous".  Those thoughts and impressions that lack the necessary Wholeness, are diverted out of the Center and lost into nature -- portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son as having squandered away their inheritance on "riotous" living -- expelling their bio-energy on the things of this world.

Our Higher Soul-Self which is our True-Self that is our twelve-dimensional pre-existent Soul that came into existence in the Alpha of Creation as a spark of the Divine Mind (see The Evolving Soul http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheEvolvingSoul ), sees all things in Wholeness and Oneness.  Our Higher Soul-Self is a Being of Light -- i.e., "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:4).  How?  In the twelve-dimensional Realm of the Soul, the opposite polarities of Male and Female, in conjunction with the opposite polarities of Heaven and Earth, all exist in Balanced Oneness.  What then is the source of the division of man and creation?  White Light is comprised of the Seven Colors of the Rainbow -- which in Music, equates to the seven notes of the Octave -- and as the vital life-force becomes divided across the spectrum of the Seven Spiritual Centers of the three-dimensional physical -- wherein the bio-energy enters into our own body through the seven spiritual centers and the twelve spheres of the mind as patterned in the Tree of Life.  Therefore, to grow and expand the Mind, we must restore the Oneness of the White Light bio-energy flow as it is channeled through the Mind and into the Center -- wherein it is then used to bring about the mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening of our Consciousness. Therefore, only when our Thoughts and Impressions are themselves balanced and Whole, can these Thoughts and Impressions bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.

Intellect is the result of seeing and understanding the diversity of all things. As stated in the 90th Chapter of The Gospel of the Nazirenes which preserves this higher reality that plagues organic physical man: "The One truth has many sides, and one sees one side only, another, and some see more than others, according as it is given to them. Behold this crystal; how the one light is manifest in twelve faces, yea four times twelve, and each face reflects one ray of light, and one regards one face, and another, another, but it is the one crystal, and the one light that shines in all." Organic man is only capable of seeing one side, as patterned in the twelve faces of the crystal.   Wholeness requires the harmonization of the perceptive vision of each of the twelve spheres of mind onto a higher plane of Comprehension.  In the image of the Cathar Cross at the left, the twelve spheres of mind are portrayed in the Heavenly/Upper Triad -- which is the opposite half or polarity of the Earthly/Lower Triad -- which must be brought together in the Unity of the Feminine/Left Triad with the Masculine/Right Triad -- and channeled in Wholeness into the Center Narrow Gate of the Center-Love Sphere of the Tree of Life. 

Man kind is portrayed as having been created in the Image of God.  God is therefore the Consciousness of Creation.  But Consciousness is not spawned out of nothing.  Consciousness requires a Positive/Male polarity that is portrayed as our Heavenly Father, which interacts with a Negative/Female polarity that is portrayed as our Heavenly Mother, which interaction manifests the Third-Force Balance portrayed as the Logos or Mind of God -- portrayed as the Son of God.  All Souls came into being as sparks of the Divine Mind -- and in the same way that Intelligence requires all realities to be perceived from different perspectives, all Souls are as a Single Neuron in the Mind (Logos) of God.  But for each Soul to possess the necessary Intelligence to perceive and understand, the Divine Pattern must be expressed into each Soul -- which is imbued with a diverse series of neurons as represented in each life that the Soul has lived.  The Mind of God is evolving through the diverse experiences of the Souls that each are as a Single Neuron in the Divine Mind.  Each Soul is evolving through the experiences of mankind in this and other worlds.  Where the Soul which is a Being of Light dwells in a twelve-dimensional Higher Reality, all growth is brought about through the interaction of the Opposite Polarities of this three-dimensional realm -- i.e., male and female, heavenly and earthly. 

What man marries a woman so that he can explore her intellectual powers of mind and consciousness that he lacks, in the endeavor to make the two "one flesh" and bring about Wholeness and Completion?  What man today is even aware that has his own opposite, a women possess opposite intellectual powers of mind that his gender suppresses?  What man marries a woman so he can work with her -- develop her unique areas of mind that he lacks -- supplying to her the bio-energy and vital life-force she needs to inherit and fulfill her birthright as a goddess who sees and understands all that he is by nature. blind to?  And that only after providing for her -- developing and exploring her unique intellectual abilities that in his organic condition of mind, he is incapable of understanding with any depth -- giving of himself in the process of elevating him and his wife to higher levels of Self-Knowledge, Consciousness and Being? 

In the same way that a woman will remain physically barren without a man, she needs the man's Generative Power to Intimately Connect with him -- making high-level intellectual interactions within a Mental-Cocoon or Morphic Field possible that creates a Common Atmosphere in which they dwell -- exchanging thoughts and impressions between them -- and after the connection is established, she needs his flow of bio-energy and vital life-force to arise Intellectually and fulfill her destiny as a Goddess.  She needs him to explore to the very depths of her mind and being.              

In this three-dimensional realm that enables the male/female and heavenly/earthly polarities to interact through them, it is the sexual interaction of the man and woman that enables this evolutionary growth to manifest and be brought about.  In the allegorical account of Genesis, Eve (women) is portrayed as having been drawn from the side of Adam (man) -- which portrays a divided mind and and consciousness.  And the male and female polarities can therefore directly interact, though physical sex when the (sexual) DNA of the male becomes embedded in the mind of the female (see Study On DNA Exchange http://BrotherOfJesus.org#study ) -- thereby creating a physical connection between husband and wife.  As patterned in the subheading entitled The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation , this connection creates a semi-oneness between the man and woman that enables the Spiritual Centers of both to interact as personified in the image on the right.  Where the male is polarized positive in the lower (earthly) centers, the female is polarized positive in the upper (heavenly) centers.  And it is through this interaction of the male and female columns of the Tree of Duality, where the heavenly can be reunited with the earthly -- brought into Wholeness in the Center -- wherein the bio-energy is then drawn through the "narrow gate" in the Center, where the thoughts and impressions that have achieved Wholeness can then initiate and bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening of the mind that enables the husband and wife to bring about the next stage of birth -- thereby uniting them with their Higher Soul-Selves -- 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). 

The paradoxical opposite polarities are necessary in order to perceive and understand from different and opposite perspectives.  This interaction cannot take place in the higher reality of the Soul, because our Soul exists in in a twelve-dimensional Oneness without division.  Therefore, for the opposite polarities of mind to evolve, the natural divisions of the mind must be manifest in an environment of separation where they can interact.   With the four main divisions being the male and female and the earthly and heavenly spheres of mind -- with each of the four existing in the pattern of the Trinity -- manifesting the twelve spheres of mind.  Which twelve spheres are allegorically set forth in the Zodiac, the twelve tribes of Israel, and the twelve disciples portrayed in the Gospels.  The twelve signs of the zodiac portray the cosmic mind -- the twelve tribes of Israel portray the divided mind of man -- and the twelve disciples allegorically portray the mind brought into Wholeness -- which Wholeness is allegorically portrayed in the account of Jesus which is the destiny of each Soul as it evolves to Wholeness and Perfection -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" Matt 5:48).                   

The Mind, as pattern in the Tree of Life, is the twelve spheres that see and understand from the perspective of four paradoxical perceptions -- with each of the Four acting as a heavenly-trinity -- an earthly-trinity -- and the opposing male/female trinities of the left and right. Which is exactly as portrayed in the image of the Cathar Cross.  In order to pass through the Center which is the "narrow gate", each impression or thought must draw upon and bring together and unite the aspect of each thought that is in the Upper-Heavenly Triad with the Lower-Earthly Triad -- drawn into the center through the unification of the Feminine-Triad and the Masculine-Triad of the outer columns -- where the vital life-force can then be drawn into the Center, where it can them bring about the expansion and development of the mind. What this means is that the fragments that make up the thought in Wholeness -- the fragment from the lower/earthly must be united with it's opposite fragment in the upper/heavenly -- drawn together in the Center by the unity of the male/female outer columns -- which permit the vital life-force in Wholeness to then be drawn through the "narrow gate" and into the Center where the White Light of the Restored bio-energy is then able to grow the Mind and Consciousness of the person.

The Living Fruit of the Tree of Life where each of the Triads are balanced and Whole, is the nourishment that brings the eater thereof Life.  In contradistinction, with the division of the Male and Female Outer Columns which constitutes the Tree of Duality (aka Tree Of Knowledge Of Good and Evil), the eating of this forbidden fruit of duality brings death through the process of non-growth and lack of development -- i.e., “Another disciple said to him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matt 8:21-22).  Those who eat the fruit of division and duality -- whose mind has not been matured through the life-giving fruit of the Tree of Life -- are the dead that Jesus portrayed.  The Testing for Wholeness of each impression or thought is accomplished by the progression of the Law of Octaves -- with all unbalanced or incomplete thoughts and impressions being channeled outwardly with the twisting of the Octave -- wherein the bio-energy is then lost and channeled into Nature.  As portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son as having squandered away their inheritance on "riotous" living -- expelling their bio-energy on the things of this world.

Consciousness Requires Energy: Energy is always the product of the Intimate Exchanges of Positive/Male and Negative/Female polarities that interact with each other to manifest a Third-Force Balance of Mind -- and this Manifestation of Consciousness is the Foundation of the Trinitarian Foundation that is holographically replicated into all of Creation. 

Nourishment And Developmental Growth: In the same way that an infant must have proper nourishment in order to grow and develop into adulthood and maturity, enlightened people throughout the history of mankind have known that the mind of man evolves and grows when nourished with the right thoughts that bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  Because mankind has freewill, growth and development is a matter of the choice of the individual.  In the same way that a person tastes and evaluates anything that is presented to the person as food, the person's mind evaluates our thoughts.  And every thought is evaluated by the Law of Octaves.  Thoughts that are balanced and Whole, are able to stimulate growth and development.  Thoughts that lack Balance and Wholeness are unable to stimulate growth and development of the mind, and therefore these junk-thoughts squander away the bio-energy of the person.  Therefore, the substance and effect with respect to the results of our thoughts -- whether the bio-energy feeds and nourishes the development of mind or is lost into Nature -- is directed by the twisting of the progression by the Law of Octaves. 

The Proverbial UnAnswered Enigmatic Questions Of Life: The Gospel Of Thomas declares that the Kingdom lies before you -- but you see it not!  (113) His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"  Jesus said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'here it is' or 'there it is.' Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."

Why?   If these words are true -- that the Kingdom of God lies before all mankind, and they see it not -- then the question must be asked: What Force of Nature and the Universe inhibits you from seeing and knowing all realities of the Kingdom and the life you are presently living?   And if the Kingdom lies before you, why can't you see the Kingdom, and know God?   Further, what of the proverbial questions of life: Why is there evil in the world?   If there is indeed a God or Supreme Intelligence that looks out and oversees this world, why doesn't this Higher Power bring an end to the world's suffering, sickness and death?   Which provokes the question: What is the real purpose and objective of the lives that we are presently living?   And if there is indeed a God who has Created this world, what is the cause of the many great inconsistencies of life -- i.e., Why are the few born rich?  Others in abject poverty?  Why does it seem that while the good often die young, the evil live long and prosperous lives?   Often inflicting great suffering and hardship upon their fellow man?  Why are some people beautiful?  While others would be classified homely and even ugly?  Why are some people intelligent and quick-witted, while others are slow to learn and unable to rationally present themselves?  Why are there geniuses on one side of the intelligence spectrum, and moronic feebleminded imbeciles on the opposite end?    Why are some born blind, deaf and impaired by every other deformity of birth?   Is there a reason for the quagmire of these inconsistencies?  

Not only does each and every person who has ever walked the face of the earth have the potential to answer all of the above questions -- but it is their ultimate destiny.   Are we therefore dwelling in what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness)?   If this is true -- and we are presently dwelling in what is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being --  then all the answers to all the questions and enigmas of life have been set before us, and it is our own self-imposed blindness that inhibits us from seeing?   Thus, Jesus said to his disciples when they asked why he did not speak plainly to the multitude of people: "Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all 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).   Therefore, when Jesus portrayed those who were "without", he was making reference to those who dwelt in what he portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness).   Which also provokes the question: Is this world what is portrayed in the analogy of the Illusions of Plato's Cave (see Cave)?   Moreover, if your present existence in this world is synonymous with what is portrayed in the Gospel account of the parable of the prodigal son, then it will remain impossible for you to escape what is allegorically portrayed as this, the Far Country, until which time you can achieve that level of potential development that permits you to answer the above questions.   And when the question is posed as to how this inherent destiny is brought about?   The answer is through a series of Natural Laws that pervade all of Creation and existence on every level of Mind and Being (see The Laws Of Creation http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#TheLawsOfCreation ).   

The Mind evolves when it is nourished by Thoughts that are Balanced and Whole.  But what does this mean?  Modern science has arrived at the understanding that what man sees with is physical senses, is a projected image that originates from an higher Unseen Field-Reality.   When physicist Walter Thirring stated in his book, Urbausteine der Materie about the nature and reality of physical matter that modern physics “...has put our thinking about the essence of matter in a different context.   It has taken our gaze from the visible - the particles - to the underlying entity, the field.   The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’.   Accordingly, there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary particles… Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field” -- what he was confirming is that what man sees with his physical eyes, is an image that has been projected into this world of appearances from an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD.  In the same way, Einstein experienced shock when he first came into contact with the new emerging reality of atomic physics, and wrote in his autobiography: “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundation of physics to this [new type of] knowledge failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built”.  In much the same fashion, the European physicist Niels Bohr stated that “…The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”  What this means is exactly as stated by Einstein when he stated: “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” (quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics).  What is being stated is that the primary focus of science where only what was seen with one's physical eyes, has now been rendered inadequate and incomplete -- it being focused totally on observable matter -- because the emerging body of facts and evidence now demonstrates that what we perceive physically, is a projection from an UNSEEN Source where True Reality exists.  Which provokes the question: What is being projected?  Thus, the statement by astronomer James Jeans: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff” -- both demonstrate the reality that there is nothing but Projected Thought.   Which means that you are a thought that is being projected in this world by your True-Self that dwells in the reality of an UNSEEN CAUSAL FIELD.   In like manner physicist and Nobel prize winner John Archibald Wheeler stated that "every item in the physical world has at bottom ...an immaterial source and explanation ...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe".  What this means is that what you see physically, conveys an (allegorical) explanation pertaining to the "...immaterial [UNSEEN] source" that is projecting the physical image of what we see with our physical senses.   Max Planck who is considered the founder of quantum theory stated: "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."  And more recently, cyberneticist David Foster described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source.   The holographic reality says that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”  And this largely inconceivable reality is confirmed by Einstein in the quotation to the right where is speaks of our physical presence as the manifestation of frequencies -- i.e., "We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.  We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music".

So long as our thinking and mind remains anchored and ruled over by our lower (animal) consciousness (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature  http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature ), it will remain virtually impossible for us to bring our thinking into any degree of Balanced Wholeness.   Until we learn to penetrate the Unseen Field, and unite the Upper-Heavenly with the Lower-Earthly, we will remain a prisoner shacked in what is portrayed as the "outer darkness" of Plato's Cave (see Plato - The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#Plato ).  How, then, do we begin to connect the upper-heavenly with the lower-earthly spheres of mind?  The Answer: Through the interaction of the Male and Female Columns as patterned in the Tree of Life (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ).  And therein lies the other Enigma of Abject Ignorance of our modern culture.  Quoting from The Trinity - Divine Pattern - Linear vs Intuitive Development Of The Mind http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org/#Trinity

Is There A War On Women?   And if there is, who is waging this war?  Perhaps this question can better be answered by suggesting that there is, and for the most part there has always been a war on the Intuitive -- and since by her inherent nature, woman is very much the embodiment of the Intuitive Spheres of Mind as patterned in the Tree of Life, it can rightly be stated that the war on women is not only carried on by academia,  patriarchal religious systems, our culture, but also the Feminists who in many respects are themselves female misogynists who wage war against their own femininity.   The truth of the matter is, that while men and women are equal, they are anything but the same.   Quoting from The Opening And Unlocking Of The Mind:

One of the greatest lessons the people of our modern culture must learn is that equal does not mean the same.  Perhaps this is best expressed in the introduction of the long ignored book Brain Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, where they wrote: "Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. To maintain that they are the same in aptitude, skill or behaviour is to build a society based on a biological and scientific lie".   The key to the dilemma that confronts us today is further seen in the words of the authors with respect to their opposition to the ideas we teach our children in our modern-day politically correct culture: "What you will read in this book about the differences between men and women may make both sexes angry or smug. Both reactions are wrong. If women have reason to rage, it is not because science has set at naught their hard-won struggle towards equality; their wrath should rather be directed at those who have sought to misdirect and deny them their very essence". The book then goes on to embrace the very real statement that "Women should contribute their specific female gifts rather than waste their energies in the pursuit of a sort of surrogate masculinity. A woman’s greater imagination can solve intractable problems - be they professional or domestic - at one apparently intuitive stroke."   More recently another (female) researcher named Dr Luan Brizendine has authored a book named The Female Mind.   Dr. Brizendine, whose book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain.  Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality.  I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us.  I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men.  If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives."   These more informed decisions are basically impossible for most women in today's culture because of the biological lie that is being promoted due to political correctness.   The problem is that because we dwell in a world that is generally defined by a male linear perspective, the true nature and depth of the feminine mind is largely an unexplored realm of vast substance and opportunity.   In fact, once this far reaching reality is truly realized, one must begin to acknowledge that even men are severely anchored and inhibited by their own and societies ignorance with respect to the higher purpose and untapped potential of the female mind.  In this respect, woman is the missing element in (male) man's search for God and the meaning of life -- and vise versa.

What is being presented in the above is the fact that our culture, as well as both our traditional religions and academia, all suppress the Feminine-Intuitive -- programming the minds of young girls to ignore their natural mode of thinking, and instead respond from a Male-Linear mindset -- all failing to explore the important differences that are easily demonstrated between men and women -- which suppression of the Feminine-Intuitive inhibits and flat-lines all intellectual development beyond a very carnal level that is portrayed in the Bible as being of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness.   In both academia and our culture,  all standards that are used to measure educational achievement, are all from a Male-Linear perspective.  With its rote programming of memorization and intellectual parroting on demand in the students pursuit of passing standardized tests which are used to measure accomplishment, the spheres of mind necessary for Feminine-Intuition are suppressed and atrophied.  Which means that the only acceptable source of knowledge and learning, is from sources in the outer world -- which is a total rejection of the process of Anamnesis (see Anamnesis - The Innate Knowledge Of The Truth Of All Truths ). 

The greatest and most esteemed of philosophical and religious sources have maintained that each person has access to an Inner Source of Knowledge that is far greater and superior to all the sources of knowledge and learning in the outer world (see The Great Question ).  Yet, both our culture and academia totally ignore and even reject this Wisdom.  With respect to the proper interpretation of the scriptures, the Apostle Peter warned that the scriptures must not be "...read according to the understanding of our own mind", -- which traditional understanding from a human perspective, is to read the scriptures as if they are an historical narrative documenting man's past.   Thus, Christians embrace the grave error of modern academia, and they read the scriptures in what can rightly be portrayed as an Old Covenant mode, regardless of the statement of Peter and the original followers and disciples of Jesus that the scriptures must never be understood in accord with "an extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".  Further stating that there is a Teacher and Source of Knowledge  "...within the mind of every one of us" -- and  "...is inoperative"  to the thinking of those who fail to seek this Inner Supreme Source/Teacher of Knowledge.  Yet, Christians who remain spiritually disenfranchised and ignorant, totally reject this core Gospel teaching that the only valid interpretation of the scriptures MUST be drawn from the Source within mankind -- rather than being drawn from the interpretations of men in the outer world.    

Under the heading of Sibyl, the Wikipedia states that "The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles" -- which means that they understood the different domains and powers of mind that separated men and women.  In the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy, Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire (see Voltaire).   Which provokes the question: Can we even have heavenly insights when the feminine-intuitive is suppressed?  In Mythology, a muse is always feminine, and is allegorically portrayed as the nine goddesses who symbolized the arts and sciences -- i.e., the intuitive catalyst that connects the mind of the person to an inner source.   In the Gospel According To The Hebrews, the Holy Spirit is portrayed as the Mother of Jesus -- i.e., "Even now did my mother the Holy Spirit take me by one of mine hairs, and carried me away unto the great mountain Thabor".    And it is this Divine Feminine that is portrayed as the Teacher of those who are faithful to the Core Gospel Teachings (see Original Gospel). 

As one of the great enigmas of life, only a handful of people have ever understood the Law of Octaves over the course of human history.   Yet, it is one of the most important realities for a person to understand the presence and movement of the Law in their daily lives.  Why?  In the same way that "every hair on your head has been numbered" (Luke 12:7), the Law of Octaves is a moving force -- i.e., an Organic Bio-Feedback Organism, that intimately interacts with every word, thought, desire and deed of interaction of every aspect of the life you have, and are presently living.  But because of both its importance and complexity, I will present a very simple explanation first -- in the hope that as most people gain an elementary understanding of how the Law of Octaves is one of the most important aspects of their lives, that they will become cognizant of how and why it effects them. 

It is human nature that causes most critics and people who don't understand a concept of truth, to automatically oppose whatever they fail to comprehend.  According to 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”  Then there is the similar statement by Einstein when he said: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”  And since I have always been opposed by the critics, I usually go into great detail in my in-depth explanations.  In the words of Mikhail Kalashnikov who designed the AK-47 which is known as the most reliable weapon ever made: “Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.”  And because of both the importance and the great complexity of the Facts of Life with respect to the Law of Octaves, I will present the simple explanation that is useable by the average person. 

Mankind's great intellect is the result of the divided complexity of his mind that is able to see and understand from different and often opposing perceptions.  Therefore, the mind of man is segmented, so as to provide different images of the same vision or interaction of the life that he is living.  And it is this segmentation of mind that is his strength -- permitting him to conquer and prevail over the obstacles of life -- that is also his greatest weakness.    

Can man know the answers to all of life's enigmas?   While most of mankind will say no -- and others will hold to the belief that they must wait until they pass from this life to know the answers -- there has always been the few who have witnessed that the opposite is true: Stating that the very purpose of life is to seek the Truth and the Mysteries of God -- and if you fail to find the answer to the enigmas of life while you are still in this world, that you will fail to fulfill the very purpose of life itself.   Contrary to popular opinion: There is a reason for all events and things in this life -- but to understand the events, you must understand the Causal-Factors of Life (see The Causal Factors Of Life http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org ).   And while both faith-based believers and unbelieving (Atheists/Agnostics) will all agree that it would be virtually impossible to Know The Truth of the countless enigmas of life, there has always been the few who have opposed the majority opinion.   And these few have always been opposed, because the majority simply can't accept the reality that there exists a Force of Natural Law that inhibits them from perceiving and knowing the Truth of all things.   And while the Universal Voice of the disciple of the Truth -- i.e., the spiritual visionary and mystic -- has always been: "Only when you do and live as I have lived, can you come to know what I know" -- this wisdom of the few has always been rejected by the many.  

What is the conditions of your birth and station in life?   While many of the original Ebionite Nazirene followers and disciples of Jesus -- as well as the pre-Nicene Spiritual Christians -- could readily answer important questions that has alienated modern man from a higher reality that he is in denial of, most people who have been programmed with the modern Atheist Paradigm of Thought will conclude that their birth was fate or chance -- an accident -- or even luck.   Yet, in reality, none of these choices are accurate.   Whether you were born rich, poor, in a third world nation or with a silver spoon in your mouth -- or, somewhere in between -- your religion, your occupation, your country of origin, whether you are a male or female, your sexual orientation, liberal, conservative, libertarian, Atheist, Marxist, environmentalist, anarchist -- whatever your present station in life is, not only the manner you entered into this life was determined prior to your even being born -- but the Laws of God has scripted and preordained all of your possible choices and opportunities that have been presented to you -- as if you are walking through a labyrinth where the measure of your freewill is the determination of what choices you will make with the options that are presented to you.   When rightly understood, this world is God's Schoolhouse for his Prodigal Sons and Daughters -- and in the same way that when a child attends school there is a syllabus and curriculum in order to insure that the process of learning is accomplished in the proper steps, so too is the learning environment of this world.  

Jesus taught that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Laws of God that brings about all  the events in this world -- i.e., “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will” (Matt 10:29 RSV) -- and yet, our modern Atheist-driven culture remains totally ignorant of the very Laws that move all things in this world.   With respect to the foregoing words of Jesus in the Adam Clark Bible Commentary, we find the statement: “The providence of God extends to the minutest things; everything is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission”.   In relation to this verse under the heading of Providence in the Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary it is explained that: “Divine government is the continued activity of God by which He directs all things to the ends He has chosen in His eternal plan… He governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world. The laws of nature are nothing more than man's description of how we perceive God at work in the world. They neither have inherent power nor do they work by themselves. Man is not free to choose and act independently from God's will and plan; he chooses and acts in accordance with them. In His sovereignty, God controls man's choices and actions (Gen. 45:5; Deut. 8:18; Prov. 21:1). God's actions, however, do not violate the reality of human choice or negate man's responsibility as a moral being”.   Thus the question is posed in scripture: “Does evil befall a city, unless the LORD has done it?” (Amos 3:6 RSV).  And what does the scriptures state is the source of darkness and evil? “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Isa 45:7 KJV).  

If the foregoing is true, then the question should be posed: What criteria and standards does God use in the administration of the Divine Plan and the Natural Laws which are portrayed in the conclusion that  "...He (God) governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world."    Which provokes the question: Just what are these "...laws and principles that He has established in the world" -- and how can man come to understand them?   And while it is clear that Jesus understood these Natural Laws -- even revealing them to his faithful disciples -- the fact that modern Christians are bound by faith in the unknown instead of the revelation of the sure Principles of Law, is a demonstration of the dogmatization of the Gospel.    

The Gospel states that if we truly follow in TheWay, that we will know the Truth that will set us Free (John 8:32) -- which provokes the question: Are the vast majority of those who call themselves Christians today free?  The knowledge that sets man free is neither dogmatic or philosophical -- but rather, a First-Hand Knowledge of all the enigmas that has perplexed mankind since the very dawn of time itself.   And this Truth is captured only by the Bible translation known as The Message which states: "Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him.  If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.”  Which raises the question: When rightly understood, is the words of Jesus any different than the Universal Voice of the disciple of Truth which proclaims: "Only when you do and live as I have lived, can you come to know what I know"?   The key to the dilemma is found in the words: “If you stick with this, living out what I tell you...", only then can the knowledge of the Laws that inhibit all of mankind from perceiving and knowing the Truth be revealed to the disciples of Truth.    Which means that there is a Force of Law that inhibits those who fail to , "...live out" these teachings -- a Force of Law that inhibits them from knowing the Truth to the enigmas of life.         

An interesting statement is made in Genesis in the declaration: And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth" (Gen 9:12-13) -- but what does this mean?   Only when it is realized that within the spectrum of light, the rainbow is an octave -- portraying the reality that white light is comprised of seven colors -- can the meaning of the sign of the covenant be understood in practical terms.    And when rightly understood, what is called The Law Of Octaves is so holographically embodied in all the Laws of Creation and the Laws of Nature, that without the knowledge of what is portrayed as the meaning of "...the sign of the covenant", it will remain virtually impossible to understand anything of any substance and depth in the life that man is presently living.    In fact, that the vast majority of mankind is found to be totally uninformed with respect to the meaning of "...the sign of the covenant", is the very reason why they remain ignorant of the very far-reaching implications exerted by the Natural Laws upon every aspect of the life that we are presently living.   Which means that when the believer answers one of the enigmas of life with the words: You have to have faith -- and the unbeliever states that if there was a God, that the conditions of life would be different -- both the believer and the unbeliever are answering from the same perspective which is caused by a lack of understanding of "...the sign of the covenant" and the Law of Octaves.     And when rightly understood, no truer statement has ever been made which portrays the plight of the vast majority of mankind than this: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ...Therefore, my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge" (Hosea 4:6; Isa 5:13).  Why?  This question is answered in the words: "Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths" (Isa 3:12 NKJ).  And if the proclamation in the Gospel of Thomas is true -- i.e., "...if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" -- then the very Essence of Religion IS the Science of Mind.   Therefore, an important element to Self-Knowledge, is to understand the Forces of Nature and the Laws that are exerting absolute control over every aspect of our Mind and Being.  

We dwell in a world that is held in balance by the Natural Forces and Laws that control every aspect of life.   And when rightly understood, it is man's ignorance of the Natural Forces and Laws that will inhibit any real progress towards the fulfillment of the very reason each of us is living the life that we are at present.   One of the long ignored and gravely misunderstood teachings of the Gospels and all scriptures, is that only the very few who have dedicated their lives to seeking Truth and travailing in TheWay, will possess the ability to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and what is biblically portrayed as the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God (see In The House With The Lord).   The Book of Acts declares that from the One came the many -- and that "God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us" (Acts 17:27).  

Every day believers and critics of the Bible both read the words which they fail to comprehend the ramifications of.   And because they have no understanding of the consequences of remaining complacent and ignorant -- not comprehending the implications of the reality of the Law of Octaves -- they remain perpetually disenfranchised from not only the true meaning of the scriptures, but also of the realities of the very life they are presently living.   In the Gospel of Thomas declaration that "...if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty" -- it is the individual's failure to understand the ramifications of the Law of Octaves upon their being and consciousness that makes it virtually impossible for them to understand anything beyond a very surface perception of reality.   And this is why it is declared: "There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12).  

It is said that the Law of Octaves was the very foundation of the whole of the work of Pythagoras -- it was an integral part of the philosophy of Socrates and Plato -- it was an essential part of the wisdom of Valentinus and the pre-Nicene Spiritual Christians -- made relevant to all the Natural Laws of Creation by John A. Newlands -- and was the foundation of the mystical teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff.   When Jesus said: "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled" -- the means by which the Law would be fulfilled, employed the Law of Octaves as a vehicle to bring the required Wholeness and Completion about.   

What this means is that whoever desires a very technical understanding of the Law of Octaves, there presently exists a massive body from many sources of teachings to which they can turn.   But what is missing is (1) a practical understanding of the Law of Octaves and its relation to the Sermon on the Mount; (2) which is the basis of why the second century Bishop Valentinus taught that the faith-based believer who remains immature in their understanding, has no real continuance beyond their physical death in this life; (3) and why it is declared in the Epistle of Peter and James that if the esoteric teachings of Jesus and the Gospel should become lost, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error."   Why would the disciples and brother of Jesus make such a profound statement?   Why can't a seeker simply begin their search for Truth, and have it plainly revealed to them?   The answer is found in the statement: "There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12) -- which parallels that of Paul who stated: “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Cor 8:2 NKJ).        

From the perspective of the Gospel teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, a more important diagram of the Enneagram and the progression of the Natural laws is presented in the diagram to the left.   When rightly understood, the teachings and concepts of the Sermon on the Mount in conjunction with the Consecrated Lifestyle which the original disciples of Jesus lived, was designed to invoke the Natural Laws for the seeker, and enable them to supercharge their pursuit of the Divine Manna (Knowledge) which is the necessary spiritual nourishment to gain entrance into the  Kingdom.    In the diagram to the right we can observe three crucial bending points and interval-shocks that must be mastered in order to evolve the self beyond "natural" organic limitations of development.   And it has been said that while to some degree nature provides for the first two shocks with respect to food and air, few people can even begin to grasp the required Impressions that is necessary to transcend organic physical limitations -- limitations that shackle man to virtually worthless lives where the whole of their thinking and mindset can be best portrayed as earth-bound.   When Jesus replied to why he taught the multitude of the people who were portrayed as being "without" only with parables that "Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all 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 ASV) -- and Paul warned 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) -- it was because of the human dilemma that inhibits their understanding and comprehension, and keeps them earth-bound in their thinking and mindset.