The Path Of Ascension And Growth: In the allegorical scriptures, all mental and spiritual advancement is portrayed as the climbing and ascent up the proverbial Jacob's Ladder (see Jacob's Ladder http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#JacobsLadder ).  And in the same way that an actual ladder must have a built in sub-structure that enables the person the ability to climb and advance higher -- and this advancement up and through the Natural Laws is brought about by the Law of Octaves that checks and maintains all progress -- even from life to life.  And what is not understood at all, is the fact that the acquisition of Higher Spiritual Knowledge is not so much the process of learning -- but rather, of advancing up the steps or rungs of Jacob's Ladder.  In the same way that a toddler does not have to learn to be an adolescent -- and the natural transitioning enables the toddler to advance -- this is also true with respect to the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  Built into the transformative process is a Living Bio-Feedback Organism that provides a means of both monitoring each person's progress, as well as supplying them the mental and spiritual substance to advance up the rungs of soul-progression and the fulfilling of the Natural Laws of Creation.   

Every thought requires energy or vital life-force as a means to generate and move the aspect or frequency of consciousness through the portals of level upon level of progression -- a Living Organism that enables the bio-energy the OPPORTUNITY to evolve through the trials of completion.   When rightly understood, the bio-energy generated by the thoughts, bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening by spawning and nourishing the growth of the person's mind.  What is personified in the Gospels as the "narrow gate", is the check-point that receives the vital life-force of those thoughts which fulfill the process in the words: "…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5).   Those thoughts that have taken on the necessary wholeness that permits them to be drawn through the "narrow gate" and can therefore nourish the development of the mind, initiate the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  In contradistinction, what Jesus portrayed when he warned that: "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" (Matt 12:36) -- reference was being made to thoughts that lacked the necessary wholeness to bring about and nourish the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  

The Eye Sees Only At the Level Of A Person's Comprehension: It is the Law of Octaves that blinds a person from seeing anything that is beyond their level of understanding -- and it is the Law of Octaves that has the capacity to open a person's mind to Higher Reality.  The Law of Octaves does this by turning every thought-frequency back to it's source.  If the Thought is imbued with Wholeness, it is able to bring about growth and development -- if the thought-frequency lacks the necessary Wholeness to pass through the "narrow gate" at the Center of the Mind, it is rejected and cannot bring about growth and development.   In the Jewish Mysticism book known as the Zohar, it is explained with respect to the written words of the scriptures: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”.   In the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.   And this fact is confirmed by the Church Father Origen who wrote: “It is sufficient however, to represent in the style of a historic narrative what is intended to convey a secret meaning in the garb of history, that those who have the capacity may work out for themselves all that relates to the subject.”    Therefore, what appears to be an historical account, is not -- and it is nothing more than an allegorical cloak that conceals important sacred knowledge from those who -- because of their undeveloped and worldly mindset and thinking -- cannot utilize the wisdom of the minor mysteries that are embedded within the text of the written word of the scriptures.   

In the same way that you cannot teach a student calculus prior to learning basic math, neither can the mind develop in a haphazard manner whereby it skips over essential levels of development.  When the Ovum in a woman is fertilized by the Sperm of the man, it is called a zygote -- and the zygote then begins to divide in the process of becoming an embryo, which continues to divide as it develops and differentiates—in humans eventually forming a fetus.  Thus, in their mental development, there are people who remain as a Sperm and Ovum -- others who have begun to progress and can be portrayed as Zygotes -- and as they further develop, they can then be seen as a Mental-Embryo.  Important information on the development of a physical-embryo can be obtained at https://www.eurostemcell.org/heart-our-first-organ where it states:  "The heart is the first organ to form during development of the body. When an embryo is made up of only a very few cells, each cell can get the nutrients it needs directly from its surroundings. But as the cells divide and multiply to form a growing ball, it soon becomes impossible for nutrients to reach all the cells efficiently without help. The cells also produce waste that they need to get rid of. Thus, the first organ system to develop is the heart, blood and circulatory system, so that nutrients and waste can be transported throughout the growing embryo. The heart continues carrying out this same vital job throughout our lives."

Origen acknowledged these doctrines -- refuted Celsus by stating that these beliefs are openly expounded as articles of Christian faith -- and then Origen explained: “And yet the mystery of the Resurrection, not being understood, is made a subject of ridicule among the unbelievers. In these circumstances, to speak of the Christian doctrine as a secret system is altogether absurd. But that there should be certain doctrines, not made known to the multitude, which are after the exoteric ones having been taught, is not a peculiarity of Christianity alone, but also of philosophic systems, in which certain truths are exoteric and others are esoteric. Some of the heroes of Pythagoras were content with his ipse dixit; while others were taught in secret those doctrines which were not deemed fit to be communicated to the profane and insufficiently prepared ears. Moreover, all the mysteries that are celebrated everywhere throughout Greece and the barbarous countries, although held in secret, have no discredit thrown upon them, so that it is in vain he endeavors to calumniate the secret doctrines of Christianity, seeing that he does not correctly understand its nature”.

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., Paul wrote that he was "..caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2 Cor 12:4-5).  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 what could be portrayed as "bird puke/regurgitation", in relation to 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.

When Jesus said: "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3) -- he was portraying the final stage of birth that is presented in the deeper meaning of the Resurrection and the Cross that all his followers must bear in their lives.  But when believers of the simple-faith interpret this as the crucifix of Jesus, without understanding what the Church Father Origen portrayed as "..the mystery of the Resurrection, [which is} not being understood, by those who "...were not deemed fit to be communicated to the profane and insufficiently prepared ears",  then it remains impossible for these faith-based believers who have been denied and inhibited from understanding the "mystery of the Resurrection", to fulfill the requirement set forth in the commandment to "...take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23).     

    Project Gutenberg's The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38600/38600-h/38600-h.htm?#link2HCH0016

The Sixteen Crucified Saviors: What is portrayed in the symbolism of the virgin birth, the cross and the crucifixion, is the destiny of every person who has ever walked the face of the earth.  At the time of Jesus, the cross was a universal symbol that was used by many religions, as portrayed in the book that documents The Sixteen (16) Crucified Saviors (Click On Image).   Which provokes the question: Why was the virgin birth, the cross, the twelve disciples and the crucifixion a universal symbol that was recognized by many religious paths?  It is therefore important to recognize that the usage of the cross by these other religious paths 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 if you understand the meaning of the symbols, all of mankind must be prepared to be born of the virgin in a non-physical subsequent stage of birth.  All of mankind must 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 thus, the statement of Origen with respect to the cross and these other religions: "Moreover, all the mysteries that are celebrated everywhere throughout Greece and the barbarous countries, although held in secret, have no discredit thrown upon them, so that it is in vain he endeavors to calumniate the secret doctrines of Christianity, seeing that he does not correctly understand its nature”.  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 spiritual transformation that is observed by all the religions, that 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 that attempts to interpret the Gospels historically -- while suppressing the spiritual meaning.  

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 person's own 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).  What does it mean to make every thought obedient to Christ?  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 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 left. 

Who were the Cahars?  Quoting the Wikipedia: "Catharism; from the Greek: καθαροί, katharoi, "the pure [ones]", was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement... which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Followers were described as Cathars and referred to themselves as Good Christians, and are now mainly remembered for a prolonged period of persecution by the Catholic Church, which did not recognize their unorthodox Christianity".  Why did the Church hunt down the Cathars?  In the same way that the Church hunted down the enlightened priest Giordano Bruno and burnt him at the stake for teaching the people the truth, the Church hunted down all groups who embraced the original teachings that had the ability to transform the mind of the faith-based believers -- thus, fulfilling the warning or the Apostle in the Epistle of Peter to James where he warned that if the body of esoteric knowledge taught by Jesus to his closest disciples is lost or thrown away, that  "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error". 

When the Cathar cross is understood, it is clear that they possessed the deeper knowledge that the Church of Rome threw away.   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 as portrayed in the words: "A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches" (Gen 2:10) -- and these four rivers that flow out of the Tree of Life in the Center, presents the necessary balance between the upper/lower and the left/right.  Thus, what we have is the four primary Trinities of the Mind as represented in the three dots at the end of each of the cross projections which are representative of the three spheres of mind of the Heavenly, the three spheres of mind of the lower Earthly, the three spheres of mind of the Male and the three spheres of mind of the 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.  

  Wholeness And The Cross: With respect to the concept of Wholeness, Jesus portrayed himself as a physician: "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).  To understand Wholeness, we must also understand the Narrow Gate as presented in the statement: "Make every effort to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able" (Luke 13:22-27).  Why will many believers try, but not be able to enter through the "narrow gate"?  Because few people understand both Wholeness, and the process of entering through the narrow gate.  Was Jesus wrong?  If the modern Church dogma is correct and that (quoting) "...salvation is immediate and eternal upon acceptance of Jesus as a one-time sacrifice for your sins, and not obtained through works, sacraments, traditions or merits of our own", then why does Paul say that if the believer knowingly sins after embracing the Gospel teachings, that there is no longer the hope of salvation -- i.e., "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).  If, as the Church maintains, there is no requirement of works to achieve salvation, then why did Jesus warn believers: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23)?  Isn't denying one's own self a requirement of "works" that each follower of Jesus must do daily?  In support of the necessity to deny one's self, Jesus also stated the requirement: "So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple" Luke 14:33).  Isn't it a requirement of works for the follower of Jesus to "...renounce all that he has"?  Which provokes the question: What does the modern Christian have that must be renounced?  Further, the Gospel account does not say that mere belief in the crucifixion of Jesus was sufficient.  Jesus said that after denying one's self, that each believer must pick up and bear their own cross to bring about their own crucifixion.   But what does this mean?  It means that the modern person who calls themselves a Christian, must now undergo a conversion to the Original Gospel Teachings that the Church of Rome rejected as heresy -- and fortunately, these suppressed Original Teachings have been restored by the Original Author at http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com .          

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 as 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.
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Growth Through Wholeness of Thought:  "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death" (Prov 14:12 & 16:25).  This verse can only be understood from the perspective of the Gospel of Philip which states: "A nationalist (person of this world) does not die, for he has never lived so that he could die" -- which is why Jesus said: "Leave the dead to bury their own dead".  While a sperm or ovum can be portrayed as living, so long as the sperm of ovum fails to develop, they remain dead in relation to their purpose and potential.  Moreover, so long as the sperm of ovum remain in their undeveloped condition, it can be correctly asserted that neither ever really lived.  The potential of Life does not equate to the Reality of Life.   

If you perform a search on the source of the voltage measured by EEG or EKG machines, you get: "Electrical signals are produced by contractions in the heart walls which drive electrical currents and create different potentials throughout the body."  Yet, there is nothing in the body that can actually generate an electrical flow.  What medical experts are missing is the fact that it is the presence of the Soul-Mind that infuses the physical body with the bio-energy or vital life-force that is measured with electrocardiograph machines.  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”.  While we can't see "...the underlying field” of Consciousness with our physical senses, we are measuring its presence in the body-vessel with the electrocardiograph machines we used to sense the presence of the person's mind. 

In order to have an electrical flow, there must be positive (male) and negative (female) polarities which come together to manifest Consciousness -- which enters into the physical body-vessel through the connection to the Ætheric Source -- or levels of Consciousness prior to our measuring the bio-energy with electrocardiograph machines.  Mystics are those people who develop the ability to follow their flow of bio-energy back to its Source which they portray as God.  What is portrayed as the Trinity or Divine Pattern that is replicated into all of Creation, is a portrayal of the Male and Female polarities which feed and manifest the Mind of God -- which is often portrayed as the Logos, Word or Son of God. 

Consciousness is fueled by bio-energy or vital life-force that originates with God -- and in one of the most ignored Gospel statements we are not only portrayed as the offspring of God, but as dwelling within the Mind of God -- i.e., “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’” (Acts 17:28).    Put this together with the above statement by  James Jeans that: “...the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”.    Or the words of Arthur Eddington:  “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.  More recently,  described as “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source.   The holographic theory 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.”  (Cyberneticist David Foster). 

In understanding the statement “For in him we live and move and have our being", those who have made the inward journey towards the Source have come to understand that each Soul in the Alpha of Creation, can be portrayed as a single Neuron in the Mind of God -- which, in the quotation from The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of, is portrayed as "sparks" in the Divine Mind as confirmed in the words: "According to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the individual souls...".   The Soul of man dwells in a twelve-dimensional Realm of Souls -- and as a Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ), is in the process at different levels of soul-evolution by growing the Light of the Soul through the experiences of three-dimensional mankind in this sub-realm. 

As a spark in the Divine Mind, the bio-energy that is the source of man's consciousness, moves out and is divided and drawn into the Seven Spiritual Centers.  Why the number Seven? As the bio-energy moves out to the next level of Consciousness, it must maintain the Trinitarian Divine Pattern which is replicated into all of Creation.  The bio-energy associated with the Positive (Male) Polarity in the (heavenly) head, is expressed in the upper three spiritual centers -- with the third-force balance being the sixth center which is often portrayed as the Third Eye.  The bio-energy associated with the Negative (Feminine) Polarity in the lower thee (earthly) spiritual centers -- with the third-force balance expressed in the Generative Power manifest in the male sperm.  The Center is portrayed as both the heart spiritual center, and the Center Sphere of the Tree of Life.  What Jesus portrayed as the "narrow gate", is the bio-energy that is drawn through the Center that is able to transform the mind through the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening. 

In the case of those who have achieved Wholeness -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician..." (Mark 2:17) -- the bio-energy is balanced in the twelve spheres of Mind of the person as patterned in the Tree of Life ( http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ) -- and optimally, returned to the Source through the Center of the Mind through what Jesus portrayed as 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.  In the same way that the bio-energy begins its journey in Wholeness when generated by the Source through the twelve-dimensional Soul-Self, and out into the earthly-self as the projected image of mankind who is an embryonic three-dimensional image of the Soul, the mind of man evolves beyond organic levels of divided male or female physical embodiment, by achieving the necessary Wholeness to being about growth and development of consciousness when the bio-energy is drawn through the "narrow gate".   Where it is stated to "…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5) -- reference is not being made to the historical figure of Christ -- but rather, to achieving the Anointing/Christ within you.  And this can only be accomplished when each thought can be returned by manifesting Wholeness across the spectrum of the Four Gates of the mind as manifest and portrayed in the image of the Cathar Cross.  What is Wholeness of Thought?  The four Gates of the mind must each contribute their essence of the divided bio-energy flow -- and enable the Thought or Impression to achieve the necessary Wholeness to return to the Source of bio-energy through the "narrow gate".  The formula to achieve Wholeness of thought when it is comprised of 1/4th from the upper Heavenly, 1/4th from the lower Earthly, 1/4th from the Right Male and 1/4th from the Left Female spheres of mind that form the Tree of Life -- and it is this balanced Wholeness across the spectrum of the twelve sphere of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life, that is responsible for the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  Therefore, thoughts that are framed solely from the earthly centers or the Linear-Male or Intuitive-Feminine spheres of mind, cannot be drawn through the "narrow gate" in the Center, that is necessary in the advancement of Mind and Higher Consciousness.  

The fruit of the Forbidden Tree of Knowledge is the thoughts and impressions that lack the necessary wholeness to enter into and through the "narrow gate" in the Center of the Mind.   Mankind is the Fourth Kingdom or Center-Balance.  The physical body of man is drawn from the lower three kingdoms of consciousness (see The Formation Of Our Lower Earthly Animal Consciousness http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#LowerEarthlyAnimalConsciousness ).  The opposite polarity of the three earthly kingdoms is the three upper heavenly or spiritual kingdoms.  Oneness or Wholeness can only be achieved in the Fourth-Kingdom of man where the division of the Upper and the Lower can be brought together.  But therein lies the problem because of the division of the Male and Female outer columns of mind that form the Tree of Knowledge.  It is the interaction of the outer male and female columns that when working and functioning together, are able to bring the divided thoughts and impressions of the earthly and heavenly together in the Center -- which when brought through what is portrayed as the "narrow gate", possess the transformative power to bring about the growth process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  In the case of the historical man Jesus, he had achieved the condition of Absolute-Wholeness which enabled him to become At-One with the Mind (Logos/Word) of God.   And the Original Gospel teachings (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ) were the guide for all of mankind as the lost prodigal sons and daughters, to achieve what the man Jesus did. 

  Four Gates Of The Mind: The Four Gates of the Mind as portrayed in the image of the (Cathar) Cross, has often been portrayed as Earth, Water, Fire and Air -- with the Æthers being expressed as representing Spirit.  Earth portraying our lower earthly nature -- Air portraying our upper heavenly nature -- fire or male portraying our Linear spheres of mind -- and water or female portraying the inward-looking Intuitive columns of Mind of the Tree of Duality/Knowledge -- with the thoughts and impressions that must be drawn into the Center as the restored Tree of Life.  Therefore, what is allegorically portrayed as the Fall of Man, was necessary to bring about the transformative process of growth and development where Wholeness is achieved and our thoughts and impressions are drawn into the Heart or Center, and channeled through the "narrow gate" of the Mind.  Thus, a long ignored statement is seen in the words: "For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now" (Rom 8:19-22).   Take especial notice of the words:  "...For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it  ...For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now".   Which means that what is personified as Adam and Eve did not Fall because of sin -- but rather, this allegorical Fall was imposed upon mankind in order to bring about the necessary growth and development of Mind and Spirit.   In the same way that Jesus stated that unless you bring about the next stage of birth, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven (see The Divine Marriage http://DivineMarriage.org ) -- all of the trials of the prodigal sons in this, the Far Country (a.k.a. Plato's Cave), is the process of birth that was brought upon mankind by the Laws that Creator-God put into action in what is allegorically portrayed as the Seven Days of Creation -- i.e., The Octave.  If the text of the Revelation represented the end of the world, as is commonly believed by the majority of Christians today, then we must pose the question: Why are those who remain outside the city portrayed as "dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie"? Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples personal tribulation described as the "pangs of birth" (Matt 24:8 RVS), as a seeker endeavors to overcome his own lower carnal nature through the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the flesh, in order that he can possess the Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life, transcend the natural barriers of this world, and "enter through the gates into the city" -- the Gates being the "narrow gate".

In the Alpha or Beginning of Creation, Knowledge or Gnosis did not exist, because no experiential knowledge had taken place -- and part of the Soul became lost in the lower worlds in an attempt to begin to know self.  Therefore, God is in the process of Knowing Self, through the experiences of each of our higher Soul-Selves -- and our higher Soul-Selves is coming to know Self through the experiences of mankind.  In the same way that birth is not possible without the joining of Male and Female, neither is the Higher Mental and Spiritual Births possible without the interaction of the polarities of Male and Female (see When Man Meets Woman http://TheRealFactsOfLife.Ebionite.com#WhenManMeetsWoman ).  And in the allegorical account of Genesis, Eve or Woman was drawn from the side of Man, because the division of Self was necessary to bring about growth and transformation through the interaction of the opposite polarities of Mind (see The Restoral Of Adam And Eve http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#RestoralOfAdamEve ).   

Consciousness requires Bio-Energy.  Where the bio-energy that fuels Consciousness begins in Wholeness when generated by the Source (see The Cosmology Of The Divine Mind http://BeingOfLight.com#CosmologyOfMind ) -- and  remains Whole as it moves through the Higher Soul-Self -- it becomes divided when projected through the Seven Spiritual (Chakras) Centers and the Twelve Spheres of the Mind of man as patterned in the Tree of Life.  This bio-energy is necessary for thought and consciousness -- which is necessary for the experiences in this world that develops the mind of mankind through the interaction of opposites.  A thought or impression that is Whole, brings together each of the segments from the Four Gates of the Mind that restores the bio-energy to Wholeness -- a.k.a., Earth, Water, Fire and Air.   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 the 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 and its opposite in the heavenly, and the opposite male and female spheres of mind that make up the outer columns of the Tree of Life.  And without this balanced wholeness, the vital life-force can only be expelled out into Nature and lost.   In the parable of the prodigal son, this loss of bio-energy is portrayed as the loss of inheritance (Luke 15:13) on "riotous living".  Why is the inheritance of the prodigal son portrayed as being lost?  Without Balanced Wholeness, the bio-energy is subject to the twisting of the Law of Octaves (see The Laws Of Nature And The Law of Octaves http://TheLawOfOctaves.com/#TwistingOfTheOctaves ), and cannot grow and transform the mind beyond the level of organic human consciousness. 

Where the bio-energy emitted by the Soul is balanced and Whole prior to entering into the organic consciousness of the person we are in this world, it is divided by the seven spiritual centers and the twelve spheres of mind as patterned in the Tree of Life.  The mind that evolves beyond organic comprehension, must bring the division of the Seven and the Twelve into Wholeness and Oneness.  Thoughts that are comprised of equal aspects from each of the four gates -- uniting the Earthly with the Heavenly -- drawn into the Center by the Feminine-Intuitive and the Masculine-Linear -- achieving the necessary Wholeness that bridges the divided natures of the mind -- and when balanced and whole, only then are these thoughts 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 (see The Twisting of Law at the Third Interval http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Third ), and the bio-energy or 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 be joined -- i.e., the Heavenly Kingdom coming upon the Earthly Kingdom.  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 what is portrayed as the kundalini energy from the base of the spine into the upper spiritual centers.  The limitation of what Philip K. Dick portrayed as the Mystery Religions is presented in his words 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 itself undeveloped.  What was the basis of Philip Dick's assessment?  While Giordano Bruno was bunt at the stake for teaching Christians the Original Gospel concepts and teachings that were suppressed by the Church (see The Restored Gospel Teachings http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ), the account of Philip K. Dick reveals to seekers the purpose of the allegorical catalysts used in the scriptures to connect the person we are in this world with our Higher Source of Being.   Like my own recall of my Soul's previous life as Jacob who they call James, the Brother of Yeshua who they call Jesus (see http://BrotherOfJesus.org ), Philip K. Dick possessed degrees of past life recall.   Quoting Philip Dick's account:  "When a delivery person from the pharmacy brought his pain medication, he noticed the ichthys necklace she wore and asked her what it meant. She responded that it was a symbol used by the early Christians, and in that moment Dick's religious experiences began:  Thus, the image of the early Christian symbol acted as a catalyst that initiated recall of his Soul's previous life as a first century Christian of which he wrote:

"In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis—a Greek word meaning, literally, "loss of forgetfulness." I remembered who I was and where I was. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, it all came back to me. And not only could I remember it but I could see it. The girl was a secret Christian and so was I. We lived in fear of detection by the Romans. We had to communicate with cryptic signs. She had just told me all this, and it was true.  For a short time, as hard as this is to believe or explain, I saw fading into view the black, prison like contours of hateful Rome. But, of much more importance, I remembered Jesus, who had just recently been with us, and had gone temporarily away, and would very soon return. My emotion was one of joy. We were secretly preparing to welcome Him back. It would not be long. And the Romans did not know. They thought He was dead, forever dead. That was our great secret, our joyous knowledge. Despite all appearances, Christ was going to return, and our delight and anticipation were boundless."

The Fundamentalists who are of a physical-only three-dimensional mindset, can only grasp the text of the written words of the scriptures.  But the scriptures were composed by mystics who viewed this world as a type of prison that held mankind captive in a world of shadow-images as portrayed in the analogy of Plato's Cave (see Plato's Cave http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Cave ). The Dead Sea Scrolls have proven that the foundation of the Gospel teachings was borne out of the Essenes -- and the portrayal of the physical as a prison is demonstrated in the words of Josephus who was a contemporary of the man Jesus who lived among the Essenes and stated that they (Essenes) “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.  The Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect". 

When Philip Dick made the statement that, 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 quotations on the proper use of the scriptures as the Key of Knowledge (see The Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).   Philip K. Dick referenced a difference between the Gospel teachings of Jesus in relation to what he portrayed as the Mystery Religions because of this primary difference in the Gospel path.  Instead of the exclusive focus on the upper, wholeness and achieving the subsequent stages of birth requires that each of the twelve spheres of mind be evolved to the degree where Oneness is achieved.  Most Mystery and Eastern Religions attempt to suppress the lower centers while their focus is on gazing through the upper sixth spiritual center (chakra).   Whereas, the scriptures and the living of a holistic lifestyle in a spiritual community focuses on the development of the Whole Self.     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. 

Wholeness And Same-Sex Unions: The scriptures are composed and written for the spiritual advancement of serious seekers.  When it is understood that the consciousness of each person is the result of the Attainments Achieved in the previous lives their Soul has lived, then it must be understood that each person is born at the cognitive level in accord with their own past life achievement.  Therefore, the scriptures are not written for the common mass of people who have never advanced beyond what can be portrayed as organic (carnal) consciousness.  When Jesus replied to his disciples as to why he did not speak openly to everyone -- and only spoke to the multitudes of people in parables -- he said: “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding” (Mark 4:11-12).  Why?  What enabled his disciples to understand what the multitude of people could not?  And this same reality is presented by the Epistles of Paul when he said of the faith-based gentile followers:  "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).  In the Homilies of his disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter is quoted as stating: “We remember that our Lord and teacher, as commanding, said to us, guard the mysteries for me, and the sons of my house. Wherefore also he explained to his disciples, privately, the mysteries of the kingdoms of the heavens.”  In his Epistle to the Trallaus the first century elder Ignatius speaks of the Mysteries of the Gospel and the Kingdom, and writes: “Might I not write to you things more full of mystery?  But I fear to do so, lest I should inflict injury on you who are babes.  Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able to receive their weighty import, ye should be strangled by them”.  The fact that the vast majority of people who call themselves a Christian, are too immature to understand the spiritual meaning of the Gospel teachings, means that they cannot be held to the same level of accountability as those who have evolved beyond organic (carnal-human) consciousness.  Therefore, what can be portrayed as, and can constitute a (spiritually) deadly sin for one person, is not for another lesser evolved or developed person.  And therein lies the problem that makes the scriptures virtually impossible to understand -- i.e., because of the removal of the teachings on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to Wholeness and Perfection over the course of many lives, it is virtually impossible for both a believer and non-believer alike to understand the application of the biblical teachings (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html ).   Unless we understand that a lesser evolved Soul is totally driven by his lower earthly/animal consciousness and the lower Laws of the earth, we will never understand why different Laws are applicable to different groups or levels of people.  And in view of the fact that this self-knowledge that is absolutely essential to understand the reality of this world, was thrown away by a series of Roman Emperors who ruled over the people by the threat of the sentence of death (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors  http://reincarnation.nazirene.org/#emperors  ), it will remain impossible for the vast majority of people who are lacking this higher spiritual knowledge to understand the application of sin to the different levels of group-consciousness. 

In the lower earth-level of animal consciousness, sex is controlled by Natural Laws.   The male is born with and imbued with the generative power of sexual energy that he spends his life attempting to engage.  The animal does not possess higher areas of mind as in the case of man.  Many male animals will actually kill their offspring, in order to induce the female to go into heat.   Lacking higher consciousness, the animal does not know that male and female are representative of divided mind and consciousness -- i.e., divided half's of mind that are interacting with each other on a multitude of levels (see When Man Meets Woman http://TheRealFactsOfLife.Ebionite.com#WhenManMeetsWoman ).  In the animal kingdom, the male  is polarized positive -- and his generative energy is satisfied by a sexual release -- with the exchange with a female that when in heat or season, will welcome his sexual advances.  To most animals, sex is little more than a physical appetite that the Natural Laws drive him to satisfy.  Basically, the same is true of men when they are ruled over by their lower earthly nature and consciousness (see Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature  http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature ).  At the bottom echelon of humanity, we see this in such things as gang rapes where a group of men engage in sex with one woman -- the buying and selling or taking of women as sex slaves -- and even having a harem of a multitude of women.  And this fact of reality becomes critical with respect to the issue of man's sexuality.  Because few people understand the reality of Wholeness -- and (1) the fact that the mind of man is divided across the spectrum of the dynamic opposites of male/positive and female/negative polarities; that (2) the Natural Laws force the person's engagement between the sexual opposites -- (3) while these same Natural Laws force sexual release upon the person -- (4) to the degree that in many people, their sexual drive can be portrayed as a biological volcano where the release of the sexual energy cannot be restrained -- and (5) choice is not always part of the equation.   The fact that this release of sexual energy is imposed upon mankind -- often by various forms of masturbation, often with any available partner, and sometimes even when his physical body is asleep and at rest -- confirms that it is the Natural Laws which impose this necessity of the release of bio-energy, often removing the option of choosing how it is released by a very large segment of the population.  And this reality is further complicated by the fact that while we are not born with the knowledge of the Natural Laws that are imposed upon us -- with right or wrong and morality in subjection to our carnal appetites and desires -- many people can be rightly portrayed as the victims of the forced indulgences which the Natural Laws impose upon all of mankind.  Especially in view of the fact that knowledge of the Natural Laws, right and wrong, and higher morality, is learned over the course of many lives in which the Soul has evolved and developed itself beyond the lower levels of organic consciousness. 

The followers and disciples of Jesus knew that killing an animal was in violation of the tenets to gain entrance into the Edenic Kingdom -- i.e., "Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food" (Gen 1:29) -- and they were strict vegetarians (see http://TheConsecratedLife.com ).  The followers and disciples of Jesus knew that sex was sacred (see Sacrament Of Marriage http://Sacraments.Nazirene.org#SacramentOfMarriage ), yet a great many modern Christians engage in cultural recreational sex with many partners to the detriment of entering into a Consecrated Spiritual Marriage (see Sexual Immorality  http://SoulSelf.org#SexualImmorality ).  Therefore, the fact that the Natural Laws force a very large segment of the people to engage in some sort of the sexual release of the generative bio-energy associated with sex, regardless of the circumstances of that release -- even forcing many young men into involuntary spontaneous release while they are sleeping -- only the more advanced Souls who have developed their higher levels of spiritual consciousness, can be held accountable for the manner in which the bio-energy is released.  Therefore, sex, from the perspective of the majority of people, is not -- and cannot be -- a sin, so long as the sexual act  is not coerced or forced upon any unwilling partner.  Which provokes the question: But isn't this statement about sex not being a sin contrary to the Gospel teachings?  Jesus explained: "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48).  Thus, with the forced removal of the teachings on the pre-existent Soul by a series of Roman Emperors, the modern Christian simply has no means to understand why and how the lukewarm believer will be beaten with the stripes of greater judgment, than the multitude of people who are often portrayed as the common sinners who have not insured their salvation.  So what is the fate of those who "...did commit things worthy of stripes" -- i.e., people who are often portrayed as unsaved sinners?   Why will this group of people who are portrayed as sinners, receive far less judgment and punishment than those who knew the masters will, but did not properly prepare themselves?  This statement on judgment and punishment is not only in opposition to everything that modern Christians believe, but with the corruption of the Gospel teachings, it remains impossible for them to provide an answer to the enigma presented.   

With respect to those believers who failed to put on the required Wedding Garment and come to TheCall (see TheCall To The Wedding Banquette http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), in the parable of the Wedding Feast they are portrayed as the "invited guests".  There is of course the statement by Peter that confirms the statement by Paul -- i.e., "If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud" (2 Pet 2:20-22).  Where the modern Church promotes the doctrine that they are saved by Grace regardless of the manner in which they live their lives, Peter not only states that this man-made doctrine is in grave error, but correctly states that: "It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them." Every Christian should ask themselves: How Can This Be???  Paul confirms this statement of Peter with respect to complacent Christians receiving the greater judgment when he warned that if the believer knowingly sins after embracing the Gospel teachings, that there is no longer the hope of salvation -- i.e., "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).   How can those who have never known the teachings of Christ, be better off than those who having heard, are complacent towards those teachings?  The answer: Because the Soul of man evolves over the course of many lifetimes -- and those more evolved Souls who are portrayed as "invited guests" who should know the Master's Will, are expected to know and live in accord with the Higher Teachings of the Spirit.  Whereas, those who have yet to evolve to the level where they "...knew the lord's will, and prepared not themselves" by living in accord with the Higher Teachings and Law of God, "...shall be beaten with few stripes".    

If the Christians in the parable of the Wedding Feast are representative of the invited guests, in the version in Matthew (22:1-14) they are utterly destroyed because of their complacency.   In the version found in the Gospel of Luke it states: "For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet” (Luke 14:24) -- which provokes the question: How can the Christians who claim to be saved by faith apart from their actions -- making claim to a guaranteed and free gift of salvation the moment they accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior -- be subject to the greater judgment, because of their complacency?  Further -- and quite contrary to Church dogma -- if non-Christians were those who had not been called as invited guests -- and the non-Christians were not doomed to the destruction imposed upon the invited guests (Christians) who did not come -- the question still remains as to what is the fate of those who were cast into the "outer darkness"?  What does it mean: "For many are called, but few chosen"? 

The Gospels were written for serious seekers -- and the process of spiritual development can only be accomplished over the course of many lifetimes.  Therefore, as demonstrated in the foregoing, what would be deemed a grave sin for one person, is not the same for those at the lower levels of spiritual development -- i.e., those who were not portrayed as the "invited guests", as Christians would see themselves.  In the parable of the Talents, each servant is given a different number of Talents  "to each according to his own ability" (Matt 25:15 -  see Spiritual DNA And The Allotment Of Talents To The Invited Guests http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SpiritualDNA ). But with the removal of the teachings on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes, it remains impossible to understand why there is no equitable distribution, and the disbursement of Talents is different?   Or that different people are held to different standards in accord with what can be called their Spiritual DNA.  Which means that it is impossible for the modern Christian to understand why different requirements are set forth for different people -- i.e., "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes". 

In view of the fact that a Spiritually Consecrated Marriage requires Absolute-Fidelity that has developed over the course of many lives together, the vast majority of the common people are incapable of entering into a Spiritually Ordained Marriage.  A Spiritual Marriage is the interaction and union of opposites to restore Wholeness.  When man meets woman, it is in reality one half of the mind meeting it's opposite half.  And while this recognition of Self is rare, there are some men and women who understand the full mental and spiritual dynamics of Wholeness and Spiritual Marriage.  These few understand that sex is a catalyst that joins and connects the two halves of the Mind (see DNA Exchange http://BrotherOfJesus.org#study ).  And as halves of the whole, the man and woman understand that every weakness in the man, is a strength of the woman -- and every weakness of the woman, is a strength of the man -- and together they can conquer all obstacles that they encounter in their advancement toward Wholeness and Perfection.  In the words of Jesus:  "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).  

So long as we continue to believe that the mind of man is in the physical brain -- failing to understand that the mind is in the Ætheric Field that surrounds the physical body -- connecting and immersing the body in the manner of a life-giving mental-atmosphere that surrounds the physical form as portrayed in the image on the left -- and like a heart beat, intimately changing the mental polarity with every positive and negative breath -- it will remain virtually impossible for man to mentally advance beyond organic consciousness, and begin to fulfill the adage to Know Thyself.  Holographically, the mind surrounds the body in the manner of a life-giving atmosphere, and each of the twelve spheres of mind expresses themselves through their associated physical organs of the body.   Therefore, the genitals and reproductive systems of a person is as much part of the mind, as is the brain -- and this is why the portrayal of the mind as patterned in the twelve spheres of the Tree of Life at the right, is drawn over the whole of the body.   But what this also means is that there are foundational spheres of mind that are not part of the brain -- but rather, are functioning primarily through the genitals and other organs of the body.  And if you understand the workings and functioning of a particular organ, you will then be able to better understand the associated sphere of mind that is manifest in the physical and directly functioning through that organ.   But what this also means is that the mind of woman possesses physical attributes of mind that is suppressed and even missing in a man, and vice versa.  And that in a Coverture-Union where Oneness is achieved, those attributes of the female polarity of mind are functioning in conjunction and through the attributes of the woman's husband -- interacting on a mental and higher spiritual level -- exchanging opposite polarities of bio-energy -- that can only manifest and interact within a Coverture-Marriage Union where the two halves have become connected together as One Body-Organism.  

Modern languages are  for the most part devoid of spiritual depth.  To morph, is to transform.  A caterpillar morphs or transforms into a butterfly.   In the same way that our mind is the etheric atmosphere that surrounds and interacts through the physical body, when a man and woman connect with the man's DNA in a sexual exchange (see Study), this creates a permanent connection between the man and woman.   In a Coverture-Marriage Union where the husband and wife live as One in a Consecrated Life together as seekers the Kingdom within -- openly and freely exchanging opposite-polarity Spiritual-Impressions in pursuit of Higher Truth -- this creates what can be portrayed as a Spiritual Atmosphere or Personal Unique Morphic-Field that immerses the husband and wife in a protective Spiritual Cocoon where Impressions and Thoughts are exchanged between the husband and wife -- each evolving the Impressions and Thoughts in accord with their polarity of Mind -- raising the Impressions and Thoughts up into Wholeness.  In the same way that the embryo at conception, unifies the 23 chromosomes of the mother with the 23 chromosomes of the father to spawn growth and development, the Spiritual Atmosphere or Morphic-Field permits the Male/Husband and Female/Wife halves of the Mind to directly interact -- acting as a cocoon for the two opposite halves to intimately interact --  thereby enabling joined-opposites to evolve in a Morphic-Transformation of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  In the same way that the two halves of the heart function together in the exchange of the one blood, the Husband and Wife possess the ability to become a Spiritual-Embryo where there is a High-Level exchange of Impressions and Thoughts -- generated by the one, transformed in the opposite polarity, and returned on a higher mental-plane -- whereby crucial Impressions of the husband is developed in the wife -- and crucial Impressions of the wife are developed in the husband -- thereby transforming the Spiritual-Embryo into what can be portrayed as a Spiritual-Fetus preparing the two halves to bring about the next subsequent stage of Spiritual Birth -- i.e., the disciples asked Jesus: "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?" 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".     

The scriptures reject same-sex unions because the opposite polarities of male and female do not exist in the relationship, and therefore cannot dynamically interact to bringing about the next stage of birth (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ).  Birth in the scriptures is not representative of physical birth -- but rather, the subsequent stages of Soul and Spiritual birth.  And in the same way that a sperm and ovum must merge into a single embryo, so too must a man and woman who are two halves of the whole, must merge to form a Spiritual Embryo. 

As portrayed in the parable of the prodigal son, the loss of INHERITANCE, is the loss of the Generative Power that must be received by the Reflective-Feminine Polarity, raised up to a Higher Level within the Feminine, and returned back to the Male-Polarity.   As the lost prodigal sons and daughters, how we utilize the Inheritance as the divine offspring of our Heavenly Father and Mother God, will greatly determine what we are able to accomplish in this life.   The polarities of male and female are half of the whole -- and therefore mankind is imbued with the desire to seek Wholeness through the sexual joining of the two halves.  Most men have little to no control over their need for sexual energy release.  Therefore, so long as the sex act is not coerced or forced, then sex is not a sin.  BUT, how each of us uses the power of sex, can and does impact every aspect of the lives that we live. 

Woman is the most immediate savior of man -- and is the the other half or polarity of man.  When the woman engages in sexual immorality or modern recreational sex, her connection to many men inhibits her ability to fulfill her Divine Feminine Role of Higher Reality (see Sexual Immorality  http://SoulSelf.org#SexualImmorality ).  As half of -- and opposite polarities of the Whole -- man and woman are the embodiment of the outer columns of the Tree of Life that must bring about Wholeness through their interaction (see The Process Of Birth Within The Tree Of Life http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#foundation ).  In the same way that a sperm cannot be joined with another sperm -- and an ovum cannot be joined with another ovum -- the joining and evolving of Mind and Spirit can only take place in the dynamic union of the opposite polarities of male and female functioning together as ONE-- as portrayed 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" (see The Gospel Enigma That Modern Christians Can't Comprehend http://GospelOfThomas.Nazirene.org#GospelEnigma ).   And while there can be same-sex unions that are more committed and loving than many opposite-sex unions, without the joining of the opposite polarities, the next stage of birth cannot be achieved. 

When those who can be portrayed as spiritually mature, judge and condemn their lesser brothers and sisters who lack spiritual maturity, those who engage in the judgment of others cause themselves to be judged.  One of the foremost principles of the Gospel teachings is: Judge not lest you be judged -- i.e., “Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Matt 7:1-2).   Many people have caused themselves to be bound to lives of homosexuality, because in their previous lives they judged homosexuals.  Thus, the Laws caused them to became what they judged.   

Edgar Cayce And The Law Of Octaves:

Edgar Cayce was a sincere Christian who God bestowed the ability to gaze into the higher Soul-Reality of mankind.  And if you are a sincere Christian who is a genuine follower of the Original Gospel teachings, then you will understand why Edgar Cayce stated: "If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know".  Why?  Because if you understand the image of the meme, you will see the image of the Natural Laws that the Deist Constitutional Framers of the United States portrayed as "The Law of Nature and Nature's God" -- which Natural Law can better be portrayed as the enigma of The Law of Octaves.  Why is The Law of Nature and Nature's God and the statement of Edgar Cayce an enigma that portrays the Law of Octaves?  If you were to do a Google search on The Law of Octaves -- and search through meaningless commentary of intellectuals who have no idea as to why Edgar Cayce made such a statement -- eventually you might come upon the only source that can convey and reveal to you the great wisdom in the statement of Cayce -- and that is The Law of Octaves, which you can find at http://TheLawOfOctaves.com .   That Jesus taught his disciples the enigma of the Law of Octaves is the only reason it can be stated: "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:45).  Why would I make such a seemingly profound statement?  Because it is impossible to understand the spiritual meaning of the scriptures and the higher reality of the Kingdom of God, without understanding the Law as portrayed in The Law of Octaves. 

Nikola Tesla made the statement: "If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration"  Why?  Pythagoras was the first to openly portray the Law of Octaves as the key to higher understanding.  When it is understood that according to Pythagoras, the universe cannot exist without numbers -- and that numbers equate to energy, frequency and vibration, it is then understood why Pythagoras stated that mathematical numbers hold the meaning of life and existence. More specifically, we can then begin to comprehend why Pythagoras confirmed the findings of modern quantum physics and the reality that rational numbers which built the universe was sacred and unquestionable.  One of Pythagoras’s most important contributions to the development of philosophy was the idea that abstract thinking is superior to the evidence of the senses. This was taken up by Plato in his theory of Forms, and resurfaced in the philosophical method of the rationalists in the 17th cent u r y.  The Pythagorian attempt to combine the rational with the religious was the first attempt to grapple with a problem that has dogged philosophy and religion in some ways ever since.

Science has proven the wisdom of Mystics such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and ultimately the man Jesus (see The Findings Of The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist ).  Modern science has also confirmed statement of Nikola Tesla, and has proven that physical matter and all that exists in this realm, is being projected from a higher Spiritual Reality that is not seen or observed with man's physical eyes and senses.  Why can't organic man see and comprehend his own Source of Mind and Being?  Because the frequency of his organic physical consciousness is functioning on an earth frequency and vibration.  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. 

While there are those who claim that Albert Einstein said: "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" -- snopes claims to correct that statement wherein they say that Einstein instead stated “We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly,” And adds that Einstein said on another occasion: “Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.”  Why are our minds portrayed as limited to the degree that organic man cannot understand his own higher reality?  And how did the spiritual geniuses of the past understand what modern man cannot?  The answer is in the statement of Nikola Tesla when he said: "If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration"

Jesus taught his disciples how the Law as manifest in The Law of Octaves, functions to bring about the transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  And because his disciples had applied this knowledge to their lives, to them he said: “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).  Why was it said of the consciousness of organic man that "...seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand”?  Because their frequency and vibration" of mind was embedded in the lower physical realities, which did not permit them to see or understand the higher frequency realities beyond the vibration of the earth and physical matter. 

If you are a genuine Christian you would understand the wisdom with respect to the Natural Laws where it is stated: "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 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. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-20).   If you believe that Jesus was wrong, and the Law was "nailed to the cross", then there is no way to help you to understand anything beyond the purely superficial.  But, if you are a sincere follower of the Gospel teachings, you will understand why those original followers of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily, are the sole witnesses to the fact that Jesus "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).    What they are witnessing to is the reality that Jesus was a true holy man who so fully fulfilled the Law, that he was in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366). 

It remains impossible for modern believers to fulfill the Law that they have absolutely no understanding of.  And with respect to the statement that "...unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" -- Jesus portrayed the "scribes and Pharisees" as blind guides who led the people in the wrong direction -- which is the reason why Jesus portrayed them as "the devil's spawn" (see Christianity - The Devil's Spawn http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com ).  And the fact that other people had themselves fulfilled the Law and became Whole, is confirmed in the statement: "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).   Before this verse can be understood, we must first understand what it means to be Whole.   Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved?   Contrary to the dogma of the modern Church, if Jesus is the savior who every person needs for salvation, then Jesus himself said the Church was wrong, and those who are Whole do not need him.  And as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who are Whole, but only for those who are sick and in need of a physician.   And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time the historical man Jesus walked the face of the earth, there existed people who he portrayed as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician.  Jesus openly states that his mission as a spiritual physician is not for them, because they achieved the necessary Wholeness without him. 

That the original Ebionite followers of Jesus -- like their Essene forerunners -- understood the allegorical nature of the written words of the Torah -- and did not observe it in the manner of the Pharisees -- is the reason why the early Church writer Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites "..do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).   For them to be accused of "blaspheming most of the legislation", means that they did not at all observe the Torah outwardly in accordance with the letter of the written word in the manner of the Jews -- but rather, they understood the allegorical symbolism that was applicable to unlocking the inner door to the Kingdom (Luke 17:20-21).   With respect to the spiritual meaning of the Law, it should alarm modern Christians that in some of the ancient biblical codex's is found a statement of Jesus that has also recently been confirmed in the newly discovered Gospel of Thomas in what is now known as the Nag Hammidi Library. In this codex the Gospel of Luke contains the verses: "On the same day, He (Jesus) beholding a man laboring on the Sabbath, said to him: Man if thou knowest what thou doest, blessed art thou; if however thou dost not know, cursed art thou and a transgressor of the law".  Thus, what is being stated?  If you know the spiritual meaning of the Sabbath -- then you are not held accountable for "blaspheming ...the legislation".  But if you don't know the spiritual meaning of the Sabbath, then you are "cursed ...and a transgressor of the law".  So, with respect to the reason as to why the Ebionites continued to embrace the Torah and the Spiritual Observance of the Law?   Because the scriptures are the means to bring about the necessary expansion and deepening of mind by using the allegorical symbols as catalysts that can't be expressed literally, and have the capacity to develop the Intuitive spheres of mind which enabled them to gain access to their Inner Source of Knowledge that possesses the transformational power that enables the seeker to become Spiritual Israel (see The Purpose Of The Scriptures http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com#PurposeOfTheScriptures ).      

It is stated with respect to the Natural Law: "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth" (Gen 9:13).  Why?  What does it mean?  The few Christians who do comprehend sign of the rainbow, will also comprehend the words of Edgar Cayce as confirming the statement of Jesus with respect to the fulfillment of the Law, and these few people will understand (1) why the colors of the keyboard coincides with the colors of the rainbow; (2) why the colors of the Spiritual Centers (chakra) coincide with the colors of the rainbow; (3) why there is no sharp or flat note between the third to fourth projected interval of the keyboard; (4) and why there is no sharp or flat note between the projected seventh to eighth interval.  And if you knew the reason why these intervals exist in the Natural Laws of Creation, and the effect they have on your own consciousness, then you would possess the knowledge of "...all there is to know"

Ernest Holmes once made the statement: "The Great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus or Emerson... have taught man to look within himself to find God" -- but how does a person "...look within himself to find God"?  They must understand the Law as physically manifest in what Pythagoras and other spiritual geniuses portrayed as The Law of Octaves.  That the original followers of Jesus understood the Law, while the masses of people who came to hear him teach did not, was the reason that it was said of Jesus: "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).   Why couldn't Jesus explain the deeper meaning of the scriptures and the Mysteries of the Kingdom to the multitude of people who came to listen to his teachings?  Because in not understanding the Law, they never applied the tenets of the Law to their mind and consciousness, and they therefore could not comprehend the Mysteries of the Kingdom. 

The original Ebionite Nazirene disciples and followers of Jesus were condemned as heretics -- portrayed as "too Jewish" to understand the meaning of the Gospel -- i.e., “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416).    Further, the Spiritual (Gentile) Christians who understood the important purpose of the scriptures as a catalyst to develop the mind and enable the seeker/believer to begin to receive the Divine Manna of the Kingdom, were condemned as Gnostic heretics -- hunted down, their scriptures destroyed and those who did not embrace the religion of the emperor, were put to death.  Were the original Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus heretics?  Too Jewish to understand the very mystical Gospels which they authored?  What offended the Gentiles the most, was their assertion that the Royal Law was still in effect.  But because many of the Gentiles did not understand the allegorical meaning of the scriptures -- or the inner spiritual meaning of the Law -- they created excuses for their ignorance when they embraced doctrines such as the Law was nailed to the cross, and is no longer in effect -- thereby rendering the Church the least in the Kingdom as personified in the words: "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets ...Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-20).  While the spiritual meaning of the Law has been restored at http://TheLawOfOctaves.com , of ultra importance is an understanding of the nature of the Cross which everyone must embrace in their own crucifixion (see The Cross You Must Bear To Your Own Crucifixion  http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#TheCross ).  And without an understanding of the spiritual meaning of the Cross, it will remain impossible for modern Christians to enter in at the "narrow gate", and gain entrance into the Kingdom and inherit the Promise of the Gospels -- i.e., as forewarned in the following:

Thus, in understanding of The Law of Octaves and its intimate effect on everyone's development, you would understand why Edgar Cayce stated: "If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know".   

"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being." Baal Shem Tov

I have been married to the same Soul (woman) over the course of thousands of years going all the way back to lives on the continent of Atlantis (see The Heritage Of Jesus https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-heritage-of-jesus-does-race-and.html ) -- and we have spiritually evolved together over the course of many lives together. We have lived lives together where we both achieved the subsequent stage of Soul-Birth where we walked the earth as our True-Selves -- i.e., a Being of Light ( http://BeingOfLight.com ).  From an Eastern perspective, that would make my wife a Buddhi  or female Buddha or Enlightened One.  And because my wife's Feminine abilities were developed beyond organic levels of human consciousness, she became a Spiritual Empath -- even possessing the ability to Jump-Time (see  Jumping Time  http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#JumpingTime ).  Because the enigma of Time is a subject that is virtually impossible for the mind of organic man to comprehend, I will merely set a link to where Time as a dimension of Soul-Mind can be explored at (see The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man http://SoulSelf.org#EnigmaOfTime ).

Few people can comprehend the reality of Time as a dimension of Soul-Mind, because they don't understand that each life the Soul incarnates into, is as a Breath of the Soul (see Soul-Breath And The Common Ground Of The Fourth Kingdom http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheCommonGround ).  And because what we call Time is a dimension of Soul-Mind, each Soul-Breath or Incarnation is unique to all the other lives the Soul has incarnated as.  Which means that each personality that the Soul incarnates as, is not only a UNIQUE soul-generated personality that is manifest in a given Time-Frame, but that each of these earthly personalities who must return to their Source in the Higher Reality of the Soul, continues to dwell within what can be portrayed as the Soul Mind-Matrix.  But thus the problem is seen in the fact that it is virtually impossible to convey to the multitude of people the higher reality of the Soul and the generation of unique personalities across the dimension of Time.  Why?  As explained in the previous subheading (quoting): the fact that our physical consciousness is locked into a Linear-Mode of time-perception -- which is virtually blind to the paradoxical Intuitive-Cyclic perception of Time -- or the higher reality of Time where the Linear-Mode and the Intuitive-Cyclic mode come together as ONE -- indicates that the vast majority of people are being deceived by their own limited perceptive-understanding.  The article also makes the point to state that since Time is a dimension of Soul-Mind -- that not only communication between soul-personalities can be achieved, but that a form of Time-Travel would be possible where the scientific article stated that, "Once you try to wrap your head around this theory, you’ll begin to realize that it could also change the way we think of time travel."   While it also points out that because on one level, all periods of Time are taking place simultaneously, that you can't change the past.  But what is not understood is the fact that (1) all the soul-generated personalities dwell within the Soul Mind-Matrix; (2) which means that at a certain point in your own evolutionary development, you can communicate with the previous personalities or "images" that your Soul has lived as; (3) and in certain cases, these former personalities can jump Time, and consciously manifest in the present -- in the physical body that the same Soul is presently living in, in a different time-frame.  That all the lives which the Soul has lived is dwelling in a parallel higher reality, is now realized by modern cutting-edge science (see Present And Future Exist At The Same Time ). 

Can former soul-generated personalities Jump-Time or Time-Travel from the time-frame in which they lived -- or, more correctly, are presently manifest -- into the present?  Further quoting the previous subheading: In the case of a husband and wife who have in their previous lives together, attained and manifested a Coverture-Marriage together, and have achieved the next stage of Soul-Birth together in a former life -- this enables them to Jump-Time -- where a former personality can manifest in the present, while the present personality is brought back up into the Higher Soul-Self.  My wife and I have lived many lives where we became One in a Coverture-Marriage, and were able to achieve the next subsequent stage of birth together within that Marriage.  And since our past accomplishments are restored back to us in the present -- i.e., in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen: “Every Soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis) -- because we had achieved the next subsequent stage of birth in conjunction with the manifestation of a Coverture-Marriage, all the highly advanced spiritual abilities we achieved in our previous lives together, was restored as we developed and resumed our relationship in the present.  Which included my wife's ability to directly access her previous personalities where we were together -- thereby enabling her former personalities to Jump-Time and re-manifest in the present.   Thus, my wife was able to manifest her previous personalities where we were together, when my wife was an Essene in the first century, an Ebionite in the fourth century, as well as a number of other personalities where together we were manifest in a Spiritual Coverture-Marriage.   In the teaching of Gospel of Thomas saying 84 where all the former personalities or images the Soul lived as remain manifest in the Soul Mind-Matrix (see The Evolving Soul http://SoulSelf.org#TheEvolvingSoul ), as the seeker spiritually matures and begins to draw nearer to their Higher Soul-Self, that person is then able to communicate with their Soul's previous personalities/images -- as stated by St. Teresa of Avila in the reality that "The soul...", writes St. Teresa, is as “a castle made of a single diamond… in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila).  What St. Teresa is saying is that the Soul is as a castle, wherein all the personalities which that Soul lived as, each has a room or place within the Soul. 

Those who achieve the next stage of Soul-Birth, are able to hold council in a state of Higher-Consciousness, wherein they can simultaneously converse with all the personalities their Soul has lived as -- drawing upon the experiences of their Soul-Personalities throughout the ages across the spectrum of Time -- thereby enabling them to bypass the error and corruption of man's institutions of church, state and philosophy.   Therefore, anyone who believes that they have achieved the next stage of birth and is unaware of the previous lives their Soul has lived, is gravely deceived. 

When a Soul-Seeker Husband and Wife work to develop their Marriage Partner -- with the husband working to develop the unique Feminine-Intuitive abilities of his wife -- and the wife working to develop the opposite abilities of her husband -- not only do these abilities follow them from life to life, but became inherited whenever their Marriage Union is restored in future lives together.  When a man seeks to develop the Feminine-Intuitive spheres of his wife's mind -- not teacher her how he perceptively-thinks -- but rather, exploring his wife's opposite abilities and assisting her in achieving Wholeness -- his wife as a surrogate for her husband's Intuitive abilities, develops her husband's latent Intuitive abilities -- and this is why Woman Is Man's Help-Meet And Savior http://SoulSelf.org#HelpMeet.  Which means that from the perspective of their Marriage-Union, the Soul-Seeker Husband and Wife not only inherits all that they accomplished together over the course of all their lives together, but that these abilities negate the need for scriptures, teachers or any variety of masters in this world.   In becoming the embodiment of Absolute Oneness, they become self-generating Beings of Light and Intellectual Manifestation.  The only limitations on man and woman who enter into a Divine Marriage, are the limits they invoke upon themselves.

Is there another side or dimension of marriage that few men and women are capable of understanding?  In the allegorical Genesis account man and woman came into being when woman was drawn from and separated from man -- which means that in their Natural State, Male and Female are At-One.   And this Unity of Man and Woman was acknowledged when Jesus said: “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate” (Matt 19:4-6).  And this Higher Unity of Man and Woman was confirmed in The Second Epistle of Clement where this ultra-important teaching that was removed from the Gospels modern Christians use is quoted as stating: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.   What Clement -- the disciple of Peter who is claimed by the Church as the fourth pope in succession of Peter -- is stating in accord with the Original teachings is that when the seeker/believer brings this condition about within their own Mind and Being, that the predicted and expected Kingdom will come within them as promised -- as stated in Jesus' teachings on the Key of Knowledge (see The Third Fatal Mistake - Not Proving The Truth).

It is important to recognize that when Clement wrote the above in his Epistle to a congregation of Christians, he did so in the expectation that the people to whom he was writing would understand the great truths he was presenting to them -- i.e., that the Kingdom or End Times would and could only come when "...two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.   And the fact that this statement that is also in the Gospel of Thomas and was contained in a first century Epistle from an elder to a congregation of believers in that time-frame, could not be contained and understood in a letter or epistle to a congregation today, is merely one example of the fact that the dogma and thinking of the modern Church has virtually nothing in common with the original teachings of Jesus known as TheWay (see The Original Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church Dogma http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#OriginalTeachings ).   Which provokes the question: Has the requirements to enter the Kingdom changed in order to accommodate the dogmatic corruption of the Church?   Has Truth and Higher Spiritual Reality been discarded and thrown away, because the Church threw this body of essential Knowledge pertaining to the Coming of the Kingdom away?   Or, does modern Christians dwell in a self-imposed Diaspora of abject Spiritual Ignorance which was brought about by the massive corruption of the scriptures (see BibleCorruption.com ), and the suppression of the body of essential knowledge that is necessary to restore the lost prodigal son to his rightly place in the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.

Lets pose some questions: 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 as his own opposite polarity/half, 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, inherently blind to?  And that only after providing for her -- assisting in her development and exploration of 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 -- enabling the man and woman to make high-level intellectual interactions within a Mental-Cocoon or Morphic Field 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.  

What Pythagoras understood that his male counterparts did not, is that the Feminine-Intuitive Completes the Male-Linear perceptive vision of man's reality that can only be contemplated, when the two halves of the mind are brought together -- as explored at When Man Meets Woman http://TheRealFactsOfLife.Ebionite.com#WhenManMeetsWoman .   And when understood, Einstein also had the answer to the dilemma when he stated: "It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware".   An enlightened mind such as Pythagoras, understood that the  vast majority of mankind are mentally undeveloped because of the limitations on man's Linear vision and thinking.  Like Einstein, Pythagoras recognized that the Intuitive-Mind has the greater ability to see into the Metaphysical -- both the metaphysical realities of the person's own consciousness, as well as what the modern scientist now understands to be the metaphysical Source-Field of what mankind perceives as the illusion of concrete-matter.   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.