NO OTHER GODS

No Other Gods

This is an important subject, so for the followers of Christianity, there are many verses that need to be brought to attention. 

"You shall have no other gods before Me.”

~Exodus 20:3

“And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’”

~Luke 10:27

“By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, BECAUSE JUST AS JESUS IS, SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.”

~1 John 4:17

Now pay very close attention to the verse in CAPS above ... “because as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.” Think on that. Meditate on that. Pray on that. It cannot be any clearer. Jesus is as us, and we are as Jesus ... begotten of the Father ... children of God/Source. 

This was the intended lesson to all. We are ALL the “Son of God.” The use of “Son” in the Old English sunu is “son, descendant.” This is Strong’s Concordance word #5207 ... “anyone sharing the same nature as their Father” and has the legal right to the Father's inheritance. ALL things have originated from the Source of All Things. There can be no other way. This is science ... not theory. The entirety of the universe had one point of origin, and all things are made from the materials and essence of that Source. In other words, the only materials that God had to create from, were all God-stuff. 

To make Jesus (as a man) the only “God among mankind” is to transgress the commandment in Exodus 20:3 ... “thou shall have no other Gods before me.” Yet, Christianity has made Jesus ... their only God in the flesh. 

One more point: 

“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist” 

~2 John 1:7

Based on this scripture, the typical argument states that the Writer of John was aiming this scripture at the people who denied Jesus was resurrected in a physical body. Keep in mind that the Writer of John, was a Gnostic. This is very important. 

To the Gnostics, the resurrection story of Christ wasn’t about the literal man; it was about the spiritual awakening of the Divine Nature that can take place within each and every individual. This awakening happens ... while still yet in the flesh. 

Knowing this, John’s statement rings true after all. Christ does come in the flesh. But this coming of Christ is the gnosis (mystical insight / knowing) attained by the individual going through a profound experience in higher states of consciousness. 

This entire process happens while being in a physical body. It is the born again experience of the spiritual nature which rules over the physical nature. This spiritual nature is the Christ. This is the Divine Spark of God WITHIN every man. 

Remember, in scripture, the Apostle Paul attests to this when he states that he "travails in birth until Christ be formed in you." And that: “YOU are the body of Christ." Jesus himself affirmed several times his position. At the Sermon On The Mount, he said: “YOU are the light of the world" to his audience. He is also quoted in the Bible as saying: “YOU shall do greater things than I."

How would any of this be possible if Jesus (the man) was the one and only God in the flesh? Remember also, the church teaches the doctrine of "Original Sin" (which they created). If all people are born in sin, then so then would Jesus since the church teaches that he was both fully man, and fully God. 

Suffice it to say that there is much more spiritual Truth and symbolism beyond any literal or historical interpretation of the great ancient scriptures. One must dig. The Truth is hidden ... “the pearl of great price hidden in a field.” When something is uncovered, no longer hidden, revealed (revelation), we have an "apocalypse." The Apocalypse is not the end of the world ... it is a Greek word meaning “to unveil” ... “to reveal that which is hidden.” Seek and you shall find. Question everything before you accept or dismiss anything. 

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WHEN YOU MAKE THE TWO INTO ONE

WHEN YOU MAKE THE TWO INTO ONE

The great Neville Goddard once said "our thoughts and emotions do not recede into the past, but rather they advance into the future to confront us there as our world. Our thoughts, or lack of them amongst everyone else, cause our worlds." Discovering that this process is underway awakens us to the prospect of the Divine, and when the process works, we have found God to be our own wonderful human imaginations. Our imaginations, because God is imagination, and he has become us. We, are made in the "image of God." 

The world naturally mirrors our own thoughts and emotions whether they be good, un-good, or indifferent. We can control the thoughts and emotions to be reflected. Neville used various mental devices to get the Mind to imagine a scene so real and complete and full of emotion that it would become manifest in the future. If we can get this down, then collectively, the world will reflect it.

From the perspective of the ancient Essenes, every human on the earth is an initiate in the Mystery School that we call Life. Whether they are conscious of it or not, every human will experience in the presence of others, mirrors of themselves in that moment. If we have the Wisdom to recognize those mirrors, we may accelerate the evolution of emotion and understanding. We come to realize that it is emotion that proves the power and, when coupled with logic, true magic and miracles will happen. 

The Lost Gospel of Thomas saying 106 tells us: 

"When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away." And verse 48 tells us: "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they shall say to the mountain, 'Be moved,' and it shall be moved."

As Author and Geologist Gregg Braden has presented, the two are the thoughts and the emotions of our imagination. When they become one in our heart it is as if our prayer has already been answered. Braden also talks about John 16: 34 as translated from the ancient Aramaic which escaped the "Christian" editing for the Bible. In the original it states, "All things that you ask straightly, directly from inside my name (nature, imagination), you will be given. So far you have not done this (we've been asking incorrectly). Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped in what you desire, that your gladness may be full."

Neville said we must make our future dream our present fact by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled - to come FROM the place where it is already happened. We must feel the feeling as if it has already manifested ... already taken place. This is the language of the universe ... the Field of consciousness that understands in feeling and in magnetic resonance more so than with spoken words. Make your thoughts and emotional feelings one in your heart. See and feel it as if it were already done. "Ask and you shall receive." But not just spoken repetitive prayer, but FEEL it ... feel the feeling of that which you desire. The feeling IS the prayer. 

Feeling-based prayer is a form of prayer that transcends any single religion or doctrine, and goes directly to the natural ability within each of us to participate in the events of Life, healing, and peace directly, responsibly and effectively. To implement this mode of prayer, we are invited to simply focus the feeling in our hearts as if our prayers are already answered. 

Further ancient Essene studies by Mr. Braden have shown that he lost mode of prayer is a form of prayer that has no words, no outward expression, and is based simply in feeling. Specifically, this mode of prayer invites us to feel the appreciation and gratitude in our heart, as if our prayers have already been answered, even if the events in the world appear to show us otherwise. Science and Physics agree that our world and our bodies mirror what we think and feel. We must be very clear that our prayers originate from our hearts, rather than in our heads. The logic of our brain works in polarity left brain/right brain, light/dark, good/bad, right/wrong, etc. Praying for something creates a strong feeling of what should or should not be. The physics of our world require that when something is created with a charge in one polarity, the opposite must be created as well, to balance that charge. 

Our hearts, on the other hand, have no polarity. In the indigenous traditions, there is even a word that describes the non-polar objectiveness of the heart, the heart that sees what is, rather than judges what should be. The word is Shante Ishta (the single eye of the heart). When we choose peace or healing from our heart, there is no polarity created to balance our choice, as there is no left and right heart. From our heart, the FEELING ... IS the prayer. Studies have shown that this quality of gratitude and appreciation for the peace that already exists, creates a field effect in the presence of peace, all that can happen is peace. 

Studies into the effects of this type of prayer offer new credibility to ancient propositions suggesting that we may actually "do something" about the negative events in the world, both present and future. These studies add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that focused and feeling prayers and heart-felt emotions, especially those offered on a large scale, have a predictable and measurable effect on the quality of Life during the time of the prayer. This has been measured using numerous experiments, even during the 911 tragedy. 

Mother Theresa was once asked to attend an "Anti-War Rally." She declined attending, adding that when there was a Peace Rally, she would attend. She understood that by rallying against war, it would only manifest MORE war. An even deeper view would suggest that by even mentioning that the world needed peace, would be an admission that there was in fact NO peace in the world. A tricky conundrum. Choosing our words, our feelings, and our emotions precisely and carefully we can co-create new and better realities for ourselves and for others. By matching the feeling (prayer) of our inner world with like conditions in our outer world, we are able to manifest our desires. 

Once we allow the qualities of peace in our Mind, and fuel our prayer through feelings of peace in our body, we state that the outcome has already happened. Set your intent, have a pure motive, and FEEL it as if it has already taken place. This is the power of conscious manifestation. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

ORIGINS OF THE CROSS

ORIGINS OF THE CROSS 

In all the history of the world's Divine Saviours, they share the esoteric meaning of the cross. They are all similar in that they represent the Creative Principle (Divine Spirit) crucified upon the cross of matter.

The cross is not Christian in it's origins, though it was adopted by Christianity for its own symbolism. The cross is a universal symbol found throughout the ancient world upon their artifacts, temples, and tablets. In centuries BCE, the actual City of Nicea was designed in the form of a cross. Centuries later, the Aztecs used the cross as their symbol as well. 

If you look at man himself, standing straight up with arms outstretched, we can see a living symbol of this cross and it's mythical model. The mythical cross is cosmic in origin, not human. The significance of this cross is not because a man or Saviour was crucified upon it. In fact the myths of all Saviours say they were crucified upon a cross. There is significance and deep symbolism to this, and it is not intended to be merely a literal historical wooden cross with nails. 

The cross, like everything in Christian scriptures, is based upon Pagan Mythology. In fact, Christianity did not choose the cross until more than 300 after after the recorded crucifixion of Jesus as it's representative symbol. It had used the swastika, another ancient symbol for creative motion. The original word is Sanskrit and was suastika - meaning "good, being, well." Later, a lamb was used as the symbol representing Aries. Ultimately, the "crucifix" (the man nailed to and hung upon a cross) replaced it all among the Roman Church as it does today. A symbol of suffering and death rather than enlightenment and illumination, as was its original intent.

In ancient times, there were planetary and zodiacal meanings. 12 Stations of the Zodiac, in Greece there were "12 Labours of Hearacles," and in Egypt "12 tortures." The initiates into the Inner Mysteries of the hidden Wisdom had to suffer before he would be given the Sacred Tau, the cross of the hierophant (ancient priest). 

The seven major miracles are identical with the seven days of creation in the first book of the Bible - Genesis (meaning beginning or birth). This is Cosmology or Astrotheology ... heaven and God in the stars, skies, and planetary actions. As above, so below. As within, so without. As evolving, so involving. The story of creation was written in the stars by Pagan Mystics long before Christianity. See the 12 Houses of the Zodiac (12 Apostles) surrounded by the Sun of God (Christ/Sun) and you see much of where all the spiritual myths were derived. 

The cross, from the sky-view (heavens/Ouranos) ... the constellation Crux – otherwise called the Southern Cross – can be seen from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere and from tropical and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

There is much more than can be covered on this subject but far too much for one review. We haven't even touched upon the Egyptian Ankh and it's metaphysical meanings and symbols. It is the Key of Life. We will go into more details in another chapter. 

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

HOW CHRIST TRULY COMES IN THE FLESH

HOW CHRIST TRULY COMES IN THE FLESH

First off, we should look at the New Testament Bible for a very important verse:

 

“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” 

~2 John 1:7 

Based on this specific scripture, the typical argument states that John was aiming this scripture at the people who denied Jesus was resurrected in a physical body. 

Keep in mind that the writer of John, was a Gnostic. Most Gnostics did not view any of the scriptures literally ... they were allegorical and metaphorical. As such, John’s statement is in perfect agreement with what a Gnostic would have believed. 

To the Gnostics, the resurrection story of Christ wasn’t about the literal man; it was about the spiritual awakening of the Divine nature that can happen within each individual. This awakening happens while still yet in the flesh. While still here, and alive. 

So John’s statement rings true after all. Christ does come in the flesh. But this coming of Christ is the gnosis (mystical insight) attained by the individual going through a profound experience in higher states of consciousness. An awakening to the Divine Spark that is part of the spiritual architecture within all mankind. 

This entire process happens while being in a physical body. It is the "born again" experience of the spiritual nature, which rules over the physical nature. This spiritual nature is the Christ. This Christ Consciousness IS the Divine spark of God within every man. 

Remember the Apostle Paul attests to this when he states in Galatians 4:19: "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." And he also states: "you are the body of Christ." In the scriptures, Jesus himself affirmed several times his position. At the Sermon On The Mount, he said "you are the Light of the world" to his audience. He is also quoted in John 14:12 saying: "you shall do greater things than I."

How would any of this be possible if Jesus (the man) was the one and only God in the flesh? Remember also, the church teaches the doctrine of "Original Sin" (which the Roman Church itself created). If all people are born in sin, then so then would Jesus since the church teaches that he was fully man, and fully God. 

They also try and wiggle around the HUGE problem with the "immaculate conception," meaning that Jesus' Mother Mary was without sin ... somehow bypassing the bloodline given of Adam by being impregnated by the Holy Spirit. Mary was an "almah" in Hebrew, and in Greek a "parthenos." Both of these words do not mean "virgin." They mean young maiden of marrying material. 

The virgin concept is Pagan, and makes much more sense when it is properly understood. And that is, that the Christ (or Christ Consciousness), the Divine Spark of God, enters mankind for the first time having never before been incarnate as the seed of God in humanity. It has nothing to do with sex and the breaking of a hymen as we have been led to believe by following only a literal and historical presentation. 

Celestially speaking, Virgo (the Virgin) carries a chaff of wheat. Wheat is used for bread. Bethlehem (Bethel-hem) means "the house of bread." I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that there is much more spiritual Truth and symbolism beyond any literal or historical interpretation of the great ancient scriptures. One must dig, and dig deep. The Truth is hidden ... the "pearl of great price hidden in a field." When something is uncovered, no longer hidden, revealed (revelation), we have an "apocalypse." The Apocalypse is not the end of the world ... it is a Greek word meaning to unveil ... to reveal that which is hidden. 

As is said in Matthew 7:7 ... "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT

INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT

Let's begin with a Bible verse that describes the words spoken at the crucifixion at the moment when Jesus "gave up his Spirit":

"Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit ..."

~Luke 23:45-46

Jesus uses the same phrase found in Psalm 31: “You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength. Into your hands I commit my spirit."

In the original King James translation, the word commend is used, rather than commit. Let's go to these words for a moment. To commend means to “entrust someone to the care or protection of someone” within the broader meaning of “to entrust for safekeeping.” Entrust means “to commit, to give for safe keeping.” 

For a moment, set aside the literal and historical story of this event, and go deeper into the metaphysical and esoteric message veiled from within. When you surrender spiritually, you stop forcing solutions on situations you can't control, and instead trust and have knowingness that there is a Divine force taking care of everything in a perfectly orchestrated manner.

Within this "surrender," you can connect fully with God/Source where the whole (holy) universe conspires to support you. You can become timeless, eternal, infinite, filled with joy, and fearless. Your aspirations and desires are surrendered to a higher power. Your individual desires dissolve into “Thy will be done.”

We crucify the concept of letting our ego lead us, and we accept the transition towards following Christ ... the Divine Spark within mankind. We let the Divine lead us, instead of our base nature man. We listen for that still small voice within, to be our internal guidance system. 

In the verse from Luke, it also speaks of the temple, and of the veil being torn (rent) in two. The "temple" is on both sides of the skull. The crucifixion took place at Golgotha (also called Calvary), which literally means "place of the skull." Great suffering takes place within the Mind of man. 

Our brains are divided into two hemispheres. The left brain handles reading, writing, and calculations ... the logical side of the brain. The right brain is more visual and deals in images more than words ... the creative. It processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous manner. It is the place of our Divine connection. The corpus callosum connects the two brain hemispheres, permitting communication between the right and left sides of the brain. Science calls it, the veil. It functions much in the same way an Ethernet would work in a computer environment. 

"The veil was torn in two" (Luke 23:45) is the merging of both right and left ... The unification of  man and God. This is the moment we commit our Spirit to God, the Divine Spark of Christ Consciousness within us. Preceding this verse, it says: "It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon." It is in our darkness moments that we find the Light of God. It is from the darkness that the Light will shine. Here, is where we will find our True Self. Our Higher Self. The Witness, the Observer. We trust and KNOW there is a Divine Architect that aligns the stars, the planets, and everything within and without us. And we come to the realization that we simply allow all that we experience. 

That which you resist, will continue to persist. Scriptures say: "do not resist evil." The more we push against illusion, the stronger is becomes. When we allow the default of all that is, all the pieces of the great puzzle begin to fall into place. We stop swimming upstream, and just float in the current. We "commit our Spirit into the hands of God." We release the ego from its false leadership, and through the Spirit within, we trust in the Father of all that is. 

The observable and expanding Universe has been in motion for over 14 billion years, with Mother Earth in motion for 4.5 billion years. Man, as we are today, has been here for 200,000 years. Trust in the process. We are but a blip on the map of physical creation and form, and yet ... we are eternal in Spirit through the energy of our Source/God. For ever, and ever, amen. Enjoy the ride.

Just a thought … 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

WHO OR WHAT IS LUCIFER

WHO OR WHAT IS LUCIFER?

First off, lets have a look at the main verse that many will use to describe this "fallen angel Lucifer" in the Old Testament Biblical scriptures. From the Book of Isaiah 14:12 - Hebrew Old Testament - NEVI'IM (The Prophets): 

In the KJV (King James Version - and ONLY in the KJV) we read the following text: 

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” 

More modern Bible translations ... except for the NKJV ... have the proper translation of the word LUCIFER as “day star” or “morning star” instead of the Latin word Lucifer.

LUCIFER literally translates from the Latin (because it is not in the original Hebrew text) (Phosphoros in the Greek) as "Light Bringer, Morning Star, Venus, etc) because this morning star ushers in the SUN of God every morning in the celestial kingdom. And allegorically speaking, this light is what ushers in the Christ within each of us.

Now ... this will more than likely be the first time you have heard of these Truths so get ready for some enlightenment. I promise, its important. 

The ancient civilizations already knew of the concept of the "Lightbearer" and "Lucifer" and they used this symbolism for thousands and thousands of years to depict the "indwelling Krst/Christ" within all humanity. The Divine Spark of the Creator. 

This means that for thousands of years until the rise of western theology, the concept of "Lucifer" was likened to the "incarnated Christ" who brings light to our darkened Souls that are incarnated, trapped and mummified in "matter" and "crucified in the bodies of 'matter'/form." The Greeks termed it to be "SOMA/SEMA" or ... the body (soma) is a tomb (sema). 

The ancient Spiritual Wisdom and symbol of Lucifer, the ancient symbol for "the indwelling Christ", was altered to represent an anthropomorphized Satan and all that is evil. Lucifer and the devil are NOT one in the same. Much in the same way,  Venus ushers in the Sun of God each and every morning - preceding the sun in the heavens. 

Now read the verse again with MAN as allegorical reference ... in this case, the King of Babylon - the original allegorical character in this scriptural message.

Isaiah 14:12

"How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain."

It is the unseen Divine Soul of man/mankind (the christed one) who is eternal and has forgotten he is the Lord's begotten. When we follow our human ego rather than Divine order and Law (God) ... we fall from the sacred mountain and fall to the dense state of matter (the lowest level of vibrational energy) rather than our eternal state of Spirit (our highest state of vibrational energy). Welcome to earth school, the "Fall of Man." 

Here we have an adaptation of a "Christly Spiritual Concept" inserted into the Hebrew Scriptures where it never originally existed. Don't believe it? Study it, research it, reference it. 

Mankind is the begotten Son of God. We are one in Spirit ... one in consciousness ... and the microcosm of the macrocosm. Whether you believe in creationism or big bang ... everything came from something and that something is in all things visible and invisible. The point of origin for ALL things leaves within those things traces of itself thereby unifying all of creation.

For those who believe that you cant get something, from nothing, its simply a matter of understanding the words. A "thing" is something tangible ... a matter or form in a physical realm of experience. A NO-thing, is something in the realm of the unseen ... or Spirit yet to be manifest. The Hebrew word AYIN, and the Greek word we translate as VOID, and technically NO-THING, meaning having no form or matter. Deeper into this we also find this to be a point of origin for all that is manifest. The AYIN (nothing), is the point where ALL creation emanates from. Unbounded possibilities, infinite creative source, and unlimited manifestation possibilities. So, you see ... nothing ... is simply no-thing. Unmanifested energy from the realm of the unsee. 

So, knowing all this, and understanding that everything that is manifest comes into form from within the point of origin, all things arrive from within the realm of consciousness/Mind ... or ... Divine Light. The Matrix, or Field. Thoughts, become things. As above, so below. From an astrological point of view, this Bringer of Light is represented as Venus. Each morning, the Sun of God is ushered into view by the Morning Star ... the planet Venus.

Lucifer (Lucent/Luminescence/etc) is the Bringer of Light, not the Lord of Darkness as we have been led to believe. When things are changed long enough, people begin to accept the new paradigm. We should always be able to openly discuss any subject ... with an open Mind for Truth. There are billions of opinions (mine included), but only ONE TRUTH. Let's continue our search to find it, and share it.

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WHY JESUS WASN’T CALLED IMMANUEL

WHY JESUS WASN'T CALLED IMMANUEL 

One of the most interesting and misleading things written about in the New Testament Bible was penned by the author of the Book of Matthew when he took a small section of Isaiah chapter 7, and attempted to weave it in and show the birth of Jesus as the fulfillment of a prophecy. 

Matt 1

“ … and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”

The problematic part of this OT scripture is that Isaiah 7:14 doesn't have anything to do with Jesus in the first place. 

THE child spoken of WAS born (but not Jesus), and called by the name Immanuel by his mother (back in the OT times) and the Assyrians defeated the two kings who threatened Ahaz and his people. The prophecy was fulfilled long before the author of the book of Matthew claimed that Jesus fulfilled it. This verse was never intended to be about a future birth of Jesus the Nazarene. 

Now, Here is the prophecy scripture about Jesus according to the author of the book of the New Testament Book of Luke:

“… And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.” (Iēsous (Greek: Ἰησοῦς), Yeshua/Joshua from the Hebrew)

Note: Mary's child was to be called Jesus, not Immanuel. This verse was retrofitted to indicate something that was not going to fit, and to indicate that Mary’s child would in fact be next in line for the long awaited Messiah/Christ. 

Remember that the Hebrew name Immanu'el, means 'God with us.' 

Now, here is the the reason why “Jesus Christ” was used as the identification of Mary’s child.

The central personage of Christianity is called Jesus Christ, but this is not his birth name, it is in actuality an acquired title.

The name "Jesus" is derived from an Aramaic (ancient Hebrew) word, יהשוה Yeshua or Jehoshua, which means "saviour." Thus, the original use of this term is as an honorific title. YHVH versus YHSVH. Yaweh, versus Yeshua. Directory translated, YHVH means "God." YHVH means "God Saves." Jesus, and Joshua, are identical. One being Greek language, the other being Hebrew. 

Likewise, the word "Christ" is not a personal name. Christ is derived from the Greek Christos, “the Anointed One,” and the Krestos, whose esoteric meaning is “fire.” The word Christ is a title, not a personal name. Same goes for the Egyptian Krestus, and the Hindu Krishna. It is a title.

Nonetheless, the man who was known by the title Jesus Christ certainly had to have earn it. Yet, two thousands years of sectarian and political conflicts and power struggles have distorted the original story.

Note that the name “JESUS” used by English-speakers today is an English adaptation of a German transliteration of a Latin transliteration of a Greek transliteration of an originally Hebrew word. 

Question everything … find the answers.

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM,

REAL STORY OF ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

REAL STORY OF ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

After the "death" of Jesus, there arose many different splinter groups that claimed to follow his teachings. There was the continuation of Gnosticism, the apocryphal verses, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Library, and many other groups and texts, all of which PREDATE the highly structured, organized, and dogmatic Church of today, and many of which are rooted in esoteric and hidden Inner Mystery teachings regarding Christianity.

Many of these early esoteric Christian groups would now be considered heretical. Keep in mind most were considered heretical even back then. They drew influence from non-Christian philosophies like Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and other ancient schools of thought that had existed long before "Christianity" was created. In fact, the influence of these philosophies such as Neoplatonism on Christianity is undeniable. 

Much as Christianity would hate to admit it, the teachings of the man from Galilee were not specifically new; he simply taught old lessons in a revolutionary new way. Whereas the Wisdom of the ancients was usually reserved for a select and privileged few, this Jesus - taught anyone who would listen. Though there were indeed a select few who were taught the deeper meaning behind Jesus' parables, allegories, and teachings.

The biggest influence that Neoplatonism (Plato) and Hermeticism (named for Hermes) had on Christianity was the idea of spiritual rebirth into a higher consciousness. This is the central message of most "religions," but it is much easier said than done to actually raise oneself from the slumber of ignorance to the awakened state of knowing (Gnosis). This requires dedication, time, and patience, attributes that the masses as a whole do not possess. It is because of this reality that "religion" has replaced "spirituality." Spirituality can be said to be more of an esoteric, personal connection to the Creator/Source, whereas religion is an exoteric, watered-down, "one size fits all" exoteric version of a higher reality. Among the ancients, initiates took many years to learn the Inner Mysteries from the great Mystery Schools in those times.  

Jesus' teachings (not "Christianity") were simply part of an ancient system of knowledge and Wisdom. When we study the history of the Bible, and the history of the Church system, it becomes clear to us that the present version of Christianity is a Roman patristic corruption of what Jesus is credited with having taught. It is a disappointment to the legacy and depth of these great teachings. Modern "Christianity" is a revised and edited form of a great system of ancient knowledge and Wisdom.

Jesus did not claim to be the one and only son of God. It may appear that way superficially, due to the editing of the Bible after the death of Jesus and the influence of the first ecumenical Council at Nicaea, but when one examines the teachings more closely, it becomes evident that Jesus' main lesson was that we are ALL the children of God. Go to the original Greek and you will read "A son of God" ... not "THE son of God." We all have the potential to become Christlike. We all have the Divinity of the Creator within.

"Christ" was originally a title that comes from the Greek word Christos, meaning "anointed" or "anointed one." Later on it was used specifically in reference to Jesus of Nazareth ... which should have been Jesus the Nazarene since the Nozrim (Nazarenes) were a Jewish sect and the place called Nazareth hadn't existed yet. 

Jesus spoke in esoteric parables to try to get his followers to understand the higher Truths of Life, but unfortunately, most did not comprehend the deep insight and meaning of the many parables which Jesus spoke. These were allegories and metaphors with deeper Truths hidden beneath the surface story. The literal story itself many times was insignificant and was designed to reveal a much deeper message ... For “those who had eyes to see and ears to hear.”

There were, however, a few individuals who did indeed understand the "hidden" aspects of the teachings. The Gnostic groups were among those who DID understand. "Gnostic" comes from the Greek word "gnosis," which means knowledge. The various Gnostic groups looked beyond the teachings of Jesus to gain a more comprehensive view of the ancient school of knowledge to which Jesus' teachings belonged. They realized that Jesus was a great teacher out of the many who had appeared ... or perhaps an anthropomorphic representative of the school of ancient thought. 

Unfortunately, the Gnostic groups and other early Christians were persecuted and declared heretics after the first Council at at Emperor Constantine's Council of Nicaea. In 325 AD, due to disputes over what "Christianity" should be, a religious council was assembled in Nicaea (present day Turkey) to try to settle the disputes and establish an "official" version of Christianity. Overseeing this council was the Roman Emperor Constantine, who ultimately decided what exactly this new "Universal" ("Catholic" in Greek) Church would include. 

At Nicaea, it was established that a man named Jesus was "of the same substance" as God. It was declared that Jesus was the Divine "son" of God and that mankind could only be saved through him. It was established that salvation could only be reached through one's belief in the Crucifixion and Resurrection. In other words, it was made a dogmatic law that one could only be “saved” if one believed that Jesus died for the sins of mankind. This is a completely false rendering of the original teachings, which taught that humanity could only be “saved” (awakened from ignorance and doing the right things) by and through humanity itself. Furthermore, subsequent councils further established the many dogmatic laws still followed today by most Christians. The Bible has been changed countless times. The Oldest known Bible in existence is the Sinai Bible (in the British Museum) dated to the 1100's. 500 years later came the King James. There are over 18,000 discrepancies in the two versions. Hardly inerrant. 

During his rule, Constantine saw the power of an organized state religion. The Roman Empire at that time was full of "Pagans," and Constantine knew that it would be beneficial to his empire to squash all forms of "Paganism" and adopt the new form of Christianity established at Nicaea. In about 397 AD, the Bible was canonized and made "official" as well. Countless verses were changed to fit the needs of the new Christian Church. Countless books were left out, most notably those that portrayed Jesus in a more human light and those that spoke of the real path to salvation -- knowingness. These apocryphal texts are still used in some denominations of Christianity, especially the older ones like the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Egyptian Coptic Church. The ancient scrolls found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt and the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Palestine contain many apocryphal chapters not found in the Catholic or Protestant Bibles of today, and they reveal philosophies that, if made available to the masses of Christians, would almost completely negate and refute the accepted dogmas of modern Christianity.

Unfortunately, these apocryphal doctrines will probably never be made entirely public. Tthe Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi scrolls are indeed available, but they are not accepted as relevant to Christianity today, and the Church has done a great job hiding these texts from most of their followers. When one reads these apocryphal scriptures, it is evident why the Church has worked so hard to hide, or at least to refute them. They are empowering writings that can radically change a person within, and without. 

When a person understands that knowledge is the key to salvation, it then becomes difficult to control that person. They become, as I said above, empowered. When a person believes that the key to salvation is the belief in the Son of God dying for the "sins" of humanity, it is far easier to control that person. Why? Because that person then believes that he or she is inherently evil and a sinner and in need of salvation from his or her "sins." That person then believes that in order to be "saved," he or she must follow the dogmas of Christianity. Unfortunately, these dogmas are not Jesus' laws. These dogmas are the creations of men whose only interest was/is in power and control. In reality, the only real sin is ignorance. And the “Truth ... will make you free.”

Read these verses from the Gospel of Thomas, one of the apocryphal texts left out of the Bible:

"When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

“Jesus’ followers asked him, “When will the kingdom come?” He answered, “It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘Look, there it is.’ Rather, the father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.”

“The kingdom of Heaven is within you, and whosoever knoweth himself shall find it.”

Much has been hidden from us. The ancient Wisdom of previous civilizations freely shared in open forums. Only God/Source knows what will one day be discovered in the 66 miles of shelving underground in the Vatican Archives. 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.”

Matthew 7:7

Just a thought … 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

THE RAISING OF LAZARUS AND THE ORIGINS

RAISING OF LAZARUS SYMBOLISM AND ORIGINS

Anyone raised in the Christian Church knows the story of the raising of Lazarus of Bethany from his death in the tomb. This, is a preview of Jesus' own resurrection later in the story. The two, are one. 

Here we have a clear deception contained in the Bible that is not only an unhistorical event, but it is yet another copy of an earlier story that came to the writers - from the Egyptians. Just as Jesus traveled to Bethany to raise his friend Lazarus, Horus traveled to Bethanu to raise his Father. Even the names Mary, Martha, and Lazarus all came from Egypt - except their names were Meri, Merti, and El-Azar-us. The name "Bethanu" means "House of God" and was originally used for the Egyptian God Anu. 

These stories were known among the ancient world and therefore had symbolic deeper meanings. As always, this is the deeper esoteric message within the surface story. In this story, Lazarus was the brother of Mary (a very important ancient symbolic name) and Martha. Lazarus, like Jesus; represents “Life Principle in Involution” and this must die so that Evolution can occur. This is the representation of biologic Life ... the Glory of God. For Lazarus it was a 4 day wait, for Jesus it was 3 days, and John writes of 3 and a half days. In the same was as the raising of Lazarus came to us via Egypt, the raising of Jairus' daughter came to us from India. It was Krishna who raised a young girl from the dead, as Christ did with Jairus' daughter. Even the wording in each story is highly similar. 

The raising of the dead is a typical supernatural event in the Godman myth cycles and has it's symbolism in the Inner Mysteries not in reanimating dead flesh in a literal and historical sense. That, is for another day. Remember also, that these myth cycles not only have their spiritual message, but they are tied to the cycle of the Zodiac and it's 12 houses. The patterns of the heavens, the planets (Planetos means wanderer in Greek), the stars, and the entire sun cycle through the seasons. 

Remember, in order for a seed to grow, it must first die - be buried in the ground as our souls are buried in matter. The ancient Greeks had a term "soma-sema" meaning the body (soma) is a tomb (sema). These seeds must have a garden in which to grow. Jesus would be found in the Garden of Gethsemane. After the resurrection story, the “Mary's” mistake him as a Gardener. So much mythology, so much symbolism, so much deeper allegorical teachings. Remember, a “myth” did not have the meaning back then as it does now. Among the ancients, a myth was used in delivery of a deeper message. To borrow from Joseph Campbell: “a myth is something that never was, yet always is.” One must study the words and phrases of scripture in the original Hebrew and Greek to find the keys to unlock the Inner Mysteries ... the revelation of the message. The Greek word "Apocalypsis" (apocalypse) means to unveil, to uncover that which is hidden. 

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WHATS IN THE BOX

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

Everybody loves to get presents. Either in-person, a package in the mail, or just a surprise simply out of nowhere. But try and imagine how silly it would be if we just stared at the box and never opened it to look inside. Think about that for a moment. A lot of things come in boxes. Rings, bicycles, books, even refrigerators. Just by looking at the box, most times, we have no idea what lies within the box. We have to open the box the find what's inside. 

When we open a box that appears to have no contents we can see, we say it's empty. There's nothing in it. But that isn't the Truth. The Truth is the box is full. You just can't see, with the naked eye, what's inside. A seemingly empty box is actually filled with many things. Atoms, protons, electrons, bacteria, cells, energy, dust particles, and air. Let's talk about the air for a second. Among the ancients, the Greek word for air is Pneuma. The same word used for breath, wind, and for Spirit. So just like the Truth behind whether a glass is half full, or half empty ... it is always full. You just can't perceive the entire contents with your five senses. It's the sixth sense that can see beyond physical matter into the realm of Spirit. 

Now that you know this, try and visualize yourself as a box. You body contains things seen and unseen. It is a type of box. Among the ancients, they believed the body to be a tomb where the Soul was trapped here in the lower realm. Your box-body is an outer package contained within the universe that holds various contents. There are organs, blood, ligaments, tendons, bones, tissue, nerves, cells, all unseen from the outside. But your box also contains unseen things on the inside as well. Air, Spirit, Soul, consciousness, Mind, thoughts, imagination, emotions, feelings, intellect, intuition, language and communications skills, and we haven't even touched on the powers of your subconscious, unconscious, conscious, and superconscious Mind powers. 

Remember, we are designed from the inside out. We are not born into this world, but we are born OUT of this world. We come out of our Mother, just as a branch and a leaf come out of a tree. As the tree comes out of the Earth, and so on all the way back to the point of the origins of all things, or more properly, this ONE thing we call the universe. Technically, there are no "things" there is but ONE thing and that is all that exists ... and that one thing is Mind. We believe it to be physical, but in reality ALL is Mind. We’re talking about energy … conscious energy. 

When you touch a table, you're not really touching it. There is no way you could ever touch it. The process is all Mind. The vibration and energy of the table interacts with your vibration and energy, is transferred via energy and electrical impulses through your nervous system and into the sensory portions of your brain, where they are categorized and labeled according that what we have been taught to label them. But the entire experience ... is happening IN YOUR HEAD. Your experience of "touching the table" is occurring inside your Mind. Nothing outside of our Mind and senses, can ever be experienced outside of us. All of our sensory perception centers are in our head ... the temple of God. Why do you think the sides of our heads are called "temples?" Even in the Bible, Jesus is crucified at a place called Golgotha … or, “place of the skull.” The cross … the intersection of Spirit and Matter. 

The Great Throne of Judgement spoken of God, sits atop your shoulders. Judgement means decision. And where do your decisions come from? Jesus was quoted as having said "the Kingdom of God is within you." St. Paul said "we are the body of Christ." This means that if we look deep enough inside our box, we will find the Spirit of who we really are. We are an eternal essence of all that is. We are the Christ Consciousness ... the begotten Son of God having transformed from the Son of Man upon the realization, illumination, and ascension of our thoughts and actions. We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Look in your box. Deeper and deeper. Things of great value are usually wrapped in deep layers. 

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

1 JOHN 4:17 ESOTERIC VIEW

1ST JOHN 4;17 ESOTERIC VIEW

"By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment;

“… because AS HE IS, SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD." (KJV)

“… because we live like Jesus here in this world.” (NLT)

You won't hear this verse being preached from the pulpits. Simply because if “as Jesus is, so are we in this world” ... then as Christianity believes Jesus to be God, then WE, are also God. There is no way to dispute this verse. If you are a believer that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, then you must believe this to be a true statement. 

Herein lies the problem of modern day Roman inspired Christianity. They take the Bible to be a literal and historical record of true events only, rather than the intention of the writers who delivered the original message with allegory, parables, and metaphors. These original Writers masked the hidden lessons or Truths, within a story, myth, or fable. They didn't have DVD's, movies, Internet, and recorders. They used a passion, a play, a drama, to speak the story mouth to ear until eventually they began to write it down. It had to be entertaining to the masses. It had to draw their attention and help them to remember the hidden Wisdom behind the myth by remembering the story itself. 

The Bible, although a magnificent literary and spiritual artifact, is a composite of multiple myths from multiple civilizations and belief systems gathered, collected, and personalized by the Hebrews in the Old Testament, and Hebrews, Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, and Romans, etc. in the New Testament. The stories have existed since before historical records had begun. But the names, places, people, and geography have been changed to fit the Hebrew people of the time. Then, Roman Empirical powers formed the New Testament myths by combining, editing, changing, adding to, revising, and essentially taking creative license to create a new unified or “universal religion” to bring the empire back together under one system of belief. Keep in mind that the Greek word for universal is “catholico” (Catholic). At the Council of Nicea in 325CE, Emperor Constantine and his council created what would become a new religion known as Christianity. 

Now, back to the original verse from 1 John 4:17. We have to go beyond the letter of the law, and into the Spirit. We also have to go back in time to pre-Roman Christianity. We have to find the “pearl of great price” hidden in the the text. We also have to look at “Jesus” (not yet Christ) as an archetype, or a reflection of each of us. His-story, is our-story.  The story of mankind, becoming awakened to the Divine within. “Jesus” became the Christ. All of us have within us the Divine Spark of God and “AS JESUS IS, SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.”  

We have to awaken or resurrect this Divine within us (our boat/ark) ... which resides in the same way as the pearl lies deep within the oyster. Just as the Apostles went inside the boat to awaken Jesus during the storms and tempest they were experiencing ... so we go within our boat/body and awaken the Christ to carry us through our storms. This is the deeper teaching. It is the Divine within us that helps us to calm the rough seas and high winds we experience here in the Earth plane. 

Symbolically within the texts, we see the “INRI” symbol. This can be found above many crosses and crucifixes of Jesus and stands for the sacred fire. In the Old Testament Book of Exodus, Chapter 3, God reveals himself to Moses through the sign of a burning bush, which miraculously is not consumed by the flames. We also find in the OT Book of Deuteronomy 4:24 “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire ...” In Latin, that fire of the Lord is symbolized by the mantra written at the top of the cross, I.N.R.I., Ignis Natura Renovatur Integra, meaning “fire renews nature incessantly”. That fire is a solar fire; it is the cosmic Krestos, that in order to work, to manifest its power, it does it through the cross. 

Thus, this is something that we must analyze and comprehend, because the cross is formed by two beams, one vertical and the other horizontal. The vertical beam represents the masculine, positive, solar force that emerges from the abstract absolute space, and penetrates the universe when impregnating the matter, which is that other substance which in Sanskrit is called Akash. In other words, what in Sanskrit is called Prana is Christ, the positive energy, and Akash, the passive energy, from the same source. You will also see this symbolism in the Egyptian Ankh. Complete with its womb of the universe at the top of the cross. 

The union of the two originates the universe. So from this point of view, we have to understand that the cosmic Christ is universal and the origin of everything that exists, in any galaxy of matter or anti-matter. The cross is the intersection of Spirit and Matter ... positive and negative ... masculine and feminine. So from the crossing or union of these two forces appears that which we call the universe. Now, the objective for that energy to appear in the universe is to make Consciousness of its own entity in its different aspects. 

Jesus becoming the Christ (karest, christos, krishna, krestus) is an archetype of you and I also becoming one with Christ Consciousness ... the Divine. Jesus said to his followers “you shall do greater things than I.” How is this possible if Jesus is God, as Christianity believes? In the NT Book of John 17:21 Jesus is quoted as praying to the Father/Source and saying “I pray that they may all be ONE, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us ...” On a deeper esoteric level, and through modern Quantum Physics, we now know that this statement was nothing other than Truth. We are all one. We are tied together through universal unconsciousness ... the Field. The fiber of the Matrix of the entire universe. There are no "things" ... there is only IT. And we are all an individualized integral element and substance of the entire universal organism. 

The Beatles wrote and recorded a song called “I Am The Walrus.” The song's opening line, “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together” which pretty much sums up the concept of Oneness with Source/God. The very word “Jesus” is the Greek (Ieasus) and Latin (Iesus) version of the Hebrew word Joshua (Yehoshua). They are all the same. And from the original Hebrew, the meaning of the word itself in it's entirety (YHSVH) means “God is Saviour.” Just as Yahweh, and Jehovah are transliterations of YHVH ... meaning I am that I am, or I exist. Not the name of God ... but actually being God. 

God is not a name, it is a title. Just as Jesus Christ is a title. The title would be something along the lines of “I AM anointed Saviour, or King.” So, God/Source IS the Saviour is what Yehoshua Messiah (Christ) means. That force within us all that saves us from our base nature ignorant and self-centered ego driven animal being, to the Divine and righteous knowing and illuminated Higher-Self that can connect to, and become part of ... God/Good/Source. Because ALL things have come from ONE SOURCE, all things contain the elements of that Source. This is simple logic. Just as anything made from water, contains water. 

So in closing, “Jesus The Christ” represents ALL of us. Because just as 1 John 4:17 clearly states ... “because AS JESUS IS, SO ALSO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.” The NT Bible is not merely the story of a man who walked the hills of Galilee, it is OUR story presented in myth in the same way thousands of years of previous civilizations related celestial astrotheology to mankind. Our story, is written in the stars ... and we are made of star stuff. Awaken, and be the Light of the World. 

Just a thought, 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

ASTROTHEOLOGY LESSON

ASTROTHEOLOGY LESSON

The word “Pastor” comes from Pa-stor, “Pa” meaning great or father, “Stor” or ASTER meaning Star (Greek word for stars is asteria). Therefore, the etymology of Pastor means the Great Star or the Father Star, or ... Sun God. 

“Minister and Ministry” come from Min and Aster. “Min” was the common ancient term and root of MOON whereas Aster, Stir, Stor all relate to STAR. Thus Minister is “MoonStar.” Monastery, monk, and month have the same origin. This is also where we get “Minute.” 

This is a title that derives from the lunar and stellar cults. This explains why there is a minute hand on a watch. The three hands of a watch relate to the THREE PLANETS associated with TIME. 

The slow hand is the hour hand, meaning “Horus,” representing the SUN. The minute hand is for Min, representing the MOON. And, the swift ticking second hand is for MERCURY, the planet which rotates fastest of all, both around the sun, and on its own orbit. This is why the figure of the god Mercury was depicted with wings on his shoes or feet.

Also, Have you ever wondered how the names of the Days of the Week originated? The Roman people, as did many other ancient civilizations, named the days of the week after the sun, moon and planets, which were considered to be gods.

Sunday Meaning: The Sun's day.

Monday Meaning: The Moon's day.

Tuesday Meaning: Tiw's day; the Old Norse's equivalent to planet and god of Mars. 

Note: Tyr, Old Norse Týr, Old English Tiw, or Tiu, one of the oldest gods of the Germanic peoples and a somewhat enigmatic figure. He was apparently the god concerned with the formalities of war—especially treaties—and also, appropriately, of justice.

Wednesday Meaning: Woden's day: the Old Norse's equivalent to Mercury. 

Note: Woden was widely known as a god of war, but he was important also as a god of learning, of poetry, and of magic. His wife was Frigg, and his children included Thor, Balder, and Tiw. He was identified with the Roman god Mercury, and among Germanic peoples Mercury's day became Woden's day (Wednesday).

Thursday Meaning: Thor's day: Old Norse's equivalent to Jupiter. 

Note: Thor was the most popular of all the gods. He was a god of war and fertility. He created thunder and lightning as he rode over the clouds in a chariot drawn by goats, swinging his hammer Mjöllnir.

Friday Meaning: Frigg's/ Frica's day: Old Norse's equivalent to Venus. 

Note: Frigg is the Queen of Asgard and the highest of the goddesses. She is the goddess of motherhood and is herself the mother of Balder, Hodor and Hermod. ... Frigg is also the goddess of marriage and her name comes from the verb “fríja” meaning “to love.”

Saturday Meaning: Saturn's day. 

Note: Saturn, Latin Saturnus, in Roman religion, the god of sowing or seed. ... In Roman myth Saturn was identified with the Greek Cronus. Exiled from Olympus by Zeus, he ruled Latium in a happy and innocent golden age, where he taught his people agriculture and other peaceful arts. In myth he was the father of Picus.

Astrotheology has played an important role in the history of civilization. Astrotheology is a field of study that explores the role that the stars, sun, moon, and other “heavenly bodies” have played in the formation of various religious systems. This field can study anything from ancient mythological systems utilized by Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Sumerians to more modern religions and the origins of various traditions and practices. 

The basic purpose of astrotheology is to study various religious concepts with regard to astronomical objects and how they have influenced these religions and mythological systems. Some of the most basic studies in this field involve ancient mythological systems that often ascribed divine origin or identities to various objects in the sky. From the descriptions above, you will notice that inn these systems, the moon was often described as a feminine figure and the sun was frequently given masculine traits. Various gods and goddesses in different systems were connected to different astronomical bodies, such as the names of nearby planets, and through astrotheology these practices can be better understood.

The observance and concept of God is ever present in the celestial heavens ... seen in annual recurring cycles. The Eternal Universe, regenerating itself, from within itself. A constantly recycling infinite mass of energy of which all of us are within, and a part of. Not as individual members ... things ... but as ONE thing. Eternal bound by the consciousness that brings Life to ALL form.

u·ni·verse

/ˈyo͞onəˌvərs/

noun

all existing matter and space considered AS A WHOLE; the cosmos.

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”

~ACTS 17:28

Just a thought … 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WHEN TWO BECOME ONE

WHEN TWO BECOME ONE

There is a positive and a negative to everything. This Law is not about positive being “good” and negative being “bad,” it is two opposite polarities of the same one principle. For example, the electrical current in your house is called A/C for Alternating Current, and it has a positive side and a negative side. +/- if you will. There is also a “ground” or neutral. In linear Math, anything to the right of Zero is a positive number, and anything to the left of Zero is a negative number. Not good or bad, positive and negative. Zero being the perfect balance. Also, keep in mind that “zero” does not meaning “nothing.” It is an actual whole number with an actual value. 

Let's look back at the Nag Hammadi Library Book of Thomas for a moment:

“When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female, and when you make eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then shall you enter [the kingdom].”

Jesus, Gospel of Thomas, Saying 22

This speaks directly to our purpose in using duality, to obtain singularity. To make the two, ONE. When we make the “inside as the outside and the outside as the inside” we are creating our reality. Our thoughts begin within, and they will manifest in form without. Thoughts are things, and what we constantly think about becomes our life reality. If you are thinking “I am miserable” ... then so it becomes. You will remain miserable. If you were to think “I am enjoying a great day” ... then so it becomes. You will have a great day.

When we see the reference to male and female, this is not anatomical as in man/woman. This is the masculine and feminine principle within all of us and used for creating our reality (form-our child/offspring). When we are in alignment with both, when there is harmony, we bring forth the fruit of our thoughts and desires. When people get married, it is said in the service that the two become one. It is a complimentary relationship of two joined as one ... the joining of the masculine and feminine creative properties. 

This is alchemical, metaphysical, sexual/physical, emotional, and spiritual. The Wedding rings represent the ring around Saturn whose was once worshipped as a god (Saturn-day/The Sabbath), and the ring also represents eternity. The never ending 360 degree circle.

This union of opposites began as singular duality. One, with two polarities. Like a scale, some go on one side, some on the other until they balance and become harmonious with each other ... essentially becoming one again. A bird has two wings but it can't fly unless they become one in unison. We need two legs to walk but the principle is “walking.”

The point to all of this is that we need to experience both polarities of one principle in order to learn and discern the Truth. We have to have good and bad, hot and cold, day and night, smooth and rough, up and down, dark and light, etc. And there are ranges of each, but no actual point in which, for example, hot becomes cold. They are simply varying degrees of temperature. Both serve a purpose but are one principle. Our central nervous system is ONE ... yet it delivers both pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain are both one thing ... feeling. And this can be emotional, physical, spiritual, etc. 

To our brain, the imagination and reality are equally accepted. It knows not the difference between something you imagine, daydream, or dream about - versus anything experienced in your waking state of consciousness. In fact, the brain and body are more active and functional during sleep than during the times we are awake. Even while we are awake, more than 90% of our activities are coming from the sub/unconscious mind. The aware conscious mind is only active for less than 10% of our functions, and sometimes as little as 1%. This is staggering ... and also show how we operate from past learned habits, responses, and experiences than perceiving something as new and worthy of attention. Also, the physical body accounts for about 1% of our total existence. The other 99% is Mind and the realm of the unseen.

As the Book of Thomas stated, we must become as as above, so below. We must merge our ego-self and Higher-Self into one harmonious essence and when we do ... we ignite the Divine Spark of God/Source ... our Christ Consciousness. We truly become transformed. And more than just transformed, we have a metamorphosis. We actually become “born again” ... a new being with no desire to do the “sinful” (error in thinking and a) things we once did without even thinking about it at times. The word “sin” comes from the Greek word “hamartia” and simply means “missing the mark.” It's an ancient Olympic Archery term for missing the bullseye. For us, the bullseye is Truth. Sin is missing the Truth, and living an illusion. When you do these things, you will enter the Kingdom. The Kingdom is defined as “love, peace, and joy.” I believe the world could certainly use more of that don't you?

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

UNIVERSAL DEEPER LOOK AT JOHN 3:13

UNIVERSAL DEEPER LOOK AT JOHN 3:13

“No one has ascended into heaven but he who has descended from heaven, the Son of man.”

-John 3:13

In the outer interpretation (exoteric), according to leaders and followers of most modern day Christianity … the “Son of man” is Jesus.

According to this modern Christian interpretation, Jesus came down from Heaven, was born into a human body, and only HE can ascend back up into heaven. Further, Jesus is a Divine being, and not like the rest of us mere mortals. We certainly cannot do what Jesus has done, even though in the New Testament he is quoted as saying “you will do greater things than I.”

In some of these OUTER/exoteric/literal interpretations, Jesus is actually God, not just the Son of God. We, the general human populous, are considered to be lowly sinners, forever enslaved by “Original Sin” and can never be what Jesus was/is.

But now consider this: In the INNER interpretation (esoteric), the “Son of man” is the Spirit WITHIN, specifically, the awakened Spirit within.

In the ancient tradition, there are two aspects of God; a masculine and a feminine. The feminine aspect is referred to as Sophia, meaning Wisdom, and also refers to the emotional aspect of God, which is unconditional love. The masculine aspect refers to knowledge and knowing (gnosis).

When the feminine and masculine aspect of God combine, a third component is created; the pure white light of Christ. This pure white light of Christ is the living light of Spirit (Christ Consciousness), the very same Spirit within each living thing. This living light of Spirit is the Source of our personal Life. This is the “and then there was light” that was referred to in Genesis. This is the Matrix, the Field, the web of consciousness. 

What is born of Spirit is Spirit. We are born of God/Source. The Spirit within us is the very substance of God/Source Energy, and as such, cannot die or be destroyed. We have eternal Life because the Spirit within us is the substance of God, which also has eternal Life. It is a function of what we are. Jesus was quoted as asking us to “follow him,” not worship him. He expected us to do the things he did, and to become like him.

John 14:12

"Timeless truth, I tell you: 'whoever believes in me, those works which I have done he will also do, and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to the presence of my Father.'"

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WASHING THE DISCIPLES FEET BY JESUS

WASHING OF THE DISCIPLES FEET BY JESUS

The Deeper Meaning

In the Book of John, there is a story of Jesus being a servant to his Disciples. In fact the book starts off in Chapter 13 at a time just before the Passover Festival. Thee Writer of John continues to say:

 "Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end."

Today we're going to go beyond the literal, and into the metaphysical. We're looking for the deeper allegorical message contained within the literal presentation of the storyline. Here is how the verse reads:

"... Jesus got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him."

~John 13:4-5

Then, after he began to wash Peter's feet, Jesus said to Peter: 

“You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

Everyone has seen the literal historical presentation of this event in the ancient scriptures (and in modern movies and books), but now lets reveal what is hidden deeper in the text. This mythos is a representation of “Spirit meeting Matter,” and the purity and cleansing of that union. You see, our FEET are where MAN meets WORLD ... what is always grounded to the Earth/Matter ... the material world of low vibrating energy. 

Our feet connect our spiritual Higher-Self, to our physical body. Just like the center of the cross represents the intersection of Spirit and Matter, so this represents a firm standing on solid ground ... while remaining Spiritually and physically clean. Man's “worldly thoughts and actions” must be cleansed in order to approach the Divine Spirit within.

This, is the deeper esoteric meaning in this passage. This shows the willingness of Divine Love to serve. To bring together the upper and the lower, the inner and the outer. As above, so below. Man ... know thyself. Scripture can bring us deep esoteric lessons and messages, want to awaken a Divine Truth from within us. You’ll know it when it hits you. For me, I just call it an AH-HA moment. Its that flash of time just when the inner message hits you, and strikes a vibe of Truth.

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

COMING OUT OF EGYPT ALLEGORY

COMING OUT OF EGYPT ALLEGORY 

The word “Egypt” comes to us from the Ancient Greek “Aegyptos,” which is a Greek transliteration of the Kemetic phrase:  “Het-Ka-Ptah.” Het means place and Ka means: “the physical projection of the soul,” which is the character or aura that attaches itself to the body ... and IS NOT the body. It also meant black/darkness and referred to the rich, black alluvial soil deposited by the Nile River, which allowed the agricultural basis of that civilization to flourish. 

In Ancient Hebrew, whenever Egypt or “Mitzraim” is mentioned, it is synonymous with physical and mental Bondage (Slavery). When dealing with geographic references, the indigenous tradition of the Land of Egypt tells us the civilization was called Khemit, and the people and language were called Khemitian. Egypt in the esoteric and metaphorical Biblical Scriptures in not a place, but a state of being ... Representing the body/Mind experience. 

When the Ancient Mystery School initiates identified with only the body and the flesh, they were considered to be in “captivity.” Therefore, To “come forth out of Egypt” was understood as leaving behind the idea of being merely a body and discovering the Soul. This was the beginning of the Spiritual experience and discovery of “God” ... the Divine within. 

Hippolytus wrote about “those who are ignorant” ... “Egyptians in need of departing Egypt” ... that is - from their body-centered existence - believing themselves to be merely physical matter. Allegorically, the ignorant Egyptians represent those “without Gnosis,” ... without the knowledge of the Divine Spark within them awaiting resurrection. This ignorance was to be without the light, and in darkness. It was this group of people who remained identified with their physical selves (not Higher Self) and who did not possess the “knowledge/Gnosis” ... that they we are all Divine Sparks of God entrapped in these fleshy and carnal bodies. Among the ancients Greeks was the phrase “soma/sema.” This translates as “the body is the tomb.” 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

JOSHUA AND JESUS

JOSHUA AND JESUS

To begin, you should know that “Egypt” in scriptures - is not the country when speaking of scripture esoterically. This word is derived from the Greek and means a place of darkness. Israel is also metaphoric as a word. IS-RA-EL ... Isis, Amen Ra, and El. The Mother Goddess, Father God, and Divinity. A trinity of sorts. It literally means a higher place in consciousness ... the Promised Land. Therefore, on an allegorical level, we are led from a place of darkness (base nature mankind) to the realm of the Divine (Christ consciousness).

Now to Joshua. This is a Hebrew name/word ... loosely transliterated as “Yehoshua” in the weaker English Language. Among the Romans, the Latin version of this word is “Iesus” and in Greek it is written as “Iesous.” Later translations after the letter “J” was created and added to the English language the name/word and then ultimately translated as “Jesus.” Therefore, Joshua and Jesus are one in the same name/word. Remember also, the first edition of the 1611 King James English Version of The Bible has Jesus with an “I.”

Now this, in Hebrew the name Joshua/Jesus is written with the letters “Yod Heh Shin Vav Heh.” The letters Yod Heh Vav Heh (minus the Shin) is known as the Tetragrammaton (YHVH or YHWH) and was extremely significant to Jewish Gnostics, as these letters were used to signify the unpronounceable name of God, usually rendered today with added vowels as either Jehovah or Yahweh. As Philo explains, when the middle letter Shin, known as the Holy Letter, is added, the name means “Saviour of the Lord,” or more simply, God Saves.

Since “Joshua” and or “Jesus” both mean “Saviour of the Lord” ... it means that allegorically and symbolically, the Jesus, or Yehoshua, within each of us ... is what resurrects the Divinity WITHIN us. We are co-creators. We are Divine. The NT Bible quotes Jesus as saying “you shall do greater things than I.” It also says “my prayer is that they become one with the Father as I am one with the Father.” We are all one. We are of one essence ... the very Divine nature that is what we would commonly call God. God/Source is experiencing Life through us, with us, and AS US. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

ASTROTHEOLOGY AND CELESTIAL ORIGINS

ASTROTHEOLOGY AND CELESTIAL ORIGINS

Astro-Theology, is pretty much a self-explanatory word. It is Theology, that is based upon celestial knowledge. Astrotheology is the combination of two Greek words: Astro (from Greek, from astron/asteri where we get “star”) and the Greek word Theo (Theos which means God/Source).

For example, translated corrrectly from the original Greek, the opening verse of the Book of John (1:1) would say more correctly:

“In the beginning was the Logos (Word), and the Logos (Word) was with Theos, and the Logos (Word) was Theos.”

Before we go further, please understand the translation differences and the modern dictionary offering:

“LOGOS, (Greek: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) plural logoi, in ancient Greek philosophy and early Christian theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning.”

-Britannica

 The Logos word, means “word,” if you will. This LOGOS ... was not Jesus, or a book called “the Word of God.” Among ancient Greek Philosophy and Theology, this meant the Divine Reason. Essentially, the Mind, becoming manifest as matter/form.

The concept of Astro-Theology is vastly ancient, as ancient as mankind itself. Past civilizations had one religion. That religion was based on the understanding of the Astrological movements of our solar system and the connection and influences that each planet has on each other and beyond. After all, there were no modern forms of entertainment back then to occupy their time. They obsessively watched the heavens and made note of repeating patterns. 

This celestial knowledge is the basis and origin for all of of our Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Folk Lore. It is also the Pure Science developed by the very enlightened, wise and ancient priesthood that left behind for us scrolls, tablets, hieroglyphs, symbols, and the Holy Books of all world religions. The language was heavily veiled in allegory and symbolism and much of this was deliberately done to keep the higher truths from the masses (the Inner Mysteries). Such powerful knowledge in the wrong hands would be disastrous. 

Among Christianity, most of the Christians and believers in “the Christ” grew from childhood being taught a “literal-historical” understanding of the “Jesus Story” which we find in the New Testament. They had, and have, no concept or knowledge that archaeology has proven today that the earliest believers in the “Christ” never understood “Jesus Christ” as just one human who walked the hills of the Galilee. In a metaphysical sense, they understood deeply the Divine Concept of “Jesus Christ” not in just a literal and historical manner but in an “allegorical” manner ... for more than 10,000 years before the New Testament Roman concept of a physical and literal/historical Jesus.

Most all Christian churches and denominations today take literal in every sense of the word when first approaching the New Testament scriptures, but if we study hard and gather needed knowledge about the times and the people who generated these ancient Divine concepts ... we will find that beneath the top layers ... what we have assumed was a “literal” and “Historical Jesus Christ” ... there to be discovered is a treasure of allegories, figurations, and symbolism of the sun, stars, constellations, and their path in the heavens.

The Holy Bible was intended to be read as celestial (Stellar, Solar, Lunar and Planetary) allegories, metaphors, and parables; based on archetypes ... universal symbols of deeper esoteric Truths that have been veiled. Then and only then can it be explained without the need for interpretation. The Bible is not a book written by God, but a book written by men about, and of their observance and concept of God ... ever present in the celestial heavens ... in annual recurring cycles. These astrological patterns can also be applied spiritually and metaphysically ... the microcosm and macrocosm. As above, so below. As within, so without. 

The Eternal universe, regenerating itself, from within itself. The eternal 360 degree circle. A constantly recycling infinite mass of energy of which all of us are within, and a part of. Not as individual members ... things ... but as ONE thing (think). Eternally bound by the consciousness that brings life to ALL things. That, is our understanding of God. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

ORIGINS OF THE CROSS

ORIGINS OF THE CROSS

In all the history of the world's Divine Saviours, they all share the esoteric meaning of the cross. They are all similar in that they represent the Creative Principle (Divine) crucified upon the cross of matter/form. The Inner Mysteries of Christianity, based on Jesus Christ, are no different. An important esoteric message lay within the surface story.

In reality, the cross is a pagan symbol that was adored in Egypt thousands of years before Jesus The Nazarene was born. The Roman Catholic Church later adopted the cross symbol at least 600 years AFTER the Biblical story of the Jesus crucifixion.

The cross however, was never exclusively Christian in it's origins. The cross is a universal symbol found throughout the ancient world upon their artifacts, temples, and tablets. In centuries BCE (BC), the actual City of Nicea was designed in the form of a cross. Centuries later, the Aztecs used the cross as their symbol. 

Historically, the pagan sign of the mystic “Tau” of the Chaldeans and the Egyptians, a cross, was a symbol of the Roman god Mithras and the Greek Attis, and their forerunner Tammuz, the Sumerian solar god, consort of the goddess Ishtar. Conveniently, the original form of the letter “T” was the initial letter of the god of Tammuz. During baptism ceremonies, this cross was marked on the foreheads by the pagan priest/hierophant.

The cross of Christ, as experts agree, was actually a bar placed across the top of an upright, so it was not a cross at all. It was a “Tee” (T), called “Taw” in Hebrew, and “Tau” in Greek. Also, the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol of life - the “Ankh,” was a tau cross surmounted by a loop and known as crux ansata - adopted and extensively used on Coptic Christian monuments. It’s design depicted the intersection of Spirit and matter, and the Divine Feminine “Womb of the Universe.”

If you look at man himself, standing straight up with arms outstretched, we can see a living symbol of the cross and it's mythical model. The mythical cross is cosmic in origin, not human. The esoteric and metaphysical significance of this cross is not because a man or Saviour was crucified upon it. In fact the myths of all Saviours say they were crucified upon a cross. There is other significance to this symbolism. And it is not just a literal historical wooden cross with nails. 

As we can see, the cross symbol of Christianity, is deeply rooted in ancient Pagan Mythology. In fact, Christianity did not choose the cross until more than 300 afters after the story of literal crucifixion as it's representative symbol. In fact, it had used the swastika, another ancient symbol for creative motion ... as did many other belief systems of old. The original word is Sanskrit and was suastika - meaning “good, being, well.” Later, a lamb was used as the symbol representing Aries. Ultimately, the “crucifix” (the man nailed to and hung upon a cross) replaced it all among the Roman Church as it does today. A symbol of suffering and death, rather than enlightenment and illumination. 

In ancient times, there were also planetary and zodiacal meanings. 12 Stations of the Zodiac, in Greece, there were “12 Labours of Hearacles,” and in Egypt “12 tortures.” The initiates into the Inner Mysteries of the hidden Wisdom had to suffer before they would be given the Sacred Tau, the cross of the hierophant (ancient priest). The number 12 was also highly symbolic. 

The seven major miracles are identical with the seven days of creation in the first book of the Bible - Genesis (meaning beginning or birth). This is Cosmology or Astrotheology ... heaven and God in the stars, skies, and planetary actions. As above, so below. As within, so without. As evolving, so involving. The story of creation was written in the stars long before Christianity by the Pagan Mystics. See the 12 Houses of the Zodiac (12 Apostles) surrounded by the Sun of God (Christ/Sun) and you will see much of where all the spiritual myths were derived. 

The cross, from the sky-view (heavens/Ouranos) ... the constellation Crux – otherwise called the Southern Cross – can be seen from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere and from tropical and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

There is much more than can be covered on this subject but far too much for one segment. We barely touched upon the Egyptian Ankh and it's metaphysical meanings and symbols. It is the Key of Life. We will go into more details in another writing. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

TOMB OF LAZARUS (EL-AZAR-US)

RAISING OF LAZARUS (El-Azar-us)

Before we fully enter this topic, its important to first understand the true meaning of the word “myth.” In the Greek, the etymology of “mythos” leads to: “speech, thought, word, discourse, conversation; story, saga, tale, anything delivered by word of mouth.” The word does not specifically mean that something didn't happen, rather that there is something deeper within the story that can be gleaned. Joseph Campbell said it best when he described a myth as “something that never was, yet always is.” 

In ancient Egyptian Myth, Horus the god of the sky and light, son of Osiris, god of the productive force in nature, travels to Bethanu to raise from the dead his murdered father. In this myth, there was also presented two sisters named Meri and Merti, as well as their brother El-Azar-us. The Egyptian name Bethanu means, “house of Anu,” and in its Sumerian origin Anu was the “first among the gods” and was recognized and honored as a god in Egypt.  This tale was well known throughout the ancient near-east world. It is from this ancient Egyptian story that the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead originated and was placed among scripture.

In the Christian Gospel myth, the story goes that Jesus traveled to Bethany - a place that did not exist in Palestine in that time period of history - but it is a name that was obviously altered from the Egyptian location of Bethanu. But in John 11:1 (remember, John was not written until c.105-106) it is proclaimed “in the village of Mary and  Martha” (the Meri and Merti of the Egyptian tale) “a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany.” Obviously, there was no great attempt to alter the Egyptian name El-Azar-us, probably from the assumption that few but Royalty - and men of power and wealth within the Roman Empire - would even know of this Egyptian story/myth.

According to the Gospels, Jesus did not go directly to Bethany upon hearing that Lazarus was sick. Instead, he responded by saying “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God.”  Now it seems a bit callus to shrug off a person’s pain if it actually referred to some living person’s suffering. Remaining divinely indifferent, “he (Jesus) abode two days still in the same place where he was.” (John 11:6) Only then did Jesus say to his disciples that he would attend to Lazarus’ “sleep,” and that “I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.” (John 11:11) At face value, we have to conclude that the sickness had been “unto death” after all, for in verse 17, it says that Lazarus had “lain in the grave four days already.”

There is much ancient occult meaning behind all these claims that would take too much space to cover in one article, but suffice it to say that it all had to do with pre-physical energies moving into matter manifestation. This was NOT a literal story that was meant the be taken as historical. The “sleep” from which Lazarus was to be “awakened” concerned the four pre-physical states of development into form/matter/Life. This meaning is confirmed in verse 16 where it relates, “Then said Thomas, which is called Didymos (in Greek: the twin/Gemini), unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.” So obviously, THIS part has been averted from most church sermons on Sunday mornings.

Now ask yourself, why the curious use of the word “which” in reference to Thomas instead of the word who? And the suggestion of doubting Thomas Didymus saying they should go that they “might die with him” is comprehensible only when one knows the ancient teachings on the energies of Creation - the original intent of the story (esoterically/metaphysically). A hint of the answer is the fact that the word Didymus refers to the Zodiac sign Gemini, the twins, and represented the ancient lessons of mental matter. Therefore the “grave” in which Lazarus had allegedly lain “four days already” is occult terminology for the energy planes out of which form/matter/Life is risen.  

Further clarification is provided in stating that the “grave” of Lazarus “was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.” (John 11:38) In ancient teachings on Creation, the pre-matter energy planes - the void out of which Creation takes place - were always allegorized as a cave. The stone that is said to lay upon it simply symbolizes this dimension of Creation activity that we experience as physical Life. Jesus was born in a cave, Jesus was placed in a tomb/cave ... and Jesus resurrected (was born again) from this cave. It is all symbolism. All of it. 

Christianity is a conglomerate of hidden ancient Truths, Celestial Zodiacal cycles made godly ... Astrotheology, Cosmogony, myth, and metaphor. Read ... research. Don't rely on me or anyone else for your spiritual lessons and evolution. The Truth always lay hidden in the sands. Dig, and you will uncover much symbolism meant for esoteric revelation. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.