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.

OTHER IS YOU

OTHER IS YOU

Have you given much thought to when it is said “someone other than me?” What exactly does it mean when we say the word - other? Is there really an-other? These are some very important questions to ponder and you may be surprised to find that there really is no other.

Before we go deeper into this statement, let's consider a different example. Imagine in your hand a bottle of water. Now ask yourself “where did this water come from?” If you trace it back from your hand, to it's point of origin, it might go something like this. Hand, fridge, pantry, package, grocery store, delivery truck, bottling plant, supply lines, water utilities, reservoir or well, lake, rivers and streams, rain-showers, clouds, etc... all the way back to the beginning of the cycle again. You see, we don't MAKE water. And it is supplied in a constant cycle. There is only "one" water ... and it has one source and one point of origin.

Now keep this in Mind and consider the Source of all human Life. Not only are we connected by the air that we breathe, the ground we walk on, and the energy that we are ... but we all originated at the same Source. If you take the birth of every human being that was ever born out of this world (yes OUT not IN ... like a leaf comes OUT of a tree) and trace it back in reverse, you will arrive at ONE point of origin. And if everyone began as one, from one point of origin, then it would be logical to say that we are all one in the same. We are an individualized essence of the entirety of humanity. One people ... one complete puzzle with interlocking pieces completing the total inseparable and indivisible image. 

This means that race, creed, geography, religion, physical traits, language, and everything else that we use to separate ourselves ... is all an illusion. Many years ago The Beatles gave us a song titled “I Am The Walrus.” The lyrics begin this way: “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” In the New Testament Bible (John 17:21), Jesus is quoted as having said “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one - as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us ...” This ancient concept was known long before Jesus, and has been handed down not only to him, but to every wise sage ever to understand the spiritual metaphors that place the pearl of great price within us. Just as the pearl is hidden deep within the oyster, the Divine spark of creation is also hidden within each and every one of us. It awaits to be revealed ... a Revelation ... an apocalypse. The very word apocalypse literally means “to unveil that which is hidden.”

This spark - or light of the Absolute - is at the core of our being. We are Spirit, having a physical experience. We do not have a spirit, we ARE Spirit. We do not have a life, we ARE Life. The Universe, God, Allah, Brahman, Absolute, I AM, Source, Almighty, whatever you choose to label this Source of all Life ... is experiencing Life through us, with us, and AS US. The universal matrix of consciousness (The Field) ties us all together as ONE Spirit ... one elemental fiber in the same way as billions of rays are emitted from the one sun. They are all part of the sun itself. They can have no existence without the source of their light. It is the Sun of God ... the giver of Life. Each of us is but a ray of light emitting from within the unseen, and projecting as form into the world of the observable material world of matter. What we do to "other" ... we are doing to our Self. This, is Truth.

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.