LANGUAGE OF THE UNIVERSE

LANGUAGE OF THE UNIVERSE 

The fact is, that the Language of the Universe is not English or any other spoken language on the planet. I say this with some disappointment, because it would seem our lives would be easier if we had direct verbal contact with the Divine Source. However, as it stands, the Language of the Universe is one of vibration, feeling, emotion, and symbolism. This is how God/Source talks to you and you can learn how to receive and decipher these communications from the Universe with a bit of self-study and observation. There is a Matrix of unconscious transmitters and receivers going on 24/7 ... throughout the entire universe. 

To start with, you have to come to the realization that the Universe is sending you (and everyone else) messages 24/7 whether you are awake or asleep. The incoming communication never stops. Creator Energy is guiding you at all times - guiding you with information that comes through your physical body, through your emotions, through imagery in the Mind, through your dreams, through your sixth sense (intuition), and any other way that you can be creative about receiving it. When we get “an idea” … it isn’t really ours, or new, it’s that we are the receivers of that particular message and we have been assigned to act upon it.

This means that Source Energy / God, can communicate with you through absolutely any means on Earth that your Mind can conceive of obtaining these means. Because vibration (One of the Universal Immutable Laws) is one of the tools the Universe uses to communicate, It can alter various vibrations in any way It deems necessary to catch your attention. This means that a song on the radio, an animal encounter,  a conversation in a store or at a coffee shop, a book or even a third-party conversation you overhear can be a dispatch from Divine Source. The Greek word for “messenger” is “Angelos” which we translate in English to "Angel." So, Angels, are anything that is delivering to you a specific message meant for you. The messages never stop - so pay attention to what catches your senses, and realize this is The Divine's way of whispering in your ear … it’s that “still small voice” that never yells to get your attention as your ego does.

The Universe delivers its messages in a myriad of ways, and surely you have had some sort of experience - a sign, an omen, a coincidence, or synchronicities occurring in your Life. Pay close attention to time, and numbers as well for this synchronicity. Did you realize that this is one of the ways in which Source communicates with you? Were you able to receive, interpret, and understand the message? Messages are usually symbolic in nature. Understanding this symbolic messaging is an entire level of the Ancient Mystery Schools Teachings learned among the initiates through years of preparation and understanding.

The grades or levels of the teachings among the initiates of the Ancient Mystery Schools were designed in order to help create a healthy foundation and show how to live in a balanced, harmonious, reverent and abundant way … regardless if there is a storm or sunshine in your Life. Each level of the Mystery School teachings offered a different perspective or way in which to view everyday occurrences and events. These initiates and graduates took the Inner Mystery teachings very seriously. It was life-changing ... and took many years to complete. 

Everyone among the ancient societies had to attend the first level, and this first level was called the Literal Level. It was in this presentation that people learned about the nature of reality here on Earth - about vibration, energy, chakra’s, auric fields, plant life, the animal kingdom, and elemental Life. Here they learned that everything on the planet has a vibration, and how they interact as one large reflection of The Whole. All is one, and one is All … The All.

The second level was all about understanding symbolism, because these wise ancient people knew that the Absolute/Source/God was speaking to them in a metaphorical and allegorical way at all times. Seven years of symbolic teaching. Imagine how this would change your Life ... to instantly know and understand the symbolic meaning of every communication emanating from Source.

Learning symbolism will change you Life from the inside out. You will come to the realization that God / Spirit / All That Is / Source is communicating with you, and the magic of Life as a Spiritual Being will begin to understand The Language of the Universe. We are NOT a body, we HAVE a body. We are Eternal Spirit having a physical experience while we are here in this incarnation.

Because we as a society have not been taught Ancient Wisdom and Symbolism from birth, one of the easiest way for us now to learn the Language of the Universe is through dream interpretation, meditation, and contemplative prayer. The ancient prayer method was all about feeling, emotion, and creating a vibration that the universe understands. This wasn't a display of merely spoken words, but feeling what one wished to manifest by actually feeling as if it had already taken place. 

Our Mind already accepts that we dream in a symbolic manner, so it is easy to slip into the translation of waking time symbolic events and signs, by first becoming aware of dream symbols and their meanings. The Mind knows no difference between what is “real” and what is a “dream.” The experience is the same to our Mind. After all, our entire Life is experienced inside our heads. This is where all of our sensory systems operate. Therefore, we can never personally experience anything outside of the inside of our Mind and brain.

Once you acquire a few skills in switching from Literal to Symbolic points of view (reflecting the teachings of level one and level two of the Ancient Mystery School), then you will be well on your way to seeing the deeper meaning behind everything in Life. Understanding how Source/God/Consciousness is touching your Life everyday is an eye-opening and humbling experience. “Knowing Your Symbols” is part of the Mystery School Teachings that you can begin to embrace today and that change your life forever. The esoteric can be found above and beneath the layers of literal esoteric writings. 

In the days of old, there were two presentations of spiritual Truths. One was for the masses presented as drama or passion play … the exoteric literal-historical stories. These were the “Outer Mysteries.” For those who showed promise, and realized there was more to the fables and myths than just stories, they set out as initiates into the Inner Mysteries. This was where they found the hidden Truths buried beneath and beyond the stories, parables, metaphors, and allegories.

This is the buried treasure. The pearl in the oyster. The diamond in the coal. The underlying foundation of all world religions was founded on the principle that the Spark of the Almighty known for more than 10,000 years is the Christ. The Karest. The Sacred Fire that is planted within each and every human being that must be found, accepted, and resurrected IN THIS life … not in the afterlife. This was the message credited to Jesus of the New Testament. “The Kingdom of God/Heaven is within you.”

Just a thought …

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

THE ESOTERIC TRUE RAPTURE

THE ESOTERIC TRUE RAPTURE

The modern image of bodies being magically transported into heaven has been around since the mid 1700’s. This “rapture” was inspired by a vision from a young Scottish girl named Margaret McDonald and added to footnotes in the Scofield Bible, but the actual true concept and principle of this esoteric event has been around for several thousand years.

While modern interpretations of the rapture envision a collective experience happening worldwide at the same time, the reality is that the rapture is an individual experience and has been happening to people since long before the time when Jesus was to have walked the hills of the Galilee.

The actual word "rapture" comes from the Latin and means to be “caught-up,” an abduction of sorts, to be seized, especially by a mystical or spiritual experience. The subject fascinated Richard Maurice Bucke, head of the London Psychiatric Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Twenty years of research resulted in his classic book, Cosmic Consciousness, published in 1901 (currently still in print).

His description of this classic mystical experience, where one suddenly finds him, or herself, in the presence of God and all physical surroundings vanish, is totally consistent with the historical use of the term rapture. Remember also that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, then translated into Latin, English, etc. Rapture is not a Hebrew or Greek word. It is strictly Latin in it’s etymology. 

In essence, Paul’s experience on the road the Damascus is just such an esoteric/inner experience, and is included in the book, Cosmic Consciousness. Many founders of religious organizations have had these mystical experiences, including the Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, Saint Francis of Assisi, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Paul was a Gnostic, and knew nothing of an earthly, fleshly Christ named Jesus. Many of his original writings have been edited, added to, and counterfeited by the Roman Church and subsequent later translations to fit the Fundamental Christianity narrative. 

Many of our most popular writers and poets, such as Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Emerson, and Yeats have also had these “rapture” experiences and have entered into a much higher level of understanding as a result of pursuing their spiritual insights in this manner.

That tradition continues today with the founder of the Gnostic Wisdom Foundation having had such a rapture experience and his pursuance of the spiritual Truths revealed, both within that state, and in successive spiritual experiences. This state of Cosmic Consciousness, known by the newer term of Christ Consciousness (the Divine Spark), is identical with the Buddhist concept of spiritual enlightenment.

While many instances of Christ Consciousness and enlightenment are associated with the classic mystical experience, far more people enter into the experience of Christ Consciousness through study and constant spiritual growth without the mystical experience. The gradual path is by far the more common method of enlightenment.

In many ways, it is like the Hollywood star that becomes an overnight success after 17 years of hard work. There is a great deal of learning, individual practice and dedication that goes into becoming enlightened and attaining this level of consciousness. Among the Ancient Mystery Schools, many years were invested through a process of initiation into the Inner Mysteries. 

Many people would see the process as one of sacrifice, but it is a matter of releasing the worthless, to make room for the valuable - sacrificing the illusion to acquire what is real - the Truth. 

The essence of the Christ Consciousness is the realization that oneness is the only reality, Truth is the only value, and love is the only power. The spark of all of these things is hidden within every human being. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

BIBLICAL MYTH VERSUS HISTORY

BIBLICAL MYTH VERSUS HISTORY

Joseph Campbell once wrote: "A Myth is something that never was, yet always is." This is a powerful explanation of the original intent of the Greek word "mythos." It is a tale, story, plot, generally spoken; not necessarily true but with a deeper Truth hidden within the story. A poetic tale, with a profound lesson rooted within it.

The Bible scriptures were never meant to be taken literally. They were intended to be allegories, parables, and metaphors trying to explaining (the best man could explain) how we got here, why we came here, and who we are.

It is an amazing book filled with Truth, inspired by powerful Myth, and NOT specifically a historical document. This is not so much about his-tory, as it is about our-story.

If you choose to deny the fact that the whole of ancient scripture is allegorical and not literal, then you must accept the following statistics as true:

- Biblical Deaths BY God: 2,821,364

- Biblical Deaths BY Satan: 10

- And, if you believe Jesus to be God, add one more murder/suicide.

Personally, I would have a huge problem with this God ... if these events were actually only real and literal. And you should too. Furthermore, you should also have a problem with a God who is blood thirsty, angry, vengeful, and rules with an iron fist. 

The Bible itself tells you "there is nothing new under the sun." All of these stories and myths existed among the ancient civilizations long before the Hebrews, and for thousands of years. The names, geographic locations, and tribal customs were adapted from these ancient myths and applied to the biblical characters in an effort to customize them for their own people.

When we take these stories as merely literal history and fact, we lose the deeper esoteric Truths that they convey. This goes for both the Old Testament Rabbinical Judaism metaphors, as well as the New Testament Christian metaphors.

The mythical tales that are woven throughout ancient scripture have a deeper meaning. For example, the wandering in the desert for 40 years by Moses, the wilderness journey by Jesus for 40 days, the flood of rain for 40 days and nights with Noah ... allegorical with deeper meanings. The number "40" represents the average gestation period of human life from conception to birth. Forty weeks, is 9 months. This is a spiritual metaphor for a new birth. One from our base animal nature, to the awakening of our Divine nature ... the Christ Consciousness within each of us. THIS, is the Divine Spark contained within us all. 

Even the names are symbolic. Moses, is rooted in the word MO, the Egyptian word for water and mesu, meaning child. So, “child of the water.” If you study the life of Moses, you will note that he lived to be 120 years old. The phases of his Life can be categorized into three parts: 40 years in Egypt, 40 years in Midian, and 40 years leading the Israelites through the desert to the Promised Land, totaling a 120 years. This is not by coincidence. Moses’ life here is symbolic of the human intellect which also must come under the rule of Spirit instead of the ego (Satan/Opposer).

Noah means “rest.” Noah was a “high man” that lived a spiritual Life instead of an ego-driven one, and so Noah is representative of a higher state of consciousness. Noah represents not only the higher nature of the Mind, but also a Mind at “rest.” A Mind at rest is the state of being which salvation is. The story of Noah was written to teach us to live spiritually (rightly), not carnally (ego-driven). The Ark is US. We are the container/vessel of all these things ... and again ... "water". Water represents our consciousness, and the beginnings of life. 

Genesis 1:2 says: 

"The earth (matter/form) was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit (consciousness) of God was moving over the surface of the WATERS."

There is far too much for one writing, but this should offer you an insight into why scripture of all forms is allegorical. There is a deeper message or meaning ... "for those who have eyes to see, and for those who have ears to hear."

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

PYTHAGORAS MYSTERY RELIGIONS & THE ILLUMINATI

PYTHAGORAS MYSTERY RELIGIONS & THE ILLUMINATI 

To fully understand the Essenes and their Teacher, you have to at least have an idea of the life and teachings of Pythagoras. Most people view Pythagoras as someone whose only role in life was to torment them in high school geometry with his famous theorem which bears his name. Few people are aware that Pythagoras, was also a spiritual and ethical teacher. In fact, most of the gospel teachings of Jesus may have originated with him, which stands as a clear indication of their Essene roots. Pythagoras was expelled from his native Greece and did most of his teaching in Italy. His teachings did not garner favour among most of the native population and he was reportedly assassinated, though no one seems to know exactly how - and after his death many of his students were massacred.

Pythagoras was undoubtedly a monotheistic man, but his religious philosophy contains the very same dualism as that found in the teachings of Paul. He believed that the soul was imprisoned in the mortal body which was governed by evil passions led by our senses and their desires "We must not, declared Pythagoras, be slaves of our own bodies; and we can improve and save our souls by escaping from the domination of the flesh."—Martin A. Larson, "The Story of Christian Origins." 

This concept corresponds with that of the Buddha who conceived it as a method for people to escape the evil caste system created by the Aryan Brahamanas to enslave the indigenous people of India. It was the Brahamanas' claim that people were born into their caste based on the merits of past lives. So, regardless of a persons merits in THIS life, they were forever chained to their lowly caste by their PAST lives while the Brahamanas inhabited the upper caste due to thier pristine prior lives. 

The Brahamanas or Brahaman priests referred to themselves as 'Fathers,' hence we find in the gospels "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."—Matthew 23:9. Of course, the Catholic clergy failed to practice what they preached and wound up calling themselves "Fathers" anyway. Notice also the difference between the conflict between good and evil in Buddhism as opposed to Zorastrianism. In Buddhism there is no "evil force" - only physical passions.

Pythagoras was initiated into the rites and mysteries of not only the Ancient Greek Mysteries, but also was a student of Egyptian Mysteries and a pupil of Zoraster and a disciple of the Brahmanas. He was pretty much a contemporary of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, so any doctrines similar to Buddhism are probably a coincidence. 

He formed an order known as the Pythagorean Brotherhood. His students were divided into 2 distinct categories; the more advanced members of the inner circle were called "esoteric" and his more casual followers were known as the "exoteric." He required his students to divest themselves, of all worldly possessions, and to undergo instruction in silence. He dressed in a white linen robe, since wool was prohibited because it came from an animal. 

His esoteric students, much as himself, subsisted on a raw vegetarian diet and abstained from sex. His students also received the daily sacrament in which they symbolically consumed the body of Dionysius (yet another Godman). The cannabalistic style practice of the eucharist (communion) dates back to the cult of Osiris in which the participants consumed an image of the god made of wheat paste and drank a libation of barley ale. The ale was later replaced by wine among the Greek Dionysians (the Greek incarnation of the Osiris myth.) 

The practice was based on the concept that you are what you eat, and by eating the symbolic body and blood of a god, you would become holy. Earlier indigenous Egyptian people had partaken in the true cannibalistic practice of eating the flesh of their deceased loved ones. The Pythagoreans also practiced regular baptismal purification, which Pythagoras undoubtedly picked up from the Zorastrians, and would become a staple of the Essene and similar Egyptian Theraputae, centuries later.

The name of the Essenes has been related to the Greek word, “holiness” but the Aramaic equivalent is “pious ones” which is more probable. An Aramaic connection could imply “healers” which fits with Josephus’s statement that the Essenes sought out medicinal roots and stones for healing diseases, or Philo’s statement that the Essenes are especially devout in the therapeutai (healers or in service) of God. You see now the connection made with the Essenes and Theraputae.

Pythagoras’ influence would eventually spread to what would be know as the Pythagorean Illuminati, and his teachings would also find their way within divisions of Freemasonry. These original teachings, before they were polluted by wrongdoers, were intended to raise the inner Divine man (the Christ) to a higher level of consciousness ... and union with God/Source. Pythagoras was truly a wise and gifted sage and perhaps, the very founder of what had become the early basis for many religions including early Gnostic Christianity.

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

HIGHER SELF AND CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

HIGHER SELF AND CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

Religious beliefs, teachings, and dogmas have a tendency to create separation of Higher-Self (the Divine) from Source because these beliefs tend to discourage a full direct and meaningful experience of Source that is within all of us. God/Source is inside each and every one of us. And this understanding, this knowing and full acceptance is what is needed at these difficult times. A healing of the separation of Source is needed to reconnect all of us to Source, and as a result to each other.

Know and understand and accept that we are never separate or separated from Source. There is a God Essence and Source within all of us. Within everything. This is always the case. By relying on an outside agency or institution to manage this relationship for you, you are turning away from that God Source within you. Remember, what you are looking for is what is looking. 

You do not need to rely on and reach to outside and external sources as it is unnecessary. In essence, religion and its varying dogmas and doctrines teach you how to turn away from this God/Source that all of us have WITHIN us, by relying on an external God, and denying the internal essence. 

This lowers your energy vibration and does not help with your Christ Consciousness process. You can be blessed within ... and do not need to rely on others outside of you to bless you in this way. Relying on others gives away your control and freedom, as it implies separation. There is no separation as we are all One, we are all Source. When you see this for what it is, you can be ready to be blessed by Source directly. Also, remember the word “blessing” comes from the Greek word “eulogia,” which literally means “to speak highly of someone.” Just like at a funeral, the one speaking goodness of the deceased is delivering a Eulogy.

Understanding and accepting this Truth will serve your ascension of consciousness well. You must understand and accept yourself as a part of, and an essence of, God/Source ... and that the blessings will come directly from Source. We are all going to eventually merge back to Source when we are ready. This is what “Christ Consciousness” is all about.

Imagine Source as if a body of water, and you are a cup of that water experiencing life in that water on Earth. But that cup is still Source, that cup is still you, with your own separate and distinct energy resonance and vibrational frequency. Mind, is One. All is Mind. The Universe (YOUniverse) is mental.

There is nothing else that is required, just the recognition of You, for the magnificent being of Source Energy that we are. This is what living in Christ Consciousness is all about. When you know and understand and accept this Truth, you have resurrected the Divine within - the offspring - the Christ Consciousness. 

Religion has hidden this Truth from you through dogma, illusions, false teachings, and deceptions. It is time now to find this Truth. When you know this as Truth in your heart and Soul, these illusions and false truths disappear. You will stand in your Truth, light, and in your own knowing.

Every soul that incarnates on Earth is an innocent and pure Soul Essence. There are never bad experiences, just lessons and manifestations from the choices we make. We come to Earth School to learn these lessons, and to grow and develop spiritually. That is why we are here. Too many times, we waste these vast opportunities we have to evolve our Soul and Divine Essence. 

Christianity’s dogma of original sin is not true, and causes fear and disempowerment, due to the false understanding that there is an external God sentencing us for our sins and mistakes. Nothing can be further from the Truth. In addition, this unnecessary fear causes separation from the recognition of our Source within. As we are separated, our energy vibration is lowered when our goal is to raise it. “The Kingdom of Heaven/God is within you.” Remember, “God keeps no records of wrong” ... “His mercies are new every morning.”

If we feel that God/Source is external to us, we fear it, do not see it, and this causes separation. Not seeing this causes us to be blinded as our power is given away due to the false understanding of a fearful God living in the clouds on a golden throne that simply does not exist in this imagery. Not only does this manifest separation from Source within, but we are filled with fear that God will punish us for something we have done, or haven’t done. God never, ever, punishes. The Bible stories are allegorical myths, not to be taken literally. Look to the deeper esoteric messages. God/Source is inside us and loves us all immensely. We manifest our thoughts into form, so if we feel fear and guilt in a vengeful God, that is what we will experience in our reality. And both fear and guilt lowers our energy vibration to that of base nature. There is no benefit. This way of thinking does not serve us.

Through this type of process, we have given up our agency, control, and power. Be careful of religious institutions that are corrupted by false dogmas, teachings, and doctrines. Original Sin does not exist and was invented to enslave the masses. We do not need to rely on an external God. Look within for salvation ... salvation from ignorant thinking and actions. The light within will shine on the Truth, and all illusion will dissipate. Saviour Self.

We will find our God Essence within us, not without us. We need to remove ourself from this hindering external belief systems, and raise our vibration from the destructive base nature frequency of fear - and to love, as God/Source is pure Love. We experience and create what we think, feel, and choose. Our thinking manifests as energy and will manifest into thought form. And if we are projecting a frightening God and sin, then we are scared and become more and more bound to the dogma of the various religions that control us ... which leads us to being a subservient puppet. It is time to stand up in our light and in our Truth.

Eliminate fears of a vengeful and frightening God and eliminate separation from Source Energy / God Essence. Our ascension will serve us well by realizing and accepting these Truths. We will experience our own revelation and resurrection when we release ourselves from the control and manipulations of religions that do not serve the highest and best good. The Kingdom of Heaven is within us ... as is Source.

Forgiveness and redemption will not come to us through religious dogma and rituals. We must develop our own internal relationship with Source. Look within to find our Source Essence. It is there. It always has been. And it is the same within ALL ... as we are all One in God/Source. Always be in a state of forgiveness, thanksgiving, and gratitude. and do not rely on the need for others to forgive you. You are not responsible for the spiritual journey of other.

Forgiveness is for you, not for the other person. It releases you from the burden. As you continue to forgive, you are developing a closer relationship with Source. Remember that we are ultimately Source as we are all One. Only we have the power to make changes to ourself. This is all done through our thinking. When we understand this and accept this, we live in Christ Consciousness and reclaim our power back. We rise up to the glory that is US, to the powerful and illuminating I AM Presence inside our Soul. We find the God Self within us. Our Higher Consciousness. 

Be careful also of martyrdom religious beliefs. Jesus did not come to suffer for humanity so that we can all be saved and thus be forgiven by God/Source by dying on the cross. Once again, these are allegorical and celestial myths ... with deeper hidden teachings. Composite teachers, sages, and shamans taught us how to live in the Christ Consciousness long before the story of the man from the hills of Galilee. Jesus, representing a higher being of Light for us ... he represented for the common man the Truth of the Christ Consciousness that had been known for centuries among Royalty and the Elite. 

A martyr can never result in the forgiveness of others because this would violate the Universal Law of Karma (Cause and Effect). You cannot escape your own karma and no savior will remove it for you. That would be cheating the Universal Law of Karma. This would violate people’s free will and take away the karmic responsibilities of everyone. We are not punished FOR our sin but BY our sin ... negative consequences of wrong thinking, feeling and choosing ... and wrongful action. 

Believing that Jesus or any of the other previous Godmen died for the sins of humanity has bred the belief of a saviour. There is only one saviour and that saviour is you. You are the only one that can save yourself (saviour self). You do this by living in Christ Consciousness, by understanding and accepting your own Divinity. People need to be aware and be responsible for their own actions and this false religious belief takes this onus away ... as now they feel that Jesus is their saviour and took upon him their karma. This cannot be. If you wholeheartedly believe that Jesus died for our sins, then why is there so much “sin” in our world 2,000+ years later? Either this teaching is false, or he failed. You choose.

Every person needs to be responsible for their own actions and their own karma. This is Universal Immutable Law. This is how we grow, develop, and learn. The story of the crucifixion of Jesus was to breed martyrdom, fear, and a sense of obligation to be subservient to the dogmas of early Roman Christianity. These were not the original teachings of the Great Mysteries. 

This was done to keep people in fear and by doing so, take their power from them and put it in someone else's hands. Holy Men and Hierophants have tried to share the Christ Consciousness with others for millennia, to show others how to connect with their Inner Source Essence ... or God. We are our own savior, and the only thing we need to be saved from is illusion, ignorance, and negative emotions and actions. 

It is the full knowing, the full understanding, and full acceptance and integration and the BEING of Source vibration while we are in our physical body. “He who denies Christ came in the nobody is an anti-Christ.” Not in HIS body, but in THE body ... ours. It is being awakened to our true Self, to our Divinity. We are all an individualized essence and part of Source. And Source is a part of us ALL. We must understand and accept this Truth. That is how powerful we really are. That is how beautiful we are. When we realize this, then we are living in and with Christ Consciousness. That is when Life can change for us. That is when ascension will happen for us. We become fully awakened to the beautiful Source being that we are, and all of us will eventually return to Source when we have completed this incarnation and Life experience.

You are living knowing that Source is a part of you, that Source is in you, that you are part of Source, as that cup of water discussed above. Find your Christ Consciousness within and find your Source within.  Do not resort to devotion or worship to religion or a vengeful God that does not exist ... but find the self-realization within.

There is no separation. We are all One. By realizing the Christ Consciousness within, you are then forgiven for your so called “sins” (karmic transgressions and wrong thinking) automatically through recognition of your own true nature as Beings of Source. This is important to understand because then we realize that we are our own saviour. 

No other being will be saving us. We are the ones we have been waiting for. What you are looking for, is what is looking. When this is understood and accepted, there is a freedom from all religious dogmas that do nothing but to entrap one in unnecessary guilt, religious obligations and subservience to religious institutions. Then the shackles of oppression and control can be removed and our I AM Presence can be seen and we have risen.

You then realize that Jesus is representative and the full embodiment of the Christ Consciousness ... our Saviour within. This is a Truth, a Truth that was hidden from us for thousands of years to control us ... and designed to manipulate us through fear by false religious institutions serving their own purposes. As soon as you discover the Christ within, the Source Awareness, you WILL realize that you are your own saviour.  Be your Source. Be your Saviour. Be You. Be love as Source is Love. Be One will all things in this universe. All is one, and one is all.

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. 

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MYSTERY SCHOOLS

EGYPTIAN MYSTERY SCHOOLS

For more than 3,000 years, the mystery schools of Egypt have epitomized the ultimate in ancient secret Wisdom and knowledge (Gnosis). As in ancient times, certain contemporary scholars and researchers insist that the great teachers who presided over the Egyptian mystery schools had to have come from some extraordinary place. 

Perhaps, they were wise masters who survived the destruction of the lost continent of Atlantis and made their way to the early civilization of Egypt, where they helped elevate it to a greatness far in advance of other cultures of those times. 

Some have even suggested that the entity known as the god Osiris was an extraterrestrial traveler from the Pleiades, who first visited Egypt in prehistoric times when it was composed of barbaric tribes. Because he came from an advanced extraterrestrial culture, he was considered a god and became the founder of the mystery schools and raised the primitive Egyptians' standard of living to a remarkable degree.

Even many conservative scholars of the history of religion have a sense that the mystery schools of Egypt contain within their teachings a particular knowledge that came, if not from prehistoric times, from ancient times. The earliest human records legible, the Pyramid Texts of Egypt (3000 BCE), contain many prayers that are quoted from a far more ancient period, and it is apparent that the prayers were used in the texts as magical formulas and spells.

The mysterious first initiator into these sacred doctrines was known as Toth and later to the Greeks by his more familiar name of Hermes (Enoch among the Hebrews). Hermes-Toth is a generic name that designates a man, a social order (caste), and a god at the same time. As a man, Hermes-Toth is the originator of a powerful system of magic and its first initiator; as a caste, he represents the priesthood, the repository of ancient Wisdom; as a god, Hermes becomes Mercury, the god who delivers messages to mortals from the Olympiad and the god who initiates mortals into transcendent mysteries. Later, the Greek disciples of this secret tradition would call him Hermes Trismegistus (three times great), and he would be credited for originating the material contained in 42 books of esoteric science.

In the time of the Ramses (1300 BCE), Egypt shone as a beacon light of civilization throughout the known world, and while the leaders of foreign nations sought to barter for the empire's rich produce in order to avert local famines and to make treaties with pharaoh in order to avert his military might, seekers of the divine sciences came from the distant shores of Asia Minor and Greece to study in the sanctuaries with magi and hierophants (priests) who they believed could give them the secrets of immortality. 

The students who would be initiates of the mystery schools were well aware that they must undertake the rigors of disciplined study and the training of body, Soul, and Spirit ... for years. They had heard from former initiates that in order to attain the mastery demanded by the priests of the mysteries that the newcomers would undergo a complete restructuring of their physical, moral, and spiritual being. 

According to the beliefs of the mysteries, only by developing one's faculties of will, intuition, and reason to an extraordinary degree could one ever gain access to the hidden Divine forces in the Universe. Only through complete mastery of body, Soul, and Spirit could one see beyond death, and perceive the pathways to be taken in the afterlife. Only when one has conquered fate and acquired Divine freedom could he or she, the initiate, become a seer, a magician, and an initiator.

The Greek philosopher Pythagoras (580-500 BCE) learned the secret doctrine of numbers, the heliocentric system of the Universe, music, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, and geometry from the powerful Egyptian Magi. Before he established his own school of philosophy in southern Italy, Pythagoras spent 22 years in the temples of Egypt as an initiate in the ancient mysteries. There were many followers of Pythagoras in the later years. 

A particularly interesting aspect of the Egyptian mystery schools is that for centuries the pharaohs themselves were the pupils and instruments of the hierophants, the magicians, who presided over the temples and cults of Isis and Osiris. Each pharaoh received his initiation name from the temple, and the priests were honored with the roles of counselors and advisors to the throne. Some have even referred to the rule of ancient Egypt as government of the initiates.

Although the ancient Egyptians never appeared to produce a philosophical system in the manner of the Greeks or the Romans, the mysteries produced a remarkable number of systematized theologies that dealt with the essential questions about the true nature of humankind and its relationship to the cosmos. The hierophants created theological constructs, and formulated esoteric answers that brought initiates and aspirants to the great religious cities of Heliopolis, Memphis, Hermopolis magna, Abydos, and Thebes.

Most of what we find in the Bible and other ancient scriptures, originated in these Mystery Schools, and the Wisdom, allegories, and teachings of these great minds and philosophers. From among the Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sumerians, and so many other ancient civilizations, mankind has done his best to find out why we're here, who or what put us here, and what we are to do ... while we are here. In many ways, man has created God/Source through inner consciousness and connecting to the Divine Matrix that ties everything together as a web threaded endlessly since the beginning and continuing to regenerate itself eternally within this universe that is technically ... INSIDE our heads. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM ON THE SCRIPTURES

BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE SCRIPTURES

We begin this writing with a scripture from the Bible:

“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants ...”

-Galatians 4:24 

Right here were are told in plain simple terms, that the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, is an allegory. It is metaphorical. Myth ... with a hidden deeper meaning rather than a physical literal and historical event. And yet, whether this was a literal and historical event is irrelevant. This is a story of symbolic value. It isn't commentary, it is saying to us that it is allegorical. There is symbolism in this myth that is intended for discovery by those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear. 

This goes hand-in-hand with us being told in scripture NOT to take the letter (scripture/hand written letter) literally by reminding us to NOT be a Minister of the letter. The Bible communicates to us in Parables, Proverbs, Allegories, and Dark Sayings. Modern day Archaeologists from the University of Tel Aviv have even told us the Bible stories are symbolic and allegorical. There was no captivity in Egypt. Egypt is a metaphor for our own dark ego animal based mind. “Aigyptos” (Egypt) in Greek meant “dark place.” It was a symbol of base nature man. 

The Exodus, was allegory. Leaving the darkness (Egypt) and entering the Promised Land (Is-Ra-El) and Jerusalem (yeru-shalom) the place of peace. Again, this is what takes place within us as we transmute from base nature to Divine. Generations have searched for the literal places in the Bible but to no avail. Either they were built and named in honour of the symbolism afterwards, or they simply did not exist. The Ten Commandments (the negative commandments) were derived directly from King Hammurabi's Code. A list of negative commandments of things NOT to do that preceded the Hebrews by hundreds of years. These codes are currently on display in the British Museum. 

Joshua of the Old Testament, the one who conquered Israel, is the same story as Jesus of the New Testament. The very name itself is the same. Joshua from the Hebrew, and Jesus from the Greek, are “Yehoshua, Yeshu, Yeshua” literally a word composed of Hebrew aleph-bet (alphabet) symbols that mean “God is Saviour - or God saves.” There was wandering in the desert for 40 years in the OT, there was a flood of 40 days and 40 nights in the OT, Jesus wandered in the wilderness for 40 days in the NT ... this is ALL symbolism. 40 weeks is the gestation period of a human being (9 months). From conception, to birth ... the time necessary to create a new person with new beginnings. A “born again” time frame. Everything is symbolic. 

Even top officials from Universities in Israel today will tell us the Bible stories and the history of the Hebrews are not specifically real literal historical events. Joshua could not have knocked down the walls of Jericho because Jericho didn't exist at that time. Jesus could not have been “of Nazareth” because there was no Nazareth at that time (it meant Nazarene/Nozrim). Camels were not domesticated at that time. 

So if so many of these stories never literally and historically happened, then what do they mean? There must be something of importance deeper than the surface story. These secret Truths were taught to initiates who entered the Mystery School of old. And by taking these stories to be literal, it has wreaked havoc all over the world, and divided people for centuries. War and violence, degradation of women, child abuse, lies and deceptions, and a total misunderstanding and mistranslation of the true nature of Life, and the Truth of ourselves as being the “Light of the world.” 

The Bible characters, locations, stories, miracles, crucifixion, resurrection, raising of the dead, ascension, transfiguration, crossing of the Red Sea, Mt. Sinai ... all have much deeper meaning on a metaphysical level. They are used as metaphor. Myth ... “Mythos” in the Greek. Joseph Campbell put it wisely when he described "myth" as “something that never was, yet always is.” We must go beyond the name, places, and events ... deep between the black and white letter, and find the pearl of great price. The Truth, that lies in waiting ... for Revelation - to be revealed, uncovered, unhidden. “The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.”

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

ANIMAL AND HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE BIBLE

ANIMAL AND HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE BIBLE

If you will bear with me for a few moments, I assure you that you will walk away with new knowledge, and a better understanding of ancient scriptures dealing with sacrifices than you currently have. So ... if you're up for it, here we go. 

The Bible says God was “disgusted with animal sacrifice” ... so he wanted a human sacrifice. So literal Roman Christianity came along, and said that God is not satisfied by killing just animals, he needs to have a human sacrifice. And so they misinterpreted the mythology of Jesus in the same way that the ancients misinterpreted the mythology of Animal sacrifice. Strap in ... 

“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me, says the Lord ... I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks , or of lambs or of the goats ... When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand ... And when you spread your hands, I will hide my eyes from you when you make many prayers. I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.”

~The Book of Isaiah (OT)

Pretty clear, is it not? He will “hide his eyes” from you when you pray to Him. So what do we make of this conundrum? Is it all that difficult to comprehend? Let’s go beyond (meta) the literal text, and seek the Truth within. Let’s go past the “letter of the Law.”

When you separate from thought ... you are indeed sacrificing your animal nature. When you sacrifice your human nature ... you  become Divine, that is what these sacrifices are all about. They are esoteric, veiled in metaphor. It was misunderstood then, and even still today. The “old man” dies and the “new man” is reborn. The Christ (Divine Spark of God) resurrects from within you. Your negative animal base nature becomes positive, loving, compassionate, joyful, caring, and unified with your Higher-Self. You have raised your consciousness to a higher vibration. You have resurrected and ascended into heaven. This is the deeper Truth wrapped in myth and parable.

All of the murders and sacrifices were intended to be allegories and metaphors. To “kill” everyone and save the young female virgins was a surface story for a deeper message ... to keep and protect your creative aspect. The feminine is the creative principle in all of nature. God, Father, Source, Spirit, is the Divine masculine. Earth, Mother, matter, is the Divine feminine. The Divine seed is planted in the earth (matter), and the begotten of God are brought forth into form ... manifest birth. Just as a seed is planted in the earth in order to grow. 

The Divine Feminine is the womb of the Universe (YOUniverse). The Divine Masculine is the void from which all unlimited and unbounded potentiality emanates. The ancient Wisdom of the early Pagan civilization has become lost through incorrect literal interpretation of the Sacred Inner Mysteries of The Ages. Question everything. The answers are within. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

TAKING THINGS LITERALLY

TAKING THINGS LITERALLY

Every day that goes by we say things in a literal way, but we don't really mean them to be interpreted in a literal sense. Yet, when it comes to the Bible and other ancient Wisdom and scriptures that were written as allegory and metaphor, they are still taken to be literal and historical events, locations, people, and names.

For example, we might say: “I told you a thousands times.” And yet, we didn't really tell anyone one thousands times. It's an expression and exaggeration. We used the statement to infer something that had a deeper message. That message is “I’ve told you multiple times, is there a need to constantly remind you?”

Another example, “It's hotter than hell today, and I'm sweating my butt off.” First of all, it obviously is NOT hotter than the inferno of what some would call hell. Even if it were 100 degrees, this is far from a hellish blast furnace. Also, you can't sweat your butt off because it's attached to your body. One more ... “moving this sofa is gonna kill me, it's heavy as crap.” It's probably NOT going to kill you, unless you have a heart attack ... and even then it's heart failure that kills you, not the couch. Secondly, have you weighed “crap” lately? I'm really not too sure how heavy crap is and what amount would be needed to determine that it's heavy. Heavy to one person may be light to another, etc.

Anyway, I've spent enough time on the examples. I'm sure you get my point. So now let's return to my earlier statement concerning scripture and the dangerous literal and historical interpretations of mythological, allegorical, and metaphorical teachings. These metaphors and celestial astrotheologies have been handed down by one civilization to another since long before biblical times. Even professors at Tel Aviv University in Israel have said the Bible is not meant to be merely an historical document. Many of the geographic places in Israel and all around the Holy Land, were named AFTER the stories had been written.

Just take a moment to think about all of the impossible events spoken about in the Bible. Donkeys and snakes talking, making a human being out of a rib, shouting to knock down the walls of a city, parting the ocean with a cane and command, raising the dead, supernatural healings, demons being cast out of people and into pigs, men dying on a cross, being dead for three days, and then raised from being dead, walking through walls, bodily flying up into heaven, walking on water, stilling the winds and the oceans, multiplying loaves of bread, turning water into wine, etc. I could go on for paragraphs.

These things were never meant to have been taken as LITERAL and historical. They are myths and fables with a deeper inner meaning and Truth meant to be discerned through our spiritual journey here on Earth. All of these events happen WITHIN USE ... where the Kingdom of God/Heaven is located. In our consciousness ... in our Higher-Self ... our Christ Self. The Bible and so many other sacred texts are not meant as HIStory, the are OUR-story. It is the path of the Eternal Soul as it grows and expands knowledge and awareness of the Divine within each of us. We are ALL the Christ and the Begotten Son. Why did Jesus say “you will do greater things than I” if he didn't mean it, and if he was the only begotten Christ?

If Jesus was God, then we are ALL God - collectively. Didn't Paul say that WE are the “body of Christ?” Paul never knew of an earthly Jesus, his was a Gnostic and Mystical Christ/Karest dating from stories 10,000 years before any man from Galilee walked the hillside and hung upon a tree. Only 7 of the 13 Epistles credited to this man named Paul, were actually written by the same person. The others are anti-Gnostic forgeries inserted by the Roman Church many years ago. Ask them, and they will tell you.

Once you grasp the Inner Mysteries of original Christianity (which was Paganism), you will be exposed to the Truth of the amazing and powerful transformational parables and metaphors contained in scripture. Jesus was quoted as saying “you shall know the Truth ... and the Truth shall make you free!” I have never been more free in my life, and have never had a better understanding of the Oneness of God/Source Energy and the oneness of all things in the Universe. Question everything, and you will find the answers.

Just a thought ...

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

SOPHIA: SPIRITUALITY OF LIGHT

SOPHIA: SPIRITUALITY OF LIGHT 

In this writing, we talk a bit about Cosmology and the emergence of our Inner Light. This article involves not just a Trinity, but a Quaternity (union of a group or set of four). My granddaughter has been named Sofiah (Sophia) and it pleases me spiritually. You see, this “Sophia” (Greek for Wisdom/feminine) and her Inner Spark provide us with a completion of the original creation of the Trinity. The actual Quaternity, involves Father (God/Source), Divine Mother (Great Emanation) and then paired with the offspring of the two ... the Logos and His consort, Sophia. The Greek Goddess of Wisdom. 

To say the least, Sophia is vastly important in the role of cosmology. We ourselves awaken the Divine Spark of Light within, and join with our Christ consciousness to complete the cycle of base nature animalistic man, to resurrection as the Divine Christ or Higher Self ... Godman. The Light body of Christ ... as Paul wrote ... “we are the body of Christ.”

Consider this: 

The Unknown God or “Agnostos Theos” (Ancient Greek: Ἄγνωστος Θεός) is a god mentioned by the Christian Apostle Paul’s speech in Acts 17:23. The ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called "Agnostos Theos"; that reference is to the “Unknown God.” Plato wrote of the One who is “neither named … nor known. The Founding Fathers of the Christian Church were fond of quoting Plato in order to show that the philosopher urged pagans to seek out the unknown god. The patristic tradition of the church is nearly unanimous in recognizing Christ as a type of hierophant of Divine Mysteries.

“Christ had left men with no excuse for ignorance, since he was the visible image of the invisible God and the revealer of the divine mystery.”

-Colossians  1:15

Now, consider this:

“In the beginning, there was Source, an unknown God, All That Is. This being was All that there was, as there was no other. This Being had within all that it knew. The crisis of solitude led this Being to let go and allow for what was within him, to express itself outwards, and this happened in a burst of Light.”

This Great Emanation (Ruach/Pneuma/Holy Spirit) that was the burst of Divine Light came from the original unfathomable Godhead. What She would call “Father” and saw the face of the Godhead who would be known as “The Ancient of Days.” In the amazing writings of Manly P. Hall in the book “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” he depicts the relationship between the original Godhead, “Divine Mind” (which released cosmic thought) - the Cosmic Light which in Greek is "Pronoia" (forethought/feminine) used as Divine Maternal Being in Gnostic texts ... the Thought that emerges from Divine Mind. 

From a union of Love, between the Ancient of Days, and the Emanating Spirit (Father/Mother) came the Logos (Word) which is the Christ (Christos) ... Eternal and beyond any religious system. It is this identity incarnated into the physical vehicle (body/soma) of the Christ that brought to us the Wisdom (Sophia) of the Higher Self. From the Gnostic Mass we find “they say Christ came for all, but instead, he came for her who came for all.” This presents us with the Christ Sophia, two aspects of the Logos ... masculine and feminine, using the Christ to bring Her Light from the Pleroma (heavenly realms) to the outer regions of chaos (material world). 

From deep within the ancient Wisdom of multiple civilizations of Mythology comes the creation of the world, man, and the Divine Spark within all that is seen. I will end this writing with a scripture from the Nag Hammadi Library in The Secret Gospel of John:

“I Sophia, am the Light which exists in the Light.

I am the remembrance of the Pronoia. (Divine Thought / Holy Spirit)”

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM. 

TRUTH IN LIES

TRUTH IN LIES

I once asked a friend of mine if he believed there could be Truth in a lie. He said “of course not, it's a lie.” But, there actually can be Truth in a lie, if what is being said has a deeper meaning that contains Truth. We must learn, to discern.

For example, what if my son came home from school and forgot to close the front door and our puppy got out. We spend the afternoon searching to find him, and fortunately we do. Now, I can sit my son down and tell him how irresponsible he was for leaving the door open ... which would go in one ear and out the other ... or I can tell him a story. Something like this:

“When I was your age, my friend Tommy left his door open and his family looked for hours to find their puppy and they never did. Imagine how sad they all were when they lost their puppy, Can you please do your best to make sure to close the front door when you come home from school?”

Now THIS ... will stay with him. He'll remember this story because it speaks to his heart and emotions rather than just his Mind. The lesson here, is that I never had a friend named Tommy who lost his puppy. It was a bold-faced lie. But not a lie as we see it, there was Truth hidden within. It was a fable, a myth, an story designed to teach a deeper lesson. 

This was the way most ancient scripture among many civilizations was written. It was not written to be taken as only literal and historical. These stories were written as parables, metaphors, allegories ... stories containing deeper lessons for a people that had no books, DVD's, Internet, and most ... without any ability to read or write. They told stories ... passion plays. Dramatic campfire tales. What scripture calls “dark sayings of old.” Many of these “stories” contained a hidden teaching “for those who had eyes to see, and ears to hear.”

So before we can determine a lie versus Truth, we have to first discern the difference between what we are really talking about - fact versus fiction, and Truth versus illusion. An illusion is a necessary presence and appears to be real, but will dissipate and dissolve in the presence of Truth. It is the duality of one. Fact versus fiction is simply it happened or it didn't. 

Here's an easy way to understand the difference. When you look into a mirror, the mirror is necessary for you to see the image of yourself. But the job of the mirror is merely to show you ... you. Once you see yourself, you realize the mirror is an illusion, and it is you that is the reality. The illusion is no longer needed but was a lesson for you. You have learned what you needed to know and only the Truth of you remains. The two, have become one, but there needed to be seen “TWO” (duality/polarity) ... in order to become ONE. 

Ancient scripture and myth, including the Bible, tell many stories that were never to be taken merely as historical and literal events. They were using people, places, and things as part of an allegorical myth to explain them in a way that would be both entertaining, and that would hold remembrance for us. We may not easily remember what a teacher writes on the blackboard or prompter, but if the teacher told us a story that contained within it “a lesson,” we would retain and understand it's meaning better, and longer. We may even pass it around and share it. It's kind of like telling or hearing a joke, we may not remember it exactly line for line how the story goes, but we remember the gist of it, the subject matter, and the punch line. 

To wrap up this writing, it is important to know that - other than math - none of us will ever experience Ultimate Truth in this incarnation. But we will experience Personal Truth. And we do this through experience. When we actually experience something, witness it, we accept it to be true ... at least for us ... because it is OUR experience. All else is assumption and opinion. The only way that I would know that you keep water bottles in your refrigerator, is if I look inside and see it for myself. Much the same with our spiritual experiences. We have to look inside, and see for ourselves ... rather than simply accept someone else's opinion. Simply put, if you weren't there to experience an event or happening, then you REALLY don't KNOW that it happened or not. So you must ask yourself ... DID it happen, or DOES it happen? And then apply the deeper metaphysical message of goodness that you received within, to all that you say, think, and act upon. 

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. 

GOD WITHIN

GOD WITHIN

Think seriously about this topic for a moment. Please read this with an open mind, and not fear. Take from it what you will, but take freely. Do not criticize or judge, just think. Just let it be. You do not need to be in agreement, until you’re ready.

Now, look imagine a picture of the crucifixion of Christ. Look at it with your Spirit. Think of what you have been taught about this event. We will never know what really happened, simply because we were not there to experience it historically.

But if we apply the inner esoteric mystery of the lessons left behind, the message is a much deeper one; one that we haven’t quite grasped yet, because it has been kept from us. However, the Way, the Truth, and the Life have existed for thousands of years. Left behind for us to discover. But we must look. Seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened.

Perhaps it is US who must be the sacrifice. Perhaps it is US who must crucify our ego. Perhaps WE are the God of this world that creates evil. WE have created the illusion, and we must resurrect from the dead (ignorance), and be born again … of the Divine within, not the ego of mankind.

The ancient origins of The Christ places the Divine within us; each and ever person on this planet. Regardless of religion, colour, race, location, money, sexual preference, or level of education. 

We are here to learn good, from un-good. We are here to lead with Divine love, Truth, compassion, and we are to harness our ego and teach it to follow, not to lead. If there is a sacrifice for the sins of mankind as part of this mystery, then it must include and be our thoughts and actions … pride, anger, greed, murder, rape, war, etc.

The lessons we learn can only be gleaned through experience. If we are the image of God, then why do we live our lives as the reflection, rather than the emanation? The movie screen rather than the projected light? It is not OUR life … it is LIFE. The air that each of us breaths has been shared by billions and has inspired and expired for billions of years. We are a piece in the entire puzzle. We are a wave, in the entirety of the ocean.

God, The Absolute, Life, The Divine, Source, The All There Is, all point to ONE eternal energy and it is whole (holy), not fragmented. Everything in this universe will live, and die. On and off. In and out. No exceptions. The cycle is birth, sunrise, zenith, sunset, and death. Even the rocks are living organisms with limited consciousness at a cellular level. 

It is US who will save mankind. It is US who are commissioned to turn chaos to order, amorality to morality, and the unbridled fury of nature, into power and sustenance. WE are the animal kingdom (mankind/Mind), becoming human ... and establishing the Human Kingdom. To become HU-MAN, is to be as God (Hu), and as man (people/Mind). It is a process to reach and awaken the spark of Divine Truth within our soul. To shed the skin like the serpent, become new, and know that the process was necessary. Love your neighbor, as yourself; and all evil will dissipate. 

WE are the OBSERVER, not the observed. WE are the WATCHER, not the WATCHED. WE are the EXPERIENCER, not the EXPERIENCE. We are the THINKER, not the THOUGHT. What you have been looking for, is what is looking … from within you. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

ESOTERIC INNER MYSTERIES

ESOTERIC INNER MYSTERIES

The ancients teachers were esotericists, writing only of the inner life and for initiated students. They wrote of inner things under an outer veil. Esoteric, veiled in the Exoteric. They wrote of the Greater Mysteries, which were never given out to the multitude, but taught in secret only to disciplined students. Spiritual Truth was not published in modern fashion as we experience and mistakenly think is the way it was always done. These teachings were metaphysical in nature. Whatever was written, was veiled under allegory and symbolism. Mostly it was taught by oral tradition. That is what makes the following passage so profound:

"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (KJV)

Colossians 1:26-27 26 

Mystery schools once existed throughout the ancient World in places like Egypt, Greece, India, China, South America, among many other locations. These Spiritual centres provided a place where students could receive a mystical education by progressing through a series of Spiritual trials and initiations. This process could take many years to travail.

The goal was to provide seekers with the highest levels of Spiritual realization - to understand the deep truths of existence, the cosmos, and human Life. Initiates of the Mysteries were credited with Wisdom, as well as great magical and occult powers. The main method of teaching the Mysteries was through myths - stories with deep mystical and psychological symbolism; for example, the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Myths. In reality, all these stories possessed two different levels.

There were the OUTER Mysteries, what we might see today as going to church, listening to mass, and perhaps lighting a candle with prayer. Then, there were the INNER Mysteries. The exoteric, versus the esoteric. People were carefully chosen from among the masses to become initiates into the Inner Mysteries. They showed signs of desiring to know more. They questioned what went beyond the parchment and ink.They were under the guidance of the Heirophants (priests) and for many, they endured many years of initiation into the hidden secrets that lay buried within and beyond the literal myths and legends. 

Like a pearl hidden within the oyster, the Truth was protected, hidden, veiled from the commoner for fear of misdirected gain. There was much to learn for those who had eyes to see, and ears to hear. But it was reserved for the select few. Not much has changed these days except for the small amount of knowledge we have of these mystery schools and their documentation before the literalist Roman Church destroyed the records, temples, and most of the practitioners of the ancient craft. 

The teachings that were preserved from these Mystery Schools, live on, and stand strong, against a barrage of scrutiny. Science is proving today, what the ancients knew in the yesterdays. Quantum Physics has allowed Science and Spirituality to realign. The word “science” literally means “proof knowledge.” We can no longer dismiss the teachings of the past as superstition and primitive nonsense. We must continue to look beyond (meta) the literal and historical, to the inner esoteric messages that have been preserved for an awakened inquisitor. ‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. 

Just a thought ... 

STORY BEHIND ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

The Real Story Behind 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, 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 philosophies like Neoplatonism on Christianity is undeniable. 

Much as Christianity would hate to admit it, the teachings of the man from Galilee were not anything 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 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 knowledge. 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" 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. When we study the history of the Bible and the history of the Church it becomes clear to us that the present version of Christianity is a corruption of what Jesus is credited with having taught. It is an insult to the legacy of these great teachings. Modern "Christianity" is a corrupt and tainted 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. 

"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 profundity and meaning of the many parables which Jesus spoke. These were allegories with deeper Truths hidden beneath the surface story. The 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 only one great teacher out of many ... 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 -- knowledge. 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 (the 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 believers). When one reads these apocryphal scriptures, it is evident why the Church has worked so hard to hide or at least refute them. 

When a person understands that knowledge is the key to salvation, it is difficult to control that person. They become 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 this verse 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."

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.

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM., OCP., DM.