SBNR Good God Renaissance
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The Rediscovery of Jesus’ Missing Years and the Lost Gospel
In our final session, we will honor Jesus by sharing in a historical journey back in time two thousand years ago. We will also learn how the true story of Jesus and the priceless mysteries concerning His correct identity and mission has never been fully revealed in the accepted Gospels. To this we will add that, with the mid-twentieth century discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Codices, the current rstoration of the previously unknown “lost years” of Jesus” ministry replicates the legendary “Lost Atlantis” three pendulum swing stages of spiritual consciousness progression: enlightenment, eradication and rejuvenation.
The story of Jesus’ life is one of the great treasures of the past. The core drama of His spiritual mission was highly mystical. He was a Master Teacher of Divine Wisdom (Gnosis) and revealer of spiritual truth (“thou art a teacher come from God” John 3:2). And, at the heart of the mystical revelations He brought to the world, were the profound teachings of the Christ Principle: the identity-renovating idea of God’s “Image and Likeness” spiritual nature inherent in each and every person — the Sacred Human.
The “lost years” of Jesus refer to the missing 18 year period between His childhood and the beginning of His ministry that are not described in the four New Testament canonical Gospels. As a result, the accurate story of Jesus and the priceless Mysteries concerning His true identity and mission has remained unrevealed for two thousand years by organized Christianity. During that time, its conversion into a myriad of institutional religions has given rise to the great diversity of doctrinal systems into the present complex of denominations and sects that make up generic Christendom. In this great diversity — and many contentious divisions — the basic precepts have been translated, interpolated, altered and, lamentably, used as the authoritative justification to impose and enforce all manners of dictates on the rest of humanity.
Most people still do not yet realize what the 20th century discoveries of long hidden manuscripts have revealed about early Christian history. Although theological differences arose from the very beginning of Christianity, it is very difficult to counter deeply entrenched beliefs propagated for centuries with new levels of understanding. Yet, for those who are receptive to higher perception from the recent discoveries of the lost Dead Sea and Nag Hammadi manuscripts, there is now proven evidence of a fuller spiritually-based comprehension openly available about the more mystical and esoteric aspects of Jesus’ message.
What is it about the recently revealed story of Jesus’ life that is truly different? We will start with His birth. The Christmas anthology is probably the greatest gathering ofstories of any event in history. Yet as meaningful as it all has become, new revelations concerning several absent amendments can only add immensely important new levels of understanding about the mystically-based life of Jesus. Nazareth is never mentioned in the Hebrew Bible or in the writings of Josephus or the Talmud. It is from the Dead Sea Scrolls that we learn that Jesus’ authentic designation was Nazarite or, more fully, a Nazarene Essene, and that His true residence was their Northern Galilee community — a spiritual stronghold of ascetics.
Joseph and Mary were devout members of the community and well aware of Jesus Messianic destiny: a “Light of the World” spiritual envoy of liberation and enlightenment. They were trained and consecrated for their responsibility in His upbringing as an esoteric-mystically trained adult, at which time He would be acknowledged the “Teacher of Righteousness” leader of their Northern Galilee spiritual community. The word “carpenter” in their vernacular meant “master builder”: either as a highly skilled craftsman or “mastermind mentor.” A great many titles were also eventually ascribed to Jesus: Messiah, Logos, Avatar, Son of Man, Son of God, Rabbi, The Anointed One and Christ.
In regard to the previously mentioned Trinity conundrum in which Jesus’ exclusive “Son of God” title was finally canonized in the 451 AD Council of Caledonia, the author is aware that such lofty tributes of reverential and even immortalized veneration were also awarded in the Greek tradition to Hermes and to the ancient Roman pharaohs: including the deification of the symbolic “Mother of Egypt” Queen Nefertiti. The divine heroine exaltation was then continued in Christianity with Jesus’ mother Mary and extended into the reverence and worship of Saints and Angels. Christians commonly refer to Jesus as the only “Son of God” as an analogy applied to Jesus in reference to His Divine Role as Savior and Redeemer and afterlife Deliverer from their earthly sin and evil. This is the foundation of their faith.
Based on the Nazarene Essene spiritual tradition, the author rests his “Son of God” belief analogy on the “Word Made Flesh”/ “Logos” identity of Jesus as one who attained the archetype Christ Consciousness realization of His spiritual identity as the “Image and Likeness of God” Oneness with God fully expressed in His words and deeds.
The Nazarenes were an ancient Jewish sect dating back to 150 BC. Their background included the Nazarene Essenes Order of Mount Carmel — never mentioned in the New Testament. They were dedicated to the teaching and study of the Ancient Mysteries, which had been transmitted to their Order from Egypt. The subsequent “out of Egypt have I called my son” (Matthew 2:15) flight into Egypt after Jesus’ birth was a possible testimony to their Golden Thread mystical heritage that most likely included the closely guarded Kabbalistic Mysteries of the Soul. They were radically different from the rest of the Jewish Sects. As a result, they were at odds with and persecuted by the Southern Pharisees and Sadducees — and, in particular, the divisive politics of Herod — later shown in Jesus’ renowned “cleansing of the Temple.”
The Essenes had also first been established in Palestine from the Mount Carmel School of Prophets as a strand of the Ancient Wisdom “Golden Thread.” They referred to their teachings as “The Way” and took vows of non-violence, truthfulness, purity and vegetarianism. As a secret order of Theraputate physicians, they had a number of grotto hospices and rescue homes in Palestine for the sick, poor and children — which may have been the real site of Jesus’ birth. They also wore white attire as a designation of “purity” — which also may have been their designation as the “angels” at Jesus’ Crucifixion. With their mystical tendencies, the Nazarenes and Essenes had many things in common and were conjoined.
Consequently, one of the most important missing pieces of the Gospel puzzle is the knowledge that the earliest form of Christianity was based on the eye-opening Ancient Wisdom transmitted through the Nazarene Essenes. Most of Jesus’ Apostles were “called out” Essenes and practiced the ascetic life of “purity” — and this way of life became the similar beliefs of the early followers of Jesus. Although they were forerunners of Christianity, in the 4th century A.D. they were systematically ruled out and the canonical Bible has remained strangely silent about them.
One highly revealing unveiling of an authentic translation is found in John 19:19 of the original Aramaic Ancient Easter Peshitta Manuscripts. It reveals that Pilate, he reluctant Jewish prospector who was convince by his wife of Jesus’ political innocence, had this inscription place of Jesus’ Cross: “This is Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews.”
Unnamed in the biblical text, Pilate’s wife was later designated Saint Claudia by the Eastern Orthodox Church — which split from the Western Orthodox Church in the Great Schism of 1054 AD. The Aramaic used in the Peshitta text — the authorized Bible of the Church of the East — had continued as a common vernacular in the Eastern Orthodox region for well over a thousand years. (The author has a Peshitta translation in English).
Jesus was truly a teacher extraordinaire. The Spiritual Truth that He revealed through His teachings were testimonies to the mystical way we are all ultimately preordained to live from the creative spirit available within us. This mystical level of existence was sagaciously expressed by Jesuit priest and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin: “we are not humans having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.” In addition, the exemplar way that He lived His life — not as the exception, but as the example — was as an archetypal model of all the higher values and virtues that make this possible.
Yet very little of the profound spiritual teachings that Jesus brought to the world are recognizable in the canonical Gospel traditions based on creedal literalism. Also, His manner of teaching precludes this misguided and misinterpreted literal-minded premise because Jesus most often conveyed His message of mystical insights into spiritual truth by using the colloquial symbolism and folktale parables of Aramaic, His native language.
Also central to His teachings was a God of Love. The most unfortunate creedal assumption in the Christian doctrine is the profoundly dogmatically-altered emphasis on fear and guilt instead of love and grace. To reinstate a paramount historical unveiling: this deviation mainly occurred when Constantine based the authoritarian control of autocratic institutional leadership by changing Jesus’ emphasis on the reverential “awe of God” to the menacing “Fear of God.” The crux of this punitive God doctrinal theology was based on the intercessional afterlife “eternal salvation” conditionally provided only by indispensable ecclesiastical allegiance — or else “eternal damnation.”
Neither mythological conceived “heaven” nor “hell’ are scientifically recognized cosmic or planetary locations, but mystical metaphors for either higher or lower states of mind as they prevail in human consciousness. This authoritative sanctioned “hell theology” (“born sinner” — “fall of man”) — a fourth century AD Nicaean Council scriptural translation entrenched as a pillar of church doctrine initially formulated by Augustine — was an exclusive religious-based means of salvation the ultimate control stratagem of all time.
The “Born Sinner” shame and guilt intimidation — laying a guilt trip on millions of people for centuries — was a misinterpretation from the complicated parabolic mythology in which God originally granted humanity an education scholarship treasure (Esoteric Garden) of Spiritual Understanding (Mystical Tree of Knowledge), available through the enlightening fulfillment (Soul Blossoming Fruition) by God’s forward-moving bequest of Free Willed Choice.
The “Fall of Man” was an augmented blame-game interpretation concerning humanity’s “new born” innocence in which a Snake symbolized the initial false ideas of our youthful ignorance about our inherent Spiritual Destiny involving our Divine Creation in the “Image and Likeness of God. ” It totally ignored the higher consciousness full development potentials of our yet to be discovered inborn essential worthiness and potential creative power. Charles Fillmore furnished a positive response: “You have been cast in a larger mold than this. God did not create you to be forever dust and ashes, to be blown about by the four winds.”
The negative connotation perpetuated in the above doctrinal fear mongering was decidedly not “The Good News” of the unadulterated Spiritual Truth of Jesus’ original Gospel — which was the purest message of truth ever known. Indeed, much of it is in brazen contrast to the essential message He revealed about an awesome good and loving God who created each of us to personally exemplify His noble heritage.
In John Milton’s John Milton’s epic seventeenth century poem Paradise Lost he resolves Adam and Eve’s original sin with its subsequent expulsion from Eden and generalized condemnation of all humanity as well; with the reminder from Genesis 1-26 “And God said let us make man in our image and after our likeness,” and Genesis 31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”
When the ancient Genesis “Tree of Life” folktale is taken literally, it makes God responsible for all the seeming innate defects and flawed design of humanity. Milton resolved this fundamentalist religiosity implication that a truly loving and beneficent God could ever possibly punish and disown us for attempting to acquire “The Knowledge of Good and Evil.” To Carl Jung the “Garden of Eden” is a non-historical myth about the transformation of human consciousness — a “Know Thyself” Depth Psychology and the mastery of this world – by our inborn capacity to change from ego-consciousness to a direct experience and expression of the Divine by fulfilling the “Image and Likeness of God” needs of the soul.
When the Genesis 3:7 account states that “their eyes were opened” it refers to our ability to discern the true functional reality of our human existence. We are born innocent and nothing is essentially wrong with us. Our role is to utilize our emancipating Free Will to clear-sightedly learn and progressively grow into the higher spiritualized consciousness expression of our God-gifted “Image and Likeness” divine heritage. It was from this Ephesians 5:14 “Thou that sleepiest” Spiritual Awakening that we can convey Christ-like thoughts, feelings , words and deeds that express God’s love and goodness — biblically resolved with “and the lord said man has become one of us” Genesis 3: 22.
Milton’s poem incorporated all the familiar mythical biblical characterizations. The first was for those negative portrayals involved in the transgressive “Fall of Man” from ingesting the “forbidden fruit” of the Tree of Knowledge. And he then depicted how the alleged “born sinner” disparagement of our spiritual heritage might seem frightfully intimidating to the spiritually unawakened.
But, this is then amended by an angelic (“spiritual perspective”) remedial reassurance of a much higher knowledge of Divine Reality that, in time, would furnish the Lesson of Atlantis Pendulum Swing into the spiritualized advancement of humanity. This would be consummated through the mystical realization of God’s true nature — an infinite All-Knowing Intelligence and Divine Creative Agent as an all-pervading but invisible source of goodness, righteousness and unconditional love engaged in the spiritualized advancement of humankind.
The metaphorical point of the Adam and Eve story is the “Apple Tree” divine mystery of the development of human consciousness and our free will responsibility to gradually correct and overcome our mistaken beliefs and harmful actions. We are to rightfully learn and spiritually evolve on the redemptive stairway to heavenly enlightenment from our human infancy to our divine adulthood (later esoterically individualized by Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son).
In Milton’s poem, this exalted spiritual truth of a Good God’s true philanthropic nature is further conveyed by the Archangel Michael as an inspirational message championing the glory of God and as a forecast of humanity’s future redemption from the seeming “Fall of Man.” And with poetic license, he added further encouragement by sanctioning the Bible history involving the exemplar spiritually endowed birth of Jesus. He then concluded the poetic rendering in support of the awesome bestowing nature of a truly Good God with the reassurance that, although Adam had lost the carnal-minded physical paradise that had preceding his awakening to the eventual possibilities of a world altering spiritual rebirth: “Adam may find a paradise within thee, happier far.”
Milton then moved this forward to the corresponding “Good News” as revealed several times through the foundational mystical teachings of Jesus Christ: “Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or lo there, for behold the Kingdom of God is within you” Luke 17:21; “Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” Matthew 25:34; and “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God” John 3:3. This corresponds to the initial Genesis initial “Image and Likeness” of God’s birthright principle proclaimed at the opening chapter of the Bible that decrees the Divine Reality of human existence — “Our Original and Everlasting Sacred Blessing” (Genesis 1:26).
The truly “Good News” is that everything Jesus taught and demonstrated was based on the true purpose of this life: which is the inner way of evolving spiritually and thereby attaining a more enlightened consciousness and higher level of existence. This was often reinstated biblically in symbolic expressions. The metaphorical meaning of “heaven” was “the heights” ( better understood as “uplifting expansion”).
Jesuit visionary Teilhard de Chardin, from his Gnostic foundation of allegorical understanding related to the Book of Genesis and the “sinful nature of man” — and assimilated into his boo The Phenomenon of Man — portrayed the ultimate destiny of the Universe as the “Omega Point” fullness of God and the maturity of all things. it turns out that a significant “Lesson of Atlantis” (“Times are a changing”) positive religious breakthrough has occurred in which Pop we Francis — who now accepts Teilhard’s understanding of a dynamic Universe over the static version that the Church has always embraced — is considering a petition to remove the 1962 Holy Office Warning and Discipline punishment imposed on Teilhard for offending Catholic doctrine. This “gentle revolution” of Pope Francis could surely help amend the condemnatory “angry God” and “sinful humanity” negation in biblical interpretation.
In further mystical symbolism, the allegorical transformational meaning of crucifixion and resurrection (the horizontal and vertical bars of the Cross) is to be raised up from human awareness into spiritual enlightenment (“set your mind on the things that are above, not on things that are upon the earth” Colossians 3:2.). This objective of this regenerative path does not lead to a place somewhere in space, but the enlightened attainment of an exalted state of Christ Consciousness (a spiritually liberated state of existence in harmony with the Divine Mind comprising a direct experience of Oneness with God).
Thereby, the true spiritual redemptive means of liberation over worldly ignorance and the resultant inhumane travesties are all amply provided while in this world. The ultimate happiness gained from the Beatitudes of Jesus truly becomes our way of life. We love others by the free will choice of suspending our judgements through forgiveness (to give love for); followed by the Golden Rule: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law of the prophets” Mathew 7:12).
This guideline of Sacred Service was summarized in Jesus’ final priority commission to His Disciples: “Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me” (Matthew 25:40). Jesus also assured us that “if any man serve me, him will my father honor.” (John12: 26). This is also an assurance that our spiritually progressive opportunities for a gratifying afterlife will be enhanced by this.
Jesus’ great salvation message, therefore, was based on the Free Will spiritual liberation attainable in this life by elevating and spiritualizing our consciousness and doing all we can in this world towards serving God and our fellow humans: “That ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:10). Hence, a heavenly blessed afterlife is assured.
One of the frequently overlooked revolutionary differences revealed in the “Lost Gospels” was the highly respectful way Jesus regarded women — and set new and higher values for them. He lived in a man’s world, and the primary image of God in the scriptures has remained masculine. Yet, from the prominence of women in His story and the eminence in the way they were venerated by Him, Jesus clearly upheld their dignity, equality and sacred holiness as also having been “created in the Image and Likeness of God” (Genesis 1:27).
Although the canonical Bible lists only 12 men as His Disciples and Apostles, there were a number of women apprentices and supporters that were featured proximately in the accounts of His life and ministry. Matthew 27:55 records that “many women followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto Him.” Ironically, while the male Apostles all fled from Jesus’ Crucifixion, His closest women supporters remained at the foot of His Cross. And in the recently uncovered Gospel of Mary, it was clear that Mary Magdalene was His favorite and most prominent Apostle — and possibly even more intimately betrothed in a Hieros Gamos sacred union. There is also no doubt from these accounts of His female relationships, starting with his beloved mother Mary (a universal symbol of maternal love), that He regarded feminine kindheartedness as a natural and major extension of God’s empathy, love and compassion.
By openly authenticating this nurturing quality of benevolent affection intrinsic in the Divine Feminine Principle – totally renovating the tragically flawed male-dominant theological denial and disregard of the Sacred Feminine — Jesus was gracefully introducing us to a motherhood aspect of God’s nature that caringly and unconditionally venerates each of us as distinctive and beloved children of God. In Mark Twain’s altruistic remark (reminiscent of the Lesson of Atlantis consummation of the world’s oldest story relating to human existence on earth): “When Adam was old, he was asked do you miss Eden? And he answered wherever there is Eve, there is Eden.”
This concluding article is being wrapped up by declaring that the past has much to tell and there still remains a great deal to be accomplished in helping awaken the general public to the latent spiritual riches available in the very essence of their being. Because, even though there are numerous members now affiliated with the well-known modern secret societies, even many of them have never fully advanced to an enlightened world-changing degree of the true understanding hidden within the closely guarded treasure of mystical knowledge inherent within their Order.
The author does not need to elaborate on the crisis — with its spiritual and humanitarian darkness — we now face throughout the world. There is no doubt that it is the urgently needed time for the crucial “Lesson of Atlantis” pendulum-swing consciousness-raising spiritual rebirth to bring forth this precious “awake thou that sleepest” knowledge of the Great Wisdom Tradition. hidden for 2,000 as a heretical threat, it is now accessible enough to openly providing a Spiritual Transformational Curriculum that can inspire each individual to personify their intrinsic “Image and Likeness” of God in a Good God Renaissance.
In this Redemptive Transformation that is urgently needed in the present world, each of us can accept the noble responsibility of contributing to a better world as a “Follower of Jesus” and His strategic revelation of a Totally Loving God: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). In Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” legacy of Rebirth out of Discord: “Darkness can not drive our darkness; hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” The author’s great hope and prayer is that the restoration of the lost history of Jesus’ preeminent Sacred Mission of Mystical Enlightenment and Love-Based Spiritual Restitution — and therefore Revelation of the Christ Nature in each of us — shall be gloriously revealed!– and let it be unequivocally integrated into a transformational Good-God Renaissance. And my great hope and prayer is that, to activate this, the awesome and redemptive secrets about Jesus — and the latent Christ Nature in each of us — shall be gloriously revealed!
The message to each reader is that you — and especially now as a SBNR “follower of Jesus” — become aware of and open and receptive to the previously hidden and authentically restored missing years and lost Gospel of Jesus’ life and teachings. And, from an open minded mystical point of view, allow it to be spiritually resurrected into your life and become the next step in your earthly mission. This innovative life-changing into higher enlightened consciousness — in which we become more like Jesus — will then intuitively awaken you to the hidden depths of your latent spiritual possibilities and activate dormant creative capabilities that transcend the limits of humanity’s mundane worldly existence.
Within the awe, wonder and epiphany awareness of the “new born” spiritual potentials of your previously latent “Spark of the Divine,” you will live a fuller, richer life of peace, love, compassion and beneficence. In His Beatitudes (“Blessed Attitudes”), Jesus gives us clear cut statements of the qualities of character that receive Divine Blessedness. In this greater love-based connection with God, you will also be guided by your “Better Angel” to help advance the idyllic values and virtues of the perennial spiritual principles as a spiritual pioneer. This currently includes — as an enlightened beacon of the true American Spirit — equality and justice for all (exemplified by Pope Francis “Who am I to Judge”). And, because unselfish service is the mark of high consciousness, honor Jesus’ farewell commission to champion kind-hearted care for the afore-mentioned “the least of theses my brethren” (Matthew 25:40).
Back in 1896, a book by Charles Shelton entitled In His Steps presented a remarkably authentic spiritually-based approach to Christian theology and moralistic discipleship. In featuring a congregation and community that begin to live by asking “What would Jesus do,” (WWJD this innovative fictional perspective became a best-selling religious novel. The personal experience of many readers was that, when taken to heart, the novel could bring us closer to Jesus and God. And, very important — but less recognized — higher consciousness redemption from the soul polluting condescending and egocentric shadows of our subconscious with a spiritual awakening of our latent God-given divine potential into the enlightened regeneration of becoming more like Jesus. This truly complies with His Good God centered: “A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” John 13: 35). Truly following His mandate would change the world.
The author would like to especially address this to the 75 million American Millennials and the possibility of their innovative SBNR “followers of Jesus” peaceful Good God Renaissance. Born between the early 1980as and 2000 AD, they are the nation’s youngest and largest living generation of adults — and are increasingly becoming far less likely to identify with a religious group. Noticeably contrasting the country’s older adults, they are far more liberal, tolerant, unconditionally nonjudgmental, inclusive, idealistically open-minded and refreshingly upbeat. Half of them are persuaded that America’s best years lie ahead. It is from these young patriots that a “Lesson of Atlantis” transcendent bridge from the present national crisis to a righteous realization of the American Dream is indeed promising.
Even more promising is the possibility that along with bringing out the best in us, this quiet core value revolution might help make churches even more spiritually-centered places of peace-loving ministration with philanthropic clemency and empathetic redemption by promoting heightened mystical consciousness. Then by nurturing the spiritual awakening of its members to function as love-based apostles on the mystical path that Jesus revealed and validated, it will help inspire all humanity to its Divinity.
A superb biblical example is giver by the Apostle Paul to the church of Philippi. Having been imprisoned several time for religious-based persecution, he presented them a beneficial redemptive model for other early churches to follow. After setting before them the divinely inspired teachings of Jesus — and the prerequisite for the higher consciousness possibility for spiritual evolution by filling their minds with the Spiritual Truths and not “earthly things done through strife and vainglory” — Paul declared: “Let this same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2: 5).
And in accord with that, the innovative life changes of spiritually-minded followers who aspire to be more like Jesus will help create an exemplary ecclesiastical society of kindhearted and charitable humanitarians. From this, we can truly learn how to express our inherent “Good Samaritan” Spiritual Qualities as authentic “Followers of Jesus.” A wonderful philanthropic example of this was the late Mother Teresa — greatly respected by all major religions and recently granted Sainthood — who truly followed Jesus’ spiritual commission to love the unloved and help those in need.
The author would again like to share one rather personalized way that he has come to regard both the challenge and opportunity of living our life based on our divinely endowed dignity of an “Image and Likeness” child of God. That is to regard oneself as an undergraduate enrolled in the Earth’s University of the Universe school house — and utilizing the all-embracing “lessons of life” educational curriculum to learn and grow into spiritual maturity.
It is important to remember that each one of us experiences both life’s challenges and rewards. And in the resolution and ongoing progressive lessons encountered by each of us. we can attain greater knowledge and experience in the evolutionary process of both our intellectual and mystic maturation — and thereby increasingly become more active participants in God’s creative work in process. It is by God’s gift of Free Will choice that we can increasingly become more active participants in our earth-life mission of gaining the higher Spiritual knowledge and practicing the Transcendent Values available to our individual educational available in our individual educational curriculum. Our Key Spiritual Mission: “Humanity Inspired to its Divinity.”
The initial way to launch the “New Birth” Spiritual Awakening of our True Nature and Good Samaritan Conduct is to apply The Law if Mind Action (“Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” Romans 12:2). You can actually become Modern Mystic — and, with this educative Higher Consciousness Transformation, not only change yourself but help change the World!
An important turning point comes with the Enlightened Awakening to the Ultimate reality inviolved in our participation in the Creative process as depicted in Genies Chapter one. It is especially significant to realize that , after each stage of the evolutionary process of Creation, “God saw everything he had made, and behold it was very good.” This most certainly included having made each of us “after God own Image and Likeness.” — and inherent in the “Eternal Life” immortality of our soul, the enlightened progression and creative advancement to be gained within each self-actualization transcending stage the spiritual development and expression of our personal God-Given Divine Nature. This indeed is the true spiritual redemptive path of “Salvation.”
The Spiritual Evolution of humanity is masterfully expressed by American new Age author Greeg Braden: “Awake all this extraordinary potential that we have so that we can become the Best People and create the Best World possible. A Supreme Guiding principle is the Transcendent “Way, Truth, Life demonstrated by Jesus (“The Light that shines for all to see”).
This consecrated Mystical Approach regenerates our human condition with Soul-Stirring Reawakening to our Divine Nature and Sacred Mission. It is the “Lesson of Atlantis” guarantee of our perpetual support that facilitates our Great Commission to pursue and achieve our God-Given potential as “a light in the world” (Mathew 5:4).
The Genesis Creation Story is essentially an important metaphorical portrayal of humanity’s lifetime evolutionary growth stages from birth to mature adulthood — and, vitally important, to outgrow the immature erroneous And misguided belief-systems amassed as long the way.
This also awakens us to the ultimate “Lesson of Atlantis” Reality that our individual path of Spiritual Growth within Good God’s divinely administered redemptive and reconciling Master Plan of Creation — by progressively merging our minds, hearts and actions in harmony with the Eternal Devine principles, laws and supportive ideas and virtues that comprise Christ Consciousness — the Higher Good everlastingly awaits us every step of the way. On the evolutionary Ladder of Divine Ascent, far more good always lies ahead — and it id assuredly possible to continue learning and growing “happily ever after.”
Consequently, in addition to the previously advocated twin biblical Cornerstone Genesis Procuration of our true “Image and Likeness of God” identity, were Jesus’ continual reminder through His life and teachings of the primary Mystical Truth about who each and every one are “in Spirit and Truth.” It is thee “Know Thyself supreme proclamation of our authentic Spiritual Legacy and Divine Birthright commission as expressers of God’s Eternal and Goodness. “Behold , what great love the Farther has lavished on us that we should be children of God! And that is what we are ! The reason the world knoweth us not is that it did not know him (1 John 3:1)
It is in the Book of Genesis “Wisdom Tree” scriptural analogy that that reveal an important distinction between spiritual-base knowledge and the human mentality by which we often erroneously miss-the-=mark with an ill-conceive sense of purpose and therefore misguided strategies for Earth-Life success and fulfillment that is not in harmony with Divine Mind. One contemporary human-vogue lampoon for attempting to “run the show” is “If you want to make God Laugh, tell Him your plans.”
We were meant to learn and grow, but not by a mistaken interpretation of the
The Spiritual Evolution of humanity is masterfully expressed by American New Age author Greg Braden: “Awaken all these extraordinary potentials that we have so that we can become the beast people and create the best world possible. In this spiritual development process, a supreme guiding principle is the transcendent “Way, Truth, Life agenda taught and demonstrated by Jesus.(“The Light that shines for all to see”).
This consecrated mystical approach spiritually regenerates our human condition with soul-stirring awakenings to our Divine Nature and Sacred Mission. It is the ultimate Lesson of Atlantis guarantee of perpetual remedial support that facilitates our great commission to pursue and achieve our God-given potential as a “Light in the world” (Mathew 5: 14).
Jesus, as a “Spiritual luminary in the world for all to see” set the perfect example of how to love through expressing blessings to others when He washed and kissed His disciples unclean feet just before they feasted together at the Last Supper (John 13: 1- 7). When Peter was perplexed — and even embarrassed — as to why someone far greater than him should perform this altruistic honor, Jesus answered: “For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you.” The spiritual importance of applying the virtue of perfect service to others is that we are also serving God and becoming more Christlike.
The ethical teachings of Jesus, with love at its core, place strong emphasis on caring for the poor and the adversely effected. The spiritual importance of applying this virtue of beneficent service to others is that, through the power of kindness, we are then also serving God and becoming more Christlike. In Jimmy Carters’ words: “emulate the perfect life of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.”
An important turning point comes with the enlightened awakening to the ultimate reality of our participation in the creative process as depicted in Genesis Chapter One. It is especially significant to realize that, after each stage of the evolutionary process of creation, “God saw everything he had made, and behold it was very good.” This most certainly included having made each of us “in God’s own Image” — and the inherent “Eternal life” immortality of our soul, and the enlightened progression and creative advancement to be gained within each self-actualization transcending stage in the Spiritual development and expression of our personal God-given Divine Nature. This indeed is the true Spiritual Evolution redemptive path of “Salvation.”
In the Genesis Creation story, light came forth from darkness. Metaphorically, in the human experience, enlightment comes forth from ignorance and the temporal. This also awakens us to the ultimate “Lesson of Atlantis” reality that on our individual path of Spiritual Growth within a Good God’s divinely administered redemptive and reconciling Master Plan of Creation — we become active Sacred Service participants in God’s creative work in progress. It means that on the evolutionary Ladder of Divine Ascent, far more of God’s good always lies ahead — and it is assuredly possible to continue learning and growing “happily ever after.” So, always ” pay it forward.”
Therefore in spite of worldly appearances and even our most challenging lifetime lessons and perplexing growth opportunities, the serendipitously intrinsic ”Good News” is that “God is Good all the time and all the time God is Good.” It is also inspiring to know that God can do an amazing lots of things with very little.” And finally remember that our part in the Grand Scheme of God’s awesome Cosmos involves far more than an alleged religious finalized “afterlife in the sky.” Again, in a tongue-in-cheek spoof, Mark Twain cynically countered “sitting on a cloud strumming a harp all day would turn out to be insufferably boring.”
Jesus’ life and teachings were a sacred reminder to each and every one of us of the primary Mystical Truth about who we really are “In Spirit and Truth.” It is the “Know Thyself” supreme proclamation of our authentic Spiritual Legacy and Divine Birthright as expressers of God’s eternal love and goodness. “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God: And that is what we are! The reason the world knoweth us not is that it did not know him” (I John 3:1).
Accordingly, as a “Follower of Jesus”: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven” (Matthew 5:16). This endowment is the Sacred Honor and Holy Heritage bestowed upon you when you were divinely created as a blessed Child of a Good and loving God..
At the heart of all the Wisdom Traditions — and most religions around the world — is the Golden Rule. To Christians it is found in Matthew 7 :12′: “Thou shall love they neighbor as thyself” — and Luke 6:31: “Do unto other as would have them do unto you.” The altruism of Spiritual Wisdom and ultimate directive for religious conduct is the most effective instrument for transforming the human heart and expressing our best self.
Included in Saint Frances of Assisi’s message of Universal Love is a wonderful prayer to help guide us in expressing our true Spiritual Birthright Nature:
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to give love; for it is giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Added to this is a metaphysical understanding by Charles Fillmore that in the Grand Scheme of Creation, “God is the Primal Cause of the Universe” and” Divine Mind is the One and Only Reality.” This is extended into the understanding that with our indwelling True Spiritual Birthright gift of human consciousness we also share the Spiritual Potential for many Divine Qualities and Creative Abilities. He then applied this to the demonstrable Spiritual Magnificence of our pure motive and honest judgment of what he describes as Practical Christianity.
Then — invoking “Lesson of Atlantis” pendulum swing away from the negative distractions of the world, he wrote “Here is the mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour evert night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or empathy.” He also wrote, “The value of service lies in the Spirit in which you serve. Even the lowest task or deed is made holy and joyous when it is filled with love.”
This then lends itself to several important guiding maxims involving idealism that the author also tries to remember in his daily life. First of all: and most important — always remember that “God is Good all the time and all the time God is Good” — “Hallowed by thy Name.” (For his closest and most endearing relationship with God, he affectionately addresses The Almighty Creator of the Universe as “Beloved Parent Spirit.”)
It is the Book of Genesis’ metaphoric account of God’s Divine Design and Grand Purpose intrinsic in Creation that fully discloses the unifying connection within the “behold it was very good” universal grandeur of the Cosmos and the subsequent dignity of the blessed nativity and inherent spiritual growth potential bestowed on each human. Because God’s Architectural and Human Parental Role in Creation is perfectly consummated (Chapter One of Genesis) , it is important to understand that the immutable “Law Of Our Being” sustains that we were born “Beloved Children of God” — with an ongoing “Born Again” spiritual growth curriculum through metaphysical stages of consciousness-maturing enlightenment.
To attain an ever increasing faith-based confidence and more enduring peace of mind, realize that even amid the difficulties, limitations and discouraging unknowns in your present life: “God has greater plans.” So, because it clarifies the bounds of our individual responsibility to remember — that in the allegorical “Garden of Eden” Wisdom discernment for bringing forth the potential for spiritual groats in harmony with Divine Mind — “only God can make a tree.”
One of our more juvenile ways we miss-the mark of our Earth Life improvement planning tactics is — in a more contemporary humor aphorism — “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” The farsighted livelihood methodology : “don’t worry about tomorrow, God is already there.”
Then, in accepting your true Divinely Ordained calling to personally transform into a higher more enlightened level of existence from the Inspiration of Spiritual Guidance, ask yourself “What Would Jesus Do.” From that transcendent spiritual-minded pledge on, maintain this “Follower of Jesus” identification by a disciple/apostle commitment to center your live around Christ by uplifting your thoughts, feelings and actions to a Good God level of high-minded and good-hearted higher consciousness. (“Therefore if an man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5: 17).
Then, to uphold the “New Birth” in your daily routine: be optimistic and progressive, do no harm, be caring, courteous and forgiving — with the understanding that “the epitome gift you can give anyone is unconditional love and kindhearted acceptance, dignity and respect.” Henceforth, also personally “let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” And, over and over again: “Thank you God.
In tribute to God’s great love and blessings
These articles have been written by William Earle Cameron, who was ordained a Unity School of Christianity Minister in 1966. He served twice in the U.S. Military, with a college political science major in between. In his first enlistment he was a Marine Corps Rifleman and in the second an Air Force Jet Fighter Pilot and Survival Instructor. After undergoing a difficult reentry into civilian life — and entering a recovery program — he completed three years of ministerial training with part time work in the Silent Unity prayer Ministry at Unity Village, Missouri (it included three successive nine-months Bible courses: Historical, Metaphysical and Aramaic, the last one taught by Dr. George C. Lamsa). After ordination, he served Unity Churches in seven USA cities. During his Ministerial career he published three books and seventy-three magazine articles (an elaboration on much of the historical research relating to the Perennial Spiritual Principles were addressed in his books — see Amazon.com). After he retired he has been designated Minister Emeritus of Unity on the Bay in Miami, Florida. The retirement residence for him and his wife Dori is Key Biscayne, Florida.
A Good God Renaissance by William Earle Cameron 