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April 22, 1999

Overcoming Physical Death

Subject under question: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?” John 8:51-53

John 11:26 “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” Here we are told that if we follow the words of Jesus we will never die.

Question: Would Jesus teach something that He would not demonstrate? The whole world believes that Jesus died on the cross, but did he really? Is it possible that he practiced and demonstrated his teachings of overcoming death?

Is it also possible that the words of Christ can enable us to never die also?

Several of you were on the right track of the answer here. The overcoming of death, not only for Him but for others who were willing to listen to his teachings, was a major item presented by Jesus. Over and over he said things like: “If a man keeps my saying, he shall never see death.” Then he talked about eating the manna that comes from heaven so you will never die. John 6:50

How can a Master rightfully teach us that we shall never die if He does not demonstrate the principle himself? Contrary to popular belief, Jesus did demonstrate exactly what he taught.

By all practical reasoning it did seem that Jesus died on the cross. Not only was His body lifeless, but he was placed in a sealed tomb for three days. One would naturally assume that a mortally wounded body lying in state for three days would have to be dead. Even if He still had some life in him after being taken down from the cross He couldn’t have lasted long without someone nursing him back to health, right? Remember that in addition to the cruciﬁxion a Roman soldier cut His side open with a sword to make sure He was dead.

The truth is that the Christ did not desert Jesus as He initially believed, but stepped outside the body while Jesus was on the cross. During this period He was not living in the body with Jesus, but was still connected with Him and used His higher knowledge to preserve the life force and to insure that the silver cord would remain intact for three days.

Thus when Jesus spoke the words: “Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit,” He did not die, but merely left His body for a period of three days. During this period He visited both the lower and higher spheres of what is called the Spirit World and taught the glorious message that even physical death does not have to have a hold on us, that the body can be raised up and restored by the power of God.

A beautiful account of this is found in the Aquarian Gospel as quoted below from chapter 172:

25 The garden of Siloam was silent on the Sabbath day; the Jewish soldiers watched and no one else approached the tomb; but on the following night the scene was changed.

26 At midnight every Jewish soldier heard a voice which said, Adon Mashich Cumi, which meant, Lord Christ arise.

27 And they supposed again that friends of Jesus were alert, were coming up to take the body of their Lord away.

28 The soldiers were alert with swords unsheathed and drawn, and then they heard the words again.

29 It seemed as though the voice was everywhere, and yet they saw no man.

30 The soldiers blanched with fear, and still to ﬂee meant death for cowardice, and so they stood and watched.

31 Again, and this was just before the sun arose, the heavens blazed with light, a distant thunder seemed to herald forth a coming storm;

32 And then the earth began to quake and in the rays of light they saw a form descend from heaven. They said, Behold an angel comes.

33 And then they heard again, Adon Mashich Cumi. 34 And then the white-robed form tramped on the Roman seal and then he tore it into shreds; he took the mighty stone in hand as though it were a pebble from the brook, and cast it to the side.

35 And Jesus opened up his eyes and said, All hail the rising sun; the coming of the day of righteousness!

36 And then he folded up his burial gown, his head bands and his coverings and laid them all aside.

37 He rose, and for a moment stood beside the white-robed form.

38 The weaker soldiers fell upon the ground, and hid their faces in their hands; the stronger stood and watched.

39 They saw the body of the Nazarene transmute; they saw it change from mortal to immortal form, and then it disappeared.

40 The soldiers heard a voice from somewhere; yea, from everywhere, it said,

41 Peace, peace on earth; good will to men.

42 They looked, the tomb was empty and the Lord had risen as he said.

43 The soldiers hastened to Jerusalem, and to the priests, and said,

44 Behold, the Nazarene has risen as he said; the tomb is empty and the body of the man is gone; we know not where it is. And then they told about the wonders of the night.

The disciple Jesus awoke, and his body was restored to health. Then His body was folded into the idea behind the form and transported to another location.

The new teaching I promised you today is the concept that Jesus underwent a process that meant certain death just as revealed in the scriptures and he was in the tomb for three days, but technically He never really died for his silver cord was never severed.

Even though He taught this to certain disciples, many in the early church, including Paul, wanted to believe that He actually died and taught this as truth. Because the fundamentalists today esteem the words of Paul as even more reliable than Jesus, they would have much difﬁculty in accepting this idea.

Nevertheless, this knowledge is an important part of the teachings of the Christ. An essential part of His mission was to demonstrate that if a person becomes one with God that he will never die.

Question: Is this still a possibility today? Can we still partake of the manna from heaven and never taste physical death as Jesus taught?

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April 22 1999

Love-Wisdom

A reader’s comment on love caused me some reﬂection. It is true that the teachings I present sound a fairly mental note and we have not yet talked a lot about the Love principle, but I would submit to you that this does not indicate a lack of love ﬂowing through this group. I have been with people who use the word love in every other word and have felt very little actual love ﬂow. On the other hand, I have been with people rarely using the word vocally, yet in their actions and heart the energy deﬁnitely resonates to a high degree.

I know that she was not implying a lack of love in this group, but that her thoughts were more in the direction that there are other aspects of it that are available other places that may not be had here. This may be true to a degree, especially when we consider solar plexus love which is very outward in its demonstration.

I would submit the idea that there is a very high degree of love energy circulating in this group even though love has not been the center of focus in the normal sense. From my point of view I am very satisﬁed with the love I feel circulating in the group, especially considering that our only contact is through the written word. I can only imagine what we would feel together if we could meet physically even once a week.

Let me give you one of my favorite quotes: “Before something can be loved, it must ﬁrst be understood.” I was told that Leonardo Da Vinci said this but cannot confirm it. When I ﬁrst heard this a jolt of conﬁrmation went through my heart and soul.

Now consider this. Because love and understanding go hand in hand great illusion can be produced by turning the principle upside down: “You say you love me; therefore, you must understand me.” Whenever we feel that another loves us this is always accompanied by a feeling that this person understands us to a degree, that he has looked into our true selves and understands that something good is there.

What if a Catholic were to tell you that, “the Pope loves you”? How would you feel? Chances are you would think that the Pope could not love you because the Pope does not even know you exist. The Pope understands nothing about you; therefore, any expression of love from him means little except that he sees you as one of God’s creations.

True expressions of love coming from the true heart center are always sent on wings of understanding. It should be remembered that the heart center has twelve energy petals in two major divisions of Love and Wisdom. The heart center also has a reﬂection in the head center and energy circulates between the two. This causes a deﬁnite interlinking between heart and head, so Love is not complete unless the two work together as one.

The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, said this through Alice A. Bailey:

“The heart as an aspect of pure reason requires careful consideration. It is usually considered the organ of pure love but-from the angle of the esoteric sciences-love and reason are synonymous terms, and I would have you reﬂect upon why this should be. Love is essentially a word for the underlying motive of creation. Motive, however, presupposes purpose leading to action, and hence in the group-life task of the incarnating Monad there comes a time when motive (heart and soul) becomes spiritually obsolete because purpose has reached a point of fulﬁllment and the activity set in motion is such that purpose cannot be arrested or stopped.

“Through the unfolding and use of the heart centre the love-wisdom aspect is similarly brought into use and the love of God is seen working out in a man’s life and work. For the mind of God is love, and the love of God is intelligence, and these two aspects of one great quality are brought into play for the working out of His will and purpose.

“Too much emphasis has been laid on that called love (interpreted by man, according to his present place in evolution) and not enough has been placed on wisdom, which is love expressing itself in service, such a service that recognizes the occult law, the signiﬁcance of time, and the point achieved.”

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pages 285-286

Here he makes the interesting statement that “love and reason are synonymous terms.” One of the reasons he says this is because half of the heart center is composed of reason, wisdom and understanding. If emphasis is only placed on the Love expression alone then the heart will be a fading ﬂower. On the other hand, if the emphasis is on logic alone then the heart will become sterile soil in which no ﬂowers can grow. Love-Wisdom working together as one creates a heart that overﬂows with joy.

One thing that gratiﬁes me about The Immortal book is that I get many letters telling me how the story touched the reader’s heart and many say they felt a great expression of love through the book. What makes these comments satisfying to me is that the only character in the book to say much about love was the bad guy, Philo. This tells me that the readers did not feel the love in the book because I shoved it in their face, but because they understand some of the feelings that were in my heart that I was attempting to convey in an imperfect language.

I want to tell the group that I do love you, collectively and individually, and everything that I do understand about you only increases this love. I also sense love coming back to me from you, and not only toward me but toward each other.

I have not said many direct words of love to the group, but I have sought to give you love through service as I have sacriﬁced many hours of sleep (and cuddling with my sweetie) to bring you these teachings.

Knowledge Within

Just a short comment on the all knowledge is within idea. This idea is an illusion as no knowledge is within. Shocked? If you do not believe me try and learn Spanish or about the history of Russia by going within. You will not be able to do it because regular knowledge is discovered by going without.

What is within is a sense in the soul that it has the ability to recognize true principles and the keys to finding all knowledge. When a true teacher teaches true principles the student can run them by the soul and receive conﬁrmation. If the teacher’s principles ring true with the soul, time and time again, then he can gain a quantum of earned authority with the student.