Chaos and Knowing
A reader makes the point that it would create confusion if any person could receive revelation to tell the president of the church what to do, teach or have for official doctrine.
This idea is not something I have promoted. Any organization has to have its structure, rules and laws and when they are established it would create chaos if anyone could command them to change.
This is a far different thing than to permit open discussion of teachings or possible change in structure or organization.
For instance, Obama is our president (written in 2009). I do not agree with him on many matters, but I am free to voice my thoughts on this forum or most any open discussion. Even so, if he raises our taxes, I still have to pay the tax if I am to remain a citizen. I am still free to say I do not agree with the tax.
President Monson is the head of the LDS church. If he lays down a new rule you, as a member, are not only subject to it, but you are not free to question it or tell people what you think without incurring a possible excommunication.
If President Monson announced off-the-cuff that reincarnation was true, you are right it would create a great disturbance. But it would not create a big problem if he allowed members to have their own study groups not connected to the church where they can discuss mysteries.
The Beast is created when an outer voice takes the place of the inner voice of God. When an outer authority cancels out that which is spoken of by the inner voice or the pilgrim follows the outer when the inner says otherwise, then he has the mark of the Beast. I did not escape the mark of the Beast until I was excommunicated. The moment this happened produced a great freedom of mind for myself and the chord that held me to the Beast was severed. Once that freedom is tasted one will never return. Now I’m not saying that every member here should go get excommunicated. I’m just saying it was a positive and liberating step for me. It removed for me all concern about what the voices of the outer gods were saying.
A member who read over a treatise I wrote back in the Sixties wondered if it still expressed my views today on the emotional world.
JJ: As I read this treatise through again, I was pleased to see that my views have not changed so much as just expanded. My sense of truth back then seemed to focus on the highest truths my religion would allow me to explore and most of them are still seen as true to me today.
For instance, I still see human beings as eternal entities who existed before birth, but the added knowledge of reincarnation has greatly expanded my grasp of the whole matter.
I also still believe that the astral body is in human form and does have more senses available than do we in the physical. At that time I only knew of three parts of ourselves — the physical, the spirit body and the core intelligence. Now I see the intelligence is the monad and the spirit body is usually the astral body. Now I understand that we also have a mental body. This body would have all the perceptions available to the astral and physical with some of its own added.
Then in the higher formless worlds perception is through a direct knowing which the ancients called “gnosis.” All perception is reduced from The Many to The One.
Question: Is “knowing” even a step on the way to “realization with understanding?
JJ: Yes.
Reader: Please define the two words with examples?
JJ: Knowing covers a large range from data to principles. This is a registration of something that is true by your consciousness.
Let me illustrate the other two words with a story:
When I was a young child, my mother told me not to touch the burner on the stove. She said that when it was red it was very hot and would burn me.
Then one day I was watching the burner when it was turned on to a hot red. My mother then turned if off and walked away. I watched the burner cool until it was no longer red. When the color returned to normal, I assumed it was now cool and placed my hand flat on the burner.
Was I in for a surprise? I wound up with a major burn on my hand. As I was screaming my mother came to my aid and asked my why on earth I touched the burner.
I told her that when it lost its redness, I assumed it was cool. She then explained that there were gradations of heat and I had to wait a while after it resumed normal color before it was cool enough to touch.
Realization and understanding are two aspects of intelligence and grow together. When I touched the stove, I realized the stove was still hot and when my mother explained it to me, I then understood.
The realization made me careful to not let the problem happen again and understanding helped me to not fear being around a stove again.
When we know, realize and understand the right course to take the die is pretty much cast unless one takes the Left Hand Path of extreme selfishness.
Question: If it is simply continually contemplating within that which comes from without while seeking to follow the highest I have thus far received — That seems too simplistic to be right yet when I try it seems so HARD, why is it so hard?
JJ: The highest truths are quite simplistic but their working out is often more complicated than the story I just told. My knowledge, realization and understanding made the decision easy. There are others much more difficult, even with something simple like stopping smoking. But if one has knowledge, realization and understanding about a right course, even though it is difficult, he will ultimately succeed. It may not be the first attempt but these three aspects will not let the seeker give up and eventually he will draw forth the will to succeed.
Question: Why am I so fearful of making mistakes that I would rather rely on another (outer authority) – even if that authority turns out to have been wrong?
JJ: Seek to know, realize and understand “the inner,” and soon it will dominate.
Question: When I do try to trust/follow what I THINK I receive from within, it seems to always put me at odds with my loved ones, is the road always lonely?
JJ: The outer generally conflicts with the inner, and yes the disciple is lonely until he becomes anchored with the inner voice. Then he will tune into the group mind that links others like himself and then he will never feel alone.
Reader Comment: If I’ll get there eventually anyway, maybe I should just BE with my loved ones for now and worry the lonely road tomorrow (in ‘God Class’ as Paul put it)?”
JJ: I understand your spouse accepts you for who you are, which is fortunate. As far as other loved ones go one can have a reasonable relationship with them, even if they think you are crazy.
Many of my family think the devil has led me astray, but we still have good relationships as we manage to put philosophy on the shelf and talk about things with which we agree.
Just keep forging ahead the best you can and all your problems will eventually be solved. Keep in mind that much of the progress in this life prepares us for the next.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free. — Michaelangelo
June 18, 2009
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