We come to the final presentation in the series about Gnosticism and why it forms the bedrock of the teachings found in the New Testament. The previous seven presentations have outlined who the Gnostics were, when they formed and who was behind their inception. It was no lesser a personage than the World Teacher himself, Christ/Maitreya. Did everything go as planned? I leave you to be the judge of that. A new message was being birthed into the human consciousness. What was that message? It was one of universal brotherhood; universal humanity. Was this anything new? Did it somehow differ from the Golden Rule, which underlies all spiritual thought and tells us to “do unto others as we would have them to do unto us”? This rule is as old as the hills because it is a universal constant. Yet if you look at the development of civilisation and the religious structures that underpin them, any concept of a relationship between humans and their deity was rooted in a parochial nationalism. This is where the Piscean message differed. The eventual speed of Christianity’s adoption bore this out, even if it was under the strict control of a clergy, mainly rooted in one branch of the religion and controlled by one city.
But let us return to the origins of this phenomenon. We know where we ended up, but where was the World Teacher trying to lead us? Let’s start with what we have, the Bible, especially the New Testament. The four gospels that were chosen were selected from a pool of 50 gnostic legends. Their theme was to depict the life of an initiate, moving and living among the uninitiated. Theologians did not have the wisdom to see that these stories were allegorical truths and not a historical series of events. Those church fathers directly involved in the construction of the New Testament knew what was produced was an imaginative construction, penned by themselves. Subsequent theologians either did not get the editors’ notes or were wilfully blind to the inconsistencies in the documents produced. What we ended up with was a collection of Christian dogmas that were a total misinterpretation of symbolic truths.
In distorting Christ/Maitreya’s teachings in this manner, Humanity was deprived of its divine nature. We were told we were all sinners and incurably evil creatures. There may be a hint of truth in that but the solution to that problem lies with us, not any imagined savour. Not only were we deprived of our innate beauty and glory, but the god of love was turned into a monster who was prepared to throw us into a pit of eternal hell-fire.
Christ taught that there is one law and it governs all life. The law is the one true authority. To know this law, you have to be aware of the Knowledge of Reality and the Knowledge of Life. Hylozoics in other words! Another core teaching of Christ was that life is a unity and that all life is divine. How can divinity be sent into hell? Christ/Maitreya’s message comes with a caveat. To truly know this love and unity, one has to enter the Kingdom of God, the 5th Kingdom of Nature, World 46. To get to this world of bliss, you have to forgo your lower self and focus yourself, consciously, into your causal envelope.
What ended up happening was that Christ’s message was thwarted by Paul and subsequent generations of theologians. What they did was to equate the loving father, as expounded by Christ, with the Jewish egregore, Jehovah. An entity who you would definitely not want to take home to meet your mother. These theologians managed to bridge, what on the surface would seem to be an unbridgeable divide, between these two concepts of a deity, one Jewish and one Christian and differing views of life, as expounded by the Old and the New testaments. It was a catastrophic mistake to bind the Old and New Testaments into one, supposedly, cohesive book. If you took this argument to a theologian, he would defend this amalgamation of stories by pointing out that the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah, were fulfilled in the New Testament. What they failed to realise, although some modern scholars have begun to wake up to this fact, is that the authors of the gospels fashioned the character of Jesus to ensure he fulfilled those old prophecies. This was done deliberately to make the narrative more palatable to the Jews.
If, as the theologians would have us believe, the Bible is the word of God, then why is it so full of inconsistencies. They say the authors of the writings were impelled by the Holy Ghost. If this is the case, the Holy Ghost is clearly dyslexic. Prove this for yourself. Instead of reading the four gospels sequentially, read them in parallel and you will see that where the same events are reported, the details of the events differ. A good case in point is the discovery of Jesus’ tomb being empty. Read it and see what I mean. Yet theologians have somehow been blind to these obvious inconsistencies. Besides these obvious continuity errors, Jesus seems to get up to a series of absurd antics like cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season. Global supply chains had not been invented yet, so the fig tree could be excused. How can you accept a book without question when it has such obvious gibberish in it?
We have to accept that Christianity and the teaching of Christ/Maitreya are not the same things, even if there are intimations of Christ’s teachings to be found in the gospels. The humanism that pervades philosophical thought today, did not derive from Christianity. In fact, these humanist scholars were continuously persecuted by the Church and their ideas won through in spite, rather than because of them.
Why did we end up with such teaching as this? “Jesus, supposedly, died to save us from the wrath of God and that his resurrection was a victory over death. Humanity on the other hand was mortal and our souls died with our bodies. On the Day of Judgment, God would make our souls and body anew”. We know there is no death, only a dissolution of the monad’s envelopes of incarnation. We go on to reincarnate. The monad is immortal. The fact that our envelopes dissolve after we leave them, does not result in the death of the self.
As has already been pointed out, Christ/Maitreya was not able to communicate his view of life to Humanity. Only his disciples stood the remotest chance of getting his actual message because they had an understanding of the knowledge of existence and the meaning of life, which was about the development of consciousness. The core ideas filtered out into the mainstream with the publications of the gnostically derived gospels, but the Church fathers quickly seized on this information and distorted it out of all recognition. Christians have ended up praying to an imaginative construction of God, through the person of a character called Jesus. The faithful have no idea of who or what god is and they don’t even know the true name of Jesus, which is Jeshu.
One consolation we do have is that Christ promised to stay on Earth and this he has done, remaining in the etheric plane. If we are able to call him back, he will not return alone, but with a posse of 44, 45 and 46-selves. We have to realise that we can not solve our social, political, economic and cultural problems or consciousness development on our own. Since the Hierarchy left us, over 12 thousand years ago, we have not exactly distinguished ourselves.
Christ/Maitreya will return and has given this message to us:
“Henceforth I come not solely through groups with recognised officials, through organisations rendering me what is often no more than lip-service in their proclamation of the brotherhood of all.
I come to each and all who love me, no matter what race, class or creed. The greatness of their need of me, the strength of their desire to see me, shall be the measure of their power to see me. I come if their inner vision, be true enough to recognise me if there be in their hearts that which responds to the love, which eternally flows forth to them from mine.
By this power, which I hold, this power of almighty love, I seek to draw the hearts of men into unity with that good, that happiness, which is for all men the goal, no matter what name they ascribe to it, no matter under what guise and seeming it appears to them.
The ways of search are manifold, but on each of these I am ready to meet my own, those who listen to my voice. I will speak to them and through them to all in whom has been kindled that spark, which some time will be the warming flame of love and the clear light of wisdom.”