< The Adeptship of Jesus Christ (continued from page 11-232) >
of all Christs, or else he was not an Adept of the Divine Kabbala.
Nevertheless, Kabbalism does not owe its origin to the Alexandrian School, as some blatant Cyclopedia-makers assert.* The doctrine is coeval with humanity, and in every age and generation there lived Adepts of the Divine ana true Kabbala; for it is not rational to suppose that God would come at capricious intervals to illuminate the souls of men, and again leave them, for long periods, in utter darkness.
The Divine Sun, God, is ever resplendant, but man turns himself away from God, and, therefore, man does not comprehend the light which shineth in the darkness of his sensual mind.
The esoteric Doctrine of Jesus is most clearly given in the Parables of the treasure hidden in the field; the precious pearl; the daily penny of the workers in the vineyard; the talents and the joy of the Lord; the great feast; and the marriage and the virgins. The Sermon on the Mount contains also not only the highest moral but also some of the highest esoteric truths.
In the Lords Prayer a grevious error has insinuated’ itself into the text—“Bring us not into temptation.’ The right esoteric reading should be “Lead us out of temptation,” for God tempts no one; man tempts himself, and is his own devil. Spirits (Demons) lodge themselves in mental and moral deformities, which have been either hereditary, or, are by custom acquired. A perfectly balanced rational mind affords no hold to them. Demons can not tempt a man who does not tempt himself, for they are only attracted by affinity to beings like unto themselves.
I will now give a few more of the esoteric sayings of Jesus Christ, and then revert to the abortion of his doctrine, which is the Christianity of the Official Church.
In Jesus Christ, as in every Divine Adept, two Beings were alternately manifested—the Divine, and the Human. When the Divine Soul within him spoke, it spoke to Souls, and only a Soul could understand it, “What think ye of Christ (the Anointed), or the Divine Soul? whose son is he? the son of David? but if David calls him his Lord, (his Divine Soul) how can he be his supposed descendant?”
“No one can come unto the Father (the Divine Soul) except by me (the Regenerate Man), and no one can come unto or understand me (the Regenerate Man) except the Father (the Divine Soul) draw him to become perfect.”
“Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?” said the Father, the Divine Soul.
“O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wiliest”; and finally, the exclamation—“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”
Jesus, apparently, was in error when he thought it necessary to meet death, if it was absolute, to emphasize his teachings. The words of Paul — “For through Jesus Christ,” &c., mean: For through the knowledge of God that has been imparted to us by Jesus Christ, we are, &c.
The assertion that the doctrines of modern Christianity are identical with the teachings of Jesus Christ is without the slightest foundation. Perverted, misinterpreted, misunderstood and interpolated as the word8 of Jesus have been, yet we are able to ascertain which of the teachings asserted to be his, are really genuine, by comparing them with the teachings pf other Adepts of the Divine Kabbala. The teachings of Lao-Tse and Gotama Buddha, apart from individual and national idiosyncrasies, confirm those of Jesus Christ, and the words of Simon Iochai, Philo and other Hebrew Kabbalists, fill up important lacunas and serve to elucidate that the doctrine of Je3us, and the doctrine of the Kabbalists are identical; while, the doctrines of self-asserted orthodox Christianity are ungodly, irrational and worthless inventions o an ignorant priesthood.
I repeat that only those who are on, or striving for, the same plane whereon the Kabbalists stand, (the Soul-plane) can fully understand their teachings. Only a Mystic can understand a Mystic, only a Kabbalist can receive the doctrine of a Kabbalist.
It is not surprising that in a selfish world or age the true doctrines of Jesus should in the course of time become so preverted, that they are at present hardly recognisable. The true doctrine seems to have been gradually lost, from the moment that something called Christianity was officially proclaimed as the State Religion. Whatever there remained of the true esoteric tradition became absorbed with a mass of heterogeneous judaistic and polytheistic exoterism: that with the exception of a few isolated Hermits and Ascetics, some very maligned Heretics, and some misunderstood tribes of Kabbalists, the true knowledge of God, as far as Christianity was concerned, was as completely unknown as before. True, men swore by Jesus instead of by Jupiter, by Mary instead of by Venus, but nothing further of any real theosophical value had become known to the world.
One must understand the intentions of Jesus Christ as a Kabbalist.† to make the remarkable observation that Christianity has gradually become the very reverse of the true doctrine of Christ. Pharisaism has really become Christianity, and is now the same enemy to the truth as it was in the time of Jesus. The seed that Christ has sown is totally of a different nature to the growth that has sprung from the tares of the enemy.
Self-asserted Orthodox Christianity is an impure Sanguinary Delusion, a kind of contagious and permanent delirium tremens. The Church abhors blood? No, verily it is only by the Blood-delirium that the Church flourishes. It was the spilled Blood of the Lamb that first soiled the true doctrine of Jesus Christ. Then the spilled Blood of the Saints was deemed to be of great efficacy for Salvation. And when no Saints were to be bad for butchering or roasting, for love or money, then the spilled Blood of the Heretics came into great demand. But when the Heretics became too numerous and powerful to permit any more venesecting, the Church had then to fall back in imagination and faith upon the Blood of the Lamb, and the Blood of the Saints, and in that Blood-mire she now wallows. “Blood and nothing but Blood” and sufferings of innocent people atone for the sins of the mean spirited, murderous, devils of Christianity so called.
If the belivers in such degrading delusion (says Inman) would but take a vessel full of blood every morning, look at it, taste, smell, and feel it, and say: “This is the stuff that satisfies my God,” they would soon come to know that such a God had no existence.
Consider, after having lived under the dark shadow of this foul delirium, consider the God of Nature! Behold here a God indeed! an Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Immutable, All-loving Being, whose love is life, and whose life is love. Learn to know that which is, and be no more deluded by that which is not. Christianity of the Church is a delusion and a perversion: be no more deceived with it. But the Soul within you exists! She only exists, and has real eternal existence. Learn, therefore, to know the real Life of the Soul, which is also the Life of God, and let “The Church,” so called, go to the Devil of her own creation.
* Whatever the sapient critics and book-makers do not understand, they label with a false name and think that thereby they have explained it. If the books of Philo and John are productions of Neo-Platonists, then, the teachings of Gotama Buddha, which contain the same doctrine, only in other wording, must also be Neo-Platonism.
† The esoteric doctrine of Jesus was with difficulty understood even by his disciples. The Jewish mind had become clouded by the fleshpots and was only expectant of worldly dominion. Jesus never himself believed at any time that he was to be a mighty king of the flesh-eating, sensual Jews. His mind was far too spiritual and exalted to care for the kingdoms of earth, but there is no doubt that meet of his disciples were expectant of nothing else, and that he bad great difficulty in dispelling this error from their minds.
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