Blessed Evening, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For All God’s Children…And All God’s Creation. If That Be The Case For Some Of Us…Then, That’s What’s Up! If That Be Not The Case For Others – But You’re Working on It – Then That’s What’s Up Too – Cuz It Is Possible! Now, If That Was The Case For All Of Us – All Our Hearts And Minds Being Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion – Then, That Would Be A 💯  !  And Since We All Have The Same One Spirit Of The “Great I AM” Within Us…Know That Having Sincere  Love For All God’s Children And  All God’s Creation…Is Never Impossible! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“It is by no means improbable that Jesus Himself originally propounded as allegories, the cosmic activities which were later confused with His own life. That the Χριστός, Christos, represents the solar power reverenced by every nation of antiquity cannot be controverted. If Jesus revealed the nature and purpose of this solar power under the name and personality of Christos, thereby giving to this abstract power the attributes of a god-man, He but followed a precedent set by all previous World-Teachers. This god-man, thus endowed with all the qualities of Deity, signifies the latent divinity in every man. Mortal man achieves deification only through at-one-ment with this divine Self. Union with the immortal Self constitutes immortality, and he who finds his true Self is therefore “saved.”

This Christos, or divine man in man, is man’s real hope of salvation – the living Mediator between abstract Deity and mortal humankind. As Atys, Adonis, Bacchus, and Orpheus in all likelihood were originally illumined men who later were confused with the symbolic personages whom they created as personifications of this divine power, so Jesus has been confused with the Christos, or god-man, whose wonders He preached. Since the Christos was the god-man imprisoned in every creature, it was the first duty of the initiate to liberate, or “resurrect “, this Eternal One within himself. He who attained reunion with his Christos was consequently termed a Christian, or Christened, man.

One of the most profound doctrines of the pagan philosophers concerned the Universal Savior-God who lifted the souls of regenerated men to heaven through His own nature. This concept was unquestionably the inspiration for the words attributed to Jesus: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” In an effort to make a single person out of Jesus and His Christos, Christian writers have patched together a doctrine which must be resolved back into its original constituents, if the true meaning of Christianity is to be rediscovered.

In the Gospel narratives, the Christos represents the perfect man who, having passed through the various stages of the “World Mystery”, symbolized by the thirty-three years, ascends to the heaven sphere where he is reunited with his Eternal Father. The story of Jesus as now preserved is – like the Masonic story of Hiram Abiff – part of a secret initiatory ritualism belonging to the early Christian and pagan Mysteries.

During the centuries just prior to the Christian Era, the secrets of the pagan Mysteries had gradually fallen into the hands of the profane. To the student of comparative religion, it is evident that these secrets gathered by a small group of faithful philosophers and mystics, were reclothed in new symbolical garments and thus preserved for several centuries under the name of Mystic Christianity. It is generally supposed that the Essenes were the custodians of this knowledge and also the initiators and educators of Jesus. If so, Jesus was undoubtedly initiated in the same temple of Melchizedek, where Pythagoras had studied six centuries before.

…The Essenes – the most prominent of the early Syrian sects – were an order of pious men and women who lived lives of asceticism, spending their days in simple labor and their evenings in prayer. Josephus, the great Jewish historian, speaks of them in the highest terms. “They teach the immortality of the soul”, he says, “and esteem that the rewards of righteousness are to be earnestly striven for.” In another place he adds, “Yet is their course of life better than that of other men, and they entirely addict themselves to husbandry.” The name Essenes is supposed to be derived from an ancient Syrian word meaning “physician”, and these kindly folk are believed to have held as their purpose of existence, the healing of the sick in mind, soul, and body.

…Jesus was reared and educated by the Essenes and later initiated into the most profound of their Mysteries. Like all great initiates, He must travel in an easterly direction, and the silent years of His life no doubt were spent in familiarizing Himself with that secret teaching later to be communicated by Him to the world.

Having consummated the ascetic practices of His order, He attained to the Christening. Having thus reunited Himself with His own spiritual source, He then went forth in the name of the One who has been crucified since before the worlds were, and, gathering about Him disciples and apostles, He instructed them in that secret teaching which had been lost – in part, at least – from the doctrines of Israel. His fate is unknown, but in all probability He suffered that persecution, which is the lot of those who seek to reconstruct the ethical, philosophical, or religious systems of their day.

To the multitudes Jesus spoke in parables; to His disciples He also spoke in parables, though of a more exalted and philosophic nature. Voltaire said that Plato should have been canonized by the Christian Church, for, being the first propounder of the Christos mystery, he contributed more to its fundamental doctrines than any other single individual. Jesus disclosed to His disciples that the lower world is under the control of a great spiritual being which had fashioned it according to the will of the Eternal Father. The mind of this great angel was both the mind of the world and also the worldly mind.

So that men should not die of worldliness, the Eternal Father sent unto creation the eldest and most exalted of His powers – the Divine Mind. This Divine Mind offered Itself as a living sacrifice and was broken up and eaten by the world. Having given Its spirit and Its body at a secret and sacred supper to the twelve manners of rational creatures, this Divine Mind became a part of every living thing. Man was thereby enabled to use this power as a bridge across which he might pass and attain immortality.

He who lifted up his soul to this Divine Mind and served It was righteous, and having attained righteousness, liberated this Divine Mind, which thereupon returned again in glory to Its own Divine Source. And because He had brought to them this knowledge, the disciples said one to another: “Lo, He is Himself this Mind personified!””

The Secret Teachings Of All Ages, by Manly P. Hall, 1928