Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All Your Brothers And Sisters In Spirit. It Is A Fact That Wherever There Is A Lack Of Love Within Any Person For Another Of God’s Children… There Cannot Be Sincere Love For The Living God Within The Heart Of That Individual – And There Is No Justifying It! Yet, With All Of The Distractions And Varying Ideologies Saturating The Worldview In Present Times – The Idea Of Sincere Love Has Been Placed On The Backburner – And The Shallowness Of Insincere Love Seems To Dominate. But When We Come From A Place Of Self-Love… Loving First Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence” – The Presence Of The Living God Within Us – Our Life Stream; Then Our Natural State – Which Is Love And Light – Will Effortlessly Radiate Outwards To All Of Our Sisters And Brothers… With All The Sincere Love That We Came Into This World With! Amen…   

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…   

And Y’all Be Love…   

“The work of the spirit of the mundane is unfinished work; it is merely preparatory, or preliminary, to the ultimate purpose of creation. The earth is a thought expressed for a purpose, and the purpose, or trend of the creative activities, is to make man in “The Image of God” and in “The Likeness of God.”

We have presented man as a creature of earth, subject to all the vicissitudes of an earthly existence, to all the changes that are constantly taking place on the earth; a creature subject to all the laws governing an earthly existence, without any capacity at his command to perpetuate himself. He has no life in himself but is dependent for life upon the planet and upon the spirit of the mundane; he is carried forward by the work of evolution, generation after generation. He has a free-will, it is true; he is free to act his real nature; he can get the will to do nothing more, nothing less. So is every animal free, but every creature must act in accordance with its nature. It is accepted by many psychologists that man cannot even think that which is not in himself; he cannot think a thought, the qualities of which are not within.

Jesus often expressed the same thought, “He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God;” and again, “But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” Here Jesus seemed to carry out the idea that they were of the earth, earthy, and could think only the thoughts of earth. Again, he said to Nicodemus, “If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?” The earthly things of which Christ was speaking were in relation to the rebirth, the being born from above, for he said, “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

… When man through growth and development has reached the point where he is capable of receiving a higher influx from the Spirit, the Spirit flows into him as naturally as the flower gathers to itself the added qualities that make up the blossom, or as the fruit-tree gathers the qualities that make the luscious fruit – perhaps through an unsavory quality of sap that nourishes the tree. This, in vegetable life, is a manifestation of that wondrous law of being begotten from above. A wonderful metamorphosis takes place in the tree when, after it has grown year after year and has reached maturity, it puts forth beautiful blossoms, a thing never known of it before. The blossoms drop their petals, and the fruit appears, which finally ripens and becomes pleasant to the eye and to the taste and is good for food.

So man has been growing, generation after generation, throughout the cycles of the world’s existence, until now isolated individuals put forth the blossom of spiritual desire – a blossom which is by virtue of the inflowing of an added quality, a quality that did not exist in man before.
What did Jesus mean by declaring, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves”? A question he partially answers by saying, “The words that I have spoken unto you, are spirit, and are life”, as much as to say, that is what I am talking about; not the flesh, not the blood, but the spirit, for “the flesh profiteth nothing.”

Here the mystery deepens. Why does not man become a partaker of the Holy Spirit long before he does? Is it because the Spirit is not present? The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, fills all things, all space. There is no space in the whole universe that is not filled with the Holy Spirit; but we cannot touch Spirit; to Spirit, man is but a shadow. That which is in a lower sphere is always but a shadow to that which is in a higher sphere. Therefore, though the higher is all-pervading, it can never touch the lower except through intermediaries. Like can touch like only, and the consciousness can be conscious only of that which is like itself. As we move about, the Spirit passes through us as if we were not, and there is nothing in man to give him even a consciousness of the existence of Spirit. Consequently, some of the brightest minds of the day are denying the existence of God and Spirit and of everything beyond their own conscious life.

Because of this law that like can touch like only, it was necessary that God should send to earth one who had gained the right to be called Yahveh Elohim – one of the masters that had passed beyond the need of a physical body – to take on the flesh of man. Paul said, “he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren.” Having been clothed upon with flesh but being a master in his real essence and substance, he knew God, Spirit. He knew the Holy Spirit from past experience. He was begotten of that Holy Spirit. He was a son of God and God’s Spirit was the substance of his being. He was able, therefore, absolutely to control the physical body, to inspire the Spirit of the Father, the Holy Spirit, and passing it through the brain-organs, he clothed the Spirit with the substance of the physical mind.

In order to make the Spirit of God accessible to the vital currents and mentality of man, it became essential that a spiritual being clothe himself with a body of flesh, and by the power of the Spirit within him, transmute the flesh and fit it to become the clothing of the spiritual germ. As a seed clothes the vital germ and fits it to be planted in the earth, so Christ fitted the spiritual substance to be planted in his people. Man could never have known the things of God unless there had been such a mediator, such a nature, to stand immediately between the Spirit, God, and the brain-power of the race, so that man should be enabled to partake of the things of God and to materialize them, so to speak, into his fleshly substance – thus giving them clothing like those things that the human mind is accustomed to handling.

Certain experiences in modern life suggest this law; for instance, a person who is spiritually minded falls asleep, and during the sleep state, he dreams concerning spiritual things. The dream interests him intensely and it is so clear and so well defined that when he awakens, he thinks he shall be able to recall it all to mind, but he finds that he cannot recall any of the particulars, the powers of recollection cannot touch them. He feels the influence of the dream and seems to have drawn in a certain substance, but yet the mind cannot touch it. What does this mean? It means simply that the soul-consciousness has become almost, but not quite, able to control the physical consciousness. When the physical is dormant, the soul can think from the soul-world, but when the physical comes into activity, the qualities of the substance of which these thoughts are formed are too subtile for the action of the brain, and therefore they cannot be called into the brain. They cannot obey the call of the desire-mind.

Jesus came a member of that world of immortality, a world where the inhabitants live from the substance of the Spirit. “He took on him the seed of Abraham;” he lived in that fleshly body, he thought in it, controlled it and thus qualitated it by the power of the Spirit. He made for that Spirit a covering of the transmuted substance of flesh and blood, thus clothing the Spirit of God – making it a seed. We plant a kernel of wheat, composed apparently of very material substance, and it springs forth and grows. The material substance dies and disintegrates; but the life that is in it, that subtile, invisible, intangible something, gathers to itself like qualities and makes for itself a new body.

So the Christ came that he might take of the flesh and the blood of man to create a seed whose substance was spirit. This seed was planted in his people on the day of Pentecost, and like the kernel of wheat, it grew, matured, and multiplied and will continue to grow until the fulness of time comes, when the “harvest of the world” is gathered in – the harvest of the first planting of Christ, the Seed-man. (Mark 4:26-29)

Thus, Christ generated in the world, through the unity of Spirit and flesh, a quality that did not exist therein until his time – a superior quality belonging to a plane next beyond the plane of creative-life, or the spirit of the mundane. As the prophet said of him, “He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahveh shall prosper in his hand.” (Isaiah 53:10)

The force of the prophet’s words, “He shall see his seed”, was strengthened when he said, “More are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Yahveh”; for ultimately more will be the seed of the Christ-life – the union of Spirit with matter that took place in his body, by which sons and daughters of God are born – than the spirit of generation.

Again, “that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit”, that which was begotten in the Christ was spirit clothed with the substance of flesh. This subtile element of the thought-qualities of the Christ, planted in the race, in the lives of men and women, being a quality purer, higher, holier and therefore more potential, than had before existed in the race, made the spiritual potency of man more tenacious. Through this potency, and through this only, can immortality be attained; through it, and through it only, can mind be formed in man that will be able to know spirit and, at the same time, to know the things of earth. Through it, man, recognizing the Father, will unite with the Spirit of God, and become Immanuel, God with us, or God in us, God manifest in the flesh, “The Likeness of God.””

The Goal of Life, by Hiram Butler, 1908

Future Glider – Brian Bolger