Parables of Jesus
1st lecture January 26, 1949
What is Aquarian in the teachings of Jesus? We gather it from words and episodes along the way.
Was called the Son of God. Not so. Fruit of the human evolution; has completed the eating of the apple. Became fruit of. Baptism? in earlier ages.
The spiritual development of the evolution is under him. Dove? is legend?; but a closing of the circuit, Yes.
Jesus, the Lamb to God. The sheep. Having accepted the Ram as Father. Having learned how to shepherd over other sheep.
Samarian woman: the water of the understanding of Wisdom (or is Wisdom.) The water of the mind. It does answer, little by little, the great questions of life.
Illustrations? breaking down fixations. Soul evolution, not family or race.
Except ye become as little children
February 2, 1949
Why is the leadership of Jesus for the planet, regardless of this Age. Things Christianity has not touched. . . . Indications in the teachings of Jesus that go further than the usually accepted teachings.
The religion of the future must embrace the universe. Do you understand that your understanding in the future must be extended to more than kindness and brotherly love? , the main teaching of the Christian Church. (beyond the church) the evolution of the individual soul. Church teaches, love one another, and the importance of moral conduct.
In Christianity (or church) something of the continuity of life demonstrated.
We have learned life is a process, an unfoldment. That there is location. Re life after death of the body, Christianity does not tell you where, or what it is like; little that is factual or intelligent. Just heaven or hell.
The new religion will make patent to everyone who cares to know, the stages of life. Not only stages of mystical development here in earth, but types of life. A moving forward, parallel to what is being done in science and, to some extent, in psychology. If there is more than the physical it must be capable of demonstration, not taken on faith. The Age demands to know.
Some of the parables
- If ye observe not the little mystery, who will give ye the great? A process. The Bible is for the public. Mysteries, a type of religion which embraces more than the popular religions. Observing is a matter of doing.
- Seek for the great Mysteries and the little shall be added to you. Every Mystery, three stages. The soul learns what it is; begins to free itself from what is bad for it; and begins to live according to the pattern of the soul evolution. Then steps forth as a conscious soul.
We will attain what we seek because we do the things that will bring it to fruition.
- According to the Mysteries, for me? and for the sons of my house.Those who have attained, or are members of the order, lodge, to which the candidate has been initiated.
- Be ye approved money-changers, rejecting the bad, retaining the good. Discriminating what is desirable and progressive. Corrects the story in Genesis. (It is) ignorance which makes good things evil and gives wings? to that which is destructive. To become wise, we have to learn how to choose intelligently, and then to act on our choice. That is observing the Mysteries. It is important to discover what aids the development beyond the three-score, and what interferes with it. Learn to discriminate that which is useful, not merely in physical things, and act accordingly. Change that which is undesirable for that which is desirable.
- Wisdom sendeth forth her children. Wisdom, the most active thing in the universe. It is a dynamic, operative power, an eternal flux of energy; is continuously shaping and operating. Anyone who has it must be active.
- He that seeketh me shall find me in children from seven years onward; for hidden until I am manifested in the fourteenth period. Me, the Christ seed. The “Christ in you” is the seed for that stature, the potential. To evolve it, you have to go through the Mysteries, – stages that will bring it into manifestation.
The Christ Being is Jesus. The Christ plane is the plane on which (or to which) all the Enlightened Ones have access. “Child” here does not mean a childish, ignorant person. Means one who is open-minded. Seven, connected with the occult lore of this planet. Not static; continually transformed. At the time of fourteen it is manifest. That which was growing through the seven becomes manifest at the end of the second seven.
The motif of seven belongs to all the peoples on earth. Symbol of our octave and scale.
- Wherever there are two, they are not without God. The two aspects of being. You are living in two worlds at one time. When you know it, the two become one. Then there is power, male and female. The foundation on which consciousness of God can thrive. Very few know much about God. We have not yet learned mind humility. Only beginning to learn it. But when there is a development, so that there is power and dynamic in the self, a stage of two-ness, then there is power to know of God
- Raise the stone. Eternals. Cleave the wood. The germ of the higher life (is there); if we split it open. The door to the work I am doing with the deeper subconscious. When that is laid open there is the power, the dynamic, the radiation from the soul.
- A city built upon the top of a high hill can neither fall nor be hid. Hill, the growth upward you have built in yourself.
- Everything that is not before thy face, and that which is hidden from thee, shall be revealed. There is nothing hidden that shall not be made manifest. It cannot be revealed to the unprepared.
- Let not him who seeks cease until he finds. A completeness of our development. And he shall be astonished — mental astonishment.