Part II
“ The Pre-Fleshly State of Jesus”
“Eternally the Same”—It’s recorded in Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever.” No matter the condition of His physical substance, the fact that His nature is always the same is a Bible truth!
“No Beginning”—We are told about His pre-existent state in Hebrews 7:3 which states: “without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days not end of life, but made like the Son of God, he abides a priest perpetually.”
“Eternal Activities”—It is recorded in Micah 5:2 concerning Christ, “From you, one will go forth for me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.”
“Existed before the creation of the World”—John records in John 1:1, “In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.” (“Word”, in the Greek, is “Logos” in this verse. Vine describes it to mean “the expression of thought; not the mere idea of an object, but as an embodying a conception or idea.”
He also states “the absence of the article in each place lends stress to the nature and character of the relationship; His was the Shekinah glory in open manifestation.” {Vine’s New Testament Words, p. 231.}) John later recorded in John 17:5, Jesus praying to the Father: “And now, glorify thou me with Thyself, Father, with the Glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
“”Existed before Abraham”—When Jesus revealed to the Jews He was teaching in the eighth chapter of John’s Gospel, that Abraham had rejoiced to see the day of Jesus, they could not understand how He had seen Abraham. Jesus answered in John 8:58; “Truly, Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I Am.”
“Genealogy of Jesus Christ”—His complete genealogy through the Jewish bloodline of David, and right to God is recorded in Luke 3:23-38. His genealogy through His mother, Mary’s side is recorded in Matthew 1:1-17, showing His earthly bloodline.
Blessings!
Marked Elect
Monday, August 14, 2006
New Testament Salvation
“The Master’s Plan of Salvation according to The New Testament Theology”
Introduction
When the Old Testament Canon was completed, the reputation of God to man did not cease. Although God was silent for four hundred years after the Old Testament was completed, God again revealed Himself to man via The New Testament in the man of Jesus Christ. As the first two verses of the Book of Hebrews records, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also, He made the world.” The following verse continues to describe the expression of God, The Father, or God almighty, in the image of the Son, Jesus Christ, when it states, “And He is the radiance of His Glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the Word of His Power.”
Therefore, the Old and New Testaments should not be considered as two separate opposing books, but one entire revelation enshrining the Savior, Who is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
God is revealed in Jesus Christ primarily in the four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Since the Old Testament dealt mostly with Israel, the primary purpose of the Old Testament is to take the Gospel, or “Good News”, to all the world! The Gospels were presented to speak to specific groups; the Romans, the Greeks, the Jews, and those who had already embraced the Christian Faith.
None of any specific groups had reached satisfaction within their hearts by the various philosophies they were practicing at the time, and therefore, the world was ready for its Spiritual King! The Jews especially had been waiting for their long promised deliverer, all
Through the ages, but because of their traditional views of what their Messiah should be like, and act, the majority of them refused to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, which they had been waiting for, primarily because of the method by which He came into the world.
The message of Matthew presents an all sufficient Savior and a complete plan of saving Truth to the sinning generation of Jews. The message aimed at convincing the Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the King of Israel, who had been described in their Old Testament Scriptures. The book traces the generation of Jesus through the Jewish bloodline, all the way back to Abraham. References to the Jewish prophecies are often used so the Jews would recognize the fulfillment of prophecy in Jesus Christ. Matthew takes event and lumps them all together, but not as they happened.
The message of Mark was mostly directed towards converts from among Romans and Greeks. Since the Gentile converts would not be particularly interested in the blood line of Jesus, Mark gives no genealogy of Jesus. He satisfies their interest by stressing the actions of Jesus. He satisfies their interest by stressing the actions of Jesus more than the sayings. He records many miracles, but only touches on the parables. Bible scholars have virtually proven that Mark’s Gospel was the first one written, therefore is felt to be the purest, or most accurate, since both Matthew and Luke’s Gospel is to present Jesus Christ as the “Son of God” to the Gentile converts.
Luke, in writing his version of the Gospel, takes all of the events and happenings pertaining to Jesus, and puts them in order as the chronological order they happened. Although Luke’s message affected both Jew and Gentile, he primarily had the Greek in mind, because he presents Jesus as the image of perfection. As “Son of Man” and “Son of God,” interested in all men, both the cultured and uncultured. The Greeks elevated and perfected humanity by culture, wisdom, and beauty. Luke traces the genealogy of Jesus all the way back to Adam, but through the blood line of Mary, the human mother of Jesus, and he presented Him as “The Perfect Savior,” who came to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke’s Gospel is the most complete account of the life of Jesus surviving the Apostolic age. It was designed to be a full presentation of the Career of the Savior from His birth, and was part of a larger work, including the Book of Acts which describes the history of the transition from the Old Covenant to the new, or more explicitly, from Judaism to Jesus.
John, in his Gospel, wrote to all Christians everywhere, and expresses the Deity of Jesus Christ. He traces the genealogy of Jesus in the first few verses immediately, all the way back to God! John’s Gospel is the Gospel of Eternity, which is where the “Eternal Word” or ( Logos in Greek). The entire purpose of John’s message is to let the believer know and be sure “that he might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his Name.” ( John 20:31) John records that Jesus existed with The Father before the foundation of the world, and He was the Creation agent!
The Book of Hebrews was written, primarily as a record of the theology involved in the transition from the Old to the New Covenants. To date, it cannot be proven who the author of Hebrews was, but most Bible scholars recognize Pauline traits in the writing. The writings set up the ministry of Christ, as mediator, high priest and revealer of God. The book was primarily written to Christian Jews wavering between Christianity and Judaism.
Paul, in his epistles to the churches, which include Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First Timothy and Titus, explains the theology of Salvation by Grace through the sovereign love of God for His Elect, by His predestinated plan of redemption of the remission of all sin of the Elect by the shedding blood of Jesus Christ, who became sin for all who believe, and became the substitute for each of the Elect, dying in their place, paying the full price for the redemption. Paul was chosen by God to preach the Grace message to the Gentile world, and some of the greatest doctrines of Christian theology are presented in Paul’s letters, as 1, 2 and 3 John are letters to the churches for exhorting and correction. Jude is primarily to warn the church about the tares Jesus spoke about mixed in with wheat in a parable in Matthew which are false prophets.
The Book of Revelation was written to the Churches by John in exile on the Isle of Patmos. John reveals Christ as He was, is, and will be. The message was written in a form to inspire and instruct. It is a book of visions and prophecies which are still continuing to be fulfilled day be day, right before our very eyes.
The primary theme of The New Testament within the great amount of theology presented is best expressed in Jesus “the mediator of the New and Better Covenant.” (Hebrews 8:6; 12:24) Jesus told the disciples in John 10:37 “If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me,; but, if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.” Therefore, the New Testament reveals God in the person of Jesus Christ!
Part 1
“Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ”
Since the Old Testament prophets so often spoke under Divine inspiration about the coming Messiah, it is one of the scriptures, which fulfills the Old Testament prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. Therefore, before the actual details of the theology of the New Testament is given, the chronological fulfillment of the various subjects concerning Christ are recorded in scripture, as follows:
1. “Seed of a Woman”—The prophecy is spoken in Genesis 3:14 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” The fulfillment is recorded in Galatians 4:4. “But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law.”
2. “Seed of Abraham”—Genesis 12:3 records, “And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 1:1. “The book of generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.”
3. “ Seed of Isaac”—We are told in Genesis 17:19, “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my Covenant with him for an everlasting Covenant and with his seed after him.” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 3:34. “Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Terah, which was the son of Nahor.”
4. “Seed of Jacob”—Numbers 24:17 records, “I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 1:2, “Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Judas and his brethren.”
5. “From the tribe of Judah”—Genesis 49:10 records, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah; nor a law giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be,” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 3:33. “Which was the son of Am-min-a-dab, which was the son of Pharz, which was the son of Judah.”
6. “ Heir to the throne of David”—Isaiah prophecies in Isaiah 9:7, “of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The Zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 1:32, 33. “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of The Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
7. “Born in Bethlehem”—This fantastic prophecy is recorded in Mic. 5:2. “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. Luke records the fulfillment in Luke 1:32.
8. “Time for His birth”—The prophecy was recorded in Daniel 9:25 and fulfilled in Luke 2:12.
9. “To be born of a virgin”—Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 7:14, “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Im-Man-u-el. “The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 1:26, 27, 30, 31.
10. “Slaughter of the innocents”—This prophecy was recorded in Jeremiah 31:15 and fulfilled in Matthew 2:16-18.
11. “Flight to Egypt”—Hosea prophecies in Hos. 11:1, “When Israel was a child, then I lived him and called my son out of Egypt.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 2:14, 15.
12. “Proceeded by a forerunner”—John was the forerunner of Jesus, and the prophecy is recorded in Matthew 3:1 and fulfilled in Luke 7:24, 27.
13. “Declared the Son of God”—David wrote in the Psalms, Psalms 2:7, “I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have begotten thee.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 3:17, “and Lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
14. “Galilean Ministry”—This prophecy was recorded in Isaiah 9: 1,2 and fulfilled in Matthew 4:13-16.
15.“Jesus to be a prophet” Moses recorded this in Deut. 18: 15 and the fulfillment was recorded by Luke in Acts 3: 20-22.
16.“He came to heal the broken hearted”—The prophecy came in Isaiah 61: 102 and was recorded as being fulfilled in Luke 4:18-19.
17.“He was to be rejected by his own people, the Jews”—Isaiah recorded the prophecy in Isaiah 53:3, and John said in John 1:11 “He came unto his own, and His own received Him not.”
18.“ He was to be a priest—the Order of Melchizdek: This prophecy is recorded in Psalms 110:4 and fulfilled in Hebrews 5:5-6.
19.“Jesus’ triumphant entry”—was recorded in Zech. 9:9 and fulfilled in Mark 11: 7,9,11.
20.“Betrayed by a friend”—This was first recorded in Psalms 41:9, and the fulfillment was recorded in Luke 22:47-48, Judas being that friend who betrayed Him.
21.“Sold for thirty pieces of silver”—It was prophesied by Zechariah 11:12 and fulfilled in Matthew 26:15.
22.“Accused by false witnesses”—David spoke in Psalms 35:11, “Fake witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.” Mark recorded in Mark 14:57 “and there arose certain men who bare false witness against him.”
23.“Silent to accusations”—This was recorded in Isaiah 53:7 and fulfilled in Mark 15: 4-5, when Jesus stood before Pilate.
24.“Spit upon and smitten”—Seven hundred years before Jesus was born, Isaiah prophecies in Isaiah 50:6, “I gave my back to the smitters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.” The fulfillment happens as recorded in Matthew 26:67; “Then did they spit in my face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands.”
25.“Hated without reason”—This was recorded by David in Psalms 35: 19 and the fulfillment is recorded in John 15:24, 25.
26.“Vicarious Sacrifice”—Isaiah prophecies this in Isaiah 53:5, and the Apostle Paul records the fulfillment in Romans 5:6,8.
27.“Crucified with malefactors”—Again, this prophecy came by Isaiah in Is. 53:12 and the fulfillment was recorded in Mark 15:27, 28, where we’re told Jesus was crucified between two thieves.
28.“Pierced through in his hands and feet”—This prophecy was first recorded in Zechariah 12:10, and doubting Thomas saw the actual fulfillment, as recorded in John 20:7.
29.“Scorned and Mocked”—David recorded in Psalms 22:7; “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him: let Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted in Him.: The actual fulfillment is recorded in Luke 23: 35.
30.“Given vinegar and gall”—David, again, recorded in Psalms 69:21; “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.” Matthew records the fulfillment in Mt. 27:34. “They gave Him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall; and when He had tasted thereof, he would not drink.”
31.“Prayer for His enemies”—In Psalms 109:4 is recorded; “Foe my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer,” Luke records the fulfillment in Luke 23:34. “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”
32.“Soldiers gambled for his coat”—This prophecy was recorded in Psalms 22:17 and fulfilled in Mt. 27: 35,36.
33.“No Broken Bones”—David recorded in Psalms 34:20; “He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” This prophecy was fulfilled and is recorded in John 19:32,33,36 stating how the soldiers broke both of the thief’s legs crucified with Jesus, but, not his!
34.“His side was pierced”—This prophecy is recorded in Zechariah 12:10, and we’re told in John 19:34; “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and fore with came there out blood and water.”
35.“Buried with the rich”—We’re told in Isaiah 53:9; “And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.” The fulfillment recorded in Mat. 27:56-57 telling how Joseph, one of the disciples of Jesus put Him in his own tomb.
36.“To be resurrected”—David recorded the greatest prophecy which forms the hope of Christianity concerning the resurrection in Psalms 16:10. “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” Also, in Psalms 49:15 is recorded “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for He shall rescue me.” The fulfillment of the resurrection of Jesus is recorded in Mark 16:6,7.
37.His ascension to God’s right hand”—This prophecy is again, recorded by David in Psalms 68:18, and is fulfilled in Mark 16:19; 1 Corinthians 15:4, and Ephesians 4:8.
In light of all the recorded prophecies in the Old Testament being fulfilled in Jesus Christ, recorded in the New Testament, 2nd Timothy 3:16 certainly is reliable when it states ?All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God.” We should understand that God directed men and women, c hosen by Himself, to put into writing such messages, laws, doctrines, historical facts, and revelations as He wished men to know. This means that God Himself, or through His Holy Spirit told men He chose, just what to write! The Bible, then IS recorded words from God. God lives is people and through them, speaks and writes! But God speaking not only to, and through holy men of old, spoke in the New Testament to men by the person of Jesus who was “God manifest in the flesh.” (John 1:1-5, 14) In the Gospels, Jesus claimed that what He spoke, He spoke not of Himself, but that He spoke that which His Father Who sent His from Heaven gave Him to speak.
By all the fulfilled prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, we can see that God can write and speak, and therefore can tell others what to write and speak. We must compare the entire Bible for the whole picture of the revelation of God to man. “No prophecy of Scripture is of any PRIVATE interpretation. (2nd Peter 1:20)
Remembering, it is God Who writes the Scriptures: “The Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but by holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2nd Peter 1:21). We will proceed to the revelation of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament.
Blessings!
Marked Elect
Introduction
When the Old Testament Canon was completed, the reputation of God to man did not cease. Although God was silent for four hundred years after the Old Testament was completed, God again revealed Himself to man via The New Testament in the man of Jesus Christ. As the first two verses of the Book of Hebrews records, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also, He made the world.” The following verse continues to describe the expression of God, The Father, or God almighty, in the image of the Son, Jesus Christ, when it states, “And He is the radiance of His Glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the Word of His Power.”
Therefore, the Old and New Testaments should not be considered as two separate opposing books, but one entire revelation enshrining the Savior, Who is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
God is revealed in Jesus Christ primarily in the four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Since the Old Testament dealt mostly with Israel, the primary purpose of the Old Testament is to take the Gospel, or “Good News”, to all the world! The Gospels were presented to speak to specific groups; the Romans, the Greeks, the Jews, and those who had already embraced the Christian Faith.
None of any specific groups had reached satisfaction within their hearts by the various philosophies they were practicing at the time, and therefore, the world was ready for its Spiritual King! The Jews especially had been waiting for their long promised deliverer, all
Through the ages, but because of their traditional views of what their Messiah should be like, and act, the majority of them refused to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, which they had been waiting for, primarily because of the method by which He came into the world.
The message of Matthew presents an all sufficient Savior and a complete plan of saving Truth to the sinning generation of Jews. The message aimed at convincing the Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the King of Israel, who had been described in their Old Testament Scriptures. The book traces the generation of Jesus through the Jewish bloodline, all the way back to Abraham. References to the Jewish prophecies are often used so the Jews would recognize the fulfillment of prophecy in Jesus Christ. Matthew takes event and lumps them all together, but not as they happened.
The message of Mark was mostly directed towards converts from among Romans and Greeks. Since the Gentile converts would not be particularly interested in the blood line of Jesus, Mark gives no genealogy of Jesus. He satisfies their interest by stressing the actions of Jesus. He satisfies their interest by stressing the actions of Jesus more than the sayings. He records many miracles, but only touches on the parables. Bible scholars have virtually proven that Mark’s Gospel was the first one written, therefore is felt to be the purest, or most accurate, since both Matthew and Luke’s Gospel is to present Jesus Christ as the “Son of God” to the Gentile converts.
Luke, in writing his version of the Gospel, takes all of the events and happenings pertaining to Jesus, and puts them in order as the chronological order they happened. Although Luke’s message affected both Jew and Gentile, he primarily had the Greek in mind, because he presents Jesus as the image of perfection. As “Son of Man” and “Son of God,” interested in all men, both the cultured and uncultured. The Greeks elevated and perfected humanity by culture, wisdom, and beauty. Luke traces the genealogy of Jesus all the way back to Adam, but through the blood line of Mary, the human mother of Jesus, and he presented Him as “The Perfect Savior,” who came to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke’s Gospel is the most complete account of the life of Jesus surviving the Apostolic age. It was designed to be a full presentation of the Career of the Savior from His birth, and was part of a larger work, including the Book of Acts which describes the history of the transition from the Old Covenant to the new, or more explicitly, from Judaism to Jesus.
John, in his Gospel, wrote to all Christians everywhere, and expresses the Deity of Jesus Christ. He traces the genealogy of Jesus in the first few verses immediately, all the way back to God! John’s Gospel is the Gospel of Eternity, which is where the “Eternal Word” or ( Logos in Greek). The entire purpose of John’s message is to let the believer know and be sure “that he might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his Name.” ( John 20:31) John records that Jesus existed with The Father before the foundation of the world, and He was the Creation agent!
The Book of Hebrews was written, primarily as a record of the theology involved in the transition from the Old to the New Covenants. To date, it cannot be proven who the author of Hebrews was, but most Bible scholars recognize Pauline traits in the writing. The writings set up the ministry of Christ, as mediator, high priest and revealer of God. The book was primarily written to Christian Jews wavering between Christianity and Judaism.
Paul, in his epistles to the churches, which include Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First Timothy and Titus, explains the theology of Salvation by Grace through the sovereign love of God for His Elect, by His predestinated plan of redemption of the remission of all sin of the Elect by the shedding blood of Jesus Christ, who became sin for all who believe, and became the substitute for each of the Elect, dying in their place, paying the full price for the redemption. Paul was chosen by God to preach the Grace message to the Gentile world, and some of the greatest doctrines of Christian theology are presented in Paul’s letters, as 1, 2 and 3 John are letters to the churches for exhorting and correction. Jude is primarily to warn the church about the tares Jesus spoke about mixed in with wheat in a parable in Matthew which are false prophets.
The Book of Revelation was written to the Churches by John in exile on the Isle of Patmos. John reveals Christ as He was, is, and will be. The message was written in a form to inspire and instruct. It is a book of visions and prophecies which are still continuing to be fulfilled day be day, right before our very eyes.
The primary theme of The New Testament within the great amount of theology presented is best expressed in Jesus “the mediator of the New and Better Covenant.” (Hebrews 8:6; 12:24) Jesus told the disciples in John 10:37 “If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me,; but, if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.” Therefore, the New Testament reveals God in the person of Jesus Christ!
Part 1
“Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ”
Since the Old Testament prophets so often spoke under Divine inspiration about the coming Messiah, it is one of the scriptures, which fulfills the Old Testament prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. Therefore, before the actual details of the theology of the New Testament is given, the chronological fulfillment of the various subjects concerning Christ are recorded in scripture, as follows:
1. “Seed of a Woman”—The prophecy is spoken in Genesis 3:14 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” The fulfillment is recorded in Galatians 4:4. “But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law.”
2. “Seed of Abraham”—Genesis 12:3 records, “And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 1:1. “The book of generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.”
3. “ Seed of Isaac”—We are told in Genesis 17:19, “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my Covenant with him for an everlasting Covenant and with his seed after him.” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 3:34. “Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Terah, which was the son of Nahor.”
4. “Seed of Jacob”—Numbers 24:17 records, “I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 1:2, “Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Judas and his brethren.”
5. “From the tribe of Judah”—Genesis 49:10 records, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah; nor a law giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be,” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 3:33. “Which was the son of Am-min-a-dab, which was the son of Pharz, which was the son of Judah.”
6. “ Heir to the throne of David”—Isaiah prophecies in Isaiah 9:7, “of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The Zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.” The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 1:32, 33. “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of The Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
7. “Born in Bethlehem”—This fantastic prophecy is recorded in Mic. 5:2. “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. Luke records the fulfillment in Luke 1:32.
8. “Time for His birth”—The prophecy was recorded in Daniel 9:25 and fulfilled in Luke 2:12.
9. “To be born of a virgin”—Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 7:14, “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Im-Man-u-el. “The fulfillment is recorded in Luke 1:26, 27, 30, 31.
10. “Slaughter of the innocents”—This prophecy was recorded in Jeremiah 31:15 and fulfilled in Matthew 2:16-18.
11. “Flight to Egypt”—Hosea prophecies in Hos. 11:1, “When Israel was a child, then I lived him and called my son out of Egypt.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 2:14, 15.
12. “Proceeded by a forerunner”—John was the forerunner of Jesus, and the prophecy is recorded in Matthew 3:1 and fulfilled in Luke 7:24, 27.
13. “Declared the Son of God”—David wrote in the Psalms, Psalms 2:7, “I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have begotten thee.” The fulfillment is recorded in Matthew 3:17, “and Lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
14. “Galilean Ministry”—This prophecy was recorded in Isaiah 9: 1,2 and fulfilled in Matthew 4:13-16.
15.“Jesus to be a prophet” Moses recorded this in Deut. 18: 15 and the fulfillment was recorded by Luke in Acts 3: 20-22.
16.“He came to heal the broken hearted”—The prophecy came in Isaiah 61: 102 and was recorded as being fulfilled in Luke 4:18-19.
17.“He was to be rejected by his own people, the Jews”—Isaiah recorded the prophecy in Isaiah 53:3, and John said in John 1:11 “He came unto his own, and His own received Him not.”
18.“ He was to be a priest—the Order of Melchizdek: This prophecy is recorded in Psalms 110:4 and fulfilled in Hebrews 5:5-6.
19.“Jesus’ triumphant entry”—was recorded in Zech. 9:9 and fulfilled in Mark 11: 7,9,11.
20.“Betrayed by a friend”—This was first recorded in Psalms 41:9, and the fulfillment was recorded in Luke 22:47-48, Judas being that friend who betrayed Him.
21.“Sold for thirty pieces of silver”—It was prophesied by Zechariah 11:12 and fulfilled in Matthew 26:15.
22.“Accused by false witnesses”—David spoke in Psalms 35:11, “Fake witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.” Mark recorded in Mark 14:57 “and there arose certain men who bare false witness against him.”
23.“Silent to accusations”—This was recorded in Isaiah 53:7 and fulfilled in Mark 15: 4-5, when Jesus stood before Pilate.
24.“Spit upon and smitten”—Seven hundred years before Jesus was born, Isaiah prophecies in Isaiah 50:6, “I gave my back to the smitters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.” The fulfillment happens as recorded in Matthew 26:67; “Then did they spit in my face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands.”
25.“Hated without reason”—This was recorded by David in Psalms 35: 19 and the fulfillment is recorded in John 15:24, 25.
26.“Vicarious Sacrifice”—Isaiah prophecies this in Isaiah 53:5, and the Apostle Paul records the fulfillment in Romans 5:6,8.
27.“Crucified with malefactors”—Again, this prophecy came by Isaiah in Is. 53:12 and the fulfillment was recorded in Mark 15:27, 28, where we’re told Jesus was crucified between two thieves.
28.“Pierced through in his hands and feet”—This prophecy was first recorded in Zechariah 12:10, and doubting Thomas saw the actual fulfillment, as recorded in John 20:7.
29.“Scorned and Mocked”—David recorded in Psalms 22:7; “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him: let Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted in Him.: The actual fulfillment is recorded in Luke 23: 35.
30.“Given vinegar and gall”—David, again, recorded in Psalms 69:21; “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.” Matthew records the fulfillment in Mt. 27:34. “They gave Him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall; and when He had tasted thereof, he would not drink.”
31.“Prayer for His enemies”—In Psalms 109:4 is recorded; “Foe my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer,” Luke records the fulfillment in Luke 23:34. “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”
32.“Soldiers gambled for his coat”—This prophecy was recorded in Psalms 22:17 and fulfilled in Mt. 27: 35,36.
33.“No Broken Bones”—David recorded in Psalms 34:20; “He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” This prophecy was fulfilled and is recorded in John 19:32,33,36 stating how the soldiers broke both of the thief’s legs crucified with Jesus, but, not his!
34.“His side was pierced”—This prophecy is recorded in Zechariah 12:10, and we’re told in John 19:34; “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and fore with came there out blood and water.”
35.“Buried with the rich”—We’re told in Isaiah 53:9; “And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.” The fulfillment recorded in Mat. 27:56-57 telling how Joseph, one of the disciples of Jesus put Him in his own tomb.
36.“To be resurrected”—David recorded the greatest prophecy which forms the hope of Christianity concerning the resurrection in Psalms 16:10. “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” Also, in Psalms 49:15 is recorded “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for He shall rescue me.” The fulfillment of the resurrection of Jesus is recorded in Mark 16:6,7.
37.His ascension to God’s right hand”—This prophecy is again, recorded by David in Psalms 68:18, and is fulfilled in Mark 16:19; 1 Corinthians 15:4, and Ephesians 4:8.
In light of all the recorded prophecies in the Old Testament being fulfilled in Jesus Christ, recorded in the New Testament, 2nd Timothy 3:16 certainly is reliable when it states ?All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God.” We should understand that God directed men and women, c hosen by Himself, to put into writing such messages, laws, doctrines, historical facts, and revelations as He wished men to know. This means that God Himself, or through His Holy Spirit told men He chose, just what to write! The Bible, then IS recorded words from God. God lives is people and through them, speaks and writes! But God speaking not only to, and through holy men of old, spoke in the New Testament to men by the person of Jesus who was “God manifest in the flesh.” (John 1:1-5, 14) In the Gospels, Jesus claimed that what He spoke, He spoke not of Himself, but that He spoke that which His Father Who sent His from Heaven gave Him to speak.
By all the fulfilled prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, we can see that God can write and speak, and therefore can tell others what to write and speak. We must compare the entire Bible for the whole picture of the revelation of God to man. “No prophecy of Scripture is of any PRIVATE interpretation. (2nd Peter 1:20)
Remembering, it is God Who writes the Scriptures: “The Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but by holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2nd Peter 1:21). We will proceed to the revelation of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament.
Blessings!
Marked Elect
Rosicrucian Wisdom
The “secret” of success in all things having a mental foundation is genuine confidence. Through real confidence, not “blind” faith, trust, or mere belief, we are led to the attainment of Mastership.
To continue our Spiritual advancement, we much maintain a tolerant, sympathetic, and open mind, free from rigid dogmatism, bigotry, or narrow conventionalism. LOVE IS THE SUPREME SPIRITUAL LAW. It is the essence of existence, the most dynamic force in the Universe, and the ultimate rule and guide in everything!
In the beginning was the IDEA, which manifested from the Cosmic Mind into space as represented by vibrations of the WORD. The Mind of man, collectively, is the simple Mind of the Universe. Therefore, each man has the essence and power of God, and is God personified.
The subconscious mind is from birth the body’s Chief Executive, while the objective mind is the inexperienced trainee, learning the “business” of the body. Conflict between the maturing Outer Objective Master and Inner Subjective Manager must be overcome, and harmony, trust, and confidence established between then as a result of mutuality of purpose and fuller understanding of each other’s nature and function.
As long as the outer man remains tolerant, kind, loving, unselfish, and high in ideals, he needs only to ask for help from the inner, spiritual plane and IT IS GIVEN! This outer man, the objective mind, also serves as the “receiving clerk” in the great factory, we call the Body. Each hour of the day it receives, through one of the five entrances, strange cargoes of materials. Over each entrance is a different sign, to which the materials are consigned. The signs read: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Feeling, and Tasting. The materials received are called “experiences,” and each is slightly different. As the outer man examines these shipments, these experiences, he finds most of them new and often puzzling to him. He should try to figure out how they should be used and what their value is. In doing so, sometimes he makes the sad mistake of putting too much importance on some, and not enough on others. This brings inefficiency in the factory, the Body, and causes problems. Only final intervention of the Chief Executive, the INNER MIND, saves the machinery of the factory from severe damage when such mistakes happen. The outer man learns, but often very painfully, by conferences with the Inner Man about these “Experiences, which are arriving daily. The key to solving these problems, is to set up “CONFERENCES” with the Inner Man and outer man, and discuss the “Experiences” which will result in the UNITY of man with the Cosmic, for the inner man is the mind and soul of the Cosmic! These “conference” meetings between the inner and outer men, may be called “Prayer and Meditation.”
Successful conferences will strength the principal attribute of the soul, which, when united with the body, is its consciousness of itself. This manifests as the inner “self consciousness”, the true self, or the PERSONALITY of each human being. We should understand that this personality, this consciousness of the soul, evolves in its cycles of births and rebirths, just as does the individual body of man evolves from infanthood to adulthood strength and power. However, whereas the body of man begins brand new in its expression with EACH birth, the soul personality, on the other hand, PROGRESSES from one incarnation to another, always beginning where it ended each phase of its evolution!
The function of the “Soul Personality” in each incarnation is to evolve and perfect itself. The soul in man is the Cosmic Soul, and the Soul’s attributes are those of the Cosmic and are ultimate perfection. The essence of Soul has always been in the Universe, but when man first evolved to the point where his Inner Self comprehended the Soul Essence, man added to that essence a Supreme Mind and Attributes, and Ideal of Perfection and Highest Attainment, and therefore, he created God in the world of realities!
Our behavior, that is, our response to our consciousness of the Soul, constitutes our
soul personality. The evolution of this personality will continue until we emerge into complete unity with the Consciousness of the Cosmic Creator.
The God of today, in our comprehension and consciousness, will not be the God of next year, FOR GOD WILL EVOLVE AS CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE SOUL EVOLVES! This evolution will continue until man becomes FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE COSMIC, AND THEN THE DUALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS WILL BE UNITY WITH THE COSMIC. This unity with the Cosmic is as Jesus once said: “I and the Father are One.”
Blessings!
Marked Elect
To continue our Spiritual advancement, we much maintain a tolerant, sympathetic, and open mind, free from rigid dogmatism, bigotry, or narrow conventionalism. LOVE IS THE SUPREME SPIRITUAL LAW. It is the essence of existence, the most dynamic force in the Universe, and the ultimate rule and guide in everything!
In the beginning was the IDEA, which manifested from the Cosmic Mind into space as represented by vibrations of the WORD. The Mind of man, collectively, is the simple Mind of the Universe. Therefore, each man has the essence and power of God, and is God personified.
The subconscious mind is from birth the body’s Chief Executive, while the objective mind is the inexperienced trainee, learning the “business” of the body. Conflict between the maturing Outer Objective Master and Inner Subjective Manager must be overcome, and harmony, trust, and confidence established between then as a result of mutuality of purpose and fuller understanding of each other’s nature and function.
As long as the outer man remains tolerant, kind, loving, unselfish, and high in ideals, he needs only to ask for help from the inner, spiritual plane and IT IS GIVEN! This outer man, the objective mind, also serves as the “receiving clerk” in the great factory, we call the Body. Each hour of the day it receives, through one of the five entrances, strange cargoes of materials. Over each entrance is a different sign, to which the materials are consigned. The signs read: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Feeling, and Tasting. The materials received are called “experiences,” and each is slightly different. As the outer man examines these shipments, these experiences, he finds most of them new and often puzzling to him. He should try to figure out how they should be used and what their value is. In doing so, sometimes he makes the sad mistake of putting too much importance on some, and not enough on others. This brings inefficiency in the factory, the Body, and causes problems. Only final intervention of the Chief Executive, the INNER MIND, saves the machinery of the factory from severe damage when such mistakes happen. The outer man learns, but often very painfully, by conferences with the Inner Man about these “Experiences, which are arriving daily. The key to solving these problems, is to set up “CONFERENCES” with the Inner Man and outer man, and discuss the “Experiences” which will result in the UNITY of man with the Cosmic, for the inner man is the mind and soul of the Cosmic! These “conference” meetings between the inner and outer men, may be called “Prayer and Meditation.”
Successful conferences will strength the principal attribute of the soul, which, when united with the body, is its consciousness of itself. This manifests as the inner “self consciousness”, the true self, or the PERSONALITY of each human being. We should understand that this personality, this consciousness of the soul, evolves in its cycles of births and rebirths, just as does the individual body of man evolves from infanthood to adulthood strength and power. However, whereas the body of man begins brand new in its expression with EACH birth, the soul personality, on the other hand, PROGRESSES from one incarnation to another, always beginning where it ended each phase of its evolution!
The function of the “Soul Personality” in each incarnation is to evolve and perfect itself. The soul in man is the Cosmic Soul, and the Soul’s attributes are those of the Cosmic and are ultimate perfection. The essence of Soul has always been in the Universe, but when man first evolved to the point where his Inner Self comprehended the Soul Essence, man added to that essence a Supreme Mind and Attributes, and Ideal of Perfection and Highest Attainment, and therefore, he created God in the world of realities!
Our behavior, that is, our response to our consciousness of the Soul, constitutes our
soul personality. The evolution of this personality will continue until we emerge into complete unity with the Consciousness of the Cosmic Creator.
The God of today, in our comprehension and consciousness, will not be the God of next year, FOR GOD WILL EVOLVE AS CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE SOUL EVOLVES! This evolution will continue until man becomes FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE COSMIC, AND THEN THE DUALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS WILL BE UNITY WITH THE COSMIC. This unity with the Cosmic is as Jesus once said: “I and the Father are One.”
Blessings!
Marked Elect
“The Last Months of Jesus’ Earthly Ministry”
The miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead in the tomb wrapped in grave cloths is recorded in John 11:1-46. The Jews plotted to kill Jesus from this time on, because many of their followers were being converted to Jesus after hearing of this miracle. They also wanted to kill Lazarus to “dispose of the evidence” of the miracle! Jesus then retired to the city of Ephraim, (John 11:54).
He healed a woman who had been afflicted by a demonic spirit causing her to be bent over. This had gone on for 18 years, and as Jesus laid his hands on her, she was immediately healed! (Luke 13:10-17). He also healed a man with Dropsy, (Luke 14:1-6). Both of these healings, as usual, caused a lot of commotion among the Pharisees. He then rebukes the disciples for trying to pick their place in Heaven. (Luke 14:7-14).
Jesus then preaches on various parables recorded in Luke’s Gospel. The parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:15-24), which Jesus sends workers out in the highways and by-ways to “compel” sinners to come taste of His dinner. The discourse on “Counting the Cost” in Luke 14: 25-33, teaches in order to be a true disciple of Jesus, we must put Him first above everything else and follow HIM. The parable of the “Lost Coin”, (Luke 15:8-10), teaches the joy in Heaven over a single repentant sinner. The parable of the “Prodigal Son” (Luke 15: 11-32), teaches the love the Father has for His children who repent and come home to HIM! The parable of the “Unjust Steward”, (Luke 16: 1-13), teaches us to be good stewards of the blessings and knowledge that God gives us. “The Parable of Dives and Lazarus”, (Luke 16:19-31), teaches that there is a literal Heaven and Hell, separated by an uncross able gulf, which, after arriving at either place, becomes too late to make any further decisions on the outcome of being there. It also teaches that the conditions of the next life may be a complete reversal of the conditions of this life! Jesus then teaches on forbearance, faith, humility, (Luke 17: 20-37), and talks about His second coming, (Luke 17: 20-37).
The parables of the unjust; the Pharisee and the Publican are recorded in Luke 18: 1-14 and teaches that complete humility and dependency on God are required in order to receive forgiveness. Jesus taught on divorce, but He put up with it because of the hardness of their hearts by His mercy. In Matthew 19: 16-30, He taught about the “rich young ruler” who would do anything to go to Heaven, “except” give up the “most” important thing in his life; his riches! The parable of “The laborers in the Vineyard”, (Mat. 20: 1-16), teaches that it does not matter what age in God’s time span true believers have lived, but all receive the same pay: ETERNAL LIFE!!
Jesus foretells of His future sufferings (Luke 18: 31-34). He heals two more blind men , (Mark 10: 46-52), and then calls him down and goes to his house for a meal bringing him salvation. The parable of “The Ten Pounds” (Luke 19: 11-37), teaches that the believers have to make the best use possible for God’s work, or they will loose the authority to work in God’s kingdom. This authenticates the true from the false disciples. The anointing of Jesus by the woman with an alabaster vial of costly perfume while at Simon, the leper’s house (Mark 14: 3-9), brings to a close the last months of Jesus’ evangelizing ministry in His “fleshly tabernacle.”
Blessings!
Marked Elect
The miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead in the tomb wrapped in grave cloths is recorded in John 11:1-46. The Jews plotted to kill Jesus from this time on, because many of their followers were being converted to Jesus after hearing of this miracle. They also wanted to kill Lazarus to “dispose of the evidence” of the miracle! Jesus then retired to the city of Ephraim, (John 11:54).
He healed a woman who had been afflicted by a demonic spirit causing her to be bent over. This had gone on for 18 years, and as Jesus laid his hands on her, she was immediately healed! (Luke 13:10-17). He also healed a man with Dropsy, (Luke 14:1-6). Both of these healings, as usual, caused a lot of commotion among the Pharisees. He then rebukes the disciples for trying to pick their place in Heaven. (Luke 14:7-14).
Jesus then preaches on various parables recorded in Luke’s Gospel. The parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:15-24), which Jesus sends workers out in the highways and by-ways to “compel” sinners to come taste of His dinner. The discourse on “Counting the Cost” in Luke 14: 25-33, teaches in order to be a true disciple of Jesus, we must put Him first above everything else and follow HIM. The parable of the “Lost Coin”, (Luke 15:8-10), teaches the joy in Heaven over a single repentant sinner. The parable of the “Prodigal Son” (Luke 15: 11-32), teaches the love the Father has for His children who repent and come home to HIM! The parable of the “Unjust Steward”, (Luke 16: 1-13), teaches us to be good stewards of the blessings and knowledge that God gives us. “The Parable of Dives and Lazarus”, (Luke 16:19-31), teaches that there is a literal Heaven and Hell, separated by an uncross able gulf, which, after arriving at either place, becomes too late to make any further decisions on the outcome of being there. It also teaches that the conditions of the next life may be a complete reversal of the conditions of this life! Jesus then teaches on forbearance, faith, humility, (Luke 17: 20-37), and talks about His second coming, (Luke 17: 20-37).
The parables of the unjust; the Pharisee and the Publican are recorded in Luke 18: 1-14 and teaches that complete humility and dependency on God are required in order to receive forgiveness. Jesus taught on divorce, but He put up with it because of the hardness of their hearts by His mercy. In Matthew 19: 16-30, He taught about the “rich young ruler” who would do anything to go to Heaven, “except” give up the “most” important thing in his life; his riches! The parable of “The laborers in the Vineyard”, (Mat. 20: 1-16), teaches that it does not matter what age in God’s time span true believers have lived, but all receive the same pay: ETERNAL LIFE!!
Jesus foretells of His future sufferings (Luke 18: 31-34). He heals two more blind men , (Mark 10: 46-52), and then calls him down and goes to his house for a meal bringing him salvation. The parable of “The Ten Pounds” (Luke 19: 11-37), teaches that the believers have to make the best use possible for God’s work, or they will loose the authority to work in God’s kingdom. This authenticates the true from the false disciples. The anointing of Jesus by the woman with an alabaster vial of costly perfume while at Simon, the leper’s house (Mark 14: 3-9), brings to a close the last months of Jesus’ evangelizing ministry in His “fleshly tabernacle.”
Blessings!
Marked Elect
HIDAYATNAMA from Sar Bachan
HIDAYATNAMA
(ESOTERIC ..INSTRUCTIONS)
'REVELATION GIVEN OUT IN THE COURSE OF TEACHINGS IMPARTED ABOUT THE VALUE OF ASSOCIATION WITH, AND SERVICE OF, THE PERFECT GUIDE, AND ABOUT THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF ADEPTS, AND INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF SHABD, AND THE SECRETS OF SHABD MARG (YOGA), AND THE VARIOUS STAGES ASSOCIATEDWITH IT.
This discourse is meant for those who are desirous of finding the Supreme Being, and who are true seekers and want to know which religion is the highest and what path is the most sure and direct. They should minimise their worldly attachments. In other words, leaving the care for wealth, wife and children to fate, they should give paramount importance to the company of saintly persons. And out of saintly persons, the company of that Adept should be adopted who is a practitioner of Surat Shabd or of Drisht; (sight), that is to say, who is conversant with the technique of the Yoga of Surat Shabd, has perfected the practice of withdrawing the spirit currents from the pupils of the two eyes, and of uniting them ; and who performs the practice of raising the spirit, by hearing, internally, celestial sounds.
In case an Adept of this class is not available, they should search out one who performs the practice of `striking the solar plexus with Name' (repeating the Holy Name in a particular manner at the heart centre), or one who performs the practice of 'breath control'.
The company of such a person would: also purify the heart, curb evil propensities and confer some inner joy. But the ascension of the spirit can be achieved through the practice of Surat Shabd Yoga alone.
It behoves the seeker to develop love and devotion for such a personge, to perform His service with zeal, to solicit His attention and kindness by rendering service of all kinds with body, mind and wealth, and to gaze at His eyes continuously for an hour or two, without letting the eye-lids close, as long as possible.
The duration of this practice should be prolonged day by day. Whenever He casts His benign gaze on you, your heart will be purified. When, in His grace, He initiates you into the secrets and methods of the practice referred to above, your spirit will begin to catch hold of the celestial sounds. You should perform this practice daily, twice,,four times or as many times as you find time. If your mind gives rise to delusions and wanderings, prayers should be offered to Sant Sat Guru and the practice should be performed with greater effort. Guru's kindness and your application would certainly result in progress day by day. It is not proper to be hasty or impatient, because haste makes waste, and is characteristic of the devil.
Whatever is achieved gradually is beneficial, and what ever is acquired pronto does not last, because such an acquisition is the gift of Satan. Whatever is obtained from the Merciful Guru endures. All this refers to external modes of devotion. The inner state and the stages to which Sants have access are described below.
When your eye turns inward in the brain and you see the firmament within, and your spirit leaves the body and rises upward, you will see the Akash in which is located Sahas-dal-kanwal, the thousand petals of which perform the various functions pertaining to the three worlds. Its effulgence will exhilarate your spirit. You will at that stage, witness Niranjan, the lord of three worlds. Several religions which attained this stage and took the deity hereof to be the lord of all, were duped. Seeing the light and refulgence of this region they felt satiated. Their progress was stopped. They did not find the guide to higher regions. Hence they could not proceed further.
At the apex of this Akash, there is a passage which is very small like the eye of a needle. Your Surat (spirit) should penetrate this eye. Further on, there is Banknal, the crooked path, which goes straight and then downward and again upwards. Beyond this passage comes the second stage.
Trikuti (Region having three prominences) is situated here. It is one Lakhi Yojan2 in length and one Lakh Yojan in width. There are numerous varieties of glories and spectacles at that plane which are difficult to describe. Thousands of suns and moons look pale in comparison to the light there. All the time, melodious sounds of Ong Ong and Hoo Hoo, and the sounds resembling thunder of clouds, reverberate there. On attaining this region, the spirit becomes very happy, and purified and subtle.
From here onward, it becomes cognizant of the spiritual regions.
After having enjoyed the bliss of this region for some time, the spirit goes up one crorel Yojans and reaches Sunn, the third stage. Mohammedan Fagirs (Saints) bare called it "Lahoot." It is indescribable. Here, the spirits enjoy great beatitude. The refulgence of this region is twelve times that of Trikuti.
Pure pools of ambrosia, called . "Mansarovar", abound here. There are innumerable flower pots and gardens. Spirits,, like beauties, dance at various places. There are pleasing and sweet victuals, all savoury and fresh, and sonorous and musical strains can be heard every where. All this bliss can be experienced by the spirit only when it reaches there. It cannot be described. At every place, fountains of nectar are at play; in other words, pools of nectar are overflowing and streams of nectar are gushing out. How can one describe the splendour and decoration of this region ? There are platforms of diamonds, beds of emeralds and plants of jewels, all studded with rubies and precious stones. Bejewelled fish, swimming in pools there, display their beauty and ornamentation and their glitter and sheen attract attention. Beyond this, there are innumerable palaces of caystals and mirrors, in which spirit enities reside at their respective spots, as allocated by the Lord. They witness and exhibit ever changing revels. In Hindi, they have been described as "Hansa Mandlies''. The decoration and embellishment of these regions can be appreciated only by seeing them. The entire creation there is purely spiritual. It is Free from material constituents. The denizens, there, are spiritual and free from
physical taints. Full particulars of these regions are known only to Sants. It is not meet to describe them in greater detail.
Having sojourned there and having enjoyed the glory thereof for a very long time, the spirit of ` this Faqir moved on, in accordance with the instructions of the Guides. After traversing five arab and seventy-five crore yojans upward, the spirit entity effected ingress into the bounds of Hahoot and witnessed the panorama of that region. There an expanse of ten Neel is enveloped in darkness.
The depth of this dark region cannot be fathomed. The spirit went down one kharao yojans, still the bottom was nowhere to be found. Then the spirit turned upward and proceeded on the path chalked out by Guru. It was not considered advisable to go down right to the bottom of this region I his region is called Maha-sunn There are four extremely subtle sub-regions there, the secrets whereof have not been revealed by any Sant. There are prison cells for the condemned spirits, ejected from the court of the True Supreme Being. Although these spirits are not subjected to any trouble and they perform their functions by their own light, yet, as they do not get the Darshan of the Lord, they are restless. However, there is a way of their remission also. Whenever Sants happen to pass that way with spirits reclaimed from the lower regions, some of these spirits fortunately get Their Darshan. Such spirits go along with the Sants who very gladly take them to the court of the Lord and get them pardoned.
The spirit, thereafter, went to Hootal Hoot, which, in Hindi, has been described as Bhanwargupha. There is a rotating swing here which is all the time in subtle motion, and the spirits ever swing on it. All round, there are innumerable spiritual islands from which the sounds of "Sohang Sohang" and "Anahoo Anahoo" rise all the time. Spirit entities playfully and rapturously enjoy these sounds. Other characteristics of this region cannot be reduced to writing, as they can be realized by the spirit only when it reaches there by performing Abhyas. Hence it is necessary to continue the practice of this mode of devotion and it is called the Shabd (sound) practice. Do not give it up.
Having witnessed the spectacle of this region, the spirit entity proceeded upward and went on ascending. Whiffs of scents of various kinds and sweet fragrance of sandal were enjoyed by the spirit and the melodies of flutes were heard, while it proceeded onward. On crossing this plane, the spirit entity reached the outpost of Sat Lok, where melodious sounds or "Sat Sat" and "Haq Haq" were heard coming out of the Bin'. On hearing this, the spirit penetrated further rapturously.
There rose to view silver and golden streams full of nectar, and vast gardens, each tree there of being one crore-Yojans in height. Crores of suns and moons hang from them as flowers and fruits. Innumerable spirits and Hansas sing, chatter and play on those reel like birds. The wondrous beauty of this region 1s ineffable. While enjoying it, the spirit entered Sat and came into the presence of Sat Purush.
Now as regards the glory of the person of Sat Purush, each hair of His is so brilliant that crores of suns and moons look pale in comparison. When such is the refulgence of each hair, how is it possible to describe the glory of all His hair, and where are the words to describe the beauty and glory of His entire person ? How can one describe His eyes, nose, ears, face, hands and feet ? They are all nothing but refulgence ; even to describe them as oceans of refulgence does not give even he remotest idea.
The expanse of Sat Lok is one padam Palang, a palang being equal to Triloki in vastness. Hence it is -difficult to imagine the stupendous vastness of Sat Lok. here dwell spirit entities called Hansas who enjoy the Darshan of Sat Purush, hear the music of the Bin and -partake of ambrosial food.
After witnessing the glory of this region, the spirit proceeded to Alakh Lok and got Darshan of Alakh -Purush. The expanse of this region is one sankh, and each hair of Alakh Purush has the effulgence of arab kharab suns.
Thereafter the spirit entity went on and attained gam Lok, which is Maha Sankh4 Palang in expanse and the magnitude of the person of Again Purush equals crore Sankhs. The forms of Hansas of this region are amazingly wondrous, and the state of ecstasy and bliss that obtains there passes description. The spirit entity sojourned there for a long time and, on going beyond, it got the Darshan of Radhasoami, that is, Anami Purush, and merged in Him. Radhasoami Dham is boundless, infinite, endless and immeasurable. It is the fm ma Nij Sthan, the special resting place of Sants. (Fagirs). That region is the Ultima Thule of all Sants and all speech and description end here. I also conclude here..
So great and exalted is the status of Sants (Fagirs). Hence, how can the followers of all those who stopped at the very first stage, calling it limitless and boundless,. be convinced of the existence of these higher regions ?
No one but Sants and perfect Faqirs knows them. Only those who have met Sants and Fagirs can be convinced about the existence of these regions, provided that they have faith in Their words. Neither the Prophet nor, Vyas and Vashishtha knew of these regions. Hence no Hindu or Muslim can believe in their existence.
It is, not desirable to tell them about this, because they are fettered by the teachings of the Prophet and Quran, and. Hindus are slaves of Vyas, Vashishtha and the Vedas. They cannot even tolerate hearing these words.
As such,. communication of this revelation will do good only to those persons who have faith and belief in the words of Sants and who accept that the status of Sants is exalted above all and that Sants are, in fact, the creators of Khuda and Parmeshwar (God). For this reason, this secret should not be divulged to any one until and unless faith and conviction have been ascertained as conforming to what has been stated above.
(ESOTERIC ..INSTRUCTIONS)
'REVELATION GIVEN OUT IN THE COURSE OF TEACHINGS IMPARTED ABOUT THE VALUE OF ASSOCIATION WITH, AND SERVICE OF, THE PERFECT GUIDE, AND ABOUT THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF ADEPTS, AND INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF SHABD, AND THE SECRETS OF SHABD MARG (YOGA), AND THE VARIOUS STAGES ASSOCIATEDWITH IT.
This discourse is meant for those who are desirous of finding the Supreme Being, and who are true seekers and want to know which religion is the highest and what path is the most sure and direct. They should minimise their worldly attachments. In other words, leaving the care for wealth, wife and children to fate, they should give paramount importance to the company of saintly persons. And out of saintly persons, the company of that Adept should be adopted who is a practitioner of Surat Shabd or of Drisht; (sight), that is to say, who is conversant with the technique of the Yoga of Surat Shabd, has perfected the practice of withdrawing the spirit currents from the pupils of the two eyes, and of uniting them ; and who performs the practice of raising the spirit, by hearing, internally, celestial sounds.
In case an Adept of this class is not available, they should search out one who performs the practice of `striking the solar plexus with Name' (repeating the Holy Name in a particular manner at the heart centre), or one who performs the practice of 'breath control'.
The company of such a person would: also purify the heart, curb evil propensities and confer some inner joy. But the ascension of the spirit can be achieved through the practice of Surat Shabd Yoga alone.
It behoves the seeker to develop love and devotion for such a personge, to perform His service with zeal, to solicit His attention and kindness by rendering service of all kinds with body, mind and wealth, and to gaze at His eyes continuously for an hour or two, without letting the eye-lids close, as long as possible.
The duration of this practice should be prolonged day by day. Whenever He casts His benign gaze on you, your heart will be purified. When, in His grace, He initiates you into the secrets and methods of the practice referred to above, your spirit will begin to catch hold of the celestial sounds. You should perform this practice daily, twice,,four times or as many times as you find time. If your mind gives rise to delusions and wanderings, prayers should be offered to Sant Sat Guru and the practice should be performed with greater effort. Guru's kindness and your application would certainly result in progress day by day. It is not proper to be hasty or impatient, because haste makes waste, and is characteristic of the devil.
Whatever is achieved gradually is beneficial, and what ever is acquired pronto does not last, because such an acquisition is the gift of Satan. Whatever is obtained from the Merciful Guru endures. All this refers to external modes of devotion. The inner state and the stages to which Sants have access are described below.
When your eye turns inward in the brain and you see the firmament within, and your spirit leaves the body and rises upward, you will see the Akash in which is located Sahas-dal-kanwal, the thousand petals of which perform the various functions pertaining to the three worlds. Its effulgence will exhilarate your spirit. You will at that stage, witness Niranjan, the lord of three worlds. Several religions which attained this stage and took the deity hereof to be the lord of all, were duped. Seeing the light and refulgence of this region they felt satiated. Their progress was stopped. They did not find the guide to higher regions. Hence they could not proceed further.
At the apex of this Akash, there is a passage which is very small like the eye of a needle. Your Surat (spirit) should penetrate this eye. Further on, there is Banknal, the crooked path, which goes straight and then downward and again upwards. Beyond this passage comes the second stage.
Trikuti (Region having three prominences) is situated here. It is one Lakhi Yojan2 in length and one Lakh Yojan in width. There are numerous varieties of glories and spectacles at that plane which are difficult to describe. Thousands of suns and moons look pale in comparison to the light there. All the time, melodious sounds of Ong Ong and Hoo Hoo, and the sounds resembling thunder of clouds, reverberate there. On attaining this region, the spirit becomes very happy, and purified and subtle.
From here onward, it becomes cognizant of the spiritual regions.
After having enjoyed the bliss of this region for some time, the spirit goes up one crorel Yojans and reaches Sunn, the third stage. Mohammedan Fagirs (Saints) bare called it "Lahoot." It is indescribable. Here, the spirits enjoy great beatitude. The refulgence of this region is twelve times that of Trikuti.
Pure pools of ambrosia, called . "Mansarovar", abound here. There are innumerable flower pots and gardens. Spirits,, like beauties, dance at various places. There are pleasing and sweet victuals, all savoury and fresh, and sonorous and musical strains can be heard every where. All this bliss can be experienced by the spirit only when it reaches there. It cannot be described. At every place, fountains of nectar are at play; in other words, pools of nectar are overflowing and streams of nectar are gushing out. How can one describe the splendour and decoration of this region ? There are platforms of diamonds, beds of emeralds and plants of jewels, all studded with rubies and precious stones. Bejewelled fish, swimming in pools there, display their beauty and ornamentation and their glitter and sheen attract attention. Beyond this, there are innumerable palaces of caystals and mirrors, in which spirit enities reside at their respective spots, as allocated by the Lord. They witness and exhibit ever changing revels. In Hindi, they have been described as "Hansa Mandlies''. The decoration and embellishment of these regions can be appreciated only by seeing them. The entire creation there is purely spiritual. It is Free from material constituents. The denizens, there, are spiritual and free from
physical taints. Full particulars of these regions are known only to Sants. It is not meet to describe them in greater detail.
Having sojourned there and having enjoyed the glory thereof for a very long time, the spirit of ` this Faqir moved on, in accordance with the instructions of the Guides. After traversing five arab and seventy-five crore yojans upward, the spirit entity effected ingress into the bounds of Hahoot and witnessed the panorama of that region. There an expanse of ten Neel is enveloped in darkness.
The depth of this dark region cannot be fathomed. The spirit went down one kharao yojans, still the bottom was nowhere to be found. Then the spirit turned upward and proceeded on the path chalked out by Guru. It was not considered advisable to go down right to the bottom of this region I his region is called Maha-sunn There are four extremely subtle sub-regions there, the secrets whereof have not been revealed by any Sant. There are prison cells for the condemned spirits, ejected from the court of the True Supreme Being. Although these spirits are not subjected to any trouble and they perform their functions by their own light, yet, as they do not get the Darshan of the Lord, they are restless. However, there is a way of their remission also. Whenever Sants happen to pass that way with spirits reclaimed from the lower regions, some of these spirits fortunately get Their Darshan. Such spirits go along with the Sants who very gladly take them to the court of the Lord and get them pardoned.
The spirit, thereafter, went to Hootal Hoot, which, in Hindi, has been described as Bhanwargupha. There is a rotating swing here which is all the time in subtle motion, and the spirits ever swing on it. All round, there are innumerable spiritual islands from which the sounds of "Sohang Sohang" and "Anahoo Anahoo" rise all the time. Spirit entities playfully and rapturously enjoy these sounds. Other characteristics of this region cannot be reduced to writing, as they can be realized by the spirit only when it reaches there by performing Abhyas. Hence it is necessary to continue the practice of this mode of devotion and it is called the Shabd (sound) practice. Do not give it up.
Having witnessed the spectacle of this region, the spirit entity proceeded upward and went on ascending. Whiffs of scents of various kinds and sweet fragrance of sandal were enjoyed by the spirit and the melodies of flutes were heard, while it proceeded onward. On crossing this plane, the spirit entity reached the outpost of Sat Lok, where melodious sounds or "Sat Sat" and "Haq Haq" were heard coming out of the Bin'. On hearing this, the spirit penetrated further rapturously.
There rose to view silver and golden streams full of nectar, and vast gardens, each tree there of being one crore-Yojans in height. Crores of suns and moons hang from them as flowers and fruits. Innumerable spirits and Hansas sing, chatter and play on those reel like birds. The wondrous beauty of this region 1s ineffable. While enjoying it, the spirit entered Sat and came into the presence of Sat Purush.
Now as regards the glory of the person of Sat Purush, each hair of His is so brilliant that crores of suns and moons look pale in comparison. When such is the refulgence of each hair, how is it possible to describe the glory of all His hair, and where are the words to describe the beauty and glory of His entire person ? How can one describe His eyes, nose, ears, face, hands and feet ? They are all nothing but refulgence ; even to describe them as oceans of refulgence does not give even he remotest idea.
The expanse of Sat Lok is one padam Palang, a palang being equal to Triloki in vastness. Hence it is -difficult to imagine the stupendous vastness of Sat Lok. here dwell spirit entities called Hansas who enjoy the Darshan of Sat Purush, hear the music of the Bin and -partake of ambrosial food.
After witnessing the glory of this region, the spirit proceeded to Alakh Lok and got Darshan of Alakh -Purush. The expanse of this region is one sankh, and each hair of Alakh Purush has the effulgence of arab kharab suns.
Thereafter the spirit entity went on and attained gam Lok, which is Maha Sankh4 Palang in expanse and the magnitude of the person of Again Purush equals crore Sankhs. The forms of Hansas of this region are amazingly wondrous, and the state of ecstasy and bliss that obtains there passes description. The spirit entity sojourned there for a long time and, on going beyond, it got the Darshan of Radhasoami, that is, Anami Purush, and merged in Him. Radhasoami Dham is boundless, infinite, endless and immeasurable. It is the fm ma Nij Sthan, the special resting place of Sants. (Fagirs). That region is the Ultima Thule of all Sants and all speech and description end here. I also conclude here..
So great and exalted is the status of Sants (Fagirs). Hence, how can the followers of all those who stopped at the very first stage, calling it limitless and boundless,. be convinced of the existence of these higher regions ?
No one but Sants and perfect Faqirs knows them. Only those who have met Sants and Fagirs can be convinced about the existence of these regions, provided that they have faith in Their words. Neither the Prophet nor, Vyas and Vashishtha knew of these regions. Hence no Hindu or Muslim can believe in their existence.
It is, not desirable to tell them about this, because they are fettered by the teachings of the Prophet and Quran, and. Hindus are slaves of Vyas, Vashishtha and the Vedas. They cannot even tolerate hearing these words.
As such,. communication of this revelation will do good only to those persons who have faith and belief in the words of Sants and who accept that the status of Sants is exalted above all and that Sants are, in fact, the creators of Khuda and Parmeshwar (God). For this reason, this secret should not be divulged to any one until and unless faith and conviction have been ascertained as conforming to what has been stated above.
"WHEEL of 84"
The Journey of the SoulThe Vedas explain that the soul, known as the atma, may inhabit any of 8,400,000 general species of material bodies. The physical forms vary in complexity, beginning with the primitive microbes and amoebas, continuing on through the aquatic, plant, insect, reptile, bird, and animal species, and culminating in human beings and demigods.
In consequence of its own desires to enjoy matter, the atma continually journeys through these various bodies, on an endless voyage of births and deaths. The action of the mind is the prime force compelling the living entity to transmigrate from one body to another. The Gita explains, "Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state of being he will attain without fail."
Our minds are constantly recording all of our thoughts and desires, and the totality of these memories floods our consciousness in the last moments of life. The nature of our thoughts at this critical juncture propels us into the appropriate physical body.
Thus the body we now occupy is an accurate physical projection of our state of mind at the time of our last death.The Bhagavad-gita explains, "The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of eye, ear, tongue, nose, and sense of touch, which are grouped around the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects."
According to the Vedas, a soul in a form lower than human automatically evolves to the next-higher species, ultimately arriving at the human form. But because the human being possesses freedom to choose between matter and spirit, there is a chance that the soul will descend again into the lower species.
The laws of karma are so arranged that if a human lives and dies with the animalistic mentality of a creature such as a dog, then in the next life he will be able to fulfill his doglike desires through the senses and organs of a dog. This is certainly an unfortunate occurrence, but such a fate is a definate possibility for a person immersed in ignorance. The Gita declares, "When he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom."So the soul in the body of an animal may once have inhabited a human form and vice versa.
Although a soul may successively occupy plant, animal, and human bodies, its intrinsic nature remains the same. Because the soul is pure spiritual energy, it cannot be altered in any way by matter. Bhagavad-gita explains that the soul is "immutable and unchangeable." It is only the bodily covering, with its particular combination of mind and senses, that temporarily restricts or releases the conscious energy of the soul.
We have been blessed to have been given the Gift of a Human body, this incarnation!" Use it, or loose it, as an old saying goes!"
Blessings!
Marked Elect
In consequence of its own desires to enjoy matter, the atma continually journeys through these various bodies, on an endless voyage of births and deaths. The action of the mind is the prime force compelling the living entity to transmigrate from one body to another. The Gita explains, "Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state of being he will attain without fail."
Our minds are constantly recording all of our thoughts and desires, and the totality of these memories floods our consciousness in the last moments of life. The nature of our thoughts at this critical juncture propels us into the appropriate physical body.
Thus the body we now occupy is an accurate physical projection of our state of mind at the time of our last death.The Bhagavad-gita explains, "The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of eye, ear, tongue, nose, and sense of touch, which are grouped around the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects."
According to the Vedas, a soul in a form lower than human automatically evolves to the next-higher species, ultimately arriving at the human form. But because the human being possesses freedom to choose between matter and spirit, there is a chance that the soul will descend again into the lower species.
The laws of karma are so arranged that if a human lives and dies with the animalistic mentality of a creature such as a dog, then in the next life he will be able to fulfill his doglike desires through the senses and organs of a dog. This is certainly an unfortunate occurrence, but such a fate is a definate possibility for a person immersed in ignorance. The Gita declares, "When he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom."So the soul in the body of an animal may once have inhabited a human form and vice versa.
Although a soul may successively occupy plant, animal, and human bodies, its intrinsic nature remains the same. Because the soul is pure spiritual energy, it cannot be altered in any way by matter. Bhagavad-gita explains that the soul is "immutable and unchangeable." It is only the bodily covering, with its particular combination of mind and senses, that temporarily restricts or releases the conscious energy of the soul.
We have been blessed to have been given the Gift of a Human body, this incarnation!" Use it, or loose it, as an old saying goes!"
Blessings!
Marked Elect
How Many Gods Are There?
GOD??
IF we make a careful and unbiased study of the Sacred Books of the world we discover that the
concept of God among the ancient Chinese was similar in many respects to that of the Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians.
The God of the ancient Egyptians is not opposed to the Christian's idea of the Great First Cause. One is astounded at the numerous points of agreement.
Surely, the time has arrived to cast aside the points of disagreement-to open our eyes and realize that we all are worshiping the same God, since there is but one God to worship.
The following is a composite, condensed definition of God-a summary of the wisdom of the ages; and the student must agree that it is not only wonderfully complete but inspiring-and naturally so, since the wise men of old who wrote the Sacred Books were themselves inspired.
From the standpoint of the absolute, or in the absolute sense, God is beyond what is known and manifested, being unsearchable, changeless, perfect, neither seen nor heard, and eternally unconditioned and undivided. God is beginningless and endless, without form and devoid of passions; He, or rather It, is too great to be fully defined by any combination of words, and for that reason is self-described.
All the Sacred Books declare that God is One; the First and the Last; from which nothing can be excluded, and to which nothing can be added.
God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, our Father and our Mother. God as Mother is the Primal Substance and the Seed of all things-yes, existence itself.
God is Breath of Breath, Spirit, Primeval Fire, Creator or Generator; and being the one great Universal, Supreme Eternally 1. "Realize that thou art `that'-Brahm, which is the Unconditioned, Undivided cessation of all differentiation, which never changes its nature and is as unmoved as a waveless ocean, eternally unconditioned and undivided."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's
Crest Jewel o f 1.llisdoyn, p. 136.
Changeless Soul, all things are threaded on God like pearls on a string. The universe is spread in God's vast Form; and the Infinite One is an Ocean into which all things flow-the Supreme Treasure House.
God is Lord of Heaven; and, being omniscient (allknowledge) Mind, of necessity, is of God's very Essence. This Mind is One Mind, since God is One; the All-Conserving Mind, the Creative Mind, Mind of Mind.
God is not only Life, but Life of Life, Light, Truth, Love and Good.
We cannot conceive of a universe without a Law to govern it; and this Law is the Good Law, the Royal Law, the Perfect Law of Liberty, the Law of Love, the Law of the Spirit of Life-an Originating and All-comprehending, Eternal Principle.
There is no variableness in God since He is eternal, immortal and infinite; nevertheless He is that from which every transformation arises.
The foregoing is a digest, or terse account, of the excerpts from the Sacred Books which appear as follows: This concise description will give the reader a preview of the quotations which follow.
Excerpts from the Sacred Books on the Fifty-Seven Attributes of God.
"And also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
-I SAMUEL 15:29.
"Forever, 0 Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
"Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast
established the earth, and it abideth.
"They continue this day according to thine ordinances:
for all are thy servants."-PSALMS 119:89-91.
"The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Tao Teh King, Part I, p. 74.
"Immovable [is] God alone, and rightly [He] alone; for He Himself is in Himself, and by Himself, and round Himself, completely full and perfect.
"God, then, hath [ever] been unchanging, and ever, in like fashion, with Himself bath the Eternity consisted,having within itself Cosmos ingenerate, which we correctly call [God] Sensible.
"Of that [transcendent] Deity this Image bath been made,-Cosmos, the imitator of Eternity."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
The Perfect Sermon, Vol. II, p. 368.
3. "We do not recognize (Brahma as any thing perceptible); therefore we do not know how to teach him (his nature to a disciple). It is even different from what is known (from the manifested universe; if you then say, it must be the unmanifested universe, no) it is also beyond what is not known (to the senses, it is beyond the unmanifested universe)."
-THE KENA OR TALAVAKARA UPANISHAD OF THE SAMA VEDA, pp. 668-9.
"I am the Lord, I change not."
-MALACHI 3:6.
"Was that which was produced before Heaven and Earth a thing? That which made things and gave to each its character was not itself a thing."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 72.
"And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning halt laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
"They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
"And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall
not fail." -HEBREWS 1:10-12.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." -ISAIAH 55:8, 9.
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable." -PSALMS 145:3.
"0 Lord that dwellest eternally, whose are the highest heavens, whose chambers are in the air, whose throne is beyond imagination, whose glory inconceivable;
Hear the voice of thy servant, give ear to thy creature's petition, and attend to my words!"
-THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
IV EZRA 8:20, 21, 24.
Vol. II, pp. 594-5.
5. "-No man hath seen God at any time."
-I JOHN 4:12.
11 'The Tao cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It. The Tao cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It. The Tao cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not It. Do we know the Formless which gives form to form? In the same way the Tao does not admit of
being named.' "
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, VOL. XL.
The Texts of Taoism.
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 69.
"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
"On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." -JOB 23:8, 9.
"The King of kings, and Lord of lords;
"`Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen." -I TIMOTHY 6:15, 16.
"Not in the sight abides his form, none beholds him by the eye. Those who know him dwelling in the heart (in the
Neither Nor H
Unsearchable 4. "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
"It is as high as heaven
"The measure thereof is larger broader than the sea."
than the earth, and
-JoB 11:7-9.
ether of the heart) by the heart (pure intellect) and mind, become immortal."
-,SWETASWATARA UPANISHAD, p. 396.
"But verily thou art not able to behold Me with these throe eyes; the divine eye I give unto thee."
-THE Bhagavad-Gita, p. 113.
6. " `The Perfect Tao is very recondite, and by nothing else but Itself can it be described. Since ye wish to hear about it, ye cannot do so by the hearing of the ear:-that which eludes both the ears and eyes is the True Tao; what can be heard and seen perishes, and only this survives. There is (much) that you have not yet learned, and especially you have not acquired this! Till you have learned what the ears do not hear, how can the Tao be spoken about at all?"'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XL.
The Texts o f Taoism. Yu Shu King,
or the Classic o f the Pivot o f Jade, Part II, p. 266.
"As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him." -PSALMS 18:30.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
-PSALMS 90:2.
"Our God is a living God.
"His power fills the universe. He was before the world saw light. He will be when the world exists no more. He formed thee; with His Spirit thou breathest.
8. "Lao the Master said, The Great Tao has no bodily form, but It produced and nourishes heaven and earth. The Great Tao has no passions' , but It causes the sun and moon to revolve as they do.
"The Great Tao has no name, but It effects the growth and maintenance of all things.
"I do not know its name, but I make an effort, and call It the Tao."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XL.
The Texts o f Taoism.
Khing Kang King, or the Classic o f Purity, Part II, p. 249.
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: bath he said, and shall he not do it? or bath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"
-NUMBERS 23:19.
"And the Father himself, which bath sent me, bath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape."
9. "One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."
-EPHESIANS 4:6.
"Know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him."
-DEUTERONOMY 4:35.
"There is but one Brahma which is Truth's self. It is from ignorance of that One that god-heads have been conceived to be diverse."
-MAHABHARATA,
Udyoga Parva, Vol. III, p. 145.
"''Passions', that is, feelings, affections, as in the first of the thirty-nine Articles,"
F. 2s(1.
His bow is of fire. His arrows are of flame."
-THE TALMUD.
Without Forn Devoid of Passions
Per feet, if-described
ginningless 7. " `There is no end or beginning to the Tao.' "
nd Endless The Texts o f Taoism,
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX.
The Writings of Kwang-Tze, Part I, p. 382.
-JOHN 5:37.
One
"The Atman, which is the substratum of the ego in man, is one: and therefore different from the physical bodies which on the other hand are many. How can this body then be the Atman?"
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY, Shrimat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 8.
"As the sun, manifesting all parts of space, above, between, and below, shines resplendent, so over-rules the allglorious adorable God, one alone, all that exists in likeness with its cause."
-~WETASWATARA UPANISHAD, pp. 397-8.
"The Oneness being Source and Root of all, is in all things as Root and Source. `'Without [this] Source is naught; whereas the Source [Itself] is from naught but Itself."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Corpus Hermeticum IV (V),
The Cup or Monad, Vol. II, p. 90.
"When he perceiveth the diversified existence of beings as rooted in One, and spreading forth from it, then he reacheth the eternal."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GiTa, p. 139.
10. "Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."
-ISAIAH 44:6.
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."
"In the essence of Suchness (God), there is neither anything which has to be excluded, nor anything which has to be added."
-THE AWAKENING OF FAITH, p. 57.
12. "The Lord God omnipotent reigneth." -REVELATION 19:16.
"I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
-GENESIS 17:1.
"Holy art Thou, more powerful than all power. Holy art Thou, transcending all pre-eminence."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Poemandres, the Shepherd o f Men, Vol. II, p. 19.
"The energy of God is Power that naught can e'er surpass, a Power with which no one can make comparison of any human thing at all, or any thing divine."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Mind Unto Hermes, Vol. II, p. 178.
"Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
"If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
"Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."
-PSALMS 139:7-10.
Omni
The First and the Last
13. "That they should seek the Lord, if happily they might omn feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us."
-ACTS 17:27.
-REVELATION 1:8.
Nothing 11. "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
Excluded,
Nothing Added ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." -ECCLESIASTES 3:4.
"May the one God, who, like the spider, through his own nature, encases himself with many threads, which are produced by the first (cause, Pradhana, nature), grant us identity with Brahma,
"The one God, who is concealed in all beings, who pervades all, who is the inner soul of all beings, the ruler of all actions, who dwells in all beings, the witness, who is mere thinking, and without qualities."
-SwETASWATARA UPANISHAD, p. 401.
"Whoever knows the God who is without commencement, without end, who within this impervious (world) is the creator of the universe, who is of an infinite form, the one penetrates of the universe, becomes liberated from all bonds."
-SwETAS`WATARA UPANISHAD, p. 399.
Omniscient 14. "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
-COLOSSIANS 2:3.
"Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
-MATTHEW 10:26.
"0 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
"Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."
-PSALMS 139:1, 2, 6.
"The Master said, `The Tao does not exhaust itself in what is greatest, nor is it ever absent from what is least; and therefore it is to be found complete and diffused in all things. How wide is its universal comprehension! How deep is its unfathomableness! The embodiment of its attri
butes in benevolence and righteousness is but a small result of its spirit-like (working); but it is only the perfect man who can determine this. The perfect man has (the charge of) the world;-is not the charge great?"'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, `7Ol. XXXIX,
The Texts of Taoism.
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part I, p. 342.
"So there is nothing that cannot be perceived by it, [that is, the world of relativity is submerged in the oneness of Suchness] (God). Thence we assign to Suchness this quality, the universal illumination of the universe."
-ACVaGHOSHA'S AWAKENING OF FAITH, p. 97.
"Helping and guarding, guarding behind and guarding in front, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, proves an and°ceivable spy and watcher for the man to whom he comes to help with all the strength of his soul, he of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god."
"But I think thus in my heart:
" `Should the evil thoughts of the earthly man be a hundred times worse, they would not rise so high as the good thoughts of the heavenly Mithra;
. " `Should the heavenly wisdom in the earthly man be a hundred times greater, it would not rise so high as the heavenly wisdom in the heavenly Mithra."'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXIII,
The l end-A vesta.
The Yasts and SiYOZahs, Part II, pp. 131 and 146-7.
15. "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name."
-MATTHEW 6:9.
"Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, 0 Lord,
Mother
Trinity
art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting." -ISAIAH 63:16.
"This is the Monad which is incomprehensible or unknowable; this it is which has no Seal (or Mark), in which are all Seals; which is blessed for ever and ever. This is the eternal Father; this the ineffable, unthinkable, incomprehensible, untranscendible Father; this it is in which the All become joyous."
-FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN) Codex Brucianus, pp. 549, 550.
16. "I the Father of this universe, the Mother, the Supporter, the Grandsire, the Holy One to be known, the Word of Power."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 98.
"Thus it is that the Tao produces (all things), nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX, The Texts o f Taoism.
The Tao Teh King, Part I, p. 94.
17. "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
-I JOHN 5:7.
"The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two pro
duced Three; Three produced All things."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX.
The Texts of Taoism.
The Tao Te1a King, Part I, p. 85.
" `Hail, My brethren and My children. Let there be with you the peace of My Father, which is tiline, which I
received from My Father, so that I might make it to remain with you for all time.' And He breathed on their faces and said, `Receive ye the Holy Spirit.' "
-COPTIC APOCRYPHA,
The Book o f the Resurrection o f Jesus Christ,
By Bartholomew the Apostle, p. 205.
"They are even father, mother and child; mind is even the father, speech the mother, and life the child." -BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 222.
"The Mahayana has a triple significance. "The first is the greatness of quintessence. "The second is the greatness of attributes. "The third is the greatness of activity."
-AgVAGHOSHA'S AWAKENING OF FAITH, pp. 53-4.
"The Mind of the Father uttered [the Word] that all should be divided [or cut] into three. His Will nodded assent, and at once all things were so divided.
"He who governs all things with the Mind of the eternal.
"In every cosmos there shineth [or is manifested] a Triad, of which a Monad is source.
"All things are served in the Gulphs of the Triad. "From this Triad the Father mixed every spirit.
"Arming both mind and soul with triple Might." -ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The ChaldrPan Oracles, Vol. VIII, pp. 51-54.
Seed of All Things
18. "From Him is the seed of all things, and it is He that upholds the Earth with all her mobile and immobile creatures."
-MAHABHARATA,
Canti Parva, Vol. VIII, p. 883.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
-GENESIS 1:29.
"For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
"And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha."
-ROMANS 9:28, 29.
("Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; )
"Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God."
-II CORINTHIANS 9:10, 11.
19. "The Atman is permanent, eternal and therefore existence itself."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 6.
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
"Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things."
20. "A11 is the effect of all, one universal Essence."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 208.
21. "This soul is Brahma, and stands as the soul and substance of the universe."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's AProkshanubhuti, p. 13.
"I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
"My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and
my revenue than choice silver.
"I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
paths of judgment:
"That I may cause those that love me to inherit sub
stance; and I will fill their treasures."
-PROVERBS 8:12, 19-21.
22-23. "0 Primal Origin of my origination; Thou Primal Primal Substance of my substance; First Breath of breath, the substance breath that is in me." Breath of
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS, Breath
A Mithriac Ritual, Vol. VI, Pp. 18, 19.
"The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.
"Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
"And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
Universal Essence
Substance Existence Itself
-ACTS 17:24, 25.
God; Come from the four winds, 0 breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
"So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army."
-EZEKIEL 37:1, 5, 6, 9, 10.
"But bast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; ... and thou bast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, bast thou not glorified."
-DANIEL 5:23.
24. "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
"Of this same Spirit, of which I have already spoken many times, all things have need; for that it raises up all things, each in its own degree, and makes them live, and gives them nourishment."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Cyril o f Alexandria,
Fragment XVIIZ, p. 259.
25. "The Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem."
-ISAIAH 31:9.
"But who may abide the day of his coming~ and who shall stand when he appeareth% for he is like refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope."
-MALACHI 3:2.
"The Third Utterance (Logos)
"Hear me, give ear to me - ... Creator of the Light; 0 Holder of the Keys; Inbreather of the Fire; Fire-hearted
One, whose Breath gives Light; ... 0 Lord of Light, whose Body is of Fire."
26. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
"I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."
"For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high place of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name."
-AMOS 4:13.
"Indeed, I have no hope that the Creator of the whole o Greatness, the Father and the Lord of all the things (tha are), could ever have one name. He who cannot b named, or rather He who can be called by every name.
"For He, indeed, is One and All.
"He, then, alone, yet all-complete in the fertility c either sex, ever with child of His own Will, doth ever brie to birth whatever He bath willed to procreate.
"His Will is the All-goodness, which also is the Goon ness of all things, born from the nature of His ova Divinity."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
The Perfect SeYynon, Vol. II, p. 344.
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
A Mithriac Ritual, Vol. VI, p. 25.
-JOHN 1:3.
-ISAIAH 45:12.
Spirit
-JOHN 4:24.
-COLOSSIANS 1:16.
Fire
Generator
"His being is conceiving of all things and making (them). He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in earth, in deep, in all of cosmos, in every part that is and that is not of everything. For there is naught in all the world that is not He."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Corpus Hermeticum V. (VI.) Though Unmani f est God is Most Manifest.
Vol. II, p. 104.
27. "l am the Generator of all; all evolves from Me." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, P. 104.
bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow." -DEUTERONOMY 28:12.
"He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
"When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."
-JEREMIAH 10:12, 13.
Threaded on
28.
"There is naught whatsoever higher than I.... All this
31.
"Just as the rivers of all lands
God Like
Pearls on
a String
is threaded on Me, as rows of pearls on a string."
Into the ocean find their way,
May gods and men from every world
-THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 82.
Universe Spread
29.
"First of the Gods, most ancient Man Thou art,
Approach and find their way to thee."
-BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS,
in God's Form
Supreme receptacle of all that lives;
Knower and known, the dwelling-place on high;
In Thy vast Form the universe is spread.
Jataka, p. 31.
"To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and we in him."
z4ta O-1 which
Things
Supreme Treasure-House
"In power boundless, measureless in strength, Thou holdest all: then Thou Thyself art All." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, pp. 122-3.
"Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord bath wrought this?
"In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
-JOB 12:9, 10.
30. "Lofty, beyond all thought, unperishing,
Thou treasure-house supreme, all-immanent." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 116.
"The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to
-CORINTHIANS 8:6.
32. "All this universe has the (Supreme) Deity for its life. Univer. That Deity is Truth. He is the Universal Soul....
"That particle which is the Soul of all this is Truth; it is the Universal Soul."
-CHHANDOGYA UPANISHAD, pp. 593, 595.
"God is as a soul and the world as a body." -MASNAVI I MA'NAVI, p. 29.
33. "The Supreme Soul hath another name, viz, Pure Knowledge."
-MaHABHARATA,
Udyoga Parva, Vol. III, p. 162.
Supren
Lord of 34. "He is Lord of heaven, Sovereign of earth, the one Ex
Heaven istence."
-APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
The Sibylline Oracles, 1:35, Vol. II, p. 377.
"Know therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."
-DEUTERONOMY 4:39.
"The heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is." -DEUTERONOMY 10:14.
Mind Is o f 35. "Hermes. The Mind, 0 Tat, is of God's very esGod's very sence-(if such a thing as essence of God there be)-and Essence what that is, it and it only knows precisely.
"The Mind, then, is not separated off from God's essen
tiality, but is united unto it, as light to sun." -THRICE-GREATEST HERMES, Corpus Hermeticum XII. (XIII.)
About the Common Mind, Vol. II, p. 199.
"0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
"For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?"
-R011ANS 11:33, 34.
Creative 36. "This is Setheus, who dwells in the Shrine as a dingMind and God. He is the Logos-Creator; it is He who commandeth the All to work. He is the Creative Mind according tothe command of God, the Father; whom the creature adoresas God, and as Lord, and as Saviour, and is subject to Him;at whom all things stand in wonder because of His grace and
beauty; for whose head the inner universe forms a crown, and the outer is set under His feet, while the middle universe
surroundeth Him."
-FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN,
Codex Brucianus, p. 553.
"Mind is Brahma; for from mind even are verily born these beings,-by mind, when born, they live;-mind they approach, (mind) they enter."
-TAITTARIYA UPANISHAD, p. 465.
"O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep."
37. "He is in one mind and who can turn him?"
-JOB 23:13.
"The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."
"But as all infinite merits in fact constitute the one mind which, perfect in itself, has no need of seeking after any external things other than itself. . . . On that account suchness is designated the Tathagata's womb."
-ACVAGIIO5HA'S,
Awakening o f Faith, p. 98.
38. "[When the absolute soul assumes a relative aspect by pit-eonSe7 its Self-affirmation] it is called the all-conserving mind.... "The same mind has a twofold significance as the organ
iser and the producer of all things.
"Enlightenment is the highest quality of the mind; . . penetrating everywhere, as the unity of all."
-A~VAGHCSHA'S,
A^P~akesaing of Faith, pp. 61-2.
-PSALMS 92:5.
One Mind
-PSALMS 33:11.
Mind
Mind of Mind
Life ° f Life 40. "He who is the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind,
the speech of speech, is verily the life of life, the eye of the eye."
39. "For Mind is not without the That-which-makes-itMind; and That-which-is-the-End-of-Mind doth not subsist apart from Mind.
"For it is Mind of Mind who is the Architect of this [the manifested] fiery world."
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The Chaldcaan Oracles, Vol. VIII, pp. 29, 38.
"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
"And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."
-ROMANS 8:26, 27.
-KENAOR TALAVAKARA UPANISHAD, p. 668.
"He said, `Because all obtains increase in him therefore is he Adhyarha.1 'Which is the one god?' `Life; this is called Brahma, this what is beyond.'
"Whoever knows what is oldest and best, becomes the oldest and best among his own. Life is verily what is oldest and best."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, pp. 285-6, 342.
"He bringeth forth the living out of the dead, and He bringeth forth the dead out of the living: and He quickeneth the earth when dead. Thus is it that ye too shall be brought forth.
"He is the Living One. No God is there but He. Call then upon Him and offer Him a pure worship. Praise be to God the Lord of the `'Worlds!"
-THE KORAN,
Sure XXX.-The Creeks, Sara XL.-The Believer, pp. 211, 245.
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
-GENESIS 3:23, 24.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
"That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days."
-DEUTERONOMY 30:19, 20.
"For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
-PSALMS 36:9.
"For whoso findeth me findeth life, and he shall obtain favour of the Lord."
-PROVERBS 8:35.
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
-1 JOHN 5:12.
Light
Truth
41. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."
-I JOHN 1:5.
"Nor is the knowledge of Brahma possible if the nature of Brahma and non-Brahma were to belong to one subject, because there would be in reality a contradiction, as darkness is contradictory at the manifestation of the sun."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 174.
"God is the Light of the Heavens and of the Earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp-the lamp encased in glass-the glass, as it were, a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out, even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light. God guideth whom He will to His light, and God setteth forth parables to men, for God knoweth all things."
-THE KORAN,
Sura XXIV.-Light, pp. 446-7.
"That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; Wisdom, the Object of Wisdom, by Wisdom to be reached, seated in the hearts of all."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GIT~, pp. 136-7.
42. "And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness."
-ZECHARIAH 8:8.
"And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
-JERENIIAH 4:2.
"And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."
-I JOHN 5:6.
"If ye love me keep my commandments.
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you an
other Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but
ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
-JOHN 14:15-17.
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth."
-PSALMS 119:142.
"He is the rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
-DEUTERONOMY 32:4.
"And the words of thy Lord are perfect in truth, and in justice: none can change his words: He is the Hearing, Knowing."
-THE KORAN,
Sura VI, Cattle, p. 328.
"As the spider proceeds along with his web, as little sparks proceed from fire, so proceed from that soul all organs, all worlds, all the gods, all beings. The nearest conception of him is this, that he is the truth of truth. The organs are the truth, he is the truth of them."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 250.
" `Come then,' [they say,] `and enter in through the door of this hall of double Maatit, for thou knowest us.' YY
" `We will not let thee enter in through us,' say the bolts of this door, `unless thou tellest [us] our names'; `Tongue
tdlaat. "The wife of Thoth, and daughter of Ra; she assisted at the work of creation. She is the goddess of absolute regularity and order, and of moral rectitude, and of right and truth. Her emblem is the feather."
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Val. I, p. 4.
[of the Balance] of the place of right and truth' is your name."
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Vol. II, p. 375.
Love 43. "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
-I JOHN 4:8.
"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love : therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
-JEREMIAH 31:3.
"God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ."
-EPHESIANS 2:4, 5.
"Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
A lover may hanker after this love or that love, But at last he is drawn to the King of love. However much we describe and explain love, When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. When pen hasted to write,
On reaching the subject of love it split in twain. When the discourse touched on the matter of love, Pen was broken and paper torn. In explaining it Reason sticks fast, as an ass in mire; Naught but Love itself can explain love and lovers."
-THE MASNAVI I MA'NAVI, p. 5.
Good 44. "0 taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him."
-PSALMS 34:8.
"For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations." -PSALMS 100:5.
"Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
"The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."
-PSALMS 119:68, 71, 72.
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
-ROMANS 10:4.
"This is the goodness of God: He bestoweth it on whom
He will: God is of immense goodness!"
-THE KORAN,
Sura LXII. The Assembly, p. 374.
"Not knowing that God is wholly Good. 0 wretched slaves, be sober!"
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The Chaldrzan Oracles, Vol. VIII, p. 30.
46. "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
-JAMES 1:25.
"And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
45. "The good law of the mighty [One] is the good law; rood Lao good law's the law."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Excerpts by Strobceus,
of Piety and [True] Philosophy, Vol. III, p. 8.
Perfect LL of Liberty
"And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved."
-PSALNIS 119:45, 47.
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Royal Law 47. "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well." -JAMES 2:8.
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
-ROMANS 7:14.
Law of the 48 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath spirit of Life made me free from the law of sin and death." -ROMANS 8:2.
"Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
La. ofLove 49. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
"But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind.
"This is the first and great commandment.
"And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.
"On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets."
-MATTHEW 22:34-40.
50. "There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce)."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Tao Teh King, Part 1, pp. 112-13.
S l. "My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring of the holy principle."
-THE ZEND-AVESTA,
The Yasts and Sirozahs, Part II, p. 25.
52. "The determination that the only eternal and permanent principle of the Cosmos is Atman (the Subject of all perception), and that everything else is opposed in its very nature to this Atman (i. e. is unpermanent) as being the object of perception-Such fixed (theoretical) determination, the cause of indifference, is called the Right knowledge of objects."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrirnat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 2.
53. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, No va and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
-JAMES 1: 17.
"Yea, thou shalt not find any variableness in the way of God."
-II CORINTHIAIQ$ 3:17.
Origi; .411-ca jug P~
-II CORINTHIANS 3:6.
-RotiIANS 13:10.
Holy:
Eterm Perms Pri nci
-THE KORAN,
Sura XXXV.
The Creator, or the Angels, p. 293.
112
Eternal 54. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead."
-ROMANS 1:20.
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
"And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things."
-ROMANS 1:21-23.
"The Lord is King for ever and ever."
-PSALMS 10:16.
"But thou, 0 Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations." -PSALMS 102:12.
"For thus with the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
-ISAIAH 57:15.
"Behold Osiris, Hu-nefer, victorious, who saith:
... 11 'Thou art crowned Prince of heaven thou art the One dowered [with all sovereignty] who comest forth from the sky. Ra is victorious! 0 thou divine youth, thou heir of everlastingness, thou self-begotten one, 0 thou who didst give thyself birth! 0 One, mighty [one], of myriad forms and aspects, king of the world.' .. .
"'Homage to thee, 0 thou holy god, thou mighty and beneficent being, thou Prince of eternity."'
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD,
Vol. 1, pp. 12-14, Vol. III, p. 632.
55. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen."
-I TIMOTHY 1: 17.
56. "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understand- ,finite ing is infinite."
-PSALMS 147:5.
"Infinite is that, infinite is this. From the infinite one proceeds the infinite one. On taking the infinity of the infinite one, there is left infinity."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 331.
57. "That itself on which all things depend, and from From w1«< which every transformation arises!" Every
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM, Transforr
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 243. _q"SeS
58. "0 ye mortal men of flesh who are nought, why do ye brlsretla„~ so quickly exalt yourselves, having no eye unto life's end? Do ye not tremble at nor fear God, who overlooks you? the Most High who knows, who looks on all, who witnesses all, who nourishes all? the Creator who has planted his sweet Spirit in all, and made him a guide to all mortals? There is one God, sole Sovereign, excellent in power, unbegotten, almighty, invisible, yet seeing all himself. Yet he himself is beheld by no mortal flesh. For what flesh can see visibly the heavenly and true God, the Immortal, whose abode is in heaven? Nay not even face to face with the sun's rays are men able to stand, being mortals, mere veins and flesh wedded to bones. Worship him, who is alone Prince of the
Immortal World, who alone exists from age to age, self-sprung, unbegotten, holding all in sway through all time, giving to all men their testing time in the common light."
-THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
The Sibylline Oracles, 1:1-18, Vol. II, p. 377.
"Therefore, the feet of man on the earth tread but on a small space, but going on to where he has not trod bee ore, he traverses a great distance easily; so his knowledge is but small, but going on to what he does not already know, he comes to know what is meant by Heaven. He knows it as The Great Unity; The Great Mystery; The Great Illuminator; The Great Framer; The Great Boundlessness; The Great Truth; The Great Determiner. This makes his knowledge complete. As the Great Unity, he comprehends it; as The Great Mystery, he unfolds it; as the Great Illuminator, he contemplates it; as the Great Framer, it is to him the Cause of all; as the Great Boundlessness, all is to him its embodiment; as the Great Truth, he examines it; as the Great Determiner, he holds it fast.
"Thus Heaven is to him all; ... (At first) he does not know it, but afterwards he comes to know it. In his inquiries, he must not set to himself any limits, and yet he cannot be without a limit. Now ascending, now descending, then slipping from the grasp, (the Tao) is yet a reality, unchanged now as in antiquity, and always without a defect."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Writings of Kwang-Tze, Part II, pp. 112-13.
"It (God) was not created in the past, nor is it to be annihilated in the future; it is eternal, permanent, absolute; and from all eternity it sufficiently embraces in its essence all possible merits.
"That is to say, suchness (God) has such characteristics as follows: the effulgence of great wisdom; the universal illumination of the universe; the true and adequate knowledge; the mind pure and clean in its self-nature; the eternal,
GOD 115
the blessed, the self-regulating and the pure; the tranquil, the immutable, and the free."
-THE AWAKENING OF FAITH,
In the Mahdydna, pp. 95-6.
"And a second time, ... Great Brahma spake to the priest as follows:
" `I, 0 priest, am Brahma, Great Brahma, the Supreme Being, the Unsurpassed, the Perceiver of All Things, the Controller, the Lord of All, the Maker, the Fashioner, the Chief, the Victor, the Ruler, the Father of All Beings Who Have Been and Are to Be.' "
-BUDDHIS'vI IN TRANSLATIONS,
Kevaddha-Sutta o f the Dagha-Nihaya, p. 311.
"Then Zarathustra said: `Reveal unto me that name of
thine, 0 Ahura Mazda! "'
"Ahura Mazda replied unto him: `My name is. .
»
Then follows a list of twenty names, among which
Perfect Holiness.
Understanding.
Knowledge.
Weal.
Ahura (the Lord).
The most Beneficent.
He in whom there is no harn;.
The unconquerable One.
The All-seeing One.
The healing One.
The Creator.
Mazda (the All-knowing One).
are:
" `Worship me 0 Zarathustra, by day and by night.'' -THE ZEtiD-AVESTA, The Yasts and Sirozalas, Part II, pp. 24-26.
"The late Dr. H. Brugsch collected' a number of the epithets which are applied to the gods, from texts of all periods; and from these we may see that the ideas and
1"Religion and hl7thologie, pp. 96-99."
beliefs of the Egyptians concerning God were almost identical with those of the Hebrews and Muhammadans at later periods. When classified these epithets read thus:
" `God is One and alone, and none other existeth with Him; God is the One, the One Who hath made all things.
`God is a spirit, a hidden spirit, the spirit of spirits, the great spirit of the Egyptians, the divine spirit.
`God is from the beginning and He hath been from the beginning; He hath existed from of old and was when nothing else had being. He existed when nothing else existed, and what existeth He created after He had come into being. He is the father of beginnings.
`God is the eternal One, He is eternal and infinite; and endureth for ever and aye; He hath endured for countless ages, and He shall endure to all eternity.
`God is truth, and He liveth by truth, and He feedeth thereon. He is the King of truth, He resteth upon truth, He fashioneth truth, and He executeth truth throughout all the world.
`God is life, and through Him only man liveth. He grivet life to man, and He breatheth the breath of life into his nostrils.
`God is father and mother, the father of fathers, and the mother of mothers.
`God Himself is existence, He liveth in all things, and liveth upon all things.
`God hath made the universe, and He created all that therein is:
`He is the great Master, the primeval Potter. -Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, pp. 19-22.
IF our definition of God is correct, then the ancients
were justified in affirming that nothing imperfect
comes from God.
The Supreme Being rules by Law with great thought: the world itself stands on Truth, and God upholds and enfolds all things.
God sowed love's bond, and bestowed the mystery of bringing forth love; furthermore He knows and loves those who keep His commandments. The best friend of man is God, for He is gracious and merciful. God is always on the side of the good man, whom He protects, guides, perfumes and gives rest.
It is God Who opens our understanding; He is our rock, our shield and our refuge; and He never sows fear in the consciousness of mortals.
Our heavenly Father is a full source of glory and healing. He created health and pleasure, He rewards those who serve Him, and He hears and answers prayer.
How true is David's meditation on the providence of God. Truly, He is clothed with honor and majesty, and His works are manifold. The earth is overflowing with all that is good and beautiful, if we will but open our blind eyes.
Let us sing unto the Lord as long as we live-yea, let all mankind rejoice and be glad.
When All else fails, and you STILL haven’t found God,………..then ask Christ to come into your heart and take control from this moment forward! Now for the Big Surprise: HE WAS THERE ALL THE TIME!! God used Masters to revel His Presence in the heats of His Marked Elect!
Blessings!
Eternal Flame
IF we make a careful and unbiased study of the Sacred Books of the world we discover that the
concept of God among the ancient Chinese was similar in many respects to that of the Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians.
The God of the ancient Egyptians is not opposed to the Christian's idea of the Great First Cause. One is astounded at the numerous points of agreement.
Surely, the time has arrived to cast aside the points of disagreement-to open our eyes and realize that we all are worshiping the same God, since there is but one God to worship.
The following is a composite, condensed definition of God-a summary of the wisdom of the ages; and the student must agree that it is not only wonderfully complete but inspiring-and naturally so, since the wise men of old who wrote the Sacred Books were themselves inspired.
From the standpoint of the absolute, or in the absolute sense, God is beyond what is known and manifested, being unsearchable, changeless, perfect, neither seen nor heard, and eternally unconditioned and undivided. God is beginningless and endless, without form and devoid of passions; He, or rather It, is too great to be fully defined by any combination of words, and for that reason is self-described.
All the Sacred Books declare that God is One; the First and the Last; from which nothing can be excluded, and to which nothing can be added.
God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, our Father and our Mother. God as Mother is the Primal Substance and the Seed of all things-yes, existence itself.
God is Breath of Breath, Spirit, Primeval Fire, Creator or Generator; and being the one great Universal, Supreme Eternally 1. "Realize that thou art `that'-Brahm, which is the Unconditioned, Undivided cessation of all differentiation, which never changes its nature and is as unmoved as a waveless ocean, eternally unconditioned and undivided."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's
Crest Jewel o f 1.llisdoyn, p. 136.
Changeless Soul, all things are threaded on God like pearls on a string. The universe is spread in God's vast Form; and the Infinite One is an Ocean into which all things flow-the Supreme Treasure House.
God is Lord of Heaven; and, being omniscient (allknowledge) Mind, of necessity, is of God's very Essence. This Mind is One Mind, since God is One; the All-Conserving Mind, the Creative Mind, Mind of Mind.
God is not only Life, but Life of Life, Light, Truth, Love and Good.
We cannot conceive of a universe without a Law to govern it; and this Law is the Good Law, the Royal Law, the Perfect Law of Liberty, the Law of Love, the Law of the Spirit of Life-an Originating and All-comprehending, Eternal Principle.
There is no variableness in God since He is eternal, immortal and infinite; nevertheless He is that from which every transformation arises.
The foregoing is a digest, or terse account, of the excerpts from the Sacred Books which appear as follows: This concise description will give the reader a preview of the quotations which follow.
Excerpts from the Sacred Books on the Fifty-Seven Attributes of God.
"And also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
-I SAMUEL 15:29.
"Forever, 0 Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
"Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast
established the earth, and it abideth.
"They continue this day according to thine ordinances:
for all are thy servants."-PSALMS 119:89-91.
"The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Tao Teh King, Part I, p. 74.
"Immovable [is] God alone, and rightly [He] alone; for He Himself is in Himself, and by Himself, and round Himself, completely full and perfect.
"God, then, hath [ever] been unchanging, and ever, in like fashion, with Himself bath the Eternity consisted,having within itself Cosmos ingenerate, which we correctly call [God] Sensible.
"Of that [transcendent] Deity this Image bath been made,-Cosmos, the imitator of Eternity."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
The Perfect Sermon, Vol. II, p. 368.
3. "We do not recognize (Brahma as any thing perceptible); therefore we do not know how to teach him (his nature to a disciple). It is even different from what is known (from the manifested universe; if you then say, it must be the unmanifested universe, no) it is also beyond what is not known (to the senses, it is beyond the unmanifested universe)."
-THE KENA OR TALAVAKARA UPANISHAD OF THE SAMA VEDA, pp. 668-9.
"I am the Lord, I change not."
-MALACHI 3:6.
"Was that which was produced before Heaven and Earth a thing? That which made things and gave to each its character was not itself a thing."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 72.
"And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning halt laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
"They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
"And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall
not fail." -HEBREWS 1:10-12.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." -ISAIAH 55:8, 9.
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable." -PSALMS 145:3.
"0 Lord that dwellest eternally, whose are the highest heavens, whose chambers are in the air, whose throne is beyond imagination, whose glory inconceivable;
Hear the voice of thy servant, give ear to thy creature's petition, and attend to my words!"
-THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
IV EZRA 8:20, 21, 24.
Vol. II, pp. 594-5.
5. "-No man hath seen God at any time."
-I JOHN 4:12.
11 'The Tao cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It. The Tao cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It. The Tao cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not It. Do we know the Formless which gives form to form? In the same way the Tao does not admit of
being named.' "
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, VOL. XL.
The Texts of Taoism.
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 69.
"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
"On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." -JOB 23:8, 9.
"The King of kings, and Lord of lords;
"`Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen." -I TIMOTHY 6:15, 16.
"Not in the sight abides his form, none beholds him by the eye. Those who know him dwelling in the heart (in the
Neither Nor H
Unsearchable 4. "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
"It is as high as heaven
"The measure thereof is larger broader than the sea."
than the earth, and
-JoB 11:7-9.
ether of the heart) by the heart (pure intellect) and mind, become immortal."
-,SWETASWATARA UPANISHAD, p. 396.
"But verily thou art not able to behold Me with these throe eyes; the divine eye I give unto thee."
-THE Bhagavad-Gita, p. 113.
6. " `The Perfect Tao is very recondite, and by nothing else but Itself can it be described. Since ye wish to hear about it, ye cannot do so by the hearing of the ear:-that which eludes both the ears and eyes is the True Tao; what can be heard and seen perishes, and only this survives. There is (much) that you have not yet learned, and especially you have not acquired this! Till you have learned what the ears do not hear, how can the Tao be spoken about at all?"'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XL.
The Texts o f Taoism. Yu Shu King,
or the Classic o f the Pivot o f Jade, Part II, p. 266.
"As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him." -PSALMS 18:30.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
-PSALMS 90:2.
"Our God is a living God.
"His power fills the universe. He was before the world saw light. He will be when the world exists no more. He formed thee; with His Spirit thou breathest.
8. "Lao the Master said, The Great Tao has no bodily form, but It produced and nourishes heaven and earth. The Great Tao has no passions' , but It causes the sun and moon to revolve as they do.
"The Great Tao has no name, but It effects the growth and maintenance of all things.
"I do not know its name, but I make an effort, and call It the Tao."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XL.
The Texts o f Taoism.
Khing Kang King, or the Classic o f Purity, Part II, p. 249.
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: bath he said, and shall he not do it? or bath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"
-NUMBERS 23:19.
"And the Father himself, which bath sent me, bath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape."
9. "One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."
-EPHESIANS 4:6.
"Know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him."
-DEUTERONOMY 4:35.
"There is but one Brahma which is Truth's self. It is from ignorance of that One that god-heads have been conceived to be diverse."
-MAHABHARATA,
Udyoga Parva, Vol. III, p. 145.
"''Passions', that is, feelings, affections, as in the first of the thirty-nine Articles,"
F. 2s(1.
His bow is of fire. His arrows are of flame."
-THE TALMUD.
Without Forn Devoid of Passions
Per feet, if-described
ginningless 7. " `There is no end or beginning to the Tao.' "
nd Endless The Texts o f Taoism,
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX.
The Writings of Kwang-Tze, Part I, p. 382.
-JOHN 5:37.
One
"The Atman, which is the substratum of the ego in man, is one: and therefore different from the physical bodies which on the other hand are many. How can this body then be the Atman?"
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY, Shrimat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 8.
"As the sun, manifesting all parts of space, above, between, and below, shines resplendent, so over-rules the allglorious adorable God, one alone, all that exists in likeness with its cause."
-~WETASWATARA UPANISHAD, pp. 397-8.
"The Oneness being Source and Root of all, is in all things as Root and Source. `'Without [this] Source is naught; whereas the Source [Itself] is from naught but Itself."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Corpus Hermeticum IV (V),
The Cup or Monad, Vol. II, p. 90.
"When he perceiveth the diversified existence of beings as rooted in One, and spreading forth from it, then he reacheth the eternal."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GiTa, p. 139.
10. "Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."
-ISAIAH 44:6.
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."
"In the essence of Suchness (God), there is neither anything which has to be excluded, nor anything which has to be added."
-THE AWAKENING OF FAITH, p. 57.
12. "The Lord God omnipotent reigneth." -REVELATION 19:16.
"I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
-GENESIS 17:1.
"Holy art Thou, more powerful than all power. Holy art Thou, transcending all pre-eminence."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Poemandres, the Shepherd o f Men, Vol. II, p. 19.
"The energy of God is Power that naught can e'er surpass, a Power with which no one can make comparison of any human thing at all, or any thing divine."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Mind Unto Hermes, Vol. II, p. 178.
"Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
"If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
"Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."
-PSALMS 139:7-10.
Omni
The First and the Last
13. "That they should seek the Lord, if happily they might omn feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us."
-ACTS 17:27.
-REVELATION 1:8.
Nothing 11. "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
Excluded,
Nothing Added ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." -ECCLESIASTES 3:4.
"May the one God, who, like the spider, through his own nature, encases himself with many threads, which are produced by the first (cause, Pradhana, nature), grant us identity with Brahma,
"The one God, who is concealed in all beings, who pervades all, who is the inner soul of all beings, the ruler of all actions, who dwells in all beings, the witness, who is mere thinking, and without qualities."
-SwETASWATARA UPANISHAD, p. 401.
"Whoever knows the God who is without commencement, without end, who within this impervious (world) is the creator of the universe, who is of an infinite form, the one penetrates of the universe, becomes liberated from all bonds."
-SwETAS`WATARA UPANISHAD, p. 399.
Omniscient 14. "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
-COLOSSIANS 2:3.
"Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
-MATTHEW 10:26.
"0 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
"Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."
-PSALMS 139:1, 2, 6.
"The Master said, `The Tao does not exhaust itself in what is greatest, nor is it ever absent from what is least; and therefore it is to be found complete and diffused in all things. How wide is its universal comprehension! How deep is its unfathomableness! The embodiment of its attri
butes in benevolence and righteousness is but a small result of its spirit-like (working); but it is only the perfect man who can determine this. The perfect man has (the charge of) the world;-is not the charge great?"'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, `7Ol. XXXIX,
The Texts of Taoism.
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part I, p. 342.
"So there is nothing that cannot be perceived by it, [that is, the world of relativity is submerged in the oneness of Suchness] (God). Thence we assign to Suchness this quality, the universal illumination of the universe."
-ACVaGHOSHA'S AWAKENING OF FAITH, p. 97.
"Helping and guarding, guarding behind and guarding in front, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, proves an and°ceivable spy and watcher for the man to whom he comes to help with all the strength of his soul, he of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god."
"But I think thus in my heart:
" `Should the evil thoughts of the earthly man be a hundred times worse, they would not rise so high as the good thoughts of the heavenly Mithra;
. " `Should the heavenly wisdom in the earthly man be a hundred times greater, it would not rise so high as the heavenly wisdom in the heavenly Mithra."'
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXIII,
The l end-A vesta.
The Yasts and SiYOZahs, Part II, pp. 131 and 146-7.
15. "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name."
-MATTHEW 6:9.
"Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, 0 Lord,
Mother
Trinity
art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting." -ISAIAH 63:16.
"This is the Monad which is incomprehensible or unknowable; this it is which has no Seal (or Mark), in which are all Seals; which is blessed for ever and ever. This is the eternal Father; this the ineffable, unthinkable, incomprehensible, untranscendible Father; this it is in which the All become joyous."
-FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN) Codex Brucianus, pp. 549, 550.
16. "I the Father of this universe, the Mother, the Supporter, the Grandsire, the Holy One to be known, the Word of Power."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 98.
"Thus it is that the Tao produces (all things), nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX, The Texts o f Taoism.
The Tao Teh King, Part I, p. 94.
17. "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
-I JOHN 5:7.
"The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two pro
duced Three; Three produced All things."
-THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, Vol. XXXIX.
The Texts of Taoism.
The Tao Te1a King, Part I, p. 85.
" `Hail, My brethren and My children. Let there be with you the peace of My Father, which is tiline, which I
received from My Father, so that I might make it to remain with you for all time.' And He breathed on their faces and said, `Receive ye the Holy Spirit.' "
-COPTIC APOCRYPHA,
The Book o f the Resurrection o f Jesus Christ,
By Bartholomew the Apostle, p. 205.
"They are even father, mother and child; mind is even the father, speech the mother, and life the child." -BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 222.
"The Mahayana has a triple significance. "The first is the greatness of quintessence. "The second is the greatness of attributes. "The third is the greatness of activity."
-AgVAGHOSHA'S AWAKENING OF FAITH, pp. 53-4.
"The Mind of the Father uttered [the Word] that all should be divided [or cut] into three. His Will nodded assent, and at once all things were so divided.
"He who governs all things with the Mind of the eternal.
"In every cosmos there shineth [or is manifested] a Triad, of which a Monad is source.
"All things are served in the Gulphs of the Triad. "From this Triad the Father mixed every spirit.
"Arming both mind and soul with triple Might." -ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The ChaldrPan Oracles, Vol. VIII, pp. 51-54.
Seed of All Things
18. "From Him is the seed of all things, and it is He that upholds the Earth with all her mobile and immobile creatures."
-MAHABHARATA,
Canti Parva, Vol. VIII, p. 883.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
-GENESIS 1:29.
"For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
"And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha."
-ROMANS 9:28, 29.
("Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; )
"Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God."
-II CORINTHIANS 9:10, 11.
19. "The Atman is permanent, eternal and therefore existence itself."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 6.
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
"Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things."
20. "A11 is the effect of all, one universal Essence."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 208.
21. "This soul is Brahma, and stands as the soul and substance of the universe."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrimat Shankaracharya's AProkshanubhuti, p. 13.
"I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
"My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and
my revenue than choice silver.
"I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
paths of judgment:
"That I may cause those that love me to inherit sub
stance; and I will fill their treasures."
-PROVERBS 8:12, 19-21.
22-23. "0 Primal Origin of my origination; Thou Primal Primal Substance of my substance; First Breath of breath, the substance breath that is in me." Breath of
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS, Breath
A Mithriac Ritual, Vol. VI, Pp. 18, 19.
"The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.
"Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
"And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
Universal Essence
Substance Existence Itself
-ACTS 17:24, 25.
God; Come from the four winds, 0 breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
"So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army."
-EZEKIEL 37:1, 5, 6, 9, 10.
"But bast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; ... and thou bast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, bast thou not glorified."
-DANIEL 5:23.
24. "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
"Of this same Spirit, of which I have already spoken many times, all things have need; for that it raises up all things, each in its own degree, and makes them live, and gives them nourishment."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Cyril o f Alexandria,
Fragment XVIIZ, p. 259.
25. "The Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem."
-ISAIAH 31:9.
"But who may abide the day of his coming~ and who shall stand when he appeareth% for he is like refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope."
-MALACHI 3:2.
"The Third Utterance (Logos)
"Hear me, give ear to me - ... Creator of the Light; 0 Holder of the Keys; Inbreather of the Fire; Fire-hearted
One, whose Breath gives Light; ... 0 Lord of Light, whose Body is of Fire."
26. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
"I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."
"For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high place of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name."
-AMOS 4:13.
"Indeed, I have no hope that the Creator of the whole o Greatness, the Father and the Lord of all the things (tha are), could ever have one name. He who cannot b named, or rather He who can be called by every name.
"For He, indeed, is One and All.
"He, then, alone, yet all-complete in the fertility c either sex, ever with child of His own Will, doth ever brie to birth whatever He bath willed to procreate.
"His Will is the All-goodness, which also is the Goon ness of all things, born from the nature of His ova Divinity."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
The Perfect SeYynon, Vol. II, p. 344.
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
A Mithriac Ritual, Vol. VI, p. 25.
-JOHN 1:3.
-ISAIAH 45:12.
Spirit
-JOHN 4:24.
-COLOSSIANS 1:16.
Fire
Generator
"His being is conceiving of all things and making (them). He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in earth, in deep, in all of cosmos, in every part that is and that is not of everything. For there is naught in all the world that is not He."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Corpus Hermeticum V. (VI.) Though Unmani f est God is Most Manifest.
Vol. II, p. 104.
27. "l am the Generator of all; all evolves from Me." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, P. 104.
bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow." -DEUTERONOMY 28:12.
"He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
"When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."
-JEREMIAH 10:12, 13.
Threaded on
28.
"There is naught whatsoever higher than I.... All this
31.
"Just as the rivers of all lands
God Like
Pearls on
a String
is threaded on Me, as rows of pearls on a string."
Into the ocean find their way,
May gods and men from every world
-THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 82.
Universe Spread
29.
"First of the Gods, most ancient Man Thou art,
Approach and find their way to thee."
-BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS,
in God's Form
Supreme receptacle of all that lives;
Knower and known, the dwelling-place on high;
In Thy vast Form the universe is spread.
Jataka, p. 31.
"To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and we in him."
z4ta O-1 which
Things
Supreme Treasure-House
"In power boundless, measureless in strength, Thou holdest all: then Thou Thyself art All." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, pp. 122-3.
"Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord bath wrought this?
"In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
-JOB 12:9, 10.
30. "Lofty, beyond all thought, unperishing,
Thou treasure-house supreme, all-immanent." -THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, p. 116.
"The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to
-CORINTHIANS 8:6.
32. "All this universe has the (Supreme) Deity for its life. Univer. That Deity is Truth. He is the Universal Soul....
"That particle which is the Soul of all this is Truth; it is the Universal Soul."
-CHHANDOGYA UPANISHAD, pp. 593, 595.
"God is as a soul and the world as a body." -MASNAVI I MA'NAVI, p. 29.
33. "The Supreme Soul hath another name, viz, Pure Knowledge."
-MaHABHARATA,
Udyoga Parva, Vol. III, p. 162.
Supren
Lord of 34. "He is Lord of heaven, Sovereign of earth, the one Ex
Heaven istence."
-APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
The Sibylline Oracles, 1:35, Vol. II, p. 377.
"Know therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."
-DEUTERONOMY 4:39.
"The heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is." -DEUTERONOMY 10:14.
Mind Is o f 35. "Hermes. The Mind, 0 Tat, is of God's very esGod's very sence-(if such a thing as essence of God there be)-and Essence what that is, it and it only knows precisely.
"The Mind, then, is not separated off from God's essen
tiality, but is united unto it, as light to sun." -THRICE-GREATEST HERMES, Corpus Hermeticum XII. (XIII.)
About the Common Mind, Vol. II, p. 199.
"0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
"For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?"
-R011ANS 11:33, 34.
Creative 36. "This is Setheus, who dwells in the Shrine as a dingMind and God. He is the Logos-Creator; it is He who commandeth the All to work. He is the Creative Mind according tothe command of God, the Father; whom the creature adoresas God, and as Lord, and as Saviour, and is subject to Him;at whom all things stand in wonder because of His grace and
beauty; for whose head the inner universe forms a crown, and the outer is set under His feet, while the middle universe
surroundeth Him."
-FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN,
Codex Brucianus, p. 553.
"Mind is Brahma; for from mind even are verily born these beings,-by mind, when born, they live;-mind they approach, (mind) they enter."
-TAITTARIYA UPANISHAD, p. 465.
"O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep."
37. "He is in one mind and who can turn him?"
-JOB 23:13.
"The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."
"But as all infinite merits in fact constitute the one mind which, perfect in itself, has no need of seeking after any external things other than itself. . . . On that account suchness is designated the Tathagata's womb."
-ACVAGIIO5HA'S,
Awakening o f Faith, p. 98.
38. "[When the absolute soul assumes a relative aspect by pit-eonSe7 its Self-affirmation] it is called the all-conserving mind.... "The same mind has a twofold significance as the organ
iser and the producer of all things.
"Enlightenment is the highest quality of the mind; . . penetrating everywhere, as the unity of all."
-A~VAGHCSHA'S,
A^P~akesaing of Faith, pp. 61-2.
-PSALMS 92:5.
One Mind
-PSALMS 33:11.
Mind
Mind of Mind
Life ° f Life 40. "He who is the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind,
the speech of speech, is verily the life of life, the eye of the eye."
39. "For Mind is not without the That-which-makes-itMind; and That-which-is-the-End-of-Mind doth not subsist apart from Mind.
"For it is Mind of Mind who is the Architect of this [the manifested] fiery world."
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The Chaldcaan Oracles, Vol. VIII, pp. 29, 38.
"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
"And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."
-ROMANS 8:26, 27.
-KENAOR TALAVAKARA UPANISHAD, p. 668.
"He said, `Because all obtains increase in him therefore is he Adhyarha.1 'Which is the one god?' `Life; this is called Brahma, this what is beyond.'
"Whoever knows what is oldest and best, becomes the oldest and best among his own. Life is verily what is oldest and best."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, pp. 285-6, 342.
"He bringeth forth the living out of the dead, and He bringeth forth the dead out of the living: and He quickeneth the earth when dead. Thus is it that ye too shall be brought forth.
"He is the Living One. No God is there but He. Call then upon Him and offer Him a pure worship. Praise be to God the Lord of the `'Worlds!"
-THE KORAN,
Sure XXX.-The Creeks, Sara XL.-The Believer, pp. 211, 245.
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
-GENESIS 3:23, 24.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
"That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days."
-DEUTERONOMY 30:19, 20.
"For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
-PSALMS 36:9.
"For whoso findeth me findeth life, and he shall obtain favour of the Lord."
-PROVERBS 8:35.
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
-1 JOHN 5:12.
Light
Truth
41. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."
-I JOHN 1:5.
"Nor is the knowledge of Brahma possible if the nature of Brahma and non-Brahma were to belong to one subject, because there would be in reality a contradiction, as darkness is contradictory at the manifestation of the sun."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 174.
"God is the Light of the Heavens and of the Earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp-the lamp encased in glass-the glass, as it were, a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out, even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light. God guideth whom He will to His light, and God setteth forth parables to men, for God knoweth all things."
-THE KORAN,
Sura XXIV.-Light, pp. 446-7.
"That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; Wisdom, the Object of Wisdom, by Wisdom to be reached, seated in the hearts of all."
-THE BHAGAVAD-GIT~, pp. 136-7.
42. "And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness."
-ZECHARIAH 8:8.
"And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
-JERENIIAH 4:2.
"And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."
-I JOHN 5:6.
"If ye love me keep my commandments.
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you an
other Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but
ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
-JOHN 14:15-17.
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth."
-PSALMS 119:142.
"He is the rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
-DEUTERONOMY 32:4.
"And the words of thy Lord are perfect in truth, and in justice: none can change his words: He is the Hearing, Knowing."
-THE KORAN,
Sura VI, Cattle, p. 328.
"As the spider proceeds along with his web, as little sparks proceed from fire, so proceed from that soul all organs, all worlds, all the gods, all beings. The nearest conception of him is this, that he is the truth of truth. The organs are the truth, he is the truth of them."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 250.
" `Come then,' [they say,] `and enter in through the door of this hall of double Maatit, for thou knowest us.' YY
" `We will not let thee enter in through us,' say the bolts of this door, `unless thou tellest [us] our names'; `Tongue
tdlaat. "The wife of Thoth, and daughter of Ra; she assisted at the work of creation. She is the goddess of absolute regularity and order, and of moral rectitude, and of right and truth. Her emblem is the feather."
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Val. I, p. 4.
[of the Balance] of the place of right and truth' is your name."
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Vol. II, p. 375.
Love 43. "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
-I JOHN 4:8.
"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love : therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
-JEREMIAH 31:3.
"God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ."
-EPHESIANS 2:4, 5.
"Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
A lover may hanker after this love or that love, But at last he is drawn to the King of love. However much we describe and explain love, When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. When pen hasted to write,
On reaching the subject of love it split in twain. When the discourse touched on the matter of love, Pen was broken and paper torn. In explaining it Reason sticks fast, as an ass in mire; Naught but Love itself can explain love and lovers."
-THE MASNAVI I MA'NAVI, p. 5.
Good 44. "0 taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him."
-PSALMS 34:8.
"For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations." -PSALMS 100:5.
"Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
"The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."
-PSALMS 119:68, 71, 72.
"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
-ROMANS 10:4.
"This is the goodness of God: He bestoweth it on whom
He will: God is of immense goodness!"
-THE KORAN,
Sura LXII. The Assembly, p. 374.
"Not knowing that God is wholly Good. 0 wretched slaves, be sober!"
-ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS,
The Chaldrzan Oracles, Vol. VIII, p. 30.
46. "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
-JAMES 1:25.
"And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
45. "The good law of the mighty [One] is the good law; rood Lao good law's the law."
-THRICE-GREATEST HERMES,
Excerpts by Strobceus,
of Piety and [True] Philosophy, Vol. III, p. 8.
Perfect LL of Liberty
"And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved."
-PSALNIS 119:45, 47.
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Royal Law 47. "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well." -JAMES 2:8.
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
-ROMANS 7:14.
Law of the 48 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath spirit of Life made me free from the law of sin and death." -ROMANS 8:2.
"Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
La. ofLove 49. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
"But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind.
"This is the first and great commandment.
"And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.
"On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets."
-MATTHEW 22:34-40.
50. "There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce)."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Tao Teh King, Part 1, pp. 112-13.
S l. "My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring of the holy principle."
-THE ZEND-AVESTA,
The Yasts and Sirozahs, Part II, p. 25.
52. "The determination that the only eternal and permanent principle of the Cosmos is Atman (the Subject of all perception), and that everything else is opposed in its very nature to this Atman (i. e. is unpermanent) as being the object of perception-Such fixed (theoretical) determination, the cause of indifference, is called the Right knowledge of objects."
-RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY,
Shrirnat Shankaracharya's Aprokshanubhuti, p. 2.
53. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, No va and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
-JAMES 1: 17.
"Yea, thou shalt not find any variableness in the way of God."
-II CORINTHIAIQ$ 3:17.
Origi; .411-ca jug P~
-II CORINTHIANS 3:6.
-RotiIANS 13:10.
Holy:
Eterm Perms Pri nci
-THE KORAN,
Sura XXXV.
The Creator, or the Angels, p. 293.
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Eternal 54. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead."
-ROMANS 1:20.
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
"And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things."
-ROMANS 1:21-23.
"The Lord is King for ever and ever."
-PSALMS 10:16.
"But thou, 0 Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations." -PSALMS 102:12.
"For thus with the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
-ISAIAH 57:15.
"Behold Osiris, Hu-nefer, victorious, who saith:
... 11 'Thou art crowned Prince of heaven thou art the One dowered [with all sovereignty] who comest forth from the sky. Ra is victorious! 0 thou divine youth, thou heir of everlastingness, thou self-begotten one, 0 thou who didst give thyself birth! 0 One, mighty [one], of myriad forms and aspects, king of the world.' .. .
"'Homage to thee, 0 thou holy god, thou mighty and beneficent being, thou Prince of eternity."'
-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD,
Vol. 1, pp. 12-14, Vol. III, p. 632.
55. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen."
-I TIMOTHY 1: 17.
56. "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understand- ,finite ing is infinite."
-PSALMS 147:5.
"Infinite is that, infinite is this. From the infinite one proceeds the infinite one. On taking the infinity of the infinite one, there is left infinity."
-BRIHAD ARANYAKA UPANISHAD, p. 331.
57. "That itself on which all things depend, and from From w1«< which every transformation arises!" Every
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM, Transforr
The Writings o f Kwang-Tze, Part II, p. 243. _q"SeS
58. "0 ye mortal men of flesh who are nought, why do ye brlsretla„~ so quickly exalt yourselves, having no eye unto life's end? Do ye not tremble at nor fear God, who overlooks you? the Most High who knows, who looks on all, who witnesses all, who nourishes all? the Creator who has planted his sweet Spirit in all, and made him a guide to all mortals? There is one God, sole Sovereign, excellent in power, unbegotten, almighty, invisible, yet seeing all himself. Yet he himself is beheld by no mortal flesh. For what flesh can see visibly the heavenly and true God, the Immortal, whose abode is in heaven? Nay not even face to face with the sun's rays are men able to stand, being mortals, mere veins and flesh wedded to bones. Worship him, who is alone Prince of the
Immortal World, who alone exists from age to age, self-sprung, unbegotten, holding all in sway through all time, giving to all men their testing time in the common light."
-THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
The Sibylline Oracles, 1:1-18, Vol. II, p. 377.
"Therefore, the feet of man on the earth tread but on a small space, but going on to where he has not trod bee ore, he traverses a great distance easily; so his knowledge is but small, but going on to what he does not already know, he comes to know what is meant by Heaven. He knows it as The Great Unity; The Great Mystery; The Great Illuminator; The Great Framer; The Great Boundlessness; The Great Truth; The Great Determiner. This makes his knowledge complete. As the Great Unity, he comprehends it; as The Great Mystery, he unfolds it; as the Great Illuminator, he contemplates it; as the Great Framer, it is to him the Cause of all; as the Great Boundlessness, all is to him its embodiment; as the Great Truth, he examines it; as the Great Determiner, he holds it fast.
"Thus Heaven is to him all; ... (At first) he does not know it, but afterwards he comes to know it. In his inquiries, he must not set to himself any limits, and yet he cannot be without a limit. Now ascending, now descending, then slipping from the grasp, (the Tao) is yet a reality, unchanged now as in antiquity, and always without a defect."
-THE TEXTS OF TAOISM,
The Writings of Kwang-Tze, Part II, pp. 112-13.
"It (God) was not created in the past, nor is it to be annihilated in the future; it is eternal, permanent, absolute; and from all eternity it sufficiently embraces in its essence all possible merits.
"That is to say, suchness (God) has such characteristics as follows: the effulgence of great wisdom; the universal illumination of the universe; the true and adequate knowledge; the mind pure and clean in its self-nature; the eternal,
GOD 115
the blessed, the self-regulating and the pure; the tranquil, the immutable, and the free."
-THE AWAKENING OF FAITH,
In the Mahdydna, pp. 95-6.
"And a second time, ... Great Brahma spake to the priest as follows:
" `I, 0 priest, am Brahma, Great Brahma, the Supreme Being, the Unsurpassed, the Perceiver of All Things, the Controller, the Lord of All, the Maker, the Fashioner, the Chief, the Victor, the Ruler, the Father of All Beings Who Have Been and Are to Be.' "
-BUDDHIS'vI IN TRANSLATIONS,
Kevaddha-Sutta o f the Dagha-Nihaya, p. 311.
"Then Zarathustra said: `Reveal unto me that name of
thine, 0 Ahura Mazda! "'
"Ahura Mazda replied unto him: `My name is. .
»
Then follows a list of twenty names, among which
Perfect Holiness.
Understanding.
Knowledge.
Weal.
Ahura (the Lord).
The most Beneficent.
He in whom there is no harn;.
The unconquerable One.
The All-seeing One.
The healing One.
The Creator.
Mazda (the All-knowing One).
are:
" `Worship me 0 Zarathustra, by day and by night.'' -THE ZEtiD-AVESTA, The Yasts and Sirozalas, Part II, pp. 24-26.
"The late Dr. H. Brugsch collected' a number of the epithets which are applied to the gods, from texts of all periods; and from these we may see that the ideas and
1"Religion and hl7thologie, pp. 96-99."
beliefs of the Egyptians concerning God were almost identical with those of the Hebrews and Muhammadans at later periods. When classified these epithets read thus:
" `God is One and alone, and none other existeth with Him; God is the One, the One Who hath made all things.
`God is a spirit, a hidden spirit, the spirit of spirits, the great spirit of the Egyptians, the divine spirit.
`God is from the beginning and He hath been from the beginning; He hath existed from of old and was when nothing else had being. He existed when nothing else existed, and what existeth He created after He had come into being. He is the father of beginnings.
`God is the eternal One, He is eternal and infinite; and endureth for ever and aye; He hath endured for countless ages, and He shall endure to all eternity.
`God is truth, and He liveth by truth, and He feedeth thereon. He is the King of truth, He resteth upon truth, He fashioneth truth, and He executeth truth throughout all the world.
`God is life, and through Him only man liveth. He grivet life to man, and He breatheth the breath of life into his nostrils.
`God is father and mother, the father of fathers, and the mother of mothers.
`God Himself is existence, He liveth in all things, and liveth upon all things.
`God hath made the universe, and He created all that therein is:
`He is the great Master, the primeval Potter. -Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, pp. 19-22.
IF our definition of God is correct, then the ancients
were justified in affirming that nothing imperfect
comes from God.
The Supreme Being rules by Law with great thought: the world itself stands on Truth, and God upholds and enfolds all things.
God sowed love's bond, and bestowed the mystery of bringing forth love; furthermore He knows and loves those who keep His commandments. The best friend of man is God, for He is gracious and merciful. God is always on the side of the good man, whom He protects, guides, perfumes and gives rest.
It is God Who opens our understanding; He is our rock, our shield and our refuge; and He never sows fear in the consciousness of mortals.
Our heavenly Father is a full source of glory and healing. He created health and pleasure, He rewards those who serve Him, and He hears and answers prayer.
How true is David's meditation on the providence of God. Truly, He is clothed with honor and majesty, and His works are manifold. The earth is overflowing with all that is good and beautiful, if we will but open our blind eyes.
Let us sing unto the Lord as long as we live-yea, let all mankind rejoice and be glad.
When All else fails, and you STILL haven’t found God,………..then ask Christ to come into your heart and take control from this moment forward! Now for the Big Surprise: HE WAS THERE ALL THE TIME!! God used Masters to revel His Presence in the heats of His Marked Elect!
Blessings!
Eternal Flame
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