We will never see the Messiah Come

Unless we become a 

Disciple of The Way

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof" (Matt 13:31-32 KJV).  Thus, the Kingdom is as the seed that the sower has sown in our hearts, and each of us must become the "good ground" that permits the seed to become a hundredfold more than what it was in its initial state.

In each generation that man has dwelled upon the face of the earth, there has arisen a class of pseudo-prophets who have been able to effectively employ this almost universal innate belief in the end of the world -- speak to the imagination of the people so as to stir their emotions to adhere to blind acceptance of counterfeit manmade doctrines -- and convey this false vision of imminent doom to the collective belief of the masses of people in a manner that serves the false prophet’s own personal monetary and political goals.   As just one example: Pope Gregory I, who was supposed to be infallible, convinced the landowners throughout Europe that the end of times was so close, that if they did not at once hand over all their land to the church, they would be forever cast into the fires of hell when the great day arrived.   The result was that the Papacy became the richest landowner in Europe.

In the time of Jesus the Sadducees and Pharisees predicted the coming of the Messiah -- and when Jesus did not commence to inaugurate the expected Kingdom, they condemned him as a false Messiah.  Why?  Because being carnal and of this world, they falsely believed the Messiah would come and kill all the opponents of the Jews -- and then rule the world with them as the chosen people.  And with respect to this false vision of the Messiah, Jesus' words are just as true today as when he spoke them to his disciples when he physically walked the earth: "And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did? But He turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them" (Luke 9:54-56 NKJ).  Thus, both the Jews and the Christians who look for a Messiah to come upon the earth and destroy the wicked, are merely a people who "...do not know what manner of spirit you are of." 

Perhaps just as phenomenal is the fact that in continually ignoring the lessons of the past, the masses of people have subsequently fallen into the same trap in each and every succeeding age since the dawn of time itself.   Generation upon generation of dooms-day prophets have successfully been able to induce the people to ignore the fact that each and every prediction that has been continually made by each and every subsequent generation of dooms-day prophets, has failed to come to pass. 

Yet, the resolution to the problem is not a simple thing, and the non-believer has often fallen into a greater error that those who he has opposed.  Just because the predictions of these dooms-day prophets have in every generation failed to manifest with respect to the immanency of the end times, that does not mean that the symbolism and spiritual meaning of what is portrayed throughout the scriptures as Armageddon is wrong.   Those who believe that Jesus and the Hebrew prophets possessed an enlightened wisdom, and were able to see beyond the barrier of this three-dimensional realm, must recognize that the warning these visionaries conveyed to us was very real, and not to be taken lightly.   In this respect, the problem this great dilemma presents to us is demonstrated when the pseudo-religious politicians in his day confronted the Lord on the issue of the resurrection, and his words are as true today as when they were first spoken: “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures, or the power of God?” (Mark 12:24 NAS).

That the most authentic visionaries of both the Hebrew and Gentile elements of the church have long warned us that the scriptures are not a history book -- but rather, spiritual events that come to pass in the life of the person in search of Truth, well confirms Jesus’ warning that those of a carnal mind are incapable of understanding the true meaning of the Bible.   Thus, the early Church Father Origen writes: “It is sufficient however, to represent in the style of a historic narrative what is intended to convey a secret meaning in the garb of history, that those who have the capacity may work out for themselves all that relates to the subject.”   And with regard to what would otherwise be historical symbols and events that would appear to us as the knowledge of superficial episodes of the past, Origen writes: “I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).

Students of Hebrew Mysticism will perceive that what the third-century Christian Church Father Origen wrote was no different than what is contained in the Zohar, where it states: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak.   The simple look only on the garment, that is upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not.   The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers”.    

These great truths are again demonstrated in the words of Moses Maimonedes, one of the most respected of Jewish theologians, historian, and Talmudist, where he writes about the nature of scripture: “Every time that you find in our books a tale the reality of which seems impossible, a story which is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth; and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of the spirit”.   These same truths are again conveyed to us in the words of the Church Historian Eusebius: “Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees”.   What these symbols truly mean is perhaps best expressed by G.R.S. Mead in his celebrated work, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, where he explained that, once properly understood, the true meaning of what is “…projected onto the screen…” of the scriptures, “…was in reality a picture of their [man’s] own minds”.   In view of the fact that Jesus himself taught that the Kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:20-21), that the scriptures were in fact a blueprint of man’s own mind begins to make a great deal of sense.   If the words of Jesus are true, and the Kingdom of God is within us, then the search for the Truth and Light must be accomplished through the development and Spiritual Anointing of our own Minds.   What are the implications?   To have faith and remain spiritually stagnant embracing the culture of this world will not even begin to fulfill the Gospel mandate to be Genuine followers of the Lord.

Even in our modern times one of the great truths that experts such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell acknowledged is that the scriptures are written in a language that utilizes what they called universal symbols which are employed to convey deep spiritual truths to the mind of carnal man -- who in his natural state, is plagued by the congenital limitation of only being able to use less than ten percent of his potential of mind.   That the scriptures are filled with many terrible visions of man’s fate -- while not true from the perspective of the dooms-day prophet -- is nonetheless very real in the greater spiritual reality of mankind that Jesus and the prophets attempted to warn us of.   Once this is recognized, the meaning of Armageddon is something that should truly be feared by those who ignore its implications, and celebrated by those who embrace the spiritual reality it conveys.   The problem is that when we permit false religious authorities and quasi-priests to interpret these sacred symbols from a carnal perspective, we are no longer free to make either rational or informed decisions with respect to this great event that none of us can escape! 

Not to lessen the fact that in every instance where the preverbal events of what has come to be known as Armageddon has been portrayed in scripture as something to be feared, there is another element to the theological equation that is rarely ever mentioned or discussed.   This can be demonstrated by simply examining how we translate Matthew 24:8, where the King James Bible states that Armageddon is the “…beginning of sorrows”; the New Living Translation states it is “…the beginning of the horrors to come”; with the correct and little used interpretation by those who stand on our street corners proclaiming that we should repent being found in the Revised Standard Version where it reads that “…all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs”.

Perhaps the answer to the problem was best put into perspective by that 60’s philosopher Bob Dylan during that time of his life when he was a student of Hebrew Mysticism, when he said: “He who’s not busy being born, is busy dying”!   The problem is that we continually listen to those who know the least with respect to the Mysteries of God -- false shepherd’s who are either monetarily or politically motivated -- and we ignore those who know the facts based upon their own first-hand spiritual experiences.   Why?  Because we close our minds to our own higher reality, and cause ourselves to dwell in a cultural box that inhibits our spiritual growth and development of mind.  For the most part we are afraid to think differently than others, and we fear becoming disenfranchised from the temporal things of this world -- temporal things which, due to the impermanence of both this world and the very physical body in which we presently dwell, we will quickly lose regardless of our choices in life.   

While the modern believer will immediately reject the idea that God would abandon them, the answer to their dilemma is readily found in the Bible they claim to champion.   God does not abandon the truly faithful believer who follows the Lord as the pattern in their life, and manifests the biblical mandate to be in the world and not of it!   What believers fail to realize is the absolute necessity of this world in the life and development of the biblical portrayal of the prodigal sons of the One Father-God.   The holy men and women who composed our scriptures comprehended that when the Bible conveys to us the great reality that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Gen 1:27 KJV), that God Himself possesses these same Male and Female polarities that are manifest throughout all of Creation.   From the perception of the spiritual language that is employed in the scriptures, in the same way that a fetus dwells in the womb of its mother until it has reached the necessary stage of maturity where it can be born into this world, the ancients understood that the three-dimensional world in which we dwell is very much as the womb of Mother-Earth.  

The implications of this spiritual reality -- though absent from our comprehension today -- are profound with respect to our understanding of life as we know it.   In the same way that the body of a fetus is formed from an embryonic state, we are ourselves in the process of being born into the next level of Creation, and our psyche must then be perceived in a similar seed-state of mind.   What this means is that we are only capable of utilizing less than ten percent of our potential of mind because our physical-consciousness is embryonic -- and in the same way that the physical body of a fetus must develop to be born into the kingdom of man, our minds and conscious awareness must develop in order to be born into the kingdom of our soul and spiritual natures.   The implications of this long ignored reality is that in many respects, the Atheists are more correct than those who believe in life after death, because those who fail to be born into the Kingdom while still alive in the physical body, cannot accomplish what is required in an after-death state. 

When the Jews of a carnal mind asked Jesus when the expected kingdom would come, to their own demise he spoke of a great truth that has been continually ignored by the dooms-day prophets and the people of the simple faith who were influenced by the manmade doctrines of the Church of Rome.   Jesus said that the kingdom will never come upon the earth in the manner that carnal men predict, because it is “inside of you” (Lk 17:20-21).   That the disciples of the Lord experienced these “pangs of birth” when they were themselves born into the kingdom, can be seen in the words of Peter at Pentecost when he said: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord’” (Acts 2:14-21 NIV).

In the comprehension of this eminent truth pertaining to the absolute necessity of our striving to be born a second time, we can begin to perceive the great difference between the teachings of The Way, and the doctrines and dogma of the Roman Church which we unknowingly continue to cling to in our present time.   The Bible warns us that we will know the false prophets -- and detect what is spurious -- by judging the tree by the fruit it bears.   It is easy to observe that the Emperor Constantine was not a great spiritual leader who desired to lead his fellow man along the narrow path of The Way, and into the birth of his soul and spiritual natures.   Constantine was a man who desired to rule over his fellow man -- and in the symbolism of the teachings of the New Covenant, he saw a means to accomplish his goal.   

Because we exist in an embryonic and incomplete state, the purpose of the teachings of The Way is to first awaken a person to their soul and spiritual natures, and then develop their true essence and maturity so as to enable the person to be born into the Kingdom.   Throughout the scriptures it is continually suggested that carnal man dwells in a kind of stupor -- hypnotized by the forms and sensual realities of this world.   Some places in the Bible represent this condition as sleeping, others as death -- i.e., “Another disciple said to him, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matt 8:21-22 NIV).

Throughout his Epistles the Apostle Paul writes that the carnal mind is dead to man’s spiritual reality.   In this respect, we can see the concept of waking up from this stupor, sleep, or death, in the words: “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matt 12:36 KJV).   It must be understood that to be consciously aware of “every idle word” requires one to be in total control of their mind.   That this total control of one’s words begins with a total control of one’s mind, can be seen in the commandment of the Apostle to “…take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Cor 10:5 NIV).   James, Jesus’ brother, the first leader of the New Covenant Church who was known as a true holy man, wrote that in order to fulfill the vision of the Gospel, one had to “…bridle the whole body” (James 3:2 KJV).   The Apostle Paul confirmed these words when he wrote of the necessity to “…beat my body and make it my slave...” (1 Cor 9:27 NIV).   And commanded the followers of Jesus to “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature” (Col 3:5 NIV).   The problem is that these biblical commandments have absolutely nothing in common with the doctrine of faith that was developed by Martin Luther in the Middle-ages.  

These biblical verses are rarely used today because they represent concepts that would be considered extreme and fanatical from the perspective of both believers and non-believers in our modern-day culture.   In fact, everything in our present-day society has been engineered by what the Apostle calls the god of this world, to inhibit the fulfilling of these necessary ingredients in the process of the next stage of birth that the Bible states is absolutely necessary if we are to enter into Life.  

Thus, we must pose the question: Are these requirements that are very clearly set down in the scriptures really extreme and fanatical, as we believe today?   If it is true that our natural seed-mind is embryonic, and if we do not succeed in being born we will fail to inherit the eternal life that is promised in the scriptures, then there is a whole other dimension to the controversy that few believers or non-believers today have even begun to contemplate.   If our failure to develop our seed-mind to where it is able to be born into the Kingdom is synonymous with a fetus that physically fails to develop, then our fate will be similar to that of an embryo that has miscarried -- and from the perspective of our absolute need to be born in order to enter into Life, then the warnings with respect to Armageddon are neither extreme or fanatical!   Moreover, the above requirements where we are told to be conscious of every word, and capture every thought to Messiah/Christ, and bring the natural passions of the physical body under control, would then be understood as being absolutely necessary to the development of mind in order to embrace the next stage of development and eventual birth in spirit.

Throughout the scriptures there is a constant assertion that we must enter through a door -- but what is the meaning?  "Then one said to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from,' then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.' But He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity'" (Luke 13:23-27 NKJ).  What both the majority of Jews and Christians fail to realize, is that the door is shut when we physically die -- and it must be opened and entered while we are still alive in the physical body.

One only has to open the pages of the Bible to see that the whole of the New Testament teachings is concerned with ethics, morality, and the manner in which each of us treats our brothers and sisters.   The requirement is that we must be perfect, as our Heavenly Father is perfect (Mt 5:48).  This state of perfection is referred to as the fulfillment of the Royal Law of God, and is measured in our forgiveness, acceptance and love of our fellow man.   From a New Covenant perspective, whatever is divisive, and not in accord with the Royal Law, is of this world, and is an obstacle to our birth into the Kingdom.   It is from this perspective that the requirement in the Book of the Revelation is set before us in the words: “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful” (Rev 21:27 NIV).   This same truth was expressed by Isaiah where it is written: “And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it” (Isa 35:8 NIV).  And this same truth is expressed in the words of Jesus when he warned: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matt 7:13-14 NIV).   The “narrow gate” that Jesus speaks that we must open in order for us to be born into the Kingdom, has its parallels in the birth canal that serves as the gate that each of us has emerged through when we physically entered into this present world.   That the next stage of birth has its similarities, is merely the result that all realities are designed in accordance with the same Divine Pattern of Creation.  

What is truly important for us to see in these solemn words spoken by the Lord, is that only those who “enter through the narrow gate” will enter into Life -- i.e., it is not those who believe, but those who follow in the footsteps who are the Genuine disciples of Messiah/Christ.   The people who embrace the culture and thinking of this world, even when they call themselves Jews and Christian, are those who walk the “broad… road that leads to destruction”.   What Jesus warns us is that we cannot walk two paths -- it is either the one or the other -- and philosophical Jews and Christians will neither go to Heaven, to Glory, or inherit eternal life -- without entering through the narrow gate that is the entrance to the Kingdom.   Moreover, if this is not accomplished while we are alive in the physical body in which we presently dwell, then we will have failed.  

The Bible continually warns us that the path or the second birth and entrance into the Kingdom is not easy.   The strife of the inner war within ourselves as embodied in the symbols of Armageddon is seen in the words: “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22 NKJ).  Thus, in the same way that a woman travails in labor to bring a child into this world, we must ourselves endure the “…many tribulations” of spiritual labor to be born into the Kingdom of God.   Since the Kingdom is within us, and Armageddon is therefore not an historical event -- but more factually, a spiritual event in the life of the disciple in search of Truth -- we must then totally re-evaluate everything we think we know about both the Gospel Message, and the life we are presently living.   In fully comprehending these biblical statements in relation to the whole purpose of the teachings of The Way, let us again examine the definitive statement which conveys to us the very essence of the Gospel -- and especially the Revelation of John: “Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie” (Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).  

If the text of the Revelation represented the end of the world, as is commonly believed by the majority of Christians today, then why are those who remain outside the city portrayed as “dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie”?   Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples personal tribulation described as the ”pangs of birth”, as he endeavors to overcome his own lower carnal nature through the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the flesh, in order that he can possess the Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life, transcend the natural barriers of this world, and “enter through the gates into the city”.  

The modern believer will of course oppose such a reality, saying that Jesus came to save those who are lost.   Yet, it was the Lord himself who warned: “But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living” (Matt 22:31-32 KJV).   Thus, those who are worthy of the resurrection are those who follow in the footsteps of the Lord along The Way.   What this means is that, where the fetus has the potential to be born into this physical world, we have the potential to be born into what Jesus called the Kingdom.      

In two important recent Christian archeological discoveries known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the Gospel of Thomas, we can see an essential teaching that Constantine removed from the Bible which Jesus conveyed to those who asked him about the coming of the Kingdom: “When the Lord was asked by a certain man, when should his kingdom come, he said unto him, when two shall be one and the without as the within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female”.   That this is an authentic saying of the Lord which was at one time in our scriptures is affirmed by St. Clement, the disciple of Peter, in his The Second Epistle of Clement where he writes: “Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’”.   What these important teachings convey is the reality of an inner Armageddon, and the spiritual birth of the disciple in the Kingdom within.

These strange sounding words are so very crucial for the modern Jew and Christian to understand, that no amount of words can possibly do them justice with respect to their immense importance.   What I will demonstrate throughout this web site is the great fact that in these words is the essence of what the Bible calls the Key of Knowledge.   What they convey to us is the Divine Pattern -- i.e., in the same way that each of us came into being through the intermingling of the polar opposites (male and female) of our physical parents, the disciple is born into the next world by the merger of the paradoxical opposites within his own mind and being.   Thus, where in the expression of the sexes each of us already moves within the forces of Creation throughout every aspect of our lives, now we only have to learn to apply this knowledge to make the two one, the inner and the outer the same, merge the feminine and masculine powers, and thereby open the gate that Jesus spoke of as existing within our own selves.

The great truth that has been continually expressed by both Jewish and Christian visionaries is that the knowledge of the mysteries of God and the Divine Plan begins with the knowledge of ourselves as the Prodigal Sons of our Heavenly Father.   It is for this reason that the second-century Church Father Clement of Alexandria said that it is  “…the greatest of all lessons to know one's self.  For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God… and that man becomes God, since God so wills”.   In his treaties on The Soul and the Resurrection, St Gregory writes that “the Resurrection is no other thing than 'the re-constitution of our nature in its original form’”, and states that there will come a time “…when the complete whole of our race shall have been perfected from the first man to the last”.

The reason these great truths are no longer the focus of the modern church is best captured in the words of A. Powell Davies: “Biblical scholars”, he writes, ”were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls).   What Davies was referring to was the fact that the Church of Constantine so altered the focus of the teachings of the New Covenant, that what we call Christianity today has its doctrinal legacy of birth in the fourth century, and has little in common with the religion that the Son of God revealed to man at the beginning of our Common Era.  

While it is true that the Church of the Roman Empire is gone, and what is today known as the Christian religion is no longer under direct government control, because certain key elements of Jesus’ teachings have been obscured, and even removed from the common understanding of the body of believers, the church continues to cling to traditional beliefs, dogma and understandings that are very incomplete -- and thus, make it extremely difficult for the modern Christian to embrace the fullness of the Word of God.   If we were truly the disciples of Messiah/Christ, and we understood the whole message of the scriptures, we would view the doctrine of faith as being merely the beginning of man’s walk with God, and we would never permit our children to be imbued with the quasi-Darwinist mindset that predominates our culture and educational systems today.