…done. This was a rather complicated situation and it also annoyed the Pharisees quite a bit during the period of the life of Jesus. And therefore, Jesus is questioned as to whether or not it was this man's sins or his father's sins that caused him to…

…a rather complicated situation and it also annoyed the Pharisees quite a bit during the period of the life of Jesus. And therefore, Jesus is questioned as to whether or not it was this man's sins or his father's sins that caused him to be born blind.…

…master of the mystery. Therefore, Isis is the Virgin of the world, Tertia, mother, the mother of Buddha, mother, the mother of Jesus. The British Virgin, Diana, goddess of the Ephesians, the mother of Mania, the mother of the gods. By an Indian concept…

…things have to do with truth. And on that basis, truth is very deficient in our modern world. Pilate asked, what is truth? And Jesus was silent. Yet it is the problem of philosophy to search for this truth. and to realize that the search for truth is…

…integrities, and in values, were the archetypes of what we know all human beings should be. Therefore, perhaps we think of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster or Confucius or Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras. These were the people, to our thinking, who were most…

…he took with him the mystery of death and we all rise together. In his death and resurrection we have the bond between Jesus the eternal and the temporal. We have a hope that we will also rise from the darkness of material existence. Now this thought…

…course of action superior to his condition prior to this enlightenment. Thus we can say that the mystical enlightenment of Jesus, or the enlightenment of Buddha, represented consciousness unfolding into a greater dimension. It is quite evident that from such…

…And it is this inferno which he must some way cope with. And in the ancient writings we are told, for instance, that Jesus, after the crucifixion, descended into limbo and redeemed the souls of the lost. Or the way he descended into the infernal regions.…

…For in this case, we have the baptism by corn, wine, and oil. or bread or grain, wine and oil. In the Last Supper of Jesus, we have the wine and the bread. And someone has said, what has happened to the oil, which was necessary to the ancient ritual…

…and that is the guise of temporal power. This is the same principle again as that which is said to have stood beside Jesus on the mountain overlooking the city, asking the master to exchange the kingdom of heaven for the cities of the earth, tempting…

…overlooking the city, asking the master to exchange the kingdom of heaven for the cities of the earth, tempting him. on which occasion Jesus said to the demon, get thee behind me, Satan. But Faust didn't say that. He ushered him in and made good friends…

…Olympus, the twelve patriarchs, the twelve prophets, and the twelve disciples. And you will remember that at the time of the Last Supper, Jesus told his disciples to go into the village and find certain house and go into the house and ask that the upper…

…of course in this case Wagner is emphasizing the hero as the Christos or the symbol of the perfected human being. This is not The Jesus of Peter, but the Christ of Paul. It is the symbol of the divine being. The Christ in you, which if it be lifted…

…thing to bring these treasures into light and to use them and to apply them to their proper ends. In the Bible story, Jesus was not too patient with the man who buried his talent. Rather, it was important that this individual should make use of his…

…he cannot say this road leads to it or that road leads to it. And this was the same burden that Jesus had against the Pharisees and the Sadducees, namely that they regarded themselves as peculiarly qualified in spiritual matters, and Jesus called…

…Jesus had against the Pharisees and the Sadducees, namely that they regarded themselves as peculiarly qualified in spiritual matters, and Jesus called them hypocrites, because the individual who sets up his own standard denies the right of the universe to…

…of the transcendent being, and it is also referred in legend, at least, that during the so-called three days in the grave, Jesus went down into the underworld to relieve the souls of the lost. This is still celebrated as part of the church rituals.…

…so greatly value the concept are finally gaining control of their own thinking that they're willing to go to terrific ends with Jesus. They have realized what we have never learned, namely that this control is the basis of all forms of happiness that we…

…this any longer. This is not true spirituality and never can be. It was pointed out to us in the New Testament that Jesus lived in the homes and ate and worked with the sinner and the unregenerate. It isn't necessary for the individual to feel he's…

…there were strong prejudices against these persons and the answer to that is rather obvious that at the time of the birth of Jesus he was born of a despised people considered as nothing and less than nothing the least of the colonies of the Roman Empire…

…terrible disillusionments. When we put people up on pedestals, they fall off. It is good for us to know that the idea that Jesus taught is essentially true. No one is good but the Father. This is a very important thing. We may have kindly regards. We…

…spiritual expectancy. The individual really hopes and believes that his prayer will be given consideration. In order to be truly prayerful, Jesus told his disciples that they should enter into a closet and pray to their Father in secret and that the Father…

…was, in the midst of this, Paul had the experience of the theophanies. In one account, it is implied that he actually saw Jesus, or appeared to see him, and that Jesus spoke to him. In another account, in the same Bible, Paul apparently did not claim…

…the experience of the theophanies. In one account, it is implied that he actually saw Jesus, or appeared to see him, and that Jesus spoke to him. In another account, in the same Bible, Paul apparently did not claim to have seen anyone, but a great…

…this vision is always invested in the forms natural to that person. Mystics of China, for instance, who have had visions of Jesus had drawn pictures of their vision, and in their vision Jesus was always Chinese. He had to be, because he was drawn…

…person. Mystics of China, for instance, who have had visions of Jesus had drawn pictures of their vision, and in their vision Jesus was always Chinese. He had to be, because he was drawn out of the subconscious repository of their own instincts. They had…

…deacons and became, therefore, pictures of quality. These pictures were enlarged to include the parables and the principal admonitions of Jesus and were further complicated or enlarged by the production of miracle plays on the porches or the broad squares…

…different the legends then take upon themselves the second peculiar phase or quality They become, as in the case of the life of Jesus, which is perhaps the nearest thing to a Buddhist legend that we have in the Western world. Because in this legend we…

…as a friend of God, was not permitted to enter the promised land. But who was? Jehoshua, which is the original name of Jesus, the son of the fish. Nun, meaning fish. So we have a strange, mysterious analogy there that someone else besides Moses, the…

…world. The world hero of the ancient time, of the oldest pensations, was the same world hero that is supposed to have tempted Jesus to exchange his divine birthright for the city of the plains. The same world hero that is represented by the face on…

…the old jewish rites and stories it is said that the original name of jesus was jehoshua ben petira which means Yahushua or Jesus the son of the princess this legend carries through in an important manner the first miracle of Dionysus or Bacchus was the…

…frankly said if this person comes to my house I will throw them out in the fact all around were little pictures of Jesus there were good greetings there were good friendships but the personal grievance was bigger than anything else now it may not be…

…the New Testament and partly from Chinese philosophies. That ought to make a very interesting blend. In the Bible we are told that Jesus said to his disciples suffer the little children to come unto me for it suffers the kingdom of heaven. On the other…

…beginning to realize that it isn't good must begin to dig inside of himself to get back the simplicity of the divine. Jesus in his preachings seldom used words of over one syllable, sometimes two syllables. Nearly all of the great teachers have taught…

…reputation that will never die. Because the greatest reputations in the world are those associated with the great teachers and benefactors of mankind. Jesus had no worldly goods and no place to lay his head. But all of the rulers of the earth at one time…

…they were building a commonwealth or a world that was based upon the integrities of basic Christianity as it was taught by Jesus, but not necessarily exemplified by the church. It was the basic human factor. If you love God, love one another. This…

…they read from the Bible. They went to church at least once a week. They lived in an atmosphere dominated by the words of Jesus. Now, this has passed. Now, there's no doubt in the world that in those days there was a great deal of smug hypocrisy.…

…very carefully the recognition that the ability to succeed in spiritual matters rests entirely in our own keeping. The parable of Jesus walking on the waters has been used in a number of metaphysical systems as a representation of the Christ Spirit in…

…to mankind a higher level of life. We know the great world teachers. We know Buddha and Moses and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Jesus, Muhammad, all the great teachers that have come to serve us. We know that almost all of them have either died martyrs or…

…a rather ticklish one. But if we read in the Quran we say in the words of the prophet himself who does not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet sent by the Lord such a one will not enter heaven. That isn't quoted, however, in Persia and many…

…it. Control it. The next time you have the opportunity to disparage someone, put the coordinator over it. And remember the words of Jesus and the dead dog. When the apostles wanted to know why the master looked so sadly at the dogs, the carcass that was…

…When the apostles wanted to know why the master looked so sadly at the dogs, the carcass that was rotting to the roadside, Jesus answered, pearls are not whiter than its teeth. This is not in the Bible for probably a good reason. It does not support…

…it is simply advice to keep the rules to keep the faith to read the scripture to follow the commandments of Moses and Jesus and that if individuals will do these things most of their problems will evaporate but our present generation is made up of…

…the whale occurs in several different systems. In fact, in the Job of course, in the Jonah, it is referred to as a great fish. Jesus is the first one to call it a whale. But the wailed story occurs in Babylon, it occurs in the Far East, it occurs…

…value while all things are judged by money a religion is going to be very in trouble when they showed the Roman coin to Jesus and asked him what they could do in matter of taxes Jesus replied render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God that…

…to be very in trouble when they showed the Roman coin to Jesus and asked him what they could do in matter of taxes Jesus replied render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God that which is his and this is exactly our problem there's a great…

…and it's interesting that in the latest revision of the Bible, the three wise men who came to the cradle of Jesus are restored to their original meaning. The printed version now says the three astronomers or astrologers. They were the Babylonians coming…

…call it that, all these are related to money. They are related in the same sense that we find in the Bible, where Jesus was betrayed for money. And ever since that time, truth has been betrayed for money. An individual's have sacrificed their inner life…

…the relationships of life has got to learn that there is a basic human relationship. It is a phase of what we call love. Jesus says, love ye one another. And if we really loved one another, the divorce rate would drop about 90%. But when we keep on…

…Hate itself is a corrosive that will destroy anything. In the New Testament we are warned of this when Jesus said, love thine enemies. Today we consider that to be very unsound philosophically, psychologically, economically, and politically. Therefore we…

…in everything and be willing to recognize the good even if he doesn't like it. One of the apocryphal statements attributed to Jesus relates to the time when the disciples were walking along the road and saw the decaying carcass of a dog. The disciples…

…were walking along the road and saw the decaying carcass of a dog. The disciples drew back in horror at the unhappy sight. Jesus stood and looked at the animal for a couple of minutes and then turned to the disciples and said, Pearls are not whiter…

…and that the simplest, happiest, most profitable and productive adjustment we can make is to adjust to this truth. Now, Pilate asked Jesus, what is truth? And according to the Gospels, Jesus was silent. Truth is a very big word, and in its own essence…

…adjustment we can make is to adjust to this truth. Now, Pilate asked Jesus, what is truth? And according to the Gospels, Jesus was silent. Truth is a very big word, and in its own essence and substance is probably beyond definition. But there are…

…because we feel that a wrong action justifies another of a similar kind. Yet, as we learn from the Beatitudes, this is not the way Jesus taught it. He taught us not to return evil for evil, but to return good for evil. We can't always do it. How many…

…to recognize These basic values. Now in Christian religion the acceptance principle is clearly indicated in many of these statements of Jesus. Especially in the Sermon on the Mount. Here we are strongly advised never to return evil for evil. Never to…

…must be weak and negative simply arises in a civilization that is determined to justify its own lack of self-control. The mysticism of Jesus was not weak. jesus recommended strongly that if a man is struck upon one cheek he turned the other also if the…

…by the rapid increase of religious healing in our churches. The New Testament clearly indicates that among the ministries of Jesus, and given to his apostles and disciples, was the healing of the sick. Until very recently, protestant communion comparatively…

…it or to it. And remembering, as all mystics must remember, that it is not man of himself that accomplishes these things, but as Jesus said, it is the Father in I that doeth the works. And it is part of the essential concept of mysticism to discover…

…us and a world of things within us in the world of things around us it appears that we have to follow the advice of Jesus who said render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars but unto God the things that are his and we have this twofold life we…

…changes and vicissitudes and dangers of the day we can begin to have the achievement of following the example in the gospel where Jesus walks upon the waters and told the storms to be silent and still than they were the individual can learn to live in…

…things we do which cannot be forgiven We can forgive each other small problems. We can forgive each other reasonable mistakes. Jesus said, the man who's taught or teaches against Jesus can still be forgiven. But there's something that can't be forgiven. And…

…each other small problems. We can forgive each other reasonable mistakes. Jesus said, the man who's taught or teaches against Jesus can still be forgiven. But there's something that can't be forgiven. And that is the complete collapse of integrity. Now…

…of the world have all given us a ten commandments or the equivalent thereof and also special commandments like those given by Jesus to his apostles the religions of the world are all based upon peace upon the recognition of one divine power as Lord…

…its own position and accepts a dedication above all, you might say, partisanism on any level. When the disciples began to hope that Jesus was going to finally take back the kingdom of Judea from Rome, The Master said very simply, my kingdom is not of…

…the difficulty progress cannot be guaranteed up to that time we must do the best we can on the grounds of the remark or words of Jesus that his kingdom is not of this world then where is this kingdom where are we going to find it if it is not in…

…not in society if it is not in operation anywhere in the current world of events, where shall we look for it? The kingdom of Jesus, the heavenly world, is a spiritual phenomenon. This is part of the spirit of man. It is part of the soul of man. And…

…of the ancient lands of the Euphrates, the serpent raised by Moses in the wilderness. And even as late as the time of Jesus, he admonished his disciples to be as wise as serpents and as harmless as dogs. The serpent gradually came to be a symbol…

…to unite itself in the fulfillment of the will and wisdom of their founder this is the problem that we face in this sense Jesus was not only a great spiritual leader but he was also a prophet he was one that brought to the attention of the world…

…we also had the Mosaic Code. Now Moses was not a graduate with a Phi Beta Kappa P. Moses was a wandering shepherd. Jesus never went to the university. But his rules, laws, and principles were greater and more noble and more enduring than all of the…

…of the last 2,000 years. And out of it all has come a tremendous moral influence on mankind. Between Moses and Jesus, the foundations of the morality of the West were established. Both of these were simple persons. comparatively unknown in their own…

…He suddenly feels the impulse of religion. He is pleased particularly perhaps because he realizes that Joseph was a carpenter and that Jesus labored with him in his carpentry shop. The carpenter therefore has something to be very proud of in a sense, in a…

…have a text that they have all accepted, the New Testament. They have all accepted the divinity or the divine inspiration of Jesus. They have accepted that the Christian way of life was suitable for the unfoldment and the improvement of Western man. So,…

…to make the changes that are necessary? We talk today as we have not for 50 years on the importance of the teachings of Jesus. We are also very convinced that the brotherhood of humanity is possible. Yet we make no dynamic effort. We talk about it, we…

…mysterious ladder of 33 rungs symbolical in the human spinal cord all these mysteries are the universe stamping itself upon man and when Jesus said destroy this temple and in three days I will build it again One of the disciples said that he meant the…

…God each human body is a sanctuary for a spiritual entity or reality this body this temple has been in various ways corrupted Jesus said that they had made the temple of God a place of merchandise. And he drove the merchants from the steps of the…

…the temple Also, these small filaments of spinal cord at the base are referred to as the hip or small cord with which Jesus cast the money lender out of the temple. All of these things have their physical bodily equivalent and are perfectly balanced. We…

…not receive benefits. The individual whose faith is great will receive benefits. And on this, the faith also upon the testimony of Jesus in the Gospel. So that the answer of prayer depends upon the attitude of the person praying. Whether this attitude is…

…was enshrined the Eucharistic ceremony the ceremony of the transformation of the bread and wine according to the last Passover of Jesus prior to the crucifixion thus the Eucharist itself comes from what is called and generally referred to as the last…

…extensions of the idea are properly attributed to various commentaries given by St. Paul in referring to the actual Last Supper of Jesus. It is Paul who first intimates Ora kindly points out that this Last Supper was more than a holy feast, more than…

…Here again we see only another aspect of St. Paul's essential belief in the Christology concept. Paul was not satisfied to think of Jesus as a teacher of the Jews. He was not satisfied to regard him as an enlightened rabbin or reformer of the temple.…

…who had gone before in the history of the ancient Jewish nation. To St. Paul, there was a uniqueness about the entire story of Jesus. And it was this uniqueness which caused him to unfold a series of parallels or a series of analogies by means of which…

…seems to be no doubt, therefore, that in the beginning the Mass was exactly the same as in its original performance by Jesus. It was a simple gathering of the brethren. There were divisions within the structure of the early Christian community. And it is…

…that they were already well informed on these matters. There are indications in the New Testament where it would seem that Jesus followed the same procedure. Not necessarily. touching upon the teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees who were not, by…

…further from a material accepted, and we have come almost to a complete agreement that this better world, this heavenly kingdom, as Jesus said, is not of this world, but rests in some larger and better state beyond our present condition. There are rules…

…of it a wonderful symbolism was involved. A symbolism which many Bible students have not taken as seriously as they should. Later Jesus told his disciples that if the temple was destroyed, he could restore it in three days. And his disciples and the…

…Israel And in the same ancient Kabbalah and commentary, it is stated that the soul of Enoch entered into the soul of Jesus. And that therefore, Enoch, Messiah, Jesus, Metatron, all of these elements are tied together in one or other phase of the messianic…

…Kabbalah and commentary, it is stated that the soul of Enoch entered into the soul of Jesus. And that therefore, Enoch, Messiah, Jesus, Metatron, all of these elements are tied together in one or other phase of the messianic report. It is quite probable…

…that some beliefs or traditions relating to this were particularly current or held unusual interest at the time of the birth of Jesus, inasmuch as he was born in one of these critical periods in which the messianic concept was pushed forward very heavily…

…into the Christology of the Epistles, and Saint Paul stands forth as the person who transforms the moral code of Jesus into a highly transcendental universal doctrine of regeneration and redemption. Similar changes were occurring in Persian metaphysics, and we…

…give The name of this good man was Enoch. Enoch walked with the Lord, and the Lord spoke to him. The Lord, hearing the name of Jesus, told him, he went to a certain cave, and as he was going to this cave, down on the earth, he would find there the…

…nights. He was able to know all things happening in the universe, although they were invisible because of the great oblivion of the world of Jesus. And the Lord was able to say a fast to Abraham and to Jacob and to Isaac. And the Lord was able to say…

…and material view. The Mishnah now follows the book which was beneath the vestment, as my father used to say. The body is the Jesus. Man wears the coat, which is the Torah. Beneath the coat is his body, which is the Mishnah, and within the body is the…

…had to be better. man to prove his goodness was also passing temptation. We find this thought again in the New Testament, where Jesus admonishes his disciples as they should not be good to those that are good to them, but to those who will to them,…

…his kingdom was not of this world. Yet the same evangelist who accepted this rebuke also very carefully preserved the genealogy of Jesus from the house of David. indicating the general direction of the mind of the time, regardless of how we may otherwise…

…list of the prophets, and we see what they were. And we look again down the list of the apostles, one of the disciples of Jesus, and we see what they were. And as we look down the list of the prophets, we find that one was a shepherd, another one…

…fishes, the drouth of the fishes, the miracle of the coin in the fish's mouth, many other miracles that relate to the story. And Jesus in speaking, going forth upon a ship on the Sea of Galilee, The water symbol of the fish is very interesting. One of…

…sheath of grain, as Corrie did, or sometimes the loaves of the Passover. the unleavened bread. So we have an interesting thing. Jesus, the son entering the symbol of the equinox and the sign of the fish, performed the miracle of feeding the multitude with…

…These works, nearly all of them, concern this part of the New Testament story. Many of them contain materials presumably spoken by Jesus on various occasions, but not accepted in the canon. Now, in addition to these three general groups, there is a fourth,…

…now called Logia, or mentioned only in other languages, referred to a group of material known as the words of our Lord Jesus. This word has not survived to our knowledge, but it was used in capitalized and special form, indicating that it was the…

…is the most frequently referred to. And apparently there existed at some early time a more or less complete record of the words of Jesus. This is not, however, the same as we find in the Gospels, because when quoted, the 13 used are not so similar to…

…two things. First, according to our popular canon, or these, these four words were all written by apostles or disciples of Jesus. Therefore, that these books should not agree on many very different objective points leads to a certain amount of concern. Why…

…falls to people. What if it is important to know, so far as it is humanly possible to know, the actual words of Jesus and his disciples? Then the criticism is valid, because it is only through this research that we can find out these very important…

…Messiah. The Christian theologians have believed, and rather pragmatically, that these intimations are implicated Christ and the advent of Jesus. Here, of course, is one of the major points of difference between conciliism and Christianity. This attitude is not…

…we must remember that the New Testament, as it stands, is essentially a moral historical document. It deals with the life of Jesus of Nazareth and to a degree of the lives of his immediate disciples and apostles. It passes into the Pauline epistles and…

…reason, the Old Testament forms an appropriate background. It answers certain questions concerning the race and the nation through which Jesus came, the beliefs of this race, the unfoldment of their religious and political psychology, the rise and fall of…

…or the essentials of spiritual life. But it should be included, it seems to be more than justified, for the word of Jesus himself, when he proclaimed definitely that he came not to destroy the prophets, but to fulfill them. And in order that the…

…first destruction of the world. or the final passing away of the Andalusian creation. These are all psychological experiences within Jesus himself. And in the theological systems of other nations, we find accounts which are parallel to those in Genesis. For…

…and John, to the epistles, the Acts, the Minor Paschal Books, and the Apocalypse. We move from the foundation of the words of Jesus to those foundations which belong in the early period of the apostolic era. And From the Acts on, with the exception of…

…he heard the words, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? As far as we can learn, Paul never knew, met, or even saw Jesus during his lifetime. His only contact with him was through the Theopolis. And we are not convinced from the records that are…

…him was through the Theopolis. And we are not convinced from the records that are available whether Paul says that he saw Jesus in the spirit or merely saw him and felt his presence. But in any event, This tremendous emotional crisis completely changed…

…bearing upon our subject because Paul now emerges Every person following the doctrine, not only the apostles, would mourn and live with Jesus as a man, but following the doctrine of a voice that had come to the vision, surrounded by life, which had…

…by life, which had shattered his inner praise and reduced him in an instant to complete humility. This Paul's conception of Jesus and the Christian ministry is vastly different from that of the apostles. The disciples had lived and had many years labored…

…sometimes be the substitute for every method of locomotion of all forms of fuel in the world today I went to the pyramid of Jesus and I went through all the interior chambers of it and there are some things about it that are very very strange why…

…sometimes be the substitute for every method of locomotion of all forms of fuel in the world today I went to the pyramid of Jesus and I went to all the interior chambers of it and there are some things about it that are very very strange why should…

…perpetuated first by small groups. We know, for example, that it would be impossible today to estimate the effect of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. One man preaching on the Sea of Galilee has changed the course of billions of human lives. We may say…

…the rise of the Mahayana or great vehicle. And the principal leaders of that great vehicle movements were contemporaries of Jesus and lived 600 years after Pythagoras Thus the peculiar involvement of these dates becomes important. Another important point that…

…school rose in the contemplation of Buddhist philosophy. We find in the Bible the same implication in the New Testament, where Jesus is said to have taught the multitude in parables, but to his disciples he taught certain other things. These certain other…

…coming forth from the ground is the mysterious verba, or the word made flesh, which we read about. For this is the predable, says Jesus. The seed is the word of God. The word of God was the creating power. Now as this begins to grow and unfold, from…

…in the midst of the system, is the temple of the soul, found in Christianity in the account of the transfiguration of Jesus. And beneath that, on the Brach Moriah, is the physical symbol of the congregation of Israel. So these three temples represent the…

…existence. Now as man gets further into the emotional world, he finds other parallels. He finds the concept of universal love. He finds what Jesus taught, namely that if we love or do good to those who do good to us, there is no great credit for so to…

…lives or live on forever in the simple goodness of the light. Thus, Buddha and the Hindus also tell us that no man is good. Jesus says the same thing, only the Father is good. Therefore, man does not in the Buddha achieve to a state of being good. He…

…there were chakras painted or symbols, wheels or discs of energy. And these into a measure also correspond with the traditional wounds of Jesus from which the energy for the salvation of men is said to flow. Of all parts of the body, three are most…

…his earthy experience, striving to know. And had it not been for matter, there could have been no Plato, no Buddha, and no Jesus. These things have to be part of man's plan. We could not recognize solution unless we had the problem. So material things…

…so clearly defined that he may very well be termed the adversary. This adversary plagued everyone, plagued the saints, tempted Jesus. This adversary was ever present in the medieval princesses. It was not uncommon to carve likenesses of devils on the…

…that was involved in the great history of Chinese life, culture, and achievement. where, according to some legends, he would find Jesus there, waiting in his study regarding the deportment of heaven as he had started the virtues of the earth. You might…

…symbol of pain, a symbol of endless sorrow, a symbol of forever dying. represented the various interpretations that have been given to us. Jesus, he came from a boat in the Sea of Galilee. Jesus walking on the water, giving the psalm to the Messiah, the…

…forever dying. represented the various interpretations that have been given to us. Jesus, he came from a boat in the Sea of Galilee. Jesus walking on the water, giving the psalm to the Messiah, the psalm of the Spirit. Now this is a rock men's souls…

…inhabiting these forms until the purposes were attained, and then departing from them. Some of these legends tell us, very frankly, that Jesus comes as a kind of special child, that in his infancy and youth, was himself, that he had embodied from the…

…fashioned it. Now this seems a kind of a strange belief. Forget what else we would have in the three years of the ministry of Jesus. We are told that a spirit descended upon him in the form of a dove at the baptism by John. And that this spirit…

…courage to think it through, there are certainly parallels. How did these parallels come into existence? Did some strange account of Jesus reach this region through the Nestorian migrations? What was the way in which the various elements of the Geza Khan…

…leaders, turned upon those of a range, in the same way as the people of Jerusalem allowed for the priests turned upon Jesus, and those that had first glorified, then cried out and crucified. This was parallel, very closely, in which I raise a story,…

…They said that Buddha, at different times in his life, revealed different levels or layers of his instructions It is said of Jesus that he taught the multitude in parables, but to the disciples he taught certain other things. Christendom does not know what…

…from the moral teacher who walked the dusty roads of Bengal to a symbol of universal reality. Buddha is transformed much as Jesus was transformed by Paul, the historical Jesus of the apostles and the mystical Christos of Paul. The Christos was a universal…

…roads of Bengal to a symbol of universal reality. Buddha is transformed much as Jesus was transformed by Paul, the historical Jesus of the apostles and the mystical Christos of Paul. The Christos was a universal being, an ever-present power, a majesty in…

…all things that the only human beings that are close to heaven are children. And we find the same thing in the scriptures, where Jesus tells them to let the children come to him, for of them is the kingdom of heaven. We are all children. We only think…

…same time, it is much better that we have somewhere this concept of friendship and reality. For the Christian, the infant Jesus is the forever toy. It represents the noblest, most idealistic, most sacred of all infancy. It represents the true meaning of…

…the face of our present spiritual needs that there is a spirit of giving. It's tremendously important. The Bible, the words of Jesus, support the tremendous importance of sharing and giving. And that a symbol of this is being reduced, it seems to me, is…

…in a great cosmological phenomenon. But the actual thing, as Paul says, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And among the words of Jesus, we remember the ones that goes to this way, those who do not love their brother who they have seen. How can they…

…stood for us in heaven and has witnessed our virtues before the throne of the Almighty. We find in Matthew, for instance, that Jesus makes reference to the angels when he says that these angels, that every child who comes into the world has an angel,…

…of God. Therefore, we have an actual reference to angel protective and angels born with children actually in the word to Jesus. So these things become very interesting and very important in a strange and mystical way. Now, psychologists would explain it…

…of life as guides and aids to understanding. He seeks to know better and to live according to the teachings of Buddha or Jesus or Confucius or Lao Tzu because he believes these persons have lived well. He tries to draw upon the spiritual experience of…

…prove to himself and others that he was under the leadership of a spiritual integrity. When we read in the New Testament that Jesus admonished us all to be brethren, to unite in common cooperation, he tried to do this. But today, this type of thing is…

…we assume for a moment that this was limited to the Greek. But we find it referred to definitely in the New Testament. where Jesus himself makes use of the allegory 4 where he says this is the parable the seed is the word of God he is therefore…

…of the most important symbols of Christ. and has also been associated very closely with the grief or sorrow of the mother of Jesus at the time of the crucifixion of her son. Therefore, the mother of sorrows is shown with one or more swords piercing her…

…a number of small filaments fanning out in what is referred to in the Bible as the whip of small cords with which Jesus forced the moneylenders from the porch of the temple but the river flowing down from the high place represented the nervous system…

…is a workman. By using the mind, the heart would like to bring mankind together in peace. But the mind will not permit it. Jesus said that he would like to take the people of Jerusalem to himself as the hen puts their chicks under her wing. But they…

…to Buddha on one occasion by the Brahmins who tried to trick him into a commitment much as the Pharisees tried to commit Jesus to a statement on the head on Caesar's penny. The answer that Buddha gave to the question as to whether deity permits good…

…faith. He must relinquish his own right to exist. He must lose his life in God if he is to save his life. Jesus said, who loses his life for my sake shall have life everlasting. And it is this voluntary relinquishing of self-existence that suddenly…

…are his polarities, and they are turning into pieces. This is the thing that has torn Christendom apart for nearly 20 centuries. Jesus left his admonition to his disciples. If ye love me, love one another. This was the doctrine. But men could not live…

…consideration. The consideration is in consciousness. The individual must gradually attempt to be like the consciousness that he worships. The Master Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. If we love God, we must live according to the life of…

…contemplated the idea that we could use water as a symbol for a life essence. We know that in the New Testament, Jesus uses this concept of the waters of life, the waters of everlastingness. The Egyptians had the same opinion about it. So that…

…in one school at least called this upper duad of factors Anthropos and the son of Anthropos the man and the son of the man Jesus refers to himself as the son of man and perhaps here we are in the presence of a further symbolism for what we generally…

…certain apprehensions, not certain as to its nature. But by wisdom we gain a strange confidence over death as expressed by Jesus and Socrates and expressed perhaps by little people more than we know. The individual who labors quietly, giving his life,…

…And these prophets permitted him to enter. And finally he ascended through the seventh gate, at the gate of which, incidentally, was Jesus. And then he was allowed to enter into the mystery of the divine presence that lay beyond. These are all stories of…

…happen and he's going to see it happen. And from that time on he's going to know what it is. So when Pilate asked Jesus the question, what is truth, the Master was silent in advance. And theoretically, he was the only one that could have. But he…

…but enjoyed. To us, it might seem barbaric. but to them it was undoubtedly noble, the highest and fullest expression of their own Jesus. Because it was honest, it will always be good. Because it was very honest in some of its manifestations, part of it…

…reasonably and graciously copy or admire. Well, the ancients were very clear in their sense of the religious meaning of Jesus. They warned against the perversion of its princes. They warned against the corruption of its very structure, or the prostitution…

…these standards. Which simplists An attitude that we know of, perhaps, in ethics, is found in the recommendation or admonition of Jesus as to what constitutes the law and the prophets. Namely, that we shall love God and live honestly with our fellow…

…bring forth an orderly condition, which is the empire of the gods. Force, therefore, is the prince of the material world against which Jesus turned. Force is that or phase of man's energy expansion by means of which he sets up his own kingdom in the…

…the same thing, what is the individual's place in nature who is tone deaf? Unless someone points out their tone deafness to Jesus, he may go along for a considerable time without recognizing its existence. I also know persons who are color blind. Well,…

…factors. The American Indians proved this. Among your early Christian listeners, this was clearly indicated. Their demonial great teachers, Jesus, Noah, the Buddha, all of these leaders were known as ascetics, but they departed from worldliness and in most…

…we discover that the mind judges but consciousness does not. That in some mysterious way we refine the same thought that Jesus gave to his disciples. The mind says judge righteous judgment. Consciousness says judge not at all. With whatsoever measure ye…

…to be moving. We know that such consciousness as this, such attitudes as this, are exemplified by the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, by the words of the prophets of ancient Israel, by the wonderful discourse of Muhammad at Mecca, also by the first sermon…

…people lived according to it. Today your anthropologist will say that they were very childish And yet, maybe they were childish. But Jesus said of children, of them is the kingdom of God. And the same thought occurs in the writings of Chinese philosophers,…

…dedicated spiritual persons who have become the foundations of civilization and of everything we hope for, everything we believe. We remember Jesus who had no place to lay his head. But today is probably the most universally honored of human beings. We…

…the ancients as a stone of friendship, of fellowship, of fraternity, and perhaps has been closely associated with the commandment of Jesus to love one another. Therefore, the amethyst was a stone of service, a stone of dedication, and a stone of…

…sometimes discouragements, sometimes destructive reactions. hatreds and so on but basically the heart doctrine is one based upon the teachings of Jesus or one of the other great benevolent world teachers it is based on the assumption that the search for the…

…for. Now in the same concept of the ruby, therefore, the assembly of the mystics is a tavern. We find that the Last Supper of Jesus was in an inn. And in the East, the inn and the tavern are the same. In the early lines of the Rubaiyat, we find…

…been given the key to his own salvation. We find it in the Ten Commandments. We find it in the teachings of Jesus, in the Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras. All of these great people who were the real teachers of mankind pointed…

…than somebody else. That those in the spiritual hierarchy who would become the greatest must be the servants of all, as Jesus told his disciples. therefore self-ambition the desire for the fulfillment of some attitude in our own daily living can be fatal…

…with all hosts. And it's very interesting that in the old Buddhist writings we have an almost exact parallel between the temptation of Jesus and the temptation of Buddha. Satan says to Jesus, bow down before me and I will give you the mountains and the…

…the old Buddhist writings we have an almost exact parallel between the temptation of Jesus and the temptation of Buddha. Satan says to Jesus, bow down before me and I will give you the mountains and the cities and the cities of the plains. And more…

…is the total giving. And it is the individual who makes this total giving that is also implied in the Christian mystery. where Jesus tells very firmly that those who lose their lives for his sake will find eternal life. It is the complete renunciation of…

…the bodhisattva is no longer represented in these earthly realms. The only bodhisattva who maintains the ahat form or quality is Jesus, the protector of children. He is always represented in priestly vestments and with a shaven head. But all the other…

…It is the infinite, revealing its own infinity to the finite, and establishing the true relationship between all lyrics. Pilate asked Jesus, what is truth? And Jesus was silent. But in the great silence that follows the clamorings of the world, the truth…

…its own infinity to the finite, and establishing the true relationship between all lyrics. Pilate asked Jesus, what is truth? And Jesus was silent. But in the great silence that follows the clamorings of the world, the truth seeker receives the answer to…

…the first development of humanity. You have exactly the same process of transformation taking place in the New Testament, where Jesus, the human teacher, is gradually identified with the crystal, the universal mystery of life, And it was there he transformed…

…so to me that they are obviously hierarchical creatures. But good in themselves find the honest way forward for teaching of Jesus. When asked concerning these old doctrines, it is quite very simple that his work is dedicated ultimately to the mystery of…

…to fill the ascended cycle. be taught something else. And this other theory, which is also mentioned in the case of Jesus, this other teaching has to do with the establishment of the esoteric mirror, which was founded to become associated with the…

…more than one or two days. It's that he needs a right one, and he don't want it. And just as the words of Jesus, Solomon speaks these words, and yet today there is more wisdom than in yesterday, there was simply nothing in the righteousness of this…

…must be removed. The temple must be cleansed. And Ulysses, in destroying the suitors, fulfills the same symbolical act as Jesus casting the moneylenders from the porch of the temple. All these are the restoration of sanctity, the restoration of sacredness.…

…this power they variously symbolized. One of their names for this power was Iesus, a name which is startlingly reminiscent of Jesus. In the hermetic philosophy, we do not have exactly the Christian presentation of the messianic concept. We do have, however,…

…the only begotten and the firstborn. And in this Hermes is in no more difficulty than some other schools. For we refer to Jesus as the only begotten and at the same time assume that deity is the creator also of ourselves. Therefore Hermes begins to…

…historical person gradually in the Christian gnosis an effort was made to apply this redemptive principle exclusively to the person of Jesus the Gnostics made a valiant attempt at this but when you look in perspective over eighteen or nineteen hundred years…

…on the subject, there is no real indication that Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, or Hermeticism ever actually assailed the teachings of Jesus. They did not. They were quite aware of the ethical integrity the simple and tremendous vitality of these teachings…

…of which there is reference in the Bible of cast your burdens upon the Lord. And also there are many the concepts of Jesus as bearing the burden of the world's woe, or bearing the burden of mortal sin. This burden bearer keeps appearing in many…

…a comparatively unimportant area from the standpoint of world law. Mohammed's rise in Arabia was as phenomenal as the rise of Jesus in Jerusalem. It was not an expected occurrence. It was not anything that seemed to be reasonable. Yet the circumstances…

…of Moses standing out against the background of that struggle. Later, through the Nestorians, he learned a great deal about the life of Jesus, and from the later writings found in the Koran, it is quite possible that he was able to secure copies of early…

…had the historical perspective of a dilemma, of a disaster. And he came to the conclusion in his own mind that the teachings that Jesus had left had been practically wiped out in less than 600 years. Whether he was right or not, we will not say, but…

…that was then struggling for dominion of the Western Roman Empire had nothing in common with the original teaching of Jesus. He came to another rather pervasive but rather practical conclusion, namely that Jesus himself had used the wrong means. After…

…nothing in common with the original teaching of Jesus. He came to another rather pervasive but rather practical conclusion, namely that Jesus himself had used the wrong means. After all, there are things to be considered that Jesus had not used sufficient…

…early church historians were not interested in Egypt, except for the interludes of Joseph and Moses, or perhaps the flight of Jesus into Egypt. Egypt as itself was only part of a framework. These same historians had no particular concern for Greek…

…restoration of Israel, was dependent upon the restoration of the throne of David. Hence the effort in the genealogies to indicate that Jesus was descended from the house of and was indeed a lion of the house of Judah. Also the emphasis found among the…

…of Judah. Also the emphasis found among the Apostles, perhaps the emphasis that most swayed Judas Iscariot, the belief that Jesus must be proclaimed historically, dynastically, came with the Jews. Even in this time, Even though he affirmed that his kingdom…

…the sovereignty of the state of Judah. Now this situation was of course immediately subjected to another frustration. The martyrdom of Jesus, the scattering of his disciples, led to the inevitable realization that one of two things had to be true. Either he…

…he declared that his kingdom was not of this world. There had to be the tremendous transition between the historical Jesus and the mystical Christos, or Messiah. That phase of the doctrine, which dealt theoretically and even practically with the creation…

…perpetuated first by small groups. We know, for example, that it would be impossible today to estimate the effect of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. One man preaching on the Sea of Galilee has changed the course of billions of human lives. We may say…

…rise of the Mahayana or great vehicles. and the principal leaders of that great vehicle movements were contemporaries of Jesus, and lived 600 years after Pythagoras. Thus the peculiar involvement of these dates becomes important. Another important point that…

…compromise principles. Practically everything we need to consider at the present time, factually, is the Sermon on the Mount and the words of Jesus at the Last Supper. There is the code. There is what we have to learn. And until we learn it, we have to…

…have to be true to the to the right or else all that we really respect is betrayed we should be right because Jesus gave us the dream of a universal brotherhood we should remember the wisdom of Socrates the deep understanding of Confucius when he said…

…the Muslim situation for just a second. What do we find in the Koran on that? Muhammad says, no one who does not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was a true prophet of the Lord can go to heaven. And that's not what we get now. What we get now is…