…he could not accept, or did not accept, must have awakened some form of subconscious realization in his own nature. Therefore, Paul truly, perhaps, had that double soul reaction. The higher soul, which probably girds poor Christianity, and the lower or human…

…meant when he referred to the thorn in his flesh. On the road to Damascus, the theophany, or the mystical experience of Paul, becomes, therefore, a tremendous internal relief. It was the power of something locked in him over the power of his own…

…its own value. We believe that our orthodoxy is our virtue, therefore we try to cling to that virtue. In the case of Paul, the inner life certainly bursts through. It is described in the older apocryphal writings, at least, that he was riding upon a…

…Damascus to persecute the Christian community there. He had already attacked one of his disciples and injured him in physical combat. And Paul was very close to a situation in which a great war of values was being fought within his own psychic nature.…

…fought within his own psychic nature. Then came what is described as this flash of light, this tremendous burst of radiance Paul fell stunned from his horse to the ground and lay there temporarily blinded. In the midst of this tremendous psychic stress,…

…say represented a convulsion or some kind of an apoplectic stroke, but in any event, whatever it 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…

…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 light, and a voice speaking out of the light. And this voice…

…a voice speaking out of the light. And this voice undoubtedly spoke the very words that Paul's own soul was trying out to us. Paul was not by nature a persecuting man. It must have been a very difficult thing for him to have felt that his religion…

…of his own older religion seeming to demand violence of him, a violence against the faith of other good people, something which Paul rebelled against inside, even though he could not put his rebellion into the terms of his conscious mind. In any event,…

…the terms of his conscious mind. In any event, this experience was a breaking through undoubtedly of something lost within Paul. It was a breaking through under an extraordinary pressure. Now, there are several possible explanations for the pressure itself.…

…did he persecute these people? And this problem as to why he should persecute came through in all its force. From that time on, Paul persecuted no more. He was still blind, as he said, when he reached the mountain. His sight was restored to him by one…

…have a very interesting and almost complete problem for modern psychoanalysis. A problem which would not reflect adversely upon the character of Paul, would not make him appear to be an evil man, suddenly transmuted into a good man by a mere act of…

…appear to be an evil man, suddenly transmuted into a good man by a mere act of providence. This act of providence is Paul himself, and this is indicated by his ministry from that point on. His ministry could not have arisen in a manner lacking great…

…greater value, and is therefore more impelled to the conduct of his nature in a commendable way. We do not know whether Paul was able to rationalize these problems, although it is implied that he was a student of Platonic philosophy. It would be quite…

…recognized and realized that it led to the dedication which gave the world the extraordinary ministry and service of the Apostle Paul. Now, we do not necessarily assume that everyone has so vital or startling an example of this peculiar psychic process, but…

…that underneath this entire mystery, we could find the answers we also read a little further, perhaps, in the Gospels of Paul. Here we find his clear and distinct statement that the Christ in you is the hope of glory. Therefore, the transubstantiation…

…create within you a certain receptivity to universal law and order. This transubstantiation, therefore, is, in fact and substance, as Paul tells us, is that instant of realization in which all things become new. This is the mystical experience of Plotinus.…

…the universe. In that moment, all things that happen are again happening or occurring in the terms of a great messianic principle as Paul told us. For it starts to be lifted up in you then all else that is necessary shall be accomplished. This lifting…

…the earth. It was at that time that 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…

…his lifetime. His only contact with 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…

…almost thematical follower of the voice that he had heard in the video. This had an important 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…

…could bind men of a hundred centuries together in a belief it was essentially a spiritual mystery of God. That's why Paul was responsible, actually, for the emergence of the doctrine of the Christ Church, as distinguished from the teachings of the…

…doctrine of the Christ Church, as distinguished from the teachings of the disciples, if not universally acknowledged. Although, as Paul, because of this difference within himself, approached the entire problem of Christianity from a different level, even in the…

…a different level, even in the beginning. He was not unique in this level, others followed him. And the position taken by Paul was also accepted by nearly all of the classical scholars of the period, or the first few centuries of Christendom, who came…

…Dionysius of Alexandria, who became a Christian bishop, but remained a Platonist throughout life. This man was an accessible to Paul, who from his writings and from his interpretation was obviously familiar with the writings of the classical Greek school. His…

…strongly represented by St. Peter. The other was the Hellenistic or Greek Christian Communion, that was always under the leadership of Paul or the Pauline teachers, the politicians. But sometimes, before year 60, we close, and later at the Council of Nicaea…

…overlooked, prayers as offerings were made. But it does not mean a superior or different divinity. This episode in connection with Paul has had considerable publicity and recognition. Another reason why in the story of Paul we have a man of such…

…divinity. This episode in connection with Paul has had considerable publicity and recognition. Another reason why in the story of Paul we have a man of such extraordinary evangelical fervor may again relate to citizenship in the Roman Empire. Paul alone,…

…the story of Paul we have a man of such extraordinary evangelical fervor may again relate to citizenship in the Roman Empire. Paul alone, of all this very group, had privileges. He had rights. He could not be condemned without legal trial. He could not…

…conferred the right of trial. And you'll remember that while in prison, the centurion came to him to flog him. And Paul reminded the centurion that he was flogging a citizen of Rome, and the centurion stopped immediately because it would have cost…

…stopped immediately because it would have cost him his life. The citizen of Rome would only be brought to penalty by trial Thus Paul was able to travel. He was able to demand certain attention. He was able to have liberties and rights, a free speech,…

…to make possible a bit more rapid expansion of his program. Though it has in this general case something of the nature of Paul. And then we consider what his work and ministry really was. When you divide the epistles from the doctrine, you will find…

…to keep them more or less in line, and to correct the irregularities which almost immediately appeared within these groups. Paul, as a thought of central distributing point, addressed his various epistles to the different groups of these epistles is the…

…of Paul's concept of what was necessary for the maintenance of the communion. You will also observe that in the writings of Paul, references to the man Jesus are exceedingly infrequent. You can hear already the term Christ as our Lord Jesus Christ, or…

…clear line of division between Christianity and the non-Christian civilization around it is also reflected strongly in the epistles of Paul. In his poem upon these communions, largely to demonstrate their faith and their orthodoxy and their conformity with the…

…follow and merely be reformed rabbis. They were to assume a definite and completely clear historical position as a new faith. Paul, working with these problems, works constantly from a very definite background. Now, we can realize that many of the words…

…the last of the words on the cross, are direct quotations from the Old Testament. We find, however, that in the work of Paul, there occur a number of statements and a number of forms of religious philosophy that do not parallel the Old Testament, and…

…the Dionysian archipelago, and rites and mysteries celebrated at Tarsus and also at Ephesus. There is every reason from the words of Paul to assume definitely that he was an initiate of pagan mysteries prior to his conversion. This well may be the key to…

…religion. It had all the necessary ingredients to spread and expand and to meet the spiritual requirements of other people. Here Paul, perhaps, was expedient, but the degree of his expediency we cannot tell at this time. Certainly Paul could not have been…

…of other people. Here Paul, perhaps, was expedient, but the degree of his expediency we cannot tell at this time. Certainly Paul could not have been successful in Athens had he followed the exact teachings and beliefs were being distributed by St. Peter.…

…their own great philosophic system and would be perfectly willing to see a compatibility and even an identity between the Christos of Paul and the Logos of Plato. And because they were an educated and school group, And because this group had to increase…

…fall of Jerusalem. And there was this broad conviction the end of time that comes, and that all these doctrines have peculiar immanence. Paul seems to have generally shared this belief. He does not seem to have had any clear vision of the unfoldment of a…

…a divine and eternal principle which overshadows the man Jesus. He became his instrument but was not his son. And Paul went further in his assumptions this same spiritual principle, this eternal perspective, would anoint others, would reach into their hearts,…

…of a spiritual truth and reality, that faith and obedience were the great power which made this illumination possible. The experience of Paul on the road to Damascus also entered into another phase of his public ministry. We find Paul strangely torn in his…

…illumination possible. The experience of Paul on the road to Damascus also entered into another phase of his public ministry. We find Paul strangely torn in his effort to distinguish what was good. He knew within himself in a mysterious way that of all…

…most disorienting, because it attacked the very basis of what might be termed the philosophical systems of the Greeks, to which Paul had a natural information. It became the basis of the argument later of the Emperor Julian against the Christians. Because…

…the entire Pauline perspective was burdened with a strange quality that was apparently at least hopelessly invisible. It was simply this. Paul preached that men must love Christ in order to be Christ. He had hated Christ and was Christ. Now this was…

…mind. The appalling fact that apparently good has nothing to do with it. We find this appearing later in the Pauline epistles, where Paul admonishes those who realize that it is not possible for man to earn salvation by his own work, that he must earn…

…like a flash of lightning, it descends according to the divine will. It must, because that is the only way it could have happened to Paul. He could not have stood up and claimed to have married me. And We do not know just what kind of life he lived…

…Thus, all of these things are mysteries in the spirit and mysteries in God, which transcends human understanding. And so with Paul, the blessing of salvation, man's ability to know or comprehend. Yet at the same time, Paul recognized or realized in his…

…transcends human understanding. And so with Paul, the blessing of salvation, man's ability to know or comprehend. Yet at the same time, Paul recognized or realized in his own sober moral moment that this could not be so hard, at least not exclusively. That…

…casts down the brave. And these things are beyond human understanding. So at a certain point in almost all of his thinking, Paul reaches the circumference of human understanding. Then he is bought. And the rest must He depends upon the grace of God. Thus…

…emergency. The epistles then unfold with the various admonitions which became essential in the teaching of the Church. Gradually, Paul intensified the boundaries of Orthodoxy. He made it stronger and stronger what the Christians could do and could not…

…to St. Paul. Although, generally speaking, the writings of John belong to a little different group, and John and Peter and Paul never got along well together. Actually, the Apocalypse is one of the most difficult books the world to interpret. The reason…

…were identical, that only the names were changed, and that there was only one great world doctrine of salvation. Plato sensed this, Paul acknowledged him, and it certainly could be interpreted as being a large part of the burden of the apocalypse. What the…

…took greater and greater form until finally they broke away. But that break was not completed even during the lifetime of Paul. It comes considerably later. But the breaking away was continuing. Now we know that at that time these churches or communions…

…love suffers long in disguise. And this mystery of the reward for devotion, even if it is misplaced, seemed to have struck Paul desperately with great earnestness and importance. And as a result of that, he became conscious of a universal good, a universal…

…that this was the lesson that Jesus sought to teach, for which the disciples did not understand. They saw him, Jesus, as a man. Paul saw him as a mystery. And that this mystery was actually the mystery of the love of God. And that it was this love…

…another form of the word love, so that love, rather than charity, is a correct translation of the original. And so Paul experienced in the theophany the sudden and immediate and complete, unquestioned love of life. Love of this mysterious thing which had…

…him with its mercy, and overwhelmed him with its love, even while he hated it. And out of this came the dream that Paul attempted to expand through his great missionary journeys and through his preaching to the whole world. He thought that wisdom was not…

…act of religious love. But in some wisterious way, love releases. And that which it releases is God's love in all things. And so Paul sought to teach an experience in God, a lifting up in the spirit. For if this love of God in man is lifted up,…

…it, did not understand it. But to such as did understand, he was given the blessing and the boon of eternal life. And Paul believes firmly and definitely that this love power comes not to man, but through man, because of its abidance within his own…

…firmly and definitely that this love power comes not to man, but through man, because of its abidance within his own nature. Paul, working from the Greek angle of philosophy, recognizing a God in man, declared man's own purified and regenerated love to be…

…a philosophy, for he beheld the love of God advancing to him out of the mysterious dimensions of his own soul, as Paul beheld a vision on the road to Damascus. Now, Paul, having conceived this tremendous structure of the Christian mystery of a universal…

…to him out of the mysterious dimensions of his own soul, as Paul beheld a vision on the road to Damascus. Now, Paul, having conceived this tremendous structure of the Christian mystery of a universal power of redemption, a power inherent in God from the…

…concept there could be clarified by the simple statement that Jesus admonished all his people and his children to love one another. Paul taught men to love Christ, or the universal principle of love. But it remained for the apocalypse to define love. Here…

…to face for whom and from whom the veil had been removed. And this, of course, is again a rather definite indication that Paul was acquainted with the rights of the Athenian mystery. But in the Apocalypse, we find the story and the study of the complete…

…of God, manifested through love for God and man, he had the complete statement of a mystical experience. This was the experience which Paul felt. This was the experience that he could only put into the words of his time and place. But he knew that it…

…matures physically and intellectually say around his 21st year the average person does not mature psychically until they're at least 30 therefore Paul had not picked up his own insights He had not revived the pattern of his own previous merits as they had…

…their spokesman. But on the road to Damascus, a mystery occurred. As he was riding toward Damascus to persecute the Christians, Paul was suddenly struck with a mysterious vision. A tremendous experience occurred to him. There was a great turmoil in his own…

…in his own heart. An incredible, miraculous occurrence occurred. And in the midst of this occurrence came the words, Why persecutest thou me? Paul didn't see Christ. He only heard the words. But he was thrown from his horse, fell on the ground in a state…

…restored to health by the little Christian community that he had come to persecute. This resulted in the tremendous conversion of Paul. He now presented to the world a person tremendously and devoutly moved by an experience which happened to himself. He was…

…it was his duty and his moral obligation to change his point of view and serve the cause he had attempted to destroy. And Paul did exactly this. And he became one of the most important spokesmen of the new Christian community. In fact he was really the…

…to endure to this time and is still having a tremendous effect upon the cultural life and religious hopes of mankind. So Paul became the leader of a branch of the early revelations. And we find Christianity dividing very early into two great schools. One…

…into two great schools. One of them being the Jerusalem school and the other being the Greek school. The Greek school was led by Paul. The Jerusalem school was led by Peter. And in Rome, Peter and Paul died side by side for the faith that they had…

…other being the Greek school. The Greek school was led by Paul. The Jerusalem school was led by Peter. And in Rome, Peter and Paul died side by side for the faith that they had served. Peter crucified because he was not a citizen of Rome and Paul…

…died side by side for the faith that they had served. Peter crucified because he was not a citizen of Rome and Paul decapitated. But the foundation was laid of two schools of Christian thought. One founded largely upon the Old Testament and the other…

…other founded upon something else, probably Paul's knowledge of Greek and Latin culture. In other words, Peter was working with Jesus And Paul had visualized Christ. And it was the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul that became the two great forces in…

…words, Peter was working with Jesus And Paul had visualized Christ. And it was the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul that became the two great forces in the development of Christianity. The Christianity of Peter was very conservative. It was very…

…of the religion mostly in terms of him, and in terms of him as a person walking with them on the dusty roads of Judea. Paul, as far as we can find out, never saw Jesus. He never met him. He did not know him personally. Therefore, there was a…

…him personally. Therefore, there was a different point of view here. Peter was thinking constantly of the man that walked with him. Paul was thinking of something else. Paul was in the position to lay the foundations of a great religion because while he…

…different point of view here. Peter was thinking constantly of the man that walked with him. Paul was thinking of something else. Paul was in the position to lay the foundations of a great religion because while he was converted completely, he was not…

…he was not bound to the personality of the teacher. And in this particular case, this was very significant. So we find Paul gradually building the foundations of what we might term mystic Christianity. Now the question has been raised as to the source of…

…who was worldly wise and experienced, and now suddenly deeply, profoundly dedicated. As evidence, the obvious facts remain that the mysticism of Paul began to change the shape of the Christian faith. There was to be, of course, the Jesus of Peter, but the…

…Paul began to change the shape of the Christian faith. There was to be, of course, the Jesus of Peter, but the Christ of Paul was not a person. The Christ was an eternal principle, a divine power. It was not a person. A person could have that power,…

…but the power was not the person. The divine principle of infinite love was far beyond the control of any individual. And Paul was reaching out to the experience of the love of Christ rather than of the physical, historical, biographical setting of the…

…to the experience of the love of Christ rather than of the physical, historical, biographical setting of the faith. It was gradually aware, Paul was aware probably in his own time, for we are aware of the same thing now, that there's a great deal of…

…Peter were the very important parts of the doctrine and they have descended down to us today in Syrian Christianity. But to Paul these things were not so important. And I remember one afternoon I spent several hours with a group of retired clergymen who…

…majority of converts had to be saved at least once a year or they wouldn't make it now this was the point that Paul obviously noticed possibly in the very small communities of early Christians that there were many in these communities who were devout but…

…something that was far away and was miraculously conjured into existence by the rites, rituals, and ceremonies of the church. Paul recognized this point. namely that according to Greek philosophy he was obviously well straight trained in Platonism and also…

…But John obviously had contact with secret organizations and mystical sects in the area. And this seems also to have been true of Paul. That he had certain contacts. We know that he was to some degree an initiate of some rites. Because he describes the…

…and his knowledge led him directly into Christian mysticism and this led again into the foundation of a world religion the mysticism of Paul was based upon one very basic and essential point the Christ in you the hope of glory now this is something that…

…hopes for the best and places all faith upon a membership or an acceptance or an acknowledgement this is the point that Paul was very definitely attempting to attack it was not the fact that we become a nominal believer that does us any particular…

…that we are bound in the right direction. So we all come down now to the 20th century where the house of Paul has become very largely Protestant Christianity. That of Peter is the Eastern Church of the Roman or Greek Christianity. these two great…

…a personal character and a dedicated daily existence So that very largely now we think of true Christianity much in the way that Paul has given it to us. Namely that it is a way of life. And that it basically makes little difference whether we've ever…

…believe were really very good Christians in the best sense of the word one of them had originally been an atheist same as Paul perhaps with a little different twist but he had never had any particular religion in his life but he came into the presence…

…not seem to have the courage to apply the principles of life to the daily living community responsibilities. So we could say, as Paul would have put it, that it was time for us to call upon internal resources, That would end another problem that is very…

…the Ten Commandments and look them over. We can take the commandments of Christ and look them over. Or the wise statements of Paul and look them over. And we know that all of these teachers advocated peace. That we should live with our brothers in…

…on the outside can very often be very bad. One thing is certain, however. Someday we are going to be converted as Paul was by a vision, by a tremendous personal experience of some kind. And without that personal experience the true mystery of religion…

…religion is seldom fulfilled. Now this great experience may not be anything as stupendous or unbelievable as the vision that came to Paul. But there is something in our own lives that comes along that we suddenly realize that religion is the only real and…

…spiritual reality. Each individual taking the journey from here to there. Making the journey as found in Neoplatonism with which apparently Paul was well informed. The Neoplatonism that tells us that we are all on one great journey and that that journey is…

…his message. Love one another. Let these three stand. Hope, faith, and love. And the greatest of these is love. So to Paul, Christ was love. Now love today is a word that is practically meaningless. The dictionary hardly knows how to handle it. But…

…love today is a word that is practically meaningless. The dictionary hardly knows how to handle it. But love in the essential sense that Paul means love to be is like the love of Damon and Pythias. A greater love than this hath no man in that he will…

…selfish effort to get something we want, then we are in trouble. As we look around us today, we can read the various writings of Paul and see some of the truth that he so clearly set forth. And he tells us that we now look through a glass darkly,…

…face. We are all looking through glasses darkly now, but someday we will face to face. And that statement probably indicates that Paul was an initiate of one of the esoteric orders of the Near East. That his conversion probably was something in which he…

…England, and the reason for this was that Paul broke away from the insistency of an intercessor between the individual and God. Paul took the attitude that deity was available to all and could be directly approached by those who wished to supplicate God…

…interested in at the present moment, were mostly of the Protestant religious denominations. They believed very largely in the principles of Paul. which however, unless you are a student of the subject and read his writings carefully, you may not notice the…

…the pietists of Pennsylvania. It was a book of devotion, dedication to a mystic overall, a great picture, a great principle of things. Paul tells us in his own words that God put the same blood in every human being. Now this is regardless of nation,…

…a statement that was made by a British author some years ago, Gerald Massey, namely, the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul. The Apostles or most of them, personally acquainted with Jesus for a period of several years. They were of his race and of…

…a tremendous personal affection for him. He became the embodiment of that which was most desirable, most lovable, and most sacred. Paul never had this experience. His first experience with Christ was on the road to Damascus, where in a vision the Lord…

…a vision, not a familiarity, not a long association, but a sudden impact of a supernatural event. We can see how this affected Paul and why it changed him in a moment from an enemy of Christianity to one of its greatest martyred exponents. But it was…

…the poet says, we are his children. This poet was Eratos of Soli, the great writer of the Phenomenon of Astronomy. which Paul evidently understood. Paul had another distinction that separated him from the rest of the group. Paul was a citizen of Rome, and…

…we are his children. This poet was Eratos of Soli, the great writer of the Phenomenon of Astronomy. which Paul evidently understood. Paul had another distinction that separated him from the rest of the group. Paul was a citizen of Rome, and in that time…

…of the Phenomenon of Astronomy. which Paul evidently understood. Paul had another distinction that separated him from the rest of the group. Paul was a citizen of Rome, and in that time this was a very important consideration. At the time of the siege of…

…it in any way and made every inhabitant of Tarsus a citizen of Rome. Now this citizenship descended to Saul later Paul and became the basis of a great many privileges and opportunities otherwise impossible. It was impossible according to Roman law that…

…condemned without a due process of law. Every effort had to be made for justice. This was not true with non-citizens. So Paul had this distinction of being able to travel with comparative impunity. He had considerable language, was able to speak better and…

…member of the school of Helio, one of the most liberal of all the great schools of the Pharisees of Israel so we have a Paul as a unique person but we also have another very interesting point and quality with him and that is this not to have an…

…was definitely a person of the same mind as the fathers of the Bill of Rights, who were many of them followers of Paul religiously. This was, as Paul expresses it, the inalienable right of liberty. But Paul also brings out the other point, that liberty…

…the same mind as the fathers of the Bill of Rights, who were many of them followers of Paul religiously. This was, as Paul expresses it, the inalienable right of liberty. But Paul also brings out the other point, that liberty is dangerous unless it is…

…Rights, who were many of them followers of Paul religiously. This was, as Paul expresses it, the inalienable right of liberty. But Paul also brings out the other point, that liberty is dangerous unless it is handled with discipline. A free person must be…

…and exploitation. We know that freedom is not reasonable, practical or useful, unless that which is free is able to govern itself. Paul makes a great point in his various essays on self-government, And some of these points were picked up by Dr. Cousins in…

…on self-government, And some of these points were picked up by Dr. Cousins in some of his books recently. In any event, Paul became a symbol of the eternal universality of the Christ ministry. He beheld a universal value, a value that was above all…

…blood, the blood of God, flowed in every living thing and should be respected. Having been a tyrant and a persecutor himself, Paul spoke out strongly for tolerance, spoke out definitely that no religion should take from the individual the right to think or…

…not so bad for the reason that we learned from Eusebius what the actual state of the Christian faith was at the time of Paul. We find this also to be found in the Acts and in several sections of the New Testament. Jesus had twelve apostles. 72…

…far as India and China we know they traveled over most of the earth carrying with them the message largely the message of Paul because the message of Paul was the one which touched them all which made them realize that they were one family Paul makes…

…we know they traveled over most of the earth carrying with them the message largely the message of Paul because the message of Paul was the one which touched them all which made them realize that they were one family Paul makes a great point of the…

…Paul because the message of Paul was the one which touched them all which made them realize that they were one family Paul makes a great point of the human family to get away and beyond all these divisions in individual domestic relationships and world…

…emphasis in his sermon at the Orpheus which by the way is the place where Socrates was condemned to death but to Paul there was this further consideration that has to be brought in mind always the consideration that each living thing not only human…

…to have this new concept. The new concept of the one unknown God. Now the problem of the unknown God was not easily solved. Paul had his own definition for it. but the term remains and in the Bible it appears in two forms in some translations it's an…

…Egyptians, and Phoenicians, all had their definitions and interpretations of God. Yet in many cases, these were not identical. And as Paul notes in the connection with his manner also, time has something to do with it. opinions about deity change with time…

…change with time with experience with the searchings of human beings for better understanding for philosophy for all these different things and Paul points out very definitely that God cannot live in a house made by the hands of man he doesn't live that…

…We have molecules. We have neutrons. We have everything you can think of. Somewhere in the mystery of all of this is life. And Paul I think is trying to tell us that this one life is the important thing and that this one life has its station in…

…which surrounds him and fills him and exists before him and will go on forever so that the problem of the God of Paul comes to be again a reason for individual thoughtfulness the motion of religion into the personal life of the individual now it's not…

…the creators of these documents, being Christian Protestants, would lose the Paulian method. They might quote other things also. But in Paul, they found something very useful to them. They found the realization of a complete integrity of liberty. Paul was a…

…things also. But in Paul, they found something very useful to them. They found the realization of a complete integrity of liberty. Paul was a liberator. he didn't liberate nations he liberated souls and he was first able to do this because the vision on…

…experience of a mystical enlightenment the miraculous happened to him we read about it in books we may have psychic experiences but to Paul this vision on the road was the greatest thing that he ever experienced and he was convinced that if a sinner as…

…often that now we see through a veil darkly but then we will see face to face now the point has also been made that Paul of Tarsus or Saul of Tarsus was in all probabilities an initiate of the pagan Greek mysteries also and this is quite possible if…

…into a foreign faith or belief which had certain obligations certain vows certain requisites and certain needs it is also well known that Paul was a well-educated man in the terms of his day in language philosophy science and most of the arts of his time…

…might come in time to have a mystical experience of his own the mystical experience as it is denominated in the writings of Paul is definitely the inner realization of certain things first the total unity of God, and that God is not considered in terms…

…growing up in these institutes of life becomes aware of these movements within himself, he is at that time a universal believer. Paul also warns a great deal against soothsaying and all kinds of canery in this particular area. He warns against the belief…

…his own invention. He can shift his labor from his own labors and works to some magical formula that will work for him. Paul doesn't believe in this at all. He believes definitely that the only magical invocation is a silent prayer in the heart. Also…

…toward acceptance of soul light, acceptance of the God or Christ in us, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is, according to Paul, the oil of salvation. The word Christ being itself a word for oil. And so Paul goes into nations. He goes into different…

…the Holy Spirit, which is, according to Paul, the oil of salvation. The word Christ being itself a word for oil. And so Paul goes into nations. He goes into different countries. He preaches to them And for the most part, he is received with dignity. He…

…But he is also safe because there is something about what he says that is very unsettling of hypocrisy. There is something about it. Paul was a violent man and when he was good he was violently good as far as the proselyting of his ideas were concerned…

…of time, what was the religion to do? What was the idea that was carried forward by Dionysus out of Vegas, who heard Paul and was converted by him? The answer is very definite. It opens the invisible universe to our visible comprehension. A great example…

…visible comprehension. A great example of this is Jacob Bamey, whose visions are definitely Paulian in their quality. To Bamey and to Paul, there was a way in which the human being could enter into the experience of the divine purpose. There was a way…

…soul, even if it can be worded according to the dictionary. It is something infinitely deeper, more mysterious, and more wonderful. Paul recognized the healing power of Jesus, but he recognized this healing power not as belonging to Jesus, but God in him,…

…each person has to face. In the Orient, they call this karma. The things that we do are returned to us in like measure. But Paul didn't think of it in the terms of karma. He thought of it in the terms rather of the position we place ourselves by the…

…from reality by our own conduct. The moment we do not follow the Sermon on the Mount and the companion thoughts and words of Paul, we lose something. It isn't that a God points down with vengeance at us and wishes us into eternal damnation. It is that…

…will fulfill their purpose and in the end will bring the individual into absolute harmony with all the honest convictions of mankind's Always Paul was in some kind of difficulty. He got to Rome, he was in trouble. But as a citizen of Rome, he could not…

…his grain or seed of immortality, which we all have in our hearts. So at the time of the session at Mars Hill, Paul announced that he would return probably at another time, but he never did, to give more instruction to these people concerning the…

…people concerning the mystery of the unknown God. But he went to other places, but in the various books and works attributed to Paul, he solves a great many of the mysteries of the unknown God. But he does admit beyond question that there is only so…

…down to the infinite wisdom of the Eternals. This is our hope and our salvation in these times. And this is the journey that Paul made from being a hater of Christ to a believer in Christ. And perhaps one of the first to distinguish this concept of…

…most worship and they are as we know from saint augustine the false gods in all of these different things we find in Paul that he personifies the common faults of mankind and gives them a special flavor and coloring for our improvement we know really…

…and when we understand this we have made a great achievement in the future on the other side of the coin as far as Paul is concerned is this tremendous pressure within a man and this pressure has alienated many people I know that many people think of…

…Paul is concerned is this tremendous pressure within a man and this pressure has alienated many people I know that many people think of Paul more or less as very cruel or very crude and he may have been all these things but he also has within his…

…in anguish asking God to relieve us of a pain or an ache or a problem that we ourselves have caused. The deity of Paul doesn't have to forget anything because it is inside of us and knows exactly what we've done every moment. it knows when we are…

…degree of our guilt and of our integrity it knows when we are telling the truth whether others do or not therefore the Christ of Paul knocks at the door of our heart comes in and sits with us and breaks bread and in that presence we have the final…

…in our own rights but not interested in our neighbor's rights We are interested only in the advancement of ourselves. In fact, Paul would have listed this as one of the greatest heresies with which the world has been afflicted since the beginning of time.…

…ourselves to this state by reclaiming them we have to bring ourselves back again to the principles and to the ideals that Paul enunciated on the hill of Mars The hill of Mars, incidentally, was the place where the Greeks gathered the gossip. It was…