…administered the Eucharist to Abraham, and of whom it was said he was his own father and his own mother. And later, St. Paul likens Christ, saying that he is a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek. Thus, Melchizedek becomes the sole symbol, the…

…division of allegiance. Where the individual would like to follow a better course, but finds himself in the desperate situation of St. Paul, who says that whenever he would do good, evil was nigh unto him. Wherever the individual would say, yes, this is…

…giving more power to it, so that in the due time of things, that this soul will be like the golden wedding garment of St. Paul. And in the Bible, the soul is the garment of glory. It is that which proves conclusively the wisdom and integrity of the…

…we find our own lives changing And sometimes beautiful things happen when we think we've come to the end. There's always hope. St. Paul lists hope as one of the great hopes for mankind. Life, love, hope. These are the great beliefs for which there can…

…intangible space. Then we proceed to the archangelic hosts, a still higher, more exalted order of life, referred to by St. Paul. We then can go on to other orders still more exalted, thrones, dominions, principalities, seraphim, all types of mysterious names…

…to be powers superior to man, possessing intelligence. What are these powers? Some of the scriptural writers, particularly St. Paul, refers to the hierarchs, the angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers. These were regarded as great…

…or fire power, which if it be lifted up, shall draw all men unto it. This apparently is the reference of St. Paul. Now the rising of the Shashumna Nadi, is accompanied by another phenomenon. And this phenomenon is the restoration or stimulation of…

…head, almost directly under the crown of the head where the priest shaves his head, or where the tonsure, referred to by St. Paul, was traditionally given, there is another little gland which is called the pineal gland, named from the pine cone due to…

…also aware that the vision may occur in a condition or time not normally associated with sleep. But as in the case of St. Paul, we find that the actual occurrence was preceded by a shock or some mysterious force that passed the future apostles into a…

…dead. A man asleep appeared to be dead, but was not really so. Death was a long sleep. Sleep was a little death. St. Paul points this out when he says, I die daily. This mystery of sleep And the breaking through seems to have affected our psychology…

…man we've all greatly honored, Dr. Schweitzer. This man pointed out in connection with the speech of Paul at Athens, in which St. Paul refers to the altar of the unknown God. And Dr. Albert Schweitzer says that in his estimations, there could not have…

…a combination of enrichment of the spiritual strength of life with the rewards of incarnation. The soul is the wedding garment of St. Paul in the book of Apocalypse. It is the vesture of experience. It is all that we learn becoming the great ornamentation…

…he can become unaware of it. As one who sleeps. But if he awakens into the mystical perception of this, he becomes, as St. Paul says, the firstborn of them that sleep. He becomes capable of awaking from the sleep of division into the waking fullness of…

…the more prominent religions of other people, all good things were reserved in religious doctrine for those who did change themselves. St. Paul refers to those who were the firstborn of them, the priests, He describes those that are born again in Christ.…

…pattern was more or less extended. And the first 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…

…a peculiar and wonderful remembering, a continuing of the solemn and sacred occasion which it originally described. So we have in St. Paul the moving spirit of the transformation of the historical story or the legend of the Last Supper into its inclusion…

…willing to include him among the prophets and the elders 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…

…conceivable that in this moment of freedom man beheld the mighty hierarchs of the world. That he beheld these very things that St. Paul described in the blessed visions of those who are the firstborn of them that sleep. And those that sleep are the…

…their formation. To bridge this, how is it to be crossed? The Buddhists, the Taoists, all come to the same conclusion, and St. Paul speaks loudly the same thought in connection with the experience of Christ, namely that there is only one way in which…

…mystical factor, which is to bridge the interval between God and man. In Christianity, this interval is indicated or suggested by St. Paul under the idea of the practice of charitas, or love. Love, beauty, unselfishness, All of the most noble of human…

…of that type there is an extension of consciousness. This is the way in which most mystics interpret the conversion of St. Paul who suddenly reversed his position because something happened whereby he was able to dominate his own ego and to transmute…

…again. Now, in the Vatican Library, we have several very embarrassing situations. We find that an original letter, but not written by St. Paul, but a copy of one of them, perhaps a copy of the second or third century, has been very carefully painted out…

…apostolic era. And From the Acts on, with the exception of Revelation, we are strongly under the influence of the Church of St. Paul. There are exceptions also in the minor factors that have been given. But in the substance, these disciples relate to the…

…life and ministry of Saul's prophet, And we must pause, therefore, to examine, in a little detail at least, the place of St. Paul in the descent of the New Testament tradition. If we are critical, we realize that the epistles of Paul were written between…

…a man, from a teacher, to a spirit, to a being in space, resulted in what is called the Corinthians of St. Paul. This Corinthians undoubtedly contributed a tremendous impulse to the future of the Christian Romance. It broke through the barrier of time…

…brought this clear line of demarcation between the two systems of order. Another point that we must bring up in connection with St. Paul, because it has a bearing upon our subject, was that important generations happened, and a And it is at that point…

…was that important generations happened, and a And it is at that point that we find that interesting and remarkable episode of St. Paul and the Author of the Unknown God. This, again, has been subject to a great deal of study. And there has been…

…to hear the same lecture again. The subject this morning is an important one and it's based very largely on the writings of St. Paul. it seems that it was recognized in ancient times that the redemptive principle in life was a very sacred one and that…

…adored with the various faculties of their possessions this idea of the giving all as the proof of ultimate affection goes on and St. Paul finally establishes it more or less in the human heart that instead of the heart being the seat of deity the deity…

…the desire for profit. Now with all these things to consider it is very important that we get back there to the idea that St. Paul had in which he pointed out definitely that in all the transactions of the world the greatest of all is love. That love…

…we can, we can all get somewhere, and we'll all be better for it. And we'll agree, I think, a little bit, that possibly St. Paul is right. That hope, faith, and love, these are the three. But the greatest of these is love. And love is the thing that…

…capable of a larger and fuller manifestation in the Buddhic state. Hierarchies and orders of beings, called by St. Paul, thrones, powers, dominions, principalities, angels and archangels, therefore represent the creatures on the various rungs of the mysterious…

…matter What he has failed to do is to recognize that his aspiration has not overcome the limitation of himself. He is like St. Paul, who was, whenever he would do good, he would rely unto him. This aspiration of the individual was not strong enough to…

…been left by the apostles, the original group of disciples. And a rather different record which arose from the convictions of St. Paul. Pauline Christianity was quite different in many ways from the original revelation as it has come down to us. So we…

…original revelation as it has come down to us. So we naturally ask the question, what was the source of the information of St. Paul? Why did he differ from the so-called gospel narrative in so many details. The answer appears to be that Paul had access…

…This situation in Buddhism would certainly have produced the same cream of stalemate that might have arisen in Christianity without St. Paul. It was necessary to break through this and to create a new democracy in the universe. And the Lotus Sutra…

…nothing. Whereas in this world, there is too much of something worse or nothing, or and nothing. So in this point, faith, as St. Paul points out, becomes a very important thing to us. It is the ability to live a good life, keep our principles, and…

…of its nature and only occasionally responsive to its true inclinations and impulses. We live in constant conflict with ourselves. And as St. Paul says, when we would do good, evil is ever nigh unto us. We have a terrible time even living up to the…

…that had come under their domination. This of course is brought to our attention by the episode at the end of Vegas, when St. Paul saw the altar to the unknown God. He inquired and learned that a plague had attacked Athens, that offerings had been made…

…this? I think all mystics are in common agreement. Demi, the German mystic, refers to this enlightenment as a lightning flash. St. Paul, in the mysterious occurrence on the road to Damascus with theophany, had no way of estimating why it happened. But all…

…in us. The germ of peace is in that heart center where we hope to build the beginning of the golden wedding garment described by St. Paul. But we have now a peace center. What are we going to do with it? Well, there are lots of problems in peace. We…

…world The most simple possible way of approaching this is to look around us. In London, Christopher Wren built the great cathedral of St. Paul. They put a tablet on the wall saying to, if you want to know Wren, look around you. In other words, the…

…to a study of modern and modern literature. Here, people have gone back to the great Indian studies, Nargajuna. We learn today what St. Paul wrote for this year. It was St. Paul who first taught the belief of a small self of disillusioned youth. And so…

…Here, people have gone back to the great Indian studies, Nargajuna. We learn today what St. Paul wrote for this year. It was St. Paul who first taught the belief of a small self of disillusioned youth. And so it falls within the same concept. It is a…

…of the afterworld were derived from dreams, from man feeling or believing that in sleep he passed through a kind of temporary death. St. Paul said, I die daily. And that in this procedure the being also left the body or separated from it in some way…

…link between the Gnostics and Christianity that remained strong for a considerable period of time was the link of the teachings of St. Paul. The Paulian group was very close to the Gnosis. And many of the Gnostic teachers quoted St. Paul as being the…

…of the teachings of St. Paul. The Paulian group was very close to the Gnosis. And many of the Gnostic teachers quoted St. Paul as being the outstanding example of the teacher of their time relating to the mystery of Christianity. Now the Gnosis moved…

…of the spiritual values which were important to him. There was at this time also a strong rise of interest in St. Paul and his mystical concept of Christianity became really the central focus of the transcendentalist movements arising in the United States.…

…Orthodox Jewish belief. The other group finally broke away entirely from Orthodox Jewish thinking with the result that today St. Paul is regarded as having been responsible for Christianity breaking with the Jewish faith and emerging as a totally independent…

…of that type, there is an extension of consciousness. This is the way in which most mystics interpret the conversion of St. Paul, who suddenly reversed his position because something happened whereby he was able to dominate his own ego and to transmute…

…Now, our subject this morning is in the 17th chapter of Acts, Paul on the hill of Mars. The personality of St. Paul is one of the most controversial in Christian theology. First, he was an ardent anti-Christian. Then he was an ardent Christian.…

…in this division we saw the real division between Peter and Paul. We saw Peter's Church at Rome and the Cathedral of St. Paul in London, the two great anchors of Christian theology. The western branch, which came over to the United States, was mostly…

…of Christian theology. The western branch, which came over to the United States, was mostly composed of the Paul Polis Parti. St. Paul inspired most of New England, and the reason for this was that Paul broke away from the insistency of an intercessor…

…experience, I'll admit. But it had its advantages. And one of the observations or occurrences was that we followed the journeys of St. Paul with red tacks on a blackboard. And we found all the places where he was shipwrecked or where anything happened to…

…And the golden rule and things of that kind had no effect on the feuding relatives. They didn't care anything about what St. Paul said or what St. John said. And it's questioned if they'd said and believed anything if God had spoken in person. Because…

…In Christianity, we have the example of a great sense of internal fulfillment. Christ becomes the symbol of man's dedicated existence. St. Paul says, the Christ in you, the hope of glory. Well, the Christ in you dwells in this mysterious internal reality.…

…as the only non-Christian writer, non-Jewish writer, to be quoted in the New Testament. The quotation occurs in the 17th chapter of St. Paul. Paul is speaking in Athens. at his famous sermon given by the altar of the unknown God. And he says, in…

…root. So Christ is the oil. The bread and the wine were provided, and the ancient ritual of Melchizedek was repeated, which causes St. Paul to refer to the Messiah as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. was said to be its own father and…