The Kingdom of God has an outer and an inner form....

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Jesus explains that God's Kingdom is a duality with an outer and an

inner form. It can be seen that various people crowd the outer

Kingdom, but it is only the pure in heart that inhabit the inner

Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of the Soul.

 

Violet

 

 

CHAPTER 116

 

" 2 And Jesus said, God's kingdom is a duality; it has an outer and

an inner form. 3 As seen by man it is composed of men, of those who

make confession of the name of Christ. 4 For various reasons various

people crowd this outer kingdom of our God. 5 The inner kingdom is

the kingdom of the soul, the kingdom of the pure in heart. 6 The

outer kingdom I may well explain in parables. Behold, for I have

seen you cast a great net out into the sea, 7 And when you hauled it

in, lo, it was full of every kind of fish, some good, some bad, some

great, some small; and I have seen you save the good and throw the

bad away. 8 This outer kingdom is the net, and every kind of man is

caught; but in the sorting day the bad will all be cast away, the

good reserved. 9 Hear, then, the meaning of the parable of the wheat

and tares: 10 The sower is the son of man; the field, the world; the

good seed are the children of the light; the tares, the children of

the dark; the enemy, the carnal self; the harvest day, the closing

of the age; the reapers are the messengers of God. 11 The reckoning

day will come to every man; then will the tares be gathered up, and

cast into the fire and be burned. 12 Then will the good shine forth

as suns in the kingdom of the soul. 13 And Philip said, Must men and

women suffer in the flames because they have not found the way of

life? 14 And Jesus said, The fire purifies. The chemist throws into

the fire the ores that hold all kinds of dross. 15 The useless metal

seems to be consumed; but not a grain of gold is lost. 16 There is

no man that has not in him gold that cannot be destroyed. The evil

things of men are all consumed in fire; the gold survives. 17 The

inner kingdom of the soul I may explain in parables: 18 The son of

man goes forth and scatters seeds of truth; God waters well the

soil; the seeds show life and grow; first comes the blade, and then

the stalk, and then the ear, and then the full wheat in the ear. 19

The harvest comes and, lo, the reapers bear the ripened sheaves into

the garner of the Lord. 20 Again, this kingdom of the soul is like a

little seed that men may plant in fertile soil. 21 (A thousand of

these seeds would scarcely be a shekel's weight.) 22 The tiny seed

begins to grow; it pushes through the earth, and after years of

growth it is a mighty tree and birds rest in its leafy bowers and

men find refuge 'neath its sheltering boughs from sun and storm. 23

Again, the truth, the spirit of the kingdom of the soul, is like a

ball of leaven that a woman hid in measures, three, of flour and in

a little time the whole was leavened. 24 Again, the kingdom of the

soul is like a treasure hidden in a field which one has found, and

straightway goes his way and sells all that he has and buys the

field. 25 When Jesus had thus said he went alone into a mountain

pass near by to pray. "

 

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