The Temple of the Holy Spirit in Man....

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The Temple of the Holy Spirit in Man

 

Many young people today have left their own sect or religion because they see it

as only one body amongst many, all seeming to differ as to points of doctrine.

This is caused by the destructive analytical tendency of the lower mind. For a

moment, think of religion as being based on the physical body of man, whether he

be Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or atheist. The Physical body is truly the

temple of the Holy Ghost. All religions are founded on the spiritual structure

of the microcosm or man. Religion is a science, as described in numerous texts

on yoga and alchemy. These teachings are in the Bible. It is imperative that

religion be taught as a scientific discipline of the mind. This is gnosis - the

application of Wisdom.

 

It is regrettable that the early Christians thought fit to suppress the

teachings of the Alexandrian university which taught the gnosis of the

superphysical planes and bodies. The Church fell into error when it abandoned

the symbolic interpretation of the Bible, as found in the writings of Philo

Judaeus, and treated cosmic truths as literal historical events. Christ is

eternal. He existed before Christianity and will exist after Christianity has

passed away. We are fragments of the body of the Cosmic Christ. We desperately

need to know who we are and why we are here on Earth. The second coming of

Christ is, for each of us, the birth of Christ-consciousness through meditation.

This is the Yoga of Christ. He is the Cosmic Christ in all beings, Christian or

not.

 

The New Birth in Christ

 

" I tell thee, that unless thou be born again, thou shalt not see the Kingdom of

God. " This rebirth is the awakening of Christ-consciousness in us. This is a

synthetic (making a whole out of the parts) consciousness which crosses the

barriers of false divisions between subjects or creeds. There is only One

Religion and there is only one basis for that Religion, namely, the human body,

the Temple of the Holy Ghost.

 

The mystic Weigelius (A.D. 1650) taught that we could only understand Christ's

teachings by enacting his life in an interior fashion. We must learn to bring

down to our lower mind these abstract symbolic truths of Religion.

 

The universals are the products of abstract thought. We as microcosms must

reflect these truths in our own little universe based on the physical body. If

we interpret these truths too literally, they become dogmas and fetters to our

minds. Therefore, we must develop our intuition and meditate on the truths of

religion which are beyond books.

 

The descent of the Holy Spirit is, in one sense, the interior illumination of

the mind once it has become concentrated on an idea. The mind can penetrate

beyond the phenomena or rites connected with the Idea, so as to reach its heart

or noumenon. The Soul is a mediator between Spirit (the Monad) and Matter (the

physical plane.)Light enters the mind when it is fixed on the Light source - the

Sea of Divine Wisdom. Christ-consciousness is born in human minds through the

process of evolution. This process is hastened by meditation.

 

 

 

The Unifying Power of Christ The Higher Self....

 

" God and Man are one in Christ. "

 

This statement from the Creed of Athanasius means that the Monad (God) and the

Lower Self (Man) are psychologically united through the Higher Self

(Christ-consciousness.) The cosmogeny given herein is based on the Gnosis or

Wisdom which relates to our spiritual structure. This is, and always has been, a

science, dealing with the energies and vehicles of the Soul, whether in the

physical body or out of it.

 

The fundamentalistic and literal interpretation of the Bible must give way to

the symbolic and allegorical treatment of apparently historical events or names.

The truths of the Bible are eternal. We have made the error of assuming that the

events described are related to the past, some two thousand-years ago. The

Second Coming of Christ is in us at any time. It signifies the uniting of the

consciousness of the Lower Self with the Higher Self, the Sun with the Moon.

 

We must reformulate the exegesis or presentation of Christian teachings in terms

of occult anatomy and of the non-physical planes, of reincarnation and the

perfecting of the qualities of the Soul. That which is ancient (the Ageless

Wisdom) must be reinterpreted anew. The Mystery of Christ lies not in history

but is enshrined within the human heart of every human being from birth.

 

Christ in you is your hope of glory.

 

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