Hereafter Ye Shall See Heaven Open - Part 1

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Dear All,

 

Discourse 10, titled " Hereafter Ye Shall See Heaven Open " , relates to this

conversation that Shri Jesus had with Nathanael:

 

Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth

Nathanael, and saith unto him, " We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and

the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. "

 

And Nathanael said unto him, " Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? "

Philip saith unto him, " Come and see. "

 

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, " Behold an Israelite

indeed, in whom is no guile! "

 

Nathanael saith unto him, " Whence knowest thou me? "

 

Jesus answered and said unto him, " Before that Philip called thee, when thou

wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. "

 

Nathanael answered and saith unto him, " Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art

the King of Israel. "

 

Jesus answered and said unto him, " Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under

the fig tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these. " And he

saith unto him, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see heaven

open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. "

 

- John 1:44-51

 

Here is Part 1.

 

Enjoy,

 

violet

 

 

 

" Hereafter Ye Shall See Heaven Open " - Part 1

 

Jesus's Discourse to Nathanael

 

'Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth

Nathanael, and saith unto him, " We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and

the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph " ' (John 1:44-45).

 

(p.197) Philip cites the intuitive revelations of Moses and the prophets about

the coming of the Christ, when he announces to Nathanael that the long-awaited

one had come in the form of Jesus of Nazareth.

 

Prophecy does not mean that all happenings on earth, including earthly human

affairs, are predestined. It is not an art that can be practiced reliably by

those who possess some small degree of psychic power. All events that have

happened in the past leave vibratory impressions in the ether, which sensitive

people may sometimes tune in as mental images or visions. Similarly, the karmic

law of cause and effect projects into the ether vibratory 'potentials' of future

events that are a probable outcome, or effect, of previously initiated causes.

Future events forming in the ether from causes originated by human actions are

not always inevitable; they evolve and can change dramatically according to the

transmuting power of man's free-will actions integrating into those karmic

vibrations. (p.198) One who has the ability to link past and future may predict

a certain outcome according to extant [existing] conditions; but if those

conditions are altered, the outcome may negate the foretelling. Doomsday

" prophets " find themselves embarrassingly duped by their imagination and

misreading of heavenly and scriptural signs.

 

Only the rare true prophet who is in tune with the will of God can make sure and

accurate predictions, such as the foreseeing of the coming of Jesus. Such

God-given predictions are concerned little with temporal matters that blow in

the winds of whimsical human actions and their effects. Their primary and

loftier purpose is to influence the spiritual betterment of man with both

encouraging and cautionary revelations.

 

Thus, Moses and Isaiah and other prophets of the Old Testament who foretold the

advent of Jesus were able, by intuitive foresight, to trace the law of cause and

effect which governs the drama of human existence. They knew also the law of God

that sends self-emancipated, Christlike souls onto the earth at different ages,

when the masses, burdened with the sin of ignorance, are in dire need of divine

light.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 10, pg. 197-198

Paramahansa Yogananda

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