"Look here, it's the lamb of God who takes upon himself the wrongdoing of the
world." - John 1:29
"You see, God loved the world so much He Gave His only son, so
that everyone who believes in him would not be lost, but instead have everlasting
life." - John 3:16
If we believe God's only son was sent to take our sins
upon himself so we could have everlasting life with God, then every gospels is too
long!
All teachings and doings of Jesus could be excluded, they are uneccessary to
reach everlasting life.
Every gospel does not need to be longer than 12 verses
forming a single chapter. But they are longer!
Are they not longer, because
Jesus needed to teach the people how to live with God so they could bring forth the
Kingdom of God in their own life?
"The speculative dogma of vicarious
atonement, which has based Christian thought for centuries can not be charged to the
author of the Sermon on the Mount, or the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
"The
leaders of Christian thought have diverted the followers of Jesus and his teaching
from the practical application and study of God power. They have taught them to look
upon his teaching as the experiences of the Apostles after his time, instead of
teaching them the law which those teachings were based was an exact science which
could be understood and experienced in the lives of all.
"The Orientals have
made the scientific phase of their religion to the supreme object of their study and
attainment. In this they have gone on the the other extreme. In this way both has
consigned their religion to the realm of miracules and supernatural. The one has
become absorbed in the wholly ethical, while the other has become absorbed in the
scientific side only. Thus both has shut out true spirituality.
"The monastic
life of retirement, asceticism and seclusion from the world, wherether in Buddhistic
or Christian monasteries, is neither a neccessity nor is it the true method of
attaining spiritual enlightenment nor the realization of the perfect life of wisdom
and power brought forth by Jesus.
"These monastic systems have been in
existence for many thousands of years, yet they have in no wise accomplished as much
for the uplift of the common people as did the teaching of Jesus in the few short
years of his time here on earth.
-
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East volume 2, page 7-8
Christians get tears in their eyes, when they think of Jesus as the lamb. -That he
died for them. But the will get tears of joy in their eyes when they understand what
Jesus teaching really means for people. They could bring forth the Kingdom of God
from within, in their own lives with the right understanding and practice of the
teaching of Jesus.
"Right here comes the suggestion that has lead to the idolatry of the past.
Men sought to grave in wood or stone, gold, silver or brass the image of that they
idealizad, but any idol can only imperfectly picture the ideal. The image, the idol,
is no sooner formed than men become conscious that the ideal surpasses the idol, and
they are shown that they must gaze upon love, and idealize for themselves that they
wish to bring forth from the within, instead of graving any idol in outer form of the
ideal they would express. A later form of idolatry is to idealize the personality of
the one who expresses our ideal. We should idealize the ideal which he expresses and
not the personality which expresses it. This is true even of one so great person as
Jesus. Thus Jesus chose to go away, when He saw that the people were idealing His
personality instead of the ideal He represented. They sought to make Him their King...
Life and Teaching of the Masters of
the Far East volume 1, page 59-60
In statechristianity Jesus is
Idolworshipped, in some countries Mother Mary is Idolworshipped and in some countries
Saints are also Idolworshipped.
Free Christianity, like the Pentecoastal Movement
also have Idolworshipping of Jesus as the Saviour and the Lamb. But Idolworshipping
of Mother Mary and Saints are abscent, however a recent kind of "Idolworshipping" is
the look upon historical Christians (John Calvin,..) and the "worship" of modern
Christian leaders (Ulf Ekman, The Pope..)
The last type of "worship" comes to
being when Christians looks upon their own failures and begin to think -"God doesn't
answer my prayer- but Ulf Ekman's prayers is answered" or "Ulf Ekman is such a
caresmatic person, he must be sent by God, let him be my Shepherd."
"If you look back to your ancestors, you will, before you realize it, be worshipping
them; for with your creative ability, you will have brought forth that which you have
gazed upon. You will be living by their standards of your own. You will begin to
look like your ancestors, but you will not accomplished what they have
accomplished. You will begin to drop back; for if you live by another's ideal, you
can not accomplish that which the one who conceived the ideal accomplished. You must
either go on or return. There are no half-way measures. This ancestor worship is
one of the direct causes of nations' (Church, Assamble, Organization) degenerating."
- Life and Teaching of the Masters of
the Far East volume 2, page 31
The "Worship" of Christian Leaders is an effect of Christian wrongthinking
or rather - lack of thinking.
When the Masters made a bread miracle for
Spalding's research team one of the members said this: "We came here, as we supposed,
to find the remains of a people, long since dead and gone. Instead, we find a people
living a far more wonderful and active life than can be comprehended. If this thing
that we have seen could be herald abroad, you would have the whole world bowing at
your feet." The three ladies said they did not wish the world to bow at their feet,
but they longed to see all mankind bowing at God's feet. They went on to say that
mankind already had too many idols.
The ideal was the thing really needed.
- Life and Teaching of the Masters
of the Far East volume 2, page 102-103
"It is in this way the Christ was
born. Mary, the Great Mother, perceived the ideal; the ideal was held in mind, then
conceived in the soil of her soul, held for a time there, then brought forth or born
as the perfect Christ Child, the First Born, the Only Begotten, the Son of God. He
was nourished and protected; given the very best of the mother; watched over and
cherished until He grew from childhood into manhood. It is thus the Christ comes to
all of us; first as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul - the central part
where God is - held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as the
perfect Child, the Christ Consciousness.
- Life and Teaching of the Masters
of the Far East volume 1, page 23-24
"God is holding the ideal perfect
world in mind in every detail and it is bound to come forth as a heaven or perfect
home where all His children, all His creatures, and all His creations may dwell in
peace and harmony. This is the perfect world that God saw in the beginning and the
one He is thinking into existence right now, and the time of its manifestation lies
in our acceptance of it. When we can come to the one place and know that we are all
one, one man, and know that we are all members of God’s body as much as one member
of our body is a part of the whole body, then we are in, and of, God’s kingdom,
heaven here on earth, now.
"To make this manifest, realize that there is
nothing material in heaven. All is spiritual. Realize that heaven is a perfect state
of consciousness, a perfect world here on earth now, and all we need to do is to
accept it. It is here all about us, waiting for us to open the inner eye. Through
that eye our bodies shall be made light, the light which is neither of the sun nor
moon but of the Father; and the Father is right here in the very innermost part of
our being. We must sufficiently realize that there is nothing material, that all is
spiritual. Then we must think of that wonderful God-given spiritual world which is
right here now if we can realize it.
- Life and Teaching of the Masters
of the Far East volume 1, page 47
"All the different isms, cults, and
creeds, all the different angles of all beliefs, are all good for they will
eventually lead their followers to the realization that underneath all there is a
deep factor of actuality that has been missed, a deep something that has not been
contacted or they have failed to contact that which rightly belongs to them, which
they can and should rightfufly possess. We see it is this very thing that will
eventually drive man to possess all. The very fact that man knows there is
something to possess, which can be possessed and which he has not, will goad him on
until he has it. It is in this way every step in advance is made in all things.
The idea is first pressed out from God’s into man’s consciousness and he
sees there is something ahead if he will but go on. Here man usually blunders and
fails to recognize the source from which the idea came; but thinks that it came
wholly from within himself. He gets away from God and, instead of letting God
express through him the perfection God sees for him, he goes on and expresses in
his own way and brings forth imperfectly the thing which should be perfectly
wrought or manifest.
"If he should but realize that every idea is a
direct, perfect expression from God and, as soon as this idea comes to him, he
would immediately make it his ideal to be expressed from God, then take his mortal
hands off and let God express through him the perfect way, this ideal would come
forth perfect. Here we must realize that God is above the mortal and the mortal
cannot help in any way. In this way man would learn in a short time to express
perfection. The one great thing man must learn is to get forever through and out
of the psychic or mind forces and express directly from God, for all psychic
forces are created wholly by man and they are likely to mislead."
- Life and Teaching of the
Masters of the Far East volume 1, page 89-90
"Every child born is good
and perfect. There are no bad children. It does not matter whether they are
conceived in the perfect or immaculate or through the sense or material way.
The one conceived in the perfect way will soon recognize his Sonship with the
Father, that he is the Christ or Son of God; then he will develop and unfold
quickly and he will see only perfection. The one conceived through the sense way
may also immediately recognize his Sonship, perceive that the Christ is in him,
and may realize his perfection by idealizing the Christ. He gazes upon that ideal,
loves and cherishes it until he manifests or brings forth that which he gazes
upon, the Christ. He is re-born and is perfect. He has brought forth perfection
from within himself, that perfection which was always there. The one held to the
ideal and was perfect; the other perceived the ideal and unfolded that ideal,
and regained perfection. Thus no child is bad; all are good and from God."
- Life and Teaching of the
Masters of the Far East volume 1, page 105
"God’s love is
like a pure spring that gushes from a mountain. At its source it is pure but as
it flows on its course it becomes clouded and polluted until it enters the ocean
so impure it does not even resemble that which emerged from the source. As it
enters the ocean it begins to drop the mud and slime to the bottom and again
rises to the surface as a part of the glad, free ocean, from which it again can
be taken up to refresh the spring.
"You can see and talk with God at any
time, just as you can with father, mother, brother, or friend. Indeed, He is far
closer than any mortal can be. God is far dearer and truer than any friend. God
is never wrought up, nor angry, nor cast down. God never destroys, nor hurts,
nor hinders one of His children or creatures or creations. If God did these
things, He would not be God. The god that judges, destroys, or withholds any
good thing from his children or creatures or creations is but a god that is
conjured up by man’s ignorant thinking; and you need not fear that god unless
you wish to do so. For the true God stretches forth His hand and says, 'All
that I have is yours.' When one of your poets said that God is closer than
breathing and nearer than hands or feet, he was inspired by God. All are
inspired by God when that inspiration is for the good or the right and all can
be inspired by God at all times if they only will.
"When I said,
‘I am the Christ, the only begotten of God’, I did not declare this for myself
alone, for had I done this I could not have become the Christ. I say definitely
that, in order to bring forth the Christ, I, as well as all others, must
declare it; then must live the life, and the Christ must appear. You may declare
the Christ all you will and, if you do not live the life, the Christ will never
appear. Just think, dear friends, if all would decleare the Christ then live
the life for one years or five years, what an awakening there would be. The
possibibilities cannot be imagined. That was the vision that I saw.
- Life and Teaching of the
Masters of the Far East volume 2, page 53-54
The Final Teaching of Christ
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