Love is the Fulfilling of the Law
ON LOVE; PART CLXXXIII
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GoodWill IS Love in Action
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We have added a column today to our chart. This chart is our portrayal of the Trinity of God and of man and the potency that each Aspect expresses from the perspective of the man in form. Of course we must understand that there is but ONE God and that the Trinity as we see it from our perspective is but a way of explaining Life in terms that are slightly more comprehensible than the single understanding of God as the ONE GOD, One Boundless, Immutable, Eternal and Infinite Presence in whom, as Paul tells us, “we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Our Tibetan brother, the same who brings to our attention the Great Invocation, states this Truth in the introduction to one of his many books: There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression. It is this Truth that man has tried to better understand with his manufactured subdivisions of God and this dividing has been going on for eons of time. The many gods of the Greeks and the Egyptians and of the Hindu faith are but subdivisions of the ONE God from the perspective of the individual potencies that are expressed in the Earth, many of which are responsible for major effects upon the human kingdom. One of the major teachings of Jehovah through Moses was the reality of the ONE God and from the text of the Old Testament we can KNOW that this IS done to change the perspective of the superstitious men in that day away from the reverence and worship of the individual potencies of God and to the realization that ALL are Truly incorporated into the ONE Boundless, Immutable, Eternal and Infinite Presence.
Our purpose in repeating this chart day after day is to keep the idea of the Trinity of God and the Trinity of man in front of us ALL so that we can steadily gain greater realization into what this means for us in time and space. These aspects of both ARE NOT what we see and feel in this Life in form but they are rather the reality that exists in the spiritual realms, realities that for a time are focused on an existence in form but which ARE NOT that form. When we understand our True relationship with God we are better able to make sense of our Life here in the Earth as we can recognize that the body and the personality are but the means for the eventual expression of the divine nature of man in the world and that this combined divine nature of each individual is but a part of the divine nature of the whole which can then be seen as a part of the divine nature of the ONE Universal God. Until this point of the eventual expression of divinity in the world, the True man, the divine Trinity of man, is operating behind the scenes if we can use such a term; he is expressing his Life and his consciousness through the form nature but at the same time stands spiritually as ONE with God. While this is difficult to comprehend we can see a worldly application in the doing of one thing as a man in the world while his mind is focused upon something different; one does not think about driving a car once the act is learned but he does drive and the focus of his mind is at the same time on a variety of other things. Similarly, the form nature is moving about in its Life in the world while the Soul awaits opportunity to take control and turn that Life into an expression of the divine nature much like the human mind would take over the driving of the car whensoever it becomes necessary. The consciousness is for the most part lost in the world of illusion and glamour thinking and believing the things of the world and while the Soul prompts and seeks attention to the Good, the Beautiful and the True; it is not until the heretofore lost consciousness recognizes the illusion and the glamour of Life in form through the promptings of the Soul and the association of this prompting with the dissatisfaction of living as the carnal man in the world, that a man can make True progress and begin to sense the divine expression. It is in this sensing that one is attracted to those things and those people in the world that he believes can help him and hence religion, then the True seeking as the Master implores us to do and then the striving or the turning of the carnal Life over to the Soul.
It IS in our eventual expression that we will overcome the world as the Master tells us that He has done and we should try to see that while the Master is born and lives as a Divine Expression in the world, we must achieve this through our seeking and our striving toward that Goal. The Master goes to great lengths to teach us that this is within our ken and these ideas are amplified and somewhat clarified by His apostles who tell us many things that lead us to this realization if we can look away from the doctrines of men and toward that Inner teacher who IS one’s own Soul. In the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of John there are several ideas that we often repeat that have to do with this idea above. It is in this chapter that the Master is preparing for the end of His time here in the Earth and it is here that He tell His disciples of the Holy Spirit, that He will be with them, and this is of course seen in doctrine as the Master summoning a great power to work in their lives. While this is a Truth, the Holy Spirit IS a great Power, it is a Power that has ever existed and it IS as we have said….the activity of the Soul in form. From the perspective of the apostles we should see a group of men who are devotees of the Master and who are learning from and leaning on Him as their source of strength. The Master here tells them here the Truth of Life while admitting in this very chapter that He had been teaching them as well by proverb which we can only assume He does to bring them along from the worldly ways of the religious Jew to the reality of the Truths of Life.
In this time, more than 2000 years ago, these men were yet emotionally driven, were superstitious as were their ancestors, and were not yet free from the world and the illusion and the glamour of Life in the world. In the Master’s correction of them we can see these ideas:
- In His correction of John and James concerning their desired privilege where they ask the Master to “Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory” and to which He replies that “But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared“ (Mark 10:37, 40). This scene continues with the displeasure of the others against this request by the brothers and the Master’s further instructions to them that neither of these attitudes are right.
- In His correction of the group as they strive for individual greatness where we see this scene: “And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all” (Mark 9:33-35). While there is innocence in this story from the perspective of men, there is not from the perspective of the disciple and we can see that they understand this in that “they held their peace“. The Master here corrects them and their attitude.
- In His correction of our ready example in the Apostle Peter who continually drifts back into worldly thinking from the perspective of the Master. With Peter we can see several examples of his correction by the Master even up to the time after His resurrection where he seems concerned about what another should do and this when he KNOWS that he should only be concerned about himself. Here we read this of Peter, speaking of John to the Master: “Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me“ (John 21:21-22).
We should note that in each of these issues above there is the creeping into the thoughts and the conversation the attitude of self by the apostles; it IS concern for the self in the world that the Master seeks to correct.
The Greek word that is translated as comforter is Parakletos which is commonly KNOWN as the Paraclete and is rendered as such in some translations of the Bible and in this we should try to see that the idea of the comforter is but an English word used to portray the action of the Greek word this is a doctrinal approach to the more mysterious Greek word. This aside, we should try to see the reality that this Paraclete who the Master tells us “is the Holy Ghost” (John 14: 26) IS the activity of the Christ Within in the Earthly Life of the True devotee which these disciples certainly are. Can we understand that in this great mystery of the Truth of man and His relationship to God that the Master must necessarily speak in parable and proverb as He is making KNOWN great mysteries and fulfilling the prophetic words as the Apostle Matthew tells us saying of the Lord: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 13:35). And so the Master leads these men, these disciples and apostles, from their Jewish religious understanding to an understanding of the secrets and the mysteries and this revelation of the Holy Spirit’s activity in their lives and in the world. Here we should try to see that it is the realization of this that is important as the Holy Spirit is not invented here for this purpose as some may believe based upon John’s parenthetical saying that: “But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified” (John 7:39), and a look back in the gospels bears this out.
- The angel tells Joseph of the Holy Ghost saying “Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 1:20).
- The angel tells Zacharias of the birth of his son John that “he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb” (Luke 1:15) showing us the special nature of the Great Soul that was to be born as the Baptist.
- John the Baptist speaks of the Holy Ghost as the baptizing activity of the Master saying: “he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire” (Matthew 3:11).
- The Master speaks of the Holy Ghost’ presence in King David’s time saying: “For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool” (Mark 12:36).
- And finally we see the Master in His teaching tell us that “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” (Luke 11:13) which tells us of the availability of this Power of the Soul to ALL who Truly and sincerely ask.
We should see here that the saying from John is not properly understood and perhaps is better viewed from the perspective of realization which, as we discuss above, the Master is giving to them here in the words above. It is this realization that the Master is speaking about in promising the Paraclete and it is this realization that brings the Soul ever closer to his expression through Life in form; there is no magical formula, no special treatment performed by the Master, there is only the realization by the aspirant of the Soul Light which IS the Paraclete in his activity in the Life of the man in the world and it is this that results in his eventual expression of divinity in the world. This Divinity is also expressed by the Master in this same chapter from John’s Gospel where there are many Life changing events for the disciples. Here they are given the Truth of certain realities:
- Because what they will be teaching is radically different in the eyes of the blinded Pharisees and rulers they are told: “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service” (John 16:2). We should understand here that this is the reality of the Pharisee, that he does “think that he doeth God service” as he is lost in the illusion of the world and the glamour of his own righteousness in religion.
- The Master here confirms to them the fact that He is leaving them and that the realization of the Holy Spirit will be there for their comfort: “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you” (John 16:7). Again, there is not mystical event here but rather the thought that in the reality of the Master’s absence that the disciples WILL and MUST rely upon their own Christ Within and His activity as the Holy Spirit. This is not unlike the day that the baby bird must leave the nest and can no longer rely on the parent for sustenance. As we have found elsewhere, we should understand that in the language of the Greeks, this saying does not need to mean what we assume that our English translation shows as translated words like send and unto can take on many meanings. If we take this word send and try to look at it in the same Light as we see it used in this saying: “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John 6:38) we can get a different understanding of the intent and this is enhanced greatly when Truly understanding the idea that the Master puts forth saying “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). So too is the Holy Spirit and the Soul and the Spirit of man ONE.
- The Master goes on to a rather long dissertation on the fact that He IS leaving but that He will be back but He does not explain this any further leaving it to them to muddle through and perhaps hoping that they might understand from this and His other more direct sayings on His death and resurrection. He tells them “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you” (John 16:22); among a group of sayings that seem intentionally unclear as well. If nothing else, it is apparent from the dialogue that they do not understand the Master’s words which He tells us Himself are parable and proverb.
We did not intend to go so far into this but this is a rather fascinating look at the realities of the Sixteenth Chapter of the Gospel of John and there is much more to say as we try to get back to our thoughts about the chart below and the extra column that relates the major stanza’s of the Great Invocation to the Trinity of Aspects of God and man.
We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.
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Potency |
Aspect of Man |
In Relation to the Great Invocation |
In relation to the Christ |
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GOD, The Father |
Will or Power |
Spirit or Life |
Center where the Will of God IS KNOWN |
Life |
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Son, The Christ |
Love and Wisdom |
Soul or Christ Within |
Heart of God |
Truth |
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Holy Spirit |
Light or Activity |
Life Within |
Mind of God |
Way |
Note on the Quote of the Day
This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment:
Leaving again the Great Invocation, we encourage ALL to read and reread it and our comments as in these words can be found the keys to our spiritual reality.
From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men–
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
This prayer is a part of our Prayers and Meditations section and there is much information about it there and in our discussion of it in the Quote of the Day section of In the Words of Jesus parts 128-132
The above Invocation or Prayer does not belong to any person or group but to all Humanity. The beauty and the strength of this Invocation lies in its simplicity, and in its expression of certain central truths which all men, innately and normally, accept—the truth of the existence of a basic Intelligence to Whom we vaguely give the name of God; the truth that behind all outer seeming, the motivating power of the universe is Love; the truth that a great Individuality came to earth, called by Christians, the Christ, and embodied that love so that we could understand; the truth that both love and intelligence are effects of what is called the Will of God; and finally the self-evident truth that only through humanity itself can the Divine Plan work out.
Like the Lord’s Prayer, this invocation is a World Prayer which is as all that a prayer is intended to be. It is a prayer for the uplifting of the Human Family out of the mire of materialism and selfishness. The Lord’s Prayer asks nothing for the individual praying it but asks that its benefits be for US and for WE which is why it was given by the Christ as a prayer and as a model over 2000 years ago. This invocation is also attributed to the Christ who, as He promised, has never left us; He, through channels that we do not readily understand, has Himself instructed His disciples to distribute this prayer and to encourage its use as a world prayer and as an aid in preparing the world for His return.
The first three stanzas of this prayer should be understood as reflecting the effective potencies of the Trinity which is God and which, when brought down to an individual level, the Trinity which is Man. His Will, His Love and His Light we should seen as the Potent Powers of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
