Distinguishing The Truly Righteous From The 'Religious'

There are many, many people who act religiously, but are not righteous, and use their religious behavior to distract others. Religious behavior or superficial goodness, is not a reliable indicator that a person is truly righteous. The only reliable indicator that is available, is a person's fundamental behavior. Therefore when you see someone who acts religiously or seems very good in his surface behavior, ignore what you see, and just stare at the person's fundamental behavior. Remember, it is fundamental behavior which reliably tells the truth about a person, and it is fundamental behavior which you must depend on, to form a correct opinion about that person.

Refuting Atheism

A small percentage of people in the U.S. (about 3% according to this study) believe that there is no God. Many of them consider themselves intellectuals, and arrive at their beliefs through what they consider sound reasoning. Someone may ask the question, is their reasoning really sound?

Let us consider science: the basis for many atheists' refutation of the existence of God. As I indicated here, science does nothing more than guess at the way things are. Science e.g. does not know for certain that Einstein's Theory of Relativity is accurate. It simply proposes that it is. Even Einstein didn't believe his theory was accurate, as he kept looking for a better one called the unified theory. As a result, science offers us no assurance about the way things are, and any scientifically crafted explanation about the truth of our universe is inherently unreliable.

Let us look at the Theory of Evolution. This theory proposes that there exists a law in the universe, which says that something can give rise to another thing substantially greater than itself. As I indicated here, no such law exists, and in fact, there is a law in the universe which says that the proposed law by evolution proponents is untrue. More specifically, there is a law in the universe which states that nothing can give rise to something substantially greater than itself. We see this law all around us. E.g. it is the potter / man who creates pots - not the other way around. It is is men who create viruses in laboratories - not the other way around. It is birds which create nests - not the other way around. The Theory of Evolution therefore completely contradicts the above law, and provides no definitive proof that the law is unsound.

There exists another law in the universe which says that there is intelligence behind all organization, and the greater the organization, the greater the underlying intelligence. We can see that this law is true by noting that whenever we e.g. see a nest in a tree, we conclude that a bird created it. And whenever we see something more sophisticated like a car or a Cathedral, we conclude that men created it. Why do we do this? Because no one has ever seen a well crafted nest being created by dust, or a cathedral being built by plants or entities less intelligent than man. The above is how we are able to deduce that the universe was created by a great intelligence - because the universe shows organization far greater than men are able to produce.

An important way we are able to conclude that God exists, is by comparing texts inspired by Him, with the things we see around us. In as much as people ascribe the greatest credibility to explanations most closely aligned with their observations, texts by God provide the best and most whole explanations about our existence. We are able to see sin and wickedness in the world as described in the scriptures. We see that men and the world are slaves to sin as indicated in John 8:34. We see that a person exhibits good fruit when he has faith correctly - something we do not see anywhere else. We see that there is an invisible intelligence behind everything in this world - which is consistent with scriptural explanations that all things are governed by spirits. (E.g. clouds behave with organization within their bounds, so do rain, rivers, seas, plants, animals, and men. )Further, the more a person has faith, the more he notices the consistency of the explanations of things given in scriptures, with the things he sees around him.

There is therefore no intellectually sound basis for believing that there is no God. And there is a wealth of evidence around us that God is real, and that the texts He provides are true.

Having And Pursuing Great Faith - Part 2

Throughout the text, The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age, Jesus said repeatedly, "What I have done all men can do." (See e.g. The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age  178:46.) This means that all men have the potential to do all the things Jesus did. This includes healing the sick, driving entities out of people, walking on water, and raising the dead. The problem is that the capacity to do these things are hidden in secrecy, and a person has to do a huge amount of praying (i.e. lots of praying over the course of several years) to discover them. (The person who discovers the secrets of God via prayer, becomes a nexus of spiritual activity, until he disappears, then the activity subsides.)

Jesus indicated in The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age, chapter 40, that there is a 'Silence' that a person can go to, to gain love, power, and learn the secrets of God. A person can go to this 'Silence', by simply praying and believing he is there, and requesting the gifts he wants from God.

Apart from the above, the following scripture points to the fact that Jesus and his disciples used an extremely holy name of God, to accomplish the things they did. (Verses 15-19 provide an example of Jesus using God's sacred name.)

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NOW, on the day before the Sabbath day, the twelve disciples who had received the call were met with one accord in Jesus' home.
2 And Jesus said to them, This is the day to consecrate yourselves unto the work of God; so let us pray.
3 Turn from the outer to the inner self; close all the doors of carnal self and wait.
4 The Holy Breath will fill this place, and you will be baptised in Holy Breath.
5 And then they prayed; alight more brilliant than the noonday sun filled all the room, and tongues of flame from every head rose high in air.
6 The atmosphere of Galilee was set astir; a sound like distant thunder rolled above Capernaum, and men heard songs, as though ten thousand angels joined in full accord.
7 And then the twelve disciples heard a voice, a still, small voice, and just one word was said, aword they dared not speak; it was the Sacred name of God.
8 And Jesus said to them, By this omnific Word you may control the elements, and all the powers of air.
9 And when within your souls you speak this Word, you have the keys of life and death; of things that are; of things that were; of things that are to be.
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15 As Jesus spoke, a man obsessed came in; the evil spirits that obsessed the man were of the baser sort; they often threw their victim to the ground, or in the fire.
16 And when the spirits saw the Christine master in the synagogue they knew him, and they said,
17 You son of God, why are you here? would you destroy us by the Word before our time? we would have naught to do with you; let us alone.
18 But Jesus said to them, By the omnific Word I speak; Come out; torment this man no more; go to your place.
19 And then the unclean spirits threw the man upon the floor, and, with a fiendish cry, they went away.

Other scriptures show Jesus invoking angels who do profound things (e.g. Gospel of Bartholomew, Section 2), and Jesus' disciples beginning to say mysteries that have the capacity to destroy creation (Gospel of Bartholomew, Section 1, verse 22).

All of the above are possible to those who have faith correctly, and it is in fact what everyone should strive for. At the same time, these things are really, really hard to accomplish. This is the way God differentiates human beings from one another. He made having faith correctly something that only a few human beings want to do, and from the few who practice it, he made things very, very difficult for the ones who want to be first in the Godhead.

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A Person's Spiritual Composition

Many people believe that a person is merely comprised of a soul. This is far from correct. A person is actually composed from a large array of spirits.

For every quality and concept that exists, there exists families of spirits which govern and regulate it. E.g. there are spirits called mind and love, which provide the means by which men think and love. Without these spirits, men cannot think and love. That is why there are boundaries to everything. Men think only a limited amount of thoughts, and love only a limited amount of ways, and all these things are regulated.

The following scripture indicates that mind is in fact a spirit.

Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood

"Gracious Love, Creator of Love! Reveal the best words Through thy divine mind living within us."

There is however not just one mind which occupies man. Those who have faith are given a divine mind as is indicated in the above scripture. However, there also exists a carnal or sinful mind occupying those who don't have faith - as well as those who do have faith.

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8 Hear me, you men of Israel! Defilement is a creature of the heart. The carnal mind lays hold of thought, and makes a monstrous bride; this bride is sin; sin is a creature of the mind.

Therefore those who have faith each has a divine mind, along with a carnal mind which they contend with. Those who don't have faith, have only a carnal mind.

The following scriptures underscore the fact that spirits govern everything, and are responsible for the behavior seen in people.

Isaiah 11
1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
       from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—
       the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
       the Spirit of counsel and of power,
       the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD -

Isaiah 61

3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

Jeremiah 51

1 This is what the LORD says: "See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.

Hosea 4

12 of my people. They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

John 14

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

2 Corinthians 4

13 It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,

2 Timothy 1

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Therefore every behavior and quality that is seen in man, is made possible by a corresponding spirit in man, who facilitates this behavior / quality seen in him. In as much as men laugh, cry, think, hate, love, and do a myriad of other things, there exists within their spiritual composition, many, many spirits who facilitate these things taking place. Further, those who have faith, have a myriad of godly spirits (which make up what the Bible calls the inner man) who facilitate godly behavior. Therefore a man is much more than his soul. A man is actually a platform for a myriad of spirits, who make possible his various capabilities.