Monthly Archive for December, 2008

After the Lord Jesus’ ascension, the Apostle James the Great became the spiritual head of Christianity and the bishop of Jerusalem. Some years later he wrote a letter to the Christians of the Mediterranean world, for they were all his spiritual children. In that letter he told them: “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.…Wherefore purify your hearts, ye double minded.”2 He had heard Jesus Himself say that “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”3

If we divide our consciousness between God and anything else, the conception of the inner Christ cannot come about, for we are engaging in spiritual adultery. One of the books in the Nag Hammadi Library speaks of the soul falling into material existence and going around committing fornication with all it met. The idea is that the soul enters into union with material objects and either identifies with them or has its consciousness utterly shaped by them. For that very reason, severe as it sounds, Saint James further wrote: “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”4 These are words addressed to genuine aspirants, of course, but the assumption is that we all are aspirants to higher consciousness

The King James Version of the Bible says it like this in Matthew 12, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand”. What’s ironic and sad at the same time is to see Christians (or others) quote it and then live it as though they never voiced it. Too many of us are living with our head and not our heart. Continue reading ‘Duality : A House Divided’

There’s a couple of ways that one can take this verse found in the second chapter of the book of Philippian. Some will say that because they refused to confess their submission and allegiance to Jesus Christ in whatever foreign language or country they reside, they’ll be sent to hell and therein confess that Jesus is Lord; albeit too late for heavenly rewards. Continue reading ‘Every Knee Will Bow’

There are many paradoxes of life. One that I find puzzling is how those who proclaim and defend the Bible as totally or mostly LITERAL and cannot see the Bible storeis as in anyway, metaphorical miss one of the most LITERAL points of the Bible. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is at hand. In other words, the Kingdom is NOW! LITERALLY speaking! Continue reading ‘Heaven : Literally Speaking’

Throughout the ages, the messianic leaders, the philosophical giants, and the spiritual gurus have promoted love power through the common mantra of “Love they neighbor”. Other than being a seemingly common sense utilitarian “greater good for all” principle as John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham promoted, could there be an esoteric secret that’s worth our unraveling? Let me give it a shot here. Continue reading ‘Love Power & Soul Voltage’