THE SPIRIT LETTERS

THE LAW OF OPPOSITES:

Long ago a Zen master was once asked by a student to explain the wisest spiritual saying he had ever learned. He replied to those gathered around: “I was not here today and I taught you nothing!“ Well, those in his small audience immediately realized that the master was indeed there, because they observed him standing right before them, and they knew that he had been standing in front of them right along. Thus they struggled to understand the immense value of what he said he had taught them, he having assured them that it was the most valuable spiritual knowledge of which he was aware.

When none of his students were able to figure out the riddle, the Zen master at length disclosed that he had revealed to them the extremely valuable principle that all things have some opposite aspect or condition: that nothing exists except that it has some opposing aspect to balance it.

This valuable principle is found even in the teachings of Jesus Christ the Son of GOD. For example, our One and only Beloved Master and Lord above all other powers and principalities, taught that Love is the foundation of all life: that we are to love others as we love ourselves. Within that principle is found the great truth that to love others has an equal and opposite reflective value: that they will love us even as we love them. As the Master taught in the matter of a certain group being hated by others, “If you love them, they cannot hate you for very long!” Love is thus the cure for hatred, its opposite! We see this principle as being applicable even to the conflicts between nations today. For example: Israel manifests no hatred toward the rest of the world, but rather lives in peace. But Iran has vowed to utterly destroy Jews from the face of the earth, a bitter antagonism that threatens the total destruction of a nation that espouses peace for all nations that leave it alone. Iran should be careful that by its deadly threats against Israel, that it does nor reap its own destruction by the hand of GOD whose intentions are to help those who help others; who do not embark on a crusade against others in a world where peace belongs to those who are peaceful.

We are all part of a system in which destructive attitudes bring destruction to those who are destructive. For example, in World War II the imperialistic Japanese at that time joined with Germany to launch a great war upon other nations who were no threat against them. By so doing they brought about their own loss to the point that their destruction was held in the hands of the Allied Nations who brought them down. But those nations did not insist upon their destruction when they had been brought to their knees, so they have survived and even prospered to this day. Would not Iran do well to heed these readily apparent lessons, and back off from the position which it has adopted against those nations that are not threatening it? Obviously, by threatening others by its insistence upon constructing atomic weapons while under the control of rulers who indicate no peaceful intentions whatever, but are secretive in a situation where secrecy is unnecessary except if they themselves have designs for world disruption — including the destruction of Israel and all other nations that refuse to adopt their particular radical religious beliefs. There is no love in them for the rest of humanity; only hatred and a persistent longing for unneeded power, for which reason the world has no reason to trust them.

Seeking the destruction of Israel, and ultimately that of other nations who refuse to bow to their radical ways, they should be careful what they seek, because they may themselves become the victim of that negative result which they seek for others!

“GOD is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth” (Jn. 4:24).

We learn by implication from this that GOD our Beloved Creator of all that is, or ever has been, is composed of  a living ethereal immaterial substance – a special kind of Creative Spirit Energy unique to HIMSELF.  Apostle Paul — after his remarkable spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road — wrote to the Ephesians, that ”there is ONE GOD and Father of All, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Eph. 4:6). By this we understand that GOD our Beloved Father-Creator is a Spirit Entity we may understand to be an Eternal Glorious non-material Being, capable of creating, supervising and administering all dimensions of reality HE chooses to Create. This HE does, but with the assistance of HIS Son, who entered into the earth plane from eternal heavenly dimensions to “finish the work of GOD His Father, by doing the Will of HIM who sent Him (Jn. 4:34; Jn. 5:36).

To enable GOD’s Son to finish the work HE had commenced, GOD the Father gave HIS Son power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). We are thus to give thanks unto our Father-Creator…”WHO has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of HIS dear Son: in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible GOD, the firstborn of every creature. For by Him [the Son] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is head of the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, and that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell: and having made peace through the blood of His Cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:12-20).

Thus it is disclosed in the Holy Scripture of Truth, that GOD the Father of all things — the Creative Spirit Energy of all things that have existed to our time — has seen fit to turn over to HIS Son a vast portion of HIS SPIRIT power and authority. At last biblical pronouncement, HE has reserved unto Himself certain powers, enumerated in the Book of Acts, as Jesus Himself declared to His Apostles: “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in HIS own power” (Acts 1:7). This poses an interesting question for Bible scholars: Did GOD the Father retain the power to ”know the times or seasons” which GOD had – according to Jesus — reserved to HIMSELF, so that those powers still remain with HIM? The Bible does not disclose the answer to this ethereal question which remains subject to disclosure by the Spirit: as Jesus Christ announced:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in HIS Throne. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Rev. 3:20-22).  

The spiritual meaning of our Beloved Lord’s Prayer, understood in the context of Beloved Apostle Paul’s comment, biblically defined in 2 Cor. 3:3-6: and cf. Rom. 2:29, in which Paul writes: “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of GOD.”

We understand from our beloved Bible and Scripture of Truth, that GOD is a Spirit (Jn. 4:24); our Beloved Father of all things that are, ever were, or that ever will be, so that we have one Lord, Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, one faith, and one baptism. And we have one GOD and Father of all, who is above all, and in us all, and through us all, and unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ’s [sacrifice on the Cross] (Ephsians 4:5-7). The Holy Bible thus advises us that when we pray, to enter into our secret door, and pray to our Father which seeeth in secret, and shall reward us openly. And we are counseled that when we pray, not to use vain repetitions as do the heathen, for they believe they will be heard for much speaking.

We are to pray the Lord’s Prayer in this manner:

“Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not any more into temptation, but deliver us from evil; For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen”

Praying the Lord’s Prayer is powerful beyond words to describe it! GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy enters into those who fervently pray it, quickening them in spirit in powerful ways that can only be understood by praying it fervently and often. Praying to the Lord “to give us our daily bread” implores GOD to give us HIS Holy Spirit Energy that quicken us into immortality. And when we ask HIM to “forgive us our debts as we forgive us our debtors,” we seek to repent the sins we have committed against others, so they will no longer be held against us. And when we pray to GOD that we no longer be led into temptation, we ask HIM to lead us into pathways free from the influences of Satan the negative archangel

We are advised not to lay up earthly treasures, but rather to lay up heavenly treasures that are beyond the power of thieves to break into and steal; for the treasures we choose to focus upon during our earth experiences will indicate where our hearts really are. Therefore we are advised that we should take no thought about earthly things — what we shall drink or eat or wear — but rather to seek the Kingdom of GOD and HIS Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto us. Therefore take no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Mt. 6:20-34).

Because GOD our Beloved Father and Creator of all things has specifically Created One Special Son; and granted Him power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), reserving to HIMSELF the power of determining times and seasons (Acts 1:7). And because the Bible discloses that GOD the Father is a Spirit who desires that we worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth (Jn. 4:23-24), and that HE sent His Son into the earth dimension “to do the Will of HIM that sent the Son into the earth dimension to finish GOD’s Work” (Jn. 4:34) — which works bore witness that GOD His Father had sent Him. (Jn. 5:36). Thus, incarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of GOD declared:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: for what things soever HE does, these things also the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that HE HIMSELF does: and HE will how Him greater works than these that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father: He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father which sent Him. Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of GOD: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has life in HIMSELF; so has HE given to the Son to have life in Himself: and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man” (Jn. 5:19-27).

We learn from the above-quoted verses that GOD is a spirit — composed of an ethereal all-powerful Creative Holy Energy — implying that GOD is not a solid, as are human beings, but rather is an Energy from which mankind has been created and given a temporal bodily form of life, which expires when it is no longer able to sustain life. But when a human being dies, if it has fulfilled the requirements of its testing, it may be quickened by the life-giving Spirit of the Son of GOD, which is the Spirit of GOD the Father of All things that are or that have ever been. One key to attaining to this quickening of the spirit-soul into eternal life in heaven, is obedience to GOD and to HIS Son, who was Jesus the Christ on earth (1 Sam. 15:2; Acts 5 29,32; Acts 7:39; Rom. 2:8; Heb. 5:9).

Human life on earth is a magnificent test, to determine which souls will be obedient to GOD’s will, and that of the Son of GOD. Anyone permitted eternal life in heaven must be obedient to GOD the Father the Creator of all things, and the Son of GOD who came into the earth plane to finish the grand work GOD had begun, as noted supra. And it is not the flesh body that is to be taken up into heaven when it is time: it is the soul, as Apostle John quoted Jesus as having declared “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (Jn. 14:4). This verse coincides with Apostle Paul’s landmark comment that, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD; neither does corruption inherit incorruption” (1 Cor. 15:50). So we see that it is not the flesh and blood body of a saved soul that is to be transported into heaven; but rather it is the soul of the saved human being!