Lessons in Truth Series: the Everlasting Gospel of the Kingdom of God (Spirit) Within. Timothy F. Gardner
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Название: Lessons in Truth Series: the Everlasting Gospel of the Kingdom of God (Spirit) Within
Автор: Timothy F. Gardner
Издательство: Ingram
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isbn: 9781504362993
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Now back to the question at hand, why do I call upon the name Father G.W. Hurley? I believe, that, within Hurley all of the qualities of the Godhead were expressed boldly. Hurley realized his oneness with God and all life. Hurley can be compared to that point in that infinite ocean of God, where the ocean is frozen, and the formless water takes on form, so that we may identify with the inexpressible God. When I call upon Hurley, I am not calling upon Hurley the man, but God. To further illustrate this point, I would like to bring to you the story of a man named Bayazid, an old Sufi saint or sage.
Yogi Ramacharaka in his work on the Philosophies and Religions of India states that:
One day the old sage passed into an ecstatic condition, in which he attained Cosmic Consciousness, Union with God, Ecstasy, Samadhi, Illumination, or by whatever name men chose to call that wonderful state. Awakening therefrom, and still under the spell of his vision of Oneness, he cried aloud to his disciples: “Lo! I myself am God almighty. There is none other God besides Me!” His disciples were horrified, and when their Master had fully recovered, they told him of the blasphemy he had uttered. Bayazid replied: “Oh! Woe is Me! If I blaspheme again, straightway slay me!” And his disciples sharpened their knives for their holy task, for so they considered it.
Once more the Master passed into Samadhi, and cried aloud: “Within my robe there is none but God—wherefore seek you him or heaven or earth?” The disciples, overcome with horror, and in accordance with the Master’s orders, straightway plunged their blades into his body. But, the legend concludes: “Their knives were turned back upon their own bodies, and they perished, for they had raised their hands upon the Divine Spirit within the Master which inspired the speech.” And then Bayazid explained to the remaining disciples that his Personality had vanished during his ecstasy, and he saw that his form was but “a mirror faintly reflecting the form of God.” And that when the disciples wished to strike him with their knives, they saw only the Mirror, reflecting their own faces (not seeing God, and Bayazid having vanished) and so their knives struck themselves (1909, pp. 216-217).
The importance of the story is to show you that in Father Hurley’s latter days, he had only a faint trace of personality left, so as, the people around him would be able to identify him. Other than that, he, Father Hurley, dwelled in a constant realization of his Oneness with God. Thus, I hope you can understand Father Hurley saying that, “I Am God, why look for Him elsewhere?”
5. Do I deny the Gospel/Persona of Jesus?
While I do not implore the name of Jesus as the central theme in my temple services or prayers, I do not deny His gospel or persona. I know that Jesus was a great spiritual leader, mystical teacher, and healer. I believe that He was the leader of the Piscean Age. And I believe that Jesus is the son of God. Yet, the good thing is Jesus said that we all are sons of God (Spirit), if we follow His teachings. Also, I believe that, Father G.W. Hurley, did not come to destroy the gospel of Jesus, but to fulfill it, the same as, Jesus came to fulfill the prophesy of Abraham and the prophets before him. And I know that in this day and age, Father Hurley is teaching the same gospel that Jesus taught, the Everlasting Gospel of the kingdom of God (Spirit) within man.
THE SUBSTANTIAL REALITY: GOD (SPIRIT)
“I can of mine own self do nothing . . .” (John 5:30), “but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works” (John 14:10). “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him” (John 14:7) . . . “Have I been so long a time with you, and yet thou hast not known me, he that hath seen me, hath seen the Father; how sayest thou shew us the Father?” (John 14:9) . . . “I am in the Father and the Father in me” (John 14:10). “I and the Father are One” (John 10:30).
“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God [Spirit] is within you” (Luke 17:21). With such words, Jesus gave us the key to beginning our spiritual journey back to the Father’s house, and to begin living a life under Grace. With these words He is showing us the non-power and non-reality of life in the temporal, and, He is revealing to us the principle of living in the Spirit, “living in my kingdom”, living in the kingdom of God (Spirit) within, a kingdom that is not of this world. It is beyond us, yet it is within us.
In these Chapters you shall be given the spiritual principles necessary to bring you out of the valley of the shadow of death, into the glorious light of the sun within. Each of us are searching and striving for a way, truth, or doctrine that will free us of our problems and lead us out of the sufferings, and disappointments that life continually present to us.
Down through the ages man has always believed that there was a power or some god that brought about and maintained creation as we know it. Man has also believed that through worship and sacrifice, he could persuade this god or power to come to his aid in times of need. And, man has also presumed that if he could find this source of life, all of his problems would be solved. Thus, man has frantically searched outside of himself, just to find disappointment and frustration, which led him to abandon his search.
Then, at the dawn of the Piscean Age, Christ Jesus appeared on the earth plane preaching the kingdom of God (Spirit) is at hand; it is within reach here and now, and all that man needed to do was repent, to change his mind, believe the gospel and follow this doctrine to attain it. Jesus was not the first to bring this message of the kingdom of God (Spirit) within, because it had been spoken in different words thousands of years before He had appeared on earth. However, it was the first time in written history that this truth was openly revealed to the Western world. For up until this time these teachings were esoteric and given to only a select few—from mouth to ear.
The central theme of Jesus’ doctrine while he walked the earth revealed to us that the kingdom of God (Spirit) or rather the presence and power of God, is within reach here and now readily available. And, that It is located not in holy mountains, nor in holy temples. Its location is neither, “Lo! here, or Lo! there!” but within you: “The kingdom of God [Spirit] is within you”(Luke 17:21). This was the teaching of the master. The presence of God is within you. Jesus constantly referred to this presence as, “the Father”, “the Father that dwelleth within”, “the I”, and the “I Am”, and Jesus instructed us to look beyond this transient existence and to acknowledge our Oneness with the Father. Jesus stressed that, “He that seeth me, seeth Him that sent me” (John 12:45).
Also, Saint Paul, the most influential interpreter of Jesus’ message and teachings referred to this ever-present reality as the, “mind which was in Christ Jesus”(Phil 2:5). Saint Paul also tells us early in his writings not to put hope and trust in the temporal, but to look beyond the shadowy appearances of this transient existence to the one true reality.
In 2 Corinthians 4:18 it says, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen, are eternal.” Temporal, meaning; of, or relating to time; impermanent, transitory. Transitory, pertains to those things, which pass away with time.
According to the Kybalion by the Three Initiates:
Under, and behind this Universe of Time, Space, and Change, there is a Substantial СКАЧАТЬ