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"The first edition of the King James Bible, which was edited by Francis Bacon and prepared under Masonic supervision, bears more Mason's marks than the Cathedral of Strasburg." [Manly Palmer Hall]


Keely
"This is written of the Hebrew Kabbala, the Hebrew theosophy. The Hindu theosophy is not a religion; it is a system of philosophy derived from the wonderful Kabbala; the teachings of which, concerning nature's Sympathetic Streams (flowing from the central sun of the universe), led Keely into the path of research which has enabled him not only to 'hook his machinery on to the machinery of nature," but to disclose the moving power, the vital principle." [What Electricity Is - Bloomfield Moore]

"The true study of the Deity by man being in the observation of His marvelous works, the discovery of a fundamental, creative law of as wide and comprehensive grasp as would make this etheric vapour a tangible link between God and man would enable us to realize, in a measure, the actual existing working qualities of God Himself (speaking most reverentially) as he would those of a fellow-man. Such a link would constitute a base or superstructure of recognition, praise, worship and imitation, such as seems to underlie the whole Biblical structure as a foundation." [Keely underline added]


Ramsay
dividing itself by 2 or 3 or 5, etc., up through the whole geometrical series of numbers, not keeping fixed at one thing; but while the whole length is vibrating the fundamental partial, it keeps shifting the still nodes along its length, and sometimes longer and sometimes shorter segments are sounding the other partials which clothe the chief sound. It has been commonly said that "a musical sound is composed of three sounds," for every ear is capable of hearing these three, and with a little attention a few more than these; but many will be startled when told that there are twenty-five sounds in that sound. Eighteen of them are simply the octaves of the other seven, all of these seven except one having one or more octaves in the sound. Four of the seven also are very feeble, the one which has no octave being the feeblest of all. Two of the other three are so distinctly audible along with the chief partial that they gave rise to the saying we have quoted about a musical sound being composed of three sounds.1 If the three most pronounced partials were equally developed in one sound, it could not be called one sound - it would decidedly be a chord; and when in the system they do become developed, they form a chord; but in the one sound they, the partials, having fewer and fewer octaves to strengthen them, fade away in the perspective of sound. The sharp seventh, which in the developed system has only one place, not coming into existence until the sixth octave of the genesis, is by far the feeblest of all the partials, and Nature did well to appoint it so. These harmonics are also sometimes called "overtones," because they are higher than the fundamental one, which is the sound among the sounds, as the Bible is the book among books. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 59]

the present, and the future, developing in geometric progression; as the past retires, the future advances. The rests in harmony correspond with silence in the Scriptures, both limiting and illimitable. But there is this essential difference: musical instruments can only be tuned to a certain pitch, whereas the Bible will never need fresh editions or corrections, but as it always has unfolded, it always will unfold, as it is necessary to meet our higher mental powers. I believe that, eventually, scientific minds will arrive at the conclusion that all the energies around us arise from the laws which regulate the life of matter, and cause the continual development of trinities from unities. Continuity everywhere adapts simple laws to wondrous workings. If we evade the belief in the development of trinities, this scheme falls to the ground. We can conceive no grander idea of the power, wisdom, and love of the Parent of the universe than that of His following out His own characteristics, knowing that at any moment, if His life-giving power were withdrawn, all would crumble into dust. Let us link with this thought these glorious promises— [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Scripture Compared with Scripture, page 47]

I have passed so many happy hours in comparing Scripture with Scripture, and drawing from its inexhaustible store the laws which develope the harmonies of sounds and colours, that I feel deep regret in drawing to a conclusion. Throughout the investigation the truth has ever been foremost in my mind— [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Scripture Compared with Scripture, page 47]

I was aware that my explanation of the Minor Scales was erroneous. I now see the beautiful Scriptural type which shows how they develope, rising or falling in perfect harmony. I hope to explain this clearly, and I think that any who have doubted my having gained these laws from the Scriptures will then see their mistake. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Supplementary Remarks and Diagrams, page 53]

I am quite aware that musicians will set aside the Minors as here written; but I trust some minds may be led to examine the beautiful Scriptural types, too deep for our minds ever to find a beginning (the Scriptures have no beginning), and too high for our minds ever to complete ascending. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Supplementary Remarks, page 54]

The absence in my mind of scientific knowledge has, I believe, been a great help to me in studying the Scriptures; there is so much apparent contradiction in them. Take one example: "Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief." Do we not feel the truth of this, the two natures thus acting within ourselves?

"Behold! God exalteth by His power: who teacheth like Him"— JOB xxxvi. 22. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, On Keyed Instruments as considered Circular, page 56]


Hughes
The scheme endeavours to prove that the development of harmonies of sound and of colours is regulated by the law of Evolution as gained from the Scriptures
—Youthful impressions regarding my great-uncle Dr. Darwin's views
—My cousin Charles Darwin's views touched upon
—The scheme involves the belief that life developing from the Almighty is the general key to disentangle the intricacies of the Natural Sciences
—A remark of Sir John Lubbock's quoted
—The development of Numbers, the stream of Time, the Sevens of Creation, &c., may eventually be proved to proceed by the same laws, . . . . . . . 9 [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Table of Contents1 - Harmonies]


The following scheme endeavours to show that the development of the musical gamut and the colours of the rainbow are regulated by the same laws. I wish it to be clearly understood that I have gained the evolutions from the mysterious type of Life—a golden thread running throughout the Scriptures, from the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelation;—life developing around us and within us from the Almighty, who is its Eternal Fountain. My youthful impressions included the belief that the views of Dr. Darwin, my great-uncle, contradicted the teaching of the Scriptures, and I therefore avoided them altogether. Having endeavoured for years to gain correctly the laws which develope Evolution, I suddenly discovered that I was working from Scripture on the same foundation which he had found in Creation; and as Creation and Revelation proceed from the same Author, I knew that they could not contradict each other. It is considered by many that my cousin, Charles Darwin, gained his first ideas of Evolution from his grandfather's works; but I know from himself that he was ignorant of them, and that his theory of Evolution was arrived at by his close experiments and observations of the laws of creation alone. Only a few months since, after reading his work on "the Movements of Plants," published in 1881, and wishing to be certain that I had not an incorrect belief, I asked the following question—"Did you gain your views on Evolution by your wonderfully acute observations, ignorant of your grandfather's ideas?" The reply was, that he had done so entirely from his own observations. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Introduction1 - Harmonies, page 9]

THE above quotation from that beautiful work, The Pendulograph, shows how firmly its author believes that the Almighty Himself will be proved to be the key to His works; a belief frequently expressed also in a striking work, Nature and the Supernatural, by the Rev. J. W. Reynolds, M.A. For many years I have been endeavouring to resolve some of the intricacies of natural harmony with the same views. In the pursuit of knowledge it is eminently important to "avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called" (I Tim. vi. 20), and to remember that facts gained from the study of God's marvellous works, that "ought to be had in remembrance" (Psa. cxi. 4, Prayer Book Version), and the truths of Holy Scripture, can never really oppose each other. Research shows us countless varieties developed by trinities springing from unities, and we find true scientific depth in the Scriptural phrases, where the whole earth is continually mentioned as worshipping the Almighty. This truth is beautifully expressed in the Te Deum Laudamus—"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty; heaven and earth are full of Thy glory." [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme1, page 43]

With our present powers the darkness of ignorance is ever groping after the light of knowledge. If the field is so vast when we merely attempt to harmonise the laws which regulate the visible creation, it widens indefinitely when we attempt to harmonise, by the same laws, Creation with the Scriptures. "God is light," and with His Holy Spirit for our teacher, every line of His word instructs us; "like the ocean, the word remains essentially the same, while the light never plays upon its surface without deepening and varying its hues." [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme1, page 43]

I gladly confess that my ruling wish has been to feel my own ignorance deeply, and to trust to the Divine Teacher that my eyes might be opened to see more and more the wonders which may be drawn from the Scriptures, when scientific minds are led to the belief that Creation and Revelation explain each other. As this conviction gains ground, scientific truths will make a more rapid progress, and "the generalisation of Science will no longer be doubtful, but assured." [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]

"Our aim is to promote that agreement by showing the correspondence between truly scientific conclusions and Holy Writ; by making it plain that scientific truths, like spiritual, have for ever been descending from heaven to man."— [J. W. Reynolds, M.A.] [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]

If the foregoing harmonies of sound and of colour have been rightly developed from the Scriptures, I trust they will be considered as steps gained towards the belief that Evolution is the law of the Almighty for the continuance of activity throughout the universe, and towards an increasing study of Creation and Revelation as mutually explaining each other. According to my belief, the Scriptures must be based on the principle which is explained of keyed instruments at the conclusion of Chapter II. In the development of musical harmonies the beginning and the ending are unfathomable. It is the same in the Scriptures. No musical note or colour can be separated from those below and above it. Neither can any portion of the Bible be separated: every part embraces the past, [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]

1867.—"Your plan of eliciting facts from Scripture (altogether new) interests me exceedingly." "To make out the scheme of harmonical parallel proper for the elucidation of your system, it will, if possible, run all true with the harmony of colour, and this has never yet been done, except in a way which has been met with serious objections. When I commenced the examination of your theory, I spent five days at the British Museum, and collated about forty volumes." "I am very glad to hear you have a probability of harmonising numbers by the same laws as light and sound." "What you call rest, I call the appearance and disappearance of a harmonical cycle." "Your series of fifths is quite correct." [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Extracts from Dr. Gauntlett's Letters1, page 48]


Cayce
Q. What present printed version of the Bible gives the nearest to the true meaning of both Old and New Testaments? A. There have been many versions of that which was purposed to have been written, and has changed from all those versions. But remember that the whole gospel of Jesus Christ is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, they heart and thy body; and thy neighbor as thyself. Do this and thou shalt have eternal life." The rest of the book is trying to describe that. It is the same in any language, in any version. [Cayce (2072-14)]


Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth
"Not only this - the Bible is said to be the most widely read book in the world. In its present form it has served its purposes. The New Testament, as it stands, with all its baggage of misinterpretation is a deterrent to spiritual evolution. It is now time to move forward into a new realm of mystical perception and understanding." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Christ Letters - Letter 2, page 2]


Some biblical passages interpreted via SVP and associated sources.


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But it (the Bible) is a scientific explanation of cause and effect, showing how man must act and think for his own happiness and teaching us how to unlearn our errors that lead to misery and disease. It has nothing to do with theology. The whole aim of these ancients was to teach man how to be happy by wisdom, for happiness is what follows our acts. [Quimby]

The Bible is a collection of 66 books, written by 44 authors over a period of about 1500 years. Stephen Langton divided the Bible into chapters about A.D. 1228. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in A.D. 1448, and Robert Stephanus divided the New Testament into verses in A.D. 1551. The first complete Bible with chapter and verse divisions was the Geneva Bible of A.D. 1560. [references needed]

Typically, when the Bible is brought up in conversation, what comes to mind is a source of truth that has not been tampered with.

However, when this book was originally published it contained 80 books and current editions only have 60, and we have to wonder what exact purpose the removal of 14 books would serve?

The Vatican Church or Roman catholic church has been associated with deception for ages. Their atrocities have ranged from genocide many centuries ago against the Cathars to child molestation is more recent years.

The Bible was originally translated from Latin into English in 1611. This “original” Bible contained 80 books, including the Apocrypha, which means hidden.

These Apocrypha books made up the end of the Old Testament, and included the following books:

• 1 Esdras

• 2 Esdras

• Tobit

• Judith

• The rest of Esther

• The Wisdom of Solomon

• Ecclesiasticus

• Baruch with the epistle Jeremiah

• The Songs of the 3 Holy children

• The history of Susana

• bel and the dragon

• The prayer for Manasses

• 1 Maccabees

• 2 Maccabees

Later in 1684, all of these books were removed from the Bible and all of its various versions. The only one left intact was the 1611 edition.

In this first edition, Bible Jesus’ name was spelled Iesus, pronounced Yahushua. You have to wonder why it was changed to Jesus, contrary to the original pronunciation and spelling.

One of the most interesting books of the removed was the “Wisdom of Solomon”. Solomon is one of the most legendary biblical figures from the Bible, as he was the son of David and the wisest man that ever lived.

Typically, he is portrayed as a benevolent figure, however, this book will change everything that you ever learned about him.

For example, read this excerpt:

Wisdom of Solomon 2:1-24

1 For the ungodly said reasoning with themselves, but not aright, our life is short and tedious and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

2 For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and the little spark in the moving of our heart

3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

4 And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away, with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

5 For our time is very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

6 Come on there for let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the Spring pass by us.

8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

9 Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion and our lot is this.

10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because HE is not of our turn, and HE is clean contrary to our doings. He upbraideth us with our offending of the law, and ojecteth to our infamy the transgression of our education.

13 HE professeth to have the knowledge of the MOST HIGH, and calleth HIS self the child of the LORD.

14 HE was made to reprove our thoughts

15 HE is grievous unto us even to behold, for HIS life is not like other men’s, HIS ways are of another fashion.

16 We are esteemed of HIM as counterfeits: HE abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: HE pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh HIS boast that GOD is HIS father.

17 Let us see if HIS words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of HIM.

18 For if the just man be the Son of THE MOST HIGH, HE will help HIM and deliver HIM from the hands of HIS enemies.

19 Let us examine HIM with despitefulness and torture, that we may know HIS meekness and prove HIS patience.

20 Let us condemn HIM with a shameful death: for by HIS own mouth HE shall be respected…..

These verses bring to mind a few different important questions, such as:

• Who is Solomon speaking of killing with a “shameful death”?

• Why did the Vatican vote to have these 14 books removed from the Bible?

• Why did Solomon sound so crazy and evil in this book?

It seems that Solomon was speaking of Jesus. But Jesus was born roughly 900 years after his death. Could he have prophesied Jesus’ coming? Let’s consider why this could be, who Solomon was talking about?

• They killed the SON with a shameful death

• The SON’s actions or fashions were different from everyone else’s

• HE claims to be and IS the child of The MOST HIGH

• He was a righteous poor man who would look at Solomon and others like him as “counterfeits”.

• HE professeth to have knowledge of The MOST HIGH

Then listen to what Solomon has to say:

• HE was made to reprove (criticize) our thoughts

• We are esteemed of HIM as counterfeits: HE abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: HE pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh HIS boast that GOD is HIS father

• For if the just man be the Son of THE MOST HIGH, HE will help HIM and deliver HIM from the hands of HIS enemies.

And one last thing I would like to point out is when Solomon says;

• Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

In contradiction to everything most of us know and believe about Solomon, in these verses he sounds completely evil. According to most Biblical teachings in modern times, we are told to believe that he is the wisest man in the history of the world.

It should be noted that Solomon was largely involved in the Occult. Much of the knowledge and teachings that Aleister Crowley preached about were based on the Lesser Keys of Solomon. Solomon worshiped multiple gods and had a weakness for women.

It is also worth mentioning that the Temple of Solomon is considered the spiritual birthplace of Freemasonry, which is a secret society of sorts that has been responsible for much of the corruption taking place in our world today.

It has never been stated for sure as to why these books were removed from the Bible, although various speculations have been made. We have to wonder if something darker isn’t behind their removal, and what exactly they are hiding away with these books.

Typically, when something is removed from our direct site by those in power, they don’t expect for us to look any deeper than the surface, but when we do, there is almost always more to uncover than we would have ever imagined. http://humansarefree.com/2018/04/the-vatican-removed-14-books-from-bible.html?m=0&fbclid=IwAR1rJgExOWxReTUld6KcAIqpN7B1cI8-1MMrlBg5mqayUmiHQ7qNzQrpANM


The Bible is comprised of two main sections: the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Old Testament in general locks the mind or consciousness down in dogma, doctrine and beliefs. For humans striving to survive and prosper the worst of these is the idea of separation from God. See OT Violence New Testament liberates the above lock down mind set. Especially it liberates from the false belief of separation and points to the inevitable truth we never separated and are indeed One With God as we have always been and will always continue to be. [See 18.20 - Mind - the focus of Christianity, Part 24 - Awakening Your Genius]


Edgar Cayce often quoted the Bible. Most notably his near word for word interpretation of the Book of Revelation.


Bloomfield-Moore
The old Kabbala," writes Dr. Seth Pancoast, in 'The True Science of Light', with its curious and comprehensive symbol-language, is at once an elaborate system of natural philosophy, and a profound system of theology; an illuminated exposition of the mysterious truths of nature" (i. e., the hidden things of God) and of that higher science which the book of nature unfolds to the enlightened eye of the Soul; the science of religion. Our readers would be slow to realize, many even unwilling to recognize, the fact that the grand old Kabbalistic theosophy was the native root, the central trunk, whence all the religions 'the world has ever known sprang as shoots and branches from a parent tree. Yet this is absolutely true. Our Bible is a translation into words of the symbols of the Kabbala. The reader would be astonished if he could read the Bible in the light of the Kabbala; first, to discover this close accordance; second, to find internal evidence, so clear as to be irrefragable, that the book of nature, true science, and the written Word, are one in source and significance; and third, to learn that the Bible is not the book of enigmas that ordinary commentators would make us believe, but is the written revelation of God's work, will, and ultimate purpose in creation; and of His essential attributes as well; - but only to those who understand its hidden symbolic and esoteric meaning.


The best interpretation I've ever read of the Holy Bible is the one given by Quimby in his article originally titled

Another World I

It has generally been supposed that the authors of the old and new testaments were inspired to write an account of another world off and apart from this globe. Under this belief strange ideas arose in the minds of men. In the old scriptures is given an account of the formation of a literal earth and the creation of man. Then it goes on to tell how man became so wicked that God caused it to rain forty days and flood the earth, destroying all the inhabitants except Noah and his family, who after the floods dried up came forth and commenced to till the ground. All this story is believed to have a literal meaning and all who question this belief are called infidels or deists. Now after Noah and his family began populating the earth, you see an account of the generations of Noah. Then the world became wicked again, but God promised not to destroy it by water a second time but by fire. Here follows a description of the final destruction of this earth and its inhabitants by fire and a promise from God of a new heaven and earth where there shall be no more death nor weeping, where all shall worship God day and night, where the wicked shall be destroyed and God shall reign eternally. Now this is explained literally. It is believed that all this was communicated to Moses on the Mount and that God came down and talked to Moses, giving him a code of laws or belief that man must accept in order to gain a place in this new heaven. This theory God caused Moses to write down and it was called the commandments of God, given to Moses for the happiness of the children of Israel, to be taught to them while he was leading them through the land of Egypt into the land of Canaan.

This belief was to counteract some false idea that the people had, for they were very ignorant and full of all sorts of superstition. There were no principles regulating their conduct towards each other but might was right. The strong oppressed the weak and there was nothing to prevent their perpetrating any abuses. It was Moses' aim to stop these abuses and free his people from their bondage and degradation. So he instituted a more just and liberal code of laws attaching penalties to abuses that he could not prevent and putting restrictions on men to bring about a better state of society. He did not try to instruct the people but only sought to bring them under his standard by which their oppression would be lessened and their condition improved. Neither did he attempt to establish any kind of worship or belief about God, but his regulations appealed to the interests of men and were as good as the people could carry out. They made man more cunning and crafty and overbearing, but they did not analyze motives, leaving them as arising from the natural world. This state of things continued for a long time. Religious doctrines never entered into men's heart, but the wise men were engaged in developing the mind of man. All evils that were suffered were from their acts and their acts were the offspring of their belief and their belief was made by the leading spirits of the age.

If the person who gave direction gave it intelligently so that it could not be bettered, then the world was wiser or better for their opinions. But if directed by ignorance and superstition, then the people had to suffer for their belief; for our happiness or misery is in our belief. Now as the belief of the people did not embrace any kind of a religious opinion in regard to another world, they could not get sick on that subject. The evils that troubled them were of this world and confined to the laws of Moses. These made them nervous but did not create disease. Now as truth progresses, it has to contend with error. And as Moses put restrictions on the people they murmured and complained. So in order to keep the people in subjection, the leaders had to invent all sorts of beliefs. Therefore, prophets were introduced and the priests and prophets led the people, but truth or science is not under the control of either. It moves along like the rising of the tide. It is the only enemy that priests and doctors have to contend with, for it is death to both, and life and happiness to all who get it. Happiness is what follows our belief and the life of the priest and doctor is in their belief and their interest is in the misery of their belief. For if the people have no belief, they would have no disease, as disease is their belief. So it is the intent of the above classes to keep the people posted up on all their beliefs to insure them a good living.

One of the old honest prophets knew this trick and said that the prophets prophesied falsely and the priests ruled by their means and the people love to have it so and what would they do in the end thereof. (Jer. 5:31.) As science progressed, the priests had to give way, for there never was one particle of knowledge or progression in either of the above theories. Science only leads the world in true philosophy, never making man sick or diseased. Disease is not the offspring of science but of error, and as priests and doctors have taken that part of philosophy into their hands, all other sciences in regard to all other facts have let the science of life alone, supposing it to be in the hands of scientific men. All knowledge of the scientific world has had this error to contend with and the priests and doctors have been driven from their ground and have taken their stand just where public opinion places them. They do not lead science, but science leads them. There was a time when they led but as their craft became so apparent to scientific minds they had to yield. If any one will just follow along the progress of the development of the human mind since the laws of Moses, they will see a steady progress of science and an annihilation of priestcraft. Error has assumed more forms than the colors of the rainbow and to every form the misery is shown in its believers. It has shown itself in all kinds of superstition but it has had to yield to more liberal belief.

All error in the Bible has been modified by the wars of its own party. Its opposers were of that class of minds that could tear down if it could not build up, but in the tearing, science made some progress. For when rogues fall out honest men get their due.

All new theories in the Old Testament were illustrated by some phenomena that the people were acquainted with. So the science advanced and showed itself in some leading spirit of its age, as in Noah: his theory was represented by a flood, for it swept away all the old world or superstition of his age. Then Moses' theory was leading the children of Israel out of Egyptian darkness into the land of truth or science. But as Moses never entered the land of science, he saw for others what he never was permitted to enjoy. So science crept along in the hands of some of the prophets and other theories are represented by altars and the science of truth was the sacrifice. There was Balaam; his theory had false prophets who knew just as much as some physicians in our day. His ass spoke and so do such now. When Joshua showed the absurdities of the people's theory, they left it and followed him, so the magicians and sorcerers and all such deceivers had to fall back for the true science.

In the case of Nebuchadnezzar, the magicians and sorcerers had complete power over the masses and as the king was in advance of them, he saw that all their pretended knowledge was false. When he was sick and sent for his magicians and sorcerers to interpret his dream, they said, as the quacks of these days, Tell us how you feel, or your dream, and we will tell you what the matter is or give the interpretation. But he said, No, tell me my dream or how I feel, first. This they could not do and complained at such an unreasonable request. And when Daniel told him his dream or how he felt, these magicians put him into a fiery furnace, which means they put him through a course of questions which he answered, showing knowledge superior to theirs. This made them angry and they tried, as the doctors do now, to put it down with contempt. They did not stop the investigations for when Darius came into power, they tried to smother this truth and persuaded the king to pass a law that no person such as Daniel should practice. But Daniel took no notice of it and he was cast into the lion's den or company and when the meat was thrown in to test the science, these lions' mouths were shut and Daniel come off conqueror.

Thus truth has had to fight error step by step and the truth has been revealed to the wise and opposed by fools and the ignorant; so wisdom crept along till the time of John, the Baptist. Here was a new development of truth, far above anything reached yet. It held out a new motive to man, placing him above the superstition of the world or error. At the time of John, the world had been embracing false doctrines, not in regard to another world but to this world. They had a vague idea of a world after death and the priests, to strengthen their authority and hold on the people, invented all sorts of ideas, pretending to be empowered with authority to pardon their sins. They held out to the people that the dead should rise at the end of this natural world. All this was not taught by Moses but crept into the church, which itself is only a sort of popular religious opinion and carries sway in men's minds even to this day. The church contained the belief of the people and as science was developed, the priests lost power over the people. And at the time Jesus appeared, they acted as doctors and cured the diseases of the people. When John appeared his teaching struck at the root of all this error and he said, The axe of science is laid at the root of the trees or theories and every tree or theory that cannot sustain ideas must be hewn down or destroyed. The fire of truth would burn them up. Their beliefs made people sick, just according to the penalty attached to the crime or belief. For instance, the Jews believed that eating pork would produce scrofula; therefore they would not eat it and those who did eat could not help being disturbed by this belief. Where this error started I cannot say. Only, it was to satisfy the ignorant, so they would be better off not to eat the meat. This was for the poor at first and the aristocracy took advantage of it, just as the priests lay restrictions on the people but do as they like themselves. So you see scrofula was the result of their belief and the remedy was total abstinence from pork; but as priesthood went down and their theory was exploded, the idea that pork produced scrofula was absurd. This last belief was worse than the first, for it made this disease a thing independent of pork and therefore the people were afraid of it. Here you see one disease let loose in society. Now to get rid of this disease, mankind must get nervous and wrought up to a very high state of excitement, ready to embrace any idea that the priests could invent. And as the priests lost their hold on the people, medical men were introduced. And at the time of Jesus, it was the complaint that the poor paid all they had to the priests and doctors and got no relief.

As the doctors got control of the popular mind, they invented diseases to humbug the people as the priests had done. At last they made a sort of compromise, the priests taking the souls of men into their charge and the doctors their bodies and between them both they almost destroyed body and soul. This was the state of society at the time ofJesus' appearance. John saw all this humbug and warned the people against this pretense and foretold that someone would come who would put an end to all this priestcraft and doctoring. He did not know that disease was all in the mind, but thought that the mind had a great influence upon it. Jesus hearing of John and knowing that he taught a new theory went to hear him explain his ideas. This was called baptism. So John baptized or explained to Jesus his ideas of priestcraft and its effect on the mind, but its remedy had never occurred to him. When Jesus heard John's thought or was baptised, as he came from the water or understood his ideas, the heavens or truth was opened unto him and its voice descending from God or Science, said, This truth is the Son of God or Science.

Then he was led up into the mountains of his belief to be tempted by the errors of the world for the people were all ready to embrace him as king and the temptation he had to go through was against his interest as a man, for preaching this truth and opposing all the errors of his age was not a very pleasant thing. But he overcame them all and took his stand in opposition to all the world, denouncing the priests and doctors as a set of quacks who opposed the people, bound burdens on them and robbed widows and orphans. This made them sick and nervous and the doctors came in for their share.' Thus they suffered by these blind guides. Here is the difference between Jesus' ideas and the rest of the world. The belief of the world was confined to matter. They had never been taught that the senses were a separate identity from the body's identity but they believed that man as you see him is all there is of him and when the body ceased to act it was dead and this ended man till the resurrection at the end of the world. Some had a different belief but they were all confined to this world.

To keep man in subjection to the laws, certain penalties were attached to every act, thus putting restrictions on the people for the benefit of society. These restrictions were called burdens and the people complained. They had no idea of right and wrong as we have now, but their only interest was in keeping clear of the laws or lash. If a person wanted anything belonging to his neighbor, he did not reason as we should, but like the beast, sought how he could get it without being caught. They reasoned like any person running a risk where dollars and cents are concerned. Not that their happiness or misery was involved in the act, but how to get what they wanted. How shall I get it was the question, not is it right or wrong, but shall I get caught and if so, how much shall I have to pay. So it was a speculation. The happiness was in stealing and evading the punishment and the misery was in paying the fine. This was the whole story and all their study was to take advantage of each other. Their religion was their laws which were all confined to their lives. So when they died they were free from the law and death ended their religious opinions and everything else. Therefore the living mourned for the dead and often hired others to help them mourn. Not that the dead knew anything, but that the living lost something. Neither was this mourning because they loved them, for they would kill any one to make a little money. In the case of selling Joseph to the Ishmaelites, they cared nothing about his life. Money was their God. So it was with Judas. He cared nothing for Jesus' life; money was his object, for he had not yet the Christ or truth that Jesus taught.

Now where does Jesus differ from all other teachings? In every particular. His belief is founded on truth and is not of man, but of God or Science. Therefore, his priesthood was not of this world and contained none of the church forms or ideas but taught that misery would follow our acts. His theory was that the senses were not a part of our body and that they were affected by our belief, their happiness or misery being in our belief, which belief was matter and could be changed by a power independent of itself. The science was to put people in mind of this fact, so it was necessary to produce cures on the people independent of anything but his word, for his words were the destruction of matter or disease. This showed man that his belief made his trouble, so he warned them against the bread or the doctrines of the Scribes and Pharisees, for they made them sick.

This was his mission to show that if they robbed or otherwise injured their neighbor, rendering an equivalent would never cure the evil, but that their neighbor like themselves had eternal life. And just as they measured out it should be measured to them again, for action and reaction are equal and the knowledge of the result is in the thought or idea. For instance, if you want to put your hand in the fire, the knowledge of the result is in the thought. So it is in every act or desire or our lives. If we desire to get something from our neighbor without returning an equivalent, the answer is in the desire and the misery is in the answer. It will be as certain to follow, as a weight thrown in the air is sure to return with as much force as it received. Jesus tried to teach this and that was all, for his other world was this truth that although they destroyed his identity of a body of flesh and blood, this Christ or science would exist and could take a form again. This truth is what he strove to teach his disciples and when he was about to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies, he sat down and performed his last act by talking over this new theory.

When he broke the truth and gave it to his disciples, he said, Eat this bread or theory for this is my Christ or truth. And then he said, Take this cup, or the result of our belief, which is the life of this truth or Christ and as long as you are interested and think about it, you do it in remembrance of me or Christ, till the Science is established on earth as it is in heaven. This was his last conversation with his disciples. Now how long did his disciples continue in this belief and how much did they understand of what he said? How much of a reform did he effect through them according to his desire? Time has shown. The very moment he was arrested they left him and denied their action with him.

Judas had an idea of what he taught but it did not penetrate to the destruction of his old belief. His senses were in the two beliefs and when Christ or Jesus' belief was in him, his old belief of dollars and cents was present, prompting him to make a little money. So he betrayed Jesus into the hands of his enemies. Jesus saw and knew this at the time he was talking over his belief in the form of a supper. He saw that Judas was honest but ignorant of Christ when he said, He that dippeth his finger in the cup shall betray me. Judas tried to understand more than all the rest and thought he did. Jesus knew that he did not understand and knew that when the time came for him to stand up and defend the truth he would shrink. This was to him perfectly plain and so it was in regard to them all. The fact was that Jesus taught a new doctrine so hard to understand that it was impossible to teach it to the people. The disciples thought they understood it, but when asked to prove it they were unable to explain, and so denied him. But the females who always have more sagacity than the men, though of more delicate physical structure and of silent influence, understood him. They were the ark wherein were deposited the tablets of stone or Moses' laws and all of the rules of the world in regard to spiritual knowledge that the wisdom of men do not contain. They had more to do with the crucifixion of Jesus. The women bore the ark in Moses' day. They have always been a sort of reservoir to hold the new ideas that the world has brought forth in their ignorance. They are the first to catch any new ideas and the last to let them go till every particle of truth is drawn out, as the humming bee finds honey in the flower where the wasp sees none. Now at the time when Jesus was put to death, he had been teaching this truth, that the senses of men were not confined to this body, but could act apart from it, and what a person believed, he, that is the power that governs the senses, could put his senses into and then the senses would be affected just according to his belief. So that our happiness or misery is in our belief. This is what he tried to prove and did, but the disciples did not understand it till he put this part of it into practice. Then their minds were changed. They saw him dead; to them this was all there was, the end of all men, as they were taught. Now to see him rise again was the introduction of the new heaven or belief. This was a very exciting thing. If he did not rise, then their talk was all in vain and all Jesus said went for nothing. The people could eat and drink as they had done and there was no proof that the senses were not really confined to flesh and blood.

This of course excited mankind and this was the great problem to be solved, but how it was to take place was a mystery. So various opinions came up as to how the dead should rise. Now in all this excitement there were some enthusiastic persons, who never get anything right except what they cannot help. These often try to help a matter on, as the Spiritualists help on the communications from the dead when they are produced with difficulty. It was so with this problem. There were those who did not understand that Jesus never alluded to his flesh and blood but to his senses (which was all that ever had any life), that they should take form and be seen by his disciples to prove that all men had the same senses as Jesus had. This they could not understand, so they did what all crazy-headed enthusiasts would have done. They stole the body of Jesus away, for fear that the body of Jesus should not rise and then all this new theory would be exploded. So when the Christ or Science took form and showed itself to the people they were afraid and trembled. This was natural, but when assured it was the Christ taking the form of the man Jesus, they believed. This would lead some to suppose that the crucifixion was all a humbug and that Jesus was not dead. So they went to the sepulchre to see if the body was there. Now if Jesus' body had been there, as it ought to have been, then the problem would have been solved, but lo! and behold! the body was gone! This left the people in the dark and gave them a chance to call up doubts whether he was really dead or not and these doubts which exist to this day commenced the controversy on that subject.

Paul speaks of it and it has never been explained if these enthusiasts had left the body of Jesus in the tomb, this was proof enough to establish the truth of Jesus' doctrine: that the senses could exist independent of this idea or body. Now if the senses exist independent of the body, then the body is nothing but an idea that the senses are attached to. So when the senses are attached to anything, they are a part of the same. When we attach the senses to anything that has life, its life or identity has around it an odor or heat that is the prison that the senses are confined in. And to liberate the senses is to destroy the prison or atmosphere, that they may act freely. As all our unhappiness arises from our belief, it is necessary that we should understand what influence is controlling us. We are told that God brought to man all living creatures to see what Adam would call them and he gave names to all of them so that to every sensation made on the mind, the senses had to give a right explanation in order that man should not be led away by false explanations. The science is to separate the error from the truth or the law from the gospel.

The laws of Moses have passed through many modifications and some have been repealed, others modified and amended to suit society, up to this day. The laws of Jesus are the same today as they were when they fell from his lips and in all his teaching no word ever escaped him that put any restrictions on man. If Jesus ever gave an opinion, he gave it as such not as a truth but as an opinion of the man Jesus, but when he spoke of Christ, he spoke no restrictions or commands. I will give a few of the teachings of Christ, showing the difference between his opinions of mankind and the religious opinions of the world. These last never imposed any moral restraint: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Self was the ruling passion and all laws were made with the idea of restraining the people to keep them under so that the rich could ride over the poor. This made them jealous and crafty. The priests never instructed the people in the idea of taking care of themselves, but bound burdens on them in the form of beliefs. These beliefs embraced all kinds of evil spirits. This made them nervous and according to my belief would make them create in their minds all kinds of evil spirits, thus making them more nervous. This was worse than the old Mosaic law, for that put the misery in the penalty and their penalties only made the misery.

The priests found that their laws were not sufficient to lead the people, so they invented evil spirits or ghosts to frighten them so that they could control them. I will show you how to form an evil spirit and how it will get hold of you. Take a child whose mind is all right.

You have something that the child wants and the law says if I take it I must pay four times its value. Now the child wants it and contrives every way to get it. This makes it nervous and it grows more and more nervous to have its desire gratified. It knows no principle of right or wrong and thinks it has a right to whatever it sees. It is under no restriction except the law and this law is of no force to the child. So some evil or ghost is invented to frighten the child into submission. Now the introduction of this last evil has given rise to more evils than all the laws of Moses, for then if a person wanted to steal anything, the punishment was in the detection or fine. If the child stole a thing of no value the law could not take cognizance of that, so they were obliged to get up some other humbug to keep the young in subjection. This brought out all the talent of the wise who invented all kinds of evil spirits or introduced the old Egyptian errors into the world again and now you will see relics of Egyptian superstition.

Moses tried to free his people from it, but as his laws never reasoned at all, the people obeyed them through fear. So the world has been humbugged even to this day by blind guides leading the blind. Ignorance and superstition have invented all sorts of beliefs and as the senses are something independent of our belief we put them into our belief and all the misery that we suffer is the heat or odor that arises from our belief. This heat or odor is matter and our senses are in it like a person in prison. And when I come into this prison or atmosphere it affects me just as it does the person who is in it. This atmosphere is the prison or place of torment and this is heated up by their belief. So when I change their belief the fire of ignorance or the heat subsides and their senses are relieved from a burden that binds them down. See Etheric Elements as regards heat, odor and atmospheres (plasmas).

As disease is a belief, it has never entered into their minds or senses that their belief is the cause of their trouble. Let this be made plain to the people and then they will not say one to another, Know you this truth! but it will be so plain that any person of ordinary ability can see it. These beliefs will give way to Science and superstition and bigotry will be driven out of the minds of men and the Bible will stand on the rock of Science. Then when a person undertakes to say to you, Believe this or that, the people will say to such, Show me your belief by your works to the sick, as Jesus showed his belief in his day. Then all hypocrisy and deception will be driven from the land. The minds of men will take a more elevated stand and men will be just what their works show them to be. Then when a doctor comes to you and you have to tell him all your feelings and your health is in his belief, you will see that his belief is not one whit better than the priests, who tell you a story about what they have not the slightest evidence of in truth. Then the people will take their beliefs into their own hands and will purge their minds from all these false superstitions that lay burdens on them and bind them on their shoulders in the form of rheumatism, neuralgia and a thousand other diseases for the benefit of the profession.

The people will see that God never bound anyone, only by love for one another and this love knows no ill-will towards its neighbor. It calls no one master but one and that is God or Science and Science never made man or child unhappy to know it. It sometimes makes them unhappy in getting it. This is where all the trouble is. Men who are lazy would rather give an opinion on a scientific subject than to investigate it. All religious opinions are embraced without the slightest investigation, for if they try to investigate, it makes them nervous. This makes them create in their mind the identity of their belief. They attach their senses to their ideas and their misery is in their belief. So it has always been; men would always rather give an opinion than investigate a principle. Phenomena have always taken place which the wisdom of the world has undertaken to explain. So when such take place, they are handed over to the wise men to explain as though God's laws depended on man's wisdom or intelligence for an explanation.

All new theories are opposed by the wise who never admit them, till the truth of them is so apparent that their opinions are not wanted for their success. Then they come in and steal the thunder, claim the discovery, cheating the inventor out of his birth right by pressing him till he, like Esau, will sell all for a mess of pottage. This is human nature. It was just so in Jesus' days. The priests and doctors tried to buy him out but Jesus told them that to put his ideas or truths in theirs would be like putting new wine into old bottles, their bottles being of leather would burst and the wine would run out. To the priests he said that their theory was like an old worn garment and to put his truth into theirs would be like mending an old garment with new cloth. It would tear out and make the rend wider. So when they saw that they could not do anything with him and that he was going to make his theory or doctrine popular, they were afraid and said, Our craft is in danger. So they got the people enraged by telling lies and representing him as their enemy while he was their best friend. They cried, Crucify him, for our craft is in danger!

The silversmiths would lose their chance of selling their goods, for his ideas struck at all idolatry. So they crucified the man Jesus, thinking that they were destroying the Christ, but when this same Christ appeared again, they were afraid. Jesus' belief was very simple but the people's superstition has put a false construction on it and it was a stumbling block to the Jews and to the Greeks, foolishness. But truth proves itself.

It was then and is now believed that Jesus was trying to prove another world apart from this. Now there is not the slightest evidence that he ever hinted at a world independent of man's senses. On the contrary, all his acts went to show that he never harbored such an idea. I will now state what I believeJesus' belief was and the people may take it for what it is worth. Jesus never believed in any world at all as the people do now. The old world was the old beliefs of the old testament and no one believes that the writers of that refer to anything but their beliefs, for their own safety; for at death all was ended. Jesus believed that our senses were not a part of this natural body; that death was an unbelief and that the senses lived. So if the people could understand that their senses lived, then death was swallowed up in victory and that belief vanished.

This was all taught as doctrine. This if believed would put away all superstition and upset all forms and priestcraft, so they said, Crucify him! It would not do to have such a fellow among us. And after the deed was done, the priests and doctors gave a turn to public opinion and explained Jesus' ideas on their own ground and the people could not see the cheat but embraced it. So what is religion now? It is about as near Jesus' ideas as democracy is near the old-fashioned republicanism of Jefferson's day. And if the disciples were here now, hearing the ideas advanced, it would be as new to them as their ideas would be to the people in our days. Religion like politics is undergoing a change all the time and has just about as much to do with enlightening the minds of the men as political parties. It is like a sort of irritation to keep up investigation, like any error. The church is good in its place and like laws will act upon the simple and ignorant till they are ready to embrace Christ's truth of doing to another as you would that another should do to you. As this is understood, the religion of man goes out of fashion. But it will be a long time, for they have decked it up like a fashionable saloon equal to Solomon's temple.

If Jesus was here now he would not be permitted to talk in the churches. And if he had the privilege he would not find that class of people that he associated with when on earth, for they can't attend meetings; it is too expensive. It takes quite a sum to hire seats for a whole family so only one or two can afford to be religious; the rest have to stay at home or go to a cheaper kind. Like saloons, there are all kinds of religions to suit customers and like doctors, they want to make something by their profession. So you see it is the same as it was in Christ's day. They have turned the houses of the Lord into houses of merchandise and fancy goods and preach for doctrines the commands of men. They thus show that there is not one particle of truth in all they say, for if it was true it would not change and religion like all other fashions changes every year, showing it does not contain one single true idea or one atom of science. Now let Christ or truth be preached: that man's senses will always exist; that he is just what he makes himself and that his happiness is in his belief and his belief contains his character. It must be taught that man's act are governed by his belief, his happiness or misery being the fruits of his belief. His belief is the two worlds. To be in ignorance or error is in one world, misery and pain being the fruits. Science and truth is the other and happiness and peace is the reward. So man has these two worlds in him and he is the subject of the one he obeys and God rewards everyone according to his acts. I find no allusion to any world independent of man's senses, only in the brain of a superstitious world." [Quimby, 1860]


Albert Einstein
"I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature." [Albert Einstein]

See Also


As a Man Thinketh
Awakening
Belief
biblical passages interpreted via SVP and associated sources
Christ
Christ Consciousness
Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth
Christian
Christianity
Connecting Link
Cosmic Consciousness
Divine Trinity
dogma
Dogmatism
Dogmatism of Science
Error
False Gods
Fear
Figure 18.13 - Scalar or Undifferentiated Mind Force
Genesis
God
Godhead
I Am
Israel
J. Wilfred Johnson - Awakening in the Bible
John Ralston Skinner
Kabbala
Kabbala - The True Science of Light
Light
Part 24 - Awakening Your Genius
Religion
Revelation
Scalar
Scalar Potential
Word
7B.07 - Proto-Ether
18.14 - Mind is the Ultimate Scalar Quantity
18.20 - Mind - the focus of Christianity

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