The lost meaning of scripture

[777 The Great Work]

In every religious epic there is first and centrally a Holy City, a "Jerusalem," residence of the king and the eventual home of all the elect. There is next an Upper and Lower Land, symbolic of the dual segmentation of heaven and earth, or spirit and body, in man’s nature, which was in all systems held to be the union of the divine with the animal nature. The two sections were always connected by a river, rising in the higher mountainous sources in the Upper Kingdom and flowing forth, carrying its blessings of fertility, down into the Lower Kingdom, which is then nourished by the living water from above.


Then there was always a bordering sea, symbolical in every case of the stormy scene of the mortal life. No less was there a smaller water, a lake, Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Jordan River,(crossing jordan) Styx River, or the marshes or fens, which were to be crossed by the voyaging soul to reach the more blessed isles, or farther shore of spiritual bliss. Strangely enough there, was a further division of the land into seven tribal (G7) provinces, a heptarchy or heptanomis, as in Egypt, Judea, England and elsewhere. This division was representative of the seven kingdoms of nature, the seven stages of unfoldment through which we must pass in the completion of every cycle. At other times the division was 10, after the pattern of the Sephirothal Tree of the Kabbalah, but eventually redistributed in twelve sections, as in the case of the Hebrews, Greeks and some others, reflecting the twelvefold segmentation of the zodiac, which in turn typified the twelve levels of man’s evolutionary attainment, or "twelve manner of fruits" on the branches of the Tree of Life, the twelve divine elements of man’s perfected being. Likewise there was

always a definite locality designated as the birthplace of the god, which was in many instances also his place of death and burial and following resurrection. Other centers marked the scene of his initiations, temptations, baptisms, trials, crucifixion and transfiguration, every stage of his evolutionary experience, in fact. Then there were cities dedicated to the special cult of the sun, the moon, and even such stars as Orion, the stellar symbol of the Christos; or of Sirius, the great Dog-Star, symbol of the advent. The four cardinal points were featured, as emblematic of the four pillars of man’s(Earth, water,air and fire) constitution, his physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies and natures. A warfare between the Upper(America) and Lower(Russia) Lands and their kings was generally a part of the "history," ending in the conquest of the Lower by the Higher and the union of the two under the crown of dual sovereignty. (AntiChrist)

This same divine drama is being played out today to the letter by the world powers. This is the block buster of the human soul. Many faces and one idea. The final attainment of this process the student of earth school was given a MASTER'S degree in life for finishing The Great work . The Master finally ascends after many incarnations to the University of higher learning. (Wisdom}

If we pay attention to this process we will know what, when, where and why. This process has nothing to do with oil and money or any of those material things we battle over on a day to day basis.

The coming of Christ is to be thought of as the gradual growth of an element or faculty of consciousness, and as taking place over the whole extent of the human aeon. He comes during the whole continuance of the cycle, a little at a time, a little each day, year, incarnation. He is not yet born in our hearts, for he is only in gestation in our bodies. His birth will occ ur when he is delivered from the flesh in his last confinement. Socrates declared that the true function of the philosopher was that of the "midwife," for he presided at the birth of truth, its delivery from the confinement of ignorance. Paul writes that we suffers the pangs of childbirth "until Christ be formed within us." The greatest single truth that a mortal man can realize is that his animal body is the matrix in which the Christ is being gestated for its Easter delivery. Humanity is mother to deity.

Christ speaks from the inner heart of our lives with that still small voice which is all too constantly drowned out by the loud noise of earthly distraction. But only to the extent that humanity learns to heed that voice will it advance its position in the order of being.



Truth is recognized by those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.