THE BOOK
DISCOURSE 5
JESUS!
THE CHRISTIAN “SON OF GOD!”
THE MUSLIM “SON OF MARY?”
THE JEWISH “PROPHET”.
“I AM THE LORD THY GOD.
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS
BUT ME!”
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: THE ‘LAW OF MOSES’.
‘And one from among them, a lawyer, in order to test Him, asked Him the question,’ “Teacher, which commandment of the law is most important?” ‘Jesus answered Him,’
“LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
AND WITH ALL YOUR INTELLECT.”
“That command is first, and most important.”
(Matt. 22:35-38. Fenton’s Capitals.)
It is fitting that this Discourse should be about JESUS, for the other Son, IMANUEL, has now been “Well-Proclaimed”, exactly as our Ordained Mandate directed so. Imanuel, in turn, was long-prophesied by Jesus to come to earth around this very time. This Discourse will thus close the subjects that pertain to the Divine Origins of Truth and Its associated Revelatory Connections to The TRINITY.
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Reader: Once more into the fray! One of the major points of religious ‘doctrinal-separation’ between Christianity and Islam revolves around the Origin and thus Identity of Jesus. Despite the fact that both religions seem to hold the First Commandment as the greatest, and that all worship must be accorded to One only; beyond that, there are virtually no other prospects for ‘doctrinal- conciliation’ in this area. Yet if we step back from religion and take a long and perhaps objective look at the life and meaning of this ‘man’ called Jesus, then, on the world stage, something remarkable is left to us as His legacy. We do not mean the religion that derives from His life -- though it has obviously impacted very powerfully on our civilisations --- no; we mean the time-frame calendar that we use to mark all past, present, and future events.
There was a time “before He arrived”, and then “a time after”, which the world now embraces. The scientific disciplines of history, archaeology, palaeontology, and a myriad others could not function without a standard base- line of time. Even Islam must use the same foundation to give us dates of Muhammad’s birth and death, and the major events of his life in between. (There is an Islamic calendar dating from the Prophet’s time, but it does not feature in global calendric use.)
Pol Pot, the evil, ignorant ‘peasant butcher’ of Cambodia, attempted to initiate a new start by proclaiming Year Zero during the time of his murderous rampage to cleanse the land of educated intellectuals, just as a starter. After well over a million murders, he and his regime were finally neutralised. Had Hitler survived and won ‘his war’, it is very likely that he would have proclaimed a new time-beginning for his ‘thousand-year kingdom’ too.
Obviously, it makes sense for everyone to ‘be on the same page’ when it comes to date/time considerations -- otherwise not much would work. But why choose Jesus’ time as our marker? Why not use one of history’s great natural disasters? In my view, there is an inherent knowing on the part of probably most human beings that something unique, unprecedented, and extraordinary took place around 2 millennia ago at his Birth and Life. Now, sub-consciously or non- consciously, most of us are subliminally aware of that reality, though it is not possible to quantify this notion at the physical level. However, under the outworking of The Law, other ‘forces’ impact upon us and ‘they’ permit us to ‘sense’ the greater things of history that we cannot ordinarily access, as we will detail in the future Discourses on The Divine Laws of Creation.
So, despite the fact there is serious contention over Jesus, a few verses, Scriptures and commentary here from a “moderate Muslim” will show how he is striving to seed some degree of unity between Christianity and Islam towards “their” God. Obviously a clear-headed “thinker” outside the rigid fold of Islam, M. Mansoor clarifies in moderate but nonetheless logical terms other ways to look at the question of the “Son” of God!
However, despite his laudable attempts to try to bring sanity to Islam on this issue, he still follows the standard Christian doctrine over certain aspects centred on Jesus. We will bring these to your attention at the end of his very valuable contribution and refute them ---- again!
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From Mensuah Mansoor: of www,answering-islam
The Son of God in the Bible and the Qur’an.
Frequently one will hear the statement, “What you believe is very similar to what we believe except we don’t believe Jesus was the Son of God.” Although Muslims and true Christians both believe in Jesus as a Prophet, yet the difference in the understanding of this word, son, causes them to believe different things about this great Prophet. Why is this? What does the word really mean? Why is there such great misunderstanding?
THE SON OF GOD IN THE QUR’AN
Part of the misunderstanding has arisen because of a misunderstanding of the word ibn. Though not specifically addressed to Christians, but people in general, and most likely idolaters who referred to their idols as sons and daughters of God, the issue of whether God can have sons or daughters is addressed in the Qur’an in Sura 6:100 and the following verses. Verses 100 and 101 state,
Yet they make
The Jinns equals
With Allah, though Allah
Did create the Jinns;
And they falsely,
Having no knowledge,
Attribute to Him
Sons and daughters,
Praise and glory be
To Him (for He is) above
What they attribute to Him!
To Him is due
The primal origin
Of the heavens and the earth:
How can He have a son
When He hath no consort?
He created all things,
And He hath full knowledge
Of all things.
It states that those who have no knowledge say that God has no offspring, male and female, coming from the Arabic word, ibn, having a spiritual or physical meaning. It follows directly on by stating that God could have no son walad (also having a spiritual or physical meaning) since he has no wife (sahiba). So we see from the context that the term, ibn, which can have a physical or spiritual meaning, was understood to have a physical meaning. It was this physical meaning that was negated. Since the Bible never refers to Jesus as the physical son of God, it is clear that the Qur’an is not addressing what the Scriptures (the Holy Bible) of true Christians say. ... If it was intended to refute what the Christian scriptures state, then it is clear that there was a misunderstanding of what the Christian scriptures actually said about the Prophet Jesus. How do we know there was a misunderstanding?
All but one reference in the Qur’an that negate the Sonship of Jesus Christ, ... in the negation use the Arabic word, walad, generally meaning a physical son in the nominative but also able to have a spiritual/metaphorical meaning. Sura 9:30, “The Jews call Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth: (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!”, is the only place in the Qur’an where Jesus Christ is referred to as the Son of God using the word, ibn. However, the second part of the verse containing the actual statement denouncing the confession of Christians that “the Messiah is the Son of God”, uses neither the word ibn nor the word walad in its denunciation. Since ibn can have either a physical or spiritual meaning, without a specific word used in the negation it is unclear whether the meaning is denounced, only the spiritual meaning is denounced or both are denounced. ...
THE SON OF GOD IN IBN HISHAM AND THE HADITHS
In his biography of Muhammad, Sirat Rasul Allah, Ibn Hisham quotes the Qur’an as stating that the Christians used the term ibn allah, in reference to Jesus. This is strongly denounced right along with the Jew , Uzayr, being denounced as the ibn allah with no distinction between the two. Yet there is a large difference between the two. Uzayr (Ezra) even as a true prophet of God, would have been no more than a human being on whom God’s authority, power, or Holy Spirit ... came. However, the Holy Bible teaches that Jesus existed from eternity as a divine spiritual being, the Word, who was God (John 1:1), and at a point in time took on flesh (John 1:14). Yet, the Qur’an never states in Sura 9:30 nor in its immediate context why the sonship of Uzayr or Jesus is denounced nor which meaning, the physical or the spiritual, is being denounced. One must go to Sahih Muslim to find the reason that calling Jesus Christ ibn allah is denounced –- because he is not the walad, physical son, of God. In fact every time that the sonship of Jesus Christ is denounced in the Qur’an and the reason why the denunciation is given, an inaccurate view of the Bible is evident. Ibn Hisham brings further light to this by pointing out that Muhammad thought that the statements of the Christians from Najran about Jesus, diminished God’s power and authority, denied the Oneness of God and made Jesus a rival to God. Yusuf Ali, too, shows this same understanding of the phrase, “son of God” by his comment on Sura 9:30, equating Christians with blasphemers by accusing them of, “Taking men for gods or sons of God.” However, Jesus’ Sonship in the Bible which is always spiritual in nature is never presented as diminishing God’s power or authority, denying the Oneness of God nor making himself a rival to God. The will, authority and power of Jesus’ divine spirit is never in conflict with the will, authority and power of God, because Jesus was the Word. This eternal Word of God became flesh without ceasing to be God or beginning to compete with God. ...
[It] is clear that the Qur’an and the Bible do not agree regarding Jesus’ nature. The Bible presents him not only as a prophet, but actually more than a prophet – his spiritual nature being the very nature of God.
When we look at Sura 5:18, we see that when men claimed to be “ibn allah” the Qur’an presents its understanding of the phrase “ibn allah” as those who were more than men and who were without sin or at least not subject to punishment for sin. Ibn Hisham confirms this understanding. We see this because it is stated that they were “but mortals, of those men He [Allah] has created” and were subject to punishment for sin. Yet the Qur’an, the Muslim traditions and the Bible all agree that Jesus, unlike any other prophet, had no sin or even a fault or mistake ever in his life.
Ibn Hisham records the following, concerning the verses that came
down, denying Jesus being the Son of God in the context of the coming of
the Christians from Najran to Muhammad:
They argue that he is the son of God in that they say he had no known
father; and he spoke in the cradle and this is something no child of Adam
has ever done.
As a result of what these Christians said, Ibn Hisham records that the revelation concerning Jesus speaking childhood in Sura 3:45-49 and Sura 19:27-35 came along with other verses about Jesus’ life. However, as already mentioned when we look at what the Christians are reported to have said, we see that the reason the Christians from Najran gave, is not the reason the Bible gives why God called Jesus his Son.
In response to this, Norman Anderson, formerly Professor of Oriental Laws and Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the University of London states,
Christians, moreover, do not claim that Jesus was the Son of God because he was born of a virgin. On the contrary, it was because he was the Son of God, when that term is properly understood, that he was born in that miraculous way. (Bold emphasis, mine.)
THE CHRISTIAN CREED AND THE SON OF GOD
The term “Son of God” is used so often by those who follow Jesus and believe in him that some people may think that the phrase “Son of God” is part of a creed that must be recited by anyone who wants to be a Christian, in a similar way that Muslims must recite a creed to become a Muslim and to declare their continued allegiance to their faith. Because many Muslims have been taught that Jesus was the physical son of God, they naturally find this very repulsive. Though some may long to believe in Jesus they would never seriously think to do so for the reason that they may be expected to use this term. This term would be misunderstood and very repulsive to their family and friends. The fact is, no one is required to refer to Jesus using the term, the Son of God, to be a true Christian. Of course, one would need to understand the true meaning behind the term and definitively believe the true meaning behind the term. But there are other words to describe the same concept, such as a proper understanding of the prophet Daniel’s “Son of Man” prophecy or the expression, “the most beloved vice-regent of God who was the very nature and essence of God making him God Himself in human flesh.” (*)
THE SON OF GOD IN THE BIBLE
As we have seen, the Bible presents Jesus as the beloved Son of God and the Son of Man. (*) This Son was prophesied by the prophets; he had a human nature but was called the Son of God because of his indestructible, spiritual nature, (**) which was proved by his resurrection from the dead. ... Because through him and for him all things, mankind included, were made, (***) and because of his unique origin and power which caused him to rise victoriously back to life from the dead, (****) he has been appointed to be the judge of all mankind. (*****)
Well, that is a very interesting dissertation overall, but a need for some serious corrections. Right, reader, let’s once more “put a few things to rights” here, for I do not know HOW --- nor do I understand, nor will I ever understand WHY --- so many so-called “Bible scholars” and Christian “leaders” cannot see what the Bible actually says. These are people who have university degrees “dripping out their noses”, yet their “Degree of Obtuseness” is simply beyond belief!
Let’s include the long line of Popes, Archbishops of Canterbury, Archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church and all the “leaders of all Christian denominations: Get your collective, obtuse heads around the next few “asterisked” points ----- seriously!
(*) Wrong! We have said it, Jesus stated it. Imanuel Himself has written it: “Everything to The Father!” That means “not to either of them”! Jesus was not “God on earth”! He was a “Part” of God, but designated --- for our simplified understanding --- as a Son! That’s all! Neither was Jesus the Son of Man. We have clearly illuminated that fact from his very words.
(**) Wrong here too: The Power that was inherent in Jesus --- which could not be concealed and which could and did “accelerate healing processes” to the point of being miraculous --- was not spiritual. It was DIVINE! There is an unattainably-vast and unbridgeable gulf between the Spiritual Realm --- the origin of human beings --- and The Realm of The DIVINE: a level at the very Height of Creation that we can have no understanding of, and therefore no possible affinity with! That really should not be difficult to understand, yet the same appallingly-wrong “stuff” is constantly “reinforced” by religious commentators --- or commentators of/on religion.
(***) Wrong! Jesus was not The Creative Will of God --- the “Breath of God”. Imanuel was! He has told you so from His Own Hand and in this last revelatory Work now written to try to awaken you blind and obtuse of earthly humanity!
(****) Wrong! Jesus did not rise from the dead --- in his physical body. The Perfect, Inviolable --- and thus UNCHANGEABLE Laws of Creation that issued from The Hand of THE CREATOR HIMSELF --- absolutely decree that a physical body cannot rise from its “end-of-life-death-state” and get up and walk around. Yes, He certainly rose from out of His physical shell, but in a different, thus “non-physical”, body.
You really need to change your mind-set around this appalling distortion and seriously “lock into” The Divine Laws of Creation that Imanuel brought to earth, and be finally educated about the actual “death process” of both the First Death, and the Second Death. Then you will have full understanding on both processes. [Reader: Part II of this Work will offer “lawful illumination” of the “process”.]
(*****) Wrong! We have hammered this theme so often thus far, and I suppose we will do it a few more times yet before we are finished. People: What did Jesus say in one of His most celebrated prophecies; you know, the one that Islam must rely on for its validation of Muhammad as the “Spirit of Truth” i.e., ---
“Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth comes ...” etc. --- “He will reprove the world of sin. He will bring the judgement”, which you already know . That means that Jesus has not been “appointed to be the judge of all mankind”. Let’s say it again. He said: HE, not ME!
How many times do you have to be told that your doctrines are wrong? WRONG! To put it gently: They are unworkable. They are unsound. They are inexcusable and appalling distortions of the most Sublime thing we could ever be gifted: The Living Truth! The aeons-long Christian-religious “conditioning process” must be maintained at all costs. If not, then the whole carefully- nurtured edifice collapses utterly taking everything down with it, which in any case is going to happen, but thankfully perhaps setting many free in the process. Your twisted dogma is no different in principle to the declaration made by the spiritually-blind fool, Caiaphas!
From John II:45-53. (NIV) --- “What are we accomplishing?” they asked.
“Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on
like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and
take away both our place and our nation.”
Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,
spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for
you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
The One that “died” was The One that should have been recognised for Who He was. What a strange group of creatures human beings are --- for we reject Truth time and time again. With each rotten, religious distortion you of the Christian and Jewish “faiths” have brought into being and hypocritically maintain as some kind of sacrosanct ‘truth’ about Jesus; you thus symbolically align yourselves with Caiaphas, who set in motion that most heinous and inexcusable crime. Yet, what happened after that? To all intents and purposes, the Jewish nation “did perish” as they were made bereft of their once gifted home, lost their “Holy of Holies”, and at the same time, the great “diaspora” --- the “driving out”, the “scattering”. Hardly a wonderful reward for, as they are wont to state; “faithfully serving their God”, was it?
You would think that someone in the Jewish race would by now have earnestly and publicly “forced a national debate” in the Knesset on the very strange notion that it was exactly the right thing to crucify, “murder”, the most innocent of all: The One sent to them at their petitioning. Not simply a man, however, though certainly “a man among men” whilst in His earthly body; but a Divine Being walking the earth to bring Truth to “blind, religious fools”.
As we very pointedly stated further back in this Work, the re-emergence of the State of Israel does not mean the “once-chosen” have been “re-chosen”. No: It just means that an “ordained gathering” of a whole people has taken place so that The Truth will hit harder among many when its time of “Reciprocal Effect”, in its full and unrestrained Divine Power, comes down upon the Jewish race!
Let’s move on, for we have a long way to go and very much to learn. With regard to the Religions of Islam and Judaism, more than sufficient “space” in which their singular view i.e. --- no Son of God --- has been unequivocally stated, though we may include more. This exercise from here on then is primarily to set right for global Christianity to begin with, for Islam especially, and pretty much for everyone else of the human race, the Truth surrounding His Birth, Life and Death by Crucifixion, and then a good, long hard look at the Resurrection.
Right: For the roughly two billion Christians who comprise the “global Church”, a revisionist analysis of key and sacrosanct tenets of the Faith might be seen as a possible blasphemous challenge to the very cornerstone of the Christian “reason for being”. We purposefully offer the revisionist view simply because of the clear and very disturbing discrepancies between the “official theological standpoint” surrounding the life and death of Jesus, and that which the Bible states; some of which we have already pointed out.
Given the fact that the “global Church” comprises so many staunch, unquestioning believers, why should we believe that our analysis of events surrounding the time of Jesus has merit or relevance? After all, literally thousands of books about Him, mostly written by very-eminent, intellectual church scholars and theologians over many hundreds of years, have been produced. How can what we say even dare to stand alongside the heavyweights of the academic/religious world?
Should we view the stated “Church position” as a question of “might being right”, and is it therefore also a question of “the greater number must be correct”? Since we unequivocally aver that “The Proof of the Pudding Must Always be in the Eating”, a key prophetic warning from the Very One Whom the “global Church” rightfully and correctly reveres, offers a very sobering insight into the exact reason for this Work, and thus for its challenging stance. From the Book of Matthew, part-verses 21-22:
“....for there shall then be wide-spread affliction, such as has not been known since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor will ever be known again. And if those times were not cut short, not a man would be saved.”
If we state that we accept the words of Jesus and the Bible, should we blithely gloss over His warning as recorded in Matthew, or should we give it serious credence? Most believers will say they accept His words. That being the case, where does that place the two billion Christians currently alive and well on earth? That huge number cannot possibly be the few --- the remnant --- which is supposed to surmount the time of destruction.
With such a powerful warning, surely a key question arises here. Rational logic should tell us that such a warning would only be given if it could be seen that the greater mass of global humanity would fall. Quite obviously, that number must include very many Christians too. Any view to the contrary would clearly call into question the very mandate of He Whom Christians profess to follow and Who clearly possesses the absolute right to so proclaim. How and why, then, would such a terrible failure occur?
Only one answer has credence here! Ultimately it is all about acceptance or non-acceptance of what actually is the Truth about everything connected with, and surrounding the life of, Jesus. When it is warningly stated that “God is not mocked”, it bluntly means that every nuance of every happening concerned with His Will is also not to be mocked. That fact must therefore be unequivocally applied to all events surrounding the life and times of Jesus too. The blind acceptance of teachings that defy rational logic and which therefore transgress what are clearly natural processes --- The Creator in His Divine Perfection being the Absolute of all that is natural --- means that such beliefs deny the very Perfection inherent in Him and His Will, of which Jesus was and is Part!
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Reader: A serious and defining question. What do you think would constitute the greatest mockery of The Will of God with regard to that Part of Him that was and is Jesus --- designated, for “sluggish earthly brains”, as The Son of God? Well, it’s quite obvious. The greatest possible mockery of many such instances of historical human arrogance was wrought by two so-called “great” religions, Islam and Judaism, in their stated religious doctrine that Jesus was never ever any Part of The Almighty! That inexcusable “mocking distortion” is today locked into both religions as one of their absolute and sacrosanct tenets!
Not just two religions who more than deny this “Divine reality”; but two religions that actually boast that they, each in their singular religious ethos, are the especial and only “chosen” of God. Two peoples, two cultures, two arrogant religions; for more than a millennium now have committed themselves to propagandising this ultimate mockery as some kind of enlightened “divine truth” that they, very strangely but nonetheless in their overweening hypocrisy, claim to have received from the very God they say they serve --- and worship. Yet, by virtue of their denial of Jesus as a “forever” Part of Him, they nonetheless disbelieve, and thereby ----- and therefore ----- mock Divinity Itself.
Let’s hammer this point again: The Jews, in their long and blood-soaked history of many pogroms against them, never being allowed to settle into a permanent religious/cultural homeland from being “driven out” from one place after another, simply refuse to accept that they were and are so wrong that even in their so-called “homeland” today, they cannot find the peace they seek. For them now, it is still conflict.
At the expense of being labelled anti-Semitic ---- which we care not one whit about any more than we would care about being labelled homophobic, for this Work Proclaims The Spirit of Truth and His All-Truth of The Divine Laws of Creation, ---- when are you Jews finally going to wake up to your arrogance and for once in your long and sorry history, truly bow your collective head before the ONE TRUE GOD of CREATION Who, despite sure protestations to the contrary, you clearly do not know?
Even with the long line of great and faithful Prophets of God that were born into your midst over thousands of years and who gave you His Law and clear prophecy to ultimately guide you to the recognition of Jesus when He came to you; even that was not enough. The great prophecies were fulfilled, yet you not only denied and rejected Him, but actively worked against Him until finally torturing and murdering Him --- and for what; to prove some kind of point?
A crime on that scale simply cannot be swept aside even after millennia. The Perfect Laws of GOD still await full recognition of it from the people that committed it. Only with that might you find final resolution and perhaps some measure of “peace with your neighbours”.
Will that happen, reader? Highly unlikely, for the long-inculcated belief of being the “chosen people” is so solidly engrained into the very fabric of the race, religion, and culture --- and thus what they would say is the essence of “being a Jew” --- that the only “thing” which will provide the hard and tragic much-deserved but too-late awakening will be what will come over all religions that distort and mock HIS TRUTH and LAW! The “once-correct” mantle that the Jews still foolishly believe they still have some kind of “divine right” to, has been long- claimed ---- also wrongly ---- by Islam and the Muslim world.
Jewish politicians should urgently put in place a very specific “Judaist Resolution” to be debated in the Knesset and in every Synagogue; not just across Israel, but wherever Jews the whole world over, congregate. That “resolution” should seek humble and genuinely-contrite forgiveness from GOD --- He of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Isaac and Isaiah --- their God Who gifted to the Jewish race a Part of Himself in the form of His “Son“! Why would or should Jews do that? In the first place, and after 2,000 odd years of denial; to recognise their evil deed where the so-called “chosen” of God “murdered, in their very midst,” The Son of God.
In addition, for all that time; holding on to a religiously-righteous cultural and racial doctrine that in appalling arrogance a whole people sets itself above the very Divine Laws of God. That is what you should urgently and openly do, for you do not have much time left!
So now: What about Islam? As do the Jews, Islam adopts a similar “refusal to accept” position, a similar denial, but from a very different perspective. Let’s also reinforce this point, but with some “forceful” logic. In the case of Islam, the refusal to accept Jesus as The Son of God is not simply a matter of a calm, doctrinal, religious observation that Muslims can discuss with a reasonable degree of equanimity with non-Muslims. No: It is anathema to Islam, to the Koran, to the “religion”, to Muhammad; indeed, to everything that it means to be Muslim. Yet how, exactly, has this dogmatic --- nay stridently-vociferous --- stance been arrived at?
Briefly: The whole historical thrust of Islam describes a people once tribal but who were united through the Prophet Muhammad and the teaching of the Koran. There is certainly nothing wrong in that. However, whilst the “uniting” aspect of the Arabian tribes was a beneficial outcome ---- for that is The Will for all peoples ---- and great strides were made in astronomy, mathematics, architecture, literature etc., during the “golden years” of Islam; beneath the surface of “religious enlightenment”, however, there still remained a subtle remnant of “tribal/cultural thought”.
Thus, when the time came to confront the reality of a Son of God ---- a fact that Muhammad was absolutely accepting of ---- that almost “medieval remnant” of thinking did not permit the necessary understanding that would have allowed for a far wider cosmic view to “penetrate the religion”.
This meant that the whole notion of a “Son” of God could only be seen in the context of The Creator of All the Worlds somehow needing a wife to be intimate with in order to produce a son in the same way that Muslims do it in the physical world of the flesh. The Koran quite clearly states Allah as being “above the heavens”, thus “above” the Paradise of human spirits, and not therefore in the physical world of Muslims and their sexual intimacy! We ask the question again: Is this what Islam really means?
Reader: I cannot get my head around how and why a whole people and its large and growing religion cannot even begin to grasp this very logical, very real, “separative-reality” between us and a Power that we can never ever approach.
Jesus, as The Son of God, also stands in that “separative power” reality. Sexual intimacy performed with wives and/or consorts to produce offspring can only happen in The World of Matter ---- down here. To think that of HIM is so unbelievably inane that it can only be viewed as a brand of actual religious insanity --- and a terrible transgression against the Very Sublimity and Purity of The GODHEAD!
Perhaps in the end it’s all just Muslim semantics! For it certainly has no basis in fact!
I think that the problem of non-understanding about such a simple reality seems to have its genesis in Muhammad’s apparent promise that good Muslim “warriors/martyrs” will be given 70 virgins in paradise. That appears to be Islam’s great “stumbling block” of non-understanding --- a completely wrong interpretation of what Paradise really is and means. It is thus a serious and very weighty “millstone” around the neck of the religion, and certainly around the necks of every Muslim.
(In PART IV B about the Life and Work of Muhammed, the truth about these appalling errors will be dissected. And from the Akashic Record --- “The Book of Life” --- there they will be put right!)
For now, let’s restate a simple fact, which is nonetheless a Divine Reality:
A “Son” of God means a “PART” OF GOD!
That means a “Part” from HIM; not the puerile belief that He is “a son born of a woman” in a non-material Realm at humanly-incomprehensible Heights that we will never ever get to, let alone ever see.
Muslims: This is the reality you need to very seriously get locked into your heads; for any belief that does not encompass this Absolute Truth is one more spiritually-dangerous derision by your Koran and by your religion towards the One PERFECT and SUBLIME CREATOR that you all profess to believe in!
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Whilst being a necessary digression, this whole Work is a litany of such “stuff” that, as difficult and sickening as it is against The Almighty; we must yet still continue to expose.
Now, since Jesus stated that He came “not to overthrow the Law, but to fulfil it”, an associated question must logically be: “What Law”, Whose Law”? It is certainly not human law. It must therefore be The Law --- from out of The Divine --- purely and logically because that was and is the Origin of Jesus, The Son of God! Since such Perfection of Law cannot possibly be open to human interpretation or opinion, why is it that within the “global Church”, diverse and differing opinions and interpretations abound, and all from the same book?
It might be said that we, too, are attempting to do the same, and that this essay is no different, just another interpretation. However, there, in that assumption, the difference ends, for what we are unequivocally postulating is completely at variance with the “cornerstone tenets” of all the Christian Church communities. Moreover, the explanations herein follow brutally-logical paths. Since the Creator’s Will and Law cannot possibly be anything but logical, only a logical analysis will come closest to divining the true picture, in necessary accordance with The Law!
If we now track back to the warning from Jesus that few will survive the necessary “cleansing process”, it again logically follows that all incorrect teachings and beliefs surrounding the life and person of Jesus --- irrespective of how or why derived --- must also suffer destruction. For all that is wrong, all that is incorrect, inherently opposes the Perfect Will of the Most High, and must therefore be “cast out”.
The subject matter and explanations about Jesus in this Discourse, and indeed in the complete Work, therefore, unequivocally stands aside and apart from all religious and academic opinion. May you, reader, find herein the clear truth of our assertions!
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JESUS: HIS BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to complete them.” (Matthew. 5:17) (Fenton. Emphases mine.)
The path humankind should have taken was one that would have ensured a spiritual and harmonious ‘paradise on earth’. That path was to have been through the great Truths given to humankind through very especial men Called for the purpose and designated as “Truth-bringers”. Clearly, that did not happen. Even the powerful and sublime intervention of The Son of God Himself still did not induce humankind to genuinely recognise the actual nature of the Perfect Truth that He brought. In its place, and founded upon it, we have, instead, just religions --- thousands of them.
And, within all, distortions of that Truth to varying degrees; but all nonetheless laying claim to a correct interpretation. Therefore, within the very broad parameters that Bible interpretation currently encompasses [i.e., the broad, easy path] and since we state that we unequivocally accept the Perfection of the Laws of God for all things, we must, by virtue of such a sure conviction, also include a critical assessment of the two “seemingly” contentious issues in the life of Jesus that this particular Discourse addresses: Resurrection and Ascension. Laws Perfect in their inception, conception and fulfilment. Perfect? Unequivocally yes. And perfect in accordance with the very Laws that Jesus came to fulfil. Any “imperfection” or contention, therefore, will only be “formed” --- and therefore given life and credence --- by human opinions and beliefs.
In order to ensure that we do, indeed, possess a clear mandate for what we now state herein; let us formulate for ourselves a series of questions to show exactly that. In any case, irrespective of whatever one may choose to believe about the Birth, Life and Death of Jesus, the particular questions posed here must be faced honestly. If not faced thus, then he who still doubts automatically denies the inviolable Perfection of the Creator. So:
| Question 1. | Can the “Perfection of God” be called into question? |
| Answer. | No! |
| Question 2. | Can a Perfect God produce imperfect Laws? |
| Answer. | No! |
| Question 3. | If we accept the premise that The Almighty is, and must therefore be, Perfect - by virtue of His Nature; must His Laws of Creation similarly also be Perfect? |
| Answer. | Yes! |
| Question 4. | If His Laws are Eternal, Inviolable in their Perfection’, and therefore Unchangeable, can any event then take place outside the parameters of that stated Inviolable Perfection? |
| Answer. | No! |
| Question 5. | Would such an absolute and illogical impossibility reveal believers of any such event to thus be gravely in error? |
| Answer. | Yes! |
| Question 6. | Would any such beliefs therefore pit themselves against the very Laws that The Almighty Himself has ordained for all of Creation? |
| Answer. | Yes! |
| Question 7. | If the answers to all our previous questions unequivocally deny any imperfection in The Almighty and His Laws, can we still continue to believe that He can change His Perfect Laws at will in order to bring about a particular event? |
| Answer. | No! |
| Question 8. | If we, nevertheless, still persist in incorrectly believing that He can somehow transgress His Own Perfect Laws to “do as He pleases”, would that suggest earthly religious doctrine as being the fostering agent/s for such views in order to thereby suit a said dogma? |
| Answer. | Yes! |
| Question 9. | By virtue of such an inherently flawed concept, can we thus therewith illogically and very incorrectly impute to The Creator, Who must forever innately be “The Perfect God”, the earthly failing of imperfection? |
| Answer. | Clearly and unequivocally --- No! |
Thus, only with such Perfection in The Godhead and the Eternal Laws that have issued from It could there be a Creation for Jesus to enter in the first place. And, by extension, no human debate today about the issues of a Virgin Birth, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension in His life either.
By virtue of the only correct answers that could possibly be given to our series of questions, we have gifted ourselves a clear and honest mandate to continue.
THE “VIRGIN-BIRTH” --- THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
Because the “Virgin Birth” belief in all its ramifications, and perhaps even “spiritual manifestations” features strongly in the religions of the “big three” of monotheism, we will introduce more of “The WORD of IMANUEL” into the mix and hope that a “few” more might just “get it”.
Now: Just as the physical death of Jesus marked His exit from earthly life, so did His birth as a baby herald His physical arrival onto the earth and into earthly existence. For in accordance with the inviolability of the Divine Laws He came to fulfil, The Son of God could not circumvent the Law that to be born of woman on earth, the seed must first be placed within the womb by a natural procreative event. Subsequent to that seeding, a lawful gestation period of nine months in that exalted womb.
Here, however, a singularly contentious question arises with the inescapable truth that in the twin realities of physical birth and physical death, one must obviously always follow the other. Since the purpose of this Work is to boldly question and put right certain strongly entrenched sacrosanct beliefs in Christian theology, the key one now is the truth or otherwise of the so-called “virgin-birth” of Christ.
Since we cannot deny the fact of Mary’s earthly pregnancy or the earthly birth of Jesus as a baby, should we dare to believe that those earthly processes might just have been preceded by an earthly conception too? Or is that going too far? Or is it simply a matter of religious fear masquerading as the “ostensible” guardian of “religious righteousness” standing ready to condemn any attempt to delve logically into what was a completely natural event anyway i.e., the foetus that became Jesus’ physical body developed in, and was delivered from, Mary’s womb. Though natural, it was, without doubt, a birth of stupendous import. One ordained and sanctified by Divinity Itself.
Because every human spirit incarnating on earth requires a physical vessel in which to dwell and through which to work, Jesus, too, needed a physical body to carry out His Work. However, all physical bodies entering the earth plane in baby form can only do so with an earthly conception to begin with. So: Does the idea of an earthly conception, then, denigrate the greatness or purity of the person of Jesus or His inherent Divinity? No: Of course not. What about the purity of Mary herself, or her exalted calling? Would we regard her as being somehow soiled or impure if a natural conception according to Creation-Law was necessary before Jesus could be born onto the earth? Here again: Of course not; silly in the extreme!
For if we did it would be very difficult, indeed, to reconcile the birth of The Son of God from out of a woman of the earth whose necessary purity for that purpose was somehow compromised through a natural act of copulation. So, would a possible father for the purposes of a necessary conception debase the body of Mary who would carry to full term the earthly vessel that Jesus, in His Divine reality, would inhabit and work through? Moreover, for such a high and purely ordained purpose, might not such a man be similarly chosen from Above? And would such a union for that highest possible purpose not therefore constitute an “immaculate conception” in the truest sense? If not, why not? If not, would it be because the Bible “appears” to state otherwise?
Let’s get real here! Firstly: The birth of Jesus out of Mary must be very correctly regarded as being of the most sublime purity. Secondly: That correct recognition should not automatically condemn every other mother before or since as being unclean or impure simply because a normal conception was obviously naturally required before a subsequent birth could be realised. If the resultant viewpoint from some religious quarters is of that mind-set for all other births, then it is one that is clearly dangerously distorted. For any such misconstrued stance would foolishly denigrate the very ordination of The Almighty in the outworking of His Perfect Laws which state that if a man and woman wish to produce offspring in the ordained natural manner, they must firstly become “one flesh”. Surely no argument there, even animals have to do that.
In any case the state of marriage should not necessarily be regarded as the only institution under which a child should be conceived. If we fully understand that the inherent key attribute of The Almighty must be Love in its Divine Purity, then the very notion of a completely pure yet natural process of conception to birth, as in the case of Jesus, offers the same potential for purity for every other human mother too.
Because this sequence of events is so critical to the best possible Bible understanding of our subject matter, let’s once again examine the aspects we have already looked at, and then delve further by applying a little simple logic to it all. So: A clue to the reason for the wide Christian acceptance of “the virgin birth” as truth may lie in the interpretation by Matthew of the title, the “Holy Spirit”. He records:
“... the origin of Jesus the Messiah was thus: Mary, His mother, was
promised in marriage to Joseph; but before their union, she was found
to have conceived from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, however,
was a righteous man; and not wishing to degrade her, felt inclined to
divorce her privately. But while reflecting about it, he saw a
messenger from the Lord appear to him during a vision, saying:
“Joseph, son of David, you need not be afraid to accept your wife Mary;
for what is conceived in her was produced by the Holy Spirit:...” (1-
18-20. Fenton) (Bold emphases mine.)
Because it was so stated by one of the Disciples, it is now forever regarded as sacrosanct in its “apparent” meaning. That is; that the egg inside the womb of Mary, from which the physical foetus would grow to become the physical vessel or body of Jesus, was somehow literally impregnated by the Holy Spirit simply to produce just the mortal or physical cloak.
What needs to be fully understood here once more is that the mortal cloak of Jesus was not Him solely and completely. It was simply the body that housed His Divine core. We should further understand that the ordained path of every physical cloak is to return to the earth out of which it is ultimately constituted. From Eccl. 12:6-7, Fenton. (Italics mine.)
“And man goes to the earth that he was,
And his Soul will return to the GOD Who gave it!”
It was thus His Divine core --- which at the same time was He personally --- which returned to Its Origin to become --- again--- One With the Father. The forming of His physical body, the foetus, did not require the Power of The Holy Spirit to produce it. Foetuses by the hundreds are produced every day of the week on earth. However, the entry of Jesus into the depths of the material world from out of The Divine Realm, to subsequently incarnate into a human body on earth, clearly did need The Holy Spirit to effect it.
Therefore, one of the keys to a final understanding of this whole question must take into account the true meaning of the Title, Holy Spirit, in strict concert with the way that Matthew refers to it for the conception of Jesus.
Two points must be considered if the question of the “virgin-birth” of Jesus is to be finally answered satisfactorily-correctly. One is the inviolability and absolute Perfection of the Living Laws of The Almighty, of which we will illuminate in detail further on. The other is the true meaning of the word “conceive”, and of the word, “virgin”.
The Christian Church’s imposition of a narrow, intellectual constraint upon the meanings and usage of the words, in this particular case, fail to understand that word meanings relating to activities and ordinations from The Living Light must inherently be fundamentally more comprehensive and far-reaching in scope than any earth-orientated faith/belief dogma or doctrine.
In human thinking, therefore, the word, conceive, is invariably and immediately associated with pregnancy;
1 a. ‘To become pregnant with’.
Or b. ’To begin or induce the conception of’.
However, if we apply other meanings to the word;
2 a, ‘To form in the mind, to become possessed by’;
Or b, ‘to formulate; devise: conceive a plan’ ---
then a far more comprehensive aspect suddenly emerges.
If we now revisit Matthew’s narration about this matter, we have the phrase, “conceived from the Holy Spirit”; and a second, “produced by the Holy Spirit”. Yes, it could be seen to be “playing with words”. But what actually was conceived from and produced by the Holy Spirit here? Other Bibles use slightly different phrasing, but all must ultimately mean the same thing, simply because, under the aegis of the Grace of The Almighty and His Inviolable Laws, Jesus was born to Mary!
Matthew’s narration in The Jerusalem Bible states, “... she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit”. The angel of the Lord then says, “... because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit”. From the King James Bible, the same passages respectively read, “... she was found with child of the Holy Ghost”. And from the angel; “...for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost”.
With such “apparent” clarity, it is eminently clear why so many well- meaning Christians will not even begin to question the so-called “virgin-birth”. Unquestioning loyalty to a high ideal carries a certain measure of greatness. Where it is a matter of the Truth or otherwise of a particular event, “set in motion” by The Living Laws of God, however, then any nominal absolute sureness of the given belief must inherently conform to, and comply with, those very Laws. A position that does not do so --- irrespective of how strong or self- sanctified the belief may be from a human/religious viewpoint --- must therefore set itself against the very sanctity and Inviolability of the Perfection of The Laws of God; and therefore, against The Almighty Himself.
In Christian theology, it seems, the accepted belief of a virgin-birth feeds into a physical resurrection and an accompanying physical ascension for Jesus --- “because God can do anything He pleases”. Such an infantile belief that does not even begin to understand the Perfection of Divine Creation-Law! For such an idea would need to somehow accommodate the possibility of a Divine Being from the Realm of The Almighty Himself in some way becoming physical in a kind of Divine totality on earth through an actual conception from that High Source. Using the more logical, more rational meaning of the word, “conceive”, here inherently encompasses a far greater reality that transcends and transforms narrow, unworkable earthly parameters.
Thus, to form in the mind, to formulate, to devise, to conceive --- a plan, whereby Jesus, The Son of God, would incarnate on earth in a human body. That was what was conceived from, and produced by, The Holy Spirit.
An Immaculate Conception, conceived in Plan and Ordination, and thus “produced by” The Holy Spirit!
We should all have recognised by now that the term, Holy Spirit, is a Divine Title relating to a specific Being of Divine Origin --- the identity of Whom we now know. It is not some kind of amorphous, super-endowed force or power that can perform any act arbitrarily, against the very Laws that are in Him and which He fulfils without flaw or deviation. For that is the meaning of Perfection --- without flaw! Therefore, it does not refer to the simple, earthly matter of the impregnation of a human woman, of which there are at least thousands at any given moment.
That being the case, it should not be at all difficult to understand that whilst the earthly foetus was formed according to natural processes, the entry of the Divine Core of Jesus into that earthly vessel was, indeed, carried out in accordance with Divine Will through Divine Activity! In other words:
The Living, Divine Essence of Jesus, as a Part of God, was brought down to the earth from out of the Highest Heights to then enter the vessel prepared for Him. [Upon His death, He had then to return to His Origins and become “One with the Father”, as He Himself stated.] So simple to understand, but truly stupendous as a living happening!
JEWISH CONDEMNATION OF MARY: A CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK
In its earthly aspect, the historical record from that time shows that the “chosen earthly father” for the pregnancy which would house the Divine Core of Jesus was known to many, hence the inclusion into the historical narrative. Indeed, Mary was vilified because of her association with a man when out of wedlock, and hence Joseph’s disquiet. Surely, as a devout Jew, Joseph would have had no hesitation at all in accepting a wife who was “with child from the Holy Spirit”. What an incredible honour.
The historical reality, however, simply serves to show the complete naturalness of the whole event in the first place, as it must clearly be if it is to accord with the Perfection of the Living Law in all matters.
Thus, the actual father was one especially chosen --- precisely to ensure an “immaculate conception”.’
Now, reader: That last sentence is very clearly one of very profound portent; one that the two billion + global Christians would surely seethe and rage against. Nonetheless, the Truth of our human journey and the great and necessary turning points in it cannot be sanitised, denied and rejected because religious untruths and its associated distortions choose to preach a narrative that suits global Christendom and its two billion sheep!
That being the case, the great question here is: “What was his name?” Now whilst we can answer that question, we will not do so here. However, a truly genuine “seeker” of the complete Truth of Creation could find out –- if he sought sufficiently hard enough. What we will now give you in its stead is a glimpse into the life of Jesus imprinted onto the Akashic Record ---- the Book of Life!
To understand more fully what we are saying, the first Discourse in PART II --- THE AKASHIC RECORD: The pages of Time; The Book of Life --- should open your eyes to a reality that only a few decades ago was dismissed with scorn by the so-called rational scientific community. Since then, however, advances in mathematics and quantum and theoretical physics has now conclusively determined that an Akashic Chronicle must exist, because everything that has ever happened is recorded somewhere. And thus, is it so!
To that end, to learn something of this “chosen man”, we need to revisit a key pointer from an earlier part of the Work, and it is the illumination of how the great Truths came to the world’s peoples, and by whom! Thus, the step-by-step Spiritual evolutionary-journey wrought by what are termed “the great Truth-Bringers”.
Closely associated with what is our Primary Proclamation, very specific Works i.e., “Past Eras Awaken” and “From Past Millennia”, permit us to “know” past events as they actually unfolded. However, it is given to only a few to so access the Akashic Record.
We of global humanity will never understand the immense Grace granted by The Spirit of Truth where, through His presence on earth, a few especially- gifted persons were blessed with an ability to access our past. It is from one of those publications that we can “hear” the words of Jesus --- exactly as He spoke them!
From the Publishers Foreword we can read the following encapsulation of “how it should have been”.
The differences of opinion about the teaching and work of the
well-known prophets, even about the Word of Truth brought by Jesus the Son
of God, call for special comment....”
“In the way in which the teachings were once given by these wise men
..... Krishna, Zoroaster, Lao-Tse, Moses and the Prophets, Buddha and
Mohammed, and some others besides --- lies a clear, uniform course of
spiritual guidance from the Light for mankind on earth.”
About this, The Spirit of Truth Himself writes:
“All the teachings that have come to earth in the past would, united, form a single flight of steps to the pedestal on which the Truth is to stand, as has so often been proclaimed to mankind in various promises.
“There would be no differences in the interpretations, much less differences in the teachings themselves!
“For all teachings were at one time willed by God, precisely adapted to the individual peoples and countries, and formed in complete accord with their actual spiritual maturity and receptivity.
“...The bringers of all the individual teachings were Forerunners of the Word of Truth Itself.”
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These especial Works feature aspects of the life of Jesus that we could not possibly know before the entry of The All-Truth onto the earth. They open up a fascinating picture on His tragically short and difficult life. The following Sub-Section describes a meeting between Jesus and Mark and their ensuing “conversation”. It discloses the pertinent points pertaining to our subject matter of the moment. Now, whether any of you in global Christendom believe this, is totally irrelevant. Believe or disbelieve; your false narrative on everything about The Son of God will certainly not change any of it.
For if we really look at the imprinted face in negative on the Turin Shroud, there can be seen the nationality of the “chosen” father of Jesus for the purposes of earthly procreation --- in strict and exact accordance with The Divine Laws of Creation. It is not the face of someone of solely Jewish origin. Of course, the rejoinder will very wrongly be: “Then it cannot be Him.”
Reader: Remember His admonition. “I come not to overthrow the Law...” And Christians and Jews; wake up to some hard and logical realities according to that very Law of which He spoke! On this subject, the later Discourse: on the TURIN SHROUD will give you much greater “food for thought”.
In the meantime: From the distant past; from the life of Jesus, The Son of God; the Akashic Record Text:
THE EARTHLY FATHER OF JESUS
In the evening Jesus and His Disciples were the guests of Caesar’s Governor.
After the meal, the Roman approached Jesus.
“Sire, you must be careful that you do not fall victim to the Pharisees. They
pursue you with a hatred that seems boundless. They were with me today and
accused you of treason against Rome. I showed them the door and warned them,
but they will not give way and will try to harm you wherever they can.”
Jesus smiled and said reassuringly:
“Thank you Mark for defending me, but I do not fear these people. I must follow
my path to the end, and will not heed those who will obstruct it. I know that I am a
danger to their authority, but I cannot protect them, for the people will now see
what the leaders, to whom they entrusted themselves, are like. Every day they
come to me, all those who would harm me, and every day they ask their
questions, in which traps are set which could be my undoing. In the schools they
preach that I want to overthrow religion. The people listen to these speeches and
when I speak at the same schools the following day, the people hear me and
approach me afterwards to confess what the Pharisees allege against me. It is a
battle as long as I am here between Light and Darkness. Everywhere, Light-rays
blind them and expose their dark motives. And men are beginning to see. That is
my victory/.” -----
[Mark speaks]:
“When I left Rome to take up residence in this country under Herod, I was still a
young man. I did not want to be a soldier, I had no desire to conquer the world in
battle; I wanted to carry on my father’s interests in the land of the Jews. One day
in the future I would then live in Rome in prosperity and without cares. Rome was
expensive and I was young; therefore I first had to earn what life in Rome would
swallow up. I built myself a house in Nazareth in the town in which you were
born.”
“I was born in Bethlehem”, Jesus interposed.
“But you lived in Nazareth.”
“My parents lived there,”
Mark reflected, then he continued; “I do not know why I want to go into details
about my time in Nazareth, sire, but I just remembered something as you were
speaking of what is to come.”
“Go on Mark”, said Jesus.
“I achieved much in that time; I became rich and could long have since
returned to Rome. But something kept me here in this town; I could not leave it.
Friends from home visited my house and would beg me to return to Rome, but
they could not persuade me. And then one day a young Roman, a soldier, stayed
with me. He of whom the sight of you reminded me just then. He had had a harsh
youth and a virtually spartan upbringing. He was the only one who awakened in
me the longing to see the youth of Rome to find out whether they were like this
young man. He was in my house for just a few days; he came and went restlessly,
always returning late in the night; even then he did not sleep, but paced up and
down until daybreak as though he were pursued. Then he left the house again. I
saw how he suffered and would gladly have helped him but he was
unapproachable, and closed himself completely. When he was leaving he told me
that he was searching for a maiden in Nazareth. I was rather disappointed! He
never returned to Judea. I have heard nothing further of him. Who knows whither
destiny drove him. He wanted to resign his commission but then he went out
again for he was really a soldier at heart. I could not picture him settling down
quietly at home.”
Again he looked at Jesus and said once more: “It is as though the young soldier
was standing before me again today, so strong is the resemblance. That is also
what makes you seem so different from all Jews. You have the face of a Roman.
You have the pride of a Roman! But there is something else besides, something
which I cannot describe, but which drew me to you irresistibly!”
Jesus smiled at Mark’s words and said: “That is the Light I bring to the world so I
say unto you: I am the Truth and the Life. NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT
BY ME!”
Then, deeply shaken, Mark fell on his knees before Jesus and wept. And Jesus
accepted him as a disciple. ----------------------------------
Reader: That Roman soldier who returned from Rome to search for Mary could not possibly know that in the time away from her, Herod’s order to kill all male children under the age of two years had forced her and Joseph to flee to Egypt. If you connect that fact to what you will read in the following Sub-Section about the Biblical Three Wise Men --- who in the end were not so wise --- a truly tragic picture in the Life of Jesus unfolds. The ramifications of their actions resonate to the present-day in a Christian narrative which masks what was then and is today a disastrous legacy for humankind.
THE “VIRGINITY” OF MARY
Now reader: If we deeply analyse the meaning of the word, “virgin”, you may perhaps intuitively recognise a far greater reality of interpretation here too. Even though we believe our previous analyses have offered a clear enough picture of the forces and processes that brought Jesus onto the earth, we should still nevertheless go through this last little exercise in word meaning.
Thus, the accepted meaning in current doctrine regarding Mary interprets virginity and/or the virgin birth as stating that she had not ever had sexual relations with a man. We must therefore conclude that Mary became pregnant through a method that somehow precluded all the natural processes that the Living Laws of God unequivocally state to be inviolable. Such a notion, of course, would have to go against the very Laws that Jesus Himself stated He had come to fulfil.
If we instead apply broader parameters to the concept of virginity in the context of the complete organic process of childbirth, then we may begin to discern a far deeper and more natural meaning for the word than is currently applied in the case of Mary. Moreover, if we extend the very essence of the word, virgin, and apply it to a process that had not ever come into activity before, then we can correctly state that prior to the particular activity the key aspects associated with it must have been virginal.
Within Mary’s body, therefore, the organs of procreation and reproduction were virginal for the birth of Christ. They had not come into activity in this manner prior to that exalted birth. So, a “virgin birth” for Jesus was the reality. Thus did Jesus fulfil every last nuance of the Law by which, and for which, He came down to the earth!
One final word on this subject: if we are able to grasp the fact that The Holy Spirit, both in Term and Title, is exactly synonymous with The Holy Will, then we will see that the true Title here is The Will of God! Therefore, the whole, almost incomprehensible nature of the entry of Jesus onto the earth, was conceived from, and produced by, GOD through Him Who was then, and Who is today, and Who forever will be --- The Will of God! Exactly as clarified in this Work!
Here is an obvious question, reader: Were the reality such that God is imperfect because He could change His Laws at will, we should ask ourselves why He did not place Jesus on earth as a fully grown man?
For that would have obviated the need for His babyhood and childhood phase. Notwithstanding the fact that we have already noted this question from the writings of Imanuel; because it stands so clearly valid, perhaps that is why it has never been asked. The Laws governing earthly procreation naturally reflect the inviolability of their unchangeable Perfection. This fact offers the absolute premise once again that, even here, in the conception of the earthly vessel for Jesus, the Laws could “not be overthrown”, as He Himself clearly stated.
An earthly procreation can only occur when the natural Laws governing this process are fulfilled, and this was so with Jesus. By that natural act of procreation to produce His earthly vessel, every other act carries a similar potential for a pure conception too. Unfortunately, however, many conceptions today occur as a result of drunkenness, drug use, and/or general social debasement, and cannot be considered even remotely pure.
Nonetheless, let us take this argument of the perfection or non-perfection of the Laws to the next obvious step and “allow” God to make us all sinless and perfect, but of course without free-will and personal spiritual responsibility. There would then have been no need for Jesus to come to the earth at all. He would have thus been spared His life of struggle against an intransigent people who, even though awaiting His Coming, nevertheless still murdered Him.
In that surety, the words of Jesus in declaring that He had come to “... fulfil the Law”, must surely mean exactly that: Without exception, we are all born under the Law, we produce “our works” under the Law, and we die under the Law. Throughout our complete existence, for however long that may be, we receive the “returns of our works”, good and bad, under the aegis of The Law.
Let us once more in reinforcement reiterate the fact that since the physical body is not the “animating power” of any individual, the “inner animating power” that actually was Jesus, was therefore not that of His physical body. That was of the earth. His “inner self” ---- which revealed Itself through the powerful radiations emanating from the physical shell He was obliged to take upon entering the material world in strict accordance with the Eternal Laws He came to fulfil --- was of Divine Origin. These facts naturally call into question the believed physical resurrection of Christ.
Notwithstanding what we think are sufficient pointers in the above explanations for you, spiritually-perceptive reader, to deduce the Truth of what actually occurred here as well, a following Section will offer further pointers to a greater clarification of not only the Resurrection, but the Ascension also.
Before we leave this Section on the “virgin birth”, let’s examine one final piece of commentary from M.M. Ali on this very subject. From 3:47 of his translation:
‘She said: ”My Lord, how can I have a son and man has not yet touched me? a He said: Even so; Allah creates what He pleases. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, Be, and it is.’ (*)
(*) Like pretty much all of global Christendom --- and everyone else who believes that “God can do anything He pleases because He is God” --- the Koran and the Muslim world also reveal that it has little understanding of the nature of The Divine Laws of Creation; for if it did, the Koran would not infer that on this event anything goes, and thus state: “Allah creates what He pleases”.
Reader, this is one of the greatest “stumbling-blocks” for a vast number of human beings in their myriad religions. It forever escapes this writer that otherwise reasonably intelligent people in everyday life, in their religious garb can become so totally illogical that they simply completely miss the hard, brutal reality that a “PERFECT GOD” instituting from the very beginning of Creation, Divine and Holy/Sacred/Sacrosanct Laws that have necessarily issued from His Perfect Hand, cannot then “change His own Perfect Laws” for any reason. For there would be no need to!
Perfect Laws from the beginning are Perfect Laws --- so cannot be further “Perfected”.
Do we get this, or do we not?
“They” --- yes, all those religious “scholars” and blind followers of so many religions --- simply cannot see that their seemingly-correct notion of a God “doing what He pleases” cannot possibly be correct. For that whole notion of some kind of arbitrary God --- as it evidently stands across the whole spectra of religious dogma --- has thus to absolutely deny the reality of The Creator actually being PERFECT! There cannot be any equivocation here. That hard fact is the “forever reality”!
It is no wonder the world is descending more and more rapidly into a kind of “collective madness” --- exactly as Isaiah foresaw! Noting that reality; let’s therefore in the meantime conclude this Segment with M.M. Ali’s 47a commentary.
(*) “Only her espousal had yet been decided, and perhaps she had not been informed of this when she was given the good news of a son being born to her. Hence she says that man had not touched her yet. And she was told in reply, “Even so”; i.e., the child will be born by God bringing about the circumstances which result in the birth of a child. The words do not show that she would conceive out of the ordinary course of nature, for there is no doubt that Mary had other children, which no one supposes to have been conceived out of the ordinary course of nature. Nor do the words that follow prove anything beyond the simple fact that Mary must give birth to a son in accordance with the prophecy. The whole of Creation is brought about, we are told again and again, by the Divine word Kun (‘Be’), yet no one supposes that creation is not brought about according to the laws of nature.” (**)
(**) Clearly more intelligent and astute than Christian Church leaders are on this critical point, Muslim scholar M.M. Ali strongly latches onto the absolute Truth that Creation can only be brought about “according to the laws of nature”, as he puts it. Of course, in his Muslim mind, and despite that clear Truth, Islam still denies the Divine reality of Jesus as The Son of God in concert with the foolish distortion of the Christian-derived “virgin birth” scenario. Unfortunately, as is the actual Truth, both parties do not seem to understand the Creation-reality of a relevant and fundamental “Inner, Animating Life-Force” that we all must possess in order to be here in the first place; commensurate; however, with the “level in Creation” that is our actual origin.
Thus: A far more powerful “Life Force” for a “Son of God”, than the much lower “life-force” we humans possess.
Now: You have read what I have written, and you have read M.M. Ali’s commentary on this subject which, of course, cannot possibly compare with the very words of The Spirit of Truth! So, before we conclude this particular Section ---- and precisely because of its crucial nature ---- what was brought to your attention in the Foundational Text is once more offered.
From The Son of Man’s “WORD” concerning the birth of The Son of God, Jesus:
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND
THE BIRTH OF THE SON OF GOD
Every conception arising out of pure love and heartfelt looking upwards to the Creator, in which the sensual instinct is only an adjunct and not the basis, is an immaculate conception in the physical sense. -----------
[Thus] ... during a moment of perfect rest and psychic tranquillity, after her preparation had been completed both inwardly and outwardly, she [Mary] became clairvoyant and clairaudient, that is, her inmost being opened itself to the world of different substance and she experienced the Annunciation described in the Bible.
The Annunciation became such a stupendous and shaking spiritual experience for Mary that from that hour it completely filled the life of her soul. From that time it was only concentrated in one direction, to be allowed to expect a high Divine Grace. Through the Annunciation the Light wanted to bring about this condition of her soul so as to drive back from the very outset all base instincts, and create the soil upon which a pure physical vessel (the child’s body) could come into being for the immaculate spiritual conception. Through this exceptionally strong psychic adjustment Mary’s physical conception, in accordance with the Laws of Nature, became an “immaculate one”! --------------
With the child’s body developing in such circumstances as the purest vessel, the earthly conditions were provided for an “immaculate spiritual conception”, the incarnation, which takes place in the middle of pregnancy. -------------
After Mary’s immaculate physical conception the incarnation which occurs in the middle of pregnancy could take place from the Light with a strength which excluded the possibility of any dimming on the intermediate steps between the Light and the mother’s body, thus bringing about an “immaculate spiritual conception” as well.
Therefore it is quite right to speak of an immaculate conception, which occurred both physically and spiritually without the necessity of circumventing, altering or remodelling a Law of Creation for this particular case! -----------------
The very perfection of Creation as the Work of God makes the act of procreation absolutely necessary, because the All-Wisdom of the Creator has ordered all things in Creation from the Primordial beginning so that there should be nothing too much or superfluous! He who thinks otherwise must also hold that the Work of the Creator is imperfect! It is the same with the person who affirms that the birth of Christ occurred without there first being a normal procreation, as is prescribed by the Creator for all mankind. A normal procreation through a human being of flesh and blood must have taken place! Even in this case!
Every man who truly understands this praises his Lord and Creator more than he who wants to admit other possibilities! The former shows such unshaken faith in the Perfection of his God as to be convinced that any exception or change in the Laws He has ordained is absolutely impossible. And that is the greater faith! Besides all other events entirely agree with this! Christ became a human being on earth. It having been thus resolved, as the Perfection of God ordained, He was obliged to submit to all the Laws God had decreed for physical procreation! -----------------------
In order to fulfil His mission Christ had therefore inevitably to submit to all the Natural Laws, that is, to the Will of His Father. That Christ did so is proved by His whole life --- His normal birth and growth, His feeling both of hunger and fatigue, His suffering and finally His death on the cross. He was subject to everything to which man’s earthly body is subject. Why then should His procreation alone have been different, when there was absolutely no necessity for it? It is just because of the naturalness of everything that the Saviour’s task appears greater, by no means smaller! Likewise Mary was no less blessed in her calling on that account!
IMANUEL:
THE SON OF MAN!
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Now we can leave behind the religiously-contentious question of the so- called “virgin birth” of Jesus, for you have heard the Truth of it all from The Hand of a Divine Envoy --- the actual “Spirit of Truth”. And in this Work, we bring it to the attention of the human world of the 21st century!
Our next subject also requires serious clarification, for had the “Three Kings” really understood their true spiritual purpose, the Mission of Jesus might have continued far longer than it did. As it was, their collective, monumental mistake ultimately resulted in Jesus’ earlier departure from earth than need have been the case; --- an incalculable loss for global humanity in the long term!