Quoting from At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement
At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God: What does it mean to be At-One with the Logos/Son of God? This condition of At-Onement cannot be grasped by the vast majority of people who are unable to understand the process of self-transformation that is presented in the Gospels, and is the foundation of the New Covenant. In the parable of TheCall (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ), the believer/disciple must prepare themselves to come to the Wedding Feast. In the parable of the Ten Virgins, the believer/disciple is portrayed as a virgin who must enter the bridal chamber with the Bridegroom (Logos/Son of God) -- i.e., "The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut" (Matt 25:10). The portrayal of a virgin is that of purity and undefiled by this world. In the Gospel According to the Hebrews -- often portrayed as the Original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew -- the Mother of Jesus is portrayed as the Holy Spirit. And when the subsequent stage of non-physical birth is understood, the Virgin birth is an (allegorical) portrayal of when a disciple achieves the next stage of birth -- i.e., when Jesus conveyed to Nicomedus that "...Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" -- and when Nicomedus did not understand the threefold process of birth, Jesus then asked how Nicodemus could be called a teacher, and not know these spiritual realities: "...Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? It is important to grasp the depth of the words that when Nicodemus did not grasp the reality of achieving the next stage of birth -- stating that a "teacher of Israel" should understand the process of the subsequent stages of birth that must be brought about -- where, Jesus replied: Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" (John 3:1-12 NKJ). These very words -- i.e., "...If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things" -- has perpetually plagued faith-based Christians who lack an understanding of the allegorical symbols and catalysts of the Gospels that are used to employ the deeper spiritual meaning that is beyond the comprehension of "natural" organic man. Thus, the next stage of birth is achieved through the purity of the flesh which enables the disciple to bring about the non-physical Virgin Birth through our Spiritual Mother, the Holy Spirit.
The Divine Manna or Sacred Knowledge is portrayed as the Spiritual Eucharist, and can only be received by those who put on the Required Wedding Garment of Purity, and come to TheCall -- i.e., "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63). Even those who partake of the ritual in an unpurified manner that is celebrated in the Churches as an allegorical symbol of receiving the Body and Blood of Christ, invoke judgment upon themselves. When Paul wrote and warned that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord -- i.e., "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself" (1 Cor 11:27-29) -- the question should be posed as to what constitutes a lack of discernment? While a more exacting translation of the above is found in many of the older versions which state: "eateth and drinketh damnation to himself", few Christians who have been taught the modern man-made doctrines of the Church, are able to understand how a baptized and confirmed Christian can eat and drink damnation and judgment for their failure to properly discern the Lord's body.
The Gospel teachings of Jesus and the New Covenant known as TheWay, has specific Sacraments -- and the spiritual significance of these sacraments are not at all understood today. In the parable of TheCall to the Wedding Feast, what is portrayed as the required "wedding garment" is in fact the sacrament of baptism. But the original teachings on baptism was totally abandoned by the segment of early Gentile Church which portrayed itself as Orthodox, and it is this man-made dogma that has caused the original teachings on baptism to be very different than what is practiced today. In total rejection of the modern dogma of the Church, Paul writes that "...For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). Peter confirms the foregoing in the words: "It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them." Paul again warns that those who sin after coming to the Lord "eateth and drinketh damnation to himself". And while Christians have blindly chosen to ignore these warnings, they are confirmed in the Homilies of Clement who was the first century disciple of the Apostle Peter where Peter is quoted as stating with respect to the sacrament of Baptism: "He has commanded us to go forth to preach, and to invite you to the supper of the heavenly King, which the Father hath prepared for the marriage of His Son, and that we should give you wedding garments, that is, the grace of baptism; which whosoever obtains, as a spotless robe with which he is to enter to the supper of the King, ought to beware that it be not in any part of it stained with sin, and so he be rejected as unworthy and reprobate." Contrary to the modern usage of the sacrament of baptism, according to Peter, once the "wedding garment" is received, if the person then willfully sins, then the wedding garment is stained, and there can be no further repentance -- i.e., you "...ought to beware that it be not in any part of it stained with sin, and so he be rejected as unworthy and reprobate."
The most popular and accepted scripture over the first three centuries was the Shepherd of Hermas (see Shepherd), which states that once one receives the sacrament of baptism which is the "wedding garment", there is only one opportunity for repentance from any future sins -- i.e., "For he that hath received remission of sins ought no longer to sin, but to dwell in purity. ...But I say unto you', saith he, `if after this great and holy calling any one, being tempted of the devil, shall commit sin, he hath only one (opportunity of) repentance." While this original teaching will be rejected by the modern dogmatic Church who uses the Jesus-god of Constantine as an exemption from being required to live in accord with the Commandments and the Original Gospel Teachings, this statement in the Shepherd of Hermas is in fact confirmed by Paul in the warning: "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). Thus, Acts 3:19 confirms the original teachings that baptism -- as the required wedding garment -- must constitute a total repentance from sin, and the living of a life where the believer does not consciously commit any future sin: "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you...". And thus, only those who cease to sin can receive the Anointing (Messiah/Christ). To repent and turn to God, requires a total change of mind and lifestyle. Those who truly accomplish this, will personally receive the Anointing (Messiah/Christ), which will open their minds and enlighten them in accord with their Spiritual Condition.
Therefore, unless one receives the Spiritual Eucharist -- i.e, the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- which can only be received by those who put on the unspotted Wedding Garment of Purity and come to TheCall, it will remain impossible for them to understand both the true meaning of the scriptures, as well as the Higher Reality of the Soul and the Kingdom of God. In the early pre-Nicene scripture known as the Shepherd of Hermas, which was the most popular scripture used by the early Gentile Church over the first three centuries, a reference is made to a tower, of which it is written: “And the tower, I asked, what does it mean? This tower, he replied, is the Church. And these virgins, who are they? They are Holy Spirits, and men cannot otherwise be found in the kingdom of God unless these have put their clothing upon them: for if you receive the name only, and do not receive from them the clothing, they are of no advantage to you. For these virgins are the powers of the Son of God. If you bear His name but possess not His power, it will be in vain that you bear His name”. The Clothing that is made reference to, is the required "wedding garment" of spiritual purity. And in understanding what is written, it is most important for us to be aware of the continual message found in the words:“If you bear His name but possess not His power, it will be in vain that you bear His name”. Thus, if you call yourselves Christian, but fail to purify and develop your mind and body from the defilements of this world -- and do not possess the true Knowledge of the Spiritual Christ by receiving the Spiritual Eucharist directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God -- and have not yourselves inherited the same higher powers of mind that the Son of God promised all his followers would possess -- then “it will be in vain that you bear His name”.
Where the Church Authority Hippolytus who is quoted above portrays Jesus becoming the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Law, the relationship of a Holy Man who can be portrayed as s Spiritual Virgin who fulfills the Law within his own Mind and Being was noted by Gibbon who wrote that Jesus was portrayed by his direct followers as being in “...supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366). Thus, when the Holy and Anointed man Jesus became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God, he entered what in Natural Law was understood to be a Coverture Marriage Relationship -- which is founded upon the concept that woman was an integral part of the man as seen and demonstrated in our laws that predated our so-called modern times. In Blackstone's Law Commentary, under the Common Law, Book II, Chapter XXIX, VI, marriage is described as the absolute merger of husband and wife into a single legal identity: “…By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law... The very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything; and is therefore called… a femme-covert; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture”. In Law, the concept of the unity of husband and wife as a single person was so complete, that a married woman was even absolved of full criminal responsibility for her own conduct: “…criminal acts committed by a woman in her husband's presence were assumed to be done under the husband's command, and he was therefore held responsible” (The Law of Domestic Relations by Homer Clark, St. Paul, Minn, West Publishing Co., 1968, p. 229). As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Black observed: “…this rule has worked out in reality to mean that though the husband and wife are one, the one is the husband” (Law, Society, and Industrial Justice by Philip Selznick, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1969, p. 53). And it is this Coverture relationship that is portrayed in the 22nd saying of the Gospel of Thomas when the disciples asked about how the Kingdom is to be entered: Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."
By fulfilling the Law and restoring the duality of Adam (male) and Eve (female) and the Tree of Duality within himself (see The Restoral Of Adam And Eve http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#RestoralOfAdamEve ), the man Jesus who had achieved the purity of what can be portrayed as a Spiritual Virgin, became Anointed (Messiah/Christ), and was able to enter into a Coverture Marriage with the Logos/Son of God -- as seen in the above words of Gibbon: "...When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” And the relationship of the man Jesus who entered into a Coverture Marriage with the Logos/Son of God, is therefore portrayed in the above words: “…By marriage (At-Onement), the husband and wife are one person in law... The very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything; and is therefore called… a femme-covert; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture”.
Paul could not speak openly about the spiritual meaning of the Gospel, because "natural" organic man who dwells in the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness), is incapable of perceiving or understanding with any depth of mind and consciousness. His carnal idea of God is a being that is separate from himself. Carnal man is incapable of understanding that the person he is in this world is a three-dimensional projected image of his True-Self that is a twelve-dimensional Being of Light (see http://BeingOfLight.com ) -- and that his True-Self can be portrayed as a single Neuron in the Mind of God (Logos). That each of us is an embryonic expression of God, is the reason why the man Jesus stated that "I can do nothing on my own" (John 5:30). And why the man Jesus stated that "I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it" (John 12:49). And further stated: "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works" (John 14:10). That all of mankind is connected together within the Mind of God, is openly stated: “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring’” (Acts 17:26-28 NKJ). Thus, the portrayal of mankind that "For we are also His offspring’” -- and the reality that "...for in Him we live and move and have our being" must be understood that what is being portrayed in the present environment of the world in which we are presently dwelling.
Jesus said that, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are "gods"' (John 10:34) -- because each of us dwells in the Mind of God -- and is an expression of God. And this is confirmed in the quotation of the Apostle Peter as quoted in the Homilies of his disciple Clement where he explains: "...For he is within the mind of every one of us, but in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative; but He works in those who seek after that which is profitable to their souls, and kindles in them the light of knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all; and if you do not find Him, expect not that you shall learn anything from any other. But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth, and whose souls are not taken possession of by wickedness. For He is present with those who desire Him in the innocence of their spirits, who bear patiently, and draw sighs from the bottom of their hearts through love of the truth; but He deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one. And therefore let no one think that he can find Him by his own wisdom, unless, as we have said, he empty his mind of all wickedness, and conceive a pure and faithful desire to know Him. For when any one has so prepared himself, He Himself as a prophet, seeing a mind prepared for Him, of His own accord offers Himself to his knowledge” What Peter is stating is that while the Logos exists at the core of all of mankind, (1) "...in those who have no desire of the knowledge of God and His righteousness, He is inoperative"; (2) "...But He is soon found by those who diligently seek Him through love of the truth"; (3) the True Prophet "...deserts malevolent minds, because as a prophet He knows the thoughts of every one".
That Jesus as our elder spiritual brother is an example that is true of all of mankind, is presented in the words: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father" (John 14:12). All those who put on the required "wedding garment", come to TheCall, become nouished by the Divine Manna, and enter into a Coverture Marriage/Union with the Logos/Son of God -- thereby consciously fulfilling the statement of Jesus that "The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you" (John 14:17).
Was Jesus God? As explored above: Because the man Jesus had achieved the Virgin Purity necessary to enter into a Coverture-Union/Marriage with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God, it could be paradoxically stated that Jesus was God Incarnate -- but paradoxically, Jesus correctly taught that all of mankind has this same potential ability. And it is this same invitation to fulfill the Law within one's own self -- i.e., that if "...any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ" (see above) -- is extended to all of mankind in the parable of TheCall to the Wedding Feast (see http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ). Therefore, the Original Gospel Teachings were set forth to the lost prodigal sons and daughters how to enter into a Coverture Marriage with the Logos/Son of God. Therefore, the Original Gospel teachings did not tell people what to believe -- but rather, how to tap into the Universal Source of Truth within them, and Experience the Truth. Jesus taught his followers: "If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you" (John 8:31-32 TheMessage). Jesus didn't say that they would believe the truth -- or that they would discern what they believed would be dogmatic truth out of the scriptures or some book written by other men -- but rather, Jesus conveyed to them that if they follow in TheWay of the New Covenant that he inaugurated, that they "...will experience for yourselves the truth, ...and it is this SELF-EXPERIENCED TRUTH that...will free you" from the error and ignorance that consumes the people of this world -- and especially the blind guides who portray themselves as rabbis, teachers, clergy, religious leaders and authorities.
That the historical man Jesus was a true Holy Man who became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Royal Law within himself, is attested to at Acts 2:22 where Jesus is portrayed as "a man, attested to you by God" -- and this was demonstrated by God performing "mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst". If Jesus was himself God incarnate as believed by the later Romans, then these words portraying Jesus as a man approved by God through the works and wonders that God did through him, never would have been presented in this manner. When the people questioned the source of Jesus' words, he called himself a prophet: "So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house" (Matt 13:57). And not only did he call himself a prophet, but spoke of the crucifixion as his ultimate process of perfection: "On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You. And He said to them, Go, tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.' Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem" (Luke 13:31-33 NKJ). And when the man approached Jesus calling him good teacher, Jesus rejected the title stating: "So Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God" (Mark 10:18 NKJ). And when it was recognized that the man was asking Jesus about how to achieve eternal life -- and that Jesus did not reply to believe in him (Jesus) as God -- but to keep the Law and the Commandments -- then the Ebionite position that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Law -- and that it was necessary for Jesus' disciples and followers to in like manner fulfill the Law and keep the Commandments -- is exactly what Jesus the Anointed Prophet taught and expected of those who believed in what he taught. Now if you add to the above the very words attributed to Jesus', we can understand both the original Ebionite position that the followers of Jesus must keep the Law, and the profound spiritual ignorance which rejects the requirement of actions as an integral part of the equation: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 5:17-26 NIV).
