Iesus Teacheth In The Palm Circle.
1. IESUS came to a certain fountain near Bethany (around which grew twelve palm trees) where he often went with his disciples to teach them of the mysteries (of the Kingdom) and there he sat beneath the shade of the trees and his disciples with him.
2. And one of them said,
Master, it is written of old, The Alohim made man in Their own image, male and female created They them. How sayest thou then that God is one? [1]
And Iesus said unto them,
Verily, I said unto you, In God there is neither male nor female and yet both are one, and God is the Two in One. He is She and She is He. The Alohim—our God—is perfect, Infinite, and One.
3. As in the man, the Father is manifest, and the Mother hidden; so in the woman, the Mother is manifest, and the Father hidden. Therefore shall the name (of the Father and the Mother) be equally hallowed, for They are the great Powers of God, and the one is not without the other, in the One God.
4. Adore ye God, above you, beneath you, on the right hand, on the left hand before you, behind you, within you, around you. Verily, there is but One God (Who is All in All) and in Whom all things do consist, the Fount of all Life and all Substance, without beginning and without end.
5. The things which are seen and pass away are The manifestations of the unseen (which are eternal) that from the visible things of Nature ye may reach to the invisible things of the Godhead; and by that which is natural, attain to that which is spiritual.
6. Verily, the Alohim created man in the divine image male and female, and all nature is in the Image of God, therefore is God (both male and female not divided) but the Two in One, Undivided and Eternal, by Whom and in Whom are all things, visible and invisible.
7. From the Eternal they flow, to the Eternal they return. The spirit to Spirit, soul to Soul, mind to Mind, sense to Sense, life to Life, form to Form, dust to Dust.
8. In the beginning God willed and there came forth the beloved Son, the divine Love, and the beloved Daughter, the holy Wisdom, equally proceeding from the One Eternal Fount; and of these are the generations of the Spirits of God (the Sons and Daughters of the Eternal).
9. And These descend to earth, and dwell with men and teach them the ways of God, to love the laws (of the Eternal) and obey them, that in them they may find salvation.
10. Many nations have seen their day. Under divers names have they been revealed to them, and they have rejoiced in their light; and even now they come again unto you, but Israel receiveth them not.
11. Verily I say unto you, my twelve (whom I have chosen) that which hath been taught by them of old time is true—though corrupted by the foolish imaginations of men.
12. Again, Iesus spake unto Mary Magdalene saying,
It is written in the law, Whoso leaveth father or mother, let him die the death. Now the law speaketh not of the parents in this life, but of the Indweller of light which is in us unto this day.
13. Whoso therefore forsaketh Christ (the Saviour, the Holy law, and the body of the Elect) let them die the death. Yea, let them be lost in the outer darkness, for so they willed and none can hinder.
LECTION 64. -The occult teaching, in this discourse, of Jesus to his twelve has been handed down in spirit through the ages, but the world is blind and perceives not. See the same teaching in "New Light on Old Truths," founded on this Scripture.
LECTION 64. 8. -Beneath this profound saying of the Ghost Physician, the student cannot fail to notice the intimate and correct knowledge of the human frame, underlying the spiritual truth, which he enunciated. This knowledge has been claimed by science only some centuries later. The inner self- "alternate sex," in every man and woman, which occasionally manifests itself in the dream state, seems to be no mystery to him. (See G. Leland on " The Alternative Sex"; Welby, London).
Read: Genesis 1:26,27