Metaphysical Bible Meditations - 8/21/17

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Good Monday morning, dear readers! After a break for the weekend, I'm happy to present you with the next installment of the Metaphysical Bible Meditations series, which started with our first post last Thursday, where we examined the deeper symbolism and meaning of the first twenty verses of chapter 10 of the Gospel of Luke. Today we'll pick up with verses 21 through 24.

"In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight."

Here, Jesus (illumined mind unified with the indwelling I AM) testifies to the fact that it is only through adopting the childlike sense of wonder and un-cynical belief in the underlying Good, Truth, and Beauty of Life that we shall see and enter into the realm of the Inner Kingdom.

"Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, you shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3

This simple yet profound truth is kept from those who place too much emphasis on the appearances of sense evidence and the rationalizations of the narrow intellect, who cannot grasp the deeper significance of material phenomena and the spiritual causes behind them. Saint Paul describes this dichotomy in his 1st letter to the Corinthians:

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14)

This is also true of those who cling to the literal letter of orthodox religious dogma and secular law:

"For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them."

These "prophets and kings", while they seek for the truth, cannot let go of their conditioned assumptions, perspectives, and sectarian beliefs.

"For if ye believe not that I AM he (the One Power, Cause, and Substance), ye shall die in your sins (false perceptions and beliefs)." John 8:24

"All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him."

"All things are delivered" to the one who confidently and implicitly believes, as Jesus did, in the responsive nature of "the Father" (Universal Mind).

 "For your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." Matthew 6:8

"No man knoweth who the Son is but the Father..."

No one who remains bound to material consciousness can perceive and commune with the indwelling Christ (the Son), or the omnipresent Universal Spirit (the Father "who is above all, through all, and in all"). 

"...and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him."

Only by having a receptive, trusting soul can we attain the state of illumined and anointed awareness (the Son), through which will be revealed to use the truth hidden from the foundation of the world, that "I (the Son) and my Father (Infinite Intelligence are one." John 10:30  

That's it for today, my friends! Tomorrow we'll pick up with verses 25 through 37.

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