JESUS

Please consider:
Q. Which came first- religion or God? Ans: Earth has existed for approximately 3,800,000,000 years. No religion has existed for more than 5000 years or 0.0001% of this.
Q. Was Jesus a Christian? Ans: No. He was born and died as a Jew, in any case this fact is not spiritually relevant. Jesus revealed timeless qualities of God which are exclusively possessed by no religion. Christianity was not invented until many years after his death.
Q. Who are the "chosen people"? Ans: Humankind (for too long Jews have been elitist claiming special dispensation).
Q. Who have the "chosen land"? Ans: Humankind. The "chosen land" is planet Earth.

I was only able to reconcile many observations and insights by accepting the historical fact that the Bible has been altered in some ways substantially over its 2000 years of development. (Think of what was done in the name of Christianity in the Dark Ages - some leaders responsible for Bible translations were definitely not in tune with God). In particular, I believe references to reincarnation were removed from the Bible in the first century as church leaders considered their followers would be better motivated if they feared death more. Their attitude is understandable when you think of the excessive passivity of some of the lowest downtrodden classes in India. But it is now time for more truth to be revealed. - JF

Part 1. The Life of Jesus

Jesus, from birth, was acknowledged by all as a great spirit incarnated to show the way, to be the light of the world. His life was dedicated by teaching by his own EXAMPLE of loving service to the highest principles, by his wise action, and by his flexible and often unconventional behaviour (healing on the Sabbath, healing a whore, etc.).

He clarified the truths taught by Moses and raised the level of what God requires as proper behaviour. (Better than an eye for an eye, is turn the other cheek.) Christians and yogis say he is Christ the Son of God. Yogis say he was a great Master and was ordained the Christ because he was Divine Love incarnate on Earth to awaken the hearts in every human, rich and poor alike. In his later years Jesus fully expressed divinity being omniscient, with a power to heal and to awaken peoples hearts to a degree previously unknown on Earth.

Eventually, mortal jealousy, incomprehension, envy, and fear drove a section of his community to murder him.

Q. If he was omniscient, why didn't he avoid his murder?
A. He did not want to! (The Bible clearly hints that he knew he was going to be captured and murdered.)

Q. Did he suffer on the cross as we mortals would have?
A. "Where your heart is, there is your consciousness." I believe Jesus did not for he was so imbued with God. (Even today, in horror stories of POW camps and torture chambers, there are stories of great souls whose focus was so much on God, they barely felt physical pain during their sufferance.)
The following is a bit radical conflicting with conventional religious doctrine, but an inner part of me says it rings of the truth.

Part 2. The Crucifixion

Before the cross, Jesus was already a Master, a Christed one, infused with God: "I and the Father are One".
So as he hung there, he felt no fear, felt no pain (his body did though!), for his high consciousness felt Love. By his own choice, to voluntarily test his faith and love of his Father in heaven to the greatest extent, he had spiritually invited all those around him riddled with hate, with desires for revenge, etc., to direct their angst and violence on to him that he may be the recipient of their evil instead of others. In this manner, a large number of people were not recipients of attacks and were freed from being swept into karmic cycles of tit for tat, of hateful revenge. Jesus took it all in Love, and in the process, those who attacked him incurred much karmic debt to him instead of others, and in later lives sought repentance and loved Jesus in a manner which they would not have otherwise.

It is a great pity that this great lesson of EXAMPLE was not recognised for what it was, and instead religious dogma degenerated it into the nonsense of a blood sacrifice expunging believers of their sins.

The life of Jesus Christ
was, and is, a Gift from God
for us to freely
abuse,
waste,
or glorify!

and how do we glorify him? - by living with selfless loving service to our highest goals.

Part 3. The Resurrection

The resurrection of Jesus taught several things:

  • Although the body of Jesus died, the reality of Jesus, the inner soul of Jesus, lives on.
  • The physical body is nothing compared to the reality of the soul.
  • The physical body exists at the will, and as the instrument, of the soul.
  • Jesus is such a Master of the material world, he could manifest physically in it at his will.
  • He promises the same growth for all of us. "Man is made in the image of God."
  • Our spiritual heritage is the permanent liberation of our souls from our mortal bodies (resurrection). Jesus was the first to do this. (Dictionary defines resurrection as revivification.)
  • The real us, our Souls, are immortal.
  • As your mortal personality dies, the consciousness awakens as your liberated Soul.

    • Jesus believed it so important to teach pacifism and brotherly love by example, he allowed himself to be killed without resistance. His later resurrection and demonstrated spiritual powers convincingly proved the spiritual principles and rewards of pacifism. This is the toughest lesson for Christians: the spiritual necessity in certain instances, for loving non-resistance to evil, to overcome evil.