Thomas Paine On Miracle Allegories

 

The Allegorical Meaning of the Miracles

Deists Reject the Historical or Literal interpretation of the Miracles. Thomas Paine understood the nature of the problem that anchored the Christian world to a condition of profound ignorance allegories that held a metaphysical meaning. In that article entitled Of The Religion Of Deism Compared With The Christian Religion, Paine hit the nail on the head when he writes:

But the Church of Rome having set up its new religion, which it called Christianity, invented the creed which it named the Apostle's Creed... It then manufactured the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, and the allegorical tree of life and the tree of knowledge into real trees, contrary to the belief of the first Christians, and for which there is not the least authority in any of the books of the New Testament; for in none of them is there any mention made of such place as the Garden of Eden, nor of anything that is said to have happened there. But the Church of Rome could not erect the person called Jesus into a Savior of the world without making the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, though the New Testament, as before observed, gives no authority for it. All at once the allegorical tree of knowledge became, according to the Church, a real tree, the fruit of it real fruit, and the eating of it sinful. As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin...

...Reason is the forbidden tree of priestcraft, and may serve to explain the allegory of the forbidden tree of knowledge, for we may reasonably suppose the allegory had some meaning and application at the time it was invented. It was the practice of the Eastern nations to convey their meaning by allegory, and relate it in the manner of fact. Jesus followed the same method, yet nobody ever supposed the allegory or parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the Prodigal Son, the ten Virgins, etc., were facts. Why then should the tree of knowledge, which is far more romantic in idea than the parables in the New Testament are, be supposed to be a real tree? The answer to this is, because the Church could not make its new-fangled system, which it called Christianity, hold together without it. To have made Christ to die on account of an allegorical tree would have been too barefaced a fable.

The Allegorical Meaning of the Miracles

The Gospels are not historical accounts -- but rather, accounts pertaining to the transformation of the seeker's own mind as they strive to enter in through the "narrow gate" -- and as the prodigal son/daughter, be restored to the Edenic Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com ). When you open the scriptures, you are studying your own mind and consciousness if you pick up your own cross and travail in TheWay. If you fail to be restored to the Kingdom, then you will continue to live however many lifetimes is required for you to become Whole and Perfect -- as stated by the pre-Nicene Church at The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/.../the-pre-nicene...

Original Facebook post by Kevin Bonecutter: The allegorical meaning of the "Miracles of Jesus" provide a more miraculous understanding than the literal stories. The wonder is not in the manipulation of the physical nature, but rather the awakening or enlightenment of our spiritual nature.

The raising of Lazarus from the dead symbolizes the raising of the spirit of someone who was spiritually dead.

The feeding of the 5,000 symbolizes the preaching and sharing of the Truth to feed their spirit. One person can change the hearts of many by preaching Truth.

Walking on water symbolizes the overcoming of fear and worldly problems. Waters in scripture symbolize the earthly challenges we must face to grow our spirit.

Changing of water into wine symbolizes the alchemical transformation of purifying ourselves to function fully in the spirit, rather than the physical nature.

Healing the blind man symbolizes the opening of a spiritually blind person's eyes to be able to see truth.

The true miracle is when a person finds truth, raises their spirit and achieves enlightenment!

Socialist Dependency vs Constitutional Gospel Opportunity

Socialist Dependency vs Constitutional Gospel Opportunity

When you maintain a person's dependency on the state or church as in the various forms of Socialism, you inflict grave harm upon the the people's ability to develop and evolve to their true potential.  If we are the ego or earthly-self -- and our True-Self dwells in the Inner Kingdom, which is an inner dimension of Higher Consciousness -- then the focus must be on presenting all people with the ability and environment for them to advance as the original Gospels taught.

If the Kingdom and our True-Self exists at a higher level of consciousness within us (see Luke 17:20-21), then the question must be posed: What is blocking and inhibiting our ability to tap into our Inner or True-Self? The answer: Our own ignorance of the Natural Laws that are allegorically represented as the rungs of Jacob's Ladder -- see The Law Of Jacob's Ladder And Mental Advancement http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#LawOFJacobsLadder . But, secular governments and quasi-religious groups saw these teachings on how to fulfill the Law, and they corrupted them to convert the message of the Gospels in order to seduce the people into following the man-made dogma of church and state (see The Corruption Of The Gospel Texts http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#GospelCorruptions   ) .   But, in our present timeframe, using Fakenews and Social Media, these same souls are presently inhibiting the Natural Freedom of the people to understand and fulfill the Laws as Jesus originally taught. And now that these same faux-leaders and authorities have corrupted and destroyed the path for the lost prodigal sons and daughters to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom (see The Gate Of Eden http://GateOfEden.com  ), they are attempting to rewrite history and the accounts of their previous failures that have enslaved the people.

The Church originally taught the development of the Soul over the course of many lifetimes -- see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html . The promise to never abandon the sincere seeker, has been maintained as the original followers of Jesus re-entered this world over the course of many lives to guide their brothers and sisters in TheWay back to the Edenic Kingdom (see http://BrotherOfJesus.org    . And these same Souls re-entered this realm as the Constitutional Framers to insure unalienable God Given Rights that provide the people with the opportunity to spiritually advance. But in the same way that the coin of opportunity has two sides, many of the same souls who undermined the undermined the teachings of Jesus in their previous lives, are again present attempting to destroy the Constitutional framework of the United States, as the same way they turned the people away from the Original Gospel teachings in the past (see http://SpiritualGospel.org  ).  Which means that your future is presently in your hands.   Will you repeat and support their cycle of destruction again? Will you invoke another cycle of the Dark Ages again?  Or will you embrace the original Gospel teachings, and climb the rungs of Jacob's Ladder -- escape the "outer darkness" of mind and being -- as you develop the ability to be restored to the Edenic Kingdom?

Socialism enslaves you by making you dependent upon government handouts -- rather than the Constitutional Freedoms that provide you the opportunity to advance to your full potential, and become all that you can be.  Jesus taught that you are his brother or sister with the potential to know and do all that he accomplished in his life. And this potential is the foundation of American Exceptionalism and Opportunity by fulfilling the Law as Jesus taught -- see The Law Of The Gospels http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com
AND Spiritual Osmosis And The Narrow Gate http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#Osmosis

 

 The Movement Of The Laws - Biden Vs Trump

For those of you who have not seen it yet, here is a link to Tucker Carlson's interview with Tony Bobulinski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg9Okmz4BGE 

In my writings I have often used Trump as an example of ego vs knowledge of the Laws.  Trump believes that his smarts have brought about all that he has accomplished in his life.  Yet, he is clueless as to the reality that the Laws which have molded his life, are not only responsible for all of Trump's successes, but also his present venture into the presidency.   And the Laws were able to mold the life of Trump on the political and religious stage of American history, because of Trump's Spiritual DNA that he (Trump) knows virtually nothing about.  If Trump had been a politician -- making his money and success out of politics -- he would have been as corrupt as all the other politicians in the Washington swamp.  So, the Laws raised up Trump outside of the political landscape in order to use him as a catalyst for change and judgment.  And to accomplish this, the Laws are using Trump's Spiritual DNA as a catalyst to expose not only the corruption of Washington, but also the media, academia, and our culture.  And in exposing the corruption, the objective is to cause people to make informed choices that will create their future learning experiences.   

No Washington politician who was part of the political scene, would have exposed the massive corruption of the political landscape.  So, the Laws raised up Trump NOT because of his goodness and purity -- but because of the reflection of his past lives that could be manipulated to render a service that someone raised in normal way would never have done.   And by using Trump as a catalyst to expose this massive corruption, no one has an excuse in their judgments.   Which also means that the massive investigations into Trump by the Washington swamp rats have proven that while Trump can be judged morally, he is probably the most investigated person in American history.  In addition to all the independent media investigations into everything Trump, the Washington swamp has spent 40 million dollars of tax payers money in their attempt to expose the corruption of Trump -- which they have not been able to do.  Then under the Trump presidency, the greatest financial success in American history was brought about, before being undermined by a pandemic set loose by the Chinese Communist party which despises Trump, and released upon the world.   And it is also important to point out that it is the core principles of Marxist Communism which is in opposition to Trump and the American Constitution.  Which means that the judgment of Trump -- the most investigated man in American history -- is on moral grounds -- which by Law invokes the reality that can be expressed: He that is not guilty of any immorality in any of their Soul's previous lives, let him cast the first stone.  While I have in my own past life experienced many spiritual successes which is responsible for the unique body of knowledge that I possess, I also have many acts and even lives that could be portrayed as immoral over the course of some of my Soul's previous lives.  Which means that if I were to throw stones at Trump's morality -- when this same immorality exists in my own past -- then the stones I throw in judgment, will come back upon me in the future.  

Power corrupts -- and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   If Trump had himself been a politician -- dependent upon the political environment for money and power -- then Trump would probably be just as corrupt as the rest of the majority of politicians.  The test then becomes the degree that each person is not totally corrupted when the Laws bring about power and the opportunity to procure wealth in each life.  And Trump has been used as a catalyst to expose this massive political corruption to test the people and their choices.   If you will vote for Biden who has been exposed at the epitome of government corruption, then you will inherit life in a government where massive corruption and despotism is the norm.  And if you vote against Trump because of his personality immorality -- mostly with women -- then you are ignoring your own past immorality.   

Many Souls choose to be born as a woman, because women lack the physical power and positively charged lower nature to invoke the suffering that is often exclusive to the domain of men.   When my wife speaks and even yells at our grandchildren, it does not have the same effect as if she gets me to yell at them.  Just the threat of daddy or grandpa getting upset, invokes a different reaction than grandma getting upset.  And while women possess the power of corruption, it is generally not the all encompassing and far reaching corruption that men are capable of.  Being polarized positive in a higher level of mind, few women are capable of the same ability to inflict suffering upon others.  But it is within the scope of the Laws to recognize the immortality and corruption of women from the perspective of their own feminine domain.  And too much judgment has the capacity to limit their choices in the future, and karmically force upon them lives where the greater opportunity for immorality is manifest.   Then there are Souls such as Hillary Clinton that is perhaps the finest example of feminine corruption on the American scene.   

The FBI not only ignored the corruption of Hillary, but is covering up the massive corruption of Joe Biden and the Obama administration.   And all of this is being uniquely exposed to test and judge the American people -- and even non-Americans.  The most investigated man in American history is on one side of the equation, vs the finest example of massive political corruption as manifest in Joe Biden.   I use the term "uniquely exposed", because the whole shebang has been orchestrated by the Natural Laws as a personal test that has no parallel.   What this means is that the coming election is more of a test of the American people, than of either Biden or Trump.   

The Framework of the presentation of Natural Law used in the above is based upon the two preceding articles at  

Deism And Man's Future @ https://americancrisiscommonsense.blogspot.com/2020/10/deism-and-mans-future.html 

AND

The Natural Laws And American Exceptionalism at https://americancrisiscommonsense.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-natural-laws-and-american.html 

   

The Natural Laws And American Exceptionalism

 The Natural Laws And American Exceptionalism

People have asked me: How do I know all that I know?  How do I know my Soul's past lives?  How can I journey into man's inner Spiritual Source?  We have heard the term American Exceptionalism -- but what this means can only be understood within the context of The Laws Of Nature And Nature's God.  Quoting from American Exceptionalism  http://ThomasPaineRedux.com#AmericanExceptionalism   

It is virtually impossible to comprehend the reality of the American Experience, without a knowledge and appreciation of what is portrayed by the Enlightened Deists in the words: The Laws Of Nature And Nature's God.   Our Constitutional Framers not only possessed a working knowledge of these Natural Laws of Nature and the Heavens, but they understood how to manipulate and invoke them.   Allegorically, Satan is not a being -- but rather, Satan is the personification of what can be portrayed as the gravity of mind that shackles mankind to an earth-bound mindset -- rendering him (man) incapable of comprehending man's higher soul and spiritually reality.   And it was the knowledge of the Natural Laws that in part, enabled the men of wisdom who emerged out of the Age of Enlightenment and the Enlightened Deists to overcome the Laws that inhibited their mental development and spiritual advancement. 

When our astronauts flew to the moon, while it is true that rocket propulsion was used to escape the earths gravity and limiting factor of its organic atmosphere, the astronauts then utilized the Natural Laws to escape the pull of the earth, and permit the spacecraft to be pulled to its destination.   When flight engineers make reference to a window when operations in space can be achieved, what they are making reference to is the proper alignment of the planets that enable space flight to be achieved.  Scientifically, this would be portrayed as slingshot paths that are called Gravity Assist Trajectories.  They use the gravity and motion of planets to pull a spacecraft into a new path.   Quoting the article on Navigation in space: "Gravity is a very important force. Every object in space exerts a gravitational pull on every other, and so gravity influences the paths taken by everything traveling through space. It is the glue that holds together entire galaxies. It keeps planets in orbit. It makes it possible to use human-made satellites and to go to and return from the Moon. It makes planets habitable by trapping gasses and liquids in an atmosphere. It can also cause life-destroying asteroids to crash into planets.   ...Consider Voyager 2 ... the spacecraft's arrival was carefully timed so that it would pass behind Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun. As the spacecraft came into Jupiter's gravitational influence, it fell toward Jupiter, increasing its speed toward maximum at closest approach to Jupiter. Since all masses in the universe attract each other, Jupiter sped up the spacecraft substantially, and the spacecraft slowed down Jupiter in its orbit by a tiny amount, since the spacecraft approached from behind. At this point, Voyager 2 had been sped up enough by Jupiter's gravity to get a speed greater than Jupiter's escape velocity. As it left, it slowed down again, but it never slowed all the way to the speed it was before getting to Jupiter. It left the area near Jupiter faster and in a different trajectory. This technique was repeated at Saturn and Uranus.  Gravity assists can be also used to decelerate a spacecraft, by flying in front of a body in its orbit. When the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, passing close in front of Io in its orbit, Galileo experienced deceleration, helping it go into orbit around Jupiter. "    

So, our scientists in understanding the Natural Laws, timed their sequences where they initiated rocket burns to take advantage of the natural movement of the planets, where they could then manipulate these Natural Forces to bring about the results which they envisioned.   When our Constitutional Framers sited The Laws of Nature And Nature's God, what they were referencing was man's ability to time and take advantage of the Laws and Forces of body, mind and spirit, to bring about and invoke a higher state of consciousness, which permitted them to possess the vision and knowledge necessary to apply this knowledge of the Laws to the birth and development of the United States -- which harnessed and invoked the Laws to manifest an environment where what we portray as American Exceptionalism could be fostered and brought about in the lives of the American People and the world.    The problem is that the Atheist who envisions a Utopia on earth, as well as the faith-based religious believer who envisions the Kingdom coming upon the earth, both reject the very knowledge of the Natural Laws which are necessary to institute and bring about the Destiny they envision.   And if I make any reference to the Deists who did possess to varying degrees an understanding of the Natural Laws, both the Atheist and the Theist envision a misguided group of intellectuals who have invented some alternative theology which they portray as a reason-based quasi-religious cult.   And if I say that the body of esoteric knowledge of the Laws and Natural Forces is necessary to begin to acquire Higher Spiritual Knowledge, both the Atheist and the Theist portray this whole concept as heresy.   Yet, if both the Atheist and the Theist are to bring about the utopian kingdom/destiny which they envision, it will be necessary to possess this higher esoteric knowledge of the Natural Laws to bring about the very objectives they hope and pray to come upon the earth.   In the same way that you can't escape the earth's gravitational pull and navigate a spacecraft to the moon without the essential knowledge of the Natural Laws, man's utopian quest will remain elusively beyond his reach, until he acquires the knowledge of the Higher Laws of Nature and Nature's God.

What, then, is the solution to the dilemma? From the perspective of the Atheist and the Theist who are so locked into their ideological world-view that they are both equally enslaved by their own variety of dogmatic shackles, the only possible solution is for someone who they deem a heretic to arise and convey to both, what they both desire, but don't want to hear the details about how to achieve the very objective visions they hope and pray to bring about. Both the Atheist and the Theist are in denial with respect to the idea that not only does the Natural Laws control all events in this world -- but that ordinary men can possess a working knowledge of these Natural Laws and Forces of the Earth and Heavens. So, by virtue of their dogmatic denial, both the Theist and the Atheist have been responsible for driving governments, religions and cultures throughout man's long residence upon the earth, into a perpetual state of ruin -- a state of ruin that has been recorded in the annuls of history in the countless images of the suffering, death and destruction of the people they ruled over. Yet, it can be proven that the historical man Jesus not only possessed an enlightened knowledge of the Natural Laws -- but the original Gospel message proclaimed that he arose to a state of intellectual and spiritual Supremacy by fulfilling these Laws within his own body, mind and being (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ). And that because of the natural limits of man's organic physical consciousness, this body of esoteric knowledge could only be revealed to his closest disciples. Why? Because both the political and religious leaders of that time were incapable of comprehending this Sacred Body of Knowledge. In much the same way, our Constitutional Framers who possessed this knowledge of the Natural Laws to various degrees, formed a government that would not only bring true change to the governments of the earth, but would invoke the Natural Laws in such a way, that what is portrayed as American Exceptionalism was brought about on the world's stage. And in the same way that the Church threw away and suppressed the esoteric knowledge of the Laws and Natural Forces that had the potential to transform man into the fulfillment of his ultimate Destiny, so too has the American People permitted both church and state to throw away the knowledge of The Laws of Nature and Nature's God, and is presently in the process of undermining the very foundation of American Success and Achievement.  How?  As America embraces Marxism which is based upon a denial and rejection of the Natural Laws,  That every form of Socialism always invokes political failure, is because Marxism is a rejection of the Natural Laws -- resulting in man's utter defeat to bring about his envisioned utopia.

In virtually all the instances that the prayers of man has been answered, and the Hand of God has Moved and Interceded in the plight of mankind -- with God throwing man a life-preserver that will assist him to escape the quagmire of ignorance which man has immersed himself in by virtue of the very expression of his freewill misused to enslave himself in lifetimes of self-imposed suffering.  This Gift is always thrown away and rejected to the point of being portrayed as heresy. The original Gospel portrayal of Jesus as a man who fulfilled and perfected the Royal Law within himself to prevail and overcome, was deemed heresy and rewritten by the Church (see The Corruption Of The Words Of God http://BrotherOfJesus.org#CorruptionOfGodsWords ). That those who possessed this esoteric body of Knowledge was a threat to the worldly authority and power over the people of both the secular and sectarian rulers, meant that this body of sacred knowledge had to be preserved and protected from destruction -- so it was hidden and concealed within the allegorical body of the scriptures that carnal men used, in order to make it available to men of greater wisdom in the future. Thus, the various scriptures were then composed in what can be called the Language of the Soul -- utilizing the same allegorical symbolism that all of Nature is composed and written in -- which necessitated what Jesus portrayed was the proper use of the Key of Knowledge applied to the allegorical text of the scriptures -- to see beneath the cloak of the allegorical text -- revealing the knowledge of the Laws and Forces of Mind and Being that lay concealed from the vision and perception of the profane who were used as a type of mule to transport and safeguard the body of esoteric knowledge which they were incapable of understanding (see Application Of The Key Of Knowledge http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge ).

Deism And Man's Future

Deism And Man's Future 

I made a statement to a Deism group and wrote: Deism already has the answers to man's higher purpose when the Clock-Maker Universe is understood (see Understanding The Intelligent Universe - The Clock Maker vs Jalopy Universe http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#ClockMakerUniverse . And the group asked me about my system of beliefs. To which I wrote the following:

To answer your question, lets define Deism -- which is the Knowledge and Understanding of the Natural Laws of Creation -- Laws that monitor and control every aspect of life. Which means that all the great thinkers throughout the history of mankind were all by definition, Deists. Something that is not understood by faith-based Christian Theists, is that the original followers of the man Jesus said he achieved all that he did by fulfilling the Law (see Jesus Fulfilled The Law http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#JesusFulfilledTheLaw ) -- AND, they maintained that anyone who fulfills the Law, will accomplish all that the historical man Jesus did. Which means that the man Jesus taught others how to fulfill the Law.
Pythagoras, Plato, Valentinus, Giordano Bruno, Gurdjieff, all understood the Natural Laws -- and were therefore Deists. The difference between these men and other people, is seen in the fact that their success was brought about because of their understanding of the Natural Laws -- i.e., the heart of Deism. And they taught their students and disciples the workings of the Natural Laws, in order for each of them to achieve success. And ANYONE who truly understands the Natural Laws of Creation -- often referred to as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God -- can achieve the levels of mental and spiritual development of the preceding men of great vision.

All the error of mankind -- all the confusion about life and its meaning and purpose -- is all the result of the ignorance of the Natural Laws. Which means that by definition, only a Deist can prevail over the ignorance and confusion of this realm. And in the same way that faith-based believers have been subverted by "priest-craft" and Revealed-Religion, so too has the world of Science been misguided by Scientism which is the dogmatic ignorance of Atheism (see The Disconnected World Of Scientism http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#TheDisconnectedWorldOfScientism ). BUT, great change is on the horizon because there are modern cutting-edge scientists who have thrown off the shackles of scientism, and have proven the wisdom of the mystics (see The Findings Of The Physicist http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#FindingsOfThePhysicist ) -- who, having come to embrace a higher understanding of the Natural Laws, have begun to open the door to Higher Knowledge that has broken the shackles of man's ignorant past (see The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles ).

Deism has permitted itself to be mentally and spiritually undermined, because it has embraced Scientism and the folly of Revealed-Deism. Thereby undermining Deism as a viable spiritual path. When I use the term "viable spiritual path", that means that a true Deist will be able to progress beyond the level of knowing of the masses who have no understanding of the Natural Laws -- and in understanding the Natural Laws, these genuine Deists will be able to walk a path of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening that brings about a state of Enlightenment. While there is a Rational explanation and understanding for every aspect of life, without an understanding of the Natural Laws that support the Higher Rational Reality of Mind, all of life very quickly sinks into abject confusion and ignorance. And this is true of the priests of Scientism, as well as the priests of Revealed Religion. Which means that with respect to answering your question as to my belief system, there is no earthly religion or system that I would ascribe to -- but everything I know has been revealed to me because of my understanding and fulfillment of the Natural Laws. And all future progress of mankind will be brought about by those who understand the Laws of Nature and Nature's God by whatever name they call themselves.

The Laws Of Nature And Nature's God

Knowledge Of The Laws of Nature And Nature's God (see http://ThomasPaineRedux.com

In the same way that there are physical laws that maintain and control every aspect of physical life, there is also the Laws that controls the progression and evolution of the Mind of Man. In the same way that there is physical gravity, there is also gravity of mind -- which we often portray as the power of satanic forces. The more advanced the Soul, the more easily that person is able to prevail over the gravity of Mind. So, it can be portrayed as testing which evaluates us to see if we are prepared to enter a higher level of mind and being. Let me present you with an example of these Laws of Mind: When our astronauts flew to the moon, while it is true that rocket propulsion was used to escape the earths gravity and limiting factor of its organic atmosphere, the astronauts then utilized the Natural Laws to escape the pull of the earth, and permit the spacecraft to be pulled to its destination. When flight engineers make reference to a window when operations in space can be achieved, what they are making reference to is the proper alignment of the planets that enable space flight to be achieved. Scientifically, this would be portrayed as slingshot paths that are called Gravity Assist Trajectories. They use the gravity and motion of planets to pull a spacecraft into a new path. Quoting the article on Navigation in Space (see http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/navigation/3-slingshot.html ): "Gravity is a very important force. Every object in space exerts a gravitational pull on every other, and so gravity influences the paths taken by everything traveling through space. It is the glue that holds together entire galaxies. It keeps planets in orbit. It makes it possible to use human-made satellites and to go to and return from the Moon. It makes planets habitable by trapping gasses and liquids in an atmosphere. It can also cause life-destroying asteroids to crash into planets. ...Consider Voyager 2 ... the spacecraft's arrival was carefully timed so that it would pass behind Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun. As the spacecraft came into Jupiter's gravitational influence, it fell toward Jupiter, increasing its speed toward maximum at closest approach to Jupiter. Since all masses in the universe attract each other, Jupiter sped up the spacecraft substantially, and the spacecraft slowed down Jupiter in its orbit by a tiny amount, since the spacecraft approached from behind. At this point, Voyager 2 had been sped up enough by Jupiter's gravity to get a speed greater than Jupiter's escape velocity. As it left, it slowed down again, but it never slowed all the way to the speed it was before getting to Jupiter. It left the area near Jupiter faster and in a different trajectory. This technique was repeated at Saturn and Uranus. Gravity assists can be also used to decelerate a spacecraft, by flying in front of a body in its orbit. When the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, passing close in front of Io in its orbit, Galileo experienced deceleration, helping it go into orbit around Jupiter. " So, our scientists in understanding the Natural Laws, timed their sequences where they initiated rocket burns to take advantage of the natural movement of the planets, where they could then manipulate these Natural Forces to bring about the results which they envisioned. When our Constitutional Framers sited The Laws of Nature And Nature's God, what they were referencing was man's ability to time and take advantage of the Laws and Forces of body, mind and spirit, to bring about and invoke a higher state of consciousness, which permitted them to possess the vision and knowledge necessary to apply this knowledge of the Laws to the birth and development of the United States -- which harnessed and invoked the Laws to manifest an environment where what we portray as American Exceptionalism could be fostered and brought about in the lives of the American People and the world (see http://ThomasPaineRedux.com ). This foundation that would usher in what has been portrayed as American Exceptionalism, has enabled Souls who have sought the Higher Self-Knowledge to advance in Consciousness and Mind-Development beyond organic human levels. An example of this ability to manifest Higher Mind and Enlightened Consciousness is demonstrated in the Restoration of the Original Gospel Teachings which were corrupted by the Church (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ). And an understanding of the Cosmology of both the Gospel and Mind (see http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com ). In the same way that a working knowledge of the Laws of the Cosmos enables our scientists to plot and navigate space -- and the knowledge of the Laws of Nature and Nature's God enabled the Deist Founders to orchestrate the birth of a nation that would usher in Exceptionalism -- those Souls who understand the Cosmology of Mind are able to advance their Consciousness beyond organic human levels -- thereby enabling them to achieve levels of Wholeness and Self-Knowledge of their Complete Self. And it is this body of esoteric self-knowledge of the Natural Laws of Mind that was being made reference to when the Apostle Peter wrote to James that if the esoteric body of knowledge was to become lost, that "...it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error".

The problem is that the Atheist who envisions a Utopia on earth, as well as the faith-based religious believer who envisions the Kingdom coming upon the earth, both reject the very knowledge of the Natural Laws which are necessary to institute and bring about the Destiny they envision. And if I make any reference to the Deists who did possess to varying degrees an understanding of the Natural Laws, both the Atheist and the Theist envision a misguided group of intellectuals who have invented some alternative theology which they portray as a reason-based quasi-religious cult. And if I say that the body of esoteric knowledge of the Laws and Natural Forces is necessary to begin to acquire Higher Spiritual Knowledge, both the Atheist and the Theist portray this whole concept as heresy. Yet, if both the Atheist and the Theist are to bring about the utopian kingdom/destiny which they envision, it will be necessary to possess this higher esoteric knowledge of the Natural Laws to bring about the very objectives they hope and pray to come upon the earth. In the same way that you can't escape the earth's gravitational pull and navigate a spacecraft to the moon without the essential knowledge of the Natural Laws, man's utopian quest will remain elusively beyond his reach, until he acquires the knowledge of the Higher Laws of Nature and Nature's God. The historical man Jesus prevailed over the Laws to the degree that he became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God. This is seen in the position of the original followers and disciples of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily when they stated that he (Jesus), "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34). Those who do as Jesus commanded and pick up their own cross and follow in his footsteps, are able to observe the Law completely that enables them to become Anointed (Messiah/Christ). Those who fail to prevail over the Royal Law, remain totally carnal in their thinking and incapable of comprehending both the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, as well as their own Higher Soul-Reality that is envisioned in the words: Know Thyself.

The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion

The Mental-Shackles Of

Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion

While both academia and organized religion has portrayed our present day culture as knowing and enlightened, modern man dwells in a state of self-ignorance and alienation from the True Being that we are, and our True Reality.  To the degree that we no longer possess the Wisdom of Enlightened wise men and women of our more distant past.  While it is true that we have made wonderful technological advances that we did not have in the past, unless a successful life can be defined by the buttons we push, the movies we watch, or the people we text, then the advanced technology must be defined as a distraction.   So long as we remain ignorant of our True-Reality and the purpose of the life we are living, we will be confronted by the fact that when we pass from this life, we will be forced to acknowledge that our modern culture dwells in a state of Intellectual Poverty -- i.e., as stated in the Gospel of Thomas: "...But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty". 

When we hear the adage of wise men of the past to Know Thyself, the statement provokes the questions: Other than the person we have come to be as seen in our physical image reflected back to us in the mirror, what is there to know?  If we use the example of the proverbial iceberg, the person we see reflected back to us is a fraction of our True-Self -- and when the ancients of great wisdom expressed the need to Know Thyself, what was expressed was the need to perceive and understand the Mind and Consciousness that we are an embryonic fragmented reflection of -- often portrayed as the false-self, the ego-self, and the earthly-self.  Which provokes the question: If this is true -- and our True-Self remains beyond our vision and perceptive-understanding -- then why is the unseen self an enigma to us?  Unless we can factually answer this question, we will remain counterfeit with respect to our True Soul-Reality. 

The bottom line is this: Without understanding the Journey of the Soul and the purpose of the experiences of this life, it will remain virtually impossible to comprehend the realities of the life that we are presently living.  If I were to say that our True-Self -- i.e., our Soul-Self -- has existed since the dawn of time -- and because of the self-ignorance of man in his organic condition of mind, the vast majority of people only develop at a snails pace.  Which means that the question then becomes: How many lives of limited value and accomplishments are you willing to live -- totally alienated from your True-Self -- aimlessly wandering in a state of abject ignorance, in what has been portrayed as The Valley of the Shadow of Death?  On the meaning that is personified in these words it is written: "A symbolic description of the world, meaning darkness and death are (symbolic) valleys on earth one must walk through as part of the human experience".  

In the Gospels Jesus portrayed this world as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ).  The Wikipedia states that: "In Christianity, the outer darkness is a place referred to three times in the Gospel of Matthew (8:12, 22:13, and 25:30) into which a person may be 'cast out', and where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"  Stating that until the person makes change in their lives, that they will remain in the the death of this realm.  From a biblical perspective (see Bible Study Tools) it is written: "The Hebrew word translated 'shadow of death' is used poetically for thick darkness (Job 3:5), as descriptive of Sheol (Job 10:21; 12:22; 38:17); figuratively of deep distress (Job 12:22; 16:16; 24:17; 28:3; 34:22 (in the last three passages the American Standard Revised Version has "thick darkness" and "thick gloom"); Psalms 23:4, the Revised Version margin "deep darkness (and so elsewhere)"; 44:19; 107:10,14; Isaiah 9:2; Jeremiah 2:6; 13:16; Amos 5:8; Matthew 4:16; Luke 1:79, skia thanatou). The Hebrew word is perhaps composed of tsel, "shadow," and maweth, "death," and the idea of "the valley of the shadow of death" was most probably derived from the deep ravines, darkened by over-hanging briars, etc., through which the shepherd had sometimes to lead or drive his sheep to new and better pastures".  What this means is that each person who has been personified in the Gospels as the lost prodigal son/daughter, will remain in the darkness of the valley of the shadow of death or Far Country, until they bring about the necessary changes and advancement within themselves -- regardless of who many lifetimes is required.  And this higher Soul-Reality is why the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen stated:  “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis). 

When the question is posed: Did the Jews in the first century believe in the pre-existent soul?  Meaning, did your Soul exist prior to your birth into this present life.  The Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect".  And that the journey of the Soul over the course of many lives was an important element of discussion between Jesus and his disciples, was the reason this question was asked.   In view of the fact that the Gospel teachings evolved out of the Essenes (see The Essenes And The Dead Sea Scrolls http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#Essene ), the witness of Josephus who was a contemporary of the man Jesus who lived among the Essenes stated that the Essenes “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again.  For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.   Why did the Essenes believe that their Souls are Immortal and can be united to many physical bodies across the span of many lifetimes of Soul-Development?  Because their foundational mindset and lifestyle opened their eyes and minds to their Soul's Higher Reality that organic "natural" man is blind to.     

Fortunately, a segment of modern Science has begun to prove the validity of the Wisdom of the Mystic (see Science Proves Spiritual Truths) -- but because academia rejected and abandoned core scientific principles, and has programmed students with Scientism and suppressed the authentic tenets of genuine Science (see Wholeness And The Cosmology Of Mind http://KnowThySelf.Nazirene.org#WholenessAndCosmologyOfMind ), our educational systems have become a greater detriment to mankind than institutionalized corrupted religious teachings that misguide the vast multitude of faith-based believers.   What is genuine science?  It is the seeking of Truth and Facts without predefined limits and borders.  When the Europeans believed that the earth was flat, they were shackled by their predefined belief that if they sailed out too far west into the ocean, they would fall of the face of the (flat) earth.   Thus, most of science has failed to seek out Truth and Facts because of their predefined limits and self-imposed borders.  

While the case can be made with respect to corrupted scriptures where the most important teachings were either edited, removed or totally corrupted, an even greater causal-factor of mankind dwelling in a cocoon of abject self-ignorance in our modern day, is seen in the reality that what is portrayed as science is actually Scientism which has suppressed and limited all valid scientific inquiries and research.  Scientism is defined as "...an ideology that promotes science as the only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values" (see Wikipedia).   In the article Science versus Scientism it is stated: "Scientism is a dogmatic ideology which presumes that 'science,' in the narrower sense of the word, has the answers to all questions. For believers in scientism the claims of metaphysics are invalid and have no bearing on reality. The physical cosmos is all there is. There is nothing but three dimensions (or four if we include time as a dimension) which are perceived with our five senses. This is all there is and this is therefore all that is worth studying."   Scientism excludes and ignores whatever is not three-dimensional and physical, and therefore inhibits man from achieving any degree of Wholeness which would enable him to achieve true Enlightenment and Knowing. 

Modern cutting-edge Science has proven that the Scientism that has dogmatically ignored and even denied higher Truth and Knowledge, has been as an anchor that has enslaved mankind in the abyss of abject self-ignorance.  And when understood, Scientism has actually supported faux-religious doctrines that have alienated blind-believers from the very purpose and objectives of the essence of their religious teachings.  In an article Things That Science Can't Explain by Dr. Claude Swanson, he writes: "There are many things modern science cannot explain, and yet they occur anyway. This includes phenomena in the "hard sciences" as well as in the paranormal. These effects are now being proven in the laboratory, even though they defy present scientific theory. These unfolding mysteries point the way to a new, deeper science, a science which no longer denies spirit and consciousness, but acknowledges and embraces them.  In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken."  Why is the present scientific paradigm that is promoted and championed by academia broken?   Being Scientism, it is counterfactual because it is based upon a preordained objective that has been proven to be gravely flawed.   

Without understanding the Journey of the Soul, our science will continue to be plagued by more questions than it has answers -- our philosophies will remain anemic -- and our religions will remain plagued by a lack of any real substance.   And regardless of the path in life we choose -- i.e., science, philosophy, religion -- it will remain impossible for us to understand the very life that we are presently living.   In the same way that the Atlantic ocean serves as a barrier that separates Europe and the Americas, until recently the world of Scientism has maintained predefined limits and intellectual borders that has inhibited their quest for essential truth and facts -- thereby rendering the scientific community intellectually-impotent.  And because academia has remained within the predefined limitations of scientism's failing to understand the Journey and Reality of the Soul --  embracing a school of thought that can best be portrayed as a new edition of myth in scientism's rejection of boni-fide truth and facts -- our modern culture can rightly be portrayed as based and founded upon a new variety of quasi-superstition and self-imposed ignorance.  

The above has been quoted from The Mental-Shackles Of Faux-Science And Fallacious-Religion http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#MentalShackles 

Who Is God?

From a Deist perspective, the Knowledge of the Laws is as a ladder that assists the person to climb the rungs of Consciousness and achieve becoming At-One with the Indwelling Logos.
In a post on another forum where Clement of Alexandria is quoted: “No one can rightly express him wholly. For on account of his greatness he is ranked as the All, and is "The Father of the Universe." Nor are any parts to be predicated of him. For the One is indivisible; wherefore also it is infinite, not considered with reference to inscrutability, but with reference to its being without dimensions, and not having a limit. And therefore it is without form” (Miscellanies 5:12 [A.D. 208]).

I made two replies in the following:The problem is in organic man's inability to comprehend his own higher Soul-Reality. "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little" (Isa 28:9-10 NKJ). In the same way that an infant grows into a child and adult one step at a time, so too does the process of mental-expansion take place line upon line. And this immaturity of mind and spirit causes the vast majority of believers not to comprehend an important overlooked and not understood Bible passage states in reference to the Higher Reality of God that mankind is blind to: “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’” (Acts 17:28 NIV). If we indeed "...live and move and have our being" within God, then what is our true relationship to God? When we put the foregoing together with the statement by James Jeans that: “...the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”. Or the words of Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”. What is portrayed is a higher reality that few people are even prepared to contemplate -- much less, understand with sufficient degree to even form a realistic opinion. We live and move and have our being in God, because there is nothing but Mind. And all that exists, exists because the Thoughts of God brought it into existence. And when you look at the outer world, what you are seeing is the Mind of God allegorically presented to you in the forms of nature.

An Enlightened person who understands the Natural Laws of Creation, understands that God is not a being who is separate from man -- but is the very Consciousness within which we move and have out being. Perhaps one of the best teachings (which was removed from the canonical Gospels by the Church), has been preserved in the outlawed Gospel of the Nazirenes, and is known as the parable of the fishes (quoting): "And there were certain men, of doubtful mind, who came to Yeshua, and said to him, You tell us that our life and being comes from God, but we have never seen God, nor do we know of any God. Can you show us whom you call the Father-Mother, one God? We don't know if there is a God. Yeshua answered them, saying, Hear this parable of the fishes. The fishes of a certain river communed with one another, saying, they tell us that our life and being is from water, but we have never seen water, we don't know what it is. Then some among them, wiser than the rest, said, We have heard there dwells in the sea a wise and learned fish, who knows all things. Let us journey to him, and ask him to show us what water is. So several of them set out to find this great and wise fish, and they came at last to the sea where in the wise fish dwelt, and they asked of him. And when he heard them he said to them, O you foolish fish that don't contemplate! The few of you who seek, are wise. You live, and move, and have your being in the water; from the water you came, to the water you return. You live in the water, yet you don't know it.' In a similar manner, you live in God, and yet you ask of me, 'Show us God.' God is in all things, and all things are in God."

Does a fish see the water? No. They only see the physical form of the objects that exist within the water -- or in the analogy of the fish, the water is the Reality of Mind within which all the physical objects exist. At a deeper level, all of Mankind and Creation exits -- and is intimately connected -- within the Mind of God. And while, like the fish, organic man can only see the form of the physical objects, because organic man is blind to the Reality of Mind and Spirit, we fail to see that “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’” (Acts 17:28). Which has been confirmed in the words of James Jeans that: “...the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine” -- and the words of Arthur Eddington who is portrayed as an astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics.: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.

Second reply: Let's talk about the Cosmology of Mind. The Logos indicates the Mind of God -- aka, Son of God and True Prophet. The Soul of each person is as a single Neuron in the Mind of God. All the lives that the Soul has incarnated into, is as a single neuron in the mind of the Soul. And what this means is that while the Soul evolves over the course of many incarnations, each of these soul-generated personalities are unique in relation to all the other lives the Soul has lived. As explored beginning at The Evolving Soul http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheEvolvingSoul , each soul-generated personality MUST return to it's/our Source in what can be portrayed as the House of the Soul -- or Soul Mind-Matrix. When I use the term Unique, that is because each soul-generated personality only lives one life -- and as a neuron in the Mind of the Soul, each soul-generated personality is important because they/we connect the higher spiritual and lower earthly kingdoms within the Soul -- thereby enabling the Soul to become Whole and Complete (Perfect). In view of the fact that modern science has proven what the Mystic has known all along -- i.e, that Time is a Dimension of Mind (see The Enigma Of Time And The Soul Of Man http://SoulSelf.org#EnigmaOfTime ) -- all the soul-generated personalities must be restored to their Source in the Soul Mind-Matrix, and remain conscious of not only the life that they uniquely lived -- but also the relationship of each life to one another.

The Natural Laws And The Plight Of Pete Buttigieg

The Natural Laws And The Plight Of Pete Buttigieg

From a Deist perspective on the article entitled: Is Pete Buttigieg Another Victim Of The Church (see https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-pete-buttigieg-another-victim-of.html  )?  The plight of Mayor Pete Buttigieg as a victim of the Church and the "priest-craft" of Revealed Religion, is an example of the Theist's inability to understand the Natural Laws of Creation.  Further, because Pete Buttigieg dwells in a dogmatic cocoon of ignorance which has been created by the Church, Buttigieg is further anchoring himself to a future of continued spiritual ignorance.   Where the Theist who possesses no functionable understanding of the Natural Laws will ignorantly believe that God created Pete Buttigieg homosexual for no reason, the enlightened Deist who understands the workings of the Natural Laws, recognizes that Buttigieg's homosexuality is the result of a causal factor which invoked the Natural Laws.   Which means that it wasn't God who decided to impose homosexuality on the Soul of Pete Buttigieg -- but rather, either the Soul of Buttigieg for some reason chose to live as a homosexual, or was forced to be born as a homosexual because of his own previous negative actions towards homosexuals -- i.e., "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7). 

A Deist understands that all movements of the Natural Laws is in response to a previous action that invoked the Laws.   An enlightened Deist understands that it is our own actions which invoked the Laws, that then act as the causal-factors in a corresponding event. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Meteorology Professor Edward Lorenz posed a question: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”  Quoting from the article on the Buterfly Effect (see https://www.americanscientist.org/article/understanding-the-butterfly-effect ): "Lorenz’s insight called into question laws introduced as early as 1687 by Sir Isaac Newton suggesting that nature is a probabilistic mechanical system, 'a clockwork universe.' Similarly, Lorenz challenged Pierre-Simon Laplace, who argued that unpredictability has no place in the universe, asserting that if we knew all the physical laws of nature, then 'nothing would be uncertain and the future, as the past, would be present to [our] eyes'" (see also The Clockmaker Vs Jalopy Universe http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#ClockMaker ).  In understanding the Natural Laws the Enlightened Deists of the past were able to perceptively understand what the Theist could not -- i.e., "...nothing would be uncertain and the future, as the past, would be present to [our] eyes".  And this knowledge that is beyond the perceptive-understanding of the Theist is proven in the teachings of Giordano Bruno (see The Importance of Giordano Bruno And The Suppression And Censorship Of His Writings @ https://americancrisiscommonsense.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-importance-of-giordano-bruno-and.html ).   

The Natural Laws are therefore personified in the statement: "Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Matt 7:1-2).  Which in application would mean that the birth and life of Pete Buttigieg was orchestrated by his own previous actions -- i.e., in the words of the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).   And as stated in the article, the suppression of these important teachings has made Pete Buttigieg a victim in his inability to understand the causal-factor that made him a homosexual in his Soul's present life.         

Main Article: Is Pete Buttigieg Another Victim Of The Church?

In recent speeches, Democrat candidate for president Mayor Pete Buttigieg has condemned the beliefs of Vice Pres. Mike Pence's faith, because while VP Pence has spoken highly about Mayor Buttigieg, he has not endorsed same-sex marriage.  Should VP Pence endorse same-sex marriage?  Pete Buttigieg is critical of VP Pence because he claims that God made him a homosexual.  Which provokes that question as to whether God created Mayor Buttigieg homosexual, or was there other causal-factors that Buttigieg does not understand?  And thus, when rightly understood, it is the suppression of the Church's original teachings on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to Wholeness and Completion which was removed from the Gospels (see Turn About And Become As a Child http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#TurnAbout ), which has provoked Buttigieg's judgment and condemnation of Pence -- therein making Buttigieg a victim of the the Law that brings one's judgment of others back upon the person making the judgment -- i.e., "Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Matt 7:1-2).  
 
By virtue of the suppression of many of the most important Gospel teachings by the Church, Pete Buttigieg erroneously states that God made him a homosexual -- failing to understand that it was the judgment of the Laws of God that evolves each Soul to perfection that has caused him to be born a homosexual.  Quoting from the foregoing link: The pre-Nicene Church Father Origen wrote: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis). Which confirms the statement: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ). And of an interesting note is the statement by The Hastings-Scribner Dictionary Of The Bible (New York, 1903. Bk 4, p. 63) which proclaimed that "To affirm that Jews in Christ's time did not believe in pre-existence is simply incorrect". Which is why the disciples of Jesus asked the question: "The disciples of Jesus were persuaded that a man might have sinned before he was born, (John, ix. 2,) and the Pharisees held the transmigration [reincarnation] of virtuous souls, (Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern Rabbi is modestly assured, that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato, etc., derived their metaphysics from his illustrious countrymen" (Gibbon; Decline & Fall).  Which would raise the question: Was this man (Pete Buttigieg) born homosexual because of his own actions, or the actions of his parents? 

When Pete Buttigieg judged Mike Pence -- claiming that God must approve of homosexuality because it was God who directly created him a homosexual, there is no truth to this statement by Pete Buttigieg.  Why is a person born homosexual?  What Pete Buttigieg fails to understand is that his homosexuality in the present could very well have been the result of the same Laws of Creation that brought his own judgments in a previous life back upon him.  It is important to understand why Jesus warned that one's own judgments come back upon us.   And therefore, it is the Laws of Creation that returns our own actions back upon us from life to life.  And it is these Laws that very well may have caused him to be born as a homosexual.  Anyone who has matured their thinking to the degree where they acquire Soul-Memory which permits them to see the lives their Soul has previously lived (see Spiritual Amnesia http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia ), understand that many Soul's who judge and condemn homosexuals, are bound by the Laws to live out subsequent lives as a homosexual.  Which means that for these Souls, their own judgments of others have come back upon them.  And if this is the case, it would then mean that Pete Buttigieg's present life as a homosexual was invoked by the Laws that caused the judgments of the Soul of Buttigieg to come back upon him in this present life.  That Pete Buttigieg may have inherited the fruit of his own judgments -- and failed the tests presented to him by these Laws  when he judged Mike Pence who has never uttered a bad word about Buttigieg -- means that the judgments of Pete Buttigieg of VP Pence in the present will continue to mold Buttigieg's Soul's future lives, in order for his own judgments to come back upon him.  And this will continue, until which time he ceases to judge his brothers and sisters.   While it is true that Pete Buttigieg is one of countless victims of the Church's corruption of the Bible and the suppression of many of the most important spiritual teachings of the Original Gospel (see http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ), this does not resolve him of the sin of the judgment of others.  And Mayor Buttigieg further amplified the negative effects of the Law, when Pete Buttigieg judged a fellow Christian who has never uttered an unkind word about Buttigieg or his homosexuality.  
  
Wise men understand that there is a Divine Pattern that is holographically replicated into every aspect of Creation as explored at The Trinity - Divine Pattern - Linear vs Intuitive Development Of The Mind http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org/#Trinity .  And those who understand the Divine Pattern of Creation, understand that all growth and development is achieved through the direct interaction of male and female.   In the allegorical account of Genesis, Eve was taken from the side of Adam, so that our own male and female natures can directly interact to bring about our spiritual advancement.   Jesus taught that there is no marriage in Heaven (see Matt 22:30), and he conveyed this reality to others because the Soul  of man is a Being of Light (see http://SoulSelf.org ) -- and the Source of Soul-Light is the dynamic inner balance of the opposites polarities of heaven and earth and male and female.  There is no such thing as a male or female Soul.  So, if this is true, then why are we born divided by gender opposites?  Our Soul which is our True-Self, dwells in a twelve-dimensional higher reality.  The problem is that no advancement can be achieved without the interaction of the two paired paradoxical opposite genders, so long as they remain in harmony in the higher twelve-dimensional realm.  So, in order to bring about the necessary interaction of opposites and stimulate Soul-Growth, the Soul incarnates into this three-dimensional realm where the direct interaction of male and female in the outer earthly environment, in conjunction with the inner heavenly/spiritual environment can be brought about.  And in the same way that the interaction of opposites (male/female) is essential in order to produce offspring -- and it is this direct interaction of the opposite polarities of male and female that permits a Soul to project into the physical embryo at conception, in order for that Soul to incarnate into the life that it incarnates into.  But in accord with the holographic pattern, in the same way that the direct interaction is absolutely necessary for the Soul to incarnate, in accord with the Divine Pattern, all growth is brought about through the interaction of male and female which is the foundational environment for the spiritual/heavenly and the earthly to interact and bring about the growth of Soul-Light (see The Evolving Soul http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#TheEvolvingSoul ). 

If you wired your home same-sex polarity -- wiring the outlets in some rooms negative to negative, and other rooms positive to positive -- none of your appliances would function.  Why?  Because same-sex or same-polarity does not permit the interaction of opposites.  In the same pattern, the computer programs that you are presently using are based upon a language of "0"s (negative) and "1"s (positive) -- and it is through the interaction of opposites that is the foundation of the applications you are running on you computer.  With respect to the Trinity or what can be portrayed as the Divine Pattern that is holographically replicated into every level of Creation, if will remain impossible to understand the reality of the Logos (a.k.a. Son of God) that exists at the very Core of each of our Mind's and Being, until you understand the reality of the Divine Male and Female as personified in The Trinity - Divine Pattern - Linear vs Intuitive Development Of The Mind http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org/#Trinity ).  Why is this interaction of opposites important?  It is this holographic projection of the Divine Pattern that is replicated into all of Creation that brings about the interaction of the opposite male and female polarities at every level of Creation.  And it is this interaction of male and female that is responsible for the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening that must be brought about in achieving Soul-Growth, as mankind evolves from the Alpha of Ignorance into the Omega of Enlightened Light.  In the article entitled The Cosmology Of The Gospels (see http://GospelCosmology.Ebionite.com ), you will learn about the reality of the scriptures which has been drawn from an original author, that few modern Christians understand.   And the fact that the alleged critics and experts are wrong -- and what appears in the surface text of the scriptures to be errors and inconsistencies, were in fact intentionally written into the text -- inserted as catalysts that can only be understood as the Intuitive (feminine) spheres of mind are evolved and able to properly interact with the Linear (male) spheres of mind.  Why?  Because the development of the Intuitive spheres of mind that are (in most people) suppressed by the dominating (male) Linear -- is necessary for the inner spiritual to interact with the outer earthly paradoxical opposite polarity of mind and being, in order to bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  In the article on the Tree of Life ( http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ), you will learn that the fruit of the Tree of Duality that brings (spiritual) death to the eater thereof, is in fact the divided male and female impressions that must be united, in order to stimulate and bring about the process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  And in accord with the Divine Pattern, in the same way that without the direct and intimate interaction of male and female opposites no offspring can be created that makes the "two one flesh", neither can the fruit (impressions) of only one polarity of the Tree of Duality provide access to the Life-Giving Fruit of the Tree of Life in the Center.             

While it is doubtful that Mike Pence can articulate the reason why he believes that the Sacrament of Marriage can only be entered into by a man and woman who desire to commit their lives and the totality of their energies in a totally faithful consecrated environment to their respective spouses, the fact that the Laws are not inhibiting his Intuitive insights has enabled him to understand the necessity to embrace the Divine Pattern of Creation.  And it appears that Mike Pence also possesses sufficient Intuitive insight not to judge Pete Buttigieg when he came out as a homosexual. so as not to become entangled in the Laws that condemn judgment of one's brothers and sisters.  But these Laws do not require him to deny his religious and intuitive insights and agree with Pete Buttigieg that it makes no difference who you choose to enter into a sexual union with.   In fact, if Mike Pence was to state that it makes no difference with respect to the gender of the person you enter into an intimate sexual relations with, then he would not only be lying to others -- but he would be rejecting his Intuitive insights that he receives from Spirit.  It is not that homosexuality is a sin -- but rather, it is dead-ended and cannot bring about the mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening when a Divine Marriage is entered into by a committed husband and wife who seek to be "one flesh".   And in the same way that it is necessary for the direct and intimate interaction of man and woman to open the door for a Soul to project itself into this world at conception, it is this same direct interaction of the Linear/Male and Intuitive/Female spheres of mind as represented in the Tree of Duality, to be merged into the Oneness of the Tree of Life.