“The Great Traveler taught about the expansion of consciousness. He repeated: "Open your eyes and ears" … He pointed out how deep the meaning can be learned with an expanded consciousness. But you cannot put a rope through the eye of a needle. The big consciousness does not fit into the small ear.
One can imagine how many of His teachings did not enter the ears of the listeners”(Supermundane. Part 2, item 176).
All ancient religions of the East had two teachings: one secret, secret - for the disciples of the Mysteries, the other - for the "external", whose consciousness is not yet ready to contain. That there were the Mysteries of Jesus, or the Mysteries of the Kingdom, there is a lot of evidence, including in the canonical Gospels. This is clearly indicated by the words of Christ to his disciples: "… It is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to those outside everything is in parables" (Mark 4:11). In the ancient scriptures, the Initiates were called Perfect and Wise. The so-called first initiation was of water and the Spirit. Christ, answering the Pharisee Nicodemus, Says: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit”(John 3: 5,). The next consecration was from the Holy Spirit and Fire. John the Baptist preached: “I baptize you in water,but he who comes after me … will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire”(Matt. 3:11).
“Enter by the narrow gates, because the gates are wide and the path leading to destruction is wide, and many walk by them; for narrow is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few find it”(Matt. 7:13, 14). This is the highest occult Teaching. The “close gates” were the gates of Initiation, and through them the initiate entered the Kingdom of God. But only a few can enter this gate, only those whose efforts are aimed at constant improvement, and all life - at bestowing upon people. In this sense, one can consider Jesus' appeal to his disciples “you are gods” (John 10:34) and the call “be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5:48).
Jesus taught his disciples to live and act in such a way that people would notice their spiritual light and perceive it: “you are the light of the world … let your light shine before people, so that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven” (Matthew 5:14), sixteen). “You are the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). The duty of salt is to give taste to food, the duty of the Initiates is to endow humanity with the taste of spirituality.
The receipt by the disciples of secret knowledge directly from the Great Teacher quickly awakened hidden natural forces in them. Already in the second year of training, He could send His chosen ones to preach and help those in need of health, having given the instruction: “freely you have received, freely give”, “be wise as serpents, and simple as doves” (Matthew 10: 8, 16).
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The Teacher knew about the nearness of his impending death and prepared his disciples for the Service, sending them to different cities of the country. “He instructed his disciples to carry … magnets [objects that were near the Great Wayfarer] to distant lands. It is necessary to remember how far His messengers penetrated. People did not know them, but nevertheless they sensed the significance of such messengers and hated them, as they were angry at everything incomprehensible”(Supermundane. Part 2, p. 155).
“… The Great Traveler at one glance turned those around him to the Highest. The teacher said: “Brothers, you definitely find considerable time for everything, but you leave only short moments for the Highest. If you gave to the Highest only the time spent on meals, then you would already become teachers. Thus, He taught the vital benefits of turning to the Highest”(Supermundane. Part 2, p. 156).
The fact that Christ affirmed the immutable cosmic Law of reincarnation is evidenced by His words: “… a hundred times more houses, and brothers and sisters, and fathers and mothers, and children and lands, and in the coming century - eternal life. But many will be the first last and the last first”(Mark 10:30, 31). Other words from the Fourth Gospel also testify to the law of reincarnation: “… the Jews said to Him: You are not yet fifty years old - and Have You seen Abraham? Jesus said to them: Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am”(John 8:57, 58).
Knowing the Law of Karma, Christ taught responsibility for their actions. “I tell you that for every idle word that people say, they will give an answer on the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36). “… Go first, be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Make peace with your adversary quickly, while you are still on the way with him”(Matthew 5:24, 25). “… and what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what you will permit on earth will be permitted in heaven” (Matthew 16:19).
Being an Initiate, the Teacher knew that the cosmic Law of Karma, or the Law of Retribution, rewards people not only according to their actions, but according to their desires and thoughts, therefore, looking at a woman with lust is already subject to punishment. You cannot escape punishment. If there are no visible witnesses, there is an invisible witness - the Law of Karma. “There is nothing hidden that would not be revealed, and there is nothing secret that would not be recognized” (Luke 12: 2). Knowing about the power of thought, Christ warned his contemporaries to act and think justly. "But Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said: why do you think evil in your hearts?" (Matt. 9: 4). “So in all things, as you want people to do to you, so do you to them, for in this is the law and the prophets” (Matt. 7:12).
“The Teacher also said:“Protect yourself from bad thoughts, they will turn on you and settle on your shoulders like disgusting leprosy. But good thoughts will rise up and you will be lifted up. You need to know how much a person carries within himself both healing light and deadly darkness”…
"You are accustomed to being afraid of death, because you were not told about the transition to a better world" …
“You need to understand that good friends will work together there as well.”
Thus, the Great Wayfarer constantly taught eternity and the power of thought. But such covenants were understood by only a few”(Supermundane. Part 2, p. 160).
Even in the Gospels distorted by later insertions, Christ's statements of the Feminine Principle were preserved. In the fallen woman Mary Magdalene, He sees not a sinner, but a heart that deeply feels Love for the Teacher, and later a devoted disciple. Among His closest circle were women, as evidenced by the Gospels. And among His Commandments was, like other Great Moralists, - honor your father and mother. “For God has commanded: Honor your father and mother; and he who curses his father or mother, let him die”(Matt. 15: 4).
The Great Teacher loved and brought children closer to Him, for he saw in them the advancement of mankind: “… let the children in and do not prevent them from coming to Me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matt. 19:13, 14).
The inner essence of Christ's Teachings was that the earthly world is a temporary world, therefore, one should prepare oneself for the transition to the New World, the Divine World, which is the true Home, from where a person, a son or daughter of God, came and where he will return. "I am a good shepherd and I know the Way home."
The road to God is the inner Path. To open this Path was the Mission, the inner Teaching of Christ. Christ came to show the Way and become an example that everyone can follow this Way. "He who believes in me, the works that I do, he will also do." To enter the spirit world, you need to cast off the mortal old man and put on the spiritual man.
In other words, you need to reach the level of Christ consciousness, Christ consciousness, which is a mediator between the low consciousness of the carnal mind and the higher Consciousness of God.
The only Path to God is to cognize the Laws of God and begin to create Perfection in the name of the common good and brotherhood on Earth.
One of Christ's tasks was to prove the immortality of the human spirit. He powerfully affirmed this knowledge by resurrection in the subtle body after physical death. “Christ, speaking of his resurrection, did not mean his conscious transition into the subtle world, but, precisely, his appearance in the subtle body amid physical conditions.
Of course, such an appearance of a physically deceased person in a materialized subtle body was a vivid proof of His resurrection and strengthened faith in His teaching in the disciples”(Letters E. Roerich. Vol. 2). The resurrection from the dead inspired people and convinced people of the truth of Christ's Teachings more than any other argument. “The appearance of the Teacher in the subtle body strengthened the disciples in the reality of the Invisible World. Not everyone could remember the essence of this World, but nevertheless the window was slightly opened”(Supermundane. Part 2, p. 172).
Departing from the earthly plane, the Great Teacher voluntarily accepted great sufferings in order to mark His Covenants of Love and Service for all peoples of the earth with His sacrifice. This is why the Son of Man came to earth to minister to people.
“There is no more love than if a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Christ sealed this Covenant of Love with His blood, it was by the feat of the Great Sacrifice that he sealed the power of the spirit over the physical matter of the body and the immortality of the spirit.
Based on the book by V. I. Polyan "Great Moralists - Founders of World Religions"