March-April, 1970

An Appeal to Christians

 

THIS ISSUE OF THE HUNA VISTAS is, as you shall see, given over to an experiment, and I need your advice and help. I have mimeographed the first 11 pages of a piece to be used as a desperate try to reach the people of the various Christian Churches. I realize full well that “Many are called, and FEW chosen.” It is these few who may have open minds, especially the younger ones, to whom the message is hopefully directed. It is greatly doubted that any of the priests or preachers will pause to listen, and it is to be supposed that if they did, they would refuse to admit the veracity of the writer or the facts of the findings.

I wish very much to test this start of the presentation on young people who have a Christian background, and I need your help badly. Do try to find one at least and see what reaction you can get, and see if that one asks for more. It has been made very simple, but may still be too complicated. No doubt has been cast on the historicity of Jesus, or will be. The idea is to build, if we can, on the faith already built up, and then to teach the making of the Huna type prayer. If you give away your bulletin, or part of it, I will send you another to replace it. If we can find out how to approach the subject, I plan to try to sell the editor of a paperback publishing house on the idea of a book suited to newsstand distribution. We could also have tapes for those who will listen but not read. I plan to include, with the final piece, reproductions of the early Egyptian hieroglyphics which are mentioned in the text. These will be more visual and perhaps a little more impressive. The thesis is that Jesus was an initiate of the Secret Lore and that he believed it and taught it in secret to those who were ready. Want to help? Do so if you can. If not, be part of an interested audience. Here are some glyphs:

 bowl, Lord, all

 bowl with handle. “My cup runneth over.” The cup became “horn of plenty”

 seeds poured from bowl (Answer to prayer?)

 Three zigzag lines for “water”, life force, or mana.

 cord – The “silver cord” or “way” or “Path” between the man and the Father in heaven, living above the man. The cord had several forms, one meaning “offering”.

Genesis and Isaiah, especially, are rich in such passages, as we shall see later. Jesus knew all these references to the Inner Teachings and incorporated them in his teachings very often. The outer teachings, however, he often discarded, giving the better teachings to replace them, as in the case of the sacrifice of animals as a means of pleasing God. The parts of the New Testament which include Acts and the various writings of Paul, all came after the writing of the Four Gospels, and show plainly that the authors were not initiates, although much was done by Paul to try to explain the things said and done by Jesus.

TWO THINGS  IN THE LIFE OF JESUS are outstanding. First, he taught both the inner and the outer doctrines; and second, he showed by the example of his life the great truths of life – the ways in which men may live to obtain the final Salvation.

THE INNER TEACHINGS were hidden behind symbolic words, as, for instance, the word “seed”, which had two meanings, one symbolic, the other the usual or literal meaning. There was also a list of words which were drawn from a certain language which was especially adapted to the use of the veiled teaching. It contained words naming parts of the secret system of knowledge, words not to be found in other languages. Also, in this language there were words with a double meaning, and only those who were initiated were given to know both the inner and outer meaning of these words. A “double talk” was thus provided which was used in speaking of the Inner Teaching. It formed a special CODE, and only those who knew the key to it could understand what was being taught through its use. This special language was given up after the Four Gospels were written, but it was carried to a far place and there preserved in excellent condition up to the present time. Later in our survey of the teachings, we will consider the special or code language and show its use in the parables. It will also be very helpful in understanding what was said and done by Jesus and the Disciples, quite aside from the parables.

EARLY EGYPT AND THE LISTING OF THE GREAT TRUTHS

For our study, we go back about 7,000 years, almost to the First Dynasty, and we can follow the hieroglyphic inscriptions with a few changes all the way down to about the year 100 BC, when the picture writing at last gave way to the cursive writing which is called “Hieratic” and was the form in use when the Rosetta Stone was inscribed in the several languages and writings which enabled the men of our period to begin to translate the many early hieroglyphic inscriptions which divulged the religious beliefs and practices of the Initiates. As in the time of Jesus, the beliefs were kept very secret and were veiled in the writings. To break the symbol code system of the SECRET, one had to know what the symbol words stood for, and what the coded words signified. For the initiated, it was all very simple, but for the uninitiated, it was all but impossible to gain an understanding of what was written or said.

THE RELIGION OF JESUS, as outlined in the Egyptian writings, was made up of ten parts or elements. There were what we may call the body-soul, the mind-soul, and the Higher Mind or “Father” soul which lived in its halo outside the body, but always in touch with it. These three souls were united to make up the complete man. In addition, each soul had its own kind of life or vital force. And, lastly, each soul had an invisible body which it inhabited after the death of the physical body. Modern psychology has almost rediscovered the Egyptian belief. It has given us the subconscious or body-soul or self and the conscious mind-soul or self, the two living in the same body together, but as yet, no Superconscious mind or soul self has been identified, although it has been put forward as a postulation by some. In religion, of course, it has long been known under various names. It is the wiser and more powerful of man’s three souls, and is the “Father” or “Parental Spirit” who lives NOT in the body, but in “Heaven” or the “SPACE ABOVE”. Jesus knew all these things and taught them in secret to his Disciples. We may say that he stood as a psychologist about 1900 years before modern psychology and “the Science of Mind” was beginning to be born. Moreover, he knew all about man as he is after death, and knew that some evil men and women returned and became the “evil spirits” who fastened themselves to the living and who had to be “cast out” before those people could be healed. In Egypt these spirits were called “fiends” and we find them mentioned frequently in the famous Book of the Dead which was enclosed in the tomb to guide the spirits of the deceased. In the Gospels we use the translation of “devils”.

THE ESSENCE OF THESE EARLIEST TEACHINGS was preserved in the doctrines of the Essenes, and it has become evident, now that we have recovered the Dead Sea Scrolls, that Jesus was well versed in those doctrines. About half of the things taught by or believed by the Essenes were also taught by Jesus. (For the student who wishes more information on this, the book by Dr. Martin Larsen, THE ESSENE HERITAGE, may be consulted. For the Egyptian materials, the works of Budge may be used, especially his translation of the BOOK OF THE DEAD, and the word list which is part of his translation.)

THE WORD SYMBOLS WHICH JESUS KNEW AND TAUGHT IN SECRET

The secret teaching was hidden behind a number of simple words which stood for the TEN ELEMENTS of the man or for things closely related to them. These words appear in the parables and are often made a part of the text in the Four Gospels without a parable, but we know that they were understood by the Disciples to have a hidden meaning. In the language which was used in building the CODE – the “Code Language” we may call it – we find words which have two or more meanings, the outer one and the inner one.

THE MOST IMPORTANT, and loveliest, of these symbol words was LIGHT. In the Egyptian it was Ra, the sun. In the Code Language it was La, meaning all light, or LAA, meaning sacred light. It was the symbol of the “Father” or third and highest soul part of man. Many who have been converted and who have repeated and reached out to the “God within” have been given the wonderful evidence of contact with IT, by being allowed to see it as a great white LIGHT. This is the “gift of the Holy Spirit” and it cannot be commanded. It is given to those who are chosen, and when the time is right. Sometimes it is seen more than once. The seeing is the mark of acceptance by the “Father”, who says, “This is my beloved son,” for the man of the two bodily souls is “the SON” in symbol.

This experience of seeing the Light is the first step in winning salvation. It is of the greatest importance, and is something never to be forgotten. One may backslide and return again, as did the Prodigal Son, but once the gift has been given, it is never taken away. It remains the open door to the Father’s house, (in which there are many mansions), and which is known by the symbol word of KINGDOM. The “Kingdom of God” is better thought of as “the Kingdom of the Father”. It is close and personal, not as far away as the fringe of the Universe. When we call, it comes to dwell with us, and we can say, “The Father is within.” Because it has no physical body, the eyes do not see it, but it is there and very real in its body which artists have unknowingly pictured as the HALO above the heads of sainted men and women who have become “one with the Father” and have seen the LIGHT. Moments of contact with the Father are of wonderful beauty, and the great surge of LOVE and devotion which is felt marks the contact. Love is the symbol also of the Third SELF, “the greatest of these is LOVE”, said the Teacher. It has been written, “God is love”, but the highest love we are able to touch and experience is that of the Father. And, perhaps it is enough. It “never faileth”.

JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, according to the various accounts given in the Four Gospels, by setting the example in his own life for all men to follow. We can be sure that he had long been initiated into the heart of the Mysteries, but he went to John in the wilderness and submitted to the baptismal rite, and the Father-Light came to him in the form of a DOVE, which gives us another symbol word. The dove and all clean birds symbolize spirits. In early Egypt the bird selected to be used as a picture or glyph of the human spirit was the stork. And we find in the ancient writings that the three spirits or selves of men are written as three storks, standing closely in line. Bits and pieces of the sacred lore have escaped  into the hands of the people who are “without”, and we find the stork in the strange position of bringing the babies, and it is allowed special privileges, such as being allowed to build its nests in the chimney pots of Europe.

AFTER BEING BAPTIZED, Jesus went to be tempted in the wilderness, then returned to begin to teach the most important fact of all: the existence of the “Kingdom of Heaven” and of the “Father” who presided over His kingdom. Jesus taught that the first step was, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven”, and he added, after presupposing that one FINDS the “kingdom”, that there is a reward … “and  all these things shall be added unto you.”

WHAT WERE ALL “THESE THINGS”? They were the answers to prayers, to our need for guidance and for all the things that can come to the good person who has become aware of the presence of the Father and has invited Him to take  His rightful part in living the life. The ancient teaching is that we are all allowed “free will” and are permitted to learn by experience, which is the painful teacher at best. But, when we have realized that the Father is a close part of the man, we can invite it come, come to dwell with us and to Help and Guide and take its rightful part in the life. It’s rightful part is a tenth of our time and attention – the origin of the idea of tithing. In this small part of the time given to living, we praise the Lord, and think of the Father and his LOVE, and set ourselves to live in the way that HE would have us live. His WAY is that of love for one’s fellow man and service. If we wish to deserve Help and Guidance, we must be willing to pass it on to those who “are without”, and who are in need of a shepherd. All cannot be “chosen”, but their needs and problems are just as real and difficult to them as our own. Love and tolerance and, especially, UNDERSTANDING, are the order of the day and of the LIGHT.

HOW MUCH BETTER WE CAN NOW UNDERSTAND the passage in the account of Matthew, 3:13, “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. (14) But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? (15) And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now; for thus becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.” And (4:16) “The people which sat in darkness saw a great LIGHT; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, LIGHT is sprung up.” And we read that Jesus at once set about choosing those who should be able to accept the INNER TEACHINGS. He began calling his Disciples.

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, … preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people     (5:1) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples came unto him., (2) And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, (3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (14) Ye are the LIGHT of the world.”

JESUS ALSO SAID, “I am the light of the world”, and it is easy to see that what he meant was that all who teach the verity of the LIGHT as the Father, are standing forth as THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. In the Code Language, there are no verbs for “I am” or “to be”. The subject is given and the object follows. So we see that the account of the Master, which was originally written in the Code Language, gives us, as in John, “I … the Light” and “I … the Life”, and “I … the Way”. Jesus was NOT these things. He TAUGHT about them. We read, John, 1:4, “In him was the life, and the life was the light of men.” This “life” was the very vital force animating Jesus, and it also included the life of the Father, who was the LIGHT of all men. To continue, (5) “And the LIGHT shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”  In this case we see that the “darkness” represents those “who are without” or who still have no knowledge of the Light – the ones who are not ready to be chosen as yet. These are the “little ones” who need a shepherd. We continue to read: (8) “He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light ………. (12) But as many as received him, to them he gave the power to become the sons of God. By “God” we see that it is the Father who is meant.

THE FIRST GREAT TRUTH WHICH JESUS TAUGHT was concerned with the fact that there WAS a Father self. After that he taught the SECOND great TRUTH, which has to do with the secret method of making contact with the Father, and of making the proper prayer to get Help and Guidance. The so called, “LORD’S PRAYER” is taken from the early Hebrew writings, and is only the outer prayer method. The inner or secret method is such that much more is added to the simple “outer” prayer method. Again, we come to the symbol words, and in this case to the word “WAY”. Jesus said, I … (teach) the WAY. Again we go back to Egypt to get help in understanding the meaning of this symbol word. We can also go to the Code Language, and through its words, verify the inner meanings. The word “PATH” has the same hidden meaning, and in Isaiah we find reference to the “stumbling block” which blocks the path or way to the Father. From these veiled references we can learn that our sins can block the path to the Father and prevent our prayers from being heard. The true meaning of sin is very simple. It is the act of going contrary to the law of LOVE. If we fail to love and to help and guide those of less understanding, we “block” the way or path that leads to the Father.

WHY THE SECRECY OF JESUS IN HIS TEACHINGS? There was a cult of secrecy which surrounded the Inner Teachings. It had existed for centuries. In Matthew, 13:34 and on, we read, “All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.” In Mark, 4:12, we read, “That seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” This paragraph may tell us something of the reason why there was such secrecy, but it seems to run contrary to the general purpose of bringing all people to know that there was a Father. We can only speculate on the reason for such secrecy. But, at this late date, and with the advance in general learning, it seems that the time has come to make the secret teachings available to all who can and will accept them. When Jesus instructed his followers to go out to preach the Gospel to all the world, he did not make reservations and say that only certain chosen ones were to be instructed. Perhaps we have, with the new understanding, been given a new dispensation. Perhaps all are to be given a chance for salvation while there is still time left. In any event, the SECRET is now made available to all who will listen, and we remember the many promises to the effect that the secret would be revealed. “Knock and it shall be opened unto you. ” Or, “For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.”

SEEDS WERE OFTEN FOUND IN THE EARLY EGYPTIAN TOMBS, with the mummy, and it appears that they were considered an important part of the funeral offerings. The glyph for “seeds” was a picture of small seeds being poured from a bowl, and the symbol of the bowl, when shown all by itself in a glyph, had the meaning of LORD, or “all”, and the simple outer meaning was “bowl”. The glyph for the word “ceremony” was very similar. It showed something being poured out of a container. Both symbols had to do with a part of the Secret. Jesus spoke the parable of the sower who sowed seeds, some of which fell on good ground and grew, some of which were eaten by the birds, and some of which fell on rocky ground. That was the outer teaching given to the multitude. The explanation which he then gave to the Disciples seems quite convincing, but, like most parts of the real Secret, was still only part of the great Truth. We have only the single verse, as in Mark 4:14, where we read, “THE SOWER SOWETH THE WORD.” This is pyre CODE and SYMBOL.

The symbology and the Code open to us the real secret. WORDS are SEEDS in the inner meaning. All this has to do with the making of a proper prayer. The words we use in prayer are the seeds which we send upward to the Father self. We sow them as the seeds of the things for which we ask. If the “sowing” is correctly done, the seeds will grow into the “answer to our prayers”. The greater part of the Inner Teaching is given over to the matter of making the prayer properly. The 10 elements of man which we have listed, are all involved in the process, and will be considered in their time and place. We may call the properly made prayer “THE PRAYER OF THE MIRACLE.” Jesus made such prayers and told his Disciples that they could also, and he demonstrated the art of prayer and said, “Greater things than these shall ye do.” But prayer is a very sacred thing. It takes care and preparation, as we shall see. Jesus warned against loud prayers made in public, and advised his followers to go off alone, into a “closet” to make ready and utter their prayers.

IN THE GOSPEL STORY AS RECORDED BY JOHN, we find that he opens with the veiled words which tell the initiate at once that he is speaking of the second most important thing in the Inner Teaching. The first thing of importance was the Father, who is here called “God”. We read, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

IN EGYPT the ones who were not initiates, knew that there was something mystical and wonderful about the idea of “The Word”. For that reason they made it into a god, and worshiped it. In the glyphs the picture of a mouth is drawn to stand for “word”, and as a god, the glyph was accompanied by the glyph of a small flag on a staff, which stood for “a god”. The misconception has come down to us across the many years, and we speak of the Bible as “The Word of God”.

“IN THE BEGINNING” says John, and we can see here he is speaking of the beginning of the creation of the answer to a prayer. He goes on,” … was the Word”, and the translators of the Gospels, making the ancient mistake of those “in darkness”, thought the WORD stood for God. But the code tells us that it did not. It was the beginning – for words are the seeds which we must plant with the Father, who stands with us as the God Within. John says, “… and the Word was God”. The coded meaning here is that the Father accepted the seeds of the prayer as part of Himself. And we read, “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. ” In other words, all the things which come as answers to prayer are first made by the Father, then given to us.

The passages are heavily masked and veiled. In verse 14 we read, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. This was the answer to the prayer “made flesh” or made real and material.

In Matthiew 4:4 we have coded reference to the Word. We read, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.” And 8:8 “… speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” 8:16, . . . and he cast out spirits with his word and healed all that were sick.” 13:10 “When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sewn in his heart. This is he that received seed by the way side. (20) But he that received the seed into stoney places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; (21) Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while; for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, and he become unfruitful. (23) But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

Mark takes up the veiled theme in 2:2, “And straightway many were gathered together and he preached the word unto them.” And at the very end of Mark, 16:20, “And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. “

Luke seems to consider the “word” of the greatest importance, for he opens his version of the life of Jesus, saying in the second verse of his first chapter, “Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the WORD.” Again in 4:32: “And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. (33) And in the synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice. (34) Saying, ‘Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.’ (35) And Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Hold thy peace, and come out of him.’ And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. (36) And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, ‘What word is this for with authority and power he commandeth unclean spirits, and they come out.'” In 5:1 we read: “And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret.”

Jesus PREACHED THE KINGDOM OF THE FATHER SELF, and THE WORD. These were the to main themes of the Inner Teaching…. but note how veiled were the accounts of his teachings.

JOHN, IN HIS OPENING SENTENCES, TAKES UP THE NEXT PART OF THE SECRET. We pick up his words at 1:4: “In him was life; and, the life was the light of men.” Here we have two items which relate to the Father self. The first is the LIFE. or vital force, of which each of the three selves has its own particular kind, and the second is the LIGHT, or the symbol of the Father.

THE LIFE FORCE was of the utmost importance. In early Egypt it was shown by the glyph of the combined male and female forces, and this symbol, as a glyph, was carried in the hands of all the gods. The Secret symbol of the life force was “water”, and this was shown in the glyphs as three wavy lines, one above the other –  one for the vital force of each of man’s three spirits or selves.

IN THE CODE LANGUAGE, the symbol was “mana”, and this word was used as “manna” in the Old Testament. But it was not a physical something on which the Children of Israel fed. It was the living force, or life force.

In Egypt and in the Code Language, the grasshopper was used as the !symbol of the body-soul of man. In the tombs and in the glyph writings we find the grasshopper neatly drawn to make a glyph. The insect was an especially good symbol of the subconscious self, for when we try to catch the grasshopper, he is very evasive. But there is another thing about the insect which is both amusing and still very much to the point as a symbol of the “water” or vital force – the “mana”. When caught, the grasshopper exudes from his mouth a watery juice. So, he was said to “make mana”. The Egyptian initiates used this symbol to good effect. They knew that the body-soul was the one who lived in and controlled the body, and that it was the manufacturer of the vital force. At the command of the mind-soul, or conscious mind, it would set to work and accumulate or manufacture a large amount of the force. For this purpose it used oxygen from the air, and burned the food in the blood stream. AND SO, the heavy breathing of the process was also given a glyph, that of a SAIL filled with wind. The mind-self takes the force from the body-self and makes it into hypnotic force. The two souls or selves, however, must WORK TOGETHER to send the extra vital force, once it is accumulated, TO the FATHER self to give it power to make the SEEDS grow. The Father has no dense physical body and must depend on the body-self for the large amounts of life force needed to grow the prayer seeds. This is one of the great Secret Truths hidden deeply in the Ancient Teachings. The life force, when accepted as sent by the “Son” or two lower souls from the body, was symbolized as HONEY. The bee was very important for this reason in the tombs and when the bee was not drawn as a glyph, it was replaced by a little picture of a beehive. This force, which the Father used to create answers to prayers, was the ambrosia of the gods in the Greek versions of the Mysteries. It was THE BREATH OF LIFE itself. It was the sahu of the Egyptians. In John 20:22 we read, “And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost.'”

THE WORD “LORD” had lost its secret meaning by the time it was used in the Old Testament to replace Jehovah, and in the Gospels the meaning was still further lost. Originally, in Greek, it had the meaning of “one in supreme authority” and so fitted the Father, but NOT Jesus. The symbol word in the Egyptian glyph of the “bowl” had been lost. But in the Code Language it had been retained, and it was Ha-ku giving the outer meaning of “A lord, ruler, master or overseer.” It has a secondary or inner meaning of “To put words in order, as in composing a song (or prayer).” But the Code meaning is revealed by examining the two little words which have been put  together to make the whole word. These are ha and ku.

HA means “to breathe more strongly and deeply”, and is the symbol of the accumulating of the vital force in order to send it to the Father.

KU means “to extend or reach from place to place”, and indicates the secret of the cord which extends from the body to the Holy Spirit, and along which flows the accumulated mana with the seeds of the prayer so that the seeds may be “watered” and made to grow.

OUR LORD was the Master of the Breath mana rite. This is called the ha rite in the code language. Jesus was the great TEACHER in that he taught the chosen ones to understand and use the Ha Rite in making their prayers. Jesus spoke of offering up his flesh and blood as a sacrifice, but it was not the actual flesh and blood: it was the LIFE FORCE of the physical body which was so very important because the Father has no physical body with which to manufacture the life force. Paul, who was not an initiate, however seems to have an inkling of the true meaning of this sacrifice, for he urges his friends, (In Romans 12:1 we read,) “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Later, when he had thought long, he advanced the idea that the actual body of flesh and blood, of Jesus, had to be offered as a sacrifice to God to save mankind from the original sins of Adam and Eve. The belief still is accepted in most of our churches. But the TRUTH of the Inner Teaching is that the vital force was the gift or sacrifice. The burnt offering of the outer doctrine was something left over from savagery. The God of Love could not revel in the offerings of blood sprinkled before the altar, or flesh burned in the sacred fires. And Jesus was strong in his condemnation of the archaic practices. The God he taught was the Father who lives above us – in “heaven” – and who is the embodiment of LOVE.

SALVATION IS NOT, according to the Inner Teachings, the saving of man from the taint of sin left on him because he has descended from Adam and Eve. The first step toward Salvation is that of realizing that there is a Father self. The second step is taken when one has learned to pray correctly and has established a FREE AND EASY CONTACT with the Father along the silver cord. The cord is called “The Way” or “The Path”. It has to be opened so that we can make easy contact with the Father. If we learn to pray and do our best, the Father will help us to get the “Path” unblocked. This HELP is THE LOVING GIFT OF THE FATHER or the Holy Ghost. It is given in love and this is the secret of being CHOSEN. It is the meaning of being ONE OF THE ELECT. How confused are Christians who believe that Jehovah was harsh and retributive and only to be softened by the sufferings of the innocent Jesus, who was both God and his son, but neither of whom could give salvation except through the capricious intervention of a third god, called the Holy Ghost, who gave or withheld salvation with no good reason. How well the Inner Teachings of Jesus explain all these things to us.

THE PROBLEM OF THE GRASSHOPPER was a very grave one. The insect was the symbol of the subconscious self in the religion which Jesus had learned in taking his initiation in Egypt. This evasive body-self was discovered in modern Psychology only a few years ago. And it was found to have fixed and unreasonable ideas at times, called fixations or complexes.

Because of this characteristic, man is caused many troubles. He may be forced to do things which he as the conscious mind-self knows are bad and does not wish to do. All the impressions that we get from outside the body come to us through the five senses. As these impressions are received, the conscious mind RATIONALIZES them and decides what they mean. But once in a while a series of impressions gets past the screen of rationalizing and becomes lodged in the subconscious, there to be “triggered” or acted upon as if the original idea had been given the blessing of the conscious mind and set in its proper place.

As we see, this is a difficult thing to understand, and little wonder that Jesus did not try to explain it in a few short words when speaking to the multitudes. These fixed and irrational thoughts buried in the subconscious often block the PATH to the Father self. We may have a fixation that prayers are never answered for us, or we may have a deep and unreasonable sense of guilt which has lodged in the subconscious and is cutting us off from the Superconscious Self. Fears, doubts, greeds and many other things have been traced to fixations in the subconscious, and it is because of these that it was found that the HOLY GHOST sometimes could give one the gift of the opened path of communication along the silver cord, and sometimes could not.

The cleansing of the baptismal rite was aimed at getting rid of the fixations and getting the Path or WAY opened. The subconscious is greatly impressed by things such as WATER and rituals. When actually washed or cleansed with water and the suggestion is given that one’s sins have been forgiven, they can often be removed as stumbling blocks and the WAY cleared. But, as all Initiates knew, the man had to undergo a conversion or “turning back” as the first step. He must have done his best to undo the evil he has done and arrive at a deep feeling that he is deserving of the good things which the Father can give him. Conversion is a deep seated psychological process. It must be accompanied by strong emotion, for the emotions are of the subconscious self. This emotion often shows in tears at the mourner’s bench. But after the emotional storm is past and one has vowed to turn over a new leaf and “seek the Father”, there is hope that baptism will clear the path. Often it clears it but the person reverts to old ways and the deep sense of guilt returns to make the subconscious self turn its face away from the Father, and the contact is lost.

The writer of Ecclesiastes was undoubtedly an Initiate. We read, 12:5, where he describes in veiled language the things that block the path. “Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way and the grasshopper shall be a burden.” In Isaiah, 35:8 we see the veiled language again, and read, “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring  men, though fools, shall not err therein. (10) And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” And back for a moment to verse 6 for the vital force symbol: “For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” (Isaiah was also a great Initiate, and it is claimed that he foresaw the advent of Jesus as the Great Teacher who should come to show the way to redemption.)