“The Revelation of St. John the Divine” Interpreted by Herb Fitch Class Two: I Christ, Thou Christ
When we come into the bible, let alone the book of Revelation, we are being subjected to a new kind of language. It is a completely different language then anything we use in our daily conversation with people. And one of the problems is that the words are the same words. You can say fish and the man will give you a pound or two of whatever you are buying, but when you say fish in the bible you are not talking about that kind of fish. When you say water you’re talking about the water you drink, or wash your clothes in, or swim in. When you talk about water in the bible you’re talking about a different kind of water.
Now in the beginning of Genesis in the second day, we see that the firmament divided the upper heaven and the lower. There were waters above the firmament and waters below the firmament. And later it was revealed on earth how we can live in these waters above. And then there was a veil placed upon that, and it became necessary for the Spirit of God coming through one who had already discovered the upper waters and who had passed into another level of consciousness beyond the human; beyond the visible, beyond the corporeal, to communicate with one on earth who had in some measure reached another degree of consciousness which was capable of receiving spiritual communication without words and without thoughts.
And whereas man of earth has been blissfully unaware that this is possible, he who became the realized Christ, the Son of God, sitting on the right hand of the Father, communicated with one of his disciples who remained where we are, on this earth. And the one he communicated with was living in the awareness that this is a spiritual universe. And because of it he was worthy, he had an ear to hear. And he could receive revelation. And so the kingdom of God became that place where he lived daily. It was his home. He was not a prodigal member of the human race. And as a result, Christ Jesus and Christ John had a conversation which is called the Revelation of St John.
And in that Revelation, you and I who still have not walked the path that they walked, were given principles that will enable us to lay aside the garment of mortality and to walk in a different universe than the good and evil universe to which we have become accustomed for many generations. The path given to us through the gospels was very clear, but only to a few. And then it became necessary to show us the degree to which we have deviated from the path of reality. And so the Revelation of St. John made its way into the bible and became a permanent record of the Word of God on this earth.
Now if you look at Ezekiel for a moment, you get an idea of how difficult it was for the world to understand the language of the Soul through which the Christ message came to John. This passage in Ezekiel is the 47th chapter. And it shows you how carefully Spirit, through the prophet, weaves a message only for those who have the inner ear. “Afterward, he brought me again onto the door of the house and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward. For the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under the right side.” And you see he is not telling you an historical story at all, but he is telling you about living waters. And then here is another clue to things you’ve bumped into frequently in the bible. We come down to the ninth verse, “And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither, for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.” Now you know he is not talking about the waters that flow through the pipes under the street here. “Everything shall live whither the waters cometh.” You notice that multitude of fish. Whenever the Master showed us that his disciples were not catching many fish in their nets and then he said fish on the other side of the ship, meaning, go into spiritual consciousness instead of material consciousness, lo and behold, they caught many fish. And so catching many fish becomes a symbol which has a double meaning. Even beyond just a single symbology it has two. It indicates that you are fishing in spiritual waters. And even the disciples themselves became the little fishes. Fishing in spiritual waters we catch many fish.
And so you see we are not talking about fish, we are not talking about water, but we have a message that man with the material ear cannot understand. And now when you go into the higher symbology of the Revelation itself, it can only mean something to those who have reached the place in their consciousness where for them, only the absolute truth will do. They are ready to abandon the human methods. They are ready to accept a new universe, a new identity, a new way of life, a way that takes them out of the old ways.
And so the change in their consciousness, which becomes quite marked, at first seems to awaken many kinds of disturbances. And you know the reason this happens is because when you begin to change consciousness, first of all you are saying death to the old, and it is quite rebellious. It doesn’t intend to die. And so you really stir up things that were dormant, but it had to be done. And then secondly, you become more sensitive. Things that normally wouldn’t disturb you, now that you are in a different consciousness, begin to disturb you. Things that you would gloss over quite easily, your new elevated consciousness sees very quickly as a wrongness. As something that shouldn’t be there, and you are not high enough yet to see through it, but you are high enough now to see that it isn’t suppose to be where it is; in the appearance that it’s making.
So your new sensitivity causes a double discomfort at first. But it isn’t too long before you discover that now that you are fishing in spiritual waters a new power comes to aid you. A power that at first you may call the Presence. It comes upon you. You are aware of it. In some degree it communicates with you, but always it seems to lighten your load. It even prevents things from happening, before you are ever aware of them, so it never comes to your attention that the Presence has gone before you. Oh minor things open up for you, but little do you realize the number of disturbances that have been eliminated, that never make their way to your awareness because of this new awakened sensitivity you have to the invisible Presence. And then you do become aware that it is going before you, because you feel a new kind of harmony. You feel a power being exercised for you. Not a power that you have to exercise yourself, but a power that gently smooths out the way.
And in this first stage you are quite willing to let this power do that for you. You are almost willing to rest awhile, and count your blessings. But you discover the Spirit won’t let you. No, it says, “Now that we have opened the way, let us go another notch higher. Let us find the second degree.” And now you are beginning to know that you are not quite the person you thought you were. You are not a mortal being at all. You are not vulnerable to the world’s problems as other people. You are independent of the laws of karma. You are independent of death itself. You are independent of disease and every time these things strike around you, your new found strength tells you that they can never touch the living Spirit of God which you are. You have found to some degree your armor of light. You know your identity. And yet, you still cannot break through to that ultimate, because you have found an inability to really obey the two commandments.
You love your neighbor as yourself, but, only as you view your human self. You acknowledge the Father, but yet, while acknowledging the Father in one way, at the same time you pierce the Christ in another way. And now you find you have intensified your probing to find out where you are failing. You have gone too far to turn back and yet you haven’t gone far enough. And you find that you haven’t died to yourself. You have accepted that you are the Spirit, but you have not accepted that you are not the human being. And so you are trying to be both; the Spirit and the human being. And now you know the human being and the human concepts are the barrier. You look out at others who have studied the message of Christianity and you realize what you are doing is completely foreign to them. They know nothing about it. They are worshiping God, they are worshiping Jesus, and some are worshiping Mary. They know nothing about the Kingdom of God within, the living Presence, spiritual identity, immortality now. They do not know God is the substance of their living form. They do not know they have a spiritual body. They are not striving to obtain the realization of the Christ Mind. They know nothing about the Infinite. They are babes in the woods. They are Adam and Eve all over again wearing modern clothes.
You feel in a way, that you are out of step with them and they with you. You even find this in your own home. And so we begin to make a compromise here and a compromise there, until we learn that is not the way. No compromise is necessary on the Christ path. The Christ is never going to permit you to be hurt. Never going to permit you to be persecuted. And every time you are hurt and feel persecuted it is only because your human identity is standing in the way.
So finally you can shuffle off this human identity and see that if I feel persecuted I am right there piercing the Christ. Right there I am acknowledging myself to be one who is not the Christ, because never on this earth was the Christ persecuted. Only the false human identity. And you can let that false human identity be persecuted because you are learning not to be in that identity. You are learning to be “I” the Christ.
Now let’s make our acceptance and we will see that our third degree is when I can awaken in the morning with the knowledge that I Christ, am the living Spirit, the child of God, with no human identity. I accept the Fatherhood of God. I am the child of God. The child of God has no human identity. It has a human appearance. It has a human sense of a past. It has a human sense of believing it is growing older; a human sense of believing it is living in a physical world. But we left that back in the first degree and intensified our awareness of that in the second degree. And now we stand free in this moment in the realization that God, being my Father, and the only son of God being the Christ, I must be that Christ. And I am only half circle now. I Christ must be concluded with, Thou Christ. So that you are now in the second commandment.
Christ is all there is on this earth. And those four words constitute, your awakening to truth every morning, “I Christ, Thou Christ,” and this is the acceptance that God being all, Christ is your name. Christ is your neighbors name. And there you rest, letting the Spirit Itself confirm what you are trying to realize before you begin your day.
John did this for seventy and eighty years before he heard the Revelation of St. John. We do it daily two or three times, some more often, and to the degree that we accept Christ identity and reject the pressures of the human mind, which deny Christ identity, to the degree that we deny the pressures of the human mind which would look out and say, “There goes a thief, a murder, an alcoholic, a fool;” to that degree we also are accepting Thou Christ as well as I Christ. And when I and Thou are Christ in our consciousness, when that is what we are striving to accept, we are now ready to serve the Father that day, glorifying not the counterfeit human ego, but the divine Self.
Then we are ready for what John wants to tell us. And the presumption is that we here today, are in that state of consciousness which, although we have not risen to be the realized Christ twenty-four hours a day, we are those striver’s for God who accept the goal is Christhood. The goal is to step out of the false sense of mortality. The goal is oneness with God. The goal is to be the living Son of the living God.
And to the degree that we have accepted this as our goal, and are endeavoring to the very best of our ability to be faithful to this goal, to that degree we are walking under Grace. For the Father which seeth in secret, is ever protecting those who walk the narrow path of Spirit.
Now a very shocking thing happens. We find that the Revelation of Christ Jesus to Christ John, tells us that the entire human race is not worshiping God, but is worshiping the wrong god, the god of this world. The Revelation tell us that the entire human race is under a state of hypnotism, living in a sense mind that is incapable of knowing God. And that all of the activities in this world, in this sense mind, are functioning not in the Will of God, but in the independent individual will of the human ego. And there we have the basis of the world problem and the individual problems that we encounter day by day. We have said “Thy will be done,” while doing our own will. And even those who wish to do the Will of the Father are unaware of the method by which they can receive the Will of the Father. And so they march blindly in their innocence under the belief that they are worshiping God. And all they are doing is worshiping their own ego; their own sense of things, what Paul calls the god of this world which blinds men.
Jesus taught a God not of this world, but a God of heaven; a heaven that was at hand and available. And the world uncomprehending turned away. But that God which he taught, is still at hand, still available, and now we discover the Will of that God in you, must be done. There is no one on this earth who will not do the Will of the Father. We have a Father within, and until we have discovered the Father within, we cannot discover the Will of that Father. And so we walk blindly without a guide. We are like blind people with little white sticks. We are not aware of the Father within, consequently, we walk through the world unable to see that which Is; while we spend twenty-four hours a day living a sense of existence that the Master calls, “The living dead.” The Master says, if you know God aright, you step out of that deadness, out of the deadness to Christ, into the livingness of Christ.
And now he makes it very clear that until we step out of the counterfeit human ego, into the one Infinite Ego, the one Infinite Self, the one Infinite Will, the one Infinite Activity, we are not walking in Life Itself. He is telling a whole human world that it is dead to Christ. And this whole human world is under the belief that it is worshiping God.
One on the earth could receive his message. Only one was tuned and that one John, was tuned because he had found the Father within. He had been meek unto the Father. He was living by the Word, not by the human bread alone, but by that Word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God. He was living hid in Christ. And it makes no difference what you read in the book tomorrow, or what you hear today, if there is not a change, in which you turn from your mental capacities, and begin to experience the Father within, then you too will walk away from the message of Christ; away from the bible; away from those who have heard the Voice. You will walk out into a nonexistent world, under the belief that you are living, but you will not walk in the Kingdom of God on earth, not until something in you has turned, repented, awakened, been lifted up to that great decision, that unless I live in Christ, listening, waiting on the Father, serving the Spirit, glorifying the Father within, I too am dead to Christ. And in that deadness to Christ, I am dead to my identity.
This is where we find John at the beginning of the Revelation. This he says, is to advise you that a communication has been arranged with the Infinite. “I John was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day and behold I heard a voice.” It took me three years to find out what the Lord’s day meant. I John, was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day. You will discover the Lord’s day is not the day that Jesus resurrected, which I once thought it was. The “Lord’s day” is the day of the first resurrection of John. John tells us there came to him a transformation and just as you have read the day of the judgment of the Lord will come, it came to John. And that was the “Lord’s day” for John, which will be the “Lord’s day” for each individual in his time sequence. Each of us will have a “Lord’s day.” That Lord’s day for John was when he stepped out of mortality. When he completed his spiritual journey through each heaven, when suddenly in his consciousness there was a release. And he heard a voice speaking as of a trumpet. Now you know that is the, “still small voice”. You may wonder why is it a trumpet ? But if you have heard that voice you know that you hear nothing else. Still and small and gentle as it may be, at that moment it blots out the entire human universe for you. That is all you hear. And in that state of rapture it sounded to him as clear, and bright and bold as a trumpet; even though it was still and gentle.
What that voice said to John, what it meant to John, can probably never be recorded even in the Revelation. For it was saying, “I am come, I the Spirit of God, I the Infinite Christ, am now your realized identity. There is no longer John. John is dead to John. Now there is only I, the Spirit. I the living child of the living Father; I am the new John. And you are in the seventh heaven. You are in reality. You can never be in a mortal sense of life again.”
This was the resurrection of John. It occurred on earth. Many years had John lived in the state of meekness unto the Spirit. This meekness unto the Spirit, is a state of renunciation. Renouncing material concepts, material tendencies, corporeality, material ambition, knowing that I, resting in the living Word of the living Father, submissive to Spirit, can let the Substance of God flow, with absolute confidence, that that Substance will write the book of Life for me. What the Substance writes becomes the living book of Life. And when John, through living in Substance, wrote the book of Life, it was because the Substance of Christ was living Its own life as him. It was pure Consciousness that was living the life called John. Just as pure Consciousness had lived the life called Jesus. Just as pure Consciousness will live the life called you. He had found the pure River of Life. Where there are many fish. Where there are many mansions. Where the fruits of the Spirit flow. He had lived in the Tree of Life, not in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And for many years doing this, he was open to the inflow and the outflow of the Will of the Father. Not of the will of John. He was in the one Will. And only when you are in the one Will are you in the Tree of Life. Only when you are in the one Will can the fruits of the Tree of Life appear in your experience. And now having lived in the Tree of Life, letting the Spirit live Itself; having renounced his human concepts of things, he attained an inner submissiveness to the Spirit, which externalizes as, the Isle of Patmos.
And this is important to some of you who may say, “I don’t have time to meditate or I don’t have a place. There is so much noise in my house. If I had a place or the time I would be glad to.” Now renunciation says, you just try to find the time and the place where you are. God is where you are. And so right where you are, yes even in your house, find a place where you can sit in Silence. There are places in every house where that can be done, no matter how many people are running around, no matter how many people are blaring out with their TV sets. There is a place for you, and find it. And then you will discover to your surprise that as you find such a place, and there dwell, to the best of your ability in the Spirit, that you are doing what John did many years before the Isle of Patmos appeared. You will be creating in the inner your Isle of Patmos. And then the power of Spirit will do the rest and create for you in the outer the perfect place where you can be still.
To John it was realized in the outer as an island where he was taken completely out of responsibilities. But that island where he had to be, didn’t materialize all by itself. It was his inner consciousness made visible. And so will your inner consciousness become a visible place, where you can be with the Father. But you must make the first steps. Now on this Isle of Patmos, which was his consciousness externalized, as a place where he could be totally in Spirit, he was being lifted out of all sense of physicality. He was being lifted out of that form which is born and which dies. He was being lifted into the perfect Kingdom of heaven on earth. And this was the resurrection. Just as it was for Jesus the Christ.
This complete Revelation not only records his resurrection out of that form which dies, out of this world into My Kingdom, but now he says, “I was told to take a letter to the seven churches.” And he makes clear to us what those seven churches are. He is revealing to man the seven degrees of activity in each of us, the seven initiations, which lead us to the attainment of the same resurrection which he is undergoing. In you there are seven churches. Seven gifts of God. Seven candlesticks. And as long as you ignore these seven churches in you, the gifts of God cannot mature into living experience.
You must worship at each of the seven churches. You must learn what they are. You must learn that the seven gifts, each lead to an individual heaven. Each gift becomes your gift in fullness, as you worship in that church, and then you proceed to the next gift, and each gift then becomes the attainment of another heaven. And so you march through seven heavens; the seventh being Christhood.
These seven churches were the way in which Master Christ Jesus came to Christ John. We will ostensibly be writing the churches, but these are the Divine churches in every man. And we will speak directly to those qualities in every man to awaken him to his full potential, to his infinite possibilities, to the fact that in him, are the seven gifts and that no matter who he is, where he is, or what circumstances he may appear to be in at the moment, the fullness of Christ is in him in the seven churches of his being; sealed up by his unawareness of them, by teachings which have obscured the truth, by conditioning, by false beliefs in heredity, by false beliefs in powers other than the Spirit.
And now says the Master, “Let us unseal these great gifts one at a time.” And the human mind says, “But wait a minute, before I make this, ‘my way’, how do I know? How can I be sure that this isn’t just another false prophet ?” So John takes us into his total confidence. He reveals his innermost secrets. He even tells us how it appeared to him that day, the Lord’s day, when the Spirit descended upon him and lifted him from the sixth to the seventh heaven.
Here comes that Spirit in John which is to release him from the last vestige of human hypnotism. And he sees that Spirit and because John too must be assured that he is not following a false prophet, he sees in the mist of the seven candlesticks the transfigured Christ. Within himself there is the illumined vision of the only man who has walked on earth and has overcome while in the flesh, the belief that there is another self than God. The only one who could walk off the earth and return, in the same form. And this to John, is the proof he needed that he is following, not a false prophet, but the very living Infinite Spirit of God. This is John saying to the world, “Even if you have not attained that John level of consciousness, which could behold the living Jesus Christ who had walked this earth in the flesh, I, John, have. And he has revealed to me the very seven heavens that he walked through, as I am walking through, and as you may walk through if you will listen to that which I saw; that which I heard, and that which was given to me for you.” For I saw him who said, “I have the keys to both heaven and hell.” The lamb of God, the realized Christ says to John, “I have the keys to heaven and to hell.”
And all this time, as we listen to John tell us about the lamb, about him who has the keys to heaven and to hell, we are still an outsider. We are still listening to a story about John, about Christ Jesus, until in a twinkling of an eye, you learn that this is not the story about John and Christ Jesus at all. This is your story. For he who has the keys to heaven and to hell, who is the Christ, who is the Infinite child of the Father, is that identity which you will come to know, is He who lived before the world was, He who was, He who is, and He who is to be. You are being lead to the realization that only Christ takes you to God. There is no way on this earth to come to God except through Christ. Christ has the keys to heaven and to hell. The key that opens hell and lets you out, and the key that opens heaven and lets you in, is Christ Itself.
I in the mist of you, am the Christ who spoke to John. I in the mist of you, am the Christ that Jesus realized to be his name. I, who lead Jesus to the seventh heaven, I who lead John to the seventh heaven, I am the Christ who will lead you through the seven heavens. I have the key to heaven and to hell. Your experience will not come through John and will not come through Jesus. It will come through the acceptance of Christ in you.
John, in his great love, is making it clear, that only Christ in you, can release you from mortality, and lift you into that Life which is without opposite, without pain, without insecurity, without material defects. The path to the Will of God, which is the throne of God, is obtainable only through the acceptance, that I am Christ Itself. That is what you are faced with right here, at the beginning of Revelation. I, Christ, must be your acceptance of identity, for you to find the Will of God, because the Will of God can only function through Christ.
There is no Divine omnipotence except in Divine Life. There is no Divine intelligence except in Divine life. There is no Divine immunity or protection, except in Divine Life. And only Christ is Divine Life. Only Christ can open the gates of false mortal concepts, which are here called hell, and permit us to walk in the pure Light of the Father, under Divine law. That Divine law cannot function until you have accepted Divine Life to be your life. And then, you find Divine law is the law of love, the law of truth, the law of light, the law of wisdom, the law of beauty. The fullness of the Spirit of God can only function when you have accepted that He who leads you out of Egypt into paradise is the Christ of your own being.
And until that step in consciousness is consciously taken, we continue to walk in the false sense of light which is the darkness of the world. Say it within yourself, “I, Christ,” and however strange it may seem to you, you must become a stranger to that which is strange. You must become a stranger to that which still tries to hold you in bondage to that which is not I, Christ. For only through I, Christ, will the Will of the Father be expressed. Never can the Will of the Father come to that mortal side of you which is unwilling to accept I, Christ as your identity.
So John is revealing again, that because man is unaware that I, Christ is his name, each individual walks, not in the Will of God, but completely out of touch with the Will of God. And the world that you see today, is out of touch with the Will of God, because the world is not accepting I, Christ as individual identity.
I, Christ, is you silent acceptance for yourself. Thou, Christ is your silent acceptance for your neighbor. You learn to do this. You learn that all human reluctance to do this the anti-Christ. And then you find that the I, Christ, which you accept to be your identity, and the I, Christ, which is the identity of your neighbor, leads you to the realization that I, is one, that there is only one I. Though each of us be I, Christ, I, Christ is one and not many. And you are coming to that point of oneness in which the Will, will express.
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It will not express while you are divided. Only when I the One, am accepted as the Christ of you, and the Christ of all who walk the earth, are you ready to live in the Will of the Father. Then there is one Will and it is the Will of I. And each of us must dwell with this until we can rest in the I Christ, meek unto the Will of the Father, taking in a dictation from the Spirit. Learning that there is a communication method whereby the living Spirit dwells upon the keyboard of our seven churches, playing a new kind of melody. Putting those seven churches into incredibly wonderful combinations. So that they are interwoven. Bringing out slowly, daily, in every way, the full potential of our being, in a way that we as humans have not been capable of doing.
And slowly this invisible Will, functioning through the seven gifts of God in you, lifts you into the fullness of those gifts, into a new level of your Self. No longer is the government of your life in your mental capacities, but rather in your spiritual capacities. And those spiritual capacities, those seven churches in you, are under the government of the Will of God in you, because you have accepted I, Christ, Thou Christ, as the one and only I behind this physical mental appearing universe. This brings you into the tree of life. That’s how the fruitage of the invisible Spirit comes into your life.
And so you see we are at that place where it becomes necessary to face the one great issue. Not how smart are you, not what have you got to show for your life on this earth so far, but to what degree are you accepting spiritual identity. For that is what you are going to take with you. This is what Christ in Jesus was revealing to Christ in John. That only spiritual identity accepted, lifts us out of passing time, out of transient bodies, out of the ups and downs of a false human sense of life.
And that is why we are moving slowly now, to let the seed of truth permeate every being, until there is an inner realization that unless I am Christ, I am piercing Christ. Unless I am accepting Christ as identity, I am rejecting Christ as identity. And then I am crucifying Christ as much today as men have in the past.
Every rejection of Christ identity is a crucifixion of the Christ. We are stepping out of the world’s stream of thought which crucifies the Christ by rejection of Christ identity. And we are putting on the garment of immortality by accepting it.
I feel that what we are to do is to nail down our understanding at this point with scripture, so that we see the scripture’s clear meaning. The basis of everything we will do after this will depend on having reached a certain level of acceptance.
“John, to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you and peace from Him which is, which was, and which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne.”
Now we touched that briefly last time. The seven gifts of God in you are the seven churches and they are under Grace. Nothing can touch them. Nothing can alter them. They are the seven unchanging purposes of your being. The human sense of things may go astray, but those seven purposes in you are there. They are all in the seed of Christ. They will flourish as you become aware or them.
“And from Jesus Christ who is a faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead.”
John is establishing here, that because Jesus Christ was the first begotten, he has demonstrated that he knows the way to the Kingdom of God. There is no other first begotten then the One. And so we have the priceless privilege of following that One who through being resurrected of the dead, proved to us that there is a life beyond our false sense of mortality. And showed us the nature of that life. Now he is called the faithful witness. And he said before Pilot, “I have come to bare witness of the truth.” And he bore that witness faithfully. Which means that he had traveled these seven purposes within himself. He had found his own Christ identity. He had submitted his mortal consciousness to that Christ identity so that the Will of the Father in Christ could be transmitted and permeating his entire being. And this in turn had lifted him through the fulfillment of each of the seven purposes, into Christ realized, into immortality attained. And as a consequence, having pursued the narrow path of Christ identity, instead of the wide broad path of mortal identity, he had rejected every temptation that would deny him to be that Christ. Every temptation that would deny the beggar or the hypocrite or the fool or the cripple to be other than the Christ. And in his fidelity to everything that would make him deny Christ in another or himself, he became a faithful witness.
So this becomes part of our path. I too must learn to deny, not the Christ of my being, but the mortality that appears around me. I must learn to face every thought which would tempt me to believe that there is no Christ identity where I see the leper, the cancer victim, the tubercular victim, the arthritic victim. Every form of disease is a temptation to make me believe that Christ is not there. And then I am not a faithful witness.
He had faced these temptations and in many cases visibly touched those who were diseased, to prove that Christ identity was there and not physical disease. Always, he was witnessing that Christ is the only life on this earth and that every appearance to the contrary is a lie about the Father and by agreement with that lie, he too would be piercing the Christ. He did not. And therefore he entered into Life itself and became what is called the first begotten of the dead. We are to follow the path of becoming begotten of the dead, to enter Life by being a faithful witness of the infinite nature of Christ; without opposite, ever present, ever available, ever functioning as the invisible child of the Father where the physical multitudes appear to be. This is the faithful witness he was and John was later. This is what a faithful witness is. And only a faithful witness walks in the Kingdom of God consciously.
“And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever.”
It also said above that: “Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.” The blood has never quite been explained as I would like you to know it now. Yes the blood is the wisdom of Christ in you. Those seven purposes in you, fulfilled, become the one river of life which is the blood of the Christ. The seven purposes of Christ in you, fulfilled, become one moving stream of the Father’s integrated Will in you. Then you are in the upper waters above the firmament. The living Will of God is flowing as the fullness of the seven spirits of God in you. And that living stream is the substance that waters the Tree of Life which gives you dominion and glory. The blood then of the lamb is that pure river of life flowing out from the throne or Will of God in you, which feeds you living substance. And that living substance is as the sap on a tree. Flowing up through the tree and out as the blossom and the fruit. That living substance in you does exactly the same. That is the blood of the lamb. That is the blood of Christ.
“Drink of my blood,” he said at the last supper. But that He that said this at the last supper was not Jesus. That He was the Christ of your being saying, “Drink of the seven fruits of the Spirit that poured through the seed of your own Christhood. For that is substance and that is not ‘out there’. That is not out there in the sense world. That is the Kingdom of God within you. And that is how he made us kings. You are a king when you are in your Kingdom of God within. For you are a king there because there is no power higher then the Kingdom of God within. That living substance of the combined gifts of God in you, flowing as the stream of life is the river in which the voice of the Father speaks and melts the outer world.
Do you see then the power of life is within you now? Do you see then that the letter to the seven churches is to the seven powers of God in you, which combined make the flowing river of life ? Which take you to the upper waters of the firmament? Where Divine substance feeds and sustains your being through Grace? That is the language of the Soul which John is bringing to us now.
“And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father.”
Not only a king in your Kingdom but a priest unto God are you. How? Priests unto man would be those who speak the doctrine of man. A priest unto God is one who teaches the doctrine of God. And in the inner Self of you this moving river of life, is the very substance of the Father, flowing directly into your awareness, making you one who receives directly from God, His blessings. And that makes you a priest of God. Each of us, in the acceptance of I Christ, becomes a priest unto God. We then go forth to shower the blessings of our new found Consciousness of our living church within. And this is what makes you a priest in God.
Not only do you become aware that you are a priest in God, but until you do, you are separated from the direct purpose of God expressing in you. Only the priest of God only in Divine doctrine, not in man’s doctrine, are you in living revelation. Now you can see that inasmuch as the world is not doing this the world is not in touch with God and cannot bring God into mortal experience. This constitutes our sense of separation from God and makes us susceptible to the belief that God is not the only power. Now this is all being rectified in our consciousness.
“Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him. And they also which pierced him and all kindred’s of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen.”
Now when it says he comes with clouds, that means Christ within you and only Christ within you, comes with clouds. And those clouds signify purity, perfection. He cometh with purity. Only from the Christ within do you receive the purity of God. From men you receive concepts, ideas, interpretations. They do not come with clouds. Human authorities do not come with pure perfection. “Behold he cometh with clouds.” And the He that he is speaking of is Christ within. “And every eye shall see him.” So now if you have been dwelling in the belief that you are not bright enough or spiritual enough, forget it, because the Father says every eye shall see him. The seed of Christ in you, you shall see, because it is the Will of the Father. And seeing means, you shall understand. You shall accept. Every eye shall see him. There is no individual on the face of the earth who will not ultimately accept I, Christ as his identity. We need no further authority for that we have just seen it in these words. Every eye shall see him, and even those that have pierced him. That includes all, for we all have pierced the Christ of our own being.
We probably did it up to two o’clock today, and we will do it up till two o’clock tomorrow, and will keep doing it, but less and less. Because we are striving not to pierce the Christ, but to accept the Christ. Every eye shall see him. Even those who pierced him. And I know he is talking directly to me when he said that, because until you have accepted I, Christ you have pierced the Christ. And then he says, “and all the kindred’s of the earth shall see him.” And the kindred’s mean, all that is material. All material consciousness on earth, shall be lifted into Christ Consciousness.
So you see it has nothing to do with your personal capacities at all. The seven gifts of God within you, will see to that. You can simply delay your realization of it, but your denial can only continue up to a certain point. And that point each of us will learn at one time, if we have not at that point reached the place where, I, Christ is my name in spite of what the world may say. “All kindred’s of the earth shall wail because of him.” Now the wailing of the kindred’s of the earth means, that all mortal consciousness knowing it is being pushed out will wail. This is referring to your remnant of mortal consciousness within yourself, it will wail as it is doing now. “Oh I can’t go that far.” That’s the wailing. And each of us will put up this inner fight, “No, no, no, don’t make me be the Christ, my heavens it is the last thing I want to be. Just let me be a happy mortal.” That’s the wailing. But every kindred of the earth which wails will wail without any effect, because we have been wailing now these thousands of years not to be the Christ. And finally the intelligence that says I of my own self can do many things, is beginning to realize how stupid it really is. And the last wailings of this false ego, will tell you ultimately that, you have reached a new plateau. You don’t feel uncomfortable to accept a Divine life as your life. You are even willing to believe that you might be a Divine life. You are even willing to go all the way and live as a Divine life, forsaking all the concepts of the sense mind. And then there is no more wailing of the kindred’s of the earth. “I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending saith the Lord. Which is and which was and which is to come. The Almighty.”
When the wailing is stopped within you, you hear the voice declare that I am alpha and omega. We will see exactly what that means as it declares it to John in a moment.
‘I John, who also am your companion, your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the Isle called Patmos for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.’
Now you might wonder why John says, “I, John, who am also your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ.” He is saying very simply this, “I, John and Jesus Christ were both human beings just as you had thought you were. We went through the very same struggles you went through. We are your companions in tribulation. We are your brothers. We are not some divine entity that came out of the clouds. We walked on this earth in a mortal frame. We had mortal problems. We went through every tribulation that you are going through and a few others in addition. And finally decided we weren’t mortal beings and came through into the acceptance of I, Christ. As you will too. And that is why now, I, John, am able to tell you that having gone through all of those tribulations, I can now say,”
“That I was in the Spirit in the Lord’s day. And I heard a great voice as of a trumpet saying, I am alpha and omega, the first and the last. What thou seest write in a book and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia.”
Now this is the eleventh verse of the first chapter and I want you to make a mental note to look at it many times and the reason is this: I am alpha and omega, is the Christ within you. John heard it, but you could have heard it too, because it is the same Christ. It is saying, I am the first and the last. I am the beginning: alpha and I am the ending: omega. Meaning, that you came out of me and you are returning to me. There is no place else to go. I am all there is. I am the first and the last. I am that which was, and that which is, and that which will be. All there is, is I, Christ, the Son of God, there is no other. And you are learning that you have come out of me and you are returning to me.
That is what the voice is saying now to John. He is listening to Christ within say, “John you are no longer John you always were I. You went out of I and you are coming back to I. You are now the immortal John. The Christed John. Welcome home to your true Self. And what thou seest write in a book.” Now this is the part I want you to think of frequently. What you write in your book determines what your life is. The way you write in your book, is to be conscious. When you are conscious of I, that which you write in your book, through this consciousness of I, is the living substance. And because that substance is what writes your book, your outer experience is Divinity expressing. John you have touched the living substance of I. Now let I write your book for you. And writing your book means, living your life. The life you live is the book you write. You write your own book. You live your own life. But what you write depends on whether you are using Divine writing equipment or human. Whether you are in mind or Soul. Whether you are in the ignorance of God or the knowledge of God; in the substance of God or the counterfeit.
Now John you are ready to write the real book. The book of Life. Not the book of imitations. For I the alpha and omega, I am the living substance. I will write your book. I will live your life. And this is what John is hearing from the Christ within. When you hear this from the Christ within, you become a living substance of God realized. And all that the Father hath is in that substance. Your book must be written by Christ or your life will not express the fruits of Christ. This is what John is hearing within himself. What thou seest write in a book. Send it unto the seven churches.
Now the Christ substance of you functions those seven churches and nothing else can. This is the inner meaning of that verse. The seven churches of God in you can only be functioned by Christ. And if only one percent of them is active in you, it is because the mind of you has no capacity whatsoever to touch and nourish and sustain those seven gifts of God in you. Only Christ can do it. And only Christ identity can release Christ in you. The eleventh verse of the first chapter is the key at this moment to finding that substance which can write the book of Life.
“Unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea.”
Now those seven churches where seven visible, tangible, churches, which had been established and were doing spiritual work. But as we explained last time they were the out picturing of consciousness. They are in Christ Consciousness and they are in you, but not with those names.
“And then I, meaning John, turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks.”
Now these golden candlesticks are your capacities. They are your seven unchangeable purposes. And these golden candlesticks are the churches in you. You see they hold a candle and that candle has a wick and when it is a flame you will find the seven stars. And these seven stars are called the angels of the churches. They are the fulfillment of the seven purposes. And all of this takes place as John is lifted higher and higher to reveal the nature of those seven stars.
“And in the mist of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man clothed with a garment down to the foot girdled about paps with a golden girdle.”
Now everything that is going to be said here is going to tell you that this one appearing is the chosen one; Christ realized. And all of the signs will say he has attained total illumination. Woolly hair so white, garments girdled in gold, down to the ankle. You see the ankle length garment was the holiest of holy, this is what the high priest wore in the ark. Only he who had the ankle length garment could go into the ark of the Hebrews. And we find then that, this which he sees among the seven candlesticks in the midst means, he has fulfilled them. This chosen one is the anointed who has fulfilled the seven unchangeable purposes. And so he wears the ankle length garment and this garment is girdled. He has the power. He is yoked to God. He and the Father are one. That’s the golden girdle. They are one.
Well why is he saying all this? Not to enchant us with words, but to establish the authority of the one who was the first begotten. So that you will never make the mistake of following any other authority. So that you will not make the mistake of thinking that with your human mind you have discovered a better authority than the first begotten. And if you missed that point you miss all of it. Only the teaching of the One who attained the first resurrection, is dependable according to this Revelation.
And so all of our concepts, all of the, how many religions are there on this earth; they all have a better way about God then their neighbors religion. And the Revelation of St. John says take all of them, and put them together, and put them in a vault somewhere. Don’t follow them. You are following the wrong way to God. This one that I saw in the mist of the seven candlesticks is the realized Christ. That’s your teacher. And this one is the Kingdom of God within you. That’s your teacher. This one is the one who took Jesus through resurrection This one is the one who took John through resurrection. This one is the one who said Pilot you are wasting your time. You and your whole Roman Empire cannot crucify Christ. This is your teacher.
The one who demonstrated, I, in the mist of you am the only power. There is no other authority. There is no other power, than I in the mist of you. And you don’t need a musket and you don’t need an atom bomb shelter and you don’t need a tax shelter. You need I in the mist of you. For I stand in the mist of the seven candlesticks. I control the destinies of every man on earth.
And now all the symbols of this total power of I, are brought forth by John. His head and his hairs were white like wool. And wool is the Divine wisdom. The whiteness of the wool is Divine wisdom and knowledge. White as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire. And the fire is a symbol of eternal truth. He is showing you that if you want Divine wisdom and eternal truth, you go to him who stands in the mist of the seven candlesticks, not to a human authority, not to a human church, you go to the church of God in you, if you want God. And so he is bringing forth omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, are all touched the instant that I, Christ, in you is born. His feet like unto fine brass, which means, Christ is endearing, eternal, indestructible. No matter how many ways or directions you turn, you will always have to turn back to that which is the eternal life of God in you – Christ. Like fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. That means you are inseparable from God when you are in Christ in you. His voice is the sound of many waters. Many waters usually means many heavens. So that, the Christ is speaking from the Infinite, not from a finite, localized point of view. Christ speaks from the seven heavens. And he had in his right hand seven stars. That means the purpose is fulfilled. And out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword. And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Now that two edged sword out of the mouth of Christ is very simple. Accept Christ and you walk out of the deadness to Christ, into life. That’s one edge of the sword. Reject Christ, and you stay right out of heaven. And that’s the other edge of the sword. In other words, acceptance or rejection by you, determines which edge of the sword you get. You walk into heaven or you don’t. That’s the two edged sword and you have the alternative to decide. But Christ is unchanging. You walk into heaven through Christ. No man cometh to the Father except through Me, says the Christ of your being. That’s the two edged sword. And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. The sun shines. We all accept it, the warmth and the heat; and so the Christ in you shines. It sends out the truth of God. That’s how it shines. It shines the truth of God to the world. Now we either walk into this Christ and accept it or we don’t.
The truth is shining in you and if you want the truth you must come to Christ because I, Christ, in you, I am the truth. If you want life you must come to Christ because I, Christ, in you, I am the life. And if you want the way you must come to Christ for the same reason. If you want the resurrection from the living dead, come to Christ within you, because, I am the resurrection. And his sun shineth. This is a nowness. Just as the sun is shinning now, Christ is shinning the truth in you awaiting recognition. We are talking about a living isness, not about a heavenly hereafter. We are talking about God now, not a God tomorrow. We are talking about a contemporary God. Not a dead God two thousand years ago. We are talking about God who is living and expressing as Christ in you; the Father within you. And this is your authority which stands in the mist of the seven candlesticks, holding the seven stars in his right hand. The fulfillment of your being. Christ is the way.
And when I saw him says John, I fell at his feet as dead. Now you see what that means. This is the experience he was going through and in that high moment of ecstasy when he saw and felt and knew the Christ within himself, he surrendered all sense of a personal John. He fell at the feet of the Christ within himself, as dead. Goodbye to John; he accepts himself to be Christ. He is saying do thou likewise. Goodbye to this me. Fall dead at the feet of Christ within yourself. Surrender to Christ within. This is what he did. This is why he entered the first resurrection. This is an acceptance I, John, am not John, I am the Christ. For all this that he wrote here is what he saw within himself as you have in your inner experiences, seen one thing or another, he was seeing his own Christ come. Declaring Itself. Inviting him into Reality. And he accepted by falling dead. He was rejecting mortal sense, accepting Christ identity.
And then a strange thing happened. When I saw him I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me, “Fear not, I am the first and the last.” Christ says to him, “Fear not.” There never was anyone but Me. The only one on this earth, I AM. You don’t have to fear anybody. There is not you and Christ. Get rid of that sense of duality. Fear not, I am the first and the last. You have just come out of hypnotism John, that’s what has happened to you. I am you, and you are just awakening to that truth. When you accepted Christ, you merely accepted that there was no John. And you will discover when you accept I am Christ, the Christ within will let you know that there is only Christ where you stand.
You might as well start knowing that now, because that is the purpose of this Revelation. You are not there at all, Christ is. That’s your name. When you accept Christ, you will discover only Christ is where you are. The first and the last means, the only. You are now the living Son of God. In your acceptance, you come out of the hypnotism of the mortal self.
And John is discovering that now, when he has accepted I, Christ, am all there is, there is no longer a John. John the disciple is gone. John the disciple is dead. Just as Jesus was dead after the dove descended. Fear not, there is only I, says the Spirit. I am all there is. There never has been another. You have walked in duality and you have suffered from duality. You have suffered from the belief in a self, that did not exist. For always you have been the living child of the living Father, made of spiritual substance; walking in the false consciousness of a mortal me. John, you have just entered the seventh heaven, where only Christ is, and that is your new name.
Put that on your forehead. I am the Christ.
Now, do we go through all those steps to discover what they are teaching us, or does our faith begin to reach up and out to say, “Yes he is speaking about me, this is what I accept for me now.” For John could not go through this until he had already made that acceptance. The final falling at his feet dead, is the first resurrection. This is his announcement to the world, “Don’t you know that I am no longer in the flesh? I fell dead when I was born in Christ. I am walking in the Kingdom of God now, he is saying. All that the Father hath is mine now. I will never know death. For I have just become aware that I am Life, and I can never be less then I am.”
Christ is Life. And the realization of Christ is the end of death. “I am he that liveth and was dead. And behold I am alive forevermore.” All belief that there is such a thing as death is removed from the Consciousness that knows Itself to be the living Life of God, which is called Christ. This is that glorious experience of John’s, which is the inevitable experience of all the kindred’s of the earth. “For all eyes shall see him” as John did. – Amen.
And I have the keys of hell and of heaven. So you see, we come out of the hell of the belief of mortality into the realization, that I am Life Itself. And the key is, Emmanuel; God in you, realized. Write the things which thou has seen, the things which are, and the things which shall be, hereafter. The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand. And the seven golden candlesticks. Incidentally, seven, stands for completeness, gold for enduring, purity, and the candlesticks, are the unchangeable purposes or capacities for full possibilities of the gifts of God in each of us. Seven pure gold, pure enduring capacities. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. They are the fulfillment of those seven capacities. And the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Now then, we are to learn from here on, what those seven capacities are, but more than that, how through Christ they are released; that we may walk in a different universe, than the changing good and evil concept of life, that we have entertained. In other words, through John’s Revelation, we are to be lifted out of the false sense of life that we have entertained, out of the false religious teachings of the world, into the living Christ message which was given on this earth by Christ Jesus. And it is ironic that this is right in the bible, which is practiced in name only, in lip service only, by those who say Lord, Lord, and hope that for their two words about God, they are worshiping God. All of us have done that. We have all come out of homes which have only known how to say, Lord, Lord, but have not found that indwelling Spirit, which alone is the way to the Father’s house. So we can condemn no man. As a matter of fact, you cannot even be angry with your ancestors for not teaching this truth, because, you, are your own ancestor. The one in the past who didn’t teach this, is you, yourself.
We all start from the alpha and return to the omega. We are all the beginning and the end. We are all the first and the last; He who was, and is, and ever will be. We are all that one Christ. It isn’t enough to know that. Even when you know it, you are still a toddler in Christ. And we have to mature, so that the unveiling of Christ in us, is not handled by our human ways, our human needs, our human beliefs, our human effort. We have to fall dead to Christ. We have to mourn that we have been dead to Christ. We have to come alive to Christ. For Christ is Life.
So our friend John, has got us off to a good start here. And he will soon take us into the seven gifts, which are the way to Life itself. I think if you will practice in the morning awakening to Christ, you will find an interesting quickening in your life; I, Christ. When you have a feeling for that, turn to thou Christ, which is the world around you, so that you do not make the mistake of obeying only the first commandment and letting the second go by. I Christ, thou Christ. And it doesn’t matter what the world shows forth, that is the eternal truth, which is always the truth, no matter what you see.
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