Christ: Christmas: Christianity

EOM Ida Mingle

Christmas and Christianity have their root in Christ. Christ is the Consciousness of God. The Consciousness of God is identified in Man. This constitutes "God with us," the first identification of Christ being called Jesus. The birth of Christ in Man heralded the first Christmas. Christmas is significant in that it is the mass of God-qualities identified, which are named or called Christ. Christ identified permits the action of God in the consciousness, this action being Christianity. Christianity is to characterize those in whom the Will of God can be done, this uniting the spirit (heaven) and the body (earth) as one. Oneness is the nature of Christ and the characteristic of a Christian. Christmas is every day in the consciousness governed by Truth or Christ.

The Birth of Christ or Christmas

Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ. The birth of Christ is the spiritual birth of Man. Man, to be spiritually born, must be opened to the action of God. This is the Will of God, done in earth or bodily nature, as it is in heaven or the spiritual nature. It is the spiritual birth of Christ, not the literal birth, that contains the mystery of Christ's birth among men. The literal birth marked the projection of God among men, through the Helpmeet of God, Woman. The womanhood of the race, identified from the Creation as the Helpmeet of God and Man (humanity), reached the point of interior progression (negation from worldly forces) so that it became the womb of the Lord (Divine Laws: Father) by which there could be introduced into the consciousness of Man the qualities of the Holy Spirit (whole spirit: united spirit, soul, mind and body). The coupling of Mary, the Virgin Principle, with Joseph, the racial advancement, was necessary to give tangibility on the earthly plane to Christ, the only begotten in the womb of Mary.

The Mother Principle of God must be understood before people can understand the begetting principle of God, the Father. "That which is born of the spirit is spirit," while "that which is born of the flesh is flesh" The piling up of the spiritually progressed qualities in the womanhood of the race constituted the Womb of Creation (God) in the consciousness of the woman who could coordinate with these qualities. Such was the organism of Mary, the first identified Virginal Principle of God among men. Hence, she was with child of the Holy Spirit. That is, she had stored up in her the essences that had been spiritually progressed among men but which did not come to spiritual fruition, because the saints died, not receiving the fulfillment of the promise of God. Through law of sin, or birth and death, forces aggregate in form from the wombs of women, giving birth to mankind, a kind of a man. But the spiritually progressing qualities are centered to their own centers in the womanhood of the race, women being the graves that house the forces progressed in living and dissolved by death. But the forces of the world pivot to worldly feminine factors, the harlot, while the spiritually progressing forces pivot to the Virgin Principle, which, through the authority of God, is hidden in womanhood of the race also; but is distinctly in character opposite to the harlot forces.

God appoints Woman as the Helpmeet of Man (Humanity), and since God is the controlling factor of racial progression, progressing consciousness to conformity with Its Plan and Purpose and Will, it pivots the progressed qualities that partake of the godly nature to the godly womanhood; this matrix being present in the womanhood of the race. Thus Mary, the first identified Woman Principle in which was the Mothering Quality of God, was the matrix in which was aggregated these godly qualities, these being the essences of the Holy Spirit. When the womanhood of the race reached a point of advancement that it potentially conformed to the Womanhood of God, existent in Principles in the womanhood of the race, the Mother-God Qualities were identified; by which the Father or Divine Laws could bring forth the first begotten Son of God. Jesus was not born from the sexual seed of Joseph, and that he knew Mary not until she had brought forth her child, is quite possible in the operation of the spiritual Law that performs its work by emanation, and not by propelled seed from the male to the female. The coupling of Joseph with Mary was a coupling of the heavenly and the earthly forces by which the invisible could be made visible.

The operation of this Principle was the identification of the first action of God in the race of an action to be present in the Immortal Order when the River Euphrates is dried up. Euphrates, one of the heads of the River that flows out from Eden, is that which relates to the sexual soul of mortals. The drying up of this river is the drying up of the seminal waters that have their existence because the nature of mortals is separated from God, being cut in two in the primal male-female forces. Birth by emanation of forces, racially identified among Immortals, is the outer counterpart of the capacity of Christ, as Male~Female Principle, to bring forth the Immortals through Law of Emanation. However, the Christ Emanation is the projection of Christ Seed, the Essences of Creation, gained first as Man and second as Woman, the two comings of Christ being the completion of Mortality and the operation of the Divine Law by which Immortality is established. This process is now working out, hence, can be known. That which went before, by which the present action of God can be, can also be known, for all of God's Wisdom heretofore expressed is expressing now, plus the added action of God that characterizes the "greater works" of bodily redemption and the translation of the race from the mortal to the immortal premise. The birth of the 144,000 egos as the first-born fruit of God and Christ is the ultimate Universal function, of which the birth of Christ (identified as Jesus) was the primary action. The first-born fruit of God and Christ as the 144,000 members of the Body of Christ is not the result of sexual seed, but is the aggregated result of the Seed of Creation, disseminated from Woman, the Creative Womb, at the end of Time. The qualities of the Holy Spirit perfected as one with the Holy Ghost (whole outline of form or body that is to be), is that by which the virgins can be brought forth. Virgin means male-female state of being, these being the universal aspect of Man as God created him to be, in the image (male) and likeness (female) of God. These must be spiritually born, conforming in consciousness to the Inner Plan contained in the Creative Womb, this permitting them to be brought forth from the primal Son and Daughter, who married in Divine Law, become the parents of the racial group that partakes of the nature of the Real Man. The conjunction of the heavenly qualities, aggregated as New Jerusalem, our Mother who cometh from above, is the corresponding action of the aggregated godly qualities in Mary, who was with child of the Holy Spirit. The mystery of God's fecundating power, even in bringing forth a kind of a man is in the womanhood of the race, and not in the manhood. It is not in combining the seed of men and women that there is a mystery, but in the formation of the fertilized seed in the womb of woman, so that man is formed in her. Yet, this is the outer mystery and is not the mystery of God by which the first-born group of spiritualized men and women are brought forth as virgins.

God's supreme mystery is in the use of the Woman Christ Principle, identified in the womanhood conformed to the Divine Laws (Father), with which is the Man Christ Principle, to bring forth the children of God, who are born not after the will of men, nor of the flesh, but the Will of God. This embraces the regenerate Plan of God, the divine generation of egos capable of putting on spirituality of being. It is above the law of sin and death that inheres in the sexual seed. God has but one use for sexual seed, that is to form a kind of a man or consciousness which becomes the receptacle in which its own qualities of being can unfold. Sexual seed is earthly and produces only earthly results. But "as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly". But the image of the heavenly comes from Heaven, through the application of the Principles of Being made known when the forces of the earthly are mastered to Christ, the Truth. The application of the principles of Truth, when Truth is known, is through the authority of the Divine Will, and makes man free from the limitations of consciousness, born under the sexual law (law of sin and death). This application is called Christianity.

Christianity

Christianity is the application to the life of the Principles of Truth. It had its beginning from a consciousness progressed to the point that permitted the Principles to become living. This is Christ Consciousness. Christ Consciousness is consciousness Christed. Consciousness is Christed when it has completed itself as a self consciousness and has given itself in service to the Divine Will, through dying to the loves of the flesh. Through dying to the desire to function the loves of the flesh one is opened to the Law of Divine Love (Mother Principle of God), by which the spiritual state of being is unfolded. This is in exact scientific law, for the death of the Love of God for the life of the world became on the plane of the flesh the love of the flesh. It follows that the death of the love of the flesh will open consciousness in the life of the Love of God. The Life of Divine Love is its action, its will. The action of the Divine Will in the life is Christianity.

A symbolical Christianity precedes the reality, even as a kind of a man precedes the identification of the Real Man. The Real Christians are not yet manifested as a group. When they are manifested they make up the members of the Body of Christ, this being in spirit the Church, and in body the State. The identification of Christ Consciousness, as the second appearance of Christ among men, by means of Woman, is the union of the Body with the Spirit, the Lamb's wife with the Lamb, which is the signal for the establishment of the first Church group made of the 144,000 virgins, who become the replica of the Righteous Government to he manifested among men, they having come under the government of the Divine Will by which consciousness of being is attained. This is the point of turnover in the Law of God, the point where the forces progressed in men and in Man (Christ Principle as Male) are encompassed by Woman, and Immortality is potentially identified. At this point of turnover the reality of the Church and State is set up, wiping off the forces that have made up the spurious church and state. This is even now working out. The dissolution of the church forces of the world the last century, culminated at the end of mortality with the rapid dissolution of the forces of state, this being a prelude to the establishment of the genuine Church and State, or Spirit and Body of Man.

The Christians make up the first elected group who are members of the Body of Christ. People deceived by the symbolical Christianity, that of necessity preceded the establishment of the real, prove their love of the letter over their love of the spirit and make themselves ineligible to become members of the Body of Christ, the united Church and State. A Christian is being a Man as God intended Man to be. Being a Christian necessitates attaining to the being of Christ. Making being a Christian as easy as the churches have upheld is absurd and erroneous. If one goes to church, says his prayers, turns his old clothes over to the missionaries, helps his next door neighbor in time of trouble, contributes a little toward a charity fund that is necessary because of ungodly conditions, makes his contribution toward the upkeep of the church and minister or priest, believes in the Lord Jesus Christ with lip service, he is supposed to be a Christian! Such mockery and fornication! One may do all this and know nothing of Christianity. Unselfish service develops the natural man and is to be encouraged, but the label of Christianity must not be placed upon conditions that are necessities under the law of sin and death, else the symbolical Christianity becomes an obstruction to the gaining of the genuine.

"Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven," that is, unless people live beyond the righteousness promoted by the thoughts and ideas of the mortal mind, and the forces developed by materiality, they cannot contact the spiritual ideas and principles by which the righteousness of Christ, by which is Christianity, can be put on. To be a Christian is to have the action of the Principles of Christ (Truth) operative in the life and affairs. The answer to "What is Truth," is always, "I am the Truth." Christ is the Truth, and I am is consciousness expressing the being of that Truth, the living of it. Truth to be known must be, for how can it be known before it is? Therefore to be, Truth must be in me and I in it, which is to say I am no longer a self-consciousness, living after the mind and love of men, but am a consciousness of Christ because I am conscious of Christ, the Truth. But before I can be the consciousness of Christ the Truth, I must be a self-consciousness. If I have no consciousness of myself how conscious am I? I am unconscious, never having started to think or feel in conscious consideration of myself or others.

Before one can be conscious of I am, one must be conscious of I. Yet, to be conscious of I, which is to know myself, I must lose myself in Christ, for, "Whosoever shall find his life shall lose it," that is, be swallowed up in the next step of being. For if I be a self-consciousness, an I, I attain the capacity to take the spiritual step that corresponds by which I become conscious of the Principles of Being (Truth), thereby becoming I Am. If I am conscious of myself as I am (seeing my advancement and lack of it), then I can become conscious of I Am Being, which is to be conscious of myself as I am to be. But if I refuse to become conscious of myself as I am, through failure to think or feel or to discern my advancement and lack of it by which I can measure to the Divine requirement, then I am not conscious of being on the natural plane, and I cannot be conscious of myself as spiritual being. Life is so ordered that the performance of what we have to do, by which We think, feel and act, in perfection, is the capacity to contact the corresponding inner principles by which we see our Real Self. If one is not principled in his natural living, and loving and thinking, how can one contact the Inner Principles governing the being of man? Being a Christian is a livable process, operative in relation to all things, and is not a mind full of knowledge's without any consciousness of their application. The Law of God has so operated as to identify its Principles of Being in the gained Christ Consciousness, first as the Son and then as the Daughter, by which the Light of Truth and its Love can emanate into the race mind, so that all receiving it can also become sons and daughters of God. But the Gentiles today are as lukewarm in the operation of this Universal Principle as the second coming of Christ, as the Jews were in the first coming of Christ.

Truth

Truth is never thought into expression. It is known. It is known because it is. Its isness is its being. Its being is the action of God among men. God is working out a Plan, by means of consciousness, the conforming of the consciousness of any ego to the Laws of this Plan being the identified Matrix or Womb of God, by which its Principles can be projected into the entire race and the universe. The projection of the Principles of Truth, with which are Wisdom, Love, Substance, Understanding, Will, and Life, is the automatic overthrow of all untruth. The universal action of God which is Christ's coming into the world (its projection from the central individual Throne) is the signal for the transformation of all things developed in the world. This is now going on, step by step, according to its unfolding Being. The religious preparation the last century, called the newer school of thought, was for the purpose of preparing minds and souls and wills and spirits, so that receptivity to the Truth might be. "Many are called but few chosen." Many who help to prepare the coming of the Feast of Christ are unable to eat it when it comes. They make the same excuses, some have married a wife, others have bought oxen and need to plow their field, (to use Biblical terms); though in this modern day people are obstructed by many things, even the belief that they know the Truth, preventing their capacity to receive the Truth.

Even as there is a symbolical Christianity before the real is known, so there is a symbolical sense of Truth (but not a symbolical Truth) before the reality of Truth can be known. The tendency to feel and think that one knows the Truth may be present as a means of knowing the Truth, but, in reality, one who knows the Truth never thinks he or she knows it, for it is known, not thought to be known. Wherever there is a consciousness that thinks it knows the Truth there is Truth not known, for one who knows the Truth knows the being of it within the consciousness and knows that it is known. Knowing the Truth is being what is known; proven, livable Principles that no mortal sense can disturb. Since Man of himself does not know the Truth, but the knowing is through the Spirit of God or Christ, then it is Christ within by which Truth is known and being. Truth is a state of being that one knows is present, and does not just think it is, The mortal tendency to believe that anyone can have a little truth without recognizing the whole Truth is as absurd as to think one can have a piece of an apple without recognizing the existence of the whole apple from which the part came. There can be no part of the apple without the whole apple existing before the parts; neither can there by any knowledge's of Truth without the being of Truth by which the knowing is disseminated to be received and known.

This center of dissemination of Truth is the matrix of the cycle, which is the Throne of Being and Knowing. There are but two witnesses of the Word, or Truth in Time, these being designated as the first and the second coming of Christ. Prior to the first coming of Christ, there were messengers of the Word, but they could disseminate nothing higher of Knowing and Being than was worked out in the Laws of God at the time of their appearance. The identification of Christ, from whom issued the spirit of Christianity, (action of Christ in Man). was the first identification of God's action among men in the bodily identity of Principles of Being. People who think that Buddha, and other religious leaders who appeared before Christ's first identification as Jesus were Christed, do not understand the Plan of God, nor are they Christian. To be full of knowledge is not to be full of Truth. Knowledge's can get as high as mortal mind, but the perception of spiritual ideas demands a corresponding cleansing of the self-consciousness, else they cease to increase and multiply, leaving consciousness in a worse condition than before it laid hold of higher qualities. Errors as to the Plan of God and Christianity are easily made considering the ignorance of mortal mind and the stubbornness of the mortal will, both of which must bow before the control of the I, before the I am (Christ) can assert its authority and will in the consciousness.

All the people who have a little of the Truth, relatively speaking, have to contact the Center from which the whole Truth is disseminated, silently or audibly, even as those having parts of apples have to contact those who have the whole apples to be divided. Since Christ is being to be known, those receiving aspects of Truth must make contact with the consciousness that is being, that is, with Christ Consciousness. Christ's second coming is an enlargement and expansion of the Principles revealed in Christ's first coming, plus the greater works relating to the application of these Principles, and the fuller action of the Word on the bodily plane for the redemption of the body. Since Christ's first coming necessitated that he go away, his second coming necessitates his coming again to claim his own. All the progression in the race, relating to the spirit of Christianity, promoted by the old or the new school of religious thought, has been for the purpose of preparing those who are capable of becoming Christians. These put on the spirit of Christ in a livable way, being the activity of Truth, hence, "I am the Truth," when its Will is fulfilled in the bodily plane as it is opened in the spiritual.

Being

There is no mystery about putting on the Being of Truth, Being means to be, that which is conformed now in Life to the Inner Principles. All people are in a state of being, but unless they are living in keeping with the Principles governing Man, ordained by God, they are not being the Real State. They exist but they do not live, for until they put on the being of the Real Self they are dead in trespasses and sins; that is, in violation of the Laws of Being, and in ignorance of those Laws and their application. One of the peculiarities of living is the effort people make to keep from being, to keep from conforming to Higher Standards of thought and action. Even students gloss over their weaknesses and shortcomings, closing their eyes to correction and chastening, saying to the Almighty by their conduct, "I refuse to be; I will not be". If one would be what God wills one to be, one must first be what the self wills to be. When one wills to be what God wills him or her to be, the self-will is under the control of the I, and one thinks and knows why, feels and understands why, speaks for some purpose, and acts in full knowledge of what is to be worked out. One should be imbued with the determination to find the Way of Life, willing to be what God wills one to be, whether one knows what this is or not. When Man furnishes God with the will to be willing to be, God will reveal the Will of Being. "If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from myself". This is the Truth, as applicable today as at any time.

To see oneself as one is, is necessary to permit one a isness (being) in Christ to appear. To attain to the I amness of oneself is necessary that the I Amness of Being may be; for without the self-consciousness consciously coordinating itself to the Inner Principles, the Principles cannot reveal themselves. Any attempt to hide oneself from the I is to hide oneself from the I Am. Any failure to be on the outer plane what one should be, is failure to call into action the qualities of Being. One must be all that one knows if one expects to know and to be more. Failure to be (or to live) what is known on the natural plane, that makes for advancement, is failure to advance so that the Principles of Being can be and be known. If one would be opened to the Inner Principles one must become highly principled in thought, word, feeling, and action, being a workman in living that needs not be ashamed before God or one's fellowmen. To desire to serve the Divine Cause which seeks to make Man, at whatever cost to the personal self, is the only state of consciousness acceptable to the Divine `will, by which Christ can be a living presence and power.