Interpretation Of Luke

EOM Ida Mingle

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Luke 9:18 - 22

18. And it came to pass, as He was praying apart, the disciples were with Him and He asked them, saying, Who do the multitudes say that I am?

Christ represents the I Am while the disciples are the supporting factors of consciousness. These are set apart from the rest of the consciousness. Only those in the unfoldment of the Things of the Spirit can commune together. These seek to know what the Spirit is and how it identifies, which is the hidden meaning in Jesus' asking the question. To bring what was within and which was known to the without, questions must arise to invite the knowing, by which being can make itself known.

19. And they answering said, John the Baptist; but others say, Elijah; and others that one of the old prophets is risen again.

Consciousness, not knowing the Truth, attributes the things of the Spirit to issue from the highly evolved mental forces (John the Baptist), or from the gained qualities of being (Elijah) that have existed, or from something in the past that has been active in the consciousness. Until one knows the Truth, one cannot see how the Principles act in consciousness hence does not attribute the activities perceived to the One Cause or Source of Being.

20. And He said unto them, But who say ye that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God. 21. But He charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man; 22. Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day raised up.

Peter, the seat of the I consciousness is able through intuition to recognize the I Am, though this is only a subconscious knowing as is later proved by his denial of Christ. Christ seeks to make itself known hence causes the question to arise as to Its State of Being, this inviting knowledge from the external planes. That the disciples would be charged not to tell anyone that Jesus was the Christ is indicative of the fact that until they know this within themselves, they could not really make it known, hence, the command not to mention what was not really known, which is the Truth's way of holding the lie in subjection to Itself. Then, too, since Christ is perfected through suffering and must pass through many trials, after Its identification, one in whom Christ is operative would be subjected to greater pain and humiliation if people could know the Christ Spirit and Its outworking. Secrecy as to the mystical things of the Spirit is commanded for purposes of protecting those through whom the Spirit operates and expresses; as well as preventing those who would add to the suffering through persecutions, from further damming their own souls by the attitude they would ignorantly take.

"The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up." The Son of man is man conscious of the Son or Christ. This is the organism of the Son of God or Christ. Because the Spirit of God or Christ must be projected into the race, the organism through which Christ functions, must be slain, that is dissolved in its elements, broken up. To accomplish this the "elders and chief priests and scribes", that is, the religious and intellectual forces that represent the highest expression of mortality, must reject the Truth. This is to say that those thinking they know the Truth are the chief persecutors of Christ or Truth at Its coming, causing through this rejection the slaying of Christ or the breaking of the body. It is in the breaking of the body of Christ that the "flesh and blood" of Christ go forth to be projected into the consciousness of the race to produce in it a new Spirit and body quality.

It is Peter who knows the "Christ of God." This is not as though the conscious intelligence, but as through the inner forces of the I consciousness. The Christ of God is the Spirit of God. This Spirit is embodied in Jesus, the organism of the Word, though in the second coming of Christ the organism receives the New Name, which is Jesus plus the fuller outworking of the Principles of Being. "The third day" in which Christ is raised refers to the activity of the Principles through the three departments of Being, that is, Spirit, Soul, and Body. Three is half of six, and represents one pole of the Creative Principle working out. The fulfillment of the six days or actions of God is the seventh, the Sabbath Day, which is spiritual man revealed; or man coordinated to Christ, the Spirit of God by which the Will of God can be done in the physical domains (earth) as it is in the spiritual (heaven). The first three actions of God are operative in the first coming of Christ, leading to the outworking of the last three by which the seventh or One is gained, the seventh becoming the One of a new beginning.