Commentary on the Aquarian Gospel–14–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
Vision of the Child Jesus
On Jesus’ seventh birthday, many friends of His family were gathered at the home of Mary and Joseph. “And Jesus stood before the guests and said, I had a dream, and in my dream I stood before a sea, upon a sandy beach. The waves upon the sea were high; a storm was raging on the deep. Someone gave me a wand. I took the wand and touched the sand, and every grain of sand became a living thing; the beach was all a mass of beauty and of song. I touched the waters at my feet, and they were changed to trees, and flowers, and singing birds, and every thing was praising God. And someone spoke, I did not see the one who spoke, I heard the voice, which said, There is no death. Grandmother Anna loved the child; she laid her hand on Jesus’ head and said, I saw you stand beside the sea; I saw you touch the sand and waves; I saw them turn to living things and then I knew the meaning of the dream. The sea of life rolls high; the storms are great. The multitude of men are idle, listless, waiting, like dead sand upon the beach. Your wand is truth. With this you touch the multitudes, and every man becomes a messenger of holy light and life. You touch the waves upon the sea of life; their turmoils cease; the very winds become a song of praise. There is no death, because the wand of truth can change the driest bones to living things, and bring the loveliest flowers from stagnant ponds, and turn the most discordant notes to harmony and praise.”
Dreams
Ordinary dreams are monologues of the subconscious mind, which thinks in visual imagery rather than words. Most dreams are inane babble, and it is wise to dismiss them and get on with our waking life. But sometimes they do give us information about what is happening in the depths of our minds and bodies. Still, the effort needed to decode the message is usually more than the resulting worth. For this reason spiritual aspirants usually ignore their dreams.
There are, however, dreams that are communications from the superconscious mind. These are of a completely different order and should be examined for our benefit. How can we tell when a dream is subconscious or superconscious? Simply by the dreaming–if our intuition is developed through meditation. Without the sharpened perceptions produced by meditation it is impossible to either comprehend the nature of the dreams or their meaning.
Analyzing Jesus’ dream
“In my dream I stood before a sea, upon a sandy beach. The waves upon the sea were high; a storm was raging on the deep.” The superconscious mind uses many symbols, one of the most common being water. Usually water represents consciousness–either the individual’s consciousness or the Divine Consciousness. In the Bible water often means awakened spiritual consciousness which itself is the Water of Life. But when the vast ocean is seen in a dream it represents the Infinite Consciousness in which our individual consciousness is rooted, and from Which it is inseparable. In Jesus’ dream the sea was heaving with great waves and the atmosphere was charged with power. This symbolizes the stirring of Divine Consciousness preparatory to recreation.
“Someone gave me a wand. I took the wand and touched the sand, and every grain of sand became a living thing; the beach was all a mass of beauty and of song.” The sand, then, represents the individual sparks of consciousness that manifest as all forms. Out of seemingly inert and unconscious matter intelligent consciousness emerges. This is the story of evolution. The truth is that every single atom is a potential consciousness. A pebble is constituted of a vast number of atoms, each one of which is destined to manifest as a self-conscious being. The earth upon which we walk is destined to eventually become a multitude of earth-walkers just like us. All things are not just alive–they are lives. Jesus indicated this when he told his opponents: “God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” He is not only able, He does. Creation itself is a glorious explosion of life, streaming forth the infinite number of “sons of God” as it was intended to do, in very truth “all a mass of beauty and of song.” Continuing this theme: “I touched the waters at my feet, and they were changed to trees, and flowers, and singing birds, and every thing was praising God.”
From the One proceeds the Many. From material creation emerges awakened consciousness. And it is this procession and emergence that is the real praise of God–something of which only the meditation-awakened consciousness is capable.
“And someone spoke, I did not see the one who spoke, I heard the voice, which said, There is no death.” There is only Life, to which the Way and the Truth lead.
Prophetess Anna
Jesus’ grandmother Anna was esteemed among the Essenes as a prophetess. In many ways this was demonstrated both before and after the birth of Jesus’ Mother. Here she reveals her prophetic abilities and interprets His dream.
“I saw you stand beside the sea; I saw you touch the sand and waves; I saw them turn to living things and then I knew the meaning of the dream.”
Saint Anna’s interpretation
“The sea of life rolls high; the storms are great. The multitude of men are idle, listless, waiting, like dead sand upon the beach. Your wand is truth.”
Let us not fall into the exoteric pit of thinking that truth is an idea, that the truth is nothing more than a set of doctrines or philosophical principles. It is interesting that in some languages a clear distinction is made between relative, at-the-moment truth and the truth which never changes. For example, it is true that at this very moment I am entering these words into a computer. But in a few moments that entry is finished, and I am no longer entering them. So it ceases to be truth. At noon it is the truth that it is twelve o’clock. But in one minute it is no longer noon. What was truth is no longer true. This is relative truth. But real bedrock truth cannot be abrogated by anything. Even creation is not absolutely “true” because in the future it will be dissolved and “be” no longer.
Later in the Aquarian Gospel we find an exposition of this: “Jesus said, Truth is the only thing that changes not. In all the world there are two things; the one is truth; the other falsehood is; and truth is that which is, and falsehood that which seems to be. Now truth is aught, and has no cause, and yet it is the cause of everything. Falsehood is naught, and yet it is the manifest of aught. Whatever has been made will be unmade; that which begins must end. All things that can be seen by human eyes are manifests of aught, are naught, and so must pass away. The things we see are but reflexes just appearing, while the ethers vibrate so and so, and when conditions change they disappear. The Holy Breath is truth; is that which was, and is, and evermore shall be; it cannot change nor pass away.” In other words: God is Truth. God Consciousness alone is Reality. Jesus, then, did not touch His hearers with the “wand” of dogma, but with the wand of God Consciousness.
“With this you touch the multitudes, and every man becomes a messenger of holy light and life.” Saint Anna knows that Jesus’ vision for humanity is not that they become docile and pliable “sheep” that meekly follow the few that He will choose to “shepherd” them and keep them orderly and quiet, functioning as His mediators and interpreters. Not at all. When the touch of Christ comes to human beings “every man becomes a messenger of holy light and life” having entered into the Light and Life that is the Holy Breath–God. Every single drop in the sea of Infinite Life is equal to all the others. There are no “chiefs and Indians,” there is only Divinity. The egoistic and soul-stunting hierarchical structure that developed in Piscean Churchianity has no place in Christ’s Gospel, for He said: “It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.” Prophesying of the advent of Jesus for this purpose, the prophet Jeremiah said this: “After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts…And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord.” That is why Saint Paul, speaking of his knowledge, wrote: “I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” And Saint John: “The anointing [Christing] which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you.” This ties right back in with our previous subject of the true spiritual teacher. Such a one teaches the student how to become spiritually independent–not dependent–“a messenger of holy light and life.”
The Hermetic principle: “As above, so below” applies here as well. Jesus’ intention for us does not deal only with the abstract side of things; the Divine Order is to be manifested outwardly as well. So His grandmother says: “You touch the waves upon the sea of life; their turmoils cease; the very winds become a song of praise.” This is the experience of all those touched by the Wand of Truth. Consequently: “There is no death, because the wand of truth can change the driest bones to living things, and bring the loveliest flowers from stagnant ponds, and turn the most discordant notes to harmony and praise.”
This is the perfect vision of “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Commentary on the Aquarian Gospel: |
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• The Seven Pillars of Aquarian Christianity
• The Silence and the Word
1. Introducing the Aquarian Gospel
2. Revelations in the Temple
3. Revelations in Egypt
4. The Two Selfs
5. Deliverance From Gods and Demons
6. About God the Tao
7. The Wisdom of Buddha
8. God and Prayer
9. The Mission of Jesus and John the Baptist
10. Sin and the Forgiveness of Sin
11. The Universal Law of Man’s Free Will and the Divine Will For Man
12. Understanding Death
13. The True Teacher
14. Vision of the Child Jesus
15. The Law Behind All Laws
16. Opening To The Truth
17. The Twelve-Step Ladder To Perfection
18. What is Truth?
19. What Is Man?
20. What is Power?
21. Understanding
22. Wisdom
23. Faith
24. Healing and Healers
25. The Destiny of All Men
26. God and Man
27. The Voice in the Heart
28. Seeing the Unseeable
29. To God Through Man
30. Who Is Jesus?
31. The Real Versus The Apparent
32. The Brotherhood of Life
33. God…and Man
34. Relating To God
35. The Worthy Host
36. Come to the Light
37. The Kingdom Revealed
38. The King Revealed
39. Perspective On Death
40. Fire and Sword
41. Evolution: The Path of Glory
42. The Real Heaven
43. Getting to the Essence
44. New Perspective on Religion
45. In Tibet and Ladakh
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46. Words to the Worthy
47. The Thirty-Eighth Chapter
48. The Origin of Evil
49. The Silence
50. The Source of Healing
51. The Fivefold Gospel
52. Homecoming
53. In Athens
54. The Oracle of Delphi
55. The Real God
56. Return to Egypt
57. First Steps to Wisdom
58. Strong in Will and Intent
59. Here Comes the Ego
60. Blessed Are The Merciful
61. Claiming Our Freedom
62. The Great Test
63. Comprehending Death
64. The Christ
65. The Assembly of the Masters
66. The Seven Pillars of the Aquarian Age–I
67. The Seven Pillars of the Aquarian Age–II
68. The Declaration of Jesus
69. John the Baptist–1
70. John the Baptist–2
71. John the Baptist–3
72. Baptism–Jesus and John
73. Self-Examination and Temptation
74. The First Disciples Follow Jesus
75. Jesus’ First Sermon
76. The King and the Kingdom
77. Dealing With Challengers
78. The First Miracle of Jesus
79. Kings and Kingdoms
80. The Temple of God
81. What Is A Messiah?
82. The Laws of Healing
83. Nicodemus Finds The Kingdom
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Text of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
by Levi H. Dowling
• Sections I and II –Birth and Early Life of Mary, Mother of Jesus, and Birth and Infancy of the Harbinger, and of Jesus
• Section III–Education of Mary and Elizabeth
• Sections IV and V–Childhood and Early Education of John the Harbinger, and Childhood and Early Education of Jesus
• Section VI–Life and Works of Jesus in India
• Sections VII through X–Life and Works of Jesus in Western India, Tibet, Persia, Assyria, and Greece
• Section XI–Life and Works of Jesus in Egypt
• Sections XII and XIII–The Council of the Seven Sages; The Ministry of John the Harbinger
• Sections XIV and XV–The Christine Ministry of Jesus–The First Annual Epoch
• Section XVI–The Christine Ministry of Jesus–The Second Annual Epoch
• Section XVII–The Christine Ministry of Jesus–The Third Annual Epoch
• Sections XVIII and XIX–The Betrayal, Arrest, Trial, and Execution of Jesus
• Sections XX through XXII–The Resurrection and Appearances of Jesus–Establishment of the Christine Church
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1) Aquarian Gospel 16:5-14
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2) Matthew 3:9 [Go back]
3) Aquarian Gospel 22:3-10 [Go back]
4) John 6:45. “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord” (Isaiah 54:13). [Go back]
5) Jeremiah 31:33,34 [Go back]
6) Galatians 1:12 [Go back]
7) I John 2:27 [Go back]
8) Colossians 1:27 [Go back]
