Commentary on the Aquarian Gospel–16–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
Opening To The Truth
“Rabbi Barachia said, Your words are seasoned with the salt of wisdom that is from above. Who is the teacher who has opened up this truth to you? And Jesus said, I do not know that any teacher opened up this truth for me. It seems to me that truth was never shut; that it was always opened up, for truth is one and it is everywhere. And if we open up the windows of our minds the truth will enter in and make herself at home; for truth can find her way through any crevice, any window, any open door. The rabbi said, What hand is strong enough to open up the windows and the doors of mind so truth can enter in? And Jesus said, It seems to me that love, the golden cord that binds the Ten Commands in one, is strong enough to open any human door so that the truth can enter in and cause the heart to understand.”
In the essay The True Teacher we looked at what a true spiritual teacher is, and, consequently, is not. Now Jesus is telling us what even a true spiritual teacher does not–and can not–do: open up the truth for another. This is because truth–reality–is within, whereas illusion is without. Opening to truth, then, is an interior matter, something that cannot be accomplished by an exterior agent, however mighty or holy.
If God were not the inmost core of our being, even He could not open our consciousness to the Truth that is His nature. For although Rabbi Barachia is thinking that truth is doctrinal, Jesus knows that Truth is God. That is why He tells the Rabbi: “It seems to me that truth was never shut; that it was always opened up, for truth is one and it is everywhere.” This establishes that God alone is Truth, for only God is One and Everywhere. The mind can learn theology or philosophy, but only the spirit can know God through its innate oneness with God.
This is true, but why, then, do not human beings perceive and dwell in the Truth? Because they do not do the needful. For “ if we open up the windows of our minds the truth will enter in and make herself at home,” for our hearts are the natural abode of Truth, of God.
So Jesus tells us that it is not Truth that needs to be opened, but the windows–the perceptions–of our minds. Our inner eyes and ears need to be opened. This is possible only when through meditation we turn our consciousness inward to its source and there discover the Spirit in which our spirit eternally dwells. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.”
Will this be hard to do? No, for God, the Truth is everywhere, and that illumining aspect of Truth we call the Holy Spirit (the Holy Breath) “can find Her way through any crevice, any window, any open door.” Any opening, however small, can be the entryway for the Truth. So we should work diligently at opening ourselves, for the Lord ever seeks a way to enter. This is why He is symbolized as a thief.
Yet, blindness and ignorance have prevailed in us through countless incarnations. No wonder, then, that “the rabbi said, What hand is strong enough to open up the windows and the doors of mind so truth can enter in?” When viewed with outer eyes the situation seems without hope. But “Jesus said, It seems to me that love, the golden cord that binds the Ten Commands in one, is strong enough to open any human door so that the truth can enter in and cause the heart to understand.” Truth reveals itself.
Love of God is the key that opens the long-closed doors and windows of the spirit. Those who strive to love God shall surely find Him; for the striving is itself the sign that “the Day of the Lord” draws near.
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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?
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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
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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 17:8-12
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2) Isaiah 35:5 [Go back]
3) “Behold, I come as a thief” (Revelation 16:15). In Hinduism God is sometimes called “Hari” which means “thief” in the sense that He steals the hearts of His devotees, that He steal in unawares and takes them captive to His love. This is why both Saint Paul and Saint Peter say that “the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night” (I Thessalonians 5:2; II Peter 3:10). [Go back]
