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2007-9-5 04:52:00

Spiritual Hierarchy, Kingdoms, Truth & Knowledge

A reader writes:

"Thanks JJ, but I've already read all your [book] 'God's of the Bible.' Now I can agree that God is 'the great life' which I'd say is in and of and through all things living, and which I call the One True God. What I wanted to know is, which of the gods do you ascribe to..his name? The OT has the god who is called Jehovah. What can you tell me about Jehovah? Is he the top god of all the gods or does he have a god who is before him? Does the very highest, top god, give all glory to the One True God, The Great Life, from whence comes his power, and if the 'scripts' say so, where is it written? Do you direct your prayers to Jehovah? Is he a literal, physical being? Since DK is who you call one of the Masters, then does this mean he is a legitimate god? More or lessor? And then, would this mean he is a resurrected physical being"?

JJ:

The first thing to grasp is that there is a hierarchy in all things from the particles within the atom to the universe itself.

On this earth itself we have a hierarchy of seven kingdoms.

The first is the mineral, second vegetable, the third animal, the fourth human, the fifth Christ and his inner group of Masters -- called the kingdom of God by many. The Seventh is composed of beings who have achieved immorality on past system and here dwells the Ancient of Days and his associates. This kingdom is called Shamballa in the East. These inhabitants have come here to assist all evolution on the earth, of which human is only a part.

The sixth kingdom is a bridge between the fifth and the seventh. The Christ, the Buddha and a number of great souls native to the earth navigate between the fifth and seventh kingdoms and link them together.

The Ancient of Days who achieved liberation on a previous earth rules over the seventh kingdom and hence all the earth and is the one mentioned by Joseph when he said:

"The heads of the Gods appointed one God for us." (History of the Church 6:475).

The Ancient of days, called the "Father" by Jesus, is the "one God for us" mentioned by Joseph. Another name for him is the "Planetary Logos."

This being was also the first man, as taught by Brigham, but that incarnation was much more ancient than 6000 years ago. Think millions of years ago. He will also incarnate at the end of man's transition period here on earth, but that will be in the far future.

Above the Ancient of Days in hierarchy are the Seven Spirits before the throne as mention in the Book of Revelations. (See Rev 1:4; 3:1; 4:5.) These are seven planetary Logoi over seven sacred planets in this solar system. Over them is the Solar Logos. The Solar Logos and the seven spirits would have been the "heads of the Gods" who appointed the one God for us.

Above the Solar Logos is an even greater logos who is over seven solar systems of which our solar system is one. He is such a high order that even for Christ he is seen as "The One About Who Naught Can Be Said."

Once one goes so far up the hierarchy we become like slugs trying to understand the mind of Einstein. The God with whom we have to do,the Ancient of Days has a consciousness much higher than we can comprehend in our present state of being and Christ who is much below him in spiritual evolution is our example that sets our goal of attainment.

Outside of a couple encounters had by Moses most references to Jehovah do not refer to an individual entity, but to the soul of the children of Israel. Their combined thought and belief as a people created a thoughtform from which they received revelation. This explains some of the primitive commands such as putting people to death for minor crimes such as breaking the Sabbath or being a rebellious child. Such commands represented the thinking of the minds of the people in that age.

Moses, on the other hand had several encounters with the Ancient of Days, but because the people were not prepared for the great light that was available they were resigned to a god of their own making or the laws of carnal commandments.

Within each of us resides higher planes of spirit. These have been accessed by the Masters who have preceded us and such advanced beings inspire teachings from time to time that assist us here on the earth in breaking down the veils and accessing God who dwells in each of us. Each of us must find the God within and commune with Him to achieve liberation from the domination of matter over spirit.

Those who have gone on before us can provide teachings and inspiration but each of us must do the majority of the work on our own.

All those who have achieved mastery recognize the One Great Life, but they also understand their oneness with It. Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." In an esoteric sense if Jesus and his Father are one then Jesus is also the Father.

In this same sense if an individual is one with God then he is God. This is why Christ, the Masters and the Ancient of Days are called Gods to us, even though they are only dots in the fabric of the universe of the one God.

Hope this helps.

  


  

Here's another post:

First let me correct you on [Djwhal Khul] DK. He is a man in a physical body living in Tibet. I don't know where you get the idea he is a spirit. Alice A. Bailey even got mail from him and was visited by a Master in a physical body.

Thanks for the moralistic lecture of going within. You seem to be confused as to what I think on the subject. Perhaps I can clarify this for you.

Many say "is never about the outside."

Now when the majority of people hear this they will think "Yes, of course that is true. The Kingdom of God is within."

Now let me give you a statement which is equally true, but which you may not have heard before.

"Truth is never on the inside."

If truth is not on the outside or the inside then where is truth?

Answer:   Truth is discovered through the interplay of that which is outside with that which is inside. We observe that which is outside and reflect it off that which is inside and through the power of the soul truth is registered.

To illustrate this all we need do is to look at the two extremes.

Outside extreme:

A person on this extreme will not seek to register truth within, but have it verified by an authority without to whom he has given his power.

Example One:

"The earth is only six thousand years old."

"How do you know that?"

"The Bible says so?"

"How do you know the Bible is literally true?"

"My parents taught me."

"What makes you think your parent are right?"

"They just are!"

Here the person is basing his version of truth on that which was given from the outside with no inside reflection.

Example Two:

"The cause of the California energy crisis is deregulation."

"What makes you think that is the cause?"

"I heard it on the news."

"Why do you think the news is correct?"

"Well, they wouldn't say it if it were not true."

This person is as far away from the truth as the first because his authority is the Beast -- which is an outward authority accepted "just because."

Now let us look at the other extreme.

Example One:

Ron:   "All knowledge is as you perceive it from within."

Jim:   "You mean that if I perceive from within that Al Gore won the election then Gore would be in the White House now and not Bush?"

Ron:   "That would then be your truth."

Jim:   "And if I perceive within that the earth is 6000 years old then that would be how old it is?"

Ron:   "That would be your truth."

Here Ron mixes up truth with perception. If you perceive something from within it is only true that you perceived it, but it does not follow that your perception is true.

Imagine trying to dial your friends by using numbers you randomly perceive from within. It would be pretty frustrating.

This idea that whatever you perceive is true is a huge leap in taking us away from truth rather than toward it. If everything is true just because you think it then the search for truth ends for there is nothing left to search for. If the search for truth ends then no further increase in light will come and the person is reduced to a stagnant I AM rather than I AM BECOMING.

Example Two:

We have all heard cases where some cruel adult locked up a child in his room for ten years or more, so the child had no contact with the outside world.

Now in this case the child is forced to go within for his stimulation and learning from without is close to zero.

If learning from within is the goal then after ten years in isolation the kid should be a genius, right?

Not quite. The interesting thing that researchers have discovered is that during these long periods of isolation the child learned virtually nothing and his consciousness was as if the ten years did not exist.

If the child were locked up at the age of five and released at fifteen he will still see himself as a five-year old. Lack of stimulation from without brought his progression to a halt.

This lack of progression is something that I have observed in both extremes of thought. The literal Bible believer cannot get past his outward authority riveting him into his mindset and the "all is within" person will not take an objective look at reality as it is.

I mentioned earlier about a time that some Keys members were trying to convince me that all knowledge is within so I gave them a challenge.

I wrote down a one digit number in my notebook and challenged the group to go within and retrieve it. Now as soon as I wrote that in the notebook it became true that in this moment in time and space I had indeed written a certain number.

The group guessed every number they could think of from 1 through 9, and none of them were correct. They were beside themselves until someone realized that it must be a negative number. Finally when the group was headed the right direction through the process of elimination and about a half dozen more guesses they discovered that the answer was minus 2.

The interesting thing is that no one by going within was able to even discover the direction of the number (positive or negative) let alone the number until almost all wrong answers were eliminated.

Now it is true that the number was written in the akasha and an adept could have retrieved it, but none on the list who were preaching that they have this great power to go within and find truth were able to.

The question is this. What good does it do a person to believe that they can go within and retrieve all knowledge when they cannot manifest that belief?

The final test of the validity of a belief is whether or not the belief can be demonstrated.

So how would an adept have retrieved the number? Wouldn't he have gotten it from within?

Answer:   No. Within alone does not cut it. He would have gone to his higher senses within and observed the Akashic records without. Using a balance of the within and the without he could have retrieved the number.

So why am I teaching this and why is this important information?

The answer is this:   if a person has the simple belief that all he has to do to get any information in the universe is to go within, then, if this belief is strong enough, it creates a thoughtform that hovers around the seeker almost as a separate living entity that has a life of its own. This quasi entity also picks up information from questionable sources and feeds the seeker.

What often happens next is that the seeker gets more and more facts and data fed to him from the thoughtform. Usually there is no way to confirm whether or not this data is true and no principles are ever transferred.

This person will then get all kinds of false information filtered through his belief system. If his beliefs are centered around extra terrestrials he may believe he is in contact with ZOR from Alpha Centura. This ZOR will have a piece of data for any question asked. He can tell you the exact hour the great earthquake will come, the exact date the world will end, when the mothership will show up, how many planets are in his system, how old the universe is, what parts of the earth will soon be under water and so on.

The thing is that ZOR is telling you nothing that David or Dolly couldn't think up just as well. I could say Alpha Centura has 10 planets around it and one of them is populated by intelligent lizards and who could prove me wrong?

I could say that the mothership will show up July 5, 2012 and no one could prove me wrong until that date, and even at that time ZOR will tell us that mankind was just not ready in time and the date was moved up.

Beware of anyone who claims to be going within and only brings forth facts and data, but no principles. True disciples of the Christ and the Masters around Him will always teach or amplify principles and teach others to find truth through such principles and verification of principles.

There is no knowledge--facts and data as we understand them--in the formless worlds. This is why you cannot retrieve them by going within. You can go within and use the power of the Spirit through your soul to confirm true principles, but you cannot acquire data only by this high method. On the other hand, after a principle is made clear to the student, through an increase in light, much knowledge then becomes available to the physical brain that was previously hidden.

Consider this analogy:   You as the master of your body are like a god to the infinite little lives who live there. Similarly, the one God has the whole universe as a physical body, and you are a tiny life that lives within this greater body.

Now there is a terrific number of things going on in your body that you are completely unaware of because your attention is on a higher level. Right now your kidneys and liver are doing a fantastic and complicated job of removing poisons from your body and you are completely oblivious as to how it is done and the intelligence that is doing it, even though these life energies are a part of you.

Your tiny cells with their DNA are duplicating themselves with overwhelming intelligence and you do not have a clue as to how it is done.

In other words, you (the wholeness) as a god to your body "know nothing" about many of the things going on there. If your little cells were to ask you a question about how to alter their DNA there is little you could do to help them because your attention is on a higher level. Because these little lives have their attention on their own world they are expected to solve their own problems. You, as a larger entity, have your own new worlds to conquer.

If there were some purpose in it you could use your power of ATTENTION to commune with the lives in your body, but it is important that they handle their own problems so you are allowed to place your ATTENTION on the world where your normal consciousness and Purpose is.