The Nazarene Master uttered the above verse to the masses, who for centuries have overlooked the significance and importance of the mandate. Even the priesthood do not seem to stress this commandment, teaching instead the erroneous concept of the original sinful nature of man, and his redemption by an who is jesus we were born in sin, live in sin, and die in sin; and that there is no way that we will be saved from eternal damnation in hell unless we develop a blind faith in the divinity and the sole sonship of God of a certain individual. This belief contradicts various esoteric precepts of Jesus, including the statement in Genesis, that God created man–gods, in fact, according to Psalms–and saw that his creation was good. Why do we see something as bad when God saw it as good? Certainly, we see imperfectly–cause we see only the form, not the spirit.
It is apparent to the progressive mind that the quotation above hints at the law of evolution, and to one’s effort in accelerating one’s spiritual development. Perfection is the destiny and purpose of life within the form of each life-unit. “Father” in the opening verse of this chapter represents the archetype of man, the Adam Kadmon, the spiritual image in which each human consciousness is to grow into. Man came forth as a spark of God, with a blueprint of perfection as his spiritual identity. Man is to manifest that perfection in the world of form by reflecting the identity and qualities of the macrocosm within his lower being. Because of the impossibility of attaining perfection in a single embodiment, Nature has designed a system whereby the opportunity to mature into perfection can take place. This system is the cycle of reincarnation. Since we have already dealt with certain fundamentals of reincarnation in a previous topic, we will not repeat them here.
We have all heard the cliche that “nobody’s perfect.” Every lie that contains a little truth is readily accepted by the unthinking mind, and this cliche constitutes a lie which was wrought by the serpentine mind of the fallen angels, the adversary of mankind–to stall, to retard, and to prevent man’s reintegration with his Source; to immobilize his spiritual movement upward in the evolutionary spiral. The reiteration of such “heinous” words acts as a suggestion to the subconscious levels of the minds of men compelling them to believe that such a goal whose mark was set by Life, by God, is unattainable by man.
We should free ourselves from such a false notion; for to believe in it, is to cease to think, to act, and to speak righteously and divinely. Human perfection, in the sense of manifesting divine qualities, is attainable, and there are men and women who have secured this exalted state. They are the masters of destiny; and the fundamental difference between them–the masters and immature human souls, is their personal vibratory rate, their soul-frequency–the frequency of consciousness and its manifestations.
Though perfection be relative, man may attain human perfection–this is godhood; and on the scale of divinity, this is but an imperfect state of godliness.
Perfection is attained gradually by personal labor, by ego-effacement and SELF-placement. The attainment of perfection in stages rather than on a particular day of resurrection at the last trumpet call was one of the profound teachings of Origen. Another writer on Christian principles, Thomas a Kempis, declared in his literary work, “the Imitation of Christ” that,
“If every year we rooted out one vice, we should soon become perfect man.”
Perfection is Christhood, the universal destiny of all children of the light. True Christians are those who manifest Christ in their daily lives–this is true worship. This state of being is the “Second-Coming” of the Gnostics, of those who interpret the precepts of the Nazarene Master in an esoteric manner. The Christ savior is man’s reality, man’s Real Self, man’s cosmic blueprint with which he will ultimately out-picture in his waking consciousness, not in some future time in heavenly worlds, but right here and now. Everything that is expected to be attained in Heaven in the afterlife is to be attained now. St. Paul understood this teaching, and he conveyed it to others who were ready and prepared to receive it.
