The Inner Way: Jesus Christ's Teachings on Self-Discovery

Jesus Christ teaches that the true way to find the kingdom is through self-exploration and meditation.

### The True Teachings of Jesus: Discovering the Inner Way
* 📖 The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the teachings of Jesus Christ, particularly focusing on the concept of **"the way"** as mentioned in John chapter 14.
* 🔍 Jesus asserts that followers "**know the way**," challenging them to truly **understand and embody his teachings** rather than relying on interpretations from others.
* 📜 The speaker highlights that **Jesus’ original name was Joshua**, and critiques the adoption of the Greek name '**Jesus**,' arguing it **detracts from his Jewish heritage and teachings**.
* 🔑 The speaker points out that the true path to the kingdom of God lies within oneself, as Jesus indicated in Luke 17:21, which states, "**the kingdom is in you**."
* 💡 The concept of the "**single eye**" is introduced as a method for achieving enlightenment, where **focusing inward** can lead to **greater understanding and illumination**.
* ⚖ The speaker critiques organized religion, suggesting that it often **misrepresents Jesus’ teachings**, emphasizing that true understanding comes from **personal introspection** rather than external doctrines.
* 💬 Jesus' statement, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," is interpreted as a call to **recognize the divine within oneself**, rather than solely worshiping him as a figure.
* 🌟 Ultimately, the speaker encourages listeners to **seek the kingdom within**, practice meditation, and follow the true teachings of Jesus, which empower individuals to **achieve greater spiritual fulfillment**.

working. We haven't got enough time. What I'd like to do is study some of the teachings of Jesus Christ and focus basically on a little-known fact, and that is he is the one who instructed us on the way. You know, I really am NOT interested in what has to say or what Mr. Oral has to say. I'm not interested in those people. I am interested in trying to get you interested in what Jesus Christ has to say because what Jesus Christ has to say is diametrically opposed to what they have to say. But in this particular case, Jesus is talking to us in John chapter 14 on page 880 in those little bottles. In John chapter 14, and Jesus is talking about the way, and he says in John chapter 14, For where I go, you know, and the way you know. Now, I would ask those who claim to be followers of the Lord, born again. He says that you know the way. Do you know the way? He says you know the way. He didn't

say you should know the way he said you know the way he taught the way and this is the difference Jesus then since he taught the way would think that some people would have caught on to the way and that's what he this the point he's making here you know the way cuz you've been hanging around me you know the way cuz you've listened to me and you who have secatur studied the Bible should know the way because I got Matthew Mark Luke and John and he talks about the way throughout the entire Obama so what does he say is the way first of all going to paint now we're gonna run through some of the things that you've seen before but once again it's important that you document everything you know and I'll repeat because it's a new crowd on the television Lynn Sylvia came to me last week and she said that somebody got upset with me because I said Jesus name was not Jesus and and woman said what right does he have to say that that's a horrible things that so I gave

one Sylvia a page from a Christian dictionary, The Illustrated Christian Bible dictionary, and it says in there his name was not Jesus, his name was Joshua, that Jesus is a Greek name. Well, this you know, this flashes entirely the foundation of a religion that prays in Jesus' name because they made up the name of the Greek mythology. It's worth therefore I'll say, well, somebody said, well, you know, doesn't make any difference because, you know, in spirit we know it's to say price minimizes. Wait a minute, wonder if the creator gave him the name Joshua and the names you had schewe was some kind of a magic name and every time you said Joshua something beautiful happened and you changed it and he gave him a Greek name and the reason he gave him a Greek name is because you couldn't deal with his Jewishness. Come on, because the Christian Church was founded on anti-semitism. That's why you celebrate in a few weeks bunnies and eggs and jelly beans because you couldn't deal with Passover. They made up so you have

the Babylonian day of sexual fantasy, prostitution, orgasms, all of that stuff because you have St. orgasms because that's what it is. It is Easter. It is a day of pornographic sex, and that's a holy day. I'm gonna celebrate if you like. Is this great? Because why can't be with Passover? Why not Vallance? Jewish can't have anything, Josh, so they take the whole thing, and then you have a religious minister who takes, changes the guy's name from a Jew, Jahesh Shua, to a Greek, Jesus, takes Passover, and replaces it with Easter bunnies and jelly beans, and then quotes the Book of Leviticus. Is this a hypocrite? Come on. So Jesus says, What is the way? Go to page 782. We'll do our Bible trip real quick. Matthew chapter 7 and verse 14. Matthew chapter 7, verse 14. What's the first thing Jesus says? The strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there

are who find it how true that is because when you have found it. You're not considered a Christian. You're considered a cult saying that's what happened now the way to what the way to the kingdom. Okay the way to the kingdom. This is what we want to find. Okay real quick page 853 and I know that a lot of you have done this time and time again but still it's important to see if that's what we're doing. We're exercising through the Bible and through Jesus Christ teachings which are so important for our lives. He says in Luke 17 chapter verse 21. The kingdom is in you but narrow is the way few there are who find out that the kingdom is inside of themselves. I'm not quoting a religious teacher or Nevada. I'm quoting Jesus Christ or Joshua. How can you change it. It means a fraud. Do you know what a lie becomes the truth Albert if it's perpetuated long enough. We all call him Jesus as name wasn't his name. Could have been fell and we'd still be

calling Jesus because we can't deal with breaking from tradition whenever it qualifies right. Then here's a guy I probably did more to help people in peace and love than any man had ever set foot on the face of the ground, and we didn't even call him buddies right there. They can do with that now. The narrow way is in yourself where you find the kingdom. Now what does he say? He gives us instructions page 847 Luke chapter 11. Okay 847 Luke chapter 11 verse 52 is talking to the lawyers who are the Bible scholars of the day. You take away the key and knowledge because you don't enter within yourself. There's the key entering in. That's the key. You've got to enter in yourself. That's the key that opens the door. And I'll tell you something, if you use the key, there is every born-again Christian ready to tell you you're a Satan this.

you or the cultish. You're going to open up your mind. The devil's because you the Lord Jesus Christ. You may not honk when the car goes by when you see a bumper sticker, but you do what he says, and that labels you as an occultist. He says the key is entering in. Narrow is the way that you find which is the kingdom, which is within you. Now, what are we looking for? Go to page 880, John chapter 14, page 880, John chapter 14. I repeat this. I have said this over again. This is the statement by Jesus Christ. That is why we do what we do. We do what we do because he said it, and this is the reason. John chapter 14, verse 20. That day you shall know. I am in my father, you in me, and I in you. That's the way. Christ in you. Okay, no coding. Jesus Christ. So what do you do? He is the light of the world. What do you do? How do you become filled with this light? Here, here's a good one for the religious.

craft they love this one page 781. I had a guy talk to New York. There's a fella from New York, David Scott. Kilgore's from Scotland, and he's studying the mysticism of the South, the Celtic races. I thought interesting stuff, but he was telling me he said he wants to get one of the Bibles we use because he got a Bible, and somebody gave him the New Revised American Southeast Philadelphia Edition, and it said, you know, if you look on nice things, everything will be okay. They changed it, took the mysticism out of it. What does Jesus say? Jesus knows exactly what he's talking about, and the Bible knows exactly what it's talking about when it says in Matthew chapter 6, which is on page 800. And what did I say? 781. Matthew chapter 6, verse 22. The light of the body is the eye. If your eye be single, your whole body shall fill with light. Jesus Christ is saying you should practice the single eye. People get mad at us, tell me something. Is it in the

Bible, yes it is. Did Jesus say it? Yes, he did. And everybody that's in the East knows what the single eye is, the mystical point between the brows, between the eyebrows, the location of the pineal gland of the brain. He says activated, and you'll fill with light. Okay, well, what do you do if you do that? You go into meditation, things happen, right? You're at Matthew 6, chapter 22. Look at Matthew 6, chapter 25. Take no thought. Matthew 24:27. Why add thought? 6:27, 28. Why take thoughts? So forth. Take no thought. Okay, so here is the way you practice the single eye. You take no thought. You understand that Jesus the Christ dwells in you. The key is entering in yourself. The way is very narrow. Fewer your friends are going to find it. They're probably going to make fun of you, but the kingdom of God is within you, and the key is entering in, practicing the single eye, and you'll find it. That's the way. I challenge anybody to show me.

In the world that Jesus Christ taught a different way, that's the way, and he did. And so, it becomes very interesting then if we go back to where we began this discussion. Doesn't it go back to page 880, go back to the book of John, and look what is said here in John chapter 14. One of the disciples who is with Jesus Christ says, We don't know where you're going. How can we know the way? And that's exactly what the Christians of today would have to say. We don't know. We don't know the way, because they've been told by their leaders that this way is evil. So now comes the famous line, the famous line that they quote when they don't quote these about the single eye and entering in yourself. But this comes the famous line, which is in the next line, which is pure Hinduism, okay? John chapter 14, verse 6, and Jesus answers, What am I? John chapter 14, verse 6, I'm sorry. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man

cometh unto the father but by me. This is Hinduism, which you've all learned in the bhagavad-gita. Two words: I am and me represent that which is the Christ who dwells within the center. Hindu, Buddhist, Krishna taught it. Jesus Christ - how do I know that Jesus Christ? Now you could sit here saying Allah, no, no. Jesus was saying Jesus is the way. He wasn't meaning the I am is the way that wishes me, the center part of the mind is the way. He meant Jesus is the way. Here's how I can prove that he wasn't talking about himself. Are you ready? Go with me, go with me, page 869, John chapter 9. Excuse me, John chapter 5. Look at verse 30. What does Jesus say? I can of my own self do nothing. So how could he be the way if he can't do anything? The means Telling You. Jesus is telling you. Jesus is speaking. This is the way, is I am the way, is me, the inner way, the

conscious way, the single eye way, the take no thought way, the narrow way. It is not a man because he says, I can't do anything, and he says the same thing that Christmas said. I am is the way. Me is the way. Christian would talk to you in the bargain by guess and worship me, honor may recognize me, know me, praying to me. He's talking about yourself because Christian said in the West time we talked about the maghreb again. Me, me, me, me, me, which is thine own self. That's what Jesus was talking about, which I this morning. It's very interesting. At the age of 12, Jesus was teaching in the temple, Jewishness. He disappears. It was back 20 years later. He's talking Buddha. Where did he go? There's a temple in Nepal, in India, that records the visitation of a man from Jerusalem, Namie sheis, and they says he studied, went from Nepal to Tibet, and then went back to his homeland and was killed because of his beliefs, and he joined forces with another strange dude.

called John the Baptist, whose name wasn't John, and who practiced Buddhism. It's exactly what he did. There are some other books that the church did not allow in the Bible. This is a poor fragment of the books that were allowed, and I'll tell you quite frankly, the books that you have in the Bible were decreed by the Catholic Church. They put him in, they decided which books that were going to be in there, and when Martin Luther came around, he pulled some of that. I don't like this book. Oh, that's how you got your Bible, the Word of God. Yeah, it was a bloodbath as to how it was put together. But anyhow, there are other books. There's a book called... There's one of the books, and none of these other books were written by the same people, Thomas and John and all these. There's a book called the Dialog of the Savior, which is one of the apocryphal books. And then the question that you just saw, we don't know the way. The question is where.

shall we go? What is the way? And Jesus answers, The place which you can reach, stand there. The place which you can reach, stand there. In the Gospel of Thomas, it says, Where shall we go? What is the way? And Jesus answers, There is a light within a man of light, and it lights up the whole world. And if it doesn't shine, he is in darkness. It is two books. There is no instruction to look to any other source but to direct you to the same, so that was the inner capacity, that which is within yourself. And the comment concerning the light within seems to be consistent with Jesus in Matthew 6:22, says, If you practice the single eye, your body will fill with light. A few weeks, we get back from vacation. I'm going to be talking about what happens after a person dies. I thought, you know, I know I wasn't there, but you know, we'll use some conjecture, but we'll dip in on some of the thoughts of the ancient mystics, and it's very interesting, and it talks about light and

so forth and so there were many within the Catholic Church who couldn't deal with the fundamental aspects of religion, and they actually came against the church for a period of time. And then, rather than fight this large group, the church made a place for them within the power structure, and they were called monks. And they were living in a monastic, which comes from the Greek word Minaj's, which means solitaire or single ones. And these people were allowed to pretty much do what they wanted to do, and they practiced the mysticism that we practice here for the most part, but they still submitted to the authority. So, it was a compromise. They didn't beat up on the church; the church didn't beat up on them. They said, You can go ahead and do your thing, but we want you to, you know, be under the church and say okay. In the year three hundred and sixty-seven, there came an order from a guy named Anna Theseus, the Archbishop of Alexandria, to purge all apocryphal books with heretical tendencies. In other words,

anything that disagreed had to be burned. Do you understand? This is what I can't get through. And if I told I'm not born again Christian people, do you understand that you haven't been allowed to see things because of the tyrants of the ancient churches in the middle? You haven't been allowed to see the truth. That's all you're able to see. And they say this is the unquestioned Word. You haven't, you have no idea how this book you put together, and you, you are actually stopped because in the ancient times what they did, they burn and destroy anything that disagreed with the way they wanted you to believe. Many monks, however, hid documents, and many of them have been found. And the documents that were found in many of these monasteries were referred to as na G H a ma ma ma ma D. And the interesting point of naka mati is that for the most part, it is in opposition to the traditional Church and the thoughts of the traditional church. But of course, most of them were were summarily destroyed.

because the Church said there has to be a way that people can approach God. They cannot possibly approach Him on their own. They need the church, and the church feels that way to this day, and that is absolutely 100% contrary to what Jesus Christ taught. The kingdom of God is within you. You are the light of the world. There was a fellow who actually had been a disciple of Plato, but he found that the human mind could not find God within itself. He needed the scriptures in the church and recorded this as such and moved away from the teachings of Plato and moved into the church where everybody then, you know, marched together and became a group and a tribe and so forth. But there is an ironic, do you remember the character Philip the Englishman running around in the Bible? Hello, Philip. Boy, I don't know how he got this, but there was he wrote a Bible too. It's not in Europe, not in your book, but he said this. Listen to what Philip says in the Gospel of Philip. You only get

this one you want to run by teasing the Gospel of Philip. This is what he said, Albert. Listen to this. God created humanity, but now humanity has created God. It's the way it is. Humanity makes God, and so it would be appropriate for God to worship people, because if it wasn't for people, he wouldn't exist, because we made him up. You have never found, you cannot find Thomas, one writing from God, nowhere. And if this is inspired by God, that women must be hitting the head with a rock if they're not virgins, then we're in big trouble. Or if the God's chosen people sleep with their daughters, you know, and this is the kind of stuff. Everything that you've ever heard about God is from somebody else who heard it from somebody else, or who read it in the book that was interpreted the way their group interprets things. Nobody has ever heard, like the only possible way that you can hear directly from God is, as Jesus taught in here, then you hear from God. Otherwise, you're hearing from somebody

who thinks that this is the right the great teacher of the Gnostics. Valentinus thought, taught that humanity itself manifests the divine life and the divine revelation, which I agree with him, that the divine life and divine revelation comes within each one of us, which certainly seems to square with what Jesus is. Because Jesus Christ said, when will you read a little early ago, Luke 11 52, you take away the key because you don't enter within yourself. He didn't say you take away the key 'cause you don't go to church. He didn't say you take away the key before you 'cause you don't read the Bible. He didn't say you take away the key 'cause you're not born again, because the only person he's had to be warning it was a religious person. Jesus never taught his disciples they had to be born again. I was falling to him. He was working at a religious person who had Bibles under his arm and all of his religious stuff. And he says, What must I do? He says, Get rid of it or

you forget about it. You're gonna have to start all over to be born again. It's contrary to every ancient religion that has ever existed. In fact, if you read the Bhagavad-Gita, Christians will say once these people finally are enlightened, they won't have to go through the process again. And it says in the Book of Revelation that once you become enlightened and once you become aware, you shall go no more out. So, to be born again is negative, and Jesus Christ was not talking about a spiritual rebirth because when he was talking to Nicodemus, he said, If I told you about earthly things and you don't understand, how in God's name you're gonna understand when I talk to you about spiritual things. That's what he said. If it wasn't in there, if it was there that we have to talk about, if it's not in there anyway, I've no right to talk about it. That's what he said. Now this also I want you to talk to about Jesus Christ.

this is the challenge that Jesus said. I showed you the way meditation, the single I take no thought, okay, entering in yourself, that's the way. And Jesus Christ said, Do you boy, you know what this is the amazing, the one group of people that don't believe him or the group that says they're Christian, won't believe that, they won't do it. And he says, That's the way. But look at the promise that he gave to you. Watch, go to page 880, look at John chapter 14, look at the promise that this man called Jesus Christ gave to you. I'm saying to you, He that believes on me, in other words, does what he says, the works that I do shall he do, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go into my father. In other words, he's saying, You know what, you think I'm hot stuff, you think I'm Jesus, Jesus, son of the Living God. You know what he says, 'You'll do better than me, you'll do better than me, Rene, he'll win a god is great, but Rene.

is greater. That's what he said. But we can't deal with that. You know why we can't do that? We need a hero. We have to have a hero, Albert. And once we have a hero, then we are relegated to the dirt. We have to look up to somebody. He's the one we've got to follow. But he says, Hey, get off, get up your feet. You can do better than me. And he says, Because I go to the Father. You know why? Because if I hang around here, you're gonna be watching me. I want you're watching yourself. Take a look at joy. If your life has been what you have expected, fine, follow it. But if it's been a disappointment, then stop following churches and start following Jesus Christ. And the only way you'll follow Jesus Christ is when you enter within yourself. Wisdom is known by her children. If your life has been screwed up, you screwed it up by following them. But you can follow him right smack into the center of your consciousness. Oh, you know you like to go

will you go see the churches? They're big, and they got gongs in them, and they got colored windows in them, and they go old stuff pretty. It's nice. I, you know, architecture is nice. What did Jesus think of it? What do you think about it? Can you see? Just listen, try to focus in, hear that, hear that, hear those sheep, hear the dust and the dirt as people are walking and talking in the strange Arabic. Yeah, but they're shiny like all over the place, back and forth of the disciples say, Wow, look at the temple, look at the temple. And you know this is the thing, they're gonna have a new temple, huh? They're gonna rebuild the temple, of course. They're gonna have to block the Muslim temple outside and build a new table, but this'll, oh, this is wonderful, Jesus. Look at how nice these are. Go to page 801 and look what he said, page 801, and look what he said, Matthew chapter 24, and this is what Jesus Christ says about these beautiful temples, verse

1. The disciples came to show him the buildings of the temple, and Jesus Christ says, See you not all of these things? Don't be looking at this stuff. In other words, you know what that says, you know the question mark in the end of that. You know what he's saying. What the heck are you looking at these foot, what are you paying attention to church for, what do you pay attention to religion for, what are you paying attention to all these crystal cathedrals for. Because what does he say? There's not gonna be one stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down. That's the guy I'm following. Because we follow the one who lives in the temple that is not built with human hands. So people like the Gnostics literally threw down the stones. These churches were ignorance as they are today. There are hindrance to you finding this way. Jesus taught you the right, they say don't go that way. Same way that you've had unload the teachings of others, and this is a very

scriptural thing. Let me ask you something. How much faith were you put into this? How much do you need? Oh, you know, we got New Age people come in here - they're buzzing off, you know, they got smoke and rocks and feathers and all of this stuff. What's the difference? Yeah, it's smoking rocks and feathers. You got people throwing water on you and the other side or putting a hand in a minute. What's the difference with Jesus Christ said? You subject yourself to the teachings, even to me. You subject yourself to the teachings of religious people. They turn on the television and they find themselves. But what does it say? Go to page name 996, page 996. The rest of you go to first John. It's a men's room on the first floor. First John chapter 2. Okay, what does it say? Read it. First John chapter 2, verse 27. Listen very carefully to what it says. The anointing which you have received of him abideth at means it lives in you. You need not, you need not, you need not that

any man teach you, but as that same anointing teaches you all things. It's the truth, it's not a lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in it. You don't need anybody to teach you because all they are teaching you is what they've heard from somebody else, or all they are teaching you is what their group has formed as its doctrine. They're not teaching you truth because the only one that won't ever teach you truth is the spirit that dwells inside of you. And the only way you'll ever touch that spirit that dwells inside of you is in meditation. There is no other way, there is no other way. And that pretty much confirms just here's the book saying you need no man to teach you. In Jesus Christ, about 20 minutes ago, told you you take away the key 'cause you don't enter within yourself. That's where your instruction should come from. Look, go to page 866. We're almost down to the last precious few. Page 866, and I want

you to look at the book of John in John chapter 3, okay? And this is a very important scripture, and you see it; they hold it up behind the plate. Can you imagine Jesus, how he must feel wherever he is? They're all here. You don't turn the blog a much. Is it happy to what his TVs don't kind of game? I gotta put the sign. Yeah, John chapter 3. Look at verse 17, okay? For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved, okay? But what is it? He that believes in Him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son. Hasn't believed in it. And what is that name? It's not Jesus that out. It doesn't mean name. When you use the word name in mystical applications of the ancient East, it means you don't believe the way he instructed and the one guilty group for

that is Christianity. They don't believe the way he saw, which is the inner kingdom, the kingdom and the mind. And this is the condemnation, verse 19: The light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. So what are you gonna do? What is God sent? Not his son into the world to condemn it, but that the world might be saved through him. Well, Jesus Christ said, I can't do anything. They say, Hey, Jesus, they're gonna plump palm trees at him and all that stuff. Hey, come on again and save everybody. He gets out of the cab and says, You know the me? I can't do anything. You know, what do I do? I can't do anything. Nothing I can do about it. So then what are we talking about? He that believes in him. He, yeah, hey, you know what? That's what I was taught. You come up, you say, 'Put you, everybody bow your head.' I had nobody looking right now. Not really, not really. I'm telling you what they do in

these places you bow your head and you don't look around because you don't want to embarrass yourself. Here's the what are you going to get saved for eternity but you don't want anybody to know because you don't want to get embarrassed. Okay, stick up your hand. I see that here. I see that here. I see that hand. I'm saying you know there was a gospel one time, it's a gospel group, and the guy said that the lifeguard had to go to the bathroom and it was a preacher from a church here. No, he's a preacher, but he said to the guy, he said would you sit here for a minute, and the preacher says yeah I'll sit here. So, uh, tidal-wave, not you know like it's wave come in and everybody started drowning and they're all waving and the preaching upset. I see that here. Nice, God bless you. I see that hand. Thank God for you. I see that hand. You know he was having him also but I suppose that you come up this way and if you say this, you're saying you

say the words, Jesus is Lord. Jesus, of course, in Luke 6:46, is, Why do you call me Lord and not do what I tell you to do? But I want you to look at the scripture we've gone through the whole thing tonight of what Jesus said you must do in order to find the way, the way to salvation. And look what it says, page 979. You go to heed the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 7, excuse me, Hebrews chapter 5, and look what it says. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all of them that obey Him. Obey Him. That means there is no salvation unless you obey Him. And what did he say? Did he say you had to believe in his death? He never said it. Did he say you had to name him Lord? He never said it. He never said it. Never. There's no quote in the Bible that Jesus Christ said you had to call him Lord. There's no quote in the Bible that said you had to believe. How could he go up to

Nicodemus and say you got to believe I resurrected from the dead when he wasn't dead yet. Well, after you die, yeah, wait, well, after you died, then I'll do it. Is this dumb? He tells Nicodemus, you got to be born again. Religion says you get born again by believing Jesus is Lord and believing God raised him from the dead. He wasn't dead yet. And he told Nicodemus, and how could Nicodemus say you're the Lord? What? He just got done saying, I can't do another. Are you the Lord? He said, not me. I can't do nothing. I believe your God raised you from the dead and dying. It is just that happens next week. Wait, what are you gonna do with this? Does anybody ever stop it saying, what the heck is it talking about? Jesus Christ said, you got to do what I tell you to do, and you'll find the kingdom, the kingdom within yourself. And here it says he becomes the author of salvation to all them that

obey Him well. Then that obey Him. The kingdom is within you. Seek first the kingdom. Take no thought. Enter the closet and close the door. Do you know what we went in Baker used to have his PTL down there? Do you know what John I went? You know we saw down there? There was a room, and you know what he handy 16 closets. I'm telling you the truth. 16 closets, and you'd open to go any go in a closet, and you pray, and you come out of a closet just as screwed up as you an end of the car. Cuz what was that? You're bringing the same garbage into the closet, taking that they literally weigh the closet. Eastern mysticism means when you enter the closet and close the door is you're entering into the secret recesses of the mind, and you're shutting off the thoughts. That's what entering the closet close the door. So could you imagine this man who sacrificed his blood for these people? He's up in some place in the UFO looking, and he's the guy making sixteen

closet. There's another closet, huh? Laughs. Closets all over the place. I'm a closet maker. Why? Because I make a closet. I gotta go in the closet. They don't listen. You gotta stop somewhere. Somebody has to stop and say, What does it mean? But you know the problem. You'll never find out what it means because you're prejudiced against the people who know what it means. You'll never dare ask a Buddhist or a Hindu, And what did Jesus mean, 'enter the closet enclosed room?' So you make it up, and you build the closet, and you open, and you go in. Because if you had asked the Buddhist or the Hindu, What did he mean? He will say, Ah, wisdom, very enlightened, gonna loop me, enter in, shut all thought. And then you find them on. Nobody ever asked them. And so when you don't ask the ones who know, you build closets. So the scripture says, The light came into the world. The world loves darkness. And Jesus Christ says, If your eye be single, your body will fill with

like so we found that the way, didn't we? And what did we find out? The institution that claims him is the one that disobeys him and is therefore the institution that is lost. Well, thank you very much, and we'll see you around.

Copy of 468  To Know Christ Know Yourself

William Donahue

Jesus Christ emphasizes that his followers know the way, as he has taught it throughout his ministry.

The speaker challenges the common use of the name "Jesus," arguing that it undermines the significance of his Jewish identity and teachings.

Jesus describes the way to the kingdom as narrow and difficult to find, suggesting that true understanding comes from within oneself.

Jesus emphasizes the importance of entering within oneself to find the kingdom, challenging traditional beliefs.

He teaches that the single eye, or the mystical point between the brows, is the key to filling one's body with light.

The path to this inner discovery is narrow, and those who follow it may face criticism, but Jesus' teachings consistently point to the importance of self-reflection and meditation.

The Inner Way: Jesus and the Christ Within

The concept of the Christ within is central to both Jesus' teachings and Hinduism, emphasizing the importance of the inner self.

Jesus' statement "I can of my own self do nothing" suggests that he was not referring to himself as the sole way, but rather pointing to the inner consciousness.

The teachings of Jesus and the Gospel of Thomas highlight the significance of the inner light and the single eye, directing individuals to look within for guidance and enlightenment.

The Role of Monks and the Power Struggle in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church faced opposition from a group who couldn't accept its fundamental aspects, leading to the establishment of monks who practiced mysticism while submitting to the church's authority.

In 367 AD, the Archbishop of Alexandria ordered the purging of apocryphal books, aiming to eliminate any dissenting views.

Many monks hid documents in opposition to the traditional church, but these were often destroyed, as the church sought to maintain control over people's access to God.

The Divine Life Within: Valentinus and Jesus' Teachings

Valentinus believed that humanity manifests the divine life and revelation, aligning with Jesus' teachings about seeking within oneself.

Jesus criticized religious practices and emphasized the importance of inner transformation rather than external rituals.

He promised that those who believe in him and follow his teachings would do greater works, urging individuals to look within for guidance and enlightenment.

The Significance of Temples and Spiritual Teachings

The speaker reflects on the grandeur of churches and temples, questioning their significance and Jesus' perspective on them.

Jesus challenges the disciples' admiration for the temples, stating that not one stone will be left upon another, emphasizing the futility of focusing on physical structures.

The speaker argues that true spiritual guidance comes from within, not from external teachings or religious institutions, and advocates for meditation as the key to accessing one's inner spirit.

John 3:17 emphasizes that God sent His son to save the world, not to condemn it.

Belief in Him is crucial for salvation, while disbelief leads to condemnation.

The passage highlights that the true essence of believing in His name involves following His teachings and instructions.

The Confusion of Nicodemus and the Concept of Being Born Again

Nicodemus struggles to understand Jesus' teachings about being born again and believing in his resurrection, which hasn't happened yet.

Jesus emphasizes the importance of obedience and seeking the kingdom within oneself.

The speaker reflects on the irony of religious institutions claiming to follow Jesus while disobeying his teachings, leading to confusion and a lack of true understanding.