CHRISTIANITY

CHRIST

The importance of the Bible lies in what it tells us about what Jesus did and what he taught. All else is secondary.

You may remember that I proposed that the ascent of Aether towards Alpha must be marked by the development of His necessary attributes of Love, Influential Power, Knowledge, Creativity and Free-will. So what were the principal characteristics of Jesus?

First was his love. His life was devoted to healing and to helping the unfortunate.

Second was his influential power. All who met him fell under his spell. He could command the microbes of disease. He could compel the elements.

Third was his awareness. He was intensely aware of everything that touched his senses, sometimes directly, sometimes telepathically.

Fourth was his learning. How he must have studied to acquire his mastery of Judaic law and probably the teachings of the Greek philosophers and the eastern mystics.

Fifth was his creativity. He brought such new ideas that they changed much of the world. Many Christians still do not seem to have grasped the originality of what Jesus proclaimed: that God is Love: not some mighty emperor, not some omnipotent judge, but the loving Father of all his children, of all his creation.

Sixth was his free-will and a transcendent courage. He bowed to no-one, was afraid of no-one.

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Due to the influence of St Paul and the Jewish origins of its original founders, the Church has always attached particular significance to the fact that Jesus was born into the Jewish faith and preached to Jews. From this it has deduced and taught that Christianity was the successor to ancient Judaism and its prophesied culmination. For this reason it incorporated the ancient scriptures of the Old Testament into the Christian holy book, into the Bible.

Now, above all else, Jesus was a teacher. That was his mission. That was his life. So why did he use his incarnation to become a Jew and to devote his teaching mission to the Jewish community? I have just mentioned how the Church has interpreted this fact as endorsing the teachings of the Hebrew prophets - as endorsing the Hebrew God as the one true God.

But there is another explanation, and I suggest that it is a more likely explanation. Jesus chose to spend his teaching mission amongst the Jews, because they needed him more than any other people. Because their vision of God was further from the truth than that of any other religious belief.

For consider the characteristics of the Hebrew Jehovah.

He was a racist. If you were not a descendant of Abraham, you were outside his 'covenant'. You were certainly outside his love.

He was vengeful. He was petty. He was monstrously cruel and unjust. (The world rightly abhors torture. Yet here was a judge who could sentence the billions who displeased him to billions of years of unending torture!)

Surely, Jesus's whole message was that to believe in a God like that was the supreme error, the supreme blasphemy - it was belief in a Satanic God.

This, I believe, was why Jesus chose to be born a Jew: not to fulfil the Old Testament, as the Church still proclaims, but to overthrow it. Jesus did not attack the Pharisees because they were unfaithful and hyprocritical servants of the Hebrew God, but because they were his loyal servants, and thus the priesthood of a false god.

THE APOSTLES CREED

"I believe in God the Father, the Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried, descended to hell, the third day rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence he will come, to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, a holy catholic christian church, communion of saints, forgiveness of sins, resurrection of the flesh, and an everlasting life."

THE NICENE CREED

"We believe in one God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made: who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man and was crucified for us also under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again to judge both the living and the dead: whose kingdom shall have no end."

These two creeds set out the faith of the Church. So let us now examine their propositions and see how far they support the philosophy I have been describing.

The Fatherhood of God

Again and again, at every turn, Jesus emphasised the fatherhood of God. Yet Christianity has echoed this teaching only imperfectly. Why imperfectly? Because, believing that God stands over and above and separate from mankind, the Church has assumed that Jesus used the description of God as man's father purely symbolically, simply to illustrate His care and love for His human creatures. In other words, Christianity has assumed that the physical and genetic relationship between a father and child, the key fact of earthly fatherhood, was self-evidently irrelevant.

But, unlike this conventional Christian teaching, this philosophy insists that when Jesus taught that God is the Father of mankind, he meant it quite literally, - that, just as the child partakes of the physical substance of its parents, so does each human Aether partake of the substance of Alpha-Holon. This idea, incidentally, as we shall see, is at the heart of most of the great eastern religions.

The Omnipotence of God

This is also a cardinal element of my philosophy, though it is an omnipotence tempered by the other divine attributes: love, free-will and the creativity that created the Universe.

The Unique Sonship of Jesus

This is a point on which this philosophy parts company with Christian orthodoxy. I take the terms 'father' and 'son' to mean respectively 'the whole' and 'a part'. Just as a son is the physical expression of a part of his father, so also is each one of us the aetheric expression of a part of God. We are all God's sons and daughters. In this, Jesus was no different from one of us. But his was a more advanced spirit than ours. He was quite literally 'superhuman' and he came to earth from a higher plane than that of the human Aether, probably from what I have called the 'archangelic' plane. He was probably a long time graduate from the School of Earth, having long ago passed beyond normal human incarnations. As an archangel he would possess, in far greater measure than we, the divine attributes of love, influential power, knowledge, creativity and free-will - and who can doubt that he did? To that extent, then, he was a larger part of God than we. Jesus himself surely supported this interpretation of who he was, for he taught us to pray "Our Father...", not "Father of Jesus...".

The Virgin Birth

The story of the virgin conception is surely symbolic. As such, it perfectly describes what I have called the human 'entity'. The mother represents the material body. The Holy Ghost represents the Aether, part of the substance of God. The two constitute the entity and are thus symbolically parents of Jesus - and of every man and woman. We do not need a virgin conception to prove the divinity of Jesus, any more than we need it to prove the divinity of all men and women. It is only a baby's physical body that derives from the bodies of the parents. Its mind, Aether or 'holy ghost' is a separate individual who incarnates into that body. Joseph and Mary produced the physical abode for the Archangel Jesus to dwell in. It is interesting that in both the Bible and the Koran it is hinted that Jesus was the offspring of Mary and her archangelic visitor.

The Crucifixion

We have discussed the problem of suffering. Even the perfect, or superhuman entity that was Jesus did not escape it - and did not try to escape it. To get some idea of the depth of compassion, suffering and self-sacrifice involved in the human incarnation of the Archangel Jesus, just imagine yourself incarnating in some vastly lowIier life form such as, say, a lizard or a maggot, and enduring the nightmare of lower order animal life, simply to help those animals in their evolutionary progress. What incredible courage. What a triumph of Love at its most sublime.

But it is a logical corollary to this that Jesus' supreme sacrifice was at Christmas, when he incarnated, not on Good Friday, when he returned to his aetheric state.

Indeed, it is over the interpretation of the crucifixion that I must be most heretical.

It was an ancient pagan custom to try to propitiate angry gods, or evil spirits and the like, by making them offerings or sacrifices. The advent of Jewish monotheism did not alter this: a harmless little animal, a 'lamb without blemish' was slaughtered to appease an immortal and omnipotent God! Abraham is revered for his willingness to murder his own son for this purpose!

In direct descent from this extraordinary blasphemy comes the proposition of the slaughter of the 'man without blemish' as a final propitiation of the cruel and angry God. We are asked to believe that Jesus, whose whole message was that God was the the loving Father, that Jesus the Apostle of Love should have offered himself as a bloodstained sacrifice to that same loving God. The proposition is not just ridiculous, it is disgusting and blasphemous.

No, the meaning of the crucifixion was just the opposite. On the Cross, Jesus was demonstrating that, precisely because he, the man without sin, had to endure them, suffering and death are not and never have been matters of divine punishment. They serve the high purpose of the transfiguration of man. As such, they are the lot of all men and women, however noble - or even godlike.

But the climax of Jesus' life and teaching was surely to demonstrate that the life of the spirit does not end with the physical death of the body. The crucifixion, so public and unarguable a death, served as the dramatic curtain raiser for this central message.

The Resurrection

The doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh is surely pernicious nonsense! It is most unfortunate that the gospel chroniclers were so anxious to transmit the central message of Christianity, that Jesus lived on after his death, that they described the resurrection as a physical event. Obviously, the resurrection of a dead body would have more impact on people who think of the body as being the whole person, but the essential aetheric, nonmaterial nature of man means that the fate of his body is really irrelevant and unimportant.

I believe that the doctrine of a physical resurrection is pernicious because it has led Christians up a blind alley. Why? Because it obscured Jesus' central message: that all men and women are immortal, that their Aethers live for ever, that the death and dissolution of the physical body is not the end. Indeed, it did worse than obscure this message, it actively cast doubt on it.

How? Because in all history, whether B.C. or during the 2000 years since Jesus lived and died, there has never been a single case of a body resurrecting. We know jolly well that if you go to any grave, whether of saint or sinner, and dig it up, you will find his corpse or skeleton.

So, by insisting on the resurrection of Jesus' physical body, the gospel chroniclers and their priestly successors have in effect proposed that Jesus' survival after death was a unique and unrepeatable event, thereby unwittingly negating Jesus' most important message.

Then, to get round this difficulty that the "resurrection of the flesh" has to date been a unique event, we have the doctrine put forward that the bodies of the rest of us will indeed resurrect, but not until a "Day of Judgement" - and a pretty bizarre bit of fancy that entails! First "the trump", waking all the corpses, skeletons and dispersed molecules of what were once physical bodies - with some smart instant chemistry for the ashes of the cremated... There is no need to go on, for the whole idea becomes more and more outlandish. But it is simply the absurdity you are driven to if you insist that resurrection is physical and then have to explain why, except for Jesus, it has never happened.

You see, the real tragedy has been that priestly insistence on the doctrinal verity of this nonsense has deprived its believers of the comforting testimony of the countless army of witnesses in every generation who have had fleeting visions of the aetheric bodies of dead loved ones, usually shortly after their death. Yes, the only thing about Jesus' resurrection which was unique lay in his ability to maintain his aetheric body in the material environment for long enough and in life-like enough appearance to demonstrate for all time the immortality of the human Aether.

Jesus was unique in his ability to do this because he was a high Aether, one from a plane at least two above the human, the one I have entitled the plane of the archangels. And higher order Aethers partake in greater measure of the divine attributes, one of which is influential power. This is a truth that the Church has certainly never lost sight of, that Jesus was an Aether of immense super-human influential power. It was this power that enabled him to do what he did: heal the sick (by evicting the disease-causing microbes), walk on the lake (by generating an aetheric force field) and, after his death, materialise his aetheric body before his disciples. He most certainly did not appear among them as a walking corpse, which is what 'the resurrection of the flesh' would imply. Indeed, all the accounts of his after-death appearances make it crystal clear that these could not have been physical: for example, he suddenly sat amongst his disciples as they were meeting in a locked room. If it had been an ordinary material body that had resurrected, he'd have had to hammer on the door to be let in!

I have dwelt on this point at length because, once one has set aside the false doctrine of physical resurrection, one is left with what Jesus really taught and demonstrated: the survival of the human Aether in the aetheric state, which is a central pillar of the philosophy of this book.

The Day of Judgement

This dogma is mere superstition. There is no reason to disbelieve the views of modern science about the 'end of the world'. Barring an unlikely catastrophe, such as the near approach of another star, our planet earth will last another 2-3 billion years before the aging sun, growing into its next phase of existence as a 'red giant', expands and engulfs it. Long before that happens, the human species will probably have evolved into or been replaced by something different, other species whose Aethers will probably be more evolved. By that time, if human level Aether is still finding material dwelling places in the physical universe, then my discussion of the 'marsupial effect' suggests that these might well be on other planets in the universe. As far as the future of the universe is concerned, science predicts really only two possibilities: either it will go on expanding for ever or its expansion will gradually slow down, halt and be replaced by an equally long period of contraction before ending in the so-called 'Big Crunch', the point singularity at which it originally started. In the first case, we are contronted with eternity, to match the immortality of Aether; in the second case, we face a period of tens, hundreds or thousands of billions of years - a period so unimaginably long that by its end Aether may well have evolved to the level of Alpha-Holon Himself - the 'Big Crunch' fittingly marking this reunion. For what it is worth, the latest research supports the first possibility: expansion for eternity.

Anyway, the end of the world would be irrelevant for the immortal and non-material Aether. Finality is an end, and there is no end to immortality.

The Holy Spirit

What Christian theology refers to as 'the Holy Ghost' is much the same as what I have called 'Aether'. As such, it is quite central to my philosophy.

In fact, the doctrine of the Trinity, which is the essence of Christian metaphysics, sums up my philosophy exactly:-

God the Father is Alpha the transcendent SuperAether;

God the Son is Holon. It is the hierarchy of all the Aethers in the Universe, of all the parts or 'children' of Alpha.

God the Holy Ghost is the telepathic link between Alpha and all His parts,.

But while it is noteworthy how closely my propositions about Aether parallel the assertions of St Paul about Spirit, there is one absolutely fundamental difference between his interpretation of Jesus' message and the philosophy I am proposing. And the difference is this: whereas Paul taught that the Spirit of God only dwells in the Christian converted by an act of redemption or grace, I deny this - I deny it passionately. I insist that every man, every woman, every creature, every individual in the Universe is an Aether, which is a manifestation at its appropriate level of Alpha Holon Himself.

It may have been cosy and it must certainly have been encouraging for the 'elect' of the early Christian community, (particularly those of Jewish origin with their fantasy about being God's chosen), to believe that God dwelt only in them, the converted, but it was surely in fact a blasphemy against the universal love of God.

So I cannot accept that the Holy Ghost is an expression of God which only appears in men who are fitted to receive it. On the contrary, I proclaim that man has no existence without the Holy Spirit, which is his essential self, his soul or Aether, not something which can be superadded to him.

No, Alpha-Holon cannot send His spirit into our hearts, for our hearts are His spirit already and that is why we are, have always been, and will always remain, His sons and daughters.

Forgiveness of Sins

No, only self-forgiveness. We have not begun to understand the Love of Alpha-Holon if we think we need to beg for His forgiveness. It is only we who are small and imperfect who need to forgive ourselves.

No, the absolutely crucial importance of forgiveness, and why Jesus laid such stress on it, is because it is the only antidote to what I believe is mankind's evolutionary aberration, his most dangerous weakness: I refer to his almost pathological desire for vengeance - vengeance for wrongs geuinely suffered or even for wrongs wholly imagined. This desire for vengeance, too often euphemised as the desire for 'justice', manipulated by unscrupulous or misguided leaders, has been the root cause of war and, because mankind now possesses the nuclear means, offers a real possibility of the end of life upon earth. Jesus saw the danger most clearly and his warnings against it, the imperative to show forgiveness, the imperative to forgo vengeance, were the essential counterpart to his doctrine of love.

Everlasting Life

Everlasting life as an unending creative evolutionary activity, helping Alpha-Holon and ascending a dynamic hierarchy of Aether - not the complacent inertia of the harp-twanging 'blessed'.

A NEW CREED

If the Apostles Creed had to be rewritten to fit the philosophy I have put forward in this book, it might go something like this:

"WE BELIEVE IN ALPHA, THE LOVING FATHER OF ALL, TRANSCENDENT CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ARCHANGEL AND OUR TEACHER, WHO INCARNATED IN THE WOMB OF MARY, SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED. AFTER HIS DEATH, HE APPEARED TO HIS FRIENDS IN HIS AETHERIC BODY BEFORE RETURNING TO HIS HOME AMONG THE ARCHANGELS. WE BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST, THE IMMANENCE OF ALPHA-HOLON IN ALL INDIVIDUALS, AND IN OUR EVERLASTING LIFE, AS PARTS OF THE CREATIVE EVOLUTION OF ALPHA-HOLON OUR FATHER."

QUOTATIONS FROM THE BIBLE

There are three difficulties about appealing to the Bible for authority.

First, the quality is really very variable. On the one hand the sublime and authentic message of Jesus. On the other hand, the barbarous goings-on of primitive tribes and their sheikhs (look at the villainies of Abraham or David), whose God was very much in their own image - or the ravings of Revelations, which can be interpreted according to the reader's fancy (or bigotry).

The second difficulty is the authenticity of the Gospels themselves. They were written by men with all man's subjectivity; and they were written generations after Jesus' death and thus could be no more than a subjective selection of accounts of accounts of professed eyewitnesses. This is not to cast doubt on their central theme of Jesus' life and teaching, but it does mean that much detail must be missing and much must have been misremembered and distorted.

The third difficulty is that the Gospels have really very little to say about metaphysics and some of the accounts of Jesus' remarks on the subject are contradictory.

With these caveats in mind, then, I shall claim for myself a preacher's traditional right to choose his "Texts". I have relegated the references to Appendix VII

THE PROPOSITIONS OF THIS PHILOSOPHY

THE AETHERIC BODY

(Propositions of Composition and of Hierarchy)

First, there are the accounts of Jesus' after-death appearances. These events are just what we might expect of a powerful Aether like Jesus. He is able to materialise his aetheric body, which nonetheless does not look exactly like his physical body. He is able to pass through locked doors and to vanish and reappear at will.

Second, the transfiguration:

"Jesus was transfigured...and his face shone as the sun and his clothes were white as light"

This was the display of his ideoplastic aetheric body by the powerful higher order spirit that was (and is) Jesus.

THE IMMANENCE OF GOD IN ALL THINGS

(Propositions of Hierarchy, SuperAether & Unity)

Note that in the following quotations Jesus states quite categorically that God is in everyone. How? Surely because every Aether is a part of God.

"the Kingdom of God is inside you."

Next, similar quotations from St Paul:-

"...There is one body and one spirit... one God and Father of everything, who is over everything and through everything and in everything."

And from John:-

"We were called God's children and such we are... we are God's children"

And now the quotation which is universally accepted as encapsulating the authentic central message of Jesus' teaching.

"..'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God..' is the first..commandment. And the second is like it: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself'... on these two depend all the Law and the Prophets"

Note that the two commandments are stated to be alike. This can only mean that "thy neighbour" and "thyself" are virtually the same as God, because we are parts of Him.

Christian theologians often quote Jesus commendation of 'The Law' as referring to the Judaic laws of Moses. They seem to forget that Jesus had defined what 'the Law' really was.

In the next quotation and in other parts of the Gospels, Jesus uses the phrases "son of man" and "son of God" interchangeably. This of course accords precisely with the hypothesis of the unity of all things, including man, whose Aethers form parts of a hierarchy which is Alpha-Holon.

"Hereafter shall the Son of Man sit at the right hand of Almighty God... (I am) the Son of God"

In the next quotation, even the Archangel Jesus the Teacher treats ordinary human beings with reverence. Why? It could be for only one reason: because they too are parts of God, they too are divine.

"I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You should then wash one another's feet"

In the next quotation, 'The Helper' is the telepathic communication which exists between Alpha-Holon and all His parts and is the source of our Conscience.

"I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you for ever. He is the Spirit who reveals the truth about God ... you know him, because he remains with you and in you"

In the next quotation St Paul appears to be saying that the 'Holy Spirit' is an expression of God which appears in those who are fit to receive it, whereas my philosophy proclaims that a human being has no existence without 'the Holy Spirit', which is his essential Aether, and not something which can be superadded to him.

"There are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit... in each of us the Spirit is manifested in one particular way .. One man, through the Spirit, has the gift of wise speech, while another, by the power of the same Spirit, can put the deepest knowledge into words. Another, by the same Spirit, is granted faith; another, by the one Spirit, gifts of healing; another, miraculous powers; another has the gift of prophecy, and another the ability to distinguish true spirits from false ... all these gifts are the work of one and the same Spirit, distributing them separately to each individual ..."

(16)

Nevertheless, what St Paul wrote in this striking passage is very close indeed to a statement of my philosophy, for I only need to change or reinterpret it very slightly to get the following:-

"Individuals have different personalities and abilities, but are all parts of the same Spirit. The expression of this consciousness manifests itself in different ways: intellectuality, wisdom, faith-healing, other paranormal abilities, precognition, mediumship ... all derive from the universal Spirit, as expressed through individual men and women."

SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY (Angels and Archangels)

In the next key statement, Jesus make it clear that mankind is by no means the most highly developed Aether in creation.

"No-one greater than John the Baptist has been born of all mankind, and yet the least of the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he"

This statement is very significant on three counts:

(1)

Jesus is stating that there is at least one race of higher-order spirits, superior to man (those we have been calling 'the angels');

(2)

He is implying that there are gradations between different angels, since 'the least' implies others who are greater, presumably in exactly the same way that there are members of different classes in the human race's School of Earth;

(3)

When Jesus says that the most humble member of the 'Kingdom of Heaven' is superior to the most highly developed human spirit, we could infer that by 'Kingdom of Heaven' he means the race of the Archangels. Why? Because we define the plane of the angels as the one into which man is in the process of graduating. In other words, the saint, the graduate from humanity, is the 'new boy' or 'least' of the race of angels and certainly not an inferior. The most developed human spirit, the saint, must however always be inferior to any archangel, the still higher order level of Aether, into which the angels in turn are graduating or evolving.

In our next quotation, from Luke, Jesus is saying quite explicitly that those who have graduated from the School of Earth cannot die any more. Why not? Surely because they are not born into material life any more. Moreover, Jesus is also implying the converse -that those who are not 'accounted worthy', those who have not yet graduated, can die again. In order to die again, one would have to be born again, one would have to reincarnate. Jesus is also saying that those who have graduated become angels.

"They which shall be accounted worthy to reach that world ... cannot die any more and live like the angels" (18)

Next, in John, Jesus declares that he will leave the human plane of Earth and return to his own higher (archangelic) plane. But the highest plane even the best of humans can aspire to is the next higher, the angelic plane. No human spirit can go directly to the archangelic plane and this is what Jesus is explaining.

"For a little while longer I shall be with you; then I am going away to Him who sent me, but you will not find me. Where I am, you cannot come"

In my next two quotations Jesus had to tell his disciples that even if they were to die with him, they, as human beings, were not sufficiently evolved to enter his archangelic plane.

(a) "You belong to this world below, I to the world above. Your home is in this world, mine is not"

(b) "You cannot go where I am going"

"There are many rooms in my Father's house; if it were not so, would I tell you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself so that you will be where I am."

I suggest that Jesus meant the following:

"There are many spiritual planes in the Unity which is God. This is why you can be sure that I will find the plane which is right for you. And when you are there, I will help you to advance to that higher plane where I am"

THE IMMORTALITY OF THE AETHER (Tenth Principle)

In my next quotation Jesus makes it clear that the death of the body does not mean the death of the Aether.

"Fear not those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul"

"God said 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob' - God is not the God of the dead but the living"

I suggest that Jesus means that although God is the God of all things, He cannot be God of the dead, because there are no dead. Man is as immortal as his God, of whom he is a part. And Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and every 'past' man and woman, are all very much alive. This is stated even more clearly by Jesus in the next quotation:- "God is not God of the dead, but of the living: for to Him all men are alive"

In my next quotation Jesus declares to the thief who is on the cross next to him that when the body dies, the spirit, whether of a humble human criminal or of the Archangel Jesus, moves at once to another plane of existence, the aetheric plane.

"This very day you will be with me in Paradise"

In the next striking passage Jesus asserts unequivocally that his entity or Aether was existent, whether in the material or aetheric phase, at least 1500 years previously and that Abraham is similarly existent 1500 years after his incarnation on Earth.

"'Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my coming; now he has seen it and is glad'. The Jews protested 'You are not yet fifty years old. How can you have seen Abraham?' Jesus said 'In very truth I tell you, before Abraham was born, I am."

My next "text" illustrates how closely my philosophy follows the teaching of Jesus:

"You have all been with me from the very beginning"

I suggest that Jesus means by this that he and all human beings, as parts of Alpha-Holon, commenced their evolution at the creation of the universe and have been evolving ever since. All Aethers are immortal and therefore coexistent.

In the next "text", I propose that the phrase 'children of God' is used, as elsewhere in the New Testament, to mean the unity of hierarchical Aether which is individuated and immanent in all creation.

"... the Universe itself is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendour of the children of God"

With this definition, I suggest that St Paul is forecasting an ultimate end to the material universe, leaving only the aetheric part of material reality. In other words, just as Aether, which partakes of the free-will and immortality of the SuperAether, was existent before the 'Big Bang' of creation, so also it will endure after the material universe, having served the purpose for which it was created, has passed away into nothingness.

In the next two quotations, St Paul confirms that our incarnations are simply stages in our Aether's evolutionary progress.

"What I should like is to depart and be with Christ ... but ... there is greater need for me to stay on in the body"

"No more than strangers or passing travellers on earth"

REINCARNATION

In the following significant passages, drawn from three of the Gospels, Jesus states unambiguously that John the Baptist was a reincarnation of Elijah. If one accepts the truth of this statement, then one has no option but to accept the truth of reincarnation as a general Christian principle.

"John is Elijah, whose coming was predicted" "But I tell you that Elijah has come already and people did not recognise him' ... then they realised that he had been referring to John the Baptist"

The next "texts" are taken from three of the Gospels and provide the clearest evidence that Jesus declared the fact of reincarnation.

"'Who do people say the Son of Man is?' - 'Some say John the Baptist,' they answered. 'Others say Elijah, while others say Jeremiah or some other prophet' "

"'Who do the crowds say that I am?' he asked them. 'Some say you are Elijah, while others say that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life'."

What did Jesus mean by his question? The disciples were apparently in no doubt. He meant 'Who do people think I am a reincarnation of?' And Jesus did not correct them, presumably because that was just what he did mean.

Why should he have asked such a question (reported in three of the gospels)? It must surely have been because belief in reincarnation was widely held at the time and, since he did not question it, it was a belief held by Jesus also.

Next, in the fourth Gospel, we read the following:

"For before I (John the Baptist) was born, he (Jesus) already was"

John the Baptist was in fact born before Jesus, so John is asserting that Jesus' spirit was existent before the birth of either of them. This surely is direct support for the belief that a birth represents the incarnation of an existent Aether.

And again, in the fourth Gospel, this:

"Flesh can give birth only to flesh: it is spirit that gives birth to spirit"

This is exactly what my philosophy asserts. The human entity comprises Aether plus matter, or rather energy. Note how Jesus denies simple Darwinism in the same terms: it is only the baby's cells (flesh) that derive from its parents, according to the laws of genetics. Its spirit or Aether, part of the SuperAether, has evolved separately, according to other laws of evolution.

COSMOLOGY

St John's Gospel begins with these famous and mysterious lines:

"Before the world was created, the Word already existed; He was with God, and He was the same as God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through Him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without Him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out"

If we think about the metaphysical meaning of these words, we can see that my hypothesis comes dramatically close to what St John is proclaiming. Indeed, we need only rephrase these lines ever so slightly to get this:

"Before the creation of the Universe, there existed Aether, which is the self-expression of God. Aether is indeed God Himself. He created everything from Aether and everything was permeated by the Aether which is Him. This same Aether manifests itself as the divine spark in man, which can never be obliterated."

PARAPSYCHOLOGY -TELEPATHY

Here is a quotation which clearly sets out Jesus' telepathic powers:

"Jesus perceived in his spirit what they so reasoned within themselves"

Next we have one of Jesus' several sayings about the importance of private prayer:

"... your Father, who sees all that is secret"

Alpha-Holon is omniscient and in telepathic touch with all His parts, including man.

It is extraordinary that people pray to God without realising that prayer is pointless unless such telepathic communication exists. And the simplest explanation for such telepathy is communication between the One and His parts.

"I do not call you servants any longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I call you friends"

Here Jesus implies that the Aether of man, unlike that of his primitive animal ancestors, has evolved to a sufficiently high plane to be able to understand communication from God, the communication which we call Conscience.

PARAPSYCHOLOGY -PRECOGNITION

The New Testament is full of quotes from old Jewish prophets, showing how what they had foretold was now coming to pass. The next two quotations make it clear that the gift of prophecy is not confined to these historical figures, but is to be found amongst ordinary men and women.

"He had four unmarried daughters, who possessed the gift of prophecy"

"... another has the gift of prophecy"

PARAPSYCHOLOGY -TELEKINESIS

"If you have faith ... you can tell a mountain to move and it will"

Next, we have the most famous example of the materialisation of an aetheric force field. Such telekinesis would have been no problem to a powerful higher-order Aether such as Jesus.

"They saw Jesus walking on the sea"

FAITH HEALING AND MIRACLE CURES

A great part of Jesus' ministry was devoted to faith healing and miracle cures. And if, as I believe, Jesus was a higher-order Aether, is this not exactly what I should expect? You see, I have deduced that such a higher-order Aether would be characterised by super-human development of the divine attributes. Of these, the ones relevant to healing are first, the love attribute, which would evoke in Jesus acute distress at man's suffering and the urge to relieve it; second the influential power attribute, the power to order and constrain lower-order Aethers, such as those of the viruses, bacteria and errant cells which, as we now know, account for diseases, and thirdly the knowledge attribute, of how and where to apply that power.

"Healing all manner of diseases"

Yes, we should predict that if such a higher-order Aether were to incarnate on our lower-order plane, he would do two things: he would teach and he would heal. Precisely what Jesus did.

"... another, by the one spirit, has gifts of healing ..."

Paul unambiguously describes what are now called 'faith healers'.

THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

PROMOTION OF THE LOVE ATTRIBUTE "... whosoever shall say to his brother 'Thou fool' shall be in danger of hell fire ..." This is one of the sayings of Jesus which can seem very hard to understand, since He is saying that to call some-one a fool is even more heinous a sin than to hurt him or even to murder him. The reason why he says this is to make the point that contempt for another is the ultimate error. Why? Because it is a rejection of the love attribute; because it is counter-attractive behaviour; because it ignores or denies the divinity of every man and woman.

Promotion of the love attribute is, of course, central to Jesus' teaching, as the following famous statements, in all four Gospels, make abundantly plain: "... love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you ... that you

may be the children of your Father... " "Be careful that you never despise a single one of these little ones.." "... 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God' is the first ... commandment. And the second is like it:

'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' ... on these two depend all the law and the prophets"

"Love your enemies ... treat men exactly as you would like them to treat you ... you must be merciful, as your Father in Heaven is merciful" "And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you

must love one another" "I love you, just as the Father loves me" "For the whole Law can be summed up in a single commandment: 'Love your neighbour as

yourself' "

And next, here we have it! A specific reference to the attractive love force, which alone can draw the human Aether up to higher planes of being: "No man can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me" THE ATTRIBUTE OF INFLUENTIAL POWER

Because Jesus was a higher-order Aether, he was possessed of the divine attribute of power to a super-human degree, as the next quotation makes clear: "... the Father had given him complete power ..." (John 13.3)

HE ATTRIBUTE OF KNOWLEDGE

"... your Father, who sees all that is secret ..."

Omniscient God is aware of everything, as the following vivid description makes plain. This is because everything is a part of Him.

" not a single sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. The very hairs of your head are all numbered.."

An individual human being, being part of the Omniscient Whole, has only partial knowledge. But he has the inherent ability, by virtue of his divinity, to evolve to higher and higher orders of Aether, each partaking in ever fuller measure of the omniscience of God, as St Paul declares in the following famous passage:

"My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God's knowledge of me"

However, unlike St Paul, I believe that the 'then', when our knowledge will be 'whole', must lie in the mists of the distant future, when we shall have ascended through many levels of Aether. At our present humble lower-order level, any immediate prospect of total knowledge of the Whole would be blinding, terrifying, inconceivable - like a candle swooping on the sun!

THE ATTRIBUTE OF FREE-WILL

Here is one quotation:

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty"

JUSTICE

"You must be merciful, as your Father in Heaven is merciful. Don't judge others and you will not be judged yourselves. Don't condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven"

There is a very important message in this statement. It is that neither you nor your fellow human beings are to be judged or condemned. Further, by rejecting all thoughts of judgement or of condemnation of our fellows and by practising mercy and forgiveness, we will speed our advance to the moment when we can truly forgive ourselves.

The next two quotations confirm that there is no judgement, only faster or slower evolution to higher planes.

"You lose sight of the Justice and Love of God"

"It was not to judge the world that God sent His son into the world, but that through him the world might be saved"

That statement of Jesus could be rephrased as follows: "The Archangel Jesus did not incarnate on the plane of Earth to be an instrument of judgement or retribution, but as an act of love to teach the lower-order human Aethers how best to advance their high destiny, which is evolution to the angelic and higher planes."

And here is further confirmation:

"Do not imagine that I shall be your accuser at God's tribunal. Your accuser is Moses ..."

Jesus is saying that it is Moses' blasphemous charicature of God as an avenging judge which is at the heart of the trouble suffered by his Jewish audience. He is insisting that the real God, whose messenger he is, is no such thing. He is the God of Love.

I believe that what Jesus means in my next quotation is that he came down from the archangelic plane to teach mankind and thus to help us all to accelerate our upward evolutionary progress towards God.

"I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me. It is His will that I should not lose even one of all that He has given me, but raise them all up on the last day"

As a final example of what Jesus had to say about justice:

"Have I not chosen you, all twelve? Yet one of you is a devil'. He meant Judas ..."

What can this mean if not that all men and women are 'chosen'? That no-one is rejected? It was surely to demonstrate this that Jesus did not expel Judas from his intimate circle.

SUFFERING

"Jesus saw a man blind from his birth ... disciples asked 'Who sinned, this man or his parents?' Jesus answered 'It is not that this man or his parents sinned. He was born blind that God's power might be displayed in curing him"

Jesus is making two important points. First, there is no question of sickness or suffering being a punishment for 'sin'. Second, this suffering was to serve a higher purpose. Indeed, his own death was the supreme demonstration of this.

In my next quotation St Paul says that suffering serves a lofty purpose.

"Let us then exult in our present sufferings, because we know that suffering trains us to endure; endurance gives proof that we have stood the test: such proof is the (real) basis of hope; such hope is no mockery, because God's love has flooded our inmost heart in the form of the Holy Spirit He has given us"

Note also the last line of this quotation. Love is the attribute of God the Whole, and of us, parts of the Divine Mind, or Holy Spirit.

PURPOSE

The Gospel declares the high purpose of every Aether: "He knew that he had come from God and was going back to God" "The Universe itself is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty

and splendour of the Children of God"

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