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[[File:StPaul.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=caption|Statue of Saint Paul, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome]] | [[File:StPaul.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=caption|Statue of Saint Paul, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome]] | ||
The ascended master Hilarion was embodied as Saul of Tarsus, who became the apostle Paul after his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. | The ascended master [[Hilarion]] was embodied as Saul of Tarsus, who became the apostle Paul after his encounter with [[Jesus]] on the road to Damascus. | ||
== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
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[[File:Laurent de La Hyre's Saint Paul Shipwrecked on Malta.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=caption|''Saint Paul Shipwrecked on Malta'', Laurent de La Hyre (1630)]] | [[File:Laurent de La Hyre's Saint Paul Shipwrecked on Malta.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=caption|''Saint Paul Shipwrecked on Malta'', Laurent de La Hyre (1630)]] | ||
In the midst of the journey to Rome, Paul’s ship was overtaken by a great storm and shipwrecked on the island of Melita. Sanat Kumara describes Paul’s experience there: | In the midst of the journey to Rome, Paul’s ship was overtaken by a great storm and shipwrecked on the island of Melita. [[Sanat Kumara]] describes Paul’s experience there: | ||
<blockquote>Our story begins in the cold and rain by a kindled fire on the island of Melita midst the people who received the shipwrecked Paul and his companions with no little kindness. Paul himself had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire; and there, out of the heat, came a viper and fastened on his hand.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Our story begins in the cold and rain by a kindled fire on the island of Melita midst the people who received the shipwrecked Paul and his companions with no little kindness. Paul himself had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire; and there, out of the heat, came a viper and fastened on his hand.</blockquote> | ||
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<blockquote>Therefore, he persecuted my followers and, in them, persecuted my Presence. For I was in them, and my light was an offense to those who therefore enlisted Saul in their ways of exterminating, imprisoning, persecuting and torturing Christians.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Therefore, he persecuted my followers and, in them, persecuted my Presence. For I was in them, and my light was an offense to those who therefore enlisted Saul in their ways of exterminating, imprisoning, persecuting and torturing Christians.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Blessed hearts, realize, then, that the fervent heart when hitched to the wrong star may be unhitched and redirected and therefore scale the heights of mastery, leaving behind those who seek to perfect themselves by the Law without the Spirit, who engage in rituals without love, and who are mechanistic in their judgments, very eager to point the gnarled and bony finger against any lightbearer for a single sin that they do think does soil the garment.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Blessed hearts, realize, then, that the fervent heart when hitched to the wrong star may be unhitched and redirected and therefore scale the heights of mastery, leaving behind those who seek to perfect themselves by the Law without the Spirit, who engage in rituals without love, and who are mechanistic in their judgments, very eager to point the gnarled and bony finger against any [[lightbearer]] for a single sin that they do think does soil the garment.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Well, sin may or may not soil the garment. But the Holy Spirit is able. And that Holy Spirit in me did raise up Saul, and therefore he received upon himself that substance of his karma that created the state of blindness. And my instrument again, Ananias, therefore did pronounce that he should see by that Holy Spirit—and he did see.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Well, sin may or may not soil the garment. But the Holy Spirit is able. And that Holy Spirit in me did raise up Saul, and therefore he received upon himself that substance of his [[karma]] that created the state of blindness. And my instrument again, Ananias, therefore did pronounce that he should see by that Holy Spirit—and he did see.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>And Saul therefore became Paul and went forth as a chief apostle, one that I would send to the Gentiles. And yet he, being a Jew, determined to preach to the Jews, not realizing how infamous and how wicked was the core of their hatred and their rage against the living Christ. Thus, I came. Though he did not take my advice, so he loved me, and I comforted him and gave to him protection, even through the Romans.</blockquote> | <blockquote>And Saul therefore became Paul and went forth as a chief apostle, one that I would send to the Gentiles. And yet he, being a Jew, determined to preach to the Jews, not realizing how infamous and how wicked was the core of their hatred and their rage against the living Christ. Thus, I came. Though he did not take my advice, so he loved me, and I comforted him and gave to him protection, even through the Romans.</blockquote> | ||
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Through his epistles and his missionary journeys, Paul set up a rule and an order for the administration of the churches that he established. But he also taught to initiates the inner, sacred mysteries and a path of initiation. | Through his epistles and his missionary journeys, Paul set up a rule and an order for the administration of the churches that he established. But he also taught to initiates the inner, sacred mysteries and a path of initiation. | ||
During his time in Arabia, the apostle came as close as he could to the etheric retreat of Jesus and communed with Jesus, who gave to him the mysteries—mysteries that Paul said it was “not lawful for a man to utter.”<ref>II Cor. 12:4.</ref> Jesus gave him the inner keys to life—teachings that are being unveiled only today, teachings far ahead of his time, teachings that were a gnosis, or self-knowledge—the hidden wisdom of the inner Christ: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”<ref>Col. 1:27.</ref> | During his time in Arabia, the apostle came as close as he could to the [[Arabian retreat|etheric retreat of Jesus]] and communed with Jesus, who gave to him the mysteries—mysteries that Paul said it was “not lawful for a man to utter.”<ref>II Cor. 12:4.</ref> Jesus gave him the inner keys to life—teachings that are being unveiled only today, teachings far ahead of his time, teachings that were a gnosis, or self-knowledge—the hidden wisdom of the inner Christ: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”<ref>Col. 1:27.</ref> | ||
Thus, by stages Paul put on the mantle of his Lord and accomplished His works as His instrument in healings, miracles, prophecies, preaching and fiery conversions. This was the true path Christ meant his apostles to walk—as the ascended master Hilarion once told us: | Thus, by stages Paul put on the mantle of his Lord and accomplished His works as His instrument in healings, miracles, prophecies, preaching and fiery conversions. This was the true path Christ meant his apostles to walk—as the ascended master Hilarion once told us: | ||
<blockquote>If the light that is in thee be filled with the momentum of God and if the gears of the | <blockquote>If the light that is in thee be filled with the momentum of God and if the gears of the [[chakra]]s be oiled with the holy oil of Gilead, then by the very vibration of your life you can intensify the currents of God, you can be one with God, you can be God incarnate as Jesus Christ was.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>This is what I learned from him as he became my inner and outer Guru. This is what I understood: that I, too, could become the Christ as the instrument of the Saviour—that where I walked he would walk, that where I stood he would heal, that where I spoke he would speak. This I learned, and yet I understood the unworthiness of the lesser self in the state of sin that is made worthy by grace, by transmutation, by fiery baptism and by the balancing of karma in service to Life.<ref>Hilarion, December 29, 1977, “Transference of the Healing Flame,” in {{LSR}}, book 1, pp. 203–4.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>This is what I learned from him as he became my inner and outer Guru. This is what I understood: that I, too, could become the Christ as the instrument of the Saviour—that where I walked he would walk, that where I stood he would heal, that where I spoke he would speak. This I learned, and yet I understood the unworthiness of the lesser self in the state of sin that is made worthy by grace, by transmutation, by fiery baptism and by the balancing of karma in service to Life.<ref>Hilarion, December 29, 1977, “Transference of the Healing Flame,” in {{LSR}}, book 1, pp. 203–4.</ref></blockquote> | ||