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These founders of three of the world’s great religions lived at roughly the same time, but there is no record of their having met. This painting portrays the idea that the three teachings are a harmonious one.]] | These founders of three of the world’s great religions lived at roughly the same time, but there is no record of their having met. This painting portrays the idea that the three teachings are a harmonious one.]] | ||
God releases new religions in order to give his children a new awareness of himself. We cannot assimilate God all at once. Just as we don’t eat the food of a lifetime in a day but portion by portion, so we assimilate God crumb by crumb. | [[God]] releases new religions in order to give his children a new awareness of himself. We cannot assimilate God all at once. Just as we don’t eat the food of a lifetime in a day but portion by portion, so we assimilate God crumb by crumb. | ||
[[File:Philippe de Champaigne - Moses with the Ten Commandments - WGA04717.jpg|thumb|''Moses with the Ten Commandments'', Philippe de Champaigne (1648)]] | [[File:Philippe de Champaigne - Moses with the Ten Commandments - WGA04717.jpg|thumb|''Moses with the Ten Commandments'', Philippe de Champaigne (1648)]] | ||
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The dispensation of Aries brought the awareness of God as the Father, the Lawgiver, and as the embodiment of universal Law itself. This age was characterized by God’s direct communion with [[Moses]] and God’s gift to all generations of his name [[I AM THAT I AM]], whereby they, too, could walk and talk with God. Moses showed us that it was the divine right of every son and daughter of God to walk and talk with the Indwelling Presence, the Great I AM. The condition: obey my commandments. | The dispensation of Aries brought the awareness of God as the Father, the Lawgiver, and as the embodiment of universal Law itself. This age was characterized by God’s direct communion with [[Moses]] and God’s gift to all generations of his name [[I AM THAT I AM]], whereby they, too, could walk and talk with God. Moses showed us that it was the divine right of every son and daughter of God to walk and talk with the Indwelling Presence, the Great I AM. The condition: obey my commandments. | ||
In the Arian age we also note the monotheism of the Egyptian pharaoh [[Ikhnaton]]. A century before Moses, he attained mystical union with God through his meditation on the sun—and on the Sun behind the sun. Ikhnaton called God “Aton.” The symbol for Aton was the sun with diverging rays ending in hands. This symbolized that man is the hand of God in action—and that as the sun and its rays are one, so there is no separation between Creator and creation. Ikhnaton means | In the Arian age we also note the monotheism of the Egyptian pharaoh [[Ikhnaton]]. A century before Moses, he attained mystical union with God through his meditation on the sun—and on the Sun behind the sun. Ikhnaton called God “Aton.” The symbol for Aton was the sun with diverging rays ending in hands. This symbolized that man is the hand of God in action—and that as the sun and its rays are one, so there is no separation between Creator and creation. Ikhnaton means “he who serves the Aton.” The pharaoh believed that he was a son of Aton. He truly knew himself as the Light-emanation of the one God. | ||
[[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|Jesus, example of the Christ for the age of Pisces]] | [[File:Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg|thumb|Jesus, example of the Christ for the age of Pisces]] | ||
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The unfoldment of God’s identity within you and your identification with it is progressive through the cosmic cycles. This unfoldment culminates in your direct experience of God followed by your union with God. This is the goal of all of your past incarnations and the goal of your life today. | The unfoldment of God’s identity within you and your identification with it is progressive through the cosmic cycles. This unfoldment culminates in your direct experience of God followed by your union with God. This is the goal of all of your past incarnations and the goal of your life today. | ||
We do not leave behind the previous ages but we build upon their foundations. Knowledge of the ascended masters’ teachings is no excuse to set aside the Ten Commandments or the teachings of Jesus Christ or the great truths that come down to us through the [[Vedas]] and the Upanishads and all of the teachings of the Avatars of the major world religions. | We do not leave behind the previous ages but we build upon their foundations. Knowledge of the ascended masters’ teachings is no excuse to set aside the Ten Commandments or the teachings of Jesus Christ or the great truths that come down to us through the [[Vedas]] and the Upanishads and all of the teachings of the Avatars of the major world religions.<ref>Among the Avatars of the major world religions are Rama, [[Krishna]], [[Zarathustra]], Gautama Buddha, Jesus the Christ and [[Saint Germain]], Avatar of the [[Aquarian age]].</ref> | ||
We have this communion with our I AM Presence because we have built, stone upon stone, our pyramid. And now we have come to that age and hour when we ourselves must place the spiritual capstone on our personal pyramid. | We have this communion with our I AM Presence because we have built, stone upon stone, our pyramid. And now we have come to that age and hour when we ourselves must place the spiritual capstone on our personal pyramid. | ||
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== The name of God is empowerment == | == The name of God is empowerment == | ||
In each age God has also given us one or more new names whereby we may invoke that image and, by reflection, make it our own. Knowledge of the name of God is empowerment. | In each age God has also given us one or more new names whereby we may invoke that image and, by reflection, make it our own. Knowledge of the name of God is empowerment.<ref>Examples of the names of God are Ra, Aton, Elohim, El Elyon, El Shaddai, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, I AM THAT I AM, OM, Brahman, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Narayana, Ishvara.</ref> God has empowered his people through many ages. And by that, we have learned to expand the flowers of our [[chakra]]s. Each time we invoke God by a new name we access a portion of God’s Self that was previously beyond our reach. | ||
The name of God is the key to his heart, to his mind, to his spirit, and to that state of consciousness we are destined to mirror and to become. | The name of God is the key to his heart, to his mind, to his spirit, and to that state of consciousness we are destined to mirror and to become. | ||