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[[File:StPaul.jpg|thumb|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. | ||
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Paul was a persecutor of Christians and consented to the heartless stoning of Stephen recorded in the Book of Acts. However, though the mind of Saul was prejudiced against Christ (by hereditary and environmental factors that cannot permanently alter the soul’s direction except the soul give consent), the image of the apostle Paul, his fiery destiny, was already etched within his spirit. | Paul was a persecutor of Christians and consented to the heartless stoning of Stephen recorded in the Book of Acts. However, though the mind of Saul was prejudiced against Christ (by hereditary and environmental factors that cannot permanently alter the soul’s direction except the soul give consent), the image of the apostle Paul, his fiery destiny, was already etched within his spirit. | ||
[[File:ConversionStPaul.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=caption|''Conversion of St. Paul'', Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1767)]] | |||
== Conversion == | == Conversion == | ||
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One of Jesus’ disciples, Ananias, following the Lord’s directions to the street called Straight, entered the house where Paul was staying “and putting his hands on him said, ‘Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.’”<ref>Acts 9:17.</ref> | One of Jesus’ disciples, Ananias, following the Lord’s directions to the street called Straight, entered the house where Paul was staying “and putting his hands on him said, ‘Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.’”<ref>Acts 9:17.</ref> | ||
[[File:479px-Ananias restoring the sight of st paul (34663925).jpg|thumb|Ananias Restoring the Sight of St. Paul, by Pietro da Cortona (c.1631)]] | |||
By the act of this messenger, Paul had the immediate proof that the voice he had heard midst the blinding light was none other than that of Jesus himself. Thus, it is recorded that through the Lord’s instrument, Ananias, “immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”<ref>Acts 9:18.</ref> | By the act of this messenger, Paul had the immediate proof that the voice he had heard midst the blinding light was none other than that of Jesus himself. Thus, it is recorded that through the Lord’s instrument, Ananias, “immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”<ref>Acts 9:18.</ref> | ||
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It was from the city of Antioch that Paul was called to the first of his missionary journeys, which took him through the southern part of Asia Minor. Paul performed miracles and preached the gospel, but the Jews were angered by his preaching; in Lystra he was stoned and left for dead by a mob. | It was from the city of Antioch that Paul was called to the first of his missionary journeys, which took him through the southern part of Asia Minor. Paul performed miracles and preached the gospel, but the Jews were angered by his preaching; in Lystra he was stoned and left for dead by a mob. | ||
[[File:V&A - Raphael, St Paul Preaching in Athens (1515).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=caption|''Saint Paul Preaching in Athens'', Raphael (1515)]] | |||
Paul’s second journey took him farther through Asia Minor and across the Aegean Sea, where he established Christianity’s first foothold in Europe with the formation of a church in the Roman colony of Philippi in Macedonia. | Paul’s second journey took him farther through Asia Minor and across the Aegean Sea, where he established Christianity’s first foothold in Europe with the formation of a church in the Roman colony of Philippi in Macedonia. | ||
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== Paul imprisoned == | == Paul imprisoned == | ||
[[File:Nikolai Bodarevsky 001.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|alt=Paul before Herod Agrippa II flanked by his sister Berenice and Roman procurator Porcius Festus|''Trial of the Apostle Paul'', Nikolas Kornilievich Bodarevsky (1875)]] | |||
Following his third missionary journey, Paul desired to return to Jerusalem to preach the gospel to the Jews, and he did so despite Jesus’ warning to him not to go there. However, “The Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, crying out, ‘Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.’”<ref>Acts 21:27–28</ref> | Following his third missionary journey, Paul desired to return to Jerusalem to preach the gospel to the Jews, and he did so despite Jesus’ warning to him not to go there. However, “The Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, crying out, ‘Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.’”<ref>Acts 21:27–28</ref> | ||
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== The taking up of serpents == | == The taking up of serpents == | ||
[[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: | ||