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Saint John, by Peter Paul Rubens

Иоанн Возлюбленный был ближайшим учеником Иисуса Христа. Он записал Книгу «Откровение», которую продиктовал Иисус, «послав оное через Ангела Своего». Он, лучше всех понявший мистические учения Хрис­та, был единственным из двенадцати апостолов, кто совершил вознесение по завершении того воплощения.

His lifetimes on earth

Находясь под опекой Иосифа, покровителя Марии и Иисуса, Иоанн и его брат Иаков прошли обучение в об­щине Ессеев. Увидев Иисуса входящим во внутренний храм, в то время как сам он поклонялся снаружи, Иоанн провидел судьбу Христа. Годы спустя, когда прозвучал зов, он был готов следовать за своим Господом и Владыкой.

Иоанн притягивал луч любви в большей степени, чем кто-либо из апостолов. Он проявлял эту любовь не только к личности Иисуса. Он любил и свет Христа в нем, и его миссию, которую, более того, понимал и разделял. Иоанн сказал нам, что его любовь к Иисусу была так велика, что для того, чтобы совер­шить вознесение, ему пришлось понять смысл безличной любви.

John was the only disciple who did not forsake Jesus as he was dying on the cross. As Jesus saw John standing nearby with Mary, he said to her, “Woman, behold thy son!” and said to John, “Behold thy Mother!” Jesus thereby acknowledged John as his spiritual brother, as worthy to be the son of his own mother—and therefore, he elevated John to the level of Christ.

Иоанн воплотил во всей полноте качества Христа; если бы это было не так, Иисус не стал бы устанавливать такие отношения, ведь Мария была Матерью в исконном смысле понятия «Вселенская Мать» — она воплощала пламя Матери. Когда Иисус назвал Иоанна ее сыном, он говорил о сыне не только в физическом смысле, но также в универсальном смысле — о Сыне Бога, Сыне Божественной Матери, чьим представителем она была.

The cave on Patmos where it is said that John received the Book of Revelation

John stayed in Jerusalem for some time during the persecutions following Jesus’ resurrection. After the martyrdom of Peter and Paul, John settled in Ephesus, the greatest city of Asia Minor, where Paul had centered his missionary activities. There is a tradition, which is confirmed by Tertullian and Jerome, that during the reign of Domitian, John was taken to Rome where an attempt to put him to death in a cauldron of boiling oil was miraculously thwarted. (This is the test of fire that was also faced by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.) He emerged from the cauldron unharmed and was then banished to the island of Patmos. Here he received and recorded the Book of Revelation.

After the death of Domitian in the year A.D. 96, John could return to Ephesus, and many believe that he wrote his Gospel and three epistles at that time, when he was in his nineties. John is said to have passed his last years at Ephesus, and to have died there at a great age, outliving all the other apostles. According to some, he simply “disappeared”—was translated like Elijah or “assumed” into heaven as was the Blessed Virgin. Others testify to the miracles wrought from the dust of his tomb.

In an earlier embodiment, John was Benjamin, the youngest brother of Joseph, the idle dreamer, who later embodied as Jesus. Of his eleven brothers (all of whom served as his disciples in his final embodiment), Joseph loved Benjamin the most.

His service today

John uses as his symbol a purple Maltese Cross superimposed upon a pink Maltese Cross with gold radiance surrounding it. The flame focused in his retreat in the etheric realms above the state of Arizona is purple and gold. Through this flame, which focuses the power of divine love in its four phases, he teaches the mastery of fire, air, water and earth as the four aspects of the nature of God.

This hope is also held by beloved John and the brothers and sisters who serve in his retreat, who teach the impersonal impersonality of divine love through the mastery of the fire element, the impersonal personality of divine love through the mastery of the air element, the personal personality of divine love through the mastery of the water element, and the personal impersonality of divine love through the mastery of the earth element. (These four aspects of God’s consciousness correspond to God as Father, Son, Mother and Holy Spirit.)

Students who desire to study these four aspects of the nature of God and how they can solve the problems of our civilization that are the result of the perversions of the love ray on the planet may ask to be taken to John the Beloved’s retreat while they sleep.

See also

John the Beloved's retreat

Angel of the Revelation of John the Divine

Book of Revelation

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “John the Beloved.”