Levi H. Dowling - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

24. And Jesus said, You are yourself a king, and you may enter through the gate and be a subject of the King of kings.

25. But you must lay aside your priestly robes; must cease to serve the Holy One for gold; must give your life, and all you have, in willing service to the sons of men.

26. And Jesus said no more; Ajainin went his way; and while he could not comprehend the truth that Jesus spoke, he saw what he had never seen before.

27. The realm of faith he never had explored; but in his heart the seeds of faith and universal brotherhood had found good soil.

28. And as he journeyed to his home he seemed to sleep, to pass through darkest night, and when he woke the Sun of Righteousness had arisen; he had found the king.

29. Now, in Benares Jesus tarried many days and taught.

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1. One day as Jesus stood beside the Ganges busy with his work, a caravan, returning from the West, drew near.

2. And one, approaching Jesus, said, We come to you from your native land and bring unwelcome news.

3. Your father is no more on earth; your mother grieves; and none can comfort her. She wonders whether you are still alive or not; she longs to see you once again.

4. And Jesus bowed his head in silent thought; and then he wrote. Of what he wrote this is the sum:

5. My mother, noblest of womankind; A man just from my native land has brought me word that father is no more in flesh, and that you grieve, and are disconsolate.

6. My mother, all is well; is well for father and is well for you.

7. His work in this earth-round is done, and it is nobly done.

8. In all the walks of life men cannot charge him with deceit, dishonesty, nor wrong intent.

9. Here in this round he finished many heavy tasks, and he has gone from hence prepared to solve the problems of the round of soul.

10. Our Father-God is with him there, as he was with him here; and there his angel guards his footsteps lest he goes astray.

11. Why should you weep? Tears cannot conquer grief. There is no power in grief to mend a broken heart.

12. The plane of grief is idleness; the busy soul can never grieve; it has no time for grief.

13. When grief comes trooping through the heart, just lose yourself; plunge deep into the ministry of love, and grief is not.

14. Yours is a ministry of love, and all the world is calling out for love.

15. Then let the past go with the past; rise from the cares of carnal things and give your life for those who live.

16. And if you lose your life in serving life you are sure to find in it the morning sun, the evening dews, in song of bird, in flowers, and in the stars of night.

17. In just a little while your problems of this earth-round will be solved; and when your sums are all worked out it will be pleasure unalloyed for you to enter wider fields of usefulness, to solve the greater problems of the soul.

18. Strive, then, to be content, and I will come to you some day and bring you richer gifts than gold or precious stones.

19. I'm sure that John will care for you, supplying all your needs; and I am with you all the way, Jehoshua.

20. And by the hand of one, a merchant, going to Jerusalem, he sent this letter on its way.

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1. The words and works of Jesus caused unrest through all the land.

2. The common people were his friends, believed in him and followed him in throngs.

3. The priests and rulers were afraid of him, his very name sent terror to their hearts.

4. He preached the brotherhood of life, the righteousness of equal rights, and taught the uselessness of priests, and sacrificial rites.

5. He shook the very sand on which the Brahmic system stood; he made the Brahmic idols seem so small, and sacrifice so fraught with sin, that shrines and wheels of prayer were all forgot.

6. The priests declared that if this Jewish boy should tarry longer in the land a revolution would occur; the common people would arise and kill the priests, and tear the temples down.

7. And so they sent a call abroad, and priests from every province came. Benares was on fire with Brahmic zeal.

8. Lamaas from the temple Jagannath, who knew the inner life of Jesus well, was in their midst, and heard the rantings of the priests,

9. And he stood forth and said, My brother priests, take heed, be careful what you do; this is a record-making day.

10. The world is looking on; the very life of Brahmic thought is now on trial.

11. If we are reason-blind; if prejudice be king today; if we resort to beastly force, and dye our hands in blood that may, in sight of Brahm, be innocent and pure,

12. His vengeance may fall down on us; the very rock on which we stand may burst beneath our feet; and our beloved priesthood, and our laws and shrines will go into decay.

13. But they would let him speak no more. The wrathful priests rushed up and beat him, spit upon him, called him traitor, threw him, bleeding, to the street.

14. And then confusion reigned; the priests became a mob; the sight of human blood led on to fiendish acts and called for more.

15. The rulers, fearing war, sought Jesus, and they found him calmly teaching in the market place.

16. They urged him to depart, that he might save his life; but he refused to go.

17. And then the priests sought cause for his arrest; but he had done no crime.

18. And then false charges were preferred; but when the soldiers went to bring him to the judgement hall they were afraid, because the people stood in his defense.

19. The priests were baffled, and they resolved to take his life by stealth.

20. They found a man who was a murderer by trade, and sent him out by night to slay the object of their wrath.

21. Lamaas heard about their plotting and their plans, and sent a messenger to warn his friend; and Jesus hastened to depart.

22. By night he left Benares, and with haste he journeyed to the north; and everywhere, the farmers, merchants and sudras helped him on his way.

23. And after many days he reached the mighty Himalayas, and in the city of Kapivastu he abode.

24. The priests of Buddha opened wide their temple doors for him.

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1. Among the Buddhist priests was one who saw a lofty wisdom in the words that Jesus spoke. It was Barata Arabo.

2. Together Jesus and Barata read the Jewish Psalms and Prophets; read the Vedas, the Avesta and the wisdom of Gautama.

3. And as they read and talked about the possibilities of man, Barata said,

4. Man is the marvel of the universe. He is part of everything for he has been a living thing on every plane of life.

5. Time was when man was not; and he was a bit of formless substance in the moulds of time; and then a protoplast.

6. By universal law all things tend upward to a state of perfectness. The protoplast evolved, becoming worm, then reptile, bird and beast, and then at last it reached the form of man.

7. Now, man himself is mind, and mind is here to gain perfection by experience; and mind is often manifest in fleshy form, and in the form best suited to its growth. So mind may manifest as worm, or bird, or beast, or man.

8. The time will come when everything of life will be evolved unto the state of perfect man.

9. And after man is man in perfectness, he will evolve to higher forms of life.

10. And Jesus said, Barata Arabo, who taught you this, that mind, which is the man, may manifest in flesh of beast, or bird, or creeping thing?

11. Barata said, From times which man remembers not our priests have told us so, and so we know.

12. And Jesus said, Enlightened Arabo, are you a master mind and do not know that man knows naught by being told?