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This Classic work is now copyright expired and therefore in the public domain. Cosmic Consciousness by Ali NomadIX JESUS OF NAZARETH
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"Love covereth a multitude of sins, so be not joyful save when you look upon your brother's countenance in love."
"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, for the greatest of crimes is this: if a man shall sadden his brother's spirit."
"For our possessions are in heaven; therefore, sons of men, purchase unto yourselves by these transitory things which are not yours, _what is yours_, and shall not pass away."
For the Lord has said in a mystery: "Unless ye make the right as the left; the left as the right; the top as the bottom; and the front as the backward, ye shall not know the kingdom of God."
"Keep the flesh holy and the seal undented, that ye may receive eternal life."
"If a man shall sadden his brother's spirit." This indeed is the greatest of all crimes, because out of man's inhumanity to man springs all the sin and sorrow of the world.
"Unless ye make the right as the left; the top as the bottom; the front as the backward." The meaning should be clear enough and the words are worthy of the illumined mind of Jesus of Nazareth.
The great sin is separation; segregation; "My and mine" as opposed to "Thee and thine." To the truly illumined one there can be no "mine," as distinct from another's.
The sinner is no less my brother than is the saint. The beggar is as dear to me as is the rich man. Every man is a king. There are no "chosen of God" to the one who has entered cosmic consciousness.
"For our possessions are in heaven. Use, therefore, the things of earth, while ye are living in the flesh (sons of men), in such a way and to such purpose that they will not enchain you in the maze of manifestation, and thereby require that you postpone your claim to immortality."
This statement is distinct enough, as is also the one: "He who longs to be rich is like a man drinking sea water. The more he drinketh, the more thirsty he becomes and _never leaves off drinking until he perisheth_."
The hypnotism of the external world is too well illustrated to need further comment. The man who enters upon the pursuit of worldly possessions; temporal power; personal ambition; thinking that when he shall have attained all these, then will he turn to the solution of the mystery of mysteries, finds himself caught in the trap of his desires, and he can not escape. He is under the spell of enchantment, wherein the unreal appears as real, and the real becomes the illusory.
To sum up, the fragmentary accounts we have of the life and character of the man Jesus are conclusive proof that he had entered into full realization of cosmic consciousness.
Like Lord Gautama, he appeared to his disciples after he had left the physical body, "glorified," as one who had taken on immortality.
Nor was there ever, it would appear, any doubt in the mind of Jesus, of his right to godhood, while retaining, also, his self-consciousness.
The intellectual superiority.
The wonderful spiritual magnetism and attraction of his presence.
The absolute, unwavering conviction of his mission, and of his immortality.
The transfiguration, after his "temptation" and his prophetic vision.
His great love and compassion for even his enemies.
These are what made him indeed a Christ.
The term "Christ" and the term "Buddha" are synonymous. They both mean one who has entered into his godhood. One who has attained to cosmic consciousness, leaving forever the limitations of the lower self.
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