Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus

Today we discuss the most famous person who has ever lived. There are about 2 billion people in the world today who believe that Jesus is God. And so the question then is, there have been many famous individuals in history. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Zoroastria, Homer. But it is Jesus that most people worship. And the question we will look at today is, why? So what I want to do first is discuss the religion of Christianity. And as you know, I grew up in Canada and I studied in the United States. And so my entire life, Jesus was part of the culture. He was part of society. And growing up in Canada, not being Christian, I really didn't understand Christianity. I really didn't understand the ideas. So let's go over some of the major ideas of Christianity. First of all, it's important to remember that there are many denominations in Christianity. So there's a lot of disagreements, okay?

But these are the major ideas that most Christians agree on. First thing is that Jesus is God. He is the son of God and God himself, okay? And he's king, okay? This already is very confusing. Second thing is they believe that Jesus died for our sins. So remember that we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden because we disobeyed God and we ate from the tree of knowledge, okay? So Jesus died for our sins, and so Jesus redeemed us, okay? The third thing that they believe is that eventually Jesus will return, something called the second coming. He died, then he was resurrected, then went to heaven, but eventually he will return. And this will result in the last judgment, in which all individuals are redeemed. They are judged whether they will reign in heaven or burn in hell, okay? He will bring heaven to earth. And this is where Christianity is most controversial.

What this says is that if you believe in Jesus, if you're a Christian, you will go to heaven. But if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell. And this goes again. This goes against all other religious traditions. Every religious tradition is basically like, be a good person, and that's all you have to do. But Christianity demands that you must believe in Jesus or you will burn in hell, okay? So in other words, Christianity is a missionary religion in which if you're a Christian, not only do you must believe in Jesus, but you must go out and try to convert other people. Because if they don't convert to Christianity, during the last judgment, they will burn in hell. And that is why Christianity is one of the most aggressive religions that we have today. So this is all very strange, and there are a lot of questions in Christianity. And that's why Christianity also proposes the idea of miracles, okay?

How did Jesus die for our sins? Why is there such a thing coming? It's all a miracle, okay? Meaning don't question it, just believe in it, all right? So Christianity is a very problematic religion. It raises a lot of questions, okay? So then the question then is, given all the confusion around Christianity, why do so many people believe in Jesus, all right? So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to explain to you what we know for sure about Jesus. This is not... This is not religious people, it's scholars who spent decades researching the evidence, looking at the Bible, looking at the archeological evidence, looking at all the writings of that period. And this is what we know for sure about Jesus, okay? All right, so the life of Jesus, okay? So the first thing that we know is he was born maybe about 4 BCE, okay, in a place called Galilee.

I know in the Bible it says he was born in the year zero. But he's actually born four years before that, all right? That's the first thing that we know for sure, most people agree on. I'm talking about like mainstream academics. Second thing that we agree on is that his teacher was John the Baptist. And John the Baptist is what we call an apocalyptic preacher, okay? An apocalyptic preacher basically says, I will reveal the future to you. And the future is that God is coming, and God will destroy the evil people in the world. So right now is your opportunity to redeem yourself from your sins, to start a new life. Because God is coming, and we must prepare for the return of God. That is the message of John the Baptist, and Jesus was one of his students, one of his disciples. But at some point, Jesus started to create his own following.

So Jesus was preaching a message that is different from John the Baptist, okay? So that's the second thing we know. The third thing that we know is the crucifixion, okay? So we know that the Romans crucified Jesus. We don't know why, but we know that the Romans killed Jesus. And the crucifixion is when the Romans nailed you onto a wooden cross, and it's an awful way to die, because how you're dying is actually not through the bleeding, okay? You got nails hammered to the cross. You're dying because you have no energy, so your head hangs low, which means you're suffocating slowly. And it takes about three days for you to suffocate to death. And so this is like one of the worst punishments that the Romans could ever inflict on you. And really, there's only two types of people that the Romans will use the crucifixion as punishment, okay?

The first type are thieves and bandits, all right? These are considered the lowest type of people. The second type of people are rebels, people who are trying to overthrow the Roman state, okay? So Jesus, in other words, was probably a rebel, or the Romans considered him a rebel, okay? So that's the third thing that we know for sure. Now the last thing that we know for sure is that they had a brother called James the Just. And James the Just would inherit Jesus' movement after the death of Jesus. And this movement was called the Poor, or another word for this is Ebionite. Okay? Don't worry about the name, just remember the idea, okay? So these are only the four things that we know for sure about Jesus. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you what the Bible says about Jesus, what the official story of Jesus is in the Bible.

And you can see how different it is from what we know for sure, okay? So this is what the Bible says. Something to keep in mind is that there are at least four different biographies of Jesus. Jesus in the Bible, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, and they say different things. But we'll talk about the main story of Jesus, okay? So the main story of Jesus is that Jesus is the Son of God. And at this point in history, we have disobeyed God, and God is angry at us. And Jesus, being the Son of God, wants to redeem us in the IEA. Remember, we try to become God, we try to kill God by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, okay? And so now God's angry at us, and we can't forgive ourselves. So Jesus decides he must come to the planet Earth and take a human form and then sacrifice himself as a scapegoat in order to redeem us in the eyes of God, okay?

That's the plan. So what he does is he comes. And then he starts a ministry, all right? And what the ministry is, is it basically is healing people, okay? So he goes around healing people. If you touch him, you're a cure of cancer, you're a cure of all your diseases, okay? He also dispels demons. So there are some demons inside of us, and what Jesus will do is get rid of these demons and cleanse us, okay? And then he preaches the gospel, the good news. So he teaches us how to be good people, basically. The problem, though, is that a lot of his teachings go against Judaic authority, okay? So at this time, remember, he is in Judea, the Roman province of Judea, and Jewish priests are in charge. And Jewish priests teach people to follow the law, to follow the Sabbath, okay?

Do not work on Saturdays. Obey the law of Moses. Obey the customs and traditions. Okay? Obey the laws of the Jewish tradition. And what Jesus says is, no, what's important is to follow the Spirit of God. So there's a conflict here, okay? Where Jesus is rebelling against the authority of the Jewish priests, okay? And so what happens is the Jewish priests start to plot against Jesus, and eventually Jesus is betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot. And Jesus is detained by the Jewish priests, who then give him over to the Roman authorities, okay? At this point, Pontius Pilate is the governor of Judea. And so he asks Jesus, what did you do wrong? Why do the Jewish priests want you to be executed? And Jesus refuses to answer. Pontius Pilate doesn't really answer. They want to kill him, but there's anger from the Jewish people, who demand his head. So Pontius Pilate orders Jesus to be crucified, and then he dies, okay?

Jesus dies, and then he's resurrected after three days. And then he returns and appears before his disciples and tells them, I will come back. I need to go to heaven, but I will come back when I am most needed. Before I come back, tell them the gospel. Tell them the good news that I will one day return, and that I've redeemed people from their sins. And therefore, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish or not Jewish, you can all celebrate God, okay? I've brought God to you because I've redeemed you from your sins. So tell everyone the good news, all right? And so this begins the very idea of Christianity. All right, okay? So this is the official story that you see in the Bible. And this is what most Christians believe. But again, the problem, of course, is there are lots of issues with this story, okay?

So let's go over some of the major issues. The first major issue is, what does God have a son? How does God produce a son? Aren't we all God's children? Why is Jesus different from everyone else, okay? So in Greek mythology, the gods come down and impregnate God. They come down and impregnate a woman, but that's not what happened here. The Bible says that God had a son, and we don't know where he came from, okay? So this is very confusing. But not only that, but the Bible also says that Jesus is God. And so this is really confusing. Is he a son of God, or is he God, okay? So this is the first major problem. Second major problem is, why is he choosing to sacrifice himself? How does that resolve the problem? How does that resolve the issue? Right? We disobey God, and now Jesus will redeem us by sacrificing himself.

But how does that work? Okay, the logic is kind of confusing. The third problem, and this is actually very problematic, is the Bible is explicit. It says that the Jewish priests plotted against Jesus, and the Jewish priests were responsible for the death of Jesus. And it's problematic because for 2,000 years. Christians have used this as a reason to persecute Jews. Because you killed our Lord, our Savior, okay? You Jews are evil, okay? But if you look at Jewish history, I will argue that this could not have happened, okay? It could have happened for like three reasons. The first reason is, okay, let's just say that Jesus was rebelling against the Jewish priests. Jesus was in disagreement with the Jewish priests. That's not enough reason for the priests to want to kill Jesus. The reason why is, within the Jewish tradition, it is okay to argue, okay? So at this time in history, there are at least three different Jewish groups, okay?

They are called the Sadducees. Who are the Sadducees? The Sadducees are the royalty of the religion. These are priests that go back generations. Okay? So this is like the Jewish nobility. They're called the Sadducees. Then you have the Pharisees. The Pharisees believe themselves to be reformers. The Sadducees, they maintain ritual, okay? So if you are to sacrifice an animal in the temple, you have to go through them. The Pharisees says, sacrifice is not what's important. What's important is obeying the law, okay? So there's a major disagreement between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, okay? So they go through them. But then you also have the Essenes. Who are the Essenes? The Essenes are people who become monks, and they believe, like John the Baptist, we believe that John the Baptist was an Essene, that God is coming, and there'll be a final war, and we must prepare for that.

So we must abandon all materialistic belongings. Okay? Guess what, guys? There are also other groups within these different groups, and all three groups hate each other. Okay? So just because you disagree. Disagree with the Jewish authorities doesn't mean they kill you. It's in the Jewish tradition to argue all the time. In fact, if you go to Israel today, even though they're at war, they're still arguing with each other. Okay? That's the first thing. Disagreement, rebellion, debate, it's just part of Jewish tradition. That's the first thing. Second thing is that there are certain customs and laws of the Jewish people. Okay? The Jewish people see themselves as distinct and separate from everyone else because they're the chosen people. And as we discussed before, the Jewish people, they must rest on Saturdays, and they don't marry foreign men or women. They don't marry outside their tribe. Okay? So these are two major customs, but they also, as we discussed before, they also don't charge interest when they give loans to each other.

Right? Okay? Another thing that is not written down, but which is commonly accepted is you do not betray other Jews to the Roman authorities. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? We can argue amongst ourselves, but we will not betray each other to non -Jews. Okay? We will not fight among the Romans. Okay? That is an unwritten law at this time. So, I don't think ever in history have we had a case where the Jewish people betrayed a Jew to the authorities, that is non -Jewish, okay? The Jewish people, again, see themselves as separate and distinct from other people. So they will not do this. And the third thing, the third piece of evidence that this doesn't happen is, remember, James the Just is the brother of Jesus. Okay? And after Jesus died, James the Just stayed in Jerusalem, protected by the Jewish authorities.

That makes no sense, right? If Jesus, if his teachings went against Jewish law, and that's why the Jewish priests had him killed, then why was James the Just, who was teaching the same thing as Jesus, allowed to stay in Jerusalem? And not only allowed to stay in Jerusalem, but protected by the Jews. Okay? So, I'm not convinced that the Jews betrayed him. Also, remember, we discussed this in the last class, but the Romans were just brutal people. They killed people for no particular reason. So, they killed Jesus. They didn't care, okay? All right? So, I think it's much more likely that the Romans killed Jesus for their own reasons as opposed to the Jews killed Jesus. Yes?

Uh. So, the real group that killed Jesus is the Jews or the Romans?

So, yeah. I'm saying that it's the Romans who killed Jesus, and we all agree it was the Romans who killed Jesus. What the Bible says is that it was the Jews who conspired against Jesus, and the Jews encouraged the Romans to kill Jesus. Okay? Okay. All right? All right. So, that's another question. Why did the Jews conspire against Jesus? And again, I think this story is not... Not true. Then you have the idea of like, Jesus dies. So the question then is, if you're a son of God, you're divine, how do you die? And does death have any meaning, okay? And then, of course, you have the resurrection, like why would you resurrect yourself, and the second coming, okay? Why would you want to come back? Why do you need to come back? You've already redeemed humanity. Why do you have to come back? And then, why do you have... Why do you have to come back?

Why do you have to let people know who you are? You've already redeemed humanity, why do people have to worship you? Why do people have to celebrate you, okay? So this raises a lot of questions. And again, no other religion has this many questions. And so what the explanation is, is miracle, mystery, magic, okay? This is the standard explanation if you talk to Christians. Why is this all happening? Why is this happening? Don't question it, just believe it, just embrace it, okay? But in our class, we don't really do that. We ask questions, we speculate. So I know there are two million Christians in the world, and I'm sure they love Jesus, but in our class, we're really trying to figure out who he is, okay? So what we want to figure out today is, first of all, what did Jesus believe? Okay? What did he teach? Because it's not really clear, okay?

I'm sure Jesus did not preach, did not teach, believe in me and you'll be saved, okay? He probably did not do that. Christians tell you that, but Jesus himself probably did not teach that, okay? That's the first thing. Second question is, why did he become so popular? What was it about his belief that made him popular, okay? And the third thing is, why did the Romans believe? Why did the Romans kill him? All right, so these are the three big questions we're looking at today. First of all, what did Jesus really believe? Second is, why was he so popular? And the third question is, why did the Romans have to kill him? And so, the argument I want to make you today is, what Jesus taught is what every poet prophet we've studied this semester taught as well. Okay? So you look at Homer. You look at the Yahwehs. You look at Zarathustra, Plato. What did they all teach?

They all teach that there is a source, okay? The source is the divine, the good, God, the universe, the monad, whatever name you have for it, okay? And the source emanates and it creates the entire universe. And we come from the source. Now, our bodies are material, okay? So our bodies come from a process of evolution. But our consciousness, our soul, is the source. It's the divine spark. And it comes from the source. So after our experience here on earth, after we die, our source, our spark, goes back to the source, okay? And there's a constant cycle until we, at the end, merge to the source, okay? This is what Buddhism teaches, this is what Hinduism teaches, this is what Zoroastrianism, this is what all major religions teach, okay? So... So Jesus was just teaching it for his times. So the question then is, if he is teaching what every person, every poor prophet taught, why is he special?

He's special because the Roman Empire was particularly evil, okay? So before the Roman Empire, remember the problem of the Iliad, okay? Remember the Iliad? Where? Where Achilles cannot forgive himself, and his prime who forgave him, right? We discuss how during the Iliad, during that time, we all did good and we all did evil. And so what's important is to forgive ourselves, right? As long as we find the power to forgive ourselves, we will save the world. But by the time of the Romans, okay, the Romans are just pure evil, they're demonic. And so you don't forgive yourself, right? And so the question then is... How do you explain the fact that the Romans are able to conquer the world through pure evil, and you, a person, did all good, but you're a slave? How do you explain that? How do you find comfort? How do you find

solace in the fact that you've done good in your life, but at the same time, evil triumphs? Okay? And the message that Jesus came is to help people understand why the Romans triumph, okay? And what Jesus will say is this. The Romans triumphed. Because the world that we live in is a false world. It is a corpse. It's a dead world. This is not the true world. So those who most embrace death and evil and hatred will win in this world. But this is the false world. What matters is up there, okay? So what you need to understand is this. The Romans have won by being evil. So in the grand scheme of things. They've lost. Okay? So think about Achilles. How did Achilles get what he wanted? He betrayed Patroclus, right? He sacrificed Patroclus. But because he knows he did evil, he can't sleep, he can't eat, he cannot rest. All he can do is mutilate Hector's body.

And that's just the Roman way. What Jesus is telling us is this. I know the world is evil. I know the rich, the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor. powerful oppress us and we hate them but use our imagination use our heart use your empathy and look into their minds and you can see how tormented they are how every day they live with demons that haunt them how they can't sleep how how they hate themselves and how they hate the world around them and then when you see that for yourself what you will see is they're more pitiful than you are you may be poor but you're at least you're not hunted by demons okay and so if you really want to do good in the world you have to forgive your enemy you have to love your enemy because only by loving your enemy can you release your enemy

from his demons and that will save the world okay so what Jesus is telling us is this the enemy is not a good enemy you are a good enemy you are a good enemy you are a good enemy the people who oppress us the rich the powerful they are achilles okay they're achilles after they've killed hector and they have actually no purpose in life they're haunted by demons and we have to be prior we have to kiss achilles hand submit before him so that he can be released from his demons and this will make the world a better place okay that is the message of jesus and that is our mission in our in this world in a time of evil and a place of evil to look into our hearts to look in the hearts of other people to forgive our enemies to let go of our hatred and to forgive our enemies and

then that will save the world okay that is a central message of jesus all right any questions before we look at the evidence okay so i present to you the argument okay the argument is this jesus taught a message of love and forgiveness and that's what made him popular because it reminds people of who they are right you may be a slave you may think you're worthless but jesus is telling you there's still a spark inside of you that connects you to the monad and as long as you use love forgiveness compassion this spark will activate and it will release you from your slavery okay this is a false world once that spark is activated you will see the world as false and that will free you okay and why the romans kill him the romans killed him because jesus was a rebel he was trying to subvert the natural order right the natural order

is the romans at the top and the slaves at the very bottom and jesus is like no it's the opposite say it's at the top romans at the bottom okay because the romans are trapped and cursed by the evil in their hearts whereas the slaves are free and they can liberate one through their compassion through their love through their forgiveness okay and that's why the roman psalm is a threat doesn't make sense guys okay that's why they had to kill him all right and then they made up the the bible in order to um um justify what they did okay because as we discussed the last class that's what romans do okay they do evil and then they get the greeks or the jews to write the history to explain why they did it and then they get the greeks or the romans to explain why it was good okay so in other words and

this this is something that i will discuss next class is all right and i i know this is hard to understand but i'll explain it next class is this story guys it was the romans who wrote this story okay because as you can see this story convenient conveniently excused the romans from all blame even though it's the romans who killed jesus and it puts all the blame on jews okay that's the intention of the bible right so christianity is not an invention of jesus christianity is invention of the romance okay that's something i will show you next class okay all right but i'll be clear before i go into the evidence okay all right all right so the divine spark of jesus okay so the idea here is this um if you read homer the iliad the odyssey if you read dante divine comedy if you read any book you will you will see the

divine spark reflected in you okay the these great books are a portal into the divine the problem though is most people cannot read the iliad or the divine comedy okay so the question then is what do the common people do and the answer is jesus is a portal into the divine right so if you remember the life of jesus jesus is a portal into the divine if you just recite his sayings that will give you access to the vine that will remind you of who you are so yes homer and dante are great i love homer and dante but you have to be very educated in order to read homer and dante well whereas jesus anyone can know the story of jesus anyone can um um say what he says and then that will give you access to the vine okay so jesus is really about the divine okay jesus allows anyone to access the

divine whereas before um you have to access the vine through poetry okay all right so um the life of jesus okay so again jesus is jewish so the center of jewish life is uh jerusalem okay right here jerusalem and in the center of jerusalem is a temple which was rebuilt uh under the persians right and herod will we will rebuild this we'll renovate this okay um so we know that jesus was born in this era galilee as you can see galilee is by the coast which makes this region extremely cosmopolitan so from early age jesus is experiencing different religions different cultures hinduism zoroastrianism um judaism okay all right so uh this is an ai depiction of the crucifixion crucifixion of jesus jesus is in the middle and as you can see it is a brutal event okay um so we don't know much about jesus we only know um um jesus from the bible then

in 1945 in a place called nak hamadi okay this is in egypt we discovered lots of books with sayings of jesus that we didn't know existed before so what's important to understand is that after jesus died there were many different sects of christianity that believed different things and they argued with each other and ultimately it was a catholic church who won why because the catholic church is run by the roman empire okay um so one major book that was discovered in in the uh in 1945 in that hamadi that was lost to us it's called the gospel of thomas what i believe is the gospel of thomas uh records the true teachings of jesus okay so let's first let's first look at the true teachings of jesus and then we'll i'll show you why i think this is actually his true teachings all right so um can you read the highlighted part okay and he

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whoever finds an interpretation of these saying will not experience death okay all right so

so okay listen this already makes sense right because in the universe death doesn't exist because after you die your soul goes up to the astral plane to the vine okay so your soul can never die but you have to recognize that you are the divine spark okay you first need to recognize that once you recognize that you'll be immortal but if you don't recognize that then you fear death okay jesus said let him who seeks continue

seeking until he finds when he finds he will become troubled when he becomes troubled he will become troubled traveled he will be astonished and he will rule over the all okay so this goes back to the

plato's allegory of the cave right plato's allegory of the cave is his prisoner who escapes his change he goes up into the real world where there is sunlight and he sees the truth right and now he's able to see whereas everyone else is still chained as prisoners in the cave and now he rules overall because he knows the truth whereas everyone else is still in prison in darkness remember that this is a painful process when you go on the light you're blinded by it you feel absolute pain you feel uh confusion but over time if you persist you will see the truth okay so this is the algorithm of the cave okay

jesus said if those who lead you say to you see the kingdom is in the sky then the bird of the sky will precede you if they say to you it is in the sea then the fish will precede you rather the kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you when it comes to know yourself then you will become known and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of living father but if you will not know yourselves you dwell in poverty and it is it is you who are that poverty

okay so this is a really important idea okay go back to that go to the cave you escape the cave and you see the real world and you come back it doesn't matter if you tell them what the real real world is okay it doesn't matter they believe you they have themselves go out and see the world for themselves okay they have to break the chains themselves and then venture out into the light and experience pain and torment for themselves before they recognize the truth okay that's not that's what jesus is saying they people would tell you this stuff don't listen to them okay they can only guide you but you can't trust you can't believe in them you have to believe in yourself you have to look into yourself because the truth divine spark is inside of you okay so what jesus is saying is this organized religion does not work guys so there's

no way jesus would say follow me and you're good believe in me and you're good he would never ever say that because he knows you can't follow someone else you have to believe in yourself the divine spark is in you okay does it make sense so so that bro uts has done what he had to do to make it work why does he take his own Resurrection him aside he looks at jesus who's chosen Him right now so at this point you're just watching the ballerina you're watching your boy is a judge he's watching his destiny except if you don't understand es pry and that's Lord Jesus and if you actually see something he's watching he's looking out for you okay he's looking and he's looking at you okay you're sitting there you're looking around you're thinking what did this guy get takes a declare and it's not talk about yahweh he doesn't talk about

david doesn't talk about moses because for him it's all fake okay the bible is fake what's true is my spark in you okay all right so again all this is contradicting modern day christianity because jesus was not a christian okay keep on going oh sorry uh let's keep on going and again guys what what you're seeing is this the similarities between the gods of thomas and plato's out of the cave and the ilia and zoroastria his teachings as well as nietzsche okay you see how all these poor prophets they all think alike they're expressing things differently they're talking to a different age new different audience but basically seeing the same thing okay that's really important all right continue reading please

jesus saw infants being suckled he said he was disapposed these infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom they said to him shall we then as children enter the kingdom jesus said to them when you make the two one and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same so that the male not be male nor the female and when you fat when your fashion eyes in the place of an eye and the hands in place of a hand and the foot in place of a foot and a likeness in place of a likeness then where you enter the

kingdom okay so um again this is similar to what we've learned before right what he's saying is this we are born into this world and as we grow older we believe in the falseness that we see around us okay but once we develop our imagination and once you recognize that this world that we live in is our hallucination it's just a projection of our imagination then we can take control over this world and then that will allow us to access the vibe okay it is through the imagination which allows us to access the vibe and it will allow us to create this world in a new place we're able to see fashion eyes in the place of an eye a hand in the place of a hand we're able to be our true selves okay and what we will understand is that we're all connected by the vine the separation of like male female okay

Chinese American black white it's all made up it's not true once we're able to see reality as it is we'll all be one in the same when you make the two one we make the inside like the outside and the outside the inside and the above like the blow we're all interconnected together okay we're all part of the same source but we have to train ourselves to see the truth from this falsehood okay so again the idea of Asha and Jewish right this is Asha moving towards the the interconnectedness of all things the Harmony of all things the Jewish is the division of all

things okay all right his disciples said to him show us a place where you are since it is necessary for you to sit for us to seek it seek it he said to them whoever has ears let him hear there is light within the man of light and he lights up the whole world if he does not shine he is darkness okay

his disciples says to Jesus tell us how to be like you and Jesus says be yourself there's a light inside of you okay look for the light and like shine the world okay all right keep on going

Jesus said I took my place in the midst of the world and I appeared to them in flesh I found all of them intoxicated I found none of them thirsty and my soul become a fleet athlete afflicted for the sons of men because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight for empty they came into the world and empty too they seek to leave the world but for the moment they are intoxicated when they shake off the wine then they will rep repeat repent Jesus said if the flesh came into being because of spirit it is a wonder but if spirit came into being because of the body it is a wonder of wonders indeed I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its own in its poverty wait so he's talking about the

materialistic world okay we came into this world with nothing and guess what when we die we're gonna go back with nothing okay so this pursuit of materialism this pursuit of wealth this pursuit of power makes no sense why are you here pursuing all this stuff there's gold there's wealth there's money that you can't take with you it it seems as though you're drunk okay so this line the flesh came into being because of spirit is a wonder okay so the idea is that it is the consciousness the mind that creates the the material world the body right that makes sense and what did you say is this if you think that the body creates a spirit you're crazy it's impossible it's a wonder of wonders that's impossible guys why because the spirit is full of wealth the body is impoverished how is it possible that an impoverished body is able to create so much wealth

okay and this makes sense right our mind our consciousness is so vast so abundant but our bodies are so limited so how is it possible that our smaller brain is able to create a universe of ideas and experiences okay all right so the idea of intoxicated we're here and we're just drunk but we are not thirsty for the truth we're happy for the way it is okay all right and this idea is mirrored in a poem that we read before by rumi right so you may remember uh rumi the persian poet he also says this the world that we live in is a prison for drunks okay so i'm pretty sure roommate did not read jesus this gospel of thomas okay but they're able to think the same thoughts because they're all being inspired by the same source does that make sense all right continue please

jesus said the phrases and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge this is noxious noxious means knowledge okay and hidden them they themselves have not answered nor have they allowed to enter those who wish wish to you however wise as serpents and as innocent as dogs okay so jesus hates organized religion okay the pharisees

remember are jewish priests jewish leaders and they create a hierarchy of religion where they say the people only i know the truth only i have knowledge so listen to me and what jesus is saying is they themselves are ignorant because you cannot access knowledge through hierarchy okay through oppressing other people you can only access knowledge by looking into yourself so you're you have to become like the serpent and pretend you don't know anything in order to access not yourself because otherwise if you are capable of accessing knowledge then the priest will see as a threat and they will kill you all right and what is the serpent remember it was a serpent who told eve to eat from the fruit and so what jesus is saying is it is good and natural to seek knowledge even if it means those disobeying god okay that's what we're meant to do here to seek knowledge to seek

the truth to seek love if the gods if the priest stop you from doing so it's because you're evil all right because remember the true god the monad is pure love pure compassion pure forgiveness he can do no wrong he's perfection and if you have the desire to seek knowledge and you believe that knowledge makes you a happier more fulfilled person then you should seek knowledge even if god tells you don't do so because if that god tells you don't do so it means he's the false

god okay keep on going jesus said whoever has come to understand the world as found only a corpse and whoever has found the corpse is superior to the world okay so this is this is what's going to get

jesus in trouble right he's saying the roman empire this great empire that you've built that ranges across the mediterranean it's a corpse it's dying it's dead it's nothing all right and once you recognize this once you refuse to comply once you refuse to obey they have no power over you right and so that's a threat to power that's a threat to

the roman empire keep on going jesus said the kingdom is like a shafir who had a shepherd who had a hundred sheep one of them the largest went astray he left the 99 sheep and looked for until he found it when he had gone to such trouble he said to the ship i care for you more than the 99

okay so god the true god does not want obedience he wants us to be creative he wants us to seek knowledge he wants us to discover he wants us to explore he wants to try new things and if we do this he cares for us than those who obey him because those who obey him those who do nothing contribute nothing to the universe okay when we love when we imagine we are making the universe a brighter place we are starting our life we just sit back and just do what we're told we're doing nothing okay we're like npcs do you guys know npcs non -playable characters in in video game okay we don't we don't exist

all right keep on going jesus said a man had received visitors and we had prepared the dinner he sent his servant to invite the guys he went to the first one and said to him my master invites you he said i have claimed against some merchants they are coming to me this evening i must go and give them my orders i asked to be excused from the dinner he went to another and said to him my master have has invited you he said to him i have just bought a house and and am required for the day i should not have any spare time he went to another and said to him, My master invites you, he said to him. My friend is going to get married, and I am to prepare the banquet. I should not be able to come. I asked to be excused from the dinner. He went to another and said to him, My master invites you, he said to him.

I have just bought a farm, and I am on my way to collect the rent. I should not be able to come. I asked to be excused. The servant returned and said to his master, Those whom you invited to the dinner have asked to be excused. The master said to his servant, Go outside to the streets and bring back those whom you happen to meet, so that they may dine. Businessmen and merchants will not enter the places of my father.

Okay, so again, this goes against the empire. What Jesus is saying is, the worst people in this world are the rich people. Think about today how we're supposed to worship Elon Musk, right? Because he's rich. What Jesus is saying, is no, Elon Musk is the worst person in the world. Why? Because the divine, the Monad has prepared a great feast for us. When we die, when we go to the Monad, we will experience the greatest happiness, the greatest joy. Okay, the Monad is inviting us. But the business people are saying, No, I'm too busy. I'm too busy making money. I'm too busy doing evil in this world. So I don't want to go to the stupid feast. So they're the ones who will lose out in the end, even though today we they've won out. Okay, so that's what Jesus is saying. Jesus is like, don't worry about the rich and the powerful.

They may look happy, but they're not. At the end of days, when we all go back to the Monad, we all go back to the divine, they're the ones who will not be invited to the grand feast.

Yeah, I have a question that God led us to be creative and like do our thing though. We want to do like the seed for the spark. But since we are born, how do we do that? How do we do that? How can we really know the things that what we want to do? I think that requires socialization between other people. But if you socialize, they will bring what you and affect to let you to seek for materialism.

Yeah, okay. That's a great question. And it's a problem, right? Because as you say, your parents, the school society brainwashes you to believe that only money matters. Only grades matter. Okay. And the answer is, you have to be brave. You have to be yourself. Because you yourself know what is true, right? If we didn't know, then Jesus would not matter. Why do 2 billion people believe in Jesus? Because they know that Jesus spoke the truth. Okay. So listen to your heart. I know it's hard and most of us cannot do it. Okay. And that's why in many traditions, like Buddhism and Hinduism, the incarnation is important. Because maybe in this lifetime, we don't figure it out. Maybe in the next lifetime. But maybe then, you know, 50 lifetimes away. But eventually, you'll figure it out. You'll figure out that what other people say does not matter because this world we live in is a false world.

Eventually, you'll figure that out. And then you're like, you know what I should do? I should do what I believe to be true. And then what you recognize is, oh, when I actually do what I like, what I enjoy, it makes me a more fulfilled person. And guess what? It connects me to the vine. Okay. I am a much more spiritual person now. And you can know because look at this, this is right. When you meet a rich person, his face is kind of, I don't know, evil. But you, we meet a person who's generous, who volunteers his time, who is a good teacher. His face is different. Okay. So remember Achilles, when you do evil, evil comes into you and it corrupts your soul. When you do good, good comes to you and it brightens your soul and you bring the world with it. Okay.

and socialization like if we are an infant how do we know what is right or wrong and what should

we seek for because of the spark in you right because the spark in you you know when it glows when you love someone and that person loves you back your spark glows when you become a teacher and you teach students you teach your students learn well your spark glows so like you try

different things until the you find the things that make your spark grow yeah and and say the

important idea is that our lives are infinite okay so we will die and die is a game reset okay it's just like you suck at this game you die you come back and you try again okay but it's your choice the really important idea is free will it's your choice to do whatever you want with your life no one's going to force you okay so the idea of when you die is you go back to the actual plane and then you're able to reflect on your own life and then you come back and you start over eventually you'll figure it out it may take a million years it may take a thousand years who knows but eventually you'll figure it out okay because because the world is infinite does it make sense okay what's really important to understand is you have to figure out by yourself no one can teach you i can give you

the idea jesus can tell you what he thinks but you have to figure it by yourself okay and that's why this is so hard for people to accept because people don't want to accept individual responsibility okay all right okay so this this gives us um um so so the problem is this the problem is that jesus says that you there's a spark instead of you and it's your responsibility you don't have to it's your responsibility to let it grow if you let it grow you'll bring happiness to the world you'll bring happiness to yourself and then you're able to feast with a monad with a vine um in heaven okay and as i said um as we discussed it's hard man it's really hard if the individual responsibility you have to ignore people around you you have to uh learn for yourself so you know this idea maybe a few people thousands tens of thousands

will love this idea but what about the millions of other people who just want to like live normal lives what can we do about them okay so this is uh the book the brothers by theodore dostoevsky he's talking about the problem left by jesus jesus comes to the world he tells us the truth he tells us freedom is what will enable us to seek the divine but this creates this anxiety in people because like oh my god now i have to like think for myself now i have to like go out into the light and feel all this pain but i don't want to i just want to live a happy life i just want to watch tv every day man and then so um and and so then the church is like okay we need to create an organized religion and we need to fool people okay how do we fool people by teaching

them that jesus did actually say these things and we're going to not we will we will not worship jesus we worship satan instead why because satan encourages us to enforce our will on people okay we need to be evil in order to do good in the world okay think about this these children are naughty right now we can say to them like jesus hey man you'll grow up one day and then you won't be naughty so okay but in this process you're gonna hurt each other you're gonna do stupid things so we have to be the strict father we have to create this church in order to enforce the law on people to make sure the children don't hurt themselves so that children can just be children okay and quite honestly most of you guys 99 of you guys will never ever grow up so we have to be satan okay so the church the

catholic church will pretend to worship jesus but actually we're going to worship satan and so we're going to enforce the law on people we will now be the evil empire the roman empire is dead okay but now the church will be the evil empire and we're gonna go around and we're gonna persecute people who disobey the law so that everyone can live in peace people want to be sheep and you know what people have the right to be sheep and so we're going to be the shepherd we will be satan and we will enforce goodness on people whether they like it or not and this is good for people because now they don't have to accept individual responsibility right if my life sucks it's not because of me it's because of the devil it's because of the catholic church it's because of satan and that's what's good okay so that's the episode saying this is

how the catholic church came into being and what we'll discuss in the next class in more detail okay because jesus left a huge problem a void in the hearts of people people want to obey people want to be told what to do people don't want to think for themselves if you make people think for themselves they'll feel nothing but fear and anxiety okay so we need to impose order so in this story what happens is the catholic church is being is being the evil empire it is oppressing people and so one day jesus comes from heaven and he walks among the people and people know oh my god he's jesus he's come back and he's curing people and they're all happy and but because the catholic church worships satan they need to arrest this guy okay and the grand inquisitor the leader appears before jesus they have a conversation that jesus called a prisoner in

the story and he says to the prisoner we know who you are you are jesus and we're supposed to worship you but we have to kill you because you are a threat to the people you're a threat to the happiness of the people okay and what the grand inquisitor will say to jesus is we create good in this world by being evil and your presence will destroy this and therefore we must destroy you okay so this is from the brothers kermas up okay thousand

is okay thou didst not love them at all thou who didst come to give thy life for them instead of taking possession of man's freedom thou didst increase it and burden the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its suffering forever okay so what he's saying is is you came to this world to free

people to tell them that the more not exist that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can go wherever they want but that just confuses people that traps people in their own way and that's what jesus is saying to them okay so what he's saying is you came to this world to free people from their own fear and anxiety life now becomes complicated okay keep on

going thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid asian law man must hereafter with free heart decide for himself what is good and what is evil having only died in my image before him as his guide okay this

is okay sorry this is like really a very annoying thing for people because before your teacher will tell you what is good and what is evil nothing you're saying you guys decide now it's completely chaos okay and again it creates anxiety in people people just want to be told what to do okay people were like you know at 5 o 'clock we're going to have dinner um at pizza hud okay people won't be like oh oh what what should i what should i have for dinner if you don't want to think man okay keep on going but this thou know

at last reject even thy image and thy truth, if he is weighed down with a fearful burden of free choice. They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not in thee, for they cannot have been left in greater confusion and suffering than thou hast caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems."

Okay, right? You're creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason. People were happy just being slaves, and now you free them, and they're completely confused as to what to do next. All right, keep on reading.

Only some thousands.

Okay, so what we're saying again is your freedom is only good for the minority of people who can think for themselves, who aspire to the divine. What about everyone else?

And what of the rest? And how are the other weak ones to blame? Because they cannot endure what the strong have done. How is a weak soul to blame that it is unable to receive such terrible gifts? Canst thou have simply come to the elect and for the elect? But if so, it is a mystery, and we cannot understand it. And if it is a mystery, we too have a right to preach a mystery, and to teach them that it's not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that matters, but a mystery which they must follow blindly. Even against their conscience, so we have done.

Okay, all right. So what he's saying is this, okay? I understand Christianity is complete chaos, okay? But this complete chaos means people will never understand what your true teachings are. If people don't understand what your true teachings are, they don't have to follow it. They don't have to think for themselves, okay? So we create a complete chaos so that people will not be forced to obey us, okay? That's why we corrupt your teachings. Keep on reading.

We have corrected thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery, and authority, immensely joy that they were again led like sheep, and that the terrible gift that had brought them such suffering was at last lifted from their hearts. Were we right teaching them this? Speak! Did we not love mankind so meekly, acknowledging their feebleness, lovingly enlightening their burden, and permitting their weak nature, even with our sanction why has thou come now to ponder us okay do you understand this idea they understand

is why is there evil in the world because people don't want to think for themselves so you need evil people to command people to enslave people to force them against their will now people are like why don't have a choice in the matter i can't think for myself sorry man okay if you actually give people complete freedom it'd be complete chaos in the world that's why there's satan that's why they're sitting in this world this is why satan must rule this world okay

i meant to end it like this when the inquisitor ceased speaking he waited some time for his prisoner to answer him his silence weighed down upon him he saw that the president had listened intently all the time looking gently in his face and evidently not wishing to reply the old man longed for him to say something however bitter and terrible but he suddenly approached an old man in silence and subtly kissed him on his bloodless aged lips that was all his answer the old man shuddered his lips moved he went to the door opened it and said to him go and come no more come not all not at all never never i let him out into the dark islands of the town the prisoner went away and the old man the prisoner's heart but the old man adheres to his idea okay so the person of course is jesus right

and so the inquisitor has these great arguments and the inquisitor is right and what he's saying is okay jesus what's your response to this and jesus response is basically i forgive you i love you and i forgive you same thing as what prime did to achilles right and as you can see by kissy's umbraco the inquisitor has a choice whether he chacun takes the er ended vow not quite by kissing the inquisitor rather than fighting him the inquisitor loses he knows he's lost he knows he's been humble so he lets jesus go says just get out of here please don't bother us again okay this is not your world this is satan's world and the kiss glows in his heart and the mole men adheres to his ideas okay so jesus did not change the old man's mind okay but there's a spark in him that now glows okay the spark that he killed they

tried all the time to kill with reason with evil is still able to grow glow okay and that's a power of forgiveness even though the person seems to be the most evil person in the world and this guy really is the most evil person in the world as long as you're able to show him the possibility of love the spark will glow okay now what's the so the inquisitor poses this problem like okay people don't want to think for themselves people lack free will people don't want free will what's the solution the solution is the soul is eternal okay and you have to give people time we're talking about millions of years maybe not in 50 years people figure it out but in about a million years people will figure out for themselves okay and Jesus God is patient he's loving he's forgiving you you he's generous he's compassionate so take your time okay what's

important is that people learn for themselves eventually you'll figure out being a slave sucks you know what it may seem as though watching Netflix playing video games being online all the time is fun but if you go outside and play that's a lot more fun guys eventually you'll figure it out all right and you have to figure it by yourself so God is forever patient God is forever patient okay does that make sense okay so next class we'll talk about the Catholic church and how it came into being and why it is it really is the church of Satan all right why it's going to go against the teachings of Jesus but they obviously point this out how the Catholic Church and Jesus are competing forces okay all right now let's go on to divine comedy by Dante and again Dante's trying to answer the question why did Jesus have to kill himself what's the

logic will be maybe that God is отдельly of theING that that makes no sense okay and traditionally what the catholic church teaches people is it's because when we do evil we become slaves of satan so jesus made a deal with satan basically jesus says i will die and then i will and then you can take my body okay and then you will have to free my people and saying it's like that's a really good deal man god for exchange in exchange for the slaves sure i'll make that deal but the thing is that jesus when he died and he freed us he cannot ever truly die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during danny's time most people understood why uh jesus had to die jesus died so that we would stop being slaves of satan and now we are slaves to jesus and that's why

we must worship jesus and danny's like no no no that can't possibly be right okay god would not come to free us so that we become slaves to god god cannot free us so we could be free okay all right so this is dante and what's gonna happen here is in heaven there's gonna be a conversation between dante and beatrice who he loves okay and they're going to discuss the nature of the universe and this is beatrice talking to dante the greatest gift the

magnanimity of god as he created gave the gift most suited to his goodness gift that he most prices was the freedom of the will

okay so the underlying principle of the universe is freedom of will if god is love okay and he loves people then he must trust people therefore freedom of will is the most important principle okay same thing if you're a parent if you truly love your child you will let your child go and make his own mistakes you will not protect your child okay if you truly love your child you will even if it means that your child goes to the park and might get kidnapped or whatever okay you have to let him go you have to let him or her go because true love means trusting other people okay keep on going

you say what i have heard is clear to me but this is hidden from me why god will precisely this pathway for redemption

okay so again the catholic church teaches you that jesus redeemed us from our redeemed us from ourselves also about first at hand sins okay but then the question is why did he have to kill himself again that makes no sense

keep on going brother this ordinance is buried from the eyes of everyone whose intellect has not matured within the flame of love so beatrice is saying to dante yes i know this makes no sense

because you're thinking of your mind but the mind is not where the spark is okay the divine spark is in the heart so stop thinking with your mind and feel your heart and let the spark the divine spark glow in you and then you will see the truth for yourself sorry okay keep going away the godly

godness that has banished every envy from its own self burning itself and sparkling so it shows internal beauties all that derives directly from this godness is everlasting since the sale of godness impressed an imprint that ever always

alters okay so god is perfect he's forever good he's forever love he's forever compassion forever forgiveness okay and this is there's a spark of god in us right the divine spark which is our hearts so there's always a this perfection in us okay keep on going only man sing annals man's

liberty makes him unlike the highest good so that in him the brightness of its light is dim okay

this is important okay even though the spark is forever in us we can cover it up with mud we can cover it up with dirt we can forget about it okay why how by doing evil by disobeying all right if we do more and more evil we forget the spark more and more and it dims in us so the spark can glow or it can dim depending on our actions

but the spark will ever -always be there so if like you said that parents the true love is to trust right so if parents trust their kid, they will let their kids to make mistakes. But what if kids are, for example, being kidnapped and they're being killed, is that still count as the love of trust?

Okay, obviously, if your child is in danger, you go save your child, okay? But you cannot let your fear and anxiety of your child being kidnapped destroy the child's freedom. Does that make sense? You cannot impose your fear on your child.

Like you need to let your child to feel the anxieties.

No, no, no, no, no. You have to let your child do what your child wants to do. Your child wants to go play in the playground, you let the child go play in the playground, okay? And if you feel like there's a danger, then you go and make sure that your child is safe. You understand?

But still doing, but still letting him to do what they want.

Yeah, okay, look, when you're actually a parent, you know what is safe and what is not safe, okay? Sending your child to the playground where there are other children, adults around, it's safe, do you understand? Sending your child outside at midnight to one of the streets is not safe. Do you understand, okay? You know, you don't have to think about this, all right? All right, okay, keep on reading.

And man cannot regain his dignity unless, where things left emptiness, man fills a void with just a man's pleasure.

Okay, so the problem is this. We do all this evil, and now we can't forgive ourselves, so we're stuck where we are, okay? We cannot compensate for the evil that we do, so what we do is do more evil to ignore the fact that we cannot forgive ourselves. Does that make sense? So evil creates more evil. Evil compounds on evil. So now we're just stuck, okay? So the first, so by disobeying God, by eating that fruit, by trying to be like God, we created evil, and this evil forces us to be more evil. Now we're just stuck, okay?

For when your nature sings so totally within its seat, then from these dignities, just as from paradise, that nature parted.

Okay, so we left the Garden of Eden not because we broke the law. We left the Garden of Eden because we cannot forgive ourselves from the evil that we've committed. And so we keep on doing more and more evil, okay? So the Garden of Eden is metaphorical. Keep on going.

And they can never be regained if you consider carefully by any way that did not pass across one of these fours, either through nothing other than his mercy, God has to pardon man, or of himself, man has to prefer payment for his folly.

Okay, so now that we've broken the law, now that we've disobeyed God, now that there's evil in our hearts, what can we do? Okay, and what Beatrice says is there's two possibilities. The first possibility is that we compensate for the first evil, for the first act of disobedience. And what Beatrice says is you can't do that because you try to be God, you try to kill God. So you cannot ever compensate God for the evil that you've done, okay? And then she says, well, the other possibility is that God forgives you. The problem though is that if God just forgives you, you won't learn anything. Okay, keep on going.

Man in his limits could not recompense for no obedience, no humility. He offered later could have been so deep that it could match the heights he made to reach through disobedience, man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself.

Very good, okay, so do you understand this idea? Okay, you try to be God, so you can't ever ask for forgiveness for that, keep on going.

For God's show great forgiveness, we now have Jesus.

By forgiveness we mean, we ask the Lord for forgiveness as it was before Jesus' death. The Holy Spirit, by God's will, he forgives, the Lord forgives. And in Jesus' name, amen. He forgives us and we ask God for forgiveness, He forgives us and he forgives us. And when we are given, we can be so grateful, that we can be like Jesus, that we have the mercy, we can be like Jesus, and be better people. Okay? And so let's use an analogy. The analogy is this. I'm a father and I have a daughter named Eve and I have a dog. And I say to Eve, I love you, Eve, so much. And then Eve says to me, do you love me or do you love the dog more? I said, I love you both equally. Love is infinite. Of course I love you, but I also love the dog. And Eve goes to Wenz and says to herself, yeah, but how do I know he truly loves me?

So what Eve does is she kills the dog. Okay? And then Eve says to me, hey, do you love me or do you love the dog more? And now I'm kind of stuck, the father, right? Because if I punish her, that shows her I love the dog more. Right? But if I don't punish her, she's going to do this again. Okay? She's going to kill another animal. So I'm stuck. So what do I do? So what God decides to do is this. The only way out of this conundrum, the only way out of this paradox is if I punish myself. Okay? Because I should have said to her, I love you as much as the dog. All right? So what I do is I take a whip and I hit myself. And Eve watches this. And now Eve knows, first of all, I do love her because I'm punishing myself for her sake.

And second of all, she won't do it again because she doesn't want to see me punished. And that's why Jesus had to kill himself. Do you understand? Logic here. Now it makes sense, right? God had to punish himself so that we would be humbled by a sacrifice. We would feel so much remorse and regret for making God die that we would never, ever disobey him again. We would never, ever try to become God ourselves. And that's why this had to happen. Okay? And because of this, Jesus freed us from the evil in us and, led us to the path of good. Because now, all we have to do is remember Jesus, remember what he said, remember what he taught, and we'll forever be on the path towards the light. Yes?

Do we, like, for example, if I had done extreme mistakes previously, do I, can I completely make it up or just forgive myself because I think I can't? Okay. That's a great point. Okay. So yeah.

The problem is this, the problem is that there are people who do real evil in this world. Okay. It's possible, like, a man kills your daughter, and then he's put in prison for the longest time. And it's, he does all this evil. And so can he be forgiven? And the answer is yes, because the only way for this world to work is if people are allowed to be forgiven. If people are not allowed to be forgiven, this entire world, this entire universe breaks down. That's why God is a God of forgiveness okay because you think about it if you think okay if we don't have forgiveness what world do we live in we live in a world of vengeance right if you kill my daughter now I have to go kill your daughter and then you're gonna have to go kill my family now I have to go kill your family okay so the only

way for this world to work the only way for it just prevail is if we're allowed to forgive each other and previously we don't have a tool to forgive each other because we ourselves don't have the wisdom and now with the arrival of Jesus we remember that if you just forgive us Jesus will forgive me always and so if I turn towards Jesus then I will be forgiven like currently I

think I still could not forgive myself for making that mistake like I think whatever things that I do to make make up the mistake I think I could not forgive me at that time making that mistake you

, right but at the same time you went to prison right you've been punished already so justice has been served so you cannot forgive yourself okay just because you you believe in Jesus doesn't mean you won't go to prison for killing someone you're still gonna go to prison but now you can forgive yourself because you've done your time and also because you remember that Jesus forgives you okay but the only way for you to move on your life the only way for society to move on is if you're able to forgive yourself okay that doesn't make sense if in a world there's no forgiveness this world would break down really quickly because everyone would just kill each other okay so and again what's happening is this and this is what Dante teaches us you're thinking of your head okay because you're still young when you grow older and your heart matures and you have more

life experience then you'll be able to feel your heart once you feel your heart all this will make sense to you okay but but but I completely understand where you're coming from because at your age if someone told me this I'd be like you're crazy this makes no sense because if you do evil then you should be your entire life should be one of evil if you do evil evil should come to you okay but what you're saying is like no no in that world no one can be happy okay because the people whose evil has been done to them are so focused on vengeance, on hatred, on anger, that you can never ever be a happy person. You leave the monad, you leave the divine. So when you hate someone, you're actually hating yourself, as opposed to that person. So now that we understand this idea, now what Don is going to explain is, why are we here?

What's the purpose of the universe? Okay, can you read, Alan?

You say, I see that water, see that fire and air and earth, and all that they compose come to the corruption and endure so briefly. And yet these too were things created, if what has been said above is true, then these things never should be subject to corruption.

Okay, so the idea is like, God is perfect, everything he creates is perfect. So if that's the case, then why do we die? And so what Petrus says is this. God is perfect. He creates perfection, but he creates the laws of the universe. He creates the game, okay? That's perfect. The things within the game enter a cycle of destruction and life, life and death, okay? Because that's the only way for the game, for the universe to work properly. It doesn't make sense. Keep on reading.

Brother, the angels and the pure country where you are now, these may be said to be created, and they are in all their being. Whereas the elements you have created are not. They have mentioned, as well as those things that are made from them, received their form from a created power. The matter they contain has been created, just as within the stars that wail about them. The power to give form had been created. The rays and motion of the holy light draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form.

Okay, so you understand, the world, the laws of the universe are created, okay?

But your life is breathed forth immediately. But your life is breathed forth immediately. By the chief god, good, who so enormous, enamours it of his own self that it desires him always. So reasoning, you also can deduce your resurrection. You need but remember the way in which your human flesh was fashioned when both of the first parents were created.

So the world that we live in is a world in which we can make mistakes, in which we can learn, we can grow, okay? And we don't have to worry about making mistakes. because we die all that will happen is we'll just return to the good and we will be reincarnated okay we'll come back Jesus was resurrected but so but we will be resurrected as well we have infinite opportunity to grow as souls and that's the purpose of life to learn to make mistakes to be creative to imagine new possibilities that's why we were created okay and to ensure that we can continue to grow there's death okay death allows for a reset death allows us to rejuvenate ourselves and learn from mistakes so don't think about this lifetime think about all possible lifetimes and live your life accordingly to that okay make the most of your life here by making as many mistakes as

possible because only by making mistakes can you actually grow as a soul okay alright so this is Leona the vineyard of passion and he is a student sempre she's famous painting the last supper now this depicts jesus before his uh betrayal before he is crucified by the romans okay what's really interesting about this painting is you can see there's a number here right three three one three three when you go to the bible and you look for the passage 33 133 in lamentations you have this quotation for no one is cast off by the lord

forever through he brings grief he will show compassion so great is his unfalling love for his does not willing willingly bring a flea affliction or grief to anyone that's who jesus is

okay jesus came to remind us that we will all be forgiven in the end so forgive other people okay love your enemy all right okay so um let's look at what actually the bible says okay so this is what jesus taught and again um i believe this is what jesus taught because one the gospel of thomas is a unique voice remember the thing about poetry is that it is unique it is the divine spark itself so it cannot be replicated okay so when we read the gospel of thomas it is unique it is the divine spark itself so it cannot be replicated okay so we read the gospel of thomas you can see this is poetic and this is beautiful when it touches you it's a divine spark so that's number one number two is what it teaches aligns with every other poor prophet that we've studied so far right number three is these other

poor prophets like dante naskowski they go back and they're able to see exactly what jesus was teaching us okay so that's why i'm convinced that the gospel of thomas um is the true teachings of jesus there are also other teachings of jesus that we find in the bible that also conforms to our theory okay so this is from the gospel of matthew and this is called the uh sermon on the mount where jesus stands on a hill and he's preaching the secrets of the universe to people okay so can you read please alan yeah blessed

are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled blessed are the most merciful for they will be shown mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they will see god blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of god blessed are those who are priests persecuted because of righteousness of theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

So this is his message to people, right? What matters is the spark inside of you. It doesn't matter how wealthy you are, it doesn't matter how powerful you are. In fact, it is probably those who are slaves that will benefit, who are more virtuous, and as such, they will inherit the kingdom. Okay, keep on reading.

You are the salt of earth, but if the salt loses its saintliness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A tomb built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way that light shines before others, that they may see you, good deeds, and glory, and glory. God will glorify you farther in heaven.

Okay, so be the light, okay? Every one of you has a light in you. Every one of you has the power to change the universe. Every one of you has the power to do good in this world. Okay, keep on going.

You have heard that it was said, love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your father in heaven. He causes his son to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you grade only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect.

Okay, we are in this world to do as much good as possible. Thank evil people. because it gives you opportunity to do good, okay? There's no evil in the world, how do you possibly do good, right? Keep on going.

Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourself treasures in heaven, where moth and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Okay, so focus on your own spiritual enlightenment. Focus on making your heart pure, good, and virtuous. Don't worry about other people, don't worry about money and these things, because when you die, you can't take these things with you, but your heart will always follow you wherever you are. Okay, keep on going.

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness?

Okay, so this is a really important idea, okay? But we imagine reality. So what matters is how you imagine this reality. What matters is how you see the world. Okay, and how you see the world is a reflection of the spark inside of you. If you see goodness, if you do goodness, then goodness will come. Okay, this is also called the law of attraction. Okay, keep on going.

No one can serve too much. masters. Either you will hate one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. This is a really important idea. What is Satan?

Satan is money. It's power. So this world belongs to Satan. This world is ruled by Satan. There's nothing you can do about it. When you leave, that world is the world of God. So it's your choice. Your choice is to triumph in this world or to triumph in the spiritual world. It's your choice, but you cannot have both guys. You can either, you can be Elon Musk. You can have all this wealth in this world, but we'll see what happens to Elon Musk after he dies. So he won't die. Okay. So his plan is I won't die and I'm good. Okay. All right. Keep on going.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.

Okay. So this is a really important idea. The Christian religion tells us that, you must believe in Jesus to be saved by Jesus. All that matters is believe in Jesus. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter what you say. What matters is your belief in Jesus. And what Jesus himself is telling us, no, no, no, don't use my name. Okay. Don't follow me. Follow your heart. In fact, if you use my name, it's because you mean to do evil in this world. So the question then is, how do we get from this to, with the Catholic church, which is, nope, you must obey us. Otherwise you'll be condemned to hell. Okay. And that's the topic we'll discuss next class, how the Catholic church was created. And the argument I will make to you is that it was created by the Roman empire. Okay. And not Jesus himself. Okay. So any questions guys? Yeah.

Like you said that people have infinite lives and like, this is a reset of your life and you can learn many times, but I think death will just clear a person's memory and they won't remember the mistakes and the things that they learned. Yeah.

That's a great point. Okay. Yes, exactly. So the idea is the divine spark, right? So the divine spark either glows brightly or dims. So when you die, what goes is not the brain. You won't remember anything, the memories, but what goes is the, is the spark. Do you understand? And the spark, if it glows really brightly, it goes up to a higher plane. You're closer to the monad, you're closer to God. And therefore you feel more pleasure. Right. But if your spark has been dim, it goes to a lower place. And so what you want to do is obviously glow that spark as much as possible. All right. And, and so again, I know this is hard to understand, but most people will not figure this out. Okay. You understand? It may, it may take, take like 50 lives, 50 lifetimes before you figure out, you know what? I should really try to glow my, my spark. It may take a thousand lifetimes, a million lifetimes, who knows, but it's your choice.

Do you understand? Some of us will figure out quick, more quicker than others. Okay. So this, this, this is the thing that you must remember. Every religion teaches, teaches, teaches us like when you die, you won't, you won't remember how much money you have. You won't remember anything. Okay. But what will, what you, what you, what, what you will remember, what you will leave behind is the amount of goodness you did or the amount of evil you did. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions guys? Okay, great. So next class we do the rise of the Catholic church. Okay.