Author: Sandra L. Butler

THE TEACHINGS: Summary

/ Sandra L. Butler

The teachings of 21 years of revelation, which began in 1960, the year the Catholic Church was to reveal “The Third Secret of Fatima.”  The revelation of 1960 succeeded where the Church failed, exposing the foundation upon which the Christian religion was built. Two foundations have been laid. One through the spiritual teachings of Jesus, the other through the carnal teachings of Paul. 

As God’s spiritual law was replaced with the carnal law thirty-five hundred years ago, God’s spiritual word was replaced with the word of one dyed in the carnal-minded teachings of religion, which is born of spiritual disobedience. Israel, called the chosen people because they were chosen to represent us the people, broke God’s spiritual law, which Moses demonstrated as he came down off the mount. What was to be done internally (spiritual obedience) would now be done externally (carnal obedience), the carnal law remaining in effect until the return of spiritual truth, which provided us with the spiritual works, that if obeyed fulfilled the carnal works of the law. YHWH told Moses that he would see his back parts. The backside of God, which is Spirit, is the Law. There is the God of Creation (Genesis) and the God of Religion (Leviticus), as it was the tribe of Levi that instituted the carnal law. 

Two thousand years ago, out of His Love, the God of Creation sent us His spiritual seed through the spiritual word or teachings of a Rabbi from the tribe of Judah (not from the tribe of Levi), distinguishing these spiritual teachings from the carnal teachings of the law. But these spiritual teachings would soon be usurped by the carnal interpretations associated with all religions. To extract the spiritual knowledge of the Holy Bible will require an understanding of the code that has protected it for over thirty-five hundred years. This would require a second revelation, which began in 1998. Revelation of the symbolic code of the Holy Bible, through which the once-secret spiritual knowledge encoded in our ancient sacred texts is revealed.  

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” the words of the Prophet Hosea. Who claims to be God’s people? The people of Religion. But we are all suffering destruction on a soul-level, the soul falling short of its full potential due to a lack of spiritual knowledge. Salvation of the soul does not come by believing in the man Jesus Christ (Paul’s teaching). It comes by believing the works (Jesus’ teaching), which is obeying the spiritual works Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth. We are not saved by the blood of Christ; by the sacrificing of the one called the Son of God (as the Christian Religion teaches). If that were the truth, the son of Abraham, who represents God, would have been sacrificed. The acceptable sacrifice for sin (according to the God of Genesis; the God of Creation) is the ram. Israel, being under the carnal law, sacrificed a carnal beast, an external act that demonstrated the sacrificing of the spiritual beast within us. The beast symbolizes our false beliefs, the word “ram” meaning “idolatry,” the worshipping of false images. It is our false images or beliefs, which we have been worshipping by believing (obeying) them, that we are to sacrifice. Israel sacrificed the red heifer, the word heifer meaning to revolve, circular, the color red symbolizing danger. We are to sacrifice the false beliefs that keep us going around and around in circles, repeating the same dangerous and destructive patterns.

The new millennium marked the end of the “era of Isaac” and the beginning of the “era of Jacob” (a teaching of the second revelation).  A transition from carnal to spiritual. All that took place physically in the era of Isaac (baptism, anointing, fasting, healing, speaking in tongues, casting out devils, etc.) are now, in the third and final era of Jacob, to take place spiritually, from within. Any physical demonstrations of these are associated with the negative meaning of Isaac, which is mockery. The words of the Prophet Isaiah: “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”  We are to worship God “in spirit and in truth.” 

The physical events taking place in the world reveal the spiritual events taking place within us. They serve as signs, but “the adulterous generation,” which we are, is not able to read them. Adultery is taking another husband while the first husband still lives. Our first husband is truth, the spiritual husband of our heart, which lives forever. We commit spiritual adultery (taking on another husband) every time a lie of our mind is communicated to our heart, a spiritual intercourse.  The on-going war in the Middle East reveals the on-going war taking place within us. The words of James: “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”  Our “members” symbolize our “mind and heart.”  The lusts driven by our false perceptions and beliefs sustain this internal war, as we continue to fight to obtain the things that will only burden us. The words of the Prophet Jeremiah:  “And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.”  God’s word, which is truth, does not burden us. It makes us free. It is man’s word of false beliefs that burdens him, keeping him in bondage.

“For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.”  Ishmael, father to the Nation of Islam, and Isaac, father to the Nation of Israel.  The war between Palestinians and Jews is the outward expression of the struggle taking place within us; between two internal nations: “And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.” the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels… Genesis 25:22,23. The bowels symbolize the heart, the spiritual womb, where a struggle takes place between the lie that keeps us in bondage and the truth that makes us free. Reading the signs, it is clear which Nation the people are standing in support of, which is why the Nation of America is loosing what She stands for, which is freedom. Hagar, the bondmaid, symbolizing bondage, was an Egyptian. Egypt, where Israel (the Nation chosen to represent us the people) were in bondage, the two sons or two nations symbolizing the two states of the soul: bondage and free. 

The soul is thought and emotion, functions of the mind and heart.  ”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, heaven symbolizing the mind, the earth symbolizing the heart.  Made in the spiritual image of the God of Creation, we have the power to form a spiritual heaven and earth, which we have all done. However, this first creation was not made according to God’s instruction. ”Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…”  The words of the Prophet Isaiah. The word woe means grief, misery, the consequence of calling evil good; of mistaking the darkness of a lie for the light of truth.  Lies lead us into bondage. Truth makes us free.

The Bible speaks of the darkening of the sun, the moon, and the stars. These lights of heaven, symbolizing the perceptions of the mind, come through these three sources. The sun symbolizes our father, the moon our mother, and the stars our siblings (and anyone else that influenced our wrong way of thinking).  ”…Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me…  and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?  Genesis 37:9,10.  The darkening of the sun, moon, and stars is a spiritual event that takes place within us when the false perceptions of our mind are eclipsed by the light of truth; when the iniquity of our mind submits to the truth of our heart. 

Salvation is of the soul. Salvation is help. And what we are helped with is the healing of our own soul. The Christian Religion teaches that we receive salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as our personal savior. This is the perspective of one that is carnally-minded.  Christ is not a person. Christ is a power that works through a person if it is not resisted. That is why Jesus said that if any man says here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe him not.  Why not believe him? Because Christ is not a person. Christ is the healing power that works through a person, healing his soul; his mental and emotional health recovered.  Jesus gives us the parable of the cup and platter, which are to be made clean, the inside of the cup symbolizing the thoughts of the mind, the inside of the platter symbolizing the emotions of the heart.  It is through this purification or healing process that we form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart.”  Salvation through creation. 

To activate the healing power through which we form our new creation, we must follow the right instruction. We must be led of the Spirit, which Moses symbolizes. The words of Moses: “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…”.   The word “still” means “quiet self, put to silence.”  To activate the spiritual healing power of our heart, we must quiet our mind.  “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (revelation of Jesus the Christ). There is “silence in heaven” when the “seventh seal” is opened because quiet in the mind opens the seventh chakra, through which we connect with the healing power called christ. The word krishna and christ come down to the same meaning: the source of all existence. So it’s not about the man the people call Krisha or Christ. It’s about the power the man embodied, which is to be activated from within, through which our new creation comes into existence.  

In the year 2000, we entered the third and final “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of Spirit.” It is a time of trouble, a time to be delivered, spoken by the Prophet Daniel.  “Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?  Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it”… the words of the Prophet Jeremiah. The delivery, the healing or salvation process, is encoded in the 49th chapter of Genesis, where Jacob tells his twelve sons what wlll befall them in the “end of days,” describing what we will encounter through this process, one activated by our desire to be healed in mind and heart. The word “paleness” is “of a person (from fright) or of plants (from drought).” Fear is the unholy and unhealthy spirit or energy ruling the mind of man. Anger is the unholy and unhealthy spirit or energy ruling the heart of man. Reuben and Simeon, which are at the root of our anxiety and depression.

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?  The words of the Prophet Jeremiah. Gilead was the name given to the teacher of the first revelation. The balm is the teachings of the two revelations. To distinguish them from the many mainstream and new age biblical teachings that are out there, I gave them the name Gilead.  There is balm in Gilead, we just have to apply it!

The RED HEIFER SACRIFICE

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The Bible is written in a symbolic language, revealing what has taken place in us the people, the children of Israel chosen for that purpose, the physical revealing the spiritual.

We entered a new era with the new millennium, the “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of the Spirit.” The previous “era of Isaac,” which translates to the “era of the Son,” was to be the time of transition from carnal to spiritual, but religion prevailed.

“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”  Isaiah 1:11 

The words of the Prophet Isaiah, who like John the Baptist, understood the transition from carnal to spiritual. 

In the “era of Abraham,” which translates to the “era of the Father,” we have Abraham sacrificing his son, which is not the acceptable sacrifice for sin in the eyes of our spiritual Father.  Jesus, the Son, was not the blood sacrifice for the sins of the people, another false religious belief. It was the ram, symbolizing idolatry, the worshipping of false images or beliefs. They sacrificed the wrong lamb two thousand years ago, “a lamb without spot or blemish,” a prophecy encoded in the blood sacrifice that took place thirty-five hundred years ago.  Blood symbolizes death. The blood of the carnal beast does not atone for our sins. The death of the spiritual beast within us does, which is consumed through a spiritual “lake of fire,” symbolizing the spiritual judgment through which we are made pure. This spiritual blood sacrifice takes place in that spiritual temple called the heart.  The color red symbolizes danger. The word heifer means to revolve, circular, symbolizing our dangerous habits, and the destructive patterns we keep repeating because of our false beliefs, which the children of Israel demonstrated for us by going around in circles in the wilderness. 

THE TEMPLE AND THE RED HEIFER SACRIFICE ARE SPIRITUAL!

SAVING ISRAEL

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Let’s start with what has not been helping to save Israel since entering the spiritual era with the new millennium.  We find it in the book of Isaiah, who has experienced a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  Judah was the tribe that enlarged, as seen in the meaning of her first king, Rehoboam, meaning a people has enlarged, the ten tribes of Israel dispersed in 722.

Isaiah is speaking to the Judah of Judaism— to the Jews of today.  However, Isaiah is also speaking to the Judah of Christianity— to the Gentiles of today. Judah is associated with the “era of Isaac,” and with its negative connotation, which is mockery. An era that began two thousand years ago when the peoples of religion mocked Jesus, the one bringing them spiritual truth. With that in mind, listen to what the Prophet is saying to the Judah of today:

“Bring no more oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is INIQUITY, even the solemn meeting.  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them…”  Isaiah 1:13,14

These carnal traditions, passed down from generation to generation, make a mockery of the Law or Word of God, which is spiritual!  Let me explain why these ritualistic religious practices, which one sacrifices his time to perform, are not acceptable to God at this time.  Why they are now being counted as INIQUITY instead of righteousness. There are three eras.  The “era of Abraham,” which began 4000 years ago. The “era of Isaac,” which began 2000 years ago. And the “era of Jacob,” which began in the year 2000, correlating with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  We are now in the spiritual era of Jacob, when worshipping God through these carnal practices equates to death for the nation of Israel, which the blood in the next verse symbolizes:  

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”  Isaiah 1:15

Two thousand years ago, a Rabbi of the tribe of Judah came to teach a higher level of Torah observance, which does not take place through the mind and body; through prayers and ritualistic practices, but through the heart; through spiritual works that purify the heart. But the spiritual teachings were rejected, the unabated evil within the heart of man now giving power to the nation chosen to represent the spiritual bondage that comes with allowing this evil to remain in our heart.  The internal enemy is giving power to the external enemy.  When we reject the spiritual judgment symbolized by the twelve tribes of Israel (through which we are made spiritually free) we bring death to the nation chosen to represent that freedom. By assigning literal interpretations to the Word of God, and by choosing obedience to the physical works of the law over the spiritual works that fulfil the law, we remain in spiritual bondage, imposing upon ourselves a law under which there will be no mercy, executed by those of the nation that was chosen for that purpose.

“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?   For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bondwoman, the other by the freewoman.  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.  Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.   For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.”  Galatians 4:21-25  

The word Jerusalem means founded peaceful.  There is false peace, founded through the power of the mind, which keeps us in bondage.  And there is true peace, founded through the power of the heart, which makes us free. Jerusalem is in bondage because of the false peace that is governing the mind, which keeps us from discovering the spiritual bondage of our heart.

“Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar… To wit, the prophets of Israel, which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.”  Ezekiel 13:10,16  

The wall symbolizes false peace, built up by those that think they can bring peace to Jerusalem through their prayers and traditions, or through positive thoughts, affirmations, and intentions— the untempered mortar that is holding the wall of false peace together, but which the unabated evil (within and without) is bringing down.  

“So will I break down the wall ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall….”  Ezekiel 13:14  

The “era of Jacob,” which began with the new millennium, is associated with Zion. The “era of Isaac” is associated with Judah.  One leaves the previous era of Isaac, whose negative meaning is mockery, by offering up the spiritual sacrifices of God, through which one keeps the spiritual Law or Word of God— a higher level of Torah observance.

“… Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”  Isaiah 2:3 

All of these religious acts, which the people sacrifice their time to perform, may have been appropriate in the previous era.  But now, in the spiritual “era of Jacob,” are counted as abominations and iniquity. Only after they have been performed as spiritual acts will they be counted as righteousness.  

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.  Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.  Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offerings: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.”  Psalms 51:17-19  

Only after the spiritual sacrifices of God have been made, will God be pleased with the carnal sacrifices made through carnal obedience. Only after the spiritual judgment, which takes place in that spiritual Jerusalem called the Heart, will there be peace in Jerusalem.  Only then will God hear the prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.

“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.  Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.  Peace be within the wall, and prosperity within thy palaces… For my brethren and companion’s sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee… ”  Psalms 122

Many proclaim to love Israel with their mouth.  But how many are willing to prove it through a spiritual judgment of their Heart, through which one obtains internal peace?

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2012

GOSPEL of THOMAS 114

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th-3646487354“Simon Peter said to them, “Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.” Jesus said, “Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males.  For every female who makes herself male will enter the domain of Heaven.” 

Peter is thinking carnally, not spiritually.  When the children of Israel broke God’s spiritual law, which Moses illustrated as he came down off the mount, they place themselves under the carnal law, which was a figure of God’s spiritual law (Hebrews 9:9,10).  Under religious law, the woman is to be subject to the man. The male symbolizes the inner being. The female symbolizes the flesh. The flesh is to be subject to the inner being. 
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”  Genesis 1:27 

God’s image is spiritual. We are all spiritually male and female. We are male in that we have the ability to sow spiritual seed by spiritual energy. We are female in that we serve as a habitat for this energized seed. Our physical flesh body is spiritually female— “made of a woman, made under the law.”  But we also have a spiritual flesh body, formed inside of our physical flesh body. This is the female that doesn’t deserve life because this flesh, formed by false beliefs, destroys spiritual life. Truth, which is male, is life. To gain spiritual life, this spiritual flesh, which is female, must be removed through a spiritual circumcision. “Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart…” Jeremiah 4:4. Through which we become a living spirit, which is male. “For every female who makes herself male will enter the domain of Heaven.” 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2023

GNOSTICISM: WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

GNOSTICISM: WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

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Gnosticism is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. – Wikipedia

The Bible is a Book of spiritual knowledge, the definition of gnosis. To help us make sense of the strange gnostic teachings that sprang up after Jesus’ time, we are going to look at what the Bible has to teach us.

The Bible begins with the creation of heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1). The word genesis means creation. The God of Genesis is the God of Creation. Everything that God made was good— “And God saw that it was good.”  So the material world (real things, rather than ideas and beliefs) is good. The evil is in the ideas and beliefs that are in error, the definition of sin. God did not form evil. God created evil, the idea of evil, like the idea of heaven and earth, which had yet to be formed as we see in the following verse. This allowed for freewill. The freedom to choose between two opposing thoughts. God said they would die if they ate of fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden (Genesis 3:3). The serpent said they would not die (Genesis 3:4). They chose the latter, disobeying God’s word.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”   Religion, born of spiritual disobedience, is responsible for bringing another God into existence.  The children of Israel disobeyed God’s Commandment by worshipping the gold calf, placing themselves under the law instituted by the tribe of Levi, under which there was no mercy. The God of Leviticus is the God of Religion. The God of Destruction. Look at all of the death and destruction that takes place in the name of religion. The “other gods” we worship symbolize our false religious and personal beliefs, evil gods, merciless and cruel, which oppress and limit us in life, bringing pain and sorrow into our life.

Our false beliefs are what the prophet Jeremiah calls “man’s word,” which he prophesies will be man’s burden (23:36). God’s creation was made through God’s word— “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” Genesis 1:3,4.  Man’s creation was made through man’s word. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Isaiah 5:20, the word woe meaning misery, grief.  We called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, forming an unholy creation called “the first heaven and the first earth,” which passes away upon the creation of “a new heaven and a new earth.”  To form this holy creation will require us to follow God’s instruction by dividing the light from the darkness— the truth from the lies. It will require us to follow the instruction of Jesus by engaging in an internal judgment, through which we overcome our false beliefs, which is called “the regeneration” (Matthew 19:28), the act of regenerating, which is to form anew, the outcome of which will be joy instead of pain and sorrow.  “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”  Revelation 21:4

Gnosticism claims that the fall in the garden didn’t occur through Adam and Eve— it happened before the world’s creation, through a mistake made by a heavenly being called Sophia. We want to be very careful with our interpretation of these gnostic teachings. We don’t want to deny responsibility for the fall, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind, which we all played a part in. The story of Sophia’s fall is told slightly differently in the many Gnostic texts that discuss it, but they all share the basics in common. God the Father gave rise to a host of spiritual beings, aeons, who populated Heaven, which the Gnostics called the Pleroma: a state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being. Along with a divine Mother and Christ. One of the last of these beings to emanate from the Father, Sophia, gave birth to a new being on her own, without the involvement of her partner or the approval of the Father. The being born under such circumstances was nothing like the perfect inhabitants of the Pleroma; instead, he was ignorant and malevolent. This was the demiurge, whom the Gnostics identified with the god of the Old Testament. He created the material world to mirror his own wicked personality and trapped sparks of divinity, fragments of the Pleroma, within humans. It was then up to Christ to awaken humans to their true nature and liberate them from the world. Sophia is a feminine figure, similar to the human soul, one of the feminine aspects of God.
(read more @ gnosticismexplained.org)

The definition of aeon is a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe. So these aeons carry this divine power. That was the state of Adam and Eve before they ate of the evil; before they accepted the false belief. They were spiritual beings, wrapped in a glorified type of flesh body, which allowed them to interact with and enjoy the physical realm. The “coats of skins” they received because of spiritual disobedience were not animal skins (as religion teaches), but physical flesh bodies, which limited them to the physical realm. This was Adam and Eve’s fall from the spiritual realm called Heaven to the physical realm called Earth. The fall was from spiritual to physical, so how could the fall have taken place before the physical world came into existence?

Like Adam and Eve, we received a spiritual flesh body through spiritual disobedience; by eating of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, which is to accept the false belief in our heart, which formed this sinful flesh body inside of our physical flesh body. What is this divine power called aeon?  It is the two divine attributes of the Creator; the two things needed for Creation. God’s Spirit and God’s word— “And the Spirit of God moved… And God said,…” Genesis 1:2, 3.  Being made in the spiritual image of God, we carried this divine power. But in the process of time, we replaced God’s Spirit and word with our own spirit and word, replacing love with fear and truth with lies.

To restore this divine power from within, will take the activation of God’s Spirit, the instruction for which is given to us by Moses, symbolizing the Spirit of God— “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…” Exodus 14:13, the word still meaning be silent, quiet self. And by John, through the revelation of Jesus, symbolizing the word of God— “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour.” Revelation 8:1. There is silence in heaven when the seventh seal is opened because silence in heaven, symbolizing silence in the mind, opens the seventh seal, which in the language of the east, is the seventh chakra, through which we connect with the divine source. The holy spirit will deliver truth to our heart IF we stop resisting it. With each false belief we remove through truth, we remove a layer of this invisible flesh that has been formed within us— a process through which we become spiritual beings (aeons) with respect to our spiritual essence.

Along with the creation of the aeons, was the creation of the Mother and Christ. That is because christ is the divine power that works through our spiritual mother to restore the divine power to the perfect state in which we received it at birth. That is going to take spiritual works; the works of a new creation, which comes into existence when we conceive of truth in that spiritual mother called the heart through the christ power. Our spiritual Mother has a name. She is called Jerusalem. The Mother of gnosticism is called Barbēlō, often referred to as ‘Mother-Father.’ She is the divine Mother that is in the image of the Father. Sounds confusing, yet no more confusing than the teachings of another Mother— the Catholic Church, who refers to Mary as “the Mother of God,” which adopted the “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit” doctrine, legitimized by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

Add to that the mistranslation of John 1:1, in which “a god was the word” has been changed to “the Word was God.”  The Son is not the Father. Nor is the Holy Spirit the Father. The three are not one. The three are of one— a man sows his seed by his energy. God the Father sows His seed by His Holy Spirit (male) into the Mother (female), which produces a son (a god). The seed is the word of God (Luke 8:11). When God spoke His word (Genesis 1:3), it was the sowing of God’s seed into Mother Earth. Just as God sowed His seed through His holy Spirit into Mother Mary. And as God, through holy spirit, will sow spiritual seed, in that spiritual Mother or Earth called the Heart, IF we don’t resist it! The spiritual seed of God is truth, which Jesus personified.

The Bible speaks of two fathers: the Father of truth and the father of a lie. “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me…“Ye are of your father the devil… He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:42, 44. If God were our Father, we would love truth. Two fathers, sowing two very different seeds (truth and lie) by two very different energies (love and fear)— the Father that sows good seed through the power called christ and the father that sows evil seed through the power called antichrist. Two sons, the son of creation, and the son of perdition, which means utter ruin or destruction. Two mothers, the mother that is in bondage and the mother that is free. “For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.” Galatians 4:25, 26.

The word Barbēlō (the mother of gnosticism) means son of tribute, the word bar meaning son (as the heir to the throne), and belo meaning tribute, which means a burden, forced labor, from the prime root, bâlâh, meaning to fail, wear out, decay, similar to bâla, the prime root of bela, meaning ruin, destruction, sharing the same meaning as the word perdition, as in “the son of perdition.” Which son has mankind chosen to inherit that spiritual throne called the heart?  Some gnostic texts refer to Barbelo as the Mother of Christ. However, Christ is not a person, christ is the healing power that works in a person who has experienced a spiritual intercourse or communication with this power that works through the heart when the power of the mind is silenced. The outcome of this union is the healing or salvation of the soul. 

Sophia, an analogy to the soul, gave birth to a new being on her own, without the involvement of her partner or the approval of the Father. Like Sophia, we gave birth to a new being, or rather a new [state of] being through a creation that God the Father did not approve of, as it was not formed according to His instruction. This unholy creation (as previously mentioned) is called “the first heaven and the first earth,” which we began forming early on in life, just past the age of four (according to the biblical text). Heaven symbolizes the mind and the earth symbolizes the heart, aspects of the soul, which due to their compromised state, are in need of healing. Sophia gave birth to this new being without the involvement of her partner, as we conceived of, and gave birth to this first creation without the involvement of our one true spiritual husband. “The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband…” John 4:17, 18.  Our one true spiritual husband is truth, the seed or word of God— the spiritual Jesus. It is truth that heals or saves the soul, transforming the soul (the mind and heart) from an impure to a pure state. “Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.” Matthew 23:26. If we purify the thoughts of our mind and the emotions of our heart (by way of the christ power), our actions will be pure. Thought, emotion, and action— the three aspects of the soul. The [state of] being born as a result of this unholy creation is nothing like the [state of] being born as a result of a holy creation. Man’s unholy creation has him living in a world of chaos, confusion, unrest, death, and destruction.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away… And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4. The new Jerusalem symbolizes a new peaceful state of being, the word Jerusalem meaning founded peaceful. Coming down from God out of heaven reveals that it is spiritual— a peaceful state that must be established within before it can come into existence from without. “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.” For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.” Psalms 122.  At the start of the new millennium, the world made a transition— from the “era of Isaac” to the “era of Jacob;” the era of Spirit, and of spiritual awakening. Now, the only way to effect positive change in our external world is to bring about positive change in our internal world through a new creation. As it was “up to Christ to awaken humans to their true nature and liberate them from the world,” it is up to humans to awaken the christ power, through which we will form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” restoring our true spiritual nature, while liberating ourselves from a world of suffering.

According to gnosticism, Sophia, meaning Wisdom, is a feminine figure, similar to the human soul, one of the feminine aspects of God. The soul is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. Mind, heart, and body— the trinity of the soul. Knowledge is of the mind. Understanding is of the heart. Wisdom is of the body— the action we apply to the spiritual understanding of spiritual knowledge, which leads to a true spiritual experience, the true meaning of gnosis. The soul, and the flesh body that it is housed in, is female. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… male and female created he them.”Genesis 1:26, 27, the “our” refers to the two attributes of God— Spirit and word (Energy and seed), which are male. We were literally made when our father, by his energy, sowed his seed, into our mother, who made our flesh body— “made of a woman, made under the law.” Galatians 4:4. The “male and female” that God created were Adam and Eve. But there is also the “male and female” within us. “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”  Genesis 5:2.  We are spiritually male and female. We are male in that we have the ability to sow spiritual seed by spiritual energy. We are female in that we serve as the habitat for this seed and energy. What is born of this union depends on what type of energized seed was conceived in that spiritual mother called the heart. But does God have feminine aspects as suggested by gnostics?  An aspect would be a characteristic that describes God. We have a flesh body.  Flesh is female. God is Spirit. “No man hath seen God at any time…” John 1:18.  God has no flesh. Therefore, God is not female. Being made in the image of God refers to the spiritual image of God, which is male— the Spirit and Word of God, which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, John and Jesus (all males) personified. There is no God the Mother. “Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother, Spiritual Sun and Holy Spirit,” an invocation of the Sophian tradition, is more on point. The Heart is the Mother, which conceives of the word of truth through the power of the holy Spirit—  the two aspects of the Father.  Seed is sowed in the Earth, symbolizing the Heart.

Adam represents a pure spiritual state of being— the state in which we enter this world. God’s Spirit is Love and God’s word is truth. They say “the eyes are the window to the soul,” which is why we feel love when we look into the eyes of a newborn. They also say, “if you want to know the truth, ask a child.” A child is incapable of telling a lie until he learns fear, which leads to doubt, which the serpent used to get Eve to accept the lie.  Eve symbolizes the Mind, which upon taking in the lie, becomes confused. This is why the God of Genesis does not want us to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve have already eaten of the good, having a positive experience. But to eat of the good and the evil is to have the knowledge of both, to experience the negative consequence of accepting the evil, the word serpent meaning to learn by experience.   We gave birth to Cain when we took in our first lie, Abel symbolizing the righteous truth we slayed or rendered unconscious through the many lies we would speak in the realm of our mind— in the kingdom of heaven. Seth is “the reappointed seed” (a teaching of the first revelation). Jesus was the reappointed seed personified— the second Adam. Just as one became the seed of Abraham through physical baptism in the previous era, one can become the seed of Seth in the present era through spiritual baptism, which is to be immersed in truth, through which one becomes the “last Adam,” a quickening spirit, the word quickening meaning to (re-)vitalize, make alive, give life. To resurrect or give life to the truth preserved in the subconscious we must enter the realm of the Heart— entering the kingdom of God. 

When Jesus arrived on earth, it was all about the intellect, the ability of the human mind to reach correct conclusions, determining what is true and what is false. Religion served as the intellect, determining what is right and what is wrong, which the people were in favor of because it kept them from having to battle with these decisions themselves (1 Samuel 8:19, 20). Samuel means heard of God, the voice of God, the children of Israel experiencing direct communication with God through Samuel, which they rejected in favor of a king named Saul. Samuel was the type and shadow. Jesus, the word of God, was the reality. The people received direct communication with God through Jesus, who spoke for God, sharing the spiritual knowledge (gnosis), which was rejected by the Jews, taking root in early Christians, only to be usurped by a self-proclaimed teacher of the Gospel of Christ named Saul. 

It is clear from reading some of the gnostic texts, which emerged during the end of the second century, that spiritual truth had survived to some extent. But you can also tell that spiritual truth, which is of the heart, and comes by revelation, has been compromised by the musings of the mind. While entertaining for some, and feeding the egos of those attempting to interpret them (as Saul, aka Paul, attempted to interpret the spiritual teachings of Jesus), are downright confusing. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33), spoken by the one who caused the confusion by mixing carnal law with spiritual truth; mixing milk with meat, which is unlawful. “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” 1 Corinthians 14:34. The woman being subject to the man is a spiritual law, of which the carnal law was a figure— the flesh is to be subject to the inner being. Clearly, Paul was not spiritually minded. Paul was religiously minded, in which the woman holds a lower position than the man. Unlike Jesus, who placed Mary Magdalene in a higher position, which he demonstrated through his love for her, and which she demonstrated towards him through her love of truth. The Feminine, which has been missing from the equation since the time of Mary Magdalene, plays the most important role in the salvation of the soul. She represents the Heart, out of which Jesus cast the seven devils, symbolizing the spiritual impurities of the heart (Matthew 15:19), which is the salvation of the soul. It is time to make the transition from the Mind to the Heart; from Religion to Spirituality. The cause of all of our suffering is due to the bypassing of the Heart— the only place from which we can transform ourselves, and the material world.

There is no Elijah coming to sit at the table. No Jesus coming in the clouds. No Mothership coming from Planet-X. There is no salvation coming from without. I believe what we have in some of these gnostic writings is the mixing of spiritual truth with religious iniquity. Just as we must separate the esoteric teachings of Jesus from the exoteric teachings of Paul, we must separate the wheat from the tares when it comes to these gnostic writings, the wheat symbolizing the spiritual truth we can glean from them, the tares symbolizing the error in them.  For example, the God of Genesis is not the God gnosticism refers to as the God of the Old Testament. In fact, “Everything we need to know is in the book of Genesis”— a teaching of the first revelation (1960-1974). The first chapter of Genesis provides us with an overview of the creation or salvation process, encoded in the symbolism, which is why we were given a second revelation— revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I received over a period of seven years (1998-2005), during which time I was taken through the process encoded in the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis, where Jacob tells his twelve sons what will befall them in the end of days, describing what one encounters as they are taken through this salvation or healing process.

Through an understanding of biblical symbolism we are able to interpret the spiritual knowledge encoded in these gnostic writings.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2023

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CATASTROPHIC EVENTS

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“Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of they wings will I make my refuge, until these calalmities be overpast.” Psalms 57:1.  Some would argue that catastrophes are nothing new, that they have been going on since time began. Precisely. Time was the consequence of sin. The wages of sin is death.  Man’s sin is bringing more and more death. “And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of the heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5. The wickedness of man is great in the earth because the evilness of man is great in what the earth symbolizes, which is the heart.  What followed was the flood, a story that with slight variations has been passed down in many cultures, making it all the more apparent that it is not about the physical flood, but about what the flood symbolizes, which is the spiritual evil in the heart of man, which is releasing a negative and destructive energy that is manifesting in the form of bigger and more powerful storms, in more powerful earthquakes, and in other mega catastrophic events. “Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee… ” Jeremiah 2:19.  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.  After the waters receded, God made a covenant with Noah, with his seed after him, and with every living creature that was with Noah. This covenant was made with Noah because he was righteous. It is man’s righteousness that will ensure his protection. God promised that he would not cut off flesh by the waters of a flood again, and that there would not be a flood to destroy the earth.  The definition of covenant is a binding agreement made by two or more parties. If one party breaks the covenant, the covenant becomes null and void.  Man has broken his covenant with God through unrighteousness.  Noah was saved by the works of building and entering the ark, as man, having entered the spiritual “era of Jacob” will be saved through the works of building a spiritual ark.  In performing these spiritual works, we are able to see our sin, and remove its negative and destructive energy, through which we enter an invisible ark of protection, while doing our part to decrease the negative and destructive energy being released in and upon the earth.  A culminative effort to put our sin in remission by removing our iniquities will lessen the intensity and frequency of these catastrophic events.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2001
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GENESIS 49

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Historian’s Article for February 2006 by Alan M. Robinson, P.M., Historian

image“… In 1783, General Washington resigned his commission and returned to his 8000 acre plantation. To help ensure that our fledgling government would hold together, George presided over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. The Framers of the Constitution are said to have had Bro. George in mind when they created the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America. Not surprisingly, he was unanimously elected by the Electoral College to this high office. In Federal Hall, New York City, on April 30, 1789, with his left hand placed on the Altar Bible belonging to St. John’s Lodge No. 1, New York City (opened to the 49th Chapter of the Book of Genesis), Bro. George Washington was inaugurated as our first President. How about that?”

Sandra’s comment: “The United States of America is called the land of the free.  The 49th Chapter of Genesis contains the spiritual healing process through which we are made free in every aspect of our life.  How about that?”

Sandra L. Butler © 2006

TWO SACRED TEXTS

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The Holy Bible teaches us that the Son is synonymous with the Word.  Abraham, referred to as Father, had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac.  Ishmael was father to the nation of Islam, and Isaac father to the nation of Israel. The Holy Bible and the Holy Quran— the Word of God.

The Bible teaches that Ishmael was the son of the bondwoman and Isaac was the son of the freewoman, which are referred to as the two covenants, revealing the two states of the soul— bondage and free.

Two thousand years ago, the world made its transition from the “era of Abraham” to the “era of Isaac,” at which time the people found themselves at a crossroads, taxed to make a choice between the physical path they were on, or the spiritual path that Moses had encouraged their ancestors to take 1500 years earlier.  As their ancestors before them, they chose the physical path, rejecting the spiritual teachings that would put them back on the spiritual path.  Jesus taught on a spiritual kingdom that was to be restored from within.  But the Jews wanted the physical kingdom of Israel to be restored from without.  As their ancestors before them, they chose the bondage of the carnal law, rejecting the spiritual truth, which if obeyed, would have brought them freedom within and without.

In the year 2000, we entered the third and final “era of Jacob,” where we stand at the final crossroads, taxed to make a choice— continue to view the content of our Sacred Texts through the lens of the carnal mind, and remain in bondage.  Or begin to view them with a spiritual mind, following the instruction through which we are made free.

The Torah of the Tanakh shows us two paths: The book of Genesis gives us an overview of the spiritual path, the book of Exodus detailing the children of Israel’s journey through the wilderness and up the mount, symbolizing man’s spiritual journey and ascension.  But the children of Israel never ascended the mount, leaving the spiritual path in favor of the physical path, choosing the bondage of the carnal law, which was to end at the passing of Moses, which brings us to the end of Deuteronomy, and to the end of the Torah.

The Nevi’im of the Tanakh shows us two paths: It begins with the book of Joshua. With the Passover at Jordan, where the children pass over into the promised land, eating no more of the manna, but of the old corn, symbolizing their transition from carnal law to spiritual truth. Their labor was to battle against the seven inhabitants of the promised land, symbolizing the spiritual battle by which we take possession of a spiritual promised land. But they soon reverted to the physical path by making marriages with the inhabitants of the land, which God had commanded them not to do, reverting to the bondage of the carnal law.  By driving out the spiritual enemies symbolized by the seven nations, we are made free of our spiritual bondage. The book of Judges sets forth the spiritual judgment that would have brought them spiritual freedom.  But they would not hearken to their judges, rejecting the voice of God, which spoke through His anointed one, Samuel.  They chose instead to have a physical king rule over them, becoming like the very nations they were to remain separate from. The Old Testament’s “Kings” and “Chronicles” names these kings and chronicles their acts. It was King David, anointed by Samuel, that came to turn the heart of the children back to God, putting them back on the spiritual path that their patriarchal fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob followed. But the power and influence of these righteous kings was soon usurped by kings that “walked not in the footsteps of David.”  A king symbolizes a spirit, revealing the righteous and unrighteous spirits working through the mind and heart of man.  Yet God’s hand was outstretched still, sending His Prophets, who prophesied of the destruction that would come if they continued in their spiritual disobedience.  But they would not hearken to their Prophets, stoning them by their refusal to change, refusing to take the spiritual path by keeping the spiritual law or word of God.

The Holy Qur’an shows us two paths: It establishes quite clearly the error of the children of Israel.  Yet the Qur’an takes its followers down the same physical path, the laws of the Qur’an no different than the laws of the Old Testament. Muhammad, 570-632, founder of Islam, was said to have experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel in a cave outside Mecca, whose Arabic meaning reveals its symbolism.  Muhammed pondered questions raised in his mind as he listened to Jews and Christians expound on their religious beliefs in the marketplace.  Proclaimed a prophet by the archangel Gabriel, he continued to receive revelations.  If of a spiritual nature, they would have stood in opposition to the beliefs held by Jews, and by Christians, whose religious beliefs in 610 were far removed from the spiritual doctrine of Jesus, which was buried by 460.  Any spiritual teachings given to Muhammad gave way to physical laws due to the civil unrest that comes with spiritual disobedience; due to what the Qur’an calls “hearts infected with disbelief.”  The Muslim religion, like every religion before it, would follow the physical path.

The children of Israel chose Saul over Samuel, who spoke for God. The Jews chose the carnal law over the spiritual truth that Jesus, who spoke for God, brought them. Christianity was founded upon the carnal-minded doctrine of Paul, which teaches that salvation comes by believing in Jesus, which is contrary to the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which teaches salvation by believing (obeying) the spiritual works he spoke of and demonstrated for us. Paul taught that salvation is obtained by accepting the Son. Believe in Jesus and you’re saved, the doctrine being taught to Christians at the time of Muhammed, whose revelation served as a backlash against the belief that God has a partner with whom He shares His divine attributes. Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all lack a spiritual understanding of the Son, without which there can be no creation, and therefore, no salvation.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

 

ABORTION

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Abortion image3-1609631691The Bible, to my knowledge, speaks only of spontaneous abortion, not induced abortion.  According to medical science, abortion is the removal of pregnancy tissue, products of conception or the fetus and placenta from the uterus.  Pregnancy is a process that consists of a series of biochemical changes that take place in a woman’s organs and tissues as a result of a developing fetus, connected by the umbilical cord to the placenta. Through the blood vessels in the umbilical cord, the fetus receives all the necessary nutrition, oxygen, and life support from the mother through the placenta. Heart sounds are created from blood flowing through the heart chambers as the cardiac valves open and close during the cardiac cycle. Vibrations of these structures from the blood flow create audible sounds.  

According to science, life begins at conception, which most Christians would agree with. However, the growing fetus does not have its own life.  All that it needs to sustain its existence comes from the mother. It gets its life from its mother.  So in truth, the life of the unborn child does not begin at conception. It begins when the child takes its first breath— the breath of life.

 “And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

The soul is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action.  When it comes to abortion, the soul should be taken into consideration. Our we, as parents, spiritually (mentally and emotionally) prepared to bring a child into this world? If we are not, we will end up bringing harm to the soul of our child through our mental and emotional deficiencies.

“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.”  Isaiah 54:1  

“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many  more children than she which hath an husband.”  Galatians 4:27

I’m sure it makes people feel good to say that they are pro-life.  After all, they are standing up for life!  But what if the life the child is forced to enter into (having no choice of his own) is not a good one? The prophet Isaiah tells us that the desolate have more children than the wife that is married. How can the desolate have more children than the one that has a husband?  When it doesn’t seem to make sense literally, it should be taken spiritually.  We call the ground desolate when it is without seed. The spiritually desolate are those that lack what both the seed and the husband symbolize, which is truth, through which we are healed mentally and emotionally. If pro-choice no longer becomes an option, Isaiah’s prophecy will continue to unfold, as more and more children, born of the spiritually desolate, are brought into this world, carrying on the spiritual legacy of their caretakers, contributing to the growing spiritual decline of mankind.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2022

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

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Unconditional love: affection without any limitations, or love without conditions. This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism or complete love. Each area of expertise has a certain way of describing unconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has no bounds and is unchanging. – Wikipedia

God is Love. While it is true that God, which is Spirit, has no limitations. Is it true that God, which is Love, has no conditions? God has spiritual laws set in place, and being made in the image of God, man is subject to these laws. If he breaks these spiritual laws, he suffers the consequences. The law is the condition. God set up His Law out of Love, to keep us in the borders of obedience, within a wall of protection. 

 “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee… Exodus 15:26. There are conditions that must be met in order to escape the diseases that plague us. Clearly, man has not been in compliance with the conditions that God has laid down for us, to protect us, because he loves us. 

God is Love, which also has a condition:  Jesus saith unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:16. Which is to say, no man comes to Love, except through truth.  “For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me…” John 16:27. 

God loves those who love truth, therefore, God’s love is conditional!  So where did this “feel-good” expression come from?  A search reveals that the term, “unconditional love,” was first used by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in 1934.  So, it is a precept of man, not of God. The term is sometimes associated with “complete love,” the biblical term for which is, “perfect love.”  

“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God… God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: … There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear… We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” 1 John 4:15-21. The word confess means to assent; i.e. covenant, which is to express agreement or acceptance of something.  Those that agree or accept that Jesus is the Son of God, dwell in love.  Therefore, those that accept that Jesus is God, do not dwell in love. Why?  Because, in removing the Son we remove the word of God (truth), the very essence of God’s spirit— “the spirit of truth.”  So we can conclude that if we remove truth from the equation, our love can never be made perfect.  We can never reach “perfect love” from within our heart. The “day of judgment” is the period of time in which we judge (overcome) our false perceptions and beliefs. If we achieve it in this life, we will have boldness on the day of judgment in the afterlife. Love, by itself, has no power until it is directed toward someone or something. God directed His Love toward us by giving us Jesus, the manifestation of God’s seed or word of truth.  How do we love ourselves?  By giving ourselves the truth.  Only then, can we truly say we love God. Only then can we truly love our brother. Fear opposes love. A lie opposes truth.  Fear is the spirit or energy of the lie.  Love is the spirit or energy of truth.  How many of us have (knowingly or unknowingly) enabled our brother’s bad behavior as a result of accepting the “unconditional love” lie?  That is not loving our brother.  Love has a condition, which is truth.  Yet we fear telling our brother the truth, which would be a demonstration of our love towards them. 

Fromm’s concept of “unconditional love” could very well have been an unconscious back-lash against the fear instilled in him through religion, having come from an Orthodox Jewish family, a religion he turned away from in 1926. If we did our due diligence by looking into the history of those that come up with these man-made concepts, we would most likely understand the psychology behind it. This obsession with love is an attempt to counteract the fear buried so deep within the psyche, that most of us are still unaware of its existence, a fear that can be overcome by replacing all of these lies, with truth.  In truth, there is no such thing as “unconditional love.”

“We can’t heal the world with Love until we heal our hearts with truth!”

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021