Winter Quarterly 2011-12
The Science of Man Quarterly is a periodical dedicated to helping seekers of all faiths to develop a more thorough understanding of the Universal Laws of the Creator, so that all might better enjoy this Creation; and thus promote Peace and Harmony among people everywhere. It is our expressed purpose to bring forth the ancient Christian wisdom teachings for the coming generations as they were taught in the ancient of days.
The Gift
As we again come to the time of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, I am reminded that his coming was a choice and a gift that he made. The Creator did not mandate his coming and he accepted his mission to return to Earth. He was and is an illuminated Master and could have had anything he wanted here, but chose to bring the Light back to a dark and dense Earth, knowing full well what that would require.
In the 50 years since Father Paul received direction from our Master and we were called, we too have had a choice. We could have used that which we were given to satisfy our own wants and needs, but we have chosen to bring the Light to an again darken world. Christmas brings the remembrance of why we are here. It reminds us that the message has not changed, though the distractions from the mission are greater now than ever before. Through the illuminated Christ within us, the miracle of regeneration of the Earth and its peoples takes place. The words from the prayer of the brothers, “sealed in the fleshly body of a little child” touches our hearts and souls, and again we are reminded of the choice he made, which is a gift to us all.
Merry Christmas my Brothers and Sisters, and a Happy and healthy New Year.
Rev. Donald Slakie
From Father Paul
Chapter 2, verses 1 - 6 Book of God December 15, 1973
I just wonder how many have read the chapters of the Book of God, really, because I see in it the thing which you have not noticed. This morning it was brought to me very forcibly, and I want to ask if anyone knows if there’s any other way of dispersing with our karmic debt of the past and the present except through our active work and prayer – that is, through the confessional and that. Does anyone know of anything like this? I thought so. You know, you remind me of one of the races of the earth that are always in sorrow, that have gone to the wailing wall for some two thousand years because they have been perpetually persecuted, and they always are having their problems. And I see this in you folks, simply because you do not read or study that which is given to you. Let me read a couple of verses from the Book of God:
“For as the Master saith, no more shall man eke out his sins in labor, or pay his debts through labor – the debts of the Spirit.
“For his activity in carrying out My commandments shall bring him grace.
“For he that thinketh against his brother, and prepares thereof a hell for him, shall burn of his own emotion.”
Now this means that you really don’t have any excuses for having a problem, doesn’t it? This means that if you carry out the commandments of God that your karma will be paid. Now I know this is going to be awfully hard on some of you people, because you’re not going to have anything to weep over and you’re not going to have any past experience – you’re not going to have any of your real problems, you’re not going to be able to excuse yourself any more and say, “this is my karma”. Your excuses have no grounds and there is no reason for them. You carry out your vows, you obey the commandments, and you’ve got no karma, and Jesus Christ just told you so in the Book of Activity, Book of God. Now that’s going to leave you right out in left field, isn’t it, because you can’t blame all your inhibitions and your little “sinful ways” – let’s use that term as a way of covering a whole lot of things – on your past karma. How many times have I heard people when they got out of line blame it on their karma: “this is my cross”. Well, Christmas is coming and let’s burn all the crosses. They’d make a wonderful bonfire, those kind, believe me.
You know I don’t, I’ve always had sympathy, even real sympathy, and I’ve always felt a pity in a sense, from a human standpoint, for those who were crippled or something of that sort, of course knowing that they were doing it for a purpose; but if there’s anything I dislike heartily is a man that tries to throw his own misdeeds upon something of the past that he now can’t get at, you know, or you’re not supposed to be able to get at. And that’s what you’re saying, “Well, Father, this happened before, in my last life, so I guess I’ll just have to suffer it out.” And how many of you have done it? A good many of you.
Now this is the time of the resurrection coming before too long. I’d like to resurrect a few brothers and priests, because I see a lot of dead people. If you just looked or thought about for a few minutes a day just a small portion of what has been taught you, they wouldn’t be able to hold you in San Francisco. “For his activity in carrying out my commandments shall bring him grace.” The grace is going to take care of your past karma and your debts.
“He that would wash away his sins shall first wash his mind and thoughts.” In other words, all you’ve got to do is get rid of your own filth and the rest of the thing that you’ve carted into this world will disappear. So please, don’t come to me with a problem and tell me that your karma is the reason that this is your cross that you’ve had to carry, because that’s passed away now and we’re going to forget all about that, so you’ve got to find a new set of excuses for what you don’t do right. Jesus gave you the way and the truth; and in this age he has made it possible to get rid of your karma without any ritual except doing what is the right thing, according to the commandments.
“And he that would gain heavenly acknowledgment must first gain worldly acclaim of his good deeds.”
You know, when I read that one I just jumped up and down with joy, really, inside. Because if there’s anything I dislike are these Sunday-go-to-meeting Christians, and we see this right here, we’ve got it right here only it isn’t just on Sunday. We go to communion every day but it only lasts for about an hour and then after that, look out. They go back to picking up those ancient karmic crosses of theirs and it’s no dice, it doesn’t work. Well, it’s fine going to communion and I pray, I thank God for that, because at least that one hour a day you have a spiritual consciousness about you and I believe then you are at least fulfilling the commandments.
Now all this can be done away with if you do just that, fulfill the commandments and your vows, and if you’ll fulfill your vows you’ll have no trouble with anything else, that’s for sure. Because the humility vow that you take is a prime root of all vows. It is the root of all the commandments. It is absolutely the motivator in Christian living. I don’t care whether you’re in an order or whether you’re outside like Johnny Doe is, you still have to have that humility in order to be a Christian. You can’t be a Christian without it; and it isn’t until you get that humility that you can be a Christian, because in the first place, without that humility you will not be able to bow gracefully – now I mean gracefully – to the will of the Master and our Father in heaven. And if there’s anything that’s distasteful it’s to see somebody be obedient like a bull in a china closet, and that’s just the way some people are obedient. There is no grace to it at all; and until you get that grace you are not in accordance with God, you are not in accordance with humility and obedience.
Humility, you know, is one of the greatest educators in the world because when you are humble you hear what the other man says. It doesn’t make any difference whether he’s a prophet or a beggar. You hear what the other man says, and if it is good you accept it; if it is not good, you just turn it back. For only through this can we reach the reality of Jesus Christ.
Our Master did not go around this earth asking special privileges, never. He went around humbly, but when it came to a place where he needed power, where he needed to chastise, he did it. A humble person is not a meek person. They may be meek in the spirit and they may be humble, but they can wield a wicked Zen stick too, and can gain great strength through that humility.
You know if you here this morning could for just five minutes gain the one necessary reality to Christianity, and that is, could be just conscious for five minutes of Jesus Christ; just conscious that we are a part of the body of Christ. We have so many beautiful words that mean absolutely and sheerly nothing to us, because we never act on them. And that’s just what the Master tried to bring to us, that it’s our activity that works and sets the law into motion, and sets the feeling into reality. It’s our activity that declares we are with it regardless of what it is. Likewise it does the same thing in the realization of our Master.
It is a mighty hard thing, you know, to serve a master that you don’t know, because how do you know what you’re serving? Might have horns on it. I don’t blame anybody for doubting something when they don’t know who they’re serving. Of course, you can look at me and you still might not know whether I had horns or not. I’ve been accused of that too. But the Master you’ve got to get with, you’ve got to sense for just a moment or two the reality of him. And that sensing is not just a mental exercise; it is a physical realization. You know that you exist within that body. You are a part of it. You know what they talk about when they talk about grace because you can feel it. You can feel that grace coming from him. You know that you exist within him even though you be only a tiny cell. And you know he exists, and if you can gain this reality, it takes an effort; it takes doing something. You can’t sit down and mentally do it, for that’s where so many people around have failed to reach the Master, is because they try to do it mentally... You’ve got to actively give yourself, actively your whole being, give it totally up.
Lose your name – one of the old things that we used to do years ago. The moment you came to take, to accept the teacher and become a student of his, he gave you a name and it probably was a name you didn’t like, and your other name was never known in that school. Absolutely buried and destroyed because he didn’t want that old man around. He was trying to get rid of him, and you were supposed to be while you were there and, I assure you, you would unless you ran. And this is the way you have to get this. You bury yourself so completely. You get rid of and destroy the identity of the old man, because you don’t want to know him. John Smith has been the boy that has been bothering you ever since the day you’ve been born, practically, at least seven years old, and you want to get rid of him. That’s what you’re here for, to get rid of his identity completely because you have been carting around the mass mind and all this other junk with you, and that’s what you’re here to get rid of, so you can serve Jesus Christ. And until you get rid of it and all your ideas, you’re not going to communicate Jesus Christ as a priest or as a student, either one.
You know, this morning I was thinking of how interested everybody would be if I started to give a few forecasts of something in the way of, you know, of revelation or something of that sort. And then I thought of the brothers as a whole that are striving and all that sort of thing, and they are, they are; and then I looked ahead and I saw a couple of years away, hardly a couple, when it’s very possible that the only thing that we can, we may own, is what we have gained within our own hearts, when all other things may be washed away. Do you realize that you are on a moving, living body that can be washed away – I’m not saying it will – that can disappear from under our feet? And it might possibly do that if we don’t get ourselves straightened out to keep it in shape. Because it is your fault, you too, that this world is the way it is, physically. If you don’t believe me, you look at the first of Genesis; He gave you dominion over the earth, and it is your thinking that lets it stay that way, and your words and your action that lets it be that way. Just think of that. Just think of the responsibility that the Creator put on your shoulders, each one of you, every one out there too; but you know, you have the advantage. You’ve been taught about the Word; you’ve been taught about grace; you’ve been taught about Jesus Christ. You’ve been taught and had demonstrated to you what the power will do, so it is doubly your responsibility. And that is no – this is something you can’t excuse, you can’t alibi, and you can’t back out of.
In this second chapter of the Book of God, he has given you the tools to get rid of all karmic reactions. Now let’s see if you’re going to use it. Let’s see what you’re going to do with it. Let’s see what is going to happen with it. Let’s see how many people are going to drop and get rid of that karma by this simple method, the sins of the past. You know that word, “karma”, is a very nice word. You know sometimes it just covers up the reality too, misdeeds of the past. Jesus always furnishes the tools. Are you going to use them or are you going to continue to play around and enjoy your own misdeeds? That’s what it amounts to. Are you going to stay on the wailing wall for two thousand years? Or are you going out and enjoy the world you’ve been given, and I mean given?
“For I say unto you that in this new earth thou shalt be with me always in this age.”
What are you going to do then? Do you think you could sit down in his presence consciously? Could you stand it? Would your vehicle stand it? Could your mind stand it?
Words of Inner Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
-St. Francis of Assissi, 13th Century Christian
If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors.
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
-Taoism, 6th Century
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when feeling it not.
I believe in God even when He/She is silent.
-Judaism, 20th Century
Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people.
Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect for all children of the earth.
Creator, open our hearts to end exclusion, violence, and fear among all.
Native American tradition, 20th Century
Send Thy peace O lord,
That we may think, act, and speak harmoniously.
Send Thy peace O Lord,
That amidst our worldly strife,
We may enjoy Thy bliss.
Send Thy peace O Lord,
That we Thy children on earth may all unite in one family.
-Islam, 20th Century
Birth of the Son/Sun
The religion of the Persians pointed to Mithras; the Chaldeans to Tammuz. The Norse gods foresaw the approach of "The Twilight of the Gods," when Surt, the bright Sun-spirit, shall supersede them, and a new and fairer order be established on the regenerated earth.
The Egyptians waited for Horus, the new-born Sun. Mithras and Tammuz were also symbolized as Solar orbs and all the principal Temples were built facing the East, that the rays of the rising Sun might shine directly through the open doors; even St. Peter's at Rome is so placed.
Thus it was generally known that the One Who was to come was a Sun-spirit, and was to save humanity from the separating influences necessarily contained in all race religions.
These religions were steps which it was necessary for mankind to take to prepare for the advent of Christ. Man must first cultivate a "self" before he can become unselfish, and understand the higher phase of Universal Brotherhood -- unity of purpose and interest -- for which Christ laid the foundation at his first coming, and which he will make living realities when he returns. The Christian religion alone is looking not for One to come, but One to come AGAIN. As the fundamental principle of a Race-religion is separation, self-seeking at the expense of others, if this is carried to its ultimate, it must become destructive and frustrating to evolution, unless succeeded by a more constructive religion.
Therefore, the separative religions of the Holy Spirit must give place to the unifying religion of the Son, which is the true Christian religion.
Law must give place to Love, and separate Races and Nations be united in one Universal Brotherhood, with Christ as the Eldest Brother.
This has not yet been fully accomplished. The intellect can see some of the beauties, and readily admits that we should love our enemies, but the passions of the desire body are still strong. The intellect sees, in the abstract, the beauty but sometimes allies itself with the vengeful feelings of the desire body, in retribution or self-protection (as an excuse).
The second Coming depends on the time when Church can free itself from State and stop secreting the full teachings of Jesus and the ancients.
Jesus Christ was a composite individual; Jesus was the mortal, human part, while Christ was the divine, immortal Spirit.
The rise, the reality of the New Age and the revitalization of the Christ and the symbol of the Son is a world rebirth, the same as taking off the dark glasses of a man who has never seen the natural light and color of the world around him.
And make no mistake, that although this great Being exists, and for thousands of years has been known to exist, Jesus Christ is a reality which I assure you, and is giving birth to a new world in which the dying old man of dogma must be buried, and the unification with the Body of Christ and the reality it brings, bringing hope, Life, and joy into the consciousness of those who have given up, and death to the money changers in the temple.
Since the establishment of the reality of Jesus Christ, when Jesus took upon himself the image of the Christ which made him present and at hand, communication has been established between the souls that before his coming knew the feeling of being isolated, unassociated to one another.
At last, crossing the fallen barrier of the body, we are meeting and making contact with what everyone has talked about, the unity of Jesus Christ, the unity of Christ by means of the sacramental Communion which he communicates through his instruction, and this consummates the union of the faithful within himself.
-Taken from Book of the Master Jesus
Music of the Spheres
“The wonders of the music of the future will
be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human
ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious
music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider
Angels as figments of their imagination.”
-Mozart (1756-1791)
“Love is the keynote, Joy is the music,
Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.”
-Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
“People say that the soul, on hearing the
song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the
song"
-Hafiz (1320-1390)
“Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck
from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain,
and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all
perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart”
-Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
Angels we have heard
on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
- Refrain:
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!