Daily Meditation: Monday, June 9, 2003

Certain revelations in the Gospels can be considered …

06/09/2003

Certain revelations in the Gospels can be considered dangerous, because the meaning of Jesus' words is not easy to understand for people who lack true initiatic understanding. 'Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect', or 'You are gods', or again, 'He who believes in me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these will he do.' How are we to understand these words which present man in such a sublime light? These revelations have been written down, copied, and printed for centuries, and the task of the Church was to explain them in order to prepare human beings for their realisation. But instead, the Church put them aside: to explain to human beings that they are gods, that they can reach the perfection of their celestial Father, would turn them into monsters of pride! Well, it is very charitable of the Church to want to protect human beings from pride...as if they had not found many other ways of becoming proud! When we do not explain to human beings the principles on which to base their faith, they eventually declare that they have no need of God and claim to be sceptics or atheists. What would you call that? Humility or pride?