The Truth, Thinking and Christ

Read John 14:5-21 Jesus said to him (Thomas), “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.” John14:6 - 7

“I am the truth” – the Greek word for truth used here is ‘aletheia’ which indicates the reality lying at the basis of an appearance, the essence of a matter. The I AM is not open to interpretation, it is the naked essence of our being. There can be no pretence; pretence comes from the astral.

The I AM is actually a frightening thing just as the naked truth can be hard to bear. How often do we shrink from truth? John chose to mention this in chapter 16 when he recorded Jesus’ words, “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. John 16:12

Thomas’ question: “Where are you going; how can we know the way?” seems to get such an odd answer unless we look at it differently. Esoterically, the Way relates to the Father, and the will; the Truth points to the Son, and to thinking.

In Thomas we see our lost ability to think purely. Knowledge has become abstract and personal and is therefore subjective; our own ideas can stand in the way of truth.

What is thinking really? Thinking is nothing more than placing one concept next to another, one image next to another and by comparing them all we reach a conclusion or make a judgement. Because we are so bound to our physical body, and because our relationship to our I AM is so tentative, most of our concepts and images come from the past. Innately we use the past to understand the present. It is difficult for us to factor in the future when the past is so vivid.

Yet the real purpose of thinking is so that we can understand the reality of our being. The reality of our being is not the past but the future when we will be fully human. The I AM that we are working hard to incorporate into our being has only ever been experienced fully by one man: Jesus. Rev. Mario would sometimes end his prayers by saying, “We pray these things in the matchless name of Jesus.”

What we need is a living thinking, a thinking that can factor in the future. It is only with this kind of living thinking - which uses the etheric body - that we can grasp many of the truths in the Bible. So many biblical statements seem to have little mean ing to our earthly mind. Sometimes they even seem to be mindless repetition, or even contradiction. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.” If we know the I AM then we know the Father, the originator of the I AM. This is like seeing the likeness of the father in his son.

“Believe” says Jesus, not blindly but trust. “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.” This is not about persuasion, we are asked to take it as fact. We can do this by experiencing thinking as a creative act. When we think we create a form in the astral world. On Old Saturn when the Archai, the time spirits, thought they created a physical form. If we can free our thinking from our nervous system we have creative Imagination. This is thinking that is freed from the brain, it is pure thinking, free thinking. Pure thinking enables us to trust these words and experience the truth that sets us free.

It seems slightly peculiar that Jesus goes on and on about “knowing” except if we understand then that truth speaks about knowing. “I am the truth” tells us that when our I AM is fully engaged we will know. We will know Christ, we will know the Father and we will know the way. Verse 17 says that the Spirit of truth will be revealed to us if we seek it. So we are asked to believe and know and our I AM will be revealed.

Chapter 14 is really quite astounding. Perhaps we should read it as a mantra every morning.

·         We will do greater works than Jesus when his fully Christed I AM reconnects with the Father.

·         Whatever we ask in the I AM, it will be done.

·         Christ will come to us and the comforter/counsellor will be sent to abide with us forever.

How could we ever get depressed, anxious or fearful knowing this and believing this? Feel verse 18 reverberate through you.