Jesus Taught In Parables To Conceal The Mysteries of God

Jesus taught in parables to conceal the Mysteries of God from the multitude of people -- he said they were blind and incapable of perceiving and comprehending the true meaning of life and the Kingdom of God which was within them. If Jesus had spoken of the Mysteries of God openly, then the people of this world would have rejected his words as "foolishness". Why does men of an organic mind look upon the higher realities of their own soul and spiritual natures as "foolishness"? Because the god of this world who Jesus portrayed as the "citizen" in the parable of the prodigal son, controls the thinking and lives of those who are lost in this, the "far country", and will not permit them to comprehend their own higher soul and spiritual natures -- or their inheritance as the Offspring of the Most High who Jesus taught was our Father. So Jesus embedded the Mysteries of God and the realities of our own higher soul and spirit within a series of parables -- the understanding of which could only be comprehended by those who picked up their own cross, and followed in TheWay -- and because neither the god of this world or his prophets and servants who corrupted the scriptures, and created a shadow church in this world, could not understand the inner meaning, they remain preserved to this day as a portal for the true seekers to know the Truth, and receive the Divine Manna from Heaven which enlightens and reveals to the faithful disciples of TheWay the reality of All Things. After visiting the Inner Kingdom, Paul warned that it is unlawful to reveal the Sacred Secrets of the Kingdom to the Church-believing Christians of the simple faith -- calling himself an "Ambasador in bonds" who was restrained from speaking the truth openly. Ignatius, the first century Elder who was a disciple of John, warned the Christians that “Might I not write to you things more full of mystery? But I fear to do so, lest I should inflict injury on you who are babes. Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able to receive their weighty import, ye should be strangled by them.” Man was banished from the Garden of Eden because, after eating from the Tree of Duality, if he had then eaten of the Tree of Life, he would have become eternal -- i.e., "Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -- therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life" (Gen 3:22-24 NKJ). Jesus concealed the Mysteries of God from the perception of both the multitudes of people who he taught, and the believers of the simple-faith, because the Sacred Manna of the Tree of Life can only be imparted to the faithful disciples who pick up their own cross and travail in TheWay in exact imitation of the mindset and ordained lifestyle that Jesus taught. In the same way that Jesus told the man seeking eternal life to first fulfill the Law, the Christians of the simple faith must themselves progress beyond the "milk" of the simple-faith, and become a Disciple of TheWay which Jesus taught only to his most faithful who he called his Brothers and Sisters, in order to receive the Sacred Manna of the Kingdom.