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Weekly Message to the Masses - March 7, 2010
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Matthew 5:29, Bible (King James
Version) "And if
thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
- attributed to the Master Mind
Jesus (also refer to Mark 9:47)
For those who want to take the Bible literally,
this statement from the Book of Matthew attributed to the Master Mind
Jesus is harsh. But, as Dr. Robert Bitzer said often, Jesus was a
Master Metaphysician, this statement is not to be taken literally, but
discerned spiritually. First of all, we know that anytime
Jesus refers to the body, he is referring to the physical, or that which
takes place in the world. So, as we view this statement as an
instruction to act ... then we must ask, in what way are we to act?
Returning evil for evil will only create more of it. But we must
not be afraid to confront it. If it came to our awareness, it came
to us for a reason.
When Jesus spoke of evil he was not referring
to something that had power, but instead something that was attempting
to deny the Presence of G-d. And
in reality, evil is that which negates our ability to live fully in the
peace, harmony, prosperity, success, freedom and love that is present for
us. These are the effects of the Spirit when undisturbed by
negativity and discord ... that which contradicts these things. In the evolutionary science of mind we do not deny that evil
exists in the world, but we realize that we must not
"identify" with it, or we will share in its
consequences. And by evil, we do not mean the devil or evil
spirits ... that is all nonsense. I believe that it is not enough for us to say that All is G-d and
therefore All is Good, when our eyes and ears can't possibly give us
evidence that this is fully the Truth. We must accept the Good
knowing that ultimately All is Good ...
and we must reject the seeming evil. A wise spiritual teacher
wrote that, "blindness to evil is a
sin." Now, I wouldn't call it a sin, but I would call
it a mistake. If we saw our neighbor's house being robbed, would
we call the police, or refuse to see it as evil? If we call the
police, we do not identify with it ... we reject it.
The Radical Rabbi Jesus
stated: "Do
you think that I have come to teach peace on earth? No,
I tell you, but rather division." In other words, how
can we have peace on earth unless we reject evil? We cannot make
peace with evil. The evil must be rejected and eliminated by our
love for the good. Reverend Ike taught that we accept discord and
disease into our lives because we fail to reject them when they come to
our awareness, or attention. Some will say that they "know
the truth" ... but if we knew the truth 100% of the time then we
would never be aware of evil, discord or disease. We may see
ourselves as "not of this world," but we are in the world and
we must separate the good from the evil if we are to experience more of
the good.
So much of what we see in the world as attempts to stop
evil, is instead hypocrisy attempting to disguise itself as
morality. An excellent example of this is our current debate on
healthcare reform in the United States. There are politicians who
will not sign on to healthcare reform if it provides for abortion
medical procedures. They will tell us that it contradicts their
moral conviction and Christian religious beliefs. But
...................... these same politicians will not sign onto
healthcare reform if it provides any care for children of illegal
immigrants! Some will say this is just politics ... and if that is
so, then politics is rife with evil! Christian organizations send
millions of dollars outside of the United States to "save the
children" ... but what about the children of illegal immigrants
that are right here in our own country? Where is the Christian
outpouring of support for them against these politicians? Why do
these Christians believe the life of an unborn child is more important
than the life of a child in our midst? Is not the life of G-d
breathing through both the legal and the illegal? Our
brother Jesus said: "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of
the least of these my brothers, you did it to
me." ... and "If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his
brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has
seen cannot love God whom he has not seen."
"Resist
not evil," the Master Mind Jesus stated. What we
resist, persists. And often our blindness to evil will enable
it. In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the words
"SILENCE=DEATH" made a lot of people wake up to a greater
accountability to speak up for those who needed their help. Our
silence, too often, implies agreement with those who would do evil. There must not be any passivity towards
evil. The Good will always reign supreme, but we must affirm the
Good, live for the Good, and let G-d work through us for the greater
good. We must be willing to "cause division" as the
Radical Rabbi Jesus did ... to
reject that which denies the Divine in anyone or in anything. If
we don't, we give it our agreement ... and if we agree with it, we will
experience it for ourselves, in some way.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Reverend Dr. Henry Lee Bates
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