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1 Religion
2 Jesus Christ
3 Reincarnation
4 The Spirit World
5 Death
6 The Bible (listen to Bible Me This on Phoenesse)
7 Prayer and meditation
8 God

Chapter 2: Jesus Christ

2.1 Christ

  • I would like to ask whether the Christ spirit is an all-pervading spirit like God or an individual spirit?

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2.2 Salvation

  • Here we are taught that salvation comes through work, through self-search, through effort and through the finding of images to be cast off. Today, a man who calls himself a “twice-born Christian” asked me whether I accepted Jesus as my personal savior, and that unless I did, I would not find salvation.My question is: how are we to reconcile this Church-proclaimed doctrine of faith in salvation through another, with our work on the Path? And further, is this faith in a heavenly being who had become man sufficient for a mortal to share, through mysterious rites, in his divine life? Is this faith plus the sacraments sufficient to redeem us from the bonds of earthly guilt and earthly death and to awaken us to a new life which would mean eternal existence and blessedness
  • There still is the one portion of my question which is unanswered, which has to do with whether or not a person can be saved through the medium of a Savior or through a person’s own efforts?
  • You said that when the obstructions are removed, faith follows. But I know people who have faith and still have a lot of obstructions.

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2.3 The cross

  • What is the meaning of the “way of the cross,” its principles and its course of actions? How is it comparable to the Eastern concept, the one that follows the Buddha?

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2.4 Good Friday

  • Will you tell us the spiritual significance of Good Friday, please?

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2.5 Jesus’ travels

  • I understand the Bible does not account for Christ’s life between approximately the ages of 12 and 30. I have read that during his teens and early twenties, roughly, Christ went through training in secret orders. Then he conducted a worldwide ministry before returning to the Middle East to conduct the last period of his life mentioned in the Bible. Is this true and would you give more details?

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2.6 The Virgin Mary

  • What is the role of the Virgin Mary from the spiritual point of view?

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2.7 The bodily resurrection

  • Christian religions place a lot of emphasis on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. Why is that?
  • Yes, but your statement as to the error of this thinking would lead one to conclude that the parts of the Gospel which describe the disciples’ arrival at the tomb as a story of promise are entirely false, and not a factual account.

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2.8 Miracles

  • I would like to ask if you could explain the miracle of Therese von Neumann* who has the stigmata that bleed every week; she has not eaten for years.
  • Does it necessarily mean that such a person is spiritually very highly developed?

  • I read a story in a current magazine about miracles. This story said that a child broke a wooden Madonna and in kissing the upper half, tears started coming out of the eyes of the Madonna. This was repeated in the presence of different witnesses. Do you wish to comment on this?
  • Has it to do with the spirit of the child in question?
  • How then was it possible that Jesus could perform many miracles, many times?

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2.9 Celebrating Christmas

  • What about Christmas, with the displays of light, the story of Christ, the Christmas trees and the Christmas carols?

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2.10 Rebellious Christians & Jews

  • What is the inner reason for many Jewish people—even those who are otherwise quite open-minded and spiritually inclined—to be almost militantly against Jesus Christ? A similar reaction also exists in some Christians who strongly rebel against their early upbringing. What is the reason for this?

  • I have two questions. First, why do you place so much importance on the New Testament, when, as you have pointed out, it is so encrusted by time, faulty translation and outright manipulation. Why not let it be, instead of resurrecting it, and go on to the new clear and pertinent material that you have given us, which seems to me to be a genuine rewriting and expansion on the basic truths in the other?I see my second question as an extension of the first. As a Jew, I have, because of my upbringing, a deep-seated prejudice that comes up at the mention of Jesus. I feel that to accept the Christian concept of Jesus as God and Savior – Messiah – would be a betrayal of my people and myself. Your three early lectures on the meaning of the Christ were very helpful to me in understanding the nature and function of the Christ consciousness in the epic of universal evolution and its special significance to us human beings.But the actual existence and acceptance of Jesus Christ, Son of God, seems to me beside the point. I value and appreciate the message of love and it’s power that Jesus was supposed to have brought, but seem to hear you ask me to buy the whole story. I can see I need help here to find my way through my prejudices and understand your true meaning. One more thing: you mentioned that material pertaining to reincarnation was deleted from the Bible. Is there knowledge of such material?

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2.11 Spreading the word

  • In the Gospel according to St. Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus is described as giving this final injunction to his disciples before parting with them: “All authority in heaven and on Earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”The early Christians faithfully followed these words, seeking to convey the Gospel of salvation through Christ to the entire world, even at the risk of their lives. Much of the Christian church, to this day, takes these words very seriously as defining its mission.The norm in spiritual circles is to not preach to others, but to respect each individual’s beliefs. Was the early church’s task different from ours today?

Original Pathwork Cosmology Lectures

From the Pathwork Q&A on Salvation: “I explained at length in what way the act of Jesus Christ constituted salvation for all the fallen beings, what his contribution was and how it opened the door and showed the way (Pathwork Guide Lectures #19-22). I do not have to repeat that now, for it is all on record and it is useless to take the available time for repetition. By rereading it, you will see that it was never implied or stated that the coming of Christ exempted the individual from personal work and effort. Quite the contrary is true.”

Here is an audio recording of these four important lectures about the greater significance of Jesus’ life and death:

2.12 Pathwork Guide Lecture #19: Jesus Christ

2.13 Pathwork Guide Lecture #20: God: The creation

2.14 Pathwork Guide Lecture #21: The Fall

2.15 Pathwork Guide Lecture #22: Salvation

Listen to next chapter in Keys: 3 Reincarnation

1 Religion • 2 Jesus Christ • 3 Reincarnation • 4 The Spirit World • 5 Death • 6 The Bible (listen to Bible Me This on Phoenesse) • 7 Prayer and meditation • 8 God