THE
LORD GOD made himself a house. And the pattern of the house he gave to men and
they built it; and the way men lived with the LORD GOD was the pattern of it:
that he might show them, each one, where they were: where they dwelt in it.
And he gave him who had the right of rule
over it, to rule it, as all flesh was one with him, the light of lights. And
his rule was one of great benevolence, for whatsoever they desired they were
given, till it seemed there was nothing missing of all they could ever think
of, to hope for. For the house was filled with the source of all man’s desire:
a beautiful fragrance of incense was there, the hope of selfless love; and the
light of a golden candlestick was in it, the hope of godly understanding; and
fresh bread was always to be seen upon its table, the hope of the knowledge of
God.
And the incense was as the form of love and
worship, the heart’s own desire before the unknown place, and the nearest one
could come to it. And the candlestick was as the form of a tree, and its light,
the knowledge of the light of lights; the light which appealed and gave one
standing. And the bread was as the form of knowledge and of the truth in the
law; good to build one up and increase one’s stature in the sight of God and
man.
And from age to age, from generation to
generation, the bread, and the light, and the incense in the house increased
and multiplied so as it knew no bounds. It gave them above and beyond all they
needed; though the words of it were shut up and the book sealed: for the
understanding of it was in quite a different house. And the light of love and
of the source of knowledge of the truth in the law grew and grew, until there
were so many books written about the book that they filled the entire world;
even to the time of the end when all things are revealed: when many run to and
fro, and knowledge, increased to such an extent that the speed of it
outdistanced thought; happening in less time than a man could think of it; and
there was no longer anything that was impossible to them.
And it was so, that when men were at their
greatest ease, the voice of the seventh angel began to sound: for the mystery
of God was finished; time no longer; and they all awoke and began to hear. But
none could enter in, not having a wedding garment, nor oil for their lamps: for
they had whereof to boast in all their fine garments of righteousness, and their
marvellous lamps filled with all the oil of the light of lights. And they could
not enter in to the marriage.
Not one in the first house could enter in;
they were shut out for all their abundance; for they were rich and increased
with goods so that they had need of nothing, and knew not that they were
wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, for all their wealth.
And they that had bought the things which
were good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, things to be desired to make one
wise were rewarded in kind. They reaped of the flesh and of the soul, that
which was of, the flesh and the soul: they had earned the ‘things which are;’ not ‘things
which are not;’ for all are repaid in their own coinage. And nothing, of
the things which are, can help a man enter in.
And the veil over their eyes is removed, and
they see, for an instant, them that had walked in the fire that was the second
house. They saw those who had entered in with the bridegroom beyond the second
veil whom they did not recognize. For, were they not those whom they
had numbered among the transgressors; who, being not of them had left them:
cast out by the SPIRIT OF THE LORD, and taken. Led by him, in spirit, in the
light of life: by the fire of decreasing, and the cloud of not-knowing, and the
hidden airy bread of the dew of heaven, milk and honey. ...Those, which unbeknownst
to the first house, walked free and invisibly with the beloved in all the world; for they had inherited the earth. Those who had left the shadow for the substance: the poor in spirit, who have nothing and know nothing but him,
alone; who suffer his reproach without the camp, where they dwell with him in
his own glorious light in the second house; whose light is as pitch-darkness to
men.
And he sent forth his angels, and they come,
gathering out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
iniquity; casting them into a furnace of fire. And the reapers, beginning to
reap, are gathering in first, the tares. And in finding them in groups, binding
them in bundles to burn them; and there is weeping and gnashing of teeth: for
those of the first house thought that they had access to everywhere in God’s
house, and so it was a shock to them to find that they were all bound together
in the wrong house - the old house - the first house, and that they were not in
the second house, at all; which now is revealed to them.
It had not occurred to them that there was
another house, altogether different, and that it had been kept from them,
because they had thought that they were in it already. For the light of lights
who had led them was the light that was not light: the imitation of Christ: the
imitation of the light: the light that was of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, which could not in any wise enter in the holiest of all: the second
house.
And, in the twinkling of an eye, they are
given to see, and understand, that they had been led in endless circles of
never ending knowledge: ever learning never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth: never finishing never entering rest: and in no rest no entering in;
and so, centred around their needs in him, they were bound to themselves in
bundles glorying in men.
And not until the first house, is fallen, is
the second house, made manifest . . .
‘The
Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet
made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.’
And the second house they saw as a most
terrible house; a habitation in the LORD GOD made entirely of fire that took
everything from them.
But to those people they saw walking around
in it, it seemed as if it was the most pleasant place of all: for each one was
filled joy, roaming free in losing all: unfettered boundless in the glorious
liberty which was within the terrible fiery light, that burned up all the light
that was not light, taking away the things that are, for things which are not: that no flesh should glory in his
presence.
And so afraid were the people of the first house
at the destruction of all they held, dear, that they could no longer hold on
to, or bear sight of the new, the second house; and the light of the knowledge
of it was taken from them that they might receive their own reward.
And soon it was that that losing which they
could not reach, nor attain, they belittled and despised: thus blinding and
binding themselves yet further to the old; which, though it was now, exposed,
cast down, and fallen, they still clung to, and so burned with it; and great was
the fall of Babylon; and the smoke of her burning was seen afar off . . .
‘For every man’s work shall be made manifest:
the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
shall try every man’s work of what sort it is;’
of what substance, of what coinage; whether it is that of the first house, or
that of the second?
And nothing of the first
house would fit in the second.
For just as a bird, flies in air, and a fish,
swims in water, so are the two houses in two different realms; and their
inhabitants not able to breathe in that house which was not their own.
And the door that was the veil between the
two realms was death to one and life to the other. And none could enter in, in
any other way than through the door; and in taking nothing with one, even as by
death heaven is entered . . .
. . . narrow as the confines of his own body, lonely as his own pain, dark as his own ignorance in dependence upon his Father: piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit; and his way, his own, cannot be shared with another.
. . . narrow as the confines of his own body, lonely as his own pain, dark as his own ignorance in dependence upon his Father: piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit; and his way, his own, cannot be shared with another.
And
the light -- in soul --
The
first house --
Is the tree of the
knowledge of good
and evil:
Knowledge
about him in gaining:
The
light without. (...Visible)
...The abundant godly knowledge the flood of water cast out of the serpent’s mouth, that he might cause her to be carried away of it; even as in the Garden.
...The abundant godly knowledge the flood of water cast out of the serpent’s mouth, that he might cause her to be carried away of it; even as in the Garden.
And
the light -- in spirit --
The
second house --
Is the tree of life:
Revelation
in him in losing:
The
light within. (...Invisible)
Knowing him more
by knowing about him less:
he must increase, but I decrease.
.
. .
And
unto them that look for him
shall
he appear the second time.
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The Light Within
THE ENTIRE house is a picture of man: body,
soul, and spirit, and the three different levels of his relationship to God.
The second house has no window: no natural
light, and has no lamp, nor candle: to demonstrate the truth that the spirit of
man is darkness; and that only God can illumine his spirit: for the only true
light is the Lord Jesus, himself: ‘God IS
light:’ if a man has not JESUS within him he has no light.
Only Jesus’ life in man’s spirit is light; no
other light than Jesus, himself, can penetrate the spirit of man; and that,
that he might illumine the man to himself -- show him his own darkness: -- revealing
the man to himself in the mirror of the inexorable beauty of Jesus, who is that
fearsome light which is the fire within a man: to conform him to the utterly
impossible image of Christ -- within
-- and on and on throughout his life, until he realizes that he is totally and absolutely
corrupt, through and through, and has nothing in or of himself, but Jesus.
The spirit of man has no light except that
one beam of light within, which is Jesus. It is the beam within which is so
unspeakably precious, even though without it the wretchedness of self-loathing
would be a thing unknown. And only does he realize how precious and beautiful
that loathing is when he welcomes the light as his only hope of deliverance and
salvation from himself; until the hating is consumed in love unto utter
reliance upon Jesus for everything, always.
God in Christ shows the man to himself -- as
he really is -- as he is beneath the surface -- for the entire spirit of every
person is iniquity and darkness until made light. And God does this piercing illumining
only in the second house: only in the
spirit of a man. And he does so until he has entered his spirit to the degree that he has purposed; for it is God, himself,
who brings each one to that ‘mansion’ in his Father’s house that he chose for
him before the foundation of the world; that, where he is, there we may be, also.
Therefore, all ‘light’ which is not the beam within is not light. It is ‘light,’ falsely, so called, and it works against the true light, blinding the man to himself with knowledge about.
Therefore, all ‘light’ which is not the beam within is not light. It is ‘light,’ falsely, so called, and it works against the true light, blinding the man to himself with knowledge about.
All who abide in the first house are still
lost to Jesus: keeping him out of their innermost being terrified of being
found out there; but, only there, are they changed.
It is the light within that changes us.
We see ourselves reflected in the ray of light which is his utter beauty and in
that flash of true sight of our own wretchedness fall at his feet, slain, till
we are transformed, within, by his blood.
Therefore, if it is the light within which changes us, why then do we keep
hiding from him in knowledge gathering?
We hide from the light, which exposes us to
our own selves, because we are
darkness and we do not want to be found out!
In our soul…we
are enjoying the shadow: the ‘light which is not light:’ i.e. knowledge about
him, and about his work in us; all the while, in our spirit…we are hiding from the reality and the substance of
him in hiding from our real selves!
Each person is one body, one house, with two
rooms: a soul and a spirit; and the
two, war and lust against each other for supremacy, inside us, inside every one of us (Galatians 5: 17); even as the
twins in Rebekah’s womb, who were a symbol of it.
JESUS did not need to die, for us to enjoy the light of knowledge in our ‘streets:’ in our mind, (our soul,) we can do that very well without him; but our knowledge is about as useful in the darkness as a lantern with no light in it; he doesn’t speak there: he doesn’t teach in our ‘streets.’ ‘NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS.’ (Mat. 12: 19; Lu. 13: 26)
JESUS did not need to die, for us to enjoy the light of knowledge in our ‘streets:’ in our mind, (our soul,) we can do that very well without him; but our knowledge is about as useful in the darkness as a lantern with no light in it; he doesn’t speak there: he doesn’t teach in our ‘streets.’ ‘NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS.’ (Mat. 12: 19; Lu. 13: 26)
What
we had heard in the searching channels of our mind, in the lanes and byways of
our soul was not, him -- his life, come
in our flesh, but the imitation, by the light of the serpent in us, who
deceives the whole world.
And when we shall begin to say to him, but ‘We have eaten and drunk in thy presence,
and thou hast taught in....’ not, in our spirit, but ‘in our streets;’ where it is not he who teaches. We
thought we heard him, but it was the imitation we had heard. And he shall say to us, ‘I tell you, I know you not whence ye are;
depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity:’ for our spirit in us does not
confess that he has come in our flesh. (1
John 4: 3) ‘And
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth’ . . . for we had created a false
picture of Jesus and worshipped our own image of him. ...We did not know him whose eyes are as a flame of fire, before
whom, no man can stand that there be any breath left in him.
(Daniel 10: 15-17; Rev. 1:
14)
...We
had made him according to our own understanding, in our own image, in our own
likeness; and the whole world glitters with the false gold of our beautiful idol,
to whom we delight to bow down and at the merest hint of his music. ...It is the
most magnificent deceit; the greatest deception of all time.
...JESUS didn’t need to die, for us to hear
‘him’ in our ‘streets:’ the holy place within the temple of God in man; he died
that we might enter the holiest of all: our sinful heart, (our spirit,) lost in the darkness, that he might dwell in us there:
find us there: for God is spirit and
the only light there is HIM!
...He is altogether other! He is utterly as darkness to us: being altogether
other than we are.
...We say we know him, but we do not; neither are we saved: ‘for many, I say unto you, will seek to
enter in, and shall not be able.’
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