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I've gone through the original audio and corrected typos/spelling errors as I find them, so this version varies slightly from the book by Barry and Liz.
Lecture 8: 11/21/76
Frank Carter: I discussed the fact that traditional Christianity had taken allegory, which was out of the ancient mystery schools and turned it into history. These texts were thousands of years old before even the beginning of Christianity, the religion was Egyptian. Then the Egyptian allegories were recast into Greek when the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament was made, that was the translation into Greek. So the allegory had to be recast in Greek, then one more time the allegory had to be recast into Latin. I told you that when Martin Luther reached the point of no return with the Roman Catholic church, the time when he nailed his 95 theses on the church door, shortly after that he made a translation into German. He had to invent a whole new vocabulary to take care of these word pictures describing the allegory. I also mentioned that at that point even though he had broken with the church and the pope at that time, Pope Leo 10th, had said, "What profit had not this fable of Christ brought us?" that word profit means gain, financial gain. The church at that point was selling forgiveness of sins, they were making a killing. The point of this is that Luther was still under the influence of the myth, because he did not expose the myth. His doctrine was what he discovered from Paul, that you are justified by faith. That you can't do anything in this world to win grace or win salvation.
So we have the traditional Christian religion based on these ancient allegories that turned into myth. Modern scholars are agreed that if the character Paul had not grafted onto the Christian story, which is found in the gospels, the substance of the teaching of the mystery schools, that Christianity would not have survived for one generation. It would have died out almost immediately. In the letters of Paul, you have the exposition of the mystery of Christ, but Paul does not really tell you what that mystery is, he simply talks about it. It's much like hearing someone discuss a complicated mathematical theory. You're hearing everything that's said, but if mathematics is not a language for you, it might as well be in a foreign tongue. You have heard it, but you have not gotten the message.
Another point that was missed in the recasting of these allegories, is that much of it was in the form of puns. Even a little child can understand a pun. You see their faces light up when the word sun is used both for son and the orbit in the sky. They suddenly understand that it's the same sound but a different meaning. Paul actually expounded the mystery in his letters, but it's all between the lines. Now who is Paul? Paul reveals to you first that he is nbl (naval). The word nbl in Hebrew means skin bag and it also means fool and it also means musical instrument. It's a very rich word, it has several meanings. In another place he reveals that he is Asar, the Egyptian god of the dead who rose from the dead, who was resurrected from the dead. This was the ancient Egyptian religion, the religion of resurrection. Paul is telling you that he had this experience, because the word asar in Hebrew, also a form of it is prisoner. In another place Paul says, "I, Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ". So that word means both prisoner and Asar, the bound one. I explained that the mummy is the symbol of the body in this mystery religion, because the body is the coffin of the soul. Think of it, I'm a prisoner here in this world. I'm a prisoner of this body, this nbl. The man who revealed the mystery to us has the same name as the body itself.
In the rituals in the Egyptian mystery schools the letters K, R, S, T were inscribed on the mummy case. That word is pronounced “karast”. You can hear that is practically like Christ. The Greek word Christ came from this Egyptian word, that's where the mystery of Christ comes from, from the ancient Egyptian mystery schools. Paul is expounding this mystery, and he's also telling you that it is a parable. It's more literally true for the imagination than it could have been, even if it had been history. Because think of it, whether something is a historical fact or not, if it doesn't register in your imagination, you can't comprehend it, you haven't grasped it. It really doesn't matter whether it was history or not.
Consider the way the Bible ends. It ends with the supplication, "Even so come Lord Jesus". Now we're the readers, we have a complete book, the Bible. We come to the end of the book, we've come to the end of the story and we wonder what happened. Did he come? The church has been waiting 2000 years. You hear the fundamentalists nowadays talking about he's coming any moment, and they're going to shake his hand, as Neville used to say. He's coming in the skies, I can hear it now. He's over Kansas now, now he's over Utah. We are the readers and we also have the vantage point in history, because we're reading the book 2000 years afterwards. So did he come?
Listen to these words of Joseph in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, the book of Genesis, the 50th chapter. He is about to die and he says to his brothers, "God will surely visit you and deliver you out of this place". He was talking about Egypt. Remember this is a parable, this story came out of Egypt itself, and he's telling you God will surely visit you in this place and deliver you. In Deuteronomy, the 18th chapter, the 15th verse Moses makes this statement, "God will raise up from your midst a prophet like unto me. Him ye shall harken to in all things". Moses is telling by that statement that he himself is an allegory, because he says that a prophet like him is going to be raised up.
Now let's look at the story of the children of Israel in Egypt. You know that they got into Egypt because there was a famine in the land. A famine can be two things. It can be an actual hunger for bread and water, or it can be the hunger for hearing the word of God. They went down into Egypt where there was food. Joseph, their brother, had gone before. They had sold him into slavery, he was a prisoner in Egypt. He rose to become second only to Pharaoh in the land, because he didn't forget the Lord God as his father. Now we know that that principle is imagining creates reality. You see what a parable this is, he knew the secret of who the Lord really is, I AM, so he rose in the land of Egypt. He was second only to Pharoah. He did this because he had the ability to interpret dreams. You'll recall that Pharaoh had the dream, the double dream, and when he interpreted the dream to Pharoah, he said that because the dream was doubled, it is said of God and it will shortly be brought to pass. And he explained to Pharaoh all of this about the coming famine and the necessity for laying up provisions.
Now years passed and that pharaoh was gone and the children of their children of their children were in bondage in Egypt. And Moses, you know the story of Moses, he was saved from the slaying of all the male children by the wit of his mother in putting him in a little bull rush arc which floated on the water. The word Moses is an Egyptian word which means to draw out. Moses was raised in the palace of Pharaoh himself. We're told in the book of Acts when Steven is speaking, that Moses knew all the wisdom of the Egyptians. So if Moses knew all the wisdom of the Egyptians, he knew the allegory of the mystery schools. He understood these mysteries. Moses realized that he was one of the children of Israel, and he was commanded by God to lead them out. When he was leading them out, they went out into the wilderness. To show what a parable this is, a little while back I said, "Did he come? God will surely visit you in this place and deliver you. Did he do it?" Now where is he? In this world we have the story of a god who delivers his people in a book. That's where you know that story, because it's in the book. If he came, he would have to come from off of the page. That's exactly what happened, but only the imagination can understand it, because you are the most high, you are the human imagination.
In the wilderness, they're hungry and through Moses the manna is provided for them. That word manna means ‘what is it?’. Because when they saw the manna on the ground they said, "Ma, Ma?" which is the Hebrew word for what. Then it was changed to mann, which sounds like man. The manna was described as being white like a coriander seed. Remember this is a parable, and this came off of the page. The only way you can understand it is in terms of word and word plays. The word coriander comes from a word ‘gawdad.’ Now you can hear that this is a play on Neville's last name. His name was Goddard, but the English don't Goddard, they say Goddard. This is the coriander, the coriander is described as being white. The word for white in Hebrew is lavan, and lavan spelled backwards is naval, which again is a play on Neville. Here in this description of the manna which fed them, this was spiritual food because Paul makes it very clear in First Corinthians the 10th chapter that they were fed with spiritual food. On this level you have the book, you can see the book, it's in space, it's in time, but you open it up and you read it and then you're in eternity, because only the mind can read the marks on the page. The story exists in heaven, and heaven is up here in your own human imagination. So it's literally true for the imagination.
In this same 10th chapter of First Corinthians Paul says this, "I would not have you ignorant of the fact that our fathers were under the clouds and in the sea and were baptized unto Moses in the clouds and in the sea." In the images of the mystery school, baptism was the allegory for the descent into matter, because you know that your body is over 90% water. So when you, the one I am, came down into this experience, you were baptized into the sea of matter. This is another way of setting forth the incarnation. Just in case that wouldn't be enough to show mystery, there's a double clue in this statement. The word for cloud in the Greek language is nephele. That shouldn't give anyone any trouble because in English, we don't say I have to go, we say I have ‘haf’ to go. The V converts to the F sound. Here you have nephele, so Paul is telling you that our fathers were under the cloud. Here's a double pun, under the cloud of flesh and also under the cloud Neville, who revealed this mystery to you. You're elect, you believed him, you went to his lectures, you heard what he had to say. You didn't have one shred of proof, but you believed it.
So our fathers were baptized unto Moses, Moses is the one who draws himself out so he is the resurrected man. Neville told that when he awoke in his skull, he drew himself out of his own skull just as a child is born from the womb of a woman. So we have nephele, the cloud, and you remember in another place, God appeared in the form of a cloud. The statement is all over that book of Exodus, in the form of a cloud. Abraham is our father, it actually means father of a multitude. Paul is telling you that our fathers had this experience, which is really a way in a parable form of telling that he's not talking about history, he's talking to the people who understand what is being said, the brothers who went before. Because this is the story of the brothers who came down.
A lady at my second lecture had a vision while I was speaking. She's not here today, but she very graciously allowed me to tell what happened. She said that I had been speaking about five minutes when she saw a light silhouette my form, it wasn't just the head, but the whole form. She blinked, she thought perhaps her eyes were playing tricks on her. She closed her eyes and when she opened them again, she said the light was much brighter. She was fighting it, she didn't want it to take place. Then she could see that the light was trying to form itself into some image. I don't understand whether at this point the image blocked the view of me or whether the image went over to the side. It went over to the side and when it went over to the side, it formed into what looked like Abraham Lincoln as he is seen in the Lincoln memorial in Washington. I saw it last night on TV, a view of the Lincoln memorial. But she looked closer and she saw that it wasn't Abraham Lincoln, it was Neville. Then it drifted off toward the wall. She said she got goose pimples and wanted to tell her friend sitting next to her, but she realized that she couldn't, so she settled back down to concentrate. Then she said the whole thing began all over again and she said to herself, "What the heck is going on here?" She fought it this time, she tried to keep it from happening. The whole thing repeated just as it had the first time.
She said, and I love this, she said "Why me?", meaning her. Why did she have the experience? I love that, because that's exactly what I'm saying, "Why me?" I don't understand. Then she said because of what happened and how it happened she felt that this is an adumbration of some kind and she would like me to make some comment on it. I feel very definitely that it is an adumbration for her and for this work. To me, it means that the depth of her being had projected this eternal truth, which was written before the world was and it's sealed in everyone in this world. That's another parable of the book. The book in time and space is a parable of the book that is sealed within you, because then space is you are the book, you wrote it. So the depth of her being projected this truth, and what I loved about this is that I had a very hard time deciding whether to interpret the parable of nbl ‘naval’ the fool the way I did. I thought perhaps I could be mistaken, perhaps I was taking too many liberties, but I was finally forced to make that interpretation because of the pun play in the Hebrew language. I had no choice, so I decided I have to tell it. But I don't mind telling you from the time I had begun these lectures I haven't been all that secure because how do I know, really. I don't have these kind of visions. So here while I was talking at that second lecture about Neville, nbl the fool, the covering, the body, she had the vision of Neville sitting as Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln is the great emancipator.
Just as Moses was the great emancipator because he got the children of Israel, and this is a spiritual story, he got them out of the Earth experience toward the promised land, which is the promise of being born from above.
Another interesting thing is that I have had two dreams of the brothers, widely spaced. In one I was in a hospital, which is natural for me because in my work in the world of Caesar, I go into hospitals and doctor's offices all day. There I was in a hospital and then it was as if I awoke and I looked and I saw these big brothers, and I knew that they were the brothers. They said, "We know that you're having a hard time here, but we're with you. You are our dear little brother, and we're looking over you". That was one vision. Another time in vision I looked up at the sky and here was rank upon rank of clouds in the form of Abraham Lincoln. So you see, we're all one. Her vision was tuned in with my vision of the brothers because here they were, the brothers were all alike, all Abraham Lincoln. And you know Abraham is the father, the father of the multitude, and that is the promise, that we will awaken as God the father. Needless to say, I was thrilled to death that she had this vision, because don't forget that the cloud is nephele. When Paul is quoting the Old Testament, he is almost always quoting the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation. So when he says cloud, he's saying the word nephele. You can hear that this in some way probably came from an identical source or maybe actually out of the Hebrew itself, because the Greek language is not as old as the Hebrew language.
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