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Two billion people call Jesus divine, but few can say what he actually taught. Professor Jiang sets doctrine aside and asks that question directly, using the lost Gospel of Thomas as his key. The teaching at the center is simple and radical: the divine spark is already inside you, not in a building or a priest. Love your enemy, forgive, and look within — a message so threatening to empire that the man who spoke it had to be silenced.
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Today we discuss the most famous person who has ever lived. There are about 2 billion people
in the world today who believe that Jesus is God. And so the question then is, there have been
many famous individuals in history, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Zarathustra,
homer but it is jesus that most people worship and the question we will look at today is
why okay so what i want to do first is discuss the religion of christianity and as you know
i grew up in canada and i studied united states and so my entire life um jesus was part of the
culture it was part of society and growing up in canada not being christian i really didn’t
understand christianity i really didn’t understand the ideas um so let’s go over some of the major
ideas of christianity uh first of all it’s important to remember that there are many
denominations in christianity so there’s a lot of disagreements okay but these are the major ideas
that most christians agree on first thing is that jesus is the son of god and god himself okay and
he’s king okay this this already is very confusing um second thing is they believe that jesus died
for our sins so remember that we got kicked out of the garden of eden because we disobeyed god
and we ate from the tree of knowledge okay so jesus died for our sins and so jesus redeemed us
okay um the third thing that they believe is that eventually jesus will return something called
second coming he died then he was resurrected and went to heaven but eventually he will return and
and this will result in the last judgment
in which all individuals are judged
whether they will reign in heaven or burn in hell.
He will bring heaven to earth.
And this is where Christianity is most controversial.
What this says is that if you believe in Jesus,
if you’re a Christian, you will go to heaven.
But if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell.
And this goes against all other religious traditions.
Every religious tradition is basically like, be a good person, and that’s all you have to do.
But Christianity demands that you must believe in Jesus, or you will burn in hell.
So, in other words, Christianity is a missionary religion in which, if you’re a Christian,
Not only do you must believe in Jesus, but you must go out and try to convert other people.
Because if they don’t convert to Christianity, during the last judgment, they will burn in hell.
And that is why Christianity is one of the most aggressive religions that we have today.
So this is all very strange.
And there are a lot of questions in Christianity.
And that’s why Christianity also proposes the idea of miracles.
Okay, oh, did Jesus die for our sins?
Why is there such a thing coming?
It’s all a miracle, okay, meaning don’t question it,
just believe in it, right?
So Christianity is a very problematic religion.
It raises a lot of questions, okay?
So then the question then is,
given all the confusion around Christianity,
why do so many people believe in Jesus?
All right, so what I’m gonna do now is,
going to explain to you what we know for sure about jesus this is not um religious people it’s
scholars who spend decades researching the evidence look in the bible look at the archaeological
evidence looking at all the writings of that period and this is what we know for sure about
jesus okay all right so the life of jesus okay so the first thing that we know is he was born maybe
be about 4 BCE, okay, in a place called Galilee. I know in the Bible it says he was born the year
zero, but he’s actually born four years before that, all right? That’s the first thing that we
know for sure, or most people agree on. I’m talking about like mainstream academics.
Second thing that we agree on is that his teacher was John the Baptist. And John the Baptist
is what we call an apocalyptic preacher okay an apocalyptic
preacher basically says i will reveal the future to you
and the future is that god is coming and god will destroy the evil people in
the world so right now is your opportunity to
redeem yourself from your sins to start a new life
because god is coming and we must prepare for the return of god that is the message of john the
baptist and jesus was one of his students one of his disciples but at some point jesus started to
create his own following so jesus was preaching a message that is different from john the baptist
okay so that’s the second thing we know the third thing that we know is the crucification
the crucifixion okay so we know that the romans crucified jesus we don’t know why we know that
the romans killed jesus and crucifixion is when the romans nail you onto a wooden cross
okay and it’s an awful way to die because how you’re dying is actually not for the bleeding
okay you’ve got nails uh hammered to the cross you’re dying because you have no energy so your
your your head hangs low which means you’re suffocating slowly and it takes about three days
for you to suffocate to death and so this is like one of the worst punishments that the romans could
ever inflict on you and really there’s only two types of people that the romans will use
whose crucifixion as punishment, okay?
The first type are thieves and bandits, all right?
These are considered the lowest type of people.
The second type of people are rebels,
people who are trying to overthrow the Roman state, okay?
So Jesus, in other words, was probably a rebel,
or the Romans considered him a rebel, okay?
So that’s the third thing that we know for sure.
And the last thing that we know for sure
is I did a brother called James the Just.
And James the Just would inherit Jesus’ movement
after the death of Jesus.
And this movement was called the Poor,
or another word for this is Ebionites, okay?
Don’t worry about the name, just remember the idea, okay?
So these are only the four things
that we know for sure about Jesus.
Now what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna explain to you
what the Bible says about Jesus.
what the official story of Jesus is in the Bible.
And you can see how different it is
from what we know for sure, okay?
So this is what the Bible says.
Something to keep in mind is that
there are at least four different biographies
of Jesus in the Bible.
Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.
And they say different things.
But we’ll talk about the main story of Jesus, okay?
So the ministry of Jesus is that Jesus is the son of God.
And at this point in history, we have disobeyed God and God is angry at us.
And Jesus, being the son of God, wants to redeem us in the eyes of God.
Remember, we try to become God.
We try to kill God by eating from the fruit, eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, okay?
And so now God’s angry at us and we can’t forgive ourselves.
So Jesus decides he must come to the planet Earth and take a human form and then sacrifice himself as a scapegoat in order to redeem us in the eyes of God, okay?
That’s the plan.
So what he does is he comes and then he starts a ministry, all right?
And what the ministry is, is it basically is healing people, okay?
So he goes around healing people.
If you touch him, you’re a cure of cancer, you’re a cure of all your diseases, okay?
he also dispels demons so there are some demons inside of us and what Jesus will
do is get rid of these demons and cleanse us okay and then he preaches the
gospel the good news so he teaches how to be good people basically the problem
though is that a lot of his teachings go against Judaic authority okay so at this
time remember he is in um judea the roman province of judea and jewish priests are in charge and
jewish priests teach people to follow the law the father sabbath okay do not work on saturdays
obey the law of moses obey the customs and traditions of the jewish tradition and what
And what Jesus says is, no, what’s important is to follow the spirit of God.
So there’s a conflict here, okay, where Jesus is rebelling against the authority of the Jewish priest.
And so what happens is the Jewish priest starts to plot against Jesus.
And eventually Jesus is betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot.
And Jesus is detained by the Jewish priest, who then gives him over to the Roman authorities.
At this point, Pontius Pilate is the governor of Judea.
And so he asks Jesus, what did you do wrong?
Why do the Jewish priests want you to be executed?
And Jesus refuses to answer.
Pontius Pilate doesn’t really want to kill him, but there’s anger from the Jewish people who demand his head.
So Pontius Pilate orders Jesus to be crucified, and then he dies, okay?
Jesus dies, and then he’s resurrected after three days.
And then he returns and appears before his disciples and tells them,
I will come back. I need to go to heaven, but I will come back when I am most needed.
before I come back tell them the gospel tell the good news that I will one day
return and that I’ve redeemed people from their sins and therefore it doesn’t
matter if you’re Jewish or not Jewish you can all celebrate God okay I brought
God to you because I’ve redeemed you from your sins so tell everyone the good
news all right and so this begins the very idea of Christianity all right okay
So this is the official story that you see in the Bible.
And this is what most Christians believe.
But again, the problem, of course, is there are lots of issues with this story.
Okay, so let’s go over some of the major issues.
The first major issue is, what does God have a son?
How does God produce a son?
Aren’t we all God’s children?
Why is Jesus different from everyone else?
okay so in Greek mythology the gods come down and impregnate a woman but that’s not what happened
here it’s just the bible says that God had a son we don’t know where he came from okay so this is
very confusing but not only that but the bible also says that Jesus is God and so this is like
really confusing is he a son of God or is he God okay so this this is the first major problem
Second major problem is why is he choosing to sacrifice himself?
How does that resolve the issue?
We disobey God and now Jesus will redeem us by sacrificing himself.
But how does that work?
The logic is kind of confusing.
The third problem, and this is actually very problematic, is the Bible is explicit.
It says that the Jewish priests plotted against Jesus, and the Jewish priests were responsible
for the death of Jesus.
And it’s problematic because for 2,000 years, Christians have used this as a reason to persecute
Jews, because you killed our Lord, our Savior.
You Jews are evil.
okay um but if you look at Jewish history I will argue that this could not
have happened okay it could have happened for like three reasons the
first reason is okay let’s just say that Jesus was rebelling against the Jewish
priests Jesus was in disagreement with the Jewish priests that’s not enough
reason for the priests to want to kill Jesus the reason why is within the
Jewish tradition, it is okay to argue, okay? So at this time in history, there are at least three
different Jewish groups, okay? They are called the Sadducees. What are the Sadducees? The Sadducees
are the royalty of the religion. These are priests that go back generations, okay? So this is like
the Jewish nobility. They’re called the Sadducees. Then you have the Pharisees. The Pharisees
believe themselves to be reformers.
The Sadducees, they maintain ritual, okay?
So if you are to sacrifice an animal in the temple,
you have to go through them.
The Pharisees says sacrifice is not what’s important.
What’s important is obeying the law, okay?
So there’s a major disagreement
between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, okay?
But then you also have the Essenes.
Who are the Essenes?
The Essenes are people who become monks,
and they believe, like John the Baptist,
is we believe that john the baptist was in a scene that god is coming and there’ll be a final war
and we must prepare for that so we must abandon all materialistic belongings okay guess what guys
there are also other groups within these different groups and all three groups hate each other okay
so just because you disagree with the jewish authorities doesn’t mean they kill you they just
it’s it’s in the jewish tradition to argue all the time in fact if you go to israel today even
know that they’re at war, they’re still arguing with each other, okay? That’s the first thing.
Disagreement, rebellion, debate is just part of Jewish tradition. That’s the first thing.
Second thing is like there are certain customs and laws of the Jewish people, okay? The Jewish
people see themselves as distinct and separate from everyone else because they’re the chosen
people and as we discussed before there the jewish people um they must rest on saturdays and they
don’t marry foreign men or women they don’t marry outside their tribe okay so these are two uh major
customs but they also as we discussed before they also don’t charge interest when they give loans
to each other okay another thing that that is not written down but which is commonly commonly
accepted is you do not betray other jews to the roman authorities okay does that make sense okay
we can argue amongst ourselves but we will not betray each other to non-jews okay we will not
fight among um the romans that is an unwritten law this time so um i don’t think ever in history
have we had a case where the jewish people betrayed a jew to the authorities that are
non-jewish okay the jewish people again see themselves as separate and distinct from other
people so they will not do this the third thing the third piece of evidence that that this doesn’t
happen is remember james the just is the brother of jesus and after jesus died james the just
stayed in jerusalem protected by the jewish authorities
that makes no sense right if jesus if his teachings
went against jewish law and that’s why the jewish priest had him killed
then why did why was james the just who was teaching the same thing as
jesus allowed to stay in jerusalem and not only allowed to stay in jerusalem
but protected by the jews okay so
i’m not convinced that the jews betrayed him also remember we discussed this last class but the
romans are just brutal people they kill people for no particular reason so um they killed jesus
they didn’t care okay all right so i think it’s much more likely the romans killed
jesus for their own reasons as opposed to the um jews killed jesus yes so the real group that
killed jesus is the jews or the roman so yeah i’m saying that it’s the romans who killed jesus and
we all agree it was the romans who killed jesus what the bible says is that it was the jews who
conspired against jesus and the jews encouraged the romans to to kill jesus okay okay all right
all right so that’s another question why do the jews conspire against uh jesus and again
i think the story is not true then you have the idea of like jesus dies so the question then is
if you’re a son of god you divine how do you die and does death have any meaning okay and then of
course you have the resurrection like why would you resurrect yourself and the second coming okay
why would you want to come back why do you need to come back you’ve already been deemed humanity
why do you have to come back and then why do you have why do you have to let people know who you
are you’re going to redeem humanity why do people have to worship you why do people have to celebrate
you okay so this this raises a lot of questions and again no other religion has this many questions
and so what the explanation is is uh miracle mystery magic okay this is the standard
explanation if you talk to christians why is this all happening don’t question it just believe it
just embrace it okay but in our class we don’t really do that we ask questions we speculate
so um i know there are two million christians in the world and i’m sure they love jesus
but in our class we’re really trying to figure out who he is okay so what what we want to figure out
today is first of all what did jesus believe okay what did he teach because it’s not really clear
okay i’m sure jesus did not preach did not teach believe in me and you’ll be saved okay he probably
did not do that christians tell you that but jesus himself probably did not teach that okay
that’s the first thing second question is why did he become so popular what was it about his belief
that made him popular okay and the third thing is why do the romans kill him right so these are
three big questions we’re looking at today first of all what did jesus really believe
second is why was he so popular and the third question is whether romans have to kill him
and so um the argument i want to make you today is what jesus taught is what every poet prophet
we’ve studied this semester taught as well okay so you’ll get homer you look at the yahweh you
look at zoroastra plato what they all teach they all teach that there is a source okay the source
is the vine the good god the universe the monad whatever name you have for it okay and this the
source emanates and it creates the entire universe and we come from the source now our bodies are
material okay so our bodies come from a process of evolution but our consciousness our soul is
the divine spark and it comes from the source so after our experience here on earth after we die
source our spark goes back to the source okay and there’s a constant cycle until
we at the end merge to the source okay this is what Buddhism teaches is what
Hinduism teaches so this is what Zoroastrianism this is what all major
religions teach okay so Jesus was just teaching it for his times so the
question then is if he is teaching what every person every poor prophet taught
why is he special? He’s special because the Roman Empire was particularly evil.
So before the Roman Empire, remember the problem of the
Iliad. Remember the Iliad where Achilles cannot forgive himself and his
prime who forgave him, right? And we discussed how during the Iliad, during
time, we all did good when we all did evil. And so what’s important is to forgive
ourselves, right? As long as we find the power to forgive ourselves, we will save
the world. But by the time of the Romans, okay, the Romans are just pure evil. They’re
demonic. And so you don’t forgive yourself, right? And so the question then
is, how do you explain the fact that the Romans are able to conquer the world
through pure evil, and you, a person, did all good, but you’re a slave? How do you
explain that how do you find comfort how do you find sauce on the fact that you’ve done good in
your life but at the same time evil triumphs okay and the message that jesus came is to help people
understand why the romans triumph okay and what jesus will say is this the romans triumph because
the world that we live in is a false world it is a corpse it’s a dead world this is not the true
world so those who most embrace death and evil and hatred will win in this world but this is the
false world what matters is up there okay so and so what you need to understand is this the romans
have won by being evil so in the grand scheme of things they’ve lost okay so think about achilles
how did achilles get what he wanted he betrayed patroclus right he sacrificed patroclus
But because he knows he did evil, he can’t sleep, he can’t eat, he cannot rest.
All he can do is mutilate Hector’s body.
And that’s just the Roman way.
What Jesus is telling us is this.
I know the world is evil.
I know that the rich, the powerful oppress us and we hate them.
But use our imagination, use our heart, use your empathy and look into their minds.
And you can see how tormented they are, how every day they live with demons that haunt them,
how they can’t sleep, how they hate themselves and how they hate the world around them.
And then when you see that for yourself, what you will see is they’re more pitiful than you are.
You may be poor, but at least you’re not haunted by demons, okay?
And so if you really want to do good in the world, you have to forgive your enemy.
you have to love your enemy because only by loving your enemy can you release your enemy
from his demons and that will save the world okay so what jesus is telling us is this the enemies
the people who oppress us the rich the powerful they are achilles okay they are achilles after
they’ve killed hector and they have actually no purpose in life they’re haunted by demons
and we have to be prior we have to kiss achilles hand submit before him so that he can be released
from his demons and this will make the world a better place okay that is the message of jesus
and that is our mission in our in this world in a time of evil and a place of evil to look
into our hearts to look in the hearts of other people to forgive our enemies to let go of our
hatred and to forgive our enemies and then that will save the world okay that is a central message
of jesus all right any questions before we look at the evidence okay so i present to you the
argument okay the argument is this jesus taught a message of love and forgiveness and that’s what
made him popular because it reminds people of who they are right you may be a slave you may think
you’re worthless but jesus is telling you there’s still a spark inside of you that connects you to
the monad and as long as you use love forgiveness compassion this spark will activate and it will
release you from your slavery okay this is a false world once that spark is activated you will see
the world as false and that will free you okay and why the romans kill him the romans killed him
because Jesus was a rebel.
He was trying to subvert the natural order, right?
The natural order is the Romans at the top
and the slaves at the very bottom.
And Jesus is like, no, it’s the opposite.
Slaves at the top, Romans at the bottom, okay?
Because the Romans are trapped and cursed
by the evil in their hearts.
Whereas the slaves are free
and they can liberate everyone
through their compassion, through their love,
through their forgiveness, okay?
And that’s why the Romans saw him as a threat.
Does that make sense, guys?
And that’s why they had to kill him.
And then they made up the Bible in order to justify what they did.
Because as we discussed in the last class, that’s what Romans do.
They do evil, and then they get the Greeks or the Jews to write the history to explain why it was good.
So in other words, and this is something that I will discuss next class,
is, all right, and I know this is hard to understand, but I’ll explain it next class, is
this story, guys, it was the Romans who wrote this story, okay? Because as you can see, this story
conveniently excused the Romans from all blame, even though it’s the Romans who killed Jesus,
and it puts all the blame on Jews, okay? That’s the intention of the Bible, right? So Christianity
is not an invention of Jesus.
Christianity is an invention of
the Romans, okay? And that’s something that I
will show you next class,
okay? But I’ll be clear
before I go into the evidence, okay?
Alright, alright. So,
the divine spark of Jesus. Okay,
so the idea here is this.
If you read Homer,
the Iliad, the Odyssey,
if you read Dante, Divine Comedy,
if you read any of the great books, you will
see the divine
spark reflected in you okay these great books are a portal into the divine the problem though is
most people cannot read the Iliad or the divine comedy okay so the question then is what do the
common people do and the answer is Jesus is a portal into the divine right so if you just remember
the life of Jesus if you just recite his sayings that will give you access to the divine that will
remind you of who you are so yes homer and dante are great i love homer and dante but you have to
be very educated in order to read homer and dante well whereas jesus anyone can know the story of
jesus anyone can um um say what he says and then that will give you access to the vine okay so
jesus is really about the democratization of the divine okay jesus allows anyone to access
the divine whereas before um you have to access the vine through poetry okay all right so um
the life of jesus okay so again jesus is jewish so the center of jewish life is uh jerusalem okay
right here jerusalem and in the center of jerusalem is a temple which was rebuilt uh under
the persians right uh and herod will will we will rebuild this we’ll renovate this okay um so we
know that jesus was born in this era galilee as you can see galilee is by the coast which makes
this region extremely cosmopolitan so from early age jesus is experiencing different religions
different cultures hinduism zoroastrianism um judaism okay all right so uh this is an ai
depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus is in the middle. And as you can see, it is a brutal
event. Okay, so we don’t know much about Jesus. We only know Jesus from the Bible. Then in 1945,
in a place called nag hamadi okay this is in egypt we discovered lots of books with sayings of jesus
that we didn’t know existed before so what’s important to understand is that after jesus died
there were many different sects of christianity that believed different things and they argued
with each other and ultimately it was a catholic church who won why because the catholic church
is run by the roman empire okay um so one major book that was discovered in in the uh in 1945
in that humanity that was lost to us it’s called the gospel of thomas and what i believe is the
gospel of thomas uh records the true teachings of jesus okay so let’s first let’s first look at the
true teachings of jesus and then i’ll show you why i think this is actually his true teachings
all right so um can you read the highlighted part okay and he said whoever finds an interpretation
of these saying will not experience death okay all right so so okay listen this already makes
sense right because in the universe death doesn’t exist because after you die your soul goes up to
the astral plane to the vine okay so you your soul can never die but you have to recognize that you
you are the divine spark, okay?
You first need to recognize that.
Once you recognize that, you’ll be immortal.
But if you don’t recognize that, then you fear death, okay?
Jesus said,
“‘Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds.
“‘When he finds, he will become troubled.
“‘When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished,
“‘and he will rule over them all.'”
Okay, so this goes back to Plato’s Allegro of the Cave,
right?
Plato’s Allegro of the Cave is this prisoner
who escapes his chains he goes up into the real world where there’s sunlight and he sees the truth
right and now he’s able to see whereas everyone else is still chained as prisoners in the cave
and now he rules overall because he knows the truth whereas everyone else is still in prison
in darkness remember that this is a painful process when you go on the light you’re blinded
by it you feel absolute pain you feel uh confusion but over time if you persist you will see the
truth okay so this is the algorithm cave okay keep on going jesus said if those who lead you say to
you see the kingdom is in the sky then the birds of the sky will precede you if they say to you
it is in the sea then the fish will precede you rather the kingdom is inside of you and it is
outside of you. When it comes to know yourself, then you will become known, and you will realize
that it is you who are the sons of living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty, and it is you who are that poverty. Okay, so this is a really important idea, okay?
Go back to the cave. When you escape the cave, and you see the real world, and you come back,
it doesn’t matter if you tell them what the real world is, okay? It doesn’t matter if they believe
you they themselves have to go out and see the world for themselves okay they have to break the
chains themselves and then venture out into the light and experience pain and torment for
themselves before they recognize the truth okay that’s what jesus is saying they people would
tell you this stuff don’t listen to them okay they can only guide you but you can’t trust them
you can’t believe in them you have to believe in yourself you have to look into yourself because
the truth divine spark is inside of you okay so what jesus is saying is this organized religion
does not work guys so there’s no way jesus would say follow me and you’re good believe in me and
you’re good he would never ever say that because he knows you can’t follow someone else you have
to believe in yourself the divine spark is in you okay doesn’t make sense so they are lying to you
when they say the kingdom is in heaven don’t believe them okay another thing that you will
notice is we’re all sons of the living father you understand jesus is not like i’m the son of god
and you’re not i’m superior to you they’re saying we’re all sons of the living father okay also and
it’s really important he actually doesn’t throughout the gospel promise he actually
doesn’t refer to the bible he doesn’t talk about adam and eve he doesn’t talk about yahweh he
He doesn’t talk about David, he doesn’t talk about Moses.
Because for him, it’s all fake, okay?
The Bible is fake.
What’s true is the divine spark in you, okay?
Alright?
So, again, all this is contradicting modern-day Christianity.
Because Jesus was not a Christian, okay?
Keep on going.
Oh, sorry.
Let’s keep on going.
And again, guys, what you’re seeing is this.
The similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and Plato’s Alley of the Cave.
and the Iliad and Zoroastria, his teachings, as well as Nietzsche, okay?
You see how all these poor prophets, they all think alike.
They’re expressing things differently.
They’re talking to a different age, to a different audience.
But basically saying the same thing, okay?
That’s really important.
All right, continue reading, please.
Jesus saw infants being suckled.
He said he was disapposed.
These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.
They said to him,
and a likeness in place of a likeness,
then will you enter the kingdom.
Okay, so again, this is similar
to what we’ve learned before, right?
What he’s saying is this, we are born into this world,
and as we grow older, we believe in the falseness
that we see around us, okay?
But once we develop our imagination,
and once you recognize that this world that we live in
is our hallucination,
this is a projection of our imagination,
then we can take control over this world.
and then that will allow us to access the vine okay it is through the imagination which allows
us to access the vine and it will allow us to create this world in a new place we’re able to
see fashion eyes in the place of an eye a hand in the place of hand we’re able to be our true
selves okay and what we will understand is that we’re all connected by the vine the separation
of like male female okay chinese american black white it’s all made up it’s not true once we able
to see reality as it is we’ll all be one in the same when you make the two one we make the inside
like the outside and the outside the inside and the above like the blow we’re all interconnected
together okay we’re all part of the same source we have to train ourselves to see the truth from
this falsehood okay so again the idea of asha and jewish right this is asha moving towards the
interconnectedness of all things the harmony of all things the jewish is the division of all things
okay all right his disciples said to him show us a place where you are since it is necessary for you
to sit for us to seek it seek it he said to them whoever has ears let him hear there is light
within the man of light and he lights up the whole world if he does not shine he is darkness okay so
the disciple says to jesus tell us how to be like you and jesus says be yourself there’s a light
inside of you okay look for the light and like shine the world okay all right keep on going
jesus said i took my place in the midst of the world and i appeared to them in flesh i found
all of them intoxicated i found none of them thirsty and my soul become a flea athlete afflicted
for the sons of men because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight for empty
they came into the world and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are
intoxicated, when they shake off the wine, then they will repent. Jesus said, If the flesh came
into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body,
it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in
poverty wait so he’s talking about the materialistic world okay we came into this world
with nothing and guess what when we die we’re gonna go back with nothing okay so this pursuit
of materialism this pursuit of wealth this pursuit of power makes no sense why are you here pursuing
all this stuff this gold this wealth this money that you can’t take with you it it seems as though
you’re drunk okay so this line the flesh came into being because of spirit is a wonder okay so the
idea is that it is the consciousness the mind that creates the the material world the body right that
makes sense and what did you say is this if you think that the body creates a spirit you’re crazy
it’s impossible it’s a wonder of wonders that’s impossible guys why because the spirit is full
of wealth and the body is impoverished how is it possible that an impoverished body is able to
create so much wealth okay and this makes sense right our mind our consciousness is so vast so
abundant but our bodies are so limited so how is it possible that our smaller brain is able to
create a universe of ideas and experiences okay all right so the idea of intoxicated we’re here
and we’re just drunk, but we are not thirsty for the truth. We’re happy for the way it is, okay?
All right, and this idea is mirrored in a poem that we read before by Rumi, right? So you may
remember Rumi, the Persian poet. He also says this, the world that we live in is a prison for
drunks okay so i’m pretty sure roommate did not read jesus gospel of thomas okay but they’re able
to think the same thoughts because they’re all being inspired by the same source does that make
sense all right continue please jesus said the phrases and the scribes have taken the keys of
knowledge uh this is noxious noxious means knowledge okay and hidden them they themselves
have not entered nor have they allowed to enter those who wish wish to you however be as wise
as serpents and as innocent as dogs okay so jesus hates organized religion okay the pharisees remember
are jewish priests jewish leaders and they create a hierarchy of religion where they say the people
only i know the truth only i have knowledge so listen to me and what jesus is saying is
They themselves are ignorant because you cannot access knowledge through hierarchy, okay?
Through oppressing other people.
You can only access knowledge by looking into yourself.
So you have to become like the serpent and pretend you don’t know anything in order to
access knowledge yourself because otherwise, if you are capable of accessing knowledge,
then the priest will see you as a threat and they will kill you, all right?
And when he’s a serpent, remember, it was a serpent who told Eve to eat from the fruit.
And so what Jesus is saying is, it is good and natural to seek knowledge,
even if it means disobeying God, okay?
That’s what we’re meant to do here, to seek knowledge, to seek the truth, to seek love.
If the gods, if the priests stop you from doing so, it’s because you’re evil, alright?
Because remember, the true God, the monad, is pure love, pure compassion, pure forgiveness.
this. He can do no wrong. He’s perfection. And if you have the desire to seek knowledge and you
believe that knowledge makes you a happier, more fulfilled person, then you should seek knowledge,
even if God tells you don’t do so. Because if that God tells you don’t do so, it means he’s a false
God. Okay. Keep on going. Jesus said, whoever has come to understand the world as found only a
corpse and whoever has found the corpse is superior to the world. Okay. So this is, this is what’s
get jesus in trouble right he’s saying the roman empire this great empire that you’ve built that
ranges across the mediterranean it’s a corpse it’s dying it’s dead it’s nothing all right and once
you recognize this once you refuse to comply once you refuse to obey they have no power over you
right and so that’s a threat to power that’s a threat to the roman empire keep on going jesus
said the kingdom is like a shepherd who had a shepherd who had a hundred sheep one of them
the largest went astray he left the 99 sheep and looked for that one until he found it
when he had gone to such trouble he said to the ship i care for you more than the 99. okay so
god the true god does not want obedience he wants us to be creative he wants us to seek knowledge
he wants us to discover he wants us to explore he wants to try new things and if we do this he
cares for us than those who obey him because those who obey him those who do nothing contribute
nothing to the universe okay when we love when we imagine we are making the universe a brighter
place we are starting our life we just sit back and just do what we’re told we’re doing nothing
okay we’re like npcs do you guys know npcs non-playable characters in in video game okay
we don’t we don’t exist all right jesus said a man had received visitors and we had prepared the
dinner he sent his servant to invite the guys he went to the first one and said to him my master
invites you he said i have claimed against some merchants they are coming to me this evening
i must go and give them my orders i asked to be excused from the dinner he went to another and
and said to him, My master has invited you. He said to him, I have just bought a house
and am required for the day. I should not have any spare time. He went to another and
said to him, My master invites you. He said to him, My friend is going to get married
and I am to prepare the banquet. I should not be able to come and ask to be excused
from the dinner. He went to another and said to him, My master invites you. He said to
him, I have just bought a farm and I’m on my way to collect the rent. I should not be able to come.
I asked to be excused. The servant returned and said to his master, those whom you invited to
the dinner have asked to be excused. The master said to his servant, go outside to the streets
and bring back those whom you happen to meet so that they may dine. Businessmen and merchants
will not enter the places of my father.”
Alright, so again, this goes against the empire.
What Jesus is saying is the worst people in this world
are the rich people, okay?
Think about today how we’re supposed to worship
Elon Musk, right?
Because he’s rich.
What Jesus is saying is, no,
Elon Musk is the worst person in the world.
Why?
Because the divine, the monad,
has prepared a great feast for us.
When we die, when we go to the monad,
we will experience the greatest happiness,
the greatest joy okay the monad is inviting us but the business people are saying no i’m too busy
i’m too busy making money i’m too busy doing evil in this world so i don’t want to go to the stupid
feast so they’re the ones who will lose out in the end even though today we think they’ve won out
okay so that’s what jesus is saying jesus is like don’t worry about the rich and the powerful they
may look happy but they’re not at the end of days when we all go back to the monad we all go back to
the vine they’re the ones who will not be invited to the grand feast yeah i have a question that
god led us to be creative and like do our thing that we want to do like see for the spark but
since we are born how can we really know the things that what we want to do like i think that
requires socialization between other people but if you socialize they will bring what you and affect
to let you to seek for materialism yeah okay that’s a great question and it’s a problem right
because as you say your parents the school society brainwashes you to believe that only money matters
only grades matter okay and the answer is you have to be brave you have to be true to yourself
because you yourself know what is true right if we didn’t know then jesus would not matter what
Why do 2 billion people believe in Jesus?
Because they know that Jesus spoke the truth, okay?
So listen to your heart.
I know it’s hard and most of us cannot do it, okay?
And that’s why in many traditions,
like Buddhism and Hinduism,
the incarnation is important
because maybe in this lifetime we don’t figure it out,
maybe in the next lifetime,
but maybe then, you know, 50 lifetimes away,
but eventually you’ll figure it out.
Eventually you’ll figure out that
what other people say does not matter
because this world we live in is a false world.
Eventually you’ll figure that out.
And then you’re like, you know what I should do?
I should do what I believe to be true.
And then what you recognize is,
oh, when I actually do what I like, what I enjoy,
it makes me a more fulfilled person.
And guess what?
It connects me to the vine, okay?
I am a much more spiritual person now.
And you can know because look at people’s faces, right?
When you meet a rich person,
his face is kind of, I don’t know, evil.
But when you meet a person who is generous,
who volunteers his time, who is a good teacher,
his face is different, okay?
So, remember Achilles.
When you do evil, evil comes into you
and it corrupts your soul.
When you do good, good comes to you
and it brightens your soul
and you brighten the world with it, okay?
But without education and socialization,
if we are an infant, how do we know what is right or wrong
and what should we seek for?
Because of the spark in you, right?
Because of the spark in you.
You know when it glows.
When you love someone and that person loves you back,
your spark glows.
When you become a teacher and you teach students,
and your students learn well, your spark glows.
So you try different things until you find the things
that make your spark glow.
Yeah, and the important idea is
that our lives are infinite, okay?
so we will die and die is like a game reset okay it’s just like you suck at this game you die you
come back and you try again okay but it’s your choice the really important idea is free will
it’s your choice to do whatever you want with your life no one’s gonna force you okay so the idea of
when you die is you go back uh to the astral plane and then you’re able to reflect on your own life
and you come back and you start over eventually you’ll figure it out it may take a million years
it may take a thousand years who knows but eventually you’ll figure it out okay because
because the world is infinite does that make sense okay what’s really important to understand is you
have to figure out by yourself no one can teach you i can give you the idea jesus can tell you
what he thinks but you have to figure out by yourself okay and that’s why this is so hard
for people to accept because people don’t want to accept individual responsibility okay all right
okay so this this gives us um um so so the problem is this the problem is that jesus says that you
there’s a spark instead of you and it’s your responsibility you don’t have to but your
responsibility to let it grow if you let it grow you’ll bring happiness to the world you’ll be
happening to yourself and then you’re able to feast with a monad with a vine um in heaven okay
and as i said um as we discussed it’s hard man it’s really hard if they give individual
responsibility yet they ignore people around you you have to uh learn for yourself so you know this
idea maybe a few people thousands tens of thousands will love this idea but what about the millions of
other people who just want to like live normal lives what can we do about them okay so this is
This is the book, The Brothers Karamazov by Theodore Dostoevsky.
He’s talking about the problem left by Jesus.
Jesus comes to the world, he tells us the truth.
He tells us freedom is what will enable us
to seek the divine.
But this creates this anxiety in people because like,
oh my God, now I have to think for myself.
Now I have to go out into the light and feel all this pain.
But I don’t want to, I just want to live a happy life.
I just want to watch TV every day, man!
And then so, and so then the church is like,
okay, we need to create an organized religion
and we need to fool people, okay?
How do we fool people?
By teaching them that Jesus did actually say these things.
And we’re gonna not, we will not worship Jesus.
We worship Satan instead.
Why?
Because Satan encourages us to enforce our will on people, okay?
We need to be evil in order to do good in the world.
Think about this.
These children are naughty, right?
Now, we can say to them, like Jesus,
hey man, you’ll grow up one day,
and then you won’t be naughty.
But in this process, you’re going to hurt each other.
You’re going to do stupid things.
So we have to be a strict father.
We have to create this church
in order to enforce the law on people
to make sure the children don’t hurt themselves
so that children can just be children.
And quite honestly,
Most of you guys, 99% of you guys, will never ever grow up.
So we have to be Satan, okay?
So the church, the Catholic church, will pretend to worship Jesus,
but actually, we’re going to worship Satan.
And so we’re going to enforce the law on people.
We will now be the evil empire.
The Roman Empire is dead, okay?
But now the Catholic church will be the evil empire.
And we’re going to go around, and we’re going to persecute people
who disobey the law so that everyone can live in peace.
People want to be sheep.
And you know what?
People have the right to be sheep.
And so we’re going to be the shepherd.
We will be Satan.
And we will enforce goodness on people whether they like it or not.
And this is good for people because now they don’t have to accept individual responsibility, right?
If my life sucks, it’s not because of me.
It’s because of the devil.
It’s because of the Catholic Church.
It’s because of Satan.
And that’s what’s good.
Okay?
So, Vasquez is saying this is how the Catholic Church came into being.
And we’ll discuss this in the next class in more detail, okay?
because jesus left a huge problem a void in the hearts of people people want to obey people want
to be told what to do people don’t want to think for themselves if you make people think for
themselves they’ll feel nothing but fear and anxiety okay so we need to impose order so in
this story what happens is the catholic church is being is being the evil empire it is oppressing
people and so one day jesus comes from heaven and he walks among the people and people will know oh
my god he’s jesus he’s come back and he’s curing people and they’re all happy and but because of
how the church worships satan they need to arrest this guy okay and the grand inquisitor the leader
appears before jesus they have a conversation that jesus called a prisoner in the story
and he says to the prisoner we know who you are you are jesus and we’re supposed to worship you
but we have to kill you because you are a threat to the people you’re a threat to the happiness of
people okay and what the grandeur christian will say to jesus is we create goodness world by being
evil and your presence will destroy this and therefore we must destroy you okay so this is
from the brothers karamazov okay thou this okay thou didst not love them at all thou who didst
come to give thy life for them instead of taking possession of man’s freedom thou didst increase it
and burdened the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its suffering forever okay so what he’s saying is
is you came to this world to free people to tell them that the more night exists that there’s a
spark inside them that they don’t have to be slaves they can go wherever they want but that
just confuses people that traps people in their own fear and anxiety life now becomes complicated
okay keep on going thou did desire man’s free love that he should follow thee freely enticed
and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid asian law men must hereafter with free heart
decide for himself what is good and what is evil having only died in my image before him as his
his guide okay this is okay sorry this is like really annoying okay for people because before
your teacher will tell you what is good and what is evil nothing you’re saying you guys decide
now it’s complete chaos okay and again it creates anxiety in people people just want to be told
what to do okay people were like you know at five o’clock we’re gonna have dinner um at pizza hut
okay people won’t be like oh what should i what should i have for dinner if you don’t want to
think man okay keep on going but this thou don’t know that he would at last reject even thy image
and thy truth if he is weighed down with a fearful burden of free choice they will cry
aloud at last that the truth is not in thee for they cannot have been left in greater confusion
and suffering than thou has caused laying upon them so many cars cares and unanswerable problems
okay right you’re creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason people are happy
just being slaves and now you free them and they’re completely confused as what to do next
all right keep on reading only some thousands okay so so what we’re saying again is your freedom
is only good for the minority of people who can think for themselves who aspire uh to the divine
what about everyone else and what of the rest and how are the other weak ones to blame because they
cannot endure what the strong have endured. How is a weak soul to blame that
it is unable to receive such terrible gift? Canst thou have simply come to
the elect and for the elect? But if so, it is a mystery and we cannot understand it.
And if it is a mystery, we too have a right to preach a mystery and to teach
them that it’s not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that matters, but a
mystery which they must follow blindly even against their conscience so we have done okay
all right so what he’s saying is this okay i understand christianity is complete complete
chaos okay but this complete chaos means people will never understand what your true teachings
are if people don’t understand what your true teachings are they don’t follow it they don’t
think for themselves okay so we create a complete chaos so that people will not be forced to obey us
okay that’s why we call to your teachings keep on going we have corrected thy work and have
founded it upon miracle mystery and authority immensely joy that they were again led like sheep
and that the terrible gift that had brought them such suffering was at last lifted from their
hearts where we write teaching them this speak do we not love mankind so meekly acknowledging their
feebleness lovely enlightening their burden and permitting their weak nature even sing with or
sanction why has thou come now to ponder us okay do you understand this idea they understand is
why is there evil in the world because people don’t want to think for themselves so you need
evil people to command people to enslave people to force them against their will now people are like
why don’t have a choice in the matter i can’t think for myself sorry man okay if you actually
give people complete freedom it’d be complete chaos in the world that’s why there’s satan
that’s why they’re sitting in this world this is why satan must rule this world okay i meant to
end it like this when the inquisitor ceased speaking he waited some time for his prisoner
to answer him his silence weighed down upon him he saw that the president had listened intently
all the time looking gently in his face and evidently not wishing to reply the old man
longed for him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But he suddenly approached an old
man in silence and subtly kissed him on his bloodless aged lips. That was all his answer.
The old man shuddered. His lips moved. He went to the door, opened it, and said to him,
Go and come no more! Come not at all! Never! Never! And he led him out into the dark alleys
of the town the prisoner went away and the old man the keys close in his heart but the old man
adheres to his idea okay so the person of course is jesus right and so the inquisitor has these
great arguments and the inquisitor is right and what he’s saying is okay jesus what’s your response
to this and jesus response is basically i forgive you i love you and i forgive you same thing as
what prime did to achilles right and as you can see by kissing the inquisitor rather than fighting
him the inquisitor loses he knows he’s lost he knows he’s been humbled so he lets jesus go says
just get out of here please don’t bother us again okay this is not your world this is satan’s world
and the kiss glows in his heart the old man adheres to his ideas okay so jesus did not change
the old man’s mind okay but there’s a spark in him that now glows okay the spark that he killed
that he tried all the time to kill with reason with evil is still able to grow glow okay and
that’s the power of forgiveness even though the person seems to be the most evil person in the
world and this guy really is the most evil person in the world as long as you’re able to show him
the possibility of love the spark will glow okay now what’s the so the inquisitor poses this problem
like okay people uh don’t want to think for themselves people lack free will people don’t
want free will what’s the solution the solution is the soul is eternal okay and you have to give
people time we’re talking about millions of years maybe not in 50 years people figure it out but in
But in about a million years, people will figure it out for themselves, okay?
And Jesus, God, is patient.
He’s loving.
He’s forgiving.
He’s generous.
He’s compassionate.
So take your time, okay?
What’s important is that people learn for themselves.
Eventually, you’ll figure out being a slave sucks.
You know what?
It may seem as though watching Netflix, playing video games,
being online all the time is fun.
But if you go outside and play, that’s a lot more fun, guys.
eventually you’ll figure it out all right and you have to figure it by yourself so god is forever
patient okay it doesn’t make sense okay so next class we’ll talk about the catholic church and
how it came into being and why it is it really is a church of satan all right why it’s going to go
against this teaching of jesus but that’s actually point this out how the catholic church and jesus
are com are competing forces okay all right now let’s go on to divine comedy by dante and again
Dante is trying to answer the question, why did Jesus have to kill himself? What’s the logic of
that? That makes no sense, okay? And traditionally, what the Catholic Church teaches people is,
it’s because when we do evil, we become slaves of Satan. So Jesus made a deal with Satan. Basically,
Jesus says, I will die, and then you can take my body, okay? And then you will have to free my
people and Satan’s like that’s a really good deal man God for exchange in exchange for these slaves
sure I’ll make that deal but the thing is that Jesus when he died and he freed us he cannot ever
truly die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during
Danny’s time most people understood why Jesus had to die Jesus died so that we would stop being
slaves of satan and now we are slaves to jesus and that’s why we must worship jesus and don is like
no no no that can’t possibly be right okay god will not come to free us so that we become slaves
to god god came to free us so we could be free okay all right so this is dante and what’s gonna
happen here is in heaven there’s gonna be a conversation between dante and beatrice
who he loves okay and they’re going to discuss the nature of the universe and this is beatrice
talking to dante the greatest gift the magna magnanimity of god as he created gave the gift
most suited to his goodness gift that he most prices was the freedom of the world okay so the
underlying principle of the universe is freedom of will if god is love okay and he loves people
then he must trust people therefore freedom of will is the most important principle okay same
Same thing if you’re a parent.
If you truly love your child,
you will let your child go and make his own mistakes.
You will not protect your child, okay?
Even if it means that your child goes to the park
and might get kidnapped or whatever, okay?
You have to let him go.
You have to let him or her go
because true love means trusting other people, okay?
Keep on going.
You say, what I have heard is clear to me,
but this is hidden from me.
Why God willed precisely this pathway for redemption.
Okay, so again, the Catholic Church teaches you
that Jesus redeemed us from our sins, okay?
But then the question is,
why did Jesus have to kill himself again?
That makes no sense.
Keep on going.
Brother, this ordinance is buried
from the eyes of everyone whose intellect
has not matured within the flame of love.
So, Beatrice is saying to Dante,
yes, I know this makes no sense
because you’re thinking with your mind,
but the mind is not where the spark is, okay?
The divine spark is in the heart.
So stop thinking with your mind and feel your heart
and let the spark, the divine spark glow in you
and then you will see the truth for yourself.
Sorry.
Can you keep going away?
The godly godness that has banished every envy
from its own self, burning itself,
and sparkling so it shows internal beauties.
All that derives directly from this godness
is everlasting since the sale of godness impressed an imprint that ever alters okay so god is perfect
he’s forever good he’s forever love he’s forever compassion forever forgiveness okay and this is
there’s a spark of god in us right the divine spark which is our hearts so there’s always a
this perfection in us okay keep on going only man sing annals man’s liberty makes him unlike
the highest good so that in him the brightness of its light is dim okay this is important okay
even though the spark is forever in us we can cover it up with mud we can come up with dirt
we can forget about it okay how by doing evil by disobeying all right if we do more and more evil
we forget the spark more and more and it dims in us so the spark can glow or it can dim depending
depending on our actions,
but the spark will always be there.
So if, like you said that parents,
the true love is to trust, right?
So if parents trust their kid,
they will let their kids to make mistakes.
But what if kids are, for example,
being kidnapped and they’re being killed,
is that still count as the love of trust?
Okay, obviously if your child is in danger,
you go save your child, okay?
But you cannot let your fear and anxiety
of your child being kidnapped
destroy the child’s freedom.
Does that make sense?
You cannot impose your fear on your child.
Like you need to let your child to feel the anxieties.
No, no, no, no, no.
You have to let your child do what your child wants to do.
Your child wants to go play in the playground,
you let the child go play in the playground, okay?
And if you feel like there’s a danger,
then you go and make sure that your child is safe.
You understand?
But still doing, but still letting him to do what they want.
Yeah, okay, look, when you’re actually a parent,
you know what is safe and what is not safe, okay?
Sending your child to a playground
where there are other children or adults around,
it’s safe, do you understand?
Sending your child outside at midnight
to wander the streets is not safe, do you understand?
Okay?
You know, you don’t have to think about this, all right?
All right, okay, keep on reading.
And man cannot regain his dignity unless,
where things left emptiness,
man fills a void with just amends for evil pleasure.
Okay, so the problem is this.
We do all this evil, and now we can’t forgive ourselves,
so we’re stuck where we are, okay?
We cannot compensate for the evil that we do,
so what we do is do more evil to ignore the fact
that we cannot forgive ourselves.
Does that make sense?
So evil creates more evil.
Evil compounds on evil.
So now we’re just stuck, okay?
So by disobeying God, by eating our fruit,
by trying to be like God, we created evil.
And this evil forces us to be more evil.
Now we’re just stuck, okay?
For when your nature sings so totally within its seat,
then from these dignities, just as from paradise,
that nature parted.
Okay, so we left the Garden of Eden
not because we broke the law.
We left the Garden of Eden
because we cannot forgive ourselves
from the evil that we’ve committed.
And so we keep on doing more and more evil, okay?
So the Garden of Eden is metaphorical.
Keep on going.
And they can never be regained if you consider carefully
by any way that did not pass across one of these fours,
either through nothing other than his mercy,
God has to pardon man,
or of himself man has to prefer payment for his folly.
Okay, so now that we’ve broken the law,
now that we’ve disobeyed God,
now that there’s evil in our hearts,
what can we do?
And what Beatrice says is there’s two possibilities.
The first possibility is that we compensate
for the first evil, for the first act of disobedience.
And what Beatrice says is you can’t do that
because you try to be God, you try to kill God.
So you cannot ever compensate God
for the evil that you’ve done, okay?
And then she says, well,
the other possibility is that God forgives you.
The problem though is that if God just forgives you,
you won’t learn anything, okay?
Do you want to go ahead?
Man in his limits could not recompense
for no obedience, no humility.
He offered later could have been so deep
that it could match the heights he made to reach.
Through disobedience,
man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself.
Very good, okay, so do you understand this idea?
Okay, you try to be God,
so you can’t ever ask for forgiveness for that.
Keep on going.
For God showed greater generosity in giving his own self
that man might be able to rise,
than if he simply pardoned.
For every other means fell short of justice,
except the way whereby the Son of God humbled himself
where he became incarnate.
incarnate just means human okay so this is why jesus had to kill himself all right so the problem
is that god has to forgive us but he has to forgive us forgive us in a way that allows us to
learn from our mistakes and be better people okay and so let’s let’s use an analogy the analogy is
this i’m a father and i have a daughter named eve and i have a dog and i say to eve i love you eve
so much. And then Eve says to me, do you love me or do you love the dog more? I said, I love you
both equally. Love is infinite. Of course I love you, but I also love the dog. And Eve goes away
and says to herself, yeah, but how do I know he truly loves me? So what Eve does is she kills the
dog. Okay. And then Eve says to me, hey, do you love me or do you love the dog more? And that’s
kind of stuck the father right because if I punish her that shows her I love the dog more right but
if I don’t punish her she’s gonna do this again okay she’s gonna kill another animal so I’m stuck
so what do I do so what God decides to do is this the only way out of this conundrum the only way
out of this paradox is if I punish myself okay because I should have said to her I love you as
much as a dog all right so what i do is i take a whip and i hit myself all right and eve watches
this now eve knows first of all i do love her because i’m punishing myself for her sake and
second of all she won’t do it again because she doesn’t want to see me punished and that’s why
jesus had to kill himself do you understand that’s the logic here now it makes sense right god had
to punish himself so that we would be humbled by a sacrifice we would feel so much we go remorse
and regret for making God die,
that we would never ever disobey Him again.
We would never ever try to become God ourselves.
And that’s why this had to happen.
Okay?
And because of this,
Jesus freed us from the evil in us
and led us to the path of good.
Because now,
all we have to do is remember Jesus,
remember what He said,
remember what He taught,
and we’ll forever be on the path towards the light.
Yes?
Do we, like, for example, if I had done extreme mistakes previously, do I, can I completely make it up or just forgive myself because I think I can’t?
Okay, that’s a great point, okay?
So, yeah, so the problem is this.
The problem is that there are people who do real evil in this world, okay?
It’s possible, like, a man kills your daughter, and then he’s put in prison for the longest time.
and it’s he does all this evil and so can he be forgiven and the answer is yes because the only
way for this world to work is if people are allowed to be forgiven if you are not allowed
to be forgiven this entire world this entire universe breaks down that’s why god is a god
of forgiveness okay because if you think about it if you think okay if we don’t have forgiveness
what world do we live in we live in a world of vengeance right if you kill my daughter then i
have to go kill your daughter and then you’re gonna have to go kill my family now i have to
go kill your family okay so the only way for this world to work the only way for it just to prevail
is if we’re allowed to forgive each other and previously we don’t have a tool to forgive each
other because we ourselves don’t have the wisdom and now with the arrival of jesus we remember that
if jesus forgive us jesus will forgive me always and so if i turn towards jesus then i will be
forgiven uh like currently i think i still could not forgive myself for making that mistake like
i think whatever things that i do to make make up the mistake i think i could not forgive me at that
time making that mistake right but at the same time you went to prison right you’ve been punished
already so justice has been served so you cannot forgive yourself okay just because you you uh
believe in jesus doesn’t mean you won’t go to prison for killing someone you’re still gonna
to go to prison but now you can forgive yourself because you’ve done your time and also because
you remember that jesus forgives you okay but the only way for you to move on in your life
the only way for society to move on is if you’re able to forgive yourself okay that doesn’t make
sense if in the world there’s no forgiveness this world would break down really quickly because
everyone would just kill each other okay so and again what’s happening is this and this is what
Dante teaches us. You’re thinking of your head, okay? Because you’re still young. When you grow
older and your heart matures and you have more life experience, then you’ll be able to feel your
heart. Once you feel your heart, all this will make sense to you, okay? But I completely understand
where you’re coming from because at your age, if someone told me this, I’d be like, you’re crazy.
This makes no sense because if you do evil, then you should be, then your entire life should
be one of evil if you do evil evil should come to you okay but what Jesus is saying is is like no
no in that world no one can be happy okay because the people whose evil has been done to them
are so focused on vengeance on hatred on anger that you can never ever be a happy person okay
you leave the monad you leave the divine okay so when you hate someone you’re actually hating
yourself as opposed to that person okay all right so now that we understand the uh this idea now
what don’t don’t explain is why are we here okay what’s the purpose of the universe okay can you
read uh alan you say i see that water see the fire and air and earth and all that they compose
come to the corruption and endure so briefly and yet these two were things created if what has been
said above is true that these things never should be subject to corruption okay so the idea is like
god is perfect everything he creates is perfect so that’s the case then why do we die and so what
peter says is this god is perfect he creates perfection but he creates the laws of the
universe he creates the game okay that’s perfect the things within the game enter a cycle of
destruction and life life and death okay because that’s the only way for the game for the universe
to work properly it doesn’t make sense keep on reading brother the angels and the pure country
where you are now these may be said to be created and they are in order being whereas the elements
you have mentioned as well as those things that are made from them receive their form from a
created power the matter they contain has been created just as within the stars that well about
them the power to give form had been created the race and motion of the holy lights draw forth the
soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form okay to understand the world the
laws of the universe are created okay but your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief
god good who so enormous enamours it of his own self that it desires him always so reasoning you
also can deduce your resurrection you need but remember the way in which your human flesh was
fashioned when both of the first parents were created so the world that we live in is a world
in which we can make mistakes in which we can learn we can grow okay and we don’t worry about
making mistakes because when we die all that will happen is we’ll just return to the good and we
will be reincarnated okay we’ll come back jesus was resurrected but so but we will be resurrected
as well we have infinite opportunity to grow as souls and that’s the purpose of life to learn to
make mistakes to be creative to imagine new possibilities that’s why we were created okay
and to ensure that we can continue to grow there’s death okay death allows for a reset death allows
us to rejuvenate ourselves and learn from mistakes so don’t think about this lifetime think about all
possible lifetimes and live your life accordingly to that okay make the most of your life here by
making as many mistakes as possible because only by making mistakes can you actually grow as a soul
okay all right so this is uh leon leonard da vinci’s famous painting the last supper
now this depicts jesus before his uh betrayal before he is crucified by the romans okay what’s
really interesting about this painting is you can see there’s a number here right three three
one three three when you go to the bible and you look for the passage 33 133 in lamentations
you have this quotation for no one is cast off by the lord forever through he brings grief he
will show compassion so great is his unfalling love for his does not willing willingly bring
affliction or grief to anyone okay that’s who jesus is okay jesus came to remind us that
we will all be forgiven in the end so forgive other people okay love your enemy all right okay
so um let’s look at what actually the bible says okay so this is what jesus taught and again um
i believe this is what jesus taught because one the gospel thomas is a unique voice remember the
thing about poetry is that it is unique it is the divine spark itself so it cannot be replicated
okay so when we read the gospel of thomas you can see this is poetic and this is beautiful and it
touches you it’s a divine spark that’s number one number two is what it teaches aligns with
every other poor prophet that we’ve studied so far right number three is these other poor prophets
like dante daskiewski they go back and they’re able to see exactly what jesus was teaching us
okay so that’s why i’m convinced that the gospel of thomas um is the true teachings of jesus there
There are also other teachings of Jesus that we find in the Bible
that also conforms to our theory, okay?
So this is from the Gospel of Matthew.
And this is called the Sermon on the Mount,
where Jesus stands on a hill and he’s preaching the secrets of the universe to people, okay?
So can you read, please, Alan?
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, of theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
So this is his message to people, right?
What matters is the spark inside of you.
It doesn’t matter how wealthy you are.
It doesn’t matter how powerful you are.
In fact, it is probably those who are slaves that will benefit, who are more virtuous.
And as such, they will inherit the kingdom.
Okay, keep on reading.
You are the salt of earth, but if the salt loses its saintliness, how can it be made salty again?
It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trimmed underfoot.
You are the light of the world. A tomb built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl, instead they put it on its stand.
and it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way that light shine before others
that they may see you good deeds and glorify you father in heaven okay so be the light okay every
one of you has a light in you every one of you has a power to change the universe every one of
you has a power to do good in this world okay keep on going you have heard that it was said
love your neighbor and hate your enemy, but I tell you, love your enemy and pray for those
who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes His Son to rise
on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those
who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you
grade only your own people what are you doing more than others do not even pack pagans do that
be perfect therefore as your heavenly father is perfect okay we are in this world to do as much
good as possible thank evil people because it gives you opportunity to do good okay there’s
no evil in the world how do you possibly do good right keep on going do not store up for yourself
treasures on earth where mouth moth and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal
bestow it up for yourself treasures in heaven where moth and vermin do not destroy and where
thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is there your heart will be also okay so
focus on your own spiritual enlightenment focus on making your heart pure good and virtuous don’t
Don’t worry about other people.
Don’t worry about money and these things
because when you die, you can’t take these things with you
but your heart will always follow you wherever you are.
Okay, keep on going.
The eye is the lamp of the body.
If your eyes are healthy,
your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eyes are unhealthy,
your whole body will be full of darkness.
If then the light within you is darkness,
how great is that darkness?
Okay, so this is a really important idea, okay?
But we imagine reality.
So what matters is how you imagine this reality.
What matters is how you see the world, okay?
And how you see the world is a reflection
of the spark inside of you.
If you see goodness, if you do goodness,
then goodness will come, okay?
This is also called the law of attraction.
Okay, keep on going.
No one can serve two masters.
Either you will hate the one and love the other,
or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and money.
Okay, this is a really important idea.
What is Satan?
Satan is money.
It’s power, okay?
So this world belongs to Satan.
This world is ruled by Satan.
There’s nothing you can do about it.
When you leave, that world is the world of God.
Okay, so it’s your choice, okay?
Your choice is to triumph in this world
or to triumph in the spiritual world.
It’s your choice.
But you cannot have both, guys, okay?
You can either, you can be Elon Musk,
you’re gonna have all this wealth in this world but we’ll see what happens to Elon Musk you know
after he dies so he won’t die okay so his plan is I won’t die then I’m good okay all right um
keep on going not everyone who says to me lord lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but only
the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven many will say to me on that day lord lord
did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your
name perform many miracles then I will tell them plainly I never knew you away
from me your evildoers okay so this is really important idea the Christian
religion tells us that you must believe in Jesus to be saved by Jesus all that
matters is believe in Jesus doesn’t matter what you do doesn’t matter what
you say what matters is your belief in Jesus what Jesus himself is telling us
no no no don’t use my name okay don’t follow me follow your heart in fact if you use my name
it’s because you mean to do evil in this world so the question then is how do we get from this
to the catholic church which is nope you must obey us otherwise you’ll be condemned to hell
okay and that’s the topic we’ll discuss next class how the Catholic Church was
created and the argument I will make to you is that it was created by the Roman
Empire okay and not Jesus himself okay so any questions guys yeah like you said
that people have infinite lives and like death is a reset of your life and you
can learn many times but I think death will just clear a person’s memory and
and they won’t remember the mistakes
and the things that they learned.
Yeah, that’s a great point, okay, yes, exactly.
So the idea is the divine spark, right?
So the divine spark either glows brightly or dims.
So when you die, what goes is not the brain,
you won’t remember anything, the memories,
but what goes is the spark, do you understand?
And the spark, if it glows really brightly,
it goes up to a higher plane,
you’re closer to the monad, you’re closer to God,
and therefore you feel more pleasure, right?
But if your spark has been dimmed,
it goes to a lower place.
And so, what you want to do is obviously
glow that spark as much as possible, all right?
And so, again, I know this is hard to understand,
but most people will not figure this out, okay?
You understand?
It may take like 50 lifetimes before you figure out,
you know what, I should really try to glow my spark.
It may take a thousand lifetimes, a million lifetimes.
Who knows, but it’s your choice, do you understand?
Some of us will figure out more quicker than others, okay?
So this is the thing that you must remember.
Every religion teaches us that when you die,
you won’t remember how much money you have.
You won’t remember anything, okay?
But what you will remember, what you will leave behind
is the amount of goodness you did
or the amount of evil you did, okay?
Does that make sense, okay?
Any more questions, guys?
Okay, great.
So next class, we do the rise of the Catholic Church, okay?
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