Jesus Our Brother

I really appreciate the saying attributed to the writer Philip Wylie:

“God sent a messenger with a wonderful message and the people said: “Forget the message……. let’s worship the messenger”.

And this is exactly what we so called Christians have done. We have worshiped the messenger who never asked to be worshiped. Jesus was a true Jew and it was actually against the Jewish belief system to worship any thing or anyone outside of God Himself.

God — the only True Essence and Substance of all that is.

Jesus walked the streets where he could heal, talk and teach. He treated his disciples as brothers and associated with the common people, even the despised tax collectors and harlots. Are these the ways of someone who wants to be called Lord and be worshiped?

Through the centuries Jesus has been given many different attributes and titles such as Lord, Rabbi, King of Kings and so on. In John 14:12 He told us:

“Verily verily I say unto you: he that believeth in me, the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater works shall he do; because I go unto my Father”.

No Lord nor King would ever say to his subordinates they could be as great as he and even greater. Only a loving, elder and wiser brother would tell us that we can be as great as he by following his teachings. Jesus is our brother and we too can learn to go onto our Father for loving guidance, healing, peace, joy and prosperity.

The truth may be when He taught us how to pray in Matthew 6:9 –

“Our Father, which are in Heaven…..”

If Jesus called God “our” Father, then he must be our brother, our spiritual brother who had evolved beyond and above the world of fear and death, the world of human illusions.

God IS our Father and we all have the same right to love and be loved by Him.

If “Man” could just remember that “He” is the beloved Son of God, then this world would truly be Paradise on Earth where nothing but brotherly love and peace would abound!

If we humans had fully understood and followed the teachings of this wonderful man, this great teacher, this true mystic… there would be no wars, no hatred, no prejudices, no divisions of churches, no divisions among mankind.

“I came so that ye might have life more abundant

And what have we humans done in His name? We have kept people poor and ignorant and only the Religious Institutions have been prosperous and abundant.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so
unlike your Christ”
(Mohandas Gandhi)

Oh…my dearest…. beloved brother Jesus, what have we humans done in your name?

We have created religion after religion, myth after myth, legend after legend; we have created separation and hatred among mankind; we have truly separated ourselves from the Truth of God and have remained pagans for two thousand years.

Yes man is very intelligent, but still very ignorant and dormant when it comes to the realities of the true God within him.

I honestly believe that religions have kept us from connecting with God, the Truth of God, the Love of God.

Jesus didn’t come here to start a new religion, but rather he came to teach us a universal spiritual way of life, which is the realization of our oneness with the Whole, with God with the Infinite. When people started looking up to him, idolizing him, worshiping him as an oracle, what was his answer?

“If I speak of myself I bear witness to a lie. Of my own self I can do nothing, but the Father within me…..He doeth the work”.

We too have the capacity and the nature of God within us if we just learn how to rely on Him, how to stay out of His way and let Him do the works. We pray but we have to tell God how, when and where He should do His works. We ask, but we doubt, we pray but we don’t believe, so we beg and plea without realizing that God is not a man out there in the sky with a huge ego who needs to be begged, but rather God is the Source and Substance of all that exists in this physical world and throughout the whole Universe.

When Jesus was going to meet his death the apostles asked Him: “What do you want us to do when you are gone?”
And Jesus answered:

“Go and tell the people the Kingdom of God is within you”…….and…… “Love one another as I have loved you”.

And what have we humans done in his name?

We still fight and hate in the name of God. My god is better than your god, my truth is the only truth, let me convert you to my religion because my religion is the only one. And on… and on….and on…..

Unfortunately religions have separated mankind from God because they are based only on man made rules and regulations.

All religious institutions are like any other organization in this world of ours, just rules and regulations, business and politics.
And of course this is true of almost all religions and not just Christianity. All over the world, in every language, in every culture, among all racial groups, man has created a god in his own image, and most of us humans have chosen to worship the messengers as idols instead of following the message of the many Enlightened Teachers that have walked on planet Earth.

Yes….they have built magnificent cathedrals, churches and temples to glorify their god, but they never have told us that WE are ONE with God just as everything else in nature is. God is the true source, essence and substance of all that exists here on earth and throughout Infinity, thus God is us and we are God expressed in physical form.

“The Father and I are one. Wherever I stand is holy ground. All the Father hath is mine”
(The Infinite Way – Joel Goldsmith)

Through the law of evolution man has discovered and learned to utilize many substances and energies to make and construct many wonderful and amazing things, but man cannot create and can only use whatever God has created here on earth and beyond.
Can man create electricity? Can he create the air we breath, the water we drink as the main substance of our physical body? Can he create rocks, dirt, animal or plant life? I don’t think so.

We humans can only make, build and construct by evolving, discovering and utilizing the infinite richness of God’s creation.

Hopefully the next step of evolution will elevate man’s consciousness from the deep state of spiritual dormancy to the full realization that we humans are not just physical bodies, but that we are indeed true spiritual beings.
“The kingdom of God is within us” And so it is!

“I daily thank the God that IS — that the god man has created, does not exist”
(Ernest Holmes)

Love, Light, Peace
Dioro