meanings offer in the way of practical instruction in at-taining
the kingdom of heaven and for the growing of
this seed in me that can become a soul.
i found it interesting that paul writes of those “who have
fallen asleep in christ” and also that he dies everyday.
these are clues to some of our touchy subject matter. fall-ing
asleep and dying can be equated (remember the curi-ous
phrase “let the dead bury their dead”). people who
have not metanoia and are not working toward the king-dom
are the dead and asleep. their life is a dream, and
metanoia is the method of awakening from it. paul says,
“and if christ [the higher being in you] has not been
raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.”
this meaning becomes clear in the new context: if we
raise our own christ, we can have powerful faith and
become free from ‘missing the mark’ (sin). the mark, in
fact, is to acquire this ‘higher body,’ which lies in us in
potential, as a seed. we are to produce this seed or fruit,
and paul tells us that “christ being raised from the dead is
the first fruit of those fallen asleep.” [author note: this is
from the greek. the misunderstanding creates many trans-lations.]
we are the dead ones who have fallen asleep. in
verse 23 we get a sequence in scale, the levels of evolution
toward the kingdom, when we have all the enemies—that
is, things that prevent our attainment—“under our feet.”
we’ll come back to the final enemy in a moment.
the luke passage sounds like an actual description (or
warning) of the experience of awakening. the thing we
talked of last week is no longer buried behind the stone of
our heart, and those around us are quite surprised, even
terrified, when they see it. we can talk to people, and they
don’t recognize us, even if we walk all the way to emmaus
with them. if people are told of our awakening, of our
resurrection, they will likely dismiss it as an idle tale. i
remember my awakening into the third state of con-sciousness.
my experience was truly that of an enormous stone being lifted. when i told people, they just wanted to

argue and call me a liar, and very few bothered to look me
in the eye and see if i had actually changed. you will most
likely have the same reaction to my telling, or equate it
with some passing experience you have had, instead of
investigating and proving to yourself one way or the
other.
now let’s talk of death, and the conquering thereof. this is
often described as ‘eternal’ life, but what do we mean by
eternal? is it just a long time? or could it mean something
else entirely? does eternity ‘begin’ at death? or does it
truly have no beginning and no end? all these questions
point out the incongruity and inexactness of our ideas. if
eternity is all time, then it exists right now and there is no
need to wait until death to enter it. let us consider these
words from nicoll:
Literally, the expression in the New Testament translated
as eternal life is aeonian life. The Greek word aion—
aeon—is translated usually by eternity. Many writers have
(in vain) pointed out that these translations do not
render the original meaning of the words. They are
words that cannot be easily translated because they refer
to conceptions that we no longer understand.—Nicoll,
Living Time, p. 121
this word is changed into many others, such as “world,”
“age,” “forever and ever,” etc., because the concept of a
higher dimension is uncomfortable for the scholars who
translate these things. the words need to fit neatly into
our ordinary mind, the mind governed by the senses.
actually, it would make sense that god is on a higher
plane and that moving toward him would bring us there
too. so what is stopping us? perhaps our own arrogant
time/space mindset that believes nothing is outside its
current grasp. if we can begin to move beyond this limita-tion,
we can begin to understand the mind of god.
in the movie The Last Temptation of Christ (which i just
watched), there are two places where the sound stops,

which to me indicates a change in time/space or a stopping
in time. during this, jesus lives a lifetime in a mo-ment,
somewhat akin to having your life flash before your
eyes when drowning or in another life-threatening situa-tion.
this is entry into a dimension where all the life hap-pens
at once, all possibilities are contained in it. with god
all things are possible.
it seems to me that the gospels have all the clues to awakening
but were put together out of sequence in order to
make a story that had the appearance of being linear. in
other words, we have to really work, practically that is, in
order to find the right order. if the story hadn’t been cre-ated
in a linear fashion, parts would have been left out
and been forgotten. and in and of itself, it is a lesson in
the nonlinear organization of the aeon. so eternal life is
available now—go in and get it!

peace-

“philmore”
kevin roberts rmt
http://www.somaZen.com
512 451 4121

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“If the Work is still something on the blackboard and not
in your most intimate thoughts, then nothing will help
you. You will still be running around trying to find a bigger
blackboard.”—Nicoll, Commentaries, p. 1224

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