LECTURE: Lesson 3 from the Holy Spirit: The Anointings by the Holy Spirit, June 30 1994
LECTURE: Lesson Three from the Holy Spirit:
The Anointings by the Holy Spirit June 30, 1994
LECTURE TRANSCRIPT
INVOCATION:
O Holy Spirit, enter our hearts. Enter now. Let Divine Reality reign. Let all that is unreal be banished now that we might stand in thy presence, O Lord, to know thee as thou art, to enter the flame, the cloven tongues of fire, to be consumed by that flame, to be cleansed and purified and made whole.
O Lord Maha Chohan, we celebrate thy presence here. Let the fullness of the Great Central Sun now fuse with the Holy Christ Self of us each one. Now touch our hearts. Reignite them in the sacred fire of the Father-MotherGod, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Let our temples be the place of the celebration of all that thou art, O God. Let the portents of descending negative conditions in the earth be turned around by the action of the Holy Spirit. Cleanse us from all untoward desire that our desire might be unto thee, O God, in the fulfillment of all of our duties and responsibilities in the earth.
Come, flame of victory. Come, flame of Lord Jesus Christ. Come, Holy Spirit. Enter into our hearts now. We decree it.
We cast into the sacred fire all sin and karma. It has no power over us or over the earth. Let the earth be transformed. Let the New Day appear. We agree together on earth in Jesus’ name that it is done. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, Amen.
LECTURE:
Today’s teaching from the Holy Spirit is entitled the anointings, “The Anointings by the Holy Spirit.” The tradition of the anointing starts early in the Old Testament and ends in the Book of Revelation.
Moses anointed Aaron and his sons as priests. Priests anointed lepers and others. High priests or prophets anointed kings.
[Endnote 1: : Bible Almanac, Tenny, p. 407; Zondervan Pictorial, 171 col.2]
God, generally in the person of his Archangels, anointed the prophets. And Jesus and the Holy Spirit anointed the disciples.
These are the anointings we seek. All of them are for some of us and some of them are for all of us. It is up to you by the way you live your life, by what you place as the centerpiece of your life which of these anointings you can and will receive.
First I would like to take up the three anointings that we find recorded i n the Old Testament. First, there is the leper’s anointing that is for ordinary sinners. Then there is the priestly anointing for priests and the kingly anointing for kings.
Remember, then, that in the Old Testament we are dealing with the dispensation of Aries that presages the coming of the age of Pisces and then the age of Aquarius. I am going to give you the very interesting anointing for the leper first. It’s outlined in the Book of Leviticus, chapter 14 if you would like to study it.
This anointing is for a leper that has been healed. Scholars believe that there, scholars believe that the term leprosy was used in the Bible to describe of th, a variety of skin diseases, including psoriasis, [Endnote 2: : Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, p. 772] ringworm and in some cases true leprosy. Leprosy, known as Hansen’s disease, is among the ten most common diseases in the world today.
[Endnote 3: : BReview, p. 33.]
Lepers develop ulcerous sores coupled with loss of sensation, paralysis, disfigurement and loss of fingers. [Endnote 4: : WEB. 9th s.v. leprosy, Bible Review p. 35, Seventh Day Adventist Commentary on Leviticus 768.]
Lepers can be cured with modern drugs, but sometimes they have to continue treatment throughout their lives.
[Endnote 5: : Bible Review, pp. 33, 34]
In ancient Israel a leper was an outcast. He was excluded from community life and worship. [Endnote 6: : Harper’s 168; Tyndale 153]
Thus the leper’s anointing was a significant ceremony. For it restored him to fellowship with his family and the congregation of Israel.
[Endnote 7: : Tyndale, Lev., 148]
Before the leper could be anointed, the priest met him outside of the camp to verify that he had been healed . He must first be healed before he can be anointed. These are the steps of the ritual cleansing and anointing of the leper: First, still outside the camp, [Endnote 8: : Harper’s Bible Comm, LEv, 169 col. 1] the priest commanded that a clean bird be killed over running water. The priest took the bird’s blood and sprinkled it seven times on the leper.
[Endnote 9: : harper’s Bible Commentary says the blood is what is sprinkled]
The priest pronounced him clean. This signifies purification at seven levels of consciousness.
The priest took a second bird, which he had dipped in the blood of the first bird, and set him free. The anointed leper then washed his clothes, shaved off all his hair, and bathed himself in water. The anointed leper was now allowed to go into the camp, but he had to dwell outside his tent for seven days. On the seventh day he again shaved, bathed and washed his clothes.
[Endnote 10: : Harper’s Bible Commentary 169]
On the eighth day the anointed leper brought sacrificial offerings to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. The priest presented him and his sacrifices before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle. The priest took from the sacrificial offerings a lamb and a log of oil and he raised them up as an offering. [Endnote 11: : RSV wording elevate]
The priest sacrificed the lamb and placed some of its blood on the anointed leper in three places: on the tip of his right ear, the thumb of his right hand and the big toe of his right foot. This symbolized that the cleansed man should hear God’s voice, perform works of righteousness with his hands and walk in God’s ways.
[Endnote 12: : Tyndale 151]
The priest then sprinkled oil with his finger seven times before the Lord, seven times. Perhaps he was accessing the seven spheres of the Causal Body. He placed oil on the anointed leper in the same three places——ear, thumb and toe. The priest poured the remaining oil from his hand on the head of the man. The priest then made atonement for the man by offering (1) a sin offering, (2) a burnt offering and (3) a cereal offering on the altar.
[Endnote 13: : Lev. 14:19-20; Tyndale 152. See RSV translation]
He made these sacrifices to purge the sanctuary of the man’s pollution [Endnote 14: : Harper’s Bible Commentary, 170 col. 1] and to thank God.
[Endnote 15: : Brown and other]
When the ceremony was completed, the anointed leper was restored to his social and religious standing. [Endnote 16: : harper’s Bible Comm, 170 col. 1]
Now, when we think about this, we are all lepers until we are healed and until we are cleansed. We can relate the blood of animals as a foretaste of the blood of Jesus, which we will come to further on in our discussion today.
I think that we all know, if we are spiritually sensitive to ourselves, when we feel unclean spiritually. Not because of this or that moral standard or commandment or anything else but because we simply don’t feel clean because we are not proud of thoughts or acts, deeds, states of consciousness we allow ourselves to get into.
The desire to be cleansed from being a leper is very profound. It takes a great sensitivity in one’s own soul to even recognize that one has a need for cleansing because for the most part we are self-satisfied human beings. On the one hand we think we’re just fine. On the other hand we may be seeking higher status, greater pay, more recognition, climbing up the social or the intellectual ladders of life. But if we stop for a moment, if we are still, if we meditate, if we come apart, we can note that there are things that we can change, things that are a bit more difficult to change and things that we feel we are absolutely not capable of changing without divine intercession.
A power greater than ourselves must come upon us. We must seek and find that power if we would rise above the current level of our being.
So being cleansed, the leper’s cleansing, is the very first anointing of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians recognize this first anointing as the leper’s anointing and they call it that. And they feel that until they receive that cleansing of the Holy Spirit they yet have the taint of, quote, “leprosy.”
Some Christians receive that anointing and go no further. It is though we were all climbing the pyramid of life. It gets more and more narrow as we go up the pyramid, more difficult, more challenging, more demanding. There is less room so we have to get rid of some excess baggage. And it is a pity that people do not pursue the next anointings.
I hope when you hear about all of the different anointings I am going to present to you today that you’ll make a chart for your life and decide how year by year you are going to determine to come up higher and make yourself worthy and pray that God considers you worthy of the next anointing. Each anointing is an increase in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit whereby you have more and more power to do good works on behalf of people who need the assistance of the Holy Spirit but do not have it.
The second anointing by the Holy Spirit is the priestly anointing. Moses anointed Aaron and his sons as priests. From that time on all the sons of Aaron were to serve as priests.
[Endnote 17: : Exod 40:12-16; Dictionary of Bible, Davis, 622]
And the Lord appointed the tribe of Levi to assist Aaron and his sons [Endnote 18: : Numb 3; Bible Almanac 682 col.2; David Dict of Bible, 450] in their priestly duties.
Moses began his anointing of Aaron and his sons by washing them with water [Endnote 19: : Lev. 8] as a symbolic cleansing from sin. They did not wash themselves; Moses, the representative of God, washed them.
[Endnote 20: : 7th Day Adv, Lev., 744 col.1]
It makes us think of Jesus’ washing his disciples’ feet and his reply to Peter’s objection, “If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.” A very profound statement. It was very firm because Peter had said, “You’ll never wash me. Don’t wash me, Lord. It is I that, who should wash your feet.” And so if Jesus does not wash us, then we have no part with him. We need to prepare for Jesus’ washing us. We need to receive that washing and cleansing in absolute humility.
And so in the priestly anointing because the priest stood before God on behalf of the people his standards had to be above the rank and file. The anointing of Aaron and his sons mandated their fulfilling the priestly office in holy, in holiness, purity and dignity. To signify this, Moses placed upon Aaron’s head a miter with a gold plate attached to it. We’re back to that miter again, the one like the one the pope wears. It was inscribed with the words Holiness to the Lord.
[Endnote 21: : Exod. 28:36; Lev. 8:9]
This is the direction that God gave to Moses. Moses then “poured the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head and anointed him to sanctify him” as high priest.
[Endnote 22: : Lev. 8:12; high priest: 7th Day Adv. Lev. 8, 744 col. 2]
Now, what’s very interesting about this, as we discussed this earlier, is that the words Holiness to the Lord is ascribing all of the sacred fire that culminates in the third eye. These words were placed right across the forehead of Aaron. And so by wearing those words, and they were embroidered in blue, he was continually purifying the energies of the people and sending that energy to God and ascribing that unto God is all holiness. All holiness that we could possibly have is, is God’s holiness. Therefore we praise him with the mantra Holiness unto the Lord. So this is a focus on the third eye. And it’s very important to realize that Aaron was selected to bear that focus in the third eye on behalf of the entire community.
So in the priestly anointing Moses sacrificed a ram and put its blood on the tip of the right ear, thumb of the right hand, big toe of the right foud, foot of Aaron and his sons.
[Endnote 23: : Lev. 8:23,24]
This meant that they would hear God’s word with their ears, do his will with their hands and walk in God’s way with their feet.
[Endnote 24: : Harrison, Lev. 8, 100; Inter Bible, Lev. p. 45 exposition]
Moses was thereby consecrating their entire body and all of their fac, faculties to God’s service. [Endnote 25: : Zondervon, priests, 856 col. 1; Harrison 100; faculties: 7th Day Adventist, Lev. 745 col. 2 top]
As an additional consecration, Moses sprinkled Aaron and his sons and their garments with oil and blood. [Endnote 26: : Harrison 100 “additional consecration”]
According to the Old Testament the priestly anointing gave priests the divine authority [Endnote 27: : Zondervon 171; Dict. of NT Theology, 711] to perform the duties of their office. [Endnote 28: : Unger’s 806]
In ancient Israel the priestly duties included ministering at the altar, offering sacrifices, [Endnote 29: : A Dictionary of the Bible, p. 622. ] [Endnote 30: : Bible Almanac 683; Zonervon Bible DIct. 849,854] teaching the law of God, [Endnote 31: : The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 434; A Dictionary of the Bible. p. 622. ] serving as mediator between man and God, [Endnote 32: : The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 434.]
in other words, representing the Holy Christ Self to each one of the community. The priest was the mediator through whom the sins of the community and the individual were expiated.
[Endnote 33: : Universal Jewish Enc sv priests 644 col. 1 priest folder]
This comes down to us in the Roman and Greek Orthodox Churches of confession. In the ritual of confession, confessing to the priest, the priest mediates between the supplicant and God and gives to the supplicant a penance so that he may be restored to his right relationship with God.
The high priest would inquire of God what was the divine will.
[Endnote 34: : A Dictionary of the Bible, p. 622; The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 435.] Although God called certain individuals to serve as priests, he also called the entire nation of Israel to dedicate themselves to him as priests. I think this is very important for all of us to hear because as it applies in the Piscean dispensation we are to become one with our Holy Christ Self. We are to rise from this level of the lower human consciousness, merge with and bond to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So when you are one with your Holy Christ Self, you are occupying the office of high priest at the altar of your own being, the Eighth Ray chakra, the secret chamber of the heart.
So God has also called us to become a nation of priests. But we do not use that terminology. We know that God has told us that we do not have eternal life unless our souls are wed to our Holy Christ Self. So this is something that is, has a certain urgency in its call because none of us knows the end of our days or the beginning. Our very hairs are numbered and we cannot number them and so we should be thinking in the context of Buddhism and other Eastern teachings that concern themselves with this life and the afterlife and in this life prepare by atonement and other spiritual measures.
So if you attain to oneness with your Holy Christ Self by the Spirit of God, of the Holy Spirit in Jesus and so on and you maintain that, you do not aggravate that, you do not destroy that relationship, the bonding becomes such a meshing that you can never, ever again be separated from your Holy Christ Self. So this is the de, the definition of your priesthood. And so because we have the teachings of the age of Aquarius, and those are accelerated teachings that compel us to come up higher, we know that that unity with our Holy Christ Self is a paramount goal in our lives. When we have that oneness, we can surely seek the priestly anointing.
God told Moses to tell the children of Israel, “If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation.”
[Endnote 35: : Exod 19:5,6.]
Let us strive to be a worldwide community of those who keep the flame of Jesus Christ, attain union with our Holy Christ Self so that this Community can be called a holy Community of priests.
Now we come to the third anointing by the Holy Spirit. It is called the kingly anointing. As I’ve mentioned over the years, in the spiritual sense of the word, king is defined as the one who holds the key to the incarnation of God. K, i, n for the incarnation and g for God. So you are a ki, a king by definition if you have the key to manifest the incarnation of God, your Mighty I AM Presence, in your temple. You do have the key as teachings, but the real key is the fire of the Holy Ghost whereby this is accomplished. So this is the kingly anointing, the key to inner Godhood.
Prophets and priests customarily anointed the kings of Israel. [Endnote 36: : Priests: I kings 1:39, 45; II Kings 11:12]
Thus scripture often refers to kings as “the Lord’s anointed.” [Endnote 37: : Zondervon 171]
The Old Testament records that the priest Zadok anointed Solomon with oil, [Endnote 38: : I Kings 1:39] the high priest Jehoiada anointed Joash, [Endnote 39: : Harpers Bible Dictionary 491; 2 Chron. 23:1-15. high priest=Inter Dict B, sv jehoiada] and Samuel anointed Saul and David.
[Endnote 40: : 40.I Sam. 10:1; 16:13]
Now, these individuals may not have held the key to the incarnation of God but they were prototypes. They were forerunners of what those who reign spiritually must be and must have, and they must have the third anointing.
This is a very advanced anointing according to those ministers in Christianity today who advocate that we seech, that we seek these anointings.
We learn from the anointings of Saul and David that the Holy Spirit transformed them. This is amazing. They were not first transformed or had to be first transformed but the anointing itself transformed them. Samuel anointed Saul as king after the Israelites demanded, “Make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” [Endnote 41: : KJV I Sam. 8:5]
“Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon [Saul’s] head and kissed him and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?”
[Endnote 42: : KJV I Sam. 10:1]
Then Samuel prophesied to Saul that the Holy Spirit would make him into a changed man. He told Saul that he would meet a company of prophets and that he too would prophesy because the Spirit of the Lord would come upon him. Imagine such a dispensation upon this one Saul, whose character in our eyes seemingly was not worthy. “And it was so, that when [Saul] had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.”
[Endnote 43: : KJV 1 Sam 10:9]
In the case of Saul we also learn that the Lord will take away the Holy Spirit’s anointing if the anointed one does not continue to serve God. This is a profound teaching and it is profoundly true. You can work very hard to receive the Holy Spirit but it doesn’t take much to lose it. Having the Holy Spirit, then, means every day of our lives walking and talking with the Holy Spirit as friend, responding to his call, being obedient to that call because it, we know it will lead us where we must go.
But Saul was disobedient to the commands of God. [Endnote 44: : I Sam. 13:13]
He lost the anointing. [Endnote 45: : I Sam 13:11-14]
Can you imagine anything more devastating happening to us apart from not having the Holy Spirit at all is to lose the Holy Spirit once we have received it.
Samuel told him, “Because thou has rejected the word of the Lord, and hath also rejected thee, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”
[Endnote 46: : KJV I Sam. 15:23]
And “the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul.” [Endnote 47: : KJV I Sam 16:14]
What a dark, dark day in the history of the earth.
When Saul lost his anointing, the Lord directed Samuel to fill his horn with oil and go to the house of Jesse the Bethlemite. For among his sons he would find the next king. After Samuel called Jesse’s family to sacrifice, the prophet looked at one of his sons, Eliab, thinking this was surely the Lord’s anointed. [Endnote 48: : KJV I Sam. 16:1, 5, 6]
“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
[Endnote 49: : KJV I Sam. 16:7, 10]
Not until Jesse’s youngest son, David, stood before Samuel, did the Lord tell him, “Arise, anoint him: for this is he.” When Samuel anointed David, “the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.”
[Endnote 50: : KJV I Sam. 16:12, 13]
So this is the substance and the essence of the kingly anointing. It is the third step of empowerment. Each step up is an increase of power and authority. We can see that a leper is less important in the social ladder than the priest and the priest is less important than the king.
You will recall that I said that prophets are anointed by God through his Archangels. It is thus that they receive the Holy Spirit and are empowered for their mission. Although there is no record of a specific ritual of anointing for prophets, Bible scholars believe that prophets in ancient Israel were inducted into their offices with some kind of an anointing ceremony.
[Endnote 51: : Universal Jewish Enc “anointing” 332 col. 2]
I have seen that God has anointed his prophets by Archangels chiefly, but also by Ascended Masters, by seraphim, by some agency of God or God himself. God anointed Isaiah to be his prophet and Isaiah has written of his anointing as a cleansing. And so this is another anointing which Christians may not speak of but of which we may testify.
God sent a seraph to purge Isaiah of his sin, his uncleanness and his human consciousness. The seraph placed a fiery coal on Isaiah’s mouth. Thus was Isaiah anointed by the Holy Spirit, and in this case the instrument was God’s sacred fire. Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on a throne and above it seraphim, each with six wings. The prophet wrote about his experience that we might have it today.
He says , “Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Because Isaiah was duly anointed, Isaiah was a lawful candidate to be sent on a mission to Israel, to the people whom he had stated were of unclean lips. And because he was anointed, he was free to respond, “Here am I; send me.”
[Endnote 52: : KJV Isa. 6:5-8]
So we see that the prophet’s chief chakra is the throat chakra. He must speak the Word of God to the people. That chakra must be cleansed and purged. It’s amazing that Isaiah knew so very well what was his sin and that he must be purged. Isaiah is a great prophet in our hearts and we are surely grateful for his life and that he wrote down his life.
Later in the Book of Isaiah, the prophet spoke of his anointing. “The [Holy] Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me…” And so until we have the anointing of the Lord we do not have the Holy Spirit of God upon ourselves. Isaiah did not boast and say, “The Holy Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because I am a great prophet. No, it is because the Lord hath anointed me.” He saw no value to himself before he received the Lord’s anointing. And he knew that he was not fit for his calling.
Once the Lord anointed Isaiah, he gave him his commission. And you remember I read this to you earlier. He had a commission. God sent him for six purposes: to preach good tidings unto the meek, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, to open the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, and to comfort all that mourn. [Endnote 53: : KJV Isa. 61:1-2]
God commanded Elijah to find Elisha and anoint him to succeed him as prophet. He found him plowing with twelve yoke of oxen. Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle upon him. The mantle was the garment he wore that was charged with the Light, the energy, the substance, the very substance of God and God’s anointing of the prophet Elijah. Elisha left his oxen and ran after Elijah, saying, “Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.” Elijah answered, “Go back again: for what have I done to thee?”
Commentators have generally taken Elijah’s answer to mean, “I have done nothing to you which would prevent you from properly taking leave of your people.”
[Endnote 54: : Interpreter’s Bible I Kings 165]
Others say it means, “Go to your parents, and return to me; for I have anointed you in the name of the Lord for a special service.”
[Endnote 55: : Interpreter’s Bible I Kings 165]
So here it is the prophet Elijah who is anointing his successor, Elisha. We hear about no intercession from an Archangel because Elijah himself is God incarnate.
Elisha then took a pair of oxen and slew them. He used his plow to cook the oxen and fed the oxen to his men. Then he arose, followed Elijah and ministered unto him.
[Endnote 56: : KJV I Kings 19:16-21] Thenceforth he served Elijah. [Endnote 57: : JB I Kings 19:21]
Note the ceremony of this event. It is not a casual ceremony. It is very specific. He is plowing in the field doing the work of his parents, Elisha is. Along comes Elijah. He looks for him. He finds him where he ought to be, following in the profession of his parents. He throws the mantle, the entire momentum of his ministry, upon Elisha. Elisha receives it. He understands it. He goes through the ritual of preparing the meat for his men, of bowing to his parents and thenceforth he serves only Elijah.
This is a true manifestation of a Guru-chela relationship, a Master-disciple relationship. It is just as formal today as it ever has been throughout all time and centuries. When you fasten yourself to your Guru, you do not look back. It is a commitment for a lifetime. You don’t take that mantle and put it on one day and take it off the next and put it on the next day and forget about it and let it get dusty in the closet and say, “Oh my, I forgot, I have this mantle. I think I’ll put it on today.” This is as bad as losing the Holy Spirit if you are Saul.
So the Path is a serious path and we need to define that path each one of us for ourselves and recognize that when an Ascended Master calls us to be his chela, he expects to give you training, to give you teaching, to give you discipline, and that you will continue that path every day of your life and that that is first on your agenda when you awake in the morning and last on your agenda when you retire at night.
So he renounces his former way of life. Years later, knowing that the Lord would be taking his master away, Elisha asked to receive a double portion of Elijah’s “Spirit,” the Holy Spirit. As Elijah and Elisha walked together, it’s as, almost as we, it’s almost as if we are walking and talking with them or listening to them talk to each other today. We can feel the records of akasha. We can know the supreme reality of such experiences in the world that can be had by those who wish to climb that ladder to the heart of God.
As Elijah and Elisha walked together talking, a chariot of fire and horses of fire came between them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Elisha tore his clothes in two pieces. He rent his garments, took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, he struck the waters of the Jordan with this mantle, divided the waters and crossed over the river. And the brotherhood of prophets, looking on from a distance, said, “ The spirit of Elijah, the spirit of Elijah [that is the Holy Spirit that was upon Elijah] doth rest on Elisha.”
[Endnote 58: : KJV II Kings 2:15]
And they went out to meet the one who had inherited the mantle of Elijah and to bow on the ground before him. Thus the true prophets recognized the true prophets.
Scripture records three occasions on which Jesus or the Holy Spirit anointed the disciples before they went forth to do the works of Christ, three very specific occasions. This now is the Piscean dispensation. The first time it is Jesus who anoint s the disciples with the Holy Spirit. This is how scripture records the event. It’s taken from John 20:21.
After the resurrection he appeared to the disciples and said, “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”
[Endnote 59: : KJV John 20:21-23]
Jesus gave his disciples the same send-off to their mission as the Father gave him. He baptized his disciples with the Holy Ghost and empowered them to remit or retain sin. That is quite an empowerment. This they would accomplish through their tie to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Their oneness in the heart of Jesus would enable them to have this discrimination.
The second anointing is Pentecost. This is recorded in th, in the Book of Acts. The Holy Spirit anointed the disciples in fulfillment of Jesus’ promise that the Comforter would come. After his resurrection Jesus had told them, “Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. ” [Endnote 60: : KJV Like 24:49]
Jesus’ prophecy came true on the fiftieth day after his resurrection. That is the meaning of the word Pentecost.
And so we find in Acts 2 the words, “When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat u, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began with, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
[Endnote 61: : KJV Acts 2:1-4]
The third anointing that the disciples received was by the Holy Spirit. It took place when they were together after Peter and John had been called before the Sanhedrin, the council of the Jews. The Sanhedrin had warned them not to teach in Jesus’ name. Peter and John returned to tell the Christians what had happened. They prayed together, “Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.”
[Endnote 62: : KJV Acts 4:29-31]
Let us review these anointings. Christianity takes the leper’s anointing to a new level through the grace of Jesus Christ. Leprosy is a symbol of sin. Today some Christians see the Old Testament leper’s anointing with blood and oil as a foreshadowing of the salvation that would come through the blood of Jesus. Many who are not in the camp of Christianity, which emphasizes the blood, are, are sometimes burdened by the, the so frequent use of the term blood that we hear Christians praying to and talking about. I think it’s important that we do not let vocabulary separate us from the all the brethren in Christ and that we come to terms with this vocabulary of the blood that sometimes falls short of giving us an understanding of what it really means. So Christians see the Old Testament leper’s anointing with blood and oil as a foreshadowing of the salvation that would come through the blood of Jesus.
Before the Piscean age and the advent of Jesus, animals were sacrificed to make atonement for the sins of the people. But Christians say Jesus’ crucifixion was the ultimate sacrifice because he was the Son of God and he gave his life for us. They take literally the teaching of I John chapter 1 verse 7, “The blood of Jesus Christ… cleanseth us from all sin.”
[Endnote 63: : KJV I John 1:7]
Some Christians pray to Jesus to cover them, their families and their homes with his blood. This is hard to understand, especially if we take it literally. They believe the blood of Jesus to be an indispensable protection.
[Endnote 64: : Hinn, Blood, 21, 73, 67]
It was probably eighteen months ago or close to two years when I prayed to Jesus to give me an understanding so that there would not be a separation between me and all of the wonderful Christians in the world. And so he gave me a vision and that vision I had was between, it was at dawn between the awakened state and the sleeping state when I was fully conscious of his presence and the teaching he gave me and what he showed me of himself. He, Jesus, revealed that what saves us is not Jesus’ blood per se but the Light of God, of which his blood is the carrier. We are saved by the Light that flows through his chakras, the Light pouring from his wounds and every cell and atom of his being.
[Endnote 65: : Ma’s note on p. 15 of Anointing]
And so in this early morning vision that I had of Jesus he revealed himself to me on the cross both in his physical body and in his Ascended Master light body. And I saw Light was streaming from his chakras, from all of his pores , from all of his being . He was so full of Light that he appeared to be the source of a great, great river. He showed me that since the beginning of time and space unto the present he has been the instrument of the flow of Light through the seven chakras and the eighth and through the five secret-ray chakras, the hands, the feet and his side.
When I was a child and I would visit Catholic churches and I would see how people would weep before a statue of Jesus hanging on the cross and how with such sorrow and death he was portrayed, I simply did not have a clue to understanding why people would want to gaze upon the crucified Christ forever when he was only on the cross two and a half days and was risen and was in his glorious resurrected body.
And so Jesus showed me that he was perpetually upon the cross and perpetually releasing this Light. And this Light was his, quote, “blood” but not the blood that we think of that pours through our own veins. It was the very essence of his being and that this Light would continue to pour through him until all those whom God would save in the earth should be saved and earth should be transformed. And so when I saw this, it was like a profound healing to my soul. I understood something that no one could have ever explained to me doctrinally.
And when I saw it, I knew it was true. And I rejoiced in this flow of Light that would never cease, that was always there. And I could then say the words, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me of all my sin.” And so this was the great resolution that Jesus gave me. And he never allowed me to speak about it until this time when we should have these teachings. So I am very grateful to give you this vision. Perhaps it will help you to understand that there is blood and there is blood. And the blood we are speaking of is the Light of Alpha and Omega. [14-second applause]
So Jesus Christ cleanses us from sin through the medium of the tremendous Light that he bears in the office of Christ. He was able to bear the karma of the Piscean age because he was who he was , and because the Light he has borne to this day is his Body and Blood and aura. Jesus apportions his Light to us each time we partake of Holy Communion.
The Roman Catholic and eather or, the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian sects believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation. By this doctrine they accept that the consecrated bread and wine are transformed and are now vessels of the Body and Blood of Christ.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus teaches the Jews in the synagogue in Capernaum. Just in case we should deny what happens to be the belief of later churches we can go Jesus’ own words and then we still need to have the interpretation of his words. Here he is in the synagogue in camer, in Capernaum. He is teaching the Jews and this is what he tells them. Imagine yourself one with Jesus now. Would you da, would you dare to go in the synagogue of the Jews and say these words? The boldness and the courage of Jesus is something wondrous to behold that we can emulate.
He said to them , “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him.”
[Endnote 66: : KJV John 6:53-56]
Think how literally minded and perhaps even materially minded the Jews of his time were. What would they have made of this conundrum? Well, this is what Jesus makes of it and this is what he told me. Jesus’ Blood and his Body are the Alpha and the Omega of the whole of creation. They are the vessels of the Christ consciousness. When Jesus tells us to eat his Body and drink his Blood, he is telling us to partake of the Alpha and the Omega of his Christ consciousness. He wants us to assimilate the Light of God he has stored in his spiritual and physical bodies. Jesus gave us the ritual of Holy Communion, which he celebrated on Holy Thursday after supper, so that, in his words, we might do this “in remembrance of me.” [Endnote 67: : KJV I Cor. 11:24]
Jesus, then, wants to give us the full-gathered momentum of his attainment of the Alpha and Omega forces of the Cosmos. He wants us to eat
this, which means assimilate it, take it in, let it become a part of our own physical bodies, our spiritual bodies, all of the levels of our being. This is why he is the Second Person of the Trinity. This is why he is the Son of God because we have come to a manifestation of mortality that we cannot get out of unless we connect with his immortality, his Light, his eternal Alpha, his eternal Omega, the plus and the minus, the yin and yang of creation. Unless you partake of this spiritual energy and this balance “ye have no life in you.”
This is the message of Jesus. We all have mortal life in us but which one of us can sustain mortal life to immortal life in this body? But we can be transformed by the Alpha and the Omega of his consciousness. When we eat his flesh and drink his blood, we are assimilating his consciousness, his consciousness.
And so in this vision of Jesus, I simply began to give him praise: Jesus——the Source of our Christhood. Jesus——the Restorer of our souls to the state of grace from which we fell. Jesus——who tries and purifies us and makes us white and then bonds us to his Sacred Heart. Jesus——the Mediator between our souls and the Absolute God-Good. Jesus——fully the I AM THAT I AM incarnate who shows us the way to the incarnation of God right where we are.
Let us chant our perpetual praise to Jesus, our Saviour, our Lord, our Friend. I would like to give you the opportunity to say quietly and profoundly in your heart just the name of Jesus, to chant it, simply saying, “O Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.” [Congregation, with Mother: “O Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.” 5 times.] Let us sing to the “Beautiful Saviour.” It is in your songbooks. It’s also in the Holy Spirit book.
I would like to say to you, if you have been turned off [Messenger gives instruction to A.V. personnel; “Song 67.”], if you’ve been turned off to Jesus and Christianity by what others have said about Jesus or by doctrine, just remember it’s not Jesus who created Christianity. Jesus is a person who belongs to you and who you belong to. You need to know him for who he is and what he is because the false or else limited doctrines of orthodoxy deprive you of a most glorious relationship with Jesus. Not the hellfire and brimstone, not the condemnation, not the ritual that is blind and empty, just the pure Son of God, the pure Friend. He’s all yours. You don’t have to meet him in church. You can be with him twenty-four hours a day. You don’t have to worship him if you don’t want to worship him but at least be his friend and let him be your friend. So in that spirit let us sing to the “Beautiful Saviour.” [Messenger gives instruction to A.V. personnel; “Song 67.”] Let this be a meditation in your heart.
* [Song 67, “Beautiful Saviour! King of Creation,” sung 3 times.]
This is an excerpt of Lesson Three from the Holy Spirit (a five part lecture series). Lesson 3 from the Holy Spirit: The Anointings by the Holy Spirit was given by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on June 30, 1994 during FREEDOM 1994: “The Environment of the Soul” held at the Royal Teton Ranch.
LESSON ONE
LECTURE: Lesson One from the Holy Spirit: Who & what is the Holy Spirit? June 26, 1994
LESSON TWO
LECTURE: Lesson Two from the Holy Spirit: Relationship with the Holy Spirit 06-28-94
What is the Holy Spirit?
Third Person of the Trinity; the omnipresence of God; the cloven tongues of fire that focus the Father-Mother God, also called the sacred fire; the energies of Life that infuse a cosmos. In the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Holy Spirit corresponds to Shiva, known as the Destroyer/Deliverer because his all-consuming Love, when invoked in the planes of Matter, binds the forces of evil and transmutes the cause and effect of man’s miscreations, thus delivering him from the prison house of karma and its dark denizens.
Prana is the essence of the Holy Spirit that we take in by the sacred fire breath through the chakras to nourish the four lower bodies. The Holy Spirit focuses the balance of the Father-Mother God in the white-fire core of being. The exorcism of foul spirits and unclean entities is accomplished by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of Christ and the I AM THAT I AM. The nine gifts of the Spirit are powers conveyed to the Lord’s servants to bind death and hell and work his works on earth.
The Person and the Flame of the Holy Spirit is the Comforter whom Jesus promised would come when our Lord took his leave—to enlighten us, to teach us, and to bring all things to our remembrance that beloved Jesus has taught us, both in heaven and on earth. Each time a son or daughter of God ascends into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM, the Holy Spirit descends to fill the void and to magnify the Lord’s Presence on earth. This is the ritual of the descent of the Holy Ghost promised by Jesus to his disciples when the Master said, “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high,” which took place on Pentecost.
The nine gifts
The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are (1) the word of wisdom, (2) the word of knowledge, (3) faith, (4) healing, (5) the working of miracles, (6) prophecy, (7) the discerning of spirits, (8) divers kinds of tongues, (9) the interpretation of tongues.
The representative of the Holy Spirit
The representative of the flame of the Holy Spirit to earth’s evolutions is the ascended master who occupies the office of Maha Chohan. The Holy Spirit is the Personal Impersonality of the Godhead and is positioned on the west side of the City Foursquare.
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