Bible Discourse 14 The Ascension of Man – Lifting Up the Serpent in the Wilderness Dialogue with Nicodemus, Part II

Discourse 14

The Ascension of Man – Lifting Up the Serpent in the Wilderness

Dialogue with Nicodemus, Part II

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, “How can these things be?”

Jesus answered and said unto him, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?  Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have  eternal life.”

--John 3:9—15

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, “How can these things be?”

Jesus answered and said unto him, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?  Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we o know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and believe not,  how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?                 --John 3:9—12

Heavenly truths can be known through intuition. This intuition comes through Spirit but not through scriptural reading.  A white gossamer cloth from a distance looks like a ghost. The judgment given by senses and mind may err.  Jesus knew that his intuition will not err so he said authoritatively: ‘we do know.’

Jesus who was attuned to God the Father said to the Nicodemus:  ‘I knew the souls on earth and how they can enter into the kingdom of God.’

Jesus regretted the ignorance of Nicodemus in regard to Christ state.  He explained how could one experience this Christ state. Everything  in the universe is saturated with God’s presence within, as the oil in the olives.  Everybody is interested in this material world instead of God.  Every soul has descended from causal, astral, and then to physical field. Similarly the soul has to reascend to the ‘wilderness’ of interior silence by lifting up the life force and consciousness from physical body to union with God.

“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

--John 3:13—15

Every symbol has a hidden meaning that must be rightly interpreted.

Serpent  means man’s consciousness and life force in the subtle coiled passageway  at the base of the spine.

All the souls in the beginning were with God.  Spirit projects the desire to create an individualized expression of Itself.  The soul manifests and projects the idea of the body in causal form. The idea becomes energy or astral body.  It condensed into the physical body. These three instrumental media is spinal passageway. The soul descends and identifies with gross matter.

Jesus refers ‘he that came down from heaven’ to the human body as ‘man’, physical body as ‘Son of the man’,  and Christ Consciousness as ‘Son of God’.

The human body or earthly body cannot be accommodated in corporeal forms.  But all souls can and will enter the supernal realms through death or through spiritual transcendence. Then they will be angelic beings garbed in thought and light.  We are all made in the image of God.  Only devotion and continuous prayer and scientific meditation can uplift the consciousness of God.  The reading of books only will not help.  Meditation is practice, and scriptural is theory. One kilogram of practice is many times superior to several tons of theory.

A mother can simultaneously do her house hold chores while playing with her infant child. One can be united with God while simultaneously active in this mundane world.  Jesus demonstrated this after his physical death.  He dematerialized this body from rays of cosmic creative light. Some masters may preserve this body indefinitely without any decomposition whatsoever.  The body of my Guru, Paramahansa Sri Sri Yogananda did not  decompose for several days.

Jesus was effectively engaged in the work of God the Father while he was in Heaven.  This is highest state of Samadhi or ecstacy  called Nirvikapla Samadhi.  The devotee will not find any difference between external and internal state. The potential to remain in heavenly consciousness regardless of outer circumstances.

  In the slightly lesser state called savikalpa Samadhi, the devotee shall be in trance during his meditation. Jesus said: In essence every saint had a past and every sinner had a future. That is what Jesus in his Gospels has emphasized that what he attained can be attained by anybody with determination.

Jesus said that each son of man or bodily consciousness must be lifted from senses to the astral kingdom. It must be done by lifting up through the serpent-like coiled passage at the base of the spine. The son of  man  is lifted up when this serpentine life force is uplifted. Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.

Man’s physical, astral, and causal are tied together and work as one by a knotting of life force and consciousness in the seven cerebrospinal centers in ascending order.

In descending order, the final tie is a coiled knot at the base of the spine. It  prevents the ascension into the astral kingdom.

From the medulla, the intelligent life energy of the astral energy flows to Sahasrara chakra and then flows downwards through chakras. The serpentine force is called kundalini shakti.  Sleeping kundalinee emanates outward into the body and the world.  It will enliven the physical region of the senses i.e. sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and the earth-bound physical creative force of sex.    It causes the consciousness to become strongly identified with physical senses.

Jesus said: Whosoever lifts the body consciousness (son of man) from the physical to astral by reversing the life force through the coiled passage at the base of the spine will not perish.  That sadhak will not be subjected to mortal changes of life and death.  He will gradually acquire the immutable Christ Consciousness state, Son of God.