Did Jesus teach deliberate creation?
This March has the date of the busiest Sunday service of the year for Christian churches. While many Christian leaders now refer to Easter as Resurrection Day (in part due to the holiday’s commercialization), this day is a useful time to review the creation message many believe Jesus delivered.
Regardless of one’s spiritual or religious background, there is much to learn from this spiritual teacher about our ability to transform the nature of our world. Some experts say that Jesus was actually not just a miracle worker, but he also intended to teach us how to create our own miracles.
here all the time
Although the movie “The Secret” and the best-selling book that followed heralded the Law of Attraction as a “secret” that was kept from the masses throughout time, ancient records indicate otherwise. The Emerald Tablet, dated to approximately 3000 B.C. C., is supposedly the first written text that reveals the “secret” of deliberate creation.
Fast forward to the time of Jesus and thanks to new insights into ancient translations of ancient manuscripts, as well as recovered Biblical books, we learn that his teachings were very much in line with what current science reveals about the nature of the Universe.
In the Essene Gospel of Peace, Book 2, for example, an anonymous scribe reports that Jesus says that the power to change our world lives within us. This is in line with the teachings of the Law of Attraction that our power lies in our vibrations, as we get what we feel. Changing what we feel, we change what we receive. Power resides within us, not through our power to make something happen in the physical world, but by learning to manage the energy that flows from our hearts and souls.
In another example, the early translations of the book of John say that we should ask without ulterior motives and be surrounded by our answer. Author Gregg Braden, in “Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer,” interprets this to mean “in order for our prayers to be answered, we must transcend the doubt that often accompanies the positive nature of our desire.” The Nag Hammadi Library records a lesson from Jesus teaching that transcending that doubt allows us to “move mountains.”
The instruction “be surrounded by our response” is in keeping with the wisdom of the Law of Attraction to activate the vibration of what we want by acting as if; immersing ourselves in the feeling of our manifest desire. Knowing that our thoughts manifest, releasing doubt is crucial to manifesting what we want. That is what allows us to move mountains, whether literally or figuratively.
Another teaching of Jesus is revealed in the original text of the “ask and it shall be given” passage. The modern condensed version of the King James Bible says: “Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.”
But the original text (as reported by author Neil Douglas-Klotz in “Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus”) is more like: “All things you ask directly, directly…from within my name, you will be given. Until now you have not done it. Ask for no ulterior motive and let yourself be surrounded by your answer. Let yourself be enveloped by what you want, may your joy be full”.
This teaching could easily be interpreted to mean that what really matters is how we feel. (Which can actually be taken literally: our feelings become matter.) As Braden teaches, “we must first have the feeling of our answered prayers in our hearts before they become the reality of our lives.”
loaves and fishes
Author Todd Michael believes that a well-known section of the Gospel of Matthew contains the technique of creating miracles, as laid out in twelve steps. His book, “The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle” posits that the story of the loaves and fishes, translated from the original Greek, reveals the steps Jesus showed us to create our own miracles.
Michaels argues that the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Matthew 14:13-23) is unique not only because it is the only miracle included in all four gospels, but also because Jesus performed this miracle twice. Says Michaels, “It’s as if Jesus is saying, ‘Watch carefully and make no mistake. I’ll carefully display this for all to see and repeat it, so you can see how to do it for yourself.'”
The twelve steps that the author believes Jesus laid out for us are an instruction manual for creating complete miracles. By reviewing the original Greek text and choosing slightly different meanings for complex words, Michaels translates Jesus’ actions into a clear process for deliberate creation. The process includes: Alignment, Asking, Visualizing, Gratitude, Acting as if, and Receiving. These steps are also fundamental to the practice of deliberate creation.
good company
Many other spiritual teachers also share and embody the principles of reality creation. Tibetan abbots who have passed down their wisdom in high mountain monasteries for eons teach that feeling is the crucial ingredient in their prayers. The Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus taught us “As above, so below”, that our world is a reflection of who we are. The ancient Babylonians also practiced these principles. You can find this information in the writings and stories of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
This information is far from new. What we do with these instructions is up to us. Although teachers can show us the way, and we can read book after book listening to one expert after another, there is no point if we don’t implement what we learn.
May this Easter awaken in you new inspiration to live the life to which you are called. Namaste.
