This document is a comprehensive analysis of Acts 6, focusing on its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It delves into themes such as divine guidance, the power of faith, the role of the apostles, and the story of Stephen, including his speech and martyrdom. The material emphasizes the deeper symbolic meanings and spiritual lessons derived from these chapters.
RAM Reading 10-158
Reading 10-158 was the last reading given in the RAM series. The channel over these years had increased his psychic ability such that he could give people insights/readings in a waking conscious state. He also continued to give personal readings for several years.
Shortly after this reading Frank Adams had a stroke and was no longer able to be an active member of the group. His health declined and he passed over on January 27, 1987. It is speculated by some that because of the important role he played in the establishing of the group and giving spiritual energy to the group and the channel, that he could not be replaced and the RAM source ceased to come through.
7-19-86
Acts 6
Channel: Prayer
Oh Lord, send to us now the gift of love, guidance, understanding and wisdom, and all those things that you see that we need, that we may be as helpers, as guides, for those who seek to see and know Thy face. These things we ask, oh Lord, knowing that it is Thy will to be done, not our own, but thine.
Source
The stars sing His praise. The angels are the chorus, and you are the actors that glorify the name of the Lord. Hear, then, oh children: the Lord is one Lord. The Lord is mercy. The Lord is grace. The Lord is love and light. Ye have heard that you must seek, that you must ask, that you must knock, and these are the truths. And yet, how you seek, how you ask, and how you knock is of the greater importance. For you cannot ask and yet tell God what you want, for it is beyond you. You may not seek, telling God what you wish to find, for that is beyond you. And you may not knock, setting the standards of how the door must be opened or what you will find. For this, too, is beyond you. Then what is not beyond you? To seek, to ask, and to knock, leaving it all to God with but one purpose in mind: to serve, to serve God through the help to others. And how may you help others? By being gentle, kind, loving, and above all noncritical. For if your downfall is any one thing at this time it is criticism. For none has the right to criticize; for none is better than another nor worse than another. Therefore, seek ye as we have given. We are here. We are ready for this reading. We are ready for questions.
S We have this group. We have the inquiring minds of this group. We have the group mentally, physically, and spiritually. We find at this time there are still some discrepancies between that which you would have as the spiritual nature, the-mental nature, and the physical nature of self. Therein you must find the balance. We are now ready for questions.
ACTS 6:1-2:
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, “It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.”
S You have disharmony over minute things, even in your own daily lives, even in the area that is yourself, so they at that time had same. But unlike so many now, they looked to find the solution and found it in the fact that the word comes before the body and the mind must be as the tie between the physical and the spiritual being of self, and in this case the group knew that the spiritual word must come before the physical feeding, so the mind, or those who were the mind acted as the mind, found solution of same.
ACTS 6:3-6:
“Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.” And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
S The blessing or the anointing here of the laying on of hands is symbolic as to that which occurs within yourselves when you find the process to pull together all the facets of the personality that you are at this time in this incarnation. Those so named here represented, and represent in selves, those centers being given their duties in the spiritual search or the spiritual way and meaning, even as self ignites the fires of the spirit within yourself by praying and meditating unselfishly to set forth, then, the seven centers of self to guide, to sanctify, that which you are and that which you do and think.
ACTS 6:7:
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
S Here is the search within yourself. Here is the meeting and the conversion of your thoughts and your activities. Here is even the line of warfare within yourself as you will see in the course of this reading. As you change your habits, your ways, your thinking, as you become one in the path of the Lord, so the obstacles will occur that are within you: obstinance, selfishness, foolishness, desire. These things must be met even as an enemy in battle and overcome by that which ye have been given before – love, gentleness, faith, patience, et cetera.
ACTS 6:8-10:
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
S Stephen represents the force in self, or in selves, that plunges headlong into the battle for the spiritual triumph, that seeks to right the body even against overwhelming odds. Stephen, in a sense, is justified as to the path taken to become a sacrifice for the Lord. However, Stephen also represents that which forgets the prudent approach, the gentle approach, which by actions and by deed, rather than forward onslaught, overcomes the enemy in selves and outside of selves.
ACTS 6:11-15:
Then they suborned men, which said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.” And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, And set up false witnesses, which said, “This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.” And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
S They saw innocence. They saw the childness that has the faith. Even as you tread the path, you must realize that the less good in the world, the less good in yourself, will fight on their terms against that which is regulated by the spiritual force, the spiritual understanding, the spiritual rules. Therefore, as given, Stephen approached the unattainable at that time, knowing full well that it could not be overcome, not by self, nor was the time proper or the place proper, and yet fulfilling a need at the time of the people of the time to have the martyr or the understanding of the martyr and also the example that regardless of what happens to the mental body and the physical body, this is overcome by the spirit in self, the spirit of God working within, the spirit of God working without, and that which happens in this plane is only important as to the lessons learned and the patience found.