This document is a detailed analysis of Luke Chapter 16 from the Bible, focusing on its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It includes Wisdom and Parables of Wealth and Eternity Jesus’ parable of the shrewd manager and the rich man and Lazarus, exploring themes like ethical stewardship, the use of worldly resources, and the consequences of earthly choices on spiritual life. The material delves into the contrast between worldly wisdom and spiritual truth.
Reading 10-79
Prayer – Channel
Beloved Light, Creator, have mercy upon us by using us for Thy purposes. Help us, Lord, to put ourselves aside and be as channels of Your love, Your wisdom, Your blessings to all who would listen, and all who would seek.
Source
As the dawn lights the darkness, as the Son would give the Word, so then let that which you would do and be, be as the Son, be as the dawn, giving the word, becoming the light. Live in the presence of the Lord, rather than in the presence of that which is the material. Remember those things which are near and dear to the hearts of mankind are not near and dear to God. Therefore, find that which is beloved of God. And what is beloved of God but the souls of thy brothers, thy sisters. Therefore, go to those that seek, those in need. Show mercy, love, patience, and kindness, that the day of the Lord will come the sooner to this troubled land. Remember this: it is not through your works, not through your seeking that the path is found. But mark this: it is in overcoming that which is yourself by removing from the lives of others the injustice of yourself. For it is yourself that causes your brother, your sister to stumble. Therefore, learn that thrusting yourself, your problems, your desires upon others is the sin. You cannot redeem yourselves. Only God can redeem you. But in removing that which is the injustice of yourself from the presence, from the lives of others, you open to that which is the grace, the mercy of God.
Luke 16:1-3
And he said also unto his disciples, “There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, ‘How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.’ Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship; I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.'”
S All of you have or are the steward. You have been given the values of the rich, the soul force of self, the spirit body of self. There will come a time of judgment as to how you have used that which is given you, and that which is the intelligence of self (which is the steward in this case) will reason, will rationalize, and will try to survive at the level of the intelligence, or the ego.
Luke 16:4-8
“‘I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’ So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, “How much owest thou unto my lord?’ And he said, ‘An hundred measures of oil.’ And he said unto him, ‘take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.’ Then said he to another, ‘And how much owest thou?’ And he said, ‘An hundred measure of wheat’. And he said unto him, ‘Take thy bill, and write fourscore.’ And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.”
S The children of light are those who are not exposed [to] or understanding [of] that which are the material ways, the material world, the plane of that which is the earth. The rewarding, here, is the success within the earth plane, as measured by mankind, through the acts that preserve mankind, rather than the spiritual acts. For to survive, to be counted even as great in this earth plane, is not that of the spiritual way, or the soul way. It is of that which is of this earth, bound in this earth, or the prince of this world – the mind, Satan.
Luke 16:9-12
“And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous manner, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if he have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?”
S You must first overcome the ways of this world, becoming that which is harmonious with the laws as established for this plane and through this plane, especially by man, first through that which is the spiritual-mental realm, proceeding to that which is the spiritual world, or the spiritual realm. If you cannot overcome that which are the laws, and live by the laws that are set by man, how can you live by the spiritual law within yourself? How then can that riches, or that richest thing that has been given to you, the soul, be allowed to go free when the learning has not been acquired, the way has not been marked, the overcoming has not been met. Therefore, you must begin with that which is the least to become that which is the greatest. But mankind would see it possibly in the reverse, you see, finding that of the wealth of the earth, mammon, to be that which is the greater. For mammon is that which is not only the wealth of the earth but the earth thinking. Those bound too close to their nations, those bound too close to their occupations, those bound too close to politics, money – all those things of the earth – bound, yes, by the ego rather than freed by the mental overcoming, that which is the intellectual striving for that which is the earth-centered ego, stirring, the spirit, that the spirit, in turn, may overcome all things.
Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
S The great commandment, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,” is applicable here, for you cannot love that which is this world and the wealth therein and love God. You may use that which comes to you. You may take that which is the wealth handed you and reuse it to the glory of God by helping your fellow man, by lifting up the brothers, the sisters. This is mammon converted; this, is mammon cleansed – and no longer that which is the anchor, the disease, that of the ego. For this world abounds in the riches to be used, not only the riches of gold and silver, or the mineral wealths, but that of the song of the birds, the rushing of waters, the rainbow, the greenery – all these things and more are the riches of this world. Yet man sets that which are the riches of his heart and desire upon that which are the cold metals, rather than the warmth of light and love.
Q Is it possible for us to shed the ego while we are still inhabiting a human body? If yes, what would replace it?
S It is always possible for an entity to do anything. But many times the shedding of the ego is for the ego purpose and serves nothing. To shed the ego does not mean to destroy the ego or cast it aside. To shed the ego means to shed the power of the ego over the mind. For mind is ever the builder. It means to control the ego. For the ego is that part of self that is necessary to be as an individual. It does not mean to be that which is controlling the individual or the individual’s purposes. But it is that which must be balanced and that which must be put in its place, not more or less, but in its place. [10-131]
Luke 16:14-15
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them, “Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”
S How often does each individual take this into himself? How often do you become as a Pharisee? How often do you change your stance, your way, to suit your needs, your desires, and form an outlook for the benefit of self rather than the benefit of the Light, or the Way? Therefore, the cleansing comes from within for self. For each of you in your way is a hypocrite. And yet, to overcome hypocrisy one must become a hypocrite to know that which is to be battled. It is even as that which is understanding the yin and the yang. For there must be force and counter force in all things. There cannot be the light without the darkness. There cannot be life without death. There cannot be joy without sorrow. You cannot be fed if there is no hunger. Therefore, this is the law: judge not the Pharisees, but understand them so you may understand yourself and not be judged yourself. For no one has the right to judge. God has granted the individual that right to themselves, of themselves, and for themselves, in that time of judgment, but you cannot judge another.
Luke 16:16-17
“The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”
S The messenger brought that which was the beginning of light. Up until that time, that which is the Christ had not been stirred. That time or era was that which repentance was only won through additional lives. With the coming of the message proclaiming that which was the Son of Light (is the Light, the Way, the Prince of Light), grace opened the passage. And man must justify himself through the overcoming of this world and his own world within, that God may open the door, that each and every individual may find the Christ, and be the Christ, and truly be about the business of the Light.
Luke 16:18
“Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.”
S The putting aside of that which is the wife or the female essence of holding the purpose and the force with themselves, that is to say, the force or the drive to overcome, that matures or feeds that which is the spiritual nature of yourself, has then condemned themselves to repeat and repeat the life cycle until that time that the wife becomes the husband to that which is the intellect and the force of the intellect that will be the mental probe that picks the lock that opens the spiritual channel to redemption, bodily, mentally, and the rebirth of that which is the spiritual truth of the individual being to become the whole, the one.
Q Would the wife, here, be the same as shakti or kundalini?
S It can be observed as that, or used as that.
Q The female aspect, which perhaps would be the wife here, is said to refer also to the feeling nature. Is this so?
S You are speaking of feeling as to the emotional?
Q I would suppose.
S No. There is a division of the emotions, see, between the masculine and the feminine. The drive, the ferocity, the tenaciousness, is that of the male, where that of sympathy, love, and calmness is that of the female; combining into that which is the force of patience and fortitude.
Luke 16:19-26
“There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.”'”
S You have here, simply stated in this lesson (parable), that which is reincarnation and karma. The first being the overcoming of the body: as given before, what man would see lowly is the one who is overcoming and has not the mammon of this world, the one who has found God and the justification for living, regardless of the conditions. And the rich man finding only that which is the material, seeing the world in a material sense, believing to be himself the greater rather than the lesser, using not the wealth of this world for that which is the alleviation of those problems that could be overcome in this way, and finding that proper place of self on the accounting to God. The example of karma being that which is the overcoming of karma through the acceptance and living out the dharma incorporated in that life. Karma acquired by that one which is the rich man is karma more of the mind than the actions of the body. Therefore, remember mind is truly the builder. If you would be as the rich man and tormented in that which is the judgment of self, and coming before God and calling upon others to relieve the burden, and finding the burden cannot be relieved, only by acts of self, knowing the hope is in the opportunity offered by God and through others in that which is the coming back again and again that you may learn, and learn the value of that which is life and all forms, shapes of same.
Q What is the great gulf that was fixed between them?
S The great gulf is that which this entity has given – is selfishness, or self, that lies between God and the individual. For that one which was the beggar, or Lazarus (which truly, here, means to be rekindled or raised again), there was no gulf. For that entity saw and knew. For this was based on a reality rather than fable. The entity knew and realized the greatness of God and the insignificance of an individual that has not developed the God perspective or allowed God His due. In that the ego is overcome. The gulf no longer exists, and as given, the entity is taken to the bosom of Abraham.
Luke 16:27-31
“Then he said, ‘I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ Abraham saith unto him, ‘they have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.’ And he said unto him, ‘If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.'”
S This is the five senses being present in mankind as the five brothers. And here the intellect asks that they be awakened to that which is the spiritual, and the reply means that only through that which is the overcoming by the effort of giving, of presenting yourself to God. For it is God that overcomes for you, or that which is the spirit of God at work. For those who have that which is given here as Moses and the laws and cannot live by same to the growth pattern towards the spiritual relief, can find nothing, are those who are chained by that which are Moses and the laws, seeing nothing but Moses and the laws (example so often given as the Pharisees) therefore cannot gain or find relief. Only those that see in Moses and the laws a progression towards that which is the love of God via that which is the Christ, the teachings of Jesus and the Light, can find the Way.