This document is a comprehensive analysis of John Chapter 5 from the Bible, focusing on its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It discusses the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda, Jesus’ teachings on faith, healing, and the Son’s relationship with the Father. The material explores themes such as divine intervention, spiritual awakening, and the deeper meanings behind Jesus’ miracles and words.
RAM Reading 10-88
Prayer – Channel
Beloved Father-Mother God, we approach You through the love and the redemption we have received in Jesus the Christ. We ask now that we may be made tools of Your use, that we may glorify You, and that our brothers and our sisters may reap the benefits of the promises, of the words, the love, and the actions that are of You.
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I am he that sits upon the Throne. I offer you life or death. I offer you peace or turmoil. I offer you light or darkness. I offer you that which is the Way or that which is the wilderness. I give you the waters of life or the seed of destruction. Choose well. For it is of you and for you that you choose. If you would choose life, light, and the Way, do this not for selves but for that which is the glory of the Father, that which is the Blood If you would give life and light to others, make clear the Path, open the Gate, show the Light that those that seek may find, that they ask may receive, that open the door to the knock, that you, too, may know that which is the joy and the comfort of the Lord..
In the Blood you are washed clean. Fear not. For blood is the life and life is God, and you are of God, so fear not. You are not an afterthought, nor are you a by-product of God’s way or action. You are the Plan. You are the product of the Plan. You are the end result. You are the prize. You are the song. God makes no mistakes. Mistakes are of man. And yet, you are beyond man. For mankind is of this world, and you are of that which is beyond this world. I AM that I AM is the creator, and therefore receive joy, love, and mercy. Awaken, children of men – find mercy, love. Follow that which is your heart. Cast aside desire. Receive that which is the Word.
John 5:1-4
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
S You have, here, representation of the five senses and the five lower centers, or the five lower endocrine centers. You have Bethesda here, meaning that, really, which is choice to life. You have that in the stirring of the water, or the spiritual waters of self. And you have that which is the redemption of the bodily mental system by that which is the awakening of the spiritual centers. Angel here is not an angelic host, but that which are the forces that arise from the use of the lower centers. However, the lower centers cannot be stirred unless there is that which is the compliance and use of that which is the chain effect of the five senses being awakened to the spiritual necessities, or that which is the search. Normally, in that which is the search, only those senses of sight and hearing stir that which is a formulation, or a formula, or formulae that would be used in a search. A true search stimulates that which are the other senses to respond in accord with that which are those other senses that have awakened the search. Most of the time, the responding three senses are not so blatant as to be made known to that which is the intellectual capacity, or the mind capacity, to understand. And yet, you so often see in those that are termed musically or artistically inclined that, in these, the awareness of the awakening of these senses are apparent to the intellectual mind. It is best to train all the senses in the search. Many would feel that making the sense of touch, for instance, be aware of that which is a spiritual search is ludicrous. But it is not so. For the touch of a flower, or the touch of a beautiful stone, or water, or the wind, or the sun, is just as much stimulating to the spiritual needs as that which is listening to the Word or reading the Word. For, you see, the wind, the sun, what have you, are but the Word in action. Therefore, dedicate a sense to each of the five lower centers, and find if you cannot link responses of these centers, especially in times of meditation. Go over them in the contemplation before entering that which is meditation. Meditate upon these centers, and then become aware of your highest, your highest centers, before that which is the calming of all thought, as far as possible within yourselves, in the dedication to that which is the quietness, the peace, the stillness.
Q Could you tell us if these five lower centers are linked in a standard fashion for each entity, or does the linkage vary from one individual to another, and what is the importance of this exercise?
S You may establish any coupling as you would have it. The importance is that to bring to the attention of the physical self, then the mental self, of the spiritual self. That is to say, the physical area, the physical container, becomes aware of the spiritual by the mental focusing upon it. So, then the mental becomes aware of the spiritual by finding a physical point to bring forth the idea of the ideal–the spiritual. [10-106]
John 5:5-13
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, “Wilt thou be made whole?” The impotent man answered him, “Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.” Jesus saith unto him, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, ” It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.” He answered them, “He that made me whole, the same said unto me, take up thy bed, and walk.” Then asked they him, “What man is that which said unto thee, ‘Take up thy bed, and walk?’” And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
S Many are asked, “Would you be healed?” and do not believe. Many who are asked and reject it for the pleasures of life. For there is no excuse not to be spiritually healed. Jesus allowed this one to give that which is the verbal excuse. And yet, there is no excuse. But Jesus, in that which was the anticipation of the shedding of the blood that would cleanse all individuals if they would accept, gave that which this entity did ask, seek, and need. In that which was the direction for this entity to arise and take his quilt, simply meant – pick up that which is your karma, carry it as a man with strength of purpose. You have the way out – use it. And the entity, you see, at this time and in reality, did not know who Jesus was, but in reality, considered Jesus to be quite mad, and yet compelled to follow that which was the Word much to his delight. And that which was seen as curing on the Sabbath merely is pointing out to mankind that the interpretation of God, the laws, life itself, by mankind is not true, and is not just, and certainly is not merciful. And yet, God is all of these things. For justice can be merciful, even as exampled here by Jesus the Christ giving that which is respite to this one, not forgiving him of his sins, but giving him the opportunity to rise up and carry that which is karma to the proper conclusion, rather than seek to have that which is the karmic lesson thrown aside because of the weakness of the moment. Incidentally, the entity did fulfill that which was the karmic debt to himself by learning from this incident truly to carry that which is the weight of the individual cross by assuming fellowship with others who are in need, and going to those who have greater need, as the entity saw them to be, and establishing, then, that which is love, the helping hand, and yet, and yet, did not fall into the trap of trying to assume the burdens of the brothers and the sisters, which is so human a failing with those who would follow the Path, the Light, and the Way. This is not the way. You cannot assume your brother’s debts, your sister’s transgressions. You may lighten it; you may show them how to carry their quilt, but you cannot do more.
Q Didn’t Jesus assume the burden?
S Jesus did not assume the burden. Merely showed the entity how to assume a proper attitude, a proper way of dissipating (as you might say) that which is the burden.
John 5:14-18
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which made him whole. And therefore, did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
S Even though the teachings had been with them (and with you) from the beginning of time, that you are part of God and all are equal, this is not what is acceptable within an individual. For regardless of how you might observe someone to be egocentric or ego-centered, there is that feeling of inferiority because of that which is karma, because of that which is written upon the akashic records. And through that which is the subconscious mind of the individual, there is knowledge of same. Therefore, hatred will pour forth, vileness will pour forth from those who assume that someone would be so righteous as to become or say they are an equal or part of God. Incidentally, Jesus was telling this individual, “I have shown you how to carry your karma. Don’t fail now, because that which you will receive will be far worse karma. You have been given the lesson – make it part of you.” Incidentally, too, that entity did set down the rest of that life and fortify within self that which Jesus gave to him and carried it forth through the subconscious yearnings and that which are the forces from the subconscious, and therefore learned a great deal and, in truth as we see it, did not make the wrong adjustments to the life patterns that followed. The entity was persecuted at that time by the Jews and the questioning. The priests, especially, were infuriated that this entity had allowed Jesus to work that which they termed a miracle in the entity – the same miracle that you may receive upon calling upon Him to perform within you. You may fight your neighbor over this. You may fight yourself over this. For you have a chief priest and priests within you that fight continually to master that which are the spiritual impulses within you. That entity picked up his quilt, spoke his piece, told the world he was the living proof of the love of God. And because people saw and believed, drew the wrath of the priestly class who claimed to be the only ones who could hear God’s voice and be the intermediate between God and sinners. The entity was beaten, was sentenced even to be stoned, but the entity had found that peace, and communed with his soul, and felt that even if the life was to be taken from the body, that the life had experienced that which is God’s action, and believed in the promises, as had been given, of God’s love. And because of the strong belief, the entity was not stoned. For the strong belief brought Jesus the Christ into the midst of the crisis, and therefore all was forgotten by the presence of Jesus, and the focus of attention of wrath, indignation, yes, hatred, poured towards that which was the Christ to be, who neatly fended it aside, and allowed the one to leave in peace, love, and prosperity.
Q Was the persecution of Jesus just verbal at this point?
S No. There were stones cast, and trash. But not for long, because it did nothing. It did not even soil the robes of Jesus. For as He put it, His time had not come. Much to the consternation of the priests and the Pharisees who would have loved to have drawn His blood at that time. And yet, there were among the priests those who knew that it could not be done at that time and must be done later. And even with this vast knowledge could not accept what was, in reality, happening.
Q And the priests knew that He was the Christ, some of them?
S Some of them knew that they were witnessing the Christ and could not receive it. Woe to you if you do not receive the Christ that you call forth in prayer and meditation. You may sin, you may go astray, but do not reject that which you have called forth. For long is the path of retribution.
John 5:19-23
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.”
S When you call upon that which is the Christ, when you call upon that which is God, you bring forth that which is the pattern within yourself. And if you call upon it, and then reject it, or you call upon in meditation for guidance, and you reject that which comes, you reject all spiritual things. You stumble, you fall, you may pick yourself up and seek the more. The Christ may pick you up and have you seek the more, if you are receptive. But if you reject that totally which you have called upon, and become the chief priest with knowledge of what you do (but not acceptance) then you condemn yourself to that which is the fall, and that which means the total beginning over again in the slime of that which would be considered the lowest of human endeavors, or activities, to climb through the bestial side towards that which is the spiritual nature. Mankind is in turmoil. And yet, from turmoil comes that which is the knowledge there must be a solid, steady path, a solid, steady way. It is that knowledge that gives you the right, that gives you the opportunity, that gives you the push towards finding the Path, holding to the Path, and becoming a path in turn.
John 5:24-29
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
S You must recognize that which is the call to life. For those who heed (not) that which are the urge and desires of the soul, and make certain they are not the urges and desires of the mind or the body – but of the soul; those that recognize where life is from and see God in the flowers, hear it in the breeze, feel it through the vibrations of others, through the earth, through the sun, the moon, that, then, is life. And those that select life must then awaken to the fact that as you live in this world and are of this world, you are spiritually dead. And those that are dead harken to the voice of the Master of Life. They open their blind eyes to the light, their ears are unstuck, and they hear the song of love and mercy. If you would become alive, believe, find the faith, contemplate, pray, and meditate, always with that thought as so often given, “others first, Father, others first” and not for yourself. If you cannot do it for others, do it for the Christ, do it for Jesus, do it for the glory of God. If one is more personal than the other, through this door find that which is redemption. But remember, as you lift yourself up, you are helping to lift up all mankind from this plane towards that where you were intended to go, to become part of that which you are intended to be part of, to become the harmony, to become the melody, to become the song of songs, to be that which is the Creative Force in action. For this is the intent and purpose that you were created for – to be the Creative Force yourselves.
Q Are the graves referring to man’s physical bodies with calcified pineals in which souls are interred?
S This is correct. And in many places would be called tomb, or sepulcher, what have you. [10-89]
Q Could you please discuss the relative merits of works versus faith and how these relate to grace?
S Works are dedicated by faith. The faith of a person moves them to do those things which will not impede but help others–which are not offshoots of the egos of selves, but of love and the will of becoming that which is dependent upon the spiritual rather than on the mental or the physical. Those who sin or go astray are those who do the opposite. For the ego is the downfall and then the judgment of self is that which condemns an entity when judgment must be given and cannot be escaped
Q I didn’t follow you if you related these to grace.
S Grace is that which is the true judgment that puts aside the sins. Grace is that which has broken the karmic wheel and allowed that which is the escape from the physical-mental world, into that which is the spiritual-mental world, into that which is the spiritual realm.
Q Well then, does grace depend on either works or faith?
S Grace depends upon that which is the love of God, for it is the love of God. It is that which manifested itself in the life of Jesus the Christ which gave you the opportunity to leave the wheel. Grace is that which does not judge, condemn, coach, or guide. It does not forgive. It does not make excuses for. It does not release. It does not take away. It is merely that which is God in action giving you, then, God. There is no such thing as a law that says you must act in faith, must repent. For God is that which in grace picks those that God knows deserve. It sounds heretical to say these things, it is only because you cannot understand your past and your present. For some have already received grace, that are taking tours of duty within this plane, which do not act in faith, are not those who manifest so much, God – but are fulfilling that which they have volunteered to do. Therefore, grace is God’s choosing. [10-106]
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Children of the First Cause, we give you that which is love, blessing, the opportunity to partake of that which is the Body and Blood that you may be redeemed and find that which is the Path, The Way, the open arms. Love, Blessing, Mercy unto you by the power that is invested in this by the Father. We give you that which is the Light.
RAM Reading 10-89
Prayer – Channel
Lord God, we seek, we ask, and we knock. And through the promises that we believe in, of Jesus the Christ, we come before You asking that Your mercy and Your love flow through us now to do Your bidding, to spread Your word as You know is best for us at this time.
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It is written in days of old, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Light”. Thus, sayeth the Master of Life. For the Master of Life is love, mercy, truth, light and life. And through the Door that is the Master of Life, so you shall find that which is the truth of God the Creator, God the Perfect, God that is Love. And through these readings we attempt to give you that which is the sight that you may see and behold the face of God through the spiritual understanding, through the spiritual eyes. Well, it has been said that no man has seen God, for God is a spirit. Therefore, as we help to develop, you return to that which is the spiritual nature of yourselves, the truth of your being, we would give you this that you must learn to follow. As has been given before, you have come into this world to do good, to flee from evil and bring that which is the life of God into others. How? By believing and in believing, doing those things that would aid your brothers, your sisters to find their spiritual life. You are the hands, the voice, and the action of the Christ in this world. And through the Christ those great things may be accomplished that love, mercy, patience and understanding will abide with you and through you for those that would find the Father.
John 5:30-38
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.”
S The soul that was Jesus of Nazareth encased himself in the flesh, you see, to come among you, to give to you the understanding that only as the intellect is guided by the mind and the will in itself, through the spiritual yearnings, will the individual ever hear that which is the voice of God–though that which is the voice of God is always willing and is always there. For mankind thinks in the terms of “I”. And the “I” as the individual must be lost. And when that which is the awakening of the I AM within self is accomplished, then the new “I”, which Jesus speaks of as “I” (or the individual–the pronoun) becomes that which is of the spiritual nature or the soul. It is not the ego nature, or the ego-centered nature that is found in the intellectual, material man, but a new birth. For the new birth is that which is the true creation, or your first creation in that which is the realm of the action of being as a god. True, through “mind is the builder”, you create; true, through the actions in the material world, the physical things are created, but for the spiritual sense, to the awakening of that which is the new or true you, and bringing back that which you were before there was mankind–the free soul force in motion. But now, you see, the soul force in motion is captured and held first by the physical body that you possess now as a prison state, you see, much as manacles hold the individual in a prison. And yet, to hold the soul force correctly (or the personality) there is that which is then created – the new you or the true “I.” And this “I” judges not that which are others as seen in the personal level as the ego self would judge, but through that which is the spiritual nature, or that which is the God force. And it harkens only to that which is the word of God. You will now note that through all the readings we have told you that the “I” is that which is to be thrown aside or put aside. Now we give you that which is the hope of John that you will find that which is the new and give you that which is the old or the true personality with that which is the spiritual name which you will have awakened and created. For all the names lead to that name which you develop in that cause which is the new “I” or the true being. From thence you come to that which is the true judgment, for the work of God is within you and through you. For you then are the personality, but the personality as regulated by your own being and knowledge of God. And God’s actions and love become one with selves even as Jesus the Christ was of the Father and the Father was of Jesus the Christ.
Q Will you explain asking “in the name of” Christ?
S Asking in the name of Christ is asking through the God force within. As the Master of Light asked and said, “It is the Father within that doeth the work.” So, you ask in Christ’s name dedicated to Jesus, Who indeed sacrificed Himself for you, that you may find the Path and the Way and the Truth. There are many who would throw other names, other ways out for you to follow or call upon. But regardless, there is but one truth, one Christ within, one God and only one Holy Spirit. It is of your choosing; it is of your way to find where this God is, where the Christ is, and how to call upon the Holy Spirit or action. [10-91]
Q Must each soul go through this rebirth in every incarnation, or does it carry over?
S No. It is as a topping off. It is as the apex or the peak – the pinnacle, you see. There are those who have accomplished this, and yet return to do this or that or be of some service to others, say as the madman, or the cripple or even the demigod, as seen by others, to have this accomplished, or that accomplished, or to help others as those that live the Word, are the Word, as Jesus the Christ would have them be, or that which is the “I”. Once an individual has accomplished this in those incarnations that come, there is no need for the individual to recreate, redo or regroup through this process. It is there; it is never relinquished, although other things may be met. Many would give to you that each life must be better and better until you accomplish the total life and have overcome all things that are karmic – meeting dharmas as they come. But this is not the truth. For the truth is: life and time are not in a single line or pattern as you have been told before, but that which is curved, convoluted in upon itself in the manner of a whirlpool. And you step from one pattern to the next as the best is for the accomplishment for the soul force and the purposes of the Creative force within the individual and in other individual lives
Q We have been told that “there is the gathering of the forces of God’s desire in individuals who are awaking and finding that they must let God know who they are and why they are, rather than the idea of God finding them and awaking them to who they are and why they are.” Yet in the above scripture it states that Jesus said, “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness be not true.” Would you please clarify the apparent contradiction here?
S Of course! No contradiction. What the Master of Life was speaking about, if He bore witness of Himself–for He was not witness of Himself but witness of the Father. That is why He also said when one had seen Him he had seen the Father. [10-103]
Q Concerning the statement that the true eye judges through the spiritual nature, how does one do this without breaking the law of not judging?
S Ah but judging in the spiritual nature is not judging as you would have it, for you term judging to be condemning. Judging in the spiritual nature is judging all things by what they are, not by the negative but by the positive–more like an accounting of that which are the positives or the positive nature of things, such as the colors of a rainbow, the feel of cool air on a hot day, the raising of joy within self, the manifesting of love in self or others. This is the spiritual judgment rather than that which is the physical-mental judgment or the material judgment. [10-106]
John 5:39-47
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”
S You are the Scriptures. You are the Testaments. You are the Psalms and the songs. You are the prayers and actions. For each and every individual is as a copy. Were you to be sent to some far place, all that is man’s history through the eyes of that which is the spiritual, and the memories that are of the physical, the thoughts of the intellect, the mind, is embedded within you. The actions of all mankind are within you. This is why you should not criticize but try to redeem. For in redeeming yourself, you lift up not only yourself but others, and in so doing lift yourself up in as that which is a circle. For remember: if you would hate your brother, you hate yourself. If you would despise your sister, you despise yourself. For you see, as so often given, all are one and connected. You are that which is of the Master Soul and the Master has come to you and you know Him not within yourselves. You have turned aside and listened to the very scriptures of others, but not the Scriptures of the Lord. You have followed and praised the actions of others, but not the actions of the Lord. It is time to awaken within yourself and see as that which is in Moses the escape from that which is bondage to that which is the promised land. But even as the people of Moses found, there is work in the promised land. For God does not hand you that which you must earn yourself. For you have chosen a path and a way, and once chosen you are on your way. This is why the Light came into this world, that you might find the easier path. That is why the Light sacrificed Itself for you. That is why the blood was shed, that you may find the path (though not as rough) through that which were the actions and are the actions of the Christ. And in that sacrifice, you may sacrifice, too, for others. For even the crucifixion of that which is the personality that you have created in the material-mental- physical world, you then aid so much in spreading that which is the Blood of the Lamb that others, too, may spread it, until all that will be redeemed, will be redeemed.