This document is a detailed analysis of Luke Chapter 14 from the Bible, focusing on its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It explores Commitment and Discipleship and the Kingdom of God; various teachings and parables of Jesus, including the parable of the great banquet, the cost of discipleship, and Jesus’ teachings on humility and selflessness. The material delves into themes like spiritual commitment, the nature of God’s kingdom, and the challenges of true discipleship.
RAM Reading 10-78
Prayer – Channel
Lord, we ask Thy mercy and Thy love and that You establish within our hearts the blueprint of He that became christed, that we, too, may serve You as You would have us. Oh, Lord, we present ourselves as we seek to see and know Thy face and to be about Thy business.
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Where are your hearts? Where is your love? By what measure do you live? What do you seek? How do you interpret? Where is your awareness? And what do you believe? By this, then, be guided, as so often has been said: love is law; law is love; God is love; God is law. Therefore, love, God, and law are one. And that which you see that you attribute to God is the manifesting of God, manifesting of love, the manifesting of the law. Therefore, learn to interpret, learn to live with, in, and through that which is the law, that which is love, that which is God. Be not mesmerized by that which is this world, the goals of this world, the laws of this world. For you are above this world, you are of God, the law, and love. Measure by the blueprint of the Christ as was asked. Live by the blueprint rather than by man’s expectations, man’s dreams and goals. Live, then, to honor thy Father, to be about thy Father’s business, to be the helping hand. And remember – keep yourselves unspotted from this world. Though you are in this world, you are not of this world. Be bold in the efforts towards that which is the spiritual. Unite in the cause, follow the way. Be love, be kindness, be mercy. Be worshipful. For God is manifested through you if you would but allow it to be.
Luke 14:1-6
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?” And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; and answered them, saying, “Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?” And they could not answer him again to these things.
S The message that is given here is the healing of the heart which, as given so often, is the subconscious, or that which is the soul of an individual. The healing of the heart by the Christ in grace, in mercy. For you cannot heal yourselves, but through the efforts of the Christ you may. For all things are possible to those that seek. For if you seek with the physical, you will receive the physical. If you seek for the mental, you will receive for the mental. But if you seek for the spiritual, you will receive in the spiritual. For the manifesting of God through the Christ, through that which releases the total self, the real self, is in the asking. For regardless of your deeds, regardless of your seeking, if you have not God, which is love, within your spirit (we seek to clarify spirit here as that which is the spiritual understanding, that which is the spirit of the quest, rather than that which you would deem the spiritual member of the triumvirate which is of yourself; the triumvirate of that which is the mental, physical, and spiritual may fuse into that which is mercy, which is justice in itself, which is the signal that the Christ was giving here in that which is the force of redemption or grace as given through that which is the Christ – for God’s reasons, not man’s reasons), it is for you to learn the search, the seeking, and yet, remember, you must have love.
Luke 14:7-11
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, “When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ‘Give this man place;’ and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, ‘Friend, go up higher:’ then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
S How well said in days of old, “vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” For from vanity comes the fall, the bitterness, the hardening of the ego. For if you would find that which is the path, proceed in that which is the way, manifest that which is of God, then vanity must be set aside. For if you put yourself first, how can you, in justice, say “others first, Father, others first?” For this is the motto you must live with and by, if you are to receive that which is your full potential within the confines of this material-mental-physical world.
Luke 14: 12-14
Then said he also to him that bade him, “when thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.”
S Simply put, you seek not for the rewards. For how often do those who say they do the holy work, the sacred work, that live, as they say, by the hand and grace of God, fully expecting the rewards for what they do. Those who seek for rewards receive nothing. Those who open themselves and allow God to work through them, they are the ones that are blessed and overcome this world. For surely, surely, the word has been given in truth, that if you would seek, you will find; if you ask, you will receive; and if you knock, it shall be opened. But as so often given, it is in the manner that you do these things that you receive. For these things, as given here, are those things that are called upon for you to do for others. For you seek God, and you ask of God, and you knock in the opportunities that are presented through those who have the needs, rather than those who say they have the fulfillment, or those who are on the path. For, as given here, if you give to those who have plenty, you have given nothing. But if you give to those who have nothing, you have given much, you have given life, you have given charity. But remember, it must be sought through love, and love has no strings. Love has no attachments. Love is.
Luke 14:15
And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, “Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.”
S This was alluding to that which is the feeding of the spiritual selves. This is that which is received in meditation. This was the awakening awareness that you must come to also – that to be fed in the kingdom of God is to go within and find the spiritual truth, the still, small voice that will guide, comfort, and succor you.
Luke 14:16-24
Then he said unto him, “A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, ‘come; for all things are now ready.’ And they all with one consent began to make excuses. The first said unto him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yokes of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.’ And the servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.’ And the lord said unto the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.’”
S The value here is the understanding between who will be blessed and who is not blessed, who really has and who really has not. For those who are tied to the material receive their rewards in the material. And those who, apparently in this world, suffer that which is lack, because of this lack (as seen by the eyes of mankind) have opened their way, their path, to the opportunity of finding the real spiritual meaning of life. This is an individual thing that you meet each day yourselves. For there are acts, and there are acts. One act may lead you away from the kingdom of heaven through that which is the absorption and the absorbing-in of the material, and another act may be that which is the giving, the seeking, bringing you into that which is the spiritual nature. Therefore, condemn not yourself to the rebirth system through that which are the chains forged by the material, that which is even as given as the ox, that which is given as the trial of five days, which in itself is pointing out that which is the material or that which are the five senses glued to that which is the material world. But seek in that where you know that you are blind, and halt, and maimed – which is the spiritual nature, or you would not be here. And only then the Master of the house, the Christ, may open the eyes, restore the gate, repair the injury, in short, make you whole. Realize the shortcomings that you have within this life within the earth and seek the spiritual nature of yourselves and others.
Q What is the trial of five days that is referred to?
S This is the trial of five days or that which is the trial of overcoming that which are the fives senses, rooted in the earth. Used here to show (or in this sense) that the five senses, if depended upon as that which is the means of living and communication, seal you to the fate of this earth, this material plane. For it is the trial of bypassing and overcoming the five senses and reaching for the sixth and the seventh that you overcome that which is your longing for the material-physical world.
Q Would you define the sixth and seventh for us?
S The sixth is that which you would consider the psychical nature of self, the intuitive nature of self. The seventh is the enlightened sense, or the spiritual sense, brought forth from without of self into self, enlightening that which is the seventh center of self which opens the way to the myriad of centers, or levels of understanding and senses of the higher realm. It is that which overcomes, or is the doorstep to grace.
Luke 14:25-26
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, ”If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sister, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple,”
S You must understand first the keynote, or the keyword here – hate. It has nothing to do with that which you would consider the word hate to be (or even mother, or other personages as given here), for it is only the superficial meaning of these terms. The deeper meaning here, or understanding, is the hate or dislike of that which is meant by the physical-mental images brought on by these words, which in themselves, in essence, mean reincarnation, chaining to the physical world. To find the Christ you must disown that which is of this world. It does not mean to disregard, because you must be aware of this plane, but to disown, disinherit this world and inherit and claim that which is the spiritual realm, the spiritual world – God.
Luke 14:27-30
“And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying,, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’”
S All things in the spiritual search, spiritual seeking, must begin by contemplation. Contemplate that which you are, the nature of things, what the search is, and what you intend to build. You seek, step-by-step, not jumping here, not jumping there. For those who use the scattered approach cannot succeed. You must attempt with that which you have been given, or that which is today’s truth, to seek and find tomorrow’s truth. You cannot skip, you cannot split, you cannot scatter. For when you do these things, you lose the initiative and the strength of the thrusting of self towards that which is the goal. And those who would falter, and find excuses, and not finish, are those who have turned their back on that which is the reality of the search, and then condemn themselves to regroup, reincarnate, and begin the search again.
Luke 14:31-32
“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage and desireth conditions of peace.”
S This is the discipline that must be met. For you of the physical- mental world are overwhelmed by the physical-mental world, the needs therein, the urges, desires and demands, earth thought itself, world thought itself, and only through discipline of the mind, the will, can the spiritual nature of self discipline the body, the tongue, and the thoughts.
Luke 14:33
“So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”
S You must unite yourself in the effort (as if you were a group) to become single. This is not only for the individual, or for groups or units themselves. You must find the pattern of the Christ, follow the pattern of the Christ. For often it has been given, “the way is narrow.” To maintain the balance that is necessary to follow the path, you must keep your mind in a single purpose, in a single pattern, in a single way, and that through the Christ towards God. For God must be the single goal, and all things in between must be overcome by the singleness, the unity of mind, body, and purpose, to the spiritual cause.
Luke 14:34-35
“Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
S Salt in the physical is that which may make growth within a plant or animal when used in its proper proportions. But in wrongful proportions it is a deadly thing, destructive in itself. And when you crave it not, then it is useless. Therefore, use that which are the spiritual message and way in the same manner. Too little is destructive; too much is destructive. Find that which is the balance. For the physical and mental are also in the way of salt. Too much or too little is destructive. Then ply it to that which is the trade, that which is the business, that which is your way towards God. To seek God in one purpose of helping your neighbor is the way. Do not make your eye so single that the purpose of your finding God within this earth and helping others is lost. For this is putting yourself in that which is the room beyond your calling, where you may be embarrassed physically, mentally, and spiritually, by being given the order to remove yourself to a lower place.