This document is a metaphysical and spiritual interpretation of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It covers Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, emphasizing the spiritual significance and symbolic meanings of this event. The analysis focuses on themes of spiritual awakening, the battle between higher and lower selves, and the application of Christ’s teachings in personal growth and enlightenment.

Matthew 4:1–11

Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh  him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

S Vanity, vanity, all is vanity! This is the establishing, then, within man, that all temptation is vanity, selfishness. And even He, that has raised in self the Christ Force, must face the temptation of the same. For even in raising the Christ Force there is the temptation to allow all others to know of it, to find vanity in self that ye have done what so few could do. For even as Jesus overcame that which were the temptations of the earth, so greater temptations came to Him. For the power that He held then could change the world – but notin God’s way or time. Though for the betterment of man, what a temptation to cease all evil, as evil is seen by man in the world, to allay all hunger, to slay all warfare, to bring forth peace, harmony, through the dictates of one man. lt cannot be. It must be from each and every individual.

Q As angels do not have souls are they just a separate creation?

S They are a force, a life force. They are creation and separate, cannot manifest themselves into thinking individuals, though they possess longing, and are allowed joy and love, and feelings that you cannot understand within the earth plane, cannot make choice however. [10-45, 5-7-78]

Source:

And now we will give to you the love, the blessings, of the Prince of Love, the Father, and all that is the Holy Realm.

Reading 10–27

Prayer – Channel

Father-Mother God, we ask that

Thy presence be known to us, that we may be

about Thy business, as You would have it be,

oh Lord. We ask, oh Father, through that

which is the Christ, our Strength,

our Guide, our Protector.

Source:

Blessed are those who seek the Lord, not for their ego or the mind, but for their brother, their sister, through that which is faith and love.

Q You gave us about the three wise men who succeeded in getting to their destination. Could you give us a little more about the four who didn’t?

S These are the more base elements of the body or the bodily centers. Representational of that, they must be a basis, as to that, for those who would reach, or that which would become the three higher centers. They, those four, knew in advance that they were not to proceed the entire way, but had a journey, nevertheless, to make. Those entities passed much time in that which you might call lecturing, or preaching, to an extent, though on a very intellectual basis, especially to those organizations that were similar to the Essenes in other areas in that which is the Holy Land, or those areas bounding upon the Holy Land as of today, which is as Syria, South Arabia, Iran, and that area by the Caspian Sea that lies south of the Ukraine.

Q You mentioned that the other three had come back more times than they needed to. Was this also true of these four?

S Not for these four.

Q Are they stuck and condemned never to go any further, then?

S They served their purpose and went about their business as they were told in that life and following times.

Q The Source indicated that ‘the Magi served their purposes and went about their business as they were told in that life and following times.‘ Were they angels?

S No. They were those who were as studied, those who had earned the position, those who had come again. And those who came, who received that which is the blessing, who met Him who was Jesus, is the Christ, were those who you would understand to be on that step to pass on to that which are new and greater experiences, and yet held back that they may do that which is the conditioning of others, that which is the help, that which is as the footstool, the step upward, for others.

Q When you say ”held back’, was that by their own choice?

S By their own choice. 10-46, 5-13-78)

Q Since Israel is symbolic of the will, does this also have an individual meaning?

S lt has that. Where the will subjects itself to that which it knows in itself, directed by the mental conditions of self, even the intellect and the subconscious, joined in taking to itself that which is proper, that which it knows is the spiritual intent. This is the symbol of each and every individual coming to grips with that which they must face in overcoming themselves, to find the proper balance – the will, the intellectual, the spiritual. None dominating but all equal.

Q Does Israel in Matthew have this same meaning?

S The connotations of Israel quite often are that which is the searcher, the seeker. But quite often, too, it is a combination of the seeker and the use of the will, or the will itself. And even as we have given now, it is the will seeking, then, that which is right, that which is righteousness rather than selfishness. [ 10-45, 5-7-78]

Q It seems that most of the people mentioned in the Bible and the cities are representational of some symbolic– or they’re symbolic. Are we representing something, too? Does everybody represent something?

S Oh, everyone represents not only themselves, or facets of themselves, but the step in progress that you find through that which are the Testaments, that which are the Scriptures.

Q You mentioned that the three wise men were aware that they were representing something. Is this true of the other people in the Bible?

S Not so many.

Q In Matthew 4.1, where was the wilderness?

S The wilderness, the actual wilderness, lay outside of, well, lay between Bethlehem and Jerusalem – more to the east, about 22 leagues east of the midway point between Bethlehem of Judaea and (not the other Bethlehem) and Jerusalem. The wilderness lies within each and every entity in their soul search in that which is the overcoming of the mental conditions, or the mental powers, by that which is spiritual nature.

Q Which of the spiritual centers were cleansed or overcome at this time?

S All.

Q Was the actual length of His fast 40 days and 40 nights, or is the number 40 symbolic of a long time?

S Both.

Q What was the actual length of time?

S Forty days.

Q This fasting and hungering: was this purely physical or are we to have the meaning that He was in meditation and so forth and then hungered? That it wasn’t just food but that He was hungry for the conscious things of life?

S Symbolic in the forty days is that which is the cleansing or pulling away from that which is as the daily life, the active mind. As for the 40 nights, that is the cleansing of the subconscious nature and the karmic nature of self, through that which is not only fasting of the body, the body’s desires  and the mind’s desires, but that of the spirit also.

Q The first part of chapter four deals with the temptations of Jesus. Is the supposed conversation with the devil actually taking place between the higher and lower self?

S This is correct, or is representational of that which is the spiritual nature and the animal or the humanistic nature of man.

Q When Jesus was being tempted, just what was He being tempted to do or to not do?

S First, to be human. To delve into those thoughts, those physical activities of the human. But more so that of the ego, and that of the knowing, and having the ability to do all things. Unlimited power through the opening, the true and final opening of the body to that of the spiritual nature. And yet, at that time, able to use free will. This is temptation. For the man, Jesus, saw the world as a man, the complaints, the miseries of the world, the wrongs of the world. And with but a wave of the mind thrusting forth the power of the spirit, the entire world would have been changed. What a temptation to the human side of a spiritual being! And yet, the human side put itself aside that the spiritual nature would know that man must earn his own way, must find his own salvation and come to his God in truth and in seeking rather than having it done for him or thrust upon him by the will, ever so good, of another.

Q In Matthew 4.5, where was the holy city and the temple, and what do they symbolize?

S The holy temple, the holy symbol, here, being the same, or one and the same. That which is the holy city within self is the Jerusalem of the body, of the mind, that which is the seat of the God Force or where ye meet your God. The holy city, well, there are two holy cities here, you see. Naphtha and that which is Jerusalem itself.

Q The holy city of Naphtha, where was it located?

S That was located upon the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee.

 Q Is it the same as Napthal, Napathal, and Napthalim?

 S These are later terms for same. [10-45, 5-7-78]

 Q Where was the high mountain in Matthew 4:8 and what does it symbolize?

 S Naphtha, or Naphtali, or the version of same where Jacob’s son, his sixth son, was put in as priest, high priest, that those ships might find a port.

Matthew 4:12-22

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee: And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the seacoast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed him.

S How strange. Here we have Peter wearing red. For Peter was not of that who should have worn red. For his tribe was brown, black, and white. We have here the representation in that which did occur of those cities, as given, representing that which is as the sympathetic and the parasympathetic system, and that which are the kidneys of the cleansing of the body. And we have that which is Jesus, the Light, the Force, the Spirit. Repent, think again, and become even as that that you would become if God is to work through self. Ye have here, then, Peter. Peter, faith. For what greater faith was shown by any man, by Peter, the rock, the faith, that was builded upon. And we have that which is as James, the judgment or the judge within the body. We have that which is John, the light, or love. For you see, each and every figure, here, representational of that which are the efforts that must be found within the body. We have here also, then, besides that which is the faith which must be found – we have that which is judgment which must be balanced within the body. We have that which is the spiritual nature of the light of John. We have that, then, which is as strength. These are the four representations as the Christ Force must call upon within each and every individual, that they, too, might go to that which is representational of Capernaum or Capernum, being that which is established by Rome, or the authority, and here it is the mind again. And this is the will–mind, the power of mind, which is ever in struggle with that which is as the spiritual nature which cries, ‘Repent! Think again!’‘ Here you have that, then, which together, brought together in that which is the correctness, the cleansing of the body, that which is as the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system brought into harmony. You have then the overcoming, or that which goes forth to fish of men, that which will bring the brothers, the sisters, towards that which is their own cleansing, their own harmony, their own balance, and their own seeking to be fishers of men.

Q What does Nazareth symbolize in Matthew 4:13?

S That represents that which is as the force of centering within the body, bringing that which is as the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems into play, or the balance between same.

Q Does it relate to one of the spiritual centers specifically?

S lt relates to that which is as the solar plexus.

Q And Capernaum, you said, symbolized the will-mind. Does it relate to a spiritual center?

S No. lt represents that which is the mind which controls the body, or the will that controls the mind that controls the body, and has brought destruction upon mankind, even as Rome ground down the opposition, though very intellectually, very authoritatively, very legally.

Q And Zabulon and Nephthalim?

S There are those centers, then, even as given, having to do with the kidneys and the cleansing of the body forces within self, even as the kidneys themselves cleanse the liquid area of the body. We also have here, once again though, too, the use of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic units of the body and that which is as the force that goes through them, which is the Christ repent force, or the Christ Force bringing that which are these sympathetic and parasympathetic systems together and balancing same.

Q As Peter, Andrew, James, and John symbolize certain characteristics, was that the sole reason they were chosen or was there another reason for their being chosen?

S Not only did they symbolize that which must be found in the individuals, but as individuals, they had assumed a role that they did not seek the Christ, nor especially did they seek God. For He, the Prince of Love and Mercy, chose them for that reason. For they did not desire of God; they desired of man. Therefore, the symbol of using these was that God can come to any individual by His choice, for His reasons that are beyond the scope and understanding of man, saying to each and every individual, ”Ye are capable of being saved, if I choose you and ye choose Me.”

Q Was the girl born at the same time as James and John of the same soul – the master soul?

S Not at the same time. Yes, of the same master soul.

Q Was the girl younger? If so, how much?

S Yes. Six months, three weeks, two days, four hours, seventeen minutes – on the minute.

Q Younger than John, I take it.

S Correct.

Q What was the circumstance in which the girl was brought in with six months difference? She was not, then, a sister. Was she adopted, or brought in the family in another way?