This document provides a detailed analysis and interpretation of Matthew 8 from the Bible about spiritual awakening. It includes a prayer, discussions on various teachings and events described in the chapter, and questions with corresponding answers that delve into the metaphysical and esoteric meanings of the texts. Themes like faith, healing, spiritual awakening, and the interaction between the material and spiritual worlds are explored. The material also examines the symbolism and deeper meanings behind the actions and words of Jesus and his disciples.

Reading 10-29

Prayer – Channel

Merciful Father-Mother God,

have Thy truth pour through us at this time.

Surround us by Thy love, Thy mercy, that we,

oh Lord, may do Thy bidding and be channels

of Thy blessing for all Thy children, especially

those who seek to see and know Thy face. We

ask for the blessing and the presence of Jesus 

the Christ, our Elder Brother, that He may

walk with us, and talk with us, in all that

we think, say, and do.

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He that would call upon the Lord must oft be in prayer, joyous prayer. He that would follow the footsteps of the Christ must heal the wounds of others. He that would walk and talk with God must minister to the needs of others. And the one that would find the mercy must find the oneness. For in mercy and love is that which is brought forth – the God Force. And (that) he that throws aside that which is personal desire becomes one with that which is the spirit and knows the truth of the being. Until that which is the understanding of the position of self in the work is established, until that which is the understanding of that which is the baseness of each and every individual, as represented in self, is understood, can the work be done. For until there is the understanding of that which is the self, or the selfishness of a being as the entity, can there be established within the mind and mental conditions the proper place and the understanding of the lowly origin that are the personalities, or that which are the human personalities of individuals and of self. And until that which is as described as sin or desires is understood to be that which must be understood, there cannot be that which is as the awakening to the truth of that which the individual must do. Therefore, in the awakening of self, even of each individual, the understanding of this world must be met. That is to say, it cannot be put aside, it cannot be divorced from the life until the proper understanding has been achieved. This, then, is that which must be understood. Until the individual understands that all that is sin in the eyes of man must be understood by man, to be put aside by man, to understand that which He, the Prince of Love, became. How was it put? That even the one who announced the way understood the baseness of the individual not arisen as being not worthy to touch that which was the lowest of Him who was aware, awake, divorced from that which is man’s reality and had known, totally, repentance.

Q During His ministry did Jesus ever teach the people, as given here, or were these teachings given only to His disciples?

S There were twofold teachings. One, into the mysteries, even as the mysteries are to an extent being explained here, for that was for the disciples, you see. For the masses, some was given, but much that has been stricken from the records, or cast aside by organized religion, delves into that which are the understandings that this group and other such groups must have to understand that which is given now. Even to that which is karma, the truth of rebirth, and the promise that is given that those who turn their face to God will become gods in their own right. Contrary to much of the teachings of the time, the entity, Jesus, spoke as one with authority. For that entity used arguments and the power of the written word, not depending on that which was taught by the scribes or the rabbis, the priests or those who depended upon the interpretations and understandings of the past scholars of the Torah, the laws.

Matthew 8:1-4

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. and Jesus saith unto him, Sec thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

S Here you have that which is the description for each and every individual to behold within them(own)selves, the awakening (that which is as the truth, or that which is the totality ) or that which is the speaking, the listening, the being fed by God, even as that which is in meditation, or the highest peak, or the mountain, returning through that which is the body, meeting that which is the destructive force or man’s destructive nature, that which is as the leper, see? Here you have the cure, if one would meet the Christ within. Even that which destroys the body, the mind, and cripples the soul, is cleansed, made whole, through that which is meditation, the meeting of the Christ and the faith shown here. Speak not of it to others, but let them see it as it is in truth within thy being, thy actions, the power of the soul that pours forth to those who would open their eyes, their ears to the truth of reality in reality.

Q This seems to be an instruction not to preach in the sense that the average minister preaches. Please clarify this.

S When you are sought out because of your actions, because of those things that others see within thy being, then this is true preachment. For all souls that are within an awakening entity have the power to thrust the mind and body of the awakening entity towards that which is the path of understanding. Have ye not many times used the phrase, “When the pupil is ready, there will come the teacher’? This is the truth. For souls recognize souls, and those who, in truth, search, may be directed towards that which is the force, or the focalizing, of a being who is in the path that may then feed the souls of others.

Q If people seek this, even at a rudimentary level, and go to a church such as Unity, then it is right for the minister to preach when they come seeking. Is this correct?

S This is correct, even as it is correct for a Baptist minister to preach in his fashion to those who have his direction. But the true direction are those who calmly live the word, not in frenzy, not as neon signs, but rather as the cool, clean light of God.

Matthew 8:5–10

And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying, “Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented”. And Jesus saith unto him, “I will come and heal him”. The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, ‘Go’, and he goeth; and to another, ‘Come’, and he cometh; and to my servant, ‘Do this’, and he doeth it”. When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, “Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”

S In this true situation, you see, you have that which is explained in this fashion to the metaphysical, to the esoteric mind or level. First you have Capernaum– this as representational of the authority or the power of Rome or that which commands the area or Rome being that which is the mind of power, if you would have it the power of the will as authority. You have here, then, that which is in authority or in command, or that which is the centurion, which is the power of the mind unleashed by the will, to control that which is the body, even that which is the son of the body or that which is tormented. And as the mind and will recognize the authority of the spirit as represented in Jesus Christ, so the body is saved. And the wonderment, here, is that the authority, the desire, the force of the physical being, is pushed aside by the need that arises within it and its recognition of the need for the spiritual life.

Q What does Israel represent?

S This is that which is the spirit within man, or the Holy Spirit, which is to, that lies to be awakened by the Christ Force, or Jesus, which is as the force that awakens, that cleanses, that has it about its duty, or that which is representational of the truth of the being.

Q What steps can we take to bring this about?

S Find thine own holy mountain, and when thou hast done so, let thyself come down and be, then; as a light within thine own body – trusting, believing, having faith, and living with the tenets thereof.

Matthew 8:11–13

And I say unto you, “That many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”. And Jesus said unto the centurion, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee”. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

S The warning clearly given here: Awaken within thyself that which is the Holy Spirit, that which is the Christ, that which is the force of redemption. For ye have a redeemer, and He awaits for thy awakening. Be not one that is cast aside for thine own desires, thine own belief in self. For selfishness is that which is the only stumbling block for each and every individual. Between self and God and that which is the outer darkness is the parting from self of God.

Q What is it that Jesus meant when He said, ” ... but the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”?

S There are those who will pass that time and not accept, even those who have taken on the sign of the beast, as so many even have now, who will not, cannot, for their ego, for that which is the belief of that which is of the material or the selves, cannot give up in any shape or manner and will elect not to go forth to those higher realms and, oh, their hour of darkness will again be starting over at the bottom and working, working, through those eons of times, through each and every age that comes, for another chance. Take this as that which is for selves, to be about selves‘ business. What business? As so often given, thy Father’s. For this is the opportunity, this is the chance that comes so few times for selves to rise above this plane. [10–8, 4-12-74]

Matthew 8:14–1 5

And when Jesus was come into Peter‘s house, he saw his wife‘s mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

S Here you have representation of the Christ Force awakening that which even as resorts to Peter or that which is the thought or the rock upon which the awakening in every individual must be built –into that, then, which is as the female or the mother figure of that which is the will to do same and be about the business, or that which is the Father‘s business.

Q In the Cayce material there‘s been a problem in a lot of people‘s minds because two people were given as having been Peter‘s wife. Were there two wives, or were there two aspects of the same soul?

S Peter, the rock, lived through three wives.

Matthew 8:16-1 7

When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by  Esaias the prophet, saying, “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses”.

S This is ever His promise: Come unto Me all ye that travail and are heavily laden and I will refresh you. Whether this is as the demonic, or that which is called the demonic, or that which is the physical, or that which is the mental possession, that which keeps each and every individual from the awakening or the understanding, or that which keeps them away from God ( for God keeps Himself not away from you), it is by your own selection that ye make yourself unavailable to Him. Therefore, make thyselves to God aware, that He may cast aside the infirmities of mind, body, and that which afflicts spirit, or condemns the spirit, to that which is the body physical of the individual. 

Q Just exactly what does “bare our sicknesses” mean?

S What is sickness but wrongdoing in one way or another. To bare them is to look at them and see them for the truth of what they are, and as the very truth ( not what you would understand truth to be, but the very truth, or true truth) is known, there is no sickness.

Matthew 8:18–20

Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, “Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest”. And Jesus saith unto him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”

S This is a repudiation of that which is the material drive in man or the self–possessiveness of man, even as Jesus left the multitudes. For where in a multitude at that time, or in this time, are there those who are not possessed by that which is the physical plane itself, the material being, the material surroundings, the material possessions. Here ye have, then, that which is the repudiation of home (for it is material) of place or names. For, even as given here, animals (or the animal spirit or drive within the individuals) look to the material itself- a home or a place or a nest or that which are even the four walls– where that which is the spirit, the truth, need none, knows the difference between the spiritual and the material.

Q Was this scribe a disciple?

S Yes.

Q Who was he?

S Mark.

Matthew 8:21–22

And another of his disciples said unto him, “Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.” But Jesus said unto him, “Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”.

S Even as given or even understood by the material world, meaning that which is as those dead in spirit must bury the dead. Where those who are alive in spirit know, then, that there is no death and that the body is that which is only the symbol of the chains that hand one into that which is the material, or possess one into the material plane, or is the vehicle of use within the material plane. Therefore, even as spoken here to John, turn to that which was The Name, even, to be a light, a blessing, a scintillation, rather than that concerned with the worldly or even that which was so strong in Israel, stronger then, even, than now among the peoples of that place and time, of the importance of the burial and the burial feast to the family, to the friends, to the religion.

Q Does that also mean, then, that since the father was in the spirit realm, that those in the spirit realm would also take care of him?

S Correct.

Q Was this second disciple John that He was speaking to?

S Correct.

Q And the first, the scribe?

S Mark.

Matthew 8:23–27

And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Lord, save us: we perish”. And he saith unto them,” Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marveled, saying, “What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?”

S This is life. For the true spirit sleeps peacefully, knowing that there are no troubles, that the manifestation of same within life is that which is of karmic origin, present and past karma, created by man in his illusionary world. And if ye have faith, understanding, ye may calm all things for self, for others. And here, in that time, it shows you even those who saw the miracles, saw them with eyes of the material, even, believing that it was of a man, by a man, controlling that which were the elements – not realizing fully, yet, that it is the spirit that lies within that controls the man, and the man, then, is the instrument that controls the tempest.