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A Review of 2014. The Mystery behind the Brazen Serpent. As we continue with our recap of 2014, we are now ready for the month of July. This Tree of Life will focus on July. We had the privilege of studying a few messages from Deacon Rick Bettez on Science catching up with The Bible. And then doctrine of Feasts by Rick Kabrick. My main message in July dealt with the doctrine of the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ. It all Began in that very important passage in Joh 3. JOH 3:1-8, Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; this man came to Him by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Here is our Lord dealing with religion. Religion needs a spiritual birth, it needs changes. Because you see religion can be very evil, even Satanic. Religion has false doctrine, called doctrine of demons, 1TI 4:1. Religion has a devil's communion table, 1 Co 10:19-20. Religion has another gospel, GAL 1:6. Religion has another Jesus, 2CO 11:4. Religion has another Spirit, 2CO 11:4. Our Lord's words in Joh, “Do not marvel” suggest the reaction of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was totally shocked in spite of all his human accomplishments. He was totally baffled. In verse 8, Jesus illustrates that a spiritual thing is not something that you can see. When you were born again you didn't see it, but God the Holy Spirit entered you into union with Christ. The Holy Spirit came to indwell inside of you, you didn't feel it or see it either. JOH 3:8, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Where does the wind begin and where does it end? The wind cannot be seen, only the effects are visible. You know wind exists because it hits you in the face. However, you do not know how the wind got there or where it's going. So, it is with the spiritual birth. It is unseen, but it is nevertheless real. JOH 3:9, Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?” He had not been taught this and notice our Lord uses a little sarcasm at the right time. JOH 3:10-13, Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and you do not receive our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven, {even} the Son of Man.” The first man to enter into heaven in a resurrection body was the Lord Jesus Christ. However, in verse 13, the Lord Jesus Christ declared that He was and is in heaven as God at the very moment He was speaking to Nicodemus but as man He is not one place on earth, and that is talking to Nicodemus. He could be in heaven at the same time that He was also in His human body because He is the God-man, the unique person of the universe. JOH 3:14, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;” Nicodemus was familiar with Numbers 21 which gives us the story of the serpent. And so, what did our Lord mean when He said “The son of man must be lifted up?” He meant that true life could only come out of death. He meant that in order for a new creation to begin the old creation must be destroyed. Our Lord referred to His sacrificial death as a lifting up because the Jews were looking for a Messiah who should be lifted up. They were talking about the Messiah being elevated as King over Israel. However, our Lord talking about the Messiah being lifted from the earth hanging on the Cross. The principle again is that the cross must come before the crown. They wanted the Messiah to be elevated to the throne of David but before this, He must be lifted up upon the cross and put to shame. To illustrate the character the meaning and the purpose of His death, the Lord refers to the well known incident in Numbers 21. In Numbers 21 Israel was murmuring against the Lord and against Moses, the man of God. NUM 21:4-9, Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. And the people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.” And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live.” And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. These fiery serpents bit the people so that some of the people died and many others were wounded from the poisonous bites of the literal serpents. In verse 7, notice that they confessed they had sinned and they cried unto Moses for relief. And Moses cried unto God and the Lord told him to make a serpent out of brass and place it on a pole. The Jews who were bitten by the fiery serpents were told to look at the brazen serpent “in faith” and they should be healed. This all was a foreshadowing of our Lord. It spoke of Christ being lifted up on the Cross in order that He might save, through the look of faith, those who were dying from sin. The serpent was an appropriate figure of that deadly and destructive power, sin. In GEN 3:15, the serpents' seed is said to be unregenerate sinners, JOH 8:44. GEN 3:15, “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” The serpent therefore represented the sinner. The poison of the fiery serpents' bite effected the entire system of its' victims. There was no deliverance therefore for the Jews unless God provided one. The remedy which God provided was a “public exhibition” of the destroyer, the serpent on a pole. GAL 3:13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us‑‑ for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” Why didn't Moses use one of the actual serpents and spike a fiery serpent on the pole? Because it would have damaged the typology. It would have pictured God's judgment on the sinner himself and worse still, it would have misrepresented our sinless substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. HEB 7:26, For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens. The type chosen was in the likeness of a serpent, it wasn't an actual serpent, but a piece of brass made to look like one. This correlates with ROM 8:3, For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God {did:} sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and {as an offering} for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh. How could a serpent symbolize the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy One from God? A serpent is one of the last things we would ever think would represent the Lord. However, the brazen serpent foreshadows Christ only as He was lifted up on the Cross. The lifting up pointed to the Cross. The serpent was a reminder and emblem of the curse. It was through the agency of that old serpent, the devil, that our first parents were seduced and brought under the curse of a Holy God, GEN 3:1-5. And, on the Cross never forget, the Holy one of God was made a curse for us. GAL 3:13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us‑‑ for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” So, the serpent accurately prefigured the crucified Savior being made a curse for us. But why a serpent of brass? This brings out once more the perfect accuracy of the type or the doctrine of typology. In the scriptures brass symbolizes divine judgment! The brazen altar illustrates this truth for on it the sacrificial animals were slain. Upon the brazen altar descended the consuming fire from Heaven. In Revelation 1 where Christ is seen as judge inspecting the seven churches, we are told that His feet were like fine brass REV 1:15, and His feet were like burnished bronze. So, in John 3:14, the serpent spoke of the curse which sin produced and the brass told of God's judgment falling on the one made sin for us. But, there is another thought suggested by the brass. Brass is harder than iron, or silver, or gold, and therefore it told of our Lord's mighty strength. He was able to endure the awful judgments which fell upon Him, a mere creature, though sinless would have been utterly consumed. From what has been said so far, it is evident that when God told Moses to make a serpent of brass and to place it on a pole and told the Jews to look on it and they should live, that He was preaching to them the Gospel of His grace. Let's note some things the Jews were not told to do: 1. They were not told to manufacture some ointment as the means of healing their wounds. Spiritual lotions do not cure disease only the Lord Jesus Christ can cure a disease when it's miraculous. Like the poor woman mentioned in MAR 5:26, many spend all that they have on such idiotic solutions like a magic oil or ointment. MAR 5:25-26, And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse, Notice she had even gotten worse. There are a lot charlatans out there especially the television evangelists who manipulate those in need and are nothing more than fake healers not faith healers. And they will answer to God for their lies. They teach for money, accept bribes, sell whatever they can to take money from the simple-minded. Look at what the Lord said in Micah 3. MIC 3:9-11, Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And twist everything that is straight, Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice. Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests instruct for a price, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Calamity will not come upon us.” They were also not told to minister to others who were wounded and help each other out. That would be the blind leading the blind. What use would it be for a person to jump into deep water to rescue a drowning man if he could not swim himself. They were also not told to fight the serpents. What use would it be to fight the serpents for those who had already been bitten? They could all have killed a thousand serpents each but they would still have died. Fighting against the serpents or fighting against sin or the devil will not solve a thing. They were not told to make an offering to the serpent on the pole. God did not ask any payment from them in return for their healing. Liars and deceivers in the Christian church telling others they have to make a faith offering or sow a seed of faith financially if they want to be healed. Grace ceases to be grace if any price is paid for what it brings. They were told not to look at Moses, the man of God.They had been looking to Moses but God commanded them to look at the brazen serpent. Moses was the law giver and how many today are looking to him representing the law for salvation and spirituality. In other words, they are depending on their own works. They were not told to look at their wounds. Some think they need to be more occupied with the work of examining their own wicked hearts. To be occupied with self is to be occupied with that which God has condemned.ROM 6:6-14, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. The devil is very pleased when he gets an individual looking at good works, feelings, baptism, self, etc. as opposed to Christ. Let's look now at the positive side: 1. Moses was commanded by God to make a serpent of brass, it was something the Lord provided. Moses was commanded to place this brazen serpent upon a pole. Therefore, the divine remedy was publicly exhibited so that all Israel might look and be healed. The Lord's promise in NUM 21:8 was that “It shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it shall live.” The point is that man was to look away from himself to the divinely appointed object of faith. The brazen serpent was lifted up so that those who were too weak to crawl up to the pole itself simply could look and be healed. NUM 21:8, Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live.” No matter how many times he may have been bitten, no matter how far the poison had advanced, if they looked they could be healed, anyone could be look and anyone could be healed. It is interesting that man became a lost sinner by a look as in GEN 3:6, When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.Now the sinner is saved by a look, ISA 45:22 “Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other. After salvation the Christian life continues by looking. HEB 12:2, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. At the end of the Christian life we are still to be looking for Christ. PHI 3:20, For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; From the beginning to the end it's a mere look. In that great crowd of bitten Israelites there were some with young eyes, some with old eyes that looked at the serpent. Some with clear vision and some with dim vision. Faith is simply the eye of the soul looking toward the Lord Jesus Christ, even if it's only a little faith. JOH 3:14-16, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” Since God is perfect, His plan is perfect. Man's biggest problem which was sin was solved by a perfect God in eternity past. Everything we will ever need in time, every sin that we would ever commit has a divine provision from a perfect God. Every sin in the human race that would ever be committed has a divine solution “in Christ.” God knew every failure we would ever have, every suffering and every heartache. Therefore, He made a provision for every situation in this life. There will never be a trial, or a testing or a suffering too great for the plan of God to handle. Billions of years ago at a certain point of time God loved us. Love requires thought not emotion and billions of years ago, God thought about you. And when He thought about you, He loved you. And because He loved you, He decided to act upon that love. 1JO 4:19, We love, because He first loved us. However, it says that God so loved the world. It is true that God is love but here God so loved the world. God's love for both the believer and unbeliever is centered around the Cross. It is true that God is love and because God is love the cross exists. When a member of the human race by passes the cross or rejects Christ as his or her personal Savior, he then becomes the object of divine wrath.

A Review of 2014. The Mystery behind the Brazen Serpent. As we continue with our recap of 2014, we are now ready for the month of July. This Tree of Life will focus on July. We had the privilege of studying a few messages from Deacon Rick Bettez on Science catching up with The Bible. And then doctrine of Feasts by Rick Kabrick. My main message in July dealt with the doctrine of the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ. It all Began in that very important passage in Joh 3. JOH 3:1-8, Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; this man came to Him by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Here is our Lord dealing with religion. Religion needs a spiritual birth, it needs changes. Because you see religion can be very evil, even Satanic. Religion has false doctrine, called doctrine of demons, 1TI 4:1. Religion has a devil's communion table, 1 Co 10:19-20. Religion has another gospel, GAL 1:6. Religion has another Jesus, 2CO 11:4. Religion has another Spirit, 2CO 11:4. Our Lord's words in Joh, “Do not marvel” suggest the reaction of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was totally shocked in spite of all his human accomplishments. He was totally baffled. In verse 8, Jesus illustrates that a spiritual thing is not something that you can see. When you were born again you didn't see it, but God the Holy Spirit entered you into union with Christ. The Holy Spirit came to indwell inside of you, you didn't feel it or see it either. JOH 3:8, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Where does the wind begin and where does it end? The wind cannot be seen, only the effects are visible. You know wind exists because it hits you in the face. However, you do not know how the wind got there or where it's going. So, it is with the spiritual birth. It is unseen, but it is nevertheless real. JOH 3:9, Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?” He had not been taught this and notice our Lord uses a little sarcasm at the right time. JOH 3:10-13, Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and you do not receive our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven, {even} the Son of Man.” The first man to enter into heaven in a resurrection body was the Lord Jesus Christ. However, in verse 13, the Lord Jesus Christ declared that He was and is in heaven as God at the very moment He was speaking to Nicodemus but as man He is not one place on earth, and that is talking to Nicodemus. He could be in heaven at the same time that He was also in His human body because He is the God-man, the unique person of the universe. JOH 3:14, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;” Nicodemus was familiar with Numbers 21 which gives us the story of the serpent. And so, what did our Lord mean when He said “The son of man must be lifted up?” He meant that true life could only come out of death. He meant that in order for a new creation to begin the old creation must be destroyed. Our Lord referred to His sacrificial death as a lifting up because the Jews were looking for a Messiah who should be lifted up. They were talking about the Messiah being elevated as King over Israel. However, our Lord talking about the Messiah being lifted from the earth hanging on the Cross. The principle again is that the cross must come before the crown. They wanted the Messiah to be elevated to the throne of David but before this, He must be lifted up upon the cross and put to shame. To illustrate the character the meaning and the purpose of His death, the Lord refers to the well known incident in Numbers 21. In Numbers 21 Israel was murmuring against the Lord and against Moses, the man of God. NUM 21:4-9, Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. And the people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.” And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live.” And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. These fiery serpents bit the people so that some of the people died and many others were wounded from the poisonous bites of the literal serpents. In verse 7, notice that they confessed they had sinned and they cried unto Moses for relief. And Moses cried unto God and the Lord told him to make a serpent out of brass and place it on a pole. The Jews who were bitten by the fiery serpents were told to look at the brazen serpent “in faith” and they should be healed. This all was a foreshadowing of our Lord. It spoke of Christ being lifted up on the Cross in order that He might save, through the look of faith, those who were dying from sin. The serpent was an appropriate figure of that deadly and destructive power, sin. In GEN 3:15, the serpents' seed is said to be unregenerate sinners, JOH 8:44. GEN 3:15, “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” The serpent therefore represented the sinner. The poison of the fiery serpents' bite effected the entire system of its' victims. There was no deliverance therefore for the Jews unless God provided one. The remedy which God provided was a “public exhibition” of the destroyer, the serpent on a pole. GAL 3:13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us‑‑ for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” Why didn't Moses use one of the actual serpents and spike a fiery serpent on the pole? Because it would have damaged the typology. It would have pictured God's judgment on the sinner himself and worse still, it would have misrepresented our sinless substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. HEB 7:26, For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens. The type chosen was in the likeness of a serpent, it wasn't an actual serpent, but a piece of brass made to look like one. This correlates with ROM 8:3, For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God {did:} sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and {as an offering} for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh. How could a serpent symbolize the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy One from God? A serpent is one of the last things we would ever think would represent the Lord. However, the brazen serpent foreshadows Christ only as He was lifted up on the Cross. The lifting up pointed to the Cross. The serpent was a reminder and emblem of the curse. It was through the agency of that old serpent, the devil, that our first parents were seduced and brought under the curse of a Holy God, GEN 3:1-5. And, on the Cross never forget, the Holy one of God was made a curse for us. GAL 3:13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us‑‑ for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” So, the serpent accurately prefigured the crucified Savior being made a curse for us. But why a serpent of brass? This brings out once more the perfect accuracy of the type or the doctrine of typology. In the scriptures brass symbolizes divine judgment! The brazen altar illustrates this truth for on it the sacrificial animals were slain. Upon the brazen altar descended the consuming fire from Heaven. In Revelation 1 where Christ is seen as judge inspecting the seven churches, we are told that His feet were like fine brass REV 1:15, and His feet were like burnished bronze. So, in John 3:14, the serpent spoke of the curse which sin produced and the brass told of God's judgment falling on the one made sin for us. But, there is another thought suggested by the brass. Brass is harder than iron, or silver, or gold, and therefore it told of our Lord's mighty strength. He was able to endure the awful judgments which fell upon Him, a mere creature, though sinless would have been utterly consumed. From what has been said so far, it is evident that when God told Moses to make a serpent of brass and to place it on a pole and told the Jews to look on it and they should live, that He was preaching to them the Gospel of His grace. Let's note some things the Jews were not told to do: 1. They were not told to manufacture some ointment as the means of healing their wounds. Spiritual lotions do not cure disease only the Lord Jesus Christ can cure a disease when it's miraculous. Like the poor woman mentioned in MAR 5:26, many spend all that they have on such idiotic solutions like a magic oil or ointment. MAR 5:25-26, And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse, Notice she had even gotten worse. There are a lot charlatans out there especially the television evangelists who manipulate those in need and are nothing more than fake healers not faith healers. And they will answer to God for their lies. They teach for money, accept bribes, sell whatever they can to take money from the simple-minded. Look at what the Lord said in Micah 3. MIC 3:9-11, Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And twist everything that is straight, Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice. Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests instruct for a price, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Calamity will not come upon us.” They were also not told to minister to others who were wounded and help each other out. That would be the blind leading the blind. What use would it be for a person to jump into deep water to rescue a drowning man if he could not swim himself. They were also not told to fight the serpents. What use would it be to fight the serpents for those who had already been bitten? They could all have killed a thousand serpents each but they would still have died. Fighting against the serpents or fighting against sin or the devil will not solve a thing. They were not told to make an offering to the serpent on the pole. God did not ask any payment from them in return for their healing. Liars and deceivers in the Christian church telling others they have to make a faith offering or sow a seed of faith financially if they want to be healed. Grace ceases to be grace if any price is paid for what it brings. They were told not to look at Moses, the man of God.They had been looking to Moses but God commanded them to look at the brazen serpent. Moses was the law giver and how many today are looking to him representing the law for salvation and spirituality. In other words, they are depending on their own works. They were not told to look at their wounds. Some think they need to be more occupied with the work of examining their own wicked hearts. To be occupied with self is to be occupied with that which God has condemned.ROM 6:6-14, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. The devil is very pleased when he gets an individual looking at good works, feelings, baptism, self, etc. as opposed to Christ. Let's look now at the positive side: 1. Moses was commanded by God to make a serpent of brass, it was something the Lord provided. Moses was commanded to place this brazen serpent upon a pole. Therefore, the divine remedy was publicly exhibited so that all Israel might look and be healed. The Lord's promise in NUM 21:8 was that “It shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it shall live.” The point is that man was to look away from himself to the divinely appointed object of faith. The brazen serpent was lifted up so that those who were too weak to crawl up to the pole itself simply could look and be healed. NUM 21:8, Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he shall live.” No matter how many times he may have been bitten, no matter how far the poison had advanced, if they looked they could be healed, anyone could be look and anyone could be healed. It is interesting that man became a lost sinner by a look as in GEN 3:6, When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.Now the sinner is saved by a look, ISA 45:22 “Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other. After salvation the Christian life continues by looking. HEB 12:2, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. At the end of the Christian life we are still to be looking for Christ. PHI 3:20, For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; From the beginning to the end it's a mere look. In that great crowd of bitten Israelites there were some with young eyes, some with old eyes that looked at the serpent. Some with clear vision and some with dim vision. Faith is simply the eye of the soul looking toward the Lord Jesus Christ, even if it's only a little faith. JOH 3:14-16, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” Since God is perfect, His plan is perfect. Man's biggest problem which was sin was solved by a perfect God in eternity past. Everything we will ever need in time, every sin that we would ever commit has a divine provision from a perfect God. Every sin in the human race that would ever be committed has a divine solution “in Christ.” God knew every failure we would ever have, every suffering and every heartache. Therefore, He made a provision for every situation in this life. There will never be a trial, or a testing or a suffering too great for the plan of God to handle. Billions of years ago at a certain point of time God loved us. Love requires thought not emotion and billions of years ago, God thought about you. And when He thought about you, He loved you. And because He loved you, He decided to act upon that love. 1JO 4:19, We love, because He first loved us. However, it says that God so loved the world. It is true that God is love but here God so loved the world. God's love for both the believer and unbeliever is centered around the Cross. It is true that God is love and because God is love the cross exists. When a member of the human race by passes the cross or rejects Christ as his or her personal Savior, he then becomes the object of divine wrath.

E193 How Did I Get in This Tree? Patroness of Fireworks, Return Son! by Paul George

Revelation 22 starts with the Tree of Life, fed by the River of Life, which proceeds from the Throne of God and of the Lamb. We're back to the beginning at the very end of the Book of Revelation! But t's not really back to...it's a revealing of! The Tree of Life in Revelation is the final result of God's dealings with His people. He has made them the fulfillments of: ~ Be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28) This Tree is in a NEW City. The Tree of Life is located in Jerusalem...God's Kingdom...which descends from a NEW Heaven. But what do all these mean? Watch the video for a detailed teaching! NOTE: This video is the last teaching on the series: Book of Revelation Explained Chapter By Chapter. - Would you like to get more teachings like this? There are a few ways to get them: - 1) JOIN our mailing list & receive a FREE EBOOK ⭕ https://perfectedbyblood.com/signup - 2) SIGN-UP for ONLINE COURSES & MEMBERSHIP

This Tree knows something, dude. I need to get outta here...

After pushing their way through the ‘tunnel of love' barricade, Our adventurers find themselves face to face with a Tree of Souls. Could this be Pandora? Did we go through a dimension portal into another world? ….Nah, This Tree of Souls only seems to have one soul….and it happens to be the one we need … Continue reading "Tree of Souls -S1E24"

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "The Return," and the Hebrew letter tav. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Transmutation," and the Hebrew letter shin. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Resurrection," and the Hebrew letter reish. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Inspiration," and the Hebrew letter koph. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Twilight," and the Hebrew letter tzadi. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Hope," and the Hebrew letter peh. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Fragility," and the Hebrew letter ayin. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Passion," and the Hebrew letter samech. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Immortality," and the Hebrew letter mem. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "The Apostolate," and the Hebrew letter lamed. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Persuasion," and the Hebrew letter kaph. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "Retribution," and the Hebrew letter iod. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "The Hermit," and the Hebrew letter teth. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the eighth arcanum of the Tarot, "Justice," and the Hebrew letter chet. This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the seventh arcanum of the Tarot, "Triumph," and the Hebrew letter zayin. Lecture quote: "The Arcanum Seven depicts a warrior standing in a chariot. This warrior holds in his two hands a staff or a rod and a sword. The chariot has four columns which he stands in the midst of and the chariot is drawn or led by two sphinxes, one black and one white. This Arcanum symbolizes the chariot of war, which is also represented in the famous epic story of ancient India called The Mahabharata. This is an ancient story describing a huge conflict amongst the members of a family. The most famous extract or portion of this epic story is called the Bhagavad Gita, which means “The Song of the Lord,” and is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. They have this dialogue in a chariot on a battlefield at the very precipice of the greatest war the world has ever known. Of course typically, traditionally, the story is interpreted as merely a story and the symbolism is missed by the majority of the readers of the Mahabharata. The war symbolizes the struggle that the spiritual initiate has to undergo within the mind; the war amongst the psychological family, between the virtuous brothers and the greedy and proud brothers. Of course, the greedy and proud ones outnumber the virtuous ones, in us and in The Mahabharata." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the sixth arcanum of the Tarot, "Indecision," and the Hebrew letter vav. Lecture quote: "Arcanum 6 – Indecision is related with the letter Vav, which means “and” in the Hebrew language and symbolizes connection - to hook, to unite one thing with another. It is also related with the word “yug” in Sanskrit, which means union. In order to have an union you have to hook - and of course it is related with the word religare (or religion). It is the way in which we receive knowledge. The letter Vav of this arcanum is related with the property of hearing, listening. Of course now we have to emphasize that it is not just related to the faculty of hearing on the physical plane but also with that chakra which we have mentioned several times in different lectures: the chakra Vishuddha, which is related with magical ear, the faculty of understanding, listening to or hearing the Word of God which is related with the world of Archetypes [Atziluth], symbols that we know through understanding and comprehending." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "The Hierarch," and the Hebrew letter hei. Lecture quote: "The womb of the Divine Mother, space itself or unmanifested existence, is symbolized by the Egyptians as Nepthys. Of course, in Sanskrit we know this as Prakriti, the Divine Mother. When the Divine Mother gives birth and manifestation arises, the Egyptians called the manifested mother, "Isis". So, here we have two aspects of the Divine Mother, or two aspects of the character, "He". Between these two, there is an interface; there is Anubis. Plutarch, who was a Grecian priest at Delphi, observed in his writings that the esoteric doctrine related to Anubis described him as the balance, or the interface, between Nepthys and Isis, and he was the son of both, and in this way we can understand that Anubis here is simply a symbol, as are Nepthys and Isis, a symbol of karma, one of those three eternal factors. Within the womb of Nepthys is that seed of karmic events that must unfold, and when conditions are right, Anubis is the vehicle through which the unfolding occurs. In this way we can comprehend, based on the studies of kabbalah, that Anubis is also Christ. That light that expresses itself from the womb is Christic. It is the solar Logos, and that expression occurs because of karma." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the fourth arcanum of the Tarot, "The Emperor," and the Hebrew letter daleth. Lecture quote: "Arcanum number four is called The Emperor. The king, the Emperor, is related with the fourth Sephirah of the Tree of Life, which is called Chesed. When you study the Tree of Life and the relation of the Tree of Life with the planets of our solar system, then we find that Chesed is governed by Jupiter, and also by Mars. Many kabbalists state that Chesed, the Innermost, our own particular Spirit, is ruled only by Jupiter. But when we discover that our own particular Spirit has to fight for his own Self-realization and has to do the work, the internal work in the human being; then we discover that he is also a warrior, a fighter. So that's why we state in Gnosticism that Chesed is ruled by Mars. This is the particular individual Spirit of each one of us. Chesed, which is related with the Emperor, the king. That's why, astrologically speaking, we said that the kings are ruled by Jupiter. And now we are going to go very deep, following the sequence of lectures, in order to explain the biblical Adam related with this lecture. Remember that in the Book of Genesis it is written that Adam is the king of nature, an emperor. And it is very interesting to see that when we read the Bible, we read the word Adam which many translators translate as "man", but for a better explanation it is better if we translate it as "human being." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the third arcanum of the Tarot, "The Empress," and the Hebrew letter gimel. Lecture quote: "The first Arcanum, related to the projective masculine force, unity, projects, but it is balanced and equilibrated by the second factor, or the second Arcanum, which is duality. So then we have these two forces in a dual relationship, but for creation to actually occur, for the world of Daath to actually blossom and manifest existence, manifest creation, there has to be a third factor. This Law of Three is that profound and deep equilibrium between forces. We have this symbolized in many of the structures of the Tree of Life. We have three columns upon which hang three triangles, and each triangle is made of three spheres. The Law of Three is the very structure of our Tree of Life, both within us and outside of us. The Law of Three becomes something very foundational for our understanding of the Kabbalah, as it does provide the very foundation of the Tree itself. More than that, the Law of Three provides a vital foundation for the work that we have to perform in order to self-realize all the Sephiroth. The self-realization of the Sephiroth means perfect comprehension of all the laws that manage the Sephiroth. So when we look at this Law of Three, we are actually looking at something that we have to embody. We have to learn how to work with the three forces of creation. In the symbolism of many religions, we have at the root of creation certain forces or factors. Water is a very common, universal symbol related to creation. We also find air, or Spirit; we also find fire. These three root elements are also symbolized in the Zohar and in the Sepher Yetzirah, which is an ancient book of Kabbalah. And these three forces, which underlie all of manifested creation, are called the Three Mother Letters. They are Aleph, Mem, and Shin." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the second arcanum of the Tarot: "The Priestess," and the Hebrew letter beth. Lecture quote: "The letter Beth is the first letter that you find in the book of Genesis. Remember that Genesis comes from "generation, generate," and "Bereshith," which is the first word of the book of Genesis in Hebrew, begins with Beth. And the World of Creation, which is the world of Briah, starts with Beth. And Binah, which is the Holy Spirit or the third sephirah, begins with Beth. This really invites us to reflect, because really, Binah is in relation with creation, Briah, with Bereshith, because it is the beginning or the way in which the universe develops. When we explain the nature of God, we always arrive at the conclusion that God has no form, but we have to study that which people call God, because remember that in Hebrew, the first word that you find in the Bible for God is Elohim.Many times, we have explained that Elohim or Eloim is a feminine word, Eloah, with a masculine plural ending (-im). So when we say, "Elohim" we are saying "Gods and Goddesses." But El itself is masculine, so when the word Elohim is written in the book of Genesis, many translators interpret that as merely "God." But the real translation should be "Gods and Goddesses," because Elohim is a plural word, which encompasses feminine and masculine together. The number one is masculine and the number two is feminine. The number two emerges from the unity, which in reality is within the unity. But the number two, the duality, is the way in which divinity multiplies or creates. It is impossible for the unity to create by itself; it does not, it unfolds into two. And That is why in many ways in Kabbalah, you find that there are different names related with different entities, different forces, that always show us the duality, or the two aspects, two polarities; masculine, feminine. And this is because in order for creation to exist we need always the two polarities. Those people that believe in God as masculine and reject the feminine aspect of it, are half-atheists, because God is male-female. So in order for us to be a complete theist we have to understand that we have to worship not only God as masculine, but the Goddess, the Divine Mother, its feminine aspect, in order to be complete. Otherwise, I repeat, we will be half-atheists, because God is male-female." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.

A free audio lecture download about the arcanum of the Tarot, "The Magician," and the Hebrew letter aleph. Lecture quote: "The term ‘magician' has been grossly degenerated in our modern time. It actually comes from a very ancient root. When I pointed out this term ‘Atman,' this has a relationship with the term ‘magician,' with its roots. You've probably heard the Sanskrit word Mahatma: this is a compound word from Maha-atman. Atman is our own Inner Father, our own Inner Spirit (Chesed). ‘Maha' means ‘great' in Sanskrit: Maha-atman—great spirit, great soul. In Sanskrit, an H can also be a G: so maha can also be read as maga, mage, magi. A magi is a priest. We know the three magi from the stories of the Bible, the New Testament, which were three kings, or three priests, who came from the east to worship the Christ. But the term magi, or mage, actually comes from ancient Sanskrit and an Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian term, from ‘mag' or ‘maha,' and the magi were worshipers of the sun, priests. The sun, of course we know, is a symbol of the Christ. So the real magician is a priest. And working with magic, real magic, is actually a sacred priesthood, a sacred office. Most importantly, the real magician is not the terrestrial person. The one who really works with magic is our own Inner Father, our inner maha-atman." This article is from the free online course The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah. Course Description: This free online course is a thorough exploration of the universal principles contained in the twenty-two arcana of the Tarot, the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalah. "The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds, and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the universe." - Samael Aun Weor This course was originally given live and unscripted on Gnostic Radio. It is accompanied by a great deal of written material, including lecture transcriptions.