Objective understanding

It's a big deal getting understanding of biblical doctrine. Seeing it, accepting it, valuing it. It builds your spiritual body. The same with getting parts in relation to the whole understanding of the word of God. It's unusual. As I'm here reading endless chapters of the Old Testament I sometimes think how unusual it is compared to what is happening everywhere else all around me. Not that I'm special, just how different it is.


You have to engage this living language of the Old and New Testaments until it fuses into something higher, until you see it as truly universal, until its seeming provincial, localized aspects fall away. Then it becomes true objective understanding. There's nothing under the sun (or beyond the sun) within time, or in eternity, that can't be understood by it (other than God, completely).


In the above I am assuming Man #4 type efforts and development into Man #5.

John Calvin on Eschatological Pilgrims

John Calvin on Eschatological Pilgrims

Let us always look at our Lord Jesus Christ. And for as much as we know that God's Son is come down hither, and will hereafter receive us into his glory, yea, and that God hath made him head of the angels as well as of us: let us assume ourselves that although we be here in this world, yet notwithstanding, we be but as pilgrims and cease not for all that to be citizens of heaven whereunto we be led by hope. And for the same cause he saith in another place that we be set already in the heavenly places. And how? By hope.

—John Calvin, "Sermon 16 on Titus 3:4-7" in Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (facsimile of the 1579 edition reprinted by the Banner of Truth Trust, 1983) 1235.

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The influence of objective-consciousness

We need influences to get self-consciousness and objective-consciousness. The influences that develop us up to the Work are B Influence. Objective-consciousness needs its own influence. C Influence is needed (which practically means being in the third state of consciousness at least, which means doing the Work). Objective-consciousness also needs material influence, or knowledge. Something higher than mere literature the way C influence is higher than B influence. That material is the living word of God.

You can't have objective-consciousness without knowing the plan of God, or plan of redemption.

This objective-consciousness via the word of God is obviously more than just knowing true doctrine and the Bible really well, because it is *on top of* having self-consciousness, which most theologians, for instance, don't have. We're faced with our ignorance and weakness - and sin - when doing the Work, and just being awake to ourselves that knowing the Work requires.

The Book of Revelation is a test for objective-consciousness. Interestingly a person like Calvin with all his understanding said he didn't understand the Book of Revelation and left it alone. This shows the boundary between Man #1,2,3 and Man #5.

Further birth

I am beginning to tangibly feel - physically feel - being in covenant with God. What it is. I'm feeling it from the words in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. The feeling is directional internally. By that I mean it is also an emotional sense of being on-the-mark in following God or being off-the-mark in rebelling and falling away to idols. And it's not a law thing, or a following rules thing. It's a physical/emotional feeling like a new body coming to fruition inside me. It involves the two conscious shocks as well. You can begin to see how this phenomenon, this reality, this growth, solves problems of God's will vs. individuality. You can see how a new world opens up when you are 'in' this. This is also obviously the Work teaching of developing higher bodies and developing Real Will and so on. It's elusive (at least for now, at the beginning of it), yet it is real and something you can 'feel.'