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Title Given Chapter 13: "Jesus Explains His Last Commandment - love thy brother and sister as thy self"
Date Gospel Written: ~ 0 to 50 AD
Gospel Written By: The Disciple Barnabas - the One "whom Jesus loved" (John:20,2)
Title & Review Written By: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
Date Web Page Published: September, 2004

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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu.  May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all.  May God help us all.

My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler).

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A.  Jesus Starts To Explain His Last Commandment - telling His disciples, as part of
          preparing them for His leaving them, for His being pulled out of our "outside" by
          God within us, that now, especially now, with Him leaving them, that they must
          become love, they must become "One with" each other, they must start to treat
          each other as He has treated them, as "One with" Him, and as "One with" God
          within Him, they must "Love thy brother and sister as thy self", for without that,
          without that true love, that true "Oneness with" within them, then God has no
          place for them within Himself, for without doing at least that, without establishing
          at least this truth of "Oneness" within themselves, as reflected in their our
          qualities and actions toward each other, before we die, nothing else of God can
          follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else
          we do in our life is just drama, is just ego, is just selfishness, not matter how
          exalted we may think in our ignorance it is.
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C.  Jesus Explains His Betrayal By One of His Disciples - by Judas Iscariot, Son of
          Simon
E.  Jesus Gives His Disciples A New Commandment - "As I have loved you, that ye
          also love one another."
          cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become
          what He has taught them, after He has made a place for them in His Father's
          House, because they have not yet learned to rely on God, and on God alone, as
          Jesus has, but still turn to themselves and to the world to carry out what Jesus
          has taught them.  For example, Simon Peter's statement that he would "lay down
          his life for the sake of Jesus", and the reality of Simon Peter, at that time, is that
          he would deny even knowing Jesus three times before the next cock crow

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Summary of Chapter 13:

Outer Story:

Jesus starts to explain His last commandment to His disciples, telling them as part of preparing them for His leaving them, for His being pulled out of our "outside" by God within us, that now, especially now, with Him leaving them, that they must become love, they must become "One with" each other, they must start to treat each other as He has treated them, as "One with" Him, and as "One with" God within Him, they must "Love thy brother and sister as thy self", for without that, without that true love, that true "Oneness with" within them, then God has no place for them within Himself.

For without doing at least that, without establishing at least this truth of "Oneness" within themselves, as reflected in their own qualities and actions toward each other, before we die, then nothing else of God can follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else we do in our life is just drama, is just ego, is just selfishness, no matter how exalted we may think in our ignorance it is

The Inner Meaning:

We have a choice of an eternal life of "Oneness with" God, or of an eternal life of "separation from" God, a choice we must each make before we die, and "no choice" is a choice, a choice to continue to live as "separate from" God until we die, and to experience what that really means within us, for eternity, after we die.

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A.  Jesus Starts To Explain His Last Commandment - love thy brother and sister as thy self, for without that, for without doing that, without establishing that truth within our qualities and actions before we die, nothing else of God can follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else we do is just drama, is just selfishness

Outer Story:

Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to depart out of the world unto His Father, from which He came, and with the stage set for His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, and Jesus knowing that God had put everything into His hands, that God had given Him power over all flesh, rises from supper and begins to explain His last Commandment, the last and perhaps most important Commandment of God - love thy brother and sister as thy self.

1.  Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come
          that He depart out of the world unto His Father, having loved His own which were
          in the world, He loved them unto the end.
2.  And supper being ended, the devil having been put into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
          Simon's son, to betray Jesus;
3.  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was
          come from God, and went to God;

Inner Meaning:

In truth God is One, God is One with everything, and in this way, everything is Him, as His Creation within Him.

And God is One with what God is doing within His Creation within us, which is revealing Himself within us, that is, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, as what is being revealed within everything within us, within the Creation of God (the earth world or dunya) within us, which is True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the "Oneness of God and the Creation of God" within us, and as what is being revealed within the Creation of True Man (the next world or akhirah) within us, which is God within the Creation of True Man within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us.  Amen

And God is One with what transcends all of this, transcends His Creation within us, and transcends what He is doing within His Creation within us, transcends revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which is how He can do all of this, all of what He is currently doing within us, if we will only let Him, if we will only join Him, by becoming "One with" Him within us, and "One with' what He is doing within us, and then we too will be One, we too will be Him, and He will be us.  Amen.

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B.  Do To Each Other, And To Others, As I Have Done To You

Outer Story:

Jesus washes the feet of each of His disciples, and tells them that this is an example of how they must treat each other, as He has treated them.  That this is the truth within what He has taught them.

4.  He (Jesus) riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and
          girded Himself (with the towel). 
5.  After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and
          to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.
6.  Then cometh He to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost thou wash
          my feet?
7.  Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt
          know hereafter.
8.  Peter saith unto Him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.  Jesus answered him, If I
          wash thee not, thou hath no part with Me.
9.  Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my
          head. 
10.  Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is
          clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
11.  For He knew who should betray Him; therefore said He, Ye are not all clean.
12.  So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down
          again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13.  Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14.  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one
          another's feet.
15.  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than His lord; neither he
          that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17.  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

The Inner Meaning:

In truth we are all One, and our treating others as "separate from" us is wrong, and in truth is what is separating us from God within us.  For as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him),

          "What separates you from God is what separates you from each other,
          and what separates you from each other is what separates you from God".

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C.  Jesus Explains His Betrayal By One of His Disciples

Outer Story:

Jesus tells his disciples that one of they would betray Him, and described how he could be identified, but at that time none of His disciples realized that Jesus had shown them which one it was, which was Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.

18.  I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be
          fulfilled, He that eateth bread with Me hath lifted up his heel against Me.
19.  Now I tell you (this) before it come, that when it come to pass, ye may believe
          that I am He (the Savior).
20.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me;
          and he that receiveth Me receiveth him that sent Me (as we are in truth One).
21.  When Jesus had thus said, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said,
          Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray Me.
22.  Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom He spake.
23.  Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved
          (which was the disciple Barnabus).
24.  Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him (to Barnabus), that he should ask who it
          should be of whom He spake.
25.  He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto Him, Lord, who is it?
26.  Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I will give a sop, when I have dipped it.  And
          when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27.  After the sop Satan entered into him.  Then said Jesus unto him. That thou doest,
          do quickly.
28.  Now no man at the table knew for what intent He spake this unto him. 
29.  For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto
          him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should
          give something to the poor.
30.  He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

Inner Meaning:

It is our own life that betrays us, that betrays our pure soul to live an impure life on the "outside" of us, so "we" can sin, so we can live by keeping our pure soul crucified on the cross of our elemental body with the five nails of "desire to live here", that is, to live with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, until we die, and then must live an eternal life "separate from" God.

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D.  Jesus Explains The True Nature of the Holy Trinity - which is "Oneness"

Outer Story:

Jesus explains the true nature of the Holy Trinity as Oneness, that He is "One with" His Father, and His Father is "One with" Him, and as His disciples, as His servants or "friends", as His Spirit, as His wisdom, we must be "One with" Him.  Only then can we exist together with Jesus and God as the flower and fragrance of the Holy Trinity, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  If this doesn't happen to us before we die, then our death will become but an eternal life of "separation from" God.

31.  Therefore, when he (Judas Iscariot) was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
          man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32.  If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall
          straightway glorify Him.

Inner Meaning:

The true nature of the Holy Trinity is like the true nature of the apple seed, apple tree, and apple fruit, they are One, each revealing the other within it, as the seed of itself, in this way, the apple seed gives birth to the apple tree, and the apple tree gives birth to the apple, and the apple again gives birth to the apple seed, in this way, both completing and starting again the cycle of AppleTree-Apple/Apple-AppleTree, and in this way, give birth to the Three within the Three, and finally, in this way, they are One, One within the other as One, One within the apple seed, and One within the apple tree, and One within the apple, One within these three happening again.

In this way, within the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is the Holy Trinity happening again, but this time as the understanding of the Holy Trinity, so it can again become "One with" God within us, revealing True Man within God and God within True Man, as the One within the One, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen.

So as the Father pulls the Son back into Himself, in this way glorifying the Son, so the Son joined as "One with" the Father, pulls the Spirit into Himself, in this way glorifying the Father, in this way, giving birth to the Three within the Three, and in this way, they are One, One within the Father, and One within the Son, and One within the Holy Spirit, One within these three happening again.

In this way, with "us" as the "seed of True Man" within the Creation of God within us, we give birth to the "Tree of God" or True Man within the Creation of God within us, that is, to the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, giving birth to True Man within us as the "seed of God" within the Creation of True Man within us, giving birth to the "Fruit of God" or God within the Creation of True Man within us, and with the "Fruit of God" within us again giving birth to "us" as the "seed of True Man", in this way, both completing and starting again the cycle of Man-God/God-Man within us, and in this way, giving birth to the Three of God within the Three of God within us, as the understanding of the Three within the Three, allowing the Three to again become One, and finally, in this way, we are One, One within the other as One, One within "us" as the "seed of True Man" within us, and One within the "Tree of God" or True Man within us, and One within the "Fruit of God" within us, One within these three happening again, but this time within us.  Amen.

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E.  Jesus Gives His Disciples A New Commandment

Outer Story:

Jesus tells His disciples, who He calls His Little Children, that where He next goes, they cannot follow, for now, but that they shall follow Him afterwards, after He has made a place for them in His Father's house, and He gives them a new Commandment from God, that "Ye love one another";

          "As I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
 
33.  Little Children, yet a little while I am with you.  Ye shall seek Me: and as I said
          unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
34.  A new Commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved
          you, that ye also love one another.
35.  By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Inner Meaning:

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F.  Jesus Explains The Current Distance Between Jesus And His Disciples

Outer Story:

Jesus explains that they cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become what He has taught them, after He has made a place for them in His Father's House

36.  Simon Peter said unto Him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him,
          Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards.
37.  Peter said unto Him, Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now?  I will lay down my life
          for Thy sake.
38.  Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake?  Verily, verily, I say
          unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice.

Inner Meaning:

Jesus (peace be upon Him) explains the current distance between Jesus (peace be upon Him) and his disciples.  For example, they cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become what He has taught them, after He has joined with them "here" from "there", from within their own hearts, after they have "followed Him", followed His teachings "here", after they have become "One with" Him "here" within their very own hearts, in order to continue to carry our His work "here" from "there", as His Children, and in this way, after He has made a place for them in His Father's House. 

In this way, they cannot follow Him now, because they have not yet learned to rely on God, and on God alone, as Jesus has, but still turn to themselves and to the world to carry out what Jesus has taught them.  For example, Simon Peter's statement that he would "lay down his life for the sake of Jesus", and the reality of Simon Peter, at that time, is that he would deny even knowing Jesus three times before the next cock crow


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Title Given Chapter 13: "Jesus Explains His Last Commandment - love thy brother and sister as thy self"
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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu.  May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all.  May God help us all.

My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler).

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A.  Jesus Starts To Explain His Last Commandment - telling His disciples, as part of
          preparing them for His leaving them, for His being pulled out of our "outside" by
          God within us, that now, especially now, with Him leaving them, that they must
          become love, they must become "One with" each other, they must start to treat
          each other as He has treated them, as "One with" Him, and as "One with" God
          within Him, they must "Love thy brother and sister as thy self", for without that,
          without that true love, that true "Oneness with" within them, then God has no
          place for them within Himself, for without doing at least that, without establishing
          at least this truth of "Oneness" within themselves, as reflected in their our
          qualities and actions toward each other, before we die, nothing else of God can
          follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else
          we do in our life is just drama, is just ego, is just selfishness, not matter how
          exalted we may think in our ignorance it is.
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C.  Jesus Explains His Betrayal By One of His Disciples - by Judas Iscariot, Son of
          Simon
E.  Jesus Gives His Disciples A New Commandment - "As I have loved you, that ye
          also love one another."
          cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become
          what He has taught them, after He has made a place for them in His Father's
          House, because they have not yet learned to rely on God, and on God alone, as
          Jesus has, but still turn to themselves and to the world to carry out what Jesus
          has taught them.  For example, Simon Peter's statement that he would "lay down
          his life for the sake of Jesus", and the reality of Simon Peter, at that time, is that
          he would deny even knowing Jesus three times before the next cock crow

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Summary of Chapter 13:

Outer Story:

Jesus starts to explain His last commandment to His disciples, telling them as part of preparing them for His leaving them, for His being pulled out of our "outside" by God within us, that now, especially now, with Him leaving them, that they must become love, they must become "One with" each other, they must start to treat each other as He has treated them, as "One with" Him, and as "One with" God within Him, they must "Love thy brother and sister as thy self", for without that, without that true love, that true "Oneness with" within them, then God has no place for them within Himself.

For without doing at least that, without establishing at least this truth of "Oneness" within themselves, as reflected in their own qualities and actions toward each other, before we die, then nothing else of God can follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else we do in our life is just drama, is just ego, is just selfishness, no matter how exalted we may think in our ignorance it is

The Inner Meaning:

We have a choice of an eternal life of "Oneness with" God, or of an eternal life of "separation from" God, a choice we must each make before we die, and "no choice" is a choice, a choice to continue to live as "separate from" God until we die, and to experience what that really means within us, for eternity, after we die.

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A.  Jesus Starts To Explain His Last Commandment - love thy brother and sister as thy self, for without that, for without doing that, without establishing that truth within our qualities and actions before we die, nothing else of God can follow, nothing else of God can come within us, without this, then everything else we do is just drama, is just selfishness

Outer Story:

Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to depart out of the world unto His Father, from which He came, and with the stage set for His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, and Jesus knowing that God had put everything into His hands, that God had given Him power over all flesh, rises from supper and begins to explain His last Commandment, the last and perhaps most important Commandment of God - love thy brother and sister as thy self.

1.  Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come
          that He depart out of the world unto His Father, having loved His own which were
          in the world, He loved them unto the end.
2.  And supper being ended, the devil having been put into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
          Simon's son, to betray Jesus;
3.  Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was
          come from God, and went to God;

Inner Meaning:

In truth God is One, God is One with everything, and in this way, everything is Him, as His Creation within Him.

And God is One with what God is doing within His Creation within us, which is revealing Himself within us, that is, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, as what is being revealed within everything within us, within the Creation of God (the earth world or dunya) within us, which is True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the "Oneness of God and the Creation of God" within us, and as what is being revealed within the Creation of True Man (the next world or akhirah) within us, which is God within the Creation of True Man within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us.  Amen

And God is One with what transcends all of this, transcends His Creation within us, and transcends what He is doing within His Creation within us, transcends revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which is how He can do all of this, all of what He is currently doing within us, if we will only let Him, if we will only join Him, by becoming "One with" Him within us, and "One with' what He is doing within us, and then we too will be One, we too will be Him, and He will be us.  Amen.

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B.  Do To Each Other, And To Others, As I Have Done To You

Outer Story:

Jesus washes the feet of each of His disciples, and tells them that this is an example of how they must treat each other, as He has treated them.  That this is the truth within what He has taught them.

4.  He (Jesus) riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and
          girded Himself (with the towel). 
5.  After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and
          to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.
6.  Then cometh He to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost thou wash
          my feet?
7.  Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt
          know hereafter.
8.  Peter saith unto Him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.  Jesus answered him, If I
          wash thee not, thou hath no part with Me.
9.  Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my
          head. 
10.  Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is
          clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
11.  For He knew who should betray Him; therefore said He, Ye are not all clean.
12.  So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down
          again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13.  Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14.  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one
          another's feet.
15.  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than His lord; neither he
          that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17.  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

The Inner Meaning:

In truth we are all One, and our treating others as "separate from" us is wrong, and in truth is what is separating us from God within us.  For as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him),

          "What separates you from God is what separates you from each other,
          and what separates you from each other is what separates you from God".

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C.  Jesus Explains His Betrayal By One of His Disciples

Outer Story:

Jesus tells his disciples that one of they would betray Him, and described how he could be identified, but at that time none of His disciples realized that Jesus had shown them which one it was, which was Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.

18.  I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be
          fulfilled, He that eateth bread with Me hath lifted up his heel against Me.
19.  Now I tell you (this) before it come, that when it come to pass, ye may believe
          that I am He (the Savior).
20.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me;
          and he that receiveth Me receiveth him that sent Me (as we are in truth One).
21.  When Jesus had thus said, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said,
          Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray Me.
22.  Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom He spake.
23.  Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved
          (which was the disciple Barnabus).
24.  Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him (to Barnabus), that he should ask who it
          should be of whom He spake.
25.  He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto Him, Lord, who is it?
26.  Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I will give a sop, when I have dipped it.  And
          when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27.  After the sop Satan entered into him.  Then said Jesus unto him. That thou doest,
          do quickly.
28.  Now no man at the table knew for what intent He spake this unto him. 
29.  For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto
          him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should
          give something to the poor.
30.  He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

Inner Meaning:

It is our own life that betrays us, that betrays our pure soul to live an impure life on the "outside" of us, so "we" can sin, so we can live by keeping our pure soul crucified on the cross of our elemental body with the five nails of "desire to live here", that is, to live with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, until we die, and then must live an eternal life "separate from" God.

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D.  Jesus Explains The True Nature of the Holy Trinity - which is "Oneness"

Outer Story:

Jesus explains the true nature of the Holy Trinity as Oneness, that He is "One with" His Father, and His Father is "One with" Him, and as His disciples, as His servants or "friends", as His Spirit, as His wisdom, we must be "One with" Him.  Only then can we exist together with Jesus and God as the flower and fragrance of the Holy Trinity, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  If this doesn't happen to us before we die, then our death will become but an eternal life of "separation from" God.

31.  Therefore, when he (Judas Iscariot) was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
          man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32.  If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall
          straightway glorify Him.

Inner Meaning:

The true nature of the Holy Trinity is like the true nature of the apple seed, apple tree, and apple fruit, they are One, each revealing the other within it, as the seed of itself, in this way, the apple seed gives birth to the apple tree, and the apple tree gives birth to the apple, and the apple again gives birth to the apple seed, in this way, both completing and starting again the cycle of AppleTree-Apple/Apple-AppleTree, and in this way, give birth to the Three within the Three, and finally, in this way, they are One, One within the other as One, One within the apple seed, and One within the apple tree, and One within the apple, One within these three happening again.

In this way, within the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is the Holy Trinity happening again, but this time as the understanding of the Holy Trinity, so it can again become "One with" God within us, revealing True Man within God and God within True Man, as the One within the One, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen.

So as the Father pulls the Son back into Himself, in this way glorifying the Son, so the Son joined as "One with" the Father, pulls the Spirit into Himself, in this way glorifying the Father, in this way, giving birth to the Three within the Three, and in this way, they are One, One within the Father, and One within the Son, and One within the Holy Spirit, One within these three happening again.

In this way, with "us" as the "seed of True Man" within the Creation of God within us, we give birth to the "Tree of God" or True Man within the Creation of God within us, that is, to the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, giving birth to True Man within us as the "seed of God" within the Creation of True Man within us, giving birth to the "Fruit of God" or God within the Creation of True Man within us, and with the "Fruit of God" within us again giving birth to "us" as the "seed of True Man", in this way, both completing and starting again the cycle of Man-God/God-Man within us, and in this way, giving birth to the Three of God within the Three of God within us, as the understanding of the Three within the Three, allowing the Three to again become One, and finally, in this way, we are One, One within the other as One, One within "us" as the "seed of True Man" within us, and One within the "Tree of God" or True Man within us, and One within the "Fruit of God" within us, One within these three happening again, but this time within us.  Amen.

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E.  Jesus Gives His Disciples A New Commandment

Outer Story:

Jesus tells His disciples, who He calls His Little Children, that where He next goes, they cannot follow, for now, but that they shall follow Him afterwards, after He has made a place for them in His Father's house, and He gives them a new Commandment from God, that "Ye love one another";

          "As I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
 
33.  Little Children, yet a little while I am with you.  Ye shall seek Me: and as I said
          unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
34.  A new Commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved
          you, that ye also love one another.
35.  By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Inner Meaning:

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F.  Jesus Explains The Current Distance Between Jesus And His Disciples

Outer Story:

Jesus explains that they cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become what He has taught them, after He has made a place for them in His Father's House

36.  Simon Peter said unto Him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him,
          Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards.
37.  Peter said unto Him, Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now?  I will lay down my life
          for Thy sake.
38.  Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake?  Verily, verily, I say
          unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice.

Inner Meaning:

Jesus (peace be upon Him) explains the current distance between Jesus (peace be upon Him) and his disciples.  For example, they cannot follow Him now, but shall follow Him afterwards, after they have become what He has taught them, after He has joined with them "here" from "there", from within their own hearts, after they have "followed Him", followed His teachings "here", after they have become "One with" Him "here" within their very own hearts, in order to continue to carry our His work "here" from "there", as His Children, and in this way, after He has made a place for them in His Father's House. 

In this way, they cannot follow Him now, because they have not yet learned to rely on God, and on God alone, as Jesus has, but still turn to themselves and to the world to carry out what Jesus has taught them.  For example, Simon Peter's statement that he would "lay down his life for the sake of Jesus", and the reality of Simon Peter, at that time, is that he would deny even knowing Jesus three times before the next cock crow


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