THE ENGLISH DOOR

THE DIVINE STORY OF JESUS CHRIST

LIGHT, TRUTH AND LIFE

FIFTH BOOK

THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

EPHESIANS:

A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE SAINT SPIRIT

God did not wish to abandon His Creation to the clutches of Death. On the contrary, whilst enduring the agony of seeing His Creation exposed to the fires of the Hell of War, His Heart overwhelmed by the spectacle of the Tragedy of Mankind, He did not hesitate to give us, as Hero and Champion of our Cause, His Almighty Son, in whom His Heart finds its Life and Happiness.

Lest He should see His Creation crushed beneath the wheels of Hell, God the Father could in no way allow the deadly duel between the Son of Man and the son of Hell to have any victor other than Jesus Christ, the Son of His Heart, through whom His entire Being lives, and in whom God truly lives. This Jesus Christ is the Son in whom God found the Joy He had lost in the realms of the Infinite and of Eternity. Through this Jesus Christ we were saved and called to eternal life. Through that same Jesus Christ we are no longer slaves to the flesh in our Fear of Death. Even in the flesh we are eternal through the Spirit of the Champion whom God raised up for us to crush the head of the Prince of Darkness. In his Resurrection all of us who love him are raised up. For whoever loves the Son of God does not die but lives for ever. His Victory over Death is our Victory. How, then, can we be tempted by the fables of the wise and slaves of Death who wish to deny us what our Spirit sees through the eyes of Jesus Christ: the Gate of eternal Life! This Gate is Jesus Christ Himself. Whoever loves Him passes through it freely, closes their eyes to this world and opens them to Eternal Life. He is the Word, and the Word is God. Not to believe in his Word is to deny God. When Satan cast doubt on the Divine Truth of the Son of God, he denied the Divine Truth of his Father: Creator of the Universe, of the Cosmos, and of the Darkness that surrounds Creation.

St Paul, like his Brethren in the Spirit of Christ, though in the flesh, lived the Eternal Life in the image and likeness of the Son of God made man: through the Spirit they were ‘gods’, and as such, fully aware that the Word of God: they understood that it was for their sake that God wrote: ‘You are gods, yet you shall die like any of the princes’.

Aware of their end, which Jesus Christ revealed to them in his own person, free from the fear of death and eager to pass through the Gate of the Resurrection, none of them hesitated to do what, as children of God, they were bound to do. Thanks to them, the human race had a future.

But it was not only the human race that was caught beneath the wheels of Death as a result of the betrayal by that part of the house of the children of God who, having joined forces with Satan, conspired to compel the Lord of the Cosmos to bless the transformation of their Empire into an Olympus of gods beyond Good and Evil. Called to participate in the creation of Man in the image and likeness of the sons of God, those ‘rebellious sons’ ‘not of this creation’ conspired to turn away from the obedience due to the Creator of all and declare war on His Holy Spirit, bringing about the death of Man.

Faced with this Betrayal, God realised that His Creation was crying out for a Universal Revolution that would put an end, once and for all, to His Kingdom’s exposure to Death.

The dilemma was profound. Every time God left His Creation alone, His rebellious children would declare war. God could not leave His House alone, nor could He become a slave to His Creation. So, in His Love for Life, He resolved in His Wisdom to give bodily form to His Holy Spirit, so that by becoming Flesh, all His Creation might say with an open heart: ‘God is with us’.

This is the Mystery of Christ. All the more beautiful and blessed for all mankind, since the Holy Spirit became man, and with Christ Jesus becoming the Head of the Apostles, God raised to His Divine Throne the House of His Son’s Brethren, who, being one Being in Him, govern His Kingdom in the Fullness of those who share fully in the incorruptibility and perfection of God’s love for his Creation and of Creation for its Creator.

This is the Mystery of Universal Salvation. The Holy Spirit became Man, and without losing His Origin was exalted to the status of the Divinity of the Lord Jesus, in whom He lives and from whom He receives all glory and power, as well as all Justice and Wisdom. It is God in Christ who writes, who speaks, who moves, who lives. This is why we speak of ‘Saint Paul’, ‘Saint Peter’, ‘Saint John’, ‘Saint Matthew’, ‘Saint Philip’ … For the Body shares in the Nature of its Head, and if the Head is Holy, how could its Body not be!

Glory to all who love God in the Mystery of the Incarnation; but an unbridgeable abyss for all who wish to penetrate the Mystery of God made man by relying on the powers of ‘human reason alone’, thereby denying the necessity of Christ—that is to say, of the Church which Jesus founded on Earth for the worship of God.

No one can understand God unless God opens the Door to His Being. Human Reason is an animal instinct, and that which is animal cannot comprehend the Spirit of God, as is evident in the animal kingdom. To claim to understand the Word of God through ‘Reason Alone’ is to declare oneself an animal and to deny the Spirit.

This Truth is Eternal. But many, following Satan’s path, chose to forge their own way, and preferred the Betrayal of one who seeks to use the Creator’s Love for His Creation to force God to bow His knees before his minions. This is infinite folly: to want the Creator to do the Will of His children instead of it being they who must do the Will of God.

The Apostles, one with the Holy Spirit, in whom they live and from whom they derive their existence, shared in the Wisdom of God to a perfect and full degree. Christ Jesus and His brothers in God are One Being, One Reality, the Same God: ‘The Holy Spirit, God with Us’. This is God’s Creation, which, when the fullness of time came, was brought to completion. The Holy Spirit of God, who lives in the Father and in the Son—and in this Spirit the Father and the Son live—became Man, was Incarnate, and lives in Creation so that Creation may never feel ‘abandoned’!

The Creator has given a Body to God’s Love for Life!

It could not be otherwise. God rejected the idea of an empire ruled by a House of kings, all beyond good and evil, for whom the Law is a whim and War is a game of the gods. God could not and would not allow such a malignant transformation of his Creation into a hell ruled by demons.

Against this Evil Vision, God brought forth within His Creation a House, the House of Jesus Christ, all united to Him in one Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, and all the children of God, both in Heaven and on Earth, receiving from Him the Glory and the Majesty of the One who Rules the Universe.

But St Paul and St Peter and Their brothers in the Holy Spirit were on Earth. They knew what their Departure from this World would be like. God was within Them, and they shared in His Wisdom without any restriction. It is not Power that made them, and makes them, Great; what makes them Unique before God is their Love for His Son. A Love that proved invincible, and even as they faced their Departure from this World through the Gate of the Resurrection: like Pillars set upon Rock, they stood firm.

They were Shepherds of men with a Mission: to lead the Lord’s Flocks to the Slaughterhouse. “There is Death. There is Resurrection.” There is no need to be afraid. There is no need to tremble. The Divine Shepherd has come down from Heaven so that all on Earth may stand firm. It is God who opens the Door. “God is the Door”. If it had been a man, what a horror! But it is the Son of God who first passed through that Door to make Fear, Confusion and Doubt vanish. Moreover, the Door of the Resurrection is Jesus Himself.

The Mission of the Builders of the Universal Apostolic Church was, and continues to be, the work of those who, however fierce the storm, however the earth may tremble, and however relentlessly the sun may beat down, must continue to work without paying heed to the elements.

The Victor bears the weight of the elements but does not hide from them nor give up his work. Narrow and long is the path that leads to life, but it is God who guides, so press on: if you fall, get up; if you are in pain, find peace; if you bleed, rest. Victory is yours; God is the Lord of Time. God is faithful to his Word. His Word is God.

St Paul speaks.

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints and faithful of Jesus Christ in Ephesus: Grace and peace be with you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

No one, therefore, comes from God except through Jesus Christ, for God calls everyone to submit to his Son; and whoever does not submit to his Son but seeks to reach God by setting Jesus Christ aside commits a terrible offence. The whole of Creation has its origin in the Father’s love for the Son, and whoever seeks to remove this love and enter into direct communication with the Father, as if the Son were a luxury accessory, a whim of God, that church commits a tremendous sin.

For God looks upon no one except in the Heart of his Son. Thus, no one exists apart from his Son, and no one receives anything except through his Son, so that in all things his Son may be worshipped just as God is worshipped.

And whoever does not worship Jesus Christ as YAHWEH GOD, his Father, is declared an enemy of God.

On the other hand, in Love and through Love for His Son, God declares Himself the Father of all who love Him. And apart from this Love, no one receives the joy of being called a child of God.

Here speaks to the Ages one who, amongst his Brethren, had and has the Glory of being a child of God, like Christ Jesus in every way, the Holy Spirit made Man, with whom He is a single Reality, a single Being, to the Joy of all Creation: Saint Paul, like his brethren in Jesus Christ, of Heaven and Earth, Conqueror of Sin, incorruptible and almighty in the face of death, by the Will of God and out of love for His Son.

This is God’s New Living Creation: an Indestructible House founded on the Holiness of its Members, in which all the Peoples of Creation find and possess the Assurance of Peace and Health from the One who has God as King.

Centuries have passed. But the Work endures. And so:

“Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens”.

It is clear that St Paul is not referring to Power according to the World, but according to the Spirit.

Power according to the world we already know; it has its roots in the Knowledge of good and evil, in Satan’s desire —relying on God’s blessing—to stand above the Law, so as to do his sovereign will and, as a son of God, rule his Empire in accordance with the desires and whims of those who set themselves up, against God’s will, as gods.

God does not bless His Servant with Power according to the World, nor with boundless Power to trample upon the Law of God and impose a law of his own. Not at all. God bestows the blessings of His Spirit to govern His Kingdom in accordance with the Law of Love for Life. Whilst whilst worldly power elevates unclean gods who hold in their hands the death of all beings, the Power that comes from the Spirit administers the Kingdom in accordance with Eternal Truth, the Mother of Justice and Peace, without which there can be no Freedom.

Holiness finds in God’s Love for Life and in Creation’s Love for its Creator its Strength, its Principle, its Meaning, its Existence. It is upon this Love made Flesh that God showers His Blessings so that His children may govern His Kingdom and be the Light that illuminates His Paradise throughout the Days of Eternity.

And it is through this Holiness that Christ receives the Power of Jesus, which lies in His Word, as we read in the Gospel, where we see that He need only open His mouth for His Will to be done.

We see this at the Beginning when God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. This is why the Holy Spirit, in John, writes, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’. For if, in the beginning, Man was created in the image and likeness of the children of God, as we read, ‘Let us make Man in our image and in our likeness’, God brought that Creation to a close creates another New Creation, so that the New Man is called to the image and likeness of the Holy Spirit, who, having become Man, reveals his glory in Christ and shares it with his brothers and sisters, so that they themselves become the Body of the Word made Flesh, ‘God with us’. Who will remain forever amongst us, without whose visible Presence Creation sinks into chaos, as we read in Genesis when God says: ‘The Earth was formless and void…’ Which is why the Spirit, through Paul, writes:

‘for in Him He chose us before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and blameless before Him in love’.

Indeed, God did not choose them apart from His Son. God did not create a New Man by choosing a Model in another son of His House, but rather He raised up as the Model, in whose Image and Likeness He raised up this New Man, His own Son, the Son of His Uncreated Womb, Almighty like Himself, and like His own Father moved by Infinite Love for His Creation. This Love becomes Flesh, and God clothes it with the Glory of His Only-Begotten Son, with the Power of Christ, at the sound of whose Word the elements bow their knees. How can one live this Power apart from the Spirit of Christ! How can one attain it if not through the Will of God!

That is why this son of God says:

“And he predestined us to be adopted as his children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good pleasure of his will”

A predestination which the Devil’s Advocate has poisoned by confusing the phrase ‘from the foundation of the world … after the Fall’, to which the Servant of God refers, with ‘the foundation of the world … before the Fall’—which the Devil’s Reformer included in his Anti-Christian Manifesto on the Institutions of the Church. Rejecting the Word of God, who manifested in the Prophets His Will to bring about a New Creation, the Devil’s Advocate and his pack of murderous Calvinists, Huguenots and Puritans and Presbyterians denied the prophecy, accusing God of having the Fall in mind from the very beginning of the Creation of the Universe. God’s Judgement upon your Doctrine is Fire. If you survive, you shall live; if not, you shall be consumed by Fire.

God is not an objective, God is not a distant goal. God begets in his Creation children who share in every aspect of the Spirit of his Divine Firstborn. Thus the Truth of the Only-Begotten extends to his Brothers in Christ by virtue of the Firstbornship of Jesus, and it is these Brothers of the Son of God who, being the New Creation of God, are predestined to share in the Being of whom it is said, ‘He is God with Us’.

And no one attains this Glory or is made a partaker of this Power except those who were begotten by God to be co-heirs with His Son, whose story we know and whose love for God was tested even to the point of martyrdom. A love which is the source of their glory and the foundation of their strength, thanks to which their Word is God for the joy and happiness of the whole of creation, and

“…to the praise of the splendour of his grace, which he has freely bestowed on us in the Beloved …”

… Against those who in the future would deny that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son. Perverse minds and sick spirits, whom we must ask: Without the Son of God, did you attain the Salvation that comes from Redemption? And once you have attained Salvation through His Blood, do you despise the One whose blood has given you life? Is the Son of God nothing? Once He was crucified, did God cast Him out of His Heart? Do you believe that you are someone, or that your existence is fundamental to the development of Life in the Universe and the expansion of Creation? Who has told you that you may present yourselves before God the Father, looking upon God the Son as though He were a nobody? As holy and wise as you are, have you not read what is written—God’s Decree by which He entrusted to His Son His entire Kingdom and placed at His feet the life and death of all within His Empire? Pride was your sin, Byzantium, and through that sin came Death.

The Truth that Eternity has gathered into its Arms is this: God does nothing without thinking of his Son. No one receives Wisdom and Intelligence from God except through Love for his Son. Thus, God ordains all things so that his Son may be the Source of all the gifts that his creation receives.

No one draws near to God except through his Son. It is written: ‘I am the Gate’. Whoever denies this Gate acts like Satan, who sought to displace the Son and sit upon His Throne, refusing to understand that everything that exists has its Origin in the Son, and no one draws near to God without having received from His Son the Blessing.

The Son of God is the Beginning of Man. To claim that one can receive God’s Spirit without this Spirit being that of the Son—so that what is received comes from God but not from His Son, is a Malignant Denial whose fruit is Destruction, as was seen in the Byzantine Orthodox Church, to which God has left a remnant among the nations for their conversion.

Pride is the sin that led the Byzantine Orthodox Church to believe it could supplant the Son of God and present itself before God, bypassing its King and Lord, Jesus Christ. Pride led it into sin by causing it to forget that the Orthodox Patriarch that Jesus Christ is the Universal Supreme Pontiff of the Temple of God, and that He alone and exclusively, as the New Aaron, can part the Veil and present Himself before the Almighty Creator of all that is visible and invisible. The pride of the Orthodox Church dragged Byzantium to its destruction.

Everything that lives and breathes, exists and moves, moves and exists, breathes and lives through the Son of God...

“… in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace”

And by saying ‘redemption through his blood’, absolutely everything is said. And whoever does not understand this is because they are not redeemed, nor have they known it, nor tasted it, nor lived it.

Through sin, man became just another animal whose strength lies in his reason, in his brain: the thought of man apart from God is pure animal instinct directed towards his survival, and survival under the best animal conditions conceivable according to the time and space he occupies on Earth.

However, through Redemption we were created anew to be governed by the Spirit, and thus everything that we are, we are because of the One who has redeemed us.

The whole world is nothing; Jesus Christ is everything. Without Him, ‘Man’ would not exist within Homo sapiens. And without the Christian, civilisation would not exist. So what we are, we is because, out of Love for His Father’s Creation, His Son saved us from Ruin, and from the dust into which we were destined to fall, He raised us up to give us a Future founded upon Eternal Life. Therefore, today, tomorrow and forever, we move through Eternity before the Son of God, our One and Only King and Universal Judge.

Thus, our world owes everything to Christianity, without which civilisation would not exist, and if Christians were to cease to exist, life on Earth would return to dust. A horizon of ruin rooted in sin, against which the Son of God, whilst among us, opened the way to the life we now enjoy. A Path impossible for Man to open relying solely on ‘his own Reason’, which in turn is driven by the Pride of not needing the Son of God to stand before God and receive from God the gifts of which the Holy Spirit speaks through Paul:

“Who has poured out upon us all wisdom and understanding in abundance”.

Indeed, the Power was not given to this son of God and his Brethren in Jesus Christ to do their own will and establish their own thinking as the source of their actions in history. Not at all. God was at work. A New Creation had been ushered in and was underway. If human Thought had been sufficient to break through that horizon and steer the History of Civilisation away from its Destruction, Jesus would have been sufficient in Himself; He would not have needed anyone to bring about the reordering of the World in accordance with His Thought.

But the Son of God did not come to do his own will; he came to do his Father’s will. And it was in adoration of the Will of Universal Salvation that God ordained for his Creation that, although he was the Son of God and, through his Word, could do all things, Jesus Christ bowed his knees before the Wisdom of God. A Wisdom which the Disciples did not know except through the Holy Spirit who came upon them after the Resurrection….

“Making known to them the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Jesus Christ”

We come back to the same point. God does everything in his Son, with his Son, through and for his Son. “The Father shows the Son everything he does”. Love for his Son is the Reason that moves the Heart of God, the Metaphysical Cause in which his Creative Force becomes a Seed and brings forth New Worlds.

We are all the Creation of the Son of God, by physical potency and metaphysical act. It was He who told the stars to separate Light from Darkness; it was Jesus Christ who established in the Heavens the Firmament that separates the waters above the firmament from the waters of the oceans below the firmament. It was He who blessed all life with the Power of Procreative Reproduction, and who blessed all life with abundant food so that no species living on Earth might know thirst or hunger. He conveyed to the First Man the Health that leads to the Desire for Immortality.

To believe, to think, that Man can draw near to God the Father as if God the Son did not exist—the very idea is a sin of pride, a crime against Life, both one’s own and that of others.

The Son is not a passive spectator in the Act of Creation; He is an active Creator in His Father’s Creation. It is He who says, ‘Let there be light’; it is He who calls His brothers from Heaven to take part in the formation of Life on Earth in the Image and Likeness of the children of God.

God does everything with Him, through Him and for Him. And it is in Him that, wishing to redeem mankind, God sent Him to us:

“… to fulfil the Mystery of his Will when the fullness of time had come, bringing all things together in Christ, both those in Heaven and those on Earth”

And so it was. It was recapitulated:

Satan’s betrayal of God in Judas’s betrayal.

Satan’s Temptation of Adam in the Devil’s Temptation of Jesus.

Adam’s Choice in the Choice of Christ.

The Call to Participate in the Formation of Mankind in the Calling of the Disciples.

The nature of the Kingdom of God in Eden and that of the Kingdom of Heaven, based not on Fire and Iron but on Love and Wisdom.

Adam, head of his world; Christ, the Head of our world. Thus, when the head fell, the whole body was condemned to the Fall.

In the Incarnation – a Mystery whose impenetrability, by the grace of dogma, brings us salvation – the Birth of the Son of God in the Holy Spirit of the Lord of the Infinite and of Eternity, a Mystery in which, thanks to the dogma of the Incarnation, we all remain in the Truth before our Creator.

In the Virgin Mary, the beauty and innocence of Creative Wisdom, Bride of God, and the nature of boundless love of Wisdom for the Father and the Son.

In Saint Joseph, the Devotion and Faithfulness of Man to God, Father and Son, his Obedience and his Love for the Salvation of all human families.

The Divine Author, Saint Paul, speaks with full awareness of his encounter with Death. He speaks to readers who are equally aware of their encounter with the Lord whom they serve and in whom they find the Resurrection on the other side of the Cross. For Man was created for Eternal Life. As the Holy Spirit so aptly puts it, Death entered through the sin of a generation that embraced War as a means to achieve the end of uniting all the families of the Earth in the Kingdom of Adam. Once established in the human consciousness, Death became a means of action to attain Power. The case that God presents to us—the fratricide of Cain and Abel—is the classic universal example that defines the murderous behaviour of those who seek to attain Power over all things.

In the case of Adam’s two sons, the psychology behind Cain’s crime has its source in instinct.

According to the Word, God had to choose his heir from among Adam’s two sons—that son of Eve who would reclaim the crown that had been taken from his father. Cain wanted to be that son of Eve who would crush the head of his father’s enemy.

But the choice lay with God, not with man. Yet if Cain were to kill his brother Abel, God’s choice would be nullified by Cain’s Necessity, and God would have to bow his knees before Abel’s murderer: it was either Cain or no one.

Clearly, setting out on that path would not be a walk in the park. Trying to force God between a rock and a hard place is no game. Cain had reasons to walk ‘with his head bowed’.

The fact was that God, according to Cain’s reasoning, had bound Himself to His Promise of Vengeance, and once Abel was dead, Adam’s crown would be his. This was Cain’s line of thought before he made the decision to kill his brother Abel.

Justifying Cain on the grounds of his ignorance, the Mystery of Salvation certainly began from the moment God pronounced judgement upon all those implicated in the Fall.

Given that Redemption was decreed, the Transgressor’s ignorance and God’s innocence in the Betrayal were recognised. Ergo, had God unleashed all His wrath upon the Traitor, His Justice would have remained immaculate. The Traitor was a beast who had been undermining the Peace of Creation and attacking the Foundations of the Throne of the Son of God since before the Creation of Mankind. Had God proceeded to his Eternal Banishment at that very moment, and possessing the Sovereign Power to restore the Soul and Forgive Adam’s Sin, the World would not have crossed the Threshold of Tragedy that we call ‘The Universal History of the Wars of Mankind’.

Dragged into Hell by a Satan whose wickedness exceeded all bounds before God, the very Justice that brought about Redemption would have been sufficient and would have legitimised God’s decision had He proceeded to absolve His youngest son, Adam.

Where is the father who, seeing his young son, in his ignorance, dragged into crime by the wickedness of an older brother, punishes both with the same penalty? If we men, being bad fathers, do not allow ourselves to be swept away by such cruelty, how can we believe that God, the most loving Father of Mankind, for whose sake He did not hesitate to give us His Son Jesus as our Champion, could in His wrath lump the Traitor and the Transgressor together!

The Mystery of the Salvation of His Creation was at stake. It was not merely Mankind who had been attacked; it was the whole of Creation that found itself besieged by Death.

With a bleeding Heart, God the Father had to pass judgement upon his youngest son, Adam, whilst incorporating the Promise of Redemption into His Judgement. Which, as I said before, Cain interpreted according to the Flesh; which is why God, having withdrawn His Spirit from man, had mercy on the fratricide.

Man resolves all matters by making himself the measure of everything. But God has before his eyes the Future of the whole of Creation. And it is this Future that God had before his eyes when he pronounced judgement against the Transgressor and the Traitor.

For the latter, God decreed Eternal Banishment from His Creation; for the former, He decreed the penalty of banishment from His Presence until his Time of Condemnation was fulfilled. Millennia would pass until the Coming of the Redeemer and Avenger of the Blood of his younger brother Adam. From that Day of

From that Day of Mourning for the Murder of a son of God, the Predestination of the Messiah and his Brothers was set in writing.

“And it is in Him, Jesus Christ, in whom we have been declared heirs, predestined, according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will”

And being almighty in the image and likeness of Christ Jesus, Death was banished from their hearts, following in every way the example of their Master and Lord.

For we know that since the Fall of the First Man, Power has come hand in hand with fratricide, crime, murder and offence. A reality that spread throughout all nations, making Power a bloody throne, an abominable goal by reason of the path that leads to its exercise. An open denunciation before all the peoples of Creation by Christ himself, who, whilst possessing the Power of God in his Word, never set before his eyes the death of his neighbour as a path to the salvation of the world.

Power is not given to the children of God to be served, but to serve. God is the Lord, and all Power serves before His Throne for the happiness and joy of all the peoples of His Kingdom. The Law that governs Power is the Spirit of Love for Life. How, then, can the death of one’s neighbour have any part in this Spirit!

And in this Faithfulness to the Divine Model we discover the Mystery of the Revolutionary Expansion of Christianity, which in just 30 years came to encompass within its sphere all the provinces of the Roman Empire.

When the Anti-Christian Beast spewed forth its fire, we saw that Christianity was already alive in all the provinces of Nero’s Empire. The cause was Divine. God was with us, and when He departed, He left us Twelve like Himself.

But unlike the Son of God, the Apostles—His Brothers—performed their miracles in private, spreading the Name of Jesus amongst families, an infallible and undetectable means by which the Faith penetrated even into Caesar’s palace.

As we can see, the Mission for which they were predestined had in God’s Only-Begotten Son its guiding light, its star, its goal…

“So that all of us who hope in Christ may be to the praise of his glory.”

And in this regard, except in their Letters, they said nothing of themselves. Everything centred on revealing, through the Works of the Holy Spirit within them, the Divinity of the One who was on Earth to redeem us all, lift up our heads and open our eyes to Eternal Life.

Had they acted in accordance with the glory of their names, had they put the Power that was given to them to serve God at their own service, the infinite number of Miracles they went on to perform in private in the Name of Jesus would certainly have been recorded, and they determined that, by the time of the Order of the Neronian Beast, Christians would already be established in all the provinces of the Empire.

Having departed from this world, where there were ‘Works’, conversion through the Works of Faith took root; a seed which, once sown in hearts, led to the union of Gentiles and Barbarians in a single Kingdom, called to make of this world the People of the Kingdom of God.

We know that God seated His Son on the Throne of His Glory so that all His creation might bow the knee before his Crown and that we may worship him as his Father is worshipped. Thus, having previously proclaimed this, saying: ‘You have made him God, you have given him dominion from your hands, you have made him Lord of your Creation, you have placed the life of every creature at his feet’, he immediately presents to us the King of Life, in whom Death has no part.

Joy in Heaven, Happiness on Earth: the throne of the Redeemer, which Cain sought to purchase at the price of his brother Abel’s death, was given to the One who paid for Him with His own blood.

A price paid by his brothers in Abraham, and, aware of their predestination to the Cross, they did not hesitate to lay their lives at their Lord’s feet for the salvation of the fullness of the nations of the human race.

What a marvellous work of God, Father and Son!

Children of God, begotten in the Image and Likeness of the Redeemer, by whom they were formed, not with many human words but with the Discourse that flows from the Works of Faith, following the Example of their Master and Saviour, they laid at His feet the Power they had inherited, so that it might redound to His Glory for ever and ever. And along the Way they sowed the Divine Seed which, breaking through the horizons, has led Europe to Christianity—a Divine Seed which Christian Europe would spread to the four corners of the Earth until the Conversion of the Tree of the Nations to the King of Heaven.

For this reason, looking to the Future, the Holy Spirit continues to write to those who, through the Works of Faith, would convert the nations:

“In Jesus Christ, you too, who hear the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in which you have believed, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise…”

In this Seal we have everything in Him: Intelligence, Wisdom, Understanding, Strength, Counsel and the Fear of God; and knowing that the Fear of God is made perfect in Love, through the Promise we share the Hope of Victory…

“a pledge of our inheritance, in view of the redemption of his possession, to the praise of his glory. For this reason I too, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and of your love for the saints”.

How can one not love those who are the River of Peace, which, springing from the Divine Source, waters all the souls of Creation, nourishing the Tree of Life of the Worlds so that all its branches may grow in health? Does not the King’s House share in his Spirit in fullness and love for the lives of all the citizens of God’s Paradise? Where is there envy, pride, ambition or egotism? There is not a trace of corruption in them. They are the invincible shield against war that the Creator has given to His Kingdom.

“I never cease to give thanks for you and to remember you in my prayers”

The strongest treated as the weakest; God’s most beloved creation thrown to the lions, serving as torches in the Night of the Caesars.

It was God’s will that those who were to inherit the glory of the Crown with His Son should experience evil until the pain penetrated to the very depths of their being. God wrought a Marvellous Work, a Living Temple, a Living Fortress, a House built not of stones and rocks but of God’s Love for Life, a House in which the Memory of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and LOVE FOR THE KING, tested against Death, shall remain for Eternity.

“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and Father of glory may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him”

Words that we place upon our lips, blessing God for having clothed His Creation against the Fires of War, and defended His People by giving Truth a Body, the Temple of the Spirit of Christ, invested with the Power of the Word. And may He grant us” … Neither power nor riches. “May He grant us” … Wisdom and Knowledge of God.

Called to Eternal Life, what more precious treasure can any intelligent creature possess than the True Knowledge of the Son of God: King and Lord of all his Father’s Creation?

And what of us? All the gold in the world. All the crowns and all the powers founded on the knowledge of good and evil are dust that the wind of eternity sweeps into the abyss of oblivion. Only Life remains.

What other doctrine did the Holy Spirit, made Man, reveal to those hundreds of thousands of men, women, the elderly and children who placed their lives in the hands of the King of Heaven?

What was the doctrine of the Catholic Church from the very beginning?

To draw near to God the Father whilst ignoring God the Son?

Does the Holy Spirit not proceed from the Son?

Who, then, is the Head of Christ, the Incarnation of the Holy Spirit who lives in the Father and the Son: the Emperor of Byzantium? The King of England?

Is it not written? : ‘Whoever sees the Son sees the Father’. And both dwell in Christ. For this reason, the Holy Spirit concludes: ‘The Head of Christ is the Son, and the Head of the Son is the Father’. Hence the Holy Spirit proclaimed the Dogma of the Trinity: Three Persons and one true God.

“Enlightening the eyes of your heart, so that you may understand what is the hope to which he has called you, and what are the riches and the glory of the inheritance granted to the saints”

Is there any greater wealth and glory than belonging to the House of God as Brothers of His Son, in whom God has placed the Peace and Salvation of His entire Kingdom?

Not one nor two, but an entire people passed through the fire to be reborn from their ashes like the Eternal Phoenix, sharers in the Glory of God the Only-Begotten Son, in every way Equal to the Model in whose Image and Likeness they were begotten, Jesus Christ: Incorruptible, Omniscient, before whose Gaze every heart and every soul is laid bare. Goodness personified, Wisdom in the flesh of Creation, ‘God with Us’, the Indestructible Wall against whose Rock Loneliness and Confusion shatter.

A marvellous work of God, Father and Son, through which they have clothed their Creation in joyful immortality, in joyful freedom, in irrepressible joy, in boundless happiness, bursting forth in ceaseless acclamations. The world that God has created to be His home, open to all the peoples of His Kingdom, without borders, all without fear of Eternity, governed by the Holy Spirit: the living embodiment of the Creator’s love for His creation.

Blessed are all those who walked the Path of their Hero, King and Lord Jesus Christ, bearing witness with their blood, the Divine Plan being fulfilled in them:

“You are my witnesses”. And witnesses through their blood, from the fire of martyrdom, declaring that they had seen and heard the Son of God, at the sound of whose voice the heavens and the earth joyfully received his Word as a command, whose voice the earth embraced in her arms when confusion was already squeezing her heart and she saw herself condemned to condemned.

“True God from True God”. “God with them”. They touched Him, ate with Him and walked with Him.

Where is the glory, where is the power, where are the riches? With what can this glory be bought: to be co-heirs with Jesus, the Firstborn of God? To what power can it be compared to be children of God in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ?

How is it, then, that amongst those who call themselves Christians there are some who despise the Saints and regard as idolatry the love and veneration of those who, with their blood and amidst the fire, cried out with a clear voice and strong words: ‘Jesus Christ is the Almighty and Omniscient Son of God the Father, YAHWEH, Lord of the Infinite and of Eternity, Creator of the Cosmos and of all life that springs forth in the Universe!’

“And what is the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the strength of his mighty power”

Let your souls open up and your hearts burst forth in infinite gratitude to those who, despising their own lives, gave them up so that, becoming all citizens of the Kingdom of God, we might have a dwelling place that nothing and no one will ever take from us.

Who were those fools, the ignorant and the wicked, who, under the guise of a perverse puritanism, condemned the Love for the Saints in whom God has placed the Peace and the Health of His entire Kingdom? Is it not written: ‘God wills that the worship due to the Father should be the worship due to the Son’? And ‘whoever does not worship the Son does not worship the Father’.

Fools, if the Son is the Head of Christ, will not his Body share in the worship due to his Head?

Again, ‘Christ is the Head of the Church, and the Head of Christ is God’.

For this reason, because you have set yourselves a human head and have spurned Christ as the Head of your churches, idolatry is yours; so that by denying the Saints the worship due to the Spirit of God, you have bestowed it upon the criminals and murderers, the slayers of saints, whom you have set as heads of your churches.

Tremble with dread, for on the Day when the Judge summons you before Him whom you spurned as the Head of your churches, one by one you will have to give an account of your rebellion.

Take heed, then, where you tread, for Rebellion becomes Treason when the Will of God is made manifest and calls for Unification, offering Mercy to the Rebels for the salvation of their souls through the Obedience due to the Worship of God.

To what Power can you compare the Power of the Saints?

“Which God exercised in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in heaven”

Since they are one with Christ—Jesus, the Head of Christ, seated at the right hand of God the Father—what greater Throne could you bestow upon any creature?

They died with Him to rise again with Him to His glory, the glory of the children of God, adopted yet in every respect sharing the nature of their Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, the Firstborn of the whole House of God, who, being the Only-Begotten of His Father, clothes all His Brothers in His nature, making them all Sons of His Father, masters of His Heart with Him, through Him and in Him. How then do some of you say: ‘The Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son’?

Nothing—neither Heaven nor the Earth, nor this World nor the Worlds to come—can exist or does exist without the Son; everything that Creation receives from God, it receives out of Love for his Son, and by subjecting all things to his Son, making him the head of all his Creation, whoever is outside this Head is not in God. Their fate is destruction.

Remember Athens and Byzantium!

Learn from Constantinople, O Moscow!

Just as God left a remnant in Israel so that it might attain mercy, so He left a remnant to the Byzantine Orthodox Church, so that now, through your Obedience, you may call to mercy those who, in their ignorance of the Fullness of the Perfect Knowledge of the Son of God, rose up against His Bride, the Roman Catholic Church.

By despising the Bride, are you not despising her Lord, Jesus?

“Who is far above every principality, authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the age to come”.

You, Jesus Christ, God, the Only-Begotten Son; together with your Father, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, from whom, through your Birthright, the whole House of the children of God receives Truth and Holiness for the Peace and Well-being of all the Peoples of your Kingdom.

You, Jesus Christ, who, though Almighty, have made yourself a Servant of your Father for the Joy and Freedom of all the peoples of the Universe, both present and future.

Of You we say what the Holy Spirit has taught us and which we have treasured in our souls for our own salvation and that of our children:

“To You, Lord, has God, Your Father, subjected all things, placing us all, both in Heaven and on Earth, at Your feet; You and You alone, Jesus Christ, are the head of all things in the Church, which is Your Body, the fullness of which brings everything to completion in all”.

How then can some of you say that you have this or that king as your head, thus rebelling against God’s Creation!

And is it not from the Head that the whole Body receives its nature?

Thus, some out of Pride, and others out of Perversity, both alike have committed a Crime against God. For Faith was given to you to overcome Ignorance and to clothe God’s Silence in the Sacred Mantle of Fidelity.

You did not rebel against the Catholic Church, Mother of all Churches, the throne of the Tree of Faith; you rebelled against God, the Father and the Son, accusing God for His Silence and His Son for His own. Did you not read what is written: ‘If, whilst speaking to you of earthly things you do not understand, how would you understand if I spoke to you of the things of Heaven’?

You have accused God of having silenced His Son’s mouth.

You have accused the Son of God of having submitted to the Will of his Father by confirming the choice of Peter, even though, of all the Disciples, he was the only one who denied him before the world.

Who are you to dare to raise your voices before God! Holiness belongs to the saints; what is there for the rebels but rebellion?

Call it Orthodoxy, call it Reformation, call it what you will; if you do not obey and proclaim Jesus Christ as the Head of all Churches, and do not confess your sin before His Bride, and Mother of all His children, the Catholic Church, you will be judged for rebellion against God and His saints on the Day of Judgement of all things.

We practise the worship of God and the worship of the Saints. The crucial difference between the two lies in Love. The former belongs to Judaism. The latter to Christianity.

In Judaism, the worship of God is founded on Power. God is Power. One either follows His Law or is destroyed. Disobedience to His Word is followed by the destruction of the disobedient.

In Judaism, the measure of the Law is not Justice but Power. God is Almighty, and there can be no relationship with God outside of Power. Either everyone is on their knees, or everyone is dead. There is no other option.

Judaism was the worship of the Being as Power.

In Christianity, worship arises from love for the Divine Personality.

‘And if God were not Love, I would not worship God’ is the worship of the Saints.

The God who, through Moses, says ‘I AM WHO I AM’, in Jesus Christ opens His breast, reveals His Heart and says ‘I have been with you for so long, and yet you have not seen Me?’

In Christianity, it is the Personality of God that wins over Adoration. “God is Love”. And this Love is clothed in the Being of God to make the Adoration of the Saints the Joy of all Creation.

From the very beginning of Christianity, the Adoration of God has been one of Love. ‘Even if there were no Heaven, I would love you’ becomes the very heart of the Christian.

It was only natural that those who viewed the worship of God as a matter of Power should take offence at the One who revealed to us the worship of God as Love.

In Jesus Christ, the Personality of that God who says ‘I AM WHO I AM’ opens His Chest, reveals Himself, and conquers the Heart of His Creation. This is His Victory. This is His Greatness. This is His Glory. This is the Foundation of His Eternal Crown. From the worship of the Being as Power, Creation ascended to the worship of the Being as Love.

In Moses, God reveals Himself as Infinite Power. In Jesus Christ, God reveals Himself as Eternal Love. There is no opposition; there is perfection.

Evidently, those who had built a religion and a state upon the foundation of Power, and ruled the nation with the whip of Terror through the Law, by natural logic and historical force, the Christ-centred worship of the Saints was bound to appear to them as a suicidal weakness. For in a Heart that has no room for Love of God, and which lives by the fear of God as Law, there could be no room for Love as worship of the Divine Personality, who reveals himself in his Son Jesus Christ and becomes the veneration of the saints.

It is from this Worship that the Epistles of Saint Paul flow like rivers descending from the Mountain of the Gospel to bring life to the deserts and barren plains of Universal History after millennia of Worldwide Fratricidal War. Indeed:

“And you were dead because of your offences and sins”

Death sowed its seed amongst the nations, and civilisation, having barely entered its ontogenetic adolescence, was transformed into a field of merciless fratricidal warfare.

Universal Brotherhood in God the Creator, which had taken root in the Mesopotamia of Adam, was lost like a tree deprived of water under a merciless sun. The deification claimed by the Crown created an irreversible opposition to the first Mesopotamian kingdom founded upon the first city-states recorded in the history of the human race. The Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—War—was fed to all peoples, and by turning their Flesh into a breeding ground for all evils, it nurtured the tree of Hatred.

Brotherly Love gave way to the Power of kings, and their unbridled passion to be worshipped as gods was the legacy received by the crowns of those times; and as the millennia passed, we saw its evil manifestation for the last time on the throne of the Caesars.

By the time of the Century of Christ, there was no longer any hope for humankind. The whole of humankind was sin and crime. The Divine personality in whose image the First Man was formed and which was called the Human Race in its Fullness dissolved over the millennia that have passed, until man became a wild beast—the most dangerous of all, the beast hungry and thirsty for absolute power.

Faced with this universal reality governing the minds of all nations, what future could the Gospel of the Son of God—‘GOD IS LOVE’—possibly have? Jews and Romans scoffed at that religion of slaves for slaves. ‘Is God love?’ they asked themselves. ‘And so what is this life of ours, then—a circus? Well, off to the circus with them.’

Thus was Christianity born. For what sort of relationship can a creature of clay — animated with intelligent life by the Work and Grace of the Creator of the Cosmos — have, if not that of a father’s love for his son? Outside this relationship, there is only one possible law: ‘On your knees, or your neck will lose its head.’

It was the Law under which Judaism lived and which Islam later rescued from the grave into which Jesus Christ buried the Temple of Jerusalem. Times gone by…

“In which you once lived, following the ways of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in those who are disobedient”

With the Son of God came the Adoration of the Saints, Love for God as a Person. The Divine Personality conquered the Heart of His Creation.

And Jesus Christ won for God what we humans, on our own, could not do: to win the Heart of God. The Creator won over by his Creation! Not by Power but by the Love of a heart that utters a single word: ‘Father’. To which God responds with ‘My Son’.

The Jesus-Christian Revolution became unstoppable. The mockers were mocked. The gods fell from their pedestals. Mankind was resurrected to the Love of God through the Love of his Son for mankind. What a vast gulf there is between the one who died and the one who rose again, is there not, Saul?

“…among whom all of us were once counted, and we followed the desires of our flesh, fulfilling its will and its thoughts, being, like the rest, by nature children of wrath”

Indeed, it was necessary for the whole of Creation to experience, once and for all throughout Eternity, the reason why God, as a Person, regards the Knowledge of Good and Evil as an abomination.

Stuck in the worship of Power, one might come to believe that Divine Wrath has its origin in that fleeting, temporary whim whereby He who today abhors what might be pleasing to Him tomorrow.

Necessity was an obligation. Since, despite the Father’s words, God could not keep the hands of some of His children from the Forbidden Tree, once the Act of the Fall and the Betrayal had been consummated, the Necessity of revealing the Reason why God regards the Knowledge of Good and Evil as an Abomination to His entire House became absolute. Thus, though His heart was torn apart by these Acts, the Necessity that His entire House should experience His Abomination as their own marked the course of the Future of our World and of all Worlds for Eternity. The End of any World founded upon the Law of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is Destruction. An outcome that the entire House of God would witness first-hand in the Apocalypse of our world.

“… but God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us”

Yet having begotten all His children in the Image and Likeness of His Son, as a Father who knows His children perfectly, He knew that they themselves would fall to their knees and implore Mercy for our world. They would not need to witness the Fulfilment of this Divine Truth to experience it and make it their own for Eternity.

“And whilst we were still dead in our trespasses, He made us alive through Christ — by grace we have been saved —”

It is Man today who must proclaim this Divine Truth, making it all the more our own inasmuch as, having lived it in our very flesh for the Cause of God, we shall carry it within our Being for all eternity.

Thus, those who cried out for Mercy for Mankind, and those of us who have attained it, united in one Body and House, shall stand for Eternity as the indestructible and impenetrable Wall against which any resurgence of the Evil Seed shall shatter.

And this is the New Creation of God, a marvellous Work, the source and cause of the Adoration of the Saints: ‘You alone, Lord and Most Holy Jesus Christ, are worthy of the Throne of Glory’

“… and raised them up and seated them in the heavens in Christ Jesus”,

At whose side God seated his Brothers, from Heaven and from Earth, for the Peace and Salvation of the Creation of his Father for all Eternity.

“… so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace through his kindness towards them in Christ Jesus”.

Exalted at the Right Hand of the Son, just as the Son sits at the Right Hand of the Father, they are Co-heirs of his Glory, in whom God the Creator places the Peace and Well-being of his Creation. They are the children of his Love for all the Peoples of the Tree of Nations, created to fill his Paradise with the Perfect Happiness of those who find in the Love of their Creator their Life and their Joy.

None of this comes from man, but from God and his Son.

“… For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God”

That God who never wished to destroy His Creation and has taken all the Omniscient measures which, in boundless Wisdom, He has deemed necessary so that never again, in the course of Eternity, may the Fall of His Kingdom into the Abyss of the Knowledge of good and evil be repeated—the Fruit of which, War, is in His eyes an Abomination.

All the more marvellous is His New Creation in Man, inasmuch as, whilst in the beginning Adam was invested with the crown over the human race, in the end Man was exalted, in Christ, to the Right Hand of the Son, a co-heir to His Glory, to rule, together with the children of God in Heaven, the Kingdom of God in its Fullness. And this is indeed true:

“… it does not come from works, so that no one may boast”

What can one say! How could one even think that Man, by his own means, could have raised himself to such glory!

Nor should we dare to believe what the Devil’s Advocate might say, that God brought about the Fall as a means of achieving this End. ‘Neither passively nor actively, neither in potential nor in actuality’.

Nor should we assert that, once redeemed from Condemnation by the Son of God, Man returns to the state prior to Christianity—in every respect identical to Judaism—in which the Son neither existed nor had any part between Man and God.

Or to maintain, like the other servant of the Devil, who nullified the Works of Faith—without which Christianity could never have come into being—that the Justice of Redemption is communicated through Reason alone, without the Works of Faith.

Love does not deny Power. Love perfects Faith in the Power of God, which is exercised in His Creation to sustain the Love of Creation for its Creator within the Adoration of the Saints. This is what Saint Paul says:

“… for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we might walk in them”.

Thus, whoever does not perform ‘good works’ done in Christ Jesus is not a Christian, for Faith is not communicated by the Word alone, but by the Word and the Works that flow from Faith, as the Son of God Himself said: ‘Unless you see Works, you would not believe’.

Therefore, the salvation of mankind comes from the works carried out in Christ Jesus, the nature of which is described in his Gospel. And whoever believes has done so because of the works in Christ Jesus of those who went before them, the works and the Word being the two faces of the same Divine Countenance, Jesus Christ.

It is difficult to understand the reasons why the Divine Being responds to the circumstances created by the actions of His own creations. No creator is obliged to account for their work on the basis of criticism. Every creator has the power and the freedom both to destroy and to preserve their work. And, unless they have been commissioned to produce that work, nothing and no one can demand an explanation from them regarding the future of their work.

Clearly, if a work is carried out under contract, that contract is binding, and the contracting party becomes solely responsible for the future of the finished work. I do not believe it is necessary to resort to rhetoric in this regard.

In the case of the Creator of the human race, and of all life that exists in the Universe, Creation has its Origin in a Free Personal Will. God carries out His Work of His own free will and with complete freedom. He is accountable to no one for His Work, and the Future of His Creation remains in His hands. God has no Master other than Himself.

It is therefore surprising that God should be held to account for His actions in the face of the circumstances created by the creatures of His Creation.

If God has no passions, as the Anglican Church confesses in its first doctrinal chapter, this divine act of giving reasons and taking part in the temporal circumstances arising from His creation strikes us as absurd.

To demand of an artist of genius—that is, one who creates through the spirit—the reason why his work takes this form and not another is to fall into the most utter stupidity. So what concerns us is understanding why God has to give us explanations for his conduct.

The History of Religions unfolds in the realm of Power. The existence of God is taken for granted, and the relationship between Man and God is established from the perspective of Power. Faced with a Person—in this case, a Divine One—whose Power is Infinite, one can only prostrate oneself on the ground in an attitude of total defencelessness. One does not ask Power for reasons. A relationship is not established on the basis of Being. He who possesses Infinite Power is accountable to no one for his actions.

This same pattern is observed in non-Christian religions and non-Catholic churches. The relationship between Man and God is established from the perspective of Power, not from that of Being; that is to say, the relationship between absolute monarchs and their subjects is projected onto the Infinite. Power holds life and death in its hands and is not accountable to anyone for its reasons in passing judgement.

Whilst in the case of men, Power can be challenged and overthrown, in the case of God this possibility is nullified.

Both Judaism and Islam remain within this sphere of relationship in which Being does not count; in both religious systems, Power is the basis of worship and of man’s submission to God.

The Jesus-Christian Revolution that the Son of God sets in motion on Earth—and which his Apostles and Disciples project to the nations—breaks this ancient pattern and centres the discourse on God’s relationship with humankind on fatherhood. The Creator declares himself Father of his Creation. God is the Father of humankind.

“Out of a Father’s love for his Son”, God is accountable for his actions before his Creation.

The divine reality of being a Father transforms the relationship between the Creator and his Creation in such a way that what was once impossible—a genuine relationship between Creator and Creation within the Order of Power—comes to life within the Order of Being. “God is Father, God is Love”.

“Therefore, remember that once you, Gentiles by birth, were called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those who call themselves ‘the circumcised’—a circumcision performed on the flesh”

Torn from the animal state into which our forefathers were cast, and as such rational animals established in a relationship with the Divinity through Power, the Jesus-Christian Revolution—Redemption having been accomplished once and for all— opened for us the Door to the Heart of the Creator, within which God responds to his Creation as a Father who loves his children and explains to them the reasons for his Response to the circumstances his House is going through.

Outside this Relationship of Fatherhood, understanding the reason why God intervenes in the affairs of his children becomes an absurdity. Out of Love for his Creation, what was impossible has become a reality thanks to Christ, who lives within us. Without whom:

“we were, then, without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world”

This is evident when we consider the circumstances of the world before Christ, and again in today’s world, which has once more turned away from God.

If, before Christ, neither Jews nor Gentiles could comprehend God and his reasons for maintaining the distance between Creator and Creation, once we have turned away from Christ once more, we return to the Order of Power, though on this occasion in a new form of understanding based on the denial of God’s existence, derived from our political conception of power. If God is Love and God is Almighty, why does He remain on the sidelines of humanity’s tragedy?

In other words, the inability to understand God casts mankind back into the animal-like state from which it was rescued by Christ. ‘Since we cannot understand, we deny’.

And yet we all know that a father’s reasoning lies far beyond the understanding of his son whilst he is still growing up. If this is the case between father and son of the human race, how can we expect to understand God simply because we are his children? It is for this reason that faith became dogma, so that the incomprehension arising from the distance between Creator and Creation might not destroy God’s embrace as Father towards his children.

“But now, through Christ Jesus, we who were once far off have been brought near to God through the blood of Christ”

All of us, without exception, being children of the same Divine Creator, find ourselves in the same state of Sonship through which Love sustains what Natural Intelligence cannot comprehend.

Understanding the Reason of God is a Supernatural Act. It can only be realised within the bosom of God’s Love for His Creation. For if there were no Love, there would be no Passion, certainly, and Anglican religious dogma would possess Divine value.

However, the denial of Passion in God is the denial of Christ’s ‘God is Love’, and as such ‘God is Love’ is revealed supernaturally in his Son to accomplish through Faith what proved impossible through the Natural Intellect, namely, to attain the Wisdom of God, and this has once again been shown to be impossible, even though between Modern Man and Ancient Man there lies a gulf in the realm of ‘scientific knowledge’.

In both cases, the absence of Christ in the human being has led to atheism. This may take different forms but retains the same essence: the impossibility of penetrating Divine Reason without entering through the Gate established by God Himself: ‘Jesus Christ’.

“For He is our peace, who has made the two peoples one, breaking down the dividing wall, the enmity”

We were created as the human race, with no distinction between one person and another, all one Body, ‘Man’, with a single, universal Head, Jesus Christ, King and Lord of all God’s creation, His Father. To wish to maintain division on the grounds of blood is to deny God, who, through Redemption, by redeeming us all with the Blood of His Son, made us one Blood, one Body, one Being, raised to Christian Supernature in the order of Love. This is God’s Reason from the Beginning, when He said: ‘Let us make man in our Image and in our Likeness’, that is to say, a child of God. That Jesus Christ came to re-establish, through His Love, His Father’s Creation, in this way:

‘By abolishing in his flesh the Law of the commandments set forth in decrees, so as to create in himself out of the two one new man, and to establish peace’

As for this nullification, we already know its meaning. It is not that the Commandments set forth in decrees were rendered ineffective, but rather that, raised to the status of Christ, the sentence against disobedience—which was subject to death—ceased to be enforced, so that what could not be achieved by Power might become Life through Love.

For if, under the Law of the Commandments by decree, the terror of punishment was the force that fuelled obedience, and the rejection of life in constant terror led to the rejection of obedience, through love for God—begotten in him to be his children, becoming Our Father who is in Heavens, the Law of Terror gave way to the Law of LOVE, so that what was impossible for man—‘Obedience born of the Terror of Punishment’—through the Love of the children for the Divine Father, this Obedience emerges freely without being subject to scrutiny. And in the encounter with Universal Divine Fatherhood:

‘Jesus Christ reconciles us all to God in one body through the cross, putting to death in himself the enmity’.

‘The Human Race’. We are all part of this Universal Body, of this Tree of Life of the Nations, which, through circumstances neither predestined nor desired by God, has been exposed to a hostile environment, unleashed by Death to bring about our destruction.

The story of Cain and Abel is the story of the Human Race. We have been engaged in a global fratricidal war for six thousand years. It is time to bury Enmity and be reborn into Friendship with those who are our brothers and sisters. First, by Nature, our mother being the Earth, and secondly because we have as our common Father the very same God who created her. For this reason the Son of God became Man:

“And as he came, he proclaimed peace to those far away and peace to those near at hand”

In the eyes of the Creator of all, there is no difference between one family and another. Is there any difference between one branch and another of the same tree as regards the nature of the blood that nourishes the whole tree? The Tree of the Human Race has a single Blood, the Blood of Christ, through which we all become children of God. And thanks to this Blood:

“through Him we all— both one and the other—have the power to draw near to the Father in one and the same Spirit”

Thanks to Jesus Christ we all share in the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: “Three Persons and one true God”. Thus, whilst we are many and all share the same Spirit, we can comprehend through Love what is impossible for us through Reason: the Perfect, Eternal and Infinite Unity of the Divine Persons in a single Being: “God”.

Thus, as we are all parts of the same Being, ‘the Being of Man’ in whom the Spirit of Christ dwells, we share in everything in God, our Father.

“Therefore, we are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household”

If we are all children of God, all brothers, and if we are brothers, the law that flows in our Blood is the Law of Love, not that of Terror nor of Enmity, not that of Pride nor of Vanity. The same Father of us all nourishes us all with his Love; so that no one can boast of their bloodline before God. Since it is the Blood of Christ that gives us birth to eternal life, we all share in the same foundations:

“Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone”

From which it is clear that Christianity does not break with Biblical Israel; it is its Fulfilment, the horizon towards which the Prophets journeyed from Adam to Christ.

“In whom the whole structure is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord”

The First Temple was built to stand until the coming of the Redeemer. And because of this expectation, the Temple was an impassable Gate for all the families of the human race. But God created all the families of the Earth. And since all nations had been banished from the Presence of their Creator, through Redemption this Exile would be brought to an end.

Through ignorance, the priests of the Ancient Temple rose up against opening its interior to all people, the necessity of its destruction and the building of a New Temple open to the fullness of the nations was laid bare by the Prophets themselves, who, being of the house of Israel, saw this ignorance rising up to bar the way to the Wisdom of the God of Moses.

Such was the New Temple, the Church, built upon the Resurrection of Jesus Christ:

“in whom we too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit”.