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Scientific, spiritual development.
Spiritual development is a part of the unfolding development of life in humanity. This development happens naturally if it is not artificially impeded. By the same token, the spiritual development can also be intentionally advanced, and put into high gear so to speak. We are told in Scriptures that Christ Jesus spent thirty years in a preparatory development phase before his public career was launched. The history books are rather silent about those development years in the Master's life. One can only assume what unfolded in the sanctuary of those years of discovery, by judging the nature of what was eventually brought into the limelight in the most remarkable career of any man. The Gospels tell us that Christ Jesus showed consistently great interest in the work of the historical spiritual pioneers that went on before. One must assume, therefore, that he was an eager student of the history of his people, the very people whose record has been carefully preserved for us, too, in Scriptures.
By considering these pioneering experiences, we too, may rediscover the spiritual facts that these people had discovered and illustrated in their deeds, and so we may reexperience them. By this method we may rediscover the processes behind the ancient 'miracles' that were evidently treasured at Jesus' time by the scholarly priesthood that Jesus had drawn from to a certain extend in his early years. It didn't seem to matter to him that the spiritual import of the ancient events was largely misunderstood by the scribes and pharisees themselves, which means that there was development going on in his mind that took him beyond the legends and information so gleamed, rather than limiting himself to an accumulation of teachings from external sources, teachers, or gurus, who were fundamentally deficient in this knowledge themselves.
We are also told of another event in Jesus' life that immediately preceded his public career, an event that apparently gave the final boost to that development that would enable him to stand against the whole front of the shallow perceptions of the times and demonstrate advanced concepts of metaphysics. As indicated earlier, we are told in Scriptures that he spent forty days in the wilderness of the Galilee, struggling with the primitive concepts of the times. He was alone there; alone with himself, with his God, with the infinite. After this intense period of discovery his works began to unfold.
Such periods of isolation from society are frequently periods of great discovery and self-discovery to whoever goes through such an exercise. Evidently, this was so for Jesus. Everything he had learned, discovered, and experienced, was now drawn into focus. We are told he struggled with "the devil." In scientific terms this translates into a struggle with the world's linear thinking where everything is isolated into separate happenings, spaced in time, with no links to the principles that had been demonstrated by the earlier pioneers, that have been thus illustrated to be truth, and as such to be ever operating. We are told that when he was finished with the "devil," linear time-spaced thinking was out, over, finished, gone - Angels ministered unto him - spiritual intuitions were born out out of the background of a deep understanding!
During the next three years he was in full public view, illustrating reality, healing among the people. He explained with parables in metaphor what could not be understood by the materially oriented mind schooled in linear perception. Nor did he actually 'teach' the people, per say. What he had to convey cannot really be taught. As Plato expressed in the Protagoras, the essence that underlies all things cannot be learned from an instructor. Christ Jesus gave the people proofs of spiritual reality, although these proofs seemed like miracles to them, they did gleam something for the process they had witnessed.
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