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[Message # 143]
(4) And I saw righteous Adam coming out of
a b
Heaven and spreading himself into the Earth,
and the Mind of Christ (see, Note 5) was his con
scious Mind and the Father was his unconscious
Mind, and he was protecting God' s creation from
materializing in the Visible Earth in a perverted
form, and he knew that The Serpent was strong
enough to strip off the immature Christ's (see,
Note 5) righteous covering and begin an indepen
dent existence.
(5) And as I turned to the [Mind of] Christ to receive understanding, there was the vision, The Serpent rebelled against righteous Adam, and brought her horn out from under his authority, and Satan’s Carnal Mind appeared in the Earth and began to dominate righteous Adam, but didn' t pene
a
The Image of Heaven is the world system formed by the Father through the Mind of Christ before the Fall. The Image of Heaven is also called the Garden of Eden.
b
The Earth is the soul part of God' s creation.
The Spiritual Earth is the soul of man and the Visible Earth is the world system, or the Image, which is man' s environment (2 Peter 3:5). The Visible Earth includes man's body.
Animals have a soul, but not a spirit. Plant life, rocks, etc. express soul.
trate him right away, and Satan’s Carnal Mind had
c
the Spiritual Vision [Image] of Hell in her Mind.
(6)-(7) And righteous Adam, the lord and master of God' s two-horned creation, couldn' t escape from Satan' s witchcraft power, and Satan’s Carnal Mind fell upon righteous Adam whom I had seen standing in Eden [the Image of Heaven] (see, Note a) with full spiritual authority over Heaven and Earth, and Satan took Eve [the human spirit] for a wife (Gen. 3:20), and I saw Satan penetrate her, and Satan' s spiritual substance flowed into her, and Eve became the harlot who birthed the Carnal Mind because of Satan' s witchcraft, and Satan' s Carnal Mind overthrew the Father' s immature Christ and tread Him underfoot, and fallen Adam wasn' t strong enough to sustain the Image of the Garden of Eden [Heaven] in the Earth anylonger.
(8)-(9) And Satan' s Carnal Mind used violent military strength to make herself high priest over the creation, and she broke the spiritual bones of the immature [Mind of] Christ, and Satan’s Carnal Mind offered the immature [Mind of]Christ up as a sacrifice to Satan, and righteous Adam was separated from the Garden of Eden [the Image of Heaven], and Satan exceeded the limit of her spiritual authority, and purchased God' s creation (Rom. 7:14), and Satan became fallen Adam' s unconscious Mind (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6), and the Carnal Mind became fallen Adam’s conscious Mind, and the Carnal Mind established her own Vision [Image] (Zech. 5:11) in the Visible, Physical Earth (see, V., ¶ 5) where Eden [the Image Of Heaven] had previously appeared, and fallen Adam fell down into Hell and
c
Hell is the Image of this present, fallen world system which reflects The Serpent' s nature. Hell is also called the Image of Death.
entered into the existence known as Death (Rom.8:6).d
[Message # 143]
(13) Then I heard Jesus Christ speaking aboutHis plan to raise the creation from the dead through judgment, and Christ Jesus said to
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Jesus Christ: How long shall it be until Christ's warrior Spirit is added to the saints, so that they can put a yoke on Satan in their own Mind, and be delivered from the rebellion in their own heart, which caused them to be trodden under the feet of their Carnal Mind and brought to ruin.
(14) And he said to me, it shall take as long as is necessary for the
spiritual family of
Christ
to overcome Satan' s present, illegal use of their spiritual substance, and
then Eve [the spirit of man]
Jesus Christ,
the God/Man (Jn. 10:36; Jn. 12:34), sacrificed [gave up] His existence as
Jesus of Nazareth (1 Cor. 5:7), who was Christ (Matt. 1:16), so that He
could be converted into a form (Acts 9:3-5) which would impart the life of
the Father to all of fallen humanity (Acts 2:17-19).
Jesus of Nazareth, who was Christ
in the days of His flesh,
is the
First Generation
of the
Mature Christ
to appear in fallen humanity.
Today, the glorified
Jesus
(Acts 9:3-5) is appearing in His offspring (Is. 53:10),
Christ Jesus
(1 Tim. 2:5), the
Second Generation
of the
Mature Christ
(Matt. 1:1, 17; Jn. 12:24; 1 Pet. 2:9) to be revealed in fallen humanity (1
Jn. 3:2).
Christ
is manifesting in believers who are declaring the Lordship of the glorified
Jesus Christ by sacrificing their own carnal mind (1 Pet. 2:5; Rev. 20:4).
shall be restored to righteousness.f
[Message # 186, Part 5]
The Death of the immature Christ Mind and the installation of
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Satan' s Carnal Mind as the Lord and Master of the whole creation. (See, also, III. ¶ 2.)
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And, the Devil manifests himself as the Mind of Jesus' renewed soul again, this time declaring his authority over the
f
The human spirit is expressing Satan' s image today (Jn. 8:44) but, in the regeneration (Mt. 19:28), she shall be reformed into the image of Christ (Eph. 4:23).
the peoples of the world (Alternate Translation, Matt. 8:4 [Mes
sage # 219, Part 3].)
I.
Mind, A New Thing
The spirit of man, sometimes called the human spirit, or Eve, is the female reproductive organ of the soul. She marries a male spirit, conceives, and gives birth to the Mind of the creation (Gen. 2:7; James 1:15). Mind, then, is neither exclusively spirit, nor exclusively soul, but a whole new creature (Gal. 6:15) which can identify with both spirit and soul (1 Tim. 2:5). Despite this duality, however, Mind assumes the nature of its father and functions as spirit. We can correctly say, then, that the female human spirit, the male spirit which she marries, and their child, the Mind which is born of the marriage, form the three-fold Mind of man (Ecc. 4:12).1
II.
Death In The Garden
In the beginning, the Father breathed into the man (Gen. 2:7), and Christ became the Mind of the creation (1 Pet. 1:11). But the
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man failed to keep the garden (Gen. 2:15), and the woman committed adultery with Satan (Gen. 3:6; Rev. 17:2), and the Carnal Mind was born into the man (James 1:15; Rev. 17:5), and the Carnal Mind killed the [Mind of] Christ (see, Alternate
And there it was, a different living creature, one inferior in authority and subordinate to the first, and this one was a wild, raging warmonger, and she incarnated as a mortal man without the image of Christ. And the mind which caused the living soul that died to incarnate had three parts to it: The Serpent, the human spirit and the Carnal Mind, and she was mortal, and Satan, the human spirit and the Carnal Mind said to themselves, Let us incarnate and be the accuser of all mankind (Alternate Translation, Daniel 7:5 [Messagee # 71, Part 3]).
| 2 | Militarily guard (Strong' s 8104). | |
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| 3 | The female soul which God created | (Song Of Solomon 4:12). |
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Translation, Daniel 8:4-9, pp i-ii), and man' s relationship to God
(Is. 14:14,16) and Heaven (Is. 14:12; Ez. 31:16) came to an end.
Eve' s adulterous union with Satan (Gen. 3:13; Rev. 17:1-2) resulted in the illegitimate birth of the Carnal Mind, who killed Christ and separated man from God. (See, Alternate Translation, Dan. 8:4-9, pp i-ii.) And the spirit of man clave unto her own soul instead of the Spirit of the Father, and the whole creation (the spirit of man and the soul which God formed from the Earth),fell down from Heaven into the clay prison houses (Job 4:19) which man presently inhabits, and man has been connected to himself instead of the Father ever since. And this is how man turned inward (James 1:23), and became selfish (James 1:24), and died (Gen. 3:24), and began to travel in spiritual circles (Ez. 39:14-15) upon the surface of this world system (Gen. 3:14), which is called Hell (Rev. 6:8). (See, 2nd Half of Note 11, beginning with line 13.)
So Death (see, Note d), then, is not the death of the body, but the death of the Mind which the Father breathed into the man at the beginning (Gen. 2:7). The Mind of Christ died (1 Cor. 15:3)5 and the Carnal Mind which Satan formed (Jn. 3:6; Rom. 8:5 ; Rev. 17:5) married the soul which was Christ's wife (Rev. 19:7), and she died also (1 Cor. 15:22), and the Image of Heaven, the expression of the Father in the Visible, Spiritual world called the Garden of Eden, became the Image of Death, the expression of Satan in a Visible, Physical world called Hell. (See, Alternate
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Dinah is a type of the human spirit forced into a marriage with the heathen (Genesis 34:3 [Message # 143 - Part 7]).
5
The Mind of Christ and the Christ are not the same. See, End Note # 1 at the back of this book.
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And those things which are in the soul are born of the flesh mind, but those things which are in the Spirit are born of the Spirit . . . . (Alternate Translation, Romans 8:5 [Message # 237, Part 3].)
Translation, Daniel 8:8-9, p ii.)III.
Mind Is The Mediator
God' s creation is both spirit and soul. The soul is the container which holds the spirit, and the Mind is the structure, or Spiritual Government (Is. 9:6; Rom. 13:1-7), through which the spirit rules.
The male spirit which fathers the Mind becomes god, and the
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Mind, becomes lord, master and high priest (Heb. 3:1), of the whole creation. So we see that Mind, which is both spirit and soul, but functions as spirit, is the mediator which connects the male spirit to the female soul (James 1:15).
Before the Fall, the Mind of Christ ruled the creation, after the Fall, the Carnal Mind, and at the beginning of the Regeneration(Matt. 19:28), the Mind of Christ reigned, once again, in the man, Jesus of Nazareth.
Today, the whole, glorified person of Jesus, who was Christ in the days of His flesh (John 16:33), is appearing in the creation as a
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And Jesus said to [Satan], there' s a new mind being revealed through the living soul that died, and you have no authority to test Christ, your God, the one who owns you [the one who is lord and master over you]. (Alternate Translation, Matt. 4:7 [Message # 219, Part 2].)
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And there was set up within fallen Adam a foundation that gave Him mastery over his own fallen soul, a spirit that produces life from within itself and a glorified body, even Christ, so that all the peoples who know God and all those who don' t know Him, all nationalities and all groups of people with different ethnic backgrounds but who speak the same language, should break open their Adamic soul and pierce through into the realm of God' s Spirit; Adam' s mastery over his own soul is for the life of the ages: he shall never lose it [again], and his glorified body shall not be destroyed.
(continued. . .)
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deliver man out from Hell and the bondage of Death. This Government is greater than a Mind. It is a whole new man (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10) whose Mind is Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). Christ Jesus is the new man which the Lord Jesus Christ has begotten in you (1 Pet. 1:23; James 1:21), and the Mind of Christ Jesus is the Mind of the New Man. (See, Note 17.)
The Kingdom of God is Christ Jesus appearing in a man whose carnal mind is still functioning (Rom. 7:24,8:11). The mind is the body of the spirit. The Kingdom of God becomes the Kingdom of
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Heaven when Christ Jesus so subjects the Carnal Mind, that the two function as one man under the authority of the Christ (Acts 2:46; Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22). The man in which the Kingdom of Heaven is appearing is a perfect man (Eph. 4:13; James 3:2).
IV.
Christ Jesus, The Only Mediator
The Carnal Mind connects man (soul) to Satan, the prince of this world (Jn. 14:30) and the false god of this fallen creation (Jn. 8:44). Satan is one part of the female soul (Gen. 1:4-5; Gen. 2:7)
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which has illegally taken on a male role (Gen. 3:13). The
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(. . . continued) (Alternate Translation, Daniel 7:14 [Message # 71, Part 4].)
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See, Message # 213, The Kingdom Of The Two Heavens.
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Who is this one who is separated from his unjust, violent and treacherous, sin-stained wife . . . That woman who is pregnant with fallen mankind because of the beast . . . . And why is she appearing in this world system as a man? It is I, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is saving the living soul from death . . . . (Alternate Translation, Is. 63:1-2 [Message # 78 -
(continued. . .)
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Carnal Mind, then, is a Mind born of the human spirit, the female reproductive organ of the soul, and Satan, who is another part of that same female soul. So we see, then, that the Carnal Mind is the incestuous offspring of the human spirit and Satan, that other part of the same female soul which is functioning as a male (see, Note 10). The Carnal Mind cannot connect man to God, then, because she only has access to that other part of her own female soul which is illegally functioning as a male spirit (Rom. 8:5). (See, Note 10.)
Christ Jesus, the spiritual man in which the resurrected, Mature Mind of Christ resides, connects man to the one true God, the Lord Jesus Christ (Jn. 15:1). The Mind of Christ Jesus, then, is a Mind born of the human spirit, the female reproductive organ of the soul, and the Lord Jesus Christ. The man, Christ Jesus, is the only mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5).
V.
A World Is A Visible Image Of A Ruling Spirit
A world, or Environment, in which man can exist is an Image, or a Visible expression, of invisible, formless spirit, which openly declares the nature of the one who has fashioned it (1 Cor. 7:31). This corrupt world which we live in, for example, loudly trumpets the Hellish nature of its architect, Satan.
Soul is the building material and Mind is the spiritual structure which form the Image of a world. Spirit becomes rigid and takes form when he passes through Mind and soul, just as water vapor turns into ice when it passes through freezing temperatures. (See, 2nd Half of Note 12, beginning with line 7).
Invisible, unformed spirit dwelling inside of soul fortifies his city, or his kingdom, by erecting a Visible Image of Himself round about the soul (Zech. 2:5; Is. 60:18). Viewing the relationship between spirit, Mind and soul, then, as a series of
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(. . . continued)
Part 8].)
concentric circles with spirit at the center, Mind next and then soul, we see that an Image is formed when spirit, which abides in the innermost circle, penetrates Mind and pierces through soul, forming a fourth circle, or a world, beyond them.11
We can say, then, that the god of the creation appears as an Image of a world, or a living Environment, when he penetrates the Mind which he has begotten in the soul and then, piercing
And Satan' s Carnal Mind went beyond the Visible, Spiritual Earth, called Eden (the Image of Heaven) , and caused the Visible, Physical Earth, called Hell, (the Image of Death), to appear, and Satan' s Carnal Mind aborted the Father' s Christ, and righteous Adam and the many members of God' s creation were given over into Satan' s custody beyond the Visible, Spiritual Earth of Eden because of rebellion, and Satan broke forth upon the many members of humanity, and intertwined her Carnal Mind with their soul, and the spiritual potential of God' s creation, and of the many members which were destined to be born into it, was permanently altered because of Satan' s union with fallen Adam, and Satan’s Carnal Mind reformed the many members of God' s creation into Satan' s image, and they became earthy, sensual and devilish, and this is how Satan’s Carnal Mind built a nation of Physical men who would engage in continuous labor, and they entered into the Visible, Physical Earth of Hell, where they would labor to survive. And this is how righteous Adam, the dwelling place of the Mind of Christ, was overthrown. (Alternate Translation, Daniel 8:10-12 [Message # 165, Parts 9 - 10].)
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through to the other side of that soul12, forms a fourth circle round
about the whole city.
Mind, then, not only connects man to the god who is the master of his soul (see, III. ,¶ 2), but also binds the whole man, spirit and soul, to the Image