Symmetry of Soul Tuesdays

Before Jesus laid his hands upon the heads of the seventy to ordain them, he addressed them, saying: “The harvest is indeed plenteous, but the laborers are few; therefore I exhort all of you to pray that the Lord of the harvest will send still other laborers into his harvest. I am about to set you apart as messengers of the kingdom; I am about to send you to Jew and gentile as lambs among wolves.” The reading encompassed Paper 163:0.1-2.6, p. 1800

Jesus declared: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Verily, verily, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the bond servant of sin. And you know that the bond servant is not likely to abide forever in the master’s house. You also know that the son does remain in his father’s house. If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, shall make you sons, you shall be free indeed.” The reading encompassed Paper 162:7-9, p. 1796

Jesus proclaimed: “I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life. You who prefer to sit in darkness are of this world; I am not of this world, and I live in the eternal light of the Father of lights. I am the light of life, and every one who deliberately and with understanding rejects this saving light shall die in his sins.” The reading encompassed Paper 162:4-6, p. 1793

Jesus taught in the temple, saying: “I declare that I have not come to you for myself; I have been sent by the Father, and he who sent me is true and faithful. By refusing to hear me, you are refusing to receive Him who sends me. You, if you will receive this gospel, shall come to know Him who sent me. I know the Father, for I have come from the Father to declare and reveal him to you.” The reading encompassed Paper 162:2-3, p. 1790

During the feast of tabernacles Jesus went boldly into Jerusalem on several occasions and publicly taught in the temple. This he did in spite of the efforts of his apostles to dissuade him. Though they had long urged him to proclaim his message in Jerusalem, they now feared to see him enter the city at this time, knowing full well that the scribes and Pharisees were bent on bringing about his death. The reading encompassed Paper 162:0-1, p. 1788

Consciousness of divinity was a gradual growth in the mind of Jesus up to the occasion of his baptism. After he became fully self-conscious of his divine nature, prehuman existence, and universe prerogatives, he seems to have possessed the power of variously limiting his human consciousness of his divinity. Specifically, as Christ Michael, he could, at will, self-limit his divinity consciousness. The reading encompassed Paper 161:2.7-3.3, p. 1786

Nathaniel and Thomas testified that: All men, good and evil, recognize the elements of goodness in Jesus. And yet never is his piety obtrusive or ostentatious. He is both meek and fearless. He seems to approve of our belief in his divinity. He is either what he professes to be, or else he is the greatest hypocrite and fraud the world has ever known. We are persuaded that he is just what he claims to be. The reading encompassed Paper 161:1.9-2.6, p. 1784

Said Rodan: “In order to be a person, God must have symbols of spirit communication which would enable him to become fully understood by those who make contact with him.” To which Nathaniel countered that the infinite and eternal Father in Paradise does enjoy equality of communication with two other beings who are fully equal to himself and wholly like himself—the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. The reading encompassed Paper 161:0.1-1.8, p. 1783

Are you willing to pay the price of entrance into the kingdom of heaven? Are you willing to be born again? to be remade? Are you willing to be subject to the terrible and testing process of self-destruction and soul reconstruction? True, after you pay the price of dedication to the Father’s will, you do experience great peace—but only if you continue to walk in the spiritual paths of consecrated living. The reading encompassed Paper 160:5.7-14, p. 1781

A system of morals, by grasping an object of worship, may become a religion. This thing, being, state, or order of existence, or possibility of attainment which constitutes the supreme ideal of religious loyalty, and which is the recipient of the religious devotion of those who worship, is God. Regardless of the name applied to this ideal of spirit reality, it is God. The reading encompassed Paper 160:5.1-6, p. 1780