Chapter 4
Since the Bible is about you, let's direct the interpretation toward your
process of development and change.
{4:1} Then was Jesus led up of the After making the decision to express
Spirit into the wilderness to be God's will, you deal with the doubts
tempted of the devil you have carried with you. The ego
looks for any way to reassert authority.
{4:2} And when he had fasted forty You create stillness within the soul by
days and forty nights, he was your committment to this truth. Then
afterward an hungred you want to find ways to apply it.
{4:3} And when the tempter came to You could spend your time dwelling on
him, he said, If thou be the Son of past understood experiences and trying
God, command that these stones be to relearn from them and "get them
made bread right".
{4:4} But he answered and said, It But you recognise that your attention
is written, Man shall not live by should be in the present, on new
bread alone, but by every word challenges placed in fron of you by
that proceedeth out of the mouth the superconscious mind and I AM.
of God.
{4:5} Then the devil taketh him up You could use your power solely to
into the holy city, and setteth him control the subconscious or soul, and
on a pinnacle of the temple be a psychic or religious teacher.
{4:6} And saith unto him, If thou There is also the image here of
be the Son of God, cast thyself constantly proving to yourself that
down: for it is written, He shall your understanding is accurate and
give his angels charge concerning spiritually ordained. But this is
thee: and in [their] hands they really just doubt raised to a new
shall bear thee up, lest at any level. The superconscious guides
time thou dash thy foot against a your purpose so that your foundation
stone does not conflict with your understood
experiences.
{4:7} Jesus said unto him, It is But you reject this doubt of your
written again, Thou shalt not inner purpose, and the limitation of
tempt the Lord thy God. your understanding.
{4:8} Again, the devil taketh him The ego says this new understanding
up into an exceeding high mountain, will not be sufficient to deal with
and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the huge challenge of controlling
the world, and the glory of them all the aspects of the mind.
{4:9} And saith unto him, All these The ego tells you that only it can
things will I give thee, if thou maintain control and hold the mind
wilt fall down and worship me together as one identity and unit.
{4:10} Then saith Jesus unto him, This is the final confirmation of the
Get thee hence, Satan: for it is enormous spiritual discovery: that the
written, Thou shalt worship the true source of identity is from the I
Lord thy God, and him only shalt AM principle, not from any physical
thou serve. part of mind.
{4:11} Then the devil leaveth him, Now your attention leaves the ego, and
and, behold, angels came and all distractions are gone. You are free
ministered unto him to accept the ideas of the supercon-
scious mind.
{4:12} Now when Jesus had heard But still you feel a limitation in your
that John was cast into prison, he ability to love, and you decide to work
departed into Galilee with this spiritual discovery by apply-
ing it to your daily life.
{4:13} And leaving Nazareth, he Letting go of separateness, you begin
came and dwelt in Capernaum, which expressing through consolation or com-
is upon the sea coast, in the passion, holding your attention balanced
borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim between emotion and intellect.
{4:14} That it might be fulfilled It is necessary to deal with these
which was spoken by Esaias the states of consciousness to gain final
prophet, saying control over the physical life.
{4:15} The land of Zabulon, and the These are tribes of Israel, the undisci-
land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of plined aspects of the self that can not
the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of be controlled from the outer mind.
the Gentiles
{4:16} The people which sat in The parts of your self that seem disint-
darkness saw great light; and to egrated, out of your control, and
them which sat in the region and without purpose, will be part of your
shadow of death light is sprung up total awareness all the same.
{4:17} From that time Jesus began You have discovered that you are one
to preach, and to say, Repent: for with the Father of mind, and that there
the kingdom of heaven is at hand. is order to your spirit, soul, and body.
There are 12 qualities to the self. These can be seen in the outer mind
(subconscious and conscious) as the 12 tribes of Israel. When you place your
attention on the inner mind (superconscious or spirit) then these qualities
become the apostles.
The change Christ brings is from figuring out the will of God, to taking on
and expressing the will of God.
{4:18} And Jesus, walking by the First you call on faith and strength,
sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, which you have used in the past to
Simon called Peter, and Andrew his discover spiritual truth thru
brother, casting a net into the ritual observances or meditiation.
sea: for they were fishers
{4:19} And he saith unto them, Now you will use them to direct the
Follow me, and I will make you outer aspects of your mind to accomp-
fishers of men. lish your inner purpose.
{4:20} And they straightway left Once you make the decision, all of mind
[their] nets, and followed him follows your direction.
{4:21} And going on from thence, he Enthusiasm and love are the next two
saw other two brethren, James [the qualities that you decide to express
son] of Zebedee, and John his through.
brother, in a ship with Zebedee These qualities have not been expressed
their father, mending their nets; completely.
and he called them
{4:22} And they immediately left But now they are under your control.
the ship and their father, and
followed him
{4:23} And Jesus went about all You begin applying this spiritual
Galilee, teaching in their understanding to your daily life,
synagogues, and preaching the recognizing the divine order that
gospel of the kingdom, and healing directs your experiences, and
all manner of sickness and all seeing the value of every aspect of
manner of disease among the people yourself.
{4:24} And his fame went throughout You begin to overcome doubt,
all Syria: and they brought unto indecision, and hesitation by
him all sick people that were taken your application of spiritual
with divers diseases and torments, truth.
and those which were possessed with
devils, and those which were
lunatick, and those that had the
palsy; and he healed them
{4:25} And there followed him great You spend a lot of time and attention
multitudes of people from Galilee, on applying spiritual truth in
and [from] Decapolis, and [from] as many parts of your life as
Jerusalem, and [from] Judaea, and possible.
[from] beyond Jordan