In many respects, the rise of Deism resulted in what has been portrayed as the Age of Enlightenment which is portrayed in the Wikipedia as: "..an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects."  This Enlightenment was fueled by Deism and an understanding of the Natural Laws that enabled man to connect to what Giordano Bruno portrayed as "The Divine Light [that] is always in man...".  But because, as Bruno stated, "man rejects ...The Divine Light [that] is always in man...". the Enlightened Deists were confronted with the same allegation against the original Church prior to being corrupted.  The Church had been accused of being a "secret system" by second century the philosopher Celsus. Quoting from The Christian Secret Doctrine http://SecretDoctrine.Nazirene.org :

In the approximate year of 178 of our Common Era, Celsus, the Epicurean Philosopher and opponent of Christianity published a rather embarrassing work in opposition to Christianity known as The True Word or Discourse. It is said that this work was so widely published and used by the Pagan world as an attack on the Church, that seventy years after its publication The True Word was still so widely circulated, that the Church Father Origen was commissioned by St. Ambrosius to refute this attack by Celsus. This publication and the reply by the Church Father Origen is so important to modern-day Christians who are attempting to bypass the corruption of the Church by a series of Roman emperors beginning in the fourth century, that is should be a starting place for all sincere seekers of Truth and TheWay.

To his disciples who were portrayed as being In The House with the Lord, Jesus said: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12).  In the Gospels we encounter two groups of people who exist at greatly differing levels of consciousness and understanding -- i.e., those who are portrayed as being "without", and the few who are said to be "In The House".  With respect to the reality of those who are portrayed in the Gospels as being "without", in contradistinction to those who are said to be In The House, the quotation of the early Church Father Origen represents an excellent portrayal of the reality of mind and being that is presented in these words of Jesus -- wherein, Origen writes in reply to the allegations of philosopher Celsus that the Church is a secret system: “I have not yet spoken of the observances of all that is written in the gospel, each one of which contains much doctrine difficult to be understood, not merely by the multitude, but even by certain of the more intelligent, including a very profound explanation of the parables, which Jesus delivered to 'those without' while reserving the exhibition of their full meaning for those who have passed beyond the stage of exoteric teachings, and who came to him privately in the house. And when he comes to understand it, he will admire the reason why some are said to be without, and others in the house”.

Very simply, those who are portrayed as being In The House with the Lord, have begun their inward journey in TheWay, where they began to develop the "eyes" that can see and understand at a higher more evolved level of consciousness.  This higher development of mind was accomplished by climbing the rungs of the proverbial Jacob's Ladder, by fulfilling the Natural Laws at each level of advancement ( Spiritual Meaning And Fulfillment Of The Law http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#SpiritualMeaningOfTheLaw ). 

Revealed Vs Natural Religion. What the Deists portrayed as a Revealed religion, is a religious system based exclusively upon information communicated through a prophet or chosen source -- which requires the membership to blindly believe the prophet of chosen source.   From a dogmatic perspective, the Roman Church of the fourth century maintained that Jesus was the source of all truth, and only the Church can properly interpret the scriptures.  Thus, from this dogmatic perspective, Christianity is a Revealed Religion that mankind must blindly believe and accept -- without question.   In Judaism, Moses was the chosen revealer to the Jewish world.   In Islam, Mohammed is portrayed as the only and last prophet in the final word of God to mankind through the Qur'an.  

Where Judaism, Christianity and Islam are portrayed as Revealed Religions, Deism arose out of the Age of Enlightenment, and was said to be a Natural Spiritual Path.  What is a Natural Religion?  Quoting the definition of Deism that has been embraced by many Deists: "Deism is belief in God based on the application of our reason on the designs/laws found throughout Nature. The designs presuppose a Designer. Deism is therefore a natural religion and is not a 'revealed' religion. The natural religion/philosophy of Deism frees those who embrace it from the inconsistencies of superstition and the negativity of fear that are so strongly represented in all of the 'revealed' religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. (These religions are called revealed religions because they all make claim to having received a special revelation from God which they pretend, and many of their sincere followers actually believe, their various and conflicting holy books are based on.)". 

When rightly understood, the foregoing Deist perspective is in error, because Jesus commanded his followers not to be called a teacher or rabbi -- stating that there is only One Teacher that all people should seek out (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher ).  Which means that every person equally, has the innate ability to seek out the Source of all Knowledge and Revelation -- "But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have One Teacher, and you are all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV).   And this innate ability of all people to communicate directly with God, was dependent upon their willingness to embrace and fulfill the Natural Laws which the Enlightened Deists portrayed as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God (see Spiritual Meaning And Fulfillment Of The Law http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#SpiritualMeaningOfTheLaw ).  Further, Jesus also taught that the scriptures are a spiritual document that is beyond ordinary human organic understanding.  Quoting from The Grave Error Of Human Organic Interpretation Of The Scriptures http://TheLawOfOctaves.com#ClementScriptures  :

In the Homilies of Clement the Apostle Peter is quoted as warning with respect to reading and understanding the scriptures: "...therefore great care is to be taken, that when the law of God is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind. For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".  If we ask the question: What is being said to the believer who desires to be faithful to the Gospel Teachings?  By design, the scriptures cannot be understood by the Linear (outward-male) spheres of mind.  Why?  Because the outward-looking spheres of mind see and understand in accord with the thinking of the outer world and culture.  And this fact is confirmed when Peter stated: "when the law of God (scriptures) is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind"?  Why?  Because the scriptures are composed in a symbolic language that is designed to look inwardly, and can only be interpreted and understood by the inward-looking (feminine) Intuitive spheres of mind.  The outward-looking Linear spheres of mind attempts to interpret all things literally and historically -- which is why Peter warns that "...For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for himself".   Further, Peter warns that "...For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without".  What this means is that if you attempt to interpret the scriptures in accord with a study group, a Biblical Commentary, in accord with the teachings of a Church, or from a human thought-perspective -- that you will not only fail to understand the meaning of the scriptures, but you will alienate and disenfranchise your mind from the true spiritual meaning.  Why?  Because the scriptures are composed in the allegorical language of the Soul that employs allegorical catalysts that are used to develop the inward-looking Intuitive Spheres of Mind.     

If one half of the mind (Linear/Male) looks outwardly -- and relates all that it sees and understands to the things of this world -- then it is the inward-looking Feminine-Intuitive spheres of mind that must be developed, in order to begin to connect with the source or voice of our God-Given Conscious or "soul-flame" that is able to connect with our Inner Source of the Divine Mind within us.   And therein lies the problem as seen in the fact that the mind of our earthly consciousness is three-dimensional, while the mind of our Metaphysical or True-Self dwells in a twelve-dimensional realm, that is virtually impossible for our limited three-dimensional earthly-self to comprehend.  Which means that all the three-dimensional earthly instruction will not develop our inward-looking Intuitive-Self.  Which means that to begin to develop the mind to perceive and understand beyond the three-dimensional level of outward-looking mind, we must begin to teach and instruct in an outside the three-dimensional box level of thinking, in order to begin to develop the inward-looking Intuitive/Feminine spheres of mind.  Which is why the authors of the scriptures employed allegorical mythology that acted as catalysts that began the process of expanding the three-dimensional limitations of the outward-looking spheres of mind.  By exposing the three-dimensional linear consciousness to mythology that explored man's metaphysical  twelve-dimensional higher Soul-Reality, the inward-looking Intuitive/Feminine spheres of mind would begin to develop and bring about the necessary transformative process of mental-expansion and spiritual-deepening.  And in the same way that a ladder employs side-rails that enable the rungs to exist that permits the person to climb one level at a time to an elevated level, the Enlightened Deists understood that the Natural Laws existed that permitted the three-dimensional mind of man's organic human three-dimensional consciousness, to advance up the levels of Higher Consciousness.  And in the same way that when a person climbs a ladder, they must release themselves from the previous rung to begin to grasp the next higher rung, the Deists understood that when climbing the rungs of mental-advancement, the person had to release themselves from the previous three-dimensional levels of consciousness.

When this process was explained in the Church's rebuttal to the pagan attack in Origen's Contra-Celsum, it was acknowledged that carnal organic man who Celsus portrayed as spiritually blind sinners, could only comprehend the living of a single-life and the concept of reward/heaven or punishment/hell reality.   To the organic earthly consciousness of man, it was impossible for them to envision themselves achieving perfection as in the case of the man Jesus -- i.e., "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:48).   So this message was interpreted in their limited three-dimensional thinking as belief in the godly man Jesus -- which further evolved into mere belief in the God, Jesus.  And because they did not understand the allegorical symbols of the scriptures -- i.e., in the above words of Peter: "when the law of God (scriptures) is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind" -- self-appointed priests redefined the scriptures and interpreted the meaning for them.  And over the course of time, these carnal priest-interpreted doctrines were written directly into the scriptures which the Church itself corrupted.  In the words of Prof. Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, where he warns us that: "...theological disputes, specifically disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy".   And this fact is confirmed to us  by Dr. F. H. Scrivener where he writes that: "In the second century we have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious, others positively dishonest". Scrivener states that "it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church" used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament).    Dean Burgon quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the source of corruptions that survive in the early papyri: "The Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously corrupted. Laying violent hands upon them, under pretense of correcting them." (Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323).   Eusebius (Eccleastical History), citing the second century Church Father Clement of Alexandria: "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected originated within one hundred years after it was composed."   In the words of Colwell (What is the Best New Testament Text?, p.119)  "The first two centuries witnessed the creations of the large number of variations known to scholars today.  In the manuscripts of the New Testament most variations, I believe, were made deliberately."  (see http://BibleCorruption.com ).    

When Celsus authored the True Word against the Church in the second century, he knew about the massive corruptions of the biblical texts that the various sects of the Church were using when he wrote: "Certain Christians, like men who are overcome by the fumes of wine and care not in the least what they say, alter the original text of the Gospels so that they admit of various and almost indefinite readings. And this, I suppose, they have done out of worldly policy, so that when we press an argument home, they might have the more scope for their pitiful evasions".   Celsus concludes that because of the wholesale rewriting and corruption of the text of the scriptures, that this fraud has made all of Christianity a bogus lie: "It is clear to me that the writings of the Christians are a lie, and that your fables are not well-enough constructed to conceal this monstrous fiction: I have even heard that some of your interpreters, as if they had just come out of a tavern, are onto the inconsistencies and, pen in hand, alter the original writings, three, four and several more times over in order to be able to deny the contradictions in the face of criticism." (R.J.Hoffmann's Celsus: On The True Doctrine, Oxford University Press, 1987).   

Of these massive corrupted scriptures, the Church Historian Eusebius writes of the condition of the biblical texts of the fourth century: "Therefore they have laid their hands boldly upon the Divine Scriptures, alleging that they have corrected them. That I am not speaking falsely of them in this matter, whoever wishes may learn. For if any one will collect their respective copies, and compare them one with another, he will find that they differ greatly. Those of Asclepiades, for example, do not agree with those of Theodotus. And many of these can be obtained, because their disciples have assiduously written the corrections, as they call them, that is the corruptions, of each of them. Again, those of Hermophilus do not agree with these, and those of Apollonides are not consistent with themselves. For you can compare those prepared by them at an earlier date with those which they corrupted later, and you will find them widely different. But how daring this offense is, it is not likely that they themselves are ignorant. For either they do not believe that the Divine Scriptures were spoken by the Holy Spirit, and thus are unbelievers, or else they think themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and in that case what else are they than demoniacs? For they cannot deny the commission of the crime, since the copies have been written by their own hands. For they did not receive such Scriptures from their instructors, nor can they produce any copies from which they were transcribed".

With respect to the statement of Eusebius that:  "...But how daring this offense is, it is not likely that they themselves are ignorant" -- this conscious corruption of the Gospel texts was to support their quest for power over the people by a corrupt clergy which Thomas Paine portrayed as "priest-craft" (see Corrupt Clergy http://Nazirene.org/unfaithful2.htm#clergy ).  Eusebius then correctly states with respect to those who corrupted the Gospel texts: "...For either they do not believe that the Divine Scriptures were spoken by the Holy Spirit, and thus are unbelievers, or else they think themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and in that case what else are they than demoniacs?"  

In view of the fact that the modern Christian has embraced the corruptions of those who are portrayed as "unbelievers and demoniacs",  then the modern clergy whose purpose it is to lead the people, have rejected the teachings of the Holy Spirit and chosen the doctrines of "unbelievers and demoniacs".  And because of the corrupted biblical texts and allegiance to man-made doctrines, these same clergy and leaders rejected the witness of those who the man Jesus personally taught as heretics, because they embraced the importance of fulfilling the Natural Law within them to climb Jacob's Ladder of spiritual transformation (see The Ebionite Heresy http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheEbioniteHeresy ).  the man-made dogma that is espoused by modern believers being the corruptions of  "unbelievers and demoniacs" is satanic -- even corrupting the very words of God that were spoken to mankind (see The Pre-Nicene Gentile Witness http://TheTenWords.com#Gentile  ).  And of course the modern believer who has been seduced by Satan into worshiping the Anti-Christ, would be programmed to reject the Facts, and the Truth of the Original Gospel teachings when they are presented to them.
 
Lastly, by the admission of the pre-Nicene Church, present day Christianity has absolutely nothing in common with the Original Gospel teachings (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html ).  They preach pagan fabricated doctrines of Original Sin and the worship of their brother Jesus as god (see The Original Sin Of The Church http://CausalFactor.Nazirene.org#OriginalSinOfTheChurch ).   They promote a spiritual abomination and attempt to seduce others to join them in in the death of the soul. And now that the facts have been presented, modern believers have no hope until they first return to the Truth and TheWay.  

  Deism And The Secret Doctrine Of The Church: When the Enlightened Deists viewed Natural Religion as the essence of man's spiritual path as stated in the Wikipedia: "Most deists saw the religions of their day as corruptions of an original, pure religion that was simple and rational. They felt that this original pure religion had become corrupted by "priests" who had manipulated it for personal gain and for the class interests of the priesthood in general" -- they were unable to share the tenets of the Source of Natural Religion with the population of Christian believers -- i.e., "Deists saw their mission as the stripping away of 'priestcraft' and 'mysteries' from religion, thereby restoring religion to its original, true condition – simple and rational. In many cases, they considered true, original Christianity to be the same as this original natural religion.  This same exact thought is expressed in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush where Jefferson wrote respecting the relationship of Deism and Christianity: "To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other".   The problem was that the population of believers could not accept or embrace the essence of a Natural Religion such as the original Gospel teachings.  And this is why they blindly followed priests who corrupted the Original Gospel foundational tenants in order to make it acceptable to the spiritually complacent believers.   Further, the Deist understanding of the Clock-Maker Universe was, and is, totally dependent upon an understanding of the core teachings of a Natural Religion that was suppressed by the "priest-craft" of the Church who corrupted the foundational Gospel teachings to make it conform to the thinking and mindset of the pagan teachings of Rome.  And for the same reason, the Enlightened Deists of the 16th and 17th centuries were unable to share this core Natural Religious teaching with the religious people outside the core body of Deists.  Which is why the Theist critics could never grasp what the Deists portrayed as teh Clock-Maker Universe.  But perhaps of even greater importance is the fact that modern quasi-Deists who embrace the saying that "God gave us Reason, not Religion", and have embraced the anti-metaphysical non-spiritual wisdom of scientism masquerading as genuine science because of their anti-Church rhetoric, have raised up the "priest-craft" of the Church of Scientism and promote what must be portrayed as Revealed-Deism.   Deism is a spiritual path that opens the inner metaphysical inner door that enables the seeker to fully understand the Laws of Nature and Nature's God.  Which means that the tenets of Spiritual Deism, shares a common spiritual foundation with the original uncorrupted teachings of the Gospel.  Therefore, the question must be posed: What is the tenets of uncorrupted Christianity -- i.e., "...In many cases, [Enlightened Deists] considered true, original Christianity to be the same as this original natural religion."  Yet, modern Revealed Deism cannot come to terms with the Clock-Maker Universe, for the same exact reasons why the Theists and modern Christianity cannot.   And in the same way that the modern faith-based Christian believers are the victims of "priest-craft", so to are those who have embraced Revealed-Deism who have raised up the priest-craft of anti-metaphysical Scientism that is masquerading as genuine scientific investigation (see Science Vs Scientism http://KnowThyself.Nazirene.org#ScienceVsScientism  ).  

In his writing known as The True Word, the second century philosopher Celsus accused the Christian Church of being a "secret system", by teaching the masses the spurious doctrine of heaven and hell, while teaching the elect the doctrine of the journey of the Soul over the course of many incarnations (reincarnation). Though this may astonish the modern believer, the Church Father Origen who was commissioned to provide an official rebuttal to the accusations published in The True Word, does not refute Celsus -- but rather, explains that: “But on these subjects much and that of a mystical kind, might be said; in keeping with which is the following: It is good to keep close the secret of a king, (Tobit xii, 7), in order that the doctrine of the entrance of souls into bodies, not, however, that of the transmigration from one body into another, may not be thrown before the common understanding, nor what is holy given to the dogs, nor pearls be cast before swine. For such a procedure would be impious, being equivalent to a betrayal of the mysterious declaration of God's Wisdom”.  Thus, what Origen was stating was that the Church openly confirmed the reincarnation of the Soul -- but concealed from the multitude the teaching on the Soul's entrance into bodies to begin the process of evolution over the course of many lives.     

Origen confirmed this teaching when he stated in the Official Reply of the Christian Church to Celsus: “It is good to keep secret the entrance of souls into bodies”, Origen writes, but “not… the transmigration from one body into another”.  As to why the Church did not teach the same doctrine to all the members of the religion, Origen responded to the allegation of Celsus by explaining that: “For there are in the divinity of the Word some helps towards the cure of those who are sick”, meaning the sinners. Origen then clarifies his statement and writes that these sinners are by no means invited to “…participation in mysteries, then, and to fellowship in the wisdom hidden in a mystery, which God ordained before the world to the glory of His saints”.  Origen further explained in his reply to Celsus: “Now, in answer to such statements, we say that it is not the same thing to invite those who are sick in soul to be cured, and those who are in health to the knowledge and study of divine things. We, however, keeping both these things in view, at first invite all men to be healed, and exhort those who are sinners to come to the consideration of the doctrines which teach men not to sin, and those who are devoid of understanding to those which beget wisdom, and those who are children to rise in their thoughts to manhood, and those who are simply unfortunate to good fortune, or -- which is the more appropriate term to use -- to blessedness. And when those who have been turned towards virtue have made progress, and have shown that they have been purified by the word, and have led as far as they can a better life, then and not before do we invite them to participation in our mysteries. ‘For we speak wisdom among them that are perfect’”.

Against the objection of the Church, the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen was condemned in the sixth century by the Roman Emperor Justinian, and the teaching on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection which was foundational to the core Gospel teachings over the course of many lives was outlawed.  Quoting from The Religion Of Roman Emperors: Quoting the Britannica: “Under Justinian all essential features were already formed: Imperial power extended equally over state and Church… Since the emperor ruled the Church there was no longer any independence for the bishops, least of all for the patriarch in Constantinople; they were in every respect subordinate to the emperor”.   As the leader of the Church and its teachings, in the year 553 Justinian convened the 5th Ecumenical Council where, quoting the Catholic Encyclopedia, “…the council opened on 5 May, 553, in spite of the protestations of Pope Vigilius, who though at Constantinople, refused to attend it… before the opening of the council, which had been delayed by the resistance of the pope, the bishops already assembled at Constantinople had to consider, by order of the emperor, a form of Origenism that had practically nothing in common with Origen…”.   Quoting the Britannica: “After the council, Justinian banished the pope to Egypt, and afterwards to an island, until he accepted the Council, which he ultimately did.”   After relenting to the will of the emperor, and finely accepting the decree of the emperor after seven months of imprisonment, it is reported that the pope met with an untimely death before he could even return to the Vatican. Thereafter, any Christian who suggested that they agreed with the early church fathers with regard to the teaching on the transmigration of the soul were put to death.   Any reference in scripture that a person's position in life which they were born into, was in accordance with what one accomplished in the their Soul's previous lives, was edited out. 

It is impossible for a Deist to truly understand the Natural Laws or the Clock-Maker Universe, without the restoration of the teaching on the evolution of the Soul over the course of many lives.  Science, through the investigative work of Dr. Ian Stevenson and others, has proven the validity of the teaching on reincarnation.  Quoting from The Reincarnation OF Shanti Devi https://www.historicmysteries.com/shanti-devi-reincarnation/  Shanti Devi was born in India on 11th December 1926. She was just four years old when she started to claim that the home she was in wasn’t her real home. She also said that her parents weren’t real as well! Soon, she understood that she could remember her past life. This case got a very thorough investigation, and hundreds of researchers and scholars took part in it during the mid-1930s. This story changed the way science looked at reincarnation. The claims and stories shared by Shanti Devi about her past life dangled an intriguing possibility: could people remember their past lives?  These 15 people took Shanti Devi with them to Mathura. At the Mathura station, Shanti Devi was presented to a stranger and asked if she could recognize the person. She immediately touched the feet of that person and recognized him as the elder brother of Kedar Nath.  When they reached her past-life home in Mathura, she didn’t take a second to recognize her father-in-law within the crowd. People were stunned to see that! She also said that in her past life, she buried some money in a specific location in her Mathura house.   Shanti Devi guided people to that spot, where there was a flower-pot. People searched, but ultimately found no money. Yet Shanti Devi insisted that she did keep money there in her past life. Kedar Nath, her past-life husband, confessed that he took that money after her death. And with all of these facts, her claims were considered to be proved. Dr. Ian Stevenson, the leading authority of the reincarnation investigation, said that Shanti Devi made around twenty-four statements of her memories that were an exact match to that of the verified facts. After interviewing all of the participants, the report in 1936 stated that she was indeed the reincarnation of Lugdi Bai!

It is impossible to understand the position of Deism and the Clock Maker Universe, without the restoration of the teaching on the pre-existent Soul that evolves to perfection and only then can be restored to the Edenic Kingdom.  Why would God not communicate directly with man as portrayed in the core Deist teaching on the Clock Maker Universe?  In the same way that once fertilized, an embryo develops in accord with the Natural Laws, the same is true with respect to all of Creation.  When the Laws that were put into effect at the Alpha of Creation are understood, perhaps the best way to understand these Laws that the Deists portrayed as the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, is as a Spiritual Bio-Feedback organism that like a developing embryo, dynamically evolves each soul to completion and wholeness by intimately responding to our every action, reaction and failure to act -- and responds appropriately when the time is opportune for our greatest learning and advancement.  What this means is that each person evolves through the process of confronting their own previous actions -- i.e., from a Gospel perspective: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7).  Which reality of the Natural Laws is expressed in the words: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets" (Matt 7:12).  That these Laws were put into action in the Alpha of Creation -- and are the Perfect Works of Creator-God that is Dynamically connected to the movement of man -- is a reality of the Laws that the core Deists attempted unsuccessfully to convey to the Theists and organized religion. 

The Enlightened Deists understood that every event in the life of mankind has a pre-existent Causal-Factor.   As an example: By Law, every man who rapes a woman, is born into a future life as a woman who is themselves raped. Eventually, by being confronted by self and a person's own actions, that Soul learns to treat others as they would want themselves to be treated -- i.e., "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets" (Matt 7:12). Telling people that they should not rape little girls, does not stop little girls from being raped -- or even sex-trafficked and made into sex-slaves. Look at how many times Bill Clinton took flights on Jeffery Epstein's Lolita Express where old men had sex with young girls? Didn't someone of the stature of Bill Clinton -- a Rhodes Scholar -- know right from wrong? He should have. And thus, in a future life the previous actions of the Soul of Bill Clinton will come back upon him, and he will be raped as a young girl. And based upon what the Church Father Origen portrays as "...strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life", eventually the Soul of Bill Clinton will treat young women as they should be treated.  Which provokes the question: How many authorities have to tell someone who is of the stature of Bill Clinton, not to rape or take advantage of young girls? Would it change Bill Clinton if God somehow physically inhibited Clinton from abusing young girls? And how should this be accomplished? Should God make Bill Clinton's penis fall off? Or should God somehow force those who rape and engage in sex-trafficking not to engage in this common practice?  There are those who intuitively know that all of mankind are their brothers and sisters, and they should not abuse or violate the rights of other people.  They know this not because a worldly authority made a law against violating the rights of other people.  They know right from wrong, because they have evolved to the level of mind and spirit where they are able to intuitively access the experiences of all the previous lives their Soul has lived (see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html  ).  Oskar Schindler did not follow the laws of Germany and Hitler, because he intuitively knew that they were wong.  Advanced Souls are able to draw upon this body of experiential knowledge that is drawn from their previous lives, regardless of the culture in which they are presently living.  When Jesus said: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17) -- this Wholeness is achieved through the experiential knowledge drawn from the multitude of lives which their Soul has lived observing the Law of God to "do unto others, as you would have them do unto you".   The Law is that: As you do unto others, the same will be returned back to you. And this is how the Soul develops and evolves to Perfection and Wholeness.

What we have demonstrated in this reply to Celsus by Origen is the framework of a True Spiritual Church. Contrary to the structure of the modern church, the Word is presented at varying levels in accordance with the needs of the individual. The sinner is invited to partake of the healing of the Word -- and if they repent, and have a change in heart and mind, they will have prepared themselves to move onward. After purification from the transgressions and mindset of this world and servitude to man's carnal nature, the minor mysteries can be revealed to the disciple -- which minor mysteries will then enable the disciple to begin the process of attaining the next stage of birth, and gaining entrance to the spiritual kingdom within them (see The Gate Of Eden http://GateOfEden.com  ). As the disciple gains spiritual strength and vitality, and develops his innate spiritual attributes -- attributes which lie dormant in the carnal believer -- the disciple is then able to take the hand of the Lord and walk in the footsteps of the Master.  This great spiritual truth is seen in the words of Origen when he writes regarding the mysteries of God: “…others again, which to the pure in soul and body exhibit the revelation of the Mystery, which was kept in secret since the world began, but now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, and by the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ”. Origen then goes on to explain that the Christ will appear to, and teach, everyone who will be His disciple and follow in His footsteps: …which appearing is manifested to each one of those who are perfect, and which enlightens the reason in the true knowledge of things”. In these words Origen confirms the essence of Christian doctrine -- a spiritual doctrine -- that even today, the Christ is the One and Only Teacher for the genuine disciple of the Light (see The One Teacher http://BrotherOfJesus.org#TheOneTeacher  ).

In other words, Origen openly acknowledges that the pre-existence of the soul, as well as the doctrine of transmigration (reincarnation) are openly revealed to Christians who have been purified and matured sufficiently to comprehend the higher mysteries of God, while the knowledge of why the soul even came into this world is kept secret, and is not openly revealed to carnal minds. In explanation, Origen quotes scripture and writes “It is good to keep close the secret of a king”, and affirms that certain mysteries only belong to the spiritually mature in the Word, and that one should not permit “what is holy given to the dogs, nor pearls be cast before swine”.  Which means that the faith-based Christians had to FIRST progress up on their climb upon the rungs of Jacob's Ladder of mental and spiritual advancement, in order for them to understand the reincarnation or transmigration of the Soul. 

  The Deism Of Jesus: When Jesus said: Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" (Matt 7:15-23) -- we must ask: What is the "...practice [of] lawlessness!"?  If Wholeness is the practice of the Law -- as Jesus stated in the words: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17) -- then whatever is against or anti-Wholeness, is the "...practice of lawlessness!".  What this means is that those who preach in the name of Jesus from their pulpits -- prophesize in the name of Jesus on their street corners -- cast out demons and perform miracles and wonders in the name of Jesus -- can and will be rejected if they have not themselves fulfilled the Gospel Teachings and Promise, because of their lawlessness and lack of wholeness. 

Before the foregoing Gospel verses can be understood, we must first understand what it means to be Whole.   Which provokes the question: How is Wholeness achieved?   Contrary to the dogma of the modern Church, if Jesus is the savior who every person needs for salvation, then Jesus himself said the Church was wrong.  Jesus warned that the mere belief in the historical man Jesus does not bring about Wholeness -- and from the dogmatic perception of the modern Church, salvation.  And as a physician, Jesus did not come for the salvation of those who had achieved Wholeness, but only for those who are sick, and in need of a physician.   And in total opposition to Church dogma, what this also means is that at the time the historical man Jesus walked the face of the earth, there existed people who he portrayed as "whole [and] righteous" who did not need Jesus the physician.  And this is why it states in the Gospel of Philip which the Church suppressed: "Those who say that first they shall die and (then) they shall arise are confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live, they will not receive anything (when) they die".  Those who achieve Wholeness, experience the Resurrection into the Kingdom while still physically alive.. Jesus openly states that his mission as a spiritual physician is not for them, because they achieved the necessary Wholeness without him. 

Ultimately, Jesus is the personification of each Souls own destiny. You will continue to evolve over the course of how ever many lives your Soul requires, until you have reached spiritual maturity and wholeness. As stated from the perspective of the Zohar and Jewish mysticism: “All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”. Which is also portrayed in the pre-Nicene Church teaching -- i.e., in his famed work De Principiis the Church Father Origen explains: "The soul has neither beginning nor end... Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life. Its place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor is determined by its previous merits or demerits. Its work in this world determines its place in the world which is to follow this..."   This is true - before it was changed by a series of Roman Emperors -- see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html  . Everyone who exists today, has existed throughout history. The leaders today, are the same Souls who have been leaders in the past.

Few Christians are cognizant of the fact that the original followers of Jesus who walked and talked with him daily, were condemned as heretics by the later Roman Church.  Why were the Ebionites condemned as heretics?  Because the foundational tenets of the Gospel teachings were pure Deism -- based upon the knowledge of, and the living of the Natural Laws of Creator-God.  Yet, a footnote in the Biblehub article entitled The Heresy of the Ebionites (see https://biblehub.com/library/pamphilius/church_history/chapter_xxvii_the_heresy_of_the.htm ) states: "The Ebionites were not originally heretics. Their characteristic was the more or less strict insistence upon the observance of the Jewish law...".   Which means that in the first century, the Ebionites were not considered heretics as is the case today.  And they were not rejcted as heretics, until the core Gospel teachings and the scriptures were corrupted by the "priest-craft" of the gentile Roman Church.  It must also be noted that the brother and family of the man Jesus were also Ebionites.  If, as the Biblehub article states, the Ebionites were not originally considered heretics in their insistence on the need to observe and fulfill the Law, then it is crucial for every modern believer to seriously evaluate this issue. 

Why are the Ebionites portrayed as heretics?  Because the gentiles were basically pagan -- they worshipped the sun, the moon, the stars, and even the emperors.  Being pagan, they did not understand the spiritual meaning of the Law -- confusing it with the allegorical tenets of the Law of Moses.  Therefore, a large segment of the Gentile converts were unable to understand the teachings of Jesus on how the Law must be fulfilled by each individual believer.  That the original Essene Ebionite Nazirenes had been taught and enlightened by Jesus as to the spiritual meaning of the Law, and they did not observe it outwardly in ritual and tradition in the manner of the Jews, is the reason why Epiphanius wrote that the Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blaspheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9).  

It is a fact that those followers who walked and talked with the Jesus daily, all were taught that Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Law -- i.e., the Natural Law of Creation that Deism embraces.  Further, these same followers witnessed to the fact that any person who in like manner fulfills the Law as Jesus taught, will themselves be Anointed (Messiah/Christ) -- as stated in the position that Jesus "...was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely".  Then these same followers who walked and talked with Jesus daily stated that:   "Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ, for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity" (see Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).  

When the Ebionite Nazirenes  make reference to the Law, this very much includes the Laws of Creation as portrayed in the words "...the designs/laws found throughout Nature and all of Creation".    That the historical man Jesus became the pattern for all of mankind portrayed as the lost prodigal sons, because of his success in overcoming the Laws of consciousness and being within himself, enabling him as the prodigal son to return and be restored to the Kingdom of Origination, is demonstrated in the words: "He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ..."   And this confirms this statement with respect to the true potential of all of mankind that Jesus taught, as demonstrated in the words of Hippolytus when he wrote that they believed that when anyone "...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34 - see http://Ebionite.com ).  And in answering the question as to what enables me to set before the reader an article on Deism?  While it is true that I am the product of the Gospel Teachings, I am not a member of any modern religion -- and I am what can be portrayed as an Ebionite of the Nazirene Vow.   As an Ebionite who embraced the original uncorrupted Gospel teachings, I am considered a heretic by the modern Christian Church -- see The Ebionite Heresy http://DevilSpawn.Ebionite.com#TheEbioniteHeresy .

Theists can't understand the Gospels, because the scriptures are written from a Deist perspective.   To restate the above noted core Deist belief That the "full nature and reality of God is incomprehensible due to the limitations of the human mind", the lack of mental development by those who have not begin to mature through the Laws by climbing the rungs of Jacob's Ladder, it is said of Jesus that he had no other means to teach by using parables" "And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.  But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples" (Mark 4:33-34).   Why was Jesus forced to only communicate to the common people with parables?  Because they had not yet begun to advance by fulfill the Law at the level they were at.  Yet, those who had begun to fulfill the Law, and were able to comprehend the higher teachings of Jesus, he could convey with clarity -- as demonstrated in the words: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12).  

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