THE DIVINE LUNATIC

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, magnificent in body and accomplishments, was dubbed "the Divine Lunatic" because his entire life was fraught with a succession of events beyond human comprehension. Because of the lavishness of his expression, he was also dubbed "the Golden Lunatic".

His mother, Olympias, impressed upon him that he was not the child of a human father, Philip of Macedonia, but that in reality she had been overshadowed by Zeus, - therefore his nature and capacities were Divine and not constrained within the narrow confines of human limitations.

Alexander believed this and acted accordingly. His appearance did not belie his Divine birth and he was constantly doing the unpredictable and the impossible. His gentleness made him beloved in spite of the fact that he was a valiant and relentless warrior. His life was full of this Divine quality, stemming from the fact that his mother had told him he was Divine.

At one time by his gentleness he conquered the magnificent, mettled black charger, Bucephalus, after his father Philip had eschewed the opportunity to show his prowess and the groom had declined to touch him. It is recorded Alexander put his arm around the charger's neck, patted him, jumped onto his unsaddled back and rode away as though he were the gentlest of animals.

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And then comes Jesus! His mother was actually over-shadowed by the Spirit, - and while we have no record of her telling Him this, we see from the beginning of His career a succession of events which come under the category of Divine.

Since the "Wisdom of GOD is foolishness in the eyes of man", I presume Jesus, too, might have been called a "Divine Lunatic" because of His works. And strangely, one of the chiefest "planks" of His teaching was "Call no man your father, but ONE which is in Heaven" We find Him saying to the world, - You are not born of man, but you are born of God, - You are Divine, - You have the capacities to do God-like things, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, opening the eyes of the blind .. . All of which apparently invoke a power beyond the physical capacities.

Alexander believed, - and reproduced a Divine quality in body and works. This very capacity to BELIEVE is the key-note of the teaching of Jesus. "Believest thou this?" A thousand other times this insistent word is brought for consideration as an absolutely necessary thing.

With this belief comes the capacity to do what the human woman-born man calls miracles. When this is once accepted, the laws of God become the natural laws of man, and the man-made laws of time-space become naught. There is, therefore, a"Divine Lunacy" in the whole picture as far as the human mind is concerned. "How does this man speak, seeing he has no learning." How did He do the things He did without any technical knowledge of them? How did Alexander subdue the stallion without doing anything?

The "call no man your father" principle establishes once and for always your Divinity, - and the BELIEF in this truth clears away the veils of human belief which says "born-of-woman, few-of-days and filled-with-trouble". It sets aside the time-space element of life and brings into being an indefinable substance called "NOW".

Jesus dwelt much on this substance called "NOW". Everything of which He spoke took place in this "NOW" - and always takes place in the "NOW". No matter what the slow human mind thinks about the time element, it does not exist to the consciousness of God, - and hence finds no place in the mind of His off-spring. The illusion of human thought, with its measures and its laws of physics, evaporates, as it were, without explanation or apparent reason, - and the harvest appears without all the motions of man, - the sick man is instantly well without the convalescing of human thought.

There is so much startling information given as to upset the entire human thought world, - telling every man that he IS the Son of God, - that he IS endowed with the capacities of God, which can and do set aside anything and everything man-born-of woman has learned through thousands of years of experience and study, - notwithstanding what is said to the contrary. This God-given heritage finds the "wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God", and quite naturally, the God-wisdom is "foolishness" in the eyes of man.

It is not a belief in a Power called God as something separated from man, - not a use of it as something apart from him, - but a belief in his Divine Nature, - that he, too, is the Product of God, the expression of His Love, and that he, too, can, in the language of Jesus, "do the works that I do, and even greater", when he accepts his birthright.

In spite of the records which state clearly that we were created in the image and likeness of God, a little lower than the angels, given dominion over all things, and so on, - man still harks back to the fact that he was "born". Man was never born, - he was created, complete and perfect. This trite and hackneyed saying suddenly bursts into flame when we actually believe, instead of trying to believe.

How can you believe when you look to appearances? Alexander's father, Philip of Macedonia, was a great king and warrior, and he claimed him as his son, - but Alexander had already accepted his Divinity and showed forth his BELIEF, - even as did Jesus in a much truer and greater way. So will you when you discontinue the "study" of Truth and enter into it and be saved from your human beliefs of time-space and the "born-of-woman" state of affairs. You will then be "born again" - "a new creature in Christ Jesus" - in the sense that you must re-appear in the freshness and newness of the created, changeless ONE which you are.

A moment's contemplation of this TRUTH and many old pictures of diseases will pass into oblivion and the barren fields will be ripe with harvest. "Believe, and ye shall be saved" from your human thought-belief of good and evil.

On and on the WORD continues, offering this salvation from humanology for as small an amount of faith as a grain of mustard. All things will be changed in the twinkling when you claim your birthright, - not as something you have to claim, BUT AS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO CLAIM. You do not do anything by force or effort when you discover you are the Child of God. You inherit a Divine Right which you employ and the groundlings of human belief flee before the brightness of HIS coming.

The effortlessness of healing by Jesus Christ is as one removing dust from a highly polished surface, - a casual wiping away of nothing. Age has nothing to do with it, for in the God-head there is no age, - it is a never-born, never-dying Spirit.

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And then comes Paul, - seeing the Athenians, mistaken in the Power which he showed to them, fall down and worship him, he exclaimed, - "Ye men of Athens - know ye not that ye are gods?" What a revolutionary statement! To tell the Greeks that they were actually the Gods they had been worshiping, - that they were Love, Power, Beauty... The Greeks had divided their god into twelve phases, giving one deity many forms and virtues. They prayed to Aphrodite for Beauty because she symbolized that phase of the Great One.

And today we have as many names for God as the Greeks had, - or for that matter, more. We pray to a God of Strength as surely as the Greek prayed to Mars, - and to a God of Love and of Harvest.

And so we see how the generations of the worlds have been reaching for the supreme knowledge of this One God, - which only Jesus Christ gave and which we have so miserably failed to grasp, for we are still casting lots for His Robe of Understanding, peddling it in the markets of the world.

Always there is a "secret" to be sold or a special way to follow. And yet there is no secret which the very Soul of you, when awakened to its Divinity, does not perfectly comprehend. There is always the "teaching" that it is "difficult" to understand God and more "difficult" to "use" Him, - which is quite right. You have only to pause for a moment and think of the thousands of people who believe God is something to be prayed "at", - some power which is to grant special dispensations. There are no special dispensations for those who are in Christ Jesus for the special dispensation which the human mind seeks indicates a belief in two powers.

"If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God", not John Smith. We have heard this a thousand times, - -yet we continue to ask the "man whose breath is in his nostrils" to make something happen.

If the ways of God are NOT the ways of man, as it is written, then why do we attempt to change the ways of God to conform to those of man? "My ways are not your ways ... For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways." And still man beats against the door of heaven with human ideas, thinking to gain the ear of God by many words as do the heathen.

We have tried our way, - the way of the man-born-of-woman, "of few days and full of trouble" How about launching out into the deeper waters of the "created-in-the-beginning" man, the image and likeness, endowed with such magnificent powers and given dominion over everything that now has dominion over man.

Transformation too, - and in the twinkling of an eye, when this perfectly Created Being sees through the age-old beliefs of time and change, ugliness and age.

And so the next time you read and HEAR Jesus speaking to you through the sacred pages, telling you that you are to "call no man your Father", BELIEVE and experience the glorious plus values of Heaven-on-earth.

You ARE the Son of God! It may all seem foolishness to the man-born-of-woman, - but do not tell him. Let him discover it, and perhaps he will consider you a "Divine Lunatic" also, - and perhaps you will be just that, because everything that God knows is insanity to the human mind.

We have a better and surer proof of being "sired" by God than did Alexander. We have our Precious One, who ran through every picture of the human thought and proved them all to be the insane hypnotism of the human mind. So you can fold your tent and steal silently away into the new level of revelation in which ALL things are possible because you are Divine. Yes, we hear Jesus calling our attention to, - "Know ye not that ye are Gods".

The hour is late, - the Kingdom has already been ushered in, - and the awakened Sons of God are shouting for joy! That joyous shout within your soul will tear down the walls of your Jericho.

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