Extract from Aquarian Gospel (not recognized by
Christians today of course)
AMONG the priests of Jagannath was one who loved the
Jewish boy. Lamaas Bramas was the name by which the priest was
known. 2 One day as Jesus and Lamaas walked alone in plaza
Jagannath, Lamaas said, My Jewish master, what is truth? 3 And
Jesus said, Truth is the only thing that changes
not. 4 In all the world there are two things; the one is
truth; the other falsehood is; and truth is that which is, and
falsehood that which seems to be. 5 Now truth is aught, and has no
cause, and yet it is the cause of everything. 6 Falsehood is
naught, and yet it is the manifest of aught. 7 Whatever has been
made will be unmade; that which begins must end. 8 All
things that can be seen by human eyes are manifests of aught, are
naught, and so must pass away. 9 The things we see are but
reflexes just appearing, while the ethers vibrate so and so, and
when conditions change they disappear. 10 The Holy Breath is truth;
is that which was, and is, and evermore shall be; it cannot change
nor pass away. 11 Lamaas said, You answer well; now, what
is man? 12 And Jesus said, Man is the truth and
falsehood strangely mixed. 13 Man is the Breath made
flesh; so truth and falsehood are conjoined in him; and they
strive, and naught goes down and man as truth abides. 14 Again
Lamaas asked, What do you say of power? 15 And
Jesus said, It is a manifest; is the result of force; it is but
naught; it is illusion, nothing more. Force
changes not, but power changes as the ethers change. 16 Force is
the will of God and is omnipotent, and power is that will in
manifest, directed by the Breath. 17 There is power in the winds, a
power in the waves, a power in the lightning's stroke, a power in
the human arm, a power in the eye. 18 The ethers cause there powers
to be, and thought of Elohim, of angel, man, or other thinking
thing, directs the force; when it has done its work the power is no
more. 19 Again Lamaas asked, Of understanding what have you
to say? 20 And Jesus said, It is the rock on which man
builds himself; it is the gnosis of the aught and of the naught, of
falsehood and of truth. 21 It is the knowledge of the lower self;
the sensing of the powers of man himself. 22 Again Lamaas asked,
Of wisdom what have you to say? 23 And Jesus said,
It is the consciousness that man is aught; that God and man
are one; 24 That naught is naught; that power is but
illusion; that heaven and earth and hell are not above,
around, below, but in; which in the light of aught becomes the
naught, and God is all. 25 Lamaas asked, Pray,
what is faith? 26 And Jesus said, Faith is the
surety of the omnipotence of God and man; the certainty that man
will reach the deific life. 27 Salvation is a ladder reaching from
the heart of man to heart of God. 28 It has three steps; Belief is
first, and this is what man thinks, perhaps, is truth. 29 And faith
is next, and this is what man knows is truth. 30 Fruition is the
last, and this is man himself, the truth. 31 Belief is lost in
faith; and in fruition is lost; and man is saved
when he has reached deific life; when he and God
are one.