The Inner Circle

Well, I can relate the 1st Adam and the 2nd Adam to Christianity - but I still cannot relate to this dual consciousness concept. It doesn't seem to be a teaching of Christianity.

Well, we are not dealing solely with dual consciousness alone, but the Law of Duality - the duality in all things. The Christian theologist would not interpret the two Adams in the manner that I do; he teaches that the 1st Adam represents the first human, whereas, the 2nd Adam represents Jesus Christ. Now, this all sounds very nice but this is not how it is.

Now, we all know that the main Father of Roman Catholicism is the Roman Emperor, Constantine. Before him, there were various other Christian sects. The main Christian body was that following the Pauline teachings, and they were in direct conflict with the sect known as the Gnostic. Both proclaimed that they possessed the true teachings of Christ.

With Constantine's acceptance of Christianity, and his conversion to it, declaring it as the true and only religion of the state, brought an end to the Gnostic movement. For fear of retribution or death the Gnostics went underground. Gnosticism is a venture within ones self in search of inner vision and experience. This is badly lacking in most all other religious practices, which have now developed into organised religion.

Not much now is known about the 1st, 2nd or 3rd century Gnostic movement concerning their practices and rituals. The Catholic Church, also, although some of her rituals and practices have survived, is not the Christian movement that came into being soon after the death of Christ. The main cause of the Church's downfall and later divisions is the result of her once 'inner circle' having disintegrated.

Within the movement of the first century Christians, at that time known as 'the way', there had always existed two distinct bodies of knowledge and teaching. This too conforms to the duality. The Pauline followers categorized the duality into those ready to eat solid food (inner circle) and those capable only for milk (outer circle).

So you suggest that the Church has no real knowledge today?

Her knowledge is partial, relying mainly on faith. She cannot regain full knowledge and guidance until she again establishes the inner nucleus, the inner circle of illuminated souls.

Is there any evidence that such an inner circle ever existed?

Yes, of course there is. In the New Testament itself. Jesus himself started the inner circle which, at the start of his ministry, consisted only of his twelve disciples. These disciples also acted as his personal bodyguards, though not many can accept this. We all have this belief that Jesus was all love and compassion and dare not think that violence could possibly be committed by his all loving disciples. There are references where Jesus advised his disciples to arm themselves. And this they did. Peter, while Jesus was being seized in the garden, had no hesitation to draw his knife and cut off the soldier's ear. This is one indication that his disciples were always armed.

Jesus is famous for having spoken only in parables. There is a reason for this. His disciples themselves questioned him on why he only spoke in parables. His answer was simple and straight to the point: “to you, my disciples, it has been granted for you to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to all these others, it is to come in the way of parables; for they have ears to hear but cannot hear, they have eyes to see but cannot see, for if they did, they would turn back to me, and I would heal them.” For ears to hear and eyes to see forms part of a very ancient prophecy, the revelation of a great Sacred Secret, which must be understood, and which we will discuss later.

The New Testament often refers to how Jesus, when alone with the Twelve, secretly explained to them the meanings to the parables. This fact cannot be debated. That Jesus did not reveal the 'secrets' to the general public, even to the learned amongst the religious teachers is further evidenced with his encounter with Nicodemus when questioned on the doctrine of re-birth, to which Jesus replied: “you, a teacher of Israel, do not know these things? We speak of the things we have seen and of the things we have heard, and yet you do not believe our testimonies. If you won't believe the things we tell you concerning the earth, how much more will you not believe were we to tell you the things concerning heaven?” This remark by Jesus should make it vividly clear to the Biblical scholar that Jesus did not openly reveal things about heaven. This is why today we are intensely ignorant about spiritual things.

The inner circle of Christ did by no means simply comprise only of the twelve disciples. They formed the circle within the circle. We know that at one stage of his ministry this circle consisted of at least seventy individuals. We can further confidently say that, soon after the death of Christ, when the disciples were gathered in the 'upper room' awaiting the promised baptism of the 1Holy Ghost, there were at least a hundred and twenty individuals within the room that were to receive, and did receive that baptism. By this we can see that there were quite a few to whom the “secrets of the kingdom of God” were granted. These were to eventually split into groups and disperse amongst the nations to carry forward the teachings of the Christ. All these were matured to eat the 'solid food' and thereby comprised the inner circle of the congregations they later formed and to whom they gave 'milk' until they matured and gravitated into the inner circle.

It should be sufficiently clear that a secret knowledge exists and was not revealed to the general population. This knowledge was maintained by the 'inner circle' and communicated only to those who, through the means of their spiritual virtue, had managed to deem themselves worthy in the receiving of this knowledge. This secret knowledge taught by Christ was latter carried into the Church, but not openly revealed, but alluded to as the “Sacred Secrets” as it is often referred to in New Testament writings.

1The spiritual force promised to the disciples by Christ was referred to as the “Helper” who was to assist and further teach the members of the inner circle of Christ. Jesus also made it clear that the Helper could not come until after his death.