Other Masters

You have stated that there are other masters beside Christ?

Yes, all bringers of spiritual revelation can be deemed masters.  All great religions have had the influence of an individual who either formed the basis of the 'belief', or who enhanced a religion that was already in existence.  I won't go into the many names of men who enhanced

religious belief as a quick search of the internet or library will reveal them to you, should you do some religious study.  These men were all ordained to appear on this planet to leave a religious, or spiritual impact.  Some have achieved greater impact than others, but that is how it was supposed to be.  Most all have achieved what they set out to achieve.  Discrepancies within their teachings were not created by them but by others who later interfered with that teaching.  Simply by translating the words of the master can lead to great mishap.  Misinterpretation of the masters words or meanings has the potential to mislead many.  Often the translator, especially the interpreter, judges what is being said around his own understanding, an understanding that is often clouded by his own ignorance.  Others have misinterpreted with deliberate, and often, sinister intention.

Masters, like ourselves, endeavor to evolve spiritually.  Some have attained greater attainment than others, thereby function on much higher levels, and, having achieved this great attainment, volunteer their services to the assistance of mankind, and their sacrifices for the sake of humanity become much greater.  Christ is one of those great Masters.  The performance of his sacrifice, and his love for humanity, has drawn him into the Divine Nature of God himself.  This is why he claimed to be the only "begotten" son of God.  But it is a statement that is badly misinterpreted as Christ himself taught that we are all sons and daughters of God the Father.  Paul in his writings gives a clue to this discrepancy by clearly referring to the "Father of the spirits of all kinds of flesh."  The "Father of the spirits" needs to be carefully understood.  This is part of Paul's "solid food" that he revealed to those who were initiated beyond being a babe in Christ, capable of only drinking milk.

Bear in mind that "Christ" is only a title, meaning anointed, or the "anointed one", and this is very appropriate.  Other times he was addressed by his disciples as rabbi or master.  And when was he anointed?  At the river Jordon by John the Baptist, his blood cousin, himself on a Divine mission, the reincarnation of Elijah.  Consider, John, for instance, when he lived his life as, Elijah, could also be deemed a master in his own right, he also healed the sick and resurrected the dead and performed other miracles.

The anointing, of course, was by the Holy Spirit descending upon him.  This Spirit is usually portrait as the image of a dove alighting upon the Lord's head, and many actually take that literally.  The wording states 'like a dove', not meaning it actually was a dove.

Unmistakably, Jesus in his early years, right up to the time of the anointing, would have been quite versed in the gifts of the Spirit, his mission, lasting about three years, did not begin until the anointing, or the initiation of the Holy Spirit.  Being gifted in the way that he was, why would he need to be initiated by the Holy Spirit?  One possible reason is that the Holy Spirit guided him through his ministry.  The other reason, which I believe is more likely, the Holy Spirit, the Divine Essence of God, or the only begotten, was God becoming flesh and performing the ultimate sacrifice for the salvation of man.  Lets face it, we don't really know what were the words of Jesus and what were the words of the Holy Spirit that temporarily possessed him.  By this way we can see that, God became flesh by the use of the physical vehicle of Jesus and there by, through the physical suffering of Jesus, God also experienced that suffering.  So it was not only Jesus that suffered but also God, which could not have been possible had Jesus not offered himself as the sacrifice.  This gives Jesus the absolute right to state that I and the Father are one.

There is one other Master that I particularly have in mind, and that is the Hindu Krishna. I find the similarities between Christ and Krishna of extreme interest.  To study the teaching of Krishna is to find a common thread between him and the teachings of Christ.  They both speak of a future reappearance and they both empathize getting of the cycle of life and death.  Whereas, Jesus, through divine providence could only speak in parables, Krishna did not have that limitation but spoke quite openly with his disciple.  We can consider two possibilities here, due to the similarities, that Krishna and Jesus are the same entities, or they were both influenced by the same Holy Spirit.

Bear in mind here that, considering the quality of the dispensation of knowledge, whether openly or in parables, first to ancient India and thousands of years later to Jerusalem, is dependant upon the then current karmic condition of the country into which these Masters have incarnated.  We must realize that, as much as there is individual personal karma, there is also national karma bestowed upon countries.  We should not be surprised then with the Indian claim that Jesus had spent some time in India.