Okay, let us continue with the latest dispensation of knowledge brought by Christ. There are several obstacles with the deliverance of this knowledge. Individual and national karma played a major draw back on how this knowledge was to be delivered. People of the time were absolutely not deserving of this wisdom. Jesus himself made it quite clear when he said: "..it is a wicked generation that asks for a sign and none shall be given except for the sign of Jonah. On another occasion he reprimanded Nicodemus for the ignorance that he displayed about the resurrection: "You, a teacher of Israel and you do not know these things? We speak of the things we have seen and of the things we have heard, and still, you do not believe our testimonies. If you do not believe the things we tell you concerning the earth, how much more will you not believe when we tell you things concerning heaven?" By this comment alone the average person should realize, due to the disbelief factor, that Jesus discussed very little of the truths of the kingdom, especially of the heavenly things.
It's only fair to say that Nicodemus later became a secret disciple of Christ. He had many secret disciples, secret only because of the positions of importance they held within religious or political arenas. There were many more than just his twelve disciples. But it is mainly with the twelve that the inner circle of Christ began. Here again we have the concept of the milk and solid food scenario. But the secrets of this scenario are much more concerting as it follows ancient prophecy. And this prophecy eludes to eternal spiritual blindness, and in worse scenarios, spiritual death. "If thou eatest from that tree of the knowledge of good and bad, on that day thou shalt surely die." I did emphasize before that that action constituted spiritual death and not physical death. But this is only the beginning of the prophecy made against man. It is later to be further intensified.
I feel that I can explain these mysteries to you and by doing so I am not acting contrary to spiritual law. The revelation of mysteries will only be taken to heart by those ready to understand and act upon them. To others, the information delivered will be looked upon with foolishness. Ones as these are still a long way away from the hidden path. Most of them will be young lions and therefore shall be deliberately detoured from the path.
According to the karma of the people of the time Jesus only spoke to them in parables when he referred to spiritual existence and the Kingdom. This is relevant to the comment he made to Nicodemus: "how much more will you disbelieve when we tell you things concerning heaven?" But this is not the case with his disciples. We find on various occasions when they withdrew from the grounds "he expounded to them all things." In other words he explained to them the meaning of each parable. For he did say to them: "for you, my disciples, it has been granted for you to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to all these others, all things must come in the way of parables…"
These "…secrets of the Kingdom of God…" were later conveyed to all who became a trusted and worthy disciple of Christ. We know that there were many who had become close followers of Christ and who were sent forth to teach the Kingdom long before the crucifixion. On one occasion he sent out 70 at the one time. Later in the "upper room" with the coming of the Holy Spirit, there were at least 170 gathered there, all eager to be baptized by this Spirit. We can only assume that all 170 were baptized and sent out to preach to those who "…have eyes to see, but cannot see, who have ears to hear but cannot hear, for if they did see and hear, then they would turn back to me and I would heal them."
By quoting this last verse Jesus was confirming the ancient degree placed upon man. We will get into that.
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