When Luke 6:31-35 is broken down practically, the emphasis most definitely shifts from the non-participatory to one of a definite hands-on approach. It’s then that we undoubtedly come upon vital additional navigational skills for skippering our soul into Divine harbor.
In its literal understanding, this scripture of course has value, in that, it brings awareness to a universal principle of, what we give out comes back to us: the law of action and reaction, or, the law of cause and effect, also known as the Golden Rule.
But, when examined more closely, the scripture is not really making a statement on outer social behavior, not adjudicating on something that is patently obvious to humans. I mean, how many of us reflect moment by moment on a universal law, or memory reference topics from our physics classroom days?
It’s so easy to just read this scripture and then associate it simplistically as something to be consigned to memory only, and in the process, forego the practicalities involved in its actualization. In other words, intellectual knowledge alone of this scripture is not sufficient. There has to be a tangible method of fulfilling it beyond merely agreeing with it in moral selective ways.
In this context, regards its practical implementation into our live, there is need of a deeper interpretive instruction, regards this scripture.
This article sets context, then, as separate from the scripture’s literal interpretation, reveals how we may apply it in super life-changing ways, as intended.
Unraveling codified scripture
Scriptures, as we know, are heavily codified. They’re not explanatory statements of historical events or relating to certain people. They’re not intended to be taken literally, of referencing either past or future, time-wise. They’re parables, or, metaphorical concepts of conveying deeper insight to self-realization. Therefore, scriptures are pointing within, to the inner aspects of mind, body, soul. In this context, their deeper understanding is veiled by means of codification. This is so, that we may reflect and take conscious steps in seeking answers from within ourselves – known as Self-referral — as separate from adherence to the ‘natural man’ inherited programming, we’re each born into.
Thus, allegorical presentation is necessary, for Truth cannot be conveyed to us directly through written words. While books of course are essential, even vital, Truth is ultimately come upon as Revelation from within ourselves, as direct experiencing.
Natural Man
The biblical term, ‘natural man’, is that level of lower-self, non-spiritually developed consciousness, which exists prior to Self-realization. In this context, natural man cannot become spiritual man / woman merely through selective acts of kindness through the lower-ego level of awareness, or by just thinking he / she is spiritually developed. In other words, a thought of God does not amount to the experience of God. So, unless this scripture fulfills spiritually from within, interpretation of it is through the natural man state of consciousness, of selective conscience appeasing.
Luke 6:31-35, raises an immediate question: who are these ‘others’ as in ‘do unto others as we would have others do unto us’?
To answer: this scripture is not referring to the literal obvious of ‘doing unto other physical people, so they may reciprocate positively unto us’.
In fulfilling Luke 6:31-35, there is need therefore of tangible inner ‘doing’, a process of karmic-nullifying work to be carried-out.
How then can we perform karmic-nullifying work, how can we evolve beyond the ‘natural man’ ‘Garden of Gethsemane level of consciousness, thereby fulfill this scripture spontaneously?
Enlivening the deeper consciousness
Esoterically, “do unto others” is referencing a process of ‘inner doing unto our own inner-self’. A process of inner spiritual development, of enlivening the deeper consciousness cosmically. A process leading to the entire body-temple mechanisms – the 12 inner faculties — becoming sparked into a functioning dynamic established in Christ: that of bringing the inner mechanisms, the temple, into a cosmically-functioning unit, whereby natural man consciousness can be raised into the Christ-realized standard.
In this regard, enlivening the deeper consciousness provides the greatest means of rebuilding the temple from within, from the cellular level, thereby releasing the hidden secrets of Christ potential unto our heart and mind for practical manifestation purposes in our daily life.
Service
At this point, let us introduce the word ‘service’. ‘Service’, in this context, is that which is spontaneously rendered unto the inner faculties. Service here means utter silence, the causal dynamic of enlivening, or rebuilding, the deeper consciousness. Silence is not static. Silence is the great purifier, the great conscience neutralizer. Silence is a powerful inner activity, which, when encountered purely, stimulates reorientation of the consciousness transcendentally, the nullifying Power of karmic carryover. Silence therefore re-calibrates the consciousness and the entire body’s inner systems.
In the psychological and physiological context, the inner faculties, on becoming awakened spiritually — also known as the disciples or followers of Christ — serve as the temple builder. In this process, consciousness becomes served whereby our every thought, word and deed is performed through a spiritual-cosmic orientation, representing vital soul evolution into the Higher realm, into Higher-self I Am potential.
As the criteria of right action – of ‘doing rightly unto others’ — can only be determined through our own Christ-attuned faculties, these inner faculties therefore are those God-given means of rebuilding our temple spiritually. They are the means through which we can individually know and experience direct Risen Christ consciousness through every cell of our Risen temple.
Christ-attuned faculties, are how heart and mind distinguish between right action and wrong action, between positive and negative emotion, between opinionated lower-ego activity and spiritual-soul discerning. The genesis of right action can always be tracked to silence.
What are these Faculties?
Functioning as an interactive unit, the 12 faculties represent potential of full Christ expression. Biblically referred to as the 12 sons of Jacob – Jacob, symbolizing the non-spiritually awakened soul, and the 12 sons symbolizing the 12 non-spiritually developed aspects or faculties of that soul — the natural man level. It’s through these character-forming faculties that the soul fulfills its total potential, its full creative expression.
Other faculties, located along the spine, are the seven chakras, or energy points, which, when activated, open the pathway for Kundalini life force to rise from the base chakra located at the bottom of the spine, to the crown chakra at the top of the head. This universal life force, on reaching the top of the head, awakens the vital pineal and pituitary glands, a level referred to in yogic terms as Samadhi or Enlightenment — mature capacity of spiritual discernment.
Activation of this brain-cranial nerves chakra-glandular dynamic, from their basic natural man serving, into higher spiritual service, remains individual responsibility.
Inner service is also the symbolism behind Jesus washing the apostle’s feet, meaning, cleansing the understanding to function at the Higher realms of discernment, whereby the ‘natural man’ intellect is made resolute in a unified method of joined-up thinking and decision-making.
Five Senses
Because outer perception is governed by inner perception, other faculties such as the five ordinary senses of perception — touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing – are also in need of quickening, desensitizing away from compulsion to instant sense gratification in the material world.
This is what is meant when Jesus said: “bring them (the five loaves/ five senses) to Him (Christ within) Matthew:14-18. The two fish generally symbolize two opposing states of self in need of integration — higher and lower self. This is achieved through left / right brain coherence, resulting in the fully functioning pineal and pituitary glands, located in the brain.
So, back to the scripture in question “do unto others as we would have them do unto us”. When viewed esoterically, the hidden message becomes obvious: if we wish to serve from a cosmically-aligned consciousness, then we must first serve the sources through which such nature emanates. In other words, by serving the “others” within – the inner faculties — we become served by these “others”, which is the same as: “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, whereby the process of rebuilding our personal temple can take place.
The 12 faculty centers and their purpose
Peter – faith, as in: upon our own rock [of faith] shall we build our church, our consciousness – pineal gland / center brain.
Andrew — strength of mind, body and spiritual intention – Loins.
James — son of Zebedee, faculty of wisdom, judgement, discernment – solar plexus / pit of stomach.
John – potential of unconditional love – heart.
Philip – power, as in spiritual power through Christ within – throat, root of tongue
Bartholomew – imagination, where creative thought takes form – between the eyebrows.
Thomas – higher understanding, steady intellect – front brain.
Matthew – divine will as opposed to natural man will – center front brain.
James – order, a cosmically orientated mind-body system — naval.
Simon – zeal, enthusiasm, commitment – medulla, back of head.
Thaddeus – renunciation, elimination of habitual error through conscious denial and affirmation – abdominal region.
Judas – life conserver – generative function.
Bringing about ‘do unto others’ level of consciousness
Meditation-silence kick-starts the entire process. To begin with, it initiates inner calm and peace, which, in turn lowers the respiratory system to its lowest possible rate, whereby carbon dioxide excess into the body, is reduced dramatically.
This silence-stillness dynamic in turn reverberates throughout the mind-body temple to gradually form Now awareness, or direct present-moment knowing. Thus, while still functioning in time, we outgrow time’s clinging effect on the soul. Time becomes absorbed into eternity. The emphasis switches, whereby,Transcendental consciousness replaces ‘time’ as our master.
Meditation therefore is the process of stimulating the 12 faculties, of bringing cosmos to the overall mind-body structure, including at the cellular level. Upon entering into mental silence, the first thing we notice is the chaos, the swirling clutter of the chaotic thinking mind. Coming upon this chaotic activity without prior knowledge, has caused many a budding student of meditation to give up, saying: ‘meditation doesn’t work for me’. They say this, not knowing that this mental activity is normal to experience. Here, we may well ask: how am I to meditate through all of this mental disturbance?
The reality is, Heightened silence is ever-present. It’s simply a matter of creating a gap in the thought chain, whereby transcendental nature can gradually become infused into the nature of mind. It’s within this Heightened silence, this portal or gap, that lower-self ego cannot survive, as in, “where I go you cannot come” John: 8-21
Therefore, in the beginning of meditation practice, mental activity is normal — it’s when suppressed thoughts begin thawing and surfacing into conscious awareness, thereby, conscious integration.
Hence another biblical expression Matthew: 5-43-48 ‘love thine enemies’ – ‘enemies’ meaning our thoughts — meaning, withdrawing judgmental attention from whatever is occupying the conscious mind during meditation. But, in withdrawing attention non-judgmentally, there is no conscious effort to love our thoughts / enemies. Remaining neutral, we simply stay present to the activity in a non-involved way. It’s this act of being present within which equates to ‘love thine enemies’.
Thus, it’s by neutral observance in love-silence that the grooved mental-emotional scars, caused by compulsive wrong thinking and misuse of the imagination, over long periods of time, become healed.
Constant re-starts
The first law of the universe is, order. Therefore, it’s by this non-attached observance in meditation that chaos gradually transmutes into order – the mind becoming silence-cultured, acclimatized, or, cosmically established. Thoughts are seen as transient, passing through for witnessing, without need of their engaging.
Because utter silence amounts to inner crucifixion, the lower-ego, in its resistance, in its attempt at maintaining dominance over our free will, constantly tempts the mind back into sense gratification. Soon it becomes apparent that, meditation is a practice of constant restarts after mind-drifting. This too is normal. But, here, each restart commences from a deeper level than the distraction point – no meditation ever restarts from the same level, it never finds us where it left us. This s how we make and recognize progress. Constant restarts are which hone the intellect into becoming resolute, which facilitate experiential expansion of transcendental nature into the entire mind- body-physiology.
So, whether good / bad, positive / negative, the process remains the same, that of watching without opening any thought links.
Entering the Temple
The Bible further reminds us: Jesus — representing the awakening Spark within the soul seeking the eternal Christ Standard — entered the temple: meaning, divine presence setting about dismantling the status quo level of spiritual-ignorance within our overall consciousness. A process of spiritualizing the subconscious natural man state into one of integrated, harmonious-soul ‘order’. A process of disarming the sin-based structures of lower-self mind-sets, and a rebuilding of the entire mind-body structure into one of ‘divine life in abundance’ through Realized Christ within. Truly, this amounts to a transformation of seismic proportion within our overall awareness, spiritually.
In conclusion
When reflected upon non-literally, it becomes obvious that ‘do unto others’ is referring to the re-alignment of the 12 non-spiritually active faculties into active participation in the unfolding of divine Will through our own Resurrected creative consciousness.