Raymond Patrick Phelan

Beautiful abstract concepts are almost valueless unless we can nail them down practically in our own daily life. The story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, riding on a donkey and her foal simultaneously, is truly one of those great biblical conundrums: how this double riding feat is achieved, while also considering: Mark 10-32 “Jesus and his…

In the Bible, Pontius Pilate (the Roman governor) found no wrongdoing with Jesus. Jesus was then sent to Herod who also found nothing wrong with what he did or preached. Finally, Pilate asked the people, “What shall he do with Jesus,” and they replied, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” The “him” being referred to isthe son…

The answer to the forbidden fruits lies within esoteric interpretation of Genesis 2:16-17 “the tree of the knowledge of the fruits of good and evil” and, “the tree of life”. The symbolism behind the word “tree” is that every tree has a root system which receives nourishment, which then serves the overall tree. Thus esoterically…

We’re all fairly familiar with Hebrews 4-4 “God Rested On the Seventh Day from all His Work”, and a few lines down: Hebrews 4–10 “For whoever receives that rest which God promised will rest from his own work, just as God rested from his. And in Hebrews 3–11 “God became angry”. Let us explore these…

Humankind is acknowledged as the crowning jewel of God’s creation: the only creature made in the image and likeness of God-nature. This is by virtue of the fact that, man can Self realize individually, whereas animals cannot. Col 1:19 puts it “For it was by God’s own decision that the Son (Christ within) has in…

Matthew 17:19-20 reads: “The apostles came to Jesus in private and asked him: why couldn’t we drive the demon out? – referring back to an earlier incident in Matt 17:14 when the apostles could not heal a boy. “Because you hadn’t enough faith” Jesus replied, then he said: “I assure you that if you have…

Aum is the transmuting vibration which alone contains the transformative dynamic necessary for advancement out of, and beyond, basic human consciousness into Christ consciousness and on to Cosmic-consciousness. Aum, being the Primordial Sound of the universe, is the starting point through which human consciousness commences the transformative journey into Higher Consciousness; the gateway to Supreme…

The Prodigal Son — Luke 15:11-32. is truly one of great biblical stories of inner transformation. It’s about a certain man who had two sons, one becoming spiritually lost and the other not having a capacity of expressing unconditional love or unconditional forgiveness. In this biblical lesson of personal spiritual growth, the two sons, while…

Many years ago, before becoming a daily meditator, I heard a disagreement on radio, on God, where one accused the other: ‘does he think he has his own personal hotline to God’? the person questioned. At the time, I too thought having a hotline to God was a strange statement. Now, after thirty-five years of…

In the absence of non-conceptual understanding, we can now see how many religious institutions remain stuck in perpetuating an intellectual, up in the sky God — programming their adherents with delusional conditioning. When such conditioning takes root in the mind scriptural interpretations become totally untranslatable thereby incomprehensible at any practical level; thus lack of mature…