The Practical Side of Heaven by William Kiefert

Author:William Kiefert [Kiefert, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darnell Works, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

Paul refers to Stage V as the “glory.” In the glory, nonjudgmental reasoning will be universal because public and parochial schools will teach Jesus’ theory of nature. Theologians of all persuasions will recognize that if our children learn to reason lovingly, they will live the love, peace and joy that religion preaches. Educators will teach Jesus’ theory of nature because it is a natural principle that supports brotherly love. We have always known that love is the answer. Jesus’ Gnostic teachings make love the rational thing to do.

In Stage V, all will have learned to reason lovingly. We will no longer think it reasonable to look out for ourselves as others suffer. We will see ourselves as one with all others, and therefore treat others as ourselves. This is the key that fulfills Jesus’ promise that “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” This ushers in the Kingdom of God—the glory of Stage V.

In Paul’s five stage model of consciousness, Stage V, the glory, begins when every adult reaches his or her highest stage of consciousness. Stage V will never end. Just as the ending of later interpretations of the Lord’s Prayer suggests, it will go on “forever”.

The consciousness-raising idea that initiates Stage V is the knowledge, gained through the understanding of Jesus’ theory of nature, that all are one. When all realize that all are one, the whole world will work towards the good of all, because everyone will see themselves in all others, and therefore, it will no longer be necessary to have institutions of any kind that are meant to protect us and our property from others. All will be one and supportive of the others. This will be the new civilization in the third millennium.

“When the Christian philosopher, Justine, wrote…he boosted that they [Gnostic Christians] were people who had completely changed their attitudes…we, who used to take pleasure in immorality, now embrace chastity [meaning refraining from practices of Roman culture] alone; we who valued above everything else the acquisition of wealth and possessions, now bring what we have into common ownership, and share with those in need; we, who hated and destroyed one another, refusing to live with those of a different race, now live intimately with them”.289

In Stage V, the glorified (perfected) live the “good life” as Paul in Ephesians 2:10 said God intends us to do. No one can say exactly what living in the glory, or Kingdom of God, will be, any more than anyone in Stage III can describe living in Stage IV. But we can imagine and experience it through the intuitive knowledge that poetry and metaphors inspire. The beautiful images of the glory as ‘green pastures… ‘still waters’…’paths of righteousness,’ in Psalms 23:2, a time when all will “beat their swords into plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks; (and) nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore, IS 2:4B,” and “the Promised Land,” intuitively inspire visions of what the glory will be.

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