12/3/05 6:17 PM And so what do we have?

Jesus divides the humans according to spirit and calls those of the good spirit to rally around him and together work for the light. He leaves those who choose to remain under the rule of the Prince of the World to fend for themselves. He promises hardship and toil, and then finally a crown of joy. What is called for is a dedication to truth and to the common good first, and self second. Zachaeus answered this call.

In this wise we understand that there is a Zaachaen Congregation of the Church for those who answer Jesus’ call but do not believe, i.e., they do not believe in the atoning death and the miraculous resurrection.

Then there are the believers who hold that Jesus died for their sins and was resurrected for their eternal life. In order to grasp this conception we need first to understand the binity.

In the same way that a unity is a one in one and a trinity is a three in one and a multinity is a many in one, a binity is a two in one. The human hand is a binity in space. The one conception of a hand can produce two perfect representations of hand and yet be so constituted in terms of their parts to space that they cannot wear the same glove. And so each is innately different, and yet each is a perfect representation of one and the same idea. We shall use this as a analogy for the binity of spirit.

When a person becomes a believer he (within the context of his belief) becomes a binity with Jesus, each a perfect representation of the same spirit, except that the perfection of the believer is conveyed to him by grace and is to result in the actual perfection only progressively. Hence when Jesus was crucified, since the believer is a binity with him, the sins of the believer were paid for, for Jesus had no sin to pay for, and in the same way that Jesus carried the death of sin upon his person in a binity with the believer, the believer, continuing in that binity, carries upon him or herself the tribulations of a sinful world, so that the Christ is active in Jesus and in the believer. One spirit. Hence the believer has the assurance that his sins are forgiven, paid for my Christ in Jesus.

Likewise the believer joins with Jesus in the resurrection in that same binity of spirit and in that belief enters already into eternal life where he or she will never die. The new birth.

Now this believer we shall put in the Believer’s Congregation and shall include in that the division of the Peterian (law abiding Christians) and Paulians (free Christians). Thus we have two congregations, the Zachaeen and the Believer. Both claim Jesus as Lord and the latter claim him also as Savior.

The advantage of faith lies in this, that a believer has an abiding assurance that he is acceptable to God, while a Zachaeen has only the hope that he is acceptable to God. The soul cannot be exposed even to itself. And what counts is the disposition, and this can only be inferred from experience, and so only contingently and never with certainty.

In a word: the believer alone can attain to the Abba/Father consciousness. For only the believer knows that God loves him or her, and you cannot love God until you first know that he loves you. This knowledge is given through faith in the death of Jesus, that he died in order to carry the burden of the sin of all the world, and available to all who call to him as Savior in the binity of spirit.

When the believer then also has the experience of growing in love and thereby becomes convinced of the love of God, he is merely verifying what he had known first through faith, a confirmation if you will. When the Zachaeen has that same experience, he is still having to reckon and infer and to merely hope that this experience is indicative of a pure heart and thus of him being pleasing to God.

The believer knows that he is acceptable to God, while the Zachaeen can only hope that he is acceptable to God. All the righteous, believer or Zachaeen, will feast at the table of Christ, according to Jesus of the gospels, but only the believer will be able to recognize him in his ultimate glory as Savior, the one who turned enemies into friends.