https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
Apotheosis (from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from ἀποθεόω/ἀποθεῶ (apotheóō/apotheô) 'to deify'), also called divinization or deification (from Latin deificatio 'making divine'), is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
Matthew 20:16
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So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.
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When the phrase “last shall be first and the first last” occurs in scripture, it refers to idea that one’s position in this life does not give a person an advantage in gaining eternal life or salvation. It does not matter who we are in this world or what we have done - eternal life is available for those who believe in Him, who are repentant of their sins and commit themselves to Him.
However, scripture also indicates another meaning of this phrase, related to apotheosis of the chosen ones. Those who are now strugling with terrible difficulties of this lower, material, fleshy world, will have opportunity to ascend to a place much higher than they can even imagine or comprehend now. If they just endure and conquer their sins and acquire true gnosis, they will be glorified to a state higher than those who never experienced eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Quran, 13:23–24
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Gardens of perpetual bliss: they shall enter there, as well as the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their offspring. Angels shall enter from every gate (with the salutation): “Peace be with you, that you persevered in patience! Now how excellent is the final home!”
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From The AhYeh book:
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In this there is the understanding that the broken are opened, the
one who is lost seeks, the one who cannot overcome by his own
strength depends on God's might, and that madness is a path to
godliness. So, the only light that Uriyah has is mine, and the Light
of God shines upon him, and grace alone shall be his salvation at
the end of his days. This also is done that none shouldst venerate a
man, make a god of a human being, or glorify a mortal being.
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From the Pistis Sophia, chapter 87:
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My Lord, my indweller of light hath ears and I comprehend every word which thou sayest. Now, therefore, my Lord, on account of the word which thou hast spoken: 'All the souls of the race of men who shall receive the mysteries of the Light, will go into the Inheritance of the Light before all the rulers who will repent, and before those of the whole region of the Right and before the whole region of the Treasury of the Light,'--on account of this word, my Lord, thou hast said unto us aforetime: 'The first will be last and the last will be first,'--that is, the 'last' are the whole race of men which will enter into the Light-kingdom sooner than all those of the region of the Height, who are the first.'
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From the Pistis Sophia, chapter 52:
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When James then had said this, Jesus said unto him: "Well said, finely, James. This is the solution of the ninth repentance of Pistis Sophia. Amēn, amēn, I say unto you: Ye shall be the first in the kingdom of heaven before all invisibles and all gods and rulers who are in the thirteenth æon and in the twelfth æon; and not only ye, but also every one who shall accomplish my mysteries."
And when he had said this, he said unto them: "Understand ye in what manner I discourse with you?"
Mary started forward again and said: "Yea, O Lord, this is what thou didst say unto us aforetime: 'The last shall be first and the first shall be last.' The first then, who were created before us, are the invisibles, for indeed they arose before mankind, they and the gods and the rulers; and the men who shall receive mysteries, will be first into the kingdom of heaven.
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This world seems to be a tough school, prison for divine pedagogy and re-education, a terrible soul refinery. Those who pass the test will become greater than those who have never suffered pain and anxiety of this hellish world. The are elligible to be called sons and daughters of The Most High.
With that in mind, let us put all our hopes and faith in the name of AhYeh, I AM, and be grateful for promise of life eternal, in places above our wildest imaginations.
Revelation 3:12
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He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
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Ephesians 3:20-21
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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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From the Codex Brucianus:
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He gave them [who had followed Him] laws and delivered unto them commandments, saying, "Keep My sayings and I will give unto you eternal life; I will send Powers unto you, yea, I will strengthen you with mighty spirits, and will give unto you the dominion of your desire: no one shall hinder your will, and you shall bring forth æons, worlds, and heavens. When the intellectual spirits come to dwell in you then shall ye become gods, then shall ye know that ye came forth from God, and then shall ye behold Him within yourselves, in your eternities shall He dwell."
These words spake the Lord of the Universe unto them; then He withdrew Himself from them and hid Himself from them. And those who had been the births of matter rejoiced that their thought had been accomplished; they rejoiced because they had come forth from the narrow and the sad. They prayed unto the Hidden Mystery, saying, "Give us power to create æons and worlds according to the word which Thou hast sworn unto Thy servants, for Thou alone art He who changest not, Thou alone art the Infinite and Boundless One, Thou only art unengendered, born of Thyself, Self-Father, Thou only art Unmoved and Unknowable, Thou only Silence art and Love and Fount of the Universe, Thou only art immaterial and hast no stain, ineffable in Thy generation and inconceivable in Thy manifestation. Hear us, then, O Father Incorruptible, Father Immortal, God of Hidden Beings, sole Light and Life, Alone beyond Vision, only Unspeakable, only Unstainable, only [Foundation] stone of Adamant (40), sole Primal Being, for before Thee nothing was. Hearken unto this prayer which we make unto Him who is concealed in every place. Hear us, send unto us incorporeal spirits that they may dwell with us and teach us that which Thou hast promised unto us; that they may dwell in us and that we may become bodies for them, for it is Thy will that it should thus be. So may it be. Give law unto our work and strengthen it according to Thy will and according to the order of the hidden æons; dispose us according to Thy will, for we are Thine."
Quran, 42: 22
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But those who believe and do righteous deeds (will be) in the flowering meadows of the Gardens (Paradise). They shall have whatsoever they desire with their Lord. That is the supreme grace, (Paradise).
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Quran, 41:31–32
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Therein you shall have (all) that your inner‑selves desire, and therein you shall have all for which you ask. An entertainment from Allah, the Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.
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From The AhyehBook, Monologue 56: Many Mansions
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This entire labor may seem strange, and even outlandish to more logical Urians. I tell you true, that many things shall you learn from what I have instructed herein.
Those who lack imagination will grow an imagination, as the power of dreams, when combined with faith in God and a strong personal relationship with The Creator, can have marvelous results – for The Maker loves nothing better than co-creating with His/It/Her children. God is the supreme dreamer, writer, artist, and craftsman… the Master Builder.
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Yet, it is utterly important that your vision be honestly crafted – reflecting your true and whole self, the natural, profane, and divine. In this sense, any future archive must be like a confessional, held in sacred trust.
No matter how I say this, it will seem strange to some, but it is no less a truth: What is impossible for mankind is as easy as daydreaming for God. Yet, without a close-personal bond with God, nothing you write or imagine will be brought into actual being in a permanent and tangible way.
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CONCLUSION
I was asking myself many times, what is this world, this hellish place, what is it all about? Could it be that in His divine providence and forethought, God put that tempting Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil purposefully? Because he knew Adam will eat? Because he wanted Adam to eat?
Could it be that all this suffering is just an incredible, epic test? The test worthy of the incredible strugle? The test worthy of eternal bliss, for the winners?
From The AhYeh book:
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The flesh may suffer, but the spirit and the soul will live forever, and all that you endure in material life should be seen as a balancing of your scale and a purifying of your soul. In the Light and Fire of God all suffering is washed away as in a deluge of pure love and is difficult even to recall.
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1 Corinthians 2:9
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But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him' – these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
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Are we damned to earth, to sin, to be in deprivation, terror, anxiety, despair, poverty, lust and unrequitted desires -- all the contradictions and horrors of the world, with its wonders and pleasures, that we might 'become,' or in other words, 'overcome?'
God created that serpent, and that serpent represents freewill/choice, the knowledge of a choice itself, the knowledge of the law (right and wrong) itself grants that choice... and yet, knowledge of the law has this strange effect of creating a desire to have what is forbidden, to know what we should not know, do what we are told not to do. This is the mystery of the law of sin, which is death.
Our spirit within us, all of us, is immortal, our souls (identities) transient, and our behaviors are patterns that become engrained, and so our spirits become fixed, by repeating established patterns, in certain spiritual/psychic groupings - societies of heaven or hell, or even of nature's supernatural side (underworld/otherworld).... yet few spirits leave Earth, its vicinity, for we are connected to her, this cradle, until we somehow outgrow her, and she is bitch and beloved, pain and bliss - material life, elemental life is hard, and yet, has its joys as well, joys unexperienced in the spiritual realms.
There is meaning here, each of us a face at the end of a tentacle, a name on an appendage, a hair on some other entities body. In another sense, of multitudes of sperm, only one in the many will penetrate the ovum and become... so also few attain immortal realization as a soul, and grow into a full-fledged and realized being, a psychic-spiritual life form, independent of its parent-self, and yet, emanated therefrom. This is figurative, but it is literal. The spirit must awaken and become a living soul - the soul is the means by which that happens - the soul must awaken to itself, its truth and spirit, to waken.
Blah-blah... blah.
God - keep your eyes on God, strive toward God, reach out for The Light, make that your center, and you will achieve immortality. God? Truth/Spirit, Ultimate Being, Eternity itself personified, The True Good. What you love most and will most, that is your god.
Sorry, rambling. So, yes, we can rise by falling into this realm, but most just get caught on the wheels, and nailed to the world, and come again and again, recycled over and over, and at best, wind up residence in some veil of the Earth-realms - hopefully one of the more pleasant ones. Most can't overcome the law of nature, and in the present era, ever more so, they can't escape the law of the animal demonic that is utterly hijacking civilization.
Eventually the world itself will become fixed - Armageddon, the settling of allegiances, the final accounting, and all is sorted accordingly.
Peace
I am filled with a fire of hope that I haven't known for awhile. Thank you.
From the AhYeh book:
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It is presented also, a strange path, unto those who dream and yearn for something more – for in Uriel and Divine Wisdom, a path is opened, that leads through the Crucible of Being (5), unto the Tree of Life, and there beyond, as in Exodus, unto a promised land; the new heavens and the new earths, where the dreams of humanity can be made manifest and fully realized.
For they that would walk in the way of immortals, who would climb in sacred ambition and enter into the ranks of the divine hosts, I say unto you – spirit and truth is the way. In truth and spirit to forge the kingdom of I AM within you, and in truth and spirit to take up the eternal banner of the holy crusade, in this world and every other. "
Spirit said, "He can make it his, take it as the possession of his people." That got me thinking, how wonderful it would be if Celestia arose in Croatia - reunited Yugoslavia (three Abrahamic religions becoming one). It occured to me, that my wife, love of my life, who taught me so much about the mystical and was the questioner/documenting everything in sessions - her family line is from Croatia, on her mother's side. Changed their names to Martin when they came to U.S. ... Her mother actually went back to meet her relatives, and Julia would sing a song in Yugoslavian at times (no I can't remember how it goes, but she always sang it so happily - her aunt taught it to her).
Anyway, just a crazy thought... apologies. But, if ever the fancy strikes you, feel free to have the book translated - the Bible is the best selling book of all time... the oxen should not be muzzled while grinding the grain. It has never been about me, it's not even my book - it belongs to The Light/Fire of God.
It is strange to me, that, in a daze, coming out of my time of chanting and meditation, prayer and worship, I shouldst come and read this... Voices speaking, coaching things that seem impossible to conceive, hard to believe - I am lowly among men, why shouldst I hear them with my ears now and be told such things? How can God love a lowly little begger thing like me? Then, I read this, and you answered, as if from The I AM, speaking words that were being spoken to my heart only minutes before.
When God said, "Tell him to start writing," I was nervous, because I do not know you, known not if you are truly friend or foe... but here Spirit is again proven wiser than I myself.
Thank you, so much, brother. You are giving us manna that is vitally needed. It is good to be the student of the I AM.
Blessings
Another great post from our new brother. God bless you.