Apostles
Error
Poem # 1681 And Silence one –
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none –
Exists and its indorsement
Is had within –
Behold, said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen.
The "perfectest
communication" heard in silence is the spirit within.Within is also the
location of its "indorsement" or realization. The Apostle says
"Behold" the kingdom of heaven is at hand, yet he who cries
"behold" has not beheld or "seen" because he has not
grasped the meaning or reality of "the kingdom of heaven within."
How could it be possible that
Emily in 1860 knows about "the Apostle’s error" before it was first
presented as a concept in the Urantia Book in 1955?
Ultimately, it is not a
concept that the world awaits, but rather salvation. Who we are is far more
important than what we know.
E.D. #1483 The Robin is a Gabriel
1879 In humble
circumstances –
His Dress denotes him socially,
Of Transport’s Working Classes –
He has the punctuality
Of the New England Farmer –
The same oblique integrity,
A Vista vastly warmer –
Translating, Emily tells us that
the word Robin is used to denote an angel, like Gabriel, except that Gabriel is
a high-level archangel unlike Emily’s Robin, which is a plain, lowly, working
class angel of a lower order that are known as "transport seraphim"
in the Urantia
Book and are used to
transport non-physical beings from one planet or system to another. Birds are used by Emily as code words to
describe different types of non-material beings. The Urantia Book and Emily Dickinson mutually reinforce
each other’s validity. Emily wrote a hundred years prior to the publication of
The Urantia Book in 1955. These parallels require
explanation.
Other concepts found in the Urantia Book such as the thought adjuster, the
indwelling spirit within (discussed previously), the Apostles’ error, transport
seraphim, spiritual growth, individual will and many others are generously
scattered among her work. This is because the source of both the Urantia Book
and Emily’s experiences are the same; namely the divine world of the Kingdom of
heaven. Revealed religion is unified because it comes from a common source – the divine world. Here are a few more
Urantia Book related poems about the Thought Adjuster
which is the name given to the indwelling spirit of man that is given us by
God. The Thought Adjuster is a fragment
of infinity bestowed by
God upon all men and women. Since God puts a spiritual piece of himself inside each human being, He is our
spiritual Father and we are his spiritual sons and daughters. This is exactly analogous to the biologic
father and mother who give a biologic-genetic
piece of themselves to
their biologic
children. This spirit
fragment is the
foundation for the living spiritual connection between God and man. God is in us and we are in Him. By nature
of this living
spiritual connection, God
"becomes what we are, to make us what He is." Each of us are a
potentially part of the divine circuit of energy which pours forth from God, out through
his sons and daughters, and into the lives they lead and the people they touch. And what goes out from
the Source of love, returns in the end through praise, transforming our hearts
and our minds in the process. This new heart and new mind lies dormant within
every man and every woman, awaiting the day they wholeheartedly choose and
desire to be led by God from within. When the self yields sovereignty to the spirit, the process of new inner
growth begins. Most importantly, it is our will that decides and chooses
between: self or other, anger or forgiveness, hate or love. The will is the
ultimate determining factor in all of man’s existence.
The material self willingly subordinates its previously central position, in
essence laying down its life to allow for a new life in the spirit of God’s
transforming grace. We "let go" to "let Him in." But by
losing the dominance of the material self we gain our life in the spirit and the choosing mind
has finally found its
Way to eternity. This
paradox has been perfectly expressed, long ago, by the Son of man, Master of
men: "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that would give his
life for this gospel shall gain it." "Except as a grain of wheat fall
into the ground and die, it bringeth forth no fruit."
Comically in #670, the
"Body" or material self tries to lock out the spiritual self within
by "bolting a door" while being overwatched, unobserved by the
spiritual self, the "superior spectre" that dwells within and not on
the outside. I’m afraid there is no locking this ghost out.
E.D. #911 Too little way the
House must lie
1864 From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white inhabitant
–
E.D. #1286 I thought that nature
was enough
1873 Till Human nature came
But that the other did absorb
As Parallax a Flame –
Of Human nature just aware
There added the Divine
Brief struggle for
capacity
The power to contain
In #911, the "white
inhabitant" is the thought adjuster who has been bestowed, with an
undisputed lease from the Maker.
In #2386, human and divine
(thought adjuster) nature struggle for sovereignty of the self. Unquestionably,
Emily has a clear understanding of the function, origin, and destiny of the
"divine Host within," "the white inhabitant," the
"Creature of Heavenly Love," "within the clutch of
thought," of "Heavenly Love – forgot." Next we turn to:
The apostles’ error
E.D. #1681 Speech is one symptom
of Affection
And Silence one –
The perfectest
communication
Is heard of none –
Exists and its indorsement
Is had within –
Behold,
said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen!
The above poem fits in nicely
with:
John 10:1 I Assure you, most
solemnly I tell you, he who does not enter by
the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way is a
thief and a robber.
John 10:2 But he who enters by
the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10:6 Jesus used these
parable with them, but
they did not understand
what He was talking
about.
Emily starts this poem #1681
discussing the kingdom of heaven within, with reference to "the perfectest
communication" within between the thought adjuster and the human self.
This communication "exists and is had within" our being. The Apostle
says "Behold" although he had not grasped the reality of "the kingdom of heaven"
within. Therefore he inaugurates a new message about the risen Christ. How could Emily have
grasped this in the nineteenth century?
Apostle’s Error
UB p. 2059 These men (the
apostles) had been trained and instructed that the
gospel which they should preach was the fatherhood of God and the
sonship of man, but at
just this moment of spiritual ecstasy and
personal triumph, the best tidings, the greatest news, these men
could think of was the fact of the risen Master. And so they went
forth, endowed with power from on high, preaching glad tidings to
the people -- even salvation through Jesus -- but they
unintentionally stumbled into the error of substituting some of the
facts associated with the gospel for the gospel message itself.
Quote from The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand, written by Ed Roache.