Money is Law, The Law is a Schoolteacher

Money is a schoolteacher. The Law is a schoolteacher (Galations 3:24-25). School children earn grades and gold stars to get them to learn, until they begin learning on their own, out of the joy of their hearts, not for the sake of grades, not for the sake of credits. Just as in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna speaks of transcending the cycles of Credit and Debt, transcending the perpetual reincarnation of Karma, the old Hindu Law, through giving up working for rewards, so speaks the Buddha, so speaks the Christ (see Here's the One Point We Know the World's Religions Agree Upon (in Word) ). Grace is doing for the sake of doing, and is joyful. Law is doing to get something in return, and is forceful. To give up working for reward, but to work for the sake of work, is to give up the ego, to give up delusion.

The Seven-Headed Beast & the Prostitute of the New Testament

The Seven-Headed Leviathan metamorphoses into the Seven-Headed scarlet Beast of the book of Revelation (Starting in Chapter 17). He is being ridden by the Prostitute of Babylon. Reading about her, we clearly see that she represents Religion prostituting itself. The Prostitute does not love for the sake of love, but "loves" for the sake of money: reward, converts, the praise of people. She is organized religion. Organized Religion is driven by lust for money (credit & praise) not by ethics, not by hydra.jpg hydra image by hazzakanlove. Like the prostitute, she makes a good act at love, but she is not real (see Love and Possession - Sex and Money). She is nice & squeaky clean on the outside and conniving and violent and dirty on the inside. She sits upon the Seven-headed Beast, the Money System, the Leviathan described above, beginning with the serpent in the garden. She thinks she controls it, possesses it, but it controls her, possesses here. There is great enmity between her and the Serpent (Genesis 3:15, Revelation 7:16). She is the World's Oldest Profession, the Mother of all Professions. This Prostitute is also spoken of in the Book of Mormon (1Nephi 14) .


Akkadian Seal depicting the slaying of the Seven-Headed Beast

Now, check this out:

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.
(Rev. 17:8)

Notice that this seven-headed beast exists everywhere but now!

Money, like all symbol, exists everywhere but now. Money was (debt), and is not, and will come (credit). There is no credit and no debt in the present. Money does not exist, except in imagination! The beast does not exist, except in imagination! Imagination itself cannot dwell in the present moment. Human thought is future and past, never present. Human thought can never enter into now, into the Kingdom of God. Forgiveness is Reality, and is the Present Moment. All Credit and all debt and all time vanish into the Present Moment, the End of Time.

Jah (the Hebrew word meaning the Eternal Present) does not and cannot exist in human imagination, in human thought. Yahweh (the Eternal Present) can only be believed in the mind, but never known by the mind. God can only be known when the mind gives itself up and dies, is completely annihilated on the cross of where the branches of opposites join into the Center, the Eternal Present.

Even the word God is an idea, an attempted image of God, like the Hebrew Yahweh, which must ultimately be given up!
The word Allah, in Arabic or English, has become no less an idol than an image of Baal or a picture of Muhammad, and must ultimately be given up!
All graven images, all engraven images, must decay!

Think and believe in God. Belief is law. Belief, Law, comes and goes, succedes and fails.
"Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) Knowledge (gnosis) is grace. Gnosis, beyond thought, is Eternal.


Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man comes at an Hour when you
do not think."
(Matt. 24:44)

This essay is a lot of thinking, huh?

My good friend Satya was a student under a Japanese Zen master who once said, after his Dharma talk:

Everything you have just heard is thought.
Now forget everything I said!

*To confirm to you these word studies, I have used the online Blue Letter Bible, www.blueletterbible.org, with Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts of scripture passages. You may also refer to http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineI...brew_Index.htm for Hebrew-English interlinear Tanach (Old Testament), and http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineI...reek_Index.htm for Greek-English interlinear New Testament. The Blue Letter Bible uses Strong's Lexicon, so I occasionally put in Strong's numbers to make it easier for you to look up.