The Magician 21 word, ALIVE. Hence the pair of opposites the letter stands for, and this is precisely the use of the two words, the quick and the dead, in the Gospel narrative. Whenever Jesus speaks of the quick and the dead, by the quick have means those people whose Pineal gland is functioning. By the dead he means ordinary people. It should be quite apparent to any careful reader than many expressions in the Scriptures have a double meaning very different from their ordinary meaning; words such as faith, death, birth, blindness, and poverty. Let us take one of these beatitudes: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” What a strange expression. Why should the poor in spirit be blessed? It certainly does not mean being spiritless and not standing for your rights. It must have some ethical meaning. The ethical meaning is non-attachment to THINGS. Blessed are they whose life is not in things, in possessions, or in acquisitions. One of the central ideas of Jesus was that the multitude should be taught in parables, and that the hidden things should be revealed only to those who are ready for them. It is constantly forgotten by the orthodox churches (if it was ever known) that much of what Jesus said was intended only for his disciples. “I teach you,” he said, “the real mystery of the things of the Kingdom of Heaven. I teach the multitude in parables.” Much of what Jesus said was intended only for his disciples. He cautioned them against “casting their pearls before swine.” The things that were meant for the quick should never be cast before the dead. The churches have never made any satisfactory explanation of these statements. Surely the teachings of Jesus would have no point unless they were meant for everybody, unless there is a hidden meaning in them. What did Jesus mean by saying, “Don’t cast your pearls before swine?” He told his disciples he would reveal to them the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven. The principal idea in the Ancient Mysteries was that man, by his own work upon himself, died and was born again into a higher type of man. The Old Adam, the natural man, died and was born into the spiritual man. The ordinary, unawakened person Jesus referred to as the blind and the deaf by the words, “Those who have eyes to see, let them see and those who have ears to hear, let them hear.” Those who were in their graves did not mean the dead people, but those who had not awakened their Pineal Gland, those people subscribing to orthodox knowledge. The word dead ordinarily means those who are in their graves. He said that He came to teach both the quick and the dead. To the quick He taught the mysteries of the coming of Heaven. To the dead He talked in instructive parables. The quick or alive were those who had reconstructed their bodies, who had made the spiritual man out of the natural man.
