CREED OR CHRIST

No man loves God who hates his kind,

Who tramples on his brother's heart and soul;

Who seeks to shackle, cloud, or fog the mind

By fears of hell has not perceived our goal.

God-sent are all religions blest;

And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life,

To give the heavy laden rest

And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife.

Behold the Universal Spirit came

To ALL the churches, not to one alone;

On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame

Round EACH apostle as a halo shone.

Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed,

We oft have battled for an empty name,

And sought by dogma, edict, cult, or creed,

To send each other to the quenchless flame.

Is Christ then twain? Was Cephas, Paul,

To save the world, nailed to the tree?

Then why divisions here at all?

Christ's love enfolds both you and me.

His pure sweet love is not confined

By creed which segregate and raise a wall.

His love enfolds, embraces human kind,

No matter what ourselves or Him we call.

Then why not take Him at His word?

Why hold to creeds which tear apart?

But one thing matters, be it heard

That brother love fill every heart.

There's but one thing the world has need to know.

There's but one balm for all our human woe:

There's but one way that leads to heaven above--

That way is human sympathy and love.

-Max Heindel.

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A beautiful poem. Excuse me for wrecking your state of euphoria, but that is my job, to interrupt one’s mood, and try to add some knowledge that might have been missed by the typical person reading the poem above. As already said earlier, the reader is lead on by trickery, or guile to believe that Jesus was crucified, not Paul, or the other guy called Cephas, which in Aramaic means rock, and is another name for Peter, "petros," which means in Greek “rock.”  Jesus spoke Aramaic, and in that tongue God is called Allah, which is what  Muslims call God.  

We can see by reading the following verse that the idea for his poem came from the same incident that Paul cited in one of his letters: 1 Corinthians 1:11-13 “For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul,'' or "I am of Apollos,'' or "I am of Cephas,'' or "I am of Christ.'' Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?”

Paul knew that Jesus was not crucified, and so to hide that fact, all the while misleading most people to make it look like Jesus was crucified, he used guile, which is the same style used to write the gospels, and the rest of the NT.  From Romans 9:1 on up to 1 Corinthians 3:1 is found solid food for the mature.  We see that the above verse is in-between those two boundaries.  Anything within that region will speak of a few deeper secrets, that by using logic those secrets can be found.  So we have at the beginning of the RCC, both the idea that this is the reborn Paul writing this poem, and that guile will be used from time to time within the RCC.  Also this poem is a hint that trickery will be  used at times through out the rest of the RF works on the subject of the crucifixion.  Max lets us know right from the beginning that Peter is part of the destiny of the growth of RCC, whenever he arrives, and finally figures that concept out.  The problem now is convincing others of what to me is very obvious. 

It took me a long time before I finally saw how obvious this all is. For 20 years I stepped on all of that which was hidden between the lines in the RF, and like a  fool went merely by faith until the angel Michael spoke to me, and gave me the key to open the NT.  Max made it look like you had to be a clairvoyant of the highest order, plus be a rather high initiate before one could ever unlock the mysteries that lay within the NT.   Therefore, by faith I immediately gave up, thinking never to bother, as it would be an impossible task for me.  Max bluffed me, and fooled others by making what is actually a simple task to unravel, as if it were instead the Gordian knot.      

A final word on this poem.  If the Koran is read in Arabic, it will be found that all of the verses rhyme. That is quite a miraculous book from that viewpoint alone. We see that Max has hinted at the Koran by having the opening pages written in a poem, which points to the book, 1 Peter 2:2, which God has given to mankind for our salvation.