The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon's)
Bible Dictionary
Elias. There are several uses of this word in the scriptures. (1) It is the N.T. (Greek) form of Elijah (Hebrew), as in... Matt. 17:1–4. Elias in these instances can only be the ancient prophet Elijah whose ministry is recorded in 1 and 2 Kings.
Pistis Sophia translated by G. S. R. Mead
CHAPTER 135
...The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "Amēn, amēn, I say unto you Before I did come into the world... And when I came to the regions of the æons, I have turned Elias and sent him into the body of John the Baptizer, and the rest also I turned into righteous bodies, which will find the mysteries |356. of the Light, go on high and inherit the Light-kingdom...
"...The righteous from the time of Adam unto now, who are in the æons and all the orders of the rulers, when I came to the region of the æons, I have... made to turn into bodies which will all be righteous, -those which will find the mysteries of the Light, enter in and inherit the Light-kingdom."
Mary answered and said: "Blessed are we before all men because of these splendours which thou hast revealed unto us."
And Mary continued and said to the Saviour: "Lo, my Lord, we have openly, exactly and clearly known that thou hast brought the keys of the mysteries of the Light-kingdom, which forgive souls sins and purify them and make them into refined light and lead them into the Light."
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling
CHAPTER 13.
3Now in the hills were many caves. The cave of David was a-near in which the Hermit of Engedi lived. 4This hermit was Matheno, priest of Egypt, master from the temple of Sakara. 5When John was seven years of age Matheno took him to the wilderness and in the cave of David they abode. 6Matheno taught, and John was thrilled with what the master said, and day by day Matheno opened up to him the mysteries of life.
CHAPTER 15.
1When John was twelve years old...2...Matheno said... 9The sages of the ages call you harbinger. The prophets look to you and say, He is Elijah come again. 10Your mission here is that of harbinger; for you will go before Messiah’s face to pave his way, and make the people ready to receive their king. 11This readiness is purity of heart; none but the pure in heart can recognize the king. 12To teach men to be pure in heart you must yourself be pure in heart, and word, and deed. 17Men... come to God through ceremonies and forms. 18And so when you would make men know that sins are washed away by purity in life, a rite symbolic may be introduced. 19In water wash the bodies of the people who would turn away from sin and strive for purity in life. 20This rite of cleansing is a preparation rite and they who thus are cleansed comprise the Church of Purity. 22This rite of cleansing and this church are but symbolic of the cleansing of the soul by purity in life, and of the kingdom of the soul, which does not come with outward show, but is the church within. 29Now in Engedi’s hills Matheno’s work was done and he and John went down to Egypt. They rested not until they reached the temple of Sakara in the valley of the Nile. 31For eighteen years John lived and wrought within these temple gates; and here he conquered self, became a master mind and learned the duties of the harbinger.
CHAPTER 129.
35But Peter said, The scribes have taught that e’er the king shall come Elijah must appear. 36And Jesus said, Elijah has already come; but scribes and Pharisees received him not; 37And men reviled him, bound him, cast him in a prison cell, and shouted with a fiend’s delight to see him die. 38What men have done to him, that they will do to me. 39Then the disciples understood that Jesus spoke of John whom Herod slew.
"The early Christian church accepted the doctrine of reincarnation, which was expounded by the Gnostics and by numerous church fathers, including Clement of Alexandria, the celebrated Origen (both 3rd century), and St. Jerome (5th century). The doctrine was first declared a heresy in A.D. 553 by the Second Council of Constantinople. At that time many Christians thought the doctrine of reincarnation afforded man too ample a stage of time and space to encourage him to strive for immediate salvation. …The truth is that man reincarnates on earth until he has consciously regained his status as a son of God." (Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda p172)
George King reveals in his book The Nine Freedoms: "Reincarnation is, in the eyes of the great Masters, not a theory, but an essential part of Divine Truth, an aspect which, sooner or later, must be taught by every major Religion on Earth. …Not for very much longer can the orthodox leaders of the Christian Religion suppress the existence of Truth regarding reincarnation." (p111)
On this subject the Archangel Michael teaches us: "In the hundreds and thousands of embodiments in which you have lived, similar to these, is the proof that mankind had forgotten their Source." (The Voice of the I AM 1942 November p4)
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