3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. -1 Corinthians 3:1-2 Bible, King James Version
There are those who are spiritually minded and those who are carnally minded. Those who are carnally minded are like babies in Christ who can only receive the milk or basic teachings of the Gospel. Those individuals who are spiritually minded are able to receive the meat or deeper teachings of the Gospel.
In the Spirit World there are Higher and lower Planes or Regions with their Rulers. The Bible refers to three Degrees of Glory likened to the sun, moon and stars two of which it names as the Celestial and the Terrestrial. (1 Corinthians 15: 39-44) The Mormon Church teaches that the Celestial Kingdom is the highest and has three divisions within it, then there is the Terrestrial Kingdom and the lowest is the Telestial Kingdom. In the Mormon Temples members receive the key words, answers, signs and tokens to be able to pass by the angels who stand as sentinels to enter into the Celestial Kingdom of Heaven. The angels revealed to Emanuel Swedenborg that the Christian Preachers represent the Spiritual Kingdom of heaven not the higher Celestial Kingdom of Heaven. All priests, prophets, spiritual teachers, Masters and religions represent different Planes or Regions and their Rulers. Everyone will receive a spiritual reward in the afterlife based upon whether they received and followed the teachings of a righteous man, a Priest or Minister, a prophet, a Master or an Ascended Master. There is a Key Word which opens the Door to Heaven. This Key Word can lift one up to a higher Plane or Region than all the other words, answers, signs, tokens and mantras of the lower regions. In order to gain the Ascension and enter permanently into the Highest Plane one must receive this Key Word which is the Name of God. The Ascended Masters teach that this Word is "I AM." This is the Name of God revealed to Moses in the Old Testament. (Exodus 3: 13-15)
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling
CHAPTER 139.
19False prophets come and go; they claim to be the shepherds of the sheep; they claim to know the way, but they know not the word of power; the watchman opens not the gate...
Pistis Sophia translated by G. S. R. Mead
CHAPTER 97
...And Mary [Magdalene] answered again and said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, bear with me, if I question thee, and be not wroth with me. Now, therefore, my Lord, unless we live and know the... word of the Ineffable, [or Indescribable,] shall we not be able to inherit the Light-kingdom?"
And the Saviour answered |233. and said unto Mary: "Surely; for every one who shall receive a mystery of the Light-kingdom, will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received mysteries... And moreover it is impossible to know the one and only word... unless a man first receive the mystery of the Ineffable. But all the men who shall receive mysteries in the Light, -every one will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received mysteries.
"On this account I have said unto you aforetime: 'He who hath faith in a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward, and he who hath faith in a righteous [man] will receive a righteous [man's] reward,' -that is: Every one will go to the region up to which he hath received mysteries. He who receiveth a lesser mystery, will inherit the lesser mystery, [or lower regions] and he who receiveth a higher mystery, will inherit the higher regions. And every one will abide in his region in the light of my kingdom, and every one will have power over the orders which are below him, but he will not have the power to go to the orders which are above him; but he will abide in the region of the Inheritance of the Light |234. of my kingdom, being in a great light immeasurable for the gods and all the invisibles, and he will be in great joy and great jubilation.
"But now, therefore, hearken, that I may discourse with you concerning the grandeur of those who shall receive the mysteries of the First Mystery.
"He, therefore, who shall receive the [first] mystery of that First Mystery, and it shall be at the time that he cometh out of the body... -then the... receivers come and lead the soul of that man out of the body. And that soul will become a great light-stream in the hands of the... receivers; and those receivers will be afraid of the light of that soul. And that soul will go upwards and pass through all the regions of the rulers and all the regions of the emanations of the Light. And it will not give answers... nor tokens in any single region of the Light nor in any single region of the rulers; but it will pass through all the regions and cross over them all, so that it goeth and ruleth over all the regions..."
CHAPTER 133
...The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "Amēn, I say unto you: All which is appointed unto every one... whether all good or all sins... cometh unto them.
"For this cause, therefore, have I brought |351. the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; otherwise no flesh in the world would be saved. For without mysteries no one will enter into the Light-kingdom, be he a righteous or a sinner.
"For this cause, therefore, have I brought the keys of the mysteries into the world, that I may free the sinners who shall have faith in me and hearken unto me, so that I may free them from the bonds... of the æons [or the series of spiritual powers] of the rulers and bind them to... the vestures [that cover us such as our clothing or our body] and the orders of the Light, in order that he whom I shall free in the world from the bonds... of the æons of the rulers, may be freed in the Height from the bonds... of the æons of the rulers, and in order that he whom I shall bind in the world to... the vestures and the orders of the Light, may be bound in the Light-land to the orders of the inheritances of the Light.
"For the sake of sinners, therefore, have I... brought them the mysteries, that I may free them from the æons of the rulers and bind them to the inheritances of the Light, and not only the sinners, but also the righteous, in order that I may give them the mysteries and that they may be taken into the Light, for without mysteries they cannot |352. be taken into the Light.
"For this cause, therefore, I have not hidden it, but I have cried it aloud clearly. And I have not separated the sinners, but I have cried it aloud and said it unto all men, unto sinners and righteous, saying: 'Seek that ye may find, knock that it may be opened unto you; for every one who seeketh in truth, will find, and who knocketh, to him it will be opened.' For I have said unto all men: They are to seek the mysteries of the Light-kingdom which shall purify them and make them refined and lead them into the Light.
"...The power in John hath prophesied concerning me, knowing that I would bring the mysteries into the world and purify the sins of the sinners who shall have faith in me and hearken unto me, and make them into refined light and lead them into the Light."
