Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 23, 2025 • 0 Comment
Jesus, The Source, The Teachings of Jesus, Understanding Reality
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before!
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle, see His banner go.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
At the sign of triumph. Satan’s host doth flee.
On then, Christian soldiers; on to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver at the shout of praise.
Brothers, lift your voices! Loud your anthems raise!
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Like a mighty army moves the church of God.
Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod!
We are not divided, all one body, we!
One in hope and doctrine; one in charity.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
– Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), from “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (1871)
As soon as I began to more deeply understand the details of early Christian history, and that happened when I was a sophomore in college, my religious life began to fall apart. Had no one else ever noticed the fact that Christianity was just one gigantic crisis, and most of it really made no sense at all? My goodness, it was the Roman Emperor Constantine, and not Jesus after all, who actually had created the religion! And a lot of Christianity as we practice it even now, two thousand years after the Lord’s Ascension, was in fact directly contradicted by what Jesus actually had taught when He was here! Did no one actually read the Bible? I had been reading the Bible from cover to cover repeatedly since I was eleven years old, so I already had seen some very big discrepancies between the things that Jesus had said as they were reported to us right there in the Gospels, and the most fundamental things that Christians in their churches were being taught to believe. I still can recall how I felt that spring when I was only twenty years old, as each new difference in dogma separately landed on me, and again set me fretting. I would go out then sometimes to where the other girls might be, perhaps sitting and lying heedlessly on the new-cut grass, and I would try to explain to those who were my closest friends why this was all so upsetting to me.
But no one much cared. It was springtime in New England, it was the nineteen-sixties, and elsewhere, boys were being drafted and dying for nothing, while people were rioting in America’s cities. And we who were in college and far from what were really very much bigger problems were savoring the fact that we were the lucky ones. As the whole modern world fell apart around us, they thought my fretting about religious errors was just so much utterly irrelevant nonsense.
My much-beloved favorite professor seemed so old to me, when I was so young, that I recall her now as likely having been old enough to have personally attended the Emperor Constantine’s First Council of Nicaea in the year 325 CE. Miss Corwin was the only person I knew back then who cared as much about the drama and tragedy of Christianity’s big errors as I did. She instilled in me a mighty fury at the Roman Emperor Constantine in particular, almost as if she had known him personally! Vividly, and to this day I can recall her tiny office with its bookshelves to the ceiling, and the way she would patiently sit with me and listen and attempt to assist me as I wrestled through my first great Christian disillusionments. Oh, my problems did get worse over the years that followed, and especially since there never has been any attempt made by the Roman Christian church to answer anyone’s issues with it at all. Oh, what? You’ve found a problem or an inconsistency with this or that, or with some other Christian church teaching? Well pound sand, my little apostate friend. Say twelve Hail Marys or go to hell, because that is just the way it is.
I soon personally learned just how very badly Catholicism handled dissension, because I fell in love with a Catholic when I was in my mid-twenties, and the priest who taught me to become a Catholic so we could marry actually put it to me just that way. He briefly tried to teach me pleasantly, but when I began to ask him a few of those tough questions that Miss Corwin and I had wrestled with when I was in college, his pleasantness disappeared at once. He just said to me something like, “Look, either you accept the religion, or you marry someone else. I think you should probably marry someone else.” So, I just crossed my fingers behind my back, where only God could see them, and I thought God didn’t mind, since God already knew that I had all those self-same problems with Protestantism. I became a Catholic so I could marry my Edward. I can recall thinking at the time that eventually, my beloved was going to mellow out and we both could settle on Episcopalianism. But, boy, was I ever wrong about that!
It was only after I met Thomas as my spirit guide much later on, and then he persuaded me 
when I was in my early sixties to give the rest of my life to God, that he helped me to realize that there is Someone Else who might be even more bothered about all the conflicts in Roman Christianity than I am. And Thomas thinks it is time for all of us, and really it is long past time for every Christian now living on earth to give Jesus the courtesy of at least wondering what might be His point of view on all of this! My Thomas, my much-beloved spirit guide, is very close to Jesus. He has been close to the Being who became Jesus since they died together in their last shared earth-lifetime, which Thomas believes was lived in what is now Syria about six thousand years ago. Jesus then ascended to the Godhead level, but He remained in touch with the being who had been His older brother, my Thomas, and He asked him to wait while Jesus tried to understand what just had happened to Him. Then eventually, after maybe four thousand years, Jesus not only had figured everything out, but He had persuaded God to allow Him to incarnate from out of the Godhead in order to teach us all how to grow enough spiritually in one lifetime so we will never again need to return to earth. So Thomas’s brother incarnated from out of the Godhead as Jesus. My Thomas then incarnated again on earth as well, and he served Jesus in that lifetime, and forevermore.
Even now, I have been given to realize, Thomas’s primary role in his eternal life is to serve Jesus, and he has sworn never to further advance spiritually so he always will be able to do just that. The two of them remain extremely close. Thomas meets with Jesus nightly, and since he also is my spirit guide for this lifetime, so by the spirit guide protocols he cannot leave me alone while he astral travels to see Jesus, he has been dragging me along without memory of the event on every night of my earth-lifetime. Good grief. When Thomas took me to visit with Jesus in the summer of 2022 and allowed me to remember those meetings, and he did this what I reckon was eight or nine times while my body slept, I had some glimpses of just how close those two actually are.
My favorite astral memory from that summer is of the two of them sitting close together on Jesus’s riverbank under that many-colored, always-twilight sky and happily chatting in their long-lost last earth-language. They could more easily have talked by mind, but Thomas has told me that sometimes they just enjoy dredging that language up and seeing how much of it they can still remember. I was sitting where I usually sat in these moments, slightly above and maybe twenty feet behind them, on a little hill. Then Jesus glanced to make sure no group of Christians was approaching, He gathered Himself and got ready to stand, and He whispered something to Thomas that was an insult in that old language. Thomas later told me that what Jesus usually would call him was “Bloody General”. Something like that. Then Jesus would stand up and run, and Thomas would chase Him, the pet deer would scatter, and inevitably Thomas would catch Jesus, throw Him to the ground, and, yes, beat Him up. The one time I saw this happen, I was so horrified that I flew up into the air and hovered above them. I distinctly recall the sweet look of Jesus’s face as He calmly looked up at me from under Thomas’s bigger and bulkier body in mild surprise. Then Thomas quickly looked up, too, and the whole thing ended.
No one was supposed to have seen that! But they both had forgotten that I was in “awake” mode. They discussed it, and at my request they allowed me to remember and report what I had seen. Thomas later told me that this is the most important thing that He uniquely does for Jesus. His cherished Brother is a fully Divine Being, vibrating even higher than this universe’s Godhead level, so no other being ever would even presume to treat Jesus the way that Jesus wants Thomas to treat Him. Indeed, no one else likely could bear Jesus’s very strong personal vibration and get close enough to Him to do it, even if they were willing to try to assist Him in this unique way. But Jesus is eager to retain the last remnant of His human status, to somehow keep His human connection to us, to remain “Fully God and Fully Man”. And it is only Thomas’s regularly tussling with Him like the earthly kid-brother that in fact he once was that enables Jesus to retain the last remnant of His “fully man” status.
So, is Jesus bothered by the basic differences and disconnects between “The Way”, the movement that He began during His lifetime that was born from out of the godhead, His movement that was based upon His teachings alone; and Christianity, the very different human fear- and guilt-based religion that the Roman Emperor Constantine founded for his own purposes three centuries later?
There are now some 48,000 different Christian denominations worldwide, nearly all of which are less than two hundred years old. Worldwide Catholicism counts as a single denomination, while many others are as small as a single church building. The differences in doctrine among Christian denominations are often tiny. And the worst disagreements between Jesus’s original Way and the fear- and guilt-based Christianity that Constantine created, which we might say is typified by today’s frame-verse, are these three:
The eternal Jesus has in fact expressed some strong opinions about these core Christian beliefs to me personally, and He also has channeled essentially the same thoughts to others. His feelings about the Roman Christian dogmas do not surprise me at all, and I think that they won’t surprise you, either. What does surprise me a little, perhaps, is that He is choosing this time on earth above some others to make His own ideas so clearly known! We’ll finish this important conversation next week….
Onward then ye people, join our happy throng!
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King!
This, thru countless ages, men and angels sing.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
But the church of Jesus constant will remain.
Gates of hell can never ‘gainst the church prevail.
We have Christ’s own promise, and that cannot fail!
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
– Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), from “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (1871)
(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)
