GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth
plane of [
3344], born October 10, 1897, in ..., Penna., and
the earthly existence of this entity as Philas in that period
following the Master's walk in the earth. You will give a
biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of
earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth's
plane, and the entity's departure, giving the development or
retarding points in such an existence. You will answer the
questions, as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now called
[
3344] and the earthly experience of the entity as Philas in
the Holy Land, and the activities there.
In giving the biographical outline, and as to how the
entity may use the lessons or those shortcomings from that
experience in the present, it would be well to give something
of an outline of conditions during those particular periods
of activity.
We find that the entity Philas was of that group of people
from Seleucia who came to Jerusalem during those days of the
Pentecost when there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
upon the Apostles who had been warned to tarry in Jerusalem
until that day.
The entity was among those who were students of the law,
those who were interested in the activities having to do
with questionings pertaining to the law that had been
interpreted from the priests and rabbis of the day pertaining
to the Mosaic law, and the interesting facts and fancies that
had come from the eastern lands, from which the Wise Men had
come. These, as parts of the teachings, had become adopted
by those groups of the Essenes of which John and Joseph and
Mary had been a part before the entering of the Master, Jesus
in the earth.
With Stephen, Philip and others, the entity was among those
chosen, of the young men; Philas at the time being only a
little past nineteen years of age.
Thus we find the entity was not acquainted directly with the
individuals until this period who had been associated with
the Master as Disciples, now Apostles, or those who has been
close to the activity.
As a student, though, the entity was aroused to the
possibilities and probabilities of the activities to which
the individuals might give themselves or contribute to, or
gain something from, as to add to the interest in living.
Philas was of a group not wholly Jewish or Grecian but one
interested in same because of the background genealogically
of the things happening. The entity journeyed to Jerusalem
because of the interest aroused by hearsay and the expectancy
among the peoples, the great throngs. On the journey the
entity became closely identified or associated with Stephen,
who after the joining of so many to the efforts of the
Disciples or Apostles on the day of the Pentecost became the
treasurer of the organization that became a necessity, in
that record keepers had to be appointed because of the great
amount of contributions of various natures to those peoples.
Stephen and Philip and Philas, and others, had been chosen by
the Disciples or Apostles to attend to the needs of the great
throngs of people.
There were those chosen who were entirely of the
circumcision. There were those chosen who were of the
uncircumcised group, yet were identified with services in
various forms, in that which has been adopted by the
Samaritan Jews as well as Grecian Jews, who were only part
Jews. Some of these facts became the problems (that were
unnecessary in their particular activity or for their
beliefs) in the teachings of Peter, John and James, who were
the chief spokesman during those periods following the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
With these activities there became for the entity questions,
with some of the Apostles, in that the entity, Philas, used
the position to which he had been appointed, as a means for
social relationships with the various groups of women, the
girls that were a part of the activities through those
particular periods. These brought questionings. They also
brought into the experience of the entity some of those very
conditions that are a part of the entity's present experience
- as to the sincerity of purposes in the oaths taken and the
living up to same, because of seeming negligence on the part
of either or both concerned in the marital relationships.
Hence the entity is meeting its own self in the present.
In some groups there was not just the one factor but rather
a questioning as there had been among many of those in the
early church, in portions of the land from which the entity
came; as In Laodicea, Thyatira, as in all of those where
there were the mixed relationships of Greeks, Romans, Jews,
Syrophenicians or the followers of the eastern tenets of
those peoples as to their relationship with the opposite sex.
These, then, are the problems to be met. These were the
problems causing the questionings, rather than the honesty
or sincerity in which the entity as Philas administered the
contributions. The greater disturbance arose after the
martyrdom of Stephen. This drew the entity closer and closer
to the needs of the people, but because of the persecution
many of the groups were scattered throughout the various
lands and the entity returned to its own land; becoming
engaged in those activities that brought about a greater
contribution. For the entity was engaged in the tilling of
the soil, the usage of teachings or tenets of both the old
and new dispensations, as well as the legends of the East.
We would continue later.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See
3344-1.
REPORTS
7/21/44 See
3344-3, a mental-spiritual reading.
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