What is meant by "keeping the commandments"? "Keeping the commandments" is commanding, controlling and directing every thought according to the harmonious law of love to one another. "The Father abiding in me doeth his works." What is the natural effect of "abiding in the Word"? The natural effect of "abiding in the Word" is to liberate the forces of one's Being through which perfection is attained, and to cease from external efforts. What is meant by "abiding in the Word"? The "abiding in the Word" is a conscious centering of the Mind in the depths of one's being, thus keeping up connection with the Father within. How is the consciousness cleansed? The Consciousness is cleansed through building in the substance of true words and eliminating false words. ![]() What in consciousness does the "branch" and "fruit" symbolize? The "branch" symbolizes the faculties of Mind, and 'the "fruit" the thought. The perfect expression of the ideas of the Christ Mind is the "true vine." What in consciousness does the "husbandman" and the "true vine" referred to in this lesson represent? The "husbandman" is the Father, the Christ Mind. 15:17These things I command you, that ye may love one another. 15:16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 15:15No longer do I call you servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you. 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you. 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 15:11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.ġ5:12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. ![]() 15:9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. 15:8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit and so shall ye be my disciples. 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. ![]() ![]() 15:6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. 15:3Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Metaphysical Bible Interpretation of John Chapter 15 Metaphysically Interpreting John 15:1-17ġ5:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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