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Sowing Angel by Armand Cambon

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       To find all of the seven last words of Jesus Christ, one must read all the gospels since none of the authors records all 7 last words.  The sayings would have been originally uttered by Jesus in the Aramaic language, but only one of the last seven words of Jesus is preserved for us in the original Aramaic, namely “Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani” or “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me,” which is actually a direct quote of the opening verse of Psalm 22.  The rest of the seven last words of Jesus  are found in the gospels after having been translated into Greek by the four Evangelists.  ….Seven Last Words of Christ has been used extensively in sacred music, notably by composers such as Franz Josef Hayden.  For centuries these seven last words of Jesus have been also used as meditation.  (paraphrased from Crossroads Initiative.com)

       Corinne Heline changes the sequence of the last two words, putting the last as sixth and the sixth as last.  She also writes an entirely different fourth word, giving us: My God, my God, how hast thou glorified me!   New Age Bible Interpretation, vol 5, page 185,

       The Rosicrucian Fellowship’s “official” version of the Bible, The King James Version, provides those “words” given above.  An excellent Bible reference website link to bookmark:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html

Although Max Heindel called attention to mis-translations or inaccuracies in the Bible, in Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures, page 330, he gives us his thoughts with regard to its great importance in our spiritual evolution.

       The Great Recording Angels who have charge of our present evolution give to each nation the religion suited to its stage of growth, and we may rest assured that those Great Intelligences make no mistakes. They have given to us the Bible containing both the Jewish and the Christian Religions. One would not have been enough, both are absolutely necessary to our evolution as we shall see when we consider the matter thoroughly. When we have done that we shall also find that of all the religious systems in the world, this is positively the only one suited to the needs of the Western World, the only one which is capable of making us “wise into salvation” and enable us to “enter into” the “new heaven and the new earth”; the coming age and the coming race.  

       With confusion among our esteemed experts and countless and varied translations of the Holy Bible, we can each only work towards a finer discrimination, the attainment of a faculty which will give us a keener insight, and the freedom to use this sharper focus in the work of His kingdom.