The Sage of Aquarius: A Centennial Study of the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

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Robert M. Price. The Sage of Aquarius: A Centennial Study of the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

Introduction: Aquarian Evangel

Chapter One: The Aquarian Theology

Chapter Two: Akashic Anachronisms

Chapter Three: Features Shared with Early Christian Apocrypha

Chapter Four: Midrashic Rewriting of the Gospels

Chapter Five: Glosses on the Canonical Gospels

Chapter Six: Aquarian Parables

The Notes

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The Fate of the Mustard Seed

In what is probably the earliest gospel, Mark, we find a parable that has provided the focus of much scholarly scrutiny for some nineteen centuries. It is the parable of the Mustard Seed. Here it is: "And he said, ‘How may we liken the kingdom of God? Or in what parable may we place it? As a grain of mustard which, when one sows it on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth, but, once it germinates, comes up and becomes greater than all the herbs and makes great branches so that the birds of the sky are able to find lodging in its shadow’" (Mark 4:30-32). One of the most influential interpretations of the parable is that it was meant to provide encouragement and comfort in the face of disappointed expectations. It presupposes that Jesus has been proclaiming, predicting, the impending end of the world as we know it, the dawn of a new world of salvation. And many have flocked to his banner, eager to leave the clinging bands of the old order behind: debts, aches and pains, political domination, etc. But it has been a while and the sky has not rolled up like a window shade. The angels have not carried the judgment throne of the Almighty to earth to convene court. Satan has not been bound and cast into the bottomless shaft. In short, despite some admittedly exciting faith healings, things continue to go on, in the same old circles as before. Disciples are beginning to wonder. Are they the avant garde of a new age, or merely one more eccentric sect? If this is the presupposed scenario, the point of the parable would seem to be to urge Jesus’ followers not to give up hope. The impressive growth of the mustard plant will not occur without a preliminary period of planting the seed and waiting for it to sprout. And during that time, it seems a watched pot that will never boil. But Jesus assures his hearers that it will. The world that his sectarian followers cherish in the kingdom of their minds will break forth, inescapably, unambiguously, in due time. Rome was not built in a day, and it will take more than a day for it to fall.

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my soul.” (71:4-7.)

“And when he rises to the plane

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