In the 7th Century the Spanish Catholic Church interpolated the Latin world 'filique' into the universally accepted Christian creed. Filoque means "from the son" and its addition to the creed rendered it as "I believe... in the Holy Spirit... who proceeds from the Father and from the Son." This blatant interpolation was opposed by the Popes for about the next 300 years, though it was very much promoted by Charlemagne in the 9th Century.

To raise the Son to a parity with the Father so shocked the Church that the Son did not receive such 'official' deification until 1015 AD when that dogma was finally accepted in Rome. The Eastern Church considered the filoque doctrine to be heretical, and broke away from the Western Church, calling itself the Orthodox Christian Church. It now includes Orthodox Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Earlier in the 4th Century the creed had changed from "I believe in the resurrection of the Spirit" to "..resurrection of the body".

Even the Lord's Prayer was not exempt from meddling. The earliest recorded version of this prayer (AD 64) exists in Greek, and the adjectives ( ) meaning super-substantial or spiritual, has long been omitted. This "Give us this day our spiritual bread" has become "Give us this day our daily bread".

If you think that is shocking, you should see what the scribes and translators have done to the Buddha's teachings. Yet all this fits in with the Divine plan. 'God' is not something to be taught, but something to be experienced directly for oneself.

We are not ignorant peasants back in the dark ages and beyond, but those of us who cling to faith according to what other men wrote hundreds and thousands of years ago have a very tenuous hold on truth. Second hand knowledge is a confession of ignorance.

Ashrams, temples and churches are to be used for the expression of genuine love - places where Love and Peace can be manifested outwardly only after they have been experienced inwardly.

Jesus of Nazareth came as a World Teacher not to establish institutions or books that take you away from inner knowledge, but to bring you a living example of personal commitment, personal remembrance, and personal prayer and meditation to reconnect you with the Mind of God. He is the physical and spiritual reminder that each one of us must turn within to find his or her own Divine connection with the Source of all life and consciousness.

Today we have many physical and spiritual teachers but if they are not tuned into the Higher nature themselves, you must seek elsewhere. There are, indeed, some teachers of Light to whom you will be drawn, but their purpose is not to form an institution for their own glorification. Their only teaching function is to free us from such bondage and return to us the power of God within so that we recognise and use it to bring Peace, Love and Light to this, our Planet.

For this you were created.