Mark 7:1-23: The Scribes and Pharisees

Mark 7:1-23
1. Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem (the mind).

2. Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread (the Solar Christic Force) with defiled, that is, unwashed hands (for still having ego), they found fault (because they only see the straw in someone else's eye).

3. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way (if they do not do things according to their absurd and lunar mechanical customs), holding the tradition of the elders (but in a superficial way).

4. When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things (spiritual practices) which they have received and hold (mechanically, without Understanding: Binah), like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.

5. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the (gnostic) tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?";

6. He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as (gnostic) doctrines the commandments of men.'

8. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men --- the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such (spiritual) things you do (and yet they are all in vain because you do not truly do them for your Inner God)."

9. He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God (in your three brains, with fanaticism, gossip and mystical pride), that you may keep your (mechanical habitual gnostic) tradition.

10. "For Moses said, 'Honor your (Inner) father and mother'; and 'He who curses (their Inner) father or mother (through wrongdoing, even unto others), let him be put to (the Second) death.'

11. "But you say, 'If a man says to his (Inner) father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me (whether it is from my Consciousness or my filthy ego) is Corban"---' (that is, a gift to God);

12. "And you no longer let him do anything (of conscious value) for his (Inner) father or his (Inner) mother,

13. "Making the word (Chokmah, the Christ) of God of no effect (in your three brains) through your (mechanical lunar gnostic) tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."

14. When He had called all the multitude (parts of the Being) to Himself, He said to them, "Hear Me (through your Chakra Vishudda), everyone, and understand:

15. "There is nothing that enters a man from outside (through impressions) which can defile him (if he has comprehension); but the things which come out of him (through false speech), those are the things that defile a man.

16. "If anyone has (awakened spiritual) ears to hear, let him hear!"

17. When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples (Twelve Autonomous Self-conscious Parts of the Being) asked Him (the Internal Christ) concerning the parable.

18. So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding (Binah, the Holy Spirit of Kundalini) also? Do you not (consciously) perceive that whatever enters a man from outside (through impressions) cannot defile him,

19. "Because it does not enter his heart but his (mental) stomach (which we need to create), and is eliminated (through comprehension in psychoanalytical meditation), thus purifying all foods (impressions)?

20. And He said, "What comes out of a man (the adulteration of the word), that defiles a man.

21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22. (spiritual) Thefts, (spiritual) covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye (to neighbors), blasphemy, (mystical) pride, foolishness.

23. "All these evil things come from within and defile a man."