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'''John the Beloved''' was the closest disciple of [[Jesus]] the Christ. He authored the [[Book of Revelation]], which was dictated by Jesus, “sent and signified by [[Angel of the Revelation of John the Divine|his angel]].” He who best understood the mystical teachings of the Christ ascended at the close of that embodiment, the only one of the twelve apostles to do so.  

John embodied the full person of the Christ Self, and unless this had been true, Jesus would not have created that relationship, because Mary was Mother in the archetypal sense of Universal Mother—she embodied the Mother flame. When Jesus called John her son, he was speaking not just in the physical sense but also in the universal sense of the Son of God, the Son of the Divine Mother, whose representative she was.

John stayed in Jerusalem for some time during the persecutions following Jesus’ resurrection. After the martyrdom of Peter and [[Saint Paul|Paul]], John settled in Ephesus, the greatest city of Asia Minor, where Paul had centered his missionary activities. There is a tradition, which is confirmed by Tertullian and Jerome, that during the reign of Domitian, John was taken to Rome where an attempt to put him to death in a cauldron of boiling oil was miraculously thwarted. (This is the test of fire that was also faced by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.<ref>Dan. 3:20–26.</ref>) He emerged from the cauldron unharmed and was then banished to the island of Patmos. Here he received and recorded the Book of Revelation.  

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