Musings (long)

[tribunalofmercy]

This one may be controversial (?)…I’m going to put it in the Christian forum because it Belongs here, though Truth belongs to All.

Some people come at spirituality from a logical view, one of Higher Reasoning, while others come at it from a more right-brained way of thinking. Both are correct, as we are beings of Two Minds, both hemispheres coming into play as we struggle for Balance…this has affected how we perceive Many things, “including” religion, God, and all-things-unseen-and-hitherto-unknowable.

I find a Significance in the incarnation of Christ, whom I do call Jesus; it is Important to understand how this affects those who Truly have come to “experience” the Reality of Him – not the Church experience; not the typical “Christian” experience, for so many of those who wear the name “Christian” follow a path of Rules, Traditions and Practices while remaining ignorant of the Truth of Love; of the God behind the Man (Christ); and of the Man behind the Teachings.

Frankly, being raised Christian in my Own human life would have done Nothing for me, had I not been directly called by God; Church was a painful, confusing experience for me and those who represented “Christians” in my life are Greatly lacking in those things I consider so Very fundamental – compassion, love, and a Christ-like manner. But God Did call, and the thing that has made life so Easy for me, is that

I Fell In Love With God. (I mean, really – what’s not to like??)

I’d like to express something by example and hope to be successful: In America we have a President. And I see him on the television, and hear him talking, and I read about him, and hear a Lot of people talking about him, but
I don’t know him Personally. So from a human point of view, it’s hard to imagine “loving” him, you know? Even though he Is the President. Even though I know a lot About him…I don’t Know Him. And my country is not one that has embraced “blind obedience”, so perhaps that would help you understand what I mean. (We truly Love “everyone” only when we learn we are Loved, in a way transcending human understanding of the word; it is Quite a Limited term for us yet)

If I “just” found out about the Source/All and did not have much of a spiritual background, even if I were a Right-brained, magical thinker, it might be Difficult to have a great Desire to “be closer” to that Source, or to truly Get to Know the Universe, etc. I am an intellectual, so the Idea of cosmic knowledge appeals to me greatly…but it’s not the same as having Love, and Desiring all that Love would Give me.

It has been said, “It’s better to have loved and Lost, than never to have loved at All”…some would disagree with this, of course. Lol It has also been said, “It’s better (for us) if we don’t Know what we’re missing.” …maybe. But once we DO know what we’re missing, and it’s Good…boy, do we MISS it.

I am female here, and Jesus incarnated as Male, so that's part of my thinking, I guess…but it’s more than that; he gave me a Deep understanding of an actual Relationship I never found with another Person, teaching me about Unconditional Love so that I could Offer it to Others, because it had first been given to Me; a Real Person to start with, even though God is So not a “person”. For me it has been a Concrete experience that would later become an all-encompassing Idea, a Bigger Picture, one I could reach for inside myself and keep Giving from, over and over.

…I said All That, to say that Jesus actually did a Pretty Good Thing for people when he came down here as an actual Person, because there was just something About him that inspired people to LOVE, in a different way that just Intellectually. Or, just because it involved something Better than we Had at the moment. It wasn’t like romance, you know, because those he was closest to were Friends…yet they could See him as a Man, one who Loved in a New way – they Loved him, and understood about God in a way that gave them Great Desire to Reach for those things that they had yet to understand fully.

The Church was never Meant to be the Beast that it turned out to be, ruled by Petty, Greedy, Power-Hungry men who kept the Truth held Tightly to them, not even Understanding it but by All means, not wanting Others to find out what it was all about…it was Free; freely given, free to receive, part of a promise that explained who we all are Anyway, and what the Universe and God is all About…then everyone would find out they were Equal, each part of the Whole, and what fun would THAT be?? What Horrible things MAN has done, through the centuries, in the name of Fear and Control.

“God” has Always been about Love, in Every religion, in Every culture – our Higher Self, our Best Self, our Connected Self, reaching out from and to Each of us in the way that WE would best understand, offering us All the tools necessary to grow and evolve over time until we could See God better…God never meant “himself” to be Unknowable. Unreachable. Unattainable.

It’s never been About that. My path here, for the remainder of my time on Earth is to Be "Love", as it was given to Me; to See Truth, from Every angle; to REVEAL; to share with others, as opportunities arise, so that Everyone knows to come Boldly before the “throne” of Truth, for the proverbial ‘veil’ was torn a Long, long time ago – even before Christ: WE created the veil to keep Truth Out, and Truth will no longer be kept away.

And, that’s long enough. Lol

Love and Wisdom,

Mary Anne

[lionl]

Wisdom Indeed Mary Anne.

[gruntal]

I don't know if the post was all that controversial. A more unconventional plot suggests the Great Masters invented the Jesus myth to satisfy contemporary human needs for a messiah. We needed a hero just like arguably some Americans need their current president - the big "O" - to assume that role. Now that could start an argument !

Remember when the ancient Israelites wanted a king so badly and Jehova said they didn't need a king when they had prophets and the Jews made such a ruckus Jehova annointed one to be their king against His better judgement?

The Rosicrucians teach the Messiah will not be a discrete individual but a concept each and every person will embrace internally. But what exactly is a messiah anyway?

In that respect it is inexorably tied in with the church and religion that promulgated it and that of course is the Jewish religion. Hence like the ancient Hebrews modern Christians feel obligated to build houses of worship and publish dogmas to point people in the right direction.

I agree that unconditional love is the ultimate answer but that also entails total forgiveness and who is capable of all that? And yet who would you put on a pedestal that lacked that very quality? Where would you find such a person?

At some level I guess we all create monsters to do our bidding when there is a job to be done. The church is no exception. We will never know how many priests and pastors lost the faith but kept on with the charity. Because the results were exactly the same rather you believed or not.

It is more fun though, isn't it, when you can actually feel it deep inside. It makes people jealous. A few have it and then everybody wants it. I guess that is how it starts.

[tribunalofmercy]

I like it.

Yes, I suppose we need a Messiah for the same reason we latch on to superheroes...we feel we are Missing something, deep down, or we desire someone to Save us, etc. And somehow we keep giving all these "superbeings" that we create, Human qualities because we both Want them to be someone/something we can actually Be like, one day, and/or we "know" somewhere deep down, that we ARE those superheroes...but how do we Become them? Ah, the dilemma.

Christ as a Collective Idea might be controversial indeed...and yet that is how I have been taught (by Them) about Sarasvati, and I Understand the concept, gruntal; when I was coming along in life, "God" (or Jesus) kept Manifesting to me in one form or the other, kinda like Morgan Freeman would appear to Joan of Arcadia...This person, or That person, but she would quickly Know it was still "God"...

And I thought it was All "God", until I found out about all the Collective Beings out there who Speak to us, taking the form of those we most closely Identify with, if it serves the purpose of Teaching us and bringing us closer to the All (now who's being controversial? lol) So I Understood that I was visited and spoken to by Many, but I did not learn it until this year.

I can't imagine Not being "in love with God", even though I Know now what "God" is; Everything, yes; All, energy, perfection, etc - however we choose to identify with 'God', it is still a concept I have been immersed in, as being Love. In that way I cannot help myself, and if this causes other people to Want it too, so much the better; unlike with our human bondings, I am not jealous of "God"s relationship with Anyone else, because there is Plenty to go around. Willing, waiting....