stevestory
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CabalSeptember 23, 2016 at 12:36 pm
Asauber, I think I can answer your question. I trust science. I believe that is a more reliable attitude than putting all your money on ancient myths. There are interesting things to be derived from the myths, but in my opinion, Christendom has lost the key to unlocking the true meaning of the myths. Fundamentalism won the war and the victors wrote the history.
Church fathers complained about the Gnostics but in the end they managed to get rid of them. To the loss of all of us.
Esoteric wisdom, but it isn’t lost, it just is not vogue right now.
I’ve spent a lifetime – am 86 now, on the study of religions and science and have it all worked out. But I do not proselytize. If they prefer literal interpretation instead of understandig the hidden message it’s okay wih me. It’s their loss. Jesus spoke in parables, have his words (presuming there actually ever existed a genuine, historical Jesus) been decoded into plain language?
I read the message as: follow me, take up your cross, and carry it to Calvary, die with me and rise as a Christ. Like St. Paul who wrote a lot about just that. Strage that the Gnsotics claimed Pauls as one of their own teachers! I’ve always been intrigued by the obvious mysticism found in his writings.
It should not be too difficult to see throught the veil and discover the mysticism lurking under the surface of the letters of scripture.
Religion is about life in the here and now – that’s the “eternal” life. The symbols of death and resurrection should not be interpreted in a literal manner; they are symbols for you to integrate into your life. We are gods, but we don’t know it. |
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