Ours is a Religion of Transitoriness
Ours is a religion of transitoriness. Whether we are playing the game of religion or not, everything is in a state of TRANSITORINESS--nothing is what it is for more that the moment that it is, and then it is GONE. Something
else, something new, takes its place on the potter's wheel. We all depend upon this quality of changingness that is the flowing crest of "now." It is grace.
Perhaps you have heard of Jesus. Jesus bar Nun, that is, Moses' sidekick, Joshua. This is, in fact, the same Jesus who was written about in the New Testament. Jesus has been known about for a long, long time--long before James, Paul and Mark ever got into him. Moses himself wrote of meeting Jesus while pondering jethro and then spending the rest of his life with him, but that is another story.
I like Victor Alexander's definition of the nature of Jesus: "the Life-Giving, Living Branch" (Mark 1: 1 note; Victor Alexander translation). A life-giving, living branch re-sprouts in perpetuity," which is the meaning of Nun. These are expressions of the same characteristic of God's nature: Life that out-flows in constant creation. This is the action of God. The power and the wisdom of God who is this action is Christ, the Messiah.
There is a corollary to constant creation, however, and it is that there has to be constant elimination of the old present to make room for the new present. What flows in must also flow out--if there is a spout, there has to be a drain, else we'd be up to our chins in manifestation in no time!
Most Christians know that 'Jesus' means God's Salvation, though they don't know why (I believe it actually means God Saving [God is doer of the verb; see Bullinger note on Genesis 32: 28, Israel, The Companion Bible] but that also is another story: we are looking at transitoriness here.) In the mystical conceptualization, the second part of Jesus, Shua, has to do with consuming, devouring something until it is gone, destroyed. That is the mode of our salvation: the present is gone, eliminated, destroyed moment by moment. It is TOTALLY forgotten. Unless you bring it up again.
This is why repentance is so essential to salvation: we have to CHANGE our out-flow. If we ask for forgiveness, it is given, for that is the nature of transitoriness: the past doesn't exist. But if we keep producing an immature, unlike-God present from our own consciousness, our salvation profits us nothing. Our past is still in our consciousness, and that is our present: we haven't gone anywhere.
Genuine repentance comes from seeing the Glory of God IN US like Adam did in the Garden or Moses did on Horeb. Yes, I am kind of alone in thinking that Adam was saved in what people think was the "fall," but it was, in my mind at least, the same event as Moses' burning bush encounter with God--just Moses wanted to distance himself from it a bit. Adam, the Life of God who was Moses, found Christ, the Imagining of God, within himself. "Your mission, Mr. Moses, if you should choose to accept it, will be to confront your ignorance to let my people Israel--my ruling in and through your consciousness--go. And you shall come and serve me here, on the mount: YOUR IMAGINATION."
The antediluvian fathers are stages to serving God as Noah, as Abraham, as Isaac, as Israel and as Joseph, who brought forth Jesus. Historical people? Maybe. But what do they speak to you and I? "Let my people go."
Huh?
Perhaps you have heard of Jesus. Jesus bar Nun, that is, Moses' sidekick, Joshua. This is, in fact, the same Jesus who was written about in the New Testament. Jesus has been known about for a long, long time--long before James, Paul and Mark ever got into him. Moses himself wrote of meeting Jesus while pondering jethro and then spending the rest of his life with him, but that is another story.
I like Victor Alexander's definition of the nature of Jesus: "the Life-Giving, Living Branch" (Mark 1: 1 note; Victor Alexander translation). A life-giving, living branch re-sprouts in perpetuity," which is the meaning of Nun. These are expressions of the same characteristic of God's nature: Life that out-flows in constant creation. This is the action of God. The power and the wisdom of God who is this action is Christ, the Messiah.
There is a corollary to constant creation, however, and it is that there has to be constant elimination of the old present to make room for the new present. What flows in must also flow out--if there is a spout, there has to be a drain, else we'd be up to our chins in manifestation in no time!
Most Christians know that 'Jesus' means God's Salvation, though they don't know why (I believe it actually means God Saving [God is doer of the verb; see Bullinger note on Genesis 32: 28, Israel, The Companion Bible] but that also is another story: we are looking at transitoriness here.) In the mystical conceptualization, the second part of Jesus, Shua, has to do with consuming, devouring something until it is gone, destroyed. That is the mode of our salvation: the present is gone, eliminated, destroyed moment by moment. It is TOTALLY forgotten. Unless you bring it up again.
This is why repentance is so essential to salvation: we have to CHANGE our out-flow. If we ask for forgiveness, it is given, for that is the nature of transitoriness: the past doesn't exist. But if we keep producing an immature, unlike-God present from our own consciousness, our salvation profits us nothing. Our past is still in our consciousness, and that is our present: we haven't gone anywhere.
Genuine repentance comes from seeing the Glory of God IN US like Adam did in the Garden or Moses did on Horeb. Yes, I am kind of alone in thinking that Adam was saved in what people think was the "fall," but it was, in my mind at least, the same event as Moses' burning bush encounter with God--just Moses wanted to distance himself from it a bit. Adam, the Life of God who was Moses, found Christ, the Imagining of God, within himself. "Your mission, Mr. Moses, if you should choose to accept it, will be to confront your ignorance to let my people Israel--my ruling in and through your consciousness--go. And you shall come and serve me here, on the mount: YOUR IMAGINATION."
The antediluvian fathers are stages to serving God as Noah, as Abraham, as Isaac, as Israel and as Joseph, who brought forth Jesus. Historical people? Maybe. But what do they speak to you and I? "Let my people go."
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