Shock and Dismay in the Gospel of Mark and the Great Jewish Pentecostal Robbery
You might not have considered that the author of the Gospel of Mark was an Indian Therapeute, a Buddhist missionary. I am convinced and thoroughly believe it. I believe Mark was a perceptive, scholarly philosopher/teacher who had traveled through the fertile crescent from India to Alexandria in Egypt. Through his travels he became well versed in the beliefs of all these lands and was himself refined by them.
His being refined by them is key. Mark's experience with all these religions and philosophies gave him a depth of understanding and spiritual awareness that allowed him to perceive the intent of the symbolic illustrations found in the Hebrew Scriptures. What revelation! What knowledge culled in! In the heart, the inner man is Jesus Christ--God! Born ignorant of his Godhood, he--in every man, woman and child--is destined to be verily the functioning of the Ineffable in form!
For Mark, this was the realization of Buddha in man. We are all locked into the destiny proscribed by the Beginning: "My God shall be Me." And we (the Heavens and the Earth) are God becoming Him. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God . . . for of him and through him and to him are all things: to Whom be Glory for ever. Amen" (Romans 11: 33-36).
By the time we reach thirty years old or so, we should be well on our way to spiritual maturity. And Mark had met the likes of John the Baptist and Jacob, whom we call James, spiritual giants who were moving their congregations into that maturity. But imagine Mark's shock and dismay when he encountered the dualistic thinking literal-historical camp of the Jews: the priests, Pharisees, and scribes. What!? You people do not understand your own scriptures? How can you be sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--allegories each of your inner man--if you do not know that God--Jesus your Messiah--is IN you, AS you?
The Book of Mark is Mark's account of the great Jewish Pentecostal robbery. The Jews, in my opinion, are supposed to be full on tongue-speaking Pentecostals. The meditative experiences formative to awareness of their oneness with God--Advaita--of their BEING God--were lost to the prevailing ignorance of their leaders' dualistic world view--the worldview we all are born with. Their formulated synagogue services became prescriptive ritual activities, and have been for centuries.
However, I cannot blame a person who does not believe in non-dualism for not teaching it well. How can one preach and lead a group in the worship of a God he (or she) does not believe in, a God he has never even heard of? It does not help that the discovery of our oneness with God, wherein one is humbled to repent and to receive a conscience, is singled out as an encounter with a deceiving Adversary.
There certainly is an adversary, and it is our ignorance. Let's overcome it by learning of God and learning to do his works--fixing this world by our spiritual facilities in cooperation with his. The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes (king-dom is the quality of nature that makes a king). We can presume God's attitudes to be positive--we are going to succeed in the Promise! Everything wrong is going to be made right. Every hunger for right is going to be appeased. Let's think like Him continuously and imagine the best for all.
His being refined by them is key. Mark's experience with all these religions and philosophies gave him a depth of understanding and spiritual awareness that allowed him to perceive the intent of the symbolic illustrations found in the Hebrew Scriptures. What revelation! What knowledge culled in! In the heart, the inner man is Jesus Christ--God! Born ignorant of his Godhood, he--in every man, woman and child--is destined to be verily the functioning of the Ineffable in form!
For Mark, this was the realization of Buddha in man. We are all locked into the destiny proscribed by the Beginning: "My God shall be Me." And we (the Heavens and the Earth) are God becoming Him. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God . . . for of him and through him and to him are all things: to Whom be Glory for ever. Amen" (Romans 11: 33-36).
By the time we reach thirty years old or so, we should be well on our way to spiritual maturity. And Mark had met the likes of John the Baptist and Jacob, whom we call James, spiritual giants who were moving their congregations into that maturity. But imagine Mark's shock and dismay when he encountered the dualistic thinking literal-historical camp of the Jews: the priests, Pharisees, and scribes. What!? You people do not understand your own scriptures? How can you be sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--allegories each of your inner man--if you do not know that God--Jesus your Messiah--is IN you, AS you?
The Book of Mark is Mark's account of the great Jewish Pentecostal robbery. The Jews, in my opinion, are supposed to be full on tongue-speaking Pentecostals. The meditative experiences formative to awareness of their oneness with God--Advaita--of their BEING God--were lost to the prevailing ignorance of their leaders' dualistic world view--the worldview we all are born with. Their formulated synagogue services became prescriptive ritual activities, and have been for centuries.
However, I cannot blame a person who does not believe in non-dualism for not teaching it well. How can one preach and lead a group in the worship of a God he (or she) does not believe in, a God he has never even heard of? It does not help that the discovery of our oneness with God, wherein one is humbled to repent and to receive a conscience, is singled out as an encounter with a deceiving Adversary.
There certainly is an adversary, and it is our ignorance. Let's overcome it by learning of God and learning to do his works--fixing this world by our spiritual facilities in cooperation with his. The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes (king-dom is the quality of nature that makes a king). We can presume God's attitudes to be positive--we are going to succeed in the Promise! Everything wrong is going to be made right. Every hunger for right is going to be appeased. Let's think like Him continuously and imagine the best for all.
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