Personal Religion and the Mess of Truth (the Son is not Separate)--YOU are Responsible for Your Own Theology!
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it" (popular paraphrase of Spanish philosopher George Santayana; original below).
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill
From "Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It" Really?:
"According to Santayana's philosophy, history repeats. . . if it is true and if history, driven by human nature, is ugly (hint: it is), then this saying ought to guide our public and private policy. . . But, it doesn’t really have any power. Why? History shows that both those who do not learn history and those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it. If it's also true that those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it, then the saying doesn't really add anything at all."
That is a very big 'if.' It is presumptuous to believe that any particular person has actually learned from history, especially with all the evidence that those who presumably have learned and should know better demonstrably do not.
In any case, it remains that THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR HISTORY AND LEARN FROM IT ARE DOOMED, CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT. So we have to address the question: WHAT HISTORY HAVE WE NOT LEARNED FOR WHICH WE ARE NOW CONDEMNED AND REPEATING?
I want to present to you one of the premier and most important books, I believe, of religion in general, Judaism, and Christianity. Of the thousands of books I have touched in the last forty-four years, this is the numero-uno keeper: Colonel J. Garnier's The Worship of the Dead, or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia (New and Cheaper Edition, London: Chapman and Hall. 1909. Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints). There are THREE links in that title, and I highly, highly, highly, recommend Kessinger's hardbound to anyone who is interested in the cause, history, spread, interrelationship, and errors of ancient and modern Pagan religions. It is a little pricey, but if you are a reader, a serious student and a thinker, you will appreciate the hardbound (and will probably wear the sucker out). THIS IS REAL HISTORY, OUR HISTORY TO REMEMBER AND LEARN FROM. The question is, IS IT ALSO OUR ERROR?
Originally published in 1904, Garnier traces the history of Pagan religion from the Deluge (what I call the Death) wherein all mankind, save eight, died. Ham begat Cush, and Cush begat Nimrod, and these last two with their wife, Nimrod's mother, dominated the land and were determined by religionists, long after their deaths, to have become gods. Hence, in all the Pagan religions these three dead are worshiped as God. These religions later became Catholicism, and Catholicism begat modern Christianity.
This is NOT what Paul and Mark intended. Mark presents Jesus as "the Life-giving, Living Branch" of God, His Anointing. The "Word" or Milta (Aramaic-Manifestation) of YHWH is a principle of His nature, which can no more become a man than time can walk out of a grandfather clock (Gerald Massey). But can the principles of God's nature manifest in man? Of course, and that was the whole idea of the Season of Grace! God was saying, "Here, these attitudes applied in experience are the way to manifest Me."
There were people in the Season of Grace who learned this Way, and Mark, I believe an Indian Buddhist missionary and a convert to the ancient Judaism of Moses (see Christian Lindtner's theory [CLT] and detractors Robert H. Countess and Burkhard Scherer), associated this Way with the way he had learned in Buddhism. Mark thus presented Gautama (Sakya Muni) representative of GOD'S ANOINTING UPON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN, wherein man realizes "Buddha," which means God. That the Gospel writers present Joseph, the son of Jacob, and Merriam, the sister of Moses, as the parents of Jesus should tell you that this seriously is NOT a secular history.
Jesus, this principle, is supposed to be our personal religion. The "Son" is not someone other than ourselves. He is everyone, YOU included! For we all are one Son Who became us in the Death. This is why I posted Emmet Fox's chapter, The Wonder Child. The Wonder Child is God's primal power of being's anointing IN US, in our own consciousness. Says Fox:
"But where, it will naturally be asked, is this wonderful, mystic Power (the Primal Power of Being) to be contacted? Where may we find it? and how is it brought into action? The answer is perfectly simple—This Power is to be found within your own consciousness, the last place that most people would look for it. Right within your own mentality there lies a source of energy stronger than electricity, more potent than high explosive; unlimited and inexhaustible. You only need to make conscious contact with this Power to set it working in your affairs; and all the marvelous results enumerated can be yours. This is the real meaning of such sayings in the Bible as 'The Kingdom of God is within you'; and 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all the rest shall be added.'
"This Indwelling Power, the Inner Light, or Spiritual Idea, is spoken of in the Bible as a child, and throughout the Scriptures the child symbolically always stands for this. Bible symbolism has its own beautiful logic, and just as the soul is always spoken of as a woman, so this, the Spiritual Idea that is born to the soul, is described as a child. The conscious discovery by you that you have this Power within you, and your determination to make use of it, is the birth of the child.
"The Bible directly and indirectly has a good deal to say on the subject of the birth and growth of the child, and what it can mean for us. One of the most significant pronouncements on this subject is given in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 9, verses 2, 6, and 7, and it will amply repay us to consider that statement in some detail.
"Isaiah says: 'The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.' This is a marvelous description of what happens when the Spiritual Idea, the child, is born to the soul" (emphases mine). Not as a god to be worshiped separate from us, but found in our person: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” & etc. per Fox, which see via link above.
My point is that worshiping and serving a separate risen and far away man with all the emotions of love, honor, and sentiments of piety (Garnier), even in his godhood, DOES NOTHING FOR US. That is Paganism! Chapter 17 (XVII) in Garnier, The Moral Aspect of Paganism, is worth the cost of the book alone (pages 356 and 357 are my favorite). What purchases for us spiritually is the manifestation of God's nature in us, the Life-giving, Living Branch--faith. Faith is thorough mental ASSUMPTION that what he has promised via the desire he has given, he is unquestionably able to perform to the degree that we assume that it is already DONE. This becomes our person, our mindset--our theology becomes our life. All the accolades in the world to him are nothing without this reality. Which reminds me of God’s standing orders according to Fenton's translation from the Greek:
Our Father in the Heavens (our consciousness),
Thy name (nature!!) must be being hallowed.
Thy kingdom (power amongst us) must be being restored.
Thy will (Manifestation) must be being done” (parentheses mine).
“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.” — Cynthia A. Patterson
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill
From "Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It" Really?:
"According to Santayana's philosophy, history repeats. . . if it is true and if history, driven by human nature, is ugly (hint: it is), then this saying ought to guide our public and private policy. . . But, it doesn’t really have any power. Why? History shows that both those who do not learn history and those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it. If it's also true that those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it, then the saying doesn't really add anything at all."
That is a very big 'if.' It is presumptuous to believe that any particular person has actually learned from history, especially with all the evidence that those who presumably have learned and should know better demonstrably do not.
In any case, it remains that THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR HISTORY AND LEARN FROM IT ARE DOOMED, CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT. So we have to address the question: WHAT HISTORY HAVE WE NOT LEARNED FOR WHICH WE ARE NOW CONDEMNED AND REPEATING?
I want to present to you one of the premier and most important books, I believe, of religion in general, Judaism, and Christianity. Of the thousands of books I have touched in the last forty-four years, this is the numero-uno keeper: Colonel J. Garnier's The Worship of the Dead, or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia (New and Cheaper Edition, London: Chapman and Hall. 1909. Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints). There are THREE links in that title, and I highly, highly, highly, recommend Kessinger's hardbound to anyone who is interested in the cause, history, spread, interrelationship, and errors of ancient and modern Pagan religions. It is a little pricey, but if you are a reader, a serious student and a thinker, you will appreciate the hardbound (and will probably wear the sucker out). THIS IS REAL HISTORY, OUR HISTORY TO REMEMBER AND LEARN FROM. The question is, IS IT ALSO OUR ERROR?
Originally published in 1904, Garnier traces the history of Pagan religion from the Deluge (what I call the Death) wherein all mankind, save eight, died. Ham begat Cush, and Cush begat Nimrod, and these last two with their wife, Nimrod's mother, dominated the land and were determined by religionists, long after their deaths, to have become gods. Hence, in all the Pagan religions these three dead are worshiped as God. These religions later became Catholicism, and Catholicism begat modern Christianity.
This is NOT what Paul and Mark intended. Mark presents Jesus as "the Life-giving, Living Branch" of God, His Anointing. The "Word" or Milta (Aramaic-Manifestation) of YHWH is a principle of His nature, which can no more become a man than time can walk out of a grandfather clock (Gerald Massey). But can the principles of God's nature manifest in man? Of course, and that was the whole idea of the Season of Grace! God was saying, "Here, these attitudes applied in experience are the way to manifest Me."
There were people in the Season of Grace who learned this Way, and Mark, I believe an Indian Buddhist missionary and a convert to the ancient Judaism of Moses (see Christian Lindtner's theory [CLT] and detractors Robert H. Countess and Burkhard Scherer), associated this Way with the way he had learned in Buddhism. Mark thus presented Gautama (Sakya Muni) representative of GOD'S ANOINTING UPON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN, wherein man realizes "Buddha," which means God. That the Gospel writers present Joseph, the son of Jacob, and Merriam, the sister of Moses, as the parents of Jesus should tell you that this seriously is NOT a secular history.
Jesus, this principle, is supposed to be our personal religion. The "Son" is not someone other than ourselves. He is everyone, YOU included! For we all are one Son Who became us in the Death. This is why I posted Emmet Fox's chapter, The Wonder Child. The Wonder Child is God's primal power of being's anointing IN US, in our own consciousness. Says Fox:
"But where, it will naturally be asked, is this wonderful, mystic Power (the Primal Power of Being) to be contacted? Where may we find it? and how is it brought into action? The answer is perfectly simple—This Power is to be found within your own consciousness, the last place that most people would look for it. Right within your own mentality there lies a source of energy stronger than electricity, more potent than high explosive; unlimited and inexhaustible. You only need to make conscious contact with this Power to set it working in your affairs; and all the marvelous results enumerated can be yours. This is the real meaning of such sayings in the Bible as 'The Kingdom of God is within you'; and 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all the rest shall be added.'
"This Indwelling Power, the Inner Light, or Spiritual Idea, is spoken of in the Bible as a child, and throughout the Scriptures the child symbolically always stands for this. Bible symbolism has its own beautiful logic, and just as the soul is always spoken of as a woman, so this, the Spiritual Idea that is born to the soul, is described as a child. The conscious discovery by you that you have this Power within you, and your determination to make use of it, is the birth of the child.
"The Bible directly and indirectly has a good deal to say on the subject of the birth and growth of the child, and what it can mean for us. One of the most significant pronouncements on this subject is given in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 9, verses 2, 6, and 7, and it will amply repay us to consider that statement in some detail.
"Isaiah says: 'The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.' This is a marvelous description of what happens when the Spiritual Idea, the child, is born to the soul" (emphases mine). Not as a god to be worshiped separate from us, but found in our person: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” & etc. per Fox, which see via link above.
My point is that worshiping and serving a separate risen and far away man with all the emotions of love, honor, and sentiments of piety (Garnier), even in his godhood, DOES NOTHING FOR US. That is Paganism! Chapter 17 (XVII) in Garnier, The Moral Aspect of Paganism, is worth the cost of the book alone (pages 356 and 357 are my favorite). What purchases for us spiritually is the manifestation of God's nature in us, the Life-giving, Living Branch--faith. Faith is thorough mental ASSUMPTION that what he has promised via the desire he has given, he is unquestionably able to perform to the degree that we assume that it is already DONE. This becomes our person, our mindset--our theology becomes our life. All the accolades in the world to him are nothing without this reality. Which reminds me of God’s standing orders according to Fenton's translation from the Greek:
Our Father in the Heavens (our consciousness),
Thy name (nature!!) must be being hallowed.
Thy kingdom (power amongst us) must be being restored.
Thy will (Manifestation) must be being done” (parentheses mine).
“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.” — Cynthia A. Patterson
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