The Science of Spirit. Part 5
By: Seeker
You may be wondering what I meant in the previous post about an example of a new paradigm being hijacked. Those who have read earlier posts of mine should be able to guess to what I am referring.
The message of the Christ was of love and personal connection. Over and again he told us that salvation comes from oneself, from how we see and what we accept into our lives. And over and again he tells us the path is through only him, that the connection is to God from each individual. It is quite clear when you read it and it is hard to see him as meaning anything else other than what he said.
So what happened? Well, it seems, although those times are a little murky a difficult to see due to time passed and the destruction of the evidence, that for the first few decades, the message was passed out via the apostles and disciples that salvation was available. The Gnostics maintain it is through knowledge, that one needs to find their path with open eyes and learn as one travels the harder road. Mystics throughout the ages have said much the same thing.
But what has come down from those times to the mainstream societies is something wildly different. Now the message is we need an intermediary, a person of authority to stand between us and salvation, to accept our confessions and grant us absolution, to explain in precise detail just which laws we need to follow to ensure that when we get to those Pearly Gates we will be allowed access.
And if you fail in even the slightest way to obey every command or even wish of the Authority, you get to burn forever in a Hell never even mentioned by the Christ.
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