This is a lovely piece, Hal. I see the Christ in everyone. Love. Not the kind of love taught by this world, whose ruler here is hate. The kind of love that is a force, not an emotion that comes and goes. It is the force of Christ. I wish everyone could find a way to treat each other better, too. That will never happen until a spiritual growing up takes place. Good vs evil or Love vs hate, if you will. That is the thing that lies beneath the things we see and do. The Unseen spiritual realms drives what goes on within ourselves and our world. The vast majority refuse to see it in real life, they ridicule it, make fun of it, but they eagerly lap it up in the movies and song. There will be a spiritual awakening, Jesus' has promised. He says "The time of the Spirit will come. I will pull you out of the mud to separate the children of Love from the children of hate." This is what I pray for so the children of Love can truly live again--uniting the Divine with humanity through Love and be free--at long last--free.
Thanks for your response, Carolyn. While I don't necessarily see the spark of divinity as "The Christ" in my way of labeling things, it isn't far from my gnostic theist tendancies. The term we tend to use is "The Monad" from which "The Pleroma" with its pairs of Aeons emanating therefrom. The belief that this world is a kind of imprisonment of the shards of the Monad within an illusory world created by a demiurge that believes itself to be supreme and "The One" misguidedly resonated with me.
If you haven't yet had an encounter with the Baba Lovers of the world, I hope you'll take in what they have to say also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba - I know that I only know how things seem to me. I could be mistaken. This all keeps me in mind of "The Seeker" - onward!
PS - I so appreciate you actually engaging with the content of my post. That is the rarest act of generosity here on Substack, I find.
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Have a scroll down to the end though…thanks!
This is a lovely piece, Hal. I see the Christ in everyone. Love. Not the kind of love taught by this world, whose ruler here is hate. The kind of love that is a force, not an emotion that comes and goes. It is the force of Christ. I wish everyone could find a way to treat each other better, too. That will never happen until a spiritual growing up takes place. Good vs evil or Love vs hate, if you will. That is the thing that lies beneath the things we see and do. The Unseen spiritual realms drives what goes on within ourselves and our world. The vast majority refuse to see it in real life, they ridicule it, make fun of it, but they eagerly lap it up in the movies and song. There will be a spiritual awakening, Jesus' has promised. He says "The time of the Spirit will come. I will pull you out of the mud to separate the children of Love from the children of hate." This is what I pray for so the children of Love can truly live again--uniting the Divine with humanity through Love and be free--at long last--free.
"..on earth as it is in Heaven..."💜
Thanks for your response, Carolyn. While I don't necessarily see the spark of divinity as "The Christ" in my way of labeling things, it isn't far from my gnostic theist tendancies. The term we tend to use is "The Monad" from which "The Pleroma" with its pairs of Aeons emanating therefrom. The belief that this world is a kind of imprisonment of the shards of the Monad within an illusory world created by a demiurge that believes itself to be supreme and "The One" misguidedly resonated with me.
If you haven't yet had an encounter with the Baba Lovers of the world, I hope you'll take in what they have to say also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba - I know that I only know how things seem to me. I could be mistaken. This all keeps me in mind of "The Seeker" - onward!
PS - I so appreciate you actually engaging with the content of my post. That is the rarest act of generosity here on Substack, I find.
Also I love the word you always use. For me? It gives me room to remain steadfast when things don’t seem all that Hunky Dory. Onward! lol!
Hal, thank you for your response. I will check it out, the Baba Lovers. I love to learn!!!