By definition a
mystery in the religious sense is something incomprehensible to normal
human cognizance because of the non-physical or purely spiritual
nature or significance of something, placing it beyond the reach of
the normal physical senses or what is familiar to us in our physical
experiences. Or, something unexplainable to what are commonly accepted
physical laws and experience.
Religious beliefs are just that, beliefs. Religion is a conviction
based on a non-physical premise the evidence of which is usually to be
found in what have become regarded as sacred texts. These cannot be
proven using conventional physical proofs, which is why they can be
deliberately misinterpreted, twisted and distorted and still be
believed.
The fact that
people have a belief at all suggests that that belief must have an
existence and that existence must have a place, otherwise it could not
exist. If the belief is non-physical then the place of the belief is
non-physical. This non-physical place has been designated
instinctively and historically as the beyond or some other spiritual
realm. Consequently the term "Metaphysics" is born which
literally means beyond (meta) the physical. Or, the term
"supernatural" which literally means above (super) physical
nature.
Pretty
innocent beginning to what is regarded as evil or even Satanic by some
Christian sects.
The yearning or
pursuit of things non-physical and their effects upon the physical is
where the mystery starts. The crucial question remains; when one is
searching for something, how does one know that they have found it?
Because we live
in a spiritually dark world where we are always forced to evaluate and
compare truth from falsehood, light from dark - Christianity offers
Love as a the guiding light in ones pursuit into matters of the soul
and spirit.
Having said this, it is truly odd that the sincere pursuit of proof of
this knowledge is considered by Christian sects to be
categorically evil.
No one has the
right to prevent a human being from searching for the truth of things,
especially as it pertains to the Creator and His Creation. Some will
say that that is what science is for. Physical science measures and
quantifies but it often has no explanation why, it just knows that
there is a certain effect when there is a specific action.
All or most
Christian religions have historically prevented or prohibited
Christians from delving deeply into Christianity on their own.
Christian religions depend on Christianity for their existence, but Christianity
does not need or depend on religion. Christ said that "He alone is
the way," He made no mention of any religion. He did not
stipulate that one must be Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, or even
Mormon etc. to find the truth. He did not die for a
religious cause. He died to lift all of physical creation out of its
darkness since the fall of Lucifer and thereby bringing us, as human beings, closer to Him. If Christ himself made no such prohibitions, who then is to say where
a person shall or shall not ask, seek, or knock in order to find their
way through life and to God. Therefore, "no one has the right to prevent
or stand in the way of a human
being from searching for the truth of things."
Of course their
are pitfalls; the world is full of falsehood which is usually to be
found in the highest places (in those who do not want you to be
searching).
In the end we can only find truth in our own
hearts and through our own experience never through the
borrowed or even well meaning experience of others. It is the journey that makes us what we
are. Just as parents cannot expect their children to fully mature
under their constant protection, God gives us life to be free beings
under the guidance of the example of Love that He has set forth as
Jesus Christ.
Those who had
found their way towards the Divine Light are always and intentionally obscured and maligned by history
because their light would reveal the darkness.
Furthermore, God
is the All in All, which is as much as to say that all possible
possibilities in order to exist must exist within God. The mysteries
are part of God or they could not be. They are perhaps the most
essential part of God. The part that is used to maintain Creation.
This part is reserved for His children, those wise enough and strong
enough to strive towards Gods light instead of the false light of the
worldly wise.
