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In Search of Christian
Mysticism
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Before discussing Christian Mysticism the concept of Mysticism itself
must be understood. The whole discussion of Mysticism precludes first;
belief in a non-physical existence and second; belief in a Deity; a
singular all encompassing force as being the source and impetus of all
that is and the guiding force of all. This unseen force and its
principles are the mysteries. |
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In principle, the various sects of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and
many others exist because of the mystical tradition that brought
them into being. From the aboriginal people who inhabit the jungles to
the Western church going people, their mystical and religious
activities are predicated upon a belief in a non-physical power that
governs or at least influences their physical existence.
Ironically, the most difficult people to speak to on the subject of
Christian Mysticism is Christians. In some sects of Christianity
anything that is not according to the dictates of their specific
church is often attributed to evil or Satan, case closed,
leaving very little room for any open discussion about anything to do
with Mysticism.
Also, there is no point
in belaboring the letters of the words of the Bible because they should
be accepted as true - without the perpetual scholarly weighing of
every letter of what are essentially translations from very, very,
very dead languages (except Greek). No translation can or will be
absolutely true to the original. Anyone who can speak more than one
language will attest that some concepts do not translate into other
languages very well or at all.
The belaboring over the
letters of the words vs. the spirit of the words" has brought nothing
but wars, disputes, schisms, and general strife because of self
appointed "experts" or authorities of every era. In spite of the best
efforts made to distort it's contents, the Bible still contains
unfathomable wisdom.
In principle it can be agreed that everything that is essential and necessary is contained in the Bible,
the finer details of which remain perceivable only to the "pure of heart."
But, to presume that the Bible is all that there is and can be; that
it is all that God has to say and has nothing more to say is to
imply that God is static and has been so ever since the council of Nicea when our
current version of the Holy Bible got its final edit.
This implies that we puny human beings have presumed ourselves to be
more alive and vital than God. Would arrogant be a good word to
describe this attitude? We who are essentially physically finite often
presume to comprehend the infinite.
Furthermore, if there were so many prophets in the old testaments how
could there have been none (non accepted or officially recognized) in the
time since the New Testament. There have definitely been many false prophets so
before accepting anyone's work as being genuinely prophetic it is wise
to cold bloodedly examine and proceed with skepticism and caution.
Biblical apologetics are tedious and numerous and are by definition non-prophetic works so why waste time on them.
The genuine works of the prophetic although
unknown to most never really go out of print even after hundreds of years.
We believe that
Paracelsus, Bardon, Eckartshausen, Lorber and
Robert Fludd are excellent examples
of prophets that have not been recognized as such.
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Different
Aspects of Mysticism that have been Vilified. |
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At the core of all
mysticism from all cultures and beliefs there are some fundamental
similarities and these lay at the core of Mysticism. At its core
mysticism has to do with "mysteries." Mysteries are a set of esoteric
principles that govern existence, the personal implementation of which
theoretically produce an effect in the physical world and lead to
ultimate
"enlightenment." The term "enlightenment,"
"becoming one" or "self spiritual realization" from the perspective
of Christian Mysticism is the much talked about "spiritual rebirth"
or as Christ put it, "being born again." This enlightenment or rebirth is
by its very definition a very personal experience, which permits
communion with the higher self - the rebirth (reawakening) of the Spirit or the Divinity within.
These are really all the same thing. In Christian terms it means
becoming one with God or becoming one with Christ or being Christ like.
Along with this the normal faculties are expanded to include
clairvoyance, clairaudience which are the ability to see and hear the
activity in the astral world i.e. the beyond. Through these abilities
one would also be able to know other peoples true intentions. Some
might consider this to be an evil. Others might consider this to be an
awesome responsibility.
Note: (The acceptance of
Christ as the Savior is merely a prerequisite to being a Christian
believer. No one can be "born
again" simply because they have embodied this belief. Many who
verbally embody this belief and would still gladly kill for their
King, Queen or country or, act legally but immorally,
among many other similarly unchristian things, while still being
disciplined church goers have missed the point of
Christianity. They are still asleep in
their spirit and therefore not at all "born again," in spite
of the ravings of their misguided preachers.)
With this accomplishment
there are no more mysteries because, as stated in the above
Biblical
quotation, their veil would have been lifted from their
senses. Because what was previously a mystery is now consciously known
- the mystery no longer exists for those reborn in spirit or the one that
"walks with God."
This
"lifting of the veil" can be compared to a door
opening into an entirely new awareness and consequent new abilities. To a child who can
barely count it would be futile to talk about the subject of
calculus. However, as the same child grows and learns first to count and
then learns arithmetic, mathematics and eventually calculus, the mystery
surrounding the calculus is gone, and that person can now work with
the calculus and even teach others. Being understood, the "mystery" of
calculus is gone, "the veil has been lifted." Although accurate, this example is weak compared
to a spiritual unfolding.
In every culture there
are spiritual beliefs and traditions. In fact, there are no cultures
to be found without them. All have a form of mysticism the
basic ingredients of which are very similar. Some very primitive and
some more mature. To discuss the
similarities and differences is an academic exercise that need not be
done here as it has been done exhaustively by many others.
But, as all
cultures ascribe their mystical tradition to a predecessor in the form
of a prophet of some sort and, as all "prophets" identify with a
singular Deity or force, it is safe to assume that the source or message of all
mysticism was at some point the same. Time eroded or even
changed some of the
initial pure luster of the initial inspiration and gave birth to the many heathenistic or pagan cults.
Note:
It should be noted that the false beliefs that arose out of the true
original beliefs were predicated upon the people believing the truth
of the initial inspirations. In other words the false beliefs rely on
the truth in the true beliefs in order to mislead people who would not
think for themselves. Example: If someone is trusted because of their
position of authority to tell the truth, that person can knowingly
tell 9 truthful things and deliberately make a false 10th statement
that sounds plausible. The odds are that the single false statement
will be believed on the merit of the other 9 statements having been
true. In this way corruption of the truth sets in and proceeds to
devour the whole truth.
Make no
mistake about it, even the many Christian religious sects preoccupied with their own
particular ceremonies, idolatry etc., have become by definition
"heathen." They worship physical things more than the God that
inspired them. Having become preoccupied with the "all importance"
of their own particular dogmas and worship to the exclusion of all
others, they have missed the point of Christianity and in some cases
are the modern day equivalent of the Biblical Pharisees. (Definition:
Pharisee - "Separatists, who by the opinion of their own godliness,
despised all others." - from the writings of Paracelsus)
According to the
New Revelation the ancient priesthoods in an effort to produce wealth
took the original doctrines of Adam and created out of the main attributes
of God and the forces in nature many false deities. The idea being
that rather than making a singular monetary offering, the people having been falsely educated to believe in multiple deities, would
now make multiple
offerings increasing revenues for the priesthood exponentially - as in
a franchise. The
personification of the mythical gods, Apollo, Mercury, Mars, Pan, Vulcan, Aphrodite and so
on were borne out of this deceptive concept. Out of this paganism was born.
(The many saints of the Catholic church were created for the same
reasons. Out of this grew yet another form of Christian heathendom.
Salvation is only through Christ, not the various church created
saints and false saints.)
The only distinction to
be made in Christian Mysticism over all others is that it is the most
recent incarnation of the original mystical teachings and therefore
less distorted - not to be confused with the dogmas of Christian
churches.
The Christian churches
often reflect only a very, very dim Mysticism, which can be witnessed by any
common person in the monotonous, empty and repetitive ceremonies that
teach nothing but subservience through ignorance and sometimes superstition. The
churches give just enough information to either foster a belief to keep
people coming back or to tie people to their church through the
exclusive monopolizing of what are perceived as essential institutions
of life such as baptism, marriage, last rights, confession, tithing,
and other mandatory ceremonial obligations etc., but never enough to
actually guide someone towards enlightenment or the rebirth of the
spirit freeing them of their church.
The mysteries themselves
are a set of universal laws that when personally understood and
applied, should in time, produce a transformation. Very much like electricity when
applied to a piece of simple iron will produce a magnetic field that
was only latent but not apparent before hand. An intrinsic hidden quality
awakens. (Same as light from a light bulb.)
The natural sciences can
also be described in terms of mysticism without becoming far fetched
or degenerate into superstition. There are many unseen natural forces,
for instance, in our visible world in order for a chair to exist -
someone has had to physically craft it from raw materials. If we can
accept this, then, in order to be, the plants that grow all around us in
creation must be similarly assembled with purposeful intelligence out
of the ingredients of creation by beings unseen to a purely physically
minded human being. At the very least, a guiding power must be
acknowledged as the guiding force in this process. The concept that plants
and animals are constantly and consistently being assembled in a
predictable and orderly manner according to what seems like a preset blueprint;
the
blueprint of one species differing from that of another species,
should be enough to convince most that something greater than us is
acting on everything.
For someone who has had
second sight (clairvoyance) from birth or acquired through rebirth or the mysteries,
the activity around plants is plainly visible. Only a purely
physically minded person would argue that this is fantasy, opting
instead for the man made idea that it is the genetics of the plant
that governs its growth. Where did the genetics come from. Will a
chair will itself to make itself? If it does, why didn't it just make
a pile of wood to sit on before becoming a chair? How did it know that
it wanted to be a chair? Etc. Etc. Etc.
Even though Christians
will readily believe and accept that there are angelic beings doing
the "Lord's work," and that there is spiritual activity in
existence, what do they think the angelic beings do; sit around
floating on clouds all day? When it is suggested that angels actually
do work and have activities that are necessary to life itself, it
seems inconceivable. They
seem to think that all angels do is dress up in long flowing gowns and
wield a sword to fight evil all day long. We who life on Earth, which
is a living hell at times, do not spend all of our time fighting evil
because even though it is ever-present it is not always "in our
face" and therefore we can devote our time to other necessary
tasks. There is an entire infinity to look after!
Out of the activities of
the invisible beings of nature have come the myths and legends of the
plant fairies, wood nymphs, leprechauns, centaurs, satyrs etc.
Although these are not angelic beings per se, they are the lower
servants of actual angelic beings into who's charge Nature is placed.
By extension they are also the servants of human beings if the human
beings are at a high enough level of maturity. Humans can subdue
nature through their subservience rather than by physically destroying
nature as is currently being done.
In
Paganism (idol worship) it is these lower type of forces/qualities/beings that are being worshiped. The
deification of natural forces is foolish to any thinking person because
natural forces are subordinate to the Creator, His angelic beings
and also to human beings that are mature of spirit.
Why worship a lesser force when with the same effort one can worship
the Most High. Pagans can not consciously move the natural forces on their own
which means they actually do not understand them either. Most of the time
they themselves do not know what it is that they are actually
worshipping. If they only knew the damage they were doing to their souls by
exposing themselves to the lower vibrations of these lesser beings - they
would not do it. To know and understand that these things exist is one
thing, but to actively worship them is another. It would be like
worshiping a stapler, a automobile, a computer, or computer program
even though these are inanimate objects.
Furthermore, the Druids
which are often and wrongly associated with Paganism have actually nothing to do
with Paganism. The Druid priesthood were actually very highly evolved
spiritually minded human beings that actively practiced the highest mysteries. They practiced
among other things Runic Kabbalah. They were in fact the Nordic keepers of the Sacred
Mysteries. In order to know and use the Kabbalah
the Druids had to have been acquainted with Hermetics. In other words they
were true Mystics and Christian in principle. Druidism degraded into Paganism in time.
As previously mentioned,
in Christian Mysticism
the forces of Nature are controlled by the angelic beings. Things do
not just happen! Their
guidance is absolutely necessary to manage the progression,
the uplifting and purification of all life towards God. Universal principles
are realized through a tradition of self abnegation and inner
discipline. In this context
Franz Bardon and his work are
very accurate, genuinely prophetic, Christian and not contradictory to the spirit of
the Bible. These are the mysteries precisely and practically
explained. The Bible remains incomprehensible in many ways without the
understanding of the sacred mysteries. Strangely enough, the modern day Christian may consider this work to be
pagan, while the modern pagan may consider it to be too monotheistic
and Christian. An odd paradox among seemingly opposing groups.
Physical matter is made up of
the substance of the fallen
beings and is called specifica over which the angelic beings preside.
Hence, this substance has life and intelligence and by virtue of this
it is predictable and controllable while remaining subordinate. The reason for the
subordinate level of this substance is that it might experience and
learn humility. This very concept will sound strange to anyone with a
"Sunday school attitude." Volumes can be written on this topic. This is a topic
seldom addressed but is of great importance and of great significance,
relevance and
interest in Christian Mysticism. It is this physical matter itself that
provokes and tempts (Sin) because it is
the substance of
Lucifer.
In many ways modern
Christian Worship is not much better than heathendom as they often have more reverence
for their particular religious sect, edifice, ceremony or religious trinkets
than the God they purport to worship by them. The very idea of
worshiping in an edifice made "holy" by unclean human beings
who presume godliness is in
itself heathenistic. How can a building supposedly blessed by
imperfect humans capture, force or compel the presence of God within it.
Those who congregate therein believing this are responsible for their
being duped. Although God is in the presence in any group of two who
beseech Him - an organized congregation is not absolutely necessary.
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The Only
Church Recognized by God |
The only church
recognized by God in the
New Revelation is the one in one's own heart.
It provides the only sanctuary where a person can commune with
God/Christ privately, intimately, meaningfully and personally. This,
and this
only is
what makes Christianity Christian through the crucifixion of the Lord
Jesus Christ- not the institutions. The
institutions of Christianity can only present an external model
gravitating on the maturity of the individual, but
can not control or mold the purity of one's heart. This is the duty of
a Christian and the purpose of Christian Mysticism. If you can
struggle successfully against these monumental odds you earn your way to becoming
a child of God.
Because the mysteries, as
a set of universal principles, laws or rules can be quantified
(described) (See
Franz Bardon,
Jakob Lorber,
Karl von Eckartshausen,
Paracelsus), the purity of the mystical practices from one belief system to another can be compared
qualitatively by what they yield. Out of these differences come the
different cultures. Cultures are the extension of the core beliefs of
their people or of what they worship. (cult means to worship)
If they worship money, nature, clothing, building, materialism,
debauchery, thievery, the love of filth, the love of war,
sex, music, love or God it is predominant in the culture. There can be
cultures within cultures and all cultures clearly differ. They differ
qualitatively but not necessarily quantitatively. For instance, houses
or shelters exist in all cultures, they are built out of essentially
the same materials wood, stone, brick etc, but they are built
distinctly differently with entirely different character reflecting cultural differences. The houses
themselves are quantitative their
designs are qualitative.
When a predominant belief
born out of indigenous spiritual philosophies (mysticism) manifests materially
on a large scale it creates the various cultures and societies of the
world. Some have achieved greater degrees of measurable maturity
while others have not. All be it material, some have achieved more, others less. This
manifestation is an out-growth of their core beliefs. Therefore
because cultures reflect their spiritual beliefs externally they can
be compared. To argue whether
one culture is better than another is not the issue. The question is
one of spiritual maturity. We in the West
have set a materially high standard that is being adopted by others as they
mature. Even though
the Christian world is far from
perfect, many like what it has to offer materially. It would
seem that many in the rest of the world would rather live by the
standards set by the Christian world when compared to their own.
However, the present Christian world does not live by a Christian
standard any longer. It is more and more being dominated by the old testament of laws and
materialism not the New Testament of Love.
The mysteries
have a quantitative and a qualitative component and effect. To put it differently
the quantitative aspect is mystic, the qualitative aspect is magic - to
the western mind. Do
not assume that by magic is meant a simple slight of hand deception or
direct evil.
Magic is simply the successful implementation of something mystic – a mystery -
with a loving, selfless intent for the good of all. A manifest miracle
is magic, that is to say, a law of God consciously implemented for the
sake of love. Should the intent
be selfish the Magic becomes Sorcery. Sorcery is therefore
unchristian. The universal principles themselves are at all times neutral and universal,
our free will being either
for or against God or our fellow man determines whether the outcome is
a blessing or a curse to humanity. Many things fall into this category
-witness some of our technology.
Christian Mysticism was
brought into the world by Jesus Christ – instead of a prophet. The
difference being that a prophet is a human being dedicated,
subordinate and willfully subservient to the Deity – Christ is the
Wisdom of the Deity itself incarnate. Therefore Christian
mysticism is directly from God and is the purest form of mysticism
because it is at once the most direct, the simplest and the most
personally demanding. Christian Mysticism is also universal as is very
clear in the work of
Franz Bardon,
Jakob Lorber,
Karl von Eckartshausen, and
Paracelsus. |
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Common
Symbols Associated with Mystical Christianity
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