Prefatory Note: This was written in response to a question: what I want others to know about where I am coming from. It is also a sermon of sorts, every word being pondered over in the Spirit.
I am a NOT, a neither this nor that. I am NOT a Christian, yet believe Jesu (as Christe) – by whatever name: Barbelo; Son of the Great Father, Babelu; Gate of G-d, Al Maisan; The Shinning One, etc. – has always walked among us; as Emanuel, G-d with us, even as when with Adam in the Garden (as the Torah reveals a teaching). And on any given day He may be disguised as one near to you sharing a message both personal and transcending our religions, disturbing and amazing us. And whether as a man or woman, an Angel or a cloud of light, or a voice as like a whisper from an unknown source, He wants to be introduced to you. And from that day forward you need never feel alone nor sweat the appearances of things. Cleave only to love, let go of all else, and you shall know and be known by G-d.
In Spirit and Truth
“… in Exodus 34 verse 6 when Moses has his most intimate view of God we see only goodness. Merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth.” ~Andrew Moore
Notice that these “seeings” of the Divine are rasa’s, or ” felt-meanings” rather than bounded forms of recognizable dimension or extension (material objects or energy manifestations). Spirit belongs to the invisible “non local” realm and it’s relationship to manifest existence is revealed in the rasa’s of relationship. These felt-meanings are the life-breath of spiritual Presence. Notice too that all the above rasa’s are “good” qualities and foster unifying relationships in a boundary-less intimacy, whereas the common, less “positive” rasa’s would suggest a lack of unity in relationship and require physical/spacial separation to reflect our spiritual-emotional estrangement with the divine Unity – Alaha in Aramaic.
The premise I am working toward here is that to worship “in Spirit and Truth” we must contemplate the noble rasa’s of love-light and joy-without-reason, until we literally dissolve or are enfolded within their unifying power. Being thus assimilated, G-d, the essence of Life, is our pure food, our manna, and our true Life is eternal, unbounded by space or time. We must simultaneously dismiss all negativity, especially of fear, anger and doubt, by turning it over to G-d and letting go completely, again and again if necessary.
All that appears not as love and its kindred spirits is simply excrement of sorts, to be released and recycled in the “bottomless pit” (of the “implicate order”). In Hebrew, “hell” is Gehena, which means garbage dump. It is as a mulching pit where all that is no longer useful for life’s sustenance decays and is turned to fertilizer for new growth. We need not concern ourselves with fighting the garbage of our lives, simply surrender it and move on to purer ground. There lies faith.
It can’t get much simpler, yet it is a moment to moment, not a one-time act or confession I am recommending as there is a certain momentum that is desirable if we truly seek freedom and knowledge and wish to pass beyond the emptiness, the no man’s land, which lacking discernable and familiar structure can feel like an abandonment to the lover, which the mystics have called a dark night, of indeterminate duration, and some (like Eckhart) with a more intellectual detachment have accepted this as the truth of our being – an annihilation. Beyond the passing away of the small self however, there is a Person waiting to receive you as in a mirror of exquisite delight. (Then the journey truly begins I am told.)
Wrath, Law, Jealousy etc have been cut out of the equation through the work of Christ.
God's plan for creation is for it to resonate with the beauty of heaven. ~Andrew Moore
When I do have occasion to speak to people about living loving and joyous lives - living from the Spirit, rather than the senses - it becomes quite apparent that they do not want to give up, self righteousness, anger, judgment, condemnation, etc. Christians by and large are no exception. Neither theology nor debate can save us from this grayish-dark side of our humanity. Perhaps we must first hit bottom.
This is not a conversation people want to have and one I do not force. I do recognize the addictive and habitual nature of these reactive responses and the seductive allure of rationalizing them or avoiding them. What I do not appreciate is that people set their sights no higher than to fit themselves in an accommodation with the attributes of their lower nature and taking what solaces they can in sharing their predicament with others who “identify with” them. Jesu also challenged us… even to “be perfect even as the Father is perfect”. What can seem more impossible than that? Yet we need not lose hope; G-d lets us “chunk it down.”
“Attributes can be understood as spirits or Angels, and can be placed within the context of a cosmology of multiple heavens.” ~Andrew Moore
It is noticeable that the “spirits” which govern our lives are not the Holy Spirit. Though we may invoke the Sprit of G-d in church to heal us of our conditions, it is also too often evident that we are not surrendered to the fire of its purification. We love our drama, our special ness and positionality, above holy relationship and G-d holds our free will to be inviolate.
And within the majesty of G-d, the so-called wrath of G-d is not a Divine doing; it is a thing we bring upon ourselves in our abandonment of Truth. And the fear of G-d is discarded in love. That G-d should be other than goodness, Jesu in so many ways rejected, without denying the evil that men do… even if it were in the name of the LORD as some scriptures suggest.
Yet the Law called LORD, * the true and incomparable Law of wondrous workings as the heart-mind of G-d – YHVH – does allow us to dig our own grave, or rise to heights as the gods (elohim) we are - being in the image of God; Elohim (Genesis 3:5). It is all within the power of the un-conflicted heart to reason (by way of beauty) and speak (by way of love-desire) into being. This is called “the will of the heart”. We all have this saba ana, this unchallenged “desire power” as Jesu once said when He was asked to heal. Though we may wish to take no responsibility, our own divine inheritance, our lineage, will not deny the power of its own word (logos). Only the “obscuring emotions”, the baser rasa’s, triggered by constructed and inherited memory programs of “sin” (our mistakes) keep us from our regal home in the heavens (too ouranou), and making the very space around us now a dwelling for the reign of the Holy Spirit, our Queen (malkuta shemaya).
And Jesu in modeling our nature for us, parenting us, did not abuse the power of G-d to fight human battles as when throwing out the moneychangers from the Temple or even to prevent his own crucifixion. He summoned forth no knighthood of Angelic hosts to fight his own fight. Toward such events he approached as a man and struggled as a man alone. He invoked the power of G-d only to glorify G-d in direct service to others, affirming G-d’s Oneness as being a plurality in Unity with Himself (YHVH Elohim). Thus we are given the Golden Rule; for we are all within one another, within Christ, within G-d.
Such is the example He set forth for us and bid us to do even greater things than He, for Christ is now multiplied through us. His story continues through us, for we are given power to bind and lose, within the Spirit of Wisdom our mother, who reveals the Father in the Son, and ourselves as second generation Adam, children of adoption in Christ’s eternity, a thing hidden in the folds of time since the foundation of the world.
“God 'is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity.” Habbukuk 1:13
If we wish to draw closer to G-d’s stately grace and maternal mercy we must come to see with G-d’s vision; see only love, speak only love and find our joy in the love itself. This does not mean to be busy with things religious or “drip” on people with a “bleeding heart”, or presume a posture of martyrdom. It means to “walk the talk”. And if maintaining this love-light, within a hero’s heart, were our only discipline, in time, we would come to know a great storehouse of the blessedness of G-d, be justified in the faith of G-d, and be no more in bondage to the limitations of the world.
Note * see the blog “The Reign of Heaven.
© Arjay 2009, All rights reserved.
I am a NOT, a neither this nor that. I am NOT a Christian, yet believe Jesu (as Christe) – by whatever name: Barbelo; Son of the Great Father, Babelu; Gate of G-d, Al Maisan; The Shinning One, etc. – has always walked among us; as Emanuel, G-d with us, even as when with Adam in the Garden (as the Torah reveals a teaching). And on any given day He may be disguised as one near to you sharing a message both personal and transcending our religions, disturbing and amazing us. And whether as a man or woman, an Angel or a cloud of light, or a voice as like a whisper from an unknown source, He wants to be introduced to you. And from that day forward you need never feel alone nor sweat the appearances of things. Cleave only to love, let go of all else, and you shall know and be known by G-d.
In Spirit and Truth
“… in Exodus 34 verse 6 when Moses has his most intimate view of God we see only goodness. Merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth.” ~Andrew Moore
Notice that these “seeings” of the Divine are rasa’s, or ” felt-meanings” rather than bounded forms of recognizable dimension or extension (material objects or energy manifestations). Spirit belongs to the invisible “non local” realm and it’s relationship to manifest existence is revealed in the rasa’s of relationship. These felt-meanings are the life-breath of spiritual Presence. Notice too that all the above rasa’s are “good” qualities and foster unifying relationships in a boundary-less intimacy, whereas the common, less “positive” rasa’s would suggest a lack of unity in relationship and require physical/spacial separation to reflect our spiritual-emotional estrangement with the divine Unity – Alaha in Aramaic.
The premise I am working toward here is that to worship “in Spirit and Truth” we must contemplate the noble rasa’s of love-light and joy-without-reason, until we literally dissolve or are enfolded within their unifying power. Being thus assimilated, G-d, the essence of Life, is our pure food, our manna, and our true Life is eternal, unbounded by space or time. We must simultaneously dismiss all negativity, especially of fear, anger and doubt, by turning it over to G-d and letting go completely, again and again if necessary.
All that appears not as love and its kindred spirits is simply excrement of sorts, to be released and recycled in the “bottomless pit” (of the “implicate order”). In Hebrew, “hell” is Gehena, which means garbage dump. It is as a mulching pit where all that is no longer useful for life’s sustenance decays and is turned to fertilizer for new growth. We need not concern ourselves with fighting the garbage of our lives, simply surrender it and move on to purer ground. There lies faith.
It can’t get much simpler, yet it is a moment to moment, not a one-time act or confession I am recommending as there is a certain momentum that is desirable if we truly seek freedom and knowledge and wish to pass beyond the emptiness, the no man’s land, which lacking discernable and familiar structure can feel like an abandonment to the lover, which the mystics have called a dark night, of indeterminate duration, and some (like Eckhart) with a more intellectual detachment have accepted this as the truth of our being – an annihilation. Beyond the passing away of the small self however, there is a Person waiting to receive you as in a mirror of exquisite delight. (Then the journey truly begins I am told.)
Wrath, Law, Jealousy etc have been cut out of the equation through the work of Christ.
God's plan for creation is for it to resonate with the beauty of heaven. ~Andrew Moore
When I do have occasion to speak to people about living loving and joyous lives - living from the Spirit, rather than the senses - it becomes quite apparent that they do not want to give up, self righteousness, anger, judgment, condemnation, etc. Christians by and large are no exception. Neither theology nor debate can save us from this grayish-dark side of our humanity. Perhaps we must first hit bottom.
This is not a conversation people want to have and one I do not force. I do recognize the addictive and habitual nature of these reactive responses and the seductive allure of rationalizing them or avoiding them. What I do not appreciate is that people set their sights no higher than to fit themselves in an accommodation with the attributes of their lower nature and taking what solaces they can in sharing their predicament with others who “identify with” them. Jesu also challenged us… even to “be perfect even as the Father is perfect”. What can seem more impossible than that? Yet we need not lose hope; G-d lets us “chunk it down.”
“Attributes can be understood as spirits or Angels, and can be placed within the context of a cosmology of multiple heavens.” ~Andrew Moore
It is noticeable that the “spirits” which govern our lives are not the Holy Spirit. Though we may invoke the Sprit of G-d in church to heal us of our conditions, it is also too often evident that we are not surrendered to the fire of its purification. We love our drama, our special ness and positionality, above holy relationship and G-d holds our free will to be inviolate.
And within the majesty of G-d, the so-called wrath of G-d is not a Divine doing; it is a thing we bring upon ourselves in our abandonment of Truth. And the fear of G-d is discarded in love. That G-d should be other than goodness, Jesu in so many ways rejected, without denying the evil that men do… even if it were in the name of the LORD as some scriptures suggest.
Yet the Law called LORD, * the true and incomparable Law of wondrous workings as the heart-mind of G-d – YHVH – does allow us to dig our own grave, or rise to heights as the gods (elohim) we are - being in the image of God; Elohim (Genesis 3:5). It is all within the power of the un-conflicted heart to reason (by way of beauty) and speak (by way of love-desire) into being. This is called “the will of the heart”. We all have this saba ana, this unchallenged “desire power” as Jesu once said when He was asked to heal. Though we may wish to take no responsibility, our own divine inheritance, our lineage, will not deny the power of its own word (logos). Only the “obscuring emotions”, the baser rasa’s, triggered by constructed and inherited memory programs of “sin” (our mistakes) keep us from our regal home in the heavens (too ouranou), and making the very space around us now a dwelling for the reign of the Holy Spirit, our Queen (malkuta shemaya).
And Jesu in modeling our nature for us, parenting us, did not abuse the power of G-d to fight human battles as when throwing out the moneychangers from the Temple or even to prevent his own crucifixion. He summoned forth no knighthood of Angelic hosts to fight his own fight. Toward such events he approached as a man and struggled as a man alone. He invoked the power of G-d only to glorify G-d in direct service to others, affirming G-d’s Oneness as being a plurality in Unity with Himself (YHVH Elohim). Thus we are given the Golden Rule; for we are all within one another, within Christ, within G-d.
Such is the example He set forth for us and bid us to do even greater things than He, for Christ is now multiplied through us. His story continues through us, for we are given power to bind and lose, within the Spirit of Wisdom our mother, who reveals the Father in the Son, and ourselves as second generation Adam, children of adoption in Christ’s eternity, a thing hidden in the folds of time since the foundation of the world.
“God 'is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity.” Habbukuk 1:13
If we wish to draw closer to G-d’s stately grace and maternal mercy we must come to see with G-d’s vision; see only love, speak only love and find our joy in the love itself. This does not mean to be busy with things religious or “drip” on people with a “bleeding heart”, or presume a posture of martyrdom. It means to “walk the talk”. And if maintaining this love-light, within a hero’s heart, were our only discipline, in time, we would come to know a great storehouse of the blessedness of G-d, be justified in the faith of G-d, and be no more in bondage to the limitations of the world.
Note * see the blog “The Reign of Heaven.
© Arjay 2009, All rights reserved.
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