With all of this evidence flowing out of the woodwork confirming his perfect order and providence, why should the Lord God Jesus Christ "be replaced?"
Isn't this just a simple example of how we are freely receiving and sharing more and more and more of His perfect, divine, benevolent order and providence?
Sorry to say "NO", but because I am among the "mathematically impaired" of this world, I find your "prime number" posts illustrations more of what you yourself are PERSONALLY interested in, rather than anything else.
From our many posts backwards and forwards, Frederick, I read you as a devotee of Jesus, filtered through Swedenborg, and with a dash of Dean Fagerstrom thrown in
for good measure. Is this correct?
I would invite you (and anybody else on the thread) to lay out:
-- what their spiritual/religious path is about
-- what is the nature of the spiritual/religous practice
followed?
In my own case, this is summarized in the essay below by
Adi Da:
From: THE ONLY COMPLETE WAY TO REALIZE THE UNBROKEN LIGHT OF REAL GOD
Part Three
The Heart-Summary Of Adidam
The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Avataric Divine Way of Adidam (Which is the One and Only by-Me-Revealed and by-Me-Given Way of the Heart) is the Way of Devotion to Me As the Divine "Atma-Murti" (or As the Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine, Person of Reality and Truth-In Place, As Self-Condition, rather than As exclusively Objective Other).
Therefore, in every moment, My true devotee whole bodily (and, thus, by means of the spontaneous Me-recognizing Devotional response of all four of the principal psycho-physical faculties-of attention, emotional feeling, breath, and perceptual body) "Locates" Me As That Which Is Always Already The Case (Prior to-but not separate from-the form, the exercise, and the any object of the four psycho-physical faculties).
Happiness Itself (or Inherent Love-Bliss-Sufficiency Of Being) Is Always Already The Case.
Happiness Itself (or the Divinely Self-Sufficient Love-Bliss-Condition Of Being-Itself) Is That Which Is Always Already The Case.
Happiness Itself (or Love-Bliss-Radiance Of Boundlessly Feeling Being) Is the Most Prior Condition Of Existence (or Of Conscious Being-Itself).
Happiness Itself (or the Condition Of Love-Bliss-Radiance) Must Be Realized-In and As every conditionally arising moment-By Transcending self-Contraction (or all of separate and separative self, or psycho-physical ego-"I", and all of the ego's objects, or conditions of existence-or, indeed, all of the illusions of self and not-self).
When attention is facing outward (or is turned out, as if to outside itself), the body-mind is concentrated upon the "view" (or "field") of apparently separate objects (and upon Me As Objective Other).
When attention is facing inward (or is turned in, as if upon itself), the body-mind is concentrated upon the "point of view" of apparently separate self (and upon Me As Separate Consciousness).
When attention is Devotionally Yielded to whole bodily "Locate" Me As That Which Is Always Already (and Divinely) The Case, all "difference" (whether of ego-"I" or of object and other) is (Inherently) Transcended (In Consciousness Itself, or Self-Existing Being, Which Is Love-Bliss-Happiness Itself-and Which Is Always Already The Case).
Therefore, to the degree that you surrender (whole bodily) to be and do truly relational (and ecstatic, or ego-transcending) Devotional love of Me (As the True Loved-One, the Divine Beloved of the heart), you are (Thus and Thereby) Established-whole bodily and Inherently-in the non-contracted Condition (or Self-Condition, or Inherent Condition) of Reality Itself (Which Is Consciousness Itself and Love-Bliss Itself-and Which Is Always Already The Case).
In due course, This Devotional Practice Is Perfect-and, at last, to Be Most Perfectly Realized.
I think that's a pretty concise description of both the
RATIONALE of a Spiritual path, as well as what one DOES in
that Spiritual path.
So Bill, Solon, Frederick, X, Mar$, can you lay out for the benefit of all, your parallel information?
Namaste!
Jim |
