A
Christian Mystic is on a spiritual
journey towards unity and a new way of living. This is a compassionate
path
that recognizes and respects our diversity and
interconnectedness. A consciousness of unity gives a new concept
of life which helps form a new humanity on the individual and community
level for Christians and non-Christians. Unity transcends biological
evolution and starts spiritual evolution. Spiritual evolution is not
evolution with biological genes, but with ideas because they can
transform fear to joy and frustration to fullfillment.
Unity is love so emphasis on religious differences, race or intolerance
rather than the unity of God is a strange god indeed and can be a
challenge for us to overcome so we need to invoke the unity of God in
all things. This unity is an innocence that sees a fresh world in a new
way giving life, awareness, and ideas that love so kindness can replace judgement.
Without a doubt the mind of God is everywhere in pure consciousness and
in the individual consciousness of all living things. The spirit of God
is the principal partner in the human compound of body, mind and
spirit, but it is usually ignored because it does not come across as
the voice of authority especially to those who like things cut and
dried. Organized religion is the voice of authority and it can meddle,
tinker and mean well, but to break up old patterns of thought and
behavior, we need to open ourselves to new possibilities. With the
highest exercise of our intellect we know the purpose of our existence
and can proceed to live intelligently according to it, if we direct our
physical and mental activities to the pure consciousness of God. We
know we are on the right path because God's pure consciousness makes
cheerful
every action and person contacted. Once we are in touch with the spirit
within we can offer more to others, religion or the church.
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Christianity is reverent and alive if one listens to the
call from inside. The dull habit of preaching, giving sermons, patronizing,
condemning or judging others as insufficient is the ego talking about Christ,
not the religion of Christ. Descriptions about Jesus are not the spiritual
ideas Jesus described. The experience of joy and the supernatural enlightenment
of Christ is not about sins, hell or Satan, but the glorious energy of the
soul. A healer doesn’t rifle through the lives of others, but brings one from
the outer personality to the inner-self arousing one from immaturity and
prejudice to wholeness.
This solo mystical journey evolves from location to
position, from view to vision onward towards total understanding. It is passed
from mind to mind, a flame passed from candle to candle. There is nothing to
buy, join or donate. A Christian vision beyond personality opens the eye to a
new awareness, cultivating good qualities, internal clarity and introspection.
It encourages one to believe the truth that is experienced and not necessarily
to join. When one is tired of reading the menu, it is time for the inner
spiritual meal to be experienced, a deeper reality beyond the normal worldly
existence of guilt, pain and pleasure. Looking from the inside out the veil of
ideological and religious conflict is parted giving clues to unity and
wholeness.
Christian mysticism looks at the world from a different
angle giving meaning to life, not rejecting anything or waving a fist with
scorn and resentment. One does not have to point a finger when the experience
is direct because the power of Christ consciousness is accessible to provide
the means to love in every form, enjoying, not judging what is encountered.
These deeper understandings value love and see more to the physical world than
what is in it. These windows look out on the path we are traveling to our
destination, a spiritual experience that sooths the personality.
A consciousness focused on the core and
not the superficial façade or surface personality aligns the
personality with the soul. Watching the mind’s intentions for what they
are helps one to recognize a cold heart beneath polished and pleasing
words and good intentions behind an unwise approach. Consciousness has
the ability to seize the whole and not error in efforts to witness and
read human nature so it refuses to go along with any cruelty. The
surface of a thing is not the whole of it so Christian mysticism is the
discovery that there are depths beyond depths of truth.
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