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Christian Mysticism
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 fa�ade 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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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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