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You're confusing cheap demons who demand blood - the life force - with the essence of creation.
No - it is you who are surrounding what is base 'magic' with ridiculous bullcrap and grandiose religiosity.
The god of the OT is a transparent laughable fraud!
Originally posted by PoorGrammar
Well in Hindu/Buddhism
So when one is perfrom a animal sacrificing ritual, what they are doing is saving that animal soul to be reborn as a HUMAN in that animal next life.
Being born as a Human again is consider a act of good deeds, Heaven is the next higher realm according to Hindu beliefs.
"He who is clean throw the first stone" and all that
Originally posted by dontreally
It's actually considered, according to kabbalistic logic, a mercy, that God allows man to amend spiritual faults through suffering here, because at least in this realm we have a spiritual flexibility i.e. the ego, to recognize fault and put ourselves on a new and better course, whereas when one dies, the ego dissipates and all that is left is a consciousness that experiences the forms it created while alive.
I read somewhere that early Jews did not have a firm view on life after death.
What you're describing for life after death sounds grim, but maybe I'm not getting it.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by cloudyday
I read somewhere that early Jews did not have a firm view on life after death.
People often make this mistake about Judaism because it seems to be so focused on this world. This is what Blavatasky (either ignorantly, or with the intent to mislead), Bailey and most gnostic writers say about Judaism; that it's "this world oriented". Some even went so far as to flat out lie and say Judaism denied the afterlife.
That is the whole point. Judaism doesn't deny the existence of the afterlife; the midrashim (homiletical writings) abound with such discussions (albeit, in a 'homiletical' type fashion).
The entire Torah is regarded as the metaphysical prototype of creation; Creation, is seen as the manifestation of the Torah. This means everything in creation is rooted in the metaphysical concepts elucidated (via the oral tradition, in particular) in the various narratives (i.e.dynamics) of the Torah, which comes from the root 'Horah" - to instruct.
In this sense, this world is the matrix of mans purpose in creation, whereas in Christianity, or in Eastern religions, mans purpose is to ESCAPE and transcend the world, to transcend it's 'dualistic' structure, and 'separation', between the masculine and feminine powers and it multitudinous derivations. Hebraism conversely takes a complete opposite approach; it stresses the RELEVANCE of the divisions and manifestation of the ONE (God) in the multiple (creation), hence, it's manifold laws and strictures, which unlike what is usually promoted, isn't meant to be followed "mindlessly", but rather, to be understood Kabbalistically, and engaged in mindfully, and with a elevated spiritual intention.
What you're describing for life after death sounds grim, but maybe I'm not getting it.
Both my intuition and my understanding of metaphysics (and i have a very deep interest in metaphysics, my library is full of such books) leads me to agree with the popular opinion that death is the dissolution of the personal ego. Although I do believe some degree of self awareness subsists after death, this awareness is much more spiritual, and aware of ones own spiritual self, then of one's former existence in this world.
In the general Kabbalistic process of death, the deceased individual suffers as long as it takes for his body to decompose (which is thought be at most 12 months), at which time his 'physicality', or the material aspects of himself, those parts of his spiritual self which are tainted by the various vices he engaged in and cultivated within His soul, are purged, in a spiritual 'cleansing' that parallels the physical decomposition of the body.
From what I've read of NDE, particularly those which deal with a traumatic near death experience, each 'vice' takes an objective presence, and becomes 'personified' as an 'angel of destruction'. In one particular case I read, an angel of gluttony was present and with him were the various earthly actions as his retinue; each action creating a corresponding spiritual 'force', i.e. desire, which now exacts it's tribute from its creator (YOU). So when we act for the sake of ourselves, and not for the sake of the Absolute (God), we suffer the consequences of that when we die. The vitality/energy of the force created by our action in thought/speech/deed terrorizes the soul. And this continues through each archetypal vice, from sexual lust, to anger, greed, etc, following a type of chthonic heirarchy.
After the soul is properly rectified, she is able to experience the good of his earthly life, and this being what is called 'heaven'.
Night precedes day, as in the creation episode, "it was night, and it was day". Just as the bitter precedes the sweet, or the husk, or shell, envelops the fruit.edit on 7-1-2012 by dontreally because: (no reason given)
Exodus 20:13 - Deuteronomy 5:17 "Thou shalt not kill"
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And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree-yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so
Saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. - When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood
As I pointed out in an earlier post it is against the law of the Torah or the Jewish God to murder.
Genesis 1:29