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"It is the property of love to place him who loves on an equality with the object of his love. Hence the soul, because of its perfect love, is called the bride of the Son of God, which signifies equality with Him. In this equality and friendship all things are common, as the Bridegroom Himself said to His disciples: I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you."
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"And take great care that you do not construe in a material way what is to be understood spiritually. For what I say is true: That the material and sensual interpretations of those who go in for elaborate whims and fancies are the cause of much error.
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So it seems to me that we need to be greatly on our guard in the interpretation of words which are spoken with spiritual intent, lest we interpret them in a material way and not spiritually as they are meant."
"Along with the light came an alteration in mood. I began to feel very good, then still better, then elated. While this was happening, the passage of time seemed to become slower and slower. The brightness, mood-elevation, and time-slowing all progressed together. It is difficult to estimate the time period over which these changes occurred, since the sense of time was itself affected. However, there was a feeling of continuous change, rather than a discrete jump or jumps to a new state. Eventually, the sense of time passing stopped entirely. It is difficult to describe this feeling, but perhaps it would be better to say that there was no time, or no sense of time. Only the present moment existed. My elation proceeded to an ecstatic state, the intensity of which I had never even imagined could be possible. The white light around me merged with the reddish light of the sunset to become one all enveloping, intense undifferentiated light field. Perception of other things faded. Again, the changes seemed to be continuous.
At this point, I merged with the light and everything, including myself, became one unified whole. There was no separation between myself and the rest of the universe. In fact, to say that there was a universe, a self, or any 'thing' would be misleading - it would be an equally correct description to say that there was 'nothing' as to say that there was 'everything'. To say that subject merged with object might be almost adequate as a description of the entrance into Cosmic Consciousness, but during Cosmic Consciousness there was neither 'subject' nor 'object'. All words or discursive thinking had stopped and there was no sense of an 'observer' to comment or to categorize what was 'happening'. In fact, there were no discrete events to 'happen' - just a timeless, unitary state of being.
Cosmic Consciousness is impossible to describe, partly because describing involves words and the state is one in which there were no words. My attempts at description here originated from reflecting on Cosmic Consciousness soon after it had passed and while there was still some 'taste' of the event remaining."
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"In other words, the Gospel, or 'good news' that Jesus was trying to convey, despite the limitations of his tradition, was that we are all sons of God.
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But the Church, still bound to the image of God as the King of kings, couldn't accept this Gospel. It adopted a religion about Jesus instead of the religion of Jesus. It kicked him upstairs and put him in the privileged and unique position of being the Boss's son, so that, having this unique advantage, his life and example became useless to everyone else."
Originally posted by windword
I disagree with the concept of the soul being the wife. The body is the feminine principle. It is entered by the soul and impregnated with spirit. Matter is impregnated by spirit, spirit is the masculine principle.
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by ancientthunder
It's not complicated. Matter is receptive, mutable and is responsive to the will of the spirit. The spirit animates and impregnates the body. Life is a dance between the wedded couple, body and soul.edit on 20-9-2012 by windword because: (no reason given)
Yes I agree, so how about if we say the soul is the wife?
as neither does a wife impregnate her husband.
Originally posted by ancientthunder
reply to post by windword
as neither does a wife impregnate her husband.
Are you sure about that? So you are saying she is just like a vase and that is it. When you meet her, her voice doesn't enter you, her love doesn't transform you.Her beauty doesn't move you, her smile heal you. I would say she is impregnating you and if she isn't, you might as well just get yourself a surrogate.
Originally posted by ancientthunder
reply to post by Mickierocksman
Yes if only it was that easy life would be perfect, but it is not.If you want the simple life forget the internet, books and talking about any deep subject.Forget politics or ancient history, old texts and you may be fine.I remember when I lived in Sydney and used to skateboard to school it was great. I knew nothing about nothing and life was truly amazing in a childlike manner. But if I had of asked my mum or my dad what was going on, then my reality would have crumbled real quick.Which it did anyway fairly soon after.So what to you reckon.
it forms a better person that can tell difference between real and make-believe.