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originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: cooperton
Christianity doesn't have any ascendent masters.
All the saints go to dwell with God, even the mediocre ones.
originally posted by: micpsi
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: cooperton
Christianity doesn't have any ascendent masters.
All the saints go to dwell with God, even the mediocre ones.
But the REAL saints (as opposed to the plastic ones created for propaganda purposes by the Roman Catholic Church) ARE the "ascended masters".
Christianity does not, of course, call souls who have completed their spiritual evolution on Earth by this title. But it does recognise the notion of highly evolved souls who attain the highest levels of Heaven, even though it has trouble in pointing out examples who achieved this through the devotional religion called "Christianity." This class of souls is identical to the Buddhist Arhat and the Hindu mahatma, who has released himself from the rebirth/reincarnation cycle.
The problem with Christianity is that it does not recognise reincarnation and has no understanding of the higher/transpersonal levels of the human soul, unlike Buddhist and Hindu mystical traditions that have been studying higher states of consciousness for thousands of years. These include the so-called "Kingdom of God", which is well-understood in the Eastern mystical literature, although it is also recognised in the Jewish mystical tradition called "kabbalah" as the "Malkut of Beriah".
There are NO "mediocre ones" among saints in the eyes of God. That is just the way jaundiced Westerners look at some of the ones who have been elevated to this status by the Catholic Church.
originally posted by: cooperton
Once they've attained perfection, Nirvana if you will... They become part of the greater "all"...so others may draw truth from them
originally posted by: chr0naut
That there are ascended spritual masters makes a great story or legend but fails the test of reason.
originally posted by: micpsi
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: cooperton
Christianity doesn't have any ascendent masters.
All the saints go to dwell with God, even the mediocre ones.
But the REAL saints (as opposed to the plastic ones created for propaganda purposes by the Roman Catholic Church) ARE the "ascended masters".
Christianity does not, of course, call souls who have completed their spiritual evolution on Earth by this title. But it does recognise the notion of highly evolved souls who attain the highest levels of Heaven, even though it has trouble in pointing out examples who achieved this through the devotional religion called "Christianity." This class of souls is identical to the Buddhist Arhat and the Hindu mahatma, who has released himself from the rebirth/reincarnation cycle.
The problem with Christianity is that it does not recognise reincarnation and has no understanding of the higher/transpersonal levels of the human soul, unlike Buddhist and Hindu mystical traditions that have been studying higher states of consciousness for thousands of years. These include the so-called "Kingdom of God", which is well-understood in the Eastern mystical literature, although it is also recognised in the Jewish mystical tradition called "kabbalah" as the "Malkut of Beriah".
There are NO "mediocre ones" among saints in the eyes of God. That is just the way jaundiced Westerners look at some of the ones who have been elevated to this status by the Catholic Church.
originally posted by: Realtruth
originally posted by: micpsi
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: cooperton
Christianity doesn't have any ascendent masters.
All the saints go to dwell with God, even the mediocre ones.
But the REAL saints (as opposed to the plastic ones created for propaganda purposes by the Roman Catholic Church) ARE the "ascended masters".
Christianity does not, of course, call souls who have completed their spiritual evolution on Earth by this title. But it does recognise the notion of highly evolved souls who attain the highest levels of Heaven, even though it has trouble in pointing out examples who achieved this through the devotional religion called "Christianity." This class of souls is identical to the Buddhist Arhat and the Hindu mahatma, who has released himself from the rebirth/reincarnation cycle.
The problem with Christianity is that it does not recognise reincarnation and has no understanding of the higher/transpersonal levels of the human soul, unlike Buddhist and Hindu mystical traditions that have been studying higher states of consciousness for thousands of years. These include the so-called "Kingdom of God", which is well-understood in the Eastern mystical literature, although it is also recognised in the Jewish mystical tradition called "kabbalah" as the "Malkut of Beriah".
There are NO "mediocre ones" among saints in the eyes of God. That is just the way jaundiced Westerners look at some of the ones who have been elevated to this status by the Catholic Church.
Wonderful a hierarchy in the heavens too. Sounds like a pyramid scheme from the bottom to the top. Personally I think all dogma's/religions are formed out of fear of the unknown, thus giving us a climb the ladder mentality, and lose your sins so you can get in.
We have to ask the question, when did we fall from perfection to have to find our way back? And why the hell would we want to leave, if we are all part of this oneness, in the Universe.
We love dualities in our current state to explain things, or somehow quantify them.
My personal dogma is we are all equal, no greater, no less than the highest god, saint, angel, master, guru, and as a dogma is basically as good a guess as anything else that's out there.
We have forgotten who we are and what we are for a reason, and we go through life believing arrogantly that our dogma's are the correct ones, or better than the other person's.
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: cooperton
Once they've attained perfection, Nirvana if you will... They become part of the greater "all"...so others may draw truth from them
I like that!
Enlightenment = unconditional Love (also known, by some, as Christ) IS the experience/Knowing of Our Universal Self!
It is the Knowing of Our Universal Oneness/Self!
So, in that sense, I am willing to accept the notion of no one getting to God (Our Universal Form) without transcendent unconditional Love/Enlightenment (aka Christ, the mystics know that, the religious are relatively one and all clueless, and think Christ a literal 'man' desiring 'belief'...)! *__-
originally posted by: lostgirl
No.
I'm sorry, but where is the "unconditional Love" in any 'mystic' so concerned with "the Knowing of Our Universal Oneness/Self" - or so focused on 'transcending' this world -
- that they feel no call or caring for the suffering of it?
* What is the good of a "Christ" who teaches that finding the 'God within' is all important -
- when there are little children in this world being abused/tortured by the very people they should be able to trust most to love and care for them?
* Where is the "unconditional Love" for the babies crying themselves to sleep - alone in the dark, beaten, bruised, and broken (in body & spirit) every night?
originally posted by: lostgirl
Any human being who would consider themselves 'enlightened' should understand the real 'Truth' -
What buddhists call nirvana, is the realm of Thoth - since krishna is egyptian Thoth.
I have found no other prophet who has claimed to have caused such a metaphysical shift in possibility for the children of God, therefore I think he was the first Christ that was to come and lift the karmic burden of humankind through his sacrifice.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
That's because your experience is coming form a strictly biblical perspective.
We are all children of god and the father of god. God got bored and is re experiencing "itself" through endless creation. Don't get hung up on dogma - you limit the infinite.
originally posted by: lostgirl
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: cooperton
Once they've attained perfection, Nirvana if you will... They become part of the greater "all"...so others may draw truth from them
I like that!
Enlightenment = unconditional Love (also known, by some, as Christ) IS the experience/Knowing of Our Universal Self!
It is the Knowing of Our Universal Oneness/Self!
So, in that sense, I am willing to accept the notion of no one getting to God (Our Universal Form) without transcendent unconditional Love/Enlightenment (aka Christ, the mystics know that, the religious are relatively one and all clueless, and think Christ a literal 'man' desiring 'belief'...)! *__-
No.
I'm sorry, but where is the "unconditional Love" in any 'mystic' so concerned with "the Knowing of Our Universal Oneness/Self" - or so focused on 'transcending' this world -
- that they feel no call or caring for the suffering of it?
I really am sorry, I honestly don't mean to offend, this is just a sincere attempt to ask all 'mystics' to truly consider rethinking their paradigms...
originally posted by: March of the Fire Ants
Where?! There is no 'where'
How many stupid rules can one overlay on infinite possibilities
in order to give ever-more experienced souls a means by which to forget the nauseating boredom of immortality?
Or perhaps it's just and endless string of fractal false summits, keep playing though the scenery is breathtaking.