Quote from bronks:
This is in reference to the internet movie someone posted on another thread. Specifically the first part.
Having been born & raised catholic while attending church every Sunday and getting educated at a catholic school; the parallels between ancient egyptian gods (and others) and Jesus Christ was a swift kick in the nuts for me, and has been affecting me for a few days now. I've learned to take these types of claims with a grain of salt, but the zeitgeist packaging was slick, well put together, AND MADE ABSOLUTE SENSE... That's the scary part.
This places JC in the category of nothing more than a peace loving sun god who never physically existed.
Although I enjoy discussing theology, I'm not well versed in it and I don't even know if qualifying whether a man actually existed even falls under the theological umbrella. I've done the usual googling but there's some very intelligent cats on this board, so I figured I'd throw it out there.
"Know thyself" is indeed what it comes down to, as the dalailama has so eloquently explained.
Am I a peace loving sun god? That sounds somewhat limiting, especially when you consider that the sun has a limited life-span and never physically existed.
I physically existed as much as any other body...which is not at all from the standpoint of eternal Spirit.
The world does not exist!
All else is semantics, to teach by way of comparison. The unreal is talked about as if it happened, but only to lead to a realization that it never happened and so does not exist.
The world is the incorrect answer to the question, "What am I?"
And it would keep you from knowing yourSelf until it is transcended.
I am one who seems to have left my Home and entered an unreal dream world of physical form for psychological reasons.
This is the story of every seemingly separated mind-body package that appears to walk and talk here.
And my path back to the whole from a state of division is the same kind of path all will follow...excepting crucifixion.
There is a call for teachers, not martyrs. The path is away from pain and suffering, not toward it. And so I did not suffer pain on the cross, which was a teaching device and the last ring of fear I faced and transcended through Self.
The path is simply one of giving over weaknesses to the strength of the Self aspect of "know thySelf", allowing the Self to guide the path back with strength and presence of joy.
Fear and guilt abide in the thoughts that make up this unreal world that misidentifies ourselves. So there is required a vigilance as each unreal thought is relinquished to Self for healing, until there is full surrender to love and innocence and strength.
Given time, and enough seeming incarnational cycles, all will achieve the same kinds of learning accomplishments as I, for the Teacher is the same for all, leading to the same destination back to the same point of departure.
The necessity for teaching and learning only came about at the point of departure when knowledge was denied in favor of perception...a state in which nothing can be certain.
From Him you will learn of equality, glory, magnitude, and the joy of peace. All have this Teacher equally, available equally, Who teaches in a way that returns your awareness to equality with Him, and equality with God.
This Self is the same for you and me. This Self we share. It is this Self Who wishes to be one always, as He was created. This is the One Who gathers up the pieces of an illusion of Himself, lost in time and space and form.
I merely demonstrated what it looks like to listen, learn, and teach how to drop fear and guilt and illusions of Self, allowing the undesirable idea of individualized will - personhood - to fade away in favor of One Will that is my Own.
The idea of One God was developed by Akenaton. Moses subscribed to the idea. But it was still a bit sketchy. This God was a picture of conflict and confusion as it was an amalgam of god concepts and image-projection.
I discovered that this One God is within, not "out there", or separate from you in any way.
Similarly, I discovered that what seems to be "out there" is really inside. And that what we see is first seen inside.
This led to the discovery that both Light and darkness are inside...Spirit and form...Heaven and hell...God and devil...truth and lies. And only one of these is our unchangeable reality. All the rest can be changed and the faith invested hell can be withdrawn and invested in Heaven.
This induces a "waking" experience, in which Truth dawns on the mind as Light. This is the meaning of "resurrection".
Resurrection of mind demonstrates that none of the "laws" of a split mind apply to the certain, single-minded.
The world will pass away because the thoughts that give rise to its seeming solidity will simply be withdrawn and forgotten. All healing is for a split mind and its distorted perceptions. As the whole mind is healed, the worlds simply disappear.
In time, which is a holographic illusion, this may take some more millions of years, as each seemingly separated mind-body package awakens to the reality of One Self and is willing to "know" that Self.
All will return willingly. Meanwhile, all experience some form of crucifixion or another. That is simply the nature of the beast until perceptions are allowed to be healed by One Self.
Jesus
