We owe our existence to Mystery. I call that Mystery God. The Mystery deliberately took on human form and walked the earth. This is also a Mystery. One might object and say we are all embodyings of the Mystery. There is a slight difference in consciousness, however, between us and Jesus.
Read on. I am well aware that there are many levels of understanding here. You have yours. I am not looking to convert you to anything (though, in my opinion, if we all converted to each other's spiritual path without leaving our own, it would be a mighty fine thing). I am simply saying what I see and understand.
As both Henry Corbin and Emanuel Swedenborg have pointed out, three types of consciousness exist: natural, spiritual, and celestial. Natural man ("man" includes both genders) thinks that only matter matters and is caught up in the world of appearance, of physical sensation. Spiritual man sees through the world of appearance, follows the promptings of a wounded heart of Love, opens to a wisdom of Light. Celestial man lives directly in and is the Love and Light of Mystery. Jesus was and is celestial man. Whether we follow Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Muhammad, Krishna, Lao Tzu, or another spiritual teacher, may we all move in that direction, our opening to celestial consciousness.
I believe that we are at the end of the age of natural man (the Kali Yuga). It has been tried and found lacking. What has been proclaimed as the end of the world (Apocalypse) is the birth of the new. This is taking place in the spiritual realm, not the physical. Rather than ruling our internal lives with an external focus, we are beginning to rule our external lives from hearts of Light and Love.
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nice,geo.
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Helpful typology, George. Thanks, Steve
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ReplyDeleteAs this "natural man" dies, would we not witness Kübler-Ross's Five Stages of Grief playing out, both individually and collectively as societal movements?
--Gary
The question I continue to have, George, is whether things such as the Kali Yuga or "the end of the age of natural man" are external or if they ~ as with so many other spiritual truths ~ are myths/metaphors for our internal and spiritual experiences. Certainly the spiritual realm manifests in the external, which is the point of many great teachings. I just don't know if the external world, as a whole, collectively undergoes these changes.
ReplyDelete"This is taking place in the spiritual realm, not the physical."
ReplyDeleteyes indeed George! Isn't it exciting.
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