Saturday, January 25, 2014

A key understanding of inward Christ, incomplete without outward Godhood


Sadhu Sandar Singn said “to live in Christ is already heaven.” This is a key understanding of Christ, which also connects with Eastern sages. This is how Christianity affirms Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. This defines the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within, or the God Within, which is the central goal of the revealed religions.

To identify with Christ one needs to block out material life in a Great Spiritual Blockade. When successful this brings the religious feeling of being “complete,” with no lack, no desire, the feeling of fulfillment---but this is not the God or Godhood far beyond the feelings of human beings. This desire-free feeling is the result of the strict ascetic discipline of ending all desires.

The best way to utilize this ascetic, involutionary feeling of desire-free bliss, is to see it as a symbolic experience of what Godhood may be like when we reach Godhood in evolution. Our evolutionary destination is far more than this Inward Bliss.

Martin Buber's “It” and “Thou” is misleading. Buber fears making God an object, an It, but Godhood is an Object or Objects, the highest evolved Object, at the zenith of material and supermaterial evolution. The spiritualism of objects has led to an idolatry of definitions, words, ideas, texts, rather than belief in the actual supermaterial object of Godhood, which we reach through evolution.

The Twofold Path can apply both the Involutionary and Evolutionary Paths. The transformed theological materialism, which includes evolution, is synthesized in the older spiritual theology of the West and the East.

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