ON LOVE; PART MCCCXV
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FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:29-31).
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WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men. While this IS from an older definition of Charity, which IS rendered in the King James Bible from the same Greek word agape which IS generally rendered as Love, we should amend our own definition here to include the idea that in the reality of Love a man will accord to ALL men ALL things that he would accord to himself and to say that Love IS our thoughts and attitude of the equality of ALL men regardless of their outward nature or appearance…that ALL ARE equally children of Our One God.
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PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12).
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We ended the last essay with some additional thoughts on the Apostle James’ words on the incompatibility between the world and God, between worlds spiritual and carnal. We looked at the relationships between the common idea of prayer by which men pray for ALL manner of worldly things and ideas and Jesus’ words that show us the proper view of prayer. When Jesus instructs men to ask, seek and knock He IS NOT telling us to DO so in regard to worldly matters but spiritual. This instruction IS given together with our verses from the last essay where Luke shows us that the result of such asking IS the “Holy Spirit” and Matthew shows us the result IS “good things” which we should see as synonymous ideas from the perspective of God. Both the “Holy Spirit” and the “good things” in this context ARE the things of God which, according to James’ words, ARE incompatible with the things of this world as he tells us “the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God“. The point taken here should be that if man’s “friendship of the world” IS enmity then the same view should be understood of the Lord, that His thoughts, ideas and things ARE at enmity as well. If a man must escape “the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4) then it IS this same corruption that IS contrary to the spiritual Truths that Jesus tells us that men should seek. Luke shows us this seeking saying “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” In both Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels this idea IS tied to Jesus saying that we should “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Luke 11:13, 9). The doctrinal message based in these ideas IS NOT so clear, it is garbled and misconstrued based in men’s interpretation of the whole of the idea of asking which relates these words to the Master’s equally spiritual ideas from the Apostle Mark’s Gospel saying “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24); there ARE may parts of the church that use this saying to justify their praying after carnal things and ideas. Luke shows us that we should be asking and receiving the “Holy Spirit” but doctrines have determined, based mostly in a ‘phrase’ from the Apostle John’s own commentary on his own writing, that “the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified” (John 7:39) that Luke’s idea was NOT yet possible. John Gill in his Exposition of the Bible deflects the idea that Jesus IS speaking of the same “Holy Spirit” as in the rest of the New Testament and the Old in saying: instead of the Holy Spirit here, the Vulgate Latin version reads, “good Spirit”, and so two copies of Beza’s; and the Ethiopic version, “the good gift of the Holy Spirit”; and doubtless intends the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, in distinction from, and as preferable to the good things given by earthly parents, to their children 8. The doctrinal ideas stem from John’s words as well as the narrative that the church has created regarding Luke’s later story of that Day of Pentecost after the Master’s death and resurrection. Here we read of the apostles and others that “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:4); in this saying the whole of the Christian idea of the Holy Spirit becomes that He was NOT in the Earth before this time and, to further this position they use Jesus words saying that “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you” (John 14:26).
The doctrines of men have removed the mystery that IS this idea of the “Holy Spirit” through their narrative, a mystery of realization that IS obnubilated by their interpretations of the Master’s language, His words of comfort to His apostles. We must remember that there IS NO precedence for much of what Jesus teaches and if we could see that His language IS according to His apostles’ understanding, we could go a long way at beginning to glimpse an ever greater Truth than doctrines reveal. There ARE of course other biblical ideas regarding the “Holy Spirit“, ideas that DO show us that this Aspect of the Godhead has ever been with us. There IS, in the same Book of Acts, Peter’s saying to the assembly “Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus” (Acts 1:16); the apostle tells us this just before this particular “day of Pentecost was fully come” (Acts 2:1). We should try to see here the idea of the unction at play as the facilitator by which the Mind of God can touch the minds of men. Here we should note that it IS ONLY the man whose focus IS upon the Lord that can have such undeterred revelation and realizations from his own Soul, his unction or the anointing by which “ye know all things” (1 John 2:20). That the doctrines of men DO NOT subscribe to this Way of bringing the Mind of God into the world of men IS of NO moment; doctrinal thinkers ARE yet bound by their own relationships to this world despite their illusions of Godliness. Again we should note here that such realization of the Truth of the Mind of God will be in accord with the fullness of James’ list of “the wisdom that is from above“, the fullness of Peter’s list of those ‘virtues’ that show a man to be among the “partakers of the divine nature” and the fullness of the Apostle Paul’s list of “the fruit of the Spirit“. This IS most True when we view the Greek words used by these writers in their intended spiritual context and there IS still some Truth when viewing the rendering of these Greek words carnally. We should however try to see that most ALL of the ideas interpreted spiritually ARE the effects of one’s expression of Love while the carnal ideas DO still reflect a degree of self and the self in the world in their expression. We have dissected each of these Greek words in past essays and most of our ideas can be found in searching for the Greek words and measuring the carnal interpretations against the spiritual ideas that they reveal. Our point here is that the “the wisdom that is from above“, Peter’s list of the virtues realized by “partakers of the divine nature” and Paul’s “fruit of the Spirit” ARE the realization of Truth by the man in the world; it IS David’s realization of such Truths that enable him to speak as Peter notes saying “the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake“. While many millions claim that God ‘speaks’ to them it IS ONLY the few whose focus IS Truth that Truly hear from the Lord over the din of Life in this world. David himself acknowledges that he has the “Holy Spirit” working in his Life; he ‘prays’ in the Psalms “Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me” (Psalm 51:11) and here we should realize that while David’s focus was upon the Lord, his Life is filled with instances of being his being double minded. This personal trait causes much turmoil in David’s Life and this according to James’ saying that “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” which idea follows upon his saying of the man who asks of God that he should “ask in faith, nothing wavering“. Here perhaps we can see the uniqueness of the man David who had full faith and most times had “nothing wavering” while at the same time suffered through bouts of double mindedness which perhaps causes his ‘prayer’ in the psalm. The point here IS that in this mystery that IS the Presence of the “Holy Spirit“, there IS much complexity and perhaps much ability for the man who IS somewhat double minded but has maintained his focus upon the Lord and His Truth, rather than the things of the world and the doctrines of men.
Reference to the “Holy Spirit” or Holy Ghost ARE found throughout the New Testament; in reference to baptism, to Jesus’ birth, and through the apostles notation of His Presence in the lives of David, John the Baptist, the child Jesus and several who prophesied regarding Him. References regarding His Presence ARE also found in such ideas as “the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say” (Luke 12:12) which Jesus says to His disciples as He sends them out and His words to them near the end saying “the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you” (John 14:17). We should note that in this last saying the idea of “shall be” is NOT in the text which IS rendered by the Good News Translation as “But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you” and the Weymouth as “He remains by your side and is in you“. While the lexicon frames the Greek word esomai as a word of future tense 2 , these translations render in the present which Vincent recognizes saying that: Some editors read, ἐστίν , is in you 4. Based in the realities cited above, the present idea IS a laudable view but one that IS rejected by most of the church who follow their doctrinal narrative. We should try to see here however a duality at play, one that can show us that He both “dwelleth with you” and at the same time “shall be in you“; the first is a matter of fact while the second a matter or realization of this Truth as a man. The apostles, being rather single minded, DO have some realization of this Truth but this IS perhaps overwhelmed by their presence with the Master in whom “dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). The Master also speaks of the “Holy Spirit” which we read as “when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:22) and this IS some time before the “day of Pentecost was fully come“. Much of these ideas on the “Holy Spirit” DO NOT conform with the doctrinal narrative which causes some to manipulate the presented ideas as DOES John Gill who says of this verse from John’s Gospel that: And saith unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost; meaning not the grace of the Holy Ghost in regeneration, which they had received already; but the gifts of the Spirit, to qualify them for the work he now sent them to do, and which were not now actually bestowed; but this breathing on them, and the words that attended it, were a symbol, pledge, and confirmation, of what they were to receive on the day of Pentecost: hence it appears, that it is the Spirit of God, who, by his gifts and grace, makes and qualifies men to be ministers of the Gospel; and our Lord by this action, and these words, gives a very considerable proof of his deity 8 B. Vincent says here that: The gift bestowed was not that of the personal Holy Spirit, but rather an earnest of that gift; an effusion of the Spirit 4. Both of these commentaries ARE founded in the doctrinal narrative and NOT in the reality of the written words which would be contrary to that narrative. The greater point here IS that the church, seemingly from its very beginnings, has tried to take possession of this idea of the “Holy Spirit” and define it as ONLY pertaining to the Christian and, more exclusively, the “born again” Christian so called. Both of these ideas ARE contrary to the True nature of the Godhead, the nature of the Lord and the nature of the “Holy Spirit” with which the ‘world’ IS infused.
The doctrines of men DO NOT understand the idea of the Trinity outside of their own divisive view of God, a view that shows them, through out of context, misapplied and misunderstood words, that ONLY the Christian, and for some the “born again” Christian, has such access to the Godhead. The Trinity IS seen in terms of persons, sometimes separate and distinct depending upon one’s doctrinal view, while the greater Truth IS that the Three Aspects of the Godhead ARE just that, Aspects of the Godhead. We should try to see that the Godhead IS indivisible, that God IS a singular entity that IS beyond the comprehension of men and that any True understanding of the Godhead IS the purview of those whose focus has moved from the self and the things of this world onto God and the things of God; things which ARE summarized in the three lists from the apostles that we discuss above. In the chart that was previously a part of these blog posts these Aspects of God were shown in a way that could provide some insight into a Truer view of the Godhead; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are shown by their relative potency in regard to this created world; note here that the idea IS this world and NOT the greater Universe of which we have little idea of the Truth. The Father IS the Will of God, a Will that served in the creation of the world and ALL that inhabits it and ALL that comprises it; we should not forget that the idea of ashes to ashes refers to the idea that as men, or animals, plants, etc., the body IS composed of the Earth’s elements and upon death it IS these elements that ARE returned to the Earth, to its surface and to its atmosphere. No thing IS ever lost, it IS merely changed and when we can envision the idea that ALL that exists IS a part of the Godhead and that naught can exist outside of this singular idea of God, we can then come closer to understanding the mysteries that ARE our Life in this world of form. It IS in our ability to glimpse the reality of God as that “One Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression“** that we can begin to understand His Transcendence and His Immanence in this world. It IS this complexity that the Master tries to teach us in such ideas as “ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:20). From the perspective of the Father, the Pure Spirit that IS God, we should try to see the reality of such ideas as outlined in this Hindu ‘prayer’ saying “To the God Who is in the Fire and Who is in the waters; To the God Who has suffused Himself through all the world; To the God Who is in summer plants and in the lords of the forest; To that God be adoration, adoration” (Sh’vet Upanishad, II.17). The idea here IS to show the True Immanence of the Father in ALL things, His Presence if you will within the fabric of ALL that exists. We could say here that to touch this reality IS to be at True Oneness with the Lord with a realization that encompasses ALL things. We ARE however men in this world and we ARE separated from this realization by the lesser reality of a realization of Oneness with our fellow Souls, Souls as a part of ALL things which possesses a higher degree of self awareness. An awareness of the essential Truths gives to everyman the potential to be as He IS, a state which Paul shows us saying “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9) and the Apostle John confirms saying “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).
We should understand that John’s words here ARE NOT addressed to the average Christian who relies upon his doctrines; they ARE addressed to the Truly righteous and those that Truly “abide in him” (1:John 2:28) which IS the tone of john’s entire epistle. Here we should understand that Christ IS the Soul of the man Jesus, Christ IS the Pure essence of divinity that ALL men share with Him as Souls. It IS Christ who IS expressed through the Life of the man Jesus and it IS Christ, the Son Aspect of the Godhead, that will be expressed through the lives of everyman who can come to grasp some measure of the Truth and break away from the vanity that IS Life in this world; this as he strives to join those who ARE Truly becoming partakers of the divine nature“, the True Light in this world. We must at the same time understand that this body of flesh IS NOT the reality of man; the True man IS the Life that animates and motivates the body, a Life that IS lost its identity through birth, nurturing, indoctrination and experiences, ALL of which tell him that it IS the body that IS the man. It IS based in this identifying the man with his form that much of the doctrinal ideas of creation ARE based; from the creation story of Adam and Eve to the idea that IS called the rapture which IS taken from such sayings as “we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord“. That there IS meaning in these words IS NOT in doubt but that meaning IS NOT one that can be viewed carnally and literally as the doctrines of men view this nor as they view the companion idea that “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:17, 16). We should try to see here that Paul IS speaking to these Thessalonians with words of comfort and in terms that they can understand; such ideas were never intended to be understood literally and apart from their spiritual context. The literal view of many denominations and sects IS that those who died believing in the Master, those that ARE ‘saved‘, will rise from their graves according to this saying and another which says that “the dead shall be raised incorruptible” (1 Corinthians 15:52). Again, a literal interpretation has been adopted by most and this because it gives men hope for their own eternal future which IS based in their belief that this Life in this world IS one’s ONLY Life and the personality developed through one’s nurturing, indoctrination and experience will endure death and live on. This however IS but a part of the vanity, the illusion and the glamour, of Life in this world. There IS a greater reality that IS tied to the Second Aspect of the Godhead, the Son Aspect of the Trinity. This aspect IS the Christ principle, the anointing if you will, that IS the Life of the True man, the Life that animates and IS intended to motivate one’s Life in this world. This Aspect IS the Soul, a reality that IS True of both God and man. From the perspective of the Godhead the Soul IS the Universal appearance of ALL that IS; it IS the Energy that moves ALL things and which has slowed its vibration if you will and has become ALL that we can see. This energy IS also as those subtler realms of existence which enable the form nature, enable the creation of the elements that ARE held together for a purpose, and yet subtler realms which contribute the ability of those higher forms to reason and think as we understand this in the animal kingdom. Still beyond this IS the realm of the Soul, the reasoning and thinking self motivated Life that uses a body of flesh in this world for purposes that we can barely imagine but which ARE pointed to for us by the scriptures of the world and the Truth of the words of the Master and His apostles who have themselves attained some measure of being “partakers of the divine nature“. Behind these ideas IS the orderly progression of Life, a progression that sees its challenges in Life as a man in this world. While the objective IS held out before him in scripture and framed by the Christ as the Great Commandments. men fail to see their ultimate reality through the veil of vanity by which ALL ARE bound. Here we should try to see the human reference to that veil referenced in the New Testament of which the writer of Hebrews tells us of saying:
“Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec” (Hebrews 6:17-20).
It IS this veil that must be rent by everyman as he progresses into the True Light by breaking out of the bondage by which he was heretofore held. There IS a symbology here that IS missed by most ALL of the church; missed through the literal ideas offered in the Old Testament and the use of those ideas in the new. It IS of His death on the cross that the Apostle Matthew tells us “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent” (Matthew 27:51). In this we should try to see the fullness of Jesus’ Life’s work and a symbol of the True Union of the Christ with the form which we call Jesus. In Old Testament terms it was ONLY the High Priest who could gain access past the veil where resides the Presence of God and here we should try to see the High Priest also as a symbol of the purity needed to DO so. While the High Priest IS but a man from Arron’s lineage, he IS trained, nurtured and indoctrinated, into his role and offered as a symbol to the Jews that the ONLY way for a man to access the Presence of God was to be as pure; here we should try to see that while the High Priest IS but a man, he IS become ‘ritually’ pure through his office. It IS this that the writer of Hebrews shows us above as He tells us of Jesus that “the forerunner is for us entered” and for ourselves of that “hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil“. While doctrines paint that which IS beyond the veil, the Holy of Holies, as that this IS accessed by the believing Christian at his death, the reality here IS concerning Life, that one can enter beyond the veil according to the purity of a Life that has been Repented and Transformed, a Life that can say as did the Master, “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). This IS the symbol and the goal of every Soul that enters Life here in this world and we should try to see that this entering the veil IS synonymous with Peter’s saying that men can become “partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4). While doctrines see this veil ONLY in regard to the ‘curtain’ through which ONLY the High Priest could pass once a year, they miss the almost clearly pictured symbology that shows us that it IS this veil that prevents men from communing with God because they ARE NOT yet freed from that “corruption that is in the world through lust“, they ARE NOT yet “delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Romans 8:21). We should remember here that the Greek word eleutheroo that IS rendered as delivered IS the same word that IS rendered as “make you free” in the first part of our trifecta which shows us that the very source of that freedom IS found in keeping His words. In fact, ALL three parts of our trifecta of spiritual reality show us the same reality; it IS shown us as this freedom, as the True Presence of God which allows us to be “partakers of the divine nature” and as the ability to “enter into the kingdom of heaven” which IS that state of being a partaker who IS freed from remaining “conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2). Repeating our trifecta we read:
- “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).
- “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21).
- “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me” (John 14:21-24).
This brings us back to the opposing factors of the things of God and the things of this world….things carnal versus things spiritual. This brings us back also to the ideas of the Trinity, the Three Aspects of the Godhead. The Father again IS Spirit, the Will that IS God, a Will that IS “beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression“. While doctrinal approaches claim to KNOW this Will or have access to it, such ideas ARE but the product of that vanity to which ALL are subjected. The Will of God IS NOT founded in the lives of men in this world but rather in the synchronous movement of this entire Universal appearance of the Godhead in time and space. This infinite and eternal appearance of God IS Truly “beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression” and places this tiny Earth and its tinier inhabitants into a view of their True insignificance against the Whole. These facts however ARE NOT understood by the doctrines of men which continually push upon the believer the sense of God and His Universe that IS found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. A sense that sees the Earth as a central part of the Created Universe while the Sun, the Moon and the stars are but ornaments; far too many doctrinal thinkers see such Genesis ideas as they were intended to be seen by the barbarous, superstitious and relatively ignorant man who could read Moses words 3500 years ago. An awe-inspiring view of our God’s creation, of His Universe in relation to this Earth, IS found in a short video produced by BuzzFeed which can be found at https://youtu.be/1Eh5BpSnBBw . While doctrines will decry such ideas which ARE contrary to the unsupportable doctrinal views of cosmogonists, one need ONLY to look into a clear night sky to get a glimpse of the greater Truth. That this Universe IS the manifestation of the Spirit that IS God IS an unanswerable question; the True Nature of God IS, again, “beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression“. We can however imagine, we can try to see that this manifested Universe IS a manifestation of a Spiritual Truth which has NO dimensions as we understand that idea. An illustration of this point IS found in the above mentioned video where we read ‘it has been estimated that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on earth, but there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are stars in the Universe‘. If we can see how that from the human perspective there IS infinity in ALL directions, perhaps we gain a small glimpse of the idea of Spirit. As we look at this idea of Spirt being the Point of Truth behind ALL manifestation perhaps we can understand the role of the Soul, the Son and the Christ Principle, as that Aspect of the Godhead that holds ALL things in place, the principle upon which ALL IS manifest. The Apostle John gives us a view of this in the prologue to his gospel where he says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1-3). While the idea of beginning here seems contrary to the ideas of infinite and eternal, perhaps we can reconcile this for these two Aspects of God. Spiritually, as that singular Point of Truth, there IS NO effect of time and space while in the manifestation of that Point there IS in a sense an effect. While we can measure the distance from Earth to a star and while this measurement IS founded in time, the time it takes for Light to travel, there IS still NO sign of a beginning nor an end on either front; needless to say this IS because such ideas ARE “beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression“.
In effect these Aspects of Spirit and Soul ARE indistinguishable from our tiny perspective as men but when we relate these cosmic ideas to the existence of these Aspects in men we can perhaps see a bit more clearly. The Spirit that IS man, that Point of Truth within the greater Point of Truth that IS God the Father, IS made manifest in time and space as the Soul. Here we should be careful NOT to see this idea of time and space as we measure this physically but rather in the same terms as we see above where we have an eternity and infinity which IS unrelated to our physical place in this Earth. The Soul, the Christ Principle, exists apart from the bodies of men in both Life in form and Life without a form in this world. We could say here that the Soul IS more related to the cosmos of the night sky than it IS related to the body that it motivates or the Earth on which this body lives and we should remember here that this Cosmic Universe exists in ALL directions, outward and inward, and through ALL dimensions. This Soul IS the expression of Spirit in a cosmic sense of time and space and as the Cosmic Soul holds ALL things in place through a True idea of agape, so the human Soul hold its own little universe in place, a universe that disintegrates into its individual parts whensoever the Soul IS withdrawn. The final and most important part from the human perspective IS the Third Aspect of the Trinity, the “Holy Spirit” and its reality in the Cosmos and in man.
We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.
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