Eternal Principals of Reality
Understanding is vital.
Right relation is vital. That is, the domains of a person’s life have to each be doing their right function. We can’t voluntarily mix up our priorities, we can’t take something high for something low, or vice versa, we can’t indulge ourselves, in other words-we can’t give into the tendency for low things to usurp their rightful places-and still stay in a state of being which lets us see things as they are, or lets us function properly, or grow.
Inner truths are eternal. Truths which are defined become embedded in outer reality and can then only point to eternity, or that which is outside time and definition.
Outer reality has its outer purpose, but it also reinforces and points to absolute, objective truth. But outer reality is only a reflection, more or less, of perfection.
God is good. God is that which is whole, without blemish, without conflict, contradiction, location or definition.
Sin is that which misses its mark; it is incorrect functioning; it is that which is conflicted at some level.
Jesus represents the Christ principle, which is the Bridge between wholeness and definition. The Bridge is beyond full comprehension, but by faith we make the connection between that which we know, the reflections and shadows which we see as our lives and that which is the origin of those images.
The Word of God is communication without conflict. Or unconflicted meaning and understanding that can be gleaned from stories or words of any kind. It is the message of wholeness which is more or less within any communication and which can be seen more or less depending on the understanding of the listener and which changes as one’s level of understanding changes. It is that which can grow, that which is not fixed or dated.
Our goal is to “be” in the eternal “present,” to be out of time, with the Absolute Unity. Then we can truly be ourselves. Then we can see clearly. Understand.
If God is everywhere, then to “see” him we need only to, with faith, adjust ourselves in such a way that whatever it is that keeps us from seeing him is corrected or set aside and transcended. God made us. Only that which is not-God keeps us from him: untranscended limitations, time which is clinged to, mortality, things and creations which are mistaken for truth and perfection, flaws which we let distract us, conflicts which we cling to, incorrect ideas which point us the wrong way (into more conflict), bad functioning of an organism which is supposed to help us, fear of ignorance, suffering and reality, and willfulness to think that we do know, that we have reached some end or purpose which can be defined.
Trying helps. We are just creatures who happen to be able to be conscious, to apprehend higher things, to be self-aware. We don’t do this very well. There are those who do better than we do. We can learn from them. With faith, trying and humility, and help from those who are further along, we might make progress.
We only use a small part of ourselves. We have bad ideas about ourselves and mixed up priorities which keep us from growing. We cling to all sorts of unnecessary fear, pain and suffering. We invent many things with which we try to escape our predicaments. But they only dig us deeper, put us further asleep. Our goal is to shed these things. To work toward right functioning. So that we can see things as they are. We need to do this before we can hope to “do” anything. In so doing we’ll lose 90% of our suffering, because it was all imaginary to begin with. But we’ll have to face that suffering which is real and necessary. It might even be scarier than the heaps of phony suffering we carry. But it can be lived with. You can be awake with this suffering. It keeps you sharp and honest.
People don’t want to see Life. We avoid it. To us it looks like boredom. What it is is ambivalence…something we are attracted to and repelled from at the same time. Everything which is created contains the seeds of its own contradiction. Only that which is outside time can have no contradiction. Instead of coming to understand this truth, we look for that which isn’t boring. We look for a thrill, a job, a purpose, a cause. When they become boring, we look for new ones. If we’re really unlucky, we never become bored, we get lulled to sleep by what we’re doing, we never see the contradiction, we stop thinking and buy someone’s bill of goods and start marching. But usually we start to sense a vague pointlessness and become bored. Instead of confronting this, we try something new. In the end, we may grow tired of this, or have some thing, some invented tradition, let us down so shockingly…we might suddenly see the contradiction of that which we mistook as real and true and be so shocked that we are pushed against our will into the black hole of life. We enter a falling condition. Free fall. Then we either learn about this condition, learn to find the bottom or the other side, or learn about the function of Life’s Bridge or kill ourselves. Now a person may be rescued by the Bridge, might transcend the badness of boredom and start to see the world as it is instead of as we dream it to be. But there will always be the tendency to leave this state of being, to get off the path between unknowable, whole eternity and the created world. There will be a tendency to start putting onto that which saved them with all the accoutrements of causes, of interesting things, of facts, rules and organization. They’ll fall back asleep. They’ll become conflicted again. And at some point, if they let themselves awaken ever so briefly, they’ll see they’re walking toward an Abyss again. The idea of going into an Abyss within their religion might be too much for them, so they’ll avoid it, they’ll go to revivals, they’ll try to refresh themselves from within the context of their dream world.
