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Monologue on faith part 2.
Man is a natural being and originates from nature. Since a few 100 years man only knows evolution, which arises from God and is exercised by God, has brought forth a human being. I would love for you to feel as if you were in Heaven, but remember: "with one’s head in the clouds but with your feet in the mud. "
As in a big tree, were everything streams and moves from down below to above (like nourishment and water), and from above to down below (like sunlight and oxigen).
Nearly all the earthly
institutions like religions forget, sooner or later, that one of God's Laws is:
everything moves, streams, in nature, everything is changing and open to
renewal, all is subject to an ending, most definitely when it is offering
resistance to change! This is to be applied in God's nature but also in God's places
of worship!
Why is this always forgotten? A church, a mosque or
other place of worship is organized to keep the inspiration of a major or minor
prophet alive, through whom this community was born. Then rules, laws,
structure, procedures, ethics and values, traditions and do's and don'ts are
installed. You bet, with all of the consequences. God doesn't really want this, but
God understands an organization to inspire mankind and nations can not grow
and thrive without a leader or leadership, or without some form of
organization, without some structure.
I want to ask you to make Always a distinction between form
and contents, between inspiration and laws, between spiritualization and
rules/books. Form needs to serve the contents, not the other way around. Even
so, form can be a tool: look at the catholic church with its Pope and
dogma's. Grown worldwide, established worldwide, inspiring worldwide for many
people need some guidance.
I am pleased with it: form helps to transmit the
message. The form of the mass, the prayers, the stories about saints, all this
inspires the individual being to be something more and better than daily jobs
and life can ever offer. The inspiration of the consecration, the energy that is
emitted and emanated as in an energyplant, the emanation of holy images.
Please note: I could have given the examples of the
Islam, the Protestants, the Buddhists, the Hindus, New Age or Jewish religion,
but I'll just present the Catholic church for now.
Form however can become unnatural and limit man
instead of nurture him. God is happy with the invention of the condom, with the
accepting of homosexuality as a way of life, with emancipation of women as an
important factor of society. Jesus sought after His death first for Mary His
mother and Mary Magdalene because they were His most devoted followers and more
worthy of encountering Him than all male followers, who, besides John, had
taken flight or had belied and betrayed Him. Isn't that clear enough?
The nature of man requires with all of her creations of faith an enormous willingness to:
- to use books not as laws but as guidance
- to adjust procedures all the time along with the developments and time and scientific insights of society
- to wonder again and again if form does not limit contents?
- And most important: to respect all other creations of religion and faith, because in nature there is always a place and space for many forms, variations: a polar bear is not any better than a stick insect. The Islam is not better than the Jewish religion for instance. I hope nobody is offended now. A stick insect is a beautiful intricate being and We look at it with pleasure and admiration.
- And when one form of religion wants to extinguish another, or wants to pursue, or injure, know that that form is behaving like any species of monkey who wants to chase others out of the aerea. That's nature as well, but the primitive version of the nature of a human being, not the sophisticated one accepting and respecting all. That is some aspect of the higher human spirit, which fits into evolution. Once it will be realized!
- The number of devotees/followers or a later form does not reveal anything about the greater value of that faith/religion.
- And time will eventually break down creations of faith which are out of date, but that could be a process of thousands of years. The disturbed Breivik liked to return to Wodan, would you believe? We, above, have time, and are infinitely patient, because We can see beyond time and space. Trust reigns Here.
The next, second aspect of faith and her value is the hidden energy, the gestalt, the power of gathering, commented in the next blog.
Blessings to you all
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