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>The [misguided] steps of the Great Awakening…
TRUST IN & THINK FOR YOURSELF
A universal human truth found among all ancient spiritual traditions, which transcends both time and culture, is that "life is suffering." Life is unfair, but if we fail to accept this fact at some point in our life, we become resentful, nihilistic, and for some us, fatalistic (the path of Cain).
So how did Christ deal with this inescapable human dilemma? He showed us the way. He faced his suffering and human mortality voluntarily. He accepted his suffering as a prerequisite for "being" and by doing so, he transcended his own mortality in the hearts and minds of those of us today who are open to perceiving the profound mythological significance that his death and resurrection can teach us.
Life is not an easy path for anyone, including Christ himself, who around the ninth hour, shouted in a loud voice, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
When we face our personal suffering alone in quiet discernment and come to accept it, we can then be "reborn" in this life with renewed strength of mind and gratitude for those things we once took for granted.
IMHO, Christ’s most underappreciated teachings to humanity were as follows:
1) Christ used free will to refuse conscription because most violence committed in this world originates from a few people, “the Authorities,” threatening others to commit violence against the innocent.
2) Christ taught us to treat others as we would expect to be treated (the Golden Rule).
3) Christ exposed the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees.
4) Christ exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the money changers.
The existence of organized religion and the State itself depend on obscuring these fundamental Truths and these are most relevant to The Great Awakening.
"Know ye the truth and the truth will set ye free." ~Christ
Where we go one, we go all!
Merry Christmas Anons!