The Individual Human
Soul
The real Christ-ian
life is not about
joining a Church
led by priests or
ministers in an
orthodox or
protestant or
essene or gnostic or
catholic liturgy or
way of worship.
It
is an
individual
experience, a
private, inward
personal experience
not needing any
rituals,
icons
or
public worship.
"But when you pray,
go away by yourself,
shut the door behind
you, and pray to
your Father in
private. Then your
Father, who sees
everything, will
reward you."
New
Living Translation
(©2007)
The most important
thing is our
personal
relationship to our
spiritual nature and
to Christ. If this
primary condition is
met, then
an organization of
spiritually based
humans could come
together as a
church organization
to use their numbers
to work for
Christian values
and ethics in
society.
Christ was wrath at
the money
changers in the
temple of the
priests who
sold animals to
sacrifice and burn
in their
twisted picture of
praise and worship.
The most
well known
service mentioned is
the
last supper, where
the disciples met
in
the
upper room of a
humble home,
and drank new wine
or pressed grape
juice,
carob
bread, figs and
other fruits. Salads
and vegetables and
cultured milk also
would have been part
of these communal
feasts. Simon Barabbas was
married, but John,
Simon Lazarus
and James, the three
pillar
Apostles
were unmarried.
They
eschewed the worldly
life
and lived
simply on a
small plot of land
cultivating a garden
for their food.
The
Christ-ian life is
all about the
communion
that
happens three times
a day when we
eat.
Living water in the
form of fruits and
vegetables are taken
daily to live in
union
with
the spirit. The raw
food movement
to be
based on the health
of the body
only is not right.
Living water rich
foods
nourish the
spiritual faculties
and allow
one
to be reborn in
Spirit as our true
Human
Selves. The most
important act
is to
commune with the
Spirit of Christ
as
found in living
fruits and
vegetables.
Not
just to give us
physical and mental
health and longevity
but to free us from
the
materiality of this
world. Meat will
silence the
conscience, and
bread will bind
us to
earthy, inorganic
matter and weigh
us
down in spirit, yet
fruit and vegetables
lighten us and free
us in body and mind
from the ignorance
of this material
world.
John
Wycliffe was the
first to translate
the
bible in English and
thus the first to
protest against the
Roman dominated
church. The key
feature of
Wycliffe's
(1324-1382)
reform was, "the
endeavor to
recall
the Church to
'Apostolic
Christianity'.
Each human soul
might
have
access to the divine
life and was
responsible
to God alone.
Therefore, the
mediation
of a priest was
unnecessary,
and the
pride and greed of
the ecclesiastical
hierarchy
for power over
nations was
nothing
more than a fungus
grown upon
the
primitive church of
Christ. He
denounced pilgrimages
and the sale of
pardons,
indulgences
and relics, as of no
avail. The
climax
came when he
denounced the
cornerstone
of priestly
authority,
TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
Under pressure
and
overshadowed by
persecution, he
withdrew
to his parish church
at
Lutterworth
and devoted his
energies to
translating
the Bible into the
speech of his
countrymen
and to training
"poor priests"
who
would perpetuate his
message. These
men
came to be known as
Lollards. In due
time
Wycliffe was
denounced as a
heretic
and
although his
writings were burned
in
accordance
with Papal decree
they were
reproduced
by the Lollards with
marvelous
rapidity
and were read
everywhere, even
in
the houses of the
nobility and at the
court
of King Richard the
Second." (from
the
book New Light in an
Old Lamp by
Joseph C. Bonner).
Wycliffe was right
and he did the best
he
could in his
translation using
the
Vitus
Italica manuscript
and not the
Latin
Vulgate of Jerome
which is the
official translation
of the Holy See and
unfortunately what
the King James Bible
is
based on.
But,
today in the third
Millennium we have
translations direct
from the Aramaic and
even
lost scriptures from
the mouth of
John found at Nag
Hammadi, so there
is no
lack of knowledge
about what
the
message of Christ
was.
We
don't need high
priests or master
teachers or gurus to
think for us.
Krishnamurti
said give up all
gurus and
the
Buddha gave up all
teachers to
commune with the
Light as an
individual.
We
all are born alone
and die alone in
this world and
likewise the
religious
or
re-leagueing with
God experience is
alone, a personal
experience. We can
read
the teachings for
ourselves and
understand the truth
of who we are by
ourselves. Our
intuition or
conscience
made
clear by a purified
diet will guide us.
God, Christ and our
own conscience are
ultimately our only
teachers or priests.