I am neither a priest nor a scholar. Yet years ago, I was compelled to ask myself, what is the Bible about?
I soon learned that the first item we must all accept is that the Bible does not deal with the phenomenal, or what we call physical, world. The Scriptures are a compendium of knowledge based on the experience of preceding generations, which illustrates what are the consequences of our diverse creative impulses. Essentially, it teaches about the:
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Also, we should never forget, that the Bible deals almost exclusively with the cause. It does not deal with the effect, but with the creative process, or with the thoughts responsible for the ultimate result.
Hence, it becomes very obvious that the Scriptures have nothing to do with any religions, which seem concerned with the results only. In fact, the Bible teaches us how we can liberate ourselves from religion.
Yeshûa was none to nice about the priesthood.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.” (Matthew 23:13)
That was then. Thousands of years ago.
And now?
What would Yeshûa say about priesthood today? About the members of our (tax-free) ecclesiastic profession of today?
I suspect that his criticism would apply to everyone who stops men and women pursuing the Kingdom of Heaven. The state of consciousness that liberates us from the effects of the phenomenal reality. That tackles the effect and not the preceding cause. After all, we are intended to be the creators, the gods, as defined by the prophets.
The essential problem is that, by religious standards, Yeshûa was an adamant atheist. He did not believe in any God, up there, in the sky, or in a temple (or churches which in his time did not as yet exist). The only Creative Force Yeshûa recognized was the ‘father’, the ‘Creative Force’ in heaven, while stressing that HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU.
Hence, Heaven is a state of consciousness.
And that’s what the Bible is all about. It teaches how to create a state of consciousness within oneself that would parallel Paradise.
The rest is up to us.
And now a little surprise. We are now approaching Xmas. Yet, throughout the whole year, in fact years, in spite of having 24 novels to my name, people buy my DICTIONARY more than any other of my books. Perhaps they suspect something…
Of course, it might be the blurbs…
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Let me know if you like it or, better still, say so in a brief review. Merry Christmas and please remember, your thoughts are important to me.
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