The spiritual path moves from belief to faith to experience to awakening to realization. The realization happens on two levels the awakening of the Self to Eternal Life; and the awakening of one’s relation to the world as Sacrifice or being at play in the fields of the Lord as the Light of his Word.
The sacredness of Self is realized within as one’s own. A sacred relation to the world is realized in the sacrifice of actionless action, or, the Love that brings the peace beyond reason and disruptive, violent action.
But the spiritual life today must recognize that “faith” must be taken back from belief and allowed to open to the experience of awakening to God within, to the reality of one’s divinity. In doing so we can then truly “render unto Caesar” that which is his and to God that which is God’s. We must show Caesar he belongs to God.
The question today is whether the effort to preserve, gratify, if not deify the body has enabled the loss of the flesh of the spirit and the eternal life of the self. The attempt to ‘eternalize’ the body if not the world itself loses touch with the meaning of Sacrifice and the Love of the World.
The question today is whether the materialization of life has led to idolatry of body and nature and the loss of touch with the flesh of Life and the spirit of communion in the community.
There is here, now a calling of body and world back to the spirit and experiencing the body/world as spirit rather than the spirit as material body or factual belief. What is in me as the Light of lights and the Life of living is Consciousness of Spirit knowing itself, seeing itself as reality here and now. The Eternality of the Spirit transcends time and space and eternity itself. No time remains when that which belongs to Caesar is understood as really belonging to God. Space is without borders and wall, no within or without, but only the Kingdom of Heaven shining infinitely as one’s own true Self, one’s own true divinity.
Believing in God and the Avatars of God is not enough. To become one of them is our task in these times. The world has peculiarly become conscious of itself as One but has not yet realized itself as One in that Consciousness, that Light of Lights and the Eternal Life of Peace, Joy and Freedom. The Truth of God’s Spirit is speaking to us now to be brought into the world in order to sacralize the profane and end the reign of violence and hatred, greed and deceit.
Why not Now? Eternality of the Kingdom, of Heaven, is here and now, both as pure Presence as Eternality but also as a “present” from God, a gift given without cost or effort. It need only be realized within and without.
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