The churches are closed now, all around the world. Even St. Peter's is closed and I regard this as a perfect opportunity for all those who espouse one religion or another to know that the edifices of religion are transitory and fleeting and in no way are needed for us to commune with our souls, with our God self.
As we must do now, stretching our minds and our hearts in an embrace of love for all, for we are all suffering together now, there are no exclusions in what we are seeing on the Earth. And, in the fullness of time, we will all rise again. Together.
I have always wondered why the Christian churches use the cross as an emblem of their faith. Our own personal crosses represent the vertical connection to heaven aligned with the horizontal cross of matter. But the cross we see in the Church?
We see a wounded man bleeding and crying in great agony, suffering the horrors of an unimaginable death. What kind of message does this send? To use a cross of agony and death to represent a God of Love is obscene, and nullifies everything that this great Master came to teach us.
His love and his message went to all: the lepers, the tax collectors, those not of the Jewish faith, the prostitutes (No. Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute, but her depiction in this way by the Church fathers tells you of their debasement and scorn of women which has been part of their message all along).
Jeshua excluded no one. Why? Because his message was that all that we need lies inside us, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within." He was no different from you and I but showed us the way to our own potential. Our absolutely enormous potential.
Good Friday, this Good Friday above all, gives us a splendid opportunity to scour our own souls and to weed out that which no longer serves us....and to nail this to our own cross. Cloistered as we all are, we have no choice.
And hopefully, out of this meditation will come the realization that there is no external Messiah coming to save us...and that Jeshua never proclaimed himself as one.
For his message was that the only Messiah that we need, lies within us.
We have always been the Messiahs we have been waiting for.
As we must do now, stretching our minds and our hearts in an embrace of love for all, for we are all suffering together now, there are no exclusions in what we are seeing on the Earth. And, in the fullness of time, we will all rise again. Together.
I have always wondered why the Christian churches use the cross as an emblem of their faith. Our own personal crosses represent the vertical connection to heaven aligned with the horizontal cross of matter. But the cross we see in the Church?
We see a wounded man bleeding and crying in great agony, suffering the horrors of an unimaginable death. What kind of message does this send? To use a cross of agony and death to represent a God of Love is obscene, and nullifies everything that this great Master came to teach us.
His love and his message went to all: the lepers, the tax collectors, those not of the Jewish faith, the prostitutes (No. Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute, but her depiction in this way by the Church fathers tells you of their debasement and scorn of women which has been part of their message all along).
Jeshua excluded no one. Why? Because his message was that all that we need lies inside us, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within." He was no different from you and I but showed us the way to our own potential. Our absolutely enormous potential.
Good Friday, this Good Friday above all, gives us a splendid opportunity to scour our own souls and to weed out that which no longer serves us....and to nail this to our own cross. Cloistered as we all are, we have no choice.
And hopefully, out of this meditation will come the realization that there is no external Messiah coming to save us...and that Jeshua never proclaimed himself as one.
For his message was that the only Messiah that we need, lies within us.
We have always been the Messiahs we have been waiting for.