ONTOLOGICAL MEANING OF SALVATIONCopyright 2020
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We are forming as identities individual and unique.
It is a process often painful. The process of consciousness attaining awareness of self is frightening as “self” cannot exist without separation from that Source that gives it birth. That separation from Source as the newly conscious self coalesces and forms leads to the great primal intuitive anxieties of Void and isolation.
There is reason, ontological and inescapable reason, why the soul feels alone and even deserted by Creator. The recurring reminders of our individual, hence separated, nature, inflict on us all the fears and shocks of birth, necessary and ontologically unavoidable if we are to inherit our identities as children of God.
This being the case, how critically essential it is to seek relationship with Creator. Life, this life of spiritual gestation and birth, is painful and frightening and traumatic enough by its very nature. But how much worse to face it without hope, without the reassuring hand of the Sustaining Spirit during the trials and terrors.
As worldly relationships, plans, family, outcomes, wins, and losses compile, we are still left alone with the essence of our growing being. From that peculiarly personal experience we ultimately are left with nothing more than the kernel of our own being and our chosen relationship with, or isolation from, Source.
In the latter verses of the last chapter of Mark (verses which I should mention do not appear in the most reliable of ancient texts), as Yeshu told His disciples that those believing were saved, those not believing were condemned, I believe this was a simple statement of fact, not a threat of judgment.
We all experience awareness of our aloneness, the ultimate isolation of our conscious being, this individual soul experiencing the pangs of separation and isolation associated with its gestation and birth. In those moments dark and frightening, do we collapse into the self, furthering our isolation within newly discerned Void that surrounds us? Or do we reach out, like the newborn child with eyes still closed grasping for touch, accepting the hand of Source and Father and Mother and Savior that give us birth.
Such a grim and terrible fate, the awareness of individual self, utterly individual, utterly separated, thoughts and experience now isolated in the newborn self! These are the souls condemned, by their own Choice, by their refusal to reach out and accept touch, refusal to open eyes and see the Light that penetrates the Void.
But at any point we can choose to open our eyes, to reach out, to fulfill this process of spiritual birth out of the womb of this temporal world by becoming the individual and free children of the I Will Be What I Will Be.
The Void, that fearful emptiness of isolation in which the individual soul finds itself, is the unavoidable consequence of individuality, the child no longer a part of its mother’s body, the soul no longer a mere expression of its Source.
The newborn child, now become individual with identity of its own, need not remain isolated in void. Through touch and embrace and sight the child can immerse in the Love that gave it the freedom of the individual, yet can still remain an individual identity.
In analogy, the Choice to accept Salvation is the newborn individual soul’s Choice to accept the touch, embrace, and Light that reach through the Void surrounding the newly birthed soul; touch and embrace and Light affirming loving Unity and Communion between Creator and the newly free, individual Child of God.
Copyright 2020
Websites tend to disappear into the digital ether. Feel free to copy and share this essay.
Websites tend to disappear into the digital ether. Feel free to copy and share this essay.
We are forming as identities individual and unique.
It is a process often painful. The process of consciousness attaining awareness of self is frightening as “self” cannot exist without separation from that Source that gives it birth. That separation from Source as the newly conscious self coalesces and forms leads to the great primal intuitive anxieties of Void and isolation.
There is reason, ontological and inescapable reason, why the soul feels alone and even deserted by Creator. The recurring reminders of our individual, hence separated, nature, inflict on us all the fears and shocks of birth, necessary and ontologically unavoidable if we are to inherit our identities as children of God.
This being the case, how critically essential it is to seek relationship with Creator. Life, this life of spiritual gestation and birth, is painful and frightening and traumatic enough by its very nature. But how much worse to face it without hope, without the reassuring hand of the Sustaining Spirit during the trials and terrors.
As worldly relationships, plans, family, outcomes, wins, and losses compile, we are still left alone with the essence of our growing being. From that peculiarly personal experience we ultimately are left with nothing more than the kernel of our own being and our chosen relationship with, or isolation from, Source.
In the latter verses of the last chapter of Mark (verses which I should mention do not appear in the most reliable of ancient texts), as Yeshu told His disciples that those believing were saved, those not believing were condemned, I believe this was a simple statement of fact, not a threat of judgment.
We all experience awareness of our aloneness, the ultimate isolation of our conscious being, this individual soul experiencing the pangs of separation and isolation associated with its gestation and birth. In those moments dark and frightening, do we collapse into the self, furthering our isolation within newly discerned Void that surrounds us? Or do we reach out, like the newborn child with eyes still closed grasping for touch, accepting the hand of Source and Father and Mother and Savior that give us birth.
Such a grim and terrible fate, the awareness of individual self, utterly individual, utterly separated, thoughts and experience now isolated in the newborn self! These are the souls condemned, by their own Choice, by their refusal to reach out and accept touch, refusal to open eyes and see the Light that penetrates the Void.
But at any point we can choose to open our eyes, to reach out, to fulfill this process of spiritual birth out of the womb of this temporal world by becoming the individual and free children of the I Will Be What I Will Be.
The Void, that fearful emptiness of isolation in which the individual soul finds itself, is the unavoidable consequence of individuality, the child no longer a part of its mother’s body, the soul no longer a mere expression of its Source.
The newborn child, now become individual with identity of its own, need not remain isolated in void. Through touch and embrace and sight the child can immerse in the Love that gave it the freedom of the individual, yet can still remain an individual identity.
In analogy, the Choice to accept Salvation is the newborn individual soul’s Choice to accept the touch, embrace, and Light that reach through the Void surrounding the newly birthed soul; touch and embrace and Light affirming loving Unity and Communion between Creator and the newly free, individual Child of God.
Copyright 2020
Websites tend to disappear into the digital ether. Feel free to copy and share this essay.