in response to the themes in:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/things-i-never-knew-about-churches/
Truth can be woven or framed in illusion, such as to be entranced to an unconsecrated house unwitting. How else to lose a felt awareness of our very being as grace of relationship through which to unfold the qualities of life? When two or more join in masking over such light, there is a sense of specialness from which to select for the identity taken from judgement or distancing, in place of the Holy Spirit of a discernment within relational participance. This is not sin unless becoming a persistence of self-illusion that actively attacks truth to protect self-illusion, but it is the basis of identity in structures that can become factioned, divisive, rigid, hollow and dead.
The article starts with "There is a sort of Christian" - then goes on to judge and reject, in order to advance a partiality, in place of releasing such thinking for the Holy Spirit of a discernment of expansion and embrace.
The Spirit is not In the thing but through all things. If image and form, symbol and concept are not serving Man, then we are sacrificing to idols made to replace a living love - perhaps to 'make us safe' from the uncovering of inner conflicts that we are habituated to deny, mask over, and attack in others, as if to distance from and 'escape' thereby.
At some point this attempt to 'survive' in our own terms and conditions, brings crisis through which to recognise and release structural identities to a renewal in Spirit, or of course to decide to make a coffin out of rigidified conflicts suppressed or acted out, and die in what we mistook as life.
The key word perhaps in this reflection is consecrate. Relationships can be mis-taken for what 'we can get from others' - or in the case of blame - 'get rid of' onto others - which would be using another as a means to get 'virtue' from the presumption to judge or correct failings we want to see in others so as to stand apart and over, as morally superior caring people.
How would this article be different if focusing on shared commonalities rather than seemingly divisive conflicts?
When Peter recognises Jesus, the 'world' becomes transparent to love without a second.
The gift of the Holy Spirit offers undoing & replacement for a mind and world of judgement, by consecration to a revealed foundation from which to give and receive as one. The beauty or even glory of such a 'knowing' is in its grace and freedom. That the mind of old habit seeks to grasp in image and form so as to become possessed by a sense of lack unwittingly given welcome is a call for vigilance against our own capacity to sleep instead of the 'watch and pray' of a communioned presence.
The terrain is never the map, and a mis-taken image map or model can 'take us in' such as to assign creative pathological agency to the physical or to the body or to members of the body politic. We are now in a time of the revealing of a Reversal of cause and effect.
“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality". Michael Ellner
But such is a witness to the world, by which to wake and walk out of an unwitting trance. Any instant of willingness to release a 'world' or mindset of judgement opens to being an instrument of Thy Peace. The forms that this takes are not the focus, but that they represent and alignment in a felt and shared resonance of being.
If we are to accept and live our own freedom in Spirit, we must give in like kind.
Organised religion is an oxymoron.
But a self-organising Spirit moves across the waters and dust of our Body.
'Expand and embrace' is the Nature of Creation, but in ancient fear and hatred, the recoil to lockdown, mask and distance, resets itself as the basis for protected darkness in which to seek and struggle for light set in 'mysteries' and endless hoops through which to be trained to 'love sacrifice' by sacrificing love set as threat, or rather not seen at all.
Separation trauma reiterates a world that is not here, but none can tell this and be accepted, so be the love that you are, anyway - by the willingness for love to reveal itself in your day, in moments when ye thinketh not.
Truly meeting doesn't have a preset agenda - but is the living context without which life is wasted in joyless empty ritual reenactment.
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