Christ, Catholics and Christians

 

Christ and Catholics

 

I was raised by good Catholic Italian parents.  I had a good, proper education through the tenth grade in Catholic schools.  Well, good if you don’t count the absence of science classes, art classes, and a proper athletics program.  Where might I be today had I been introduced to those subjects during my formative years.

Therefore I hold dear my memories of the rites and traditions of the Church.

It is not popular for Catholics to learn the history of the Church. My dear, devout sister is one who would vigorously defend the church against any of the facts I lay out here.

Simply put, formal religion was created, by Man not God, to form a scaffolding upon which amnesiac souls might find their way back Home.  Man put together selected writings, historical documents, best recollections of divinely channeled stories to create a handbook, or text book, to guide us through that process.  I refer, of course, to the Bible.  We are living in times of such spiritual darkness as has not been seen on earth for millions of years.  Simple methods used of old to awaken us and guide us Home are just not strong enough to help us to keep it together through this dark period.

My assertion that God did not create a church is true up to a point.  I trust that the initial impulses to organize the transference of Christ’s teachers and to establish guides or teachers, who probably chose incarnation at critical times with the express intention of furthering that process, were Divinely inspired.

Through the centuries the churches have brought amnesiac souls to realize their basic awakening, and to meet Christ.  The problem, as I see it, is that they enslaved those souls for their own purposes, and never handed them off to Christ’s direct hands to let them explore their awakened relationship with Christ.  Souls remain wrapped in a fog of forgetting, nurtured by their priests and ministers who themselves are entrapped in forgetting.

I decided to look up the root definition of the word arien.  This sent me down a rabbit hole of early Church history.  For the three hundred years after Christ’s death and resurrection, the church grew and expanded mostly by word of mouth as of old, according to ancient traditions. There were many, many people who received teachers directly from Christ and the descendent of his apostolates.

The culture of that age, very Jewish, were horrified by those family members who chose to break tradition.  If a son or daughter refused to marry in the Jewish or pagan faith of the time, they were denounced by the families, many banished, and had their lives turned upside down. Those who felt strong spiritual awakenings fled to the deserts and mountains.  Some gathered in small communties.  Many chose to live in isolated caves or huts.  Younger refugees sought the company and teachings of older hermits, who had been crossing the veil themselves in their isolation, and hearing directly from their own saints. 

An example of the truths held strongly in those days was that Christ was God.  Even in the New Testament, in a gospel Christ says, I am in God as you are in me.  I don’t have a Bible handy, but if you are a Bible thumper yourself you should have no trouble finding it.  Start in the gospel of John. 

A more accurate concept is found in the verse, I am the vine, you are the branches; I am in the Father as you are in Me.  This is interpreted by modern day mystics as a lineage, having God or the Source of all at its head, that could be called the Christ lineage.  Perhaps the Muslims have a similar lineage with their own Avatar.

Let us have a glimpse of India.  India is much more populated than the US, and of ancient history.  There is one archeological site that claims to have found traces of a sophisticated city state that has been dated to over 25,000 years ago.  I stumbled upon this remarkable study while editing an encyclopedia of India, while working at a university.  Unfortunately, the encyclopedia project became too large and unwieldy, and was abandoned.  There went the corroboration of that fact.  This is a great pity.

The point of bringing up India is the myriad of gods and deities now kept alive by devotees and modern-day mystics who claim direct tutelage from his group’s teacher.  Christianity was nurtured in a very small geographic area, and of recent history.  The concept is that a One was spawned at the fountainhead, the Source.  It’s lineage has many more avatars, each having their own thousand-year reign.  Some shorter, some longer.  Had Christianity a more fertile spawning ground, it too may have had more Avatars; proof of concept.

Then what happened in the Fourth Century A.D./CE?  That nascent gnarly darkness raised its head.  There were factions breeding out there in the desert, and in the city underground catacombs and caves.  Enough of the influential and wealthy benefactors were forming into political groups, claiming that their interpretations of the oral traditions were the only true inheritors directly from the words of Christ.  They gathered in Nicea, and over the course of time put their human stamp and biases onto a narrowly vetted collection of teachings, and declared them The One True Faith (my words).  Many precious teaches and traditions, divinely inspired and equally humanely interpreted, were forgotten and lost beyond the veil of history.  Those that have been unearthed in our recent century, still preserved in caves in the deserts, stab us with the truth.  The tent used to be so much wider.  Our hearts carry memories of our own.  A lively debate and sharing of different aspects of spiritualism awakens us to our own Truths.  Aren’t we all as unique as snowflakes?

Through studies in quantum physics there is a growing belief that a great spiritual awakening is about to happen.  My wish is that brainwashed Christians allow their inner Christ to speak to them, that they may partake in this awakening sooner rather than later, and with less angst.