The Original Christian Doctrine.

Greetings All.

The desire came to me to write something in support of Christianity.

My History in Christian Study:

I became interested in Christianity early in Life, although, I didn't know it as a word or as an organization of belief systems. I didn't get directly involved until I was about 17 years old. At the time, this particular denomination I was introduced to, was in fact the scientific side of Christianity. Scientific side! How can that be? You may be asking: I'll explain that soon....

What was being offered, were lectures on: "The Science of Life". This was 1967, so the content at the time was radical, in fact this approach to Christianity originated in the 30-ies and 40'ies. I became interested in these lectures, when a friend of mine, who introduced all this to me, was saying that molecules think. Now, this idea was innate to me. How else could you explain behavior of physical matter? ...Molecular propensities? ...Chemical reactions? ...Atomic theory? That language to me had no Life to it, no hinting at the mystery and the Bigness of Life: No, pure science was not my thing, too shallow. As you may be thinking by now, this was not an ordinary kind of Church.

I attended the Wednesday night taped lectures for about 2 months, until I discovered that there were Church services on Sunday! I wasn't too interested in the Religious side of this particular organization until it was suggested that Science was really half of the story, that Religion was the other half, so-to-speak. This seemed reasonable to me, so I began attending the services. It turned out that the pastor who actually did the services wasn't a person I could identify with, but the Arch Bishop (Dr. Robert Arthur Voice), in the mother church (different city -main branch) was someone like that; Dr Voice was the Theology Teacher, so eventually, I took up the deeper study of these 2 halves of the whole within the theology studies being offered. This brand of Theology was a balanced approach to Christianity, blending scientific principles with a "religious" viewpoint, essentially being an experience of Christ, rather than a knowledge of Christ. Of course, once you experience something of what you are studying, it deepens your knowledge, no?

I was about 19 when I had my first initiation, well, I had to get Baptized first, but after that, and through following years, I progressed through the Christian Orders some of which were: Door Keeper, Exorcist, Acolyte, Sub-Deacon and finally Deacon. Eventually this accumulated to about 21 years of study and experience in the Christian Clergy.

We had Monthly Theology classes (summer's off). these weren't just memorizing passages of the Bible or the scientific monographic studies and doing tests, this was about challenging our thinking patterns and a generally free discussion of the mysteries of Life. We completed several monographic studies, plus the reading of many books of our culture and other cultures were required reading. My favorite was: "Plato" because I loved the Socratic Reasoning.
This is not to mention the Wednesday Lectures, Sunday services and the evening studies and much personal discovery writing. It was doing the personal writing I discovered I could channel "entities" through writing, or "automatic writing" as it is known. At approximately 28 years of age I began doing the odd Thursday night "prayer hour" short sermons. I think by about 30 or 35 I did the odd Sunday sermon as Reverend Chris Wakefield.

The Actual Christian Philosophy:

We called it: "The Original Christian Doctrine", as interpretations of the works of Jesus were changed over the years, and the Bible itself has gone through many revisions and variations of publications. Also the Christian Church had forked many times over these last 2000 years, so there was little common agreement as to what The Christian Philosophy was in the first place. In fact it split soon after Jesus translated and it didn't take long for the dissenting views to manifest, in fact, they were there the whole time, and why not? This is human nature. One thing I learned early on, is that not to deify persons, even Jesus reportedly had said that: "It is the father within me that doeth the work." Jesus never wanted to be worshiped.

Jesus was just one human person in a string of Masters that have graced this old World. It just so happens that we live in a culture that is so shallow, immature and weak-willed that it can't stand the idea of making up one's own mind about one's Life and acting on that. Too short-sighted to see the Holy guidance within, to understand, that to see it outward is the reciprocal of it's inner reality, so the weak attach themselves to these organizations for support. Granted, there many strong and free-thinking Christians, but they are few and far between considering the dearth of Sheep.

Old belief systems always try to usurp the sense of Self-Divinity. Individually and socially. Jesus knew this of course and charged ahead. His Life was an uphill battle from the word go. We certainly can credit Jesus with the courage to face death for preaching and living the philosophy of self-divinity. He was crafty, He knew how to get around, get the message out and disappear!

The actual Christian Doctrine was demonstrated by Jesus, but it was not His to claim, He was just Living IT. This is the whole point! The "Spirit of Christ" is in all of us. Many of us have left the wording, concepts and Christian culture behind as I did in 1990, but the base truth of Self-Divinity abides. In fact, I find a far deeper connection to IT as now IT is not pigeon-holed by the concepts that attach themselves to a name. This begins to manifest as you begin to live it. The organization of Religion actually stands in the way of living IT, at least in the way it is organized. Gathering in Love is the only way.

So we find the Actual Original Christian Philosophy (as in the Life of Jesus) to actually be not just Christian! Even Jesus couldn't claim it, so how can we expect a Socio-Cultural concept to?
Now, if one wants to be owned, lead and be victimized then so be it. But if one is not satisfied with unconscious living, then they will seek the truth not outward, but inward. Still they will not find it inwards either! He he, I love that part. It's the not-living, not-thinking, not-studying, not-seeking or not-any-doing... It's the Being. This Truth was referred to in a Psalm: "Be Still, and know that I am God!" However, I have re-written this closer to it's original meaning: "Be Still, and know that thou art God!"

A Christian Lesson:

The Phrase: "Be Still, and know that I am God!" Who said that? God? If you want that, then you have your answer. But if you want more, then ask your self first, does God speak? Or second: What is God? Surely this is a better question. Surely we couldn't really answer the first question, without knowing the answer to the second question? Ponder this: The word God is a concept, no? All words are concepts of mind because words are not what they represent! So, they are stand-ins for concepts, twice removed from the actual experience. If you know the monkey mind of Man, then you will know that this daily experience of many of us, is more mechanical than electrical, more gears than gray matter, just electrical forms held in place like a puppet dancing on strings of belief. Words or Concepts cannot house the Divine! The Conscious Mind attaches itself to these thought things and is trapped. OK, now ponder this: God is NOT! IT is unutterable! IT is the not-god. We, as humans cannot know IT! At least not in our physical body. We experience infinite shades of filtered Spiritual Energy that is interpreted as God. It does come ultimately come from one source, but we are far too weak to experience the greater power, the human body is a good vehicle for learning (well, actually that is up for discussion too...) but it cannot handle much, just a little. What other reference would we have in a culture like ours? The whole concept of God is an overlay. There is an impossibly huge Spiritual hierarchy of organization that works invisibly to us; guiding, overseeing, arranging, shuffling karma about with many people involved! When we pray fervently from our bones, they see that and will make arrangements for stuff to happen. I'm not a believer in praying per say, but it is not a mail order deal, you only get results when the constituent personalities are ready and have earned it.. But we don't know IT. IT never even cares. IT is so far, far impossibly from us, to even think that IT hears us, is to be so unbelievably Spiritually naive.
OK, back to the lesson.......:^)
No. How could our original statement be spoken? It was felt! It was inferred into Moses' consciousness, just as we get hunches or inspirations today. So, if these words occurred, which they couldn't of course, as I'm sure Moses' didn't speak English! Nevertheless, the meaning could not have been inferred that way with the use of "I am God", other than if Moses' said this to himself from his higher self! If you have ever had a communication with your higher self, you would know this to be true. We can speak this way as the Spiritual Reality is that we are Self-Divine in Being!

~ "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ...Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955).

I love seeing a local Christian group occasionally traveling the streets with carts of food and clothing offering it to people living on the street. Still, I can't help but wonder what motives these people are acting on and what they believe about what they are doing. Some may say that they are paying back karma. Some may say that they are acting in Love. Some may also say they are acting selfishly, that the givers have an agenda with someone or thing that includes some kind of payoff: who know's? Really, only the givers know. It's none of my business, and it doesn't ultimately matter. Why do I bring this up then? It's about Being. When we do from Being, the roots of what we do include the farthest reaches of the Universe, even Universes we can't know about. Being, connects us to everything. Being is all.
Jesus was "being" Christ. The Christ Spirit connects to all, therefore healing and amazing works become possible. Inwardly and hidden we are all Christians in a sense, but it's not about what you read or believe, it's about Being!

Crow.