Welcome
to the
Mysteries!
3-25-1998
By Dale G. Cox
Welcome
to the mysteries. The first question one might want to ask, would be,
"What
are the mysteries?" A valid question, no doubt. One seldom asked in
today's
modern culture. Indeed, science must have brought us valid, concrete
conclusions,
to the mysteries by now. If not, then it has at least done an effective
job of giving us new ones to solve. Mysteries that exist outside of us,
and draw us away from our internal worlds. In the age of cell phones
and
computers, we think we are as smart as we can get. We have educated
ourselves.
Our knowledge comes from informed experience. The question then
becomes,
who's got the most accurate information.
We
all recognize the power of information in today's world. It's bought
and
sold as a commodity. Wars are fought over it, empires won or lost.
Sticks
and stones used to didn't hurt me, now they can assume the potential to
ruin my life, what an absurd notion. But one that is popular today.
Information
makes this world go round. So then, how does one go about recognizing
what
information is vital to ones survival, amongst all the info that's
flashed
at us daily.
How
does one discern who is right. Church, school, mother, father, college,
friends, society? This very question is the beginning of the path into
the mysteries. It doesn't matter who the individual is or where they
come
from. At some point in our lives, usually one that's emotionally
challenging,
we will ask ourselves these questions. Why are we here? We exist, but
take
that notion as a given. That we're just here to live until we die, then
drift away into oblivion. When the demands of our external world,
always
seem to find a way to take us beyond our expectations of ourselves.
Taking
us to places we would prefer not to go. We find ourselves in situations
that force us to perceive our mortality, and the spell of illusion is
broke.
Pressed up against a wall within ourselves, we scream for
understanding.
Experience the frustration of knowing inherently that there must be an
answer we haven't found. One we can't seem to find no matter how hard
we
look.
Meanwhile,
in the outside world, we are looked upon as mental or twisted. We have
to seek help to understand our internal process. Openly, people seek to
stick information inside our heads, that programs us to respond to the
physical world. Our fear is cultivated and shaped, exploited and used
to
control us. Then, when the fear eventually takes over, and the being
collapses
from the inside, society refuses to accept fault. The individuals
inability
to arrive at the appropriate perspective must be the cause. We are
abandoned,
no longer useful to the system. Left to drift in our own psychological
misery. Alone. Usually another point at which we begin to seek for
something
better, or destroy further, something we thought was already destroyed
beyond repair. Sound confusing? Or familiar?
To
the Mundane mind, the mysteries are confusing! To explore the
mysteries,
one can no longer cling to the absolutes of the modern social
environment.
In times of need we always desire to seek that higher power to save us.
But always, bitterly, we realize we haven't cultivated enough faith in
that entity to see us through. It is considered a good thing socially,
to fear god and keep his commandments. Unfortunately, without a unique
insight, this path is contrary to the knowledge of spirit. We see in
our
society today the end result of that expression. The mysteries are
considered
the "Black Arts", when there resides the very information to set man
free
from his enslavement to the flesh, through the union of body and
spirit.
The information necessary for us to create a one on one relationship
with
god. And to understand gods supreme love for each and every one of us,
sinner or so called saint.
The
Mysteries help us define the cycles in our lives, the lessons
we're
here to learn, how our emotions work, what is intuition, and how to
learn
to trust it? The mysteries unfold for us the full scope of our
responsibilities
as spiritual beings. A responsibility sadly forsaken in our modern
world.
Thus, we rape our home in the interest of personal profit, simply so we
can say I'm stronger or smarter, or I just want you to do things my
way.
A behavior indicative of a deeply rooted inferiority complex. Which
probably
comes from a notion that we are separated from god by our compulsion to
sin. Wrong. How convenient that the church would seek to save us from
this
knowledge. We are separated from god because these simple facts have
been
withheld from us. Enslaved by fear we are manipulable. Freed with the
knowledge
or our heavenly ancestry, who is to say what we could believe ourselves
to be. Perhaps a lesson plan for our next historical epoch. Of course,
we can't completely blame the church. Truth is subject to show itself
no
matter how we try to hide it. This information has permeated our
culture
to the extent of begging for recognition. We have chose not to look.
Why?
Thus the second question relative to seeking the mysteries. Do I really
want to know who and why I am?
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