Christianity is the big, real mystery religion 2

Part 1 here.

We hear and ultimately read the Bible, and if it regenerates us really it is an experience of seeing the truth. Truth is like light in this sense. We see the light.

Now as one who sees the light we are at odds with our surroundings because most people are in the darkness, yet they can vaguely discern when somebody has crossed the threshold into the light. The spiritual landscape is an analogue to this physical realm we live and breathe in. People can vaguely sense the spiritual realm. Not via senses - knowingly - yet vaguely sense it nonetheless.

So as now an initiate into this big, real mystery religion called Christianity, the true mystery religion, we develop more and more in the way of being able to see truth. More and more truth. It's painful at times. It goes against all we use to think, perhaps what we've held dear. It goes against all the old songs we've always sung about ourselves and the world. Truth strikes me as hard. Clear yet hard and perhaps sharp.

Seeing the truth about man's condition or state in general; and about the great plan being played out in historical time, is one thing. I think it is more common for initiates to see those things. But to see truth about ourselves, to shine light into the inner recesses of our fallen being...that, I believe, is the more difficult and more rare development. It is why religious figures (leaders, educators) come across as shallow. They aren't all that different in terms of self-knowledge as anyone else.

And yet the New Testament - the very teachings of Jesus Himself - are all about this shining of light on the darkness of our inner fallen being and nature.

Jesus doesn't just talk about truth in this sense, but also love. Another difficult, basic, thing we often neglect to focus on to the same degree and in the same manner as we focus on other things like justification. It's because love involves how we act. Not in a sanctimonious or moralizing sense, but in the sense of a soldier of Christ on a real spiritual battlefield. Loving our enemy doesn't make us 'good' it makes us effective. Effective soldiers. It also is a sign of inner command and control.

Seeing truth and acting in love. Whenever I am thinking of terms and I can't find three of them (like goodness, truth, and beauty; or like understanding, consciousness, and will) but only two as is the case now with truth and love it usually means they are representative of things we do. Like what some call sacraments. Or like the Two Great Commandments of Jesus to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. Or prayer and fasting.

A language I've adopted to sort out and see clearly these neglected teachings of Christianity is the esoteric, or practical language known as the Work, or Fourth Way (mainly as Ouspensky explicated it). It's used by cults (just as the Bible is used by cults). My rule has always been: exploit everything, join nothing. It keeps you alone, but it frees you to climb continuously to the summit of the mountain, and to even go beyond summit. Other people stay on the valley floor or get stuck at Base Camp #1 or Base Camp #2 or 3 because that is where the group is. Or that is where the world says it is OK to be.

The part of the Work language that would sync with what I've written above is conscious shocks. Specifically two conscious shocks. They correspond to Jesus' great commands, when you know both the Bible and the Work to a great enough extent, which pretty much nobody does. Work people tend to be New Age shallow, and Bible people tend to be scared of the open sea. Or easily dissuaded by the world from going into certain directions and areas of influence. Which is called fearing the world. The Bible says fear God, it is the beginning of wisdom. Because when you fear God alone you don't fear man or the world or their opinion of you.

I believe a thoroughly initiated Christian needs three pillars of understanding:

1. The Bible and doctrine derived from it. Hard doctrine. Doctrine that our fallen nature is not comfortable with. Calvinism. Reformed Theology. Doctrine that says what the Bible says.

2. Worldview analysis. This brings in philosophy in a practical way to a Christian's understanding.

3. What I might call biblical psychology, which is ancient psychology and not what has passed for psychology since the turn of the 20th century. Psychology as most people know it is the study of the sub-normal (and it is worse than that as well, it is making the sub-normal the normal). Real psychology begins with the normal (the good householder, to use the metaphor of the Bible) and explains what is possible above that and what is holding everything back. The idea is nature only develops us so far, then only effort to gain understanding and control gets us to further plateaus. In doctrinal terms this is progressive sanctification, and involves God-reliant effort (because really only the regenerated can engage in such effort). It studies difficult things like all the types of lying we engage in (which highlights truth by contrast). See in the Bible where truth is mentioned with lying numerous times. The only language I know of for this third pillar of understanding is the Work, or Fourth Way, in the main books by Ouspensky. It is a sophisticated language, worthy of a discerning Christian (and I emphasize discerning because no influence other than the word of God is all wheat and no chaff).

TRUTH

Truth is the basic thing. It is objective, absolute, eternal.

Truth is understanding yourself, the world around you, and the big picture.

To see truth, see lying.

Truth is discerning on-the-mark, off-the-mark.

Truth becomes almost like a medium you walk in. The more developed your level of being the more truth you are able to perceive. The more the language and languages of special and general revelation you have in you the more truth you can see.

Truth and sanctimony are enemies.

Christ is truth because Christ's life is God's plan of redemption, the big picture; and Christ's teaching is self-awareness and understanding. He is what we're to conform to individually.

Q Anon (Questions and Answers)

Here's a good link to a few questions and answers on the Q Anon phenomenon.

It's from a Reddit forum set up by people involved in it at 4chan and elsewhere. The link to the main forum which is called CBTS_Stream (Calm Before the Storm) is here.

I find Reddit to be confusing (just like 4chan). These sites just seem horrible to the eyes.

Tracy Beanz on YouTube is a good source. Her Q Anon videos are numbered up to 13 (or XIII) now. Anti School on YouTube is also good. Both know the editors (the Bakers) at the 'chans' who are involved in all this. - C.

ps- Much of this has to do with internet culture which is foreign to me. These guys and gals seem to be hyper red pilled. It's surprising to hear young people who sound like they do say things that are conservative, insightful of globalism and all that, and even Christian. They call it the awakening.

This is how you develop...

"We read all of the Bible because what we read in it is not what we immediately know we need. It embeds in the heart and brings forth fruit later."

I don't know who wrote the above quote. Maybe I did. It was on a file on my computer. I seem to vaguely remember it was written by someone on their blog. Anyway, it's a concise and clear way of saying: just read the Bible. Complete.

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Reading the Bible in dedicated, cover-to-cover complete readings is like planting seeds that result in a harvest in time. That harvest is understanding and ability to see more of ourselves and the world around us. Also to discern good and evil. To know which way is up.

Many if not most individuals today are indoctrinated to degrees not seen other than in overtly totalitarian states. Indoctrinated by the culture in general via media and 'entertainment' and also via public 'education.' The indoctrination is not just what to think but also instilling attitudes in us when young that tend to control us when we leave the classroom.

In my day we were told over and over that the world was going to end in one way or another (by nuclear holocaust, by food shortage and overpopulation, by global cooling...). Telling children these things over and over has a horrid effect on decisions they make in life and their attitude towards life in general. It's Satanic. I can't help but envision the looks of demonic pleasure on the faces of the teachers who were dutifully impressing these things into us. Based on it I probably should have become a teacher, but I really didn't think of becoming anything (and my age group where I grew up were all similar). When I was in public school it wasn't the 3 R's, it was how many ways can we destroy these children who should have been aborted anyway? It really was that bad. And what a pathetic waste of time. 13 years of public school and your first few years out of that hell pit you're struggling to recover by reading basic self-help books (or self-confidence books) at 18, 19 years of age. Lucky you can even read that level of material. I was so wasted by the ordeal that when college was proposed to me I said, "That way lies death." Not joking.

We need the armor of God (word and doctrine) and vision of the spiritual battlefield. The younger the better. (Yet better late than never.)

Christianity is the big, real mystery religion

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I've been reading books of the Bible, mainly Paul's letters, in a unique way. I've been putting myself in Paul's shoes as he writes and seeing what he writes in the context of the delivery of info on the mystery religion aspect of Christianity. Maybe this is too subtle to articulate.

Christianity is the big, real mystery religion. And Paul's task is to explain it. Interestingly, you see right away that he doesn't go into it at too great a detail to the esoteric, or practical level. Which is why everybody reads the Bible and is left in a sort of state of limbo regarding it all. I mean we can get the main points and we can become regenerated, but we really have to struggle to see it all as the great mystery of the ages and the workings of it all.

That is what I've been trying to see as I read Paul. It's an interesting approach. - C.

Know what Christian types to avoid

1. Any Christian who makes you walk on egg shells around their precious self avoid.

2. Any Christian who shows you by their body language and their words that they just don't have time for you avoid.

Numbers one and two above make up the large body of the asinine that self-identify as Christian 'pastors' and what not. They are under the authority of demons. Leave them to their masters.

A real Christian is like a street person. A real Christian will talk to anybody and have time for anybody. A real Christian will not have a problem being seen as outside the world, nowhere to go, not having better things to do, etc. In this world not of this world.

A real Christian likes answering questions and knows how to teach, yet doesn't self-identify as a 'teacher.' A real Christian doesn't care if you insult them.

When a real Christian sees or reads (on the internet) someone who is wildly negative to them they don't automatically ban the person or ignore the person. They engage the person.

A real Christian is not a respecter of persons (and knows what that means). No real Christian has a 'guild mindset.' There is no back-slapping, in-joke giggling club for real Christians. Real Christians are outsiders, and not necessarily solely by their own choice.

Why do I say avoid these types? Shouldn't one engage them? They don't want to be engaged by a Christian. When you attempt to engage them you just get rebuffed (usually skillfully, the way the self-involved, worldy-shallow are good at rebuffing people). The problem is a real Christian is naive regarding these types. The real Christian will tend to think they themselves are the problem and not the glass-eyed zombies parading around as 'teachers' (who can't teach) and 'leaders' (who have no clue where to lead). Blind leading the blind.

These types live in an empty world. An impersonal world. If you could see their family lives you'd see similar things going on. They have 'schedules.' No real Christian has a schedule. Other than the Bible they're holding and providence.

What's happening in Washington, D.C. right now, Dec., 2017

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Since the Bolshevik Revolution and the Wilson administration there have always been degrees of globalist creepiness in American government, but the real divide - or Rubicon crossing - happened in the Clinton administration when the sitting President (and his wife) sold military secrets to the Chinese for campaign cash.

This is the divide: they - Bill and Hillary - justified this treasonous act by seeing themselves as having 'evolved' to a higher level of political life where they no longer had to have loyalty to their own country. What was this higher level of political life? Globalism. They now gave themselves, their loyalty, to the globalist paradigm. So anything they did after that point was meaningless within the context of U.S. law.

Humans being human (and in the case of Bill and Hillary, shallow humans being shallowly human) they went on a bender of financial corruption and satisfying of physical pleasures that eventually led them to the world of child trafficking and pedophilia. The money corruption resulted in the Clinton Foundation, a massive financial vehicle for bribery, pay for play, influence peddling, money laundering, you name it.

Move on to the Obama administration and you see all the same except that all of America's enemies now were running the show. China benefiting from Washington putting our economy on hold for them, Arab oil money, Jihadist influence in our government and culture, pedophilia corrupting law enforcement at all levels, and the money scam now having evolved into a simple looting of tax dollars real and in the form of future debt.

Because all of this started at the very top the rot was thorough throughout the government as-well-as any side activities attendant or reliant on government such as the mainstream media.

An argument could be made that the Neocon blood-for-money endless war racket they've been working in Washington for many decades was a prelude and corrupting example to the Clinton's and their ilk, but having just written that I'm reminded that the Clinton's were perfecting their criminal tactics in Arkansas long before arriving in Washington, D.C. The Neocons, though, definitely kicked their own racket into high gear once the shackles of rule of law were loosened from the top of the government.

What we're seeing now is the full demonic show being exposed (due to the provident election of Donald Trump, the greatest threat and enemy the globalists have ever faced) though being exposed without any help from all the mainstream media platforms. This lack of mainstream media covering of any of this makes it all a bit of a lunatic show where all the obvious crimes are hanging out there in mid air for everyone to see, yet with nobody other than in alternative media acknowledging it. Throw in the fact that law enforcement has been corrupted from the Justice Department on down thus taking them out of the picture and Americans are left looking at a strange stage play with skulking characters, very little plot, dialogue that is mostly empty or fake, and scenery that is dark and blurred out.

The crimes have reached the depths though. Hard to go further down than child trafficking, torture, molestation, and murder.

So here we are. The storm is upon us. It's breaking. May evil find its rightful place in the lake of fire once and for all.

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UPDATE: S. of Australia replies: Nice brief summation. Be good to hear your explanation of what globalism IS also.

I reply: My first take has always been this: globalism is Satan asserting dominion over the entire planet. Prior, Satan was constrained from "deceiving the nations" (which means uniting the nations under one banner). He tried it with Islam but never had more than a symbolic third of the planet. He then tried it with Marxism/communism but never had more than a symbolic third of the planet. He's still using Islam and Marxism, but now they are put under the greater banner of globalism. Lately the veil has been torn that protected the Christian lands from these Satanic movements signaling that we are now in a new phase of the end times.

Ronald Reagan said if the United States is overtaken there will be no where left to go (for liberty, for God's people). This is the same idea. There is only so much real estate on the planet. I always have to add, we as Christians are told by God to stand, to confront the Devil, to occupy, not to acquiesce. This tempers us, sanctifies us, and by our example calls out other of God's elect.

Satan first attempted world dominion at the Tower of Babel, and God scattered the people. He put them in their own nations and gave them their own languages. This is how God wants it. Satan wants what God doesn't want. Satan wants a hybrid, mongrel race of humans with no roots and no history, easily enslaved and controlled. No liberty, no prosperity, no culture, no civilization, no rule of law. Only chaos and lunacy and torturers and the tortured. Hell on earth. No memory of God. Satan in God's place. For an example look at Islam's ideal world through the eyes of ISIS; or any of the totalitarian hells of the 20th century.

Quick Rundown of the Q Anon material

If you don't know who or what Q Anon is all about this probably won't interest you, but if you have a vague notion of it all but don't really know what is going on here is a link to a quick rundown (and, a much longer rundown of 117 pages after the quick rundown which is a mere 7 bullet points). I haven't read the 117 pages of the link, but the quick rundown at the top of the page is good enough probably for most people's interest:

Link

An interesting development is somebody on 4chan (the internet message board where Q Anon is posting, it's a message board that maintains anonymity) on Nov. 28 asked Q Anon if President Trump could put the word 'axe' in a tweet to show Q Anon is real. On Nov. 30 the Twitter feed of the FBI - @FBI - posted a tweet with the word axe in it. Q Anon is somebody close to Trump who works in deep state.

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Here is a further post on Q Anon that has even more good, succinct material to get understanding of what is going on.

Some places the Devil owns, some places the Devil attacks

This is how you discern between nations and cultures and religions and civilization regarding good and evil. Instead of observing that fallen man is everywhere on the planet and thus concluding all of the above is equally evil you realize that some places and things the Devil owns, and some places and things the Devil attacks.

For instance the Devil owns Islamic nations, but the Devil attacks Christian nations. In the 20th century the Devil owned communist countries, but the Devil attacked non-communist countries.

In the Devil-owned countries when evil is done it is considered the norm. In countries the Devil attacks when evil is done it is seen as evil and as an exception to the norm.

Big difference.

Evil exists everywhere, and fallen man populates all countries; but not all countries are equal regarding good and evil. Some places the Devil owns, some places the Devil attacks.

Your feet also generally tell you which places the Devil owns and which the Devil attacks. Unless you've been deeply indoctrinated or radicalized you'll tend to move - or want to move - towards places the Devil only attacks, and away from the places the Devil owns.