posted September 14, 2006 03:48 AM
The belief in individual autonomy
is the result of man's inability
to view components as part of the whole.That all things bleed into one another,
and lose the appearance of separateness,
is clear to anyone who exercises
the ability to see things peripherally,
and to turn one's head,
in order to perceive more than what
is immediately visible of the world.
The viewpoint of an individual is narrow and materialistic
if it does not take flight on the wings of the intellect,
in order to perceive a bird's-eye-view of creation.
The imagination, like a phoenix, can climb higher still.
A god's-eye-view perceives ALL things
as components of a larger whole,
and the choices of a limited mind/will
as determined by the machinations of the One Mind/Will.
Who fails to consider the relationship
of a limited mind/will to the larger Mind/Will
of which it is an infinitesimal part,
does so at the bidding of his/her ego,
which is ever fearful of being lost in the Greater Whole.
"Whosoever would save a self shall lose it,
but whosoever would lose a self for the sake of the Kingdom,
shall have life everlasting."
This is true.
It is not politically correct.
It is not popular.
It does not cater to the whims of the masses
and their egoistic, delusional preconceptions,
lauded in the jargon of the "new age".
I do not expect to be agreed with,
or applauded for my honesty,
on account of having said it.
But, I would request that anyone who
might think to accuse me of disrespect,
ask themselves this question:
Whether it shows more respect for a person
to speak to them as one might speak to a small child,
incapable of chewing his or her own meat
(or even swallowing and digesting it at all),
or to speak to them as one might speak to a grown person,
capable of chewing his or her own meat
(and swallowing and digesting it without internal complaint).
"Milk for babes, and meat for strong men."
"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly;
but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known."
Lindaland
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