Catholics
Hmm. I'm sure many of you are sitting there asking how and why would this person discuss such a dogmatic and ignorant (in some peoples opinion) religion.
There is something that some may know and others haven't a clue. That is Catholics, True Catholics have their origin in seeking understanding of their faith. This means that you should question everything about your faith so you can fully understand it with clarity and experience. This is something even I myself was very ignorant of at some point.
This, many would say goes against everything many know about the church and Catholicism in general. However this is exactly what St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo preached. He was one of the trail blazers to bring philosophy of the Greeks into the religion. Even metaphysics wasn't far from his thoughts. Raised by christian and pagan parents he had little choice, but to soak it all up, whatever form knowledge took. Never did he forget nor erase his teachings that he learned along the way during his life, even with his faith. That in itself is courageous and pretty respectful.
What is fascinating about Catholics is that they have brought so much confusion and misinterpretations to the forefront that many people today look at it as if they were ignorant fools who speak from an unknowing and detached perspective from reality. This could be nothing further from the truth.
If one were to take time and look into this religion they would find so much wisdom and experience that a spiritual person couldn't begin to dream of what they would be able to learn about the cosmos, spirit, life, God, history.
Now I am not saying this is the best religion to any degree. I actually feel that religion is no longer as important or possibly needed to have a genuine personal divine experience with the higher dimensions of consciousness and dimensions that are the many mansions mentioned so often in the texts.
What I am saying is if you would look at the Vatican as a modern day Library of Alexandria you would possibly come to an agreement that they do have so much information tucked away in their little treasure trove of lost and secret mysteries. Think about the fact that they have libraries of ancient wisdom that are from the very people who wrote them. Actual and tangible artifacts of ancient truth. Art that we only have replicas of or have never been shown the light of day. Original scientific knowledge and experiments documented from the many builders of the foundation of what science is today. Music that immediately delivers a profound feeling of transcendence. And to this day research that is current and daily forming from observation and studies of our cosmos. Anytime you hear about the Vatican you hear about original objects and anything that was important in human history.
Here is my hope and prayer
That the Vatican will make public what humanity holds to be important to our foundation as a human race. To reveal their secrets and drop the ignorant blocked walls of closure from the world and reality that needs it. I watched the TV show Curiosity yesterday with Stephen Hawking commentary. Its his show really. And in the beginning their are articles of how the Vatican was upset and angry with his opinion of Heaven not existing. This is the exact disservice I am talking about. How can you have people believe in faith and personal truth, when you discount and put down someone elses opinion? How can that person along their path and through their own experience be wrong? The answer? They can't. Everyone has a right and freedom to understanding the truth and how it works in their life. The people who believe in a higher aspect or divine principle that guides us are the ones who can help others experience that divine truth, by us being the example and sharing this experience we have had along our journey and remind them that everyone is worth something, everyone is connected deeply, and that light flickers within everyone whether you see it or not. If you see it then help another see the light that blazes courageously and without haste nor embarrassment. Show them the light that shines within themselves. Be the light so they can know its not so dark outside. Its only dark if you can't see your light. The light burns always though regardless of your forgetfulness.I wonder what the many religions of the world have as secrets that humanity could learn from develop and integrate into their own personal search toward a higher understanding of the source/universe/spirit/love/and their reconnection to the universe that hides within us all?
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion. [1 Timothy 1.7]
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- Mirror Living I ask you is this the Catholicism you are familiar with? Or one that is very foreign to you even though it was a building block for this religion?Maybe this is how they help to make this prayer come to reality
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