Messiah
If we believe that everybody that comes into this world is effectively the physical vehicle for the manifestation of God, then a look into the history of how these physical vehicles have made it good for themselves — by examining the history of the human race — then it is obvious that no individual has succeeded in using any supernatural divine power, while at the same time being fully aware of what it is that needs to be done to create the eutopia that is required. There have been no rulers or leaders who have exploited the powers which should be available for a being that is the ultimate evolution of the universe, otherwise we would already be in a eutopia now. There has been no messiah. We are not saved. The concept of being saved is of our being saved from the oppression and limitations of our inadequate human society. It is this suffering that everyone wants to be saved from, and this is not achieved with the platitude of an imaginary after life.
To be sold a concept which alleviates your fear of death by promising a continuation of it to assuage the discontinuity problem, is the act of a conman. Life after death is using the experience of dreaming and projecting it into a simile of waking up after the dream of your life has ended. It ignores the mechanism that is providing the creation of these experiences — the mind — the very thing that is causing the unease in the first place.
Your understanding of the soul comes from early childhood concepts derived from poorly explained efforts by adults who themselves were only given the same confused mumblings from similarly ignorant people. It was never properly explained to you.
Justice is also wound up into the after life, but justice is a human society concept; it is not real. It is human society that divides up right and wrong. To cater for the examples of injustice that occur during your life, an afterlife is created to balance it all out. It is not real. Only the human mind creates this concept. There is no dichotomy in the divine. Good and evil are man-made concepts; any judgement is coming from society. To try and make sense of it another world is created rather than recognise that the philosophy is wrong.
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It isn't about a special person saving us, it is about every human being, being special. If you're following someone, you are admitting that you are not special. The person who you are following has failed to liberate you if you are still following them. You can't understand if you are following someone else; when you understand, you are the special person and you understand that everyone is special. It is only ourselves that can save us; understanding that, is our great liberator: we each are our own messiah.
If you consider who it is that has made human society, you know that it is no-one that has done it, but that it has happened just in the same way as the universe itself has happened. It is all the composing parts of it that contribute into the forming of it without any overall guiding hand that can see the result before it happens. Society hasn't developed due to the efforts of one person or by the design of anyone in particular. It has evolved by an invisible means in a natural and self-creating process just like evolution and the creation of the universe itself. There will be individuals along the way who can be attributed with having been influential in instigating certain changes and improvements, but they will only have been an inevitably small part of a much greater movement to the end that they foresaw and followed, and their implementation of the changes necessary to produce this could not have been achieved without the process already being underway. It all depends upon inter-dependent activations that are already occurring, and the individuals who are awarded the credit are part of the process itself and are powerless without the rest of it happening. They are just corks which pop to the surface without any choice in the matter at all. Their characteristics suit the environment of their time and they are as much the catalysed as they are the catalyst. I think most of them might actually know this and it is just the hero worshipping of others that creates the pedestal to their acclamation.
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The glimmer of someone knowing what the truth really is, is the rallying call of religions to the lost mundaners who will believe just about anything they are told to try to escape the forlorn prospect of a meaningless life. But no one knows. Those who take on the mantle were the ones that were themselves lost, who only repeat what they were told and have risen through the ranks until there age and experience creates the situation of there being no one more knowledgeable than them to tell them that they are pretending and to stop their hubris. They may even still cling to their original concepts from before their indoctrinations, which survive because they were not entirely supplanted, because they were not truly told how it really is. Your concept of God has probably barely changed since your first imaginings of it because no one has given you a proper alternative to it; it was never explained to you, and you still do not know, because neither does anyone else. But that is not an excuse to carry on with it.
Everyone has within them the innate understanding of who they are at the divine level. This isn't something that you need to be told and if you are, you are most likely to doubt your own understanding and think that there is something more due to the different language. Those who pretend to have a spiritual monopoly convince you by their concealed knowledge and assumptions of your ignorance. But it is they who are ignorant and project that ignorance upon you. We are all human beings with the same root consciousness and the same access to the divine. There is no knowledge to obtain — it isn't about that.
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The difference between my religion and others is that I assume that everybody already knows, while the others like to assume that it is only they that do. The elitism that this creates within their organisation allows power and ego to exist. The denigration of others that this allows, ruins the whole point of it all.
Jesus didn't write anything down because he knew that people would just worship the words, which unfortunately is what has happened anyway. Socrates and Buddha and any number of other prime leaders of new philosophical doctrines, also did not write anything down and their meanings have only come from those who followed them. But those who follow another cannot know themselves, and by their very behaviour are unknowingly advertising that they do not understand. This is where all religions have come from: the followers.
You'll never find Jesus by reading the bible. It was written by those who did not know. They were the followers, and their concepts and interpretations are those of someone who does not have full understanding. Their reverence for someone else is proof that they did not become the same person or know them deep within themselves. When you know, you do not follow someone else. When you know, you throw the book away because you can see how misleading it all is. When you have achieved the same level as someone you previously looked up to, you can see it all as being no big deal. It isn't that great when you can finally do it. It is just natural and what is supposed to be and is only special before you could do it. So don't trust the pupil. At best they are pretending to know what is important and what needs relaying; they do not have the true concept which would liberate them from their discipline. They are chasing their own tails because of the tales of fiction of other fanatical followers. Still children, looking up to older children who know just a little bit more and then becoming the same pretenders they were, hiding their own ignorance from themselves.
The godhood that is believed of Jesus, is the same godhood that we can imagine is within us. But this godhood is a mental construct and is applied to a physical being, and if you try to exceed its boundaries you will burn, bleed and be crucified. It was the crucifixion that was the proving grounds for transcending the physical, but there has never been a supernatural escape. It was on the cross that Jesus had the perfect opportunity to prove himself supernaturally, but he didn't. This was the supreme test and he failed. This was his opportunity to show his godhood but he existed only in the physical flesh and only our fiction of godhood allows us to transcend this.
Jesus failed. As did all the witches in their drownings and burnings, which showed that none had the supernatural powers they were accused of. Only followers and fanatics presume these traits upon their idols who as soon as they are put under the proving tests, all die. They are flesh, they are the same as you and I.
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At about 7 years old I could trace an understanding of who Jesus was at a certain level, which I could also see within myself. This knowing that I was the same as Jesus — and that everyone else was too at this level (and that even the miracles were possible too) — is something I believe that everyone can remember but are too afraid to talk about or investigate themselves further to confirm it. It is a societal taboo because Jesus has been made a god and the hero worshippers of him do not understand how they have been manipulated. Religiosity has shot itself in the foot by putting the role models on too high a pedestal, when it should really be the case that we all should be like him, and that deep down we actually are. That was the point; that was what he meant that only through him would we go to heaven. Only by being him and what he was and what we all are, can we fulfil our destiny and create a eutopia for ourselves and live in the paradise that is already here now.
Even at that age I knew I had to keep quiet about it or I would be stoned to death, and there was no-one I could tell — not even my mother — though I can remember considering telling her and restrained myself from doing so. Anyone who does not know this and has not investigated their past for understanding, is not even on the path to knowing. Self-realisation is when you don't try to hide that you know you are the same as Jesus. This is the only way that Jesus can save you — by you being him at a core level. If you believe that he was supernatural then you have condemned yourself to never being able to live up to his example, and the whole point of everything that he was is undone. We all have the same First Self and we can recognise everyone else within this — even Jesus. How else can we have compassion?
When you find yourself, you find everyone else too. When you know yourself, you know that part in all others also. When you truly love yourself, you can't help but love everyone else too. This is the First Self; it is within everybody. This First Self is an angel, but by the time we have the ability to convey our message, we have forgotten and been downtrodden. The avatar that we are has become suppressed in our attempt to obey society and fit in. Our light has been put out by the wardens of religion.
