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JOSEPH CAMPBELL

THE LIGHT BULB

I quote Joseph Campbell from his book Myths To Live By.

His words below are in brown

and mine are in black

What is important about a lightbulb      is not the

filament or the glass but the light.

 And what is important about each of us is not the body

and its nerves but the consciousness

that shines through them.

And when one lives for that instead of for

protection of the bulb one is

in Buddha consciousness.

But what do our religions actually teach.

Not the way to an experience of identity

with the Godhead since that is the

prime heresy according to them,  

but the way and the means to establish

and maintain a relationship to a named God.

And how is such a relationship to be achieved.

Only through membership in a certain

supernaturally endowed

uniquely favored social group.

The Old Testament has a covenant with

a certain historic people, the only holy race,

the only holy thing in fact on earth,

and according to Christians

they can only get in on that through

the incarnation of Christ Jesus who is to be

known as true God and true man,

which in the Christian view is a miracle

whereas in the Orient everyone is to be

known as true God and true man.

And how do we confirm in life

our relationship to that one and only God Man.

Through baptism and thereby

 spiritual membership in his Church

which is to say, once again through a social instruction.

Our whole knowledge to the universally

known guiding symbols of the unfolding

mysteries has been by the way of the

claims of these two self sanctified

historical social groups( Christianity and Judaism),.

And the claims of both have today

been disqualified, historically, astronomically,

biologically and every other way and everybody knows it.

No wonder our clergymen look anxious

and their congregations confused.

Joseph Campbell talks about the crucifixion

in a beautiful and truthful way

that overwhelms the traditional teachings

of sacrifice to appease God.

The sacrifice of Jesus was not

as a payment to the father

in atonement for Adams sin.

Rather it was an act of willing

self immolation in love,

intended to invoke in response

the return of mankinds love

from worldly concerns, to God.

THE CRUCIFIXION WITHIN YOU

BRINGS FORTH SALVATION

In other words Jesus

is the life force inside of you,

ready and willing to be sacrificed,

so that the lower physical power that

now controls you can be replaced by

the higher non physical power

of cosmic light, cosmic God.