Mysticism Notes 2

One of the hardest habits to break is taking too seriously your human perceptions. That’s because the hardest truth to grasp is how this world is one big lie.
Paul wrote several different places in his letters that human sorrow serves the purpose of driving us out of our human selves and into His arms. That fancy imagery translates properly into the clinical act of disassociating from your human attachments. We learn that we continue operating within the false realm of the spiritual prison, but build a greater trust for revelation. That our prison of false “reality” is at war with revelation should offer no surprises.
I could wish for a switch I could turn off and stop my emotions from dragging me down to wallow in the prison existence again. It’s not that easy. Everything in our wiring militates against the truth. Even the truth God permits us to see through His Laws is hard to credit. Yes, I have every confidence in God’s Laws, but setting up an experiment to prove it all clinically is not going to happen. The Laws don’t work that way. Mercy can open the door of a human heart to believe the Laws; grace alone can awaken a dead spirit to the higher truth. Once those things happen, you are in a war with yourself and over yourself.
Your emotions and intellect can quickly become traitors to the cause of truth.
I will offer this one thing: For those of us whom God has awakened, the multiple failures of our human expectations are proof we cannot trust the flesh. The hardest lesson to learn then, is pulling away from your own feelings and thoughts, of recognizing there is something in you above the intellect which knows the truth and tries so hard to break through the blindness of the flesh. That comes close to a clinical description of faith, learning to trust that inner voice from a higher plane.
The image of Mr. Spock from Star Trek is fiction, not humanly possible. From the earliest times of recorded human thoughts, we recognize people have tried to build a life around pure reason. It ain’t happenin’. It won’t fix anything, least of all your own internal conflicts, never mind the conflicts around you. Plato’s brand of mysticism is a lie, one of the greatest threats to Christianity still today. He did his best to destroy the biblical concept of the spirit and the Other Realm by insisting there was nothing beyond the reach of reason. Aristotle made it only worse. If your spirit remains dead, I suppose you don’t have anything better to hope for, but for those called into the Spirit Realm, it’s a detour into lies.
Christ is seated on His throne in Heaven and Heaven is a realm apart. It is the ultimate reality, while this existence here below is a lie.