Mysticism and Trust Models

In Christian Mysticism, models for trust have no significance.

It’s hard to break a system that doesn’t exist. Our “system” manifests here, but isn’t rooted here. By moving everything of importance into the moral sphere of the heart, human frailties are of no real consequence. You do not have to trust yourself, much less anyone else. Our whole operation places full trust in God, who stands outside all systems. We invest everything in Him and leave the results in His hands. We accept whatever returns to us from Him. There is nothing to lose, so trust is not an issue between us.

Each time I write and post, you are morally obliged to filter that post as if it were a fresh application for your attention. Anyone can spoof my name; a few could spoof my writing. God alone can make you believe it. My investment in time and resources goes straight to God as merely my obedience to Him. You owe me nothing. The discretion to cease paying attention rests within you. My payoff is in the obedience itself, not your response. Your payoff is an affirmation that improves the dominion of your heart over your mind.

And it doesn’t hurt that I regularly warn you to test my words — all the more so when we look at the actual security leaks from similar services. If I don’t own you, I can’t lose you. If you choose to stay linked, you retain full authority to disappear without notice and without fear of retribution in any form.

There would be a stronger emotional link if we met in the flesh. Our online format makes that exceedingly difficult, so that bonding requires a far stronger impetus from God. Yet you remain aware that my involvement is subject to sudden end without notice, for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with my wishes.

All that’s left is the immeasurable changes in each of us, something that represents our trust in God in the first place. It might be emotionally uncomfortable to cut this virtual link between us, but the link itself presumes to teach the strength to get past that.

Whatever requires protection cannot be guarded on our level. We have a hard enough time communicating something that is beyond words in the first place. We are forced to encrypt our discussions in the moral language of parables. Genuine communication requires a moral decryptor built into your soul. People unable to operate on the moral plane could hardly grasp any of it, so we can be wide open about everything. Anyone who can understand can’t possibly threaten us.

Learn this well, because should God ever grant you a fellowship of like souls in meat space, you’ll need the armoring in your soul to prevent the folly that has ruined religion for millions of people in times past.

Keep this “trust model” for religion outside this virtual parish.