Perception and Action

Being a mystic is no excuse for doing whatever makes me feel good.

The biggest boondoggle in mysticism is the natural confusion between emotion and spirit. Contending that human nature includes at least a capacity for something above the intellect does little good if we allow something below the intellect to rule too often. Western Civilization fundamentally rejects the possibility that there could be a spiritual plane, and that hard-wired assumption stains all our efforts to rise above the reliance on something so inadequate as mere human intelligence for the really important questions in life.

We have to show that our connection to the Spirit Realm offers better answers, even if folks reject the individual answers we might offer. Our testimony of enlightenment is not in sound bites, but in the broader effect of our daily presence in a blind world. Folks, we have access to the ultimate truth from the One who made this world and still controls it!

So when Christians grovel at the feet of very evil people and their political agenda, it has the effect of openly blaspheming our Savior. God knows, the Neo-con agenda is probably the most painfully obvious failure here, but it can be just as bad on the Progressive side of politics. Everybody is dragging Jesus down into their very fallible human solutions when He literally fled that very thing when He walked this earth.

Does it occur to anyone we do not have to settle for any of the popular answers? Does it occur to anyone that, when Western Civilization itself is such a boundless cesspool of sin and evil from it’s very roots, that none of the answers arising from that cesspool can possibly make a sweet smell? What’s the point of having the Holy Spirit in your life if your entire mindset pre-programs all the allowable responses outside His truth?

Brothers and sisters, it will always be possible to find collections of words in Scripture that vaguely resemble your political slogans, but that simply proves that you can’t be bothered to understand Scripture. It’s not a book of magic spells. Words do not create or change reality; it requires a fundamental alignment with the invisible moral fabric of the universe. If you can get that, your words become nothing more than a feeble carrier of something far more important, something rooted outsider our cursed fallen existence.

The Lord Our God chose Hebrew Mysticism as the one best way on this earth to transmit His truth. The Bible is an Eastern Mystical book written by and about an Eastern Mystical religion. If you claim to take Jesus seriously, stop ripping His guts out. He is the shepherd of souls and commander of angels, not of troops of mere flesh and machinery. For all their power, angels obey a moral imperative for which the human soul is born blind, and which the human mind is incapable of discerning on its own powers. You have to rise above the human plane in some sense before you get a clue. God’s own redeemed saints are easily the most vicious oppressors on this earth.

The world cannot take mysticism seriously if we never avail ourselves of its power.