Everyone knows what it is like to have someone try and use guilt to coerce them in to doing something and bending their will. It is likely that each of us have had someone in our lives that has consistently used this tactic to try and manipulate us. However, we are about to discuss a much more powerful and more deeply rooted guilt that Western culture has placed upon almost the entire world. We are going to be discussing the guilt that stems from the idea that we are damned, imperfect, flawed, sinful, and even downright evil according to some Western thought. This idea is so stained into our culture that most go through life without ever considering another option. This is especially true for those of us who are spiritual seekers. The idea that we are sinners and in need of a savior stems from Christian dominated culture. However, one should understand that the true message of Jesus and of much of the Bible is very different and very uplifting. We will revisit this inconsistency between Christianity and the teachings of the Bible later in the article. Continuing, the Christian governments and religious institutions may have begun innocently enough. However, we would have to be foolish not to see that governments and leaders have exploited the success of Christianity for their own benefit. Would it not benefit a King to have the clergy instruct the peasants to pay their taxes “for God”? Would it not be of obvious benefit for the clergy to ask the same thing for themselves in the way of tithes? How then can you convince the people that they actually need to give their money to you? You have to offer a service. People do not pay for nothing. You have to convince them that what you are offering is important and that they need it. First, the Church offers eternal life. This, of course, attracts a large crowd. However, what is required to keep the people coming back for more once they learn of this eternal life? How do you ensure that they return to pay their tithes and listen to the clergy again and again? This is where the guilt comes in. In order to convince people that they needed the services the church has to offer, you have to convince them that they are naturally flawed and sinful. If you convince people that they are lost, badly damaged, and in need help because they simply lack the ability to help themselves then they will, of course, seek the help you have convinced them they need. You must convince them that their very existence is painful, evil, and destructive. You must make them feel like they are worthless and pitiful. You must make them feel guilty for even being alive. This is precisely what Christianity, in conjunction with governments, has done over the centuries. Christianity took parables, anecdotes, symbolic tales, and misunderstood ideas from the Bible as well as many religions around the world in order to create the perfect control mechanism that operated on guilt. Over the centuries, this idea of original sin and the imperfection of humanity took root and grew deep. The guilt of being born evil as well as the fear of being damned for eternity created perfect conditions for control. It is important to remember that in the early days of Christianity, the common people could not typically read. Often, they were not even permitted to learn how to read. Even for the ones who could read their native language, the Bible was often not permitted to be translated. Mass production did not exist and neither did printing presses. The Bible was a document that the common man simply was ignorant of with no way to overcome that ignorance. This ignorance provided the controllers with even more control. Once they had the people feeling good and guilty about their own existence, they hit them with the fear of Hell. Then, once the fear really set in, they told them that this one book had all the answers. Since the vast majority could not read the Bible, they were more than willing to listen to the clergy and controllers tell them exactly what God’s Will was. They listened intently as they were instructed on how to purify the evil they were born with and how to escape their flawed nature. All of this was made possible by the greatest guilt trip ever attempted. Now, this mentality has been so heavily solidified in Western culture that even the non-religious or anti-Christians often hold it. This guilt is still leveraged by governments and religious organizations. We are expected to believe that we are not good enough and that there is simply no possible way that we can rely on ourselves. We NEED church. We NEED the government’s help. We NEED to do what we are told because if we don’t we are messing the whole thing up and we should feel guilty. We come in to this world and by the time we are old enough to talk we have already started to feel like we have to prove our worth to the world and overcome this guilt. What does the Bible really have to say about the matter? Sure, there are scriptures that can be used to justify the idea of being born into a sinful nature. I would like to remind the reader at this point of the literacy issues of our ancestors. When Christianity was up and coming, most of humanity could not read the Bible nor the texts from which it was derived. How easy then would it be to simply make the Bible say whatever it needs to say in order to justify the doctrine of the church? Further, much of the Bible is symbolism. While the interpretation of this symbolism may seem hard to find, the truth is actually the contrary. The symbolism employed in much of both the Old and New Testaments is not new or particular to Christianity. The symbolism is well understood and can been seen in thousands of other texts both of antiquity and more modern times. Back to the topic at hand, what does the Bible really say about our nature?
The truth is that Jesus was never attempting to promote himself as THE God. Jesus was attempting to be an example for the whole world and that is exactly what he did. We find again and again Jesus revealing his knowledge of Self and imploring the rest of us to do the same.
John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. For those familiar with occult doctrine and knowledge of Self, the symbolism within these scriptures is unmistakable and easily deciphered. Even more evidence can be found within the story of Jesus’s crucifixion. Jesus was crucified in place of Barabbas. What does Barabbas mean in the native tongue? It literally means ‘son of the father’. Is it not strange that Jesus claimed that exact title many, many times? To me, this symbolizes the interchangeability between Jesus and Barabbas. They hold the same titles because Barabbas is just as divine as Jesus. It is the final symbol attempting to set in stone the idea that we are all the same as Jesus and that we are all Divine. This is drastically different from the image of ourselves that Christianity and Western culture wants us to adopt. There is a distinct difference in a call to recognize your own divinity to save yourself and a call to accept your flawed nature and allow some other divinity to save you. One concept breeds self-sufficiency and confidence while the other breeds a victim mentality and a need for outside support. Which of those models is better for crowd control and manipulation? Once someone accepts that they and they alone are responsible for their own salvation, they begin to dislike things that negatively affect their efforts. They begin to resist what culture and rulers think is best for them and prefer to figure out the best route for themselves, by themselves. They begin to question the world around them and demand evidence rather than being led with blindfolds on. They begin to want to experience the Divine for themselves rather than be told about it from a platform on Sunday mornings. For these reasons (among others) the controllers want us to feel helpless, in need, pathetic, damaged, flawed, and guilty for being that way. They want this guilt to drive us right into their arms so that they can instill fear and create faithful servants who do not ask questions but simply rely on faith in some higher power or governing body. Reject this nonsensical way of life. Do not view yourself as weak and in need of a savior but look for the savior within yourself. Recognize that “ye are gods” and that this mortality is but a condition of material existence. Experience the Divine for yourself. Acquire knowledge for yourself. Do not be a victim but rather, be the Kings and Queens of your own lives. “If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.
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Bob Donlen
10/4/2016 01:39:39 am
This is very good! People need more of this.
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Joe LeBlanc
6/21/2017 12:22:37 pm
Excellent. I agree 100%. What bothers me is that if you study certain other religions you can find deviations in their own scriptures that start around the time of Jesus and/or Jesus' death. The guilt thing is really quite widespread.
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Thank You for publishing this post. It is fantastic.
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