- Apr 7, 2013
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Thelema, for anyone who does not know, is the belief system founded by the magician, Alistair Crowley:
There actually are parallels between Thelema and Christianity. They both, for instance, are dualist systems. Which is to say that they both teach that God and man are separate beings --- two, not one.
My beliefs are strictly non-dual. God and man are not two, but one. Which is syncretic with Jesus and, hence, is why he told his disciples in the Upper Room that I and my Father are One [John 17:21].
To a strict non-dualist, there is _only_ One Universal Consciousness, which some call God. I AM that I AM. As are you. Your Temple of Nine Gates, your body, is not you. Your body is like a country that the real you dreams it is visiting --- until the real you awakens from the dream.
Christians, being Dualists, accept killing your enemies as being at least sometimes necessary because they think, in error, I am my body. Ergo, sometimes I have to kill my enemy to keep him from killing me. Ergo, my enemy can kill me by killing my body.
Strict non-dualists recognize that nothing your enemy does to your body affects the real you.
Hence, Jesus said:
'Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.'
It is not possible to kill a man who knows Self. He decides if and when to lay down his life and if and when to pick it up again. The Christians do not even begin to understand what Jesus was taking about, which is why they have always fought their wars, their Crusades, and their War on Terror.
After reading your post about your near-death experience which, incidentally, is shared by people worldwide, of all religions, faiths and creeds as well as a couple of people I know personally, and now this post, your ideas on God and man are coming off as conceived by someone who is more delusional than religious. Putting your insignificant mortal life on the same level as Jesus' immortality is more megalomanical than blasphemous, and codifying His divinity as some sort of "non-dualist" as well as purporting to understand the Creator's mind proves you don't know as much about Him or Christianity as think you do.
As for your contention of knowing the "Christian" mind is, well, again, delusional. Wars, Crusades, War on Terror? Sorry, but White and Christian are not synonymous.