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Kirtanman
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 Posted - Jun 11 2009 : 9:56:21 PM
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A great overview of Sin & Redemption from Tau Malachi (leader of the Sophian Gnosticism Forum; author of Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ and other books) -->
"The truth of redemption through sin we see in the fall – that apparent sin is the invocation of Christ, for without the fall the Divine Incarnation of Christ would never occur. Thus, there is an involution for the sake of evolution, a play of apparent dreaming for the sake of awakening.
If I were an archer, and at the outset repeatedly missed the target, and this went on for a long time, but eventually I became a master marksman, hitting the bull’s eye perpetually, and able to pull off all manner of different astonishing feats, like splitting arrows, long-range shots striking moving targets, and the like, then all of my missing the mark would be integral to my mastery of the bow. In a similar way, sin, which literally means “missing the mark,” is completely integral to redemption, or “hitting the mark.”
Souls are awakened, actualized and realized, through an experiential journey, and trial and error is an integral part of that journey – in the fruition of the journey, at least as understood from the perspective of the present human condition, we will find that sin and death never substantially self-existed."
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Sophian Forum Thread - Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: Binah.
So often, in the paths of spirituality and consciousness, we feel a sense of moving from "bad" to "good" ... from failing to succeeding ... as opposed to simply from dreaming to awake.
And even then, there tends to be an evaluation of the dream as "bad".
Tau Malachi's comments drive home an essential point:
The dream ... the thought-self .... thinking we are who we think we are ... ... being affected by sin, and in need of redemption (<--- per the Christian model) .... is far more than "not bad" .... it's *essential*.
Not to mention that Tau Malachi helpfully highlights how concepts such as "sin" and "redemption" can be useful symbols, pointing to truth and consciousness -- as opposed to simply being psychologically violent or grossly misunderstood -- as these symbols/teachings ("sin" & "redemption") are, in so much of the religious world.
Enlightenment cannot exist without dreaming (aka "sin" ... the original meaning of which is simply "to miss the mark" ... hence Tau Malachi's archery-related illustration).
Formless awareness must become conscious of itself through form.
Which entails identifying with that form (aka thinking "I'm this body-mind") .... and coming to understand via (yogic) experience ... that we ... true nature ... are not the form ... we are the emptiness ... informing the form.
You are not a bundle of sin, mistakes and contradictions.
You are the Glory of God ... the literal means and vehicle of the awakening of infinite being to its own fulfillment as infinite, embodied consciousness - the very shining of the One Infinite Eternal Sun - Now.
Humanity *is* the exquisite, perfect union of infinite awareness and its ever-oscillating forms.
As are you.
It can only be *thought* otherwise.
Perfect simply means "whole".
Ditto "Salvation" (from the Greek Soteria, which comes from the Sanskrit Sarva, meaning "whole, or entire".)
Every moment of your life is essential.
You are whole.
Enlightenment is real.
Enlightenment is all that's real.
.... glad we cleared that up!
Intending Awareness of the Heart of All,
Kirtanman
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