“Aquinas was a prolific writer, but after having a mystical experience on December 6, 1273, he never wrote another word. As a result, several of his most important works (including Summa) end abruptly in the middle of a paragraph. He told his fellow monks that while meditating during Mass, he had seen a vision of Sophia, the divine feminine Principle suppressed by the patriarchal church. Sophia is one of the emanations of the Monad of the Gnostic teachings. She is associated with Anima Mundi (‘Universal Soul’), the spiritual bride of Christ, the Holy Ghost of the Trinity.” “In the Mind of the Universe; The Monad and You!” by Dennis William Hauck.
What would be your reaction if I said to you that “religion,” in its human manifestation, is pure evil. Again, how would you react?
But why is religion pure evil? It is evil because the priest class suffocates the spirituality within the Human, because as you become Enlighted, if you become illuminated by the Spirit within you; if God is within you as the Christ taught us, then there is no need for catechism, priest or church as a bridge to God.
If religion is not the gatekeeper of the bridge between man and god, then it has no power over the Human, and no toll can be collected for their control of the keys to the kingdom. Don’t you see?
For some reason I was led to read about the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten.
This opened my understanding that God had been merciful to me all along; and had let down His|Her veil and allowed me to see and experience, the vastness of its Flaming Being. I was searching for a man-like God on a throne, yet now I know the One is Beyond. I had this ideation reinforced as I read about Akhenaten; one of the first monotheist.
“The Aten was an ancient Egyptian sun disk deity, worshipped briefly as the sole god during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Originally an aspect of the sun god Ra, the Aten became the center of a monotheistic religion known as Atenism, and was depicted as the solar disk with rays ending in hands. After Akhenaten’s death, his successors restored traditional polytheistic worship, and the Aten was again absorbed back into the traditional pantheon…”
Maybe Akhenaten had also been opened by the Spirit of God, and lifted up to see the flaming Akashic realm as had Enoch or was Enoch, Akhenaten?
“Unlike other Egyptian gods, the Aten was depicted naturally, not in human or animal form. Its image was a sun disk with rays ending in hands that offered the ankh, the symbol of life, to the pharaoh and his family.” What did the Pharaoh get for his revelation to his people, of the Aten? He was murdered by the priests of the other religions of Egypt, of course. Haven’t you figured out how this works yet?
All religions seek to maintain their power, even at the expense of the very Gods they say they venerate. Religious authorities are some of the most adept practitioners of torture and wielders of temporal power.
God, The One, is so beyond and beautiful yet the Human chooses to transform Him|Her into an exacting image of themselves. How would the Human worship or venerate a God that was beyond Human comprehension? “Give us a form, a golden calf perhaps.”
So the priests of Egypt wiped out all remembrance of the Aten among men. Yet The Aten still flames in its magnificent glory. The Sun was the symbol, the architype of the flaming Akashic realm.
And when the One in His|Her mercy chose to show me His|Her Image, He|She showed me the flaming Aten. I walked within the flaming beauty within, I beheld the flaming forms of every thing, (“The All’) I met the beings that dwell there and I saw my flaming Akashic form. Now you know the form of God, the One, out of which All Things flow into existence.
How do you worship a place such as The Aten? You choose the Archetype of the flaming sun as its symbol of course. Don’t you see. Heraclitus and the early Greeks philosophers knew about the Aten and wrote about the flowing forms from out of the One. The All. Interestingly, Heraclitus left behind his wealth and status and lived in a hut in the woods, a grand renunciation similar to Aquinas, after he comprehended the Aten by traversing the flaming stones.
My soul venerates the One in all things, moment by moment “as new mercies I see.” He|She is my perfecter, guiding me from within the hidden temple of my heart. I am overcome by their love, mercy and light.
Sadly, most of the God’s that man creates are frauds reflecting themselves back into heaven. As if the Human were the supreme being in existence. Following the attempted apotheosis of Satan, crowning themselves as the God they worship.
“My beloved, the Sophia of St Aquinas, is within you. The Holy Spirit dwells within the temple of your heart, not as allegory but as reality in the flaming Akashic realm, within the form of your body that exists there. This is so profound, you must listen carefully. This is why the spirit of God is always represented with fire. The fire of God’s Empyrean, The Aten, directed toward your physical being.
To those who have diminished themselves in order to prepare the place for Sophia to dwell within us, The flaming Aten, the Sun of God, flows from his burnished face, from within His|Her ever-existent beauty into our very own souls. Raising the Human to dwell among them in love and light.
Rest, Seek the One, and let the Aten flow within you.