Author : Nick a Jameson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)
Book Synopsis Heresies of a Heathen by : Nick a Jameson
Download or read book Heresies of a Heathen written by Nick a Jameson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the title "Heresies of a Heathen?" Because whether you're considered a member of the club, or you've been cast out and stoned with self-righteous condemnations like 'heathen, ' whether your understanding of God is orthodox and commonly accepted, or you're the 'spiritual but not religious' type like me who speaks of the spiritual in 'heresies, ' you can never actually be cast out of God's company, for God's company is absolutely inclusive. The truth is that even the 'heathen' thinking 'heretically' can offer insights into the spiritual (or 'metaphysical') nature of existence and, in fact, some argue that it requires the ability to look outside of conventional lines oppressively drawn to control us in order to best see God. This has, in fact, been my own experience, as God has led me to truths which can never belong to any one religion or group of people, and I'm offended by the attempt of religion to control divinity. In my own quest to understand the nature of divinity, I've learned of God to be the eternal, conscious energy essential to all people, places and things, including spacetime and matter and all forms of life manifested by God's divine force, regardless of grouping and label. In truth, we all exist within God, as mortal manifestations of God's immortal essence, for the purpose of infinite perspectives upon and experiences of existence. We're all finitely-formed facets of God's infinite nature, ever adapting in partnership with the material realm to be ceaselessly remade in God's limitless image, an image unbound by human-centric form. In the truths to which God has led and continues to gently coax me to convey to as many forms as I can muster, I've found my own mode of ministry, and I know in my heart that such a ministry needs no official religion or institutional sanction, for it's the heart itself that truly conveys God's will. I believe religion to perform many social and moral services, to offer community and hope to the lonely and the lost, and that its manifold manuscripts born through the ages, across the endless multitudes of culture and perspective, contain countless laudable principles of inestimable value to life. At the same time I know that, due to its historical development intertwined with State and Empire, religion is replete with irrevocable issues; with hierarchies, idolatries, mind-controlling propaganda and the implicit, and sometimes explicit, denial of empowering disciplines, like science and philosophy, and their emancipating, elucidating, edifying power. I also believe that, owing to that same history and its contentions with contradicting religions, religion in general tends to be divisive, leading to discord and hatred, thereby denying humanity's greatest unifying potential. Only a purer search for Spirit (aka 'God') that learns from and is open to incorporating the insights of all the great sages of past and present is best positioned to uncover the deepest spiritual truths and tear down the divides denying the realization of humanity's fullest form. The following pages were written concurrent with my own spiritual search, inspired by the least imperially-altered remnants of the testaments to the life and lessons of the most famous spiritual sage of all time; the 'Gnostic Gospels' which weren't incorporated into the religion that Empire made of his posthumous following. Herein his lessons have been reconceived in a manner purified of all the aforementioned divisive and disempowering aspects of religion, replaced with the empowerment of moral, spiritual and philosophical principles and insights of the greatest possible application and value.
