The incipient mystic will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion. Fundamentally he may be faithful to his own religion. But he will not be satisfied with the official doctrines of his Church, and will try to penetrate deeper into god's workshop. And such is the purpose of our initiation. According to the universal laws, the mystic will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion. He will state that, apart from the deficiencies, each defender of religion will endeavor to represent his religion as the best of all. Each religious truth is relative and the comprehension of it depends on the maturity of the person concerned. Therefore the adept does not interfere with anybody in this respect, nor will he try to sidetrack anyone from his truth, criticize him, to say nothing of condemning him. At the bottom of his heart he may feel sorry for fanatics or, atheists without showing it outwardly. Let everybody hold on to what he believes and makes him happy and content. Should everybody stick to this maxim, there would be neither hatred nor religious dissensions on this earth. There would be no reason for disputes and all turns of mind could exist happily side by side. Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF7YNDHp9Zo&feature=player_embedded Hermetics is 9500 years old. Without it we would not have the religions we do today. Hermetic history lesson. http://deoxy.org/moses.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3oIu3tKVRE If you think the thread is cool give positive feed back and /sign. Don't be too cool to /sign. You know it's cool.
The only reason we have so many religions is because it's human nature to be supersticious, it's natural to wish and hope for some heavenly father figure to guid us. Take the natural human fear of the unknown, give it a name, and you have god. edit: -1
I'm pretty sure that makes him cooler then the rest of the people here tbh. Should start + repping him for a little while.
I read ur post donovan888...what is it that u want to talk about? cant u edit the post and just write ur question/point more clear without all the babbel? And ditch the images too.
*sighs* Can't help but neg rep that one. I would class myself as a militant atheist [eta] damnit I'm still on cooldown !
You should look into Theosophy, the later works of blavetsky(sp?) and once you think you have a decently firm hold on that study kabalah. edit// oh and p.s. - Never try to define the terms Mystic or Mysticism. If you do you've missed the point.
