Many critics have argued persuasively that Christianity is inherently \u201cJudaizing\u201d and doomed to repeat the innate short-circuits infused within the various cultural patterns it assimilated on its path to ascendancy, and they are invariably helped on by some theologians who actually sing paeans of\u00a0 praise.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the literalism of the Scriptures as a Holy Book seem to be a fundamental limiting pattern within dialogue on this subject, within and without the Faith. The supposedly perspicacious Writ is quoted against and for us, designedly to limit certain possibilities and force others, usually something compatible with a global universal political settlement.<\/p>\n
To these, one might quote Luther, \u201cThe letter is poison.\u201d (Schrift ist gift). Obviously, this dichotomy set up in the New Testament is a vehicle for higher purpose, and was a major complaint of Jews against Christians, not without reason. To the Biblical narrative, the traditionalist can bring a deeper awareness of unnoticed patterns heretofore ignored. There is, of course, the great solar tradition hidden within the Davidic dynasty, inaugurated when King David opened the inner sanctuary and ate of the shewbread upon the holy mount of peace, a holy site from very ancient times. Troy Southgate’s uneven website drew attention to this, in an article by Bill White<\/a>. It wasn’t as if King David was following the letter of the Law in piercing the veil, and he probably didn’t have a rope tied to his leg just in case a burial was needed. The order of Melchizedek was another ancient order connected with Salem, and there is also the strange episode of Namaan bowing down in the temple of Rimmon at the advice of Elijah. For example, the Christian Reconstructionist\u00a0 James Jordan<\/a> has written an obscure but useful book about the hidden symbols of the Bible that are in plain sight, and Jonathan Edwards (had he lived) might have greatly developed his portrayal of the Platonic<\/a> imagery of nature<\/a>. Is it an accident that men like Marsilio Ficino pop up within Western streams of thought and religion, or is it wholly for our sake, for the Now, that they wrote what they wrote<\/em>? To cleanse the doors of perception for the I which aspires in the Now for truth, but has lost its way<\/em>? In the dearth of a true tradition, Christians (and those who would use the vehicle as they may) are compelled to re-forge the sword which was broken \u2013 we cannot look to the official institutions themselves for confirmation, aid, or blessing.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery truth is a shadow except the last. But every truth is substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another. And the shadow is a true shadow, as the substance is a true substance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n These fragments of truth which she has grasped, like some de copia<\/em> of Erasmus, she has \u201cshored against her “ruin”. The work will begin. We will make our inheritance our own, and the letter shall be burned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every truth is a shadow except the last. But every truth is substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another. Continue reading
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\nAdd to this the strange verses in Paul’s writings about \u201ctutelary spirits\u201d raising the consciousness of nations, baptism for the dead, and the theory of recapitulation of the All through the Kingship-Headship of Christ, as well as parallelisms that exist between many of Christ’s saying and the Vedantic <\/a>tradition, as well as the imagery of Revelation, and the Scriptures could begin to look far more interesting. Ask most Christians what Christ meant when he said each little one had a guardian spirit that beholds the face of the Father directly, and you will be met with utter incomprehension or disbelief. We may dismiss their good opinion and proceed. Yet we need not concede them control over the vehicles, since to do so strips our effort of needful road signs or tools.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d5\/E_Cosi_Desio_me_Mena%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg\")
\nTo those false sons within the pale, and those who scorn the true Church as utterly bereft of real grace, we ought to reply with Isaac Penington, and apply this unction to\u00a0the dying Faith:<\/p>\n