05-25-2012, 10:24 AM
(05-25-2012, 10:02 AM)Patrick Wrote:(05-25-2012, 09:52 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote:(05-25-2012, 09:25 AM)Patrick Wrote: Matthew 15-11: "It's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth."
- Could anyone help me understand this ?
This quote, attributed to Jesus both in the canonical gospel of Matthew, as well as in Gnostic texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, is in itself quite unambiguous.
However, in some of the Essene texts, many quotes about "defilement by food" are also attributed to Jesus.
So- who can really say?
But according to my understanding and belief, the notion of "defilement by food" is a manipulation which originated with Zoroastrianism, the philosophy of which divided up the world into the "righteous" and the "wicked". It's an interesting concept, but at its root is divisive. If for nothing else because nobody can seem to ever agree upon which foods are "defiling" and which are not.
Thank you my friend !
- So without judgments there can be no right and there can be no wrong?
Shin'Ar mentioned that we all knew deeply what was right and what was wrong.
- Is this deep knowledge the same for all ?
- Who judged what was right and what was wrong and put this deep into our hearts ?
Quote:Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.
The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will.
The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome.
All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.
It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.