01-07-2012, 10:32 PM
I do not understand how faith can be a realization. Realization is the revelation of reality. It is awareness of a truth.
Once ones becomes aware of a truth there is no need to have faith that it is true. Knowledge is not faith.
To be faithful to something is to be committed and devoted to it. One can be faithful to seeking after truth. One can be faithful to following a particular path.
But one cannot have faith in something that he does not know to be true without hope that it might be true. Otherwise they choose to believe in something that they do not even care comes to pass. they have no goal or destination in mind. There is no energy expended.
I do not suggest that faith is not honorable. It has great value. I am saying that faith is not what one has in something they already know exists as truth. that is not faith, it is knowledge.
Faith is trusting that if we follow the left hand path that we will be fulfilling our divine design.
Faith is believing that one day we shall be free from the darkness of reincarnation.
These things we are becoming aware of as we come to understand our divine nature, but until we actually achieve that transformation, we learn through faith. Those already ascended do not have faith in transcendence, they know it.
Once ones becomes aware of a truth there is no need to have faith that it is true. Knowledge is not faith.
To be faithful to something is to be committed and devoted to it. One can be faithful to seeking after truth. One can be faithful to following a particular path.
But one cannot have faith in something that he does not know to be true without hope that it might be true. Otherwise they choose to believe in something that they do not even care comes to pass. they have no goal or destination in mind. There is no energy expended.
I do not suggest that faith is not honorable. It has great value. I am saying that faith is not what one has in something they already know exists as truth. that is not faith, it is knowledge.
Faith is trusting that if we follow the left hand path that we will be fulfilling our divine design.
Faith is believing that one day we shall be free from the darkness of reincarnation.
These things we are becoming aware of as we come to understand our divine nature, but until we actually achieve that transformation, we learn through faith. Those already ascended do not have faith in transcendence, they know it.