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Basic Tenets

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Biomystical Christianity

Index

1.  Declaration of spiritual independence

2.  The Solitary path

3.  True and False Prophets

4.  Bible Idolatry

5.  The Rainbow Bible: the Official Bible of Biomystical Christianity

6.  The spiritual authority of Arielmessenger

7.  "Few are chosen" Why only a few are selected for the role of prophet

8.  Old Gnostics and New Gnosis: Classical Gnosticism vs. Biomystical Christianity

9.  The Biomystical Christian position on the Bible:The authority of Scriptures

10. The Bible as spiritual "DNA"

11. Mosaic Law vs. Christian doctrine

12. "Picking and Choosing"

13. Purging "satanic verses" from the Bible

14. The Gospel of "Q" and Biomystical Christianity

15. The Gospel of Thomas and Biomystical Christianity

16. Simple Torah Christianity

17. Biomystical Christians follow Jesus' Sayings in "Q" and the Gospel of Thomas

18. The Biomystical Christian meaning of the "End Times"

19. The End Times of traditional Abrahamic religions

20. Jewish mythology

21. The Root of Jesse

22. Biomystical Christianity rejects YHWH as the name of God.

23. Worshipping a schizophrenic god produces schizophrenic belief systems

24. Spiritual Canaan: the Promised Land Connection

25. The Restoration of EL Elyon, God Most High as the true Father of the Spirit of Christ

26. Biomystical Christianity and the Armageddon Choice

27. "Dawidum" & David

28. Biomystical Christianity vs. traditional (Pauline) Christianity

29. Mithraism and traditional (Pauline) Christianity

30. Rejection of the Pauline Mystery Religion interpretation of Christ's sacrificial death

31. The Mystical meaning of Yieshu-Jesus' sacrificial death

32. The Blood of Christ: Rejection of vicarious atonement

33. Rejection of the "Tinkerbell Belief System": the faith system of Pauline Christianity

34. The new basis of Christian faith: Faith in synchronicity signs, God's "Sign Language"

35. The Messiah concept in Biomystical Christian theology

36. The Historical Reality of Jesus vs. Yieshu ben Pantera

37. The Undivided Realm of the Holy One

38. Jesus taught us how to "bind" our enemies

39. Heavenly Intercessors

40. Ariel, the Angel of Peace and new Archangel of the Aquarian Age

41. Arielmessenger's Heavenly Intercessors

42. Hiero-Gamos, the BC meaning of The Wedding

43. Biomystical Christianity is Pluriform Monotheism

44. The Return of the Goddess

45. Asherah, the Great Goddess

46. The Vision of Spirit of Christ Josephine

47. The Biomystical Pantheon of the Holy Family: the upgraded Divine Assembly

48. The Return of the Holy Family

49. Baptism

50. Circumcision

51. The Meaning of Life: We are Holy One

52. The Spirit of Christ within

53. "Become as little children"

54. "Judge not, lest ye be judged"

55. The Biomystical Christian definition of "sin"

56. Good & Evil

57. Free Will vs. Predetermined Destiny

58. Resurrection of the dead

59. The Afterlife: The Bible Heaven vs. Near-Death-Experiences of Heaven

60. The Being of Light

61. The Library 

62. The New Sacrament

63. The Biomystical Christian Code of Honor

64. "Friendly Persuasion" or how to get others to help build the Kingdom of God

65. Biomystical Christianity position on Abortion

66. Biomystical Christianity and Islam

67. Biomystical Christianity vs. Buddhism

68. Reincarnation

69. Evolution vs. Creationism

70. The Coming of Climax Civilization

71. Communitarian Society

72. Stop Cruelty to Animals

73. Physical Immortality

74. God's sense of humor

75. Biomystical Christian Holy Days

76. Poverty vs. wealth

77. Homosexuality

1. Declaration of spiritual independence

The Cheyenne have a saying, "No man can tell another what to do." As a Biomystical Christian I state this same idea in this way: "No one on earth has spiritual authority over me or over the Biomystical Christian spiritual path I walk." No man-made book has spiritual authority over me. No other prophet has authority over me. Only the Holy One of Heaven & Earth holds spiritual authority over me and the heavenly Intercessors, Jesus Christ, Christ Josephine and Ariel that the Holy One has sent to guide me. Biomystical Christianity fully democratizes access to God. No human intermediaries needed, no ancient texts to tell the spiritual seeker how to think about God or how to act in accordance to ancient ideas of religious and social responsibility. The individual must carve out his or her own spiritual pathway as this process is the only way to learn spiritual knowledge free of religious or ethnic bias. Organized religions stunt your spiritual growth.

2. The Solitary path: The only true Monotheism is One to one

In terms of logical solutions, one can only agree that the world would be much better off without organized religions, especially the Abrahamic ones that have come out of the desert where ancient men killed for control of water holes. The spiritual water of life is then made into a territorial mandate and whatever goodness in the religious territorial mandates there are are always abrogated when it comes to territorial control of those drinking from the various holy water holes. We must get to universal spiritual consciousness without need of territorial group mind think and I believe God is working on the problem through the democracy movement. The democracy movement means to guarantee individual religious freedom which is the only way one can establish an authentic spiritual relationship with God, something not possible within existing organized religions that cannot abide freedom of individual consciousness.

The more people are faithful to their traditional religious belief systems, the more neurotic and/or sociopathic they also become. Fundamentalist Judaism, Christianity and Islam are producers of people who no longer can distinguish right from wrong. If their Scriptures say it right to kill others who don't agree, they will kill others. If their leaders invoke Scriptures to defend their acts of inhumanity, the followers obey without thinking. Thus the traditional Abrahamic faiths keep the world in a state of religiously disguised territorial warfare. Biomystical Christianity therefore sides with unorganized religion, where the spiritual beliefs and practice are between oneself and God.

The only true Monotheistic belief system possible is your own personal relationship with God. If your relationship with God is determined by trying to follow another man's relationship with God, your relationship with God is not authentically your own. You have divided your relationship with God in two; that of whoever it is you follow and your own your individual relationship. Monotheism must come to mean One God, one believer--One to one. Those whose spiritual relationship with God goes through Moses or Paul or Muhammad have divided their relationships with God in two, their own and the three religion founders. But only the Solitary path leads directly to God. "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who in by it." The real "narrow gate" is the Solitary path.

"Jesus said, 'Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the Kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return.'"

"Jesus said, 'Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will enter the bridal chamber.'"

-Gospel of Thomas

Biomystical Christianity is a solitary Gnostic spiritual path that untangles the twists in the evolution of Canaanite-Hebrew-Jewish-Christian religious traditions. Through God-given visions, revelations, and "biomystical" or guided research into the roots of my spiritual heritage from the Holy Land, God through this prophet has produced one of the few religious paths that will lead you out of social violence and into a personal relationship with God. Most all other spiritual paths are contaminated with other peoples personal and cultural agendas.

3. True and False Prophets

How do you tell a false prophet from a true one?

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears fruit, but a bad tree bears bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

-Matthew 7:15-20

The Judeo-Christian tradition has adulterated the natural order of Creation by making God unbalanced as a Unity with its God the Father only emphasis. There is no significant importance given the Feminine side of the Godhead, no recognition of the Mother or Goddess aspect of the Holy One of Heaven & Earth. As symbolic of the process of patriarchal war against the Feminine aspect of God, in the last chapter of Revelation John describes the Tree of Life as having 12 branches. In ancient Canaan and Babylonia, the Tree of Life as a primary symbol of the Mother had as Her sacred numbers: 7, 13 or 28 branches: 7 for the Seven Planetary Rulers, 13 for the Lunar Year, 28 for the Lunar Month. Changing the Tree's numbers to 12 signifies the Solar masculinization of a basically feminine symbol.

In scientific actuality, both Sun and Moon cycles are necessary for the Tree of Life's abundant nourishment. The Holy One of Heaven & Earth, to be wholly One, has to be composed of both male and female aspects. Without the Unity of Mother and Father, woman and man, Yin and Yang, the Godhead of the Patriarchs is not whole, not wholesome, and has spawned all sorts of religious mischief with human societies modeling themselves on such divisive religious principles. Prophets of God the Father who were at spiritual war with the Great Mother have generated most of the Scriptures used as rationalizations for genocidal wars against non-believers. I am a prophet of EL and the Elohim, the Holy Family, and both God the Father and the Great Mother together lead the true identity of the Holy One of Heaven and Earth. So our Bottom Line B.C. belief re prophets is this: It is historical evidence that proves or disproves the accuracy of a prophet's words. When words don't match reality, they're false, simple as that.

Real history will show whether or not a prophet's words expand or contract the Realm of the Holy One, or Kingdom of God, here on Earth where God's will is to done as well as here in our hearts and in our actions that follow the will of God shown to all suffering humanity through the love and compassion of the Spirit of Christ.

"Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do you say?

This they said, testing him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger, as though he didn't hear.

So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, 'He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.."

In effect Jesus wrote a new commandment here, one that expresses the compassion for sinners that clearly separates a Christian from a Jew or a Muslim for that matter.

"So let it be written, so let it be done."--Pharaoh Ramses in the movie, The Ten Commandments.

A real prophet has only to write it down for it to happen because his mind is in sync with God's. Of course, being human beings, prophets are not without the ability to err, and to err mightily in the service of their visions from God. Every person is subject to their times and therefore no prophet's words are without their historical context and limits of knowledge. So please, no prophet idolization, no Word idolatry here, do not rely absolutely on anyone else's words, mine included. The truth is always recognized within you, not in someone else. I am just the appointed point man, the one who points you in the right direction to find God on your own.

4. Word of God Idolatry

Word Idols keep believers enthralled, blocking out information that undermines the Authority of the Book Idols be they Torah, Tanach, Talmud, New Testament, or Quran. Pieces of paper and ink people. That's all they are. No more "God's" literal dictation than Joe the Plummer's bill for unclogging your sink drain. Why do I say this? Because history bears out the FACT that each of these so-called "holy books" has inspired cruelty and misery and death to millions of people one way or another which proves beyond doubt to the un-mesmerized mind that God is not the Author of these books but men with incredible egos and territorial ambitions that would make Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler green with envy.

Three events have happened in the Abrahamic religious traditions that have made the Word(s) of God into papyrus or paper and ink Idols, the Torah for the Jews, the Bible for Christians, and the Quran for Muslims. The first event is the Exodus story where God literally writes the Ten Commandments with (His) finger in stone. The fact that God's first edition is broken to pieces by Moses in anger is lost to following generations of believers. The Word of God has been produced and that is all that matters. Written in stone, the Word of God is immortal while oral traditions are subject to human error in repetition. God can never lie if the Word of God is written in stone, right? Forgotten is the fact that no one except the legendary literary figures themselves had ever seen this Word written by God. (it's supposedly in with the Ark of the Covenant in present day Ethiopia).

The Word of God written in stone sets the precedent that God's instructions are to found in the written Word, written of course by those self-selected to be the official voices of God for the community, all others being imposters and enemies of God. Thus a priesthood of religious literati uses their knowledge and writing skills to govern the community in partnership with political power held by the ruling chief or king. Spiritual authority is handed down the generations through the written Word on scrolls and later, in books.

The written Word becomes so invested with spiritual authority that it takes precedence over personal spiritual experience. Thus ancient men continue to rule society from their graves via the Word of God they themselves wrote as if they and they alone could speak for God. As with Egyptian tomb curses, any who would dare rewrite or add to the original Word of God are cursed to eternal damnation. Traditional or Pauline Christianity continues this idolization of the Word of God. Belief in the Word of God as written by New Testament Gospel writers is made the mark of Christian belief in God. All who refuse to believe the New Word of God are condemned to eternal hellfire. And again the Word itself, instead of being recognized as mere symbols for God, becomes a god itself, capable of proclaiming a Christian (one who believes the Word) or condemning a heathen, one who refuses to believe the Word, or worse yet, a heretic, one who believes another Word of God.

It is always taboo to question the idol. It is taboo to doubt the stories of the Bible even though no one has ever been able to verify these impossible tales of miraculous men as having any historical reality. Always remember when traditional Christians hand you the line that Jesus was well documented in history that there is not one shred of proof for Jesus' actual historical existence. All supposed documentation of Jesus is hearsay evidence and which would be totally inadmissible in court as well in scientifically conducted historical research yet this historical truth is continually ignored by those under the thrall of bible idolatry.

5. The Rainbow Bible: the Official Bible of Biomystical Christianity

"Thinking the mission a failure, the accompanying friar complained to St. Francis, asking why they had not preached. Francis replied, "But, my son, we did preach." He explained that their deportment, their good example, their poverty and their holiness was more valuable than preaching with words. The whole incident is often summed up by attributing to St. Francis the words, "Preach the Gospel. Use words if you must."

The only Holy Book of God that this prophet was sent to bring is the Rainbow Bible, the best Holy Book around because containing no words it can never ever be used as weapon to create an "us", who believe this set of religious instructions apart a "them" who do not.  This is a false spiritual dichotomy, slicing one part of humanity off from another part when in reality they are all interconnected as One. The Rainbow Bible* contains no words, thus it is the only Bible whose words cannot be twisted this way or that to inspire hatred towards others and religious wars. Nevertheless, everything I have written under spiritual inspiration is the new Word of God :-)

* See the Rainbow Bible Story page.

6. The Spiritual Authority of Arielmessenger

The role of leader does not sit well with my personal temperament, spiritual beliefs and communitarian philosophy of life. This puts me in a dilemma, one that has bothered me most of my activist life. I am a visionary type of person and since that Easter of 1979 experience, now a prophet of a compelling new vision of Christianity. I have been given a spiritual burden by God and in order to fulfill my spiritual mission I must lead those people who recognize the Holy One's voice in the spiritual and social change messages that God has filled me with. Whether I like it or not, I have become point man for a new spiritual movement and where I point others will follow or not follow depending on whether my "gospel" is meant for them. So I have to lead this "Biomystical Christian" mission and help organize the social blueprints for creating a new vision of God reality in the New Millennium and a new eutopian vision of worldwide communitarian society. But this is, in fact, the way history always evolves from the old tired and worn-out vision to the new one replacing it.

"Make straight the path of God in the wilderness".

Old systems start out young and fresh but deteriorate over time becoming twisted and warped so that they pit neighbor against neighbor instead of bringing all together in peace and harmony. Old systems are eventually replaced by new visions and new systems. The new visions are original templates, the first forms that will determine later development. The new visions will remain in leading position until gradually circumstances that brought them about in the first place change again and they lose relevancy. Finally, when new circumstances clearly show the inadequacy of the previous "new"  but now "old" vision, another newer vision comes into being and the cycle is repeated.

So here is how my spiritual authority really works: Just read what the big mouth of God has to say and see if it resonates within you. That's about it. The spiritual "magic" works by seeing the new message presented in your exterior world which matches your interior Spirit of Christ within, i.e., your conscience. If both are in spiritual "synch", they trigger off a responding "acknowledgment" in your belief system, they'll reinforce the existing spiritual pattern within you which will be either put into action to help create the Kingdom of God in our world or they will be ignored and life continues without spiritual guidance from "above".

7. "Few are chosen": Why only a few are selected for the role of prophet

For reasons God only knows I was chosen to go through a rare mystical religious experience over Easter of 1979. What was unusual about it was experiencing continuous "synchronicity" events for three days in a row. Many people experience synchronicity events sometime in their lives: A dream that comes true, a mysterious "coincidence" of related things happening to one that make you pause and wonder at their meaning, or the "deja vu" experience of remembering that you went through some event before that you're going through now. However, it seems to be an extremely rare phenomena to experience these types of synchronicity events happening one after the other in succession for three full days. I've read enough literature on varieties of religious experiences to know there isn't much said about this type of experience in the volumes of mystical experiences. And I know why.

When one experiences continuous synchronicity events one's perception of reality changes. Instead of experiencing life as a succession of events in which one is carried along willy-nilly, one experiences life as if it were following a script in which you are but an actor going through the lines of your role. By the third day of my continuous synchronicity experience it seemed as though I "knew" the Script well enough by then that I could predict what people I interacted with during those three days, my family and friends, would say before they said it. This experience is frightening because "Life" loses its "aliveness" or unpredictability. There is an excellent movie which comes close to portraying this type of mental shock: the movie is called "The 13th Floor" which has as its plot protagonists discovering their world is nothing more than a very sophisticated computer program.

I believe that God doesn't want people in general to know the true reality of our existence which is that our world really is "Maya", illusion, a grandiose, incredibly complex Play like Shakespeare said wherein we are all merely actors and actresses playing out archetypal roles as we unconsciously search for God and the meaning of life. If everyone experienced life as a scripted Play then Creation and Life loses their purpose which is to provide the circumstances that evolve human consciousness to the point of God-consciousness and God-Being. So therefore there are few prophets and fewer still who experience this type of consciousness. Luckily for me, the experience only lasted three days instead of permanently otherwise I don't know what I would be doing by now. Either locked up in some nut house or dead or another Christ. That one taste of this type of Gnosis was enough to last me the rest of my life. Sometimes ignorance is truly bliss and blessed. You can read more about this experience in the Original Biomystical Religious Experience chapter.

8. Old Gnostics and New Gnosis: Classical Gnosticism vs. Biomystical Christianity

Old Gnostics worshipped at the Tree of Knowledge. They worshipped Sophia as Wisdom and a God alien to this world. They seemed to despise the material world, Life and Creation as we know it, as the botched product of a lesser god's ignorant fabrication which has become a trap for the human soul. Biomystical Christianity, however, knows the Father, the real one, as well as the Mother. Biomystical Christians know the Great Spirit of the Holy One is incarnate in all of Life, in all of Creation in fact, so we honor both the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life in the spiritual/material Garden of Eden. We all "have to get back to the Garden" as the song says, because gardens need gardeners.

As Biomystical Christianity parts company with Yahweh, tribal god of the Israelites, because of the discovery of EL, the true God the Father, Biomystical Christianity must also part company with most Gnostics in that BC believes the old Gnostic notion of a flawed Creation made by an unwise Demiurge is not true at all. They had this black and white dichotomy that believed everything about the material world was a trap for the soul. It's just not so as without the material world souls have no "school of living" to learn or relearn higher moral values needed for that other realm beyond the grave which I believe to be the purpose of life for us in our world.

While old Gnosis rebelled against Genesis 2's awful Yahweh god with good reason they didn't understand the Elohim goodness found in Genesis 1 where God creates Creation and finds it "good, very good". Same with man and woman, also "good, very good". All made in the image of God as "Us", and that too is now part and parcel of the Biomystical Christian belief system. We are God, but God way back in time evolving towards this Oneness which is already there ahead of us and behind us as well because to God, time and space are known from beginning to end.*

* See the God's Cosmic Plan chapter for more about this.

Biomystical Christianity holds Creation to be just as ELohim said it was: Good, very good indeed, and men and women made in Elohim's image the same, i.e., good and not born in sin, contrary to Paul gospel and Augustine's theology. To BC theology God has not made a material world to trap human souls but made the world to help release the soul of humanity.

9. The authority of Scriptures: The Biomystical Christian position on the Bible

The basic Biomystical Christian position on the Bible is that the Bible is mostly myth, certainly not historically factual, and should be read as allegorical spiritual instruction and not as literal truth. If scriptures are taken allegorically, they become alive with meaning. They take you back in time to ancient cultures where pockets of wisdom were known and Archetypes as gods and goddesses roamed at will. The Bible in Biomystical Christian hands is taken comparatively, critically, and in the last analysis, compassionately, as the best spiritual work of ancient men at the time. However, Biomystical Christianity never forgets God is God of the living, not the dead. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, means that God gives differing instructions to different people at different times yet there is always a continuity, a chain of links taking one back to God Most High.

The Bible is a mythological account of Hebrew tribal history and national ambitions. The New Testament follows this pattern too with its stories of Jesus and the Apostles with the addition of world conquest for the religion of Christianity. The Jews created stories leading towards establishment of an earthly kingdom where Jews ruled supreme and all mighty nations bowed down to Israel's wisdom or might, whether one or the other or both is unclear. The Christians following Paul's lead created stories leading Christians to claim a spiritual Jesus and his Church as the rightful heirs along with the Jews to the Kingdom of God promised through the Messianic prophesies. Instead of Israel as the Chosen nation of God, the Christian Church becomes a New Israel and the special recipient of God's love while all other religious societies are branded spiritually untrue at best and spawns of Satan at worst. All except the Elect in the Christian Church will be condemned to hell in the final judgment. This is nationalism disguised as religious mandate from God. Biomystical Christianity is not about territorial ambitions but about the way to establish peace and goodwill between all individuals and between all nations as well as finding inner peace within ourselves as we cope with life's joys and sadness.

10. The Bible as Spiritual "DNA"

Another way to look at the Biomystical Christian interpretation of the Bible is to see the Bible as a sort of spiritual "DNA" code for making a spiritually conscious Human Being, one that is truly humane and wise reflecting the compassion and wisdom of the Holy One of Heaven & Earth. But like biological DNA the Bible is filled with old blueprints that have long lost their effective usefulness because times have changed and humanity continues to evolve both in social organization and in spiritual consciousness. Biological DNA is a giant molecule made up a great many genetic blueprints, one conditioning the next in evolutionary succession, but only the final genes really determining the form of the creature in present day circumstances. Most of biological DNA genes are therefore dormant and necessary only as bases for the proportionately few further developed genes that determine our modern forms. Most of our DNA code are blueprints for older forms of our human selves going back all the way to the beginnings of Life. It is only a few chromosomes that mark us as Human Beings and not grasshoppers or chimpanzees. (Chimps are very close).

In the Bible's "DNA" code there's a Golden Thread of Goodness running through the Old Testament that Jesus found and pointed out to us with his teachings and his life of personal sacrifice. But there's also a whole lot of primitive blueprints that must be discarded for use if we are to be become True Human Beings. Now the same is true of the New Testament because we have found the authentic core of Jesus' teachings, the Sayings of Jesus as found in "Q" and in the Gospel of Thomas and within the otherwise propagandistic New Testament Gospels.

11. Mosaic Law vs. Christian doctrine of the indwelling Spirit of Christ

The way Biomystical Christianity views the Mosaic Laws outside of the Ten Commandments, i.e., the Mitzvot laws, is that these were laws made for hardheaded people who didn't know how to recognize the Spirit of Christ within themselves. In other words, they weren't always ready to obey their consciences that would stop them from causing harm to others, so they had to have strict authoritarian guidance rules on social conduct. I believe God gave us the Spirit of Christ through Jesus so that we have a Name for our conscience and know it is that little piece of God, the "spark" as Gnostics referred to it, that is stuck into each one of us at birth (although there may be some born without that piece-natural born killers or psychopaths).

Since Jesus brought us the Spirit of Christ we who believe in that Spirit through him have a clearer understanding of how God wants us to conduct ourselves so that we bring comfort and aid, sharing and caring, into our relationships with others which is way God spreads out the Kingdom in human society. If we are true to Christian principles we can follow Jesus example and go beyond the Mosaic Laws that were made for people who won't always listen to their consciences, their Spirit of Christ within. In No. 10 above I make the analogy between the Bible and DNA instructional codes. Most of the DNA code reflects instructions given to make species forms appropriate for past environmental conditions. These old instructions have been "turned off", i.e., they do not contribute directly to the biological blueprints for the newest species form but they are not dropped off the DNA molecule because who knows when some older genes on the DNA molecule might be needed for new conditions. "Not one jot or tittle shall pass away until all is fulfilled".

Mosaic Law as a social DNA code creates a devout Jew, one who knows that God is about sharing and caring. But the Mosaic Law social DNA code was made only for Jews and the sharing and caring ethic really stopped at the Gentile border. Jesus' added new "genes" to the Mosaic Law DNA code that create a devout Christian allowing the sharing and caring ethic to be applied to all humanity regardless of race, nation or culture. In doing so the new Spirit of Christ "genes" supercede the older Mosaic Law ones and "turn them off". Their strict controls are no longer needed for people who have a Name and a way to recognize and obey their consciences, their Spirit of Christ from God within. It's God's way of spiritually maturing human beings, evolving them into full humanity as humane beings. Christians are taught that Jesus didn't really change Jewish worship of Mosaic Law but that's not true. Here's one example in Deuteronomy that shows Mosaic Law is often totally opposite of Jesus' teachings:

Deu 21:18 "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, "then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. "And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' "Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil person from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear."

Guess who fits the rebellious son description to a tee? Yes, Jesus himself. And here's what happened to him for his disobedience as proscribed by Mosaic Law:

Deu 21:22 "If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree... 21:23 "...for he who is hanged is accursed of God"

Paul in Gal 3:13 "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs from a tree."

Jesus was a Jew and it was in the Jewish religious tradition that he saw himself foretold. But let us Christians all remember that Jesus himself purified the essence of what the Torah taught, purified it down into the Two Great Commandments, Love God with all your heart, mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself." When God is Love one can do this but not otherwise. For the Jews God was also Hate and their Law reflects this face of God too much for Jesus and Christians who know a gentler Most High. We need to look at the Torah like we look at DNA. Most of the DNA molecule contains genes that have long since become dormant as the form of animal they would produce if activated have been outgrown as God advances through the forms of life on earth. Only a small part of our DNA code is activated that make us human beings today and the same is true of the Torah that Jesus was taught, whittled down to true spiritual purity and taught us the essence that allows us to rise above the Law meant for more savage times.

12. "Picking and Choosing"

I "pick and choose" from the Bible and in doing so I do exactly what traditional Jews and Christians do but deny. All Jews, if they were honest, must admit they do not practice all the Mosaic Law because if they did they would likely be arrested and thrown in prison for crimes against persons and humanity. Also, I have followed Jesus in whittling the moral purpose of the Law and the Prophets down to two great Commandments, one from the original Ten and the other cut and pasted from Deuteronomy laws. As for the traditional Christian saying of Jesus that "not one tittle of the Law disappear", I weight this statement against Jesus deliberate breaking of Mosaic Laws whose aims are purely selfish nationalism. Like all legendary figures though, to understand Jesus, one must be familiar with the ethnic and religious context that produced him, i.e., the whole of the Torah, therefore I am not about to throw out the Bible just as I wouldn't throw out Homer or Plato or early Greek civilization in order to understand Socrates. But it doesn't mean I endorse all their beliefs.

The Torah and Judaism was superceded as the necessary spiritual form from the Holy One by the appearance of the Spirit of Christ in Jesus two thousand years ago. I am not talking about a historical man as portrayed in the Gospel accounts who may never existed in reality but the legendary man who, just like many a legendary man, e.g. Gilgamesh, Heracles, Adam, Noah, Abraham, Israel, David, Solomon, were so believed to be "real" as to greatly influence huge populations of people. Not a shred of physical evidence supports these legendary figures yet no one can deny their powerful effect on their believers. Such is the way the Spirit moves us.

13. Purging "satanic verses" from the Bible

Biomystical Christianity does not recommend the abandonment of existing Scriptures but it does recommend mentally purging all those ugly verses from a Dark Side god that have produced so much horror and misery for so many people throughout the history of Judeo-Christian-Muslim world domination. "Purging" here specifically means mentally casting out as directives from God any commandments to any people that either condone or teach crimes against persons or crimes against humanity. Think about the results that happen if you obeyed each and every word of the Word of God as written in the Holy Books. Think how fast you would find yourself in prison in any liberal democracy where individual freedom and responsibility is cherished.

14. The Gospel of "Q" and Biomystical Christianity

What "Q" has going for it is the fact that orally transmitted sayings by necessity have to be short, memorable phrases--and it is exactly the short, memorable phrases of Jesus that show up almost word for word in all three gospels, Luke, Matthew and Thomas. Because the wording is so similar in the three gospels scholars believe each author was reading a text that held these oral sayings, a text they have named "Q", when they were writing their gospels. Luke and Matthew use Mark's narrative story and built it up with sayings from Q. Both Luke and Matthew use Old Testament references for Jesus, i.e., "to fulfill scriptures" Jesus did this or that.

But none of these authors knew Jesus directly, it was all second-hand material for them and cannot be considered as authentic words of Jesus. I mean just look at John's Jesus and see how John's Jesus talks just like John does (see 1 John for the phrase "my little children" like John has Jesus use the same phrase "little children"). It is the lengthy statements by Jesus in John that indicate the author's words put into Jesus' mouth: no way could all those words be successfully orally transmitted--far too long and complex to remember. Add to that the fact that those ancient writers had no modern day notions of plagiarism or intellectual honesty. They often wrote under the name of some famous person so as to get their stuff read and this was considered legitimate if they kept "in character" with the famous person they were writing as, e.g., Jesus or Paul or one of the Apostles.

To believe NT writers didn't sit down and read what others had wrote before them is to not understand how scriptures come about. There is no other way to explain how the same sets of phrases are passed down throughout the generations of Bible writers other than each writer was familiar at some point with the texts of others before him. This is how I write Biomystical Christian prophesies too which would have little meaning if they didn't coincide with past references that give them context and meaning. The Golden Thread of knowledge of God's goodness is passed along this way which informs us how the Holy One is reliable even if the men writing spiritual information are not always so consistent because of personal or religious community agendas interfering. The Sayings of Jesus found in "Q" are the fundamental teachings of Yieshu-Jesus that Biomystical Christianity holds to be the highest of spiritual truths. "Q" is the essence of the teachings of Christ.*  Beyond "Q" one is in the hands of the religious opinions of later authors writing about Jesus Christ as if they were there with him.

* Read the complete Gospel of "Q" in the New Gnosis Library index.

15. The Gospel of Thomas and Biomystical Christianity

The Gospel of Thomas contains many of the "Q" Sayings of Jesus plus many more curiously Zen-like statements. After going through my religious conversion experience I find many of those esoteric Sayings in Thomas to reflect the state of mind I found myself in during those three days of non-stop synchronicity experiences. For example the meaning within Saying 77 in Thomas, "Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me there.", made perfect sense because it was true that literally everything I did or saw was connected in my mind with the teachings of Jesus. There is so much spiritual truth in Thomas as to boggle the mind but honestly, I do not know how Thomas relates to the historical Jesus if it does relate. I think Thomas follows the later Gospel traditions that have the 12 Disciples with Peter and Thomas prominent instead of going back to the original Yieshu ben Pantera with his 5 disciples.

Read the complete Gospel of Thomas in the New Gnosis Library index.

16. Simple Torah Christianity: The Universal form of Christianity

The Two Great Commandments:

"'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'

Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind'. This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

--Matthew 22:36-40.

Yieshu-Jesus taught that the whole meaning of the Hebrew Law and instructions of the prophets was found in these two Great Commandments found in the Torah. Biomystical Christian theology adds these two qualities to Yieshu-Jesus' Two Great Commandments: Biomystical Christianity agrees with the author of 1 John 4:7-8: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Biomystical Christianity defines "neighbor" as the living beings of your community, plants and animals as well human beings as Web of Life ecological wisdom teaches along with spiritual truth: "We are all One". The Two Great Commandments then read:

"You shall love Love with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Wherever love for one another is shown by kindness, sharing and caring, there too the Spirit of God can be seen. For it is love and not power that is truly the miraculous quality which the Great Mysterious One has brought to human consciousness. It is consciousness of love that produces our consciences, our little Christ inside that informs us how we are to live and be with one another in this life that is meant to prepare us for the World to Come.

Biomystical Christians give Love, honor Love, obey Love, rescue Love, and protect Love. Love is the heart of the Golden Rule. Creating Eutopia, the Good Place, is the God Work for Biomystical Christians. We devote time and energy to social organization for spreading God's will of Love and Compassion for our fellow beings in our own homes, our neighborhoods, our regional communities, our nations, and our Earth. Our spiritual work for our Lord and Lady, the Holy One of Heaven and Earth, is enlarging the Realm of Love which is the same as enlarging the Realm of the Holy One, the "Kingdom of God" in Old Christian terminology.

Obuntu

There is another religious concept that comes out of Africa that is similar to these basic Christian teachings. That is the concept of "Obuntu". Only justice and respect for every person, captured in the Bantu word Obuntu, can lead to peace and prosperity for both rich and poor countries. As Nelson Mandela described it, Obuntu recognizes that my humanity is bound up with yours.

17. Biomystical Christianity follows the spiritual instructions of Jesus as found in the Sayings Gospels, "Q" and the Gospel of Thomas.

John's Gospel is amazing too but a trap for the unwary Gnostic. Matthew holds the fullest Sermon on the Mount and Mark shows how the Greatest Story Ever Told began..Biomystical Christianity in general follows the religious instructions found in the Sayings Gospels and not the whole New Testament set which are confused and contradictory, mainly because of Paul's influence on the foundations of Christianity. Christians obeying Scriptures end up inspired to be less than humane because the outmoded scriptures contain rules leading to cruelty towards others.

God is God of the Living not the dead. The God of Abraham is the God of Isaac is the God of Jacob which means God is a living Spirit that moves through the generations as symbolically represented by father, son, grandson. God's instructions to Abraham are different from God's instructions to Isaac and different from Its instructions to Jacob. Each of the Prophets brings a different perspective on God's instructions because times and circumstances change. Jesus' instructions from God compared to Moses' are much different but they share the same history, the same spiritual "DNA" as it were, only Jesus represents the advanced spiritual instructions for making a universal humane being whereas Moses' more primitive instructions can only make a more humane Jewish nationalist, who is still only a territorial Zionist at best. God wants a better model for creating a true Human Being in the Cheyenne sense of that term, i.e., a truly humane person, showing compassion and wisdom in all one's dealing with other human beings.

18. The Biomystical Christian meaning of the "End Times"

In Biomystical Christian interpretation the "End Times" do not refer to a literal end of the world scenario but to the ending of the astrological Age of Pisces and the ending of 4th World in Native American prophesy. Many religious beliefs will fall victim to the New Millennium knowledge gained from modern scientific research. Old foundational stories of legendary religious leaders and miraculous events will be exposed by historical research as tribal myths borrowed from still older mythical lore. Modern science techniques used in historical research of ancient religions as well as psychological research of the religious impulse, will expose the way human errors and political agendas intervene in traditional religious doctrines. In the end these will deal final death blows to religious authority resting in Holy Book scriptures as inerrant truth. Only two religious concept will remain unscathed:

1) That God is One, wholly and Holy One, the Holy One of Heaven & Earth

2) That the Holy One has sent the world the Spirit of Christ, a spiritual consciousness that has been carried from ancient Canaan through Hebrew scriptures and into early Christ Cult (Pauline) and Gnostic Christianity finally to re-emerge as a new holistic Christian vision seen here in these pages of Biomystical Christianity.

No moral compass

These are the End Times of all religions that lack recognition of the Spirit of Christ. These are the End Times of all patriarchal religions that lack recognition of the Feminine aspect of the Holy One. Traditional Pauline Christianity faces its End Times as Pauline doctrine is exposed as Paul's pagan mystery religion revision of Jesus' teachings and meaning of his life and death. The Holy One is sick of all the unnecessary violence seen throughout the history of patriarchal religions which shows no sign of diminishing in modern times. The Holy One is taking spiritual action to end it as we step ahead into the New Millennium. See the specific religion "End Times" pages for details on how these traditional doctrines contain their various Achilles Heels and are doomed unless they go through a radical revision that removes the "Satanic Verses" from their holy books such as Deuteronomy 13:6-10, calling for the stoning of the wayward son. In other words, scriptures found in the so-called holy books of Judaism, Pauline Christianity and Islam that historically have led believers to bring harm or death to their neighbors must be composted to allow traditional religionists to fit in with New Millennium standards of decency and civilized life.

19. The End Times of traditional Abrahamic religions and the rise of Gnosis of God.

Gnosticism is a religion based on knowledge and not blind faith. Gnosticism brings Saving Gnosis that alone will carry the Abrahamic religious tradition past its otherwise End Times as historical discovery reveals the roots of Abrahamic worship in Vedic Hinduism*

* See The End of Abraham chapter for more on this.

Gnosticism is a religion of revolution: the revolt against the false god of Israel

It is impossible for a religion that has created Israel to teach morality. It is impossible for a religion that launched the Middle Ages Crusades and subjugation of indigenous peoples in the Americas and Africa to teach morality. It is impossible for a religion that celebrated 9-11 to teach morality. By looking at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, we can see where organized religion goes astray. It goes astray in mental slavery to past traditions about God. The God of the past is worshipped while the Living God is not recognized in the present. When God is boxed for mass consumption, the Spirit of God is lost and an Image of God is substituted in Its place. For pagans the Image was composed of natural world elements: planets, stars, animals, and gods and goddesses acting very much as human beings. For the Abrahamic monotheists the Image has evolved into the abstract Word of God, i.e., Holy Scriptures, a series of man-made little Images strung in rows and worshipped as a substitute for the Spirit of God. This is what organized religion does. It boxes the religious experience of one person or a few for mass consumption by the many and that process produces the kind of religious history we see in the history of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Biomystical Christianity says that history accurately reflects the flaws in each man who has produced Holy Scriptures, flaws in their individual and competing "Word of God" texts that followers follow blindly thinking they are following God by following these Images put on paper or parchment. BC calls this "Bible idolatry" because the idol, the Book of scriptures dictates the Spirit relationship instead of the Spirit itself dictating that relationship. And as all idols demand, it is taboo to question the authority of the idol. These are the End Times for all written authority from God claimed as the exclusive possession of any single group of human beings. Biomystical Christianity continues the prophets call for obedience to the Spirit of God for goodness for humanity and continues the prophet's role exposing false doctrines. BC advances the iconoclastic direction Mohammed took in further breaking the idol's hold on individual minds.

Through Biomystical Christianity, the Holy One exposes the last idol to fall to the Spirit of God, the idol of the graven image, the Scroll, the Holy Book which freezes the Spirit in the past instead of making it fresh and alive for this very day. The argument of wisdom to be found in the Holy Books is refuted by the evidence of history where leaders of society have used these Holy Books to guide their actions. How many millions more must die for the fact to register universally that the historical record shows conclusively that organized religions have brought far more division and strife between peoples than unification under God? Perhaps the solitary path is truly the only one that takes you directly to God as Gnostics have claimed all along.

See more at the End Times of Judaism and the End Times of Pauline Christianity chapters.

20. Jewish Mythology

Just as every other culture has produced myths of origin, so too have the Israelites. But unlike other myths of origin, the Jews and Pauline Christians following them, believe the ancient Israelite myths of origin to be real history and not myths at all. Unfortunately for them, archeologists and historians confirm the myths as myths because of complete lack of archeological evidence to support them as real events, e.g. the story of Adam and Eve, the Flood of Noah, the Exodus of Moses, and the Kingdoms of David and Solomon.

See more at the End of Abraham, End Times of Judaism, and the Yahweh, the Fraud of Israel chapters.

21. The "Root of Jesse"

The Root of Jesse is where the Messiah is supposed to spring from. Well, the Root of Jesse is found in two women, Rahab and Ruth. Rahab was the Canaanite prostitute who betrayed her fellow citizens of Jericho in order to save herself and family from destruction. She is glorified because she claimed faith in the destructive power of the tribal god of the Israelites. Ruth was the Moabite woman from the land ruled by the fire-war god Chemosh who demanded the sacrifice of firstborn sons. How can these two then be the genealogical root of the expected Messiah?

Biomystical Christianity knows God supplies hidden clues to spiritual knowledge to be revealed when the time is right. Two pagan women are key figures in the genealogy of the Messiah. BC believes they are God's indicators stuck within Scripture to guide us back to times of ancient Canaan and the beginnings of the Hebrew religion because the original "sin" in to be found there, the sin of the Hebrew priesthood's fraudulent elevation of their tribal god, Yahweh, to the position of God Most High, i.e., the position of his Father, El Elyon. All that is wrong with Judeo-Christianity stems from this initial lie. All that is wrong with the Hebrew concept of the Messiah is to be found in this initial lie.

See more about this in the Yahweh, the Fraud of Israel chapter.

22. Worshipping a schizophrenic god produces schizophrenic believers

Worshipping a schizophrenic god produces schizophrenic believers. Yahweh is schizophrenic, a god composed of a combination of several gods, with EL Elyon, Yamm, Baal, and Moloch the most prominent among them. The commandments of a schizophrenic god are schizophrenic, e.g, in Yahweh's case, the commandment found in the Decalogue "thou shall not murder" is abrogated in the commandment to Joshua to slaughter all before him and his Israelite invaders who did not obey the Law of Moses, one of which laws is that commandment not to kill. Pauline Christianity follows the same moral schizophrenia by producing a Christianity that says it honors and obeys Jesus' teachings, one of the biggest of which is forgiveness of sins, but then Pauline Christian doctrines, following Paul's lead, go on to condemn to hell any who do not obey Pauline Christian doctrines, thus negating Jesus' commandment to forgive sinners "for they know not what they do." This is Wisdom speaking through Jesus.

23. Biomystical Christianity rejects Yahweh as God Most High

Biomystical Christian theology states Yahweh cannot be used as the name of the true God of All because Yahweh is not God Most High. Yahweh started off as the chief tribal god of the Israelites. These tribal gods were under EL's authority, as president of the "Divine Assembly", the Canaanite word translated into Greek as "Armageddon". Yahweh then was one of the sons of EL, God Most High in Canaan but not God the Father of Creation and Father of Humanity. When Hebrews took control of Canaan they did a makeover of Yahweh by subsuming EL into this lower desert war god. EL's goodness was ascribed to Yahweh but it didn't fit Yahweh's tyrant nature or the Israelite territorial ambitions. So goodness of EL was secondary to the thirst of Yahweh matching the thirst of Hebrews for Canaanite territory for Yahweh's special people, the Israelites. This exclusion of the majority of humanity means Judaism and its tribal god are imposters posing as a universal moral religion yet who tenets and spiritual leaders are filled with deceit and violence. Lip-service is given to love but it is obedience to immoral commandments that mark Yahweh and Yahweh believers as schizophrenic at best and dangerous religious fanatics at worst.

God has warned the world with the name given to Jacob, Israel, which means literally "he fights with EL", i.e., Israelites fight with God Most High. Judaism cannot be universalized because it is too schizophrenic and contains commandments that are against the will of the Holy One's greatest Spirit to humanity, the Spirit of Christ. The schizophrenic commandments are those which Yahweh gives in one place and turns around and negates in another, e.g., the original Commandment not to murder which is negated by the Mosaic Law codes commanding murdering those who don't obey these rules of Yahweh. Also, the original Commandment not to take what is your neighbors is negated by Yahweh's later commands to steal the land of their neighbors, the Canaanites, to force the Promised Land prophesy given to Abraham. Here too the Commandment not to murder is breached by Yahweh's instructions to Joshua to genocide Canaanites, men, women, and children.

Judaism is often touted as a religion of morality and social justice but it cannot ever be such when the God worshipped by Jews (and traditional Christians) has never established himself as a moral god as the examples above demonstrate. There are many such examples of how Yahweh's supposed justice is a sham for favoring one group of human beings over another. Yahweh can never be successfully used as a universal God of Justice or Goodness because Yahweh's roots are hidden in deceit that have rotted out. The fruits of Yahwehism are a mixed schizophrenic mess of lip-service goodness with evil acts intertwined.

See more in the End Times of Judaism chapter.

Pauline Christian doctrine reinstates Yahweh's schizophrenic character into Christianity and thus produced the schizophrenic history of our Christian religion where the recorded good acts of Gentile believers are few and far between but bad acts are well known to every nation and tribe falling under the armed might of Christian conquerors. Biomystical Christianity breaks this Pauline corruption of Christianity by revealing and honoring the true Father of Humanity, EL Elyon, God Most High. However, even EL is still below a virtually unknowable God, one known to Gnostic Christians as the "Ineffable" i.e., "unknowable" Father and to the Lakota Native Americans as Wakan Tanka, "the Great Mysterious One" or just "Great Mystery".

Bottom Line B.C. Belief about the name(s) of God:

People have their various names for God. "Creator" is the most universal one on earth. Biomystical Christians use the gender-complete name "the Holy One of Heaven & Earth" as the main term for the very highest God. But it's not written in stone. Women may feel more comfortable addressing God as She or any one of the Great Goddess names. The true God of All is really beyond human names although it must be understood that God is not sexless. The primary duality inherent in Life, the Yin-Yang, Mother-Father opposition, is rooted in the Holy One. The prohibition against taking God's name in vain refers to using the name of God to justify one's own vanity, e.g. "Thus saith the Lord, ...", and then setting up more false teachings that lead people away from, instead of towards recognition of the reality and will of the Holy One, that will being for humanity to create Heaven on Earth extending the compassionate, nurturing, and bountiful Realm of the Holy One to all lands and to all beings.

24. Spiritual Canaan, the Promised Land Connection

The Hebrews did reach earthly Canaan but the Jews never reached spiritual Canaan, the Promised Land. Traditional Christianity never reached spiritual Canaan either. Why? Because they didn't have the right God to give them the right directions to it. Biomystical Christianity reaches spiritual Canaan, the Promised Land where the Holy One of Heaven and Earth can be rediscovered as truly Holy One, i.e., representing the primary aspects of the Godhead, God and Goddess united in eternal Hiero-Gamos, as well as the whole Holy Family, the new Divine Assembly, the Elohim.

See more in the Canaanite Connection chapter.

Also see the Canaan Peace Plan chapter.

25. The Restoration of EL Elyon: the true God the Father and Jesus' "Abba"

Some of you may have seen earlier editions of my Biomystical Christianity material in which I make reference to "GaiaJah" as a name for the Holy One of Heaven and Earth. Now you see that I do not use this name but instead use either just "the Holy One", "Holy One of Heaven & Earth", or "Elohim". Here's why: Previous to my discovery of Jesus' "good Father" as the Canaanite God Most High EL, I, like many Gnostics, like many conscientious Christians, was at a loss about what to do with the difference between the merciful and compassionate God Jesus worshipped and obeyed and told us to do likewise, and the Old Testament God, Yahweh, well-known for his tendency to threaten wrath and eternal damnation for all who disobeyed his commandments.

The Old Gnostics in general tried to solve the dilemma many people of conscience have noticed about Jesus' God and Yahweh by reducing Yahweh's authority to that of a lesser god than the true God above all others. Old Gnostics feeling the spiritual need for wholeness in themselves coupled their unknowable highest God to Sophia as the Feminine aspect of this Godhead. My previous solution to the Yahweh/Jesus "Abba" problem was to accept the Rastafarian usage of "Jah" as God the Father, a Father of Love and Justice. I coupled "Jah" to "Gaia" to produce a name for the Holy One that I could see the wholeness of God in, a name that included both masculine and feminine characteristics. But after finding out about EL, after finding out that Yahweh started off as a lower tribal god in the Canaanite pantheon and merely one of the "sons of EL, God Most High", after finding out about the Canaanite roots of the Messiah concept, all this information has led me to drop the "Jah" name in favor of EL's name because without doubt, EL is Jesus' "Abba".

One has only to read about the way EL was perceived by His Canaanite worshippers to see where Jesus got his teachings about compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and non-judgment. And handily, EL already comes complete with a "wife", Asherah, the symbolic Tree of Life. Both EL and Asherah made it all the way through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, so now there is no need for a made-up name signifying the Holy One. It was there all along as the biblical "Elohim". Yes, it does denote the Father aspect of the Godhead without mentioning the Feminine by name but I personally feel quite comfortable with this name because of it's lengthy historical usage and the fact that I now know that EL and Asherah were and are inseparable aspects of the One true God of All.

Here are basic commandments of EL Elyon in the Old Testament to ones who would be "Sons of God".

Psalm 82

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?

Defend the poor and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Deliver the poor and needy;

Free them from the hand of the wicked."

"Elijah" "My God EL is Jah"

"Elijah" "My El is Jah", can be true for Judeo-Christians if they take the Ark of the Covenant Lion of Judah Ethiopian express to Jamaica and smoke some Lamb's Bread sensi. Then they might meet Jah, One Love, made the same as EL, the Compassionate One through the sacrifice of Jesus as Yahweh the Son of God Most High. It is important to note that Biomystical Christian theology doesn't advocate a return to ancient pagan Canaanite religious worship but that Christians must now realize the Holy One wants us to recognize the principle aspects of the Creator which are to be found more clearly in the original sources in the Promised Land.

See more about EL in the Restoration of EL Elyon chapter.

26. Biomystical Christianity and the Armageddon Choice

A jealous god is not God. It is a man-made creation based on fear of loss, loss of control, loss of ownership. The true Holy One "owns" everything, controls everything, so it is impossible for the true God to be jealous of anyone or anything. It created everything, animates everything alive, so how could it be fearful of loss of control? How could It be fearful and jealous of another god? Yahweh is a jealous god. Yahweh, therefore, cannot be the Most High. Biomystical Christianity states that traditional Christians and Jews have the choice of following a lesser god or the true God Most High. They cannot follow both at once as Jesus told us, "no one can serve two masters". In the Yahweh, the Fraud of Israel chapter you will discover the Israelite makeover of their tribal god Yahweh into EL Elyon, God Most High and why B.C. theology restores EL to His rightful position as the Father of Humanity and the Father of the Spirit of Christ.

27. "Dawidum" & David

Biomystical Christian theology is convinced David of the Bible was a mythical character, the Hebrew's idealized King as "Chieftain" of the tribe of Israel. David, like Heracles and many of the pagan demi-gods and legendary men, is given a "history", a genealogy to place him within the Hebrew ruling families. There is evidence too in the Old Testament Scriptures that David was thought of a god-like being, whose "city" was spiritual. Then there is the fact that the word "Dawidum" shows up both ancient Canaanite texts and on the Moabite Stone of King Mesha long before the Hebrews scribes composed their Tanach. This parallels the facts that the name of     "Solomon" and other foundational Hebrew Patriarchs appear in the very ancient Canaanite religious texts found at Ugarit. Since Israeli and international archeologists have failed in over a hundred years of digging in the Holy Land to locate anything more than an inscription of bearing the name "House of David" it is very likely no great kingdom of David or Solomon ever existed. Read below and see how "House of David" may mean simply "House of the Chief".

Here are views of two scholars re the relationship of David to "Dawidum"

"...Hickman however, not bound by the stifling strictures of conventional chronology, was free to re-assess the earlier connection between the "dawidum" and the name David. As regards Lemaire's "dabduum" he noted that the use of the letter "b" instead of "w" or "v", did "not conclusively exclude the possibility that a word meaning 'David'" was intended in the letters; and that in the New Testament Greek "the name of David is variously written 'Dawid' and 'Dabid'." Even though, as he said. "current archaeological wisdom precludes it" , Hickman felt inclined nonetheless to Benjaminites and Davidites: Hickman found what he believed to be the people of Saul and David in the names "Benjamites" (Benjaminites) and "Dawidum" (Davidum), cited in "three date formulas" of the kings of Mari. It was customary for ancient kings to date certain years of their reigns with reference to notable historical events that occurred within those years. Thus the kings of Mari recorded these years:

1. The year in which Iahdulim went to Hen and laid hands on the territory of the Benjamites."

2. "The year that Zimri-Lim killed the Davidum of the Benjamites."

3. The year after Zimri-Lim killed the Davidum of the Benjamites."

...the possibility that "Dawidum" related to David and that Hammurabi belonged to the Davidic era.

Hickman was quite safe, from a linguistic point of view, in associating the "Benjamites" of the Mari Letters [ML] with the biblical Benjaminites. And, since Saul belonged to the tribe of Benjamin (I Samuel 9:1-2), he was quite entitled to suggest an identification between the "Benjamites" and the peoples ruled by Saul. André Lemaire concurred with this view that the "Benjamites" of ML corresponded in name precisely to the southern tribe of Israel."

The connection with Yamm, Yahweh and the Benjamites whose tribal territory included Jerusalem is taken up in the Yahweh, the Fraud of Israel chapter. Benjamite tribal influence over all of the tribes of Israel may be something to be considered by all claiming Hebrew descent or even Christian spiritual dependence on the Torah and Tanankh texts of Judaism.

28. Biomystical Christianity vs. Pauline Christianity

Paul created traditional Christianity as the world knows it as a new Jewish Mystery Religion. It is true that there are within ancient Hebrew religious traditions much of the elements found in worshipping Jesus as a "Son of God" but it is also clear that Paul's familiarity with pagan religious concepts play into Paul's and the later Roman Catholic Church's creation of Christianity as a type of Jewish Mystery Religion. To do so, Pauline Christ Cult Christianity combines these three elements together in the New Testament portrait of Jesus Christ:

1) Jesus as Isaiah's "Suffering Servant" model applied not to the nation of Israel collectively but to the coming Messiah as an individual who's innocent suffering and death atones for the sins of the Jews.

2) the Jewish-pagan Gnostic concept of a heavenly Redeemer who saves souls from the material world.

3) the Greco-Roman-Egyptian Mystery Religion motif of a dying/resurrection God-Man who's death atones for the sins of those who believe in these gods and god-men.

The Mystery Religions, like Pauline Christianity, promised their believers atonement from sin and eternal life by ritual identification with the dying/resurrection god or god-man either through baptism ceremonies or with Eucharist-type shared meals. In these Mystery Religions with dying/resurrection god motifs the god or god-man undergoes death typically by crucifixion, the god then "dies" but is "born again" to match the seasonal cycle of the agricultural year. The Mystery Religions of Attis and Mithra are two of these pagan Mystery Religions sharing many ritual beliefs in common with Christianity, Mithraism especially, e.g., same Sunday worship, same Dec. 25th birthday, Mithra, a sun god, claimed to be the "Light of the World", was crucified and rose from the dead in three days, would give his believers safety from the Evil One plus eternal life; followers baptized themselves (but in sacrificed bull's blood-yech!) and held Eucharist celebrations where they partook of the god by eating bread and drinking wine, etc...

The Catholic Church costumes and rituals are based on the costumes and rituals used by Egyptian Mystery Religion of Isis priests as is the Catholic icon of Mary as the Madonna with Child based on Egyptian icons of Isis and Horus.

Mark, as Paul's protege, took Paul's basic supernatural Jesus Christ figure with its short history of sacrificial death by crucifixion and resurrection from the dead, and gave Jesus a three and half year "history" on earth loosely using a Sayings of Jesus wisdom book or "Q" that circulated around in early Christian circles to give Jesus his New Testament dialogues. Matthew and Luke later added more Old Testament references and more "Q" Sayings to fill out Mark's sparse gospel and explain the Christ Cult Christian interpretation viewpoint better. John came along later and added to the basic Markian story the mystical Hellenized Jewish Logos perspective for Jesus in mixed Gnostic and Jewish Apocalyptic terminology. The writer of the Gospel of Thomas also used "Q" to create a Gnostic Jesus Sayings gospel.

The historical Jesus may turn out to be entirely myth or someone lost to history but recreated as legend.* There are only hints of the historical Jesus. All that can be really said in truth is that somewhere between 30 A.D. and 50 A.D. a powerful Spirit of Christ became known to many religious people in Palestine and that Spirit was taken by these people, Jews and then Gentiles, as being the fulfillment of the Messiah prophesy. The Story of Jesus has worked its magic for almost 2000 years but is now coming to a close as historical research reveals the myth-making of early Christian writers and as new prophetic visions replace old ones with the coming of the New Millennium.

* See more in the Mystery of Jesus chapter.

Biomystical Christian theology will eventually replace traditional (Pauline) Christian theology as New Millennium generations discard previous patriarchal mythologies in favor of seeing God, Creation, Life and Humanity as they are really are, as a Unity of all diversity, a whole composed of countless parts but so complex and powerfully mysterious to our limited minds we can only call it God, our Holy One of heaven and earth. This topic is crucial to understanding the difference between traditional Christianity and Biomystical Christianity. Therefore I've got a lot to say about it and have created a separate page for my "Jesus vs. Paul" theological stance for Biomystical Christianity. Please see the Biomystical Christianity vs. Pauline Christianity chapter. Actually, BC vs. Pauline Christianity runs all through these pages as Pauline Christianity is the biggest weed growing in the Garden Jesus planted.

29. Mithraism and traditional (Pauline) Christianity

To show how closely traditional (Pauline) Christianity's view of Jesus Christ fits the Greco-Roman world's Mystery Religion traditions, I have posted this review of Mithra and and Mithraism below:

"Who

Was born in a cave or grotto of a divinely impregnated virgin who was

thenceforth known as the Mother of God;

Has a birthday celebrated toward the end of December;

Is a member of a Holy Trinity;

Shared a last supper with 12 followers;

Redeemed mankind from sin by shedding blood;

Rose from the dead and ascended into heaven;

Leads a cosmic war against the powers of darkness;

Mediates between his father and his followers;

Encourages followers in life's struggle against evil,

lies, and the other works of the Prince of Darkness;

Has worshipers who partake of consecrated bread

and wine and who hold sacred the seventh day of the week;

Is served by celibates and virgins, priests and a pontiff;

Has a cross as a symbol;

Purifies the faithful through ritualistic baptism;

Demands that, after death, all must appear before the judgment seat, and then

unclean souls are handed over to the Prince of Darkness for eternal

torment, while the pure rise into the full radiance of heaven;

Will come to judge all and to establish an everlasting reign

of righteousness and peace at the end of the world ...

Does this describe Jesus or Mithra?

The cult of Mithra was derived from the ancient Aryan worship of Ahura-Mazda. "Dating from around the 15th century BCE [one and one half thousand years "BEFORE Christ"], Mithraism emerged in ancient Persia. Mihr (the Persian form of Mithra) was the word not only for the Sun but also for a friend; and that seems to be how this pagan god was originally worshipped -- as both supreme sun god and god of love. By the beginning of the third century BCE, the militaristic rulers in western outposts of what had been the Persian empire were venerating Mithras as a divine warrior, no longer a loving Sun god but the unconquerable god of soldiers and friend of power."

(From: Quest for the Past)

"Even with the comparatively slight knowledge we have of Mithraism and its liturgy, it is clear that many of Paul's phrases savor much more of the terminology of the Persian cult than that of the Gospels."

(E. Wynn-Tyson, Mithras)

Mithraism "postulated an apocalypse, a day of judgment, a resurrection of the flesh, and a second coming of Mithras himself, who would finally defeat the principle of evil. Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or grotto, where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts."

(Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, The Messianic Legacy)

"Like Christians, the Mithraists [a millennium and a half earlier] believed that their savior had descended from heaven to earth; had shared a last supper with 12 followers; had redeemed mankind from sin by shedding blood; and had risen from the dead. They even baptized their converts to wash away past sins."

(Quest for the Past)

"He who will not eat of my body, nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved." -- Mithraic Communion

(M. J. Vermaseren, Mithras, The Secret God)

"And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said, Take [this]: this is my body. And having taken [the] cup, when he had given thanks, he gave [it] to them, and they all drank out of it. And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that shed for many." -- Mark 14:22-26

(English-Darby)

Matthew "included Mark's last supper that equated Jesus with Mithra, and also a repudiation of the Mithraic custom of calling priests 'Father' and the chief priest 'Father of Fathers.'"

(William Harwood, Mythologies Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus)

"But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ." --

Matthew 23:8-10

"The Mithraic Holy father wore a red cap and garment and a ring, and carried a shepherd's staff. The Head Christian adopted the same title and outfitted himself in the same manner. Christian priests, like Mithraic priests, became 'Father', despite Jesus' specific proscription of the acceptance of such a title (Matthew 23:9). That Jesus had been repudiating, not the Mithraists with whom he was unfamiliar, but the Sanhedrin, whose President was styled Father, is hardly relevant. "Mithra's bishops wore a mithra, or miter, as their badge of office. Christian bishops also adopted miters. Mithraists commemorated the sun-god's ascension by eating a mizd, a sun-shaped bun embossed with the sword (cross) of Mithra. The hot cross bun and the mass were likewise adapted to Christianity. The Roman Catholic mizd/mass wafer continues to retain its sun-shape, although its Episcopal counterpart does not. "All Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Gratian had been pontifex maximus, high priest of the Roman gods. When Theodosius refused the title as incompatible with his status as a Christian, the Christian bishop of Rome picked it up. Magi, priests of Zarathustra, wore robes that featured the sword of Mithra. Identical robes are worn by Christian priests to this day."

--William Harwood, Mythologies Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus.

See more about the way in which Jesus Christ was made into a God-Man in the Mystery of Jesus chapter.

30. Rejection of the Pauline Mystery Religion interpretation of Christ's sacrificial death

The Biomystical meaning of Yieshu-Jesus' sacrificial death

In biomystical consciousness that began with my first religious conversion experience, I was given a new interpretation of what God intends for humankind to learn from the Passion of Christ. God through Jesus' sacrifice addresses the biological instincts still inherent in men's roles (and women who follow into men's roles) of constantly competing with one another for power positions at all levels of society, from head of the family to President of the Nation. In these continuous battles to see who's who in the various pecking orders for domination of territories, the hapless masses put up with these animal escapades that are seemingly inherent in our very genes. But God has shown us the way out of animal territorial instincts through the Sacrifice rituals, the greatest of these being Yieshu-Jesus' Passion.

The Passion of Christ is the world's most psychologically powerful hypnotic trigger--the Ultimate Icon of Self Sacrifice, Jesus nailed to the Cross, the God in Man, not God Most High, but the Most High's Son, Yahweh. It was foretold in Psalm 82 that the Sons of God Most High would "die like men." Jesus was Yahweh in human form as a human-Spirit, Son of Man-Son of God put to death so that the Spirit of EL, the true Father in heaven could be released again on earth. This is the Biomystical Christian interpretation of the Passion: the Sacrifice of Power for Love. Biomystical Christians are instructed to end worship of bloodshed, i.e., end the worship of Christ shedding his blood for our salvation. Absurd on the face of it: A god can't feel the same anguish as a human being. Gods by definition are immortal and would have no fear of death while death is the great fear of a human being. The Pauline god-man Christ's sacrifice is meaningless for human beings as we are not god-men.

See more at 31 below and at the Biomystical meaning of Jesus' sacrifice chapter.      

31. The Mystical interpretation of Yieshu-Jesus' sacrificial death

In ancient Canaanite religious mythology, EL Elyon was challenged once by Yamm known as Prince Sea and representing Chaos in the seasons of the year celebrations of the Canaanite religion. EL won with Baal's help, who was known as "Lord" and who, as a military or war god, led Canaanites to victory in battle as well as securing the seasons through his victory and defeat and resurrection rescue via Anat, a warrior-princess goddess and daughter of Asherah. Baal, too challenged EL and this time it was Yamm who came to EL's side to defeat Baal. Of Biomystical Christian interest is the fact that ancient Canaanite cuneiform texts found at Ugarit contain statements showing EL changing Yamm's name to Yaw or Yawu. Yaw or Yah is also the name of the god of desert tribe Midians into which Moses married or so the Exodus story goes.

When exile Hebrews came back to the Holy Land from their Babylonian Captivity they brought back much to create the Torah story that masks the attempted Deicide of the Canaanite highest gods, EL Elyon, God Most High and Asherah, the Tree of Life. The Mystical Meaning of Yeshu-Jesus Christ's death on the Tree or on the Cross is the sacrifice of Yahweh, the real son of God, who takes on the sins of tribal hubris and narcissism when Judah priests and scribes falsely elevated Yahweh to EL's position as God Most High reducing the great compassionate and wise identity of EL to a mere generic word for "God". Like Lucifer in the Isaiah verse, Yahweh, the Israelite god of war, a.k.a. the ancient Canaanite god of chaos, meant to overthrow God Most High and for 2500 years it has looked like Yahweh pulled it off. By swallowing EL Yahweh choked and became schizophrenic, unable to balance EL's compassion and wisdom with the ever-present need of military commanders for absolute obedience.

Modern archeological evidence shows the true, original identity of EL Elyon plus careful reading of the Tanach (Old Testament) itself. Jesus Christ stood in for Yahweh and took the punishment of the schizophrenic-criminal god Yahweh was. The schizophrenic-criminal god inspires the history of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths and is in full force today because Paul, a Benjamite, a Son of Yamm, yoked the Christian Jewish revolt against the worship of Yahweh, the Son of God, substituted as God Most High. In the act of sacrifice to which God does Jesus cry out to? Who is Jesus' Father? "Eloi, Eloi"; my (God) EL and not my (Lord) Yahweh. How could he cry out to himself?

Jesus Christ atones for the Deicide of EL Elyon. "Jesus Christ" is the Transfigured Yahweh, Yahweh cleansed of sin and made worthy as a true Son of God, a true Son who follows the compassion and wisdom of God Most High. Jesus Christ has to be raised from the dead in order to re-establish his relationship as Son at the right hand of the Father. In that position he acts as a Heavenly Intercessor between human beings and our heavenly Father, who represents the Masculine face of the Holy One of Heaven & Earth. By establishing the world's most powerful psychological Icon of self-sacrifice, Jesus Christ, gives the model for every man and woman on earth on how to overcome the Alpha Male territorial battling behavior inherited from our lives as wild animals. This behavior pattern in the hands of heavily armed men without control holds the world in terror of perpetual warfare while it oppresses human societies and stunts the development of human potential for peace and harmony among all peoples and the life of the land. It has to end and God, through Yeshu-Jesus' sacrifice of Power for Love provided the way to do it.

By sacrificing himself as Yahweh on a dead Tree of Life, the Cross, Jesus Christ creates the world's most psychologically powerful spiritual icon of self-sacrifice, one that is necessary for all human beings, especially men, to have a spiritual-psychological model for overcoming their interior Tyrant Kings, their little war gods inside--their egos that keep them at war with their fellow human beings instead working out ways in which to live in peace and harmony. But the God of Israel is still loose in the world creating chaos and war because Paul twisted the meaning of Christ's sacrifice and put Christianity in Roman imperial hands. This god inspires Judaism and a repeat of the genocidal policy of Joshua in modern Israel. But bloodiest of all are the hands of Pauline Christians inspired by the God of Israel to inflict murder and mayhem on millions of people throughout the course of political domination of Western Civilization by Christianity.

Mohammed, too, completely taken in by Judaism's religious mythology, honors the war god Yahweh by seeing Allah in this Tyrant King-Sage King schizophrenic image of absolute obedience to commandments or else face damning punishment-this from a God of Mercy. War gods must all be sacrificed. Jesus knew this and took on the Son of Man-Son of God role himself as a pure sin offering. It was the only way to release the Spirit of EL back into the world but the attempt was aborted by Paul and the Romans.

Honor Yeshu-Jesus' sacrifice by honoring his Father in heaven, God Most High, the Heavenly Sage King, compassionate and wise, the Father of the Spirit of Christ inspiring compassion and wisdom wherever it is discovered by men and women in touch with their better selves. Only the true Father of Humanity can inspire human beings to become truly humane beings. Jesus is honored again and again every year to remind us how sacrifice of self is necessary for peace and goodwill. But because of Yeshu-Jesus setting the unforgettable image for all time, no one has to literally sacrifice themselves. Vicarious atonement by blood sacrifice is Paul's pagan Mystery Religion idea. It is not to be found Judaism or in Biomystical Christianity.

32. "Saved by the Blood of Christ": Biomystical Christian rejection of Vicarious Atonement doctrine

"For I desire mercy and not sacrifice" --

-Hosea 6:6

The concept of sacrificing a living thing in order to atone for sin is a carry-over from primitive religions wherein the spirits or gods must be appeased when things go wrong like droughts, floods, defeat at enemy hands, stuff like that. Since God or gods are superior to human beings the blame falls on the little guy because the little guys are taught from birth the Big Guy or big guys cannot be blamed. But if they can't be blamed they can be bought off from continuing to bring calamity to the individual, the tribe, the city or nation with the proper sacrifice items. These usually included firstborn animals without blemishes or the best foods grown or whatever was held valuable but willing to be sacrificed or given away as bribes to appease the God or the gods. The sacrificed items were fed to the gods on altars, the blood sacrifices usually burned. Not coincidentally, the priests running these religious events often ended up with the best parts of these sacrificed meals and items.

It seems to be a human trait to blame oneself when the thought of blaming others is out of the question, i.e., blaming the tyrant husband, the tyrant boss, the tyrant king, the tyrant god. The concept of sin and atonement through sacrifice seems a universal concept in most religions. But the bottom line is: it is a form of bribery that tries to appease superior power with a show of self-sacrifice, i.e., it is a "show" put on that may or may not be symbolic of real contrition on the part of the "sinner". That's why one picks up a strong current in the Old Testament that God hates sacrifices. If the sacrifices are empty propitiation rituals because nothings changed in the hearts of the believers, why bother? It boils down to Works vs. Faith, folks. Doing the will of God to bring life more abundantly, that's what counts to God and to our own self-worth as human beings made in the image of God.

When we have God's will to bring kindness and compassion into this world it will "show" from the outpouring of our own hearts as we do actions helping our fellow beings in need. When God's will is in your heart it becomes impossible to do otherwise without feeling like you're shirking your duty to not only God and your neighbor but to yourself as well. "Sacrifice" of self then becomes irrelevant because there is no other way to be fully yourself, i.e., your self that realizes God is within you as well as outside of you. You have internalized God's will as the Spirit of Christ within which then becomes your guiding conscience determining your actions towards others. And once you have learned the difference between EL Elyon and Yahweh, you will understand why the Messiah was to be named "Immanuel", "EL is with us".

33. Rejection of the "Tinkerbell Belief System", the faith system of Pauline Christianity

Peter Pan says to the Lost Children when Tinkerbell lies near death, "If you will believe in fairies with all your heart, Tinkerbell will live!" They do so believe, the readers of the story do too, and lo and behold, Tinkerbell lives on in the hearts and minds of those who know and love the story. The New Testament writers ask Christians to believe in their Gospel story of a miraculous Jesus Christ, a literal Son of God who works wonders, heals many, runs afoul of the Roman and Jewish authorities, is tried, crucified, and then, as proof of divinity, is resurrected bodily into heaven. The NT idea is that if you believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ with all your heart and all your mind you will be saved and your soul will live forever in heaven with Jesus and God. Of course, the New Testament writers go a bit beyond Peter Pan by throwing in a threat of eternal damnation in fiery hell for all who refuse to believe in their Gospel of Jesus Christ as written by them. But otherwise, the two belief systems ask the same type of magical thinking or or the same type of self-hypnotic enthrallment.

In the end salvation comes not by faith but by knowledge. Faith in scriptures doesn't do a soul any good if the scriptures one has faith in are themselves fraudulent accounts. By most Christian scholars judgment, most of our NT scriptures are propagandistic forgeries that must be taken literally by "Pauline Christians" as proof of "faith", i.e., faith placed in the words of Paul, who is always the most quoted apostle by traditional Christians. Mithraists were told also that their faith placed in the dying/resurrection of Mithra would atone for all their sins. And of course, the Lost Children are told by Peter Pan that Tinkerbell will be saved from dying if only they will be believe in fairies with all their heart. Faith in words of men doesn't cut it spiritually. Not in the long haul. Only Gnosis of God keeps one from succumbing to myths taken as reality.

34. The New Biomystical basis of Christian faith: Faith in synchronicity signs, faith in God's "Sign Language", faith that the Creator can reach you directly by arranging your personal world to bring you "Signs"

You may ask how God guides me then and the answer is very simple: God guides me and actually everyone of us by "signs", by synchronistic events or "unexplainable coincidences" that carry spiritual meaning to the experiencer.* This is the way of the prophets and is the way of Native American spirituality. I am prophet, high priest, rabbi, bishop, pastor and congregation of the church I carry on my shoulders. My spiritual walk with God is between God and me and that is how it should be as no one can intercede spiritually for another.

It is the solitary Gnostic Christian path to knowledge of God. And it vastly surpasses spiritual slavery to ancient tribal words of others who have fooled you into believing they and they alone can tell you about the God of the whole world. However, what is the real difference between believing in words of the Bible and believing in synchronicity Signs? This tremendous difference: I know who I am and I trust my judgment. I don't know "Paul" or "Luke" or "John" and I am not going to place my faith in the words of men unknown to me and virtually unknown to history as the authentic individuals who wrote the New Testament. For God is God of the living, not the dead.

* See more in the Synchronistic Mind chapter.

The Bible is the repository of the story of the spiritual descent of the Spirit of God into the world. The Bible was written by men and therefore contains errors men are prone to. The Bible cannot be used as a legal instrument of worldly rule. It is a teaching device, nothing more, for finding out how the Spirit world of the Holy One interacted with the human world in the ancient Near East to produce Jesus Christ, the founder of our religion. The Story of Jesus is told four different ways in the Bible and each way is loaded with mythology that cannot be taken for anything more than what it is--symbolic instruction for raising spiritual consciousness. Teachings of the Holy One are not confined only to the Bible. The Holy One can and does use everything of this world as spiritual instruction. Therefore, Biomystical Christians cannot use the Bible as ultimate authority to dictate social rules to anyone. There has been two thousand years of that nonsense and it ends here. The ultimate authority is the Spirit of Christ within one's heart and mind put there from the beginning by the true God of All.

To people who can only relate to God through the words of their particular scriptures they cannot fathom the Gnostic position of knowing God uses everything to bring Its messages to humankind. This has nothing to do with meditation but is the path of mystical enlightenment wherein God "speaks" through many mediums, from the symbolic meaning of a particular animal or bird seen during a Native American vision quest to being "drawn" to knowledge sources by singularly curious coincidental happenings, i.e, synchronicity experiences, again "Signs", the sign language of God. When you're in that mystical state All things of God become vehicles of God's instructions. This why orthodox believers were baffled by Gnostic groups using religious reference texts from many sources, e.g. the range found in the Nag Hammadi Library. Once you achieve this mystical state you see God's instructions everywhere, but hidden usually deep in symbology in the "official" patriarchal Holy books. This is the meaning of Jesus Saying in the gospel of Thomas, "Split a piece of wood, and I am there,you'll find Me there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me there."

My religion comes from seeing this mystical state for myself. It is why I believe in God. No reading of books could do that, no "confessing my sins" to Jesus as my savior dying on the cross could do that as Pauline Christianity instructs traditional Christian believers. God alone has the power to manipulate our world which It did for me for three days in my initial religious conversion experience that brought me out my atheism (that's what agnosticism really is because agnostics have never consciously experienced God), and into knowledge that God truly does exist. And it isn't just about personal spiritual enlightenment because God does have plans for our lives. It is "perfecting" us in spiritual understanding. What good is my personal enlightenment if I sit around in the lotus position when the world screams for salvation, comfort, nurture, and humane love? What good is it if Jews, Arabs, and Christians miraculously agree to settle their different views of Yahweh when whatever they do can't erase the fact that there are literally billions of people unaffected by Middle-Eastern religious