Eph 4:2-3 “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, (3) making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
There is a difference between the spirit of unity and the
unity of the spirit. What could Paul have meant by verse three? I hate to use
too much of the passage because evangelical and orthodox Christianity has added
so much connotative dogma that at times I wonder if it is even possible to
extract mystical and metaphysical revelation from within the pages of the New
Testament.
For me the idea that stands out in this passage from the
letter to the Ephesians is that Paul is insisting that there is but one spirit.
In my journey toward eclectic and syncretistic spirituality I have above all
else come to the realization that there is but one creative source. For me it
is consciousness, and I believe that spirit is a descriptive term to describe
the indescribable. I see the concept of the logos and spirit as essentially the
same, and I see the Christ or the anointing as a metaphor for the way that
humanity is imbued with spirit via universal consciousness. Our consciousness
is the way in which we participate in the divine nature, universal
consciousness.
We do not have to see the spirit in the same way to
experience the unity of the spirit. We simply need to accept the fact that we
are spiritual beings which as a description of conscious agents. There is no
need for a spirit of unity because the fact is that we are all unified in
universal consciousness. A spirit of
unity is simply people striving to achieve what is already a reality. When we
are motivated by a spirit of unity, we are actually admitting that we are
different, and we are other. That simply is not the reality. That is an
illusion.
The fact that we are individual conscious agents is not an
illusion. That is not what is meant by the above paragraph. I am not suggesting
that we should try to eliminate our ego and by ego I mean as William Walker
Atkinson meant it in his “Arcane Formulas,” and “Arcane Teaching.” Those are
two works that are in the public domain and can be found in PDF form
downloadable on the internet. They also can be purchased in paperback and
kindle forms from Amazon.
What Atkinson described as egohood is the total awareness of
the individual I-AM in each of us. That is our connection to the unified field
of universal consciousness, and in my view, a description of the unified field
of quantum theory, the field of morphic resonance as defined by Rupert
Sheldrake, and any other known or unknown field underlying reality. This
egohood or I-AM-ness is a very important part of or individual experience in
material reality. It does not negate the connection and oneness that exists
through the universal consciousness. It actually adds to the sum of the whole.
Therefore, the bond of peace exists in the fact that there
is unity in the spirit. Of course, no one can be sure exactly what Paul meant
in the above passage, but it resonates with me that the actual mystical message
was that there is simply unity in the spirit. If we would be at peace with that
then we could peacefully coexist with each other without judgment. This could
end all proselytization. It is actually proselytization that causes all the
division and strife. The only unity we need is the unified field of
consciousness and our common corporeal reality. There is a big difference
between proselytization and simply offering ideas in the marketplace of thought.
In the marketplace of thought one can simply explore ideas they run across and
then when appropriate, incorporate them when they resonate.
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