God Beyond Religion: The Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace

 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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