Christ Awareness; The true anointing

Christ, Greek CHRISTOS, means anointed or anointing. Actually, the Greek word for anointing is CHRISMA, however, they are etymologically directly related. Thus, in my view, Christ is the awareness of the divine presence within and chrisma is the awareness of the divine presence. However, I am of the opinion that for one to be aware of the divine presences one must be a part of the divine presence. One hears in evangelical Pentecostal circles and churches the term anointing often. You will hear things like that sermon was anointed, or this or that person is anointed.

An example of anointing where it is not mentioned but inferred in Luke chapter twenty-four. Luk 24:32  They said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?" This indicates that they felt the divine presence, which is the anointing, and thus they were anointed. After all, John stated that as Jesus was in the world, so are we the same in the world. He was anointed because of the indwelling Logos and therefore we too are indwelled by the divine Logos. The indwelling divinity is our direct connection to the divine presence, the divine parent. The Gnostic “Gospel of Truth” states that we forgot who we were, and Jesus brought remembrance of the Father and our familial relationship which constitutes or true identity. We are divine. All humanity are children of the divine parent. I use Parent instead of father because divinity is androgynous. Both the divine masculine and feminine are within the Parent.

Now on to the anointing. There is the real anointing and there is the fake anointing which is really a product of emotional hype. The true anointing attends the presence of the divine source. It can be described as a burning within the heart, but it is likewise accompanied by an unfathomable peace and love. It is a feeling. It is not an emotional feeling, but a deeper feeling and it is like pleasant fire.

It is interesting because I have experienced the anointing in unlikely places. I have experienced it at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. Jesus or God was never mentioned. The Glide Ensemble their choir was completely anointed. The reason was they feed thousands of people every day in the San Francisco Tenderloin District. They house many more as well. They are doing the work of the divine spirit. They are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and giving shelter to the homeless. There is an inexpressible peace at Glide Memorial. At least there was when Cecil Williams was pastor back in the 1990’s.

I experienced the anointing one evening waiting for the BART train at the Del Norte station in Richmond CA. Across the tracks on the opposite platform two obviously drunk people were arguing about whether or not the woman was a child of God. She was forcefully and coarsely demanding that she indeed was a child of God and of course she was as she too was indwelled by the divine nature. She was in the imago dei, the image of God.

I experienced the anointing in the presence of two Mormon Elders that were praying for a sick child, listless with a fever, and watched as the child came to life and was playing feverless in the middle of the floor after they anointed him with oil and prayed for him.

This causes me to reason how dare some individuals claim that they have the anointing and others do not because they believe in a certain set of facts about the divine parent? This in view of what they consider the anointing is merely emotional hype. If there is no unfathomable peace and love, there is absolutely no anointing! When one judges that another does not have the anointing, they are judging God, they are judging Jesus because he said that we are divine, the parent is in us and we are in the parent.

 

God Beyond Religion: Mystics, Mysticism, and Revelation

One of the ways we know about the creative source of the universe is through mystical revelation. Those who receive mystical revelation are mystics. Let’s look into the world of mystics and mysticism. When I was in evangelical orthodoxy, teaching seminary and preaching, most if not all of my colleagues believed that there was a difference between revelation and illumination. Their point was that only those who wrote the works in the accepted canon of scripture were able to have their writings be classified as revelation. Any insight received by a person after the time of the writing of the canon was simply illumination of the previous revelation. To this I merely call BS! First of all, if one thinks about it for more that a few minutes not guided by dogma that they are afraid to veer off from, it makes no sense that God would give final revelation to men in the Roman Iron Age that would be the final word for the rest of the time the planet exists. That makes a lot of assumptions that are not plausible. It assumes that humanity will not advance, and that spirituality will not evolve. It assumes that a small country with an insignificant population would have an even smaller segment be the arbiter of all truth for all time.

The truth is that mysticism and mystical revelation have been ongoing since the dawn of humanity. Indigenous shamanic tribes of people from all over the globe had very advanced spiritual understanding. Especially in regard to the nature of reality, and the spiritual purpose for existence. So, let’s return to the electromagnetic fields that are at the foundation of our material and corporeal world. Using the example of microwaves, and radio waves we can extrapolate that the brain waves are connected with the waves from the unified field of consciousness; in what Rupert Sheldrake has identified as the fields of morphic resonance and is the plausible source of all mystic revelation. Further, every human is capable of tapping this source of revelation. It is where all intuition comes from. Likewise, it is the source of all of the mystics over the millennia as well as the source of the creativity. In ancient Greece, they called it the muses. It is also the source of all artistic inspiration. Most importantly it is nothing to fear, and it is NOT demonic or evil. It is a natural phenomenon in reality.

It is also the source of spiritual awakening. It appears that there is a rapid growth in spiritual awakening at this time, and it is quite probably linked to our entering the Age of Aquarius. There is a prediction that the planet is transitioning into a new stage of spiritual density. This transition will result in the vibrations of everything on the planet being raised to a higher level on the spiritual plane. The Kybalion mentions three planes of existence. The material plane, the mental plane, and the spiritual plane. The change that is taking place will eventually affect all three planes. It will begin with the spiritual plane and move into the mental plane and will ultimately change the material plane as well. It will end up making mental alchemy easier. This will aid those who are practicing the law of attraction.

One important aspect of this trend is that it will initiate eclectic and syncretistic spirituality. More and more people will be able to discern the mystical revelation found in all of the world religions and religion itself and ritual will diminish. Dogma will give way to open minded acceptance and wider tolerance of individuals that have differing views of spirituality. There is a move toward truly being spiritual and not religious. Dogmatic religions are toxic and abusive, and they will diminish until they completely vanish.