All religion worldwide (Cosmos-wide) throughout the ages is nothing more than collections of collections of projections of projections. Religion is projection. Religion is based on theology and theology is a collection of projections. “Revealed truth” is imagined truth, is Projected “truth.” Which has to be “taken on faith” because it has no actual, tangible, real, truthful foundation. It is merely saying what someone else has said that someone else has said.
Jesus did not come to save the world, or “humankind.” The Garden of Eden did not have latitude and longitude. It was not a physical reality. It cannot be located anywhere on earth. Adam and Eve did not exist. They are metaphorical fictions to emphasise the point of the importance of not being driven/motivated by our wants and desires–a theme that many of the world’s religions proclaim.
There was no Original Sin. There was no Fall. There was no need for redemption or salvation. No reason for the cross as the atonement of the sins of humankind. It is all fabricated. Made up in the 392 years between Jesus’ execution and the closure of the canon at the Council of Rome in 392 CE. Made up primarily by the Church of Rome and proclaimed throughout the Roman Empire and then through out the world, giving the Church of Rome its self-proclaimed authority to say what’s what and what had to be done about it to be saved from the hell that waits for all unrepentant sinners upon their death. A brilliant ploy for guaranteeing the survival and future of the Church of Rome, never mind that it was a lie from the start, and the persecution of the Gnostics and so-called Heretics was necessary to keep the lie going through the centuries to this very day. But enough!
We turn the light around by being clear about our being born with everything we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done here, now in every situation/circumstance as it arises, seeing, hearing, knowing, understanding what’s what and what is called for with the gifts of our Original Nature, our Intrinsic Virtues (The things we do best and enjoy doing most), our Inherent Intuition and our Innate Imagination. The spiritual foundation of life is the intuitive center of each person which has been called the Psyche and is synonymous with the energy flowing through the Cosmos–the light that produces particles of matter which collide and produce more particles of matter throughout time which eventually produces life and here we are. Miracles of the process identified by the Taoists 5,000 years before Jesus was born as “Circumstances begetting circumstances.” And where we go from here, now is merely a matter of time and chance, which the Bible says, “happens to us all.”
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