One man's error,
repeated and multiplied in every man ever since, has become the recorded
history that we know as the Scriptures. Just as it takes more than one fallen
leaf to create compost, and much more than one drop of water to make rain, so
the collective errors of mankind will one day mount up to form a critical mass
of catastrophic proportions.
Such logic is the basis for the Scripture of
Prophecy.The Scripture is unerringly accurate in its calculation concerning the future
of man, because it is based upon one profoundly simple, ultimately inescapable
fact: that man through pride has become a mutation and will continue to slide
towards oblivion in running from the truth of what he is.
Observation of the present leads us to an inescapable conclusion concerning the
historical past: as it concerns the fall of man. Our helpless, choiceless
responses only strengthen that legacy. From this observation, life presents a
picture of an ominous future unless we are somehow rescued, for that same past
heritage, repeated in our present lives, points a crooked finger to a future of
tragedy and damnation.
If we deeply
understand the mystery of how our heritage of past causes and effects
accumulate in each present moment, we can find the way out. The chief hindrance
to such understanding is culture, which sustains the false identity of pride
which we inherit, and pride being what it is, tends to cling to tradition for
assurance, and is defensive and resistant to Truth.
The knowledge that
can destroy present claims upon your mind and body involves the penetration of
the mysteries of how pride came into being, and obtaining self-control over the
flesh by awareness that is growing in the Light of Truth. Through each present
moment, the past moves toward either a future damnation, or Salvation.
Only the
(inner) Divine Presence can lift us out of the morass of our involvement with
the present that is actually the extension of our past poised to become that
ominous future. The Inner Light, alone, can show you more meaningfully all that
is written here.
True awareness
reveals to us how emotional we are, and how wrong that is. Awareness reveals
emotion to be symptomatic of a deep flaw in our character. We see our emotional
slavery to be an inheritance, a legacy from the past.
Awareness then goes on to
inform us how emotion sustains pride, its judgments and illusions about itself.
Awareness lets us see how emotion is connected to two things, evil on one end
and our falling pride on the other. We see too, that animal emotion is as
hypnotic as it is compulsive. Then, awakening as if from a long sleep, we
observe that our emotion has made us into fault-ridden animals, and kept us
unconscious to the Truth Who could save us.
Finally, we arrive at a point which
has not yet been treated in depth: namely, how emotion reinforces all the
prejudices of a racial or cultural identity, and can even go so far as to
hypnotize us into believing we are "saved Christians".
~ End of Preview ~
