Is White Jesus Racist?

Of all the foolish notions flooding social media right now, this one takes the cake.

If you think this image of Jesus represents oppression, then you are on the wrong track, my friend.

Are you familiar with the expression, "Don't throw out the baby with the bath water" ?  This meme teaches us that there are things that must be retained when cleaning house. Only a fool would destroy the good along with the bad.

I hope you realize that negative emotions like hate, anger, and intolerance cannot build, they can only destroy.

In order to build something good, you must approach the challenge with positive emotions like love, tolerance, and acceptance. Otherwise, no matter what you tell yourself or what others tell you, you are not on the side of the angels.

For a fuller discussion of the topic of Jesus, please read my article called "A Gnostic Perspective of Jesus on the Cross."

Winning the Endless War

My friend Rebekka sent me a voice mail today telling of her appreciation of the Endless War meme as described in my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated. 

"You're so right about the Endless War!" she said. "For everything good, there is something opposing it. Over here you see a beautiful butterfly, and over there a stinging wasp. Here we have a flower garden, and then come the weeds. Here we have good health, and then we are laid low by a virus."

Then she asked, "How are we to handle this Endless War? How can we overcome?  It's everywhere!" 

I thought for  few minutes, and then recorded for her a voice memo that explains how to win the Endless War. Rebekka liked it so much, she encouraged me to write it up as a blog article.  So here you are...

Those of the Deficiency are locked in Endless War with
 Those of the Remembrance 
over resources in the bounded ecology of the Economy.

[If you click on the youtube button below, you will hear the original audio file. My apologies for not embedding pictures with the audio... Just click on the "go" arrow and you'll hear me explain the article below.]

 

?? How do we win the Endless War ??

The quick answer is "Love." Love is the only thing that can win the Endless War. 

The Endless War began because of the Fall, and the Fall was a movement of Ego away from Love. So, all things on this material plane are playing out the dynamics of the Endless War, and it's the Endless War between materialism and immaterialism, between good and evil, between Ego and Love, between powers and principalities--one representing the pre-Fall state, and one representing the post-Fall state. 

The Fall is what brings pain, agony, death, destruction, rust, viruses... the bad, sad things are all the result of the Fall. This place where we live cannot sustain life and love, so we are in a constant battle with death and destruction.  We are the children of the Aeons, and our spirits are directly connected to the perfect Love that is the Fullness of God--the Pleroma and its dream of Paradise. 

We are sadly not powerful enough, any one of us, to win and to stop the Endless War. And so we look to the Savior, to the Christ, the Annointed One, for assistance.  The Christ is a creature that came directly down from the Fullness of God, with its Love bundle intact and unassailable. Evil cannot overcome the Love of the Christ. 

The hard task for the Christ is to save, or redeem, the Fall; it was never the job of the Christ to crush the evil of this world. The purpose of the Christ is Love. For this reason, we are always to return bad with good. Never meet evil with evil. We can only overcome evil with Love. And that is the only way to win the Endless War. That is why it is never a good thing to meet violence with violence. Violence can only be overcome with Love.

The ongoing mission of the Christ is to win back every fallen soul to the side of Love. Every fallen Unit of Consciousness that now sides with evil will eventually recognize God's Love.  The Christ's mission is to redeem the entire Fall.

The Christ bridges the gap between Those of the Fall and the Pleroma, by working through and alongside us Second Order Powers that remember the power of Love.

According to my reading of the Gnostic Gospel, every soul that comes down is to be redeemed by the Christ. Not to be destroyed or sent to Hell, but to be Redeemed and brought back up to the Fullness of God. So, over the course of time, as more and more instantiations of the Fullness come down to this cosmos and populate the Earth, we are doing the job of winning the souls of everything, whatever it is, and bringing it back up with us to the Fullness of God. 

By the end of time, when the Endless War will finally be over, we, with the Christ, will have Redeemed all of the Fallen souls of the cosmos. All will be regathered back up to the Pleroma where they belong. 

Evil is the lack of love. Love is the only true force in the universe. God is Love. What we have down here on Earth is the shadow of Love, or the lack of Love. And so as each piece of shadow finds the light and is returned to Love, then its Unit of Consciousness--its soul--is reclaimed back into the Pleroma.

At the final judgment, the material cosmos will disappear; the Fall will be erased; the Endless War will be won; and every Unit of Consciousness that has ever opened its eyes will be alive back up there in the Pleroma. At that time, we will all be living in a facsimile world known as Paradise. What we have here on this Earth is an evil version of Paradise. But once all the evil is gone and redeemed, it will all be good; it will be pure Paradise. 

The end goal of Redemption is return to the Father's abode--that Paradise dreamed by the Fullness, where there is no death, no disease, no disappointment, and no deficiencies. That Paradise where Christ is King and peace reigns supreme, and there is only cooperation, fellowship, and true love. In Paradise there is naught but life; so all the grass is green, and flowers blossom endlessly, and every soul that has ever lived, lives happily with their friends and families.