If you sit down and analyze all aspects of history and the
writings of Kuhn and the others religion is not fact but a state of mind. Yes a state of mind within us all; is God;
within us all is Jesus. You are thinking
why I will explain that to you. The
basic concepts of religion are within every man and woman it has been there
since the dawn of free thinking man. It
started when man realized he was more than an ape. You are wondering I can see.
You are wondering how I know the answer to the above
question I know you are. The human mind
is very similar from race to race we think we question we reason we
understand. The basic blueprint for
religion or spirituality is within us all.
The real question is how we interpret religion or spirituality and how
we allow it control us.
Religion is a state of mind the ancients knew this however
the Christian and Orthodox Church changed this they decided to take myth and
turn it in to history. They took mere
stories to explain how a person shall deal with life and made it fact. The best examples are the exodus from Egypt
and the prodigal son both will be explained later in this writing
If one sits back and looks at religion it is no more than
away to soothe the mind and put the human spirit at ease. It is a way for society or other groups to
control us. This will be explained in a
later chapter. Within us all is the same
human spirit.
The spirit of the human is the same whether it be Native
Americans, Christian, Egyptian or Hindu or whatever you maybe. The spirit is within us it binds us and
controls us; it makes us who we are. The
Spirit is the power and the glory. Yes I know this is from the bible but this
goes back to a simple belief of destiny.
Have you ever analyzed the feather in Forest Gump? The analysis is quit simple and explains the
spirit within each of us. In the movie
the feather floats around with no clear path or destination. The life of a human is the same the spirit
within us makes our decisions not some Devine power with a predetermined
path. If you look at it life is what we
make the choices in our life not some power telling us. Ok well our parent’s
voice might echo in there somewhere as well.
In essence we make choices for our lives just like the wind blows each
day.
The truth and the power of the spirit is within us all. We have the ability to heal and control our
bodies. This concept is quit simple if
you give up you will fail or die. The
concept of self healing is quite simple merely try it you will see that it is
true. If you have a cold and give in to
it you will feel sick. If you think you
are not sick you will feel better. The
human mind can even allow you to control pain.
In my personal life I have been able to do this on numerous
occasions. If you repeat in your head no
pain or something along those lines your pain will subside it takes
perseverance. The myths of Jesus,
Horace, Buddha and the others explain this.
The stories of healing the sick is merely away to tell us that the
spirit within can heal ourselves as these beings are the spirits within
us. They are not some mystical figure or
some Devine person.
Yes I am saying Jesus is a myth is this so hard to
believe. If you look at science and what
man has discovered the truth is there the truth is within us all. It all comes down to this one simple thing
within us all we have Jesus and the Devil as well as God it is simple we are
our own Gods we control our own faith and by believing in ourselves we are
controlling what we do. We are not
controlled by a Devine power. The simple
truth is that it is easier to believe in something outside of our own bodies
then to accept that we control our own path.
The ancient Egyptians said it quit nicely by saying that we are like the
setting sun we die and are reborn each day as a new person with a new life and
new challenges ahead of us.
Our spirits draw power from what is around us our family and
friends the weather and our surroundings.
If you have negative influences around you; you will be negative! If you
have a positive influence in your life you will grow as a person as they will
stimulate the spirit within you. However
if you have a strong negative influence, and strong positive influence, in your
life your spirit will be torn. This is a
common problem in most people. I have witnessed this in my own life with
relationships. When you have this in
your life you can’t make rational thoughts or decisions, as you don’t believe
in yourself. The simple fact it is
easier to be negative than it is to be positive.
Here is an example of a story from the bible that is of a
positive nature it is merely a lesson no more.
The Prodigal son from
Luke in the Bible
There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to
his father, "Father, give me my share of the estate." So he divided
his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together
all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in
wild living.
After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country,
and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of
that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his
stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
When he came to his senses, he said, "How many of my father's hired men
have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back
to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against
you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your
hired men." So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his
father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw
his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, "Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your
son." But the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring the best
robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring
the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son
of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found." So they
began to celebrate.
Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he
heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what
was going on. "Your brother has come," he replied, "and your
father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and
sound." The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father
went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, "Look! All
these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you
never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when
this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home,
you kill the fattened calf for him!" "My son," the father said,
"you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to
celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive
again; he was lost and is found." (Luke 15:11-32)
The Version in Buddhism
This version is longer than the Christian version but is in
essence the same
A young man left his father and ran away. For long he dwelt
in other countries, for ten, or twenty, or fifty years. The older he grew, the
more needy he became. Wandering in all directions to seek clothing and food, he
unexpectedly approached his native country. The father had searched for his son
all those years in vain and meanwhile had settled in a certain city. His home
became very rich; his goods and treasures were fabulous.
At this time, the poor son, wandering through village after
village and passing through countries and cities, at last reached the city
where his father had settled. The father had always been thinking of his son,
yet, although he had been parted from him over fifty years, he had never spoken
of the matter to anyone. He only pondered over it within himself and cherished
regret in his heart, saying, "Old and worn out I am. Although I own much
wealth - gold, silver, and jewels, granaries and treasuries overflowing - I
have no son. Some day my end will come and my wealth will be scattered and
lost, for I have no heir. If I could only get back my son and commit my wealth
to him, how contented and happy would I be, with no further anxiety!"
Meanwhile the poor son, hired for wages here and there,
unexpectedly arrived at his father's house. Standing by the gate, he saw from a
distance his father seated on a lion-couch, his feet on a jeweled footstool,
and with expensive strings of pearls adorning his body, revered and surrounded
by priests, warriors, and citizens, attendants and young slaves waiting upon
him right and left. The poor son, seeing his father having such great power,
was seized with fear, regretting that he had come to this place. He reflected,
"This must be a king, or someone of royal rank, it is impossible for me to
be hired here. I had better go to some poor village in search of a job, where
food and clothing are easier to get. If I stay here long, I may suffer
oppression." Reflecting thus, he rushed away.
Meanwhile the rich elder on his lion-seat had recognized his
son at first glance, and with great joy in his heart reflected, "Now I
have someone to whom I may pass on my wealth. I have always been thinking of my
son, with no means of seeing him, but suddenly he himself has come and my
longing is satisfied. Though worn with years, I yearn for him."
Instantly he sent off his attendants to pursue the son quickly
and fetch him back. Immediately the messengers hasten forth to seize him. The
poor son, surprised and scared, loudly cried his complaint, "I have
committed no offense against you, why should I be arrested?" The
messengers all the more hastened to lay hold of him and brought him back.
Following that, the poor son, thought that although he was innocent he would be
imprisoned, and that now he would surely die. He became all the more terrified,
fainted away and fell on the ground. The father, seeing this from a distance,
sent word to the messengers, "I have no need for this man. Do not bring
him by force. Sprinkle cold water on his face to restore him to consciousness
and do not speak to him any further." Why? The father, knowing that his
son's disposition was inferior, knowing that his own lordly position had caused
distress to his son, yet convinced that he was his son, tactfully did not say
to others, "This is my son."
A messenger said to the son, "I set you free, go
wherever you will." The poor son was delighted, thus obtaining the
unexpected release. He arose from the ground and went to a poor village in
search of food and clothing. Then the elder, desiring to attract his son, set
up a device. Secretly he sent two men, sorrowful and poor in appearance,
saying, "Go and visit that place and gently say to the poor man, 'There is
a place for you to work here. We will hire you for scavenging, and we both also
will work along with you.'" Then the two messengers went in search of the
poor son and, having found him, presented him the above proposal. The poor son,
having received his wages in advance, joined them in removing a refuse heap.
His father, beholding the son, was struck with compassion
for him. One day he saw at a distance, through the window, his son's figure,
haggard and drawn, lean and sorrowful, filthy with dirt and dust. He took off
his strings of jewels, his soft attire, and put on a coarse, torn and dirty
garment, smeared his body with dust, took a basket in his right hand, and with
an appearance fear-inspiring said to the laborers, "Get on with your work,
don't be lazy." By such means he got near to his son, to whom he
afterwards said, "Ay, my man, you stay and work here, do not leave again.
I will increase your wages, give whatever you need, bowls, rice, wheat-flour,
salt, vinegar, and so on. Have no hesitation; besides there is an old servant
whom you can get if you need him. Be at ease in your mind; I am, as it were,
your father; do not be worried again. Why? I am old and advanced in years, but
you are young and vigorous; all the time you have been working, you have never
been deceitful, lazy, angry or grumbling. I have never seen you, like the other
laborers, with such vices as these. From this time forth you will be as my own
begotten son."
The elder gave him a new name and called him a son. But the
poor son, although he rejoiced at this happening, still thought of himself as a
humble hireling. For this reason, for twenty years he continued to be employed
in scavenging. After this period, there grew mutual confidence between the
father and the son. He went in and out and at his ease, though his abode was
still in a small hut.
Then the father became ill and, knowing that he would die
soon, said to the poor son, "Now I possess an abundance of gold, silver,
and precious things, and my granaries and treasuries are full to overflowing. I
want you to understand in detail the quantities of these things, and the
amounts that should be received and given. This is my wish, and you must agree
to it. Why? Because now we are of the same mind. Be increasingly careful so
that there be no waste." The poor son accepted his instruction and
commands, and became acquainted with all the goods. However, he still had no
idea of expecting to inherit anything, his abode was still the original place
and he was still unable to abandon his sense of inferiority.
After a short time had again passed, the father noticed that
his son's ideas had gradually been enlarged, his aspirations developed, and
that he despised his previous state of mind. Seeing that his own end was
approaching, he commanded his son to come, and gathered all his relatives, the
kings, priests, warriors, and citizens. When they were all assembled, he
addressed them saying, "Now, gentlemen, this is my son, begotten by me. It
is over fifty years since, from a certain city, he left me and ran away to
endure loneliness and misery. His former name was so-and-so and my name was
so-and-so. At that time in that city I sought him sorrowfully. Suddenly I met
him in this place and regained him. This is really my son and I am really his
father. Now all the wealth which I possess belongs entirely to my son, and all
my previous disbursements and receipts are known by this son." When the
poor son heard these words of his father, great was his joy at such unexpected
news, and thus he thought, "Without any mind for, or effort on my part,
these treasures now come to me."
World-honored One! The very rich elder is the Tathagata, and
we are all as the Buddha's sons. The Buddha has always declared that we are his
sons. But because of the three sufferings, in the midst of births-and-deaths we
have borne all kinds of torments, being deluded and ignorant and enjoying our
attachment to things of no value. Today the World-honored One has caused us to
ponder over and remove the dirt of all diverting discussions of inferior
things. In these we have hitherto been diligent to make progress and have got,
as it were, a day's pay for our effort to reach nirvana. Obtaining this, we
greatly rejoiced and were contented, saying to ourselves, "For our
diligence and progress in the Buddha-law what we have received is ample".
The Buddha, knowing that our minds delighted in inferior things, by his
tactfulness taught according to our capacity, but still we did not perceive
that we are really Buddha's sons. Therefore we say that though we had no mind
to hope or expect it, yet now the Great Treasure of the King of the Law has of
itself come to us, and such things that Buddha-sons should obtain, we have all
obtained. (Saddharmapundarika Sutra 4)
Even though the above stories have different content they
are both portraying the same message.
You can also see that at least this part is the same in the 2 religions
and yes the truths are fundamentally the same.
The message is quit simple in both parables. What is the underlying message well the
message is at the basis of human thought and how we should treat our neighbors
and not just our family. No matter what
the circumstances are a person should welcome another or help out another in
peril. The power to control and celebrate is within us as we tend to get lost
in our own lives. There is always another person around to help and guide us to
reenergize our inner spirit. We are a
social people we feed of each other and get joy or sorrow out of those around
us. The parable merely reinforces this
and is a way of letting us know that we are lost from time to time and need the
help of others.
Have you ever stopped
to help a person that has had an accident or helped a friend get through a
rough time. That is not god or even
Jesus telling you to do this. That is
your human spirit the Christ within you.
The concept of the Christ within is the basis of what
ancient religions were based on and is as old as the first free thinking
man. This has been around before the
modern Church culture destroyed our ability to be free thinkers.
The explanation of Ra from the book of the dead the Ancient
Egyptian papyrus placed on tomb walls, coffins or buried on a papyrus. Note not all the text was placed just parts
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A Hymn
Of Praise To Ra When He Riseth Upon The Horizon, And When He Setteth In The
Land Of Life
Osiris the scribe Ani saith: Homage to thee, O
Ra, when thou risest as Tem-Heru-Khuti. Thou art to be adored. Thy beauties
are before mine eyes, [thy] radiance is upon my body. Thou goest forth to thy
setting in the Sektet Boat with [fair] winds, and thy heart is glad; the
heart of the Matet Boat rejoiceth. Thou stridest over the heavens in peace, and
all thy foes are cast down; the stars which never rest sing hymns of praise
unto thee, and the stars which are imperishable glorify thee as thou sinkest
to rest in the horizon of Manu, O thou who art beautiful at morn and at eve,
O thou lord who livest, and art established, O my Lord!
Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou
risest, and who art Tem when thou settest in beauty. Thou risest and thou
shinest on the back of thy mother [Nut], O thou who art crowned the king of
the gods! Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Maat, the
everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and at eve.
Thou stridest over the heavens, being glad at heart, and the Lake of Testes
is content. The Sebau-fiend hath fallen to the ground, his fore-legs and his
hind-legs have been hacked off him, and the knife hath severed the joints of
his back. Ra hath a fair wind, and the Sektet Boat setteth out on its
journey, and saileth on until it cometh into port. The gods of the South, the
gods of the North, the gods of the West, and the gods of the East praise
thee, O thou Divine Substance, from whom all living things came into being.
Thou didst send forth the word when the earth was submerged with silence, O
thou Only One, who didst dwell in heaven before ever the earth and the
mountains came into being. Hail, thou Runner, Lord, Only One, thou maker of
the things that are, thou hast fashioned the tongue of the Company of the
Gods, thou hast produced whatsoever cometh forth from the waters, thou
springest up out of them above the submerged land of the Lake of Horus. Let
me breathe the air which cometh forth from thy nostrils, and the north wind
which cometh forth from thy mother Nut. Make thou my Spirit-soul to be
glorious, O Osiris, make thou my Heart-soul to be divine. Thou art worshipped
as thou settest, O Lord of the gods, thou art exalted by reason of thy
wondrous works. Shine thou with the rays of light upon my body day by day,
upon me, Osiris the scribe, the assessor of the divine offerings of all the gods,
the overseer of the granary of the Lords of Abydos, the real royal scribe who
loveth thee, Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.
Praise be unto thee, O Osiris, the Lord of
Eternity, Un-Nefer, Heru-Khuti (Harmakhis), whose forms are manifold, whose
attributes are majestic [Praise be unto thee], O thou who art Ptah-Seker-Tem
in Anu, thou Lord of the hidden shrine, thou Creator of the House of the KA
of Ptah (Het-ka-Ptah) and of the gods [therein], thou Guide of the Tuat, who
art glorified when thou settest in Nu (the Sky). Isis embraceth thee in
peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the entrances of thy paths. Thou
turnest thy face towards Amentet, and thou makest the earth to shine as with
refined copper. Those who have lain down in death rise up to see thee, they
breathe the air, and they look upon thy face when the disk riseth on the
horizon. Their hearts are at peace since they behold thee, o thou who art
Eternity and Everlastingness.
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Know that you have read this think about the story of the resurrection
of Jesus can you see the parallels and the ways that Christianity stole from at
least one Ancient religion by re-writing things to suit there agenda of a
united religion.
The one thing you need to look beyond is the many Gods of
Ancient religions, because Christianity has taken pieces from this God or that
to create its figures. Ra and Osiris are
God and Osiris and Horus have been combined to be Jesus. What you say I suggest you read Awakening
Osiris and you will see what I mean.
This is the common name of the Book of The Dead the ancient Egyptian
Papyrus.
Sure you might argue that the context is different but our
lives are full of darkness and so is the night and each day things arise with a
new outlook as do we. The writers of the
bible changed the context to be a single event that would change our lives by
having one person die it bring us out of the darkness instead of what is true
and that is us coming out of the darkness each morning when we rise again as
did Ra to watch over us. For those of
you that don’t know much about Ancient Egyptian Ra means Sun or light. Yes Ra was a God he was the son God or god of
the light. He became part of the basis
for the Jesus stories as was Osiris.
Here are an example in the bible that contradict the beliefs
that the church instills in us just remember back to the Story of Moses and his
destruction of the Golden Cow and that he was made they were making sacrifices
of Animals to God.
Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with
burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
- The Humiliation of the King (4:14):
Some scholars consider this a fragment that is incomplete, though it still
serves its purpose to introduce the theme of the royal Messiah.
- The Return of the Great Ruler from
Bethlehem (5:1–4): this foretold king is very influential among the book’s
Christian interpreters.
The royal blood line the kings of Europe. On to God they reign on to the god the shall
be appointed above the priests in league with god. The king shall be above man and shall have no
equal is this what is meant by the above two versuses. Was each king of Europe in ancient times the
next messiah or ea the legend of Robin of Locksley aka Robin the Hood the true
re-incarnation of Jesus.
Was each King or Queen in his or own right the
next messiah the true God or is the true God re-born in each child here to
mould the future and create passsion on the people of a country; like Sydney
Crosby or maybe Mattis my future and who knows the next great leader?
