anyone interested in Shaktipat -Brian

[Guest guest]

Awesome, Brian. Thank you. I'd love to hear more!

 

--- a_seventh_son <a_seventh_son wrote:

 

> > Yes, I see. This IS available to the Christian

> community, and its

> > clearly stated that this should be a part of the

> Christian

> > experience, but somewhere in history it was

> removed and blocked,

> there is ample evidence to suggest it did indeed

> exist among the

> earliest Christians, who were largely Copts in and

> around Alexandria,

> once the cultural center of the Near East and home

> of course to the

> great Library. later a number of these groups

> became the heretical

> Gnostics.

>

> > It is the Baptism of Fire, clearly. God is a

> consuming

> > Fire, clearly. It's all there, but not " seen. " The

> words are heard,

> > but not connected to the Reality.

> the (not the list owner) was not the same as

> Kundalini, or at

> least it (Kundalini) would have been considered as a

> lower or infernal

> aspect. it was probably in part to divest itself of

> sorcery and

> phenomena of lower astral (psychism) mediumship

> (possession,

> fortune-telling, chiromancy,augury, astrolatry, etc)

> that this was

> withheld from the multitudes but still taught within

> the atydum to the

> initiates. Christianity was from its beginnings

> Neoplatonic at the

> core, thus an intellectual as well as spiritual

> discipline. also the

> 'Holy Spirit' or Holy Ghost is a male personage not

> feminine: We have

> perhaps a glimmer of a hint in that the New

> Testament has John

> baptizing the multitudes with water (and note that

> Jesus too is

> baptized), and Jesus baptizing the elect with the

> Holy Ghost and with

> Fire (the and the event of Pentecost).

> Clearly there are

> mysteries here.

>

> The only gender reference we have is found within

> the New Testament:

> " But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send

> unto you from the

> Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth

> from the Father, he

> shall testify of me: John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the

> Spirit of truth,

> is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he

> shall not speak of

> himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he

> speak: and he

> will show you things to come "

> - John 15:26

>

> The " Comforter " (Paraclete) has a unique place in

> the Christian New

> Testament. It is alternately referred to simply as

> the " Spirit of

> God " or simply the " Spirit " which is of neuter

> gender, but it is never

> associated to feminine gender. Now so as to not

> appear chauvinistic,

> it's necessary to realize that 'masculine' and

> 'feminine' are in many

> traditions of esotericism " shorthand " for

> active/conscious/intelligent

> force, and passive/unconscious/mediumistic forces,

> respectively.

>

> > Maybe this generation is crying out for it.

> Absolutely. Unfortunately I personally think that

> attempts to place

> Christianity under the umbrella of the revisionist

> paganism of new age

> thought is both dangerous and ultimately

> ineffectual. This is,

> however, merely my opinion and others may not share

> it.

>

> -brian

>

>

>