33. About you: Chapter - Old dogmas and new ideologies (8)

 

In the two thousand year old religion, power was exercised through dogmas, being put into practice by the church as canonized „faith thesis” eventually having been elevated into law, inclusive the anathema from the old alliance. Such a dogmatic thesis is e.g. everyone is being guilty as sin is transmissible. Another dogma claims that our souls are destined for salvation, right from the beginning, which is true, but only if we aspire for it, otherwise not. Original sin and eventual salvation of it are dogmatic thesis. Actually, salvation means returning to the One and Only, a duty to execute and not a gift. We wish to note, that the transcendental faith in the One and Only has no need either of modern materialism, religious dogma, morality, nor a ritual, as faith is not a religion. It is not rational, not a mean to exercise power, neither an ideology, but it is above all these.

For all believers of the material religion, we advise to return to the spiritual faith. As we seen in our history, religions operating in esoteric fields - e.g. non-pagan Western new Christians and the orthodox new Christians from the East- failed to reconcile their views and by taking internal decisions and canons, excommunicated each other, as was in 1054. The schism lasted until the II. Vatican Synod of 1964. Those, who mutually excommunicated one another, failed to consider, that a dogmatic- canon based church has not much to do with members of the One and Only’ House, as they are the community of people with spiritual, universal self, regardless of nationality, language or skin colour. Dogmas are different amongst religions, that is being used to distinguish between various religions. Dogmas were created by rationality instead of intellect, thus the misinterpreted faith got mixed with rationality. For example, in several religions redemption is the desired aim, and is forgotten the necessity of time, space and added effort to be given to creation and taking extra effort. Redemption can only be applicable as the third step. Regardless, some religions may ignore the importance of creation and the extra effort. Without this redemption is meaningless, as there is nothing to redeem.

Religion can not have redemption as it’s only aim, should it be so, then it would only emphasize the purpose and neglect the means of achieving it. The dogmatic redemption (in our terms, making order) is an ideology, a view-point designated to reach the aimed result, but fails to provide the means, the guiding principles and the practical advices. Thus, the men’s fourfold vocation is violated: to create (spiritual and material), to take extra effort, to redeem (return the material into the spirit/make order), to resurrect (return to the One and Only). By the unilateral interpretation, human existence becomes damaged and fragmented (trinity of thought, word and action), if only action is emphasized - as in the Catholic religion or would only faith be relevant- as in the Lutheran religion. In the process of understanding church’s religious dogmas, we distinguish between direct (metaphysical i.e. early Christian) and indirect (moral i.e. non-pagan, Muslim) influences. The essence of dogmas are not what they accept or reject, but what their meaning is and what it can be used for. The dogma is a statement, a declaration of the status quo. In the contrary, soul’s intellect (not rationality), sets questions as why it is so. The first one accepts it ab ovo, while the other one seeks the meaning of it.

A classical dogmatic example is man’s creation. Should we interpret it literally the chaos confronts chaos, and as such, the meaning of it is fairy tale like. On the other hand, would we interpret it as a coded description of a chain of events, we reach an explanation of man’s placement in space and time e.g. his appearance on the sixth day, when light’s- energy’s- matter’s concentration and density was the greatest. Or if we look at the expulsion from the joint existence and space with the One and Only (Paradise) of the ancestral man, we see the necessary arrival in time (test life). The so-called expulsion was necessary as without it, the One and Only would have not been able to enter the world together with man, therefore sanctifying and being part of universality’s network would not have been possible . Without the One and Only, the world would be lord-less. By creation, by the coming into life of the One and Only via the man, duality’s another feature appears, the expansion. The creation and expansion are components of duality. The man is who carry the One and Only within himself (universal self) and expands into daily life. Anybody not being aware of this, is an ignorant, irrational mass man.