Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Readiness for Mystical Freedom”
The Christ Mind that was in Jesus spoke the words, “And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.” These words have been subject to many scholarly, theological interpretations, but they are truly revealed through mystical awareness. That Truth is that there is but One Life in the Universe, and that everyone and all things are part of this One Life—the Creative Universal Presence, or God. The Truth of being set free mystically refers to being free of the false sense of personal ego identity, so that one’s soul may experience and benefit from its oneness with Spirit, or God.
Understanding this may present a problem:
The problem may be that you already know the mystical description and accept it, but perhaps only on an intellectual level. Knowing and accepting something on an intellectual level is knowing and accepting something by your false personal ego identity—by that illusionary part of yourself that is divided from the Whole, the One Life, or God. The intellectual acceptance by the personal ego is a ploy or game that this false sense plays to pacify the soul into thinking it is progressing spiritually. If the ploy or game works, then one’s spiritual existence goes into limbo. The false personal ego identity may then choose to philosophize with other false personal ego identities about the nature, mysteries, and realities of life, but might never get past philosophizing or intellectualizing about reality. One then becomes a scholar of mysticism, but not a mystic. One speaks of the Truth, but rarely experiences or lives it, except during momentary lapses by the controlling false personal ego.
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