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God Is Love
Jesus Christ gave us this highest formula, the key for cognizing God. But why are there so few people who, considering themselves Christians, could make use of this Truth for their spiritual advancement? Why did not this formula inspire masses of materialists to accept faith?
Among the reasons is the distortion of the Teachings of Jesus Christ, which began as early as when the New Testament was compiled, which took place just several centuries after His Incarnation on Earth had completed.
His Teachings were deprived of the part where Jesus talked of man as of evolving consciousness, whose goal of development is attaining Godlike state and then Merging with God-the-Father. The description of God-the-Father was also taken out of His sermons. But included were irritated demands of Paul regarding what one should and should not wear, as well as which hairstyle is appropriate. Also the Apocalypse, devoid of love and common sense, overflowing with threats of seas of blood and bowls of pus. (And this is not only opinion of the author of this book; the attitude of Jesus is the same ).
The result of this warping of the Teachings of Jesus Christ was that the mass movement called “Christianity” almost from its very beginning ceased to be a religion of love — the love that God sent Jesus Christ to establish. We can recall inquisition, wars between the Orthodox and Catholics and crusades. In Russia we saw mass persecution of Old Believers, pogroms of Jews, as well as hate towards all non-Orthodox that is being cultivated by modern Russian Orthodoxy…
Outstanding Russian people — Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, and many others — although they acknowledged the existence of God, they did not accept Christianity in this form.
Questions got raised also by “simple” people, to which the Church could not give them any clear and perspicuous answers: how can one assert that God is Love, if He promised these things in the Apocalypse, if what we see around us are wars, violence, cruelty, diseases and sufferings? No, if He is omnipotent, but these things happen, if everything that surrounds us is evil, if I do not see any love anywhere, however I ask Him for it — then there is something wrong about this kind of faith and I do not need a God like this!
It is important for us to realize that the fathomless pit that has spread between masses of “Christians” and God and that isolated people from Him and that opposed God to them, making them beg various mercies from Him — instead of inspiring them to change themselves in accordance with His Will and merge with Him in Love — this abyss has not been created by Him, but by people, who warped His Teachings.
In reality God is not somewhere far and high in the sky, but, like Jesus says, the distance between Him and every one of us is not greater than thickness of a sheet of thin paper…
But in order to travel such a small distance to His Embrace of Love we have to become the pure Love — like Him. And not anger or fear, or selfish desire…
Emotions are states of consciousness. This is a fundamentally important thing to realize. We are consciousness, the energy of consciousness. Not bodies and not minds. God is also Consciousness, although infinitely greater, than ours. And in order to fulfill what He wants from us we just need to learn to always live in the state of subtle and pure love and to never exit from it.
God is Love. He compassionates to us. He is willing to help us, guiding us all the time to the Path to Himself, to His Abode, to our ultimate happiness…
But we are not going to Him. Instead we are squabbling for the material welfare of this world, exhausting ourselves by hating other people because they get dressed, have haircuts, etc. in a different way, or because they perform “different” from ours prayer bodily movements, or because their skin is of different color or their nationality differs from ours…
And not only criminal political leaders provoke us to doing this, but also equally criminal “pastors” of religious sects!
… But God wants us to establish ourselves in the emotional state of love. And then — we can get in!
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