12/2/11

Seth explains religious drama

Seth speaks about religious drama (P 327)

These ideas become the driving themes of these religious dramas of which I have spoken. The actors May “return” time and time again, in different roles. In any given historic religious drama, therefore, the actors may have already appeared on the historic scene in your past, the prophet of today being the traitor of the past drama. These psychic entities are real, however. It is quite true to say that their reality consists not only of the core of their own identity, but also is reinforced by those projected thought and feelings of the earthy audience for whom the drama is enacted. Psychic or psychological identification is of great import here and is indeed at the heart of all such dramas. In one scene, you can say that man identifies with the gods he has himself created. Man does not understand the magnificent quality of his own inventiveness and creative power, however. Then say that gods and men create each other , and you come even closer to the truth; but only if you are very careful in your definitions- for how exactly, do gods and men differ? The attributes of the gods are those inherent within man himself, magnified, brought into powerful activity, Men believe that gods live forever. Men live forever, but having forgotten this they remember only to endow their gods with this characteristics. Obviously, then beyond these earthy historic religious dramas, the seemingly recurring tales of gods and men, there are spiritual realities. Behind the actors in dramas, there are more powerful entities who are quite beyond role-playing. The plays themselves, then, the religions that sweep across the ages-these are merely shadows, though helpful ones. Behind the frame of good and evil is a far deeper spiritual value. All religions therefore, while trying to catch “truth” must to some large degree fear its ever eluding them. The inner self alone, at rest in meditation, can at times glimpse portions of these inner realities that cannot be physically expressed. These values, intuitions or insights are given each to according to his understanding, and so the stories told about them will often vary. (p328) For example, the main character in a religious historical drama may or may not consciously be aware of the ways in which such information is given to him. And yet it may seem to him that he does know, for the nature of a dogma’s origin will be explained in terms that this main character can understand. The historical Jesus knew who he was, but he also knew that he was one of three personalities composing one entity mentioned many times by me, has not in your terms yet appeared, although his existence has been prophesied as the “Second coming” Matthew24). Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining. He will not come to reward the righteous and send evildoer to eternal doom. He will, however, begin a new religious drama. A certain historical continuity will be maintained. As happened once before, however, he will not be generally known for who is there will be no glorious proclamation to which the whole world will bow. He will return to straighten out Christianity, which will be in shambles at the time of his arrival, and to set up a new system of thought when the world is sorely in need of one. By the time, all religions will be in severe crisis. He will undermine religious organizations- not unite them. His message will be that of the individual in relation to All That Is. He will clearly state methods by which each individual can attain a state of intimate contact with his own entity; the entity to some extent being man’s mediator with All That Is. By 2075 all of this will be already accomplished. You may make a note here that Nostradamus saw dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church as the end of the world. He could not imagine civilization without it, hence many of his later predictions should be read with this in mind. The third personality of Christ will indeed be known as a great psychic; for it is he who will teach humanity to use those inner senses that alone make true spirituality possible. Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness. Through the development of these abilities, the sacredness of all life will be intimately recognized and appreciated.