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Chapter 2: We Have Outgrown the
Cult of Childish Religion
God Is the One in Whom
We Are Sacrificed
The Divine Reality, or God, is not
ultimately the Savior of our lives. The Divine is That to
which our lives must be a sacrifice. Indeed, it is the
intuition of the Divine that permits us to live as a
sacrifice rather than a Narcissistic, reactive, and
self-possessed struggle for ultimate survival.
The Truth is not that we survive
forever as we now are or conceive ourselves to be. Nor is
God, or the Divine Reality, the Instrument of such permanent
survival, immortality, or salvation. We are necessarily
changing and mortal in our present structural form. But we
tend to react to this sense of our destiny by seeking to
protect, glorify, permanently fulfill, and immortalize
ourselves as we are. The discovery of the Divine through
true hearing, intuition, self-observation, functionally
appropriate discipline, and responsible higher growth
permits us to be at peace with the mortal or finite destiny
of our present independent form and circumstance. We become
capable of self-release or sacrifice in the case of the
Intuition of the Real.
Therefore, we must awaken to the
Reality that obliges us to be born and to change and to pass
out of sight-or else life is a tormented absurdity and a
mean, unrescued center of illusions. Those who awaken to the
Divine Reality and become a continuous sacrifice into It
find each moment to be either a passing lesson, or a test,
or a temporary blessing in the Mystery of Amazement in which
we appear and to the State of which we are always
dissolving.
The arising of lives and of all
changes is inevitable. Our responsibility is to be the
fulfillment of the Law, which is sacrifice or love. Thus, we
will persist as selves and changes as long as these persist,
but we will in every moment be the release of these into the
Reality or Intensity that is their Source and Bliss.
Scientific
Proof – Table of Contents
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