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From: walsha@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
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Subject: Re: Seven Stages...
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.193521.28846@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 Jun 91 19:35:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.054352.26444@nas.nasa.gov>, radams@cerritos.edu writes:
> 
> I knew someone would bring this up so here goes.  When Christ made
> statements such as "I am the way, the truth and the life", he was
> not referring to himself as a man but to a state of consciousness
> which was manifesting in him - a Universal consciousness which we might
> call Christ Consciousness or Krishna Consciousness etc. or the universal
> omnipresent consciousness of God within creation.  To paraphrase another
> saying of Christ: only through me can you go to the Father: this refers
> to the idea that Christ Consciousness must be established in you first
> before you can attain Cosmic Consciousness which is the consciousness of
> God beyond creation as well as in creation.

i like this explanation and agree with it. but the problem remains with 
religions that base themselves on the bible: can anyone really know
exactly what the heck was being talked about? or what was really meant?

it's all the difference between a living faith and a book faith.
the book faith is by nature filtered through somebody's eyes.
at least you can ask a guru: "say what? pass that one by
me one more time please."


  ando.
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                          I struck five notes in the middle of the night,
    			     and remembered my soul.  --Al Gromer Khan
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