Those gifted writers who penned the New Testament (unknowingly), used words that were common to their day. They used the language of their culture, the hermes handbags history words of the understanding, and the concepts of their era. We who hermes handbags history are reading this commentary are 2,000 years removed from hermes handbags history them. We have invented new words- many, many more. We understand the hermes handbags history world more scientifically (it’s not flat, nor does the sun evolve around the earth). We have hermes handbags history a greater grasp on the psychology of man, his historical roots, the hermes handbags history age of the earth, and so on. So, think it not strange that hermes handbags history Paul would say that we need the MIND of Christ, when today we understand that as the CONSCIOUSNESS of Christ!
Once upon a time, in an era far far away (2,000 years ago), there was no word such as consciousness!
Today, we are hermes handbags history getting closer to understanding what it means. We know that rocks are hermes handbags history inanimate, plants are animate, animals are conscious; however, only we human beings are hermes handbags history conscious of our consciousness. What the heck does that mean?
A Sufi teaching puts it this way, “God sleeps in the hermes handbags history rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in the hermes handbags history man.” Cool sounding! But, what’s that mean?
It’s more than merely being awake!
Houston Smith put it this way, “Are you a God, they asked the Buddha? No he replied. Are you and angel then? No! Are you a saint? No! Then what are you? Replied the Buddha, I am awake”. When one takes on the “consciousness of Christ” do miracles happen? Not according to Einstein who said, “There are hermes handbags history only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is hermes handbags history a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
I choose the latter!
Finally, there is one of our own, Thomas Merton, who said, “If I penetrate the hermes handbags history depths of my own existence and my own present reality, the hermes handbags history indefinable AM that hermes handbags history is myself in the deepest roots, then through this deep center I pass into the hermes handbags history infinite I AM which is the very NAME of the Almighty”.
Tomorrow, I will give you MY definition of Consciousness- Christ Consciousness!.
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