The Church of Scientology believes that “man is basically good, that he is seeking to survive, (and) that his survival depends on himself and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe," as stated in the Creed of the Church of Scientology.
Although rejected by the American
Psychiatric Association (APA), Scientology, using their e-meter that measures
electrodermal activity, clear the conscious of “engrams” — mental images that
are disruptive to their lives. Unfortunately, when so many leave the cult, the
cult merely erases their minds, if that really works! In effect, Scientology
brainwashes a fragment of the mind of rational people, making a clean slate for
the irrational messages from the cult.
Essentially, Scientology replaces
Christ. Rather than forgive the “sin” against their organization, they change
the nature of the apostate. The e-meter is a type of electronic “fence” that
dog owners use to keep their dogs in their place.
Those engrams are much like the
shadows on the cave wall in Plato’s exercise. They are fragments of the mind
that project reality, and they must be discarded. In effect, auditing washes
away the sins against the cult and the e-meter changes the “thetan” (the soul
of the person) to a clear status, and thus they forgive all the past
sins against the organization. The audit, in effect, erases the shadows on the
cave wall and the thetan that created the so called “false shadow” sees the
light and discards those thoughts.
Scientology is indeed a religion
and a false one at that. Christ has no place in their scientific
conscious-clearing. As such, if they had a “Christ,” it would be the e-meter operated
by a cunning representative of their cult.
Scientology is included in this
commentary because they take a scientific approach to cleansing the soul. However,
rather than removing engrams, auditing embeds falsehoods into the minds of the
thetans. They make the shadows on the mind’s “wall” false images. Plato would
be impressed with the pictures they paint in the mind’s eye.
Scientology endeavors to make
their religion scientific. “Cleared thetans” are those who trust Scientology;
they trust the science! On the other hand, they would wipe out the
engrams pictured in the mind of Christians, of God revealing Himself in a manner
that would impress Plato.
That the Holy Ghost of the man, Jesus, is real, was revealed the day that he was crucified. That is the science. The scientists, however, reject that evidence because their specialty does not include what can neither be seen nor measured. The Ghost of Jesus could not be contained by science. When Jesus gave up the Ghost, there were many metrics that science ignores:
1. Somebody
felled Judas from the tree from which he hung, and defeated Satan who was in
him. Just as the Word said in the beginning, “On his belly shalt thou go” (Gen
3:14); what happened to Satan — the “Serpent” in Judas? “Headlong, he burst
asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out” (Acts 1:18). Leaving
Judas, true to the penalty for sin, on his belly Satan would go!
2. The
Holy Ghost visited Hell to deliver Satan and Sin. He, the Ghost of Jesus, was
the invisible image of the man. He is as much God as Jesus is God! “For Christ
also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by
which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison… (1 Pet 3:18-19).
Where is that “prison’? Enoch was taken
there and wrote about that prison: “Those men took me and led me up on to the
second heaven, and showed me darkness, greater than earthly darkness, and there
I saw prisoners hanging, watched, awaiting the great and boundless judgment,
and these angels were dark-looking, more than earthly darkness, and incessantly
making weeping through all hours. And I said to the men who were with me: ‘Wherefore
are these incessantly tortured?’ They answered me: ‘These are God’s apostates,
who obeyed not God’s commands, but took counsel with their own will, and turned
away with their prince, who also is fastened on the fifth heaven.’”
Hell is in the Second Heaven, according
to Enoch, and there they await the judgment. Jesus went there in Spirit and
basically revealed why they were held prisoners. The Holy Ghost easily went
into the unseen realm and preached; not to redeem those prisoners but to
explain to them why they were condemned!
3. “Somebody”
rolled the stone away from the tomb of Jesus. “There was a great earthquake:
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the
stone from the door and sat upon it” (Mat 28:2). Matthew saw the Holy Ghost of
Jesus who he referred to as the “Angel of the Lord.” That “angel” is an elohym,
or the Image in which mankind’s soul was created. The Spirit of God rolled back
that stone. That Spirit was the phantom of Jesus in the bodily shape of Jesus (Luke
3:22) that Matthew recognized as Jesus.
That “somebody” was not a “body” but
the Holy Ghost who had a form like the body of Christ. Again, I refer to the “Allegory
of the Cave” of which Plato wrote. The body of Christ was in the cave… His
tomb. (I believe that cave was the Cave of Adam — the “Cave of Treasures”).
The Angel of the Lord was the fragment
of the real body of Christ. The Shekinah Light, or Glory of God, revealed the
Ghost of Jesus who rolled back the stone.
The two Mary’s saw the Angel of the
Lord. We do not know specifically where, but the best bet is on the wall of the
womb. They saw the “Allegory” as evidence of the real thing. The Body of Jesus
was gone but its invisible image remained! Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
saw scientific evidence that Jesus remained alive, at least in Spirit.
The tomb was empty of the Sacred Thing (the
body of Jesus) but they saw the fragment of Jesus still there. Plato would be
pleased at the evidence that God presented! Jesus was not just the man, but God,
and Spirit as well. Death undone Jesus so that the two Mary’s could see the
invisible form of Him.
4. The
order of events is significant. Jesus did things while He was dead, and that
order is provenance.
He first delivered sin and Satan to
Hell, then delivered the repentant thief, Dismus, to Paradise. Not said, is
that day, although He was imprisoned in the tomb, Jesus escorted the
unrepentant thief, Gestas, to heaven as well — as a prisoner in the Second
Heaven wherein Jesus surely told him why he was a prisoner!
Lastly, but that same day, although
dead, Jesus escorted Dismus to Paradise in the Third Heaven. Paul may have
testified to that: “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether
in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven” (2 Cor 12:2).
Who was that man? It wasn’t Paul
because of the timing and his uncertainty. Timing reveals that it was around
the time of the crucifixion. Paul saw things in his “cave” (his blindness) that
others could not see. Perhaps he saw Dismus in Christ taken to the Third Heaven
wherein lies Paradise. Paul saw the “shadow” on the wall of his mind and recognized
it as truth. He saw Jesus, perhaps, taking Dismus to Paradise. That persuaded
him to become a Christian.
5. Jesus
appeared to many in new incorruptible flesh; some of whom failed to recognize
him.
Jesus
was not a handsome man! Isaiah saw Jesus in his bodily shape while He was yet a
Spirit: “He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him” (Isa 53:2). Jesus, the man, was not a handsome
person. However, there was another prophecy; Isaiah saw a glorified Jesus, one
that had died and was resurrected: “In that day shall the branch of the Lord be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel” (Isa 4:2).
Something changed Jesus. It was death.
No wonder that so many failed to recognized that Jesus was Jesus. Upon
glorification at death, just as Isaiah saw the “shadow” on his mind, Jesus
became a handsome person. In his letters to Caesar after the crucifixion,
Pilate described Jesus as “comely,” meaning handsome or beautiful.
Isaiah and Pilate validated that Jesus
was a changed man because death is indeed “gain.” Jesus looked beautiful in
death, not well done like a corpse, but made truly alive!
Pilate’s letters to Caesar are the
evidence that Isaiah saw the fragment of Jesus on his wall, just like Plato
would teach. (Some say those letters are forgeries but if so, they got it
right!)
Returning for a moment to Scientology,
it differs much from Christianity. Scientology is what the thetan does; also what
the auditor does to him or her. It is a religion of works… scientific works
using the psychology of L. Ron Hubbard. It is the Auditor that controls the
power, and the e-meter reveals the engram. They too are Platonic in philosophy.
(As such, I call the Tree of Knowledge, “The Philosophy Tree.”)
On the other hand, in
Christianity, Jesus does all the work. He redeemed mankind with His own blood
with the genetics of God in it. He was God in that His DNA — His Identity — was
the Identity of Yahweh. The Image of God was His Glorious Supra-nature,
and it was encoded in His Divine DNA, I believe.
In fact, there is evidence of “JHWG”
in the blood of human DNA, not “JHWH” because it has been mutated. (The
glorious DNA of God is the evidence of His Existence.) To be born again
requires the DNA of God; His Identity must be imbued into the trusting person for
the change to occur.
Yes, hidden in scripture is the
science! Jesus, although not sired by God, was the “Son of God,” meaning
that He was of the gens of Yahweh. When anyone saw the person of
Jesus, within his body and blood, was the Genome of the Father.
That the Eucharist is His “Blood
and Body” is significant.
Jesus “took bread, and gave
thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, ‘This is My body which is
given for you: this do in remembrance of Me. Likewise, also the cup after
supper, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for
you’” (Luke 22:19-20). In remembrance is a mental picture; that “shadow”
within the darkness of the brain that represents the real Jesus. The wafer is
the object whose shadow on the mind that when eaten in the Light of truth, represents
the Body of Jesus. Plato would have loved that.
One depiction of the Allegory of
the Cave shows light shined on objects that reveal shadows of the objects. (See
the figure below.)
Figure 1: "Allegory of the Cave;" Owification
The objects are inanimate images
made of iron or some other material. However, behind the wall are people. The
men see the shadow of things, but behind the wall are other people. That
is much like the wafer or bread at communion. The image, or bread, is nothing but
images, but represent Jesus behind the wall. Of course, the wall is the door,
or portal, between this realm and the other.
Now for the Blood of Jesus. It is
the “shadow” of things to come — a new creature. The Blood of Christ has the
DNA of God within it. The Blood from the Savior is the Way to salvation and eternal
life.
Since born again, is “engendered
from above,” the wine is a shadow of the real thing — the Blood of Jesus. That
too is done in remembrance of Him; that it was His Blood with the Gens of
God in it. The wine represents the Ghost, or Shadow, of Jesus that Christians
remember from the crucifixion. They are shadows of things that have been
done!
Paul knew philosophy as well, he
said that “the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things” (Heb 10:1). What he meant was that the Law was the Shadow
of Jesus that represented the things to come. What came? Jesus came to fulfill
the Law. Paul knew of the Allegory of the Cave as well! He knew that the Law
was not the real object, but the real Person of God was represented by the Law.
Who wrote the Law? The “Finger of
God” (Deut 9:10). What did God write the Law upon? Tablets of stone. That was
the wall of the “cave,” me making an analogy.
Those not in the Light of God saw
the Law only as the Law. The patriarchs and prophets saw them as a shadow
of things to come. They saw the Body of God with a Holy Finger. God was
manifested to them as Jesus. That Finger was a fragment of the Body of Christ,
and by seeing the shadow of His Finger — the written Word — they would see
Jesus as God.
This ends the science behind
religion. That religion is a science was espoused by Paul who persuaded many to
become Christians. As such, Paul knew his philosophy and debated the philosophers
at Athens. When debating the best minds, Paul bested them!
The Stoics and Epicureans saw
only the shadow — the Unknown God, but Paul revealed to them just who is the unknown
God (Acts 17:23). Plato, in a manner, was their “god” since he was the father
of debating. Paul used their philosophical god to reveal the One True God.
Works and pleasure are only temporal images; Paul revealed contentment and joy
to them.
Now, we are called to trust
the science, and that means the scientists. The Bible is the “Science”
and God is in Whom Christians trust.
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