Return to Oneness

In "A Church not made with Hands" Micheal Roden writes

Christianity, like mysticism, begins with the inner individual and ends when that individual returns to Oneness. No one can really mediate this for a person. No particular group can claim exclusiveness on Oneness. It must be an individual and profoundly personal experience, and yet it rises well beyond any sense of separate self.

The Christianity of a Church made with hands tend to mistrust the mystic. Mysticism places experience of God at the center of ones life. It does not place the belief in God at the centre of ones life. Mystical experience is direct experience. It is certain and does not involve doubt. Why is this. It is because the doubter as a separate sense of self disappears and all that is left is knowing (which isn`t the same as knowledge).

Return to oneness is At One Ment. It is to transcend that sense of separateness which in my last posting I referred to as the experience of orginal sin. Again, to remind you, none of this implies in any way that you should feel guilty. Guilt locks you out of the Kingdom that is the promise of the Master Jesus.