Some correlations: seeing the Work in the Word

There's a section in Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology where he talks about something other systematic theologies don't even mention: being 'filled with the Holy Spirit'.

When the subject comes into focus (and is separated from a similar subject: being 'baptised with/in/by the Holy Spirit') a person who knows the Work can see that the central conscious shock of Self-Remembering is contained in this biblical doctrine of being filled with the Holy Spirit. It is accumulating energy via effort to be in a higher state of awakeness (like prayer).

What is striking is reading the biblical documentation of the doctrine of being filled with the Holy Spirit. I mean, seeing it in the Bible, and seeing that it refers to something that occurs after one prays, or fasts, or like Jesus is forty days in the desert, and seeing that it is something that can happen over and over, and seeing that it matters regarding how much of the Spirit one is able to hold (Grudem here even goes into the glass and water metaphor that I use talking about how the glass can be made bigger). Only Jesus was given the Spirit 'without measure'.

Another thing: the 'fear God' doctrine so central in the Bible is also connected to the state of Self-Remembering/Non-Identifying (and Separation is closely connected too in that being separated out is what sanctification and sanctification effort means).

One can state that there is a 'fear of God' presence, and there is a 'fear of man' presence. The former refers to being awake to what is above you, not identified with the world and with man, and generally in the 3rd or 4th levels of consciousness (self-remembering, objective consciousness). The latter refers obviously to being in a state of mechanical sleep and identified with the world and with man and not having any awareness of what is above you, etc.

I'd go into all this from Grudem's book, but it's something that has to be read in whole.

I can say that it's not a wasted investment to get his Systematic Theology. The complete work (there's an abridgement of it with the word 'Doctrines' in the title, but I'm referring to the complete work specifically called Systematic Theology). It's a unique systematic theology in that it's easier to read and yet it's comprehensive, and it tends to be a very good reference type work. It answers questions. Amazon sells alot of used books now, and maybe one can be found that way for a good price...