A post for my own records

Learning on-the-mark theology, which I had to do, inevitably drew me down to the Man #1,2,3 levels of religion and Christianity. You can't avoid some degree of it, but I also indulged the lower emotional level and fights of that level. But see how the Work gives one understanding of it all. Because I know there is a Christianity of Man #1, and 2, and 3, and that inevitably at that level it will be the confusion of tongues and indulgence in contentiousness by default I should be not identified with it and realize my own level which is the Man #4 level of Christianity. The very fact that I don't belong to any of the branches or churches of the #1,2,3 level gives it away. The effort is to remember where you're at and act from it. Think from it. Speak from it.

But so I've learned the on-the-mark theology now, so now I can reconnect with what I've known all along. What the Work teaches...

There is no advantage in terms of comfort and ease at the #4 level though. The spiritual war is real. The flesh, the world, and the devil attack. Yet then again...maybe that has been happening as it has since I've 'gone down' to the level I don't belong. When you rise above the law of accident and you have the protection of being not in a state of identification with the world and the flesh and the devil, and you aren't the unknowing victim and slave to illusion and so on, then... Well, I'll find out because I'm going back up to where I was before I embarked on the necessary effort to learn theology and the Bible and the faith at the church level. I now have understanding of it I didn't have before. Now I can reascend... (I realize I've written this exact post, in so many words, several times over even the last couple of years, but this time it feels real...and it is.)