The Kingdom is Celtic

There's also something to be put together there.

The Kingdom is Celtic. (Just as the Homeric epics are Celtic.)

Just as in a more distant way, and veiled by cultural change way, the ancient Indian sacred writings are Celtic.

By Celtic I mean the race and culture of royalty. And after Jesus' sacrifice this is open to all races and nations. (The strange presence of the half black half white - literally checkered - character in Parzival has always puzzled me, but this can be the only meaning.)

The Bible though is the real thing. Just as Jesus is the myth that is real, as C. S. Lewis puts it.

But that is captured in doctrine and practice. Belief and life.

But the royal language in the Bible brings it alive. It's not obvious language. Boston in his Human Nature in its Fourfold State, from one angle, gets at it. Calvin, in deep, oceanic ways, in parts of his big work gets at it. It's squashed though by the darkness of clericalism and ritualism, formalism, and moralism. THERE IS NO COMMAND TO 'GO TO CHURCH' IN THE BIBLE. And there is no direct description of 'church.' I.e. no building. There is no command to give and listen to 'sermons.' There just isn't. And the ordinances (sacrament is not a biblical word) of baptism and what is called the Lord's Supper is presented in the Bible in a way to give it very diverse and high meaning. The most orthodox theologians debate over it ad nauseum because the Bible isn't dogmatic and clear on them. But they ARE the main means to bring the 'fear of man' and clericalism into the whole enterprise. Stumblingblocks the devil exploits. They simply have to be taken in their higher, mystery, meaning to have any meaning. Baptism is baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is not only a one time thing. Like accumulating energy it can occur over and over. Regeneration can be called baptism of the Spirit too, and that is a one time thing. The Lord's Supper is fasting from the world and 'eating' of what is higher, it's the second conscious shock. It the knocking on the door and opening of the door and 'supping' with the King (Real I). It's a high mystery that is attained. It's not a ridiculous sipping of grape juice and eating of wafers in a church building. That has symbolic worth at best. Usually not even that, the way it is done.

But one can recover the royal elements and teaching of all this. That article I linked linking Celtic Christianity with the same schools of the Orthodox branch that produced the language of the Work is something to think about.

The fact is the Kingdom of God is a KINGDOM. Being regenerated by the Holy Spirit is being gathered into the Kingdom. A gathering in of kings, royalty, into a Kingdom. Prophets, priests, and kings. All in one. If you're able to recognize and accept the authority of the One True King then you have entrance into the Kingdom. You can't do that though unless you have the Spirit in you. God knows what is in your heart. You can say "Jesus, Jesus, King Jesus," but if it's not sincere God knows. Most people can't even fake it. They are in fixed rebellion. They don't want anything to do with it. Other than perhaps to attack it.

That's all in the Plan.

It just takes a little guidance in seeing these things from the right angle and it lights up. The Work obviously is a royal language. To do it, at ever higher levels, to be good at it, to have it educate and develop and become your essence, is the definition of rank and nobility. True nobility.

The Bible is not the Bible, it's the Sword of the Spirit. The Oracles of God. Holy Writ. The Book of the Kingdom. The Law.