Milestones

Valuation for the language of the Work is increased for me recently as I've been reading it after my four years of detour into theology (time passes quickly). I recall how 9/11 acted as a road marker for what was going on initially with the Work forums and exchanges. It seemed to me at the time and looking back that everything was kind of herky-jerky after 9/11/01. Prior to that, in only 1 and a half years, it seemed most of the progress was made regarding what I and others got from the exchanges on the Work.

I'm not saying the actual events of 9/11 necessarily would have any meaning in effecting things, though they could have too. They could have marked a new era in the history of redemption. Remember my email on the Two Towers and how strange and obvious it is.

But my valuation of the Work sources (I'm going through Ouspensky's Fourth Way) is not diminished at all after learning real, orthodox theology. (You also see how much Christian themes were talked of directly by O. in that book.)

I don't know if anyone followed that atheist forum to the end (I made 500 posts then bowed out), but it got interesting towards the end. The fact is, it was interesting from the beginning. I was a catalyst over there. But towards the end a real Jew showed up, and seeing the difference between a real, hardened-by-God Jew and the atheists themselves was instructive. The Jew actually stated eventually that he'd showed up to "interrupt" my evangelizing. The atheists seemed like merely juvenile types, still innocent, compared to the Jew. (Mike, if you're reading this, if that Jew is representative of them all, don't hold your breath for a mass conversion on their part.) That guy was like encountering a 1st century Pharaisee. The "taste" of his words the rhetoric was wholly different from the typical mocking of the atheists.

I wrote 500 comments over there in 24 days!

I actually think it effected many of them. Down the line will show...

They're knuckleheads and you have to knock them around somewhat. No getting around it.

After 9/11 it seemed time was different. It really did, and I'm using the forum activities for material for comparison. Not immediately, but soon afterward I moved towards learning serious theology.

Getting back to the first point of this email though, the Work is serious when you have the foundation and the connection and the goal that is the only serious foundation and connection and goal. Which is the Kingdom of God. It's a language of the Holy Spirit. It instructs gods and goddesses including ocean nymphs as much as humans. Angels even. Just like Special Revelation does. Just like General Revelation does.

It's a langauge that leads one to nothing less than the Image of God.

One of my last posts on the atheist forum was about how God has two books: the book of nature (General Revelation) and the Bible (Special Revelation). I think learning about that division of revelation really has an effect on people... I also told them some influences have more general revelation in them than others. This introduces B Influence. If you can't read the Bible read Homer...