Your people in the spiritual realm

If one needs a group or people in the spiritual realm then for me it can be Puritans. I am speaking of the different circles in the spiritual realm, or even in Heaven, based on our understanding and practice of the faith here and now. Puritans in general is the group I would fall easilly within the sphere of. There were low church Puritans and Puritans who had the practical understanding of the faith that the Work describes. The Cathars were similar. Rome wrote their history after they murdered them, but John Owen, in his Biblical Theology, describes them as being orthodox Christians. Advanced Christians. Cathar in Greek means the same thing as Puritan. Same word, same slur. - C.

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Page 147 of his (John Owen’s) Biblical Theology. Quote: “I will pass over other similar monstrous lies with the simple comment that they all pale into insignificance in comparison with the slanders that the Roman pontiffs have dreamed up against the Albigenses [Cathars], the Waldenses, and other faithful servants of Christ.”

- C.

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Doing a search on Cathar and Grail Romance I came up with some surprising, to me, connections.

Here's an article on Otto Rahn that gives a lot of the connections:

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/otto-rahn-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail

I notice his books are available on Amazon Kindle.

Basically, I've always seen in the Puritan image (despite the strong popular image of not only comical stereotype but of solely family/church) the mystical, practical teaching of the Bible...'plain', ironically, is the word, meaning complete and on-the-mark and other things, foundational, stark.


Then the connection with Work teaching and Reformed (Calvinist, Puritan) doctrine is strong. I saw that at the beginning.


Then seeing Grail Romance as the metaphor that pulls it together. That article above talks of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and its connection to Cathars.


Then, I've always suspected the Cathars to be real Christians, but just different from Roman Catholicism (obviously) just as the Waldensians were, and to see in John Owen's book Biblical Theology (which he considered his magnum opus) that quote I give in the previous email I wasn't surprised. A professor of church history attempted to wave it off as Owen not having the info we moderns have, but that is usually not true. He may very well have had more sources. And John Owen was not known for talking out of his ass on anything.


This is all to say what I've been writing about, Reformed doctrine, the Work, things like Grail Romance, are all connected, and with the Work involved, as well as real Christianity, very practical.


Others who pursue these things are drawn by visions of past golden ages or mysterious objects, with usually a lot of what we'd call New Age beliefs thrown in. What I am writing about is reality. We just have to see it. Remember that such things are often right under our nose, yet still difficult to see. All this back and forth I've done with the church level is noise and muddying of the water.


One point: when you read these guys, an Otto Rahn, a Julius Evola, etc., they will make sweeping statements based on their personal likes and dislikes, usually having to do with their dislike of orthodox Christianity. They have pagan fantasies. It goes without saying this is always the case, but the real thing is regeneration by the Word and the Spirit, and finding the true school of doctrine (the biblical one which is what emanated from the mountain in French Geneva (not an unmeaningful point in all this). I.e. that area is where the school knowledge was. For instance (Waldensians, Waldenses, Vallenses[1] or Vaudois are names for a Christian movement which started in Lyon and spread soon to the Cottian Alps in the late 1170s).


In universal terms, the Christian faith as it is taught at its most biblical level is the true school. The Work is universal in this vein as well. There's one Kingdom of God, Christ is the King. The Prophet, Priest, and King. Faith is the key. The Work language is school language. The Grail legend or romance is metaphor for the Way (Homer in another era). The experience. The two conscious shocks are the practice. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing. This is the real school. - C.

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This is the theme Jesus talked of when he said his mother, his brothers, his sisters were not of his family here, but were believers. Your people in the spiritual realm. Your people in the spiritual realm once you are regenerated are not the people you are born to here. Know your people in the spiritual realm. The others, family, here, are those you recur with. With regeneration is resurrection. - C.

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The school existed, the true school, throughout history, hidden, open, persecuted, flourishing. Waldensians were part of that continuing presence of the real school. They often had to hide in high valleys in the mountains of Europe. Look at this paragraph from a classic book on Calvinism:

“While writing the Seneca Commentary [Calvin's first book written prior to his Christian activity] Calvin lived in the house of a cloth merchant, Etienne de la Forge, a devout Waldensian from Piedmont. This man was an ardent reader of Luther and a fearless propagandist of Protestantism. He made a practice of distributing to the poor packages accompanied by tracts and passages of Scripture, and he kept open house for religious refugees from the Netherlands. Calvin must have observed these evidences of incautious zeal, for which de la Forge would later pay the penalty of death by fire. Who can say what influence Calvin’s host ultimately had upon his religious attitudes?”

From The History and Character of Calvinism by John T. McNeill

The Alps, meant by God to be a counterpart to the seven hills of Rome.

You want the zeal of a false religion following Muslim? You have a human prophet of the mountain in Geneva. You have the true school of eternity coming down from that mountain. God's mountain of assembly, Eden, Sinai, Zion, mountain. He's worth a thousand Muhammads, if one needs that. Worth an infinity of Muhammads because like a true prophet he holds to the Word of God and points to the real Prophet, Priest, and King Jesus Christ, Son of God.

Scrape off the traditions of man and the false accretions of worldly and Satanic influence. Flash the Sword of the Spirit when they try to intimidate you and lord it over you in their false communions. You don't have to hate them, you can teach them, inspire them by your very presence, but don't give in to them. What they offer is not the true school. Follow the Holy Spirit for the true school. - C.