Strength through submission to God (Father James)

Father James is a character from the novel 2077: Knights of Peace

Strength from submission

Our strength in God derives from submission of our ego to God through the Holy Spirit so that His strength may be manifest in us, enabling God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. By submission of our ego we, that is our real greater selves, can participate in God’s cosmic plan for Creation.

How can our submission make a difference to God’s great scheme? 

It is because of the exquisite way in which all of Creation is related, networked and interconnected. ‘No man is an island’ said John Donne. He had no idea how right he was. In fact it applies to every thought, emotion and feeling of every living being, to the life of every creature great and small, to every action of every photon of light, every quark, atom, molecule, emergent system, black hole, galaxy, star and planet. Every event, on whatever scale, ripples out in ways beyond our power to conceive. 

All particles were entangled in the cosmic singularity from which the universe was created: they continue to be related   – past, present and future.

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Lord forgive my claustrophobic prideful non-belief of the past. I might have died of boredom without the music of Baroqo. Where did I think that came from? Perhaps I had to go through non-belief to appreciate your wonder and glory. Praise the Lord!

 
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The Great Commission and the Divine Light (Father James)

Father James is a character from the novel 2077: Knights of Peace

¹⁶ Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. ¹⁷ When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:16-20

The submission to Christ of the world’s religions and denominations, which we now realize had been proceeding intermittently through the post-Renaissance centuries and before, sometimes quietly, sometimes noisily, became peacefully explicit and global in the months and years following my epiphany, the break up of Baroqo and the end of my non-belief. The world’s mystics, prophets and leaders of all faiths in all nations received similar epiphanies over the subsequent decades

That this was the work of some heavenly agency was apparent to all the religious leaders and there was at the top level no resentment among even the non-Christian religions, the ones who had received epiphanies or been close to those who had. It was to them clearly the work of the loving God through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet to the bulk of the Moslems, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists, being more remote from  the divine aurora which had descended on humanity, there were still vestiges of resentment and confusion as the rituals, liturgies and cultures of the non-Christian belief systems adjusted  to the reality of a single loving God explicitly and unmistakably incarnate in humankind. 

It was therefore decided by the ecumenical leaders that this healing manifestation of the third member of the Holy Trinity – that is, the Holy Spirit – be called the Divine Light and that the human institution for dispensing and distributing the healing of humanity be called the Monastery of Divine Light rather than the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The monks, both Christian and Buddhist,  were renamed Hermit Sages. Although for the Christians this also demanded some adjustment it was of course a less difficult one. 

The MDL has indeed been successful, with monasteries in Shanghai and on Mars. There is still progress to be made but God must be rejoicing in the fruits of the suffering endured two thousand years ago while incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord forgive us if we have offended in any way against the Holy Spirit by naming this particular manifestation of it the Divine Light.

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