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Old 21-08-2016, 06:30 PM
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The Divine Nature- Enlightenment

There is a post down below about divinization and I wanted to bring this up in a thread. The Divine Nature is something I think gets misunderstood by Orthodoxy and metaphysical folks alike.

The idea comes from the early Desert Fathers, Church Fathers, Mystics and St. Augustine's famous- "God became Man so that Man could become God".

It all starts with our beginning with Adam and Eve. Whether you see this story as symbolic or literal it doesn't matter. What the story tells us is that Adam was made in the "divine image". Now it doesn't specify whether this is physical or spiritual. Catholics argue it refers to the spiritual soul. Protestants said it referred to the body. They are both right. Whereas animals are just as much Spirits as we are in physical form there is a difference. We are made in the "Divine Image" both spirit and body. As a species we have a more complex system that includes seven chakras or centers of energy. They are conduits between our soul and body. It allows us to have a heightened awareness about ourselves, God, and the universe which animals do not possess. We are representatives of God in the 3rd dimension or at least that was our purpose.

Now we are made "in" the Divine image is different from being the divine image. That is because all of life is a choice. We as spirits were simply angelic beings way before our physical Incarnation. Our conception was first in the mind of God like an embryo just waiting to explore God's many mansions of creativity. Our decision to leave the nest is entirely our choice. But we are conceived first as a blueprint of the latter human form. Much older souls have actually been to other planets and come back and forth to Earth. But it seems as though the Earth is the toughest school where we face everything bare bones. It is the densest and "feeling separated" from God than all the other realms. That is because children eventually need to leave home and explore on their own.

Where does this "Divine Nature" come in? Well the Angels which are an entirely different class of being possess it since they are in Heaven, but we were given a choice. There is a uniqueness to all of God's thoughtforms (soul-creations). None of us are stuck in these classes. Angels can become one of us if they so desire to choose but most of them remain within the Spiritual realms and evolve differently. But we have complete freedom to accept or reject and have as many opportunities as we wish. Unfortunately our ancestors- "Adam/Eve" didn't live by the divine-nature from within and even though they were made perfect they chose to do otherwise. This got all of us on the wrong start. We spiraled down into tribalism and we all the know the stories of the Bible of constant upward evolution and sometimes regression and rebellion- back and forth.

Many people in history have developed this state of divinization while in the body- Mahavira, Guatama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius but it took them many many lifetimes of opening up to the Holy Spirit within. The Spirit was always given to us but our openness is based on our rejection of the gravitational pull of the Ego. But the divinization, the soul made of the Divine Nature can also happen when we die. It is a karmic happening where God weighs out all the positive from the negative and infuses the entity with his Divinity and no longer needs to go through the earthly lives. The stories of Enoch or the Blessed Mother where they went to a higher plane on the Other Side after death are stories of exaltation. We become angels but with more knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Elijah coulda been such a master-guide but instead he had to come back as John the Baptist due to his karmic stuff as Elijah.

Now we come to Jesus. God saw that humanity needed a perfect representation of the Divine Nature in union with the human self. God conceived from his/her Beingness and mind, the soul of who we know as Jesus. When this soul incarnated of the blessed mother Mary, he was born with the Divine Nature already infused and awakened. He grew up normally, developed like all human males do, and even had to learn and study under several teachers and masters. When he reached the age of 30, that is when the fullness of the Divine Nature (divine love) and the human person were perfectly connected and unionized. That is why it said, "he became full of the Holy Ghost". Jesus had the free will to accept or reject his divine calling. He accepted it and through many trials and tests he came out even greater than what God have given him. He used his spiritual gifts for healing and restoring people to better lives and even exorcising spirits and demons. But the final test was of course the Crucifixion where he died showing us the Way out of our own self-created darkness and back to the awareness of the Father and Holy Spirit within us. Through forgiveness, suffering, and Love to the end we have a greater understanding of the Divine Nature Itself communicating this precious message and of our own divinity which no matter how long it takes we will hopefully one day realize and experience.
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