Sufis
I've heard about the Sufis for decades now. I knew very little about them than they were some kind of Moslem mystical group. I'm reading my first book about them and it's incredibly good. They are so much like other groups, mostly mystical ones, so much intertwined with Christian such, Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Jews etc. The underlying concepts.
These underlying mystical portions of the above religions have so much in common. I still was so amazed to read about it with the Sufi, so strongly anyway.
They see things as esoteric and exoteric. Three layers more apt. The law as the outer layer, a Prophet version of Christ as the middle, spirit mixed with outer layer, and then pure spirit as the third.
A Sufi saying is
Whoever has the outer law without the inner reality hs left the right way. *This reminds me of Saint Paul in the Bible.
Whoever has the inner reality without the outer law is a heretic.
Whoever unites the two of them has realization.
The orthodox Christians had problems with the Gnostics over the second part of the saying above.
The Sufis see faith as a knowledge of the heart. I love that.
It is the wahabis in the Moslem world that is so hooked on the law, the Sharia. The sufis see a need for the law, just like Christ and St. Paul did of Mosaic law. But to be so hooked on the law, the outer layer, without the inner knowledge, it is blindness and insanity. So, the Sufis are more in line with Christ spirit in this regard. Without this inner knowledge to apply the law it comes out like the Osama bin Ladens and al-Zarhawaris.
They see the individual as like a drop of water. A part of the ocean, which is God, separated through evaporation, coming down to earth as a drop of rain, then becoming part of the larger portion of rain that works it's way into the river, which winds it's way back to the ocean, or larger body of God. That is such a prevailing concept in these mystical religions.
The law purists, say the Sufis, are those that have a name, but no reality. A rose to them is only ROSE, not the fragrant flower itself.
When you are truly enlightened, there is not this dual world of the exoteric and esoteric, the outer and the inner, but only oneness. They are just parts of the whole. We on earth have a notion of consciousness that sees only the outer, even as we are influenced by the inner. To be in contact and harmony with the inner and it's link to the outer is the true Godliness.
These underlying mystical portions of the above religions have so much in common. I still was so amazed to read about it with the Sufi, so strongly anyway.
They see things as esoteric and exoteric. Three layers more apt. The law as the outer layer, a Prophet version of Christ as the middle, spirit mixed with outer layer, and then pure spirit as the third.
A Sufi saying is
Whoever has the outer law without the inner reality hs left the right way. *This reminds me of Saint Paul in the Bible.
Whoever has the inner reality without the outer law is a heretic.
Whoever unites the two of them has realization.
The orthodox Christians had problems with the Gnostics over the second part of the saying above.
The Sufis see faith as a knowledge of the heart. I love that.
It is the wahabis in the Moslem world that is so hooked on the law, the Sharia. The sufis see a need for the law, just like Christ and St. Paul did of Mosaic law. But to be so hooked on the law, the outer layer, without the inner knowledge, it is blindness and insanity. So, the Sufis are more in line with Christ spirit in this regard. Without this inner knowledge to apply the law it comes out like the Osama bin Ladens and al-Zarhawaris.
They see the individual as like a drop of water. A part of the ocean, which is God, separated through evaporation, coming down to earth as a drop of rain, then becoming part of the larger portion of rain that works it's way into the river, which winds it's way back to the ocean, or larger body of God. That is such a prevailing concept in these mystical religions.
The law purists, say the Sufis, are those that have a name, but no reality. A rose to them is only ROSE, not the fragrant flower itself.
When you are truly enlightened, there is not this dual world of the exoteric and esoteric, the outer and the inner, but only oneness. They are just parts of the whole. We on earth have a notion of consciousness that sees only the outer, even as we are influenced by the inner. To be in contact and harmony with the inner and it's link to the outer is the true Godliness.
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