In order to achieve a safe communication with the Spirit of Truth we have to take care of or keep an eye in the steps we surely need to follow to become fully aware of our mission as Christians in the mundane world.
We have to follow the example of the apostle Paul that except for Jesus, no one influenced the development of the early Christianity more than him. He was the foremost apologist for the conversion of the unbelievers, and the most eloquent defender of the centrality of Jewish traditions, the meaning of the Scriptures, deity, morality, and Christian principles for his predominantly community churches. The 13 of the 27 Books in the New Testament attributed to Paul gives us an eloquent testimony to the importance he had for the movement of the church and the divine connection that it had with Jesus.
Paul was born in Tarsus, sojourned in many places, and died as a Jew. Tarsus, the place in which he entered to this mundane world, was a thriving cosmopolitan, urban gateway to eastern Mediterranean, a vibrant intellectual center, and a transportation hub of strategic importance.
Here, in Tarsus, Paul learned his first language, Greek, also was taught a trade, and receiving his schooling, in the way of the world that surrounded him. Paul was a very well learned man and creative thinker.
The steps that his spiritual life followed during his life time were very similar to the steps that Moses' life followed in his life. Both were committed to God's plan of redemption and salvation of the souls belonging to Him. Both acted as mediators to reconcile humanity with God's Laws. Humanity was alienated from God by sin, but, according to God's plan, He designed a spiritual bridge formed by harmonious relationship with Him and able to be reached by the ones who truly rested in His Truth.
Mediation, in principle, has to be directed in the person of Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, the only one who is properly qualified to mediate between God and humanity because he is both fully human and fully divine. He is the mediator and guarantor of a New Covenant, better than the Mosaic Covenant because it is founded upon his own blood from which each of us received a drop of it in our hearts.
As the anointed Messiah, he fulfills all 3 mediative offices of Prophet, Priest, and King in Him. God has spoken his final, living, and incarnated Word. By the atoning death of His incarnation Jesus became both High Priest and sacrifice forming the Way through the spiritual bridge that take us to the Gate of Heaven and opening the door that lead us into God's Presence.
He, who now rules in sincere believers' hearts and is seated at the Father's right hand, is the One who intercedes for us and will one day subjugate all His supernatural enemies and mediate God's universal Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace.
To take care of our spiritual heart and maintain a good communication with Jesus Christ our mediator and acquire knowledge about our spiritual surroundings and our Creator we need to follow these steps:
- Be knowledgeable with every aspect of the Word of God, as Paul was, and meditate very deep about its implications in our way of life specially in the enhancing of the spiritual principles that most of the time are weak in us because of the lack of understanding.
- As soon as we start mastering on it we will start passing the Gate of Time. We will feel like been in between sleeplessness and wakefulness. So we can remember something shown in this reality but specifically we are not being able to fully grasp the meaning of it.
- A continuous practice make the stage of sleeplessness decrease. When the conscious mind is not suppressed by sleep and is able to focus then we are able to receive the teaching of the truth and the spiritual meaning of the Word of God from the subconscious mind transported to the conscious mind and then be able to grasp and experience things that we never learned in order to improve the level of love in our own heart.
- When experiences become deep then the mental concentration is sustained as the state of spiritual somnolence is at its minimum. As soon as our mind is focused, the spiritual eye is activated. Then the conscious mind is not used to see through the spiritual eye so concentration comes and goes, like Peter's experience with Jesus when his spiritual eye was blocked by the human eye summoning Jesus about the purpose of His Death, in terms of conscious human understanding and sorrow. Gradually the spiritual mind gets familiar with this kind of visions and the mind focuses more in the understanding and is sustained in it. With practice we start considering ourselves a part of the experience shown in the Scripture rather than a mere observer.
- With this practice and doing so every day when we study the Word of God, the mind starts getting information that most people are unable to observe. The spiritual heart gets so energized that its desire focus in getting this type of knowledge by will. At this point all the spiritual senses become activated. We become free from both space and time. The spirit of knowledge and understanding is just right there.
- Then the complete annihilation of the material and carnal self takes place and we become detach from the mundane world even though we continue living in it but we are unconcerned about rewards or positions in it.
- We regain our soul individuality and we can back to our existence knowing what is our purpose of our life and the mission we have to accomplish before passing to the Afterlife.
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