â The spirit of the Lord is upon meâ
According to Luke, Jesus opened his ministry in a synagogue in Nazareth with this statement. Today you may as well ask what it is like to be a bat as understand Jesusâ point of view when he said that.
The search for the historical Jesus began with Hermann Samuel Reimarusâ âThe Aims of Jesus and His Disciplesâ. Albert Schweitzer covers the event in his book, âThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wredeâ.
Reimarus, born in Hamburg (1694-1768), was a professor of Oriental languages. The work was published posthumously by philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Reimarus drew an absolute distinction between the teaching that Jesus proclaimed and taught and that of âthe apostlesâ. The preaching of Jesus contained two phrases of identical meaning âReprent and believe the Gospelâ and âRepent for the Kingdom of Heaven (or Kingdom of God) is at hand.
The Kingdom of Heaven must be understood âaccording to Jewish ways of thought. Neither Jesus nor John the Baptist ever explain this expression. This means that what Jesus meant must have been understood in itâs customary sense by the people of Galilee and Judea.
It follows from this that Jesus took his stand in the Judaism of his time. The new development was that the expected kingdom of thousands hoped for was âat handâ.
Belief wasnât complicated. People only needed to believe that Jesus was about to bring in the Kingdom of God. As there were many who were already waiting for this Kingdom, thousands believed.
This was all the disciples knew about the kingdom when Jesus sent them to proclaim its coming. Their hearers would naturally suppose that the disciples were talking about the customary meaning of the trope.
â The purpose of sending out such propagandists could only be that the Jews who groaned under the Roman yoke and had long cherished the hope of deliverance should be stirred up all over Judea and assemble themselves in the thousands. The belief that Jesus was the messiah, the son of God, did not involve anything metaphysical. The nation had been called the son of God in the Hebrew Bible. Kings of the covenant people were sons of God. The messiaah would be a son-of God in a âpre-eminent senseâ. Messianic claims were âwithin the limits of humanity.â
âIf, therefore, we desire to gain a historical understanding of Jesusâ teaching, we must leave behind what we learned in our catechism regarding the metaphysical Divine Sonship, the Trinity, and similar dogmatic conceptions, and go out into a wholly Jewish world of thought.â(Schweitzerâs paraphrase)
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The Jesus of the synoptic gospels was what they call a bhakta in Sanskrit. The aim of bhakti yoga is to direct the heartâs love toward God. He taught: âYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.â (Mark 12:30-31;Matthew 22:37-40; Luke 10:27) which he saw as the essence of the Torah.
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That makes sense for directing the energy to proceed from the heart to the mind is synonymous or parallel with the âobjectiveâ of the patterns formed by the lotus Sutra, whereas, and I am going to jump over a large gap, that simulates the downward paths deconstructed (exoteric) routeâs decomposition, - compensation, or and this is difficult as it is within religious contexts,
However religious philosophy compensates for the nihilism whic tries to overcome that enlarging gap, that can not muster up a reason, or an assemblage of angels who can overcome that overcoming , except, by a reaffirmation to the usual construction processed inter-Alia.
The mystery of processing the heartâs energy (another form of yoga) toward the mind, shows the lotus crown to consist of a cognitively completed transcendence, a state of Being that was there, even before It got there, where was no where before.
Or, It never actually go through any DHARMA TO UNITE WITH ITâs OWN understanding, because iIT has both an esoteric and exoteric simultaneity, the Self Being the Other.
Simulation and is an axiomatic process, that takes place as simply as an amoebic cell division.
It guarantees the eternal, timeless energy that breaks the barrier between all structural manifestations and classes, between the inorganic and the organic, and between the types and calcifications that construe different species.
So, the defensive posture that goes to counter the instability of smaller particles of organization, are predicted by more ontologically founded presumptions, as was the ancient ideas which the atomists presented, and later Leibnitz adopted.
The ânuclear guiltâ over extreme defensiveness, can thus be grounded by the idea of the chasm between antiquity and postmodern structural differences, and fine tuned by neo-classical interpretations.