Ascendency of Grace

[Occult Forum Archive]

Original post: Mmothra

shintashi
06-24-2004, 01:18 AM
Within the world there is a law that says when a man is accountable, he is baptized for the remission of sins, and then goes about his buisiness, repenting as he sins. Yet, little children are not held accountable. Have we forgotten that we are only held accountable for the acts which we are in understanding of ? If a child lies to their parents to save themselves, is it any more a sin or less for an adult placed in a position of great power and complexity, to fail ?

Throughout life, we must realize we do not have the wisdom to perceive all the possible outcomes of decisions, not even our own. It is therefore, that man should ascend from one state of grace till the next, for in lifeâ??s challenges, rare will be a man who makes the absolute perfect decision, and at best hoped for, a man may make the best decisions they know.

We are being judged more on the process by which we make our decisions, rather than the decisions themselves. In this world, we have existed in illusional reality, feeling and experiencing something we perceive as extreme and painful, occasionally pleasurable, but always exhausting. Do we not understand that life itself, is dim by comparison to the ultimate reality ? That we can be injured more by mere thoughts than any weapons made of brass and steel ? We are indeed spiritual beings, expressions of thought and harmony, patterns which resonate across reality, forming the ideals of beauty, and dare I place forward the idea that the idea of beauty precedes ever its formation ? Shall I thrust in my sickle and claim that we are ideas in motion ? That every spiritual sensation was also, at one time, an idea waiting to take form ?

So now we step back, and look at the great expanse, and say, how can it be that a man be judged for the deeds of a blind god ? For sheerly by the fact of his ignorance, and mortality, how can he act as anything but blind, navigating his way through an illusion, and yet be held to the standards of a banner of wisdom which he never possessed in this life ? Or what too then, shall we say if he never before possessed such virtues ? And where shall he learn them ? But by the virtue of wisdom, and by experience. A man can try and succeed, or he can try and fail. They say he can always pray, but this too, may be part of the test. â?? Father if I touch the oven, will it be hot ? Father if I call to mother, will you be hurt ? Father if I pray today, will you abandon me tomorrow ? â??

Let us never forget, that in our quest to achieve the wisdom to govern our free will, that we should never forget to keep, our Free Will.

- Shin