I AM WITH YOU.
This is the message between partners in Loving Friendship. True for Creation in Reality and for Guidance training in unreality here on Earth. Its meaning is that we have not been abandoned. We are not alone in a state of agitation and uncertainty. In a state of Movement where Guidance is always needed. You and I are ‘we’. Lives vulnerable for being open and accessible. To Learning and Growth while exposed to the unknown and the unforeseen. While possessed of the power and capacity of Relationship that ignited Movement, initiated evolution, illuminated Self-Awareness, and defined Creation with its own indelible mark. The Force of Love-Spontaneity inseparable from Logic-Order. Energy and immediacy in the Now.
This is the message of Guidance. An affirmation of its partner’s Self-Worth while its partner navigates and strives its way through the vicissitudes of life. The difficulties of Movement forward – evolution – against resistance ‘here’, in virtual reality, from within a corrupted mind. Self-unawareness. And from without: a competitive, unforgiving hierarchy of anything goes. Of one-sided, one-dimensional arrogance. Make-believe. Whose message is I AM NOT WITH YOU. YOU ARE WORTHLESS.
Here is ‘Christianity’s’ doctrine of ‘salvation’. A misinterpretation of the message of Guidance based not on affirmation of Self-Worth but of resistance to it. On make-believe:
“I am with you to relieve you of your responsibilities and to suffer their consequences for you. To save you from having to take life’s test of Character. To take its test for you so that all the Learning and Growth, the development and maturation, the achievement and progress to be gained by striving against resistance, will be mine and not yours. So that you may never know the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from releasing yourself from your own self-imposed imprisonment. Your psychological cage of self-delusion: the mistaken belief that you are your own reverse-reflection. Your own shadow of impossibility: do-nothing, go-nowhere make-believe. A flim-flam artist of self-deception: joker, magician, beast. By becoming your ‘savior’ I don’t relieve you of the presence of the beast. I become the beast. By accepting my offer – this perversion of the message of Guidance – you allow me not to free you from your psychological cage but to secure you within it.”
For as long as it takes to awaken to the truth. To rid ourselves of the mischaracterization of Guidance as a takeover of our test of Character. To understand and appreciate the message for what it is: help for those who help themselves. Support for a task that isn’t for Guidance to own but for us, its partners, to own. Until, together, we understand that to succeed we cannot move forward with one of us doing the heavy lifting for the other.
This isn’t what Loving Friendship is all about. Denominator replacing enumerator to make fraction whole. It’s about two components with different functions complementing one another – completing one another. To act as one but not to be one. To be always Relationship. ‘Salvation’ destroys Relationship. The meaning of the mutilated body on the crucifix isn’t the joyfulness of ‘forgiveness’. It’s the death of Relationship. Sympathy drawn from tribal animals gawking at it in horror, for being so obviously alone and abandoned.
Getting it right
Then what would be the meaning of Easter? Of ‘salvation’ — the mutilated body on the crucifix? For this questioner its meaning is that Character doesn’t need others to fight its battles for it.
Does this reflection on the meaning of Easter offend? For being disrespectful of holy writ? If so, then questioning would ask what is the meaning of Guidance? The point of it, if it can’t question? If it can’t look behind holy writ. Behind the appearances of convention where lie layers upon layers of misinterpretation and mischaracterization. Entitled to tag every surface with “Kilroy was here,” the signature of make-believe. Flickering shadows and screams from Plato’s Cave. Audibles and visuals of sensory perception meant to create the illusion of ‘happening’. Of Movement that isn’t movement. So you’ll stay put and keep your mouth shut. That is, if you know what’s good for you.
What’s ‘good’ for us can’t be letting ‘saviors’ “die for our sins” fester in our Souls. The ‘answer’ that forever ‘saves’ us from questioning. ‘Saves’ us from the meaning of Life itself and its greatest satisfaction. Taking and passing tests of Character.
Until the day comes when we’ve passed enough and we’re ready to take on Creation itself. The job for which Guidance and its partners are both in training, here in our magic kingdom of make-believe corruption. The point of Creation itself: not to let everyone off the hook so they can wallow in unaccountability, but to enable pride of authorship. Responsibility for our own lives and their consequences, when we face up its tests of Character. With help from Guidance but without ‘help’ from ‘salvation’