Many are called...few are they who truly hear.

Ultra-trim-milk for the masses, while the very few who are able to walk through the narrow gate will be served delicious portions of organic meat and vegetables, a veritable feast indeed! Some try to create their own neo-meat: the pretended wisdom of false prophets who claim to speak for Christ but only speak for themselves, their own-God. They deny the Christ, and affirm his opposite through their false-witness, for Christ speaks to all and through all; He is no respecter of persons. He does not need another to speak for Him, for He can and does speak to all. Whether we hear, is another matter entirely.  He calls all unto Him, and through Him (and only through Him) to the Father of All, the ground of all existence. If you can walk the path and enter into His presence, by Grace and effort you will receive an audience.  Many are called, but so few are chosen.

The times they are a changin'

It has to be admitted, in the light of WWI, WWII, the Cold War, starvation and poverty in the so-called third world while we experience an obesity epidemic in the ‘first world’, climate change, the global financial crisis etc – that traditional religious approaches have failed to address the most profound existential threats/events that humanity have recently confronted.

 

If we believe in ongoing revelation, and a personal relationship to the Spirit, then we must admit that either the Gods have abandoned us, or we are not listening properly. What we require, is less an emphasis on following any Prophet, and a far greater emphasis on developing one’s own relationship with the spiritual world – the heavens. Times change, and the traditional approach to spiritual matters (embodied in the Churches) has failed to address the deeply existential questions we face.

 

The times they are a-changin’. Indeed.

 

So be it.