I've had many thoughts and understandings of the Temporal Church as Passageway, and how to pass through, considering it as passageway, gaining all that is beneficial to learn as well as the aspects not what is of Christ in what He taught and instituted simply.
The passageway in which we are brought and come to the Stairway to Heaven, passing through what is not and coming to what is, and living the Law of Love while yet being in His Real Presence, living and loving in His Living Word, leaving the pitfalls of humankind, the human-created aspects that tempt to position, prestige, power, possession. The temporal church is a passageway; we can be brought to and begin climbing the Stairway to Heaven while on earth.
I have not understood this for now 15 years. It is time, it has been time, and now to enter in, upon, the great simplicity of the Stairway to Heaven as I've been on the bottom step all these years, fearful, confused about the role and human taint of condition, of being shoved on out, of the temporal church.
God's will is being done; I'm the one clinging to the newel post and now letting go, starting to climb, unknowing but through the passageway, accepting and trusting in His Real Presence. Accepting my accepting, in faith; this is as Jesus has wanted, as God has provided, passing through the temporal Church and into that which is of the beloved mystics, the great lovers of God. love of others, love of His Law of Love.
Now, our salvation is nothing other than this: - not that we should speak from ourselves but it is the mouth of God that has made known the great light of the world to come – the Kingdom of heaven has come down on earth, or rather the sovereign King of beings on high and beings below has come, he wanted to become like us so that we might enter into a share of Kingdom of heaven, that at the same time we might have a share in his glory and be heirs of the eternal blessings that no one has ever seen.
These blessings are none other – and this is my conviction, this is my firm faith – than the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: here is the source of blessings, the life of all that exists, here is inexpressible joy and the salvation of all those who receive something of his ineffable illumination and are aware of being in communion with him.
Listen: the reason he is called Savior is because for all those to whom he is united he gains salvation. Now salvation means to be delivered from all ills and, at the same time, to find all blessings forever: life instead of death, light in place of darkness and, instead of the slavery of the passions and unworthy deeds, the complete freedom granted to all those who are united to Christ, Savior of all beings. Thus they will possess, without being able to lose it, all joy, all happiness, all blessedness (…) that that none can ever know or conceive or see if not sincerely and ardently attached to Christ.
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