An addition to the BHT, where it is announced that the Anointing is here, that the Good News is here, that all those who suffer may be Healed now, that Liberation has come to one and all. It is today, it is now!
18 The Living Breath, Light-Energy, and Consciousness of the One Ultimate I AM has filled me and is throughout me to overflowing, because the Source I AM has Anointed ME and Purified my Mind and Being to announce, show forth, and spread abroad the Most Joyous and Excellent News to all those who have gentle, quiet, receptive, humble, and open minds and hearts, whose egos have been brought very low, even to the dust! The Great I AM Consciousness has Freed me to bind up, repair, comfort, and heal with oceans of olive oils, ointments, and balms upon the heads of all those whose hearts and minds have been crushed and shattered into millions of pieces, whose inner understandings of their place in this world and deepest affections have been crucified, torn to shreds and smashed to smithereens! To cry out with a loud voice the absolute and final Salvation, Liberation, and Freedom for all those who are seized and held captive by their own psychological egos, to give Clear Infinite Sight and Perception back to those whose minds have been blinded and obscured by their own self-consciousness, that the eyes of their Understanding may be Opened and the scales may tumble down from the sockets, and to once and for all throw open the prison gates in Deliverance and Rescue all those who are handcuffed and shackled by the darkness of their own erroneous understandings, false illusions, foolish knowledge, and delusions of the finite and selfish human intellectual mind!
19 The Great I AM has sent me to declare as with a loud trumpet that THIS Present Moment is the Time of Jubilee, the Hour of Joy of all Joys, the Day of our At-one-ment, when ALL people may be finally Freed from all their suffering, that it may cease! when all our guilt and shame may be finally and fully Forgiven, washed away completely from our minds, to be no more! and the Loving and Tender Mercies of Life itself are unveiled and revealed in Glory upon Glories, and Majesty upon Majesties, the Purest Love of All LOVE, Forever and Ever and Ever!
21 That Day is TODAY—it is right HERE, and it is right NOW—when these Holy Words are brought into Full and Complete Reality and Realization! Whoever has ears, let them Hear!!
THE TIME IS COME AND IS
NOW!
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Bryce, your approach (IMHO) seems to be somewhat what in contention with the doctrines and revelations of the restoration. While I’m open to the idea that we still have much more to learn about the economy of the Kingdom, I’m of the opinion that certain foundational elements of that economy have been put in place to lead is in the right direction with regard to gaining further knowledge. I, therefore, give it to you as my opinion that we must allow the scriptures to inform our opinions on the oneness of God and be careful not to over-interpret or even jettison those doctrines that seem to challenge our views on the subject.
The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants are very clear as to the doctrine of a literal, physical resurrection and the separate embodiment of every individual, including the Father and the Son. We are individuals and will be resurrected as individuals and will continue as individuals; there we must begin. Joseph Smith spoke of having the same sociality in the next world that we have here except — and this is the clincher — it will be coupled with glory.
Now, I’m certain that I haven’t said anything here that you don’t already know. But I want to point out the fact that Joseph doesn’t unpack what he means by “coupled with glory.” And, IMO, that’s as it should be–because that’s where (as it relates to conversation) the threshold lies to the realm of the mysteries. Both you and I know that the term “glory” in LDS theology is wondrous–and, as it is expressed in Joseph’s statement, it is no small appendage. It’s implications are infinite!
And, so, as I’ve already said, establishing our individuality is a beginning. And then, as we go from there in our quest to understand the mysteries, we’ll be pointed in the right direction–and we’ll understand more clearly what it means to be one with God and how the Father and the Son are one. But, beyond that I will not venture because (IMO) that will take us into the realm of things that ought not to be spoken.
Though each one of us (IMO) will always possess our own unique identity it doesn’t necessarily follow that we won’t achieve oneness with God–we will if we seek it with a pure heart. Even so, it is the reality of the sacred other that makes possible the joy of unity.
What I’m saying is that both are happening–the micro and the macro, so to speak. There is no eternal life without both.
The promises made to Abraham make that clear, IMO.
The worst torment I could suffer would be to learn that my loved ones will not continue as their fundamental selves–and I mean that they will somehow lose that part of them that is peculiar to them alone; their will; their intelligence; their own peculiar “I Am.” I personally do not believe (at this point in my understanding of things) that that fundamental identity necessarily emanates from God. I believe it is self-existent and co-eternal with God. My own sense is that God became our Father by our choosing to enter into a relationship with him by covenant. And, perhaps, at that point we experienced some sort of ontological development from a previous, shall we say, more primal state to a state empowered with greater capacity to progress by means of a preparatory degree of union with God.
IMHO, we will continue as self-existent identities. But! Depending upon our desires we will ultimately receive that portion of God’s glory that will bring us the most happiness–and I’ll let you unpack the term “glory” in this context. And those who are willing to receive a fulness of Glory will at some point enjoy the kind of oneness that Jesus prayed for his disciples to receive.
I’m trying to keep my comments grounded in the scriptures–so these things may come across a little clumsy at times. But there you have it.
A few more thoughts–
I think your use of the term ego is rather modern. I doubt that someone like King Benjamin thought of the human psyche in those terms. When he spoke of the natural man, IMO, I don’t think he imagined that the individual had to annihilate their identity so much as sanctify it–and we do that by receiving the Holy Ghost.
Also, if we are purely emanations from God then why this experience? Why this life of sorrow and difficulty? What is God’s purpose with regard to the Fall and all it entails as it relates to Himself? And, on top of that, if God is not motivated primarily by love toward another then what is his primary motivation? If we are only a part of Him then what is it about us that causes him to love us so dearly? Why has he done all things for us–the Creation, Fall, and Redemption–what is this all about if it’s not for the good of another, but only Himself?