An Interspiritual-Interfaith Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
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Living in Love beyond Beliefs
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Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we said we'll do, to press forward when were tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.
*Gordon Hinckley
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Divine Presence, You Are
Poet Arem Nahariim-Samadhi, of Lotus of the Heart, presents a Jesus saying on inner Peace, with images evoking contemplation.
The anomaly, therefore, is that a dark faith is the most enlightened faith. Why? In unitive contemplation, whereby the spirit is loved and graced directly by the Mystery of Love, a certainty is given that surpasses the mediated means that pertain to body and mind, each with its inability to encompass unmediated Presence with the accompanying direct-impartation of graces.
Faith, in contemplation, is simply the communication of the Mystery of God by the Mystery of God, for true, spiritual faith is of the same substance as God in Wholeness and Simplicity. The more, therefore, one receives of God by God, the more he or she receives of this mystical faith.
*Arem, "Obscure Faith," 2008
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Pure Faith is a more mature form of trust, which often has its beginnings in a manipulative form of faith. This less mature faith sees Mystery out there “from” me or “inside” me as an “object” for “me.” This “God” is “our God,” and “we” are “God’s people,” meaning “God’s only people.” This is called tribal consciousness. We are the “believers,” while they are the “nonbelievers,” “pagans,” “doomed,” “damned,” … Jesus, in my estimation, met head-on this tribal consciousness, seeking to implode the boundaries of “insider” and “outsider.” The “Body of Christ” is, when understood contemplatively, a reference to a cosmic Reality, as Christ is understood to be the cosmic Christ, the unifier of difference back into a single Whole, through Love (i.e., the Holy Spirit). Indeed, this Whole is the Home of difference, for difference arises as an expression of the Whole.
