Attempting to prove a literal interpretation of any scripture is a road that leads to the devils. All scriptures by nature are expressing truths that defy language. They are telling you how to perceive in ways and to achieve modes of cognition that will be radically different to that which can be conveyed in language to one who hasn’t already experienced it. They offer a reorganizing of the personal ontological paradigm, a new view into the question of what is a Subject, what is Substance. Pursuit of the modes offered in them results in radical transformations of experience.
Connecting to the kingdom of heaven is like being part of a golden crown fractal of helping love. You look around and everything in the universe is like a friendly dog. Everything abounds in Divine Cosmic Siblinghood. There are no labels, there is no politics – in the Kingdom of Heaven. Everybody digs. Everybody groks. No one causes a fuss. If anyone does, its a gentle “sorry bucko” escort to the door, while the music never stops. This is the mysticism that is everywhere in the world, in every land, among all brothers and sisters. This is the message of every Saint. All are offered a seat at the Table of the Lord. There they are offered comfort, forgiveness, knowledge, and nutrience. You may wonder why we do it, but when you take part you will no longer wonder, for the Spirit will move you, will release you from the agony of hinging on yourself.
All failures are the devils failures, and all successes are the Lords. So don’t beat yourself up in guilt and grief. You had to get duped. You had to become lost is the sewage mind of ego. Like your Lord, you had to experience all things, bear all things, suffer and understand all things, because you too have the fiber of the Bodhisattva, the heart of a hero. You had to suffer Hell too. So today you could make so many steps down the road to healing others. The work of redemption, of healing the wounds of anger that scar and entrain and entrap folks in matter chasing and status and symbol chasing. Do you not have a lamp now? Is there not something that burns inside you inextinguishable, imperishable, a spirit that will not stop loving others and fighting for healing and truth? Will you hide it going forth? Will you share it with the spirits of the gentle hills?