We say them over and over in the Great Prayer.
Hallowed be your name! Your Kingdom come!
The Great Commandment of the Gospels to love God and the Great Priority of the Gospels to establish the Kingdom.
“To what can I compare the Kingdom?” Jesus said, using parables to make sure there was no comparison of the Kingdom with the Covenant of Moses, or with the Temple, or with the Priests, the Romans, Greeks, Gnostics, Scriptures or anything else.
The parables emphasize beautifully that the Kingdom is an abstract – requiring a stance, or an attitude – to enable the operation of the spirit. Way, truth and life!
Joppa and Casaerea, the road to Damascus, and Jerusalem. Real places. Two real men, Peter once Simon, Paul once Saul, involved in three events. Events almost contemporary with the Gospels but unlike the Gospels, almost unchallenged for veracity. Real men, real events, real faith.
The Kingdom realised.
The shape of the new Age in three mystic events. The Kingdom of the Christ founded in the Acts of the Apostles, in three real moments. Mystic moments which are repeated time and again in real people’s lives. The spiritual foundations of the Kingdom. The life changing epiphanies of the faith, the Spirit in action in the world.
The coming of the Spirit to Peter and the throng at Pentecost; the coming of the Spirit to Paul and his subsequent conversion; Peter’s vision of cleanliness followed by the coming of the Spirit to Cornelius and the gentiles.
The form of the Kingdom revealed as spirit and vision.
© 2007 Epiphanist
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