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On Infallibility and Dogma

There is no divine message communicated among mankind which can be said to be infallible. While one may communicate “Divinely Inspired” messages, the mere reception of this Divine Energy into the vehicle of flesh results in the distortion of meaning, due to the attempt to comprehend and reproduce the complete and limitless (Divine) through a limited and incomplete medium (The Flesh), such that, the same Divine Energy if received by two different people may be expressed in completely different ways, with contradictory meanings interpreted from them.

As The Divine is incomprehensible and uncontainable, the most that one can claim is to have received a glimpse of the truth and to have experienced the Divine, which the heart may know fully, but only in a way that words cannot express. Therefore, while one’s personal spiritual revelations may convey the truth to them in a way which they understand, this does not mean that what they communicate to others contains a truth that is valid for anyone else. The mere act of a human attempting to solidify (and thus limit) the message of the Divine results in every truth being communicated alongside lies, with the recipient left to determine what should and should not be accepted.

Consider Christianity, one stream of belief among many vastly different and conflicting beliefs. Even within the specifics of Christianity, one distinct system, there are countless conflicting interpretations of the same scriptures which have led to the splitting of the church, to the point that today there are over 45,000 distinct denominations of Christianity. If even written words in our own languages are unable to convey a clear truth to others, how much less can we expect the flawed and human authors of each book of the Bible to have received the incomprehensible, unutterable language of the Divine, and then conveyed it to us in a way that is in complete truth, without imposing their own biases and beliefs on those truths? Adding to this uncertainty is the fact that each of these would be written based on one’s recollection of an experience, which may not consistently or reliably represent what such an experience actually entailed.

Given the unreliable nature of relying on the concepts of infallibility and dogma, for those who seek truth, they must be willing to seek with an open mind what they can truly experience, rather than imposing their own predetermined ideal upon the Divine.

One must build their own relationship with the Divine, in order to experience for themselves what it means to know the Divine in one’s heart.

One must also take into account the experiences of many others who have come before them, many of whom may have been more experienced and advanced in their spiritual journeys, but taking into account the uncertainty and distortions inherent in any human account, as mentioned previously.

By combining these foci, one can know the Divine in the unspeakable and spiritual way, while also being able to make sense of the truth in more earthly terms, by examining the common threads between various spiritual traditions, the words of leaders and adepts, and one’s own experiences with the Divine, helping to identify the correspondences between them, as above, so below, with the contrast between these sources serving to point out that which is inconsistent, changing, and deceiving, from that which is consistent, unchanging, and true.

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