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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord (武天) Bo Tien. The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affliliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Do not end up worshipping the devil in man in a religious institution

Learning Points No 114






Men always want to be heard and to be seen as better than other men. When they take on the cudgels of spiritual leadership, they may loose insight on their strengths and weaknesses.

Often they see the glory of God and saints and project this glory on themselves and their following identify with them in the name of God and saints.

Thus this will potentiate cult culture and they become the chosen ones and their congregation become blind to their mortality and tend to immortalise them.

Men in immortalising men make devils out of them. This explains why Buddha says that his teachings will succeed him when he is gone and even Jesus never appoints a successor.

But the institutions of men must have leadership. So long as there is no cult or hero-worshipping and  so long as there is due separation of administrative leadership from spiritual to enable checks and balance, all will be well.

Otherwise, men will end up worshipping the devil in man rather than God and saints. Often the leaders are fallible , more so when they are in the limelight and they get carried away.

Their charisma blinds the congregation and have hypnotic effect on the congregation to see them as the gateway to God.








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