Globalism, Part 7: The Schleiermacher and Tillich Connection

I realize the following may be hard to follow, but I felt like it was important. Feel free to ask me about it if this doesn't make sense. Also, I should probably preface this with this: I don't actually believe there is a physical conspiracy going on here like my title may seem to convey. I don't believe 100 people at some Bilderberg Conference have decided to push Satanist plans on us. I believe what is going on is connected due to a spiritual connection. I know how this makes me come accross, but look at all the evidence before you judge me as a loony. There are things going on in this world which have no physical connection yet are related. No one said, hey Schleiermacher, start teaching some bs that will help us! Philosophy doesn't work that way. It flows and is not forced. It is only guided by the community of work of the age like Levinas, Kant, Schleiermacher, Tillich, Sarte, Camus, Cremme, Bailey, etc.

THE SCHLEIERMACHER CONNECTION

I listened to a Lucis Trust radio broadcast posted on the their website and the following was the teaching (Inner Sight Broadcast: “Two Brothers: The Buddha and The Christ”) One quote that stood out to me was this: “The divinity you need is within you.” There is a connection, here, to Friedrich Schleiermacher. He was one of the few “major” theologians of all time, but his chronological position is the 18th Century. Schleiermacher made real contributions in his method of hermeneutics/interpretation called the “hermeneutical circle.” However, from the point of most conservative Christians, he was a major step in the wrong direction. He denied the Trinity therefore denying the divinity of Jesus. Jesus was merely THE example for us. In a sense, God chose Jesus to be this example. In a sense, Jesus chose to be this example because of his “intuned-ness” or his “God-consciousness.” (By the way, some New Age thinkers push a thing called “Christ-Consciousness"). Jesus responded to the divine feeling/intuition (German word = Gefuhl) God had placed within all humanity. Jesus was different because he was able to recognize it and respond to it. The idea of Original Sin and sin in general is radically different or done away with in this framework. The solution to a spiritual problem isn’t “out there” but within. What all of this is saying is that you must tap into the spirituality that is already within you (“Gefuhl” for Schleiermacher). The NAM embraces Jesus. They think of him as a great thinker/philosopher. He moved us a long the necessary path. However, he was just human…a chosen human. He responded to the inner-light within. He tried to teach us the same, according to the Lucis Trust.

THE TILLICH CONNECTION

Furthermore, Paul Tillich (THE major liberal theologian of the 20th Century) said God is the ground of all BEING. God is essence in a sense. Your life is an “existence” which is the polar opposite of “essence.” Salvation is the unity of these two. Jesus clearly contained essence simultaneously being in existence. What the crap is Chad talking about? Basically, Christ combines the polar opposites of God/essence with humanity/existence. He does this as the revelation of God, not actually God. He ushers in the essence of God into the poor existence of humanity. It’s like a shift in the value of life for a prisoner who feels like all he does is exist and how he then views life once he leaves the prison. The essence of life isn’t just existing. This higher plane is what Jesus did for us bringing us out of the prison of “sin.” Jesus represents the ultimate goal of God for humanity. However, notice what this does to Jesus. He is just THE example again, not actually divine. Therefore, Jesus is a great teacher, prophet, philosopher, example, etc. but not the equally divine Son. The NAM is completely okay with promoting Jesus, but Jesus as a great figure in human history. Jesus is the symbol of the last 2,000 years of progress. We got so far because of him, but to the NAM, we must progress even further as human beings. This is the basis of the needed new figure. If you have a keen eye when reading NAM material, you may notice that Jesus is most often called “Christ.” I believe this is quite intentional. The reason is because they’re trying to promote that Jesus was “The Anointed One” (christ or messiah means this). Therefore, Jesus filled a role. He didn’t “ful-fill” it, but he filled it. Therefore, the same role could be filled by a greater, future figure. According to the NAM, the 21st Century world is in need of a new great-anointed person to solve all of our grave issues.