After so many years of searching - ideas from everywhere are recently

synthesizing for me. These ideas are obviously not new, but they are new to me
and I'm writing them down now to clarify my thinking, if anything. I certainly don't
claim to have the truth - but only a glimmer of hope that I'm onto something... an
ageless truth and I share it fully knowing that these concepts are most difficult (if
not impossible) to explain with the primitive symbolism of words. Therefore let
me start with the fundamentals of each word I will use - via etymology (the study
of the oldest and most original form/meaning/derivation of words as symbols).

Part I. A priest gives Holy.

priest is our english version of the old english Preost.

Preost is the Old English translation of the Latin sacerdos.

Sacerdos is from sacer "holy" + stem of the latin verb dare "to give"

In other words, a Priest is someone who "gives holy"

gives holy what? let's look deeper.

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Part II. What is Holy.

Holy is the modern version of the old English halig.

Halig is the Old English (likely druidic base) translation of the

Latin sanctus, a pre-christian term meaning "that which is
preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or
violated." (interesting note, halig is also connected to hal, old
english for our word Health. So that which is Holy is healthy, that
which is not Holy is not healthy.)

A Priest is someone who gives holy something. Given that the

something is holy, we know it must not be destroy-able (since
destruction is a transgression, a violation or a breaking down of
"whole" or "intact"). Therefore, what the Priest gives is not a
thing (like a jewel, book, or other material object) That leaves
only one other possibility - something intangible. The only
intangible thing which cannot be destroyed is ultimate truth
(whether or not we may know truth as humans is a separate
discussion). The only actual “thing” un-destroy-able we know of
is Reality. In the same way, the only ‘concept’ which cannot be
destroyed is truth. Truth is truth whether humanity is present on
this planet or not. God, the concept of a creator that is supreme
(the pinnacle of existence) is also Truth, for what could possibly
be higher than the ultimate principal of everything? Truth cannot
be destroyed and God cannot be destroyed. God is Truth. Truth is
God. Likewise, Reality cannot be destroyed. Reality is the
supreme manifestation of the concept of the supreme principal
(truth).

This is the true trinity that so many religions hint at.

The Supreme Principal is Truth, The Supreme manifestation is
Reality, and the Supreme force is God. All three are “that which is
preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or
violated...” and are therefore “Holy.” A priest gives Holy. Now let
us consider Holy as a noun AND an adjective instead of simply an
adjective. What we get is a word that describes itself. In this
light, it makes perfect sense what the job of a priest is... to
chauffeur us toward ‘Holy,’ toward Truth, to impart upon us that
which is ‘holy‘ and True. To guide us toward an understanding of
reality, not as it is mistaken by man, but as it actually is - this is
the calling of the priest.

Note that any guidance that is truly toward Holy(noun) would

also be, itself, Holy(noun). They would be one and the same.
Guidance toward the ultimate truth turns out to be part of the
ultimate truth itself. Does this not make the priest Holy as well?
For how could one have access to “that which is preserved whole
or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated...” if they were
not Holy as well?

For now, let us say that this is what a priest does. Any "priest"
who gives anything other than Truth or such guidance thereof is a
false priest.

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Part III. Be your own priest.

So are we truly to look to other men for guidance? If the local

priest has access to the Holy, why can we not also?

Not only do we have access to the Holy, but it will soon come to
show that we ARE the Holy and there is not access to ourselves
but thru ourselves. We must be our own priests - us our inner
compass to guide ourselves toward Holy.

We find hints at the Priesthood of every individual all through the

bible (as well as throughout the inner teachings of most major
religions).

A few quick examples: Jesus says "the Kingdom of Heaven is

Within," "Truth is within," "Ye are gods," etc. In other words, you
are your own priest - only you can give to yourself what is truly
holy because it is already part of you. Only you can give to yourself
the immutable truths - because anything that comes from outside
of ourselves is hearsay is it not? Jesus did not say “the kingdom of
heaven is in your neighbors words.” On the contrary, all of his
teachings, especially those given directly to the disciples (many of
which are excluded from the Orthodox bible) point inward to the
will, reason, instinct, and divinity within each of us.
Jesus’ exclaims that he is The Son of God - this is not a singular
title, however. It is a realization that each man/woman is indeed
the son/the daughter of God.

The Buddha says, similarly "Why seek the buddha nature when
you are the buddha nature?"

Ps. 110:3-4 says "You are a priest for ever..."

in the vast variety of Hinduism branches, one is taught "Bring

forth your inner divinity."

In the Gita, before he ascends to heaven, Krishna says “I am

God.”

Even the old testament speaks repeatedly of the "divine spark

within."

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Part IV. God/Truth/Reality

We have shown that “God” is synonymous with "reality." For

not only is Reality the blank canvas which life is painted on, but
also the easel and the room with which the easel sit and the
house which that room is part of.

Now, if God, the ultimate creator, created reality, then God is in

Reality such as a painter is in his painting and a composer is in
his composition.  Thusly, Reality is in God as a composition is
part of the composer and painting is part of the painter.  If A = B
then B = A.  

Reality - whatever reality is, above all else, is reality.  It IS.
Reality, Truth, God and Holy exist regardless of the existence of
humanity. They are immutable. Reality is the only Truth.  All
words and ideas claiming truth may or may not be truth.  Truth
is only what actually IS.  Reality is to Truth as Truth is to
Reality - like A and B, like God and Reality.  Therefore God Is
Reality Is Truth - or God Is Truth Is Reality - or Reality Is God
Is Truth.... anyway these are arranged the meaning is identical.  
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Part V. The purpose of life.

The purpose of life can easily be explained by understanding

sin, but let us first begin, once again, with God and Truth.

If God is Truth, then anyone who is opposed to learning or

seeking truth is opposed to God, is opposed to reality.  Is this not
so? Beware those priests who condemn those who seek truth in
any place outside of the orthodox scriptures - for they are
opposed to discovering Truth and are therefore opposed to
discovering God - which means they are missing the point... this
is real sin.
As an aside, it is interesting to note that ALL holy scriptures
were given to man by "Revelation" and are therefore hearsay,
regardless of whether they are "true" or not, which we may
never know.  Similarly ALL teachings, including those of the
greatest Avatars - jesus, buddha, zarathustra, hermes, etc -
regardless of whether they are true or not, are ALL hearsay as
they came from an outside source, a source not our own.    

Now - since we have clearly seen that the only Truth is the thing
we can only call "Holy" (which is the same thing as Reality/
God), and that anything that comes from an outside source is
absolute hearsay (regardless of whether it is truth or not...which
we can never know) - we can confidently say the following:

(note that each of these statements is identical)

The only truth is the one within.

The only reality is the one within. 
The only holy is the one within.  (remember, holy, reality and
truth are synonymous). 
Finally - The only God is the one within.

Now, keeping all of this in mind, let us take a look at sin.

If you steal, cheat or murder this is sin because, as you will see,
coveting material things and pleasures of the flesh is far from the
purpose of life. We call these actions sin.
"Sin" from the Greek "hamarita" refers to an archery concept
meaning, literally, "to miss the point."

With that in mind, we recall that the great religions of mankind

frame sin as anything which takes man further away from union
with God (as well as from Truth and Reality).

Therefore, if to Sin is to miss the point, and missing the point

takes us farther away from union with God, then it naturally
follows that “the point” is union with God.

Next, we recall that God is already in us like a painter is in his

painting and like a painting is in its painter. That God is within
us, as we have shown, is one of the great truths of all religions.
With all of this in mind, it then become clear that our true
purpose becomes, not simply union with God, but realizing the
divinity within. “Realize,” from French origin, réaliser, means,
literally, “to bring into existence...” to real-ize. That is our true
purpose.

The “point” (or meaning) of life, is Union with God and

furthermore, the real-ization of the God within each of us.

Therefore the great life work of the individual can only be one
thing - to strive to know God from within - to be our own priest
and guide ourselves toward the divinity which lay dormant
inside each of us. To strive to know God can also be restated as
to strive to know Reality- which is to say, to strive to know
Truth.

This is the great secret teaching of the inner schools the Essens,
of the Druids, of the Persian Magi, of the Egyptian school of
Hermes/Toth, of the Hindus and ultimately, of Jesus Christ, the
man - who realized his own divinity - that divinity which is in
each of us.  That divinity which is the only divinity. Jesus is the
son of God.  And so are you. Jesus is God.  And so are you.
The only difference between you and Jesus is that he real-ized
his inner divinity, his union with God. You too can become a
Christ.

The Lord God is in all things at all times - has this not been said
by the Jews, the Christians, the Muslims, the Magi, the Hindus,
the Buddhists, the Zoroastrians, the Pagans, and by every other
ancient school of thought? And doesn't that make sense?  God
(which is also reality and truth) is in all things at all times. The
ultimate Principal, Force and Manifestation is present in
everything at all times.  This trinity which forms the supreme
God is in indeed obviously in all things at all times - therefore, it
can be said that God is in everything and everything is in God.
If God is in everything and everything is in God, and God, as we
have shown, is absolutely Holy (“that which is preserved whole
or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated”) then it
naturally follows that EVERYTHING is Holy, everything is
preserve whole and intact and nothing can be transgressed or
violated.
The purpose of your life is to be your own priest, to guide yourself
into the real-ization of your inner divinity and union with God.
You must be the priest who worships the God and the God who is
the priest who worships himself. This is why avatars such a
Jesus (a christ), Buddha, and Zarathustra told people to find
"heaven" or "truth" by dismantling religion (and their churches
which claimed to house God and Truth) stone by stone.  

Only You are the way, the Truth, and the Light. It is already
within you - now real-ize it. You too can be just like Jesus - you
can become a Christ (Christ comes from Old English. crist, from
Latin. Christus, from GK. khristos "anointed one" or “chosen
one”- (a translation of the Hebrew mashiah or messiah,
or khriein " The Latin. parallel term translated to Old English as
hæland or "healer.") You can choose yourself, you can anoint
yourself (how could you more appropriately worship the God
within?) and you can be a healer unto yourself.

Jesus says “the only way to heaven is thru me, Christ.” The only
way to heaven (or to union with truth, with God) is thru Christ
(thru the anointed one) - or - thru yourself! Because you too can
become a Christ. In other words, to get to heaven (union with
God), you must choose yourself. You must choose to be your
own priest. You must choose to realize the God within. The word
“choose” is not accidental. This word is a direct reference to our
will - to our ability to actively set foot on a path toward sin
(missing the point) or toward seeking union with God. To live day
by day without an underlying effort toward “union with God” is
the only sin.
Our “fall from Grace” was indeed about sin - because man began
to become attached to earthly things - to flavors, colors, objects,
experiences, things, and people - forgetting his inner divinity.
Attachment (on which Hinduism and Buddhism are heavily
focused) was (is) our sin, our fall from grace, our forgetting of
these immutable truths. When we real-ize our inner divinity,
realization and unification become one and the same. If anything,
it is more like a re-realization of unification - that we are and
always have been one with the supreme divine. To this we must
“spiritually re-awaken” (Buddhist).

Remember, "the kingdom of heaven lies within." Heaven, the

ultimate goal by whatever name you choose and in whatever
religion you inspect, is the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal, we
have shown, is also Union with God. This means that “Heaven”
and “union with God” are one and the same. Heaven/Union with
God is Holy because God is Holy and when something unifies with
it, it too becomes God/Holy.

This means that:

Heaven = Holy, and Holy = Reality, Truth and God.

Since the “kingdom of heaven lies within” and “heaven” is

synonymous with God which is synonymous with Truth and
Reality, we can understand that "Reality lies within," "Truth Lies
within," and "God Lies Within."

This is the purpose of mans life:

Realization/unification with God through ascension

(the process opposite to sin) - otherwise called spiritual
evolution, a spiritual re-awakening. In other words, to
come to know and real-ize ones own divinity - therefore
coming to understand that the union with the God
within has always been and can never be broken.

“Everyone is already enlightened.” - Sidhartha

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Part VI. The How of it.

How to realize this inner divinity is the great question then, and
the subject of every initiate, of every seeker, regardless of what
they might call the search. The answer is only known to a few -
and those few, knowing this answer, have therefore real-ized the
purpose of life and have already become the avatars mankind.

Here is a brief an incomplete introduction to theorized and

partially recorded methodologies that have survived the ages....

Vestiges of this hidden truth (the ways in which we an Union with

God) can be found in the Chakra System (originally from Egypt
and popularized in the orient) which seeks to realign and tune the
seven chakras (egyptian) or seven souls (gnostic, essenic, and
druidic) or seven planes (hindu) so that one might resonant once
again with his inner divinity.

Remember when Elijah rode to heaven on a golden chariot? It is

said by the Chakra meditators that when all chakras are aligned,
the body glows with golden light (as did jesus' body in the desert
in front of his followers) - at this point the 7 souls/chakras/planes
are nearly "rooted in heaven" or "intune with the divine". This
process is called ascension and is documented in every religion
across the world, great and/or small. The bible has at least 5
ascensions recorded, as does the Hindu Gita, as do the Tibetan
Buddhist Scriptures, as do the oral histories of the remaining
Druids, as do the Hieroglyphics on the Temple of Osiris.

This brings us to Merkabah Meditation. The Hebrew rods

Merkabah “chariot”, derived from the consonantal root r-k-b with
genearl meaning “to ride” is used in Ezekiel (1:4-26) to refer to the
throne-chariot of God. Merkabah is used 44 times in the Old
Testament. As science understands it, a merkabah is two counter
rotational fields of energy, partially overlapping, shaped like
pyramids and facing opposite directions. Spun at the correct
frequency, the Merkabah creates a field of energy that be as large
as 50 yards in circumference, and glows with a “golden” coloured
light. Science theorizes that the contents within a Merkabah field
will disappear, having been transported to a higher level
dimension. In other words, a Merkabah is likely an elevator
between dimensions, a portal of sort - what Einstein called a
“worm hole.” Merkabah field creation is the ultimate goal of
Merkabah meditation which incorporates Chakra alignment
mediation. If one were to create a Merkabah field, it would
literally appear as if the fleshly body was ascending to “heaven”
upon a golden chariot or a golden throne.

Ascension, however, is best understood simply as the atunement

of the 7 souls into divine order. In other words, the alignment of
the soul/mind with reality/god/truth. Ascension is the actual
process of Union with God.

This same process (ascension) is the ultimate goal of other

practices as well - epitomized in the Christian "unification with
Christ," the Kabalistic "Melchizedec Method," the Buddhist
search for non-attachment and unlimited and unconditional
compassion, etc., etc. The ultimate goal is always the same, union
with the Supreme Divine, with the Supreme Truth. Ascension is
the most ancient of goals at the core of every single religion.
How many ascensions have there been (and witnessed ones at
that)? Did Zarathustra not Ascend? Hermes? Osiris? Jesus?
Mary? Buddha? Abraham, Elijah, Krishna, Josuah, Kwan Yin,
Thomas and hundreds more?? The Old testament alone has 41
ascensions. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ascension_(mystical) Why this same theme across the Globe and
across the ages - and not just similar in theme, but identical in
each case? Could it a golden thread of truth? or is it mere
coincidence that hundreds of different cultures across space and
time randomly devised the same mythology?

The purpose of man kind can now be summed up into one word:
Ascension.

Ascension means ascension to a higher level of thinking, a higher

level of emotional experience, a higher level of compassion, of
understanding, of divine realization- ultimately a higher level of
existence. Does not everything living evolve? Is the mind of man
not the most evolved form of life we are aware of? Does it make
sense that evolution would stop now?

The Gnostic Christians read in the Nag Hamadhi Library (ancient

Christian Texts discovered in the 1940's but excluded from
Orthodox bibles), that Christ taught that the first forms of life
were basic and unconscious. The next forms were conscious but
that was all. Then came instinct for self preservation. That
evolved to self preservation and protection of offspring. Following
this came the evolution into judgmental reasoning and morality.
This is where mankind is currently in the evolutionary process.
So where do we go from a state of judgmental reasoning? What is
the next state? The buddhists teach and practice toward a goal or
unconditional compassion (otherwise stated as non-judgmental
reasoning). The hindus talk of this as realizing oneness with all
things. (Have we not shown that God is all things?) Is this not
ascension? Is evolution itself not ascension?

Therefore, the goal of ALL OF LIFE is ascension from its current

state to the next state, from one plane to the next plane, from one
vibration to a higher vibration.

Is non-judgmental reasoning not the same as unconditional

compassion. (for more on non-judgmental reasoning and the 5
stages of conscious evolution, see www.gnosticchristianity.com)

Conclusion, the goal of life - all life - is ascension.  As life

evolves, the form of ascension evolves correspondingly.  At first
it is purely a physical ascension to a higher form of life.  
Eventually that leads to a moral ascension.  And now we find
ourselves at the dawn of a new age (cosmically, evolutionarily,
spiritually) - the ascension of the misunderstood divinity within
all of life, and the ability of the highest forms of life (humanity)
to ascend spiritually - to re-realize the union of the Supreme
Divinity within.

For most, this is hard to understand. We are still blind - we are

like those that believed the world was flat and the sun revolved
around the earth - and until we ascend we will never fully
understand ascension.