is the law simple?
simply to love one another as you would want to be loved?
I had good intentions
And the highest hopes
But I know right now
It probably doesn't even show
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
I didn't get the chance to
Feel the world around me
I had no time to choose
What...
could the separation from love be hell?
like a moth to the flame, our desire burns for oneness?
and what god hath yoked together let no man plow with otherwise
whether he knew of monism or not doesn't matter, he implies that aspects of self were the same aspects of what he called god. the word itself wasn't introduced until 1728
the question knows that infinite isn't unidirectional, as the Name implies, or as the mystic epedocles stated.
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister...
is there something about our fellow human that is something about god, if what ever we do unto the least of these, we do to god?
if we hate a fellow human, can we be loving like god?
Heart beats so loud that it's drownin' me out
Livin' in an April shower
You're pourin' down, baby, drown me...
I want to throw one more name out there, melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
why not idolize, worship him alone as the only begotten son?
there is no argument that the essenes had their roots in india. the argument was that they were influenced by it and vice versa. not everyone is exclusive; especially those who are monists and coming from different cultures.
https://sacred-texts.com/bud/ipc/ipc13.htm
we also know that there was a connection between jesus and zoroastrianism, via the 3 wise men and asia minor was influenced by the greek diaspora.