Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
What should we think or perceive about this age old ritual instituted by Jesus in his last hours on earth? What is the Eucharist? A sacrament? The literal body and blood of Jesus? Just a symbol? You decide.
A personal Gnostic perspective- The Eucharist is both a sacrament and a symbol.
It's a symbol in that by it Jesus offered his followers a center point to focus on, in which to unite their hearts and minds with the mystic Christ (Christ-consciousness). One can visualize being one with the mystic one through the symbolism.
I don't think it literally transforms into human flesh and blood (transubstantiation), but that it isn't literal flesh and blood, but the mystic Christ one receives and joins themselves to.
It's a sacrament for the above mentioned reason of being a symbol. A sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace.
So what are everyone else's thoughts?
A personal Gnostic perspective- The Eucharist is both a sacrament and a symbol.
It's a symbol in that by it Jesus offered his followers a center point to focus on, in which to unite their hearts and minds with the mystic Christ (Christ-consciousness). One can visualize being one with the mystic one through the symbolism.
I don't think it literally transforms into human flesh and blood (transubstantiation), but that it isn't literal flesh and blood, but the mystic Christ one receives and joins themselves to.
It's a sacrament for the above mentioned reason of being a symbol. A sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace.
So what are everyone else's thoughts?