Sorrow for the lost seeds

[ELoWolfe]

Jesus said: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

I can't help but feel sorrow for the first three seeds. Whether it be from the archons killing the seed, the seed that is not prepared for the light or the seed that had been strangled. And I see this happening a lot.

It is perhaps the first seed that we're commanded to heal and "cast out demons." Scripture says that the "god of this world" hardens the hearts of the unbelievers. I don't think healing and casting out demons is the same as the faith healers or exorcists that claim to be able to do literally that. Instead, we heal with patience and love; we heal by "turning the other cheek" and "walking he extra mile" with the ill.

The second seed is a matter of knowledge. Who, when seeing such truth, is not zealous? This is perhaps the biggest danger to the most contemporary seeker. With no real teachers, and no real tested institutions, they become lost because they can not handle the light. They find it would be easier to stay in the darkness. Our silence kills them, and our lack of preaching destroys.

But the third I find the most frustrating. I know it had been described as those who value the material things more than the spiritual, but that is simply healing the blind. Instead, I find it sad those seeds who have been strangled by the Craftsman's Church, the ills of the world and the injustice of the system we were created in. Instead of seeking, they are so bitter and hurt that they give up entirely. How many people, those who claim not to believe in any god, could have been saved if they knew there was an alternative to the faith they were told? Who would have been better knowing that the injustice they see isn't natural and we're not going to try to pretend it is? Who can see reason and see that it is valued?

It is sad. And it pains me.

 

[frangipani]

Remember, many are called but few are chosen. Any who seek have the opportunity to find, and when they've found they need to decide what to do with what they've found.

 

[ELoWolfe]

Thank you, and I understand that. What is heartbreaking to me though is those who do not have the opportunity to find, so instead end up "choked" and can't find a way out.

I am speaking about the "nones," or the "spiritual, but not religious." Those who believe "there is something" but not going forward with it. They have experienced the Craftsman, they have rejected him, but they don't know the alternative, the truth, and so they remain in the dark.

I am talking about the individuals who, sadly, reject all spirituality because the "church" is controlling and manipulative. The ones who see the church denying membership to those of another race, or those who love the same sex, or who demean women as inferior. Those individuals who say there must be no God because God would not condone violence, genocide or discriminate. And they're right! The true God does not do that! But they don't know the true God.

 

[frangipani]

In the gospel of Mary Magdalene the first question Mary asks the Saviour is how one sees a vision. The Saviour replies that one sees through the mind which is between the soul and the spirit.
It is sad that so many people are lost souls swallowed up with the Demiurge’s world through the various forms of deception, especially churches. Finding Truth is an individual journey and if one looked into those lost souls individually one would see in their natures why they can not see the truth, one must really want to 'look beyond the veil'. That’s why the parable of the sower and the seed was used by Jesus. I see the whole matter of creation as the chaos and a great tragedy and that is truly sad. Each of us seeking the Truth and growing in it just need to be thankful that the Ineffable One through Christ has given us a lifeline and hope beyond this temporary madness. As for those who choose not to follow the path of righteousness remember they choose their path, as we all do.

 

[nazz]

How many people, those who claim not to believe in any god, could have been saved if they knew there was an alternative to the faith they were told?

I often think of this