"We will understand the Bible and the Koran and all the holy writings"

"Rules and institutions will crumble under the weight of this scrutiny. Laws, politics, and even religions will be tested, altered, or devastated by the profound examination that already has begun. We will discard the sacred texts of yesterday and write them anew with new knowledge and new vision. This does not mean an end to religion; it means taboos and dogmas will be cast aside. We will find that the Second Coming of Christ comes from within us, not necessarily in the actual coming of the one Son of God. It is the awakening of Christ in yourself and in each of us. The Ten Commandments are excellent rules of goodness, but we must take them into our hearts, make them a part of us. When you have internal peace, you won't violate any of the Commandments. Under Aquarius we will come to understand our own internal book. We will understand the Bible and the Koran and all the holy writings because we will come to touch our own interior well of knowledge. We will know what is right without having to look to an outside list of rules to tell us how to behave."

"When we move on to the biblical narrative of Jesus' resurrection, we discover another series of problems present in the contradictions found in the Gospel texts. Almost every detail of the resurrection of Jesus appearing in one Gospel is contradicted in another Gospel. Yet Christianity was born in whatever the experience of the Easter moment was, and if no ultimate reality resides in that experience, then, in Paul's words, our "faith is in vain" (Cor. 15:14). Such a faith is also probably destined not to be eternal.

But what was the experience that has come to be called the resurrection? Did its reality differ from the description of it given in the Gospel narratives? Can we get beyond those biblical words to a place where we can touch the uninterpreted essence of Easter? Is the truth of Easter bound in time, or is it beyond time and therefore beyond history? Since the experience of resurrection is absolutely essential to the rise of Christianity, this creedal phrase becomes the great divide for the modern man or woman who yearns to be a believer. Where each of us stands in relation to this issue will determine more than most any other whether or not we can still be defined as Christians.

The text of this creed moves on, driving us next into what the church has traditionally called "the second coming" and "the final judgment." What meaning can the phrase "He will come again to judge the living and the dead" have as the third millennium of the common era takes center stage? The New Testament clearly expected the almost momentary return of Jesus to this earth (John 14:3; Matt 16:27; Mark 9:1). Yet that return has not occurred. Was that Gospel anticipation another example of inaccuracies in the biblical account?

Beyond that problem, however, we need to ask what the judgment of God means in the light of the way life is now understood. What is the basis on which what the Bible calls the final judgment will be conducted? When the Bible was written, the people knew little or nothing about social and psychological interdependence. Can anyone be judged today simply as an individual who is solely responsible for who he or she is or for what he or she has done? Postmodern people who know the depths of human interconncetedness, who understand psychological wounding and blessing, cannot be moralistic in the way these traditional creedal images of judgment have always assumed...

When we examine the history of the Church, it appears that guilt, not forgiveness, has been the great lever of ecclesiastical control. Guilt has also been the source of so much of the Church's power. The Church's faith in life after death has been predicated on that guilt being alleviated, purged, or punished eternally. How do the realities fit into this great creedal crescendo?...

Many of us can continue to be believers only if we are able to be honest believers. We want to be people of faith, not people drugged on the narcotic of religion. We are not able to endure the mental lobotomy that one suspects is the faith of those who project themselves as the unquestioning religious citizens of our age. We do not want to be among those who fear that if we think about what we say about God, either our minds will close down or our faith will explode. We are not drawn to those increasingly defensive religious answers of our generation. Nor are we willing to pretend that those ancient words still have the power and meaning for us if they do not. We wonder if it is still possible to be a believer and a citizen of our century at the same time."

Why Christianity Must Change Or Die: A Bishop Speaks To Believers In Exile,
John Shelby Spong, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998, p.15.-8

“Knowing for ourselves—personal knowledge that goes beyond a mere belief in the words of others—is a sacred principle of the Age of Aquarius. We go beyond faith to find truth.

Rules and institutions will crumble under the weight of this scrutiny. Laws, politics, and even religions will be tested, altered, or devastated by the profound examination that already has begun. We will discard the sacred texts of yesterday and write them anew with new knowledge and new vision. This does not mean an end to religion; it means taboos and dogmas will be cast aside. We will find that the Second Coming of Christ comes from within us, not necessarily in the actual coming of the one Son of God. It is the awakening of Christ in yourself and in each of us. The Ten Commandments are excellent rules of goodness, but we must take them into our hearts, make them a part of us. When you have internal peace, you won't violate any of the Commandments. Under Aquarius we will come to understand our own internal book. We will understand the Bible and the Koran and all the holy writings because we will come to touch our own interior well of knowledge. We will know what is right without having to look to an outside list of rules to tell us how to behave.

The doctrines and dogmas of the past will be destroyed, but our belief in God will not. Doctrines and dogmas will be replaced by true faith in ourselves and in our knowledge. We will not say we have faith because someone tells us it is so. We will have faith because we know for ourselves what is real and what is true and what is not.”

Beyond The Horizon: Visions of a New Millennium
Walter Mercado
A Time Warner Company, 1997, p. 33-7.
ISBN-10: 0446520667
ISBN-13: 978-0446520669

“But God is neither man nor woman. The clumsiness of language forces us to describe this supreme being in terms of gender, but its essence extends beyond that, encompassing all. God is the union of all the energy in the universe, feminine and masculine, yin and yang . . . And now, as we step into the Age of Aquarius, the good principles of all religions will be preserved and expanded upon in this golden age of spirituality. The beautiful and profound messages of the past will bloom in the new conscience of humanity. Women will take their place beside men as equals...

But the challenge for religions to adapt to the changes in people, to recognize that the meanings of the holy books are open to all of us, will crush some of the world’s most powerful churches and force them all to change forever.”

Beyond The Horizon: Visions of a New Millennium
Walter Mercado
A Time Warner Company, 1997, p. 66.
ISBN-10: 0446520667
ISBN-13: 978-0446520669

“This is the changing of times, the eve of a new millennium, the verge of a new era for humankind. It is a new beginning, a time of transformation, and of a sweeping, collective change among all people.

It is the birth of an age of peace, a New Age, which will lead us to look inside ourselves, then force us to go beyond what we have known. As with any birth, it will be a time of challenge, a time of pain, a time of realization, and a time of ecstasy.

The evidence of the change is all around us. What people speak of as the Apocalypse is already here. We are living in it. We are living the climatic moments of humanity. Everything that was prophesied of horror, death, destruction, and brother against brother is happening. Look at Bosnia, for example, and the war horrors there.

But this moment should not be looked upon as tragic. Indeed, we are passing through a portal in time, into a golden era of peace and enlightenment. Those terrible events that fill the headlines are the paroxysms, the death throes of an era that is ending. In the closing years of this millennium and the dawning of the new, those paroxysms will turn into cataclysms. The every Earth itself will be rendered by the savage grip of celestial forces more powerful than it has felt in nearly thirteen thousand years. But the time of trouble is brief, and once we emerge in the new era, once we have stepped through the portal, the pain will be behind us, disappearing into the past just as the darkness of night disappears with the dawning Sun...

We are bombarded with negativity. But now is the time for us all to recognize our immortality, to let go of our fear and embrace life, accept the New Millennium with a divine and glorious "Yes!" Let the transformation come. It is an affirmation that comes not from the mind but from the heart. Aquarius is an era of love, of peace, of knowledge, and of spiritual discovery. Those who do not accept this transformation will not evolve. This is the time for us to recognize our immortality, our enormous divinity. And once we have, we no longer need to be afraid of anything or anyone.”

Beyond The Horizon: Visions of a New Millennium
Walter Mercado
A Time Warner Company, 1997, p. 2-4
ISBN-10: 0446520667
ISBN-13: 978-0446520669

The Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Mataji"That you have to be born again, that you have to be baptized, that you have to become a Pir, that you have to become a Brahmin—all these descriptions have come to us from all the great scriptures. It is very easy to say that we don’t believe in God, we don’t believe in any Incarnation, we don’t believe in Jesus, we don’t believe in any religion, we don’t believe into anything; is very easy to say. Even it is easy to say that we believe in them, we believe in God, we believe in Christ, we believe in Krishna, Rama, all that. Both things are equally the same.

When you believe in God you believe in the darkness and ignorance, and when you do not believe in Him also you are in ignorance. By believing into you close your eyes, accept the faith and go along with it. Of course it shows that you are conscious of some Power which is beyond. Such people have a great chance. But in the case if you go to these extremes in this kind of faith then you start only believing in Christ, only believing in Muhammad, only believing in Krishna—I mean depending on where you are born. How human beings are so narrow-minded?

If you are born in England either you will be a Catholic, or a Protestant, or maybe one of these witchcraft people. You believe into anything because you are localized in a place; there has been some identifications because your mother believed into something, because your father believed into something, or you paid for it. And this faith can become such a blinding effect on people that you develop absurd types of groups which call themselves as Christians, Hindus, Muslims—whatever you may say—and are extremely, extremely exclusive, blind, and fanatic.

Today one of the problems of the times of the modern times is fanaticism. Now this fanaticism has been growing. The more people try to get out of this fanaticism, it grows more."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Being Born Again
May 12, 1980 - Caxton Hall, London, U.K.

The great Adi Shakti explains how the knowledge of this mystical inner world will eventually awaken, transform and bring about fellowship and harmony among all peoples and nations during the Golden Age of the Resurrection and Last Judgment. This unprecedented knowledge and remembrance of Jesus' mystical teachings, to be delivered by the Comforter, is the final breakthrough in human evolution. "But, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised from the dead Christ Jesus shall quicken your mortal bodies also through His Spirit who dwells in you." The divine agent, then, is the Holy Spirit, in unity with the human spirit" [1]; "The Messiah will come and the great age of salvation will dawn (for the pious)" [2]; "He (Jesus) is the Sign of the Hour (of Resurrection)" - Surat az-Zukhruf 43:61 [3]. The eschatology of all three monotheistic faiths is harmoniously fulfilled by Devi.[1] F. J. Lambretch, Resurrection in the New Testament, page 297; [2] Eric Eve, The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles, p. 195; [3] Holy Qur'an

In this Golden Age of the Last Judgment and Resurrection humans will break free of centuries of false religious dogmas, destructive indoctrinations, and absurd ideas about the Divine. The decadent foundations of materialistic societies and divisive religious regimes crumble. The Last Judgment and Resurrection is not the signal of the apocalyptic end of the world. On the contrary, humanity awakens to a new dawn of genuine spiritual rebirth (Resurrection/Qiyamah) and daily experience of truth, consciousness and bliss (Sat-Chit-Anand).

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www.adi-shakti.org/  — Divine Feminine (Hinduism)
www.holyspirit-shekinah.org/  — Divine Feminine (Christianity)
www.ruach-elohim.org/  — Divine Feminine (Judaism)
www.ruh-allah.org/  — Divine Feminine (Islam)
www.tao-mother.org/  — Divine Feminine (Taoism)
www.prajnaaparamita.org/  — Divine Feminine (Buddhism)
www.aykaa-mayee.org/  — Divine Feminine (Sikhism)
www.great-spirit-mother.org/  — Divine Feminine (Native Traditions)

"Now, the principle of Mother is in every, every scripture - has to be there." Shri Mataji, Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz, USA