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The new Second Advent Christian video
By Kurt Simons | August 21, 2010
Have you seen it? It’s online at
http://www.secondadventchristian.com/
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September 4th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
The second coming is not a rapturous event in this time, nor is it easy to identify as ‘becoming twice born’, because it’s a psychological event, it happens in life as it did to Swedenborg. The advent of Jesus who was able to point towards a kingdom of heaven, and that its’ within marked a changing point. He did not claim to be God, he pointed towards God in my opinion. Life is a religious experience whether the person knows it or not, there are so many individual paths that I hope you understand what I mean when I write that it does not seem to require acknowledging Jesus as God, and a savior, it is God that has to be experienced.
W. B. Yeats poem, the Second Coming is a modern clue to the experience: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
“The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.” What does that mean to you? What it means to me is that when the ‘second coming’ is happening, to the individual, in this time, that person cannot find the kind of validation, i.e. that ‘love’ is behind the changes a person has to live through, and become informed from. Dante, Goethe, many poems have been written about it, but in my opinon psychiatric texts are also about it. Estoteric ideas, psychiatric ideas, mysticism, seem likely to be facets of the ‘second coming’. Swedenborgs’ ideas saved my life, but I had read Robert Monroes first, and had also had an experience in my marital, familial and workplace that was essential. “Be watchful, ye know not when I come.” It was not an event that announced a ‘second coming’, that had to be discovered, in every aspect, over a span of time.