The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121184   Message #2645361
Posted By: Little Hawk
01-Jun-09 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jesus in the Marmite!
Subject: RE: BS: Jesus in the Marmite!
Quite so, Carol. I didn't bother mentioning that, because it causes such annoyance in the minds of people who are dead certain that there is nothing spiritual out there in the first place. ;-)

The idea of Spirit is that it goes beyond what we think of as "form". It is formless. It is consciousness, not form. But...if a person encounters some spiritual phenomenon then their mind usually simply translates it into a visible form they are most familiar with, generally speaking. So, where a Muslim might see Mohammed or Abraham, and a Buddhist might see Buddha or some other saint in that tradition, and a Hindu might see Krishna or Shiva, and a Christian might see Jesus or Mary or an Archangel....they may ALL be "seeing" (reacting to) very much the same spiritual consciousness, but their mind will immediately translate it into a form they can relate to.

The form doesn't matter, though. The intention and consciousness carried by the form matters. You can't SEE that, but you can feel it. You might see it as ANY form, most likely the one you would expect to see.

This, by the way, probably has nothing at all to do with supposed images of Jesus that appear on the lid of a jar of marmite or a piece of toast... ;-) Those are most likely mere happenstance without spiritual significance.