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    The Inner Path of Christ
    The Inner Path of Christ
    The Inner Path of Christ
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    The Inner Path of Christ

    By Tony Crisp

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    This is not another book about dogmatic Christianity, it is about the discipline given to us through the hidden message of the New Testament. It is a path that has been hidden because it was lived and not spoken.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTony Crisp
    Release dateJul 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476055947
    The Inner Path of Christ
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    Tony Crisp

    I have been writing since the age of 18, having now about 40 books published. Mostly about the mystery of being human and the life of humans, their dreams, passions and the wonderful opening to the MORE that we can all achieve. I have worked and taught in many parts of the world, and seem to be, at 83, still exploring and discovering. I hope my writings share that with you.

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      The Inner Path of Christ - Tony Crisp

      The Inner Path of Christ

      By

      Tony Crisp

      The Inner Path of Christ

      Smashwords Edition 1.0 2012

      http://dreamhawk.com

      Contents

      Introduction

      Discipleship in the West

      Discipleship is an ancient path

      Is this all there is?

      Who are you really?

      Meeting the I AM

      Meeting Your Eternal Self

      The Meeting that Transforms

      First Steps on the Way

      You are the divine – expressed or repressed

      How do we enter on the Way?

      The second step of Discipleship is the way of Mary

      The prayer of the virgin soul

      What is born this day?

      The next step of the path is baptism

      The ancient mystery of baptism

      Who will you be?

      The choice to make

      The Third Step

      The Wilderness Years

      Bathing in the ocean of Life

      Introduction

      The teachings on the inner path of Christ that follow are not uniquely my ideas. I followed clues left by disciples from the long past. Here and there in the world's literature there are fragments and sentences referring to this path. So I pursued this trail as it led into the jungle of ideas surrounding Christianity. I hacked a way through, and gradually, with loving persistence uncovered the ancient landmarks of this way. It is a path leading to the Mother Church the central core of human experience, as old as time, preceding any external religion.

      Looking back over the journey, something about it has deeply impressed me. The early Christians discovered something extraordinary. It completely changed lives, healed sickness, made people want to go out and tell others, and in some cases was worth dying for. And that has been true for me too as I took this path of discipleship.

      Those early Christians expressed what they found in language, and in imagery, that was understandable to them. What they found was something that worked. Just as, in a more recent age, the use of electricity was discovered and applied; and this discovery of electricity was the application of previously unknown natural processes. So the Christian discovery was one of natural processes of the mind and emotions too. Unfortunately, as time has passed, the language in which those findings were expressed has come to mean less and less to many people. In fact we may view their statements as perhaps referring to the realm of ‘beliefs’ or dogma rather than of practical principles.

      What I aim to do in the following paragraphs is to remind you of the original gospel statements, and then try to define them in terms of today's view of the world, and today's information about the mind and emotions. For I believe the original teachings refer to an extraordinary possibility in you.

      Just as the process of electricity is open to verification with the right equipment, so the extraordinary possibility described by the early Christians is open to verification if you apply yourself in the right way. It doesn’t take belief in a lot statements, but it does take your effort to try an experiment.

      Discipleship in the West

      In early Christianity women played an important role, even though none were listed as apostles. In Acts 1:13-15 this is made plain. It says:

      When they had come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about one hundred twenty) …

      This passage clearly states that apart from Mary, the mother of Jesus, there was other women, and with Jesus’ brothers the gathering numbered about one hundred and twenty. It must be remembered that in this earliest group of Christians there was no organised religion, no creed, and no denominations. They were a hundred and twenty people trying to live in a certain way, and trying to let something very wonderful into their lives. In fact, that original meeting was to allow what, in the gospels, was called the Spirit or Holy Ghost to enter their experience. This influence is at the heart of the Discipleship. The words Spirit and Holy Ghost are of course terms used by these ancient people. They may mean very little to a person educated in today’s world unless that person has direct experience. But these words will be examined as we proceed.

      It is an unfortunate tendency in virtually all of the world religions that they become very insular and possessive. When people began to organise Christianity, they placed dogmas and rigid rules around it; Christianity had the misfortune to be scarred with battles between sects, intolerance of other races and culture, and male authoritarianism.  Nevertheless, I believe there is a real Christian Path that stands beyond that, and talks about universal principles. When Newton discovered the process of gravity he did not tell people they could only receive instruction in it if they belonged to a certain society or group. It was a principle universal in nature. Likewise, what the earliest Christians found, is in a similar category. 

      You do not have to believe in and apply a lot of rules and dogmatic regulations described by organising bodies of people to use the principles of electricity. But many of us see Christianity as needing to live rigid rules and regulations laid down by the organised church. But the underlying principles are about universal processes. Even if we believe the idea of a personal God, it is strange that a being that is said to have created the universe limits any approach to itself to a particular organisation or sect; strange also that the three great religions who have as their central belief a personal God, and are therefore monotheistic, are often at loggerheads. If I say hello to you, and someone else says hola, and yet another person say buongiorno – we are surely all greeting each other, but speaking different languages. It seems that Allah, God and Jehovah are surely the same thing in different languages.

      The discipleship being described here is about universal processes of life, of your mind and heart. If you use these principles certain results arise that you can understand and test. They do not rely on beliefs in standards set by other human beings. The only thing required of you is a sense that underlying your existence is something you do not fully understand. You perhaps need to feel that life itself is a grand mystery that you want to experience or explore more fully. The aim is to open to and explore that Mystery.

      In considering discipleship I see it as a discipline leading to a meeting with Christ. Remember that Jesus became the Christ at baptism. It was something that overshadowed him and was not him. The Christ as a universal principle of nature is of every racial type, and of Female and Male. Christ in this inner view of the subject is the potential you hold

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