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The Problem facing
world leaders who have to acclimatise the global
populations to new extra terrestrial thinking is that mankind has a
terrible habit of quoting things out of context whilst using the most
unspiritual reasons for doing so.
In fact what passes for human science manages to create cul de sacs
and brick walls to progress by the same innate process of
decontextualisation. E.g. the quantum paradox, Turings recursion
paradox, Godels numbers paradox, Heisenbergs uncertainty paradox etc etc
Similarly other belief systems can be variously used to justify what
people seem to feel like.
For example:
Isaiah 61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the
sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses
to aliens.
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
There are major belief systems on this planets surface that cater for
the hopes aspirations and fears of Billions of souls.
The question is therefore can they be made to direct mankind towards
interstellar ideologies.
That is not to say however that belief systems from the general and
ecumenical world are not relevant to aiding the human race get a
handle on how to accept and reconcile themselves to extra terrestrial
thinking.
Most of us just need the appropriate psychological apparatus in place
to forward think and then adapt our own cultural education and beliefs
to the extra terrestrial milieu.
For example the psychologist Alfred Adler discovered a process people
use to get themselves over difficult times .. he called it `Fictional
Finalism'.
We behave AS IF the best outcome can manifest for ourselves at all times.
I cannot suggest how Buddhists, Hindus and other religions could or
should adapt and forward project for best human social outcomes, but
can look at my own belief system as a Catholic and see how it can
provide me with a stairway to interstellar concourse.
Here is an example of a Catholic `fictional finalism' in the tradition
of Alfred Adler in the hope that Exopsychologists can see that other
human belief systems can be enabled to produce interstellar hope for
the masses of mankind.
The following is an exercise in exo-Catholicism – similar examples are
needed from other religious and scientific realities so that mankind
can truly visualise a way forward and acquire hope.
Catholic theology on Extra Terrestrial life and its issues is outlined
by Jesuit scholar Brother Consolmagno.
If new forms of life were to be discovered or highly advanced beings
from outer space were to touch down on planet Earth, it would not
mean, "everything we believe in is wrong," rather, "we're
going to
find out that everything is truer in ways we couldn't even yet have
imagined,"
Moreover, "There is nothing in Holy Scripture that could confirm or
contradict the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the
universe,"
The limitless universe, therefore, "might even include other planets
with other beings created by that same loving God," he added.
"The
idea of there being other races and other intelligences is not
contrary to traditional Christian thought.
Brother Consolmagno, Jesuit astronomer
In the Old Testament and other Jewish religious texts there is mention
of not only Angels or Malakheem, but also of other categories of
celestial beings - such as Cherubim and Seraphim.
Within established Christianity the general idea of life elsewhere in
the Cosmos exists is accepted. e.g. The saintly Italian priest Padre
Pio, who was famous for his stigmata and for his miraculous healing of
the sick, and who died only a few years ago, had always taken the
existence of extraterrestrials for granted.
Long before him, there had been such clerics as Cardinal Niccolo
Cusano (1401-1464) who accepted the `alien' and `E.T.' concepts and
wrote about them. Also, the early Jesuit astronomer Father Angelo
Secchi (1818-1899) who wrote: "It is absurd to think that the other
worlds around us are uninhabited deserts".
There had also been Giordano Bruno who had died at the stake for
harbouring such beliefs.
St. Paul's hymns in Colossians 1 and Ephesians 1 make it clear that
the resurrection of Christ applies to all creation. `Everything in the
heavens and everything on earth'. It is the definitive salvation event
for the cosmos. The opening of John's Gospel, tells us that The Word,
which is to say, the Incarnation of God was present from the
beginning; it is part and parcel of the woof and weave of the universe.
Even though the life of Jesus occurred at a specific space-time point,
on a particular world line (to put it in general relativity terms), it
also was an event that John's Gospel describes as occurring in the
beginning. It is therefore one point that is simultaneous in all world
lines, and so present in all time and in all space. Thus, there can
only be one Incarnation of Christ, though various ET civilizations may
or may not have experienced that Incarnation in the same way that
Earth did.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Stepping outside the boundaries of `the world' for a moment to look
beyond our planet, a Jesuit Catholic astronomer, Brother Consolmagno,
has recently suggested that there could be aliens on other planets,
and that these aliens would be subject to Christ's saving grace. This
affirmation is based on John 10:14-16: "I am the Good Shepherd . . .
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them
also, and they will listen to My voice. So there will be one flock,
one Shepherd."
In any event, good extraterrestrials (ETs), just like good humans, do
not need to know about Christ for salvation; that's the tradition of
"baptism by desire."
Mark 3:33-35, He replied, `Who are my mother and my brothers ?', And
looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he said, `Here
are my mother and my brothers, Anyone who does the will of God, that
person is my brother and sister and mother'
The ministry of the Good Shepherd is not merely confined to the
sheepfold of the House of David.
ACTS 15:14-18, `Simeon has described how God first arranged to enlist
a people for his name out of the pagans. This is entirely in harmony
with the words of the prophets, since the scriptures say; After that I
shall return and rebuild the fallen House of David; I shall rebuild it
from the ruins and restore it. Then the rest of mankind, all the
pagans who are consecrated to my name, will look for the Lord, says
the Lord who made this known so long ago.'
Mark 9:38-40, John said to him, `Master, we saw a man who is not one
of us casting out devils in your name: and because he was not one of
us we tried to stop him' But Jesus said, `You must not stop him:
no-one who works a miracle in my name is likely to speak evil of me.
Anyone who is not against us is for us.'
The mission and ministry of Christ, sent here from a place of glory to
our world is to bring salvation to those who do the will of God.
John 8:42, `If God were your father, you would love me, since I have
come here from God; yes I have come from him: not that I came because
I chose, no, I was sent, and by him.' Christ, first born in a place
of bliss was sent to this world. Christ came from a very High place to
work in our spiritual depths.
Mark 12:25 `the stars will come falling from heaven and the powers in
the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory. Then too he will send
the angels to gather his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of
the world to the ends of heaven.'
To the ends of heaven and in the many mansions that abound there are
those latecomers to the Wedding that will need to be facilitated. The
Universe naturally produced the first fruits of the spirit.
Romans 8:19 `The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal
his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was
made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God.
Matthew 19:30 `many who are first will be last and the last, first.'
It may be therefore that there are a whole army of Angels who will
stay awhile to administer to these latecomers.
Romans 8:22 `From the beginning till now the entire creation, as we
know has been groaning in one great act of giving birth; and not only
creation, but all of us who possess the first fruits of spirit ..'
In the exopolitics of the super clusters and mega populations there
will be some who awaken to the idea of a new life with trepidation.
A history of being biology and clone based within constraints of
organic reference points may have offered some sort of habitual
security and shelter that facilitated spiritual growth to the point of
the Extra Terrestrial soul needing to evolve.
Romans 8:11-17 `and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will
give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.
So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our
unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in
that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end
to the misdeeds of the body you will live.
Many Extra Terrestrial societies will have collections of beings, some
hostile, who can operate at various frequencies and in various
configurations of time space, but the Holy Spirit enables those of the
spirit to step beyond and above the knowledge of and predictions made
by such antagonists.
John 3:6-8, `What is born of the flesh is flesh, what is born of the
Spirit is spirit. Do not be surprised when I say: you must be born
from above. The wind blows wherever it pleases: you hear its sound but
you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. That is how
it is with all who are born of the Spirit.
For many beings in the larger Cosmic bubble though there is the
possibility that organised darkness will drag them down with duplicity.
John 8:43 `Do you know why you cannot understand my language. The
devil is your father, and you prefer to do what your father wants. He
was a murderer from the start: he was never grounded in the truth:
there is no truth in him at all: when he lies he is drawing on his own
store, because he is a liar, and the father of lies.'
For those massive populations dependent on technology and biology and
no Spirit, there is an endless desert of loveless recycling and
metabolic chemistry.
Mark 10:48, `where their worm does not die nor their fire go out.'
The promise for all who Love God and Love their brothers and sisters
as they do themselves is an eternity of joy and a Kingdom that is secure.
Mark12:29-31, `Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and
you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, with all your mind and with all your strength .. You must love
your neighbour as yourself'
Extra Terrestrial populations therefore will have many many candidates
for ascending beyond mundane biology and into a world of Love.
Romans 8:14-17, `Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The
spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into
your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out,
`Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness
that we are children of God. And if we are children we are heirs as
well: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so
as to share his glory.'
THE RECONCILIATION OF ALIENS
Why not get Theologians together and experts in cultural literature to
gather together into one source all the global cultural material
pertaining to SOUL that attempts to reconcile man or indeed any
non-human being with God.
Note that in the Catholic Jerusalem bible the Vatican actually added
the word ALIEN .. INTO the King James Version. as if the Vatican are
already attempting to prepare the masses for contact
Here is an example of reconciliation of humans and aliens from
Christianity.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the
flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the
Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made
nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain
one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the
cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to
them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more [aliens (Jerusalem Bible)] strangers
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an
holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit.
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