Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel

For those who remain spiritually and socially committed to formal religion, its doctrine and precepts I continue to express the idea that your commitment must entail your own working and understanding of Jesus as the Christ first and foremost - even beyond the idea of Jesus as God.

The Christ Path, the primary focus of Paul's writings, is a path driven by an active and working faith in personal spiritual empowerment.

It's a path upon which we should walk unencumbered by someone else's magic or authority.

It's a path upon which we can walk more effectively in the absence of clerical middlemen who knowingly or ignorantly encourage our dependency on things outside our own proprietorship of our lives.

It's not a path of giving ourselves over to Jesus in some metaphysical way that locks in a permanent spiritual data link with Jesus by which we then continue our life to its culmination with every step internally prompted by what we consider to be a spiritual source outside ourselves.

Jesus did not teach nor encourage that kind of relationship. The relationship encouraged by The Master is to be a relationship founded on day-to-day living in this 3-dimensional world prompted but not commandeered by a divinely supernatural holy power that asks only that we follow blindly - mistaking blind trust for faith and obedience as if such were the greatest virtues.

To learn what Jesus taught, to know what Jesus knows and to act as Jesus acted (doing what Jesus would do) requires apiritual learning in its purest and simplest context.

... A learning process we've all been through and continue even now.

... A learning process Jesus told us about repeatedly as did those who followed his example.

... A child's way of learning by trial and error, gaining greater understanding and empowerment through experience. It is - as Jesus said - the simplest and most direct way to knowing God.

The Christ Path demands that we act with the highest good for every soul as our ultimate priority. The path does not demand - in fact rebukes - the notion that we should be looking to our right and left to see what our religious peers and pretended spiritual betters insist is the means and method toward godliness.

The Christ Path exercises our natural and instinctive promptings in the directions of compassion first and foremost, repudiating any notion of judgment of others as a criterion of divine approval.

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