Truth Thread III: The Sorrow of the Spirit
14: 2 We have all experienced it, the cold wind that blows through you. The rustling leaves on a fall night that fills you with a feeling of emptiness or dread. A whisper you hear when you are alone in the great expanses of nature.
-Fear of seeing, the loneliness of being-
Our diseases grow in the church at the same rate as in the bar or brothel-
15: 2 This Truth Thread is a lingering Spirit, an angry, restless, and sorrowful Spirit. I believe this same Spirit is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark, in 1:10, “Just as Jesus was coming out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.” 15: 3 Again in Mark 1:12, the Spirit is mentioned, “At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness.” 15: 4 What is the Spirit or Holy Spirit? It may be something like the breath or essence of God. If the Spirit is the life-giving power of God, what happens when its creations destroy themselves? 15: 5 Not for food or self-preservation, which is undoubtedly part of the original design, but for selfishness, power, and greed.
The Perfect Culture
15: 6 Anthropologists believe Native Americans have been in the New World for at least 24,000 years. 15: 7 Their cultures are rich in spirituality and respect for the natural world.
15: 8 Genetically Amerindians are a unique population found nowhere else on Earth. They occupied every environmental niche in the Americas, from deserts to plains, tropics to the Arctic. 15: 9 They endured the Ice Age and, specifically on the North American plains, developed a way of living that may have been forever sustainable. 15: 10 The Spirit must have looked with satisfaction at such a perfect way of living. The Spirit must have also looked at their destruction with extreme anger and sorrow.
15: 11 European colonialism killed, raped, enslaved, and desecrated all the remaining hunter-gatherer cultures they found in the Americas and Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia. 15: 12 They will destroy our livable habitat for nothing more than greed.
Unnatural Reverance
15: 13 We have all paid the price for the unnatural ambition of the few; in essence, this is why we are in The Bastille. 15: 14 Whether it is my alternate interpretation of Mark, cautioning an assault on the tried and true way of human persistence. Or the symbolism in the ruining of the Great Sphinx and Pharaonic Egypt. 15: 15 It seems the Creator intended us to live in a specific way. Small, humble, and immersed in the natural world, respectful and thankful for what has been provided. 15: 16 However, time and again, humanity has revered itself over the Earth. Took for granted and exploited the bounty of nature, it seems the intentions of man and the Creator are diametric to each other.
Betrayal of the Spirit
15: 17 I will again return to Mark, in maybe his most profound verses, in Mark 3:28,29, quoting Jesus: “Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
15: 18 Mark clarifies in the next verse, 3:30, “He said this because they were saying “He has an impure spirit.” If Blasphemy is an eternal sin, how much worse is betrayal? 15: 19 The most powerful have betrayed the Spirit, and we allowed them. In many cases, we were the foot soldiers who put our own in chains, or in the ground.
15: 20 We have wielded the ax for them, chopping down the sacred and building their empires.
Abandoned
15: 21 In the first Truth Thread, I postulated that Mark may have used Jesus as a metaphor for Humanity; if Jesus (Humanity) was endowed with the Spirit in our early development giving us sentients, the Spirit has now left us as it left Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and on the cross.
15: 22 It now works against us, hunting us and tormenting us when we are alone and vulnerable. Like we have done to the delicate and intricate masterpiece it initially created and entrusted to us.