Christian mythology

[mikeyg]

Tell all the christian mythology here.

[Bacfokievrahms]

The Jewel of the East:

He trembled on his footsprings (anybody know a better translation?), his eyes were watering, his hands were burning on hot coals. Five tribesmen stared in his direction. They were roasting him.

His flesh burned with searing heat, everything felt dry. He let out sickening screams, "Save me, God!", "Why is this happening to me!", "Please, my children will be fatherless!". A stray ember wafted upward and embedded itself in his hair. When the flames had burnt through his eyes and left only the vestiges of burnt ash, he was little more than dead.

Each of the five tribesmen had already gathered a knife. They began to hack at his flesh. What a strange fate to befall the Jewel of the East.


I think this christian myth is about doing all it takes to capture your enemies and eradicating them in ruthless fashion.

[musik_man]

Where is that from, Bacfokievrahms?

[BoliverAllmon]

The Jewel of the East:

He trembled on his footsprings (anybody know a better translation?), his eyes were watering, his hands were burning on hot coals. Five tribesmen stared in his direction. They were roasting him.

His flesh burned with searing heat, everything felt dry. He let out sickening screams, "Save me, God!", "Why is this happening to me!", "Please, my children will be fatherless!". A stray ember wafted upward and embedded itself in his hair. When the flames had burnt through his eyes and left only the vestiges of burnt ash, he was little more than dead.

Each of the five tribesmen had already gathered a knife. They began to hack at his flesh. What a strange fate to befall the Jewel of the East.


I think this christian myth is about doing all it takes to capture your enemies and eradicating them in ruthless fashion.

what in the world is that?

[mikeyg]

  ,   ok...

[pianowelsh]

I'll second that Boliver - what kind of relation has that to do with Christianity?!?!?

[Bacfokievrahms]

Well actually when I was writing it, it was just to be ironic and insane, but it does make sense in the context of Christianity.  The great saints went through periods of immense suffering without exception.  It's very much like the negative physiological effects of spiritual emergence in the eastern traditions. The fire burning through the Jewel of the East is like the Holy Spirit or spiritual embryo or kundalini or whatever countless other traditions have chosen to describe it as.

The Jewel of the East begging to be saved is not unlike the several passions, and certainly not unlike the sages of other religious traditions begging to be turned away from spiritual emergence because of the immense toll it takes.

In any case the message in context of Augustinian Christianity is that in receiving the grace of God, one cannot turn away and one's former self will find its demise before its rebirth as a new self with God.

However, this message is not exclusive to Christianity because the various other spiritual traditions are littered with archetypical images of death and rebirth in the spirit inclunding even the alchemist tradition.