The obstacles that we encounter in life have less to do with malicious intentions as they do with initiations to deity. Knowing who you are does not lead to a title that gives you a label. Labels and titles take on different meanings with the advent of time. Who you are, is instead, an understanding of your Purpose in this life, as it relates to the Potential in influencing the lives of others. For those who are unaware of the true definition of spirit, it would behoove you to cease quoting scripture until you are knowledgeable. For those who do not know the meaning or definition of soul, please learn these meanings so that when you speak of such matters they will not betray ignorance.
The Spirit is the Potential of an idea. Ideas are the initial seed of philosophy. How you choose to develop this personal philosophy then becomes your ultimate Purpose in life, upon which all other experiences in life must depend. It is up to you to develop this philosophy and make it consistent for the multiplication of good in others. It is this Purpose which becomes the highest calling any human can ever possess. It is therefore the purest definition of Soul. The definition of philosophy is the science of estimating values and as such, it is the pattern of thought that systems of life are built upon. If you do not possess your own philosophy and do not live according to it you are then living out someone Else's ideas and are therefore possessed by those Spirits which govern this society.
This is the true art of spirit possession. It has nothing to do with conjuring up demons from the darkness. Most people that you encounter, especially the religious faithful, question nothing that has a symbol of authority behind it. Just so we understand how far away from the dignity of humanity that this can take us, we are talking about people who worship Jesus but support the invasions, destruction and massacres of people that live in the same region Jesus came from. We are talking about people who, over 85% support the death penalty, even though statistics are being released every day that show many people on death row do not even belong there. It is they, above all, who are possessed by the Spirits of this world, regardless of what they say or the bible verses they quote and It is the true meaning of the biblical Legion.
But this is what happens when you believe that your way is the only way. You have no problems surrendering others to destruction, and this alone spites their self described identity as an advocate for the salvation of others. I see too often the following described in social media: "I will not hurt you but when your time comes I will be in the front row eating popcorn." as it were. Shame on you people who think in such a way, for surely in your not too distant past you were the antagonist of an epic that brought out the lesser of human virtues in the lives of others. Religion has to do with keeping people ignorant of their own deity and making them so afraid to suggest that they are a deity that they surrender and stop seeking their own path. Religion demonizes the path of self-hood. God is in heaven but heaven is the quality of your mind. Therefore, God is within you and he is you. Your mind is heaven and it is hell. How you choose to develop your mind towards knowledge of self is what defines its goodness or evil.
"The fool has said in his heart there is no god". - Psalm 14:1 Many people will read this and misunderstand and believe that the fool is an ignoramus. That is only because they do not know the rest of the conversation: "But I say to you, you are all gods."- Psalm 82:6. The fathers of Christianity despised philosophy so badly that they called philosophers fools and began forcing many students of the philosophic schools they sacked to perform as court jesters. To be called a biblical fool only happens out of ignorance of the legacy of philosophy. It is not possible to love your neighbor when you inherently believe that you are superior to him. If you believe that your neighbor is an enemy of God simply because he refuses your faith or religion, it is not possible to see him as an equal and therefore it is not possible to love him. It is the intolerance of religion that sows evil in the world for there is little else more inconsistent in a system of values beyond intolerance.
A man who understands that his Potential is without limit and that his true Purpose depends on his development of his own philosophy for the multiplication of good in others, such a man is not possessed by the Spirits which govern this world. He is instead possessed by the stars and the galactic powers which bind them across the universe. To know yourself is the greatest journey anyone can undertake. And that is why one of the greatest schools of philosophy ever known by western civilization, the Temple of Apollo had inscribed at its doors in Delphi, "gnothi seauton" (Man, know thyself and thou wilt know the gods).
