Post #284 "Religion and The Economy"

What comes first,

religion or the economy?

One could say that religion came first and the economy grew out of religion.
It could be said religion fulfills the Dream of Consciousness of 'Becoming',
-----of 'Becoming' through the Economy
thereby bringing ALL into Oneness---
through the Economy.
The Economy being,---as religion, as Creation, ---Image.
---just the Image of the Dream, of Consciousness,
to Become 'what it isn't'.

The fulfillment will not be as Dreamed or as anticipated,
but as Imagined.
Pseudo-reality is as unlimited as the imagination, by the breaking down of image out of image,
out of image,
each a further distortion of that which precedes it.

So, what is the Dream,
and how has Consciousness, and how have we,
Chosen to bring 'what isn't' into 'what is'?
----to bring 'what isn't' into 'Becoming'?

As Existence is Duality,
'there Is' and 'there Isn't',
Reality Is and Reality Isn't.
The Dream exists in 'what isn't'.

There is 'what Is' and there Is 'what Consciousness Creates'.
Consciousness Creates the scenario into that which, 'what isn't' APPEARS as 'what Is'.
If our created existence is about anything, it is about what it Appears to be, but Isn't.
If our created existence is about anything, it is about religion and economics,
Religion makes The Economy work.

From earliest mankind, we fear what we do not understand.
The earliest humans feared nature around them.
To help deal with the inherent fear, humanity personified what they feared,
 thus giving them power over it.
It gave them Choice.
They could act as the part of the personification or they could act as the part of the victim.
By personifying, Essence was taken from that which was feared and absorbed by that
which feared.
In the reaction to the creation of God/gods the Process of Division is noted.
It was all about the distribution of Power.
It had a lot to do with how the cells of the Collective Consciousness grouped.

There were cells that gained Essence and there were cells that lost Essence.
Those that gained Essence, lost fear and those that lost Essence, became more fearful.
Therefore, that which feared now Became that which was feared.
Those that gained Essence were those that created God/the gods through personification
and through the expression of their own Dreams and Desires.
These cells, these humans, gained Power over the other cells of Consciousness,
over the masses, over the commonality, of humanity.

The Dream created a dream existence beyond Creation.
This Dream existence surpassed creation in all ways.
 The Dream was about all that which Consciousness, outside of Reality, was not.
The Dream is all about what Creation is not,
all about what we, humanity, are not
This Dream existed and exists in boundless and 'unimaginable' Power, Wisdom, Beauty, etc.; qualities seemingly beyond , seemingly vaster than, and certainly not able to be comprehended.
They Dreamed and created God out of all they could not Become.
We Dream and create God out of all we are not and dream of Becoming.
They Became their God.
as we Become our God.
We Become our God in all that we Worship.
God Becomes God through Worship.
But, we Worship many idols.
All our Idols are our God.

So, in history, Worship, in all its myriad forms, was needed for survival.
Other was need for Worship.
Other neede to be created out of the Self.
Other did not exist in Creation as Singular Other of Reality and so could not Observe,
Witness, and Validate the Essence of Selfness in the Self.
So the Self of the Collective Consciousness divided.
Worship was sought and found in the divided Self.
Self, therefore, was needed to Worship Self.
The Dream Self needed to be Observed as God Becoming Self,
and Self Becoming God,
to be Witnessed and Validated in order to Become.

The creator creates the Image.
The purpose is to use that Power to access the Essence to Become the Dream.
God and gods emerge under the control of their creators,
who now present themselves in the image/images they have created.
They present themselves in the stories they wove about the images of their imagination.
The purpose was and is the accessing of Essence.
The accessing of Essence is accomplished through fear.
The accessing of Essence is the Story of Economy.
The Essence of Economy is the Dream of The Land,
the Resources of the Land,
and the People of the Land,
Humanity worshipped itself through Election and demanded Worship through Election,
 as recorded in the stories that were selected and edited to be handed down.

Their stories are stories of mythological reward and unspeakable punishment
for those that obey and for those that disobey.
These stories created elitism and they created the commonality---the masses.
They created king and slave.
They created 'holy' and they created 'sin' and 'evil'.
They created great Power and they created great vulnerability.
Their Dreams created great power that moved them from the Wilderness to creation of
a suitable scenario in which to play out the Dream of Becoming.
They created Civilization in which to plant their Law.
They created Civilization in which to unfold the plan for accessing the world's Essence,
----The Economy.

Primal fear has been greatly intensified and built on as history unfolds.
Great cultures and the institution of religion owned and built upon the stories and the characters of the personifications.
The stories prevailed and the characters grew in size and importance to Becoming the
dominant force in the unfolding of history.
Religion imaged God out of it-self,
out of a need to insure survival,
this need was and is fulfilled through the Desire for Essence.

As civilization unfolded so did religion develope as institution, as business,
giving that image, that institution, ultimate, supreme power.
Religion took over the stories, using the stories to take over All the Essence of All Creation.
This made religion, the owner of God, the determinate of God's power, and the Ultimate
lawgiver under God's Power.
Religion passed God's Power, as ruling authority, on to kingdoms and nations,
that ruled under the authority of religion.
 Religion, therefore, developing and forming the moral conscience,
thereby determining the character of civilization.
thereby determining 'good' from 'evil', right from wrong, innocent from guilty.

The masses, the un-ordained, the un-chosen, under the movement called civilization, feared this
God and this God's Power. 
They also feared those who controlled this God.
God was proclaimed God by religion and accepted as God by the Worship of the masses
of those of servitude to the institution of religion.
Those that were taught to obey and serve.

People began to Worship and promote God out of that fear.
We Worship out of that fear.
The thought was, that if contact could be made and some kind of relationship
established with the feared object,
that which threatened would be more kindly disposed toward them.
Our notion of God/gods developed from here.
God was so feared and so beyond powerful that religion became a go-between,
thereby giving religion the power of that God.
 

This 'feeling' of fear results as Consciousness experiences finiteness
through its Choice to remove Reality.
The loss of Entity is the loss of Infiniteness.
The loss of Entity means that that which has begun will come to its ending.
The loss of Infiniteness, no matter how far removed, creates the fear of that ending
in creation, so also in humanity.
 

Removing Reality removes the Entity of Self and Other so Consciousness constantly
breaks down into further divisions of itself.

Humanity, as Consciousness, fears the breakdown of itself into oblivion.

Early humanity feared what they did not understand,
 and they did not understand the world around them.

Religion creates power over creation
and uses that power to control through promises
 of vague reward and excruciating punishment of torture and eternal death.
Religion pushes the fear for survival beyond Creation  and gives itself Power over that
which is imaged as beyond existence.

Through creating an existence in pseudo-reality,
religion, assumes Power over its Creation,
by presenting it-Self as total Authority,
and by convincing the Collective Consciousness of its total Authority.
This Authority is not only over humanity and creation but over the created pseudo-reality,
 often referred to as 'the heavens'.
Heaven then, as dichotomy of existence and non-existence,
creates hell.

However, this Authority can only apply to, or effect, those individual cells of Consciousness,
 that have Chosen to Create.
These individual, Observing cells of the Collective Consciousness are Aware of
'what Is' and do not Observe Dreams of 'Becoming'.
These individual cells of Observation, are emerging from the Collective.
They have Chosen to Observe, Observe 'what Is'
and are set free from the gods of Creation.

Essence is the energy of survival.
Essence is selfness.
We fear the loss of our own Essence,
but we also Dream and Desire the Essence of the 'Other'.
Is this behind the reason we make 'other' enemy?
We have the Essence of Self, but we Dream and Desire the Essence of 'otherness' that we may Become Other-than-we-are.
We blocked Reality 'to Become'.
To Become what??
Obviously, to Become something else---
something we are Not.
So we create, meaning to bring into our pseudo-reality, that which dos not exist in Reality.

How do we do that?

The people of our early history, as Consciousness, feared extinction.
They sought to identify that fear.
They sought expression to that fear within Creation,within their created world.
They sought to appease that which threatened their survival.
We, today, still seek to appease that which threatens our survival.
While we our-selves threaten our survival by Dreaming outside of Reality.

We Dream out of our Choice
to Become'.
We do not Dream of Being 'What we are'.
We Dream of Becoming 'What we are Not' by Dreaming of assuming the Essence of
'What we are Not' but of what we Desire 'to Become'.
We Desire the Essence of 'Otherness'.
Believe it or not, this Desire is expressed in the Economy,
in what we Possess.

Entity is the bases of Infiniteness.
Entity is the Reality of Self and Other in Singularity of Selfness.
Reality is blocked when Self immerses Self in Self,
thereby Aware only of Self,
Perceiving Self as Self, unable to Observe Self as singular Self and to Observe
Other as Singular Other,
thereby unable to Witness and Validate Selfness,
and to Witness and Validate Other as Singular Other,.

How did early humanity Perceive, and how do we Perceive, that which we fear?
And how is that fear of Consciousness, that fear of humanity dealt with?
Consciousness removes the fear as coming from it-Self and puts it on what is
not it-Self.
The fear is put on what is 'other'.
As Reality is Self and Other,
Creation is Self that divides it-self through the Process of Division,
into self-of-self and other-of-self,
 to remove from self the negative energy of fear by applying it to a source outside of itself.
As as anyone can see, its all just a pretense, its all just an act.

The desire for accumulating Essence, meaning more value is put on the Essence of what is
other-than-self than on the Essence of Self-of-self
The self of Consciousness blocks Reality for the purpose of assuming the Essence of Otherness.
The Essence of Otherness is expressed in creation, in our history of who we are by replacing 'who we are' with who we Dream of Becoming.
We Perceive that we can fulfill our Dream by procuring for ourselves, the Essence of 'Otherness'.

So, how then do we feel about Other when we Dream and Desire the Essence of Other
and how to go about procuring it.
Consequently, religion is about procuring Essence of Other for Self.
Economy keeps track of how religion is doing.
The economy rates the success or failure at procuring Essence to Becoming the Dream.

So religion develops a process of division within the Process of Division that characterizes Creation.
Religion, as creation, divides.
As Creation images Reality,
religion images the Dream
As image, religion appears to Be what it is Not,
The image is the reverse, of 'what-it-appears-to-be, the pseudo-reality imaging pseudo-reality.

Religion is the ultimate battle for Essence.
Religion uses ultimate Power
for Authority over the Essence of what is not considered it-Self.
What is not considered it-Self is the 'Otherness' of the non-anointed.
Anointing and consecrating divides Self from Other.
Giving Self permission, meaning no threat of eternal damnation, giving Self
the Ultimate Right to the Essence of all the un-anointed,
the Un-chosen.
The Authority Identifies the qualities of Authority as Possession and Identity.
The Possession is the Land, ALL the Land,
ALL its resources,
and All its people.
The Authority makes the Laws that must be obeyed under fear of non-survival.
The Non-survival is described as eternal damnation---hell.