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One Solitary Life - Book 1:
The Vision, The Journey and The Quest
by Anthony J. Fisichella
This is a tale of "One Solitary Life"--a mystical tale of all evolving life.
This is to be a mystical biography of a man called Jesus--it is correspondingly an allegorical statement of a seemingly inexplicable cosmic process.
This is the life of Jesus--it is also a transcendental drama portraying the ineffable Grand Design of the Universe and mankind's ultimate purpose and legacy.
Essentially, this is a pilgrimage into the mystical and the miraculous. We are to undertake the journey of man's evolution toward divinity.
With this, Book One of the Trilogy One Solitary Life, we shall set the foundation for an exploration into the nature and the cause of man's appearance on Earth, culminating in the emergence of the magnificent being who has profoundly influenced mankind for 2000 years--Christ.
Warning! The Christ you will meet within these pages may not be the one you anticipate. This Christ will likely differ from the God/man you were introduced to in your religious observances. He may challenge your comfortably established belief systems. He may not even be "Christian.
One Solitary Life - Synopsis
One Solitary Life
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant
woman. He grew up in another obscure village, where He
worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for
three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book.
He never held office. He never owned a home. He never went to
college. He never set foot inside a big city. He never traveled two
hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of
the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no redentials
but himself. He had nothing to do with this world except the naked
power of His divine manhood. While He was still a young man the
tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends deserted Him.
He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery
of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While He
was dying, His executioners gambled for the only piece of property
He had – His coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and
laid in a borrowed grave.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone, and today He
is the centerpiece for much of the human race. All the armies
that have ever marched, and all the navies that ever sailed, and all
the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned,
put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as
powerfully as this “One Solitary Life.”
(Author Anonymous)
Preface
Seated at my computer, with keyboard and blank, blue monitor screen glaring ominously back at me, deliberating upon the implications of that which I am initiating, I feel stirred by a certain sense of inadequacy as regards the monumental task at hand. Here I sit preparing to embark upon a restatement and reinterpretation of man’s purpose and destiny as captured in "The Greatest Story Ever Told." I hope to share an alternative, transcendental perspective of this the most heroic of all dramas, as seen not from the vantage point of a traditionalist, but hopefully, with the penetrating and transcendental vision of the mystic and metaphysician. There have been sufficient interpretations of the Life of Jesus within the traditional context to satisfy the needs and perspective of any Christian fundamentalist.
For my part, I have found the secular approaches, to the Cosmic Process Christ heralded, both limiting and inadequate. An in-depth presentation embodying a metaphysical and mystical interpretation of Jesus' Life, and its analogous relation to the evolution of man, seems to me to have been sadly lacking. It is this perspective I have chosen to explore with this writing. In doing so, it must be understood that this work makes no sectarian appeal. The Christ I hope to reveal should be acceptable to Jews and Christians, both Roman Catholics and Protestants, to Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim alike. And in these days of religious controversy, I appeal also to those numberless thousands who seem to be losing their interest in religious matters altogether. I hope within this work you will be able to find a key to your concerns over conflicting religious dogma.
The Concept:
The contention of the author is that there is an accumulated “wisdom of the ages,” which is the basis of the world’s religions. It has been referred to variously as the “Perennial Philosophy” (Aldous Huxley), or the “Secret Doctrine” (H. P. Blavatsky), and shall hereinafter be referred to as the “Ageless Wisdom,”. Simply stated, the purpose of human existence is to provide a medium for the awakening and expansion of the human soul through “self devised and self induced methods,” leading toan expanded state of consciousness, termed enlightenment or illumination, embodied and personified by Jesus, among others, leading to entry into a unique state of existence entitled the “Kingdom.”
This ageless wisdom is the connective tissue that binds us and guides us upon our journey of awakening. Explore the esoteric reality that is the soul of the exoteric world of apparently separate forms. Understand the principles that are featured within the kingdoms of nature (mineral, plant, animal and human) and follow the pattern as it outlines the stages (initiations) of the next kingdom to be birthed within the cave of the human heart. All things are expressions of the expanding consciousness of the “One Solitary Life” that binds them. Life is a journey of awakening which we all share and in which we must partake. This is the tale of "One Solitary Life" – a mystical tale of all evolving life.
This is also to be a mystical biography of a man called Jesus – it is, correspondingly, an allegorical statement of a seemingly inexplicable Cosmic Process. This is the Life of Jesus – it is also a transcendental drama portraying the ineffable Grand Design of the Universe and mankind’s ultimate purpose and legacy. Essentially, this is a pilgrimage into the mystical and the miraculous. We are to undertake the journey of man’s evolution toward divinity.
Warning! The Christ you will meet within these pages may not be the one you anticipate. Two thousand years ago most of the community into which the Christ Consciousness surfaced anticipated a very different Being than the one they encountered as they trod the roads and byways of Judea. That confusion of identity set the tone for the surfacing Christian ideology and underscored much of the religious confusion in the world for centuries to come.
The Goals of this Work
After many years of study, I have concluded that the Christianity of the early centuries, and what we now know as modern Christian theology, are two entirely different things. Today’s commonly accepted ideologies and personal prejudices are held in high esteem in contrast to a sincere quest for truth and an understanding of the pristine teachings of the Christ. Religious truth is said to be the goal, and yet many end up settling for religious error for fear of having no religion at all. We have detoured so far from spiritual truth that religious leaders not only dispute, but hate each other. Truth is not a luxury. It is not merely a good idea to be taken casually. We are willing to accept the crudest and most incongruous of superstitions rather than admit that our envisioned ideal is non-existent or somehow faulty. And some of us even prefer the security of known misery, to the breathtaking trepidation of mounting unfamiliar spiritual heights. We have a choice between truth and empirical comfort and repose. Mankind tends to oscillate between these two states never acknowledging you can’t have both. Mohammed commented, “There are two things which I abhor; the learned in his infidelities and the fool in his devotions.”
We face a challenge, here and now, as we toil with the demands of life twenty centuries after Jesus lived. The Christ we are to explore in this text is not merely a person, but an embodied Cosmic Ideal, the abstract idea of the Infinite Divinity incarnate within, not only Jesus, but all mankind. He was, and still is, for humanity, a point of reference by which we may set our spiritual compass, a literal “reference Being,” if you will, having set the standard, the benchmark of human development for ages to come. This is His true value to humanity, for we may mark our growth by the yardstick He embodied. He is the point where all evolution stands awaiting the next great transformation. He embodies the status where the whole universe must arrive as the spokes of the wheel must join at the hub. In Him the whole Cosmos is summed up. Moreover, He is a living bridge, spanning the chasm between the worlds of personal human development and the heavenly realms of the enlightened soul.
Beware, with this work I will be asking you to look past the biography of Jesus’ life into the allegorical implications of that life. We are to look beyond Jesus to the mission He initiated, the Process He represented and the relevance of that “Process” as it impacts upon our individual lives, and the promise of a resplendent future He embodied for each and all. I hope to reveal a face of Christ not seen, as yet, by most Christians. Likely, this Christ will wear many faces. Some you will recognize, some you may not. If you look close enough you may even discover your own.
This Christ will likely differ from the God/man you were introduced to in your religious observances. He may challenge your established belief systems. He may not even be “Christian.” He may, indeed, make you uncomfortably anxious. That is the inescapable consequence of delving beyond the traditional and surrendering the illusion of certainty imposed upon us by our religious beliefs. We are to risk losing the comfort of the familiar. The mystic Jacob Bohme warns; “In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preamble
The Vision The Journey And The Quest
The Challenge And The Commitment
PART ONE: Charting The Course
- My Journey
- Our Journey Together
- The Journey Redefined
- The Eternal Quest
- The World As Thought
- The Ties That Bind
- The Dawning Of A New Age
- A Vision For The Ages
PART TWO: The Actual, The Imagined, The Real?
- A Reality Check
- Let’s Turn On The Set
- Are You For Real?
- Good Fortune, Ill Fortune Or ???
- Is It All Relative?
- I Think, So It Is
- A Religious Inventory
- Jesus, Are You Here Again?
- Will The Real God Please Stand Up
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