I hear your point and I get what you’re saying about the Christian perspective.

I was raised Christian, my dad is a pastor with his masters in theology. From the age of six I would sit in on the professors of Biola university discussing theology in my living room.

I’m well aware of the theological arguments and how Christians explain things to themselves. It was the central core of my Church and homeschool education and I was well known for having mastered it.

Sadly, that didn’t bring much of any light or life to the teachings. Theology without spirit is quite useless to the psyche and what was alive in the days of the early Church is now old and lifeless but for a few.

Hence the exploration of the different religions that you see today.

I do appreciate you referencing the Logos in an historically accurate way as the animating principle of the divine rather than the popular “Word” and it’s misconstrued association with the Bible.

You do seem to be much more connected to the deeper meanings and life of the Christian tradition with the deeper understanding that goes along with that.

I understand what you are saying about the Christian perspective and how it believes itself to have gone beyond the pagan and in some ways it did, such as the concept of the creator having a relationship with humanity.

The only other place you will find that is Judaism, Islam, and in some ways Hinduism (mainly because Hinduism was able to continue its path of development, one that was arrested in the rest of the world by Christians murdering adherents.)

Christianity, however, went beyond exoteric Judaism in that the relationship of the divine was made so personal, an event that was occurring in the pagan mystery traditions but only esoterically.

We’re not sure if similar understandings were held in the Jewish mystical community until the middle ages so in a way Christianity did shine much brighter in the West.

In the East, Hinduism had already developed the concept of Atman/Brahmin in the Upanishads wedding the divine and mortals and with Krishna in the Mahabharata, it had its object of Bhakti, reverence, worship, and an example of God incarnate.

While Buddhism denies a creator many of its sects had been teaching the oneness between all persons and the Buddhi consciousness.

While Christians see their message as the Truth and thus must see it as the light which cast its pagan shadows from the outside I can appreciate it as a bright light but one which is similar to other traditions.

Since I’m not Christian any longer and most of my readership has decided not to be fixed to a Christian perspective we are now seeing things from a different perspective than traditional Christians.

If you would like to see Christianity eclipse these other perspectives I suggest finding a way to activate the heart of it so that it’s bright enough to touch lives and transcend the spiritual healing we’ve found in Paganism, Hinduism, Daoism, Jewish mysticism, Shamanism, and Buddhism.

My experience is that it doesn’t have enough vitality left to do so and when I sit with the figures of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Father I feel the longing for the rest of the family, for more images that have greater vitality, hence the Mother, the Earth, the Luminaries, all faces of the One which was the furthest paganism in the West was allowed to get with Amun and Amun-Zeus as Pantheistic forces and their children as intermediaries in the Mysteries.

What I adopt from Christianity is that this One is interested in a personal relationship with me and all else and I embrace and accept that relationship as I work to be a temple of the One, following the example of Christ.

Beyond looking at Christ as a unique development of spiritual evolution and a great example of balancing the Sephiroth and connecting to the divine I have no interest in a Christian centric point of view, neither do I seek to spread it, hence why it isn’t in my writing.