The Cross of Karma E-Book

Frank Ludwig

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 25

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The book “The cross of karma: Comment on Papyrus Oxy V 840” comments Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 and describes in the following shortly the possibilities and the impact of internal cleaning for ascending on the path to God. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 is a small piece of papyrus bearing 45 lines of text written shortly after the life of Jesus. It was found by Bernard Pyne Grennfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt and is called an apocryphal gospel. You can find the original of the manuscript under Signature Ms. Gr. Th. G 11 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford/England. The concept of karma is explained as synonym to that of sin, but without adding the poison of guilt, which serves as a glue to bind you to your sins, to bind you to your cross. Living a natural and humble life leads to sanity. Sanity leads to God. If you accept that you are bound to sin, that means to err and to collect karma, you can clean yourself from that karma if you do not stick to guilt. With guilt, you don't solve your karma, with the cross of your karma, you will not ascend to God. Jesus cannot take your sins away, he can only help you to solve them yourself. Since it is your soul that wants to learn the lesson of life. And it is your life.

Leseprobe

Dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth and the evolution of believe.

“Look, I make all things new.”

(Jesus of Nazareth)

“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.“

(King James Bible, Epistle to the Galatians, 6:7, “the first law of Karma”)

…for they love the tree (and) hate its fruit, and they love the fruit (and) hate the tree….

(Gospel of Thomas, Log. 43:3)

Content:

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840

Comment on the Papyrus

How to become clean inside

3.1 The sacrament of baptism

3.2 The ritual of confession

3.3 Prayer

3.4 Atonement

3.5 H’Oponopono

Stay clean

4.1 The Ten Commandments

4.2 Comment on The 10 Commandments

4.3 Personal ethic

4.4 Do not consume “wrongly”

A cleaning-ritual

The harvest: What it means to be clean

The Cross of Karma

1. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840

“A certain Pharisee, a high priest called Levi, came and met them and said to the saviour:

„Who has permitted you to trample this sanctuary and to view these holly vessels, when you have not washed nor indeed you have your disciplines bathed their feet?

Although you are defiled you have trampled this temple, a place that is so clean, where no one else walks or dares to look to look upon these holy vessels without washing and changing his clothes.“

Immediately the saviour stood with his disciplines and answered him:

„You therefore who are here in the temple, are you clean?“

That one said to him, „I am clean, for I washed in the pool of David, and by onset of steps I went down in the water and by another I came up; and I put on clothes that are withe and clean. Then I came and looked upon these holy vessels.“

The saviour answered him and said:“ Woe to you blind who do not see. You have washed in these waters that have been poured out, in which dogs and swine have wallowed night and day. And when you washed your scoured outer skin, which even prostitutes and flute girls anoint, wash, scour and beatify for human lust.

But inside they are full of scorpions and every evil. But my disciplines and I, whom you say have not bathed, have been dipped in waters of eternal life, which come from …But woe to those….“”

(Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840)

2. Comment on the Papyrus

What is the point Jesus want to make clear here?

I think it is obvious that he states that although outer tidiness might be of advantage, the inner tidiness is the most essential thing a follower of Jesus might achieve.

Jesus was always a man of the “inner kingdom.”

“Teshuvah” he said and that means “turn inside” or “return to the inside “.

From this standpoint it is clear that Jesus sets the priority to the “tidiness inside”. A short explanation might serve the understanding of the reader.