Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
A.K. Mozumdar (1864-1953)
He lived and taught in the USA for 50 years, yet this true Sage is little known today.http://www.mozumdar.org/who_was_AKM_list.html
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Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Similar to a catechism are these 90 or so Q & A outlining his message; some extracts follow:
http://www.mozumdar.org/questions_and_answers.html
SECTION I
1. What is the New Messianic World Message?
It is the message of the New Age, which definitely establishes the existence of God.
2. Why has the Message come at this time?
It has come in response to the demand of this scientific age to restore the faith of men in God offering a unifying Principle for all religions.
3. Who is God or what is God?
God is our Power to think or conceive God or deny God. In other words, it is the Power with which we conceive God or deny God. By the same token we may say, our Power to argue, reason, speculate, philosophize, think, move, act, is God.
4. What is the positive identification of God?
It is the Power that animates our mind and body.
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18. How far can you depend upon religious speculations?
As long as they are in agreement with the Self-existing Fundamental Principle we can depend upon them.
19. What kind of speculations are in agreement with the Self-existing Principle?
Any kind of speculation or conception that expresses the positive facts of life is in agreement with the Fundamental Principle.
20. What are the positive facts of life?
They are health, happiness, joy, love, harmony, peace, immortality, higher aspiration, beauty, etc.
21. Why are they positive facts of life?
Because only from them can we form their negative conceptions. For instance, from health can we form the idea of its absence or else how could we ever try to cure disease to attain health? Therefore, health must be a definite and positive fact of life. In its absence we strive to attain it.
http://www.mozumdar.org/questions_and_answers.html
SECTION I
1. What is the New Messianic World Message?
It is the message of the New Age, which definitely establishes the existence of God.
2. Why has the Message come at this time?
It has come in response to the demand of this scientific age to restore the faith of men in God offering a unifying Principle for all religions.
3. Who is God or what is God?
God is our Power to think or conceive God or deny God. In other words, it is the Power with which we conceive God or deny God. By the same token we may say, our Power to argue, reason, speculate, philosophize, think, move, act, is God.
4. What is the positive identification of God?
It is the Power that animates our mind and body.
[...]
18. How far can you depend upon religious speculations?
As long as they are in agreement with the Self-existing Fundamental Principle we can depend upon them.
19. What kind of speculations are in agreement with the Self-existing Principle?
Any kind of speculation or conception that expresses the positive facts of life is in agreement with the Fundamental Principle.
20. What are the positive facts of life?
They are health, happiness, joy, love, harmony, peace, immortality, higher aspiration, beauty, etc.
21. Why are they positive facts of life?
Because only from them can we form their negative conceptions. For instance, from health can we form the idea of its absence or else how could we ever try to cure disease to attain health? Therefore, health must be a definite and positive fact of life. In its absence we strive to attain it.
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Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Although this Power is Universal and All-pervading, It is personified in man for human relationships. It is Spirit, the living and moving Power in man. Our New Messianic Message declares in order to meet the scientific mind of the new age, that It is the Power with which man affirms or denies God. At the same time it supports an ancient belief that man comes into this world with two distinct aspects, one Divine and the other human.
The Infinite Non-differentiated Spirit out of whose womb the entire creation has issued forth with billions of suns and constellations has also brought forth man through various stages of evolution. They were all in the same Cosmic Creative Principle. Even the Personified Divine Aspect of the Infinite was also in the Cosmic Creative Plan to establish personal relationship with Its human manifestations. This Personified Aspect is not separate, but together with the Infinite. In fact It is the Infinite in expression. It is not only the speaking God in man, but also the Directing Force.
Man being a free moral agent according to the Cosmic Creative Plan, can act either in harmony with all creation, or choose the opposite course. If it were not so, he could not act as he does.
The more definite man is as to the Existence of God, the quicker he contacts and realizes Him. What can be more definite than the Power that animates his mind and body and enables him to function as a conscious individual entity? This Power is not man-made, but a Self-existing Principle. It ever remains free and unaffected in the midst of various changes that man goes through in his thinking and acting.
The Open Door To Heaven
http://www.mozumdar.org/books/edited Mozumdar - The Open Door To Heaven.pdf
The Infinite Non-differentiated Spirit out of whose womb the entire creation has issued forth with billions of suns and constellations has also brought forth man through various stages of evolution. They were all in the same Cosmic Creative Principle. Even the Personified Divine Aspect of the Infinite was also in the Cosmic Creative Plan to establish personal relationship with Its human manifestations. This Personified Aspect is not separate, but together with the Infinite. In fact It is the Infinite in expression. It is not only the speaking God in man, but also the Directing Force.
Man being a free moral agent according to the Cosmic Creative Plan, can act either in harmony with all creation, or choose the opposite course. If it were not so, he could not act as he does.
The more definite man is as to the Existence of God, the quicker he contacts and realizes Him. What can be more definite than the Power that animates his mind and body and enables him to function as a conscious individual entity? This Power is not man-made, but a Self-existing Principle. It ever remains free and unaffected in the midst of various changes that man goes through in his thinking and acting.
The Open Door To Heaven
http://www.mozumdar.org/books/edited Mozumdar - The Open Door To Heaven.pdf
Perhaps the core message of the Christ?
Nicholas Weeks
Bodhicitta
Could be. On page 15 of the Open Door pdf:
An ideal religion was founded by Jesus the Christ. You will ask how? My answer is, (1) He eliminated the element of uncertainty of a distant or an outside God. (2) He interwove man and God together in his precepts to solve human problems. It is not difficult for a moving and acting man to contact and realize a moving and acting God within himself, because such a God is related to man in every movement of his life. It requires no stretch of imagination, speculation and intricacies of philosophy on the part of man to feel such a God who is intimately bound up with his very existence. Christ also emphasized that this God is a knowing, seeing and talking God, because man is a seeing knowing and talking being. How could It be otherwise since human life and God are interwoven? The moment we start to think about it, we are startled to find ourselves in the Presence of God.
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My only and immediate issue would be the suggestion of a duality in man: "At the same time it supports an ancient belief that man comes into this world with two distinct aspects, one Divine and the other human" – as my reading is Biblical and holistic, rather than dual.
But then that's a 15 second snapshot from the above text – so I would have to delve further, in fairness, if I was going to make an issue of the point – I'd argue a single, human nature, that is nevertheless 'open' to the 'above human' whereas most all other created natures are contained.
But then that's a 15 second snapshot from the above text – so I would have to delve further, in fairness, if I was going to make an issue of the point – I'd argue a single, human nature, that is nevertheless 'open' to the 'above human' whereas most all other created natures are contained.
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