Once you reach the inner mystery (other side of the stream), the boat that got you there can be set free (lesser mystery outside you). Religion is a pointer to this true kingdom of inner light and true life, free from the judgment and fear of the former way of seeing the world. Jesus came for the sick, not the well. When you have discovered who he is in you, the illusion vanishes. Here's why:
The Bible can be read like a koan: not merely a book of doctrines, but a psychological teaching-device designed to short-circuit the mind’s favorite addictions—certainty, superiority, and blame. On the surface, the text seems to pit the “righteous” against the “wicked,” stacking up law, wrath, punishment, and moral score-keeping. But that’s the hook. The deeper move is that the story keeps tightening the paradox until every comfortable foothold collapses: the reader can’t stay cleanly on one side without eventually discovering the same violence, accusation, and pride inside their own heart. The Bible, read this way, doesn’t resolve the tension—it uses it to break the spell of self-righteousness.
To make this arc visible, we read the narrative as the interior history of the human being: characters as personified forces within the psyche. Elohim in Genesis 1 is the ground of creative Love—the Source. Then the tone shifts: Yahweh emerges as the egoic mode that asserts, judges, and rules, while Satan functions as the accuser—conscience turned adversary, prosecuting the self and “others.” The Old Testament becomes the long, exhausting reign of this inner courtroom: fear-driven law, identity defended by exclusion, blood as the language of control. And the genius of the “koan” is that it doesn’t let you stand outside it. If you condemn the characters, you strengthen the very ego-pattern the story is exposing.
Then the New Testament hits like the punchline you didn’t want: the same “I Am” returns, but now as Jesus—Adam reborn as a human being, humble, embodied, and under pressure. In the desert, the ego’s final offer is domination—kingdoms, authority, rule—and Jesus refuses, choosing the only kingdom that matters: the interior one where accusation dies. On the cross, wrath “repents” into love; the old lord yields to the Father as Love; and what remains isn’t a better moral mask but a different nature entirely—compassion that arises when the mind stops keeping score. The Bible’s hidden teaching, in this reading, is the end of seeking: when judgment burns out, Love stands there—already true, already home.
Relax if you have moved away from Religion toward your Inner Spiritual kingdom. This is the very path that allows you to truly serve the larger Self we all are. Roll the stone away and bring Love out to the world. After a bit of isolation in the inner love of the heart, it will shine! The isolation and shadow work you do to awaken is necessary. Once complete, you are integrated into the true goodness for all sentient beings. The Koan has conquered the true enemy and completion has arrived. Read all of 1 Corinthians 13 with open eyes. Perfected Love remains.
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