The Way of the Chrism
This picture hangs in my home. As a Mormon it meant something very different to me than it does as a Gnostic, or as a Mystic. As a Mormon, this was a literal man who was sent here to save humanity, and to take away my sins. As a Gnostic, he is just a symbol of the power within my own physical body, and my consciousness, when I choose to live righteously. Righteous living does not mean what it meant when I was a Mormon/Christian either. It is more aligned with the 8 fold path of the Buddhist, practicing right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration, that is what living righteously means to me now. When I choose to live this way I am turning the seven sins into the seven virtues. The seven 'sins' are actually hard wired into our brains. They are a part of what we are in this physical reality. Our mission in life it to over come these traits and to rise above our animal nature by turning...