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The beginning of the end or the end of the misery? There is hell or heaven after the Armageddon; gods or demons will be risen
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Apocalypse 2012?
While the various end-of-the-world scenarios out there certainly differ in the details, their general pattern is strikingly similar.
For instance, even though fundamentalist Christians and believers in the Mayan calendar would hardly regard each other as kindred spirits, the basic template for both is the same.
They both start with the idea that the world as we know it is corrupt. For Christians, it is corrupted by original sin; for many 2012 advocates it is corrupted by the modern "sin" of "materialism and the rational, empirical worldview."
Whatever the corruption is named, it must be "cleansed" from the world by a greater-than-human power—whether it be God or the forces of the cosmos.
This cleansing will come through a devastating cataclysm in which the corrupt are wiped out. For Christians, this happens (after the faithful are raptured to Heaven) through the tribulation of natural disasters and wars culminating in the battle of Armageddon; through this process, the vast majority of the human race will be destroyed and ultimately consigned to hell.
For many 2012 advocates, this cleansing will also involve devastating natural disasters, including "hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions caused by solar storms, cracks forming in the earth's magnetic field and mass extinctions brought on by nuclear winter."
Some also put forth the idea that few human beings will be left when all this is done. José Arguelles, one of the earliest proponents of the 2012 date, says that "there will be a lot fewer of us"; the many who "have not evolved spiritually enough to know that there are other dimensions of reality" will be taken away in "silver ships." I wonder where they will be taken?
In the Course's view the entire drama from start to finish is an illusion. Yes, the world is corrupt in a sense—the Course doesn't hesitate to call it insane—but this corruption is merely a dream projected from our own minds, the minds of holy Sons of God who falsely believe in sin.
The world has never really existed except as a dream, and as M-14 says at the start, "Can what has no beginning really end?" (1:1).
Its apparent end—the end of the dream—will come about not through the sudden intervention of God or cosmic forces, but through a gradual process in which we cleanse the false belief in sin from our minds with God's loving help.
The cleansing agent here is not devastating natural disasters and bloody wars, but our forgiveness of one another.
If the cause of the world is our false belief in the illusion of sin, then the end of the world is the healing illusion of forgiveness, which undoes our belief in sin.
Nothing is destroyed, and no one is wiped out, condemned to hell, or whisked off in silver ships
Christ's Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and reestablishes what is forever and forever true.
It is the invitation to God's Word to take illusion's place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve. W-pII.9.1:1-3
1. The correction of mistakes (1:1)
Instead of being a cataclysmic event that overthrows the devil in the battle of Armageddon, the Second Coming is a gentle correction of our mistaken beliefs in the reality of sin and separation.
The old view of the Second Coming saw evil as a real force with a terrible energy of its own, a will in opposition to God, a will which had to be combated and overcome.
The Course, in seeing the Second Coming as the correction of mistakes, does not see evil as a real force.
Darkness is not a thing, a substance; it is merely the absence of light. So evil, in the thought of the Course, is not an opposite to God, but merely a mistake, merely the incorrect idea that an opposite to God could exist.
The Second Coming, then, is simply the correction of that mistaken idea. Nothing needs to be overcome or overthrown. The Second Coming simply "restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true" (1:2).
2. The return of sanity (1:1)
All minds that have harbored the insane notion of separation from God will be healed of their delusions.
It is the moment when each aspect of the mind of God's Son, which has, in insanity, believed itself to be a separate being, is fully restored to its awareness of oneness with all the other aspects of the one mind.
This corporate aspect is shown by phrases later in this section: "the time in which all minds are given to the hands of Christ" (3:2); "the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one.)
http://www.circleofa.org/cmw/Apocalypse.php
It's the end of the misery.
Only heaven remains after the Armageddon. Demons are exposed and destroyed leaving only the conquering victorious gods to coexist with each other...
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