On the recent string about the Messiah, I can't find much (if any) evidence
that the Coming of the Messiah (either having come a first time, or not
yet)...has anything to do with the Unified Field; if by that you mean Purusha
and It's realization. Recently, Hagelin and King Tony - perhaps to cover all
bases - have also included subtle energy fields. OK - fine, maybe that
inclusion was forced because MMY wanted to initially appeal to physicists, who
deal in actual "fields". But such all-inclusive definitions turned out not to
be productive to the world physics, since physicists outside of the TMO aren't
flocking to the notion that Purusa has anything to do with natural laws. This
is not to say that It may not play a role, but just that scientific
experimentation hasn't detected it yet.
In any event, the OT is all about Atonement and morals. The NT is all
about Substitutionary Atonement and morals. More specifically, in the First
Temple lambs were offered up as sacrifices every day of the year..
Christians then merge Isaiah chapter 53 with their notion of "Messiah, the
Lamb of God, the "Taleh Elohim"
and claim that Jesus as the Lamb of God is thus the Messiah (along with other
lines of evidence).
Rabbi Cahn quotes his "teacher" (a fictitious literary device conjured up
for instructional purposes): as saying "It was all about the Lamb from the
beginning, the answer was always linked to the Lamb".
Then Cahn goes on to explain the symbolism of lambs:
He says "There will be One who is entirely pure, innocent, without blemish,
without evil...and this One will give His life to save those who are not
innocent. [in other words, the OT sacrificial lambs had to be pure and without
blemish, likewise the NT Lamb (Jesus) is likewise pure and without blemish.
Then Cahn makes a leap to further conclusions: "The mystery of the lamb is God.
The mystery is that God will give His life to save us. For God is love. And
the nature of love is to give of itself. The Taleh, the Lamb....is God".
(entry #16 in Cahn's "The Book of Mysteries".
Cahn then concludes each entry with a lesson with suitable accompanying
Scriptural Quotes. He says "Today, live in the spirit of the Lamb. Let
everything you do be done in love. And live to make your life a blessing to
others".
My conclusion: Again, the OT Hebrew Scriptures are mostly about Atonement and
morals. The Greek NT is about Substitutionary Atonement (Jesus as the
Sacrificial Lamb of God) and morals; and I can find little evidence of a
message oriented toward Purusha (the Self - considered as import by the
Gnostics.)
Obviously, the Unified Field is about (as MMY points out in SBAL): a. Absolute
existence, and b. relative existence....then MMY goes on to present another
important concept c. that the relative and Absolute are inseparable.
In contrast, the Bible (imo) appeals to be distinctly dualistic: Heaven vs
earth and Hell, good vs evil, moral behavior, etc; and (my conclusion) Teilhard
de Chardin's notion of the Omega man is something he probably borrowed from
Hindu and Buddhist ideas coupled with his own interior Gnosis of the Omega (the
Absolute Self). The notion that the Bible is chiefly about de Charcin's
"Omega" is a big stretch. Besides, de Chardin's definition of Omega is not at
all related to the Biblical statement. ymmv
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