On this theme I have just sent this email to my brother:

One who walks the way to Emmaus, is so filled with fire for the unknown, the uncognisable, [that is to the flesh,] he is never content with anything that can be just comprehended, or is just an emotion: no matter how apparently religious.

Such are not interested in the peripheral, the half-truth, or future truth that never seems to come....all that ends in death...indeed as it did for dear dad. He could see the glory of my vision[waht I had been given], the inheritance of the saints in light....but was afraid to run hard and fast enough, because of what others might say and do. But I ran with him at the end, when death was finally at hand. We both crossed over on dry land as One.

The trumpet call of God is sure, all the old religious beliefs are left behind in Egypt. Where Pharaoh rules not only as King but as Shepherd and Priest. They are the actual titles of the Egyptian Pharaohs, as indeed of the Pope. No different.

On seeing the emptiness of Egypt [this world system that we consider reality], we begin to behold true Life, the Real life we shelter under.....Christ. "The firstborn of every creature" the sustainer of our life as the pillar and doorpost of our Being. Then God passes over all that which had no basis in reality, we enter the New Creation. Without birth and therefore without death. We see the shimmering emptiness of all things pertaining to Egypt.Only then , can we walk dry shod with the whole body across the bottom of the red sea. Like a man in the "divided sea" we march on, leaving far behind all those prior certitude's of false religion. While on both sides stand huge walls of water that could at any moment totally over whelm us. Leaving us buried in the unknown depths of our own inscrutability...the mystery of God. It is here Faith is demonstrated, not as ours, but as "a gift of God." Here we learn to walk alone, ceasing from words, unthinking one's own thoughts, and fathom one's own mind. Here one abandons the crutch of words, no longer carried along by the words of another man's wisdom. You see here alone, should I say ALL ONE, where all the putrid waters of man's truths stand piled up in a heap. Only then can one PASS OVER.

Prayer, not the false requests of false Christians, but true prayer that assails all the chariots and armies of man's religious beliefs, is an essential aspect of this enigmatic emptiness of the unknown, the unmanifest that foils all creeds, they are struck out, as we see our dissolution in the LAST ADAM UPON THE CROSS. The very crossroads of every man's life, where all horizontal movements in Linear time, yield to the Divine Voice of Ascension. "If I be lifted up, I will draw ALL mankind unto Me."

You se we must abandon all our crutches, all our devices, all our apparent realities, even our self, even our belief in God, even pour imaginary idea some day we will be a son of God independently on our own. We must give up all ideas of independence to "be as God." WE must have the fire of Emmaus in our heart to abandon all things we have treasured especially our own life,

Let me use the words of Thomas Merton, a modern day saint. Just read his books and you will see what I mean:

"WE cannot arrive at certain possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that senses we have arrived and are dwelling in the Light.
But Oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into Your darkness. [God makes His pavilions in the darkness"] where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and all I know is that I wish it were over....I wish it were begun,
You have contradicted everything. You have left me in no-man's land."
from the "contemplative life: It's meaning and necessity."

Nb:The thinking mind and the Old Man/Old Nature are one and the same.

"Isness" is what I AM in Christ, where all has gone to Light....."for the rest of my life, I want to reflect on what Light is....Albert Einstein"
Love Stephen