Whatever Gets You to the Light

When I post on here about Unity, Sophian Gnosticism, or even Wicca, I am not trying to convince anyone that one path is particularly better than another. Even though I'm doing my primary "church" activities with the Sophians right now, it's not like I'm never going to set foot in a Unity church again. (For one thing, most Unity churches have good metaphysical book stores!) And it's not like I'm never going to try another Wiccan spell. I don't see any contradiction. Of the three, I know the least about Wicca, but I know neither Unity or the Sophians put any kind of restriction on spiritual exploration with other sects, or even with other faiths.

From time to time in this blog, I will compare and contrast Unity and Sophian Gnosticism, because those are the two New Age, New Thought spiritual organizations I know the most about. For the record, though, I am also quite friendly to Christian Science and Religious Science as well. For that matter, I don't have much problem with liberal Episcopalians and Methodists, either, not to mention Buddhists or Hindus. I guess one of my main purposes in this blog is to assure people that they can be spiritual, have faith, and commune with the Divine without having to buy into a strict system that condemns everything outside itself.

All that being said, as I have mentioned before, I have a dear friend who is a fundamentalist Christian. And even though I have to be honest and admit I really don't like the way she votes--because she does vote it!--I would still never want to do anything to take her faith away from her or undermine it. Because fundamentalist Christianity is the tool she has chosen to build her beautiful soul, and a beautiful soul it is. Genuine love is in her heart and constantly radiates outward, touching everyone with whom she comes in contact. She is a person I have the pleasure of working with every day, and her willing heart is a constant example to me on the job. Not only an example of how I should do my work, but an example of how I should never pre-judge an individual soul by what I think of their religious and/or political affiliations.

Let us all be kind to one another.