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The Antichrist: Part II 10/26/2024 |
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We continue our meditation on the Course of Miracles’ teaching about the antichrist and linking it to my recent book on Christ, Antichrist, and the 2024 election.* |
We ended yesterday’s DM with this statement from the CIM: No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. The message of Jesus that we are part of the “kingdom of God” from the start is utterly lost in an idolatrous context. To recognize that
truth, one needs look “within for certainly and quiet calm that liberates you from the world, and lets you stand apart, in quiet and in peace.” Yes, “the kingdom of God is within and among you” as Jesus taught. |
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Here CIM names the antichrist for the first time. An idol is a false impression, or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ, that constitutes a gap between the Christ and what you see. An idol is a wish that we make tangible and give form to and make real. “Yet it is still a thought and cannot leave the mind that is its source.” The antichrist is in our heads we might say, and it is something we give birth to, it has no reality apart from that. “All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ.” Notice that
the anti-Christ comes in many forms, not just the form of a Donald Trump but in the form of SCOTUS and chief Justice Roberts author of Citizens United, etc., that has guaranteed so much dark money into our politics and has declared that corporations are people—though immortal people since they never die. Many MAGA politicians swim in lies that so mark the antichrist. |
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| “This world of idols is a veil across the face of Christ, because its purpose is to separate your brother from yourself.” Division and the spreading of division is a
key element of antichrist politics. |
This idol has a “dark and fearful purpose,” but it is only a thought, an idea, an idol. “Its form is nowhere, for its source abides within our mind where God abideth not.” Evil is nothing. No thing. Our idols are nothing. Trump and MAGA are nothing. Their only power is the power we give them. “Christ’s enemy is nowhere. He can take no form in which he ever will be real.” It is our belief that gives the idol form. Is this a way of talking about projection? We give idols their power and their form and their existence. What is an idol? Nothing! If we give it its form and its life that also means we can take that away. “An idol is established by belief, and when it is withdrawn the idol ‘dies.’” This is the anti-Christ---“the strange idea” that there is a power greater than the Christ or God or spirit. What happens when antichrist energy takes charge is that “the peace of God forever given to all living things, gives way to chaos” and “the Son of God” suffers pain and
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What is common to all idol worship is the desire for more. More intelligence, wealth, beauty–even more affliction and more pain. More of something is what an idol is for. An idol is a means for getting more. And it is this that is against God’s will. In other
words, greed |
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dominates the antichrist archetype. Just as Hildegard explains it in her painting and commentary that I reproduce in my book. Where there is greed, there is antichrist. And where there is antichrist there is greed. And lies. Lots of them. And darkness blocking the light for “behind the dark veil” there is still light. |
*A Course in Miracles, chapter 29, “The Awakening.” See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, pp. 77-84. And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 185, 301-308, 315-317, 326-328, 348. And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.
Banner image: A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section X, paragraph 8. Folsom Natural on Flickr. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you find insight about the antichrist and what it is and how it operates in these teachings from the Course in Miracles? And how it applies to the current presidential election and to present-day America where greed so often runs a capitalist system that dominates media and politics? |
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perpetuated by Trump and other political figures and shares personal insights, including his forced departure from the Dominicans to the Episcopalians due to his progressive beliefs. The conversation also covers Hildegard of Bingen’s art and its symbolism against modern societal issues like patriarchy and fascism, urging listeners to channel moral outrage into constructive action inspired by historical figures. Thoughtful reflections on spirituality, culture,
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