To be aware and knowledgeable is the first step in survival and the resultant renewal. To be otherwise is to be blinded by one’s ego and to be stupid. Stupidity along with arrogance and fear are three of the souls enemies. Many times stupidity is the cause of arrogance and fear. A sleeping spiritual state is a haven for stupidity. Look around and see how many people are in such a state of spiritual ignorance and poverty. As a person of power we are aware and knowledgeable and follow our defied heart not our destructive ego.

The symbol for this Age of the Fifth Sun, as you know, is called Ollin, which means movement. Symbolically, Ollin refers to the ‘movement’ of our heart—a deified heart, a divine heart:

The ordinary word for heart was yollotl, a word derived from ollin, movement. Thus the ordinary human heart is the moving, pumping organ that keeps us alive; but the heart that can be made by special efforts in life is called Yoltéotl, or deified. The phrase used to describe the face that we must make if we are to be truly men is ixtli in yollotl, which signifies a process whereby heart and face must combine. The heart must shine through the face before our features become reliable reflections of ourselves.

Thus heart-making and face-making, the growth of spiritual strength, were two aspects of a single process which was the aim of life and which consisted in creating some firm and enduring centre from which it would be possible to operate as human beings…[1]

The Fifth Sun as well is viewed as the Fifth Direction—the symbolic center of the four winds of the Mesoamericans. Individually, our heart/our spiritual sun is at our center and is the core of our being. Could this all mean that the key to our survival and renewal at the end of this Age is predicated on us achieving a ‘heart that sees’ and becoming a Feathered Serpent? I believe it is! (The Return of the Feathered Serpent—Survival and Renewal at the End of the Age—2004 - 2012 to be published Summer 2005 by Dr. JC Husfelt)

Speaking of stupidity and ignorance, I am ever amazed at the number of people that supposedly do not follow the tradition of Christianity or any other religion of salvation but still use the term ‘grace.’ It is simply amazing to me that so many people can be so unaware and ignorant. Especially the ones that supposedly teach systems that would be classified as ways of ‘sanctification’ not ‘salvation.’

For your knowledge, the following are the definitions and meanings of grace, salvation and sanctification. The information is excerpted from The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion by Jonathan Z. Smith, Editor, William Scott Green, Associate Editor and The American Academy of Religion:

1. Grace—“a Christian theological term denoting divine gifts without which human salvation would be impossible.”
2. Salvation—“the belief that human beings require deliverance. A distinctive trait of some religions, it is a notion almost entirely absent in others… Christianity: Christians through the centuries have generally agreed on the three main features of salvation. First, while the initial fruits of salvation may be experienced in the present life, its full realization is delayed until the next. Only in heaven, in the immediate presence of God, will people’s deepest desires for peace, justice, and fulfillment be completely satisfied. Second, there are numerous obstacles in the present life that make attaining heaven difficult, and of themselves people are incapable of salvation. It is only by the grace of God that these obstacles are overcome and people are made worthy of God. And third, Jesus Christ is absolutely decisive for salvation, for it is principally through Christ’s work that God has made available the grace required to resolve the problems and contradictions of human existence.”
3. Religions of Salvation—“the class of religions that evidence a sense that the present world and human beings are not as they should be. In contrast to religions of sanctification, they teach that struggle against, and transcendence of, the structures of the world is a worthy goal.”
4. Sanctification—“the ritual process of purification, the procedure for making a person, place, or thing sacred.”
5. Religions of Sanctification—“the class of religions that evidence a sense that the present world and human beings are as they should be. In contrast to religions of salvation, they teach that active maintenance of the structures of the world is a worthy goal.”

Interesting stuff! However, there is sometime even more interesting—what is known about the historical Jesus would lend one to believe that Jesus’ teachings and spiritual practice were truly the teachings and practices of sanctification not salvation. And I doubt that grace would have been in his belief system. For further knowledge about the sanctification practices of Jesus, please see my page on Bathing vs. Baptism.