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Saints & Sinners

Saints & Sinners are a duality of religious morality.

What the church judges to be immoral and bad is called a sin.

What the church judges to be moral and good is called a virtue.

Saints are judged to be virtuous, sinners are judged to be immoral.

A sinner is guilty of expressing the male aspects of their emotional energy, which are:

  • Pride
  • Envy
  • Gluttony
  • Lust
  • Greed
  • Wrath
  • Sloth

These are called the 7 mortal sins that are judged by the church to be deadly.

A saint has innocence by virtue of expressing the female aspects of their emotional energy, which are:

  • Humility
  • Kindness (generosity)
  • Scarcity (poverty)
  • Human love (caring)
  • Humbleness (pleasing)
  • Meekness (patience)
  • Hard work (due diligence)

These are called the 7 heavenly virtues and judged by the church to be saintly.

I believe Mother Theresa to be a shining example and the embodiment of Divine Love, not a candidate for sainthood, which requires the attainment of the above spiritual sins called virtues.

Being virtuous is expressing the sensitive, emotional and connected aspects of our personality but it is not Divine because it is not holy because it is not whole. Being Virtuous is being without the rational, exclusive and detached male aspects of our personality and therefore is not a Divine State of Being.

Divinity requires balance. Yin without yang is never Divine.

One Reply to “Saints & Sinners”

  1. I love the last line. So many of us on this path of enlightenment forget to acknowledge that the negative qualities–or the 7 mortal sins–ARE a part of us.

    Debbie Ford talks about this as our Shadow.

    But you expressed it just as beautifully, and I thank you for reminding me–to be holy, we must be whole.

    One thing that has helped me, that others may benefit from as well:

    When you catch yourself acting from one of the 7 sins, rather than thinking, “I need to stop doing that,” or “that’s not who I am,” say “I Am That. I Am Greed. But I Am also Humble”

    The hardest part is acknowledging that you ARE greed. But when you do, you open yourself up to new levels of the opposite virtue.

    Love & Light,
    Matt

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