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Originally Posted by aron
It brings another problem - what of the next generation? Once the Guru is gone, then the Bureaucrats take over, who manage the organisation... Clearly Nee and Lee had it. Once they're gone only Bureaucrats are left. Not a particularly great draw... But nobody is allowed Charisma, because that would be "ambition", that would be "drawing others after oneself". Only the Guru could do that without suspicion, without the taint of ambition.
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The Guru is allowed Charisma, even trades in it, but brooks no peers, who'd be deemed "ambitious" and "rebellious" and so forth. But when the Guru's gone where's the person that holds it all together? Again, "Christ, only Christ" is the LC refrain, but it's the Christ in a set of books. It's a conceptual Christ - the Body-Christ. The Ministry-Christ. The Processed-Christ. Mere concepts that when examined critically show the strains of inconsistency. The Bureaucrats try to prop up the teachings but the Charisma is a memory, fading.
Now here's Deuteronomy 33:2 -
“The LORD came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came from among ten thousand holy ones;
At His right hand was a flaming fire, a law, for them.” (AMP)
The LORD "dawned" and "shone forth". At His right hand was the Word as flaming fire. Even the "ten thousand holy ones" has strong association of light. "The Son of Man will come with the glory of the Father and the glory of the holy angels". There is the repetitive presentation of out-spilling divine light, in sheer transcendence such that Moses came down glowing.
Now, what Guru can compete with that? John said, "We beheld his glory" - do you think John held up Paul as MOTA, as "today's Moses", after that sight? Or do you think Paul ever held himself thus, versus the twelve? Jesus held all Charisma. He is our Lord and there is no other.
In the way John presents Jesus in the first chapter of the fourth gospel, as the Logos Light of God, we may sense why the Baptist said he wasn't worthy to touch his shoe (v. 27). When we see the incomparable greatness of his being, we're saved - saved from dreaming of our own greatness, and from submitting our will to the demands of a Guru (and there are many out there, clamoring for our attention and our souls). The Guru says that subsuming our souls into his will bring salvation. That only works with Jesus.