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Originally Posted by Ohio
Yeah, I just love how Lee would relate his move to Los Angeles as an aspect of subjective experience, when it was simply a matter of getting thrown out of Taipei for financial corruption.
So much for inner life teachings.
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Mysticism and the inner life are good and arguably necessary experiences in the Christian journey. But unrestrained, they can become a cloak for the Old Man, who's then a vehicle for Satan's wiles.
Evangelical is right: most in the West were not familiar. They must be warned - beware the Watchman, and watch out for the Witness. The subjective experience, mingled with and reinforced by the pentecostal trappings, became a cover for the enemy's infiltration and control.
We believed and trusted that the Ascended Master from the East was so transformed as to be above this. "Just do what you are told; everything will be fine." It was not and is not.
One example I've repeatedly given is that the Bible could be either celebrated as revelatory of Christ, or panned as fallen men's imaginations, arbitrarily dependendent upon the subjective whim of the expositor.
Another example: when the Seer was critical of others it was called an adjustment, a perfecting or restricting word. But what happened if anyone tried to restrict, correct, or in any way critique Witness Lee? Then it was an attack, or slander, or accusation. Welcome to the world of subjectivity run amok. Subjectivity unhinged; the Bride of Christ, stupefied and absent any means to objective reality, lies passively under the enemy's ministrations.