Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas are the representatives of Roman Catholicism.
Paul of Tarsus and Martin Luther gave rise to Protestantism because the reformers of the sixteenth century returned to the past until arriving at the theology of Paul's epistles - especially the Romans – but they don't reach through the Gospel of Jesus and to this day, along with Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and the synagogue continued to stagnate in the vision that separates the Creator from its creatures. Paul, this great pioneer of the first century, is genuinely Christlike-evangelical in many aspects. Still, he was not totally free from certain vices of the synagogue, of which he was a rabbi. Unfortunately, The Christian church could not separate the gold from the teachings of Jesus presented in the epistles of Paul, from the slags of the decadent synagogue, gold that can also be mined in it.
The Roman church was strongly in favour of the sacramental magic of Augustine, where the magical element (ancient Egypt, modern occultism) prevailed, and Protestantism, in turn, sympathized more with Paul, following the line of respect for the automatic law of the synagogue, replacing the blood of the scapegoat by the blood of Jesus.
The character of Jesus is not sectarian, neither of Paul nor of Augustine, neither Asian nor African, but distinctly Universal, cosmic. The message of Jesus is something totally unpublished and original, disconnected from time and space, from rite and race, from creed and class.
In this independent universalism, Jesus is much more Aryan than Semitic, and it is no wonder that probably, Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) on the racial theory in his book, “The Myth of the Twentieth Century”, has rejected the Semitic ancestry of Jesus, passing him by a legitimate Aryan.
Jesus completely ignores a kingdom of God that comes externally to man, through churches and any rites, dogmas, observances, etc. He is all prophetic-platonic-mystic, and nothing priestly-Aristotelian-scholastic, much less in philosophy taught in Catholic seminaries; Jesus, born on the frontiers between east and west merged into a grand organic unity, everything that is contemplative in the east and dynamic in the west. However, ecclesiastical theology built on this great monistic universalism of Jesus is a rather unilateral dualist. 1
Unfortunately, according to the church's theology, God is separated from man, God in the heavens and men here on earth. Although Jesus has adopted this analogy of the Father and his children - who seem to be separate entities - he explains that in fact, “The Father and I are one”, i.e., it is only in the external appearance, in the given form of existence that we look like two separate entities, but in essence, we are one. Jesus used this language in a didactic way since the state of the consciousness of men of that time and even today cannot comprehend that The Kingdom of Heaven is within ourselves, and therefore induces man to aspire to that state, in “Thy kingdom come”.
Nowadays, much of the spiritual world makes an honest effort to turn to Christ itself, surpassing all Christian theologies. Paradoxically, to get to Christ, we have to go beyond Christianity. Anyone who does not have sufficient spiritual autonomy will do right not to seek Christ externally to Christianity but to continue to profess the traditional Christianity as the path to Christ.
Not everyone has had the cosmic experience of Mahatma Gandhi, who, insistently invited to live the Christianity of the Catholic Church, replied: “I accept Christ and his Gospel, but I do not accept your Christianity.”
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1)- Unilateral dualism is a conception of the Catholic Church which did not know how to absorb the idea of the universalist monism of Jesus. This dualism is the fruit of the obtuse vision of the church, which “separates” the Creator from its creatures; the Father is in the heavens and the creatures here on earth.
Although Jesus has adopted this analogy of the Father and his children (which seem to be separate - dualism), he explains that in fact, “The Father and I are one”, that is, it is only in the external appearance that we seem like separate entities. Still, in essence, we are one (monism).
It is unilateral because it is the restricted view (dualistic) of man that, as the creature, can only have this partial, the lateral notion of those who are seeing things from their narrow point of view, unable to see the Whole.
The vision of Jesus was monistic (or universal) that all existing, created, is a manifestation, an expression of the Supreme Being who created all forms. No form is identical to another in the expression of its existence. Still, all creatures have the same unique essence of this Being, God, immanent in them.
Jesus must have adopted this dualistic posture as a pedagogical strategy, for he saw man's weak state of consciousness, which does not discover the kingdom of the heavens within himself, his inner God, the divine essence within himself. And the church did not advance in this concept, did not follow Jesus’s wisdom and still awaits the arrival of the kingdom of the heavens, as confused and stunned as the Jews still awaiting the arrival of the Messiah!
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