“May the love of God and the fellowship of the holy spirit be with you now and forever”. A Christian blessing.
Whoever expressed this had the mystical experience of Reality, (MER).
It’s a very real invocation for the spiritually sensitive. Its powerful warmth infuses like a humbling, joyful spell of profound gratitude …
Today such a mystic would use it, in different words*, as a fervent acknowledgement and expression of their revelation that Reality accepts us and each individual part of Its creation as Itself, forever.
It’s not about our love of Reality, as is commonly preached, it’s about Reality’s acceptance of us and Its continuing presence in our lives – known or unknown.
The true mystic would tremble while making this fervent attempt to invoke Reality’s complete acceptance of each one of us no matter where we are in life. There are no failures. We are all part of Reality. The mystic has experienced this.
For me, this ancient written evidence of Reality’s historical existence, its validation of my own experiences by some foreign scribe of long ago sharing their mystic experience, is so powerfully overwhelming – a voice shouting in the wilderness. I want so passionately to shout back, “I hear you, I hear you! Message received and understood. Thank you!”
* Eg: May Reality’s love for you, It’s infinite fellowship, be with you now and forever.
All Is Well.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 
Well said, Keith.
Coincidentally, yesterday, I attended a service for Pentecost at my church (St. Pauls, Clifton, Bristol), where a similar theme was very evident. Pentecost celebrates the day when the disciples of Jesus were in-flamed, infused, blessed, inspired by the holy spirit such that they could talk in many tongues and be understood by anyone who was open to what they had to say.
God’s world, mystical experiences, do indeed welcome us all: warts, doubts and all.
In keeping with this, any inclusive religion, faith or group will, likewise, accept us as we are. If they don’t, we might be wise to look for an alternative that does.
Thankfully, St Pauls Clifton is accepting of all and the fellowship there is indeed a blessing. I do hope that others may find, or help to create, something similar in their own locality.
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There is much beautiful language and sentiment in all religion. Equally, in many (and certainly in Christianity) there is much man made dogma. For me, the important thing is to take the mysticality, the spirituality, and ditch the dogma. Concepts such as “trinity” and “original sin” make no sense to me at all. As you yourself have often said, at the heart of all religions is a mystic. Pity some of those who followed were mere scribes!
But I totally feel like you do. A beautiful prayer.
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Well said, Anthony!
Keith.
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