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Originally Posted by craig1120
The wise person will use the feelings of victimhood, betrayal, and despair as an entry point into the Grand Narrative, but they will hold to the realization — intuitively, if not consciously — that the point of innocence and victimhood is introduced by the enemy to defeat them. Even though they are not yet strong enough in faith to pull off the checkmate move, the wise and faithful one will begin the training and development necessary to relate to and unify with the judge and the dead man.
In this way, the faithful one clings to their victimhood and despair since devotion to the highest truth requires that we scrap and grapple for the highest narrative.
The Son of Man plays devil’s advocate to the enemy, while staying loyal to the truth. Naturally, when acknowledging his ultimate state of innocence and victimhood, introduced by the enemy into the narrative, the son will contemplate his relationship to the father.
The enemy will attempt to portray a compelling scene of betrayal and a casting out of the son from the Kingdom by the father. Why else would the son be thrust into this fallen world away from where he truly belongs? This version of the story enhances the sense of victimization, making it more difficult to keep a foothold in the story of the soul. But the SoM faithfully persists, seeing a deeper truth: which is that he has been sent down into the world on a divine mission. He hasn’t been cut off or cast out, but rather he has been entrusted with a sacred responsibility.
Believing in these truths, the SoM can hold his place in, and continue to navigate through, the Grand Narrative.