Divine Life Church of Baltimore
At Divine Life Church of Baltimore, one of the many spiritual traditions that we honor and learn about is Judaism from a mystical perspective.
The Old Testament God of judgement and vengeance is not a part of Vedanta philosophy, the philosophy of Absolute Oneness. The God of the Old Testament was monotheistic, a creator beyond creation, an "extraterrrestrial" God. The vedantic approach is monistic: God is the only Reality that pervades everything and everyone. God is both transcendental and immanental, impersonal and personal. That God dwells in all hearts.
In the Old Testamnet, the Guru-disciple relationship was clearly understood, as for example, Elijah was the Guru of Elisha, as Jesus was later Guru to his disciples. Vedanta holds to this sacred relationship as a means for the disciple to realize his own divinity.
Mystical Judaism at the Divine Life Church
