Daily Meditation: Sunday, February 15, 2009

The claim that believers are taking in the body of Christ …

02/15/2009

The claim that believers are taking in the body of Christ simply by receiving the host from the hands of a priest is a wonderful invention, but, without wishing to offend Christians, an invention is all it is. How can they believe that Christ, the first divine emanation, would allow himself to be imprisoned in a host by priests of varying degrees of worthiness? Who do they take him for? And they call that the ‘mystery’ of the Eucharist. No, there’s no mystery in it, only spiritual realities that obey laws: it is true that material objects can be filled with fluids, with influences, but not with God! What’s more, Jesus did not say, ‘Those who eat me and drink me…’ but ‘Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life’. So it is not Christ that the faithful eat and drink; it’s something that belongs to him, but it isn’t really him. The flesh and blood of Christ are cosmic elements we can absorb through eating, breathing and meditating, and they can even be condensed into objects. But the Christ itself is a cosmic spirit, and nobody has any hold over it.