Please begin by taking a deep breath, several of them, especially if you are Catholic or of Eastern Religion religious philosophy. There is nothing I am going to say here that goes against the meaning of the word, “transubstantiation,” as described by the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes the word, “transubstantiation” as: the miraculous change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma the eucharistic elements at their consecration become the body and blood of Christ while keeping only the appearances of bread and wine.
An example was also cited, using the word “transubstantiation” in a sentence as: “Found in Catholic doctrine, transubstantiation is when the substance of bread is turned into the substance of the body of Christ during the eucharist.” — Marya E. Gates, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
The first known use of the word “transubstantiation” comes from the 14th century, as in the sentence: “When the Protestant reformers in the 16th century rejected the Catholic teaching that the bread and wine substantively became the body and blood of Jesus, Catholic Church leaders affirmed the teaching, called transubstantiation.” — New York Times, 26 June 2021
Why am I bothering to go through these understandings of the word transubstantiation?
The Catholic Church is not wrong in teaching that physical substance can be physically and spiritually transformed into something of a higher vibrational frequency through intention, thought, and the spoken word. It happens every day at morning Mass all over the world.
Physical bread and wine are transformed into spiritual food, as all believers agree. This is a perfect example of ordinary bread, or in this case unleavened bread if we’re being truly authentic to the ritual of Jesus at the Last Supper, transmuting, transforming, transubstantiating into the multi-dimensional qualities and properties of the Love and Light of Jesus, which is the same Love and Light of the Source of All Creation.
This is known to be a sacred moment, receiving the Eucharist believed by many to be the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. But is it truly human flesh we are eating and human blood we are drinking?
This metanoia experience for each individual is a deeply spiritual and personal interaction with their sacred roots and beliefs. It is the consecration of everyday items, such as bread and wine, into something elevated to a sacred status that is the point here.
Consecration means to make or declare sacred, to devote irrevocably to the worship of God by a solemn ceremony, or by blessing with intention. Notice this all takes place starting with the intention to do so, by thoughts, words, and actions.
But it is not only the priest who has this role in life. It is not only the priest who believes this.
How literal did Jesus intend his words to be taken and understood?
What exactly are we to do in memory of Jesus?
Is it literally the reenactment of the Last Supper?
Is it only the priest who is to do the “Do this in memory of me?”
Are the congregations who believe in this way to be simply bystanders and recipients of the bread and wine multi-dimensionally transformed into spiritual food by only ordained special people?
Are there other words of Jesus that we are to do in his memory?
Did Jesus mean that literally we are to eat his physical flesh and drink his literal blood, or did he use a metaphor to illustrate the spiritual reality that the unleavened bread he used and the wine on the table of the Last Supper, were to be our spiritual food of Love without conditions, and the drink of non-judgment, lived out on purpose in each of our lives, or only those of the ordained special people?
In the breaking of the bread, did he mean for us to literally break the bread?
It’s about sharing, not hoarding. It’s about empathy and compassion, not justification of hardened hearts filled with human reasons and human logic of why we should not help the unfortunate among us, why we ought not to make fun of others, nor put men, women, and children in cages for political purposes.
“There, but for the grace of God, go I.“
On one hand we all know this to be true. On the other hand, we split hairs tripping the seeming paradoxes of Jesus meant “this,” or Jesus meant “that.” Look at the numerous brands of Christianity, and other myriad religions, for example.
Then there are conscientious people of integrity who choose not to follow in the footsteps of human religious institutions, preferring to follow in the footsteps of Jesus rather than man. These ones who do not fit the profile of a particular brand of religion often seek and find personal growth in spiritual development, as opposed to abdicating the God-given free will usurped by leaders of various religion organizations, no matter how well-meaning they may be, or slivers of truth they might have.
If transubstantiation transforms and transmutes bread and wine into the spiritual substance of Jesus, God, and Holy Spirit, then aren’t we all discussing non-human interaction? Since God is not terrestrial, then this transubstantiation is this a multi-dimensional transformation, is it not?
Religions may be as old as the sun, but the New Paradigm welcoming in multi-dimensional transformation IS EXACTLY what takes place on every Catholic altar every day since the Last Supper.
The Catholic Living Bible, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, Wheaton, Illinois, sixth printing in 1965, quotes Jesus in Luke 17:20-21, “One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, ‘When will the Kingdom of God begin?’ Jesus replied, ‘The Kingdom of God isn’t ushered in with visible signs.’ You won’t be able to say, ‘It has begun here in this place, or there in that part of the country.’ For the Kingdom of God is within you.” Jesus did not say you will find the Kingdom when some other religion tells you all about it, as if it is on the outside of you, or in some like-minded religion.
Yes, I know, many bibles over 2,000 years have gone back and forth, changing the original Sanskrit and Aramaic words to “among” rather than the original “within” you in this Luke 17:20-21 verse. But the most recent understand, including the most modern versions of the King James Bible, are now correcting the wording back to its original intention. Shall we go by the scribe’s manipulation of the word “within,” or shall we go with the actual word used by Jesus? The Interlinear Bible of Hebrew, Greek, English translations agrees that this word is “within.”
This means that the Kingdom of God is within you. It is also outside of you, because the Love and Light of the Source of All Creation is within the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms of Earth, as well as every other thing in the galaxy, universe and cosmos. However, it is not only in religious men of the day pontificating their religious viewpoint.
The Light and Love of God is within each one of us, animating us. When this Energy known as the Presence of God calls Itself back to Itself, we drop our body as a change of garment for our Soul, until the next round of incarnation, unless we finally got the Loving and forgiving right this time, and we ascend just as Jesus taught us to do.
Organized religions, while they may contain partial truths within their teachings, they also seek to subjugate their congregations, robbing them of their personal power and free will. They manipulate with humanmade threats of eternal damnation; hell, fire, and brimstone. We are born with God-given free will. No one has the right to usurp our free will from us by introducing fear, guilt, or obligation. Some human religious and political groups seek to rob us of the God-given free will with which we are all born, regardless of where we live on Earth. We only need to look at the Crusades, the ethnic cleansing, and the holocausts to see how humankind manipulates the minds of many.
Did I say holocausts, as if there were more than one? Well, among other ethnic cleansings of those who did not believe in the “right” way, we do not see many Canaanites around these days, right?
In The New Living Translation Bible, 1 Corinthians 3:16 says, “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?”
Transubstantiation deals with recognizing that what is done on every Catholic altar in the world every day, is the same Loving Light Multi-Dimensional Transformation we allow ourselves to manifest each and every day by our own intentions, thoughts, words, and actions.
I encourage everyone not to get stuck in semantics, taking sides as if this matter is all separate, assorted into the categories of human understanding. There is more at stake. Our spiritual evolution, elevating the awareness of who and what we actually are, all of us, not just some of us within the box of certain segments of religious or other understanding; all of us are on this journey of enlightenment, culminating eventually in ascension.
While all our paths may be different, we all have the only hands God has to experience in and through us. The beautiful soul of the late Bishop George Rueger told me this in spiritual direction years ago when I ask him what more I could do to better serve God. I was married with five children, teaching CCD, and holding bible studies in my house for adults. We serve God best by living our ordinary lives with an eye towards transforming, transmuting, and yes, transubstantiating our everyday moments into the sacred realities they truly are. We do this by recognizing when the answer to today’s issues is brought to life through empathy and compassion for all, not just for the self or particular group within humanity.
We will all experience the seeds we and others before us have planted. Some of us will experience limitation and darkness. Others of us may learn how to draw upon transubstantiating the vibrations of limitations and darkness into the Living, Pulsating Light of the Source of All through our intentions and thoughts, just as consecrating the bread and wine is multi-dimensionally transformed by intentions and thoughts of the priest into the substance of Living, Pulsating Love without conditions and Living non-Judgment takes place every day in every Mass in the entire world.
We are all looking at the same beautiful, multi-faceted, multi-dimensional transformation/transubstantiation diamond, radiating its blessing and knowledge to everyone who wishes to dig deeper into all the words and actions of Jesus the Christ.
All is One.
Namaste
UNIVERSAL WISDOM ENLIGHTENMENT™ LLC 