TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE

Can we believe everything we have been told? Sure, we believe what we learned from our parents and family, but they, too, could have been lied to. The description of our existence may not be accurate. Some information may have been mistakenly passed on, like the idea that the world is flat.  

Popular ideas are embraced because the men who presented them were popular or influential, and sometimes they become part of science or religion. After living for a while, it doesn’t take long before one realizes that politics can distort or hide the truth.

Can human beings really be trusted to report the truth in all situations? Or, do their personal beliefs interfere with the quality of truth provided? Let’s take the bible, for instance. There are so many reasons this book could have become corrupted. 

Politics of the times. Conflicting approaches to the same belief. Different beliefs within the same ideology. Religion stresses the idea that God inspired the words of the bible, filled the authors with the words reported. Can we believe that? Or were the words tampered with for political reasons of control and power over the masses? 

And we cannot forget losses in translation from one language to another, which were not intentional, such as misinterpretations in The Lord’s Prayer. I wonder if that was intentional. Or, a spiritual truth that was subtly veiled when religion becomes an instrument of control rather than liberation.

If we consider that the misinterpretation of the Lord’s Prayer (and similar sacred texts) might have been intentional on the part of certain religious authorities, several motives, historical, psychological, and political, emerge. Let’s explore them deeply:

1. Preservation of Power Through Dependency

The most direct reason is control through spiritual dependency.
If people realized that the Lord’s Prayer is actually a formula for inner awakening — a direct communion between the individual soul and the Divine within — they would no longer need priests, intermediaries, or a hierarchical institution to reach God.

For example:

“Our Father who art in heaven” in its mystical sense points to the Divine Source within (the higher consciousness), not an external being in the sky.

“Thy kingdom come” refers to the awakening of divine order within the human mind, the restoration of unity between Spirit and form.

To reveal this would empower every individual to find God in themselves. But to obscure it by externalizing heaven and making God a distant patriarch ensures people depend on religious leaders for access to salvation. 

This concept alone led to the extermination of thousands of lives who believed in this “mystical” brand of Christianity. The Church collected and suppressed all texts documenting these beliefs, which remained secret until early Christian texts (mid-fourth century CE), emphasizing secret knowledge for salvation, were unearthed in 1945 by a local farmer near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. These leather-bound Gnostic manuscripts are now known as The Nag Hammadi Library. 

2. Maintenance of Social Order

In ancient and medieval times, religion wasn’t just a faith system; it was the spine of political order.


The Church often worked hand in hand with the state to legitimize kings, rulers, and hierarchical systems. Is it possible this practice could have influenced the contents of the bible?

An awakened populace, one that realizes “the Kingdom of God is within you”, would not be easily ruled by fear, guilt, or external authority. They would follow conscience and divine intuition rather than laws imposed by clergy or monarchs.

Therefore, teaching the Prayer as a petition to an external God reinforced obedience, humility before authority, and the belief that grace must be earned or granted, rather than realized.

3. Fear of Heresy and the Mystical Path

Mystics throughout history, from Meister Eckhart to the early Gnostics to later Christian contemplatives, were often persecuted or silenced precisely because they taught that the divine could be known directly, within.

If the true, esoteric meaning of the Lord’s Prayer, as a process of spiritual alignment and inner realization, had been emphasized, it would have aligned Christianity more with mysticism and less with dogma.

But mysticism is uncontrollable. It produces prophets, not parishioners.


And institutions thrive on predictability, not spontaneous enlightenment.

4. Simplification for the Masses

A less sinister but still consequential motive: simplification for accessibility.


Early Church fathers may have genuinely believed the masses weren’t ready for esoteric truths. They may have reasoned that people needed concrete images, a Father in the sky, a literal heaven, and a prayer of petition, until they matured spiritually.

This “protective concealment” of truth is a common theme in esoteric traditions. However, over time, the outer shell hardened, and the inner meaning was forgotten even by the teachers themselves.

5. Psychological Control via Guilt and Fear

By teaching that one must beg forgiveness from an external deity (“Forgive us our trespasses...”), rather than recognizing that forgiveness is the natural state of a healed consciousness, the Church maintained emotional leverage over its followers.

This cultivated:

Guilt: dependence on confession and clergy.

Fear: obedience through threats of hell or divine punishment.

Shame: suppression of natural spiritual power.

A person in guilt is easy to manipulate; a person in divine self-realization is not.

6. Suppression of the Feminine Divine

The Lord’s Prayer, rightly understood, balances masculine (Father) and feminine (Earth, daily bread, forgiveness, nurture) energies; it’s a sacred union of heaven and earth, Spirit and matter.

By overemphasizing the “Father” aspect and erasing the mystical “Mother,” institutional religion severed the human connection to nature, the body, and intuition, all of which are gateways to direct experience of God.

A spiritually balanced human is whole and free; a divided one is easier to govern.

7. Economic and Political Gain

Religious institutions grew into empires — accumulating land, wealth, and influence.


By presenting the Prayer as a petition rather than a realization, they positioned themselves as the mediators of grace, charging indulgences, selling salvation, and legitimizing wars in the name of God.

A direct, inner, experiential relationship with God would make all that impossible.

In essence, the misinterpretation of the Lord’s Prayer turned a mystical formula for divine realization into a petition to an external authority, thus replacing empowerment with dependence and wisdom with obedience.

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