Mystery

There's a higher power and it's not worshiping a master in the sky. It's understanding the mental realm. Jesus didn't say eternal life in John 3:16. He talked about Aionic life, which is that timeless mental realm. Which the religions before advocated as well. But have to read the original Greek to see it. They reframed or mistranslated after the Greek.

Remember Pythagoras?
They didn't talk about it to us. But Pythagoras was into that kind of mental stuff, had his own mystery "school". Esoterism. Hermeticism. Buddhists are into it, that meditation for enlightenment stuff. It's the real vs the distorted fairy tale of believing there's not only a single-sex human man in the sky but is your master and you're only going to matter after you die

It's a death cult

Rebirth and ressurection is during your life. Not after. Thats the mistake. People didn't understand it, because it's esoteric, elusive. That's the ancient stuff. Its initiation. Why we pantomime initiation in the fraternity, masonry, etc. It's a weak version. They used to feed people strong drugs that took them to the Aionic realm. And religion sprang out of people trying to make sense of that. Or, ... from the people who didnt understand all that...

The Buddhists said fuck that, drugs are dangerous and we can do it with mental focus alone. And they did. But it's a more rare experience.

Shamans give peyote and mushrooms and auyasca, to achieve this. There's many ways. Baptism or near death is another way.

Eleusis was a religion for 1500+ years, and people walked for 9 days. Once there they were given a cup of psychedelic beer, and told a story that set the image in their minds that led to extreme unity of the mind, revelation, and rebirth of your thinking. Cicero the Greek explained he wishes he did it earlier, and it was the single most important thing for humanity. What exactly it invoked. Unsure. But it revolves around death and ressurection imagery deep enough in your brain that it evokes something that resets you and makes you more human, a better self, rebirth during this life.

It's fascinating.