Kitchen Religion - (4479)

Master Samael spoke about how vegetarians make a religion out of the kitchen.

I thought I would expand a bit about this in this post.

That of making a religion out of the kitchen has a certain psychology to it... as everything does.

We often think that Master Samael meant that vegetarians devote so much time and effort into preparing their food that their devotion to food is almost at a religious devotional level. But it is not really that it is how people can begin to give in their mind the food that they eat the some hugely special power, almost the power of God. It does have power for sure but not that much. Thinking that their juices and special meals will heal them and extend their life far beyond. Which is really a subtle kind of materialism and skepticism - because food is material and one forgets that the supreme power of life and death is in the Divinity.

The kitchen religion psychology feels really sorry and sad for the average person who does not know what is in his or her food and even feels that people are stupid for not knowing and that they are wrong to eat what they eat and they should be doing the correct thing by their bodies and eating how the kitchen religion says one should eat.

Often the kitchen religion is done by more spiritually minded people and so often all these juices and special meals take a lot of time to prepare and its ingredients are expensive. So a lot of time is invested into them which could be used to pray, meditate and study etc. When what we really need to gain merit which avoids so many sicknesses and lengthen our life is to accrue spiritual merit or dharma. For that we need time to pray and meditate.

It often says the food others eat is ‘chemicals’ and can often produce feelings of superiority thinking and feeling that the food that others eat is inferior and often for that reason we reject many offerings of food. 

Of course it is correct to look after the temple of the Being and eat appropriately to not make it unwell. But not to make a religion out of food. That of a religion pertains only to God.

Often people of the kitchen religion are doing a swing on the pendulum. Swinging away from the abuse they submitted their bodies to from overeating, smoking, drinking and drugs. 

The statement so often used: "we are what we eat" really implies to impressions but not fully to food. If we eat terrible food we don't become terrible in the moral sense of things, we can become unwell and develop lifestyle diseases but not morally corrupt.

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