VII. The Body as a Means of Communication P 2
2 Remember that the Holy Spirit interprets the body only as a means of communication. Being the communication link between God and His separated Sons, the Holy Spirit interprets everything you have made in the light of what He is. The ego separates through the body. The Holy Spirit reaches through it to others. You do not perceive your brothers as the Holy Spirit does, because you do not regard bodies solely as a means of joining minds and uniting them with yours and mine. This interpretation of the body will change your mind entirely about its value. Of itself it has none.
The body has no value of itself. You wouldn’t guess this by the way the body is glorified in this world. The more beautiful and the more perfect the body, the more esteem it is given. People even tend to judge the person according to the body it is using, as if a sick or imperfect body were an indication of the state of the soul that is abiding as that body.
You would think that the body is a god, we spend so much time protecting it, glamorizing it, decorating it, and worshipping it. And yet, Jesus says it has no value of itself. Of itself it was made by the ego mind to stand for separation, as proof we are not connected to each other or to God, and as proof that we are unlike God. But everything made by the ego mind to prove separation, can be used by the Holy Spirit to undo separation.
I was checking into my hotel last night and there was a new clerk who was slowly and uncertainly doing her job of checking me in. As I noticed my eyes rolling and my fingers tapping in impatience, I remembered that this is the use the ego has for bodies. In my frustration I was assigning needs to this body that were not being met in a timely manner. She had given different goals to her body and that was her focus. I didn’t see our sameness in that moment, rather, I saw her as an obstruction to what I needed. That took me up short.
I saw this holy, Divine Being, disguised as the body of hotel clerk, as merely an obstruction to the perceived needs of this body. Let us all bow down before the body which takes precedence over kindness and whose needs are more important than love. Let us use this body to prove, once and for all, that there is no oneness, only many separate needy bodies scrambling to get their desires met before it is too late and someone beats them to it. What a sad and depressing little story of deprivation this is.
As I saw that moment for what it was, I changed my mind. I didn’t want my room in a timely manner. I didn’t want to be treated with respect. I didn’t want to put this body on a pedestal for all to worship. I just wanted to know this woman as my sister and self, and so that is what I asked for. No, I didn’t freak out the clerk, it was the Holy Spirit I spoke to. I asked Him to heal my mind so that I could allow the body to be used for a different purpose.
“I give this body to You today, Spirit. Please use these feet to bring this body where you need it to be. Work through it to bring us together. Please speak through this mouth words that bring understanding, use these hands to bring comfort and ease. Spirit, this body was made to symbolize and sustain separation; convert it to Your use so that it might become a symbol of oneness instead.”
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