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Study of Manual for Teachers 8-4-12

8-4-12
5 Is he the Christ? O yes, along with you. His little life on earth was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of you. He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. And when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared. Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. Some bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother to the world. Forgive him your illusions, and behold how dear a brother he would be to you. For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God. 

Jesus is the Christ, and so are we. The difference between us is that Jesus embodies Christ now and we have forgotten that we do. For us, it is potential, for we still dream of separation. If we imagine ourselves still in this dream, if we still have a foot upon earth, then we have not reached our full potential.

Jesus began his work to help us awaken to the truth of our being through his life on earth, but obviously that was not enough. Now he continues this work, leading us home. As we join our Hearts with his we will see as he sees because the eyes of Christ are shared. This must be true because Christ is the truth, the reality as God created it so it is One. What is true for Jesus is true for everyone. That is the nature of God.

Some bitter idols have been made of him… .  Oh lord, how true that is. “What would Jesus do” is a helpful guiding question, but when asked of the ego mind the answer comes from the idea of separation and is not the answer we would get from him, but rather becomes a projection onto him.  We don’t have to look far to see the unkindness done in Jesus’ name, and in God’s name. Let us withdraw our projections, acknowledge their source and place them on the altar for healing.

Jesus would only be our brother and helper. He would guide us Home to God if we let him. The ego will use the idea of Jesus to keep itself alive if we choose to listen to it. Right now its favorite playground is the Chick-fil-a controversy. Many believe that Jesus favors separation when it comes to homosexuality. They see this as an exception to the idea of love and are fervently against it.

Others see those people as wrong and even evil. They see them as an exception to the idea of love. Many see themselves as persecuted by this situation and victim to the world. The ego doesn’t really care which stance is taken so long as separation is the underlying principle. Jesus calls on us to forgive it, that is, to realize it never happened. No one has been hurt except in their own minds as they interpret through the filter of separation. God is not offended, Jesus is not defamed. In truth, nothing has happened so how could their be sin? How could there be victims?

Oh how the ego loves its dreams of separation. How it loves the ones that we try to share. We can’t really, because one cannot share what is separate, but in our attempt to share them we make them feel so real that one can imagine they are important. One can begin to imagine that separation is more real than Love, more real than God. The illusion of separation with its attendants, anger, fear, and guilt begin to edge God from our awareness, and the ego roars in triumph.

It is so easy to fall into this trap. It is so easy to see one side as virtuous and so the other must be, what… unvirtuous? Is that a word? Spell-check says no. Sinners? Evil? At least, ignorant? What if an idea is either true or not true? What if we acknowledged our ignorance and asked for enlightenment?

What if we forgave the idea that any of God’s children could be less than perfect? What if we forgave the idea that we could be hurt by anything? Only the body, the personality, the separate individual can be hurt and they don’t exist except in our imagined dreams. What we are is perfectly protected. Nothing real is endangered.

We can put down our arms and open our hearts to those who still live in fear. We can accept our purpose and forgive where others attack, and to see where this is needed without succumbing to judgment and thus becoming part of the problem. Our brothers are not bad or evil, only sometimes confused. Let us forgive their confusion until they are able to do so themselves. There is no separation.  When we condemn another we condemn ourselves. When we forgive another we forgive ourselves. Only together do we enter Heaven.

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