Originally our awareness was only of Reality, of God and His ever extending Kingdom of Perfect Light. For some odd reason we fell into a deep sleep and started dreaming, we became afraid within the dream that we would be punished because we believed that having fallen asleep we had left our Beloved Creator. Into this insanity came the ego, a vile creature that filled our heads with it's lies, it agreed with us and encouraged us to feel deeply guilty about the lie that we had left our True Source. We split into separate and individual parts in our attempt to hide our shame from God. We became fiercely arrogant and projected all of our guilt outwardly onto "the other" hoping upon hope that this insane behavior would bring us some relief from our situation.
We made a limited consciousness to replace the Eternal Awareness that God ordained for us and we denied that we were in Him. We made a world surrounded by endless space so that we could get as far from Him as possible. We made language to confound ourselves because to true communications seemed far distant from us.
We added time to space so that NOW became a distant memory and Peace would forever be unattainable, we said there would now be two where previously there was ONLY One. War broke out and death seemed real and suffering and misery followed us for all the days of our lives.
Into this madness came a man of great wisdom, he had not followed the ways of the world, choosing instead to reach out for his God to awaken him from his nightmare. He practiced Loving his brother and sisters and instead of indulging the entertainments of the world he spent his time in quiet reflection, prayer and meditation.
One morning the man woke up and walked out into the sunshine, He was happy and he felt a great Joy flowing thorough him for he had finally seen the solution. 1 + 1 = 1 the truth of it was so apparent to him. In his natural state as God created him there was no duality, there were not two of anything. Nothing was split and all things were in the One Father.
The man told many of his discovery but they were suspicious of his claim, he said 1 + 1 = 1 proves that this is not our reality because here the notion is absurd, here 1 + 1 = 2.
Duality or the notion of a split is what is truly absurd, we are now and have always been One in perfect union with our Creator...
A quote from the Course, you know how I love to quote this book!
"The separation started with the dream the Father was deprived of His Effects, and powerless to keep them since He was no longer their Creator. In the dream, the dreamer made himself. But what he made has turned against him, taking on the role of its creator, as the dreamer had. And as he hated his Creator, so the figures in the dream have hated him. His body is their slave, which they abuse because the motives he has given it have they adopted as their own. And hate it for the vengeance it would offer them. It is their vengeance on the body which appears to prove the dreamer could not be the maker of the dream. Effect and cause are first split off, and then reversed, so that effect becomes a cause; the cause, effect."
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The Undoing of Fear
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The metaphor for our creation would have in place a Trinity prior to the "Fall" ... where man (Adam) was (+), woman (Eve) was (-) [NOT in valuation, but in equal but "opposite"] and God was then the UNIFIER (=) their commonality. (+=-) being the 3 parts of the Trinity withIN and the entire "EQUATION" representing the ENTIRETY.
3 in 1 ... 1/2 and 1/2 making 1 whole human ... the sum of their parts WHEN SPIRITUALLY REALIZED becoming THE ONE AGAIN of the ORIGINAL REALM TRINITY, that being a SYNERGY and GREATER THAN the simple sum of the parts.
So, the best we can have is 3 in 1 which is God realized. All less is but a FRACTION of THAT TOTALITY ... (the 1 of God would NOT be a realization from withIN by us, because we would THEN be God)(all other realizations ARE SPIRITUAL (=))
And in life here now we deal in egoistic duality where each thinks themselves a complete 1 ... some males and females think that when they marry they become greater because they "complete" themselves ... in some cases that is true RELATIVELY speaking ... but there is nothing as great in this realm as the 1(-) that knows itself connected spiritually (=) to God (+) ... (+=-) ...
I and when the two opposite sexs marry in true union with each other AND God, then that is as good as a personal relationship can get here on earth ...
IMnsHO.
I knew this oneness from an early age without , "A Course in Miracles", and in spite of my conservative religious "upbringing." I was a mystic in my teens and twenties. I am now Quaker-Christian, although I will always be a mystic at heart. Thank you for bringing the mystic from quiescence, or dormancy.
Any consideration that is ego based does not have full understanding and a working relationship with spirit and therefor is dualistic in nature. Working with Spirit (=) (my designation) makes it a Trinity relationship.
Eastern concepts speak of a Monistic singularity of highest relationship, a union with God as such, but I maintain that they cannot have such and still be here speaking of it. The best we can do as people is to have the direct and real relationship via the Spirit of God as part of a Trinity union ... what comes after this life I can only speculate upon, but I have experienced what I speak of for the here and now.
Ego cannot tolerate the idea of God, the two cannot coexist, God consciousness does not come in separate parts, really it does not come at all, it is a reawakening of "God in God" It is the knowledge that Self was never apart from Self!
I do not claim to have fully experienced this state however I do see glimpses of it daily.
My experience tells me that illusion, or the world is neutral it is an effect, in Reality there is only communion, God with ItSelf.
A monastic perspective still sees something to separate from if I am understanding your use of the word correctly...
The point being, that the concept of a singular all inclusive God would be what I was attempting to describe, like what God was just prior to creation from our perspective of the created, and what God may be again post Omega when we "ALL" rejoin God "back" into such Unity.
But what might best describe my belief, for lack of a better word at the moment, is that it is a panentheistic belief, God being the totality of Creation and all aspects of and withIN creation being a PART of God and the Spirit of God is the connecting medium ... God (+) Spirit (=) Creation (-) ...
The signs/symbols I use are relative, but are interchangeable to fit the relativity of a truth of natural balance, of which the Trinity of (+=-) is what I call the BET, the Basic Equation of Truth as a UNIVERSAL principle (axiom or aphorism).
This can then be applied to a singular human being that is fully balanced between the right brain and the left brain, knowing the spiritual truth (the opening of the third eye in eastern terms) or enlightenment. [right brain (+), left brain (-), corpus callosum (=), physically)(energization of the Kundalini, eastern yoga) etc]
I know that it is "popular" to think that our ego must be fought into submission, it being the lower (small s) self in order for the higher (big S) Self (our Spiritual Soul) to "take charge" of our body ... that I also disagree with because as far as I am concerned, fighting, especially to destruction of anything, is just dualistic ego thought. I have myself chosen to be friends and partners with mySelf ... to me that is as good as it gets here in human experience on earth. It is a balance that I personally equate with human "perfection", as close to being a god withIN God as one might come (note the use of lower case and upper case differentiations).
Some claim that there are people, I believe that you yourself have written about them from your Indian continent experiences, that have become so "One with God" that there is no "higher" place for us/them to "arise" to ... but of course when they get to "that" stage, they really have no use for human activity or relationships, they just are. And I suspect "that" is a choice that people make for themselves, fine with me for them, but not for me, at least not yet, as I have a mission and purpose to perform here yet, to help educate folks that may want to arise from their dualisms into Trinity being ... once you become the singularity that you are speaking of, eastern style, you may be little good for much else, other than being but an example for those who desire to think that a worthwhile goal ...
To each their own though ... of course.
For me there is literally no purpose and no mission, there is just Light and Joy and Peace in which I get to play forever, I suppose it is merely a perspective.
IMnsHO.
I became paralyzed (for the most part) on my left side at the age of sixteen. I gave my life over to the Lord before I had my brain surgery. I have never shed a tear because of my inability to use part of my body. I managed to do most anything I wanted until 2002.
That's when in my mind I became disabled and not before. I am riddled with pain and it may take me 4 hours to do dishes.
I am totally happy and at peace because of the Lord in my life. He is my 1.
I am glad to have you as my friend Robin.
Have I told you that I am in a similar physical condition to you, I think we are around the same age with the same physical limitations.
Well I am glad you read my article and understood it, God is the 1 and we are the same 1, in Him is basically the gist of it and it seems you got that... Be well sweet heart!!!
Thankyou for holding on
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