Letters to Stephen, 3: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Stephen,

You may have wondered why I titled this The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It is because believing that there is separation between ourselves and God is the biggest mistake anyone can make. If God is One, he cannot be two. Although we seem to be "from" him and thus not one, he and we are not two. There is not any division however apart we seem to be. This is what Moses and the prophets were talking about.

When Christ said, "I go away," it was that the power and wisdom of God is hidden in us. "Behold, I am with you alway." He isn't a separate man standing beside the Throne waiting for the long road trip through the sky back here: he is God in each and every one of us. He is divine power that is intelligent/divine intelligence that is powerful. "IT" has become us . . . and we are, unwittingly from birth but destined to learn, IT.

"But it says, 'Jesus Christ—the same yesterday, today, and forever.' Therefore he always was and always will be a man.

I think it is the other way around. We are the man; he always was and always will be spirit, the consciousness of God in all its dynamics and power. The Jesus Christ born of a virgin is the spirit/consciousness of God born in every child born of woman. He is here in us and he is preaching, teaching, and healing. You do hear him, don't you?

And we are part of the divine's process in manifesting. I believe that the pattern of that process is symbolized in the "name" YHWH, or Jehovah. That pattern is the NATURE of God (the Hebrew word translated as 'name' actually means nature), and that nature is our covenant God, "my" God because we are in the pattern. Y the divine life, like Adam; H the divine, loving desire to manifest, like the "rib" of Adam; W the divine will and ability to manifest, like Eve; and H the loving, grateful manifestation unto divinity, like Cain and Abel.

We are the channels of that spiritual power. We have been doing it in our ignorance, and God would have us smarten up. The operant power is our consciousness, the imagination;  but we, like Cain, have all gone astray and forgotten our divinity. Abel testifies that if by imagining God's abundance manifests, then we have found God. Our carnal world view kills that testimony, though it is still there: "If it works, then we have found Him."

I stress that Genesis and Exodus are parallel accounts because if they are, and the are, there is no Devil. I am not saying that there is no evil or demons, but they are not what we think they are. Every man is born ignorant from the amnesia of the flip into being man. They grow up to be our great theologians and preachers. I know what the Bible says, but the war against Satan is in our hearts. Believe what God says about our being God, and whatever Satan you have had in your heart will shout, "Worthy is the Lamb!"

So, if Jesus Christ is only God, no separate man to be worshiped as God except for the spirit of God in us (which we are), what has the Muslim or Jew got to complain about? The world is at war in every quarter . . . for what? to exploit one-another? to collect taxes? to control resources? Every Jew is Jesus Christ; every Muslim is Jesus Christ; every Hindu and Shintoist and animist and . . .?

Nobody believes more than I that Jesus Christ came into world to set men free from sin and death and the pains of hell. He DID that for each of us WHEN HE BECAME US. The crucifixion of the spirit of God is when it becomes born in this flesh AS us. "It is appointed unto man once to die"; then we go through these lives until we wake up to the judgment that we ARE that spirit.

Well, let us wake up and start doing what the spirit who became us would have us do. "The word is in you, that you may do it." Do what? Intentionally create the Paradise of God. How? By repentance and revision. Whatever is sin to us, whatever in our day misses the mark of being right, we forgive and release from our selves. Then we imagine it as it would have been if it had been right.

The experience of the day would have been the influence that carried over into our future, but by letting that go and thoroughly imagining it as right, our memory of the right becomes what is carried over to influence tomorrow. We are called to correct and create the world the Ineffable would have. Not as other Gods, not as little gods, not by becoming God, but by recognizing the truth that we ARE God. Always have been.

So emphasize the positive. Don't let the sun set on your anger. Sin not by letting sin go and revising the day by imagining it to BE the way that it ought to have been. Imagine what would have been the right experience and believe you HAVE RECEIVED that right experience over and over and over vividly, as vivid as heat—giving it all the tones of reality you can muster until you can virtually touch it as it seem real, and then rest in your assumption of that reality.

"Come, buy without price." It doesn't cost us a nickle. Not a penny. See the sick well; the lost found; the hurting healed; the unemployed employed; the sad happy; the stressed relieved; the hungry fed, the homeless homed; the poor rich; the weak strong. What do you do when you pray, anyway? How is this different? God is here. He hears. Believe in faith that you, the spirit of God in you, as you, hears, and the world will reorder itself to manifest what you believe.

How else has prayer ever been answered? "Sometimes the answer is no." Maybe, but more likely we have prayed to a distant, separate God who doesn't even exist. God is One, and if we are Him and pray to another . . . who is to answer? Duh.



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