Uncovering the Truth of Jesus
In a new light, I hear the words of Jesus differently ~ as my spiritual journey unfolds daily, and I feel such gratitude for these understandings.
When he said, ‘If I have forgiven you, you ARE forgiven” he was not suggesting that he had different powers above us to forgive God’s children, although this is how it was interpreted by his superiors and ultimately what he was killed for. It is also what mainstream Christians believe, for the most part.
What is truly meant by that, in light of new understanding for me, is that when we forgive another, they are forgiven because our interpretation of them is what they are in our mind, and we, being mind, make what we see real to ourselves. In other words, if they are forgiven in our mind, they are truly forgiven! Our viewpoint is all there is, and in this ‘all’ is all of us.
Jesus knew that by his mind’s ability to see all the world as forgiven, they were forgiven because the son of God, is the perceiver, the dreamer of the dream….the Master of the earth. We, together, are that Son, and we are truly One.
Related directly to this is his view on giving and receiving. He said that ‘to give is to receive.’ We receive only what we give, by giving it. Because we are one with others in mind, there truly are no others separate from us, and so all we give, we give unto ourselves. But it must be received by us to have been given. As we give, we receive unto ourselves the thing given.
Forgiveness falls under the same rules. As we give it to others, we are forgiven by the giving of it. We ‘feel’ (receive) what we give to others; if we feel hatred toward another, we feel hatred of ourselves. If we give love to another, without any kind of judgment, we feel that unconditional love toward ourselves.
If you have not identified as yet the hatred of self as the ego’s goal, you have not looked within and seen the enemy. If you think your anger at another or hatred or judgment of another is about them, you are in denial, and have not sought to see the truth, but only to cover it up.
And without understanding one of Jesus’ most misunderstood phrases, ‘I and the Father are one’, we cannot understand any of what Jesus expressed about his life and his journey of enlightenment. ‘I and the Father are one’ tells us that we are not our body ~ but far, far more.
How? Because obviously, he was not one with God in body. How could any human being claim such a thing without the understanding that he was not TRULY his body, but knew he existed on a different level, which he called The Kingdom of Heaven. He said the Kingdom of Heaven was ‘at hand.’ This means that it is within us. He also came right out and clearly said ‘The kingdom of Heaven is within.’ Both are saying roughly, the same thing. To say ‘at hand’ would translate to ‘at arms length’ or ‘as close to yourself as your hand is close to you.’
To say that he and God were one was not meant to separate him from us. Quite the opposite! It was a proclamation of profound and new understanding that this man Jesus was having 2000 years ago. And he most likely proclaimed it in gratitude and joy on his knees, not in hopes of other’s worshipping him on their knees. He understood that we are one with each other, and therefore, we are ultimately one with God, being his children. This was his message, and his mission.
‘Seek and ye shall find’ was an unequivocal statement of truth from Jesus to us. And he was not talking about anything in particular. He was telling us that which we put first, will be what we will have! That which we seek, will be our inheritance. And so, by this general statement of finding what we seek, if we ‘seek first the kingdom of Heaven’ we will find that first, and all else will be joyous. Life, and death, will take on a new meaning entirely.
Whatever the son of God seeks, will be found because we are God’s son. And God’s son does God’s Will. Our awareness of His Will brings us to the completion of It. It is inevitable, and although it seems it is dependent upon 'time', it is outside of time in our awareness, not in our intellectual grasp of it. There is no way that God’s extension of Himself could not be fulfilled and be the Whole of what He thought. We are His Thought....and all we need for salvation is to be aware of being His Thought and not our own.
I rejoice in real gratitude, which is joy. Jesus has come again, unto us, within us, in our clear and bright understanding, of his eternal light.
Diane L. Perretto
