“And so, my people, what is it to be spirit in flesh?” he paused, “and how have we come to be here?”
He stopped speaking, his questions alive in the air around us as the words echoed forth from the mountains.
There was an expectant hush, and the people leaned forward as he began to speak again. He looked at them, each one, drawing from them the flame of truth within and joining it with his own. They felt at one with him then, trusting his words and his intention.
“It is as this,” he continued:
In the flesh is the longing for life and death
at the same moment, unresolved!
In the flesh is the longing for freedom and the need of security
at the same moment, unresolved!
This is a partial quote from the Sermon on the Mount as Mary Magdalene remembers it in I Remember Union: The Story of Mary Magdalena by Flo Aeveia Magdalena. ( It’s available for $1.08 ! Get it now - it is amazing) The entire Sermon is here in my post Let You Light So Shine Before Men. Beautiful!
For me, personally, this version has a lot more juice, more practical application that the Bible version.
SACRILEGE .. You cry!!!
Yeah, well….I just use what works.
I want to address the idea, today, of reconciling your need of security (How am I gonna pay the rent?) with your longing for freedom (I want the peace of God).
It’s important to remember that the two worlds never meet. Refer to Lesson 130, and Chapter 18, section 9 of the text. The two worlds just do not meet. Not only that, it is impossible to even SEE two worlds. And yet we continue the vain attempt at cramming our “spiritual world” into our temporal world. Why is that?
I’ll tell ya why we do it.
It’s because we really, really like having heaven on our own terms. tsk. It’s true.
And….it’s because our minds really do strive for wholeness. We keep pushing toward singularity, because in a very big way, we always know that is what is true. Singularity, Wholeness, Atonement.
Only we can’t have it here. This is where it isn’t!
It’s like the Man said….as we experience ourselves here, in this world, it feels unresolved. And it is. And it bugs us.
But that’s OK - that is why we have each other. We remind each other - “Hey - it’s OK - let’s do the lessons (see Lisa. She is doing the lessons in A Course In Miracles in her blog: Gorgeous for God -) and continue in our conscious contact with God. That feels right, that experience is true. And we won’t let our right hand know what our left hand is doing. We won’t try to resolve the two, because it ain’t gonna happen.”
It’s the condition of this world, to be unresolved. It’s the condition of being spirit in flesh. It will pass.
Until then, just pay unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and Rock On!
Reality is unchanged!
Be glad!
Stop with the rub!
Let it be and move on….into the love that is all around you.
“In the darkness of the night is the light of the world visible through
your choices and your actions.
Let your light so shine among men that they will know your Father
and Mother who are in heaven!
Yours is the mission of peace, my people.
Yours is the mission of love, my people.
Search no more!
Long no more!
What you seek the Gods have given you.
Claim, each of you, the right to the divinity of your birth.
Give to no one the power to rule your heart, for the knowledge of
the Lord and Goddess is within you and saith…
…Blessed are you that shine light on the darkness
of the world, for you will find the kingdom of heaven.
So remember the world you want to hold supreme in your mind and have no concern for the needs of the day, the landlord, or the oil company! You have been given the means to rise above these things and move beyond them into a life with meaning:
Let your light so shine before men
that the people may know of the truth
because you are!
I love you………………and Thanks for stopping by.
And Happy Memorial Day!! We know there is no death, But all those soldiers who scared the crap out of themselves to protect us. to show their Love. Thank you. They all demonstrated the greatest Love there is in this world - to lay down your life for your brother. My father did it and it changed him forever. All those guys in the middle east - I love them, God Bless Them. They have dedicated themselves to a greater purpose and all that goes with that. Incredible.
Thank you so much……………………………
May 26th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Beautiful. You hit it right on the nail, especially with this “it feels unresolved. And it is. And it bugs us.”
Exactly! it’s so uncomfortable sometimes to be following Jesus, but this is it! This is what I want! This is the greatest party of them all. The greatest adventure I have ever seen. I want the peace of God, above all else. I want to be happy, and to keep standing in the world that I want.
the pay the rent/follow jesus issue never seems to resolve itself, but you say it best: “but that’s ok”
Your right. It is okay.
Thank you very much!
“We won’t try to resolve the two, because it ain’t gonna happen!”
amen. Great post. This is an impossible situation, and that’s why it’s certain. In God all things are certain.