The 'One' that always IS, no matter the reflections......
The 'One' that always IS, no matter the reflections......
Ok, I only added the other three because of the "at first glance" look of it might be thought of as triune or trinity, and I wanted to stay away from that.
The end of the passage says something that I already believed before I have ever seen this, That God is in everything.Or that everything is in God, look under the stone and you will find me... Just Beautiful
The classic phrase, "raise the stone, split the wood, there I Am" on the face and soul of it, denotes a pantheistic sense of Spirit, for the primal consciousness of 'God' is all-pervading, nothing existing outside of it. Jesus identity with 'God' so permeated his being, that he could with full realization say that he was One with the Spirit-Father, the All. In that pure God-consciousness, there was only 'that' (One Alone, the Infinite 'I Am' pervading all, transcending all).
While 'stone' and 'wood' may have various analogies, I see the pantheistic nuance as being more primal here, besides allusions towards the crucifixion, since the import of Jesus teachings was mostly in his teaching-word itself, while any other temporal coming or going is only a passing form or lesson for the soul to 'learn' along the way, in our ascension back towards the
Pleroma.
But maybe freelight would expound on the God baggage for us.
- we might say up front, some baggage is more like 'garbage' compared to a pure spiritual insight or realization of Reality itself, which we may call 'God', 'Truth', 'Spirit', 'Light', 'Life', 'Source', 'Consciousness', etc. I still use the single quotation marks around 'God' (for nuance effect), to refer to what is classically and metaphysically
defined as 'Deity', to include every
possible definition, whether 'personal' and/or 'non-personal', since 'Deity includes all, and is all. Again for those not familiar with the terms I use, you'd have to follow my writings, and become familiar with the 'language', which includes many wonderful 'dialects', or whatever I may be drawing from the Universal Akasha (the Spirit, Aether, collective consciousness, etc.).
Infinity knows no end or bounds, hence knowledge or revelation is always 'progressive', even if the original-light behind all remains unchanging in essence, the relative-perception of mind receiving, interpreting, translating the 'light' undergoes apparent change or modifications where space and time impose their conditioning. Hence the 'light' at the heart of all, remains immutable, ....only the reflections undergo apparent modifications in consciousness, hence the illusion of time and limited dispensations.
Besides what commentary on saying #30 has been shared,....whether there are 3, 2 or 1....'God' is still there, since the indivisible One is
omnipresent, no matter what numerical divisions or multiples exist in the world of 'form' or 'relations'. The original unit or the "1" ever remains the root-value, no matter how many additions you add to it, unto infinity.
A solitary one can contemplate 'The One' without the distraction of images or forms in his own meditation, yet still, 2, 3 or more can have the power of amplification if their will, intent and group-consciousness is in total harmony. The 'I Am' is always individually in one person, no matter how many individuals form a 'collective'. There is ever the power of "1" and the power of its multiplication, but the root-power originates from the original unity.
The "lift a stone, cleave wood" metaphor is also found in saying #77. Has anyone seen the movie '
Stigmata"? - it features the Church's suppression of these sayings of Jesus, hilighting saying #30/77, having an interesting 'conspiracy theory' plot, besides the 'stigmata' phenomena thrown in for special effects or shock value.
pj
