On Day 263, I wrote:
You cannot read today’s reading from the idea, “I am a person,” and understand it. “I” cannot mean “me and not others.” “I” must mean consciousness, and it must include all things in manifestation as “I,” or the meaning in today’s reading will be lost.
That’s true with today’s reading too. Today’s reading is not talking to Bill or Harry or Sally, or anyone else with an individual name. Today’s reading talks to consciousness, which misperceives itself as Bill and Harry and Sally, and every other apparent individual. However, the point of the reading is this:
There are no individuals. It is one consciousness appearing as many, just as one heating system blows through many vents to heat several different rooms in a house. It is all one heat. In the same way, the consciousness that enlivens many different personality-minds is all one consciousness.
As Jesus said in the Book of John in the Bible:
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” ~ John 14:2-4, English Standard Version
Likewise, today’s reading says:
I have come to help you remove your faith from the illusion, which you have believed in until now, and place it firmly with one mind (consciousness), which is not separate. With your faith placed in the one mind, you can look at the one mind, see the beliefs that have been accepted there, and then choose to use the one mind to peacefully see another way.
Choosing to look at the image of the world as the reflection of consciousness while abiding with attention on truth is how we “prepare a place” for consciousness, so that it may come and be “where I am.”
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