Words From the Self: On the subject of sin

"You are perfect.

There is no sin, save the belief IN sin, which holds that you and I can be thrust apart. And even this is not sin, but an error. Verily, verily I say unto you, there is no error you can make that would warrant you being "cast out of Eden." To punish you for your mistakes would be like a parent punishing a child for tumbling to the ground while it is learning how to walk. The child will have mastered walking when it ceases to fall. And you will have attained Selfhood when you cease to make errors.

This may sound as if it is the height of all arrogance to proclaim your perfection. You may liken it to the sin of Lucifer ("Lucifer" being one of many symbols you have made upon which to project your self-hate so that you may bear it more easily). "How vain," you may cry, "To assert humanity's perfection when the whole world bears witness to the contrary!"

But I tell you this: all the so-called "evils" of the world occur precisely because humanity will not see that My perfection is in it. The things over which you fight, steal, maim, manipulate and murder in order to "get" arise out of fear, the belief that there is something within you that you lack, whether it be fame, fortune, love . . . it matters not what the idol is. That you believe posessing something outside of yourself will be the catalyst for your completion is truly the root of all error..

To the contrary, it is arrogance to believe that you are NOT perfect! If you or your brother or sister have sinned then I have failed, for I created the both of you. Thus, you make mock of Me and all my creation. The world of despair that you now perceive is your statement to Me that you have stolen power away from Me and created something unlike what I am. Only in the eyes of the fearful can your brothers and sisters "commit" sin. Only in the eyes of the fearful is hell even a possibility. And only in the eyes of the fearful can My greatest gift to you--your perfection--be sacrilege to accept.

I know the truth about who and what you are. I know that you are holy. I know that you are Love Manifest. I know that My will is your will. Right now, you are as one who staggers blindly through a nightmare. It is only in nightmares that your worst imaginings about yourself are possible. But when you wake up, you breathe a sigh of a relief, knowing it was all a dream.

Any view you hold of yourself that is anything but that of pure grandeur and complete perfection is a nightmare come true. The choice to end the nightmare is in your hands. I will not interfere with you, because to do so would be to teach you that your choices do not matter. But I stand at the ready, for I am able to assist you in bringing you out of the nightmare and into waking life. Merely make the choice for Selfhood, and I will fly to you in an instant--or rather, it will have seem that I have "flown" to you, for in truth, I am always with you.

Always, and in all ways."

Blaise Pascal

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

Blaise Pascal

On Madness

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” --Nikos Kazantzakis

Words from the Self: Love Versus Condemnation

"I am the Alpha and the Omega. The First and the Last. The Beginning and the End. I was, am, and forever shall be.

Herein lies all the peace you shall ever need. For you are in Me, as I am in You. It is not your obedience that I require, for what need have I of servants, when I am EVERYTHING? It is not your worship that satisfies Me, because what I am is Love, which 'requireth nothing.' Love is infinite, and when Love gives of itself, then it is able to know the joy of experiencing itself. For this reason, the only way to receive love is to give it. For when you give love to your brothers and sisters, they become the witness by which you see that love was truly in you. For how can you give something away unless you first possessed it?

So love one another. In doing so, you will know that love has always been yours.

There are those that would make me out to be a jealous avenger, mighty in wrath and eager to punish. And in the same breath, they would speak of the "love" I bestow on those that would keep my commandments. But never do they ask why I would find it necessary to issue commandments in the first place. If I wanted something specifically done, would I not simply make it so? That aside, if I did find it necessary to give commandments, why would I then make it possible for you to break them, and then punish you for it? The whole idea is laughable, and you would see it as such if it were not for the fact that so many of you cling to this madness with such ferocity that you have tried to destroy yourself and others in order to defend it.

You cannot oppose My will because you ARE My will. When I say that I am in You, and that You are in Me, I am not being sentimental. This is the nature of Our relationship. For you to oppose Me is to oppose yourself. For Me to punish you is to punish Myself.

There is only Me.

But do not condemn those who fear Me in such a manner. Instead, recognize their call for love, and answer it in My name. And when you show them that you are capable of loving Me without fearing Me, you will truly be a light unto the world, and those that see you shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."

"Your task is not to seek for love...

". . . but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false."

from "A Course In Miracles"

The Parable of the Poisoned Well

There was once a wise king who ruled over a vast city. He was feared for his might and loved for his wisdom. Now in the heart of the city, there was a well whose waters were pure and crystalline from which the king and all the inhabitants drank. When all were asleep, an enemy entered the city and poured seven drops of a strange liquid into the well. And he said that henceforth all who drink this water shall become mad.

All the people drank of the water, but not the king. And the people began to say, "The king is mad and has lost his reason. Look how strangely he behaves. We cannot be ruled by a madman, so he must be dethroned."

The king grew very fearful, for his subjects were preparing to rise against him. So one evening, he ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the well, and he drank deeply. The next day, there was great rejoicing among the people, for their beloved king had finally regained his reason.



--Author Unknown

The Gnostic Vow

The boundless forms cannot be awakened:
I vow to help awaken them .

The infinite chain of attainment cannot be escaped:
I vow to escape it.

The limitless questions cannot be asked:
I vow to ask all of them.

The knowledge of self and God (gnosis) cannot be attained:
I vow to attain it.

from The School of Allogenes (http://www.snant.com/allogenes/)