Now the time has come to see clearly and to speak clearly. Not so much through the metaphorical image making of the mind, types and shadows (that is, the mind dominated by the ego perceptions) but by minds and hearts that are released from the prison of self perception created by the experience of our incarnation. As the memory of our pre-mortal existence is awakened in us and we feel the superb, ecstatic joy of this knowing flooding our souls, we can step back, if you will, from our physical-ness or our mortality and begin to see ourselves from the point of view of our own eternalness. See ourselves as the Father sees us, the perspective of an endless life, an existence without parental biological experience, an existence in the greater light of knowledge that has always freely existed in the higher realms, priests forever after the Order of Melchizedec.

The Sun And The Moon

Now we finally begin to understand what the writer of Hebrews really meant when he said: “But we see Jesus.” For two thousand years we have looked at him and mostly we have seen our own limitations, our need for forgiveness, our “missing the mark.” True, we have experienced the joy of grace and atonement that Paul revealed in what he called “my gospel,” but we have never truly heard the greater message that Jesus came to bring. We have not heard the truth that he manifested and made so powerfully clear and plain. The early apostles and the early church, in the strong after-wake of the experience of the law and standing yet under the shadow of the cross of atonement, could not see the whole truth, the fullness of the mission of Jesus. If the beginning of the law is as a reflected glory to be compared to the light of the moon, then the beautiful shadows and patterns in the tabernacle, the shedding of the blood, the entering into the Holy place, all the things that Paul ministered, are like the light of the sun. This light was so brilliant to our eyes, eyes that were only accustomed to the lunar light of Moses, law and condemnation. Yet in all this, we never imagined that there could be another awareness that was so vastly greater than the experience of the upper room or mount Sinai, just as the stars of heaven exceed the glory of this one star we call our Sun.

There are hints in the writings of the New Testament that would give a peek at this greater knowing of which we speak. One place, when speaking of going on to perfection (completeness) the author says: “This we will do, if God permit.” In another place it is written: “Until we all come to…a perfect man.” And finally, in the book of the Revelation: “And behold I saw a new heaven and a new earth… and the city had no need for the light of the Sun or the Moon to shine in it for God himself and the Lamb are the light of it.”

The Greater Message Of Jesus

So we come then to that greater mystery that was unveiled in the incarnation of the Logos that walked among us as Jesus of Nazareth. We see clearly now that he took on his humanity to show us without disputation or doubt that we also clothed ourselves with humanity. We see that his purposeful self-reference as being the Son of Man was for the purpose of awakening us to self-realization. To be the “Son of Man” is a great and glorious commission. Not the ego self that has limit ed our perception for these long ages, but the realization of the true self, the one that we are in Christ, and the one that incarnated into human form as he also did. We finally understand that we were crucified with Christ, not so much that our personal physical bodies hung on a wooden stake but rather that we too were crucified from the beginning into the experience of flesh, crucified on a physical form hung on the cross of Time and Space, separation. As he hung there between heaven and earth, he felt and knew intimately and intensely, sharing totally with us all the pain and agony of our human experience...the darkness that covered our land in not being able to see any longer from the divine point of view...the piercing pain in the hands and the feet speaking of the victimization and limitation of seemingly being powerless to change our lives…powerless to heal our bodies or the bodies of our children… powerless so often to do what we know to be right. He was wounded so that we could see what we refused to let ourselves feel and experience, the brokenness of our psyches, the brokenness of our relationships. The wounds of rejection on his back to let us feel and see the rejection in us not only of each other but much more so the rejection of the truth and knowing of our true source, pathway and destiny, our Father.

What is it that makes that gruesome experience of a man hung with spikes on a stake so beautiful to us? It is because he hung there, with all the pain of our human experience, and never rejected it. In fact he remembered in every moment of his pain to be mindful of his mother, to forgive those that pierced him. He never disconnected with his own divine knowing. Why? For you. For me. That we might all know that he and his experience are a true image of who we are. You were wounded, you were pierced, you were mocked and YOU ALSO LIKE HIM NEVER LOST TOUCH WITH YOUR GREATER TRUE KNOWING, YOUR DIVINE SELF, YOUR ETERNAL SOURCE, YOUR FATHER! Only in your mind did you accept the thought that you are separate. Only in your mind did you create thoughts of sin and failure. And only in your perceptions were you powerless, weak and unable to walk as a spirit man. Your Father and the hosts of heaven do not see you that way. Why have we not been able to see this mystery for all these long ages? Two thousand years have passed, years in which we burned one another at the stake of religion, whether in actual flames in the middle ages or with words of condemnation in this last century. True, we have experienced forgiveness and even greater than that, we know of the grace of God, but the glory of Divine Knowing, the Dawning of Light and Truth is reserved for this day, this hour. Now we can see as we are seen and know as we are known by the higher dimensions.

The Orion Nebula: Birthplace Of Stars

There is a final epilogue to my tale of Orion. A dear friend of ours sent us a Star map showing all the constellations. On the reverse side there is, greatly magnified, a small area in the Constellation of Orion called the Orion nebula. Here is what the National Geographic Society has to say about this Nebula: “Black curtains of interstellar dust frame a window into the Orion nebula’s NURSERY, among the most active Star-birth regions known…. In a few cases a cloud is too far away to be illuminated and the young star inside the cloud becomes visible—ringed by a dark disk of debris that was left behind as the star developed. One such protoplanetery disk…may be the beginning of a planetary system similar to our own.” What am I saying? What can we hear? There are worlds of perception created through us. Stars of truth and knowing are being formed in the heavens, the opened consciousness of man, and its all happening because you believe, because you trust, because you allow yourself to remember and to know those things about yourself that Jesus came to tell you so many years ago but that you could not hear.

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