Colossians 2:2 · World English Bible
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
The mystery of God, the Father, and Christ is one thing seen from within: Christ is human imagination itself, the buried power that awakens as the dreamer, and the Father is what that power becomes conscious of being. To acknowledge this mystery is to know these are not three figures outside you but the single I AM at the center of your own life.
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MANIFESTATION
The mystery of God, the Father, and Christ is one thing seen from within: Christ is human imagination itself, the buried power that awakens as the dreamer, and the Father is what that power becomes conscious of being. To acknowledge this mystery is to know these are not three figures outside you but the single I AM at the center of your own life. The full assurance of understanding is the settled certainty that imagination is God and shapes all a person sees.
Hearts are knit together in love because all perceived life is animated by the one perceiver, so there is no other to harm or to fear. A person is comforted the moment he grasps that the God he sought is his own awareness of being.
SUFISM
The wish here is that scattered, anxious hearts be comforted and tied together, healing the loneliness of people guarding separate corners. Threads lying loose are weak and cold; woven, they become one warm cloth. The real riches are not private insight but love that binds, so a person knits himself to others instead of hoarding.
And what such joined hearts come to know is the deepest secret of all: behind the many there is One. That mystery is not a fact to collect but a Presence to let in, found in the warmth of hearts that have stopped standing apart.
Manifestation lens
If the life looking back at you were your own, what would you stop fighting today?
He taught that the sense of simply being, the plain "I am" before any description, is the one thing that is truly divine. Sit with it long enough and the search for God somewhere else quietly ends.
The teachers say all the ten thousand things come back to one, and that one is your own true face. Seeing it, there is nothing left standing outside you to defend against.
The text says whoever sees everything in himself, and himself in everything, cannot hate or fear. Harm needs two, and he has stopped finding the second.
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