Hebrews 1:3 Meaning His Son Is the Radiance

The light that shines through form is the same light everywhere, and in the awakened being it shines without obstruction, the brightness of an unseen glory made visible. To uphold all things by the word of his power is to recognize that one consciousness sustains every form, that nothing exists apart from the Being underneath it.

When the work of purification is complete, when the false self and its accumulated wrongs are seen through and released, there is a sitting down. The striving ends. You rest in the stillness from which all action came, no longer driven, because you have returned to the source that was upholding everything all along.

The Son here is your own imagination, the exact image of the Father, which is awareness of being, the I AM in you. He is called the brightness of that glory because imagining is the shining-out of pure awareness into form, and he upholds all things by the word of his power because whatever you assume and speak inwardly as true sustains the world you then see. Nothing stands except by that inner word.

A sin, in this reading, is a missing of the mark, an assumption you no longer wish to keep. Imagination purges it by itself, without help, simply by assuming the wished-for state instead. Then it "sits down at the right hand," meaning the creative power rests in the position of authority within you. Your own imagining is the maker and sustainer of your circumstances.

Sunlight is not the sun, yet no one who feels its warmth doubts the sun is present. So here a brightness is called the exact showing of a hidden splendor, and every steady thing is held up by a single word. The heart that grasps at credit for its own good works forgets this. Real cleansing is done alone and unseen, without an audience.

A cure is near: let a person do one kindness where no one can watch, and hand the outcome back to the source of all warmth. What glory a life has is borrowed light, present in every ordinary hour it never made and cannot keep.