John 1:11 Meaning He Came to His Own

Love comes to the mind as its own most familiar truth, not as a visitor from far away, and still the mind can turn it away at the door. This is the strange refusal at the heart of fear: the self declines the very thing that is most itself, treating what it is as though it were a threat. Nothing foreign is being rejected. The mind is refusing home.

Yet the refusal changes nothing in what love is; it only delays the moment of remembering. What was not received waits, patient and unhurt, because it cannot be diminished by being denied. The mind that shut its own truth out has lost nothing but the peace of a door it can open whenever it chooses.

The one who comes is your own imagination, the very power that made the world you live in. It enters the man who does not know it for what it is. His own are his senses and his reasoning, the faculties nearest to him, and they turn the creative power away because it shows them nothing the eye can check. What a man beholds within is the maker of what he meets without, yet he greets it as a stranger and trusts the report of his eyes instead.

God is buried in humanity here. He has come into the flesh that is his and is unrecognised by it. Scripture here is your own autobiography, the account of the power in you overlooked by the self it lives in. A man walks past his own imagining every day. He takes it for idle fancy while it quietly becomes his life. The one he fails to receive is himself, the source he sought everywhere but within.

The awakening light descends into the very body and faculties that belong to it, and they fail to know it. What is most native to a person, the higher self, arrives in the flesh it was always meant to inhabit, yet the ordinary powers of that flesh do not open to it. The stranger at the door is no stranger at all but the inmost life come home, unrecognized by the household it owns. This is the ordinary condition of a person before awakening: the divine current already present in the body while the mind, occupied with the outer world, lets it pass by unwelcomed.