John 17:23 Meaning I in Them

When the awakened teacher lives within a mind and the Source lives within the teacher, the whole is present in each part, and separation is revealed as the one thing that was never true. To be made perfect in one is not to be improved but to be seen without the guilt that made a mind imagine it stood alone.

So the world comes to know that love was sent and that it holds every mind in the same regard, for it looks upon a place where a brother is loved exactly as the teacher is loved. There are no degrees in that love; the recognition of one mind's innocence is the recognition of all.

Father: the Source of love dwelling in the awakened teacher, the wholeness held unbroken through every mind it reaches World: the field of shared perception that learns love is real by seeing one brother held in the same innocence as the teacher

Spoken as a farewell prayer, this asks that many be made one, and what keeps them scattered is each self standing apart, guarding its own corner. The fault is that separateness, the pride that says a person is his own. The cure is to let the wall down and be joined rather than stand out, so the boundary between one and another thins.

The oneness is not a crowd huddled together but a single love flowing through each, as one light fills many windows and stays one light. The world reads God's nearness in how unbroken that love looks.