John 8:28 · World English Bible
Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
Only when the mind lifts its own innocence into full sight does it recognize what it truly is. What fear meant for destruction becomes the very moment of knowing, for the awakened Self was never harmed and cannot be, and to raise it up is to see it plainly at last.
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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Only when the mind lifts its own innocence into full sight does it recognize what it truly is. What fear meant for destruction becomes the very moment of knowing, for the awakened Self was never harmed and cannot be, and to raise it up is to see it plainly at last. The mind then understands that this Self does nothing on its own; it acts and speaks only from the love that is its source.
Here is the end of the belief in a separate will. A mind joined with love takes no private authorship of what it says, but lets love teach and speak through it, and in that surrender it finds not a loss of self but the recovery of what it always was.
Son of man: the innocence within the mind, the true Self that fear would harm yet only reveals when it is raised into full sight The Father: the love that is the mind's source, from which alone the awakened Self speaks and acts
EGO & BEING
When the false self is finally lifted up and seen through, a great realization dawns: I am not the small, separate me I always took myself to be. Beneath that personal self there is I Am, the simple awareness of being, the same presence that looks out of everyone.
And from that depth comes a knowing: I do nothing of myself. The separate self is not truly the doer. When you are fully present, action no longer comes from the anxious, calculating ego but flows through you from the deeper source of life within. You stop straining to be the author of everything, and life begins to act through you from that source instead of from the mind that believed it had to do everything alone.
ESOTERIC
The Son of man is the human awareness born in flesh, and lifting it up is the raising of that awareness along the spine until it recognizes its own source. Knowing comes only after the lifting, because while consciousness stays low it cannot see what it truly is; elevation itself is the act of recognition.
The I AM is the pure sense of being that underlies every thought, doing nothing of itself because it draws all it says from the Father, the unmanifest ground within. A person comes to know that the deepest self speaks not from personal will but from what it receives from the silent origin inside.
Son of man: the human awareness born into flesh, awaiting its own elevation Father: the silent, unmanifest ground within from which the inner self takes all it knows
Christian Psychology lens
What would you say differently today if you were not the one who had to be right about it?
The sage acts without claiming to be the doer, and so the work is whole. Take credit and you have already made it smaller.
Act, but do not imagine yourself the sole author of the act. What moves through you is larger than the small self keeping score.
The reed flute makes music only because it is hollow. Its beauty is not something it owns, it is what passes through once it stops being full of itself.
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