Luke 10:22 · World English Bible
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
The Son and the Father are known only to each other, which is another way of saying that what a mind truly is cannot be found by looking outward or reasoning inward. The ego builds its guesses about identity from the body and the world, but none of them touch the reality, for that is held between the Source and what it created, in a knowing the separate self has no access to.
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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
The Son and the Father are known only to each other, which is another way of saying that what a mind truly is cannot be found by looking outward or reasoning inward. The ego builds its guesses about identity from the body and the world, but none of them touch the reality, for that is held between the Source and what it created, in a knowing the separate self has no access to.
Yet the knowing is not sealed away. It reveals itself to whoever the awakened mind draws in, passed from one to another as sight is passed to the newly seeing. The meaning rests here: a mind does not deduce who it is; it is shown, and it is shown by the very love it had forgotten was its own.
Father: the Source of the mind, the love that creates and knows. Son: what the mind truly is, the created self held in the Father's knowing. Man: the mind that looks from separation and so cannot find by searching what only love reveals.
MANIFESTATION
The Son exists to reveal the Father, and the secret he finally uncovers is your own identity. When the Son shows you the Father, what you discover is that you are God the Father. No distant deity hands power down to a favorite here. Your own deepest self is recognizing itself, the created turning around and finding it was the creator all along.
David is that Son, the figure of a fulfilled humanity who turns and calls you Father. Everything is delivered to him because everything was always yours. No argument reaches this. The revelation comes from within, one self unveiling to another until the two are seen as one. The end of the search is plain: the being you took for your maker is the being you are.
SUFISM
Light and the eye were made for each other; they are not two strangers meeting. So the Son knows the Father and the Father the Son, one reality seen from two sides. What bolts this door shut is the pride of the clever, who imagine God can be seized by force of thought.
The cure is to stop grasping and wait to be shown, the way a dark room waits for morning. This seeing is a gift freely chosen, and God is present in the very wish to give it.
Christian Psychology lens
Where am I looking for my own worth in places that could never hold it?
That thou art. What you have been searching for in the world is the one who is searching.
You are already what you are looking for, like water crying out from thirst while standing in the river.
The birds cross the world to find the great bird, and at the end of the journey they look and see themselves. The sight was given, not deduced.
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