Matthew 24:5 Meaning For Many Will Come in My Name

Every impostor that comes speaking with authority is a thought that borrows the voice of truth to sell the belief in separation. The ego is a master of counterfeit; it wears the robes of what is holy and says, follow me, so that the mind will trust fear while believing it has trusted love. A mind is deceived not because the lie is clever but because it wants what the lie is selling, a self set apart and special.

The only guard is to ask what a teaching leaves you feeling. What comes in the name of Christ and yet breeds fear did not come from Christ at all. Truth does not deceive, because it has nothing to gain from you; it only reminds you what you are.

Many: the many thoughts the mind entertains, each pressing for belief and allegiance.

The many who come claiming to be Christ are the false lights of the lower mind, the impostor thoughts and inflated states that borrow the name of the anointed self and pose as the real thing. Within a person the awakening throws up counterfeits, ego risings that call themselves enlightenment, feelings and beliefs that dress in spiritual authority they do not possess, and these deceive because they wear the true name while lacking the true nature. The genuine Christ is the anointed consciousness born deep within, not any of these surface pretenders.

As the inner search intensifies, the mind produces convincing forgeries of its own goal, each announcing itself as the arrival. The deception is that the false self keeps saying it is already Christ, and the seeker who believes the announcement stops short of the real birth.

Christ: the anointed higher consciousness born within, the authentic self the false lights only imitate