13: Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say
to them, `The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, `What
is his name?' what shall I say to them?"
14: God said to Moses, "I
AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, `I AM
has sent me to you.'"
15: God also said to Moses, "Say this to the
people of Israel, `The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': this is my name for ever,
and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Nondualistically, the name of God is "I AM". This is easily identified with what we call pure Awareness, I Am, or the Absolute (see Figure 1, Section 10.1).
Now, some familiar passages from John 14:
6: Jesus said to him, "I am the
way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
7:
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know
him and have seen him."
Nondualistically, Pure Awareness, (I Am, Figure 1, Section 10.1), is the means and the end (the way and the truth). If you know your true nature as pure Awareness, you also know the Absolute (unmanifest Consciousness, the Father).
8: Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and
we shall be satisfied."
9: Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you
so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father;
how can you say, `Show us the Father'?
10: Do you not believe that I am in
the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on
my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Philip wants Jesus to show him the Absolute, but Jesus tells him again that only by knowing his own true nature (I Am) can he know the Absolute.
16: And I will pray
the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever,
17:
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.
The other Counselor, or Holy Spirit, is spiritual intuition (see Figure 1, Section 10.1) which few know (it cannot be seen with the world's eyes), but can be known by all who want to.
26: But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all that I have said to you.
27: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to
you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled,
neither let them be afraid.
Your own spiritual intuition will bring you to Reality and peace.
Now, three passages from John 8:
57: The Jews
then said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
58:
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
59:
So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of
the temple.
Jesus tells them that his true identity has always been I Am
(as it is for everyone). (This assertion incited an all-too common reaction among
those who fear having their beliefs challenged.)
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.'Abide in me as I abide in you ... because apart from me you can do nothing'
(John 15:4-5)
John, chapter 10
I and my Father are one.
38: But if
I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe,
that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John, chapter 14
9: Jesus saith
unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the
Father?
John, chapter 17
21: That they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me.
22: And the glory which thou gavest me I have
given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23: I in them, and thou
in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me
Isaiah, chapter
45
King James
7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Revised Standard
7: I form
light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the LORD, who do all
these things
The Kingdom of God is Within You
Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God
should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God is within you.
Thom 113:x His disciples said to Him: When will the Kingdom come? Jesus said: It will not come by expectation; they will not say: "See, here," or "See, there." But the Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it.
Thom 3:x Jesus said: If those who lead you say to you: "See, the Kingdom is in Heaven," then the birds of the heaven will precede you. If they say to you: "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. But the Kingdom is within you and it is without you. If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the Living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty.
What You Expect Has Come
Thom 51:x His disciples said to Him: When will the repose of the dead come about
and when will the new world come? He said to them: What you expect has come,
but you know it not.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28).
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