Everything is patterns. We are patterned after our Creator, the Divine, by whatever name, title, or expression we choose to give (God is limitless; choose whatever name or expression speaks to you in this moment). The pattern our physical body takes, the pattern our life has, our very existence: these things are an expression of the Source some call “God.”
God is expressed through us, even as we who have been made aware of this Source—those who have been illuminated; been “made alive”—are expressing God. (These are different ways to express the same concept.)
God made flesh.
Our very existence is God experiencing Itself.
Our evolution is God evolving.
Our growth is God’s growth.
Even our pain is God’s pain, and our anger God’s anger.
And our healing is God healing Itself.
On the other hand, darkness—works of the flesh, or evil works—is not a pure expression of God, not a Creation of Source.
(Here, I am not speaking of the Darkness of the Womb of God, but I am speaking of darkness in the context of what many people call “sin.” In Christianity, however, this word “sin” is often overused, misunderstood, and misapplied, and so I use the terms “darkness, works of the flesh, or evil” to describe this concept. But use whatever word works best for you.)
This darkness, these evil works, is an anomoly, a cancer, a sickness created by the hearts of those who have not been illuminated by the Light of Christ. It comes from multiple generations of humans who have not understood the essence of God, and from not understanding our connection, of how inextricably intertwined We are, the Divine We and the Human We. It comes from multiple generations of humans who live in a state of sensing separation from the Divine.
We, Divine and Human, are One, the Human being a physical expression of the Divine (although, all of Creation is an expression of God), made in the very image—the pattern—of the Divine. When we feel lack, it is because we are seeing and experiencing separation and not the Unity.
The separation we sense can be thought of as our Individuality, and we see it as a separation because we misunderstand what Individuality means.
Some people see Collectiveness as a negative, and others see Individuality as a negative. But neither are negative. One is not greater than or less than the other. Both are a beautiful thing and both work together. They should work together. They are meant to work together. It is only when there is an imbalance that darkness (sickness, a cancer of the soul) creeps in.
Divine Consciousness is made manifest and expressed through our Individuality.
Put another way: our Individuality is a manifestation of God expressed through singular Humans.
But this Individuality does not mean separation, because we are all connected.
It simply means that God is expressed in a limitless number of individual ways (Individuality), because God—Universe, Source, the Divine, the Father, the Mother, Spirit—is limitless, is always expanding and creating, always growing and evolving. And as a Collection of Individuals, We represent the totality of expression of the Divine Universal Consciousness within each moment.
This is Individual and Collective expression working in unity. One does not, cannot, exist without the other. The whole of Divine Universal Consciousness expresses and manifests Itself through Individuality, and if we try to separate one from the other, darkness enters in through the heart that lives in that state of separation, however false that sense of separation may be.
If we understand our Individuality and how we are all individual expressions and manifestations of God, then we can understand our collective expression of God, and we will have no lack in anything. Because God lacks nothing. There is no lack or void, no vacuum, within God. The lack or void exists only in our minds from our ignorance, our “lack” of understanding, when we see our Individuality as evidence of our separation, and when we work out of that separation that we have created within our mind.
But we are not separated. We are not separate. We are forever One, in Holy Unity with the Divine. There is no lack. There is no need. When we feel lack, we remember Who we are (we are God being expressed and experiencing Itself), and we simply receive; and God, through the Spirit, rushes in to fill the void that we had created with our mind.
May you be filled with the love of God, the Light of Christ, and Peace of the Spirit.
May you remember and live out of who you are.
God made flesh.
Sacred Text for Contemplation
John 14:20, John 17:11, Romans 8:18-19, 29, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Philippians 3:20-21, Galatians 2:20, 1 John 3:2, 2 Peter 1:4, etc
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