walk with me and with
me now I
think that's something that's come up a
number of times and the the contrast
between the the
world's monetary system and economics
and so forth and the Kingdom of Heaven
is enormous and I've said to people I
said you
know if I turned over a table of of
coins or of money or even if there were
animals in cages ready to be burnt and
sacrificed you know like the particular
scene you're describing and I turned
over a table can you turn over a table
without being
angry that's really the thing and I say
oh yes you can it can be interpreted
through the ego's
lens
as anger but you can turn a table over
and let the money spill and let the
animals cages crash and everything like
this without being angry again that's
kind of an
extreme example but look at the
crucifixion that's a pretty extreme
example too to the world's eyes through
the ego's lens that looked like a bloody
mess we actually had Camas it's about a
week and a half ago we watched the
passion some people hadn't seen it so I
said oh get ready for some blood to
Splatter I mean the
makeup the the cosmetics in that you
know it almost looked you might as well
have dipped the body down in a pool of
piranhas for about 3 hours let's say
Chomp on away there and then we'll pull
it out and we'll let him go out here and
hang on across I mean that's about how
it looked it was such a bloody mess you
the body was so beaten that you couldn't
have found a place to put another lash
on there by the end Mel gives in
sure flip them over that's flip I mean
it's like on the grill that that they
Char Roy I mean and and yet it's only
through the ego's
interpretation that that seems to be
pain and Punishment you know I had to go
through these metaphysics over and over
but but what we learn as we follow the
metaphysics remember everything is
mental so the mind tells the body what
to
feel the body doesn't feel in fact if
you go through and read the workbook if
you really go through that workbook go
through lesson like
136 he talks about releasing all plans
and all attempts you know to to kind of
be in charge and Jesus puts in a line
and you can tell you practiced well by
this the body should not feel at all he
puts it right in his workbook body
should not feel at all now he's given a
hint about the crucifixion how could the
crucifixion have only meant one lesson
teach only love for that is what you are
how do you get how do you watch The
Passion of the Christ with blood flying
all over here and get teach only love
for that is what you are the body will
not feel it
all there's a beautiful part in the
rancha book because rancha kind of gives
you more of a full-blown where okay they
they arrest Jesus they take him away
they do some of the the beating and the
hitting and all the typical things and
then we get there and he's in this
room and the Apostle John has followed
along and he has got himself into the
same room with the arrested Jesus and
it's so beautiful I love that part of
the ranche book because it's just at
that moment where they are going to
really start
thrashing
Jesus but the body does not feel so to
the Christ mind
there's no problem with
threshing it's like threshing a rock you
know going out and taking a hammer to
the Rocks is that the Rocks like oh ah
oh no you can hit the Rocks you want but
the rock does not feel and the body does
not feel when there's no guilt in the
mind there's no experience of
pain why would love feel pain you know
just ask yourself that's bizarre you
know Jesus
transcended
pain when he accepted the atonement so
that scene that scene that looks to the
ego like a bloody mess there was no pain
involved in that at all hence no
sacrifice involved in it at all and
that's why he could say the meaning of
the crucifixion was teach only love it
was an extreme example that you can't
kill the
Christ and you can't even make the
Christ suffer uh that was a a teaching
so I to get back to my little scenario
John follows he's in the same room with
Jesus and Jesus is about to be
threshed and he simply turns and looks
at his beloved Apostle John and he
nods like that's about enough you need
to leave the room
now like your the your ego is not going
to be able to handle what's coming
next Jesus had no problem with what was
coming next because the Christ has no
problem with a world
world that that it knows is not real
that's what forgiveness showed him that
the images weren't real and nothing can
harm the Christ nothing can harm the
spirit that knows itself as Spirit
that's why you can be
defenseless that's why he was completely
invulnerable though the appearances
would seem to indicate otherwise those
ego appearances of blood and whips and
thrashes and everything are all part of
the ego system Jesus was above the
Battleground Jesus we could say the
Christ mind has transcended the
possibility of pain of torture of
punishment of all those false Concepts
that the ego made so it was so beautiful
I I remember when I first read that in
your an book I just cried and how
loving Jesus was to nod to John
almost like I could save you a
bit of
needless
suffering not you can leave now and and
that's what's so beautiful about this
that's why we do the Mind training we do
the Mind training to come into the state
of
invulnerability we do the Mind training
to be lifted up you know remember the
Joe Cocker song Love Lift us up where we
belong you could say love Lift us up to
to where we are to where we live you
know Lift us up to that Transcendent
state of
mind it's interesting in this day and
age because you watch people actually
walk across hot coals without yelping
and then they show their feet when they
get across and the feet aren't
burned oh talk about mind over matter
and this is Jesus Christ this isn't a
firew walker we're talking about this is
the way the truth and the
life you know
what's some lashes what's some some
Nails piercing through arms and
legs you know this is the living Christ
demonstrating the reality of
Eternity and the
nothingness of time and space that's
exactly what this crucifixion is about
demonstrating what is real and true and
what is not and the Holy Spirit used
that little skit to make that a teaching
example and then he goes on to say that
that was his part and you will not be
given that part he even goes on to call
it the last useless
Journey Hallelujah you for
that we don't need any sequels to the
passion Mel's going to have to make some
comedies with Danny Glover or something
get back to those
comedies because we don't need a sequel
there it's unnecessary that was the last
useless
journey and and what he's saying is
follow where I'm thinking think with me
in my teachings in the course and yeah
and see that this
world is the last useless Journey if you
want to think of it from a
reincarnational perspective how about
making this your last
lifetime wouldn't that be
nice that's precisely what a course of
Miracles is all
about it's not really I know with Gary's
books it's all about the the next Lo
time but this hey you don't hang around
me if you expect that stuff I I'm not
teaching about future lifetimes I'm
sorry we aren't watching a movie like
the island to talk about you want to go
to your next
lifetime you will achieve enlightenment
in your next
lifetime go ahead squander this lifetime
you'll get it in the next lifetime
you're not going to find me teaching
that because it's not about that you'll
find more me sharing be not content with
future happy happiness for it is not
your just reward for you have caused for
Freedom now we have to face the power of
now we have to face the
immediacy of Salvation that's a whole
section in Jesus's book The immediacy of
Salvation so thank you for your courage
walk with me and talk with me