This morning we are going to talk about the Sonship. Throughout the Course we are continually
referred to as the Son of God and the term "Sonship" and "Son" is used throughout. And
I thought it might be helpful to clarify exactly what Jesus means in the Course when he discusses
the Sonship and God's Son. Let's start first with Jesus. The term "Son of God" is used
in the Course for a particular reason. Throughout history, certainly throughout the last 2100
years when the term Son of God is used or God's Son is used, everybody immediately thinks
of Jesus. Whether they are Christian, Buddhists, Jewish, atheists, Hindus, Muslims, whatever,
the term is always reserved exclusively for Jesus. And so one of the major points of the
Course is that God's Son is One and that we are all alike, we are all the same, and we
are all One. And that Jesus from an ontological point of view, from the point of reality,
is no different from anyone else. In fact, he makes that point rather early in the text
that he is no different from us except in time and time does not exist. And when the
Course talks about the Sonship, it is talking about the conglomerate or the fullness of
God's Son. In reality, in Heaven, the term God's Son and the Sonship would be synonymous
since there are no sons. There is only One Son. But within the illusion where is the
appearance of a seemingly quasi-infinite number of sons, the term Sonship would be used to
include all of us. Another very important point, in fact probably one of the most important
points of this talk this morning, is that when the Course talks about God's Son, it
is not talking about Homo sapiens. Since everything in the world of form is an illusion, then
it would make no sense to say there are some forms of the illusion that are higher or that
are distinguishable in reality from any other. If that were the case, that would be a verification
of the ego's first law of chaos that there is "a hierarchy of illusions." So when people
talk about The Great Chain of Being extending from the single cell, the amoeba, or any other
single-celled organisms all the way up to complex mammals, they are simply asserting
the validity of that first law of chaos. In truth, we are all the same. In fact, there
is a rather provocative passage in the text in Chapter 28 which comes in the form of a
prayer. Jesus is praying to the Father on our behalf, in which he says that you will
come to realize that even "the smallest grain of sand "is part of God's Son...even "the
smallest grain of sand" is part of God's Son. Now this makes no sense when we look at the
Sonship or look at the world of bodies from the perspective of the bodies. It only makes
sense when we raise ourselves above the battleground with Jesus and look back down and then we
recognize that on the level of the mind there is only one thought of separation, taken seriously
by the ego, looked at with gentle laughter by the Holy Spirit. But it's that one thought
that seems to be real, that when we took it seriously we fragmented it out into billions
and billions and trillions upon trillions of pieces, and each of those pieces then is
another form of God's Son. But in actuality it is a form of God's projected Son. It's
the projection of that "tiny, mad idea" of being separate from God, then fragmented into
billions of pieces. So what's important about that is to recognize that since everything
comes from within the mind and "Projection makes perception" that when we make our guilt
real and project it out, we project it onto everything and anything, whether it's another
person, whether it's an animal, whether it's a vegetable, whether it's a rock, whether
it's an automobile, whether it's a grain of sand. And what's important is not the form,
in fact, that is one of the central thoughts in that prayer I just alluded to. It's not
the form that's important, it's the projection. And when we return the projection to the mind,
it no longer makes a difference what that guilt was projected on to. Still another very
important aspect of God's Son when we consider the form of it known as Homo sapiens is that
whether we are talking about a neonate, or we're talking about a fetus, or we're talking
about an infant baby, a child in adolescence, or a mature adult, we are still talking about
God's Son. And we are talking about God's Son as a thought in the mind. So one of the
things people would sometimes say is, well, babies don't have egos because egos are given
to them by the world and it's not developed yet. But that's not true. The ego is a fully
developed thought system in the mind of God's Son, not the brain. Brains certainly within
the illusion of bodies develop, but the ego is not an aspect of the brain. The ego is
a thought that's in the mind. So the point of all this is that we are all the same: grains
of sand, animals, vegetables, or Homo sapiens. We are all the same on the level of the mind
sharing the same thought of separation as well as the correction for that same thought.