If you think about your connection or your relationship to Jesus
the first thing I would say is, "What do you mean by relationship?"
What does that word mean to you? What human beings consider relationships
ultimately are not relationships. There there are no true relationships on planet earth or
in time and space and yet, of course, that's what's believed in so the Holy Spirit and Jesus
have to use what the sleeping mind believes in to reach it because you know it wouldn't
be a very long course if it started off, This is a course in Spirit. You are only Spirit.
You have only one relationship and that is with your Creator, amen. That's not even a pamphlet.
You can't even get a pamphlet out of that. That's not even a paragraph.
So let me kind of give you a context for what I'm talking about. Everybody's heard of the trinity,
the Father the Son the Holy Ghost in Christian terms. The 'triune God', they call it. Well
actually in Heaven there are no distinctions in terms of Spirit . It's not, big papa Spirit and
baby Jesus Spirit and angelic Holy Spirit Spirit, you know. It's the distinction between the three,
they're all Spirit. They're all eternal, they don't have any differences in appearance because
there are no appearances. It's, it's just all pure light and you can't say, OK light, who's the papa
light here and uh who's the baby light here and who's that who's the comforter light who's the,
who's the bridge light?, you know. You can't tell the difference in terms of the essence of what
they are because they're all Spirit and they're all in relationship and they all communicate
through what we would call divine Mind or through the thoughts of God. All the thoughts of God are
completely shared. So Christ has all the thoughts of God, Holy Spirit has all the thoughts of God.
They're all sharing the thoughts of God because God is the Creator and the Creator shares
everything. This is not like earth parents, you know, where they seem to create you, we'll say
they make you as a baby and then they feed you, they comfort you, in the best case scenarios
they give you sustenance to a certain point and then usually they go, OK you're on your own now,
it's like, Listen, you're on your own. Don't, don't come back to me. What about my inheritance?
Get out of here!. You know, it's like they're happy to cut the cords. That's not the way God
thinks. God doesn't ever cut the cords. Every thought that God's ever thought
is always shared freely in Spirit, in Spirit and so that's what the Kingdom of Heaven. It's
increasing - not in size or shape because there is no size or shape, but it's ever increasing
light extending and radiating and radiating without end. So there's an increase without
time dimensions because there is no time in eternity. It's, it's hard to actually talk
about with the words because the words actually fail but I'm trying to point as best as I can
how different it is from time and space because there's no cut-offs. There's no disinheritance,
there's no Catch you later. There's no Talk to the hand.
I'm tired of listening to you. Talk to the hand. No, there's none of that. It's all connected
and it's all pure Spirit and the only distinction you might say in terms of light is that, that God
created Christ. They're all eternal beings so it's not like a time sense of creation but in eternity
God came first. And even that, you can't use time ideas with that word first because
God created first and forever and for always. That's a better
way of saying first in eternity. First and forever and forever and forever.
It's not, it's not a before idea. In the world first, what comes first comes before. Well in one
sense the Creator is like the cause, the big cause with a capital C and Christ is an effect of that
Cause. So when we think about our relationship to Jesus the first thing that comes to me is
if I'm identified as an earth creature, if I'm identified as a time creature,
if I'm identified as a personality... And the essence of Jesus is the Christ,
Jesus, Jeshua, is just like an earth name Jeshua. But actually Jeshua woke up and he realized that
the Christ is real and Jeshua was part of the dream. So when Christians say they want a personal
relationship with Jesus my first question is: OK, if you believe you're a person that we established
that. But what if this person wants a relationship with an eternal being called
Christ? Ooo, I think they're on different levels here. One's a dream figure and one is the living
Christ living in the Mind of God. Whoa you talk about, now that's an interesting relationship;
everybody's trying to talk to me about same-sex marriage and bi-racial marriages and everything,
whoa that's a big one right there from a personality relating to an eternal being - how do
you do that? How do you do that? Well I would say you, the one who believes it's a personal being,
should be open and receptive to guidance and instruction that comes from the eternal being
through the Holy Spirit. Because this eternal being is so pure that it's in the mind of God and
this eternal being is so pristine that it it is pure Spirit. Christ is pure Spirit and so is God.
Now the Holy Spirit takes on a teaching function in which he, he can see the error but he knows
the error is not real. He can, he has the memory of God's love but he also can see the error. So
that's why the Holy Spirit is called the comforter or the bridge because the Holy Spirit takes on
a function that can reach your mind where it believes it is, where we have believed we are.
If, if, if we actually truly have our life and being in Heaven but we believe we're in time
and space, now the Holy Spirit has to reach this sleeping mind with words and symbols
to teach it that it's not where it thinks it is. In fact it's never been there. He's a
real nowhere man living in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody. And you,
now the Beatles were channeling. Now you, you get an idea of what the Holy Spirit's dealing with.
Nowhere man please listen you don't know what you're missin,
Nowhere man the world is at your command. It's at your command when you join with the Holy Spirit.
Now what about Jesus? Where, if Jesus already ascended and now
the Jesus is gone and the Christ is, is living in the mind of God, what about Jesus? Well
there's a nice part in the Course where Jesus, it comes through and says,
"Jesus shared your dreams and shares them still." Oh wow, thank you.
Jesus shared your dreams and shares them still. To me this is the aspect that we're talking
about - that connection with Jesus is really synonymous with the Holy Spirit, because remember
the Holy Spirit can see the error. He can see the dream but he knows the dream's not real.
That's why the Holy Spirit is, is the teacher. That's why the Holy Spirit is the comforter.
That's why the Holy Spirit is the bridge, and when we read that beautiful part in the
Course that Jesus shared your dreams and shares them still, it's talking about the Holy Spirit
using the symbols. Now that's the kind of relationship you want to have with Jesus.
You want to have a relationship with a presence that knows sickness is impossible that knows
that pain is impossible that knows that guilt is impossible, that that knows your divine innocence
is reality and doesn't see you guilty ever in any seeming circumstance in any seeming situation.
Wow now that's a friend - someone who's always accessible and always sees your innocence
and knows you as you truly are and shares your dreams, still to lead you out of the dreams.