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INNER CIRCLE: Dissolving the Illusion of Separation

INNER CIRCLE: Dissolving the Illusion of Separation

Last updated on: August 9, 2024 at 4:06 pm by Keith Giles

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INNER CIRCLE: Dissolving the Illusion of Separation 2024-08-09T16:06:51+00:00 Keith Giles

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Unveiling the Hidden Self of God

“The Father reveals his bosom, and his bosom is the Holy Spirit. He reveals what’s hidden of himself; what’s hidden of himself is his Son – so that through the mercies of the Father, the generations may know him and cease their work in searching for the Father, resting in him and knowing that this is the rest.”

In the second paragraph of chapter 10, the Gospel of Truth expounds upon the relationship between the Father, the Mother, and Jesus as a revelation of God’s bosom, or heart, which is also the Mother, or the Holy Spirit of God. When the Father reveals his heart, or the Spirit to us, what is hidden of himself comes into sharp focus: Jesus, the Son. Finally, those who have been seeking for the face of God can see clearly who the Father is and experience the Father’s rest.

But what comes next is fascinating, especially considering our earlier struggle to make sense of the passage that says “…those who are ignorant until the end are creatures of forgetfulness and will dissolve with it,” (8:4). Because, in chapter 10 verse 9, the author returns to this idea of dissolving and applies it in very interesting ways:

“(The Father) has filled the need (to know him) and dissolved its appearance – its appearance is the world in which it served, because where there’s envy and strife there’s need, but where there’s Unity there’s completion.”

This suggests that when our ignorance of the Father is dissolved – which is the illusion of separation projected by the world around us – what we experience is Unity (or Oneness). But, then the author continues, saying:

“Since need came into being because the Father wasn’t known, when the Father is known, from then on, need will no longer exist. As someone’s ignorance dissolves when they gain knowledge, and as darkness dissolves when the light appears, so also need dissolves in completion (or Oneness). So, the appearance is revealed from then on, but it will dissolve in the harmony of Unity.”(11-13)

As we suspected, the concept of “dissolving” refers, not to the people who are ignorant, but to the concept of ignorance which is dissolved in the knowing [ginosko] of the Father in Christ. So, as darkness is dissolved by the light, and as need is dissolved by Oneness, so too does the illusion of separation dissolve in the harmony of Unity.

What is dissolved is the illusion of separation, not those who are deceived by the illusion. What is dissolved is the darkness, not those who wander around in the dark. What is dissolved is ignorance, not those who desperately seek to know the Father.

God’s response to our desire to know the Divine reality is to reveal Himself in us all and to restore ourselves to Oneness with all things.

This is who the Father is. This is what the Mother does. This is the heart of Jesus, the Son of boundless sweetness.

The newest book from Keith Giles, “The Quantum Sayings of Jesus: Decoding the Lost Gospel of Thomas” is available now on Amazon. Order HERE>

Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has appeared on CNN, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.”

He co-hosts The God Squad podcast, and the Heretic Happy Hour Podcast.

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