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INNER CIRCLE: Union of Opposites

INNER CIRCLE: Union of Opposites

Last updated on: October 17, 2025 at 9:38 pm by Keith Giles

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INNER CIRCLE: Union of Opposites 2025-10-17T21:38:39+00:00 Keith Giles

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Truth didn’t come into the world naked, but it came veiled in images and types. It cannot be received any other way. There is rebirth through the image of rebirth. One must truly be reborn from this image. This is the resurrection.

In passing through the image, the bridegroom is led into the truth which is the renewal of all things in their integrity [apocatastasis].

This is appropriate for those who not only know the names of Father, Son, and Spirit, but who have also integrated them into themselves. Those who have not integrated these names within themselves will have their (own) names taken away.

The name of Christian is welcomed with anointing, in the fullness and energy of the cross (the convergence of vertical and horizontal realities), which the apostles called the union of opposites; then one is not just Christian, one is the Christ.

(The Gospel of Philip, vs. 67)

Truth transcends shame. It needs no covering or adornment. But, to receive it and to comprehend it and internalize it, we need stories, pictures, and metaphors. We need allegories and types to make it real to us.

Again, Truth does not need these things. Truth does not require an image or a story or an allegory in order to be true. But, we require it as a delivery system into our consciousness. This is how the Truth becomes real for us. This is how we digest Truth and internalize it into our minds.

From there, the Truth does its work of transformation from within us and begins to perform “the renewal of all things in their integrity.” This is the resurrection.

This is why knowing the information itself does not accomplish anything. The words, the letters, the sounds themselves do not activate the reality within us. There is nothing magical about the name “Jesus” or “Christ” by itself. The name of God is not an incantation. The word “Spirit” is not a mantra that summons the Holy Ghost into our presence.

What we must do is to “integrate (these) into (ourselves.” How do we do that? By internalizing the reality of what “Father” means and by becoming one with the reality of the “Son” and by experiencing the reality of “Spirit” which indwells us and every living thing.

If we cannot do this, our own identity – our own name – will become meaningless, along with the names of Father, Son, and Spirit.

Even the name “Christian” is meaningless without the activating experience of the reality behind the word. But, if we can internalize and integrate the reality of the Christ within us, then the anointing of God becomes alive. The fullness and energy of the cross – a convergence of both the vertical (relational) and horizontal (spiritual) realities – is necessary for this shift from concept to experiential reality to take place.

When we experience the reality of Oneness and recognize the reality of non-duality, then we will experience (ginosko) the “union of opposites.”

Or, as Jesus said it in the Gospel of Thomas, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female is not female…then you shall enter the Kingdom.” (Saying 22)

The union of opposites is simply a way of saying that, when you have integrated the reality of Oneness, you will realize that there is no such thing as an “opposite,” because all things are the same thing: Christ who is all and is in all.

When this happens, you will not only be a Christian, you will be the Christ.

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Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast Radio with George Noory, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.” He co-hosts The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast and his solo podcast, Second Cup With Keith which are both available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Podbean or wherever you find great podcasts.

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