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To: Darrin Vernier who wrote (21645)	11/6/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: Darrin Vernier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

I posted a message to a friend privately, and realized that it may be worthwhile to post it here. Only you will know. A key that was offered me that has been particularly helpful, is not to focus too hard on the words of scripture, but to look instead at the pictures they would paint in my mind. And to paint those pictures from a perspective of the here and now. An example would be the woman at the well. How did Jesus know she had exactly five husbands, and that was why she would not drink the waters of life everlasting? If I put myself in this picture, I see that I have five senses. Jesus indicates I need one more. Perhaps that sixth sense is what is superstitously known as the third eye, or spiritual sight. Looking at the scriptures from the viewpoint of Jesus WITHIN me as the speaker, and I the characters, is the most profound tool I have yet found to opening this eye, and regaining my spiritual sight. If we have received Jesus, or God is within us, perhaps by learning to ask of him within us in the way that he suggested, we will see all that he told us, and more. "Greater things than this shall ye do". Jesus was not trying to tell us what to do, but how to see. The trinity and rebirth may be likened to the rejoining of the body, mind, and spirit. If one perceives the spirit to be external, and a gift that may be taken away, then he remains broken, and in eternal fear of what he is not, and what may be taken away. In this way, he may choose to steal the Crown from himself. Peace, Darrin

To: Darrin Vernier who wrote (21645)	11/6/1998 6:56:00 PM
From: Darrin Vernier	Respond to of 39621

Many of us lead lives of fear, pain, and suffering, believing that in the end, we shall enter the Kingdom of God. Many of us believe that we have always been in the Kingdom of God, and that by seeing and acknowledging this, all guilt, fear, pain, and suffering end at once. The Star of Bethlehem was known as the Star that Rises in the East. If you put yourself in this picture, what star rises in the east? The Sun. The Sun is a continual reminder of the process of rebirth. When we were born, the Sun also rose in the East. We were accompanied by the three wise men of mind, body, and spirit. As we travel westward in the footsteps of the path that Jesus the Son, has taken before us, we learn to accept and integrate these aspects of our being, as Jesus taught, and in so doing, we restore our original perfection, our wholeness, our Unity. Jesus did not do what he did for us to stand transfixed in awe. He did what he did to show us the way, so that he would be but the first of many. He died not to 'give' us salvation, but to show us how to save ourselves through a new understanding, a new way of seeing. Perhaps you might picture yourself as the babe in the manger, accompanied by the three wise men of body, mind, and spirit. Sing the song "We three kings of orient (the east)..." Watch yourself travel westward as the Sun through the arc of your life. It is said that in order to enter heaven we must learn to be as much like Jesus as possible. Tell me how they would steal your crown if you look upon this picture, and you are he. Might it be that to be like Jesus, we merely need to call upon him within us, recognize that we already are complete, and armed with this wisdom, simply choose to discard all within us that is not God? Or would Jesus choose to gift us with pain, guilt, fear, and suffering? A very important prize hangs in the balance of how we would choose to see, and it is us who choose to give ourselves what we already have, or to throw it away. The Bible may be seen as a story of those long dead, and a terrible tragedy. Or, it may be your story, now, and filled with the greatest beauty and joy. Peace, Darrin