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You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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1 Corinthians 3:22-23
We are all the Body of Christ, and even more so in our togetherness (1 Corinthians 12:12ff). Now that is quite Scriptural, in many sacred texts, but perhaps it just seems too good to be true for most Christians: “There is only Christ, he is everything and he is in everything” (Colossians 3:11). The ego resists such inclusivity, because the ego is that part of you which wants to be special, separate, and superior instead. The ego (“flesh” for Paul) resists any change, vulnerability, and union with anything else.
The Risen Christ is our icon of God’s universal presence, now unlimited by space or time. This is why the Resurrection stories always show Jesus’ body to be both here and there, passing through doors, visible and not visible, white light itself, everywhere and nowhere, as it were. He cannot be one object because he is in all objects (“panentheism”).
Even to Mary Magdalene he says, “Do not cling to me” (John 20:17). Why? Because you can’t! He is no longer bound by this one body. Christ is consciousness itself pervading all things—waiting and hoping for its inner yes!
Adapted from
The Cosmic Christ
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