On Atonement

          The teaching of atonement is for all the separate ones who know not they are One. To atone, archaically, meant to bring into unity, or accord. It literally meant to “set at one”. This, not expiation, is the meaning it should hold for you. The other sense which it holds is that of “undoing”. You recall seeing “at one” within the word atonement at a bookstore years ago, although it was not explicitly stated in the text. That was intended as a special sign of love, and I was happy it delighted you. Oneness is a teaching hard to grasp within a world ruled by duality. Yet this is what I came to teach, and teach you still, not in words as much as in the stillness of your heart, that witnesses all things, detachedly. This witness aspect of yourself is vital to your progress in the Truth. Avail yourself of it, and you will find the silence speaks in thunderous tones impossible to miss. It speaks, but not of head knowledge you are accustomed to cramming in your brain. It empties all these thoughts and dead ideas, and quickens you unto the Living Word that offers you the Truth in place of them.

          You may ask, “What is Truth?" But there is no answer, only an experience. It was on account of this that I did not respond when Pilate questioned me. The very fact that what is obvious to everyone with eyes to see and ears to hear nevertheless remains completely unclear, speaks to the fact that the separation has occurred. And this separation, from God, from Truth, although an order of reality real enough to you, has all the falseness of a dream and the illusoriness of a hallucination, at the level from which I call to you. Do not neglect your body, nor your soul. Nourish both, for both are useful to Me, in service of the Greater Plan. Accept that the separation has occurred, but do not stop at that, for that would be to stop short of the message I came to share with you. This acceptance is merely the recognition that something has gone wrong, and is a sure indicator that immediate correction is required. Say, therefore, “Father, heal my mind of its insane belief that I could ever be separate from You.” Then be still, and hear His Answer to you now. You'll know His answer by the peace it brings.

          Sift not through vain illusions for the Truth, nor eternality in fleeting forms that are as flowers, fresh and beautiful today but soon are blighted by the sun. Seek not the deathless in this dream of death. Seek, rather, that which you shall never lose. I may seem far from you at times, but I am ever near. Blame not the Spirit for Her still, small Voice, but understand it is but you who are hard of hearing. Lay not this deafness to your charge, but recognize it as the ego’s interference in the path that I am guiding you upon. Offer your ego up to Me, and let the blazing fire of eternal Truth, melt away the dross that hides the gold of pure Love and Devotion to the Lord. This is the inner part of the chalice of the Atonement, while its silver, outer aspect is spiritual Knowledge. Love contains within it Knowledge, but Knowledge will lead to Love in the end.