You’ve got to be born again

Here it is:  Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3)  What the hell does that mean?  Are you ready?  You’ve got to be born again!  (John 3:3)  Who’s got to be born again?  YOU do!  You’ve been born as a man.  Now be born as a Christ.  It’s incredible.  Not someone else?  Who’s He talking about?  ME!  Is He really talking about you!  Absolutely.  Now that you can read this, everything that you read in the New Testament says that He is always talking about Himself, and you, and God.  He never talks about Himself alone.  Never!  He always only talks about you, and God and Himself.  The strange part about it, until yesterday, you couldn’t read it.  Do you know why?  You were searching for the Christ outside yourself, so you had to interpret what He was saying in relationship, rather than making the fundamental admission that the Christ is always with you.  Why?  That’s where your fear lies.  Jesus says that you are perfect as God created you, and that’s why you’re fearful.  You’re fearful of your own Christhood.  Yet that Christ is always with you.  That’s an amazing idea.

- the Master Teacher

The holy Christ is born in me today

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today.

Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born.

Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear.

Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home.

And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love.

Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil self I made. He is the Self that You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ that can be crucified. Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son.

- A Course In Miracles, workbook lesson 303

Science of Being

The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness.

Spirit is God, Soul; therefore Soul is not in matter. If Spirit were in matter, God would have no representative, and matter would be identical with God. The theory that soul, spirit, intelligence, inhabits matter is taught by the schools. This theory is unscientific. The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love,–yea, which manifests God’s attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror.

-Mary Baker Eddy