The Mystical Meaning of Psalm 23: Finding Stillness in the Divine

From Separateness to reality

Man`s separateness, from God is a perceptual or a illusion of separateness, and can be traced back to the Garden of Eden and the sin of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gen 3:5 (Kjv) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. The words " as gods" refer to being a separate entity from God. Thus the sin was that man saw himself as being apart from God and therefore died in awareness and consciousness, of who and what they truly was as being created in God`s image and likeness. Therefore there was a separation, Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? Religion was and is and ever will be the fig leaves that man sowed together, and therefore created the so called "middle man or an appointed representative between him/her and God.

The reality is that man was never separate from God because man is within God and God is within man. Religion replaced the Illusion of separateness, with the illusion, that God can only be found within its doctrine and practices. Jesus the Christ never preached any religion and in fact, Jesus was well known for His “bad” interpretation of the scriptures. Many religious leaders hated Jesus because He violated their interpretation of scripture. Jesus worked on the Sabbath, approached women, drank with sinners and blasphemed by offering forgiveness of sins (illusion) to anybody. Jesus challenged the religious status quo’s exclusive, rigid and judgmental theology taught from their interpretation of scripture.

Christ truly came, lived and died in order to open man`s eyes because no religion or practice will ever be able to do that. Christ did not come to represent God to man but to be God in man in order for man to break free from the Illusion of separateness and be man in God.

The cross that was a torture instrument, because "tortured" man (by virtue of his own hopelessness, perceptual loss-ness) and brought about by religion like to torture others. That instrument of torture became a instrument of deliverance, whereby man was delivered from this perceptual separateness, into awareness once again to his/her true state of being as scripture well puts it in Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

All that remains is the full and self - realization of who you really are, as Jesus states in His prayer in Joh 17:21a That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.

All middle men or representatives can only point to that reality