Chapter 1, Way of the Servant

Servantship.

It appears an odd word,

yet within it lies the meaning of sacrifice,

of Love,

of true Being.

Servantship is a vocation

to which one is called,

not by a God who exists apart from you,

but by that one true God

who abides eternally

in the Heart of one’s heart,

and is forever the Soul of one’s soul.

For the one true God

is your only Reality,

and in this does the recognition dawn

that you -

who would insist

on the smallness of yourself

as you have dreamt it to be -

contain, in truth, all wisdom;

that you

contain all perfections

holy men would so diligently seek

and ignorant men would mistakenly seek

in the destitution

of their worldly dreams.

That one true God

to whom you are eternally united,

so that no boundary between you

can be distinguished,

is that which has sustained

the infinite forms

of your dreams,

their incessant creation fueled

by the one thought of separation.

And now,

in the time of Recognition,

after the allure of the dream has paled

and finally lost all trace of significance,

and in that perfect silence

where the sleeping Son no longer rebels

against the simple

and loving

embrace of the Holy Father,

the light of the living Christ is rekindled.

As a flame in a windless place,

its light grows ever brighter,

dissolving all traces of the shadows

which have kept it hidden,

lighting up the dark places

where the dust which is the world

has settled,

until even the dust is dissolved

and becomes as Light itself.

The doer is undone.

The maker of the world is unmade,

and Christ again,

lives.

Here,

the end of all fruitless journeying.

Here,

the ceasing of all strife.

Here,

the realization of the only Truth,

beyond all utterance,

beyond the understanding of the world,

beyond even the dream

of the one who would seek God.

For the seeker is no more,

as if he had never been,

save as a fading memory of a dream

dreamt long ago.

Returned to the embrace

of our Holy Father,

the one who has returned acknowledges:

“I AM that One.”

Christ lives, and Christ alone.

As it is,

has been,

and forever shall be.

For the first shall be last, and the last, first.

True servantship is not in any way possible while yet there lingers hope for salvation in the things of the world.