Transcript 3

Way of Knowing is the third Transcript in the Christ Mind Trilogy

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Atonement and Separation

Jayem provides a definition for "the atonement" and "the dream of separation" within this short video.

Audio excerpt from Lesson 30

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Making versus Creating

For you were born and created to create and not to make. What, then, is the difference between making and creating? Making requires the special efforts of the egoic mind. Making involves planning what one wants based on what one already knows, and then setting about to find the way to bring it into being according to one’s own ideas. Making always has an element of fear, since the ego itself is the fundamental contraction of fear.

Creating, in the way that I’m using these terms, is quite different. When I say that you were born to create, you were created to create, I mean that being made in the Creator’s image, your only function is to serve as a conduit through which the unfathomable mystery and beauty of Love can be expressed in ways that can be seen in this world. An artist can do that with a brush, a singer with a song, a writer with a word, a friend with a smile, a gardener with a garden. You are in the act of extending creation whenever you surrender your own ideas of what a thing is or is for, and choose only to do what you do in order to enjoy the presence of Love and the offering of that Love to whomever or whatever will receive it.

Creation, then, is the process in which the creator extends herself/himself from the world of the formless into the world of form. When you choose to invite friends to dinner, and have no ulterior agenda except to be with them and to create a good salad and some soup for them - just because you love them, because you are in a joyful state of being - you are extending the Presence and Reality of God. Surely, this is much different than what your politicians do when they invite friends for dinner.

Therefore, indeed, beloved friends, they are involved in making, while your dinner is the flow of creation. In the flow of creation, the form, itself, is always recognized to be secondary; it is a mere instrumentation for the content. In making, the form becomes very important. And why? Because in making, the egoic mind already believes it knows what things are and what they are for, since all things are for the ego’s safety and continuance. And therefore, the form of how things are done becomes very important, for form is image and not content. In creation, the form is as you most desire it to be because it gives you joy, not because you believe it will coerce someone else into voting for your party.

Imagine, then, if those of your actors and actresses were more interested in wearing clothing for their great Oscar nominations that brought them joy, as opposed to seeing how good they could look, what will be acceptable, what will be breathtaking, what will grab the attention of others. Rest assured, many of them would show up in their pajamas. Hmm!

The difference between making and creating is the difference between illusion and Reality. Reality is the Love which is God. It is the Creator’s Will to extend Love. You were created out of the Will of the Creator, and therefore, your will to express Love is the Will of God. They are one and the same.