Post by Rogier van Vlissingen on Apr 8, 2007 20:01:25 GMT -5
P/GoTh:
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Fortunate are those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the Kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again.
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Form:
Pursah drops the "Jesus said," no other differences.
Content:
Pursah in her comment on p. 80 of DU points out the parallel with the parable of the prodigal son, and emphasizes that we will return home again. She further comments on p. 150, that "in this statement people are alone because they know there is really only one of us. Ofcourse they are not really alone, because they have the Holy Spirit."
I hear an allusion to the Biblical word that to his disciples alone Jesus explains "everything," which is entirely in line with a major theme of the Course, which says "its purpose is for some people to find their own Inner Teacher," (Introduction), and emphasises throughout that it is necessary to ask Jesus into our life. For that we need to be alone in the sense of not being preoccupied with the special relationships the world holds out to distract us, and literally to tempt us to divert our attention from the inner space where Jesus awaits, beckoning us to follow him out of the world.
As to the second part of this statement, it conveys the same notion as when the Course says "a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed," (T-8.VI.9:7), or thought such as "there is no life outside of Heaven," (T-23.II.19:1). Also repeated references like "the outcome is as certain as God," (T-2.III.3:10), not to mention "You are at home in God, dreaming of exile..." (T-10.I.1:1), they all paraphrase the same notion in different ways, namely that the atonement merely means the waking up to the fact that nothing every happened, and all the hoopla in between was just a dream.
quote
Fortunate are those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the Kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again.
unquote
Form:
Pursah drops the "Jesus said," no other differences.
Content:
Pursah in her comment on p. 80 of DU points out the parallel with the parable of the prodigal son, and emphasizes that we will return home again. She further comments on p. 150, that "in this statement people are alone because they know there is really only one of us. Ofcourse they are not really alone, because they have the Holy Spirit."
I hear an allusion to the Biblical word that to his disciples alone Jesus explains "everything," which is entirely in line with a major theme of the Course, which says "its purpose is for some people to find their own Inner Teacher," (Introduction), and emphasises throughout that it is necessary to ask Jesus into our life. For that we need to be alone in the sense of not being preoccupied with the special relationships the world holds out to distract us, and literally to tempt us to divert our attention from the inner space where Jesus awaits, beckoning us to follow him out of the world.
As to the second part of this statement, it conveys the same notion as when the Course says "a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed," (T-8.VI.9:7), or thought such as "there is no life outside of Heaven," (T-23.II.19:1). Also repeated references like "the outcome is as certain as God," (T-2.III.3:10), not to mention "You are at home in God, dreaming of exile..." (T-10.I.1:1), they all paraphrase the same notion in different ways, namely that the atonement merely means the waking up to the fact that nothing every happened, and all the hoopla in between was just a dream.