"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and I have not love, I AM become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

 

INTERPRETATION: No matter how exalted my present state of relative being may seem; no matter how nearly the "word' of egocentric existence comes to "speaking" the absolute "Truth", the divinity now attempting to express itself through the vehicle of my being remains but a weak reflection, a muffled echo, a dim shadow of the infinitude which lies within the non-relative, self-existent, unconditioned portion of my being. For the Christ within, the indwelling and innermost "I", the "I AM" of self-existent being -- the True Word unbound by the conditional "this or that" of relativity -- must remain silent. Ever blocked from expressing the full extent of its infinite nature until such time as natural man's dualistic mode of consciousness, and the relative state of being it gives rise to, is transcended; until mankind's erroneous division of consciousness into "self and other" is recognized for the congenital lie it was at inception and now continues to be. For only with a full realization of the Truth -- that being the fundamental unity of all consciousness -- will all falsehood return to its original state of non-existence, even as the darkness must cease to exist in the presence of the Light. But that Truth may not fully manifest until self-conscious mans implicit faith in separation, as bespoken in selfish thought and deed, is supplanted by a bedrock belief in the indivisible unity of all creation. No, not until the faith and certainty born of a re-fusion of self-consciousness with All Consciousness -- of the relatively perceived part with the whole from which it was cleaved -- finally occurs can the full potential now lying dormant within man be brought to its ultimate fruition. For it is just such a state of supreme conscious union that the "Word of Perfect Love" spoke. A state of non-relative consciousness and being in which subject and object meld into a state of perfect Oneness; a level of Absolute Consciousness in which the thinker becomes one with his thoughts, the creator one with his creations; a state of supreme self-sacrifice in which all consciousness of self -- to include even the highest such states of relative consciousness -- ceases to be. Yes, a state of perfect conscious union which corresponds as well to perfect knowledge, a union of knower and known. So too a state of perfect beauty and wisdom, a union of parts, physical and mental, into the inherent harmony of the whole; a state of perfect peace, as well, occasioned by an equilibrium of all parts when balanced in perfect consonance with the whole. Yet the degree to which such perfection may be made manifest through man in his position as the crowning glory of creation depends entirely on the extent to which his natural tendency toward self-consciousness ceases to block and thus make relative what would otherwise manifest as a perfect expression of limitless being; so ceases to block the absolute freedom implicit in the unconditioned, self-existent, all originating state of consciousness that lies at the very root of his being.

 

Copyright RF Hay 1978