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John
17: 6-11
Father, I have revealed your name
and your being to all human beings whom you have led through destiny to me.
They were yours; they lived out of the powers that worked in folk and family,
and now you have given them to me, and into my working that lives in the Self,
and they have kept your word in their inmost being. Thus they have recognized
how all the spiritual power that you have given me truly proceeds from you; for
all the creative spiritual power that you have given me, I have brought to
them.
They have taken it up into
themselves and have recognized that in truth I come from you, and they have
gained insight, and trust that I have been sent by you. I pray to you for them
as individual human beings; they who are to live out of the power of the self,
as individuals, I pray to you for them; not for mankind in general, but for the
human beings which you have given me. For they belong to you, just as
everything which is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and the light of my
being can shine in them [I am revealed in them].
I no longer live in the outer world, but they live in this world.
My whole being is devoted to you.
And I am coming to you. Holy Father, you
who give healing to the world, keep in your name and in your being all whom you
have given to me, so that they may be one even as we also are one.
1st June Trinity
May 26, 2013
John 17: 6 – 11
Every school child
learns this: we can add single things together to make a greater sum. And we
can take things away from the whole and thereby diminish it.
In today’s reading, Christ is conversing with His Father
about how they have chosen out of the world a number of individuals, and added
them to the sum of those connected with themselves. But in the realm of the
Father there is a greater principle: The Father is One. And the number one is
itself in fact the great all-inclusive unity containing all numbers. One, the
whole, when divided, generates the rest of the numbers: two, three, four…. We
are all part of the original One-ness of God.
And in the realm where the Father and the Son are joined,
there is another great principle – the sum is greater than the parts. Those
joined together with the Father and the Son are no longer merely isolated
entities. They have rejoined the greater unifying One-ness from which we have
all come.
We are held in the unifying love between the Father, who
holds World Destiny in his hands, and His Son, who turns all things toward the
good. The love between them and for the
world is the Healing Spirit. When we recognize them, they live in us; we
partake in their unifying, healing love. In fact, that is their wish – that we
may be One, whole, a greater unity, just as they are One.
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