October 10, 2024 – A

This text is found in Deuteronomy: 

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

And this is found in the Gospel of Thomas:

Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and unto me did the all extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.”

We have no idea who was given to say/write these passages originally, but. We are free to imagine both of them arising from the intuition of the persons responsible for giving them shape and form in the language in which they first appeared.

Read the passages as a message from our intrinsic and united intuition, and you are onto something about you and the wonder of your own intuition.

Intuition is the source of God. God is our projection of the source of our inspiration--but our intuitive imagination is the source of our realization. We interpret our own intuition as being of God, when it is God that is our interpretation of our own intuition.

Revelation is an inside job.

Ironic, don't you think? We make God in our own image, and God becomes who we say God is. And it is a cosmic circle, beginning and ending in ourselves. "And the end of all our exploring will be to find where we started and know the place for the first time" (T.S. Eliot).