Jesus was a person who reflected the Light of Christ. He reflected our actual being because the Christ, and the absolute most a human body can ever be, is a reflection of the mind.
Once the mind becomes pure and unified, it recognizes Itself because the Mind of Christ. christian mystic When that Divine Mind is reflected in a human body, you have a reflection of that, but a reflection isn't actuality. Christ is a Light that is just before time.
How Can We Be Reborn In the Light of Christ Within?
We have to stop protecting the crumbling ego self-concept, and expose and release the shame that is hidden in the mind. When you yourself have been judged as a failure, now you can say, “Well, I failed previously for sure. I was a failure previously, nonetheless it isn't me. That is not me. I'm alive. I'm reborn again in Christ. I'm fresh and clean and clear in this moment, and I've nothing related to the self concept.”
Forgiveness we can stop protecting the crumbling image that the ego manufactured from us.
When we are reborn in the Light of Christ, once we give all our relationships and everything of time and space over to the Holy Spirit for His purpose, everything changes.
David: “This is the way my entire life has been. My experience of the dream of life has fundamentally shifted because my purpose shifted for me. It's for all of us. It can't be just for this one or this one, because God doesn't have ‘chosen ones.' ”
All are called, and the Course says that few choose to listen. Are you going to be pleased with that metaphor of “few choose to listen”? Who's got to listen? I've got to listen. I've got to follow. I've got to be the main one! I've got to be the one that steps up, and says, “I will answer the Call.” Like Neo in The Matrix became The One.
Jesus wants us to go by the images of the entire world and to go for the Light. His goal would be to take us in to the vision of Christ, that is non-perceptual, to be reborn and feel anew, fresh, and alive. He wants us to be that reflection of the Light of Christ that is shining radiantly within!