266
These people do that to me: Actually, I’m living within them
& so the crowd they turn away
& leave me hanging here
But what of you, my precious one
Please pause & lend an ear
I’m parched upon this barren hill
I thirst within its heat
So rest your busy life awhile
Beneath my bloodstained feet
I’m not a fable in a book
That preacher’s weave & spin
I am your own forsaken life
That wants to enter in
I’m Origin, I link all life
Within a wondrous web
I want to burn unique in you
Before your life does ebb
I value you above all else
I am your missing link
That joins the heavens to the earth
& causes heart to think
The saying is part of a stream of sayings in which the previous saying (265) was given
It tells us, ‘these people’ (the people who reject the Christ/Self) ‘actually do that to me’
(They actually reject torture & crucify the Christ/Self)
‘Actually, I’m living within them’
(In reality, the Christ/Self lives within them as their innate human/divine potential)
In the poem the Christ/Self hangs on the cross of human rejection while, ‘the crowd they turn away’
The Christ/Self then speaks to the ‘precious one’ lingering near the crucified presence of the Christ/Self
The Christ/Self is; ‘not a fable in a book/that preachers weave & spin’
(The Christ/Self is not the collective religious image woven by literal religion)
The Christ/Self is ‘your own forsaken life that wants to enter in’
(When the Christ/Self enters consciousness our soul awakens)
The Christ/Self is ‘the Origin that links all life’
(The Christ/Self is the Unity; the One; the All; which links all life)
‘I want to burn unique in you’
(The Christ/Self wants to become conscious in our experience, & express itself in an individualised way in and through us)
The poem is written in the voice of the Self