We live by symbols. We have made up names for everything we see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. In so doing we carve it out of unity. Thus we designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it.
We see something where nothing is, and see nothing where there is unity, a space between all things, between things and us. We give these names to them, establishing perception as we wished to have perception be. This is the way reality is made by partial vision, purposefully set against the given truth. Its enemy is wholeness.
It is hard to teach the mind a thousand alien names, and thousands more. We believe this is what learning means; its one essential goal by which communication is achieved, and concepts can be meaningfully shared. This is the sum of the inheritance the world bestows. Such is the teaching of the world. Learning that stops with what the world teach stops short of meaning.
We did not make the world. Illusions, yes! What is true in earth and Heaven is beyond our meaning. It would be strange if we were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever: yet were asked to take a teaching function. The Holy Spirit uses all of them, He does not forget creation has one Name, o9ne Meaning, and a single Source Which unites all things within Itself.
God has no name. The Name of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. No one can fail who seeks the meaning of the Name of God.
Let us pray: "Father, our Name is Yours. In it we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own Reality. We are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from from all effects our errors seemed to have. We accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen" www.Jean-lucdabreau.com
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