Cross & The Blood
What does the cross and the blood mean?
The crucifixion to me begins with Jesus laying down who he truly is and choosing to believe the
lie that we are separate from God.
He showed the torment that the idea of separation brings to our mind.
This was the cup he drank from in the garden of his mind - hence, he took upon himself the sin of the world
or rather the false beliefs that the world believes.
That false belief is that God is outside of us and far away.
Hence, on the cross he proclaimed,
"Father, why have you forsaken me."
Jesus chose to see things the way many of us see things, so that we could identify with his condition at
death.
The crown of thorns on his head represents the mind pierced and in agony from such false beliefs - the
condition of the mind trapped in mistaken thinking.
Jesus crucified, is a picture of what we have done in our minds concerning ourselves.
We (through the goggles of religion) have killed the idea that we are sons (and daughters) of God.
We have each individually chosen to believe that the outer body is really who we are.
By doing so, we have forgotten that we are eternal spirits.
Yet, this truth cannot be destroyed or killed permanently, because who you really are is eternal spirit.
That was demonstrated by Jesus' "resurrection."
Jesus is a portrait of mankind.
He represents all of us. When we look at Jesus, we need to see ourselves.
The blood of Jesus represents the "connectedness" of us all.
If we consider "bloodlines," blood physically represents the spiritual truth that all of us are connected, and
one.
When blood is traced, it shows that all of us are connected; and so we are spiritually.
This connectedness is the meaning behind the verse, "The life is in the blood."
- Louis Charles
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