Here is another New Testament "prequel," not to mention that the image
of moving mountains is also used in Logion 48. The expression also seems
to exist in the "Q" source material. Logion 106
is a little more pronounced than logion 48, which speaks only of two
making peace with each other in a single house. Here the expression is
"making the two into one." It adds to this the notion of becoming
children of Adam, which here seems to be meant in terms of returning to
the original decision point, to the original decision for the ego, which
A Course in Miracles calls the
"tiny, mad idea." Adam is the exemplar of that, as the first
"individual" human being, to exist separately from God. The implication
is that by making "the two into one," we return home the same way that
we came, by undoing the choice for separation and duality.
As per
usual, the moving of mountains would not be meant literally, but
whoever has dealt with all the feelings of guilt and fear which the ego
is commonly associated with, would have to understand how impossible it
can seem to dislodge those mountains of fear and guilt, which are the
ego's obstacles which block "the awareness of love's presence" safely
from our mind. These are mountains indeed, and they can seem impossible
to dislodge. And of course our experience in the world may our may not
change as a result, but Jesus speaks to us symbolically about the inner
process.
Making the two into one is simply another way for the
undoing of the separation thought, and while it is not often spelled out
in such detail in the old literature, with A Course in Miracles
in hand, it is easy to see how it's path of undoing through forgiveness
really leads us back to this original decision point, until we finally
can choose the Atonement for ourselves, when we fully accept that the
separation indeed never happened, and it was only a dream. The fact is
that for us sometimes the more direct, psychological explanation of A Course in Miracles, is
easier to understand than the symbolic language of old, but both have a
role to play, for our lives speak to us in the language of parables, as
everything in the realm of duality is a symbol, and it only depends on
the guide we choose whether our experience will be one of endlessly
repeating the separation (if we choose the ego), or one of restoring the
two into one, if we choose the Holy Spirit as our guide.
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