Good Friday was originally known as “God Friday”.
Charles Fillmore tells us that "crucifixion" means the crossing out in consciousness of
certain errors that have become fixed states of mind; it is the enactment by
the Master Within of giving up our intellectual mental blocks and emotional
conflicts TO the Divine Ideal residing within our True Self.
Calvary and Golgotha mean
“the place of the skull”, or the place where our good HUMAN ideas dwell.
Every time we give up believing in an error, there is a
“crucifixion” of the ERROR, NOT US!
Jesus’ 3 days in the tomb symbolizes the 3 steps we take in
overcoming error. First, nonresistance
in releasing the error thought; second, the taking on of Divine Activity and belief
in the Truth; third, the assimilation and fulfillment of the Divine Ideal into
form.
Surrender has such a scary connotation to those of us who
have had to ‘surrender’ or ‘succumb’ to earthly authority or power, usually
expressed in a non-loving way. God
doesn’t punish us in order to get us to learn something Good. That’s a leftover idea from old parenting:
“I’m doing this for your own good.” This
idea never came from God-Good.
But surrendering to our Greater Good is GOOD! We really would want it all the time, once we
get and believe that the act of surrendering ALSO must be in ways and means of
GOOD. God-Good comes to us in ways and
means of Good, and Good at the God level is the Good we can all agree
upon.
So, surrendering our error beliefs to our Truth ought to be
a happy experience. It doesn’t have to
be painful. Don’t believe what
Christianity has focused upon with the stories about the agony of Jesus. The only thing that suffered and died on that
cross was the false belief in death.
Yay! The belief in death is dead. Eternal Life is the Truth.
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