Jon Mundy's Sunday Newsletter

Pamela Mills

Dec '23 • Feed

Who is Jesus? Who is the Christ? Who are You?

It is in your power to make this season holy,

for it is in your power to make the time of Christ be now. (T-15.X.4:1)

The First Coming of Christ is merely another name

for the creation, for Christ is the Son of God.

The Second Coming of Christ means nothing more than the end of the ego's rule and the healing of the mind.

I was created like you in the First, and I have called you to join with me in the Second. (T-4.IV.10:1-3)

The Birth of Jesus

Christmas or Christ’s Mass is a time when we recall the story of one who came to this world and re-membered who he was and why he was here. We celebrate the birth of a baby at Christmas as infants are innocent. They have not yet developed a well-formed ego. Infants come from the infinite. The ‘In’ of the words “infant” and “infinity” means ‘not.’ Not finite. ‘Fant’ comes from the Latin “fari,” meaning “to speak.” We move from infancy to early childhood as we begin to develop thought and therefore language.

The only story we have about Jesus in the Bible, from the time of his birth till his baptism by John the Baptist, occurs at the age of twelve when his parents went to Jerusalem for Passover. After the festival, while his parents were returning home, Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they realized he was not with them. They then went back to Jerusalem looking for him. They find him in the Temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions. When his mother saw him, she said, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” “Why were you searching for me?” he asked, “Didn’t you know I had to be about my Father’s business?”

Already, by the age of twelve, Jesus feels called. He has a ‘purpose’ for his being and a mission. The ‘purpose’ for all of us is the same as it was for the young Jesus: to remember who we are in truth, free of being trapped in the ego and thus in the dreaming of the world.

Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. (W-37.1:2)

The next recording regarding Jesus is his baptism by John the Baptist, followed by his ‘being led by the Holy Spirit’ into the wilderness for a time of testing. There, the devil (the ego) tempts Jesus to ‘misuse his power’ and give in to the dreaming of the world. In the last three temptations, he is taken to a high mountain, shown all the Kingdoms of the World, and the devil says, “All these things I will give you if you fall down and worship me (the ego).” Jesus' response, in each instance, is to go for sanity over insanity, for God over the ego, and love over fear, and thus he replies,

Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written,

“Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall you serve.”

God cannot be seen within the framework of any ego. Simply put, If God is real, there is no ego. If the ego is real, there is no God. That which is eternal is reality. The ego is a fantasy.

The ego does not regard itself as part of you.

Herein lies its primary error, the foundation of its whole thought system. (T-6.IV.1:6-7)

The purpose of our life is to do what Jesus did, to ‘wake up’ to the awareness that this ego thing, which seems very real is simply nonexistent, a fantasy only, and nothing more. The atonement is, ‘the undoing of the ego’ and the awakening to truth. The Course is trying to help us ‘see’ what Jesus saw so we might also become the Christ. In reality, every Child of God is already part of the wholeness of God. The Course provides a clear definition of Jesus.

‘Jesus’ was a man who saw the face of Christ

in all his brothers and sisters and remembered God.

He saw the false without accepting it as true.

(C-5.2:1&5)

Our task is to awaken to the same truth as Jesus to see what he saw and do what he did. How simple this is. How resistant we are.

Jesus Speaking

In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. (T-15.III.7:1)

Lovingly, Jon

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