 Walk with me I think That's something that's come up a number of times and the contrast between the the world's Monetary system and economics and so forth and the kingdom of heaven is enormous And I've said to people I said, you know If I turn over a table of Coins or money or even if there were animals in cages ready to be burnt and sacrificed, you know like the particular scene you're describing and I turned over a table can you turn over a table without being angry? That's really the thing and I say oh, yes, you can it can be interpreted through the ego's lens as as Anger but you can turn a table over and let the money spill and let the animals cages crash and everything like this without being Again, that's kind of an extreme Example, but look at the crucifixion. That's a pretty extreme Example to it to the world's eyes through the ego's lens that look like a bloody mess We actually a canvas it's about a week and a half ago. We watched the passion Some people hadn't seen it Makeup The cosmetics in that, you know, you'd almost look you might as well have dipped the body down in a pool of piranhas For about three hours Let's say chomp on away there and they will pull it out and we'll let him go out here and hang on the cross I mean, that's about how it looked. It was such a bloody mess you the body was so beaten that you couldn't have Found a place to put another lash on them by the end Mel gives him I Mean it's like on the grill that baby char broil, I mean and and yet It's only through the egos interpretation That that seems to be pain and punishment, you know, I had to go through these metaphysics over and over but But what we learn is we follow the metaphysics remember everything is mental So the mind tells the body what to feel The body doesn't feel In fact, if you go through and read the workbook if you really go through that workbook go through lesson like 136 He talks about releasing all plans and all attempts, you know to to kind of be in charge and Jesus puts in a line and you can tell You practice well by this The body should not feel at all He puts it right in his workbook The body should not feel at all Now he's given a hint about the crucifixion How could the crucifixion have only meant one lesson teach only Love or that is what you are. How do you get? How do you watch the passion of the Christ? With blood flying all over there and get teach only love for that is what you are the body Will not feel at all There's a beautiful part in the rancher book because you're actually kind of gives you more of a full-blown where Okay, they arrest Jesus they take him away. We do some of the beating and all the typical things and then you get there and he's in this room and Apostle John has followed along and He has got himself into the same room with the arrest of Jesus And it's so beautiful. I love that part of the rancher book because it's just at that moment where they are going to really start thrashing Jesus the body does not feel so to the Christ mind There's no problem with thrashing It's like threshing a rock going out and taking a hammer to the rocks is if the rocks like oh, ah, ooh No, you can get the rocks Love you want but the rock does not feel and the body does not feel when there's no guilt in the mind There's no experience of pain Why would love feel pain, you know just ask yourself that's bizarre, you know Jesus transcended Pain when he accepted the atonement So that's seen that seen it looks to the ego like a bloody mess. There was no pain involved in that at all Hence no sacrifice involved in it at all And that's why he could say the meaning of the crucifixion was teach only love It was an extreme example that you can't kill the Christ And you can't even make the Christ suffer that was a Teaching so I get to get back to my little scenario John follows. He's in the same room with Jesus and Jesus is about to be thrashed And he simply turns and looks at his beloved Apostle John and he nods That's about enough you need to leave the room now Like your the your ego is not going to be able to handle what's coming next Jesus had no problem with what was coming next because the Christ has no problem with the world That that it knows is not real. That's what forgiveness showed him that the images weren't real and Nothing can harm the Christ. Nothing can harm the spirit that knows itself as spirit. That's why you can be defenseless That's why he was completely Invulnerable though the appearances would seem to indicate otherwise those ego appearances of blood and whips and Thrashes and everything are all part of the ego system Jesus was above the battleground Jesus. We could say the Christ mind has transcended the possibility of pain of torture Punishment of all those false concepts that the ego made so it was so beautiful I remember when I first read that in your answer book. I just cried And how loving Jesus was to not to John Almost like I could save you a bit Needless suffering Not you can leave them and and that's what's so beautiful about this That's why we do the mind training. We do the mind training to come into the state of invulnerability We do the mind training to be lifted up, you know, remember the Joe Cocker song love lift us up where we belong You could say love lift us up to to where we are to where we live You know, lift us up to that transcendent state of mind It's interesting in this day and age because you watch people Actually walk across hot coals Without yelping and then they show their feet when they get across and the feet aren't burned Talk about mind over matter and this is Jesus Christ. This isn't a fire walker. We're talking about This is the way the truth in the life you know what's Some lashes what's some some nails piercing through arms and legs You know, this is the living Christ demonstrating the reality of eternity and The nothingness of time and space. That's exactly what this crucifixion is about Demonstrating what is real and true and what is not and the Holy Spirit use that little skit to Make that a teaching example and then he goes on to say that that was his part and You will not be given that part He even goes on to call it the last useless journey Hallelujah for that We don't need any sequels to the passion I Was gonna have to make some comedies with any lover or something Because we don't need a sequel there it's unnecessary that was the last useless journey and And what he's saying is follow him where I'm thinking think with me in my teachings in the course and yeah and see that this world is The last useless journey if you want to think of it from a reincarnational perspective How about making this your last lifetime? Wouldn't that be nice That's precisely what a course of miracles is all about It's not really I know with Gary's books It's all about the the next lifetime, but this they don't hang around me if you expect that stuff I'm not teaching about future lifetimes. I'm sorry. We aren't watching a movie like the island To talk about you want to go to your next life You will achieve enlightenment in your next life Go ahead squander this lifetime. You'll get it in the next life time You're not gonna find me teaching that because it's not about that you'll find more me Sharing be not content with future happiness for it is not your just reward for you have cause for freedom now We have to face the power of now. We have to face the immediacy of salvation That's a whole section in Jesus's book the immediacy of salvation Thank you for your courage