Interpretation Of Matthew

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Matthew 6:22

22. The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, the whole body shall be full of light.

The "lamp" is that which gives forth light. Light is illumination. The eye is the seat of light, the center of Divine Illumination, though this is not the physical eye. The physical eye is the objectification of the Inner Center of Divine Light; the capacity to discern the Truths of Being is the Eye that is single. Single is opposite to double; single is one, while double is two or dual. To have the single eye is to see all dual states in their relation to Truth; this is to have the Light of Christ which is the "lamp of the body" that brings forth the body of Light. Truth realized, which is the Divine Light consciously gained, emanates its force into the physical domain, penetrating the organism with the Light of Christ. Truth is operative from the Christ Mind. The Christ Mind brings forth the Body of Light, which is the Body of Christ. To see in the Christ Mind is not to see in condemnation but in Truth, hence, to comprehend all activities in their relation to Truth. This is not to call the evil good or the good evil, but to make the tree good and its fruit good or the tree evil and its fruit evil. Many people think the single eye is expressing when they are not seeing; or refusing to see the evil. What they do not see is still darkness, not light, hence, the body of Light cannot be manifested in a state of consciousness still in darkness. Man becomes as God knowing good and evil; that is seeing them as God sees them. This is not to behold iniquity, seeing the evil as something apart from God, but to see the Divine purpose of its existence. This one does when gaining the Christ Consciousness, which is the Single Eye. So long as one believes in a power other than God, which he does so long as he does not understand evil and its relation to the Creation, he does not see in the single eye nor is the body of light being formed. The body of light is the ethereal body of the resurrected and will be the vehicle of expression to those redeemed from sin and death when mortality shall be superseded by immortality, and this world shall have passed away, that is, been dissolved in its forces and reformed.

The unfolding physical organism of Man in its early stages of evolution had just one eye outwardly; the two eyes were identified when sex consciousness (duality) was set up. The Pineal Gland in the cerebrum of the brain is the internal identity of the Single Eye; it is the seat of Divine Illumination. The gaining of the single eye is incidental to overcoming sex sense, the belief in duality. During a period of Time in 1922, when revelations pertaining to the "beginning of the end of the world" were given the writer, she was conscious of One Eye at a point between the two eyes as they now appear - only the two eyes were not present but only the one. She also witnessed the manifestation of the Body of Light, which was dazzling like the most brilliant light. This was the Christ Body manifested to physical sight tho its loss is involved in the crossing of its forces with the "life of the world" which makes for the "second death and the second crucifixion." Prior to the beginning of the work of the School she was given to see the Single Eye, and to identify it with this verse on the literature of the School. This appears on the stationery and on the "Light of Truth." But she realizes that this is only an outer symbol of an inward development whereby she has come into the Single Eye in actuality, this capacity to know the Truth of good and evil being opened with the revelations in 1922. There is no individual experience in Christ, for Christ is a universal Principle, hence, the opening of the writer to the Single Eye and the Body of Light is also the opening of all capable of receiving that for which they stand, by which the Christ Body is brought forth at the end of the age. This means that a body of people are opened to the Laws of God in which His Will is being done to manifest the Kingdom of Heaven in the earth. This is the manifestation of the Virgins, the Manchild, that is, the "childern of God," these brought forth as the first resurrection. Whether we are right at the hour of this fulfilment, one cannot say, since it is not given to the Son or the Daughter (Wisdom or Love) to know, but this in known only in the Father or Law of Being that is working out. But the expectancy of many is in Christ and we wait in faith for the outworking of Principles that we know are now operative.