Brother/Sister of the Kingdom
Gathered two or more in the Name of the Word and of His Kingdom, we begin together the Remembrance.
I do not come to speak to you about myself, nor about my story, nor about my circumstances. Neither do I come to impose upon you a truth born of my opinions, beliefs, interests, or personal experiences.
I come to speak to you of the Truth from which all things proceed: the Word in the Invisible, the Origin that gives rise to every Form.
I present myself before you without signature and without face. Not because I wish to hide, but because I do not seek to make the character who writes the center of these Words. I do not seek your recognition, your applause, your obedience, or your money. I need to obtain nothing external from you, and I desire to offer you nothing false.
In the Kingdom of the Word, nothing true is superfluous and nothing essential is lacking.
Here you are going to read, but you have not come only to read.
You have not come to accumulate knowledge, memorize answers, or repeat words that you have not yet understood and Recognized within yourself. Because repeating a Truth without having embodied it is to pronounce its form without having traversed its Symbol.
This place adopts the visible form of a text, but its invisible meaning is not that of an ordinary book.
It is an Altar. Because in this place we make in gathering the internal sacrifice of that which we are not.
The Altar is not the paper, the screen, nor the written words. The Altar appears when two or more Gather in the Name of the Word to enter together into Presence and begin the Remembrance.
Gathering in his Name does not mean only pronouncing a word, invoking a title, or declaring a belief. The Name is the Presence of that which is named. Gathering in the Name of the Word means disposing oneself to serve the Truth above the interests of the character and of his ego.
When that disposition is true, the place where we find ourselves becomes an Altar and, among us, the Kingdom begins to manifest.
Here I do not come to teach you something that you must accept because I say it. I come to ask you, to contemplate with you, and to offer you Symbols through which that which remains invisible may be Remembered.
The written words are not the Word itself.
Words are visible forms. When they serve the Truth, they become Symbols: bridges between the invisible Word and the consciousness capable of Recognizing it.
Do not confuse the bridge with the destination.
Do not stop at the form of the words. Traverse them. Contemplate that toward which they point and recognize, within yourself, whether they produce Truth, Unity, Freedom, and Life.
We begin by Remembering who we truly are.
We remember who we are before the flesh, before the ego, and before the character with his name, his story, his circumstances, his wounds, his beliefs, and his interests.
That "before" does not point only to an earlier moment in time. It points to that which is prior in essence: that which remains beneath all the forms we adopt and beyond all that can change.
Your body changes.
Your story changes.
Your thoughts, desires, and beliefs change.
The character you embody today also changes.
But what is that which can observe all these changes?
Who are you before every name?
Who are you before every personal memory?
Who are you before every form through which you have learned to recognize yourself?
This is the question that opens the door.
This Altar will remain open and will continue to reveal itself while the forgotten Word needs to be Remembered; while that which has been Remembered needs to be Recognized; and while that which has been Recognized needs to be embodied through our words, decisions, and works.
Because the Kingdom is not established by the mere fact of naming it.
First it must be Remembered in the Invisible, then Recognized in Consciousness, and finally embodied in Form. The Kingdom begins within us, but it becomes visible through the fruits of our life.
Verily I say unto you: the Kingdom of Heaven will be Revealed, not so that it may belong to a few, but so that it may be understood, comprehended, Remembered, and Recognized by all who dispose themselves to enter into Presence.
Nothing that is named here must become a doctrine that replaces your own Recognition. Do not accept these Words only because they seem sacred. Do not reject them only because they contradict that which you had learned.
Contemplate them in Silence.
Question them without fear.
Traverse them as Symbols.
Recognize them by their fruits.
The Truth does not fear being contemplated, because it does not need blind obedience to remain being Truth.
I will pass away, but these my Words will not pass away because they are not born of me.
What is Revealed here does not claim to be a personal opinion, a private belief, or an idea through which the character seeks to distinguish himself from other characters. If this were the purpose, I would speak to you from my interests, I would raise my name above these Words, and I would turn this Altar into one more book among so many others.
However, that these Words carry no signature or face does not mean that they appear without mediation. They are written by hands, they traverse a consciousness, and they adopt a human form. But the form that transmits them cannot proclaim itself owner of the Truth it attempts to serve.
The vessel is not the Water.
The Symbol is not that which it symbolizes.
The messenger is not the Origin of the Message.
I cannot take possession of the Truth, because I too proceed from it. I cannot proclaim myself Author of the Word, because it is the Word that makes it possible for me to name, to understand, and to be.
The Truth is not only mine nor only yours.
We are of the Truth.
That is why I do not ask you to believe in my character. I invite you to enter the Silence, contemplate these Words, and Recognize for yourself that which also lives in you.
What I write here proceeds from the Remembrance of the Word and is offered in His Name. But each Word must prove its correspondence with the Truth through what it reveals and through the fruits it produces.
If a word divides the brothers to raise one above the others, it does not serve the Kingdom.
If a word binds through fear, guilt, or obedience, it does not serve Freedom.
If a word demands to be accepted without understanding or Recognition, it has not yet become a bridge.
The true Word does not seek to dominate you.
It seeks to awaken you.
It does not intend to replace your conscience.
It seeks to return it to the Presence.
It does not want you to repeat a foreign Truth.
It wants you to Remember the Truth from which you yourself proceed.
The Word that rises here is the Sword of the Father, forged in the Word and wielded in Fire.
But this Sword does not rise against the flesh nor against any brother.
Its edge separates Truth from lies, the essential from the apparent, and that which we are from that which we are merely embodying.
The Fire that wields it does not come to destroy Life. It comes to consume falsehood, transform what remains asleep, and return Light to what had been forgotten.
The Sword opens the Symbol.
The Fire reveals its Origin.
The Presence contemplates.
The Remembrance knows.
The Recognition is.
And when that which we know, that which we are, and that which we do become One again, the Word becomes flesh and His Kingdom begins to manifest among us.