[Time and place seem completely real to our bodily senses, which are devised for perceiving phenomena at that vibration; so they are our witnesses to illusion, and ONLY to illusion. They cannot, therefore, bear witness to reality.] [However, our mind, which is not a bodily sense, or OF the body, is capable of awareness of reality, which is not of time and place. This is described as abstract because it is not represented by any time and place, or concrete, manifestation.] “Love is the primary example of this because all can agree to its reality even though it does not exist in manifest, objective, concrete form. Time and place can be observed to be temporal, meaning always changing, passing in and out of manifestation over time. “As the mind is capable of apprehending the apparently abstract idea of Love being real, so is it capable of apprehending the abstract idea of eternity being real, even though the bodily senses are unable to perceive it. This demonstrates that mind and body (including brain) are not one and the same. “The mind continues to exist and function after the body (and brain) has ceased to function and exist. The mind is capable of understanding the idea that eternity is NOW, and does not change because it is of God, the Creator Spirit, and is therefore perfect. “Perfection cannot change or it would not be perfect. Equally, God cannot change or HE would not be perfect. Therefore He cannot create or be involved in that which is temporal because it appears to be constantly changing – coming into and out of perception, or being ‘born’ and ‘dying’. “If the unchangeable eternity is real, that which appears to be changeable, or of a temporal – which by definition is counter to eternity – state cannot be real; for opposites, which contradict each other, cannot both be real. “Therefore, either what APPEARS to be real to bodily senses – which themselves are temporal – is real, OR eternity is real. For undeniably, temporal and eternal cannot both be. “Since the mind is not dependent on the body for its existence – anymore than is Love – and the body is unarguably temporal, one can ask oneself ‘Am I mind or body?’ Mind is capable of functioning through, or with a body, but a body clearly is unable to function without mind. Therefore, while you appear to be with a body, I commend to you the purposeful use of it by, or with your right mind. :-) .” Diary of a Christ Communicant, AM July 20th, 2010 honest2goodness.org.uk
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