The Enlightened Must Awaken Others: Spreading the Light of Truth

The article, drawing from various religious and philosophical texts, posits that those who have attained enlightenment have a profound responsibility to share the 'light of truth' with the world. Citing passages from the Gospel of Thomas, Matthew, and Luke, it interprets Jesus's teachings not merely as a call to evangelize, but as an imperative for the spiritually awakened to broadcast their insights from the highest places, ensuring the light of truth is visible to all.

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You have heard it said to you in one ear and out the other, and I am shouting from the rooftops. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket or in a hidden corner. You place it on a lamp stand so that all who come and go can see the light.

This 'light,' the article explains, is intrinsically indivisible and cannot be hidden. The illuminated life of an awakened individual serves to awaken others from their dualistic 'ego' or illusion. When one transcends the ego and becomes 'freed,' they must then share the light of truth with a discerning world, guiding others out of the 'dream' of illusion. From the perspective of 'oneness,' the world is constantly illuminated in its true form, dissolving distinctions between God and creation, spirit and matter. In this realm of truth, illuminated by pure light, no sin exists, as the light is both within and without.

The text further elaborates on the concept of the ego as a source of suffering and delusion, comparing the desire to keep the 'lamp of truth' within the confines of the ego to placing it under a basket. Overcoming this ego, or the 'old self' driven by dualistic thinking, leads to a resurrection into the divine, the 'new self.' This process involves extinguishing the selfish ego trapped by societal norms, prejudices, and desires, and rediscovering the cosmic self, achieving a profound realization of 'oneness' through a 'great death.' Those who grasp the light of truth are called to share it, urging others to repent from the 'sins' of ego-driven darkness, experiencing a state where the divine works through them, as Jesus described.

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God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

Quoting John, "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all," the article stresses that recognizing this 'light of truth' is a personal experience of realizing one's own and everything else's fundamental unity with the divine light. Just as Jesus urged vigilance, the 'enlightened' remain unshaken by circumstances, free and peaceful, having shed the ego's discernment. They must repent from the 'sin' of perceiving illusions and instead perceive the reality of heaven with 'spiritual eyes.' The article concludes by asserting that ultimate reality is not a concept of an external deity but the absolute 'oneness' that makes existence possible, a light that modern physics, with its theory of energy as a wave of thought, is beginning to prove. Salvation, or eternal life, is achieved through this 'change of consciousness', knowing God and Christ as the inner true self.

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The enlightened person, who has realized the light of truth, must share the light to help people repent from the darkness (ego) of sin.