The Universal Christ

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Copyright © 2019 by Center for Action and Contemplation, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Convergent ...

I dedicate this book to my beloved fifteen-year-old black Lab, Venus, whom I had to release to God while beginning to write this ...

The only really absolute mysteries in Christianity are the self- communication of God in the depths of existence—which we call g ...

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Before We Begin Part 1: Another Name for Every Thing 1: Christ Is Not Je ...

Epilogue Afterword: Love After Love Appendixes: Mapping the Soul’s Journey to God Appendix I: The Four Worldviews Appendix II: T ...

Before We Begin In her autobiography, A Rocking-Horse Catholic, the twentieth-century English mystic*1 Caryll Houselander descri ...

I saw too the reverence that everyone must have for a sinner; instead of condoning his sin, which is in reality his utmost sorro ...

Everywhere—Christ Realization of oneness Reverence Every kind of life has meaning Every life has an influence on every other kin ...

universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love? What if Christ refers to an infinite horizon t ...

world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, ench ...

you!) Don’t jump too quickly to the next line. In the monastic tradition, this practice of lingering and going to the depths of ...

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1 Christ Is Not Jesus’s Last Name In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, ...

God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator “God” to explain the universe? Most of the peren ...

became fully visible in its depths and meaning (Genesis 1:1ff.). Time, of course, has no meaning at this point. The Christ Myste ...

Everything I see and know is indeed one “uni-verse,” revolving around one coherent center. This Divine Presence seeks connection ...

God seems to have chosen to manifest the invisible in what we call the “visible,” so that all things visible are the revelation ...

A Universal and Personal God Numerous Scriptures make it very clear that this Christ has existed “from the beginning” (John 1:1– ...