I felt the following portion of a writing by Oche Landop was so very descriptive of the difference in those who DO KNOW or understand about Oneness or being part of the Source but may only USE IT or desire to manipulate IT for the satisfactions of the natural or sensual realm and then those who have been awakened to the Christ Presence by an open experience with the Holy Spirit where they know Him as Father and walk in fellowship with Him and as Him in the here and now.
I have included the link at the end of this that will take you to the full writing by this brother.
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AWAKING IN SPIRIT
“Wake up, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and
the Christ shall shine upon thee.”
1
O AWAKE in Spirit is to become aware of one’s
Spirit-essence, and of the Father.
There are two levels of awaking in Spirit. One is
what may be called moonlight awaking, and the other
sunlight awaking.
Moonlight Awaking
At the level of moonlight awaking a man is aware of
Spirit and of Spirit-operations in him, but he is not yet
alive to the Father’s destiny for humans, that is, he will
not have “seen” Christ. To many at this level of awaking
Spirit is a power, a depersonalised Intelligence, an
impersonal force, albeit the Boundless Ultimate LifeForce, “BULF”. Such people endeavour to connect to or
touch Spirit, to “feel after Him and find Him”,
2 not as
the Father, but as tapping energy from a Limitless
Source for their various uses. For, not having had a vision
of the Father’s plan for man, they have with the mind of
their flesh3 worked out an aim in life for themselves.
They endeavour to “be in touch with the Ultimate LifeForce”, but this is to enable their achievement of their
aim. They touch what they do not worship, or fellowship
with as a child adores and fellowships with his father or
mother. The Father does not of course draw away from
the groping hands of such “Spirit feelers”: He lets them
touch Him and get what they seek. For “he who seeks
finds”
and He is even the One causing them—as
indeed He does everyone—to feel after Him and find
Him. Such people have moved out of utter darkness, yes,
the darkness of those who believe they are all flesh and
no more; but they have only got into heatless moonlight.
And as in moonlight one does not clearly distinguish
colours and is certainly not warmed, they cannot
distinguish the colours of life nor be “heated” or “filled
to all the fullness of God”
5
as in Christ “all the Fullness
dwells bodily.”
6
Sunlight Awaking
Sunlight awaking is a being “born anew ... of the Spirit”,
7
not merely being aware of Spirit or tapping energy from
Spirit. As Christ arises in us
8
and we are drawn into, or
whelmed in, or “baptised in the Holy Spirit”
9
“we cry,
‘Abba, Father!’ [as] the Spirit Himself bears witness with
our spirit, that we are children of God ... and joint-heirs
with Christ.”
10 Then I can boldly say, as Christ says, “I
am in the Father and the Father in me”
11
and “I and the
Father are one.”
12 For now I see that His relationship to
me of Father and son is not a legal fiction, as between a
man and an adopted boy, but a relationship of
connection in substance, as between the sun and one of
its rays, or between a vine and one of its branches, or
between my right hand and one of its fingers. And I
realise that I am not merely flesh, that my essence is
Spirit, the Being of the Father, and that all my life
problems arise from my not being aware of this reality
and so taking myself to be no more than my body.
This sunlight awaking is also called in Scripture “the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy
Spirit.”
13 For the fall of a man is his getting out of the
water of the Holy Spirit and on to the dry land of going
by his body. Salvation is getting back into the water of
the Holy Spirit. No one without being renewed or
reborn in Spirit can go fully by Spirit as is necessary for
one’s metamorphosis. Unless a man is born anew of
Spirit, he cannot walk in the Narrow Way of Spirit by
which he may put on incorruptibility.
Sunlight awaking is coming out of the veil of one’s
flesh14
and to have seen Christ. This awaking brings a man
to see the connection between him and Christ: that
Christ is the reflection of the perfect him, the Butterfly
of Glory that he is to metamorphose into.
Jesus Christ is the mirror of reality giving two images
at the same time, one of the Father, and the other of
man. He is the radiance of the Father.
15 He “contains”
and presents the Being of the Father, in the fullest
measure possible for the creature called man. “For in
Him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily.”
6
“I
and the Father are one,” He says.
12
“He who has seen
me has seen the Father.... I am in the Father and the
Father in me...”
16
Also, Jesus is the reflection of man in perfection. “As
He is so are we in this world.”
17 Looking on Him, I am
looking on my perfect self. “He who has seen me has
seen his true self,” we may suppose Him to say. “He
who sees me sees his fullness, as a boy looking on his
father sees the stature he will grow to, or as a caterpillar
looking on the butterfly sees its mature form.”
In Jesus the true man is exhibited. He, who is Spirit
and “was in the beginning with God” and “was God”,
18
becomes flesh19
in this world—puts on a body that “in
all things”
20
is like the body of any human, one which at
first is not a spiritual body but corruptible and capable of
dying. Then He steadily walks in Spirit till His body is
metamorphosed into an incorruptible spiritual body, that
is, till He is “filled to all the fullness of God”
5
and is
perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.
“As He is so are we in this world.”
17 As far as the
human condition in this world goes, as Christ is so are
we—though He is Lord and we are made through
Him.
22 Every human is Spirit who becomes flesh in this
world as Christ became flesh. And as He “grew and
waxed strong in spirit”
23
till He was filled to all the
fullness of the Father, every person is to grow and wax
strong in spirit and “be filled to all the fullness of God”
5
that the Father may say of him, “This is my beloved son,
in whom I delight.”
24
How the Father works “the supply of the Spirit of
Jesus Christ”
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in someone to awake him is of course
beyond fathoming. But anyone reading this now is
certainly being stirred to his Spirit-essence. Probably the
voice or the stirrings of the Spirit in him in the past that
he ignored or did not recognise as such are being
brought to his awareness now. Maybe in the course of
reading this he has exclaimed, “So that was the Spirit!
And I didn’t know it.” Seeing then that the Father is
really in him, he can begin to surrender to Him this
moment. He can tell the Father: “Father, I see that You
are in me. Awake me in You. Let Christ arise in me....”
As he asks from his heart, or desires it persistently, he
will receive; and as Christ arises in him, he will know.
Whom will have addressed almost as unknown and far
away—unknown to his mind—he will feel and find.
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1. Eph 5:14 (YLT). 2. Acts 17:27. 3. Col 2:18; Rom 8:6, 7.
4. Mt7:8. 5. Eph 3:19. 6. Col 1:19; 2:9. 7. 12. Jn 3:3-5.
8. Jn 17:17-21; Gal 1:15-16. 9. Acts 1:5, 8. 10. Rom 8:15-17.
11. Jn 14:10-11, 20. 12. Jn 10:30. 13. Tit 3:5. 14. Heb 10:20.
15. Heb 1:3. 16. Jn 14:9-11. 17. 1 Jn 4:17. 18. Jn 1:1-2.
19. Jn 1:14; Heb 2:14. 20. 46. Heb 2:17. 21. Mt 5:48.
22. Jn 1:3. 23. Lk 2:40. 24. Mt 3:17. 25. Phil 1:19.
26. Acts 17:23, 27.METAMORPHOSIS TO GLORY 41
http://sigler.org/kingdom/Metamorphosis%20to%20Glory.pdf
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