FAITH
Believing in Christ as Imagination
True belief in Christ is not adherence to religious rituals or donations, but rather recognizing Christ as one's own imagination. It involves lovingly…
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Is Christ Your Imagination
If I read John correctly, not only my salvation is dependent on it; I must actually believe in him. Who is the being? My own imagination. If I don’t believe and test it – even though I fail – well then, I don’t believe in Christ, for Christ is really my imagination, your imagination. So you imagine something lovely of another, and if you don’t believe in the reality of that imagination, then you don’t believe in Christ. Though you can go to church every day and give ten per cent of your income to the church of your choice – all these things are lovely, give them if you feel that way about it – but that is not Christ. That is not believing in Christ. To believe in Christ is to see someone in this world, and have a sweet feeling towards that one that hasn’t yet realized how to be lovely, something without his knowledge. Then represent him to yourself as though it were true, and believe in the reality of what you have done mentally. Believe in Christ, for all things are possible to Christ.
True belief in Christ is not adherence to religious rituals or donations, but rather recognizing Christ as one's own imagination. It involves lovingly imagining a desired state for another person, representing it as true, and believing in the reality of that mental act, knowing that all things are possible to this imaginative power.