Chapter 26
“Each one will speak about the place he came from, and will hurry to return again to the place he was made to stand, and to taste from that place, receiving nourishment and growth. This place of rest is his fullness [pleroma].” [26:1-2]
Now we turn our attention from the name of the Father and the Son to the place we came from; the place of rest. Everyone and everything returns home, like a prodigal soul caught in the magnetic field of the Father’s heart, we cannot escape and we would never desire to break free. We are who we are because the Father is who the Father is. We are one. Our hope is in the Father and our rest is found within the Father’s heart.
“All the Father’s bounties are fullnesses. The root of his bounty is in the one who caused all of them to grow from within himself. He gave them their destinies. Each one appears so that through her own thought they might be filled. For the place to which they send their thought – that place is the root, which takes them above all the heights to the Father.” [26:3-5]
Everything that is of the Father is full of abundance. This abundance without end – the river of living water that flows from inside each of us – points us to the source of life and the heart of love at the center of all things. Our unique essence of being appears within this place of fullness, and we are filled with this fullness which fills everything in every way. Here we have our being. Here we live and move.
“They hold his head, which is rest for them, and they grasp him, approaching him as if to receive kisses from his face. But they do not reveal this. For they did not exalt themselves or need the Father’s glory. They did not think of him as small or bitter or wrathful. He is without evil; tranquil and sweet. He knows all ways before they exist, and has no need of instruction.” [26:6-9]
In this poetic intimacy between the Creator and the created ones, we hold the Father’s head in our hands and touch the untouchable one. We draw near as we are being drawn closer to the source of Divine love that flows inside us and through us and around us. We taste and see that this Father is good. There is no shadow of turning, no darkness, no wrath. Only endless love unending. Only complete bliss. Only rest and peace forever.
This is the place where we were born, and the place where we will always return.
The Kingdom of God in us abiding, and all of us abiding in the Kingdom of God’s infinite love.
All that remains is the final chapter of this Gospel of Truth.
What will we discover at the end of this mystical poem?
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