INNER CIRCLE: Becoming Who You Are

On the other hand, if one can truly realize “who they have always been” – a human being with a consciousness that is connected to the Greater Consciousness – then artificial categories like “Hebrew” or “Christian” or “Gentile” or “Pagan” become superfluous and irrelevant.

What’s necessary to break away from this primitive Us/Them ideology is simply to realize who we really are at our core. We are not the labels others have given us. We are not our gender, or our skin color, or our nationality, or our religious affiliations. Those markers might describe our beliefs, our genetics, our place of birth or our orientations, but they do not address the reality of our true and authentic identity.

In the first statement, the author of this Gospel gives us a very basic example of someone whose focus is on making others like themselves. This proselyte’s identity is wrapped up in proving that others are wrong and they are right. Their goal is to force others to conform to the specific illusion of identity they have adopted. They want Pagans and Hindus and Buddhists and Christians to become Hebrews like themselves. But this idea is obviously not limited to Hebrews. It is merely an example of how those who identify themselves by their faith systems tend to behave. A Christian wants to make other people Christian. A Democrat wants to make other people Democrats. A Vegan wants other people to become Vegan. This is the pattern.

But there is another way to be. There is another way to look at the apparent separation of people into categories of faith and belief and practice. This paradigm shift starts within ourselves. We have to slow down, close our eyes, and look inward for a new perspective on reality that erases those arbitrary lines of separation.

“Authentic beings are who they have always been, and what they embody is authenticity simply by becoming who they always were.”

Of course, we have always been who we have always been, but the problem is that we have not always known this, or focused on this truth. We’ve allowed ourselves to become distracted by the lie of separation that divides us and all humanity into various groups of “others.” So, the cure for separation is to look for what we have in common. That is the ground of all being; the thing that make us human; the reality that exists beyond our outward physical appearance; the irreducible qualities of consciousness that define every single one of us.

This is who we truly are. This is who we have always been. And when we embody this authenticity – this ultimate truth of our identity – we become who we always were.

If we cannot do this, we have no use for whatever else the Gospel of Philip has to say to us. This is the first step. This is the most basic threshold we must cross if we ever hope to enter into the truth about God, the Universe and Humanity.

You must become who you always were. You must be who you already are.

Do you know yourself this way? Can you live without your fake identity cards?

Are you really ready to leave all of that behind you?

If so, then what happens next will truly change everything.

Let’s go.

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