T. 20. VI. 5 – 7. Jesus: “The Holy Spirit’s temple is not a body, but a relationship!
The body is an isolated speck of darkness; a hidden secret room, a tiny spot of senseless mystery, a meaningless enclosure carefully protected, yet hiding what is really nothing. Here in physicality the unholy relationship escapes reality and seeks for crumbs to keep itself alive. Here it would drag you and your brother, holding both in the ego’s idolatry. Here the ego is ‘safe,’ for here love cannot enter!
The Holy Spirit does not build His temples where love can never be. Would He Who sees the face of Christ choose as His home the only place in all the universe where it can not be seen? You cannot make the body the Holy Spirit’s temple, and it will never be the seat of love!
The body is but home of the idolater, and of love’s condemnation! For here is love made fearful and hope abandoned. Even the idols that are worshipped here are shrouded in mystery, to be kept apart from the awareness of those who worship them. This is the temple dedicated to ‘no real relationships and no return!’ Here is the ‘mystery’ of separation perceived in awe and held in reverence by the ego!
What God would have not be is here kept ‘safe’ from Him. But what you do not realize is this: What you fear within your brother and would not see in him is also what makes God seem fearful to you, and therefore kept unknown.
Idolaters will always be afraid of love, for nothing so severely threatens them as love’s approach. Let love draw near enough to them that they overlook the body, as love will surely make them do, and they recoil in fear, feeling the seeming firm foundation of the ego’s temple begin to shake and loosen. Brother, you tremble with them! Yet what you fear is but the herald of escape, for this place of darkness is not your home!
Your temple is not threatened! You are an idolater no longer! The Holy Spirit’s purpose now lies safe in your relationship, and not your body. You have escaped the body. Where you are, the body cannot enter, for the Holy Spirit has set His temple there!”