| BkI:18.IV.4 | Let yourself be carried away by the feelings you felt when you encountered the resurrected. You felt this; you know whereof we speak. What you don't remember is that the one for whom your heart calls from the unfathomable abyss is your self. It is the name of Jesus of Nazareth that shows you in a clear and observable way what you really are. We ask you now to leave behind any association with the doctrine or personality of Jesus and go beyond his form to his content, toward what makes Jesus what he is. Towards that which you can feel even if you cannot put it into words. Go back to that feeling. Join it. And in that union, begin to accept joyfully and peacefully the truth that in Jesus it is not another man you are joining, or another woman in Mary, but your self. That which you feel in Jesus and Mary is you. |