Vachon Imagined

Christ did not heal hate by resisting hate.

Hate was already here.

It was an expression of the body, the mind, and the memory of the earth. He did not create it any more than he created love. He walked into a world where both already existed.

Hate, its opposite, and the memory of their creation were already here.

And because Christ knew himself as earth, as God, and as human, he did not need to resist what he was.

But he did.

We see evidence of this in the moment when he cried out that God had forsaken him.

That was the moment he entered the deepest pit of hell, not a place of fire, but the consciousness of separation. The place where we forget ourselves so completely that we believe we are not of God and that God has left us.

And from there, he was born again.

The evidence of Christ cannot be confined to the evidence of his body.

He did not exist only on this earth.

He existed in time.

And anyone who met him there saw him.

It took the willingness of the woman found in every man to say, This isn’t all there is.

And humanity fell into the deep.

Not the deep of despair, but the deepness of consciousness where all things live.

And she found him again.

But she found more than Christ.

She found herself.

She found herself in a world that had forsaken her too. A world that promised joy and delivered suffering. Promised wealth and delivered famine. Promised permanence and delivered loss.

And this is what we cannot see when we insist that one thing must oppose another.

Hate and love are not opposite things.

They are expressions of the same life.

Because there is no death. There is only physicality returning to its rightful owner.

Returning to its rightful nature.

Anyone who sees Christ as separate from themselves lives separate from their own doing.

Christ did not go against the physical world.

He couldn’t, it was the law. 

So, rather, he stepped into it, willingly. 

He stepped into religion, into its laws, its judgments, its certainty, and he fought what it had become.

He did it through himself.

Het met himself, and he fought himself and he allowed the world to reveal itself through him.

And that was the point.

Not to show us how to become something other than human, but to show us what happens when a human being is willing to enter completely into what they are, and the world of physicality is always showing us.

Because until you willingly enter what you are, you will live deceived.

You will live in a lie.

You will spend your life resisting yourself and calling that righteousness.

You will divide the world into good and evil, love and hate, God and man, self and other, and then wonder why you cannot find God anywhere.

You cannot find God outside of what is.

God is what is.

God is all there is.

And Christ did not come to stand apart from the world.

He entered it completely.

That is why we still see him.

Not because he escaped the earth,

but because he never belonged only to it.