Jesus said, “Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest.”
Imagine that the Lord himself is standing in front of you, along with Lady Mary Magdalene, speaking these words. There, in your sight, is a man and a woman, a spiritual teacher (a rabbi) and his consort. In plain sight are a husband and wife. Yet hidden within the ordinary appearance of a man and woman, Logos and Sophia are present, standing before you and speaking with you. If you recognize what is in your sight, the Divine presence and power manifesting as a man and woman, then in the instant of recognition, what is hidden is revealed to you and becomes clear. You realize the presence of the Messiah and receive something of the Spirit of the Messiah. In that very moment, the Light-transmission occurs.
You must understand, the Lord appears as any man and Lady Mary appears as any woman. They are completely ordinary in appearance, although, indeed, Lord Yeshua appears as a strong man and Lady Mary as a most beautiful woman. Yet, in appearance, there is nothing extraordinary about them. They look like you or me, or anybody. You could pass them on the street and never know how near to the Messiah and kingdom of God you had come. In order to know what is hidden within them, you would have to recognize what is in your sight. You would have to encounter them with a presence of awareness and then pay attention to perceive the Divine presence and power moving with them. Only then would you know to seek teachings and initiation and so invoke the Divine revelation.
Now, truly, such recognition is a gift of the Holy Spirit and is dependent upon the evolution of the soul-being. Few are they in any generation who recognize the prophets and apostles of God. Fewer still are those who actually seek teachings and initiation. Recognition is the beginning of initiation and self-realization. Having recognized a holy one who embodies something of the Divine presence and power, one must then abide and develop a strong connection with the holy one, and bring recognition to fruition, realizing the Divine within oneself. One must become a true and faithful disciple.
What does it mean to be a disciple? It means that you consciously participate in a mystery drama, a living myth that brings forth the Divine in life. Not only does it mean that you recognize one who embodies a higher form of consciousness and seek to receive teachings and initiations, but that you, yourself, seek to embody something of that Divine presence and power and act as an apostle of God yourself. The disciple is the servant of the spiritual master and labors in the work of the master. Yet, what the master is, in truth, is the truth of the disciple, the disciple’s own inner teacher manifest. Hence, in recognition of one’s master, one perceives one’s own purpose and destiny in life. Discipleship means a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, the realization of the Christ-self within oneself.
Here, I will tell you a secret. You can only recognize what is within you. If you are able to recognize something of the Divine presence and power within a holy person, it is that same presence and power within yourself that is recognizing. The holy person in you recognizes the holy person of the Master. The Supernal Light in you recognizes the Supernal Light in others and in the world around you. In the moment of recognition, you enter, to some degree, into the higher form of consciousness you are noticing. To some degree, that higher state of awareness dawns in you. If there is a difference between you and the apostle in whom you have recognized something of the Divine, it is only that the apostle has learned to abide in that Divine presence and power and to consciously unite with it, and, as yet, you have not learned to do so. At the outset, for you, it is a potential, while, for the apostle, it is actual. That is the only difference. Nevertheless, what you perceive is the Truth about yourself.
This is what is happening for everyone. Everyone is perceiving something about themselves all of the time. How we perceive others and the world is how we perceive ourselves. What is perceived depends upon our own state of consciousness, whether a lower or higher state. If we want to recognize what is in our sight so that what is hidden is revealed, we need only change our own consciousness.
Now there is a greater mystery revealed in this saying, for the kingdom of heaven is not merely something experienced in the afterlife states, nor is the world of Supernal Light something distant and removed from you. Matter and Spirit are not separate. Mundane reality and sacred reality are one and the same reality-truth-continuum. This very life you are living is a Divine drama, the play of a Living God. The whole of life is sacred. The whole of life is a Divine revelation, God revealing itself. The mystery is revealed in plain sight—in life itself, for those who have the awareness to perceive it.
Jacob discovered the Truth of the Master’s saying at Bethel. God is in this place, whenever you are. God is present within all that transpires. There is no place devoid of God. If there were such a place that God did not exist, that place would not exist. Nothing happens save through the presence and power of God, for if there were an event in which God was not present, then the event could not take place. No place exists without God, nor does anything happen without God. God is the presence and power of everything, the source and foundation of all. God is within, yet ever beyond all that is. All that is, all that transpires, exists only in God. Something of God exists in everything, everywhere.
Jacob laid himself down to sleep somewhere in the midst of his journey. In the middle of nowhere, he laid down, taking an ordinary stone for a pillow. There, he dreamt of a Ladder of Lights and angels of the Lord ascending and descending upon it, and there God revealed itself to him. One end of this ladder was upon the earth and the other end was in the heights of the heavens. Messengers of the Lord God ascended from the earth to heaven and returned with the Word of the Lord, with Divine revelation. There, in that nameless place, God revealed itself to Jacob and revealed the spiritual forces within and behind events in the world. So Jacob named that place Bethel, the “House of God.”
Everywhere is a gate to heaven. The whole of Creation is the house or body of God, and God dwells in it and reveals itself through it. God is speaking through you and me, through everyone and everything. All is the self-expression of God. Thus, rightly, God has been called the Almighty Living God, for God lives in Creation, within, yet ever beyond it.
“For there is nothing hidden that will not become manifest”—the Divine potential will always tend to manifest itself. The purpose of God will always play itself out and ultimately be fulfilled. God will reveal itself in full. God is revealing itself all of the time!
Much more could be said, but this is enough. You will discover more of the Divine in life, your ordinary daily life, and the world, than in a book. Look and see what is in your sight, and what is hidden will be revealed!