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OrEd-T-20.7-Temple of the Holy Spirit.145. The meaning of the Son of God lies solely in his relationship with his Creator. And this is wholly loving and forever. If his relationship were elsewhere, it would rest upon contingency, but there is nothing else. Yet, the Son of God has invented an unholy relationship between him and his Father. His real relationship is one of perfect union and unbroken continuity. The one he made is partial, self-centered, broken into fragments, and full of fear. The one created by his Father is wholly self-encompassing and self-extending. The one he made is wholly self-destructive and self -limiting.46. Nothing can show the contrast better than the experience of both a holy and an unholy relationship. The first is based and rests on love, serene and undisturbed. The body does not intrude upon it. Any relationship in which the body enters is not based on love, but on idolatry. Love wishes to be known, completely understood, and shared. It has no secrets, nothing that it would keep apart and hide. Love walks in sunlight, open-eyes and calm, in smiling welcome and in sincerity so simple and so obvious it cannot be misunderstood. But idols do not share. 47. Idols accept, but never make return. They can be loved, but cannot love. They do not understand what they are offered, and any relationship in which they enter has lost its meaning. They live in secrecy, hating the sunlight and happy in the body's darkness, where they can hide and keep their secrets hidden along with them. And they have no relationships, for no one else is welcome there. They smile on no one, and they do not see those who smile on them. 48. Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure, and hidden from the sun. Love does not seek for power, but for relationships. The body is the ego's chosen weapon for seeking power through relationships. And the ego's relationships must be unholy, for it does not see what they are. The ego wants relationships solely for the offerings that sustain its idols. The rest it throws away as valueless. Homeless, the ego seeks as many bodies as it can collect for placement of its idols, establishing the bodies as temples to itself. 49. The Holy Spirit's temple is a relationship, not a body. The body is an isolated speck of darkness, a secret hidden room, a tiny spot of senseless mystery, a meaningless enclosure carefully protected, yet hiding nothing. Here the unholy relationship hides from reality, and seeks for crumbs to keep itself alive. Here it would drag its brothers, holding them here in its idolatry. Here the unholy relationship is 'safe', because 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 Christ's face can not be seen?50. The temple of the Holy Spirit cannot be the body, for the body will never be the seat of love. The body is the home of the idolater and of love's condemnation. For here love is made fearful and hope abandoned. Even the idols that are worshiped here are shrouded in mystery and kept apart from those who worship them. Here is the 'mystery' of separation perceived in awe and held in reverence. This is the temple dedicated to no relationships and no return. What God would not have be, is kept 'safe' from Him here. I fear, and am blind to what my brother is, making God seem unknown and fearful to me.