The Gospel of John (Part 3)

Two episodes ago I started a new series on the Gospel of John. In episode one I spend some time doing “set-up work” about, not only Gospel of John, but all the Gospels. My intention was to help you understand the history of these gospels—to put them in perspective.Epiode two we dove into some of the abundant spiritual meaning in the book. Three of the major topics covered were (1) the metaphysical meaning of the person John the Baptist as the forerunner to the coming of the Christ consciousness.From Charles Fillmore we get that John the Baptist represents the “illuminated natural man”. This means that in the ever-evolving process, John the Baptist represents the stage in us when we awaken intellectually to the idea of a greater reality. The mind eventually realizes that “baptizing with water” (knowledge of the physical world), is but a voice crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord (the coming of our greater consciousness—Spirit awareness).The prologue to the Gospel reads “and the light shineth in the darkness and darkness apprehended it not”. That is to mean that we are spirit beings, yet unaware of it.We also covered the idea that, (2) spiritually speaking, “in the beginning” is the ever present here and now. So that at any moment we want to change our mind, change our world, that becomes our new beginning. Finally we talked about (3) “the word”. How both John and Genesis 1 make clear that in the beginning there was “the word” and nothing else. I posed the question: what IS this word? Charles Fillmore writes: “The Greek word (logos) cannot be adequately translated into English. In the original it denotes wisdom, judgement, power, and in fact, all inherent potentialities of Being.”Thus, in the beginning (now) there is ever all the inherent potentialities of Being before us awaiting the unfolding of our consciousness into that awareness.