The hardest part in the play and the one no one would volunteer for, yet the one that must be played before Christ can awaken in a man. Betray means reveal - I betray you into the hands of your enemies, that is, I disclose you - so only he who knows God can betray God. Judas alone did not run from the garden; the others fled, and the one who knew him kissed him and identified him, and that identification is the whole of it: the Christ betrayed is man's own imagination. The kiss is followed by the commission - 'What you must do, do it quickly' - which the translators softened in the body of the text to 'Friend, why are you here?' and left the true rendering in a footnote. Judas is the only disciple Jesus calls Friend, while Peter he calls Satan; and Judas is the only one no church is named for. Then he repents, not changing his mind but standing aghast, because he sees what those he told did with the secret - they spat on it, which cannot mean on a body, since the Lord is spirit and invisible. Finally he hangs himself on a tree, and the body is that tree: he dies to everything he formerly believed about causation. As he betrays Him he becomes the very being that he betrays.
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Matthew 26:50 | Friend, why are you here?
Matthew 26:50 | What you must do, do it quickly
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You can betray God only by revealing Him
As he betrays Him he becomes the very being that he betrays
no one can betray God unless he knows the secret
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They do not build churches to Judas. I lived on a little island and they divided it into eleven parishes, named for the disciples, but there is no Judas.
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So the eleven could not commit suicide or, in other words, let go of everything they had ever heard regarding causation.
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But one has to go out and “betray” God by telling his identity, and to the degree that you can do it you will prove it by the behavior of those to whom you tell it.
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He is not a man but a state into which I have entered deliberately and consciously, for no one can betray God unless he knows the secret.
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You will be like the very Being you were sent to betray.
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People say he is the betrayer, but to be able to betray I must first hold the secret. So I betray you into the hands of your enemies. I reveal you, for that is what “betray” means.
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No priesthood could send you or have the power to send you out. No holy water will send you out. You are sent by God and God is spirit.
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You can betray God only by revealing Him. You will not know Him by anything the scribes or the Pharisees will tell you, but only by inner revelation. And when you are fully persuaded you will go and tell it.
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As he betrays Him he becomes the very being that he betrays.
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The actual translation is, “What you must do, do it quickly.” You have to do it. You have to tell the world who God is and that He is Imagination
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The others ran when he was arrested, but the one who knew him kissed him and said, “Do not let him go,” and that is your Imagination, for that is Christ.
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But in this case when Judas reveals the Lord to the world he repents, for he sees what they did with the knowledge.
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