The light body, God, hybridizing plants, and the cycle of birth and death

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I am the stillness, the music, and the dancer. One.

Finally, the snake which has risen sheds its skin, and the new self is born within. The light body.

            It is an unfortunate outcome of the fall that mankind now has the habit of being more in relationship with his fellows than with God. The latter is possible even though the inertia of history attempts to condemn us to the old paradigm of exteriorization, for

To know that all is one is to know that no one is separate, and therefore all of our seemingly individual decisions and actions are really actions of the whole, and so there is not really any autonomous ‘self’, but rather an infinite number of integrated, identifiable members of the one limitless body. For a limb is not only a member, it is the body, because the body cannot be dissected into pieces and still be a body; it is whole only because of its members. All is one. And because all is one, and God is that all that is one, nothing is outside of God. God is the great glory that is humanity.

             For just as in the hybridizing of plants, where two distinct species are brought together and united into one new creation, still other plants from the original separated species remain to propagate on the elsewhere, but now also a new entity has been created. The universe has expanded. Unity is diversity.

Awakening to the subtle, eternal self may remove one from the cyclic round of birth and death, but it does little to transform the actuality of life in this realm, and thus an individual’s personality may change very little, even after awakening to the eternal self. And since the personality exists at the surface level, if one concentrates solely on ‘perfecting’ this aspect, they will lose or never find their existence in the subtle realm. It is for this reason that all sorts of seeming imperfections and misbehaviors accompany the embodiments of the immortals.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.