Holy Week, pt 2: Good Friday, March 29, 2013... from Jehanne de Quillan's THE GOSPEL OF THE BELOVED COMPANION:

…MY MASTER SHOWED ME THE EIGHTH AND FINAL BOUGH, UPON WHICH BURNED THE FRUIT OF THE GRACE AND BEAUTY OF THE SPIRIT.

42.13 AND I FELT MY SOUL AND ALL THAT I COULD SEE DISSOLVE AND VANISH IN A BRILLIANT LIGHT, IN A LIKENESS UNTO THE SUN. AND IN THE LIGHT, I BEHELD A WOMAN OF EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY, CLOTHED IN GARMENTS OF BRILLIANT WHITE, THE FIGURE EXTENED ITS ARMS, AND I FELT MY SOUL DRAWN INTO ITS EMBRACE.  AND IN THAT MOMENT I WAS FREED FROM THE WORLD, AND I REALIZED THAT THE FETTER OF FORGETFULNESS WAS TEMPORARY.  FROM NOW ON I SHALL REST THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE TIME OF THE AGE IN SILENCE.  AND THEN, AS IF FROM A GREAT DISTANCE, I HEARD THE VOICE OF MY MASTER TELL ME, “MIRYAM, WHOM I HAVE CALLED THE MIGDALAH, NOW YOU HAVE SEEN THE ALL, AND HAVE KNOWN THE TRUTH OF YOUR SELF; THE TRUTH THAT IS I AM.  NOW YOU HAVE BECOME THE COMPLETION OF COMPLETIONS.”  AND THUS, THE VISION ENDED.   

         

          -Why is the fruit on the eighth bough burning? [EX 3:1-6]         
          - Define Grace.  [ACIM T7, XI]
          - What is divine Beauty?  [ACIM T17, II, 1-3]
          - What happens in the process of dissolving? 
          - Why does everything, including Soul, dissolve in Light?
          - Who is the beautiful woman?  [ACIM MAN/CL6]
          - Explain “freed from the world.”  
          - Why is the realization of the “fetter of forgetfulness” significant? 
          - Explain “time of the age.”  [ECC 1-8]
          - What does it mean to “rest…in silence?”  
          - Why is there a sense of great distance from the “voice of the master?” 
          - What is the significance of Yeshua calling Miryam the Migdalah? 
          - What is the “Truth of your Self?”  [JN 8:48-58 & EX 3:13-14]
            - Explain “becoming the completion of completions.”   [ACIM MAN/CL, EP]