“I am the Way and the Truth and the Light.”

We have a question. Please discuss the statement of the Christ, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Light.”  

The Christ was a completed man — a fully conscious being. His many, many expressions such as this indicate it in every way. Instead of having an attribute, he was the attribute; he was the personification of the Teaching. He was the Teaching made live.  

I am the Way — the Way implies a means and a direction of travel. He was the complete self-knowing man whether he did this the way as you and I have to do it or whether he was born with it, we do not know, but he was the way. He understood the way and he taught his way, he taught this way. 

And he was the Way himself — he lived it ever moment, taught it to everyone in all the ways — and the Truth. He was the Truth, the Truth of Wisdom, the real knowing, not that he had some Wisdom, but he is Wisdom. 

And as we have mentioned a number of times as a person would understand and have understanding, that person is understanding. A person doesn’t have confusion, one is confusion, one is not one, but many. And as long as one could say "I am many," and would be on the way. "I am error, I am conflict, I am struggle, I am resistance within myself.' And as a person understands this, he begins to see that a person is the state of being they happen to exist in.  

And the Christ said, “I am the light.” The light was the knowing, the means of having man to be evolved and created, regenerated and to become new. He was Wisdom and Love itself.  

So one takes on the way of following the teachings of the Christ, one becomes what one’s inner state is. Now one’s present inner state is usually that of conflict, that of darkness, and one could say, "I am darkness," instead of Light. 

One could say "I am error," because we have so many false beliefs — we believe so many things that we have no means of knowing the validity of at the moment and the only way we would do it was by traveling the way. 

And the person that is not the Way would say, “I am lost.” A person who is not on a way, not on a conscious road is lost, so possibly to understand this statement of the Christ that I am the Way and the Truth and the Light.  

We could see how we might... could say it, "I am lost, I am error, and I am darkness." When one begins to see this and recognize, then possibly there is a motive, there is a reason, there is an aim to change this state of affairs from being lost and to being error and to being darkness. 

One would then begin to be a doer of the word rather than just a hearer of the word. It’s so easy to read these things, commit the words (to memory), be able to repeat them and not consider once what really does that mean, where does it relate to me? Because only as we see what we could say about self as well as what the Christ could say, then we begin to understand, there is a great difference.

There is need for work, for conscious effort to find out and possibly sometime, just possibly one could say, 'I am the Way," and one could say, "I am the Truth," and one could say, "I am the Light."

From Bible and the Inner Man, cd 10, end of part 2