‘The Father and I are one’

"When Jesus said, ‘The Father and I are one’, he was summarizing

the greatest mystery of religion. And one day we too must be able

to say the same words.

Some will say, ‘Yes, but we’re not Jesus. He was the son of God,

whereas we are sinners.’ The Church has tried to make Jesus the

equivalent of God himself, the second person of the trinity, the

Christ, a cosmic principle, thus creating an infinite distance

between him and human beings. But is this the truth? Jesus

himself never said such a thing; he never claimed to be

essentially different from other people. He said he was the son

of God, but he did not claim this divine lineage for himself

alone but emphasized the divine nature of all humans. Otherwise,

what would be the meaning of the phrases ‘Our Father in heaven,’

‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect’ and also ‘The one

who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact,

will do greater works than these’?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov