Posted by David Marks on April 12, 2012

I want to share a description from Oscar Wilde’s play, “Salome” that helps me
with the concept of Easter:

They are discussing The Messiah, about mid-play, which is just one act.

Herod: Where is this man at present?

Second Nazarene: He is in every place, my lord, but it is hard to
find him.

This description helps me remember the “Illusion of Separation”, and that we
are all divine, there is a Christ in each of us, but it is “hard to find him”.

There’s a book about near death experience, “Return from Tomorrow” by physician
George Ritchie, a native Texan, with a Christian background. In his near death
experience during Army basic training, he sees the loving face of “Jesus”.
Later, as a soldier, liberating a concentration camp, he dealt with the horror
by looking for someone with “that” face.

He finds that face in a prisoner he calls “Wild Bill”, who was a peacemaker in
the camp. Bill would mediate disputes between various enthicities of survivors,
and even camp guards. Ritchie assumed that Bill was a recent prisoner, due to
his positive attitude, upright posture, and peaceful demeanor, but actually Bill
had been there longer than almost any prisoner.

Bill explained that when his family was lined up by the Germans, they discovered
that Bill could speak several languages, and so was useful to them. So Bill
watched as his wife and children were shot to death. He said he knew he could
choose to be loving or hateful, and that as a lawyer, he knew the consequences
of being hateful, and decided in that moment to love every person he
encountered. [click to continue…]

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