"I AM THAT I AM." Ex. 3:14; With this telling name God revealed Himself to Moses as true consciousness, or Mind— the one Ego.
Christ Jesus, acknowledging God to be the creator of all, used the tender name of "Father" for God. He said, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matt. 23:9; And he gave his disciples the prayer that begins, "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." 6:9;
Although this beautiful opening of the Lord's Prayer is familiar to all Christians, when we say "Our Father" do we think of a loving God far off or of the infinite, ever-present I am? When we realize that the name "Father" indicates "I am," the thought of the I am "which art in heaven" removes the feeling that God is distant. Instead of thinking of a divine Father somewhere in a remote place called heaven we find ourselves recognizing, first, that there is one I am, or consciousness; second, that this true consciousness is Spirit; and, third, that the divine consciousness is also ours—now.
