Cameo 8 – The Mother of the Children
January 22, 2021
These notes and essay reveal some incredible facets of Jesus’ relationship to Helen and Bill, and what the two of them were giving birth to, by their joining.
Bill had received guidance about crossing over “one more river” to experience his release. There are clues that this last impediment was related to sex, as that is what the material that follows discusses. Bill had made an apparent verbal slip by calling the river a rivet – “one more rivet.” Jesus says that “his slip was an expression of a Soul gaining enough strength to request freedom from imprisonment. It will ultimately demand it.”
The slip was not revealing a darker element to his unconscious, but rather a higher one. It was an expression from his higher mind. Robert, the essay’s author, points out that Helen had likewise had recent visions of finding release from imprisonment. This was in her ancient priestess vision, which we will review more closely in a later essay.
Question for reflection:
What is your “one more river”? It may be hard to label, but can you sense there is a significant block you are working through that will bring release by crossing over?
These notes clarify an earlier statement about involuntary control: “Everything involuntary belongs under Christ-control, not yours” (T-1.35.6:2). Jesus said that Bill’s forgetting to ask for guidance resulted from not developing this habit. This is where all of us are headed (and what the direction of the Workbook practice is geared toward): forming the habit asking for guidance, until the asking becomes an involuntary response.
The more Helen takes on the role of forgiver to herself and Bill, Jesus commends her and encourages her: “now you are forgiven, so you live in abundance [not scarcity].” Jesus even thanks Helen for “blessing Bill with a miracle.” It seems that she is rewarded for these blessings with beautiful revelations about her nature and her role as scribe.
She is likened to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Though Helen is giving birth to Jesus’ teaching, not to a newborn child. Jesus makes an incredible statement confirming that Mary was a deeply spiritual woman: “She was the only one that conceived without any lack of love.” Conceiving without any lack of love is affirming the concept of immaculate conception. Only the holiness was not in virginal purity and the absence of sex, rather the appropriate use of sex. It could be inferred that Mary was, in conception, asking God to use her as a vessel to deliver a savior, to bring God’s light into the world.
Look at how the Christian narrative is given positive affirmation, especially around the divine mother. At the same time, the notes reject the false narrative that Mary was partnerless, and that her state of mind was of one “perplexed” and afraid (Luke 1:29). She did have a partner and her fully loving conception was likely an achievement of a state of mind developed through sincere discipline. She was a deeply spiritual woman who asked for and received holiness to come through her. As a result, she “gave life” for all of us, by birthing and nurturing, Jesus. Jesus became a teacher of God who would (or who had already been selected, and who had agreed to) “take charge” of the Creator’s plan of Atonement.
Helen’s likeness to Mary tells us something about this Course, what it has the power to do in this world and in our own lives. We are standing on the foundation of a tradition, still newly born, that has immense power to be a guiding light in a darkened world. We can be grateful to the parents, Helen and Bill.