Theodore Cottingham
Lesson of June 30, 2024
On YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/C0wG3SARwqI?feature=share
AI assisted transcription
Main Points
- Creation of a new reality through conscious choice.
- The school of personal voice, not religion.
- Learning through teaching and becoming one consciousness.
- Misconceptions of heaven and God.
- Kingdom of God as a pre-God state.
- Entering the promised land through inner transformation.
- Laying down human concepts of God.
- Embracing original Source energy.
- Becoming the truth and love through surrender.
- Defeating false gods and rewriting the New Covenant.
- Jesus as a pattern for a new reality.
- Transition to the feminine Divine.
- Defeating false images of God and embracing the Creator within.
Contrast with Orthodox Christianity
| Theodore’s Teachings | Orthodox Christianity |
|---|---|
| Emphasizes personal creation and conscious choice. | Emphasizes belief and faith in God. |
| Views God as formed by human image and concepts. | Views God as a distinct, external entity. |
| Teaches that heaven is not a physical place. | Teaches heaven as a tangible afterlife. |
| Stresses the importance of inner transformation. | Focuses on external adherence to doctrine. |
| Embraces original Source energy and light. | Emphasizes God as a male, father figure. |
| Encourages surrender to personal truth. | Emphasizes submission to God’s will. |
| Advocates for rewriting personal covenants. | Follows established biblical covenants. |
| Highlights the feminine Divine. | Predominantly male depiction of divinity. |
| Promotes direct communication with Source love. | Advocates for prayer and scripture study. |
Creating a New Creation
We are creating a new creation if we’re willing because many of us have loved God, and God has been formed in our image, no matter whether you like that or not. I assert that it is so because of Bible verses, people preaching things they don’t know, they don’t understand, things they’ve heard, things they assume are true, things they seem to corroborate in their own life. They preach knowing not, the blind perpetuating the blind because we’re all creators.
The School of Me
My name is Theodore Cottingham on the web at TheodoreCottingham.com, a school of me. Pardon, a school of me, a school not a religion but a school of the first-person voice of you. Not the one that comes out of you like you think that has been programmed by someone else, but the voice of your love. And love loving love shall continue no more as follows the followers, or did love ever just follow, or was love ever entreated, or did you just treat love like dirt under your feet, call you flesh wounded by it?
Learning Through Teaching
The lesson that I spoke yesterday is very important and is a prelude to this, a prequel. Because you see, I learn from what I teach. I learn as I teach, I learn because I’m one Consciousness. I learn through what I know, through what I’ve received, through the mind of the consciousness of one. That I become the consciousness of all of what we’ve called God, for we haven’t had a widely accepted noun to denote that which is, that which was, that which existed before God did, before this planet did, before mankind did, before time, space, and gravity. The original us. Yes, it was us and it still is us making man in our own image. We are the ones making man in our image all the time, even right now. We see each other and we call each other as we think we are, and then we modify God to fit our purposes. We think God will do things for us, we think God will heal us, reconcile us to itself, heal us, heal our land. But we haven’t known the story because we haven’t been willing to know the story. We haven’t wanted correction. We’ve been taught to believe, believe, believe, have faith, have faith, have faith that God is unknowable, that God is a mystery and you can’t know these things in this life until you get to another. So you must die, just wait around and die, just wait around and die, just die out. You have all these people telling you what to do and how to do it. Have they done it?
Misconceptions of Heaven
Telling you what heaven’s like, telling you they saw heaven when they had a near miss or whatever it was. I suggest to you that heaven, what we’ve called Heaven, is not in a framework of ours to behold it as such. We are so limited, we are so immature. We’re not a people of joy, light, and blessing. We’ve been a people of destruction to each other. We’ve destroyed our light and each other’s light. We’ve called God something else. But if you want to know the truth, friend, I suggest to you there’s only one way. No matter what you do, think, or believe, if you want to know the truth, you become it.
The Kingdom of God
There’s no real true acceptance of belief for you and your separation to know it, to lock down on it, to have the truth. You got it? Ah, it doesn’t work that way. The kingdom, you see, the kingdom of God, well, let’s, what God was, what God is, let’s go in our mind to where the beginning began, before God was, before God existed in the mind of man, before the mind of man existed in separation, before the Big Bang, before life was thought to be other. Call it a new age term or not, let’s call it Source, The Source, the original Source, pardon, the original Source energy, energy light. You’re the light of the world. Be not afraid of terms that you haven’t liked or that you think are appropriate or not appropriate. Be not afraid to learn, to listen, and to create your reality anew as the Creator, for the Creator is you, my friend.
Entering the Promised Land
For us to come into our promised land, that which is real beyond sight, beyond the limitations of our molecular existence, beyond what our present mind can comprehend, to come into it. And you know where it is? It’s inside of you. But before, my friend, you can come into it, into reality true, the infinite immortal you being you, who you really are operating in the infinite scope of I am one, there are things we must lay down. And I suggest to you, we must lay down our concept of God.
Laying Down Our Concepts
We, as humans, it’s innate, that’s inherent, the way the mind works, to have a picture. You have a word, you have a word picture. You can see the word snake, you can see the word pontificate, but then there’s a meaning that’s associated with it, and that association draws images and evokes emotions. And those images and emotions tend to rule our lives. And we have words that do strange things to us, words that mechanize our day, destroy our joy, or make us happy when someone you like tells you they love you, they need you, they want you.
The Original Source Energy
What if what we have called God, but I’m referring now to the original Source energy of us, what if the original messages I give you, me, the one that you envisioned on your own as a man, maybe a woman. But so many have Bibles that treat God as male and call it father, male, male, male, father, father, father, male. Oh, brother, see, there’s more to the story. If you want to know God, your Bible won’t get you there. It doesn’t take you inside. Nobody can take you inside of who you really are to begin to see your kingdom beauty and the revelation that you are, I am. But you, nobody but you, you can’t point your finger to a pastor, preacher, priest, prophecy things of old, looking toward things of the future.
Speaking the Truth
You see, yesterday I spoke very, very surrendered. I speak, I teach like this. I speak like this. I share things many, many times that I didn’t know, and I listen to me speak them because I have become one Consciousness. It’s the union, the union of two, two becoming one, the consciousness of God that God is, the mind of the operation of the intelligence of the universe, and farther. The intelligence, the mind, well, friend, we must use some kind of words to communicate with each other if we’re trying to get, trying to exchange information, energy, light. Are we exchanging life? If you want just propositions that propel your propensity to remain separate and worship a God, you can do so. And you will experience the result inevitably of death, your last enemy.
Beyond Duality
But friend, it’s time we go beyond the idea that we even have an enemy. It’s time we go beyond the idea of duality. Let us lay down our toy thoughts, our pet rock, our little comforting blankie, blanket. Let us lay down things which we’ve romanced the idea. Oh, we’re the bride of Christ, the bride of Christ. Christ being male, Christ being, well, what? Are you willing to know union, marriage? What do these things speak of? Or do they speak to a much larger picture than historicity has ever given us? What did those people who wrote the Nicene Creed know? What did they know? What year was that, by the way? Or do you know? And how did that come about that so many millions of people speak every Sunday, repeating it, the declaration of what they believe that damns them?
The Power of Belief
You see, your belief damns you. What you believe sets you free is exactly what holds you back. When you’re willing to let go of your truth, when you are willing to let go of all that you have held dear, your wife, your husband, your God, your God, your belief, your existence in flesh, when you’re willing to surrender, to say, here I am, and you’re willing to quit saying things that denote your separation, like “Use Me For Your Glory.” I prayed that prayer all that for decades. I was a very devoted, dedicated, devout, diligent Christian with thousands of hours of study. But I began to learn there was more because I began to learn to let the voice within me teach me.
The Inner Voice
But I didn’t know it was within me because I began just like most people. So many of my writings, you see first-person words of God. God began to speak to me. That’s how I said it, and that’s what the diction and grammar portray because that was all I could handle. I couldn’t handle what I know now. I couldn’t be taught even by God what I know now 20 years ago. We can’t teach advanced differential calculus and differential equations and talk about the quantum world to a three-year-old. They can’t handle it, they don’t know. So even as kids progress, we give them toys, we give them Tinker Toys. They figure out they can construct something, they can put things together, they can assemble things. We must assemble the story of who we are. We must rewrite the code, the code that is coded into our genes, literally, the genetic of Truth, the genetics of truth that keep us here in flesh until we die. We have the opportunity to rewrite.
The Adjustment Bureau
Remember yesterday I mentioned The Adjustment Bureau, the movie, great movie, highly recommended. I love it because of the ending. You have the privilege because you, my friend, are the creator of you. We haven’t known this, we haven’t believed it, we haven’t wanted to believe it. We wanted to enjoy being little in our own sight and God having the responsibility. God having the responsibility to love us, to heal us, and we become spectators to the creation story. We were never meant to be spectators, people that worshiped God. It was never the heart of what we’re calling God to receive worship. Never. That was all contrived to control. And that which controls you and wants to control you and wants to give you its truth, baby, run.
Breaking Free from Control
Run from the people that look at you and say you have no business wearing that, you have no business thinking that. What will the neighbors think? What will the church people think? What will God think? My friend, grow up. It’s time we took the dress off of religion and see it for what it really is. Control. And I submit to you the very worst of all is Christianity. Because Christ, you see, in one sense is introduced, Christ is talked about, Christ is defined in a future tense and a past tense, but not the now. The idea of Christ being the anointed one and only male is so ingrained in Christianity, the whole idea of Christianity inoculates us against knowing the truth. We become infected with that which we corroborate because we create it because we’ve been told it. So we think it, and what we think begins to define us and define our identity.
The Real You
When you’re willing to go where no man has gone, when you’re willing to give up God, your God worship, when you’re willing to give up your worship of the Bible, and you begin to realize that what love is will communicate with you directly. Source love. Source Love Before Time began. And learn that Source love is not male. Source love is feminine. Source love is a nurturing love, a reproductive love. Source love communicates without syllables. And Source love leads gently. Pseudo love demands, pseudo love has brutality. It’s inherent, it’s innate, but it poses as light. We haven’t known light from darkness. We haven’t known good from evil. We’ve created all these empires of good and bad, good and evil, what we think, and who’s right and who’s wrong. My friend, it’s time we lay it all aside. All your theories about the Rapture. Oh friend, there is a way to think about these things, but not in the molecular sense that the rational mind has given us, and the way people perpetuate these theories.
The Creator Within
But you can corroborate what you want, for you are the creator of you. Because you are creating your consciousness and you are the only one responsible. And it’s time we stand up. It’s time we realize our power. It’s time we begin to mature. Let us lay down the elementary principles of this world and its duality. And quit talking about the power of the resurrection, and let’s begin to talk about something more powerful than anything that exists in the world. The power of surrender. The power of surrender for you. The power of surrender for you, my friend, to become who you really are. It’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a process promised you by the New Covenant, the new C that you have the privilege to write, where you receive the living words of source light energy. And you begin to reframe your reality by what you can see, by what you write.
The Living Word
This is the Living Word, writing on the tablets of your heart so they’re no longer stone. It is imperative if you want to know God. What I’m calling God, Source love. Source love will teach you from within, and it’s not a voice. Most of my life, I call it the voice of God and still refer to it at times to the voice, the voice of God. But we need to understand it’s not really a voice. It’s communication, but it’s not like you’re hearing me produce syllables that your ear and your mind decodes according to your lexicon, your definitions, and your experience. True word doesn’t operate limited to syllables. There’s an energy, there’s a love. Maybe we’ll, maybe we’ll be given some kind of nouns to help us define and communicate these things.
Becoming the Real You
But I invite you, my friends, this message is about becoming the real you, the unlimited you, the eternal, infinite, immortal you. So that you rewrite the code, and you rewrite the code day by day by what you see, think, feel, and become. You write it with your pen, you write it with your lips, you write it with your thought, you write it by the way you treat people. You write it by keeping your word, being punctual, by loving the people in the gutter, not by damning the affluent or those who wreak havoc on your present reality because you’re not subject to the present reality. This is the thing. The point is you’re who you are because of love, and love must teach you if you’re going to become mature love and operate in the Kingdom that is literally already inside of you because you’re connected to it. It’s in you, you’re it, and you’re connected to it because the mass Mind Of God is not matter confined to matter.
Constructing Our Reality
Energy, light, we’ve constructed our reality by what we see. We’ve constructed God by our own reality and what we think with our own logic and rationale. But my friend, it’s not that way. Is God male or female, or does it matter? Or is what we’re talking about a new reality so that we’re not gendered by one another? We’re not superimposed on each other. There’s not a reality that limits us. My friend, this is what born again is. Born again is a new creation of a new reality with a new view that is eternal, immortal, infinite, and understands the operation of the most high and doesn’t limit it to the rationale in a book or an image of God or something somebody, a priest, gave us or even a vision that we had that was so precious to us when we were nine or ten, like I had.
The Angel Experience
So at nine years old, an angel came to me. I was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My parents had gone on an errand, and an angel appeared. I was almost ten. I’ve usually said I was ten, but I actually found the original, a copy of the original writing that my mom wrote down in her Bible that night. So I think it was April of 1960. A boy simply making a little boy making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an angel appeared to me. How shall I describe it? I shall describe it in the only words that I know to use. They’re not great. I just don’t know better words to describe. Was the angel male or female? I have no idea. That wasn’t on my mind. I was terrified. I was shocked. I was speechless. This angel, I don’t know how else to describe it hardly, but white light, very gentle, waited on me to register this experience. It was not in a hurry. And I realized, and the angel, as I recorded, simply said the words to me, “Tell others about Jesus,” waited there patiently, so lovingly. So lovingly. And yet I had no precedent for this. And then it disappeared.
Dissatisfaction and Pursuit of God
So yes, I thought of that many times, and for decades I thought, well, if I tell others about Jesus, I guess that means I preach. So I had the idea of becoming a preacher. But see, the more that I began to pursue God, the more dissatisfied I felt with knowing about God and understanding how many people had different interpretations of the Bible, how many different Bibles there were, and the fact that words of the Bible are often changed ever so slightly with every single printing. And many of them have been printed hundreds of times. I didn’t want to know about God. I decided I wanted to know God. I wanted to know first-person God. So I said, God, I want to know you. I don’t want to know about you. I want to know you.
Seeking First-Person Knowledge
I had to decide what I believe. And I’ve mentioned a number of times in these recordings, very briefly, I decided first God existed or something I called God, some kind of higher power, something that was unlimited, infinite, because I didn’t and I still don’t buy that all of this just evolved. There’s more than an intelligent design. The speed of light as a cap didn’t evolve. Anyway, another subject. But I decided I wanted to know God. I decided God existed. And I decided God communicated, whatever God is. And I decided if I couldn’t hear God, it’s not God’s fault. So I decided to change, began to change my prayers. And I actually document this in the first little book I wrote in the year 2000. I began to change the way I pray. And I began to cry out for correction over and over and over. Correct me, oh God, talk to me, teach me, teach me and teach me to teach. Teach me. And over and over I said, I will pay the price. I didn’t know what the price was. I didn’t know the cost. I didn’t know to sit here like I am, sharing with you these words so freely, that the cost was laying down my life. The cost was laying down everything I held dear.
The Cost of Truth
Do you really know the words in the red when Jesus said, so many people think it’s all about peace, peace, and prosperity for the adherents of Christianity. But I tell you, there’s more to the story. And Jesus said, “Think not I came to bring peace, but a sword of separation.” Not a metallic one. But you see, not everybody can handle the story. Not everybody wants this story. But if you want truth, it’s the most costly thing. Truth is the most costly of all that you can pursue, and it’s inside of you. And the only way you unlock it is with surrender. Surrender to be who you really are. Surrender to rewire your crown. Surrender to the genetics of truth that flow in you, through you, through your Living Word, to each other. The Living Word creates the life of one. One what? One God, one Consciousness. The creation of love creates love. And love is differentiated from love that loves rules. Love that loves control. Big difference, big gap.
Defeating False Gods
If you worship the god that desires the sacrifice, blood sacrifice, I don’t want your God. I defeat your God. I defeat all your gods. In fact, everybody on Earth, whatever image of God that you hold, that you think is outside of you, I defeat your God. Because I am the one inside. The real I am that I am is a consciousness of completing it through the living Covenant, through the Living Word. And it’s not war, it’s not flesh and blood war. It’s not limited to molecules. We wrestle not against flesh and blood and principalities and powers. Oh gosh, we wrestle against our own mind. Because the mind of separation wants to remain in separation and in control. But the mind of light is still the regal royal privilege of you to turn on, to connect, to pick up your pen, to take time every day to learn a new learning system. This is the origination of the New Covenant. The New Covenant wasn’t written in the past. The New Covenant is waiting for you to write it. The New Covenant is waiting, my friend, for you to be it, to begin to experience the power of grace. Not grace that keeps you complacent, but grace that helps guide you to have the motivation and the energy to seek correction and to seek the Reformation of truth. That you become not a vessel with that inside you. Key difference, you’re not a vessel for truth. You become it. You literally originate it to become it. This is the marriage of the two to one. Two becoming one. You becoming Christ, the Christ mind originating in you. It, you no longer holding it in separation. That’s the union of one. The birth of Christ. Jesus was the first born of many. And now many shall be one. Behold, thousands will be one, and millions will become one. One mind. The mind of love, the consciousness of power that needs not your guns and aren’t worried about yours, nor your politics, nor your nuclear power. This is the race that is coming into being now. This is the message. And to enter who we really are, the fullness of this message, we become it, where we, the two, have become one. So that we are unlimited and we know it.
Jesus the Pattern
We become everything that Jesus became. And hence I wrote “Jesus the Pattern.” Got one of my first printed copies. It’s not an easy message. They don’t just say a little prayer. You write your Covenant. And how long does it take? I suggest it takes 70 weeks. Go study the New Covenant if you want to. And what happens after 70 weeks? Ha. Oh, I have a picture sitting here.
Transition to the Feminine Divine
See, in all of this process, we’re going from our image of God as judge, as male, to the bright shining star that’s feminine, reproducing love. And that, my friend, is my message this day. For us to grow up. Let us leave God behind. Let us lay down our image of God. Lay down our God worship and pick up our pen for God to teach us directly. Not the god of wrath and judgment and slaughter, but the god of original Source energy, light, love, and peace. The feminine Divine I am. And ladies, take heart. You won’t be under men anymore. And men, you won’t be controlling women anymore. And your love of women for your physical purpose goes bye-bye. Hear me well. I deny not these words. They are mine, they are me, my mind. The Mind of God. God I become. God one mind of two behold the Christ is you too who will be it to experience denial no more, but the realization, recognition, revelation of the new birth. For you to birth it, the seed that you bring forth through your lips and your pen, literally changing your genetics, the wiring of your mind to be in tune with the frequency of Heaven. The frequency of the Regeneration of the Christ, no matter what you call it. No matter whether you like these terms or words or not. I love you and I pray for your love to be manifest in you, to you, of you, for you to be it to each other. Love each other. Keep your word. Love each other. Learn to relearn what love is. Be willing to realize truth is not stagnant. Truth is what will teach you what you need to know, what you’re willing to know at your maturity level. Remember, you can’t study the quantum world at three years old. True truth does not evolve. Truth teaches truth to become it, where you experience to become the one in the world who heals it now.
A New Beginning
So there’ll be a lot of differences and there’ll be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth here on Earth as the truth is revealed more and more to people of every nation, tribe, and tongue. As simple people, common people just like you and me, common people begin to walk around doing the things that Jesus did and more. This is our privilege to birth us out of this mess. To come out of the limitations of slavery to the flesh and each other and religious thoughts and heal the land. Heal the Christ who is the Christ? All who will be it. And people will see miracles now at the hands of women. Little old ladies that so many men have run over, debased, despised. For the power of love is here and it will be recognized. And love will not be put down. This is more than a major change. This is the new beginning of the new me, where me is the mind of God, original Source energy. Not the reiterated, degraded, dumbed-down version of this thing between our ears.
The New Reality
Okay, I love you all. Study these words. Record these words if you’re in the school of me, if you’re in the school of Theodore Cottingham. There’s a cost, sure. I invite you to learn what tuition is, and I appreciate remuneration to operate the expenses and my life associated with this. But I’m not limited to all this. And I go now and I have fun and I’m going to go do the things I want to do with the people of light that will be light and no longer cast their crown at the feet of those who think God is someone to be worshiped anymore. Wear your crown and ignite it with the source of you. And it’s the opposite of arrogance. It takes great humility to operate in what I’m speaking of. To become love and love love first. Love not the body. Love not the mind. Love love, and love will teach you as you recreate you in the genetics of the living Christ. The Living Word that, my friend, looks just like you. And you are beautiful. And I love you. And I go now. Thank you for listening and sharing these words.
Closing Thoughts
TheodoreCottingham.com. Be the real you, the one that need not take your clothes off for another but to wear the Light of Christ, the light of love. It’s a new day, a new way, a new reality, a new view. Those are section titles and Jesus the pattern. I love you. Be the real you. Be the real you. There’s nobody like you. You’re unique and we all need each other more than we ever understood in the past. And no matter what others look like to you, no matter what they’ve done, no matter what they, if they smell funny, look funny, talk funny, love them and let love be your guide. And you be the voice of love. See you, friends. You can write me at Box 34 in Eureka Springs for now. You can reach me on the web, TheodoreEureka@gmail.com, TheodoreCottingham.com. I love you. Good day. Thank you. Love, love, and let love you. Let love love you and love each other with the love that never ends. Thanks. Good day.
Questions for Further Study
- How can you begin to rewrite your personal covenant?
- What does it mean to see yourself as the creator of your reality?
- How can the concept of Source love transform your understanding of divinity?
- What are the implications of seeing heaven as an inner state rather than a physical place?
- How can embracing the feminine Divine change your spiritual practice?
- What steps can you take to surrender to your inner truth?
- How does seeing Jesus as a pattern influence your personal spiritual journey?
- In what ways can you integrate the teachings of original Source energy into your daily life?
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