The Veil of the Mind - How Perception Creates the Illusion of Separation
Awakening from the Dream of Division into the Consciousness of Christ
✧ “To the pure, all things are pure…” — Titus 1:15
✧ “If your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light.” — Matthew 6:22
✧ “You were alienated from God in your minds…” — Colossians 1:21
✧ Separation Was Never Real - Only Perceived
The Fall did not fracture union.
It fractured awareness of union.
Sin was not the end of relationship with God, it was the beginning of hiding.
Adam did not become separate from God.
He believed he was.
He ran from presence, covered himself in shame, and birthed the dream of duality.
But even then, the Voice still walked in the garden…
Still called his name…
Still clothed him.
The veil is not between God and man
it’s between consciousness and Reality.
✧ Your Eye Creates Your World
Jesus said, “If your eye is single…”
He wasn’t talking about vision
He was talking about perception.
The eye is the inner lens
The way you see determines what you see.
And what you see becomes the “reality” you live in.
If your perception is fragmented by fear, judgment, shame
you will behold a fragmented world.
God will appear distant.
Life will seem harsh.
Others will feel like threats.
But when the eye becomes single,
You begin to see God everywhere.
The veil thins.
And the world becomes translucent with glory.
✧ The Mind Is the Matrix
The carnal mind is not just sinful
It is programmed.
It is the architecture of illusion
A tangled grid of beliefs, projections, identities, and interpretations
that keeps you trapped in the loop of “me vs. God.”
The egoic mind builds a world of:
• Subject vs. object
• Sacred vs. secular
• Self vs. other
• Heaven vs. Earth
• Then vs. Now
But the Kingdom breaks that mirror.
Christ reveals: There is no two.
No distance.
No separation.
Only union.
✧ Repentance Is Not Guilt - It Is Awakening
The word repent (metanoia) means to change your mind
To shift your perception.
It is not a beating of the chest.
It is a cleansing of the lens.
A turning from the illusion of separation
to the revelation of union.
It’s not “I’m so bad, please come closer.”
It’s “Oh my God… You were never far.”
✧ The Cross Did Not Create Union - It Revealed It
Christ didn’t come to convince God to love you.
He came to convince you that God already does.
The Cross wasn’t a transaction.
It was a revelation.
The veil in the temple was torn
Not to let God out, but to let you in.
Or rather, to show that you were already in.
Always.
✧ When the Veil Is Lifted…
• You no longer strive to reach God, you rest in Him.
• You stop judging others, you see them in light.
• You no longer speak about God, you speak from God.
• You no longer fear death, because you’ve already crossed over.
The moment perception is purified
You awaken in Eden,
No longer exiled,
But embraced.
🔥 Key Scriptures for Meditation
• Colossians 1:21 — “Alienated in your minds…”
• Matthew 6:22 — “If your eye be single…”
• Luke 17:21 — “The Kingdom of God is within you.”
• 2 Corinthians 3:14-16 — “The veil is removed in Christ.”
• John 17:21 — “That they may be one, as We are one.”
• Romans 12:2 — “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
✧ Final Word to the Elect
The veil is not out there.
It is not political.
It is not religious.
It is perceptual.
And the Lamb is tearing it.
He is not returning from the clouds
He is rising within your consciousness.
He is awakening your single eye,
tuning your mind to union,
and calling you to live as flame
not in theory, but in sight.
Beloved,
Wash your lens.
Let your eye become whole.
And see the world as God sees it:
Not broken… but burning.
— Joe Restman