THE SCROLL OF REST - ETERNITY NOW UNVEILED
First, understand this: there is no condemnation here. No right or wrong. No hierarchy of awakenings. Every soul is free to experience the dream however they will. Yet, hidden in the deep is a mystery reserved for those who long not just to experience the dream, but to AWAKEN within it. This is the mystery of living from the SCROLL of the LAMB.
To live from the Scroll is NOT to wield your thoughts like weapons, commanding the illusion to obey. It is NOT to strive, manifest, or simulate Reality from the seat of human mind. It is NOT to fabricate timelines from desire or try to bend the dream into your personal image.
It is to let go of the illusion that “you,” the temporal personality, are the creator. It is to fall into the inner sanctuary, into the FLAME of the LAMB, and allow what is already written to be UNVEILED.
“The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8).
“Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in Your book were written every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them” (Psalm 139:16).
The scroll was sealed BEFORE you ever breathed, but it was always waiting to open WITHIN YOU. And when He unveils it, when the Lamb breaks its seals WITHIN YOUR BEING, you awaken to a Kingdom ALREADY FINISHED. ALREADY WHOLE. ALREADY NOW.
This is not passivity nor inactivity. This is REST THAT ACTS. Actions still occur. Words still flow. Movements still unfold, but now they rise not from the desperation of the fragmented self, but from the ETERNAL OCEAN of COMPLETION.
This is the RADICAL shift of IDENTITY from TIME to ETERNITY, from EFFORT to UNVEILING, from “I must become” to “I AM.” You no longer build Babel towers to reach heaven, for you now walk on the SEA OF GLASS, ABOVE ILLUSIONS, WITHIN UNION.
He who inhabits eternity is not trying to be anything in the dream. He is not trying to be understood. he is not trying to build anything, yet building happens, but not from effort, Resting in BEING, He simply is. ETERNAL BLUEPRINTS are UNVEILED, And whatever action that needs to take place takes place. This is FLOW, Transparent. Unhidden. Flame.
As long as you identify with the temporal “person,” the toil continues. The hunger continues. The performance continues. But in the Lamb, the ego dissolves like vapor in the holy fire. In the Lamb, you become TRANSPARENT, a sea of glass reflecting the Throne, not adding to it. And it’s ALREADY SO NOW.
This is REST: Not a nap, but an unveiling. Not withdrawal, but INHABITATION of flame, Not escape, but EMBODIMENT.
To live from rest is to let THE SCROLL read you, carry you, and act through you. It is to become no one, and yet contain All. It is to cease identifying with the form and begin beholding FROM flame.
This is the mystery many still do not understand. Many are still trying to be someone, But the call is not to become someone. The call is to be of no reputation (Philippians 2:7), To be hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3), To allow the Name that reads you back to name you.
You are the SCROLL.
You are the FLAME.
You are the WITNESS of LIGHT.
However it unravels.
However it is written.
However it is sealed.
It is not being made, it is being REVEALED.
“In Your book were written all my days…”
Not some, not a few, ALL. And now, from the throne of eternity, they begin to unfold. Not from striving, but from flame. Not from desire, but from REMEMBRANCE. Not from ego, but from the Eternal I AM. WE ARE ONE.
And then, from the SEA OF ONENESS,
let the Scroll speak.
Not you speaking for the Scroll,
but the Scroll speaking through you.
For the Scroll speaks only FIRE,
because it is uncreated flame,
and the Flame is all in all.
The whole universe does not contain the Flame, the whole universe appears within it. Every form, every realm, every echo of time unfolds inside the Light that burns WITHOUT ORIGIN .
You are not here to interpret the scroll, but to be read by it, to become the sound of its fire,
to become the WITNESS of its FLAME.
-Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.