Jesus prayed, “As you, Father-Mother, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us . . . so that they may be one, as we are one, I am in them and you are in me.”17 Here was Jesus’ fervent prayer that we would realize our divinity —our oneness with God is exactly like he was one with God. Historian Elaine Pagels says that the kingdom “symbolizes a state of transformed consciousness.”18
