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({{isis}}, IV, pp.179 et s.)
({{isis}}, IV, pp.179 et s.)


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<big>Le Christos</big>
There are many to whom these Instructions are sent who are nod able
to obtain the books containing our expositions of the Ancient [13] wisdom,
and to whom, therefore, many of our allusions are unintelligible. More
especially is this true of those who have come out from under the bondage
of the modern church, and while still holding the person and character of
Jesus in reverence and love, know not just where to place Him in the scale
of human life, under their changed convictions, or else who are disposed to
put Him on the same level with other men.
Every age has its Christ or Saviour, who may manifest under different
conditions and in one or more human bodies ; but by an age we must not
be understood as meaning a few hundred years, for many thousand years
comprise such an age as is now referred to.
In the 1st Vol. of the Secret Doctrine, in the opening stanzas of the
third chapter, occur these words : "The three fall into the four." This
sentence contains the whole secret of the manifestation of the Saviours of
all time. Whether the trinity of Father, Mother, Son ; Atma, Buddhi,
Manas ; Matter, Force and Consciousness ; Desire, Will and Wisdom ; or
Body, Soul and Spirit is under consideration, is of no consequence ; for in
their last analysis, they are all One, and this One in Three is the Absolute,
the life and being of all that is in manifestation on all the planes of the
Cosmos, and each must be understood as interchangeable, though
complete in itself when separated ; and whichever one of the three aspects
(or persons, as the church teaches them to be) manifests in time or eternity,
manifests perfectly ; that is, manifests with all the attributes of the other
two.
This three-fold manifestation of life and being "is eternal in the
Heavens", and always has been, and always will be in that state of
consciousness commonly termed Nirvana or Heaven. It is inconceivable to
think of It as withdrawing any part of itself, for It is a unit, It is the God.
No form of words can adequately describe the descent of this God into
Matter, for matter was not in manifestation until the descent was
accomplished. The principle of Shadow conveys as nearly as is possible an
idea of the process. The Three, that is, the Three in One – created and
became all Substance, all Matter, by a process akin to the casting of a
shadow on the physical plane, that is by projecting the creative thought
into temporary form and substance ; that substance having all the attributes
(in a lesser or more modified degree) of its progenitors.
To cast a shadow, a form must pass between the sunlight and the
earth ; the sun, the body and the earth are three different grades or [14]
rates of vibration of matter, and these constitute the agents by orb through
which the shadow is cast, and they correspond to three different agents and
attributes of the three great creative fires, represented by the Trinity before
mentioned.
Now, in order to assist you, who find it difficult to comprehend Unity
in Diversity, we will take one aspect of the Trinity – the Son, which must
also be considered as Cosmic Substance or Matter, in the ; trinity of
Matter, Force and Consciousness ; as Body, in Body, Soul and Spirit ; as
Manas, in Manas, Buddhi and Atma. This aspect of the Son is the Christos,
the Saviour, the Angel of Light, that fell from. heaven into manifestation,
not because of evil, but to fulfill the Desire, or the Father-principle's Will,
which was the creation of matter, its evolution, and final redemption.
Every atom of manifested matter possesses this principle ;
consequently, every human being ; but it is dormant until brought out and,
developed ; and can only be developed by the highest instincts of the Soul.
Consequently, while we are all Saviours in embryo, it is only One in any
age that is able to develop the love, the endurance and self-sacrifice
necessary for such a high calling, and that One becomes the "Elder
Brother" of the race and age to which he belongs.
In St. John, 17th chapter and 21st verse, are these words : "That they
may be one ; as thou Father art in me and I in thee ; that they also may be
one in us, that the world may know that thou halt sent me :" This hope as
expressed in this most beautiful and occult passage clearly demonstrates
the belief held by Jesus of a final involution of matter in the same order
that evolution had brought it out and up to the point where involution
became a possibility.
Much of the controversy between science and religion as well as
between different divisions of religious bodies, is due to the unwillingness
of one body to fairly consider the disputed points in the philosophy of the
other. The ignorant Christian imagines that Jesus must lose in greatness
and power if considered from the common standpoint of an evolutionary
monad, such as was the beginning of the earthly life of all mankind,
though he is often referred to in ecclesiastical works as "the first-born
among many brethren." If he is a brother to all the rest of the human race,
surely he was subject to the common laws of evolution. We do not desire
to detract from the divinity of Jesus-we only desire to show the common
origin of the divinity in all mankind.
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