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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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