You have said that Jesus is the son of God, but that Jesus and God are not one and the same. If there is only one true God, then either you
have embraced polytheism or you're claiming he is not God.
You deny his deity every time you say he is "the great example, not
the great exception". It matters little whether you say he is not God, or
whether you say Jesus, and all of us, are part of "the one",
God. Either way, you deny the uniqueness of Jesus and therefore the uniqueness
of God. You have said before, that we can even raise ourselves from the dead once we are "evolved"
enough. That too denies the deity of Jesus, by saying "anyone can do that", when no one else has.
If Jesus really is God, he is a most remarkable exception. If he raised people from the dead, healed the
sick, restored sight to the blind, made the lame walk, and died in our place, in fulfillment of prophecy
(Isaiah 53, and 61), that is indeed exceptional. If Buddha, Mohammed, Krishnamurti, or any other
"ascended masters" were equal to Jesus, a let them demonstrate similar miracles. They haven't
because
they can't.
Saying that Jesus is not exceptional, when no one else has ever raised
the dead, is illogical. It is truly "the Great Contradiction",
which is
one of many.
Subject: Re: "The Great Contradiction"
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 1:41 PM
S.,
I can always count on you to probe into the deep structure of the text, for
you have once again gotten to the crux of the matter.
There is no contradiction, however, as I shall now explain:
Given my previously stated presuppositions/working hypotheses:
There is only One Will.
Separation from God is an illusion.
This One Will acts and expresses through vehicles.
These vehicles run the whole spectrum from the most complex (humanity) to
the most simple.
There is a vast difference between the vehicle and the animating essence
that drives the vehicle. (Polytheism, as you are using it, does not make this
distinction- or does it?)
There is a hierarchical scale of life. This includes the spiritual hierarchies as well. Christ
(Tiphareth) is in perfect union with the
Father (Kether), and is the mediator between the unknowable single point One
Primal Will, and all of creation. Christ is the mediator and vehicle of
expression for the One Primal Will, and we are vehicles for the expression of
Christ. Yet Christ (Tiphareth) is in perfect union with the Father
(Kether).
The One Will's goal for evolution is to evolve ever more perfected vehicles
for it's expression.
One who has been grown into a perfected vehicle for the One Will (God's) expression becomes a
conscious co-creator with God.
The historical Jesus of Nazareth was the first such vehicle to be a
perfect expression of God the Father's Will - he was Christ incarnate, Christ
expressing in and through him.
We are no different in potential from Jesus, as Christ is growing us also,
and is perfecting us into more perfect vehicles for Christ to express his Will.
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So put it all into your deductive engine and deduce following
conclusions:
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Jesus of Nazareth the vehicle/personality/body is NOT God/Christ.
God/Christ is in perfect union and expresses perfectly through Jesus the transparent and perfected vehicle and thus expression of God.
God/Christ is in and expresses through us as well, just not as well since
our vehicles are for the most part far from the perfected state that Jesus
was.
Jesus was and is divinity as God/Christ expressed perfectly through Jesus,
yet he is also the great example, because he shows us the way to greater union
with God.
It is our destiny as well to become ever greater perfected vehicles for the One Will, for the Christ to
express through.
So eventually we all will become like Jesus - a perfected expression for the One Will, and conscious
co-creators with God - in other words divinity. Of course at our root we already are divinity since it
is God/Christ that is
the real doer, not what we commonly think of as us, which is only the vehicle.
However, we are as yet not "conscious" expressions of divinity, so I would not
apply that title to the outer and as yet imperfect vehicles that comprise
the conscious personality.
In other words, you the conscious personality which calls itself S., are NOT
divinity (not consciously anyway), you (personality S.) are not the doer, you (personality S.)
are an as yet imperfect vehicle for the One Will. When the vehicle that knows
itself as S., becomes a perfected conscious and unobstructed expression
for Christ, then the vehicle becomes a "Conscious" expression of divinity,
as opposed to an unconscious vehicle for divinity.
So, to sum up - don't confuse the animating essence God/Christ with the vehicle that the essence
expresses through. Polytheism makes that
mistake, by confusing God (essence) and certain particular observed
expressions (vehicles) of God, thus resulting in a number of particular
Gods. Orthodox Christianity makes a similar mistake by saying that Jesus of Nazareth (vehicle) and God/Christ
(essence) are one and the same, and arriving at the opposite result being that
only that one particular vehicle called Jesus is God.
Also those poor deluded souls who dabble
with dangerous occult forces and who suffer the resulting ego inflation, megalomania,
and insanity, make this same mistake too, for it is the essence of black
magic - they say "My will be done", instead of realizing that they are not God, but
are merely
vehicle's for God - "Thy Will be Done".
Poor souls, they think that they are the doer, instead of God.
I know that I am not the doer. I (personality jc) am the do-ee.
