The Christ

Jesus came to fulfill the mission of Divine love.

Without the intersession of God’s love coming to earth through example, guiding hand of his avatars, it would hardly be possible for humanity to find their way to God. Divine incarnations are part of God’s plan to make know his will.

Of the coming of Jesus several references are cited in the Old Testament.

Matthew 1:23 KJV: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

From the book of prophet Isaiah:

Isaiah 52:13, 15 (KJV)

13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.

12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Divine intercession is to mitigate the cosmic law of cause and effect, by which one suffers for his errors, was at the heart of the mission of love Jesus came to fulfill. Moses brought the law from God to man, emphasizing the awful justice that befalls willful wrongdoers. Jesus came to demonstrate the forgiveness and compassion of God, whose love is a shelter even from exacting law. Similarly, Jesus was preceded by Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One whose incarnation reminded the forgetful generation of the ever-rotating wheel of karma, self initiated action and its efforts, which make each person and not a cosmic dictator, responsible for his own present condition.

John 15:13 King James Version (KJV)

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Nature of an avatar consciousness or incarnation of God

To understand the magnitude of a divine incarnation, it is important to understand the source and nature of the consciousness that is germane to the avatar. Jesus spoke of his consciousness when he proclaimed: I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). Those who unite their consciousness to God know both the transcendent and the immanent nature of Spirit, the ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever new Bliss of the Uncreated Absolute, and the many manifestations of His Being.

St. John in the New Testament expressed the deep esoteric truth experience by Jesus who transferred it to John.

The One Spirit, source of all creation

“ In the beginning … with these words commence the cosmologies of the Old and Testament alike. Beginning refers to the birth of finite creation, for in the Eternal Absolute – Spirit – there is no beginning nor end.

When no object of any kind had come into being, Spirit existed. The unmanifested Absolute cannot be described except, that it is the Knower, the Knowing and the Known existing in One.

John 1:1-4 (KJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Word means intelligent vibration, intelligent energy going forth from God. Any utterance of a word consists of sound energy or vibration, plus thought, which indwell intelligent meaning. Likewise, the Word that is the beginning and source of all created substances is Cosmic Vibration pervaded with Cosmic Intelligence.

Official church doctrine for centuries has interpreted the Word, Logos in Greek, to refer to Jesus himself (this interpretation became accepted as church orthodoxy mainly because of Irenaeus, second century bishop of Lyons and author of ‘Against Heresies’. This apparently was not originally indented by St. John who was familiar with the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Scriptures known as Targums (the Targums are interpretive renderings of the books of the Hebrew Scriptures into Aramaic. Such versions were needed when Hebrew ceased to be the normal medium of communication among the Jews).  Aramaic Bible:

“Lord Jehovah created me at the beginning of his creation and from before all of his works.”  Also, according to Church Fathers like Philo, Clement of Alexandria and Origin all associated the Logos with the Word of God in the Old Testament accounts of creation when ‘God spoke and it was done.’

Like the divine Wisdom, the Word symbolized God’s original plan for creation.

Another example:

John 1:3

All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. (KJV)

1. Trinitarians use this verse to show that Christ made the world and its contents. However, that is not the case. What we have learned from the study of John 1:1 above will be helpful in properly interpreting this verse.

John 1:1-3

    (1) In the beginning was the Word [the wisdom, plan or purpose of God], and the Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

   

    (2) The same was in the beginning with God.

    

   (3) All things were made by it [the Word]; and without it was not anything made that was made.

2. The pronoun in verse 3 can legitimately be translated as “it.” It does not have to be translated as “him,” and it does not have to refer to a “person” in any way. A primary reason why people get the idea that “the Word” is a person is that the pronoun “he” is used with it.

Meaning of Trinity compared with Hindu teachings

Unmanifested Spirit became God the Father, the Creator of all creative vibration. God the Father in Hindu scriptures, is called Ishvara (the Cosmic Ruler) or Sat (the supreme essence of Cosmic consciousness), the Transcendental Intelligence. That is God the Father exists transcendentally untouched by any tremor of vibratory creation, as a separate Cosmic Consciousness.

The vibratory force emanating from spirit, endowed with the creative power of Maya, is the Holy Spirit; Cosmic Vibration, the Word, Aum (Om) or Amen. All things, all created planets and living beings in the Holy Spirit, or Holy vibration, are nothing but frozen images of God. This Holy Spirit in the Hindu Scriptures is called Aum or Maha Prakriti (Great Nature, the cosmic mother that gives birth to creation).

These things saith the Amen (the Word, Aum), the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. The holy Cosmic Sound of Aum or Amen is the witness of the manifested Divine Presence in all creation.

The transcendent consciousness of God the Father becomes manifest within the Holy Spirit as the Son, the Christ Consciousness, God’s intelligence in all vibratory creation. This pure reflection of God in the Holy Spirit indirectly guides it to create, re-create, preserve and mold creation according to God’s divine purpose.

Causal, astral and Physical Manifestation

Cosmic creative force transforms matter by changing its rates of vibration. According to yoga teachings, it produces a triune creation: an ideational, or causal world of the finest vibrations of consciousness, God’s thoughts or ideas that are the cause of all forms and forces; an astral world of light and life force, a vibratory energy, the first condensation of the original ideational concepts and a material world of gross atomic vibrations of matter. These worlds are superimposed on one another, the grosser depends on the subtler and all three are ultimately depend on the sole support and consciousness of God.

As in the Macrocosm of the universe, so in the microcosm of man there are three independent bodies. Man’s soul dons these three coverings that serve 

as instrumentalities through which the incarnate spirit can perceive, comprehend and interact with God’s creation. The very first covering of the soul, which individualizes it from Spirit, is one of pure consciousness; it is composed of God’s thoughts or ideas that cause the other two sheaths. This it is referred to as the causal body. The causal idea emits a magnetic force of light and intelligence that form the astral body of man. The astral body is itself the life energy that empowers all the senses and function of the physical body. The physical body is merely a gross materialization of the causal ideas activated by the life and energy of the astral body and endowed with consciousness, self awareness and intelligence from the causal body. All of these vibratory manifestations of the macrocosm and microcosm are derived from the Holy Spirit Vibrations and the transcendent consciousness of God. 

The only begotten Son

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.

One needs to look at the difference between Jesus the body and Jesus in the vehicle in which the only begotten son, Christ Consciousness was manifest. Jesus himself makes the distinction when speaking of his body as the son of man and of his soul, which was not defined by his body, but was one with the only begotten Christ consciousness in all aspects of vibratory creation, as the son of God.

God remained hidden beyond the vibratory realm that went out from His Being, but then secreted Himself as the Christ Intelligence in all matter and in all living beings in order to bring all things back to His home of Everlasting Blessedness. The Creator and Supreme Benefactor is never more than a devotional thought away.

John 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. The plural in son’s of God shows distinctly, from the teachings perceived from Jesus, that not the body of Jesus, but his state of Christ Consciousness was the only begotten son; and that all those who could clarify their consciousness and receive, or reflect, the power of God could become sons of God. They would be one with the begotten reflection of God in all matter, as was Jesus; and through the son, Christ Consciousness, ascend to the Father, the supreme Cosmic Consciousness.

John 14:6 (KJV)

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.   

No man can reach the transcendent Father beyond creation without first attuning himself with the Son or Christ Consciousness within creation.

Through yoga, divine union, God can be known not as theoretical concept but as an actual personal experience. When one becomes firmly established in God realization, delusion is transcended and the subordinate mortal consciousness is elevated to Christ like status.

John 1:5 (KJV)

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Darkness means delusion, ignorance. There are two manifestations of darkness: one is Maya, cosmic delusion and the other is avidya, which means ignorance or individual illusion.

Maya is the mass hypnosis of God by which He makes every human being believe in the same illusory reality of creation as perceived by the senses; avidya gives individuality of form, experience and expression (it supports the ego or I consciousness).

The light that shineth in the darkness is the light of God. God is light. In

1 John 1:5 King James Version (KJV)

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Unfortunately mankind is so dark with delusion; it annihilates all true perception, so that the darkness of ignorance cannot capture the light of God vibrating everywhere. However in meditation this darkness goes away and intuition prevails, revealing oneself as light in the greatness of a whole universe of light.

John 1:9 (KJV)

9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

The light of the cosmic energy flowing out of the cosmic consciousness of God is the light that informs all beings and lights their consciousness. It is the omnipresent light of God that supports the many forms.

That light is the true light because it is infinite and everlasting, while man only borrows from it his temporary mortal existence from one life to the next. Through yoga one can join the immortals by contacting the light and realizing the unity of human consciousness with the ‘true light, which lighteth every man.’

John 1:10-12  King James Version (KJV)

10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

The words ‘he’ and ‘him’ refer to the preceding verses, to the Light (which in actuality should read neuter or it), or omnipresent creative manifestation of God ‘in the world.’ The world means not just this little earth, but the entire cosmos was evolved from that cosmic light.

The world was made by him means that the whole cosmos was evolved from that cosmic light, not just this planet.

‘And the world knew him not’; that ‘true light’ was kept hidden by delusion, unseen by sentient beings.

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

He was omnipresent immanent in creation, all things (his own) having been made or materialized from the cosmic light stemming from God’s consciousness, His own Self.

God objectified Himself as matter, life and mind. His spirit is thus reflected in ‘his own’ since matter, life and mind are direct manifestations of Spirit, just as man’s soul has manifested itself into body, mind instilled with life. It is because of the limitations on body and mind by delusion that man does not know his perfect, blissful soul, his true Self. He rather sees himself as form, name and specific characteristics subject to worries, troubles and other afflictions of delusion.