This paper attempts to look at creation and
scriptures from a spiritual perspective.
The stages through which one’s consciousness can be
raised from ordinary consciousness to Christ and God consciousness can be
experience by any sincere and dedicated aspirant.
What holds one back from this experience is a lack
of faith in venturing beyond mental constructs and, or attachment to one’s
conditioned fixed way of believing.
The
creative process according to Yoga
Before creation, there is only unmanifest Spirit. In
manifesting creation, Spirit becomes God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
As soon as Spirit evolved a cosmic vibratory
thought, through the action of the cosmic power of maya, delusion, the
unmanifest Spirit become God the Father, the creator of all creative
vibrations. God the Father in the yoga traditions is called Ishvara, (the
Cosmic Ruler) or Sat (the supreme pure essence of Cosmic Consciousness) – the
transcendental Intelligence. That is, God the Father exists transcendentally untouched
by vibratory creation as a conscious, separate Cosmic Consciousness.
The vibratory force emanating from Spirit, endowed
with the illusory creative power of maya, is the Holy Spirit: Cosmic vibration,
the Word, AUM (OM) or Amen
The Holy Spirit in Yoga is the AUM or Maha Prakriti
(Great Nature, the Cosmic Mother that gives birth to all of creation). “These
things saith says the Amen (the Word, AUM), the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of creation of God.” (Revelation 3:13).
The holy Cosmic Sound of AUM or Amen is the witness
of the manifest Divine Presence in all creation.
The transcendent consciousness of God became
manifest in the Holy Spirit vibration as the Son or 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. Christ consciousness is the same as the
infinite Christ. It is the source of life and consciousness of all living
beings. It is present in human beings as the soul.
When Jesus said: “No no one comes to the Father but
through me (the consciousness that is in me).”
John 14:6
Elaborations
Holy Ghost or Spirit is the Cosmic Intelligent
Vibration projected from God to structure and sustain creation from Its own
Vibratory Essence. It may be said, that it is the Holy Presence of God. The
Comforter, Cosmic Mother Nature.
Christ, Jesus the Christ. This term also denotes
God’s universal intelligence immanent in creation (sometimes referred to as
Cosmic Christ or the Infinite Christ).
The Greek word is Christos and means anointed, the
Hebrew word is Messiah.
So
what is Christ Consciousness?
It is the projected consciousness of God immanent in
all creation. In Christian scriptures, it is the “only” begotten son,” the only
pure reflection in creation of God the Father. In yoga Tat, the universal
consciousness, or cosmic intelligence, of Spirit everywhere present in
creation. (The terms Christ Consciousness and Christ Intelligence are
synonymous, as also are Cosmic Christ and Infinite Christ). It is the universal
consciousness, oneness with God, manifested by Jesus, Krishna and other
avatars.
Saints and Yogis know it as the state of samadhi
meditation wherein their consciousness has become identified with the divine
intelligence in every particle of creation; they feel the entire universe as
their own body.
God’s
love gave the world his only begotten son. What is the esoteric perspective of
this?
There seems to be a misconception between the “Son
of man” and the “only begotten Son of God”. Church teachings don’t seem to
understand or acknowledge the human element in Jesus that he was a man, born in
a mortal body, who had evolved his consciousness to become one with God Himself.
Not the body of Jesus but the consciousness was one
with the only begotten Son, the Christ consciousness, the only reflection of
God the Father in creation.
In urging people to believe in the only begotten
Son, Jesus was referring to this Christ Consciousness, which was fully manifest
within him and all God realized masters throughout the ages, and is latent
within every soul. (The writings of many Gnostic Christians from the first two
centuries A.D. including Basilides, Theodotus (Gnostic), Valentinus and
Ptolemaeus, expressed an understanding of the only begotten Son as a cosmic in
creation.
At the Council of Nicaea (325 A.D) and the later
Council of Constantinople (381 A.D.) the church proclaimed as official doctrine
that Jesus himself was in the words of the Nicene Creed, “the only begotten Son
of God, begotten from the Father before all ages, light from light, true God
from true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father.”
Jesus said that all souls who lift their physical
consciousness (Son or man consciousness) to the astral body and then become one
with the only begotten Christ intelligence in all creation, will know eternal
life.
Does
this mean that all who do not believe in Jesus as their Savior will be
condemned?
What Jesus meant was that whoever does not realize
himself as one with universal Christ Consciousness is condemned to live and
think as a struggling mortal, limited by sensory boundaries, because he has
separated himself from the Eternal Principles of life.
Jesus never referred to his son of man
consciousness, or to his body, as the only savior throughout all time. Abraham
and many others were saved even before Jesus was born. It is the Christ
intelligence that is the universal redeemer. As a sole reflection of the
Absolute Spirit (the Father) in the world of relativity, the Infinite Christ is
the one mediator or link between God and matter, through which all matter
formed individuals irrespective of creeds must pass in order reach God.
All souls (aspects of God) can free their matter
confined consciousness and attain the Omnipresence by tuning in with Christ
Consciousness.
Jesus said:”When you lift up the Son of man, then
shall ye know that I am he.
John 8:28
Jesus emphasized that whoever would believe in his
spirit as the Infinite Christ incarnate in him would discover the path to
eternal life through the meditative interiorized ascension of the
consciousness.
“That whosoever believeth in him should nor perish.”
John 3:15
The forms of nature change, but the Infinite
Intelligence immanent in nature is ever unchanged.
Consciousness
States
In mortal consciousness, man experiences three states:
waking consciousness, sleeping consciousness and dreaming consciousness. But he
does not experience his soul or super-consciousness, and he does not experience
God. A Christ person does.
As mortal man
is conscious throughout the body, so Christ man is conscious throughout the
universe, which he feels as his body.
Beyond the state of Christ Consciousness is cosmic
consciousness, the experience of oneness with God in His absolute consciousness
beyond vibratory creation as well as with the Lord’s omnipresent manifestation
in the phenomenal worlds.
Two
ways to be in tune with Christ
The first way is to be happy with everything; feeling
good will toward all; casting off prejudicial limitations, being upstanding
morally and livening righteously.
The second way is to uplift one’s consciousness
through the spine into the higher centers of consciousness in the brain, and
then meditate on Christ. Christ Consciousness is everywhere, but God has given
us the freedom to shut Him out or let Him in. The barrier is not in our vision,
but in our consciousness. We need to connect with Christ in the silence of our
soul in meditation and feel the presence of calmness as a gift from God.
Every sincere devotee who through meditation lifts
his ordinary mortal consciousness to the Son or Christ consciousness will eventually
attain Cosmic Consciousness or oneness with God.
It is unfortunate, that most people are identified
with their body and their limited ego.
Sons of God, clear reflections of the Father
untarnished by delusion, have become sons of man by identification with the
flesh and forgotten their origin in Spirit. But Jesus showed us by his purified
consciousness how to retrace one’s identity and realize oneself as son of God.
Everyone through meditation can purify his mind and
receive the reflected light of God as son of God.
We can retrace the various stages of higher
vibrations in order to lift our consciousness to Christ Consciousness and see ourselves
as children of God made in His image.
Son
of man and son of God
The son of man is the physical body, which is born
of another human body, but son of God means the soul, the inherent divine
consciousness in man, born not of man’s
will or flesh, but of God. All human beings are sons of God, born of God, made
in his image.
To receive Christ is not accomplished just through
church membership, or by outer rituals of acknowledging Jesus as one’s savior,
but by contacting him in meditation.
To know Christ is to close the eyes, expand the
consciousness and so deepen the concentration that through the inner light of
soul intuition one partakes of the some consciousness that Jesus had.
A true Christian is he who frees his soul from the
consciousness of the body and unites it with the Christ Intelligence pervading
all creation.
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