Hello Cynthia,
I am ordained as an ELCA and currently retired. I first I read your book. “Wisdom Jesus” about a decade ago. I have always been a spiritual seeker and studied with some Buddhist meditation teachers and a shaman. I could never fully accept my denominations views on Jesus. I am rereading your book now and have purchased more. The one question I have is you refer to the God entity that incarnated as Jesus rather than Christ. I have always viewed Jesus as the man that the Christ incarnated into. I would love your thoughts on this.
Hello,
It’s really difficult to respond to your question in traditional theological categories, which attempt to set up fine, nuanced distinctions without any awareness of the Ray of Creation, which furnishes the grand metaphysical roadmap on which all these names find their rightful homes. In World 1, the undifferentiated, endless ineffable Godhead, the “name” is as yet formless, carried as pure seed in what Jacob Boehme calls the “sciential”—the hidden purpose as yet to be revealed. In World 3, the primordial Trinity, he is the second person, second force, “Agios Ischyros” in the great Trisagion prayer, the backbone of all that is to be. In world 6, he is Logos, the fundamental template. In world 12 he is “Son,” the perfect image of what the divine fullness looks and feels like when compressed into finite and human form; in world 24 he is Christ, that logoic inner seed that will incarnate in world 48 into the man, Jesus—just as you have spoken. There is nothing wrong in what you have observed, it’s just a bit partial, like a theological flower cut off from the living sap flowing through it from world to world, to world: always that same sap, that same flowing, self-manifesting love, only manifesting at different degrees of density and fixity. The scale of this love, flowing forward like a river from from the unspoken heart for eternity, simply staggers the mind. Christ and Jesus are simply two-way stations on that same river. It is the same river, always and everywhere.
Thanks, Cynthia