Dear Friend,
Often times when we think of Christ an archetypal image of a person is generated by our mind, with all the human features we have come to accept according to Christian effigies. Modern religion has presented Christ to us as an individual person who comes from a historical lineage, and belonging to a particular race and time.
People have limited Christ to the personhood of Yeshua, the Avatar Jesus who lived 2500 years ago - - - some have limited Christ to a type of “god”. We have inherited from our different cultures and spiritual traditions the mistaken belief that Christ is a particular individual, and this is a grave religious mistake.
Christ is not a person, but a Cosmic force of existence. This spiritual force does not have form, name, identity, origin, beginning and end - - - thus it is in everything. Different religions have defined this cosmic life-force by many names and labels suitable to that particular time and to the psychology of those who were receiving the teachings.
Christ is universal, but religion is not. Religions are born, grow, sustain for a while and then dissolve; because the psychological development of people change with time and evolution. Every religion has a narrow focus on a particular psychology, a zeitgeist governing a given epoch in the world. Nonetheless, every religion has its roots in Christ. The ancient worshipped Christ in their rituals and temples as a force internal to them.
We find in every religion, in every spiritual and esoteric tradition, a presentation of this universal cosmic life-force that sustains the foundation of all living things. That cosmic force or Limitless Consciousness (Energy) is known by many name: MODIMO Impersonal, Supreme Unreachable God (SeSotho); Umvelinqangi Unknowable Cosmic Light, (Zulu); Allah (Islam); Tao (Oriental Chinese), Brahma (Vedic scriptures); Krishna (Hinduism); Quetzalcoatl (Aztec); The Ray of Okidanock (Mesoamerica); Ain Soph Aur (Kabbalah); Adi Buddha (Vajrayana Buddhism); Buddha Chenrezig (Tibetan); Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit); and many, many more.
In the Gnostic tradition, we refer to that primordial force as Christ. Christ is the Solar Absolute Ray, Buddha Amitabha or Stainless Light emerging from the Unknowable Divine. The word Christ comes from Greek root Khrestos ‘Christos’ (Χριστός), which has many different meanings depending on the context within it is related: “the Anointed One,” from χριω (chrio) “to smear, to anoint.” Christos (Christ) is a title, it is not a person.
Christ can be described and worshipped in many ways; however, identical in all religious definitions is an omniscience of Christhood, a primordial force beyond name and culture. Every atom of our body has within it the fire of Christ, a force of life, energy that gives us the capacity to be. Every nebular flow with christic energy; Christ gives power to every sun, every feeling, every thought we think is an intimate experience of Christ - - - He forms the slightest wind made by a butterfly.
Christ is not a person, but a cosmic force.
If we understand Christ in that way, we will not limit Him to our individuality. Christ is everything that life is. He is the great breath of life pulsating inside our heart, transforming our sensations from moment to moment. Christ is right now, right here. Christ is not something you have to acquire or inherit from something external. The forces of Christ already exist within each and every living thing.
A true Christified person sees and experiences Christ, Krishna, Modimo, Bubbah in every instance, in every face, in every relationship, in every outcome. Everything is a modification of Christ; and in that sense, Christ is beyond our concept of good and evil.
The reason why people of all religions have never seen Christ, Buddha, Kirishna, Modimo is because they are looking to see a form of God which they believed to be his only true identity. People do not have the “eyes” to see, so seeing they see, but do not perceive; they do not have “ears” to hear, so hearing they hear, but do not understand.
People look for Christ as an experience of their mind, and because of this religious prejudice, conditions themselves to sanctimonious rites built upon their subjective view and self-interest. We project that Christ is should be a personified God to us, a person who speaks our language and gives us what we desire. People believe in a type of God who will give them what they desire. What people call religion these days in nothing but religious forms.
Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Modimo is universal, but religion is not.
The purest life-force of any true religion is something found in the blood and heart of a person. Religion is not about getting power from God in order to fulfil our desire. It is obvious that people around the world, from every religious background, have the taste for spiritual power as their main goal in life - - - but Christ is a force of life which incarnates consciously in out heart as a perfect reflection of love and compassion.
Christ: The Limitless Wisdom of Compassion and Love
Everywhere in the world we see people searching for the highest experience of love: parents loving their children, families, friends, couples etc. Love is the universal force that unites people in all the levels of life. It is for this reason we actively seek out experiences and relationships that will crystalize love in us at the deepest level.
Christ as energy is understood as the radiance of Limitless Love. Love is a quality that we manifest when there are no impediments to the flow of life free in its movement. A person who can radiate love, the fire of Christ in all of his atoms is not like us. Such a person does not suffer from the ego the way we do. Someone who radiates love, completely absorbed by the fire of compassion is a pure expression of Christhood.
Love is the most defining attribute of Christ. That is why Christ is symbolically described as the eternally slain lamb before the foundation of the world, because Love is the only true power that impels us feel the suffering of other sentient beings. Love is a force of divine intelligence. It is a form of wisdom that is beyond every form of knowledge and experience. Love is a force that creates the universe.
Love has two fundamental aspects which are beautifully synthesized in the Sanskrit word Bodhichitta: Bodhi means “enlightenment,” “wisdom” and chitta means “mind,” “heart,” “aim,” or “will”. So, the force of love or compassion is the manifestation of the “aim of enlightenment” or the “heart of wisdom”.
The secret of Christhood is love. Love is the impersonal cosmic law of Christ.
Christ is the highest manifestation of cognizant love, conscious love. In other words, the aim of enlightenment is the expression of Christ consciousness in a person. Love is the first Ray of creation that emanates from the absolute, from the womb of nothingness. That is why everything else is born from love.
It is love that creates everything by giving of itself. In love we are given a change to come to the complete knowledge of Christhood. It is the limitless nature of love that enables us to comprehend the profound aspect of uncreated light, meaning emptiness, the Absolute. Without comprehension of the Absolute, we fall into nihilism and externalism. Nihilism traps us in the belief that nothing true exist in us; and externalism is to believe that what is true exists outside of us.
But when we learn to cultivate love in the laboratory of our actions, thoughts and feelings, the consciousness of love becomes a direct experience for us in the complete sense of the word. This is the true secret of Christhood.
The one who incarnates Christ sees the light of life in everything living thing.
We see because Christ as light is inside of us. To be able to see (perceive) beauty in ugliness is to understand the flow of life beyond our internal difficult stages of duality and relativity.
“Christ mind” is what we should aim to develop inside ourselves, because we see in accordance to the conscious light in us.
This is what consciousness is. It is to be able to perceive reality, and the one who enables us to comprehend reality is Christ, the light of existence.
So, “Let this mind be in you, as was in Christed Jesus.”
May Christ Consciousness Increase in you always.
(SoG:SA)