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Nº. XXXVII
CONCERNING THE ÆON OF THE CHRIST (1)
THE Christs are above all
things media, and the various descriptions they gave of their office –
such as “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” “I am the door,” and the like –
referred not to themselves at all, but to the Spirit who spoke through them.
Jesus, when questioned on this very subject, said plainly, “The words which I
speak unto you I speak not of myself; but the Father which
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” Jesus, then, spoke as he was moved
by the Holy Ghost, and was no other than a clear glass through which the divine
glory shone. [As it is written, “And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.” Now, the Only Begotten is not mortal man, but he who
has been in the bosom of the Father from all eternity, even the Word, the Maker,
the Speaker, the Manifestor.]
It was this Holy Spirit which descended upon Jesus at his baptism, and dwelt in
him for the time of his sojourn upon earth, speaking through him and controlling
him; while he, on his part, so lived as to bring all his personal will into
oneness with that Spirit.
The Spirit answers to the Essence,
the Father, and the Word. Of these, the first is one of the seven spirits, or
divine flames, of universal Divinity. The second is the angel, or God, of the
planet, and is the Æon of the Christ. The third is the
Christ. They are respectively “the spirit, the water, (2) and the blood.” The Father and the Word may therefore be
said to be one;
for by the Word the Father is manifest, and – in
the microcosm – the Word is the Father manifested.
The greatest hierarch – he, that is,
who has the most perfect control over Nature – is not only a man of many
incarnations, but has obtained from God the greatest and rarest of gifts, – that
of being a medium for the Highest. (1)
Such a one is the Æon, (2)
and has what is called the “double portion.” Elisha
craved and received this grace. “Where now is the God of Elijah?” he cried, when
endeavouring to work his first miracle; and he besought Elijah that a portion of
his double (3) might rest upon him.
For Elijah had so transmuted his soul into spirit that it was doubled, and a
portion of this he bestowed on Elisha. Such an Æon it was that descended upon Jesus, to quit him at the
final moment. Hence the exclamation, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?”
Footnotes
(92:1)
(92:2) A term which, as here used, implies
also the “mother,” “water” denoting especially the substance or feminine
principle, as distinguished from the energy or masculine principle.
E.M.
(93:1) “The very fact that the Christ is
describable as ‘a medium for the Highest,’ must imply and involve the
perfectionment of His own indwelling spirit, since it is only through the
identity in condition of the God within Him and the God without Him that the two
could unite and blend” (Life of Anna Kingsford, vol. i, p. 282). S.H.H.
(93:2) The person
who receives the Æon being called an Æon, as the person who manifests the Christ is called a
Christ. E.M.
(93:3) This is not
the magnetic phantom ordinarily so called. E.M.
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