The Impersonal Life

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====== Christ, The Logos ======
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We wish at this time to make it so clear that all may know, that Christ Jesus is an actual Presence, a definite Power in the consciousness of every human soul, whether they are aware of it or not.

To do this we must show that He is the Light which lighteth every man, and that He is the very Presence and Power of God—God Who is All in All.

In the previous article we pointed out much that should help you to arrive at that conclusion. We know that many already believe it, but we wish to make it more than a belief, we want it to be an actual part of your knowing.

There is plenty of evidence in the New Testament of all that we would say, and we will quote further from it only in order to make convincing what we shall prove, for more than anything else is it important that you know Christ Jesus as one with the innermost part of your own Self.

We will take the statement that God is All in All. We must either believe this or disbelieve it. We assume that all who have accompanied us this far believe it.

Then God must be both the unmanifest and the manifest of all things. He must be both the spiritual and the physical part of everything that is.

Think, must this not be so?

Then we must consider both of these two aspects of God. The unmanifest we will call the Absolute, the Ineffable, Whom no man may know or even comprehend. But the Word—the Logos—is the manifest God, or the God-Seed of all manifestation; for all things as we know spring from a seed of some kind. And this God-Seed stands as an intermediary between God and us.

Philo, the great Jewish philosopher who wrote at Alexandria about 25 A.D., also speaks of the Logos as having a two-fold aspect. As representing the Unmanifest God He is the Reflection of God, the Creator of the Cosmos; but as mediating between the Ineffable and us He represents humanity in the eyes of God, and represents God in the eyes of humanity.

“He then is the Heavenly Man, the Door to direct communication with God, the Prophet of the most High, the Eternal Law, the Giver of Divine Light, our Saviour.

“So long as the Logos exists, He is the way of At-one-ment, the way of harmonizing humanity with God.”

St. John saw this clearly when he writes for us these most significant words:

“In the beginning was the Logos and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.

“All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

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

“And the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.”

In the remainder of the first chapter he shows clearly that he knew Christ Jesus to be the Logos, for he says in these unmistakable words:

“And the Logos was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the Only-Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

St. Paul also saw deeply into these mysteries and gives many interesting details in his Epistle to the Hebrews. He says that God, “Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past by the Prophets, hath in these days spoken unto us by His Son, Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds,” and “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

When giving the genealogy of Jesus, St. Matthew in the first verse of the first chapter says, He is the “Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” But our Lord Himself said, when discussing the matter with the Jews in the Temple, “Before Abraham was, I am.” And in one of His prayers, “O Father glorify Thou me with Thine own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” —St. John 17:5. (Read all of this prayer.) And again, “I came forth from the Father and am come into the world; again I leave the world and go unto the Father.”—St. John 16:28.

These statements are very significant of His exalted state in the heavenly realms and proves that He was fully conscious of His mission as the Representation of His Heavenly Father and that He was a Most High Son of God, which St. John explains as, “God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”—St. John 3:17.

Now we know that some would interpret this all to refer to the Christos, or the Holy Spirit in Jesus, and that it does not apply to Jesus the man. But we say that it is impossible to separate the title and the office of the Christ from the man Jesus, for what is the personality of flesh but the outmanifestation of the Soul? And what is the Soul in His case but the unfoldment and perfected consciousness of a very high Son of God—the highest that ever before came into manifestation! In fact so high that in Jesus the Father actually manifested more of Himself than was ever before manifested in the history of the world. Then would you say that Jesus was only a man? Rather can you not see that He was truly a perfect Representation of God in human form.

When Caiaphas, the High Priest, asked Jesus, “I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God,” Jesus hesitated not at this great crisis in his life definitely to say in reply:

“Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of Heaven.”—Mat. 26:64.

Mark says that He replied, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One.” While Luke has it, “But from this time on the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the Power of God.”

From this can anyone doubt Jesus’ divinity, His being a very high Being descended into flesh to show us the way back unto the Father?

Listen to more of His own words: “Neither came I of myself, but He that sent Me.” “Whatsoever things the Father doeth, these also doth the Son likewise.” “I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me. I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. He that sent me is with me.”

These words of Jesus are so highly significant, in the light of what has been said, that we hope everyone will get their real meaning.

In all of Jesus’ teachings there is noticeable the insistence of that mystic unity of the Father and the Son: “I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.” And that for which the Father sent Him was solely to show all men the way back unto the Father, and at the same time that He, Christ Jesus, might be in each of us the way, the truth and the life, preparing us for the day when He might lead us into knowing the Father even as He knew Him. “At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.”

We have shown you in previous articles that only through Love can you come to know Christ Jesus, our Blessed Lord and Master; and we now say that He is the actual expression, the perfect manifestation of the Father’s Love in Man. He veritably is the God-Seed planted by the Father in humanity, and is the Light which dwelleth in the darkness. But that Light—God’s Love—must be lit in your heart, before you can see and know Christ Jesus there. With the lighting of that Light, then He within you leads you unto the Father, and in time you truly know that He is in the Father, and you are in Him, and He is in you.

From this you must realize that there is a deep mystical meaning of His being in the Father, of we being in Him, and He in us, and we will try to help you get a glimpse of that meaning. The fullness of knowing can only be gained—note this carefully—by going within where He is, where we may know our oneness with Him, and with the Father. And that each one must learn to do for himself.

How?

We have told you much about the Christ Consciousness, and how to find and know it. In that Consciousness all who have entered it know that they not only are Love, but they are One with all that is.

It was in that Love Consciousness, and which was Jesus’ natural consciousness, that He was truly one with the Father, for then He actually was the Father; for God is Love, and Jesus was God’s way of showing humanity pure and perfect Love in expression.

Therefore when anyone is able to retire within into the Christ Consciousness—and many disciples are in the world today who can do this—they are truly in Jesus’ consciousness, and He is in their consciousness, and both are in the Father’s Consciousness; for then they are all One in Consciousness.

You have seen that Love is your Higher Self, that Love manifest is Christ Jesus, and that God is Love. They are the divine Three-in-One—the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus the Three-in-One were fully manifest, and because once manifest They are ever-present and available. That is, They are ever ready and able to manifest again as Christ Jesus to any who can receive Him.

Looking at it in another way, you know that your Higher or Real Self is always in that Love consciousness; for the Real You is a Son of God and is also a Representation of the Father, but is a younger to our Elder Brother, Christ Jesus.

Now think, the only difference between the Christ Self of Jesus and that of us is that in Jesus that Self actually lived and was Jesus in the flesh, and the Logos or the Word had in Him become the flesh and dwelt among us—nay now dwells among us. While in us that Christ Self is not yet become but is becoming the flesh, and thus is making all flesh One; as in the Christ Consciousness, that of our True Selves, we are already One.

Therefore, in that deeper, inner sense, can you not see that Christ Jesus is an actual Presence always with us in our higher consciousness, where Love rules, and is there an intimate part of our consciousness, for it is likewise His consciousness, as it is the Father’s consciousness.

Let us then know Jesus both as the Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, the Logos, within us; and as our Elder Brother, a Son of God of supremely high rank in the Heavenly Kingdom which was “before the world was;” and Who is ever with us in those high realms “even unto the end of the world.” And that He came to earth as the Great Redeemer for the present phase of evolution, for the purpose of expressing the Spiritual Love aspect of God, and of developing that state of Christ Consciousness in the human mind which will bring it to know its own “Sonship.”

“He called himself the ‘Son of Man’ but we can regard Jesus as the Lord of Humanity, the Great Master of Masters, for He is the ‘Word of Power’ for the present age,” as has been proven by all of His disciples back through the centuries since the beginning of His earthly ministry.

We have in the above freely used some of the thoughts of A. V. O. in an article “Jesus—who is He?” from “The Inner Light” Magazine of January, 1929, and from a booklet “Christ the Logos” by C. Jinarajadasa. We are grateful for the clear light they have helped us to throw on this most vital subject.
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==== THE EASTER CEREMONIES ====
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In the last chapter, written before Easter of 1930, you were told of some of the services held in the inner realms preceding Easter. But such would not be complete without a description of the Easter ceremonies themselves.

Please know that each Easter morning there are ceremonies performed also in the physical by many pilgrims from far and near who come to Jerusalem to participate in them, few of course—the psychic ones only—being aware of the great throngs who are present on the inner planes, even as most group members are unaware of the invisible audience always attending their weekly group meetings.

The pilgrims in the flesh as is their custom began to arrive shortly after midnight, and by one o’clock they were coming in crowds, all anxious to be there to watch for the first break of day.

As for the pilgrims who were to come by “air route” on the inner planes, about 11:30 Saturday night many hundreds of the White Brotherhood might have been seen coming to all parts of the earth, drifting earthward to the many good souls in the physical who were ready and willing to give of their soul power in spiritual aid to all whom they would be called upon to help.

Every dear one in a Study Group and all true seekers of the Inner Life were visited by some of the Holy Souls and in their soul consciousness were carefully instructed and then guided over the thousands of miles between their homes and the place of worship on the hills near Jerusalem to the actual spot of the Crucifixion. While the journey was by “air route,” or in other words in consciousness, and took only a few minutes, yet naturally a guide was needed for each soul or group of souls traveling together to reach their destination.

On their arrival they were grouped together according to the order of their spiritual endeavor. Those still living in the physical (many hundreds being also present who had given up their physical bodies in so-called death) were given the Holy Sacrament and a drink from the crystal waters flowing from the Holy Rocks near the spot where the Sacred Cross stood.

The great Leader of the Mission Soul Rescue Workers delivered a lecture and directed all the ceremonies on the inner plane for all Group Workers seeking the Kingdom.

When the pilgrims in the outer world had all arrived they began their worship by performing a litany, many praying, others chanting a holy anthem and all entering into the spirit of the meeting as a sacred memory of the greatest event of history. It all became so awe-inspiring that the very atmosphere seemed to whisper, “THE CHRIST IS RISEN.”

The White Brotherhood and all the dear Souls on the inner planes bowed their heads in silent prayer and drank in the heavenly vibrations which were exquisitely peaceful and harmonious, far beyond description.

This continued until a trumpeter sounded a blast from a silver trumpet announcing the first streak of day. Then the praises in singing and chanting became so thrilling it would have reached heaven, were heaven above the sky of blue; these services continuing until the sun had risen above the horizon, when the pilgrims in the flesh began to wend their way toward town, to church and to early service.

The White Brotherhood on the inner planes remained on the scene. There was a low square platform where the old cross at one time stood. All were bade to abide in silent readiness, and while their heads were bowed in prayer a stir was heard in the air as of a slight breeze and all the atmosphere became saturated with the perfume of many flowers. Then there was a sound heard like the rustling of silken robes, and looking up we saw our Beloved Master had come and was standing right in our midst upon the low platform where once the cross had been, His own beautiful white light surrounding and radiating from Him.

He opened the service by offering a short earnest prayer, speaking of the White Brotherhood as His Disciples. His original Disciples were also among our number.

Then He addressed the Brotherhood and spoke of the work which He had to leave unfinished, and which He asked all present to finish.

“All ye are Sons of God and Sons of Man. All followers that come to Me in truth and in full faith I will bless and enable to do their part in the Work of upliftment and enlightenment of the children of our Father.

“Ye are not here to be ministered unto, but to take up the work of ministering—that for which ye have been prepared.”

He dwelt long on the subject of true greatness, emphasizing the great need of true, brotherly love; of reaching out a helping hand all along the way; of teaching every soul in need about the All-loving and Ever-merciful Father, Who cares for all his children and who yearns to open wide the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom to all sincere and true toilers in His vineyards.

After He had finished speaking all yet in the flesh were asked to pass in single file in front of the Master, when He placed His right hand on the forehead and the left hand on the shoulder of each in blessing, giving to each the power to heal and to do good unto his fellow beings.

The Ceremony was closed with music and singing which was heard all through the atmosphere as though the heavenly hosts were singing with us. We then floated home, reaching it to spend the remainder of the night in sleep.

It is probable that not very many brought back any memories of this wonderful meeting. In fact only a few wrote us of distinctly remembering all that took place, although a number told of things that indicated they were more or less conscious of what was being experienced.

The reason it was so hard to bring anything back was because there is about seven hours difference in time, American time being that much earlier than Jerusalem time, and most minds were too engrossed with outer things on Saturday evening to receive little if any impressions of such experiences.

But we would say this, if this Easter has been the most wonderful of your life, if you have been brought much closer to our Beloved Master Jesus than ever before, and if there is now present within you a powerful yearning to serve Him and all humanity and which yearning cannot be stilled, know that unquestionably your soul was in attendance at these gatherings and that you have been so quickened by the profound impression made upon your soul by His words and by the mingling with and feeling the Great Love of the Brotherhood, that it must outmanifest in your lives and make you one with Them in purpose and in deed. It could not be otherwise with such.🔅
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