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Nº. XXVI
CONCERNING THE PERFECTIONMENT OF THE CHRIST (1)
JUST after I had been speaking of the mistake made
by Christians in regarding Jesus as a ready-made perfection, I received a
momentary vision confirming what I had been saying. For it represented to me the
gradual perfectionment of the Christ
through suffering, or experience; and a
voice uttered aloud the words “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things,
and so to have entered into his glory?” And other like passages also
were suggested to my mind. (1)
Soon after this I found myself in my
sleep sitting on a hill-side and carving a Cross out of wood. And a young man
came to me and said, “I alone know how to make crosses, and I will show you if
you will come with me.” And I took him for Jesus (2)
and I followed him, and in our converse, which was long, but of which I remember
but a small part, he spoke much of the difficulty that lies in the way of any
one who wishes to attain a full revelation owing to the deterioration of man’s
system through impure habits of life and especially in respect of food, through
which the blood is tainted and the tissues rendered incapable of the
sensitiveness necessary for perfect interior vision. Even with all his
advantages of as pure a paternity and maternity as the earth afforded, he said,
he himself had been unable to attain to perfect knowledge, and now, after nearly
two thousand years of further degeneration, it is hopeless to attain all. That
will come only when the world has for many generations lived purely, and the
human system has recovered in a great degree the perfection which properly
belongs to it, and which it once had. It is to man frugivorous, and to him
alone, that the Intuition reveals herself, and of her comes all revelation. For
between him and his spirit there is no barrier of blood; and in him alone can
the spirit and the man be at one.
Footnotes
(69:1)
(70:1) Luke xxiv, 26 (Douay Version): Heb. V, 7, 8, 9; I Pet.
iv, 1.
(70:2) But
afterwards believed him to have been Hermes, assuming, as is his wont, a
character in accordance with his message. E.M.
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