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Nº. XXVII
CONCERNING CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM (3)
THE crucifixion of Jesus was an actual
fact, but it had also a spiritual signification; and it is to this spiritual
meaning, and not to the physical fact, that the whole of the mystical writings
of the Christians refer.
The fundamental truth embodied in the
crucifixion is Pantheism. God is in all creatures; and the stage of purification
by fire, through which all being is now passing, is the crucifixion of
God. Jesus, as the most perfect of initiates, is
selected by the Christian mystics as the representative of God. He is for them,
as Buddha for the Buddhist mystics, God manifest in the flesh. In his
crucifixion, therefore, is the symbol and type of the continual crucifixion of
God in his suffering creatures, which crucifixion is the means and cause of
their purification, and thus of their redemption. “These,” says God, “are the
wounds wherewith I was wounded in the house of My friends.” (1) Which means, “I am
wounded in the body or person of all creatures who are Mine
– who are sealed unto Me.” For “the house of my friends” is nothing more than
the mystical phrase for the temple of the body of others. “Enter thou into my
house, O Lord!” cries the holy soul who desires to be visited while in the body
by the Divine Presence. And the Man-God, showing His five mystical wounds to the
Angels, thus declares, “These are the wounds of My
crucifixion wherewith I am wounded continually in the persons of those who are
Mine. For I and My brethren are one, as God is One in
Me.”
Footnotes
(70:3) Received in sleep.
(71:1) Zech. xiii, 6. Judged by the context, either the
passage is corrupt or the citation is from some Scripture not now extant. E.M.
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