"The Only-Begotten" - Part II

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That is why the confessors of the Tri-Unity of the Light are Christo-centric. Indeed, they were so even tens of thousands of years before our era, before there was even any mention of Jesus of Nazareth. When the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove upon the head of Jesus and a voice is heard to say: 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased', then this does not mean the nature-born human being called Jesus, as the whole of church christendom, deluded by theology, would have it. It means the Original Soul which, as the divine Son, as the only-begotten Son of God, is at that moment connected once again with the holy Seven-Spirit. In this only-begotten Son of God, in the human being who has been raised up in the Soul, what exists from the beginning has been made alive and real once again. And in this way, the person concerned is guided to his High and True Destiny.

You may be wondering why the Original Soul is called the only-begotten Son. Well, it is because only this blazing, living principle, this central heart, was created in the Original Microcosm, as the only and highest created thing, the 'principle unto life' generated by God: the only-begotten One.

The flame, which we also call the Rose-bud or Primordial Atom, exists in the Original Microcosm. So the only-begotten Son is potentially within you. This Divine Principle, anchored by the Logos in every microcosm, understands everything and is capable of manifesting itself: out of potential power, through active power and through the being of eternity, as Hermes puts it.  Everything undertaken by the Original Soul can and will succeed. 'I can do all things', says Paul, the Soul-man, 'through Christ who gives me strength', the power of the Spirit. That is why the Son, when united with the Father, is the Power which cooperates with the Principle and in this way forms a Living Unity; it is the activity resulting from that union, which will always achieve its aim perfectly and without any difficulty whatsoever; and which, by its total freedom from every dualistic phenomenon, will lead the result of that activity, the everlasting One, the Being of Eternity, to its true destiny in timelessness.

That is why Jesus Christ could say, as can, and indeed should, every true Soul-being: 'The Father and I are one'. 'The Father has given all things into my hands'. And thus it is also logical for Jesus, the Christed One, to have said: 'Without me, the original Soul, you can do nothing'.

Whatever you attempt with the intelligence of your physical state, it will only lead to death. If you associate the tidings of redemption with the human being (which is the fundamental mistake of christianity), if you even go so far as to associate them with the human being in his present state, and persist in taking as your starting point the mistaken assumption that it is always the human being who is at the focus of the process of salvation, then everything will turn into delusion. If you persist, even as a pupil of a School like ours, in giving expression to the human being's efforts to maintain itself, albeit in a somewhat changed and camouflaged form, then everything will go wrong, then your pupilship will be nothing but fiction.

So may we tell you in brotherly love to stop all your chatter! What you have to do is not talk but act, on the basis of a new attitude to life, arising from the central Soul-principle. The Christian tidings of salvation are never intended for the personality. They are only for the Soul-being, who is the only-begotten Son who has fallen and must be brought back to life again. And in that process you, as a personality-being can, at most, offer a helping hand.

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"The Only-Begotten Son of God" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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