PART 4:
There are some interesting things in Jesus' life. One of the most interesting is 
that which occurred in the garden at Gethsemane in which he apparently underwent 
great distress, and prayed to God that if it was possible the cup be taken away 
from him. Actually this is highly contradictory because it is completely out of 
character. From all that we know of Jesus, both historically and esoterically, 
or through occult research, he was not exactly the weakest man who has ever 
walked the Earth, nor the most cowardly individual. He was a workman. He was 
strong. He certainly was a very brave individual. There have been many people 
throughout history who have gone to apparent death and laughed in the faces of 
the people who were torturing them. So it is a little strange to conceive of 
this man who was enlightened and illumined by a cosmic consciousness, who 
himself saw through the illusion of death, suddenly become afraid. Unless we can 
go deeper into that pattern and see what was really occurring.
What was occurring is that one of the patterns that the Christ came to do 
through the instrumentality of Jesus' consciousness was to literally impregnate 
the etheric structure of the Earth, and to incarnate not only through a physical 
body of a human being but through what a human being is. A human being has links 
with every kingdom on the Earth. A human being is partially mineral, partially 
vegetable, partially animal, partially devic, partially elemental. There is no 
kingdom on the Earth that does not have its correspondence within man.
Man is a synthetic being. He is a composite being. That is his function, that is 
his glory, to be able to draw all into himself and integrate it and manifest the 
oneness of it. Through the oneness that a human being represents, it is possible 
to move out into all the kingdoms of the Earth, and this is exactly what the 
Christ did. This is really the true crucifixion. It was not so much hanging 
Jesus on the physical cross, but it was the entry of the cosmic Christ into the 
physical, etheric, mental, emotional energy patterns of the planetary body 
itself.
From that point onward the Christ was no longer an educative force standing 
outside the planet, beckoning evolution forward. It became a very powerful force 
operating within the very structure of the planet itself, on really the lowest 
level, that is right down to nuclear levels, atomic levels. From that standpoint 
it could provide the perfect counterbalance, the momentum necessary to overcome 
the downward pull that was threatening mankind, a pull that on the one hand was 
quite necessary, and yet on the other hand was becoming out of balance.
It is from that point that the Christ has been functioning – one of its 
functions for two thousand years. It is not the only function. When I say that 
the cosmic Christ entered the Earth, it does not mean that it left the cosmic 
levels. We cannot think of this in spatial terms – leaving the cosmos and 
entering the Earth. The Christ is not a point that travels like we travel from 
here to London. The Christ is a presence. By focusing that presence in its 
cosmic aspects of itself, it establishes for this planet an energy operative 
within the framework of everything that exists. This is a cosmic energy, a 
Christ energy, a highly stimulating energy. 

We have the demonstration of Buddha's life, who taught truth, wise 
discrimination, balance. And we have the demonstration of Jesus' life, who 
taught love, caring for people, for all life. Those two demonstrations have 
worked within human consciousness. Actually they have provided the framework 
through which Limitless Love and Truth can manifest as a concept, drawing upon 
these two great concepts of the past.
Man has not really ever fulfilled the Christ pattern. There is a very good 
reason for this; it being that man has never been ready to fulfil that pattern. 
In a sense just as coming events cast their shadow before them, everything that 
happens in one cycle is the shadow of something that is going to happen in a 
later cycle. Jesus, in the Christ pattern he represented, was in some aspects a 
shadow of what is happening now. After two thousand years of activity within the 
etheric structure of the Earth, this presence has a great deal of power and a 
great deal of influence that it did not have at that time. 

Mankind has been living with the concepts of love and truth for well over two 
thousand years, but certainly for two thousand years. He may not have been doing 
a great deal with them, but he has been doing something with them. We cannot 
discount the tremendous patterns that the Christian church has influenced in 
terms of establishing an altruistic consciousness within humanity, something 
that really did not exist, certainly in the western word to any great degree.
It does not exist as far as the practice of oriental religions go, although 
certainly they teach it. But the concepts have been there and they have been 
enlarging themselves, until at this point we come to the time when are living 
and experiencing what is the actual reality of the resurrection and the 
ascension. The tomb, the three days in hell that Jesus or the Christ was 
involved in, has been the involvement in the affairs of the Earth, even down to 
the deepest levels. It is not the easiest thing in the world for one force that 
is basically an arising force, to associate itself and to come into intimate 
contact with opposite forces which are downward moving forces, materialising 
forces. But that is exactly what the Christ has done. In so doing, he has 
counterbalanced these forces so that man's consciousness has been able to arise 
to the extent that it has.

PART 5:
We come now to a time when we are asked to go a third step. We are asked to wake 
up, as Buddha did, to the reality of what is around us. We are asked to link 
with the cosmic levels and be aware of their outpouringness so that we become 
anointed with the vision of our greater selves. We are asked to do exactly what 
the Earth has done and what Limitless Love and Truth is the representation of: 
to externalise this vision through attuning to the Christ within us and 
demonstrating it. Nothing less than this will suffice in this age. 

The Christ that we look back upon was a unique expression. It was, in a way, a 
planetary event in that if it had not occurred, there is good reason to suppose 
that this planet would not have been able to survive in the way that we know it. 
There was that aspect of the Christ which is, occultly speaking, definitely the 
saviour of the planet, but not in terms of men's souls, not in terms of 
preparing man for a heavenly estate, except allegorically. What is has done is 
saved him from his attachment to the patterns that move him, in a very literal 
cause and effect relationship into greater and greater involvement with matter. 

The energy that the Christ represents is the instantaneous breaking and 
transmutation of the cosmic chain that an individual may weave through his life. 
Such is the love and what is called the grace of this power. But this has never 
been fully realised yet. This is what we are asked to realise. This force has, 
through its intimate blending with the planet and with each of us, created that 
condition in which we are all much freer to perceive and attune to our higher 
selves. That is its job. That is what the Christ is throughout the universe: 
that which attunes all life to its next highest level, and gives it the 
nourishment and the support and the instruction and the experience it needs to 
become one with that level. When it has become one with that level, then 
suddenly the Christ is seen in a still greater vision leading men onto the next 
height.
Always it is that which truly unites us with God, God representing the divine, 
creative reality within us that we can never express because we are always 
unfolding it. As we unfold one level of it, we become aware of a greater level 
of it, we become aware of a greater level to move on to. We are always uniting 
with this, in increasingly greater degrees.
You understand I have to express this in human terms, which is somewhat 
time-bound. One can get the sense of, `Good grief! This thing goes on endlessly! 
Don't we ever reach a stopping point?' But that is utterly meaningless to the 
illumined consciousness. There is no sense of time. There is no sense of goal in 
the normal way of conceiving a goal. There is this sense of motion, of 
expression, and of great creativity. Infinity is not a frightening concept.
The Christ pattern then, represents together with this planet, a unique 
manifestation. This planet in a special way became one with the cosmic Christ. 
Out of that oneness has been born literally a new planet. This is the planet in 
which we become aware of the reality of what we are. We awaken to it. We are 
anointed by it. Through this response to what calls to us from our higher 
levels, we find the Christ within us being naturally drawn forth without effort, 
without strain. 

The pattern of the crucifixion was absolutely necessary over the past two 
thousand years because man had to consciously, through an effort of will, break 
his attachment to the downward pulling forces that are not evil forces, they are 
just moving his consciousness in the wrong direction and we had to take steps to 
do this. If it meant suffering, which in many cases it did, because that is the 
way man interpreted it, he would not let go easily, then man had to suffer.
The Christ pattern intrinsically is not a suffering pattern. It is a pattern 
leading from strength to strength, and from joy to joy. It is that pattern which 
we are now asked to manifest.
All of this is only background. What is being represented at Findhorn and by 
other centres like it and by individuals throughout the world, who are so 
attuned to this pattern, is a liberation of this cosmic Christ who has been, in 
a way, imprisoned within the planet. Being carried on this tremendous uprush of 
power and joy to becoming at one with the true Christ pattern that flows through 
each of us and within each of us. An attunement which really requires no 
struggle, no stress, only that we relax to it and allow the normal, natural, 
growing forces within us to take us to it – (it is a clumsy way of expressing 
it, because the Christ is not an it and it is not a place  to move us to that 
level of consciousness, or that perception of consciousness where we realise the 
tremendous joy and a tremendous oneness that we share with all that is, and all 
that ever will be.
That background may place what people at Findhorn are doing in some perspective. 
They are evolving a group Christ. They are, by demonstrating a new civilisation, 
a new way of doing things, performing the Christ function of drawing that same 
awareness out of the world.
So in a very real sense Findhorn represents the Second Coming. Any individual, 
any centre, who so embodies the new that it becomes a magnetic source to draw 
the new out of the rest of the world, also embodies the Second Coming.

 



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