The
Northern Universal gate of the Holy City
can
be opened only by Jesus Christ - the incarnation of God the Son. God created
human beings in His own image and likeness and Jesus Christ, as the Son
of God, is the perfect embodiment of this image. Christ is the first born
of God, the substance and the absolute
'I-reality'
(ideal-subjective essence)
of all living beings. At the lowest point of human involution on Earth,
in the coldness and darkness of the
cosmic-spiritual
Winter,
God had to send His first-born Son to save humankind. By accepting the
Cross of Crucifixion and Resurrection, Jesus Christ turned
the wheel of human involution into an evolutionary ascent and spiritual
rebirth – a Divine task which only the Son of God can fulfil. It is very
significant that Jesus literally means 'Saviour'. So, the Christian path
of initiation leads through the gate of the ideal-subjective
Universe –
that is the absolute 'I-reality' of all living creatures –
and
results in the birth of the Christ impulse within and joining the universal
community of myriads of light beings. Finally, this initiation leads to
the complete realisation of the greatest mystery of God – that of the
Holy Trinity.
One of the most inspiring chapters of the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 15, describes the symbol of the Christ initiation – the True Vine. The initiation of the True Vine is the birth of the Christ Spirit in the human being. During the course of this initiation every thought, feeling and action in our spiritual body becomes illuminated by the light of the life-giving Christ Spirit; at the same time, all the cells of the physical body become revitalised and enlivened.
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Christ as the 'True Vine' is the Light of the World, the Living Bread, the Living Water for Eternal Life, the Way, the Truth and the Life. This is why Christ says: 'remain united to me, and I will remain united to you' (John 14:4).
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