I believe in the Unutterable Divine
Principle, which abides in each human being, and I believe in the birth of
Christ in the human soul on its way to perfection. Moreover, every educated man
knows the significance of the terms Krestos or Kristos (Christ), and that they
were taken from the pagan vocabulary. I wrote recently to one of my co-workers
about the meaning of this term, and I will repeat it to you. Krestos was the
designation given to a neophyte who was on probation as a candidate for the
degree of Hierophant. Only after a disciple went through all the sufferings and
passed all the tests, in the last ritual of initiation he was anointed and
became according to the language of the Mysteries, Christ, "the purified.”
His finite personality was fused with his infinite individuality and he then
became an immortal Ego. For the first Christians, the word Christos or Christ
was synonymous with our higher Ego. In this sense, one should understand that
Christ is the Redeemer of sins. Thus, the redemption of personal sins is
performed by the soul – the conductor and the messenger of Christ —
perpetually, during the long chain of earthly lives of our individual Ego.
"The Christ on the cross, of every human being, must descend into Hades at
some point of its evolution, in order to bring back to normal conditions the
soul that has been plunged therein as an effect of the evil deeds of its lower self. In other
words, Divine Love must reach down into the heart of man, conquer and
regenerate the man, before he can appreciate the enormity of his offenses
against Divine Law and forgive himself for the sins committed against himself,
and forgiveness must be obtained to complete at-one-ment."
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