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Reappearance of the Christ |
"In every age I come back to deliver the holy, to destroy
the sin of the sinner, to establish righteousness." So runs the
well-known passage in the Bhagavad Gita (translation by Prabhavananda
and Isherwood), giving words to an eternal hope in the human heart.
In this book the reappearance of the Christ is recognised as inevitable
within the continuity of divine revelation. Not only has God never
left Himself without witness, but at definite periods in the history
of human evolution, the "word of God", the projected potency of
His vital life, has manifested in form in order to establish the
principles to be demonstrated during the coming cycle. There have
been many such messengers over the ages, manifesting through one
or another of the great world religions or followed by a new form
of religion based on the new revelation. Divine revelation and
the periodic appearance of messengers, or Avatars, occur, however,
according to cosmic law, when certain conditions exist within
the whole scheme affected by, and affecting, every part, large
and small. Then a chain of events is set in motion which under
law must eventually work out. The part that our little planet
Earth plays in this intricate and smoothly functioning system
of inter-relationships seems to be of vital importance at this
time. The esoteric and planetary significances of the reappearance
of the Christ are suggested in this book as underlying causes
for His Aquarian service to humanity. This is the beginning and
end of an age--the beginning of Aquarius and the end of Pisces--marking
also a major turning point in the evolution of human consciousness
from individual need to the needs of humanity as a whole, from
personal salvation to world service, and from materiality to spirituality.
It seems that this climaxing transition must be "marked" in both
its stages, beginning and end, by the Christ Himself, and a principle
anchored in human consciousness, which embodies not only the love
or God established for the age of Pisces, but also the new potency
for the future, the "Will" of God, into which only the Christ
is as vet fully and perfectly absorbed. The imminence of the reappearance
of the Christ is sensed and expected by many, belonging as He
does to all humanity irrespective of differing religious dogma
and doctrine. "He for whom all men wait" will Himself determine
the manner and the timing of His appearance and the area of his
work in a way which creates no divisions or separations between
men, either religious, social or ideological. Not only does He
come as the first Son of God, but as Head of the spiritual Hierarchy,
the inner government of the planet. He is, therefore, a great
world executive, representing the Kingdom of God, and fulfilling
a definite function in the world of men. He is coming to establish
through precept and example in world service the principles on
which a united, interdependent and interactive world may create
its new material systems and spiritual institutions for the new
civilisation. Preparation for the second coming is the responsibility
of humanity; it is for those who know and accept the imminent
return of the Christ to prepare men's minds and hearts to recognise
and receive Him, and to create those conditions of balance and
spiritual alignment which will ultimately draw Him forth into
our midst. For no matter what message or revelation the Christ
may embody when He comes, no matter what principle or energy He
may anchor on Earth for human use, He is not coming to save humanity
from the results of its own sins, but once more to show humanity
how to save itself in the new conditions and new opportunities
with which the world is faced.
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