Inner Christ Light

Christ tells us about our innately divine nature "Ye are Gods" . 

Furthermore, "Behold the Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17, v.21). The experience of Heaven is an internal phenomenon.

Compare this with a tract from the Upanishads, the Indian metaphysical treatise on Self Realisation: 

"It is not by argument that the self is known.

We must distinguish the self from the body and mind. The self, the atman, the highest refuge of all, pervades the Universe and dwells in the hearts of all. Those who are instructed in the self and who practice constant meditation attain that changeless and self effulgent atman (spirit/ self)."

R. STEINER:

Men had increasingly forgotten their past life of soul and spirit before birth. Their attention was directed more and more to the physical world around them. 

The physical environment became the real thing. 

The souls of olden time, looking out through the body into their physical environment, had seen in all the stars the pictures of the world of spiritual Being which they had left behind when they descended to this life through birth.

 In the light of the Sun they saw the radiant Wisdom which they had indwelt, which had been their very breath of life.

In the Sun itself they beheld the choirs of Divine Hierarchies by whom they had been sent down to Earth. These things mankind had now forgotten,  man only see around him a world of Nature, void of spiritual Beings.

Much of these things had remained unspoken in the unconscious depths of the soul.

But there came the Christ Himself, and said: 

"I will live with you on the Earth, that ye may have power to kindle your souls to life again, that ye may bear them, once more as a living souls, through Death."

 If, as initiates of modern time we fill ourselves with Christ, who made manifest His life in the Mystery of Golgotha; if we take hold in its deepest, inmost sense, of the word of St. Paul: Not I, but Christ in me, — then will Christ lead us even through this Death  of  the body.

 We penetrate into Nature with our thoughts, yet as we do so Christ goes with us in the Spirit. He sinks our thoughts into the grave of Nature. 

Then the dead Thought arises again as living . As from the tomb of the mineral world, Thought is lifted up again as living Thought. Out of the mineral world the Spirit is resurrected. 

Christ told us, "When your two eyes become one, your body will be filled with light." 

This implies that when we go beyond the physical sight ( the two eyes) to the subtle experience or perception which occurs by opening of the third eye and thus entry of the awareness into the Sahasrara our body is filled with light, purity, grace and love.

And it is tragic destiny if in this earthly life man does not find the Christ who can lead him through the Death that stands at the end of life's way, and through the Death in Knowledge. 

But if we thus feel the In Christo morimur, then too we feel what is seeking to come near us through His guidance; we feel how the living Spirit arises again out of all things, even within this earthly life,  through which the Christ will lead us into yonder Life that lies beyond. 

We know then why Christ sent us the Holy Spirit, for if we let Christ be our guide we can unite ourselves to the Holy Spirit already in this life on Earth.

“In the Holy Spirit we shall be reawakened.

By the living Spirit, what would otherwise be a dead Science is resurrected. 

Let us search for the thread of gold which will lead us, in waking consciousness, into the treasure house of our own souls, and there let us learn to be at-one with all that breathes, to sense the vision for the whole, as far as we can, and to work in unison with Gods plan as far as it has been revealed to us by Those Who know.

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