CHRIST_JESUS
Son of God Sleeps in Man / First Shall Be Last
The "Son of God" (the divine imagination) is latent within every individual ("sleeps in man"). The physical, sensory man ("first man") is merely a casing,…
Related Bible passages
- Matthew 19:30
- Mark 10:31
- Luke 13:30
- Genesis 25:24-26
Related ideas
Son of GodFirst ManSecond ManJacobEsauAwakenHeavenKingdomAwakeningFirst Shall Be LastJacob and EsauInner KingdomRevision
Awakened Imagination
for the son of God sleeps in man and the only purpose of being is to awaken him. So it is not to awaken this, nice as it appears to be, but this man of sense-is only a casing: it is called the first man, but the first shall be last and the last shall be first. So that which comes into being second, like Jacob coming second from his mother's womb, he takes precedence over his brother Esau who came first. Esau was the one like this, he was made of skin and hair, and Jacob was made a smooth skinned lad, but that one that comes second suddenly becomes the lord of all the nations and that one sleeps in every man born of woman, and it is the duty of a teacher or a true religion to awaken that man, not to talk of another world, not to make promises to be fulfilled beyond the grave, but to tell him as he awakens now he is in heaven and the kingdom is come now, this day, on earth. For as he awakens, he revises his day and he repeals his day and projects a more beautiful picture onto the screen of space.
The "Son of God" (the divine imagination) is latent within every individual ("sleeps in man"). The physical, sensory man ("first man") is merely a casing, and the spiritual, imaginative man ("second man," like Jacob) is destined to take precedence, fulfilling the prophecy that "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." Awakening this inner man reveals that heaven and the kingdom are present "now, this day, on earth," manifested through revision.