CHRIST_JESUS
The Vanishing of the External Jesus
The traditional concept of Jesus as an external, historical figure must disappear from one's consciousness. This creates a temporary void, but it is a…
Related Bible passages
- John 16:7
- John 14:19
- 1 Corinthians 12:3
Related ideas
JesusHoly SpiritSpirit of TruthExternal JesusInternal JesusNon-historicity of ScriptureSpiritual AwakeningConsciousness
The Dweller On The Threshold
Not a man, but your concept of Jesus Christ is of a man external to yourself. The day will come that that concept that you now hold of Jesus, so that when you hear the word “Jesus” it conjures in your mind’s eye some presence external to yourself – that must come to an end. It’s an awful moment in the life of one who calls himself a Christian! When you see the story is not secular history – that we have taken personifications for persons, we have taken the vehicle that conveyed the instruction for the instruction itself and the gross first sense for the ultimate sense intended, and when the non-historicity of Scripture is revealed to man, and man accepts that so that the physical, visible concept of Jesus vanishes – he vanishes. What an awful vacuum in your life at that moment! It will continue for a while, but now, because he now vanishes from you as an external being to whom you could turn and pray and now you can’t – now the Spirit of Jesus will rise within you.
The traditional concept of Jesus as an external, historical figure must disappear from one's consciousness. This creates a temporary void, but it is a necessary prerequisite for the true Spirit of Jesus (the Spirit of Truth) to rise and be realized within the individual as their own divine self.