We must understand that the term word in connection with God does not imply spoken words as we understand it on earth but refers to life containing radiation that affects us as part of Creation. The Word of God brought Creation into existence by releasing the Holy Spirit to hover perpetually over Creation and remain with us as the Holy Spirit while still linked with the source or Father of all. Because He is the eternal presence of God in His Creation, He is also called Imanuel, meaning God with us.
In a similar sense, when the state of this far reaches of creation became too dark and total destruction was imminent, the Word of God brought salvation into Creation in His Love. Unlike the Holy Spirit that remains eternally at the summit of Creation, sending, sustaining, and empowering us with His radiation, the saving Love had to take on the physical body in order to reach the battlefield, the souls of earthbound humanity and at the end of His mission return to the Father. Because He was giving for our Salvation, He is also called Jesus, meaning Savior.
Thus, the Word of God is synonymous with Radiation from God but not ordinary spoken word as is the case with human beings. And only in these two instances have the Word of God affected us directly – in bringing Creation (and us) into being and in saving Creation (and us) from complete destruction. In these two instances, the direct radiation from God took on form, first as the Holy Spirit and the second as Jesus. One at the summit of Creation connected and one with the Father, perpetually sustaining and empowering Creation in His radiation, and the other incarnated in the lowest, darkest part of Creation to save us from the consequences of sins, but nevertheless also connected and one with the Father. Obviously, the Word of God cannot remain in these nether regions for many reasons, and once His mission of salvation was completed, He withdrew and returned to the Father. Both the Holy Spirit and Jesus are part of the Father, One in Him and out of Him.
This does not in any way mean or imply that there are three gods in one. The very thought is abhorrent. God Is! Unsubstantiate without any form in which we may recognize Him. Eternal Light in whose Radiation lies Eternal Life. The absolute and only Truth on which our reality and being are anchored. Any manifestation of God in His Creation necessarily bears these qualities but does not represent a fragmentation.
Christ, therefore, came from the highest possible source, from God Himself. He is thus the Son of God by His origin, partaking of the same essence as Divinity Unsubstantiate. This He repeatedly affirmed, such as when He says, “I and my Father are one.” No other prophet has claimed this, and God surrounded Him with His own majesty and glory, and He exhibited a power that is uniquely Divine, unparalleled since the beginning of time. But His dense material cloak, although serving as a medium for Him to function in Matter, nevertheless stood between Him and the full expression of His Godhead and hid His glory as the Son of God.
While in Matter, therefore, His glory was hidden, and in accordance with the perfection of God’s Will, He was subject to the vicissitudes of Matter. The Host of heaven that had accompanied Him during His approach and incarnation could not interfere directly as He suffered the malice of men and Satan. Despite His origin in God, cloaked as man, He was completely dependent on His Father for strength and sustenance (as we all are). The interposition of Matter separated Him, while He remained in Matter, from His Majesty. There is, therefore, no conflict when He states that ‘I and my Father are one’ and when He prays to His Father for help or when He announces that the Father has sent Him.
The mystery lies in the direct connection of Divinity with Matter, which occurred this one time as an emergency act of salvation for all subsequent Creation and for all humanity who were heading for perdition. The Light of God was thereby connected directly to Matter, piercing the darkness that had developed from the volition of Satan and humanity. In addition, He brought the word of Truth in person and laboriously sowed it in the souls of men and women and granted them the strength in the power of the Holy Spirit to live the Truth. The way to Paradise was thus once more shown to seeking souls, and His work of Salvation was done.
Once the personality of Christ is recognized, even if it is only in the limited personal perception outlined above, everything falls into place. We begin to understand what is meant when He says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” The word of Jesus, as the Envoy of God, is Light and is Life. Anyone who lives Christ’s word lives in the Light of God and in the Truth manifest in His Will and has found the way, irrespective of their religious sect. In this volition, he/she has found Christ, whether he/she is a nominal Christian or not. The individual has found the only sure way to the Father.
Thus, the true Christian equates to all truly striving human beings who have a convinced faith in God, not merely a declared faith or belief but a living faith manifest in activities that strive after the Will of God. God is not pleading for followership or human acclaim and will not miss any who deliberately excludes himself from the source of Life.
There is, however, nothing as saddening as the human being who claims belief in God but who does not make any effort to live according to the Will of God or even to clarify what this belief means and what it requires of him or her. These people bring the concept of God to disrepute and are blasphemers of the worst kind.
And God is Perfect, Just, and All-Knowing.
Of course, Christ as the Son of God is the only Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one can reach the Kingdom of the Father except through Him. But we are talking here about His Divine essence that swings in Love and that has lived from Eternity unto Eternity, from before time began and which will continue until the end of time and beyond. Being the Truth, He has always been accessible to those who seek the Truth. Being the Light, He has always enlightened all those who sought the way.
His incarnation on earth strengthened all this possibility, empowering even our considerably depressed spiritual consciousness and making the Kingdom that much easier to access for the weak but nevertheless genuine seekers. With His coming, even the weak, as long as he genuinely seeks, will find. Before Him, only the spiritually strong who could resist the activity of the darkness could find the Light and the Truth.
In His words, Christ gave us Himself, His essence in which lies redemption. Now His essence is Love, and this Love is the life of men. Unless we eat and drink of this His essence cloaked in flesh and blood, we will have no life in us. In other words, unless we completely imbibe His essence, which is the Truth and the Life, we cannot continue to exist in the Eternal kingdom. “The words I have spoken to you,” says the Lord, “are spirit, and they are Life.” He gave us Himself in His Word.
In His volition, words, and actions, Christ manifested Divine Love, bringing it down to a level that we are capable of perceiving and may emulate. In this one instance, Divine Love opened to Creation in a way that human spirits can interact with and all of Creation can benefit from.
The importance of Christ’s mission of salvation can never be over-emphasized because, as is obvious in the lives of many individuals today, without reaching a conscious appreciation of the Truth He brought, we cannot adjust our Life accordingly, in a manner that will allow us to maximally benefit from this great sacrifice of Love. The power of His presence was incomprehensible to the darkness and immeasurable for our salvation. For the first time since the fall of man, human spirits, in general, were directly connected to the power that flows undimmed from Divinity. Previously, only prophets and specially called ones could receive this power with sufficient clarity to guide them, but even then, never in such a direct manner and never in such abundance. With Christ, the power flowing out of Divinity became accessible to all who seek.
In His wake, the power of the Holy Spirit swept across Creation like a strong wind, and any could receive it if they so wished. No longer will those who seek, who open themselves to the new birth in spirit, need to seek afar, for they can now find within themselves the consciousness of being connected with the Kingdom of Heaven. His was indeed and still remains to this day a baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire, for the power flowing into us from the Holy Spirit enkindles our spiritual flame, which had all but been extinguished.
This awakened flame, a process akin to a new birth, is a precious gift we must guard very jealously with our whole being and with everything we have, much like a man seeking a priceless treasure, who on finding it, gives up all he hitherto owned to hold onto that treasure. But beyond keeping this flame pure, we must develop it in the right direction, that is, in accordance with the Will of God. We must tend it until it becomes a great Light.
With the gift of Light, Christ also brought the assurance of everlasting life. If we accept him and follow the path of the Will of His Father and our Father as indicated in His words, we overcome death forever. We pass from death unto Life and are automatically upheld in the Judgement, which itself is fulfilled in the Will of God. “I am the resurrection and the life,” says the Lord, “he who believes in me will live even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”
Even though we may suffer physical death, we continue to live because we have found the path to Eternal life in Him. We have received a connection to the source of Life. The death of the physical body touches all physical things according to the Will of God, for these are of the substance of Matter and must return to Matter in the immutable Law of cycles. By its nature, however, the spirit cannot die in the sense of ceasing to exist because, being the breath (or spark) from God in man, it must exist unto eternity. However, the spirit can die and does die in the sense of separation from God.
Once separated from its connection with the Light and the spiritual realm, the spiritually dead are bound to the Material spheres and become subject to the disintegration all material substances are subject to. The spiritual spark remains, but the personality and maturity it had acquired through its experiences in the worlds of Matter undergo a complete disintegration with the material spheres. It ceases to exist as an ego, a personality in Creation. It may then return to its origin in the state it left, as an unconscious spiritual spark, without even the awareness that it exists or has ever existed. This is eternal death, also called the second death, that looms over all who fail to adapt to the Will of God.
In reaching out to the Love of God in Christ, we receive the power to overcome sin and live in the Will of God. We thereby pass from the shadow of spiritual death to the Light of Life. Even while still on earth, we can already receive this assurance of eternal life.
Modified from ‘The Footprints of the Lord’ by Uchenna Mezue
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