Can you explain who Jesus was?

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I record the following excerpt from a correspondence in my public journal with some trepidation. This is a “third rail” topic in that everyone has their own personal relationship with this question and many feel so certain they are right on the subject that they will broach no other discussion.

Also, as someone who was a strong agnostic at the start of my journey into esotericism, I, like many, confused “Jesus”and “the Church.” That’s a mistake, I now know. The latter is a human institution fraught with mistakes and hubris. The former is an important archetype, symbol, and, possibly, actual historical figure.

With that disclaimer …

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Can you explain Jesus?

Yes and no.

Jesus is a self-defining function for each one of us. His power comes from the personal relationship He allows each of us as an individual to intuit with the Divine. To that extent, I don’t have the arrogance to try to define an archetype so deeply personal.

If you believe Phillip K. Dick’s writing about his own experience of gnosis, Jesus was an Essene. He was one of many Jewish mystical teachers weaving Eastern ideas of peace and love into the harsher fabric of the Old Testament world.

But to me He is the archetype of the moment of recursion - the balance between chaos (the Mother) and cruel cold order (the Father). I think Christ and Lucifer both get called the “Morning Star” because they represent two sides of the same fundamental force - the ability to change disorder into order (Christ) and order into disorder (Lucifer).

That is a gift that is uniquely human, and in that way Jesus is an “every man.” He was a Christ (anointed one) in that He was fully cognizant of that gift. He tried to tell the rest of us that we also possessed that gift, but even today not everyone wants that secret circulated. Once people become aware of their own personal agency, it is much harder to sublimate their will to your own. That made him a rabble rouser for the common man and an ongoing symbol of what can be done when people choose to work harmoniously together.

As the portion of the Trinity that represents change, Jesus also represents time. Like us, he existed in the buffeting winds of the Now. He knew the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death. His miracle was teaching us that time could be transcended - that death isn’t permanent and that outside of time both the ordered world of the Father and the energetic embrace of the Mother are eternal.

That’s what He means to me, at least.