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HIS ARTICLE’S TITLE, Christ is

the Divine Messenger, is a wonderful

statement. We shall at first read in the

Bible whether or not Christ is of divine

origin.

In Matthew 17:5 we are told: "…behold a bright

cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice out

of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in

whom I am well pleased; hear him." A similar

statement can be found in Matthew 3:17, in Mark

1:11 and 9:7, in Luke 3:23 and 9:35 and in

Deuteronomy 18:19, which says: "And it shall

come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto

my words which he shall speak in my name, I will

require it of him."

It seems that we can be sure, now, that Christ is

of "divine" origin.

Is He a Messenger? Certainly, as the New

Testament asks the reader to "hear him" and the

Old Testament informs us of "…the words he shall

speak in my name". And it is in the name of God.

How can we be sure that Christ speaks in the

name of God? We refer now to The Rosicrucian

Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity, in

order to learn Who Christ is.

According to Mystic Christianity, the evolution

of man, in our present Great Day of Manifestation,

is divided into seven Periods called the Saturn

Period, the Sun Period, the Moon Period, the Earth

Period, the Jupiter Period, the Venus Period and

the Vulcan Period. We are presently in the second

half of the Earth Period. We have just passed the

end of our involution and are beginning our evolu-

tion, or the spiritualization of matter and our return

to God our Father.

In this scheme of evolution, Christ is the highest

Initiate of the Sun Period. This means that this

Initiate, Christ, has completed His union with the

Second aspect of God, or W

ISDOM

. According to

Mystic Christianity, the three Aspects of God are

ILL

, W

ISDOM

and A

CTIVITY

. The entity we call

the Father, has completed His union with the First

aspect of God, W

ILL

; then comes the Son, also

called Christ; then Jehovah, the Highest Initiate of

the Moon Period, who has completed His union

with the Third aspect of God, or A

CTIVITY

A messenger always bears a message, and Christ

brought us, in addition to His new Commandments,

a very important message. In order to understand

His message, we must study briefly the visible and

invisible composition of man.

The Rosicrucian Philosophy, or Mystic

Christianity, teaches that man is a complex being

who possesses:

(1) A Dense Body, which is the visible instru-

ment he uses here in this world to fetch and carry;

the body we ordinarily think of as the whole man.

(2) A Vital Body, which is made of Ether and

pervades the visible body as ether permeates all

other forms, except that human beings specialize a

greater amount of the universal ether than other

forms. That ethereal body is our instrument for

specializing the vital energy of the sun. It is seen

by clairvoyant vision to extend about an inch and

a half outside our visible body.

(3) A Desire Body, which is our emotional

nature. This finer vehicle pervades both the vital

and dense bodies. It is seen by clairvoyant vision

to extend about 16 inches outside our visible body,

which is located in the center of this ovoid cloud as

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Christ is the Divine Messenger

MYSTIC LIGHT

This text is mainly based on the Bible and on The

Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity.

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the yolk is in the center of an egg.

(4) The Mind, which functions like a mirror,

reflects the outer world and enables the Ego to

transmit its commands as thought and word, and

also to compel action.

The Ego is the threefold Spirit, the God Within,

which uses these vehicles to gather experience in

the school of life. The three aspects of the Spirit

are:

the Divine Spirit, which has emanated from

itself the dense body,

the Life Spirit which has emanated from itself

the vital body,

the Human Spirit which has emanated from

itself the desire body.

The Message of Christ concerns the vital body:

When we analyze the vital body of the human

being we find that it includes the four ethers and

that in man all four ethers are dynamically active

in his highly organized vital body:

By means of the activities of the chemical

ether, the human being is able to assimilate food

and to grow.

The forces at work in the life ether enable him

to propagate his species.

The forces in the light ether supply the dense

body with heat, work on the nervous system and the

muscles, thus opening the doors of communica-

tion with the outside world by way of the senses.

The reflecting ether enables the Spirit to con-

trol its vehicle by means of thought. This ether

also stores past experience as memory.

The ethers we shall particularly speak of now are

the life ether, the light ether, and the reflecting

ether, as Max Heindel gives a wonderful definition

of the C

HRIST

ITHIN

in The Web of Destiny, page

14:

As new forms are propagated through the sec-

ond ether of the vital body, so the H

IGHER

ELF

the C

HRIST

ITHIN

, is formed through this same

vehicle of generation, the vital body, in its higher

aspects embodied in the two upper ethers.

In order to understand why Christ must be

formed and born in all of us, we will refer to anoth-

er quotation in Mystic Christianity (Teachings of

an Initiate), which makes the subject quite clear:

Let it now be remembered that the qualifica-

tions necessary for our emancipation from the

conditions prevailing in Atlantis were partly

physiological: we had to evolve lungs to breathe

the pure air in which we are now immersed and

which allows the vital body to vibrate at a more

rapid rate than did the heavy moisture of

Atlantis. With this in mind we shall readily see

that future advancement lies in freeing the vital

body entirely from the trammels of the dense

body and letting it vibrate in pure air.

This is what happened in the lofty altitude exo-

terically known as the “Mount of Transfiguration.”

Advanced men of various ages, Moses, Elijah,

and Jesus (or rather the body of Jesus ensouled

by Christ) appeared in the luminous garment of

the liberated soul body, which all will wear in the

New Galilee, the Kingdom of Christ. “Flesh and

blood cannot inherit the kingdom” (1 Corinthians

15:50), for it would interfere with the spiritual

progress of that day; so when Christ appears we

must be prepared with a soul body and thus be

ready to part from our dense body to be “caught

up and meet Him in the air” (1 Thessalonians

4:17).

We see that the New Testament confirms the

statements of Mystic Christianity.

The soul body is called soma psuchicon by Paul

in his Letters, and it is the Christ born within.

The following quotations are taken from the

New Testament. They relate to the Christ born

within, also called the Soul Body in English, and

soma psuchicon in Greek:

Romans 13:14 : “But put ye on the Lord Jesus

Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to ful-

fill the lusts thereof.”

2 Corinthians 13:5: “Examine yourselves,

whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.

Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus

Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

2 Corinthians 6:16: “And what agreement hath

the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple

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of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in

them, and walk in them; and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.”

Ephesians 2:22: “In whom ye also are builded

together for an habitation of God through the

Spirit.”

Galatians 3:27: “For as many of you as have

been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.”

Other passages in the Bible indicate more or less

clearly to mankind that Christ must be born with-

in, including the following:

Matthew 1:23: “Behold, a Virgin shall be with

child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall

call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted

is, God with us.” The Virgin here spoken of is the

astrological sign Virgo. Let us give again the defi-

nition of the Christ within, or Higher Self, as found

in The Web of Destiny:

As new forms are propagated through the sec-

ond ether of the vital body, so the H

IGHER

ELF

the C

HRIST

ITHIN

, is formed through this same

vehicle of generation, the vital body, in its higher

aspects embodied in the two upper ethers.

The Old Testament gives us similar information:

Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us

a son is given: and the government shall be upon

his shoulder; and his name shall be called

Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The

everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

In The Web of Destiny, we read that

…as a child that is born into the world requires

nourishment, so also the Christ that is born with-

in is a babe and requires to be nourished to the

full stature of manhood. And as the physical body

grows by a continual assimilation of material

from the chemical region—the solids, liquids,

and gases—so also, as the Christ [within] grows,

will the two higher ethers grow in volume and

form a luminous cloud around the man or woman

sufficiently discerning to set his or her face heav-

enward; it will invest the pilgrim with light so

brilliant that he "walks in the light," as a matter

of fact. By the exercises given in the Western

Preparatory School of the Rosicrucians, it

becomes possible in time to detach the two high-

er ethers, and the man may then step away from

his physical body, leaving it for a time invested

and vitalized only by the two lower ethers; he is

then what we call an Invisible Helper.

Let us gather, now, all the names given to the

Soul Body :

In Paul's Letters, we are told about a soma

psuchicon (1 Corinthians: 15:44, mistranslated as

“natural body”). The Soul Body, which is made of

the two upper ethers—lighter than air and there-

fore capable of levitation—is also the Golden

Wedding Garment and the Philosopher's Stone, or

the Living Stone, spoken of in some of the ancient

philosophies as the Diamond Soul, for it is lumi-

nous, lustrous, and sparkling—a priceless gem. It

was also called the Sidereal Vehicle and the Astral

Body and by the Mediaeval Alchemists, because of

the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to

traverse the starry regions. But this Astral Body is

not to be confounded with the Desire Body which

some of the modern pseudo-occultists mistakenly

call the Astral Body.

In the Masonic Legend, the Soul Body is given

another name, as we are taught how Hiram Abiff,

the Widow's Son, left his father, the Lucifer Spirit

Samael, after the baptism of fire in the Molten Sea,

and how he received the mission to prepare the

way for the kingdom among the Sons of Cain, his

brethren, by developing their arts and crafts as

temple builders—Masons—and teaching them the

preparation of the Philosopher's Stone or Molten

Sea.

A little further in the Masonic Legend, we are

told that the Molten Sea, "being of ultimate purity,

it would contain no color, but resemble a 'Sea of

Glass,’” which Sea of Glass is referred to in

Revelation, chapter 15, verse 2: "And I saw as it

were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them

that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over

his image, and over his mark, and over the number

of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the

harps of God."

And in Revelation, chapter 21, verse 11, we are

told that the "light of the holy Jerusalem ... is clear

as crystal."

In chapter 22 also, verse 1, we read that "a pure

river of water of life, clear as crystal, is proceeding

out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."

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Then, still further in the Masonic Legend, we are

told of a “stone,” and “this ‘White Stone’ knowl-

edge would even enable the person to lift the veil

of invisibility and meet the superhuman Hierarchs,

who work in the world with a potency undreamt of

by the masses."

And we gather more details on this precious

'stone' in Teachings of an Initiate. Thus, at his bap-

tism, Jesus became 'a Son of the Dove,' and was

recognized by another, 'Simon Bar-Jonah,' (Simon,

Son of the Dove). At that recognition by the sign of

the dove, the Master calls the other 'a rock,' a foun-

dation Stone, and promises him the 'Keys to

Heaven.' These are not idle words nor haphazard

promises. They refer to phases of soul develop-

ment which each must undergo if he has not passed

them.

What then is the 'sign of Jonah' which the Christ

bore about with Him, visible to all who could see?

It is the 'House from Heaven' (another word for the

Soul Body) wherewith Paul longed to be clothed:

the glorious treasure house wherein all the noble

deeds of many lives glitter and glisten as precious

pearls. Everybody has a little 'House from

Heaven.' Jesus, holy and pure beyond the rest,

probably was a splendid sight, but think how inde-

scribably effulgent must have been the vehicle of

splendor in which the Christ descended….

We find that these 'Stones' for the 'Temple made

without hands undergo an evolution or process of

preparation. There is first the Petros or 'Stone', the

diamond in the rough, so to speak, found in nature.

When read with the heart, such passages as 1st

Corinthians, 10:4—“And did all drink the same

spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock

[Petros] that followed them: and that Rock was

Christ”—are illuminating in this connection.

Gradually, very gradually, we have become

impregnated with the 'water of life' which sprang

from the Great Rock.

We are becoming polished as 'lithoi zontes' (liv-

ing stones), destined to be grouped with that 'Great

Stone' which the builders rejected; and when we

have wrought well to the end, we shall finally

receive in the Kingdom the diadem, the most pre-

cious of all, the 'psiphon leuken,' (the white stone)

with its New Name.

There are three steps in the evolution of 'the

Stone of the Sage': 'Petros', the hard rough rock;

'Lithon', the stone polished by service and ready to

be written on; and 'psiphon leuken', the soft white

stone that draws to itself all who are weak and

heavy laden. Much is hidden in the nature and

composition of the stone at each step which cannot

be written: it must be read between the lines.

And this is the reason why, in the Mysteries of

the Great Operas, Max Heindel tells us that

It is exactly the mission of the Rosicrucian

Order, working through The Rosicrucian

Fellowship, to promulgate a scientific method of

development suited particularly to the Western

people whereby this wedding garment may be

wrought, so that we may hasten the day of the Lord.

And the Holy Scriptures give the same piece of

information, however in a more "veiled" way. In 1

Corinthians 15:37-38, 40 we read:

"And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not

that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may

chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God

giveth it a body as it has pleased him, and to every

seed his own body… There are also celestial bod-

ies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the

celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is

another."

In 1 John 3:9, we read: "Whosoever is born of

God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in

him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."

The Bible Teaching enables us to become aware

of the fact that Christ must be born within. We

have also to understand very clearly that the Christ

which is born within us is our true Saviour, and not

the Cosmic Christ, that is to say the Christ without.

The Christ without, or the Cosmic Christ, helps us

in the task of having Christ born within; however,

it is our task to form the Christ within.

The Christ within, or Soul body, is the vehicle

mankind will need to live in the Sixth Epoch or

New Galilee.

THIS IS THE MESSAGE BROUGHT TO US

BY CHRIST, THE DIVINE MESSENGER.

—Marie-José Clerc

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