Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00460)

Thanks Christina for the quotes from Alice Bailey's
"The Reappearance of the Christ":

You will notice that in the following paragraph Bailey
writes of the "divine Presence" that pervades "all forms, 
conditioning from within all kingdoms in nature, expressing 
innate divinity through human beings."

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Slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of
humanity, the great paralleling truth of God Immanent—
divinely "pervading" all forms, conditioning from within all kingdoms
in nature, expressing innate divinity through human beings and—two
thousand years ago—portraying the nature of that divine Immanence
in
the Person of the Christ. Today, as an outcome of this unfolding
divine Presence, there is entering into the minds of people
everywhere a new concept: that of "Christ in us, the hope of glory."
(Col. 1.27.) There is a growing and developing belief that Christ is
in us, as He was in the Master Jesus, and this belief will alter
world affairs and humanity's entire attitude to life.

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But then Mrs. Bailey CARNALIZES the Christ in the following
paragraphs:

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It is the PHYSICAL Presence upon our planet of such recognised
spiritual figures as the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days; the
seven Spirits Who are before the throne of God; the Buddha, the
spiritual leader of the East, and the Christ, THE SPIRITUAL LEADER
OF THE WEST —all of Whom are brought at this climaxing time to our
attention. The vague belief in Their existence, the dreamy
speculations as to Their work and Their interest in human welfare,
and the unconvinced, yet hopeful, wishful thinking of believers (and
also unbelievers), will soon give place to certain knowledge, to
VISUAL RECOGNITION [??], to provable signs of executive work and to 
the reorganisation (by people of unusual potency) of the political,
religious, economic and social life of humanity. . . .

The idea of the return of Christ is a most familiar one, and the
concept of the Son of God returning in response to human need has its
place in the teaching of the majority of the world faiths. . . .
A truth hard for the orthodox thinker of any faith to accept is the
fact that Christ cannot return because He has always been here upon
our Earth, watching over the spiritual destiny of humanity; He has
never left us but, in PHYSICAL BODY and SECURELY CONCEALED (though
not hidden), He has guided the affairs of the Spiritual Hierarchy, of
His disciples and workers Who are unitedly pledged with Him to Earth
service. He can only re-appear. . . . 

The GENERAL STAFF of the Christ is already active in the form of the
New Group of World Servers; they are as potent a body of forerunners
as has ever preceded a great world Figure into the arena of human
living. Their work and influence is already seen and felt in every
land, and nothing can destroy that which they have accomplished. The
spiritual and organising effect of expressed and voiced invocation
has been also attempted since 1935, and the energy of the invocative
cry of humanity has been directed into those channels which reach
from Earth to that High Place where dwells the Christ. From there, it
has been transmitted to those still higher spheres where the
attention of the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, the Father
of all, plus the Creative Energies and Living Beings Who dwell there
with Him, can be focussed on humanity and those steps can be taken
which will embody more rapidly the Purposes of God.

. . . . This time the Christ will not come alone for
His co-workers will come with Him. His experience and Theirs will be
the reverse of the previous one, for this time every eye will see
Him, every ear will hear Him and every mind will pass judgment upon
Him. . . .

Caps added in above quotes.
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST the above with what H.P. Blavatsky writes:

"[Genuine Theosophy]... hushes the 'Lo here! and lo there!' and 
declares the Christ, like the kingdom of heaven, to be within."

". . . 'the coming of Christ,' means the presence of CHRISTOS in a
regenerated world, and not at all the actual coming in body
of 'Christ' Jesus; . . . for Christ--the true esoteric SAVIOUR--
is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being."

"Whether it be Krishna, Buddha, Sosiosh, Horus or Christos, it is a
universal PRINCIPLE....the Christians, by localizing and isolating
this great Principle, and denying it to any other man except Jesus of
Nazareth (or the Nazar), the Christos of the Gnostics; that
alone prevents them having any point in common with the disciples of
the Archaic Wisdom. . . true Theosophists will never accept ...a
Christ made Flesh. . . ."

Daniel