The Spirit Soul

The manifested Universe is not the living entity's natural environment.  Like a fish out of water, he cannot find real happiness which is more than an absence of pain (just as real peace is more than a truce).  The spirit soul must return to the transcendental realms beyond the worlds of the material Creation.  The soul is going back go Godhead.

The soul finds satisfaction in itself, being part and parcel of the Supersoul.  Becoming self-sufficient, it need not satisfy the senses separately.

One feels real pleasure only when serving the Absolute by offering Him the food one eats, dedicating every action, project and creation to Him.  The struggle for existence separate from the Organic Whole fades away as Universal Life remains.

      ~ Patrick Bernard (from Atlantis Angelis II)

One Christ

Only one Christ, THE Christ, has appeared throughout all time. Each incarnation, each manifestation brings the same essential core message, even though it is stated in different ways appropriate to the times and cultures. Jesus was no greater than any of the others because of some act performed, and to believe otherwise is ignorance.

Very few theologians would say Jesus is God. A common iteration of official belief is this: God reveals Self in Jesus. To this we can add the insight of Eastern sages and the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.

"When the Father begets his Son in me, I am that Son and no other.... Thus, we are all in the Son and are the Son.
The Father gives birth to his Son without cease, and I say more: he gives birth to me his Son and the same Son.” - Meister Eckhart

Other Divine personalities who actually lived in the past are not simply imaginary human forms. Many have appeared to point the way for us to experience the Godhead within us, not merely to know about our divineness intellectually, but to actually experience it. Lord Buddha, Sri Rama, Sri Krishna, Jesus.........many have come and gone to point us in the direction of Truth, the Christ within.