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MEDIATOR CHRIST
A symbol of the Archetypal Man, who mediates
between the Divine and the human; that is, who is a means whereby
the Higher nature makes perfect the lower nature and raises it to
union with itself.
"The blood of Christ . . . cleanse your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God. And for this cause he is the mediator of a
new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that
have been called may receive the promise of the eternal
inheritance." - HEB. ix. 14, 15.
The Divine Life, through the death of the Archetypal Man in a past
state of being, rises to activity in the present order in human
souls to perfect their inner natures and purify them from all
illusions, so that they may conform to the highest Ideal. To bring
about this result, the indwelling Self becomes the intermediary of a
new realisation of the Divine nature. For, having died out of one
state to be born in another, the Self is able to raise the soul from
its subjection to desire and sense under the old dispensation of
nature and the moral law. The birth of the Self in the souls which
are ready brings with it the new dispensation of Love, which frees
the soul from its bondage to the lower and raises the consciousness
to the higher planes.
"For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men,
himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all." - 1
TIM. ii. 5.
Between the Divine Unity and the many egos incarnated, there is an
incarnate means whereby the egos are to be made perfect. The
Archetypal Man, by his death in the epoch of Involution, becomes in
Evolution the potential Life Divine which gradually actualises in
humanity, and in so doing, fills up the gap in men's souls between
imperfection and perfection.
"What you call evil is nothing but imperfection." - G. B. SHAW,
Modern Religion, p. 10.
"The higher man is the mediator between God and the lower man: only
through man can man receive development." - F. W. ROBERTSON,
Sermons, 2nd Series, p. 184.
"There is a celebrated saying in T. B. Yoma, 39a, which, somewhat
enigmatically, seems to sum up the situation thus: If man sanctifies
himself a little, God sanctifies him much; if man sanctifies himself
here below, God sanctifies him above.' Man carries a share of
Divinity within him, but in order to realise that Divinity he must
put forward his own effort. And every such effort avails. God does
His part, provided man does his. The fact of God's Immanence in man
raises him to ever higher stages of sanctity. In the Rabbinic
theology everyone is a potential possesor of just that quality which
marked out the prophet, viz. the Holy Spirit. We can all raise
ourselves to that highest of pinnacles where we approach as near to
the pattern of the Divine as our limited mortality will permit." -
J. ABELSON, The Immanence of God, p. 295.
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