(INNER AND OUTER CHRIST)[9th April 1987]

[Redbook3:151-152][19870409:1345f](INNER AND OUTER CHRIST)[9th April 1987]

19870409.1345.

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One of these* is the relationship between Inner and Outer Christ Archetype Qualities. The Outer Quality is Attraction: the Inner is Unity. I have had some trouble, thinking about this (relatively early)** pattern (which is somewhat fixed in the Circle structure) in relation to the Christ Archetype as commonly experienced. I think it can be resolved.

Many people are attracted to Christ: in the Gospels, Jesus attracted by his teaching, healing and general personality. This is the Outer Archetype: many feel its attraction and remember it, but live on the Outer Circle without letting it work its Transformation on them.

Some, however, allow themselves to be called towards Unity with Christ and, ultimately, Union with God: in the Gospels, these would have been Jesus' Disciples, that is the Twelve Apostles and the relatively small number of those (such as Mary Magdalen[e], Lazarus? etc.) who loved him and went with him and whom he sent out to do his work (one has the impression that he sent out more disciples than just the twelve Apostles, at one stage)***. This Unity is the Inner Archetype (shown in the unity of the very early Christian community?) which, I suspect, is the quality ****through which (and to which) the Inner Circle Transformation occurs.

The two qualities are strongly interrelated, as this is the meeting point of the two Circles, the point of Crisis: I do not know exactly what path is taken by any Individual. The Attraction is, or should be, towards the Unity; perhaps Individuals respond to it according to their own Nature, which is their need for particular types of development, bearing in mind that each Circle starts and ends with Christ? 'I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.'[sic]#

*[i.e. new lines of speculative reflection; see last previous entry.]

**(But Unity came late.) <880805>

***Of course: Lk 10:1-20. <890930[&/or89]1001>

****{?}

#Rev. 22.13: 'I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.' <930418>

cf [Vol.] VI.

I have tried to analyse the Gospels in Action/Revelation terms – without great success (ref. p. 40 [[Redbook3:40-41][19870326:1543t]{Gospel Circles}[26^th March 1987]][&[Redbook3:40-41][19870326:1543u]{Gospel Circles [continued]}[26^th March 1987]]) in the central sections. This reflection suggests dividing what Jesus said to, and did with, the general audience, from what he said to, and did with, his own Disciples.

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