{Crisis Revisited [continued (4)]}[2nd August 1988]

[Redbook5:244-245][19880802:1234d]{Crisis Revisited [continued (4)]}[2nd August 1988]

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This* also helps to explicate the dual aspect of +C†I~. He is a source of comfort to all who seek him: but also a challenge.

I have no doubt that the experience of +C†I~ is available to those who pass on round the Outer Circle again, just as it is available to those who stay (for so long as such a thing is possible) at the point we call Attraction.

This is perhaps more in the nature of Raphael,** the affable Archangel of [the Book of] Tobit who helped Tobias, and one of the nicest characters in the Bible. My linking of him as a sort of pre-Christian type*** of Christ is I think totally heretical but is based on this characterisation in relation to the attributes of the other Archangels (particularly Michael[~] and Gabriel[~]).

Raphael, of course, is no more divine than they are; Chris† (I use the † [for] ‘t’ to distinguish him slightly from the historical Jesus Christ and link him with ****Christopher, Christ-bearer) is divine, that is partaking of the nature of God, in a sense# in which Raphael and the other Archangels (and particularly Azrael, who is not of the Christian hierarchy) are not. This does not stop Chris† and Raphael being two aspects of the same Archetype: hence +C†I~.

But Chris† is a challenge as well as a comfort: an experience perhaps in some ways harder for those who are to turn, than for those who are not. But as Christ sent his Apostles and Disciples out into the World, so he sends out those who turn.

*[See last previous entry]

**[The Muslim Israfel, hence I~ in these Journals, mainly so as to avoid confusion with R~]

***[in the technical sense, perhaps better as ‘Type’(rather than ‘type’) ie the Type of an Archetype]

****[As in the fictions [0]ff. Underlining added later]

#[or to an extent or to a degree...?]

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