{The Moving Finger of a Changeless God}[29th October 1988]

[Redbook6:25][19881029:1505]{The Moving Finger of a Changeless God}[29th October 1988]

19881029.1505

The reconciliation of a life influenced by religious awareness, with recognition that God can only be unchanging in essence, depends upon the realisation that our perception of divine movement is relative. Put plainly, if a Roman Catholic sees the hand of God moving to help him in particular circumstances, he may simply be wrong – or he may himself be moving, or moving in his circumstances, towards God. I speculate that the way (or one of the ways) in which this happens is in the operation of the Circles in Men’s lives and circumstances.*

In this whole view there is not much room for a Jesus Christ who actually is God, [was] born of the Virgin Mary, rose again from the dead – although all these things may be possible. But the principle behind the myth as high symbolism is a real and true principle, and the highest: that the nearest we can come to God while still embodied is through Love and Harmony to that integrating principle of Unity which was demonstrated in Jesus Christ, Son of Man.

For myself, the figure of Jesus is real, but historical; whereas the Archetype of [+C†I~] is fictional, but real.

*{cf [[Redbook6:307-312][19891013:0941#]{Crucifixion and Love [continued (#)}[13th October 1989],] 311?}

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