[Redbook6:195-196][19890804:0000c]{The
Son}[4th August 1989]
19890804
[continued]
*The
Son, Christ, is fully realised in material form: an actual historical
figure as well as an archetype, incorporating selected qualities; a
person whose nature we can in theory ascertain, and can be right or
wrong about, and use as an example or model as being moved to
feelings by us, but not changed by us.
I
experience** Christ, not as a speaker (unlike some), but as an
archetype whose teachings, if they are not given historically on a
particular subject, I believe that I can deduce or receive from the
overall quality of his person or archetype represented or recollected
within my mind. Although it is in theory possible to realise this
archetype without the record of the historical Jesus, the human [sic]
tendency towards inaccuracy and distortion makes such an attempt
hazardous. And it is through our focussing on the archetypal Christ
(and the historical Jesus) that the unrealised potential of the
Spirit can be realised in a form equivalent to its own purity,
instead of being distorted to a lesser or greater extent by our own
separated selves.
*[See
last 2 previous entries]
**[&
see next entry]
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