{Embracing [+C†I~]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:312][19891013:0941g]{Embracing [+C†I~]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

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Earlier this afternoon, I – in the course of considering* worship as Love of Christ – had the experience of embracing [+C†I~], the [+C] of my fictions, whom I saw and knew as of my own age (or as I perceive my own age: that is, mentally my age but physically a little younger – it used to be the opposite);** and that experience is with me now. He is the Archetypal Christ, as I perceive him: related intimately to, but not identical with, the Jesus of the Gospels.***

*[[Redbook6:305][19891012:1612c]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (4) [continued]}[12th October 1989]]

**[Unclear whether this refers primarily to how the writer perceived his own age or (as is probably the intention) the age of +C†I~]

***Note that as I call him here by his full name ‘[+C†I~]’ I do not say that he is rooted in the Gospels, as for the Christian Church Christ must be; because (as the Church recognises) the pre-existent Archetype may have descended into (or even as) Jesus Christ.

[&/but? cf [Redbook6:266-267][19890918:1015c]{Evil (5): The Devil and A~}[18th September 1989], para 1 (parenthesis);

cf [[Redbook6:270][19890923:2059]{The C~ Card}[23rd September 1989],] 270, &

[Redbook6:273][19890927:2051]{Christ and the Circle}[27th September 1989]]

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