{The Imitation of Christ}[20th November 1989]

 [Redbook6:350-353][19891120:0930d]{The Imitation of Christ}[20th November 1989]

19891120.0930

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*One of the distinctions of God the (Father-)Creator, and Christ, so far as I am concerned – and one which makes it impossible to conflate them as ‘persons’ – is that while I do wish to become like Christ (although I doubt whether I can succeed), I do not wish to become like God.

My aim, unachievable in the World, is Union with God. Unity [sic] with God, so far as can be achieved while separated within the Spiritual Kingdom, is Christ’s degree; and so far as can be achieved in the World, the Physical Universe, was Jesus’ degree.

That is not, of course, to deny the reality of Jesus Christ as the living embodiment of the Christ archetype in Jesus ‘while Jesus walked’; and it was this fusion of the spiritual archetype and the physical man which is seen in Jesus’ acute awareness of God the Creator as his Father.

*ref [last previous entry but one, [Redbook6:349][19891120:0930b]{Thee-in-One?}[20th November 1989],] 349

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