Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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1897.] Tu.E DoCTRINE OF CHRIST. 437
The truth of this thought seems confirmed by the fact that t;he
seed become~~ the creative word of the man, by which he creates a
son in his own image; and we also know that through excessive
waste of the life fluids the son is incapacitated from becoming
like his father.
This leacls us into an understanding of the struggle of .T88ua
to make pea~e within himsel£,-the struggle to overcome the
animal nature, the carnal mind. It also expla.ina the words,
44 He abolished in his flesh the enmity, uveo the law of commandments."
"Be fruitful aml mnltitlly" (Gen. I. 28), wu
the law nf ctnnmandments given at the creation. This law,
•leanan•ling that man yielcl the seed in generation, while in harmony
with G()(l"ll pnrpo~~e in the beginning of his work, is not
in harmony, hnt a~ enmity with, tha' purpose in ita ultimate:
n11.mely, the clivine likeness, or the divine sonship, for the terma
are ,.ynnn.vmmts,-the son iR sai1l to be the express image of
the Fathe•·; anti that "in him dwelleth all the fullness of the
G()(lltt~~t.tl bnclily."
The aawient rite of anointing has in this connection an important
ancl intere11ting beaa·ing. The anointing implied the
ta-an11fer to the anointed, of the powers of the one who autbori?.ecl
t.hP. ~remuny. whether a.'\ king, prophet, or prie11t. Now
wlwn WP. consider th:\t tlu~ word Chri11t means 44 The Anointed,"
th:~t a Clu·ist is one who has been anointed, we read with new
intt>a·eRt. the a1111ertion of the ApoRtle ,John, that, if a man's" seed
rt'maineth in him," he heeomes like hi11 Father,-a son of God ;
anti alMO hi11 wnrcls: •• L~t that therefore abide in yon, which
ye b:m~ h(>al'd frnm the heginning. If that which ye have
heaa·cl ft·om the lu~ginniug 11hall remain in you, ye also Rhall
continue in the Snn and in the Father." I ,John 11. 24.
That whi"h the_y bad hearcl from the h~>ginning wa.q the creative
worcl. '"Let ns make man like us.'' Man had been generating
in hi:-4 uwn image 11ince the beginning, but now, if that
word with it~ cweative power t·emain in him, he will continue iu
the son and in the Fathet·: for as the creative enea·gy in the
Reed will create a snn in the likenes11 of the man, 110 will it re-.
cl'eatf> him iu his Father'Rlikene11s. Thus we see that the anointing
oil, oa· c~hri11m, whereby the Father transff!rR his powers
and likene1111 to the son, is in the seed: in it i11 'he anointing oil
which makt.>s its pnssessor a Christ, the Ron of God; for as
man retains the Reed and turnR toward the Father, in that
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