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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1058
On the one hand we have Jesus the God-Man deliberately choosing the
work of the World Redemption and Salvation, and descending into the
circle of the World-Karma, relinquishing the privilege of His Godhood and
taking upon Himself the penalties of Manhood; not only undergoing the
sufferings of the physical man, but also binding Himself upon the Cross of
Humanity for ages, that by His spiritual presence in and of the race He might
lift up humanity to godhood.
On the other hand, we have a picture of an angry Deity, manifesting
purely human emotion and temper, bent on revenging himself upon the
race which he had created, and demanding its eternal punishment in hellfire;
then the same Deity creating a Son whom he sent into the world, that
this Son might be the victim of a blood-atonement and death upon the
cross, that the Deity’s wrath might be appeased and the blood of this Divine
Lamb be accepted to wash out the sins of the world.
Can you not see which is The Truth and which is the perversion? The one is
from the pure fountain of Spiritual knowledge—the other originated in the
minds of ignorant theologians who were unable to grasp and understand
the Mystic teachings, but who built up a system of theology in accordance
with their own undeveloped minds; making a God who was but a reflection
of their own cruel animal natures, demanding, as did they themselves,
blood and pain—physical torture and death—in order to appease a most
un-Divine wrath and vengeance. Which of the two conceptions seems most
in accord with the intuitive promptings of the Something Within? Which
brings the greater approval from The Christ within your heart?
The Christian Creed.
There are three creeds recognized by the Christian Church—the Apostles’
Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. Of these, the first two
are commonly used, the third being not so well known and being seldom
used.