A KORA OF KORAS

Jesus Was a Sacrifice, Not a Survivor
“Jesus of Nazareth has become a universal archetypal figure in the minds of all
mankind. But he has thereby become more a part of conventional mind and
meaning than a servant of the Real. Unfortunately, he has become identified with
personal or egoic survival rather than perfect sacrifice of self, mind, life, emotion,
and body.
“Paul the Apostle said that if Jesus did not survive his death, then belief in him
and his Teaching is fruitless. Therefore, the bodily and personal survival of Jesus
became the traditional foundation of Christian belief and practice. But Paul's
conception is false. The Truth and the Law of sacrifice are not verified by or
dependent upon the knowable survival or immortality of any man, including
Jesus. The Truth of the Teaching of Jesus, itself an extension of the Teaching of
the ancients, did not at all depend on his survival, or, more specifically, knowledge,
on the part of others, of his survival. If it did depend on his personal or
conventional soul-survival of death, or the knowledge of such on the part of
others, he could not have taught anything of ultimate significance during his
lifetime, and all Teaching before his time would have been inherently false. But
Jesus himself specifically denied both possibilities.The Teaching of Jesus is
essentially the ancient Teaching of the Way of Sacrifice.