Dialogue on Awakening
Would you please explain the process of the "Second Coming"? I feel that is the returning to our consciousness of the Christ awareness, but there has been another understanding which says that you, Jesus, physically will be returning.
"I have no plans at the moment."
Do you have any plans in the future?
"I ask you to live in the moment. Will you not allow me the same prerogative?
"Your perception is quite correct. The misperception is the one that says there was a first or second coming. The Christ has never changed. Should you say, "Will the Jesus-person be coming again," it would be totally different in its meaning. Whether or not the Jesus-person returns should be looked upon by you as being totally irrelevant. There are many reasons for this. Why would I encourage you to understand that, on the one hand, simply because we appear to be in different states of embodiment, we are not really separate, and then encourage you to look forward to my coming again which would indicate to you that this would somehow bring us closer?
"You are attempting to allow your mind slowly and gently to transcend the thoughts of limitation. It would not be appropriate for me to act in any way that would be contradictory to what you are doing. I will say to you as well that speaking in terms of the Christ, it is also irrelevant if there is a "Second Coming." There is only one point of value and that is for you to recognize at this moment, what Is. At this moment, you Are. You are in a state of being the Christ, of being the expression of God who expresses Himself as being You. I ask you only to recognize this. How could it be important to allow your attention to dwell upon any second coming? There is no value to you there." [Dialogue on Awakening, 3rd edition, page 139-140]
Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth
"Since it is impossible for me, to descend into human body again to speak to the world, and I have other dimensions to whom I minister, I have trained a sensitive soul to receive and transcribe. It is the nearest I can do to talking to you personally. I hope you will be able to receive and accept this." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 2, page 2]
Rudolf Steiner
"... now human souls are beginning to develop new faculties, faculties that - because this is precisely the purpose of the age - will cause souls, seemingly out of themselves, to exhibit certain clairvoyant powers... There will be a number of souls who will have the singular experience of having I-consciousness and at the same time the feeling of living in another world, essentially an entirely different world from the one of their ordinary consciousness. It will seem shadowy, a dim presentiment, as it were, as though one born blind were to have been operated on and had his sight restored. Through what we call esoteric training, these clairvoyant faculties will be acquired much more readily, but because humanity progresses they will appear, at least in rudimentary form, in the most elementary stages, in the natural course of human evolution.
"... human beings can acquire the new faculty of perception in the etheric realm - a certain number of human beings to begin with, followed gradually by others, ... This ability will enable human beings to see in their surroundings something of the etheric world, which up to now they have not normally been able to perceive. The human being now sees only man's physical body; then, however, he will be able to see the etheric body, at least as a shadowy image, and also to experience the relationship of all deeper events in the etheric. He will have pictures and premonitions of events in the spiritual world and will find that such events are carried out on the physical plane after three or four days."
"Christ will not incarnate again in a physical body as He did at that time in Jesus; ... Christ will thus become visible to human beings in an etheric and not in a physical body. ...
"This condition of soul, this experiencing of soul, is called in esotericism the 'second coming of Christ.'" [Rudolf Steiner]
"The Being we call the Christ was once on earth in the flesh at the beginning of our era. He will never come again in a physical body, for that was a unique event and will not be repeated. But He will come again in an etheric form in the period indicated. Men will learn to perceive Christ inasmuch as through this etheric sight they will grow towards Him. He does not now descend as far as the physical body but only as far as the etheric body; men must therefore grow to the stage where He can be perceived. For Christ spoke truly when He said: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the days of earth.” He is present in our spiritual world ... and those especially blessed can always see Him in this spiritual, etheric world." [Rudolf Steiner, True Nature of the Second Coming, GA 118, I. The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World, 25 July 1910, Carlsruhe]
THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF OUR TIME
Almost a hundred years ago, spiritual teacher Rudolph Steiner prophesied that the most momentous event of modern times was what he referred to as the incarnation of the “etheric Christ.”
He is referring to a modern day version of Christ’s resurrection body, and he felt that this would be “the most sublime human experience possible,” and “the greatest turning point in human evolution.”
Steiner felt that the advent of the etheric Christ — the Parousia (the Second Coming) — was the greatest mystery of our time.
He felt that Christ was destined to appear in the etheric body... and that in the culmination of this mystery, humanity becomes engaged as active participants, playing a decisive role in the cosmic drama. Humanity co-partners with the divine so as to complete the creative act of God’s Incarnation.
Instead of the Incarnation being through one man, however, in our current day it is taking place through all of humanity. The modern-day coming of the Messiah is through the transformed and awakened consciousness of humanity as a whole.
In a very real sense, WE ARE the very Messiah we have been waiting for.
The mystery and drama of the Christ event is now located and consummated in humanity, who become its living carrier. As we each see the etheric Christ in the unique form appropriate to our soul, we rise up, lift ourselves—grow and ascend upwards, evolutionarily speaking—towards Christ in His etheric body. To quote Steiner —
“Those who raise themselves — with Full ego-consciousness — to the etheric vision of Christ in His etheric body, will be God-filled or blessed. For this, however, the materialistic mind must be thoroughly overcome.”
When we see the etheric Christ, we begin to assimilate and become the thing we are seeing. In our apperception, the etheric Christ inside of us recognizes itself, which enables us to step into who we’ve always been. Humanity is the vessel through which the etheric Christ — the spirit of Christ — takes on human form and incarnates itself.
We find ourselves playing a key role in a cosmic drama. We are not just passive witnesses, but active participants in a momentous, world-transforming spiritual event. [anon]
Cayce
Reading 262-103
... but again and Again and AGAIN! And it may be TODAY, HE MAY BE BORN INTO THY CONSCIOUSNESS; NOT AS PHYSICAL BIRTH - BUT EACH MOMENT THAT A PHYSICAL BIRTH IS EXPERIENCED IN THE EARTH IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CHRIST-ENTRANCE AGAIN!
(Here it is clearly stated that CHRIST "MAY" BE BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN! - NOT IN BODY BUT IN (Man's) CONSCIOUSNESS; yet the Readings is also suggesting that EACH MOMENT THAT (there is) A PHYSICAL BIRTH EXPERIENCED (by any Soul) IN THE EARTH, IS "AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CHRIST-ENTRANCE AGAIN!
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Reading 5749-4
12. (Q) Is Jesus the Christ on any particular sphere or is He manifesting on the earth plane in another body?
(A) As just given, all power in heaven, in earth, is given to Him who overcame.
HENCE HE IS OF HIMSELF IN SPACE,
in the force that impels through faith, through belief, in the individual entity.
AS A SPIRIT ENTITY.
HENCE, NOT IN A BODY IN THE EARTH, BUT MAY COME AT WILL TO HIM WHO WILLS TO BE ONE WITH, and acts in love to make same possible.
FOR, HE SHALL COME AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO, IN THE BODY HE OCCUPIED IN GALILEE.
The body that He formed, that was crucified on the cross, that rose from the tomb, that walked by the sea, that appeared to Simon, that appeared to Philip, that appeared to "I, even John."
(The FIRST PART of the above Reading 5749-4 is more corresponded and in agreement with what Rudolf Steiner stated.)
However, the SECOND PART saying;
HE SHALL COME AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO, IN THE BODY HE OCCUPIED IN GALILEE (the body that was crucified, risen and appeared to the Disciples) may at first, could be think of as CHRIST's SECOND COMING ON EARTH IN BODY, yet at the beginning of the Reading it is clearly stated that "He is of Himself IN SPACE".
"HE SHALL COME AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO, IN THE BODY HE OCCUPIED IN GALILEE" yet "NOT IN A BODY IN THE EARTH" but "HE IS OF HIMSELF IN SPACE" - (IN ETHER) there where He APPEAR to thee WITH HIS CRUCIFIED / RISEN BODY."
Readings 5749-5
15. Then again He may come in body to claim His own.
Is He abroad today in the earth?
Yea, in those that cry unto Him from every corner; for He, the Father, hath not suffered His soul to see corruption; neither hath it taken hold on those things that make the soul afraid.
For, He IS the Son of Light, of God, and is holy before Him.
AND HE COMES AGAIN IN THE HEARTS AND SOULS AND MINDS OF THOSE THAT SEEK TO KNOW HIS WAYS.
(This may mean to me, that ANYONE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE CHRIST-LIKE IN PHYSICAL BODY WHEREIN, CHRIST (the Begotten Son of God) WOULD CLAIM AS HIS OWN (Body) i.e. ANYONE's BODY CAN BE CHRIST's BODY here on earth).
[Reading 262-49]
The Lord, then, will come, “even as you have seen him go.”
Q-. How soon?
A-. When those that are His have made the way clear, passable, for Him to come.
See Also
Awakening
Christ
Christ Consciousness
Clairvoyance
Compound Interetheric
etheric
God
Jesus
New Testament
Spirit