WHAT IS JESUS'S TRUE MESSAGE TO HUMANITY?

The message of Jesus, according to the Gospel has no ritual, moral, intellectual or social character.

His message is essentially metaphysical or in the search for knowledge of primary causes, it is ontological, real, cosmic.

As this message took place in a human environment of little understanding, it was initially conditioned and contaminated by the atmosphere of that moment in history, and thus, the divine content of the Gospel was impacted by its fragile human recipients.

Christianity inherited its colourful ritualism from the pagan mysteries of the Roman Empire, according to which man's salvation consists of certain magical and occult practices, related to certain objects, formulas, gestures, etc.

Judaism at the time harmed the nascent Christianity with the idea of redemption by blood, according to the “scapegoat” ceremony that was held annually in Jerusalem, and which was glorified by a former Jewish rabbi converted to Christianity, initiating the barbarian concept of the blood of Jesus to wash away the sins of humanity.

Later, in the early Renaissance, Jesus' message was interpreted intellectually, projected on the background of an analysis of the letter of the Bible, and in an act of trust in his blood as if that blood were the elixir to redeem humanity.

Finally, nowadays, Christianity is identified with social philanthropy, deeds of charity and altruism, related to the evolutionary idea of successive reincarnations.

All of these versions can, to some extent, be accepted as simultaneous phenomena - but none of them represents the centre and the basis of Jesus' authentic message.

Rites, sacrifices, studies, beliefs, altruism - all of this still belongs to the old conception that man is only his physical-mental-emotional ego, a concept that Jesus totally surpassed. For him, man is not his material body, not even in the most purified form; man is not his personality, but his inner Self, his deep and divine individuality, his soul or spirit that Christ calls the “Father”, the “Light”, the “Kingdom”, the “Hidden Treasure”, the “Precious Pearl”.

The conception that Jesus has of man which forms the quintessence of his entire message is deeply metaphysical, ontological, realistic, cosmic.

The Gospel message does not primarily aim at transforming the vicious man-ego into a virtuous man-ego, which Jesus rejects with “a new patch on old clothes”; but it invites man to discover his divine reality, already existing in him, but still unconscious; invites him to take his divine light under the bushel of his unconsciousness and place it in the chandelier of his conscience; invites man to raise awareness of the Father, the Light, the Kingdom, the Treasure, the Pearl, which man is by nature, but who ignores being; Jesus invites man to what Eastern philosophers call “self-knowledge”, and which appears in the Gospel with the name of “the first and greatest of all commandments”.

Jesus' message does not refer to something that man should do, but to someone, that man should be consciously; and from this being of the mystic of the first commandment will spontaneously result from realizing the second commandment of ethics - the ethical experience of universal brotherhood is, for him, the irresistible overflow of the mystical experience of God's unique fatherhood. Mystical self-knowledge produces ethical self-realization. It revolves entirely around the Metaphysical Reality of man whose centre and the root is God, the Absolute, the Infinite, the Eternal. All its greatness consists in having reached the heights of the vision of the essential identity between him and the Divinity. For this reason, this message infinitely surpasses all altruisms and moralism, all virtues and piety, and culminates in the most exquisite metaphysics of the nature of being, of Unity in all Diversities, of Absolute Essence in all Relative Existences.

When the man still identifies with his tyrannical ego and tries to make that vicious and bad ego a virtuous and good one, he walks on the “narrow path” and passes through the “tight door” of compulsory duty, always difficult and with sacrifice; after being awakened to the awareness of the reality of his divine Self, he enters the zone of the “soft yoke and light burden” of spontaneous will; passes from the goodwill of moral virtuosity to the wisdom of comprehending and his painful morality becomes a joyful ethic - and only then does he find “rest for his soul”.

When Mahatma Gandhi wrote that “Truth is hard as a diamond and delicate as peach blossom”, he understood that the hardness of duty can be associated with the delicacy of wanting, supposing that my virtuous ego enters the area of my sapient Self.

Fortunately, at this dawn of the third millennium, we find, around the world, some men who are beginning to discover and comprehend the soul of the Gospel, to feel, as stated by JW Hauer, a German writer of Hindu and religious studies - “that Jesus' message contains something infinitely more profound and sublime than what we generally read and hear in the Christian West”. However, for this comprehension to materialize, man must overcome his analytical intellectuality and enter the new dimension of intuitive consciousness, of the perception of Truth – so that today's profane man could become tomorrow's, Christlike man.