The humanity we know nowadays is far from being “made in the image and likeness of God”, to which Genesis refers. No one can see in man, the so-called crown of creation - in this mammal, omnivore, biped, slightly intellectualized, whose intelligence has made him the most dangerous of the beasts that inhabit our planet. The intellectualization of instinct made man a monster of greed and aggression, whose claws and teeth were perfected in the form of weapons of mass destruction. His intellect made him a disgusting caricature of unseemly sexuality and a hell of physical and mental illnesses that no other creature knows.
However, we have to recognize that from time to time some man appears which remembers the reflection of Divinity - but these men represent the infinitesimal part of the vast majority of humans who are still crawling along the barren plains of mediocrity.
Should we then admit that the Cosmic Powers failed when they said: “Let us make man in our image and likeness?” Shall we suppose that the astute serpent has defeated these Powers? The serpent that even frustrated the work of the avatars who seemed to have come to reintegrate mankind into its great destiny?
If we cannot see in man the crown of creation, and if, on the other hand, we cannot admit a failure of Divinity and of the avatars, we have only to resort to a third alternative:
“God created man as little as possible, so that man can create himself as much as possible.”
These brilliant words of a modern thinker mean that the Cosmic Powers, to which the Genesis refers, did not have at the begin the intention of placing on earth a divinely perfect creature, but they launched a kind of human seed endowed with unprecedented creativity which, through future millennia, could develop into a creature different from and superior to all existing creatures.
Every time Genesis narrates the end of one of the six periods of creation, it says: “And the Cosmic Powers saw that it was good.” But on the last period, which refers to man, it says: “And the Cosmic Powers saw that it was very good.”
Good is the world of created creatures, very good is the world of the creative creature. Very good is the man, though he may be very evil - this is the Cosmic Powers' paradoxical wisdom. Great is an artificer who could build a machine of high precision - genius would be an artificer who could inspire the raw material the possibility of producing by intrinsic impulse, a machine of high perfection.
In creating man, the Cosmic Powers endowed him with a portion of the creative genius of the Divinity itself, so that, by the virtue of this creativity, he could do better.
In this indirect creation, the Creator revealed itself greater than in all its direct creations. All creations were good - very good, though, is the creation of man.
But if the man has the intrinsic possibility of doing better, he also can do worse. If there were no two opposing alternatives, there would be no free will.
A single self-realized creature reverts in greater glory to the Creator than millions of externally realized creatures.
So, the plan of the Cosmic Powers was not thwarted by an adverse power. This adverse power was necessary for man to make himself greater. The apparent adverse character of the serpent was, in reality, a complementary factor to energize the creative potentiality of the embryonic man. The apparent antidromy of the Cosmic Powers, which use the darkness to enhance the light and share with a man their creativity, reveals the greatest creative genius, which has transferred power to the human creature, one part of its divine creativity. 1
Paul of Tarsus seems to have glimpsed this truth when he wrote: “Where sin abounded, grace super abounded.” And the paschal hymn of Exultation extols “happy guilt” and “necessary sin” that culminated in “such a glorious redeemer.” And Jesus himself warned: “By Moses, the law was given, but through me came truth and grace.” The law is the imperfection of the Adamic ego; truth and grace are the perfections of the Christlike Self.
Exoteric interpreters cannot comprehend the esoteric genius of the Creator; their one-sided view erroneously interprets the multidimensional, transcendental view of the Cosmic Powers, who knows how to write right by crooked lines. Man, of myopic vision, sees only the crooked lines of mankind and does not see the right level of the cosmoramic view of the Divinity. 2
Evolution, especially that of man, goes with minimal steps into maximum spaces, and Cosmic Laws are essentially elitist, not of the masses. They are not interested in perpetuating quantitative masses but aim only at the achievement of a qualitative elite. Quantitative masses converge to a qualitative elite; the horizontality culminates in a verticality. Cosmic Laws are not meant to “save” humanity but “to realize” man. The whole tendency of the Universe is ascensional evolutionary, and hierarchical.
All sacred books, from Genesis to Revelation are esoteric, which cannot be comprehended by the profane exoteric, but only by the initiate esoteric.
The more man concentrates on the Uni (the One, the Creator) of the intuitive implosion, the more he comprehends the verse (its creatures) of the analytical explosion of the Universe - whether from the sidereal macrocosm, or the hominal microcosm.
The new Christlike humanity, after expelling itself from the dross of the old Adamic humanity, through millennia of lights and darkness, ups and downs, truths and errors, will return to its original habitat, to the most beautiful of the planets of our solar system wrapped in the dazzling blue of the atmosphere.
And only then, after having “new heaven”, there will also be a “new earth”.
No one can imagine what will become of a block of formless marble, while some Michelangelo roughs it with violent hammering; only the sculptor itself knows the future image - some Moses, the Pietà - because that image already exists in the artist's mind before it emerges from the gross matter.
In today's humanity, there is the image and likeness of God, not dynamically, but potentially. Many hammerings are necessary until the integral man appears in all his glory.
Socrates, the brilliant philosopher who never wrote philosophy, was also an accomplished sculptor. He was once commissioned by the prefecture of Athens to carve a nymph out of a block of white marble. And when the beautiful entity emerged from the formless block, everyone congratulated Socrates on his work. The philosopher, however, refused the compliments because he said that it was not he who carved that nymph; it was hidden inside in the block of marble; he only removed what prevented its sight from the eyes of the public. Socrates already saw the nymph intuitively before it was visible to the eyes.
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1)- The antidromy designates an entity of high evolution that has decided to descend from its height to regions of inferior spiritual vibration; the descent of a very evolved deity or spirit (Avatar) and the consequent concrete incarnation on Earth in human form. Jesus was one of the greatest avatars incarnated among men.
2)- Exoteric – capable of being understood, by most people, not just an informed or selected minority. Esoteric – restricted to the initiate, intended for or comprehended by only an initiated few.
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