WHAT IS CHRIST?

This question was asked almost 2000 years ago by Jesus to the heads of the Synagogue of Israel, to which they replied: “that Christ was the son of David, that is, a descendant of the king of Israel, father of Solomon”.

Jesus does not accept the answer because Christ is not the son of David.

This confusion between Christ and Jesus is, therefore, very old and continues to this day.

Who is the Christ, the Anointed One, whom the ancient Hebrews called the Messiah, the Sent?

The fourth Gospel designates Christ with the word Logos, where the text begins with these words:

“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.”

The Greek word Logos predates the Christian Era. The philosophers of Alexandria and Athens, above all, Heraclitus of Ephesus, designated as Logos the spirit of God, manifested in the Universe. Therefore, Logos would be the immanent God, in opposition to the transcendent Divinity, which is not the object of human knowledge.

The Vulgate (from the Latin editio vulgata: “common version”), is the Latin Bible used by the Roman Catholic Church, primarily translated by St. Jerome), translates Logos as Word: “In the beginning was the Word...”.

Logos, Word, Christ, are identical and designate the action of the Creator Deity, the individual manifestation of the Universal Divinity.

In this sense, Christ is God, but it is not the Godhead. And so, the Christ Jesus refers to men: “You are gods”, that is, men are individual manifestations of the Universal Divinity. In the Universe, the first and most perfect manifestation of the Universal Divinity is the Christ, the Word, the Logos, that Paul of Tarsus correctly calls “the firstborn of all the creatures”.

Christ is prior to the creation of the material world. Still, it is not a human creature but the most ancient cosmic individuality, which emanated from the Universal Divinity before the beginning of the world.

The Christ is God, but it is not the Divinity, which Jesus designates with the name Father: “The Father and I are one, but the Father is greater than I.”

God, in the language of Jesus, means an individual emanation of the Universal Divinity.

The traditional confusion between God and the Godhead has given rise to endless controversies among theologians. However, the text of the Gospel is clear: The Christ claimed to be God, but he never claimed to be the Godhead himself.

The Genesis of Moses begins with the words: “In the beginning, the Elohim created heaven and Earth.”

John's fourth Gospel opens with similar words: “In the beginning was the Logos... and by it, all things were made.”

It seems, then, that the Creative Powers (in Hebrew Elohim) are identical with the Logos, by which all things were created.

Elohim, Logos, Word, Christ - are several names that designate the cosmic creature that, before the material world, emanated from the transcendental Divinity.

Eastern philosophy calls the Universal Deity Brahman and gives the name Brahma to the oldest individuation of the Deity.

Brahma would be equal to God, Christ, Logos, Word.

There is not a single creature definitively realized and unable of later realization. All creatures, even Brahma, or Christ, are highly realized creatures but always realizable; they are, as it were, unfinished symphonies. Every creature, even the most perfect cosmic creature, is subject to future evolution. Eternal life is not an arrival, a stop, a final goal - it is an incessant journey or evolution towards the Infinite, never coinciding with it. All finite, say mathematics, in demand of the Infinite, is always at an infinite distance.

Panta rhei, everything flows, said the ancient philosophers; everything is relative, wrote Einstein in the twentieth century.

The Divinity, the Infinite, the Absolute, is not an object of human knowledge. Everything known refers to the Relative, to the Fluid, to what is in constant evolution.

The sacred books narrate that Christ, the most ancient cosmic creature, became incarnate in the human person of Jesus.

Since this descent of the cosmic Christ to the spheres of planet Earth is an incomprehensible phenomenon, men have made countless conjectures about the reason for this incarnation of Christ. And he, in the person of Jesus, never clearly stated the purpose of his coming as a human.