Thirty-three years after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Christ was born in Jerusalem, not in a stable, but in the souls of 120 of his disciples. This metaphysical birth of the Christ took place 53 days after the physical death of Jesus, ten days after the ascension, on a Sunday morning, probably on the 30th of May in the year 33.
On that day, something mysterious, inexplicable, happened: 120 people, men and women, surpassed the abysses of their human ego and reached the heights of their divine Self, where the first self-initiation took place.
The glorious date of self-knowledge and self-realization.
Luke, scholar, physician and disciple, found this event so important that he recorded the exact date and time: at 9 am, on a Sunday, in the upper room in Jerusalem.
And this outbreak of the Christ within only occurred after the 120 disciples of Jesus had gone through 9 days of complete silence and deep meditation.
Currently, many people on the five continents comprehend that this event marks the dawn of true Christianity, or rather, of the Christlike experience on the face of the Earth. And, as this outbreak of Christ took place after nine days of silence and meditation, the Christlike elite of the world make periods of silence and meditation, thus preparing the birth of Christ in their soul.
At the Last Supper, Thursday night, in the same upper room, Jesus had symbolized in a brilliant parable this communion of Christ with the human soul. “It is expedient for you,” he said to his disciples, “that I go away, for unless I go away, the spirit of truth will not come to you.”
And, to dramatize the death of his human Jesus and the birth of his divine Christ, he offered his disciples bread and wine, making them see that no one can assimilate the soul of these foods without first ingesting its material body. It is well known that no one can integrate bread and wine, or any other food, into his vitality without first disintegrating it through chewing and digestion. What is assimilated is not the body, the material component of food, but its soul, its invisible energy, which science calls “calorie”.
For the invisible Christ to be integrated by his disciples, it was necessary for the visible Jesus first to be disintegrated by death. In the same way, no man can integrate his divine Self without first disintegrating his human ego: “If the grain of wheat does not die, it will be barren; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.”
At the Last Supper, the symbolic grain of wheat of the human ego did not die in any of his disciples, and therefore they could not bear fruit. Jesus had given to them material symbols, which did not make them bear spiritual fruit; so much so that, after ingesting the symbols, one of them committed the crime of treason, and shortly afterwards committed suicide; another denied him three times and swore that he was not his disciple; and all but one fled cowardly, abandoning the Master.
Eucharistic communion did not transform any of the disciples into spiritual beings because they only shared the material symbols of bread and wine, which do not sanctify anyone. And Jesus did not find it strange that they continued to be the same sinners they had always been. The bread and wine did not spiritualize them.
But when they shared the spiritual symbol, the Christ spirit, weeks later, everything changed. Goodbye selfishness! Goodbye, greed! Goodbye ambition! Farewell, all fear of suffering and death!...
The 120 in communion with Christ were persecuted, martyred and killed, but none of them betrayed or denied the Master; they all rejoiced when they were found worthy to suffer martyrdom and death for Christ.
If for more than 20 centuries Christians have celebrated the material symbols of the Eucharistic Jesus – the time has come to celebrate the spiritual symbolism of the charismatic Christ, communing with him in spirit and truth.
If the Eucharistic Jesus were not the privilege and monopoly of a dominant religious class, the charismatic Christ would have already hatched in the Christian world because this is not the monopoly of any class. A small Christlike elite is on the verge of celebrating a new Pentecost, opening their eyes to the Christ who said, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age”.
And these disciples of Christ and candidates for communion in spirit and truth know that “when the disciple is ready, the Master appears.” And they prepare themselves for the birth of Christ in silence and meditation, like those 120 of the first century.
“The words that I speak to you are spirit and life – the flesh is worth nothing… I am the living bread that came down from heaven… I am the resurrection, and the life – whoever believes in me will not die, and, though it died, it will live forever.”
When the human ego descends to the nadir of its voluntary emptying, the divine Self will ascend to the zenith of its Christ-plenitude. This principle is the true advent of Christ in spirit and truth.
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