INCLUDING COSMOLOGICAL NOTES ON CHRIST AND LOGOS
Theosophy’s view of Jesus is different from both Christian orthodoxy and modern New Age reinterpretations. Theosophy repositions Jesus as human, allowing reconciliation with Judaism, pre‑Christian mystery schools, ancient Greek and Indian philosophy rejecting the exclusivism and uniqueness of the Christian doctrine. It is demonstrated, that within the history of adepts, Jesus is not an anomaly. Christianity’s dogmatic structure doesn’t simply invite belief in Jesus as the Christ and Son of God but requires it, and the theosophical positions challenge this dogmatic structure and its terminology. The exclusivist truth-claims of Christian theology contradict the record, existence and learning of other adepts and world-teachers and cannot achieve true reconciliation and restore Christos and Logos to metaphysics nor restore Jewish philosophy to dignity. From the earliest creeds, it has been professed that Jesus is the unique incarnation of the Logos and salvation comes only through him, reinforced by the Gospel of John, the Nicene Creed, and the Church Fathers. The Gospel Jesus reflects Pythagorean, Buddhist, Egyptian and Essenian, Stoic-Platonic and Jewish Merkabah and prophetic mysticism and ethics. This is undeniable. Christianity asserts, that there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, and though the Catechism of the Catholics now would say that there are seeds of Grace and Truth in other religions, well the “esoteric Catechism” goes much further in restoring our understanding and the original universality of the LOGOS.
“I write in every letter that a divine Christ (or Christos) has never existed under a human form outside the imagination of blasphemers who have carnalized a universal and entirely impersonal principle.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Reply to the Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my Observations on Christian Esotericism)
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