The Destination of Man
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Master John
Book: LOVE ONE ANOTHER
CHAPTER 15 - JOHN THE BAPTIST
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(...) Through the desert, his voice of thunder travelled to the Jordan, and from the river, a storm burst forth in the hearts of men to carve in indelible letters on their memory the Timeless Message of the Coming of the Logos. “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Was he a holy man, or perhaps something more? Yes! This eagle of the desert was the Man of God, he was the Angel of the Coming of the Logos, he who came “in the spirit and power of Elijah” to pave the way for Him. He was Elijah-John, the Forerunner of the incarnate Logos. The Baptist.
He baptised God himself. Could he have been just anyone? Clearly not. And yet it is not only that which proves the special nature of his Presence. Son of the aged priest Zacharias and of his barren wife Elisabeth, a relative of the Theotokos Mary, he was the child of Promise, that is, his Coming and his Name were announced in advance by the Archangel Gabriel to Zacharias, when he was ministering in the sanctuary.
He came before the Logos in order to receive Him. He was born before Him in order to open up the way ahead of Him. He came to represent Man in the Presence of the Logos, Man, who, evolved to the higher degrees of intellectual apprehension of the Truth, awaits the Coming of the Spirit and prepares His way by creating the preconditions for His coming.(...)
(...) A child of nature and the wilderness, he knew no woman besides His Mother. He was Perfect, and yet he could not represent God. In what was His Perfection lacking?
Here the intellect admits defeat. It is unable to explain, unable to accommodate, unable to conceive why John, His Life and Work are integral parts of the Divine Plan and only the Spirit of God possesses the Truth, which today It reveals and manifests both about John himself and about what John symbolises.
Thus John is the Key, he is the Man who comes together with the Logos, united with Him, to restore righteousness. “Thus it becomes us to fulfil all righteousness” (Matt. 3:15). (...)
(...) Many exegetes have explained about John that he would have spirit and power like those of Elijah, thus misinterpreting Gabriel’s announcement of His Coming: “He shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah” (Luke 1:17). (...)
(...) The message of the Archangel, then, does not state that John would resemble Elijah, but that he would bear the Spirit and Power of Elijah. For that reason may I be permitted to speak of Elijah-John when I speak of the Baptist.
Jesus, in speaking of John, said: “For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, which shall prepare your way before you” (Matt. 11:10). “And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come” (Matt. 11:14). (...)
(...) We consider it essential to rehabilitate the identity of John before going on to an analysis of the symbolism of his Presence at the time of the Coming of the Logos, because we believe absolutely that if Jesus Himself clearly revealed his identity, no one can oppose themselves to His Sayings.
John, therefore, whom even at that time his disciples called Master, is the supreme spirit of the human pyramid, and it is for that reason that he represented Man in the Presence of the Logos. He was the resultant of the positive, the Male part of Man, the half Spirit of the Wholeness Man, the Lord of Obedience, the First-Created.
Jesus Himself proves John’s place by His words and puts him First of all the spirits of men when he says of him: “Among those born of women, no one has arisen who is greater than John the Baptist” (Matt. 11:11). (...)
(...) It is natural that it should be asked: is it possible that Jesus put John above Himself in saying that no one greater than John had been born of women? We can reply to this by saying that, on the one hand, Jesus was born of a virgin and lily, and, on the other, that Jesus by this revelation demonstrated the sublimity and place of John among men, as well as the workings of the Law of the epanakyklisis of the spirit which John represented and symbolised by his presence in that era.
If, however, these facts are not sufficient for the most distrustful, the reply of Jesus to His disciples’ question about Elijah dispels any doubt, either as to the identity of Elijah-John or as to the epanakyklisis of the spirit of man. “Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished”, “... Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptist” (Matt. 17:12-13).
It is plainly obvious that by these words Jesus was revealing the identity of John, but also the existence and operation of the Law of the epanakyklisis of the spirit, which governs the evolution of man, and without the acceptance of which it is not possible to understand the existing lack of uniformity of evolutions and the existence of burdened spirits. (...)
(...) John, then, was Elijah, and it is from this position that we shall analyse the symbolism of the role which he played in the First Coming of Christ, so that the Course which the Spirit Elijah-John followed so as to appear as a Master at the Second Coming of the Logos should become consciousness in every disciple and follower of the Work of the Second Coming and in Man timelessly.
John is the supreme spirit of the human pyramid; he baptised Jesus Christ; he is the one who reached the highest point of the intellectual apprehension of the Truth, the state where man has a vision of Spiritual sovereignty and the mutation of his life from being material to being spiritual.
He is a Primary Spirit, and that is why his role in History was, on the one hand, to prepare men for the Coming of the Logos, and, on the other, to demonstrate the course which man must follow in order to receive the Divine Logos within him.
The whole of the Teaching of the Logos Christ at the First Coming, His Life and Work are carried over in the New Cosmic Period into Man. Thus John is also the inner state in each of us, the stage of repentance and of katharsis which necessarily and unavoidably each man goes through before the Logos appears within him. (...)
(...) Today the whole world applies the methods of John, and this shows many things. These methods are destined to fail, because they lack world-wide apprehension and the great Law which Christ established, and which in essence means: “Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you” (Matt. 7:12).
On the other hand, it shows that the whole of humanity today must be at a stage of repentance and katharsis, something which is visible to those who see the broad picture without limitations and dogmatism, beyond the narrow framework of their individual creed. (...)
(...) This is the Work of John at the Second Coming as Jesus foretold: “Elijah is coming first and will restore all things” (Matt. 17:11), thus foretelling a new appearance of Elijah, clearly at the Second Coming. (...)