Holy Spirit/ Decent of the Christ

When Jesus was baptize the Holy Spirit decided to him, if we take away from what the Gospels say of him and his birth we know of him as a mere man, If he was Christ Jesus from birth what was the point of this event? If just a man, was the Holy Spirit the Christ becoming one with him? Was it the Unknown Father using him through the Christ to awaken us and lead us back home? When I talk of this Christ descending was it a awaking of man Jesus, him remembering were he came from? Was it a psychological awaking, something that we all can experience?

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

27 Then saith He to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.

John 20:24-28

When I read this I see a man who wants truth more than faith, how easy it is to have faith, but to know truth is what God wants from us. That is why Christ came to us, to know truth to know the Father of Light.

Eucharist

ARTICLE 3 - THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
1322 The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.

1323 "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'"

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Transfiguration of Christ

Today we celebrated the Transfiguration of Christ. When Christ went to Mount Tabor, we are reminded of who he was, not just a man but the bearer of a gift from the father of light. That gift was knowledge or Gnosis, to know what we have in us and were we came from. In the intercessions for today of the Liturgy of the Hours we read “O God, you have scattered the darkness with your light and have poured your light into our hearts so that we might look upon the radiant face of Jesus Christ". There is God opening our hearts and minds to Gnosis to know him. Just a few ideas running in my head before bed.

My Christ

Let me start this blog with a poem:

The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision’s greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
Socrates taught what Meletus
Loath’d as a nation’s bitterest curse,
And Caiaphas was in his own mind
A benefactor to mankind.
Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read’st black where I read white.

- William Blake “The Everlasting Gospel



Christ is many things to many people this blog is my thoughts on who and what Christ is to me. As a Gnostic I see Christ as many things, but first of all he is to me a liberator of the mind and soul from the world as we know it.