from The Esoteric Basis of Christianity, by Wm. Kingsland. A Paper read before the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society, Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1891:
from The Esoteric Basis of Christianity, by Wm. Kingsland.
A Paper read before the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society,
Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1891:
"The divinity of Christ is as certain as the humanity
of Adam. The one completes the other. If Christ was not divine,
then is humanity not divine; and there is no salvation possible
for it. If humanity is not divine, there could have been no Christ,
and all men's spiritual aspirations are empty dreams.
The doctrine of the divine incarnation was taught in all the Ancient
Mysteries. We have the story, incident by incident, almost word
for word as in the Gospels, in many other so-called heathen systems.
In the Egyptian, as Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, we have
the same typical Messiah in connection with a solar or astronomical
glyph. So also with Krishna, the son of Vishnu and Lakshmi, we
have so near an approach to the Gospel narrative, that it has
been the greatest puzzle, and has led to the most flagrant literary
dishonesty, to endeavor to account for the narratives, without
deriving one from the other. But all these difficulties vanish
the moment we understand the real nature of the divine incarnation,
and its connection with natural evolution and universal laws."
p. 26
"...Just as in the Old Testament we have the historical Jewish
race, into whose history in cunningly woven the thread of the
mystical allegory of man's evolution, so in the New Testament
we have the historical Jesus, into whose life and teachings is
woven the mystical truths of the nature of the divine man. There
cannot be a historical Christ any more than an historical Adam;
for every man is Adam, and every man will become Christos, or
'anointed.' But we have an actual historical Jesus, and everyone
is at liberty to believe what he likes as to that historical character
being already Christos, the perfect man, or Initiate..."
p. 25
"...The personal attachment to the life and character of
Jesus of Nazareth may still remain in all degrees and forms. It
even becomes greater and stronger when we understand the true
nature of his divinity, and the true nature of his humanity. Jesus
Christ is both human and divine, because we are such.
Understand this matter well -- Jesus is the personal historical
character, Christ is the type, which has been grafted upon and
associated with that character. Christ, the 'second Adam', could
no more be historical than the 'first Adam'; and those who have
accepted the mythical and allegorical character of the one, have
no choice but to do so for the other. Both are types of humanity..."
p. 35
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