To know Christ, is to know all that can be known, from the past, the present and the future.
There is a certain legend linked to the Grail. While Lucifer was falling on earth from his planet Venus, Christ, his twin brother, embraced the whole cosmos, becoming one with the Logos, the Word that creates the World. Lucifer and Christ both sacrificed themselves, in a different way, though. Lucifer by staying behind and loosing his greatness in the Fall, and Christ sacrificed himself in uniting himself with the World in its primal beginnings.
Lucifer is the representative of the hierarchies that were commanded to cut themselves from the other hierarchies, in order to develop inner freedom. Thus lie and deception became possible, because some beings closed themselves from the sight and tutorship of other hierarchies. Luciferic beings are not evil, they only split themselves in order that freedom could become a reality, later, for us, humans.
Luciferic spirits became at war with the righteous hierarchies leaded by Michael, representative angel of Christ. Lucifer and its fallen allied hierarchies were stroke by the sword (S-Word) of Michael. Thus they fell lower, on earth. But Lucifer lost its most precious jewel (angel). Steiner calls it the Nathan angel. It descended on earth but did not follow Lucifer. Nathan angel became the angel of the Grail, preserving a small part of the ethers pure from any effects of the Fall (Lucifer's fall and later man's Fall). This body made of pure ethers, pure soul substance and pure physicality became the body in which Christ incarnated. Then a relic of the Ego of Christ (his 'blood' means his Ego) was kept secretly by guardians of the Grail. This relic stone of jaspis (jaspis exsillis) is the bearer of a part of the Ego of Christ. With it comes the power to redeem fallen ethers and evil in general, in Man (microcosm) and in the World (macrocosm).
Jesus is a complex multiple entity. Jesus is one of the gratest initiate ever and one of the oldest souls ever. He incarnated in Zarathoustra and later in Solomon. He is a boddhisattva, a very ancient soul that reincarnated and learned so much that he is on the verge to become a human angel. This Jesus died at the age of 12.
There is another Jesus, one that received the ego of Solomon. This other Jesus was called the Nathan Jesus. He is the incarnation of the angel of the grail I described above. He did never incarnate, never ever. Nathan Jesus was the half of Adam that stayed in the heavens and never incarnated while the other part underwent its first incarnation in Lemuria, in the Garden. So Nathan Jesus received the precious Ego of Zarathustra and thus he could teach to the jewish rabbis in the synagogue, revealing extraordinary knowledge. Before Nathan Jesus received the ego of Zarathoustra-Jesus, he was supported by Buddha (ex-boddhisattva himself).
One can check the lives of Buddha and Jesus-Christ in order to see clearly that they mach on several aspects. One may even think that the life of Jesus-Christ is simply a middle-east version of the life of Buddha. But still they are different: Gautama became Buddha and entered Nirvana, ultimate extinction or death of Self and died normally. Christ died, visited hell for three days and resurrected gloriously in a resurrection body. was it a body or was it only spirit? It was a spiritual body, the body of man perfectly spiritualized: this is the goal of all humanity, be it muslim, buddist, hindu, christian or scientist: spiritualize the body of man and the body of the earth. Christ is with us until the end of the world, in the earth. What we eat and drink is his body: because he united with the earth : first on the Golgotha his blood spiritualized the ether of the earth, then in the tomb, his body crumbling into dust fell in a crevass in the cavern during the solar eclipse and earthquakes.
Thus Jesus united with Christ in the baptism, but Christ was already within himself in potentiel: Jesus was the sum of the wisdom of Buddha, Zarathustra, and the pure grail angel.
There is also three Marys: Mary (Eve Nathan) mother of Jesus Nathan, Mary (Eve boddisattva) mother of Jesus-Zarathoustra and Mary-Magdalene. Both three Marys are Earth boddhisattvas, Earth angels, but still they are different and complementary, just like the different Jesus and John (the Baptist VS the Apostle, which is also the initiate - dead/resurrected - Lazarus). The three Marys are Hypostasis (personifications) of Isis-Sophia, the feminine Earth being (which Lucifer has slain and buried in outer space, in the Stars). They lived their own ‘Golgotha’ in uniting in Kaspar Hauser, a victimized child of the 1800's who grew up in a cage but learned fast later in his life with the help of "the last true rosicrucian' according to Steiner. Kaspar was killed on a second attempt of assassination. This feminine-souled male Kaspar Hauser would have been a great teacher, as great as Christ, but black lodges managed to keep him handicaped. Steiner had to take up Hauser's mission, which was inspired by the united spirit of the three Marys. They are aspects of Sophia, a lower aspect of the Holy Spirit (the Holy Spirit being the inspiration of the 12 boddhisattvas (including, Zarathoustra, Manes, Buddha, Scythianos, etc.). Sophia is the spiritual principle that is closer to man than Christ. Sophia is mythologically the mother of Michael and his sister Anthropo-Sophia (the inspiration of Steiner).
In Christianity, Christ is 'the masculine' and Humanity is 'His feminine lover, the Church' (not the temporal Church of outer religion but the 'spiritual Church', that is all humanity as long as it doesn't follow the Beast). In the Cantic of Cantics, it is the mystic's chant to God or, reversely, the song of Christ intended to his lover, the soul of Humanity as feminine. Sophia is lower than Christ, more accessible to us. This feminine icon should be a model for us, to repent and learn to follow Christ as our Brother(not Father), side by side with Him.
I believe Christ is more a masculine symbol, but in the ethers naturally, this feminity and masculinity is nothing like the sexual reproductive body male or female. Angels and above are all a-sexual.
It may sound like fanciful fantasy to elaborate on such mythologies, however I believe stories and Imagination are better tools to understand spiritual facts than conceptual thinking which deadens thinking. Imagination enlivens thinking.
Best,
Druid
