“It is a most suggestive fact that there is not a word in the so-called sacred Scriptures to show that Jesus was actually regarded as a God by his disciples. Neither before nor after his death did they pay him divine honors. Their relation to him was only that of disciples and “master”; by which name they addressed him, as the followers of Pythagoras and Plato addressed their respective masters before them. Whatever words may have been put into the mouths of Jesus, Peter, John, Paul, and others, there is not a single act of adoration recorded on their part, nor did Jesus himself ever declare his identity with his Father. He accused the Pharisees of stoning their prophets, not of deicide. He termed himself the son of God, but took care to assert repeatedly that they were all the children of God, who was the Heavenly Father of all. In preaching this, he but repeated a doctrine taught ages earlier by Hermes, Plato, and other philosophers.
Strange contradiction! Jesus, whom we are asked to worship as the one living God, is found, immediately after his Resurrection, saying to Mary Magdalene: “I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God!” (John 20:17).
Does this look like identifying himself with his Father? “My Father and your Father, my God and your God”, implies on his part, a desire to be considered on a perfect equality with his brethren – nothing more. Theodoret writes: “The heretics agree with us respecting the beginnings of all things. …But they say there is not one Christ, (God), but one above, and the other below. And this last formerly dwelt in many; but the Jesus, they at one time say is from God, at another they call him a SPIRIT.” This spirit is the Christos, the messenger of life, who is sometimes called the Angel Gabriel, (in Hebrew, the mighty one of God), and who took with the Gnostics the place of the Logos, while the Holy Spirit was considered Life.
With the sect of the Nazarenes, though, the Spiritus, or Holy Ghost, had less honor. While nearly every Gnostic sect considered it a Female Power, whether they called it Binah, hnyb, Sophia, the Divine Intellect, with the Nazarene sect it was the Female Spiritus, the astral light, the genetrix of all things of matter, the chaos in its evil aspect, made turbido by the Demiurge. At the creation of man, “it was light on the side of the FATHER, and it was light, (material light), on the side of the MOTHER. And this is the ‘two-fold man'”, says the Sohar. “That day, (the last one), will perish the seven badly-disposed stellars, also the sons of man, who have confessed the Spiritus, the Messias, (false), the Deus, and the MOTHER of the SPIRITUS shall perish.””
H. P. Blavatsky
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