Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

JESUS AS SON OF MAN

A symbol of the Higher Self as born or evolved in the mind (man). It signifies the indwelling Christ seated in the causal-body, but in all degrees imperfectly manifest in the soul until redemption is accomplished.

“Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; and God shall glorify him in himself, and straightway shall he glorify him.". - JOHN xiii. 31, 32.

As the end of the cycle draws nigh, so the Christ-soul becomes perfected through the Christ being fulfilled in him. And the Supreme Self shall thereby be fully manifest to Himself, and his purpose completed in the return of the victorious Soul to the Absolute.

"Eckhart and Tauler, Ruysbrock and Suso, exclaim,- Arise O man! Realise the end of thy being: make room for God within thy soul, that he may bring forth his son within thee." - VAUGHAN, Mystics, Vol. I. p. 300.

"Whatever is God to a man, that is his heart and soul; and conversely, God is the manifested inward nature, the expressed Self of a man,-religion, the solemn unveiling of man's hidden treasures." - FEUERBACH, Essence of Christianity, p. 12.

God "brings forth his Son within the soul" on the mental plane (Son of man), and thereby manifests Himself in man's inward nature.

"The spirit of man, the changeless reality hidden within both body and soul, is eternal and uncreate-an out-breathing, as it were, of the very being of God himself." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Our Eternal Glory.

"God sending forth his Son, who should be conceived in the human mind by the moving of the Eternal Power, is willing his own manifestation, or the manifestation of Himself in the human properties." - JOHN WARD, Zion's Works, Vol. III. p. 278.

"I do honestly feel that Jesus of Nazareth stands nearer to me in intimate reality than anyone else I know. He is more than Saviour or Friend. The only adequate confession I can make is that he is my All; all I have and all I want. If he is a myth, then I prefer myth to what is called history; if he is not recoverable by criticism of the gospels, then I must know him by some other way; if this is hallucination, then all other mental phenomena are far worse-they must be absolute delusion." - W. E. ORCHARD, Christ. Com., Sept. 11, 1912.

As the symbol "man" signifies mind in all scriptures, and it is in the mind that "Jesus," historical or spiritual, appears to the lower consciousness, it is plain that Jesus is born into the mind, that is, Jesus is Son of man (mind). It must also be remembered that in evolution of qualities, the “ son is always greater than the "father."

"That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven. - 1 Cor. xv. 46, 47.

See Also

AMENI
ASCENSION OF JESUS
BIRTH OF JESUS
BREATH (divine)
CHILD
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING
DEMIURGE
EVOLUTION
FATHER (lower)
GLORIFYING
INCARNATION
ISVARA
MAN
SON OF MAN
VIRGIN MARY