In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin
1.BOOK ◄ ► 2.BOOK
10. Son of God and Son of Man
A grave error exists and has been firmly established for centuries. It is the false assertion that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God and at the same time the Son of Man.
In Jesus of Nazareth a portion of the Godhead was incarnated to span a bridge over the cleft between God and man which man had made himself by over-cultivating his intellect and thus limiting himself within the boundaries of time and space.
Jesus of Nazareth was God's Son, a part of God who came to fulfil His mission among men, which He could only do in a body of flesh and blood. Still while He was thus incarnated, He remained the Son of God.
If He was the Son of God He could not be the Son of Man, for those are two different persons. He was and still is the Son of God. Who then is the Son of Man?*(Lecture No. 60: The Son of Man)
It even struck the disciples at the time that Jesus spoke in the third person when speaking of the Son of Man, and they questioned Him. The tradition that descended to us originated in the writings of men who themselves believed that the Son of God and the Son of Man were one and the same person.
On this hypothesis all their reports were based and thus error was disseminated without their knowing or wishing it.
When Jesus spoke of the Son of Man, He spoke prophetically of his Coming. He announced it Himself, for the Coming of the Son of Man was closely connected with the work of the Son of God. He said: “When the Son of Man cometh ..., etc.”
The process like everything else in the universe is cyclic. The Godhead descended to man through Jesus to bring the Truth and sow the seed. The seed sprang up and brought forth fruit for the time of harvest; and now, matured by the Truth that the Son of God brought, mankind will ascend to the Godhead, in the person of the Son of Man. This is not merely to be taken symbolically as many think, but the Word will be fulfilled literally in a person, as it was with Jesus. Between the two persons, the Son of God and the Son of Man lies the mighty and woeful Karma of Mankind.
Jesus went up to Jerusalem where representatives of many nations of the earth were assembled to keep the Passover, and the people sent out messengers to Gethsemane to fetch Jesus. At that time the people were filled with hatred. It was in an inhuman and barbarous spirit that they were sent to look for the Son of God.
And now, observe what happened when He stepped out of the garden, and they were standing before Him, armed with weapons and torches, burning with the desire to destroy Him.
When the Son of God said the words: “ I am He . . . .” and thus delivered Himself into the hands of man, the grim and frightful Karma, man had thus incurred, set in. From that moment it weighed on mankind and in obedience to the inexorable everlasting laws of the universe, it forced them downwards, lower and lower to the earth until now by the Coming of the Son of Man the second advent is at hand. — We are standing on the threshold!
When mankind, discouraged by grievous events, despairs and is broken in spirit and humbled in the dust, it will long for and seek the promised Comforter. And when men know where He is, they will, as before, send out messengers. But this time they will not have hatred in their hearts and come to destroy Him. They will then be the representatives of a humbled and crushed humanity. They will come full of confidence and praying for mercy to Him whom the Almighty has chosen to loosen them from their ban and bring them help and deliverance in their spiritual as well as bodily distress.
These messengers also will question, and as the Son of God in Gethsemane once uttered the words: “I am He”, whereupon man's Karma set in, so also this Divine Messenger will give answer in the same words: “ I am He! 1 The very words which laid a heavy burden of guilt on mankind, whose hearts were then filled with hate, will, when again uttered by an Envoy from God, free mankind from his Karma; for these messengers will come full of fear, and yet they will trustfully supplicate for mercy. The magnitude of this Karma is appalling, yet its every detail will be discharged with precision and all the prophecies will be fulfilled in it. And from the hour that these words are uttered for the second time by an Envoy from God, the ascent will begin. Then, in obedience to the Will of the Most High, the reign of Peace will commence, but not before.
On one side you see the messengers of man approaching the Son of God — they bind Him and maltreat Him, apparently triumphing over Him. Thereupon the gradual process of retrogression sets in, which men brought on themselves in obedience to the inevitable law of reciprocal action. On the other side, the seed sown by Jesus grew strong and matured.
And now the Son of Man is approaching, the Comforter, whom Jesus Himself proclaimed, an Envoy from God, who will, in the service of the Son of God, continue and complete His work and gather in the harvest. He will then, in conformity to Divine Justice, separate the wheat from the tares.
Jesus, the Son of God came among men for love's sake, to reconstruct the bridge they had broken down. The Son of Man is the Man in God. He comes as the connecting link in the chain, so that pure harmony can henceforward reign in all the universe.
