How will we recognize the Christ?
How shall we recognize him? How shall we be sure that the one we see
is indeed the Christ? There are many men in the world today who are
giving very sound instruction, very beautiful teachings, and some of
them are claimed to be the Christ by their followers. We know there
are, today, many people who claim to be the Christ or Maitreya; and we
know, too, that there is a prophecy which says that before the Christ
comes there will be many false Christs, false teachings about the
Christ, and that: "if someone points to a man and says, ‘that is the
Christ, lo, here! or lo, there!' do not believe him."
No one will point to the true Christ and say: "That is the Christ."
The recognition of the Christ is up to each one of us, individually.
The Christ is the Embodiment of the energy we call the Christ
Consciousness or Christ Principle, the energy of the Cosmic Christ. It
is released into the world for us by Maitreya, the Christ, and to the
degree that it manifests in us, we will recognize him.
He will show that our political and economic life has to make a
complete change of direction and become the spiritual activity which
essentially it is; that our educational systems, our science and
culture, should, again, take on a new, spiritual, connotation. He will
speak across the whole range of human activity, and it will be by the
breadth of his teaching, the universality of his viewpoint, that we
may recognize him; by his tremendous spiritual potency, his
extraordinary aura of purity, sanctity; by his obvious love and
capacity to serve; by all of these we may recognize him.
Many people will follow the Christ without recognizing him, without
even knowing he is in the world. But they will follow that man because
they believe in what he is saying, in what he stands for: sharing and
brotherhood, justice and freedom for all mankind. He will be the
spokesman for a certain type of group thinking along these lines. Not
the Preacher of old. He has said that many will be perhaps surprised
at his appearance. He comes, not as the Head of the Christian, or any
other church, for that matter. It may be that the orthodox Christian
leaders will be among the last to recognize the Christ. He is not the
one and only Son of God, but the friend and Elder Brother of Humanity.
The radio and television networks of the world will be linked up, and
he will make his appeal, his call, to mankind. By mentally
overshadowing all mankind simultaneously, he will come into telepathic
rapport with all humanity everywhere, and we shall hear his words
silently entering our minds, in our own language. We in the United
Kingdom shall hear him in English, the French in French, the Russians
in Russian, and so on. It is in this way that we shall know that he is
truly the Christ. Thus will be repeated, only now on a world scale,
what happened at Pentecost; and in celebration of this event,
Pentecost will become one of the major festivals of the new world
religion which the Christ will eventually inaugurate. Our response to
his call will determine the future of the world.
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