Course IV - Teaching 13: The Strong Liberator

Cafh expects the next descent of the Divine Incarnation on earth.
The Strong Liberator, the Maitreya, the Glorious Christ, is the image of the expected Divine Being.
Many say the Divine Incarnation really does not incarnate in a man but animates only a form, or gives impulse to a chosen being. The nature of the God-Man is only divine; his humanity is only a reflection, an illusion. Others say the Divine Incarnation is a symbol, an image of the spirit descending to matter and the spirit ascending to its pristine state; it is a divine analogy indicating the birth of a spiritual force in the soul, which is the transcendent manifestation of God in a being, since the soul must get its own salvation alone.
Even others say that the Divine Incarnation is really and essentially incarnated in the Man-God and that his nature is human and divine.
Orientalists say the Divine Incarnation, who really is both human and divine, periodically comes to earth to save Mankind.
Christians say the Divine Incarnation, really human and divine, incarnates in the God-Man on earth to redeem Mankind, and that this divine act, being integral and satisfactory, cannot be repeated; it is unique. As to it, Cafh has its own view that shall be expounded here but that ultimately must be individually clarified by the Son as his inner purity and mental clarity grow in him.
A being has to achieve his inner liberation by his own efforts. But this human will loses any determining value dissociated from the common and unique end. The inherent destiny of soul perfection is his participation in the cosmic consciousness.
Then a being achieves by himself his own liberation because decidedly he contacts the cosmic liberation forces.
The liberation of a being is pre-established by a pure act of divine consciousness and achieved by the very being in him through a voluntary act of participation and effort. Then the participation of the Divine Incarnation becomes indispensable for the salvation of all beings and of the being.
Then this salvation is made not only individually or partially but also is collective for the human kind as whole, for all living predestined forces of earth and at the same time for every individual being alone.
This divine-human process for the sake of the total redemption of beings can be observed during the development of the Aryan race.
In the beginning of the race, Revelation and Tradition express only a contact of man with God through reverence and obeisance. God constantly rules over the world and man, and at a time man raises constantly his eyes toward the sky seeking protection from this God, but he only knows Him through great manifestations of nature.
As the cycles of life pass by, this idea becomes deeper in man but simultaneously establishes an insurmountable fence between God and Man.
Two entirely different things, an immanent God and a man created. Two parallels more and more distant from their starting point which no philosophical system, or speculative mental image is able to unite; it is an insurmountable separation.
The soul loses its unitive potential with God, and so remains inhibited for great flights in front of the void.
Only God can fill up this void. Only He can come close to man and attract man to Himself. This is a fact not only human but also racial and cosmic.
The Divine Incarnation is God Himself taking human form to fill this great void.
But for this divine descent to earth to be such it cannot be only an ideal fact, an irradiation, image or directive power but should be real, effective fact in flesh. Otherwise it could not fulfill its purpose.
The idea of the divine descent on earth is simultaneously perceived on the whole earth at the same time.
The Messianic Idea takes form and pervades everything at the same time.
On a historic distance, this can be proved almost by history.
The fact of a God made man is nowhere mentioned in the most ancient traditions, especially in Vedic or Hindu traditions.
The Revelation only establishes the relationships of man with the cosmic God.
The Messianic idea, manifested on the world before Christ, goes back some few centuries before his advent and appears simultaneously in all religions and peoples.
The idea of a necessary Messiah Redeemer takes form the mind of the world. Osiris, God protector of the dead, in Egypt becomes the Redeemer, killed, torn to pieces and again resurrected for the sake of men.
In India, Krishna, the Divine Redeemer, incarnates on earth, becomes like men, and takes part in their lives and evils to save them. In no Indian text Krishna is historically mentioned before the Messianic period of time.
Christ –even the roots of the names are alike– is the God Man that lives and dies to redeem Mankind. The Divine Incarnation of the Solar Initiate of the Fourth Category is a divine and human fact, ideal and material, cosmic and individual.
Then if the redeeming act is a real fact and a full divine act, then cannot be repeated: is unique. The Divine Incarnation periodically incarnates on earth, but the crucial act of redeeming a race can be consummated only once.
The Divine Incarnation incarnates among men and directly contacts them.
The Divine Incarnation returns in another stage and illuminates the minds of men. He returns again and his presence pervades all.
Men are ideally prepared to be redeemed by the influence of Divine Incarnations incarnated among them, but the effective carnal redemption is consummated only once.
By his human participation in sorrows of Mankind, Christ redeems men by his Passion entirely. Even in flesh. But the potential redemption by the Divine Incarnation of Christ has to be updated on every being. Every man has to transform himself into another Christ to make in himself the Divine Redemption effective.
What has been made and what comprised the whole consciousness of Mankind, must be repeated in itself by every soul by means of will and efforts.
The descent of the Divine Incarnation on earth during the next appearance has to achieve entirely this purpose.
The Strong Liberator has to break the door that separates the soul from the divinity so that it may get a divine transcendence.
And this Divine, real, initiatic coming is the coming expected by Cafh.