Course XXX - Teaching 11: Messianic Philosophy

A theistic philosopher asks: If I am son of God begotten by Him, why cannot I be God?
The human mind, after being dedicated to its beloved speculation, resists the final idea that man never shall be God but just like God.
Philosophy of Non-Being rejoices the soul with the grand and incomprehensible conception of the Absolute Union; but theistic philosophy traces a circle with this legend: not to pass.
Idolatrous philosophers compare perfect beings, propitiators and redeemers with God; but theists state that those are nothing more than demons, imitations of Gods; then human mind never can break the bonds of relativity or encompass the whole immensity and omnipotence of the Divine Mind.
Man never can become God and none can ever be like God. Man just shall enjoy outpours of God, outflows of the Divine Mind. Then the clever human mind, that does not admit its defeat, forges the idea of a redeemer.
The redeemer is God adapted to the human mind. This mind neither shall be like the Divine Mind nor shall become God, but it is God who shall limit his Divine Mind to become a relative and partial human mind: God shall become man.
Theistic philosophy, plainly taken, is dangerous and can tempt the human man to become like God; so, it seeks support by stating the concept of a humanized Divine Mind.
Hermes-Thoth and Osiris are images of the doctrine of the ancient Egypt.
Judaism could not survive long with the plain idea imposed by Moses, and during the exile in Babylon, by a need of extending the human thought, starts chanting and longing for the coming of a Messiah, of a Liberator, of a Divine Being incarnated on Earth.
Christians inherit this beautiful philosophy, for Christian religion is based on the concept of God Man. All human beings can be redeemed by Him; if they cannot be like God, like Gods, can become like God through Christ.
The great influence Neoplatonic on Christian philosophy during the early centuries of the Church was its greatest danger and brought about the Arrianism. If Christ is not the Father but just like the Father, then He is not God but like God. And then the transformation of the human mind into Divine Mind by a Mediator is not possible.
The Catholic idea states the indissoluble Unity between the three persons of the Most Holy Trinity, the co-substantiality of the Son with the Father and the unbreakable belief that man shall be united indissolubly with Christ by Redemption, and that also man shall be united by Him with God because Christ is the very God.
The mental vibration contained in the brain is relative, but foresees more and more; the human mind wants to be God.
The super-conscious concept is ever formed that mind some day shall possess the Idea as a whole.