Course XLVII - Teaching 32: About the Mystery of the Divine Incarnation (April 13th, 1957)

We are men and we get used to separation: so we speak of certain ages and dates for the Incarnation of the Savior of Humanity, as if every Initiate that comes is different from other. In fact, the Divine Word, the Divine Incarnation is only one, and the act of Redemption is carried out uninterruptedly upon the Humanity.
The Divine Word is ever present, does not goes down on Earth intermittently, and the Humanity is not redeemed for certain periods of time or many times (when a Solar Initiate incarnates), but Redemption is also unique and continuous.
The Blood of Christ is poured totally once, not partially. If the Divine Incarnation is unique, such as the Redemption is unique, sometimes, when the human evolution demands it, this Incarnation becomes more palpable and manifested through different expressions.
In fact, we do not know how many diverse expressions of the Incarnate Divinity on Earth really shall exist! But we shall take three of them: Rama, the Buddha and Christ.
Before Rama, man lived as a prisoner of his instincts, and bestialized. Rama teaches him how to control his instincts and to be divine man. Rama gave him strength, power to overcome the beast. He made man see the power that the latter possessed: thought. Rama taught him how to think (this is strength).
When man knew that he was able to think, he saw his instincts and passions. Instincts and passions were in him, but now he was able to see them.
Then the Buddha incarnated; through softness, beauty, harmony and extraordinary sweetness, he teaches man how to control thought, mind and passions through the will power (the Buddha is will). But man had to control not only his thought, but also the power of his heart: his feeling.
As the Divine Incarnation took a new human form became very similar to Humanity in order to live their own sorrow within. So the Christ appears.
Christ teaches to men the power of the heart, the power of love. Through his own holocaust, Christ teaches men how Redemption can be individually realized.
Now it is up to us to be little Christs, victims of holocaust, propitiatory Hosts on the Mother’s altar.
You do not achieve the individual Redemption by means of action, or by means of virtue or fancy, but through renunciation that is a holocaust.
“I believe that Maitreya, the new expression of the Divine Incarnation shall teach this: the form and way to become ourselves little Christs, little holocausts, little Hosts.”
It is so because we have nothing and are nothing, and because our only support is Renunciation, we are the forerunners of Maitreya.
We should totally empty our heart of any human blood, we should be nothing, and God shall live in us. We want to live the Humanity’s pains, and to take the pain of those that desire and suffer, because we are empty of all: because I neither possess one virtue, nor one gram of sanctity; I have nothing, absolutely nothing; and I deprived of all.
Stand up, my Sons and Daughters! Wearing quite tight your robes, barefooted, with your cane, eating in a hurry the Humanity’s pain –the Passover Lamb–, to go out and find the coming Master. He is coming and none goes toward Him, but you do: We are ready, Lord; we have lost all; we have nothing. This should be our Passover now and always. This is the sweet offering, our sweet offering, our painful offering preparing the new Passover expected by us.