The crucifixion of Jesus
The crucifixion of Jesus is the example of an initiation on the path of Christianity that all sons and daughters of God can go through. Jesus set the example for this initiation, and it was not his intention that he should be the only one to ever go through it. He made this clear when, as he carried his cross to Calvary, he said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children."
The question facing Jesus was not whether or not he would be crucified, but whether or not he would be publicly crucified. His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, his being seized in the early morning hours, his trial before Pilate and Herod, represent the accusation, the trial, the judgment, pronounced in every age against the son, the daughter of God who has the courage to exalt the Christ and become the fullness of Christ consciousness.
Antichrist
The crucifixion of Christ is for the judgment on all who take the position of Christ's authority and yet exercise it not as the Christ but as the Antichrist; and at the same time the crucifixion is for the revelation that Christ is everyone's True Self. And if the soul is to unite with that True Self, it must endure this hour of crucifixion.
Those who persecuted Jesus were the same ones he accused and to whom John the Baptist spoke with the great intensity of the fire of Almighty God, rebuking them and telling them to repent and be baptized. Their intention was to kill the Christ, not the man, for they recognized his power as the eternal Christ in him.
It is the Son of God in Jesus and in all of us who experiences the crucifixion, and our souls experience this in the hour when, through the path of initiation, we are truly one in that Christ. The soul of Jesus, the Son of Man, was one with that Christ; and therefore it was effectively the integrated personality in God who was crucified.
The nature of initiation
Part of the initiation of the crucifixion is carrying the momentum of planetary darkness. This is the darkness that Jesus had to bear and that surrounded the cross while totally cut off from His Presence, relying only on the memory of what it was like to feel His Presence and be with God.
There comes a time when we must all stand on our own light, that which we have called forth. That is all we have and that is all we have been given. We must keep that momentum going until the hour of the dark night of the Spirit and the crucifixion is over. And based on the light we have gathered, we see the unreality of death.
This initiation for many people, after their death, takes place in the ethereal temple at Luxor in Egypt. It is also given in one of the chambers of the Great Pyramid, which is used at the ethereal level for this test of laying down the body to see if man is attached to his body or if he knows that he is truly in God. Just believing is not enough. For in the hour of dark night all the momentums of the subconscious, which we call the electronic belt, rise up to challenge the light within man.
A false doctrine of sacrifice
Even though the LORD had made it known to Abraham that He did not demand the sacrifice of His only son, even though He had clearly said through His prophet Samuel, "To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hear is better than the fat of rams," the influence of this ancient custom prevailed even to the time of Jesus. And the misinterpretation of the teaching concerning the blood sacrifice of Jesus - which misconception he himself never taught - has been perpetuated to the present hour, a remnant of pagan rite long since refuted by the Word of the LORD.
God the Father did not demand the sacrifice of His son Christ Jesus, or of any other incarnation of the Christ, as an atonement for the sins of the world; nor is it possible, according to cosmic law, for the sacrifice of one human being to balance original sin or subsequent sins - the karma of the one or the many. But the sacrifice of one man of the lower self, resulting in the sublime reunion of the soul with the Christ, can set aside the return of individual and planetary karma for a prescribed period of grace, in which the grace of the Law gives humanity an extended opportunity to make the same sacrifice of human consciousness for the Divine.
The power of the spoken Word
Only the proper use of the power of the spoken Word, the Divine Logos, can atone for the sins of humanity. Only the Light of the Holy Spirit flowing through the Body of Christ (for which the Body and Blood are symbols) can transform the mortal into the immortal. Therefore, only the sacrifice of the misunderstood energies of the electronic belt through the ritual of transmutation can redeem the Christ Light in man. Truly, man sacrifices his Christ identity when he does not offer the sacred Word to the Almighty "in remembrance of me." Truly, he is unredeemed until he partakes of the sacred fire Eucharist and evokes through his being the consecrated essence of the Father-Mother God.
Commandments in the name of the Ascended Sons and Daughters of God are thus an acceptable sacrifice to the living God. They replace the supposed need for burnt offerings or animal or human sacrifices, which for centuries both before and since the Christian dispensation have been placed on the altar of the Most High in the mistaken belief that they are required as atonement for the sins of the race.