The pre-existent Christ existed from all eternity, within what we Christians call the Trinity. There is dynamism, a loving flow, a God who is movement itself, a God who is much more a verb than a noun. No static or anthropomorphic definition of God is ever complete or adequate. God is totally beyond us and totally within us at the same time, fully divine Spirit and yet “at home” in our material bodies (John 15:4, Romans 8:9). Only non-dual (“contemplative”) consciousness can allow both of those to be true at the same time. The rationalist will choose one side or the other—and lose out!
Christ Consciousness “reminds us” (John 14:26) that we have an inner organic animating principle, which Jesus will call the Holy Spirit. In John's gospel, Jesus says it is absolutely necessary that he must go, or this Spirit cannot come (John 16:7). In other words, if we totally idolize the outer image we never get to the inner image—and that is the point! Jesus leaves so we can internalize the whole process. Picture Christ not above history and sitting on a throne, as most Christian art and music deoicted, but within all things and unfolding all things from inside like a gracious ticking time bomb. If they had understood the Holy Spirit, Christians should have been the last ones to doubt or deny evolution.
I love the idea of Christ 'within all things and unfolding all things from inside like a gracious ticking time bomb'...
this Christ at the same 'within' and 'without'...present in the creation...working and shaping within our 21st Century culture (s)...
God open our eyes to see Christ at work and to join Him
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