Christ Consciousness
By Asger Lorentsen
The term Christ consciousness can be used in a very broad way to mean the transpersonal consciousness of love. In my own life and teaching I prefer to use the term more specifically connected to the vibrations and qualities of the Christ. The definition then will be: Christ consciousness is the capacity of redemptive love, which is based on identification with both spirit and matter. Let us investigate this definition and what it means to develop Christ consciousness.
Who is the Christ?
The Christ is both a being and a function or task in the divine organism of our planet. As a function the Christ is the heartchakra of our planet. It is a vibration of redemptive love, which has the organic function to give inner life to all hearts and souls inhabiting this planet. This consciousness prevails in the spiritual kingdom on the budhic level of love-wisdom, and it vibrates as love and life in all souls of human beings. It is like a specific tone of love, which colours all beings on this level, and which gives life to our heartcentres, when we are ready to let our hearts merge with the planetary heart chakra. Christ consciousness is thus our birthright. It is the crown of human evolution.
The Christ as a being is the being who has the task to be the focaliser for the heart chakra. On planet Earth the Lord Buddha was the Christ until 2000 years ago. Then this function was taken over by the being, which we know under names as the Christ, Krisna or Lord Maitreya. This being is known for his immense quality of redemptive love. He was to manifest the quality of redemption via the principle of divine selfsacrifice, which in Christianity is symbolised as crucifixion. In the New World Impulse he will demonstrate the quality of resurrection via the symbol of the living sun in the heart. Some time within the next 2000 years the close disciple of the Christ, whom we know as the Lord Kuthumi will be the new Christ on Earth, and the Lord Maitreya will take the role which the Lord Buddha has now. He will then be known as the merger of divine will and love and as the merger of the human and spiritual kingdoms, which again is an integrated part of transforming our planet into a sacred planet.
When we attune with the being called the Christ, Krishna and the Lord Maitreya we may approach via our thoughtforms of e.g. the suffering Christ on the cross. But a deeper atunement will unveil a being of immense love, which is like a whole universe of compassion. This compassion vibrates into every suffering heart, which renders its sorrow and loneliness to God. As you penetrate deeper into the Christ you may find that “he” also is like a glorious sun. In this quality “he” is experienced as flooded by the life of the Sun-spirit. When you get in touch with this quality of “his” being you may be surprised to experience an immense expansion in the whole of your being, as if a sacred fire is flooding you – not from outside, but from the very core of your own spirit via a fiery sun in your heart. By such an experience also the whole of your physical body is permeated by the expansive fire of love. You may also perceive from within the inner meaning of the wording “I am the resurrection and the life”.
On the level of the Solar Logos there also is a Christ. The Solar Christ is the focaliser of the heart of the sun, the heart chakra of the solar being. The Solar Christ is a wonderful being of immense love. This being is both masculine and feminine when compared to our terminology. If you get in touch with the vibration of the Solar Christ you may experience the same combination of the bleeding heart of compassion and the expanding love and life. But also you may find the quality of Life Itself flooding and expanding your being. You may find yourself partaking in the quality of God, which give nourishing life to all planets and souls of the solar system. And you may experience, how qualities of universal love, life and resurrection encompasses all beings within our Solar Logos.
On the level of the Solar Logos there also is a Christ. The Solar Christ is the focaliser of the heart of the sun, the heart chakra of the solar being. The Solar Christ is a wonderful being of immense love. This being is both masculine and feminine when compared to our terminology. If you get in touch with the vibration of the Solar Christ you may experience the same combination of the bleeding heart of compassion and the expanding love and life. But also you may find the quality of Life Itself flooding and expanding your being. You may find yourself partaking in the quality of God, which give nourishing life to all planets and souls of the solar system. And you may experience, how qualities of universal love, life and resurrection encompasses all beings within our Solar Logos.
On the level of the Sirius star system, which probably consists of a hundred stars, the heart of this divine logos can be called the Sirian Christ. An alignment with the vibration of this being may astonish you by other qualities. You may experience the Christ on this level as a being who involves wisdom and love as qualities of such transcendence that words like serenity, cosmic wisdom, freedom and all-compassing love are the closest you can come this being, who seems to balance the qualities of Buddha and Christ on a very high level of the spiral.
On our path of love we one day will get a little touch of the vibration of the next level in the Christ line. The Cosmic Christ is the heart centre of a Logos, which incorporates more than 20.000 stars. The vibration of the Cosmic Christ again has some similarity with the vibration of the Solar Christ, as if there is a special alignment between these two beings. The quality of Life Itself emanating from the Cosmic Christ can be experienced as so immense, that it activates not only our heart centres, but also the very spirit within every cell and atom of our physical bodies. Due to a special dispensation an attention is directed from this enormous cosmic being to our solar system and our planet in these centuries starting from the end of the 20th century. The vibration of the Cosmic Christ is thus a part of the New World Impulse and will stimulate the Christ Consciousness in the human kingdom throughout the Age of Aquarious.
What is the path to Christ Conscoiusness ?
The path to Christ consciousness is a path in which we develop qualities as compassion, individualism and identification. Compassion is on this path developed via the depth of heart suffering such as loneliness, sorrow and longing for redemption and love. The depth of individualisation is developed by many incarnations, in which we find that we are not part of the social groups in humanity and we are not either allowed to be naïve children of God. The purpose of individualisation is to become a bridge between the human and the spiritual kingdoms. As such a bridge we will be able both to identify with our fellow brothers and sisters on Earth and with the heart of God.
The path to Christ consciousness is the deeper path of the heart, which also is coloured by the capacity of individuality to take responsibility and to focus divine emanations and creative endeavours in a three-dimensional world. The fulfilment of this path is like the crown of human evolution, because on this path we train the ability to partake in the merging of the human and spiritual kingdoms, the integration of spirit and matter and the fusion of the whole planet with sacred fire. Compared to this the path of wisdom is a path leading to transcendence as a lofty balance from which we are able to transcend all suffering and darkness.
Initiation and Christ consciousness
The path to Christ consciousness in integrated in the path of initiation on this planet, but has a special flavour of inner pain, depth of heart, and fire of the soul. The crises of suffering is usually strongest at the phase leading up to the 1st initiation, which is the birth of Christ in the heart. Suffering of the heart may continue as a theme until the 2nd initiation, baptism by fire, but is slowly transformed into partaking in the redemptive love of God. This partaking is the dominant theme at the 3rd initiation, in which the initiate finds himself/herself flooded by the Christ as the lifegiving sun. At he 4th initiation on the path to Christ consciousness we experience the culmination of the path as a capacity to identify with both the human and the spiritual worlds. By this identification we become the living grail of life, in which the sacred fire gives life to all creation.