[UA] Jesus Christ, SuperAvatar!

[Corey Liss]

>From: James Palmer <jrp36 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>
>At a minimum, Christ could be any one of the following archetypes -
>
>The (Holy) Fool
>The Martyr
>The True King
>The Sacrifice
>The Prophet
>The Judge
>The Magician 
>The Hermaphrodite ("There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male
>nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." & some of the odder bits
>of the Gospel of Thomas)
>The Rebel
>
>Perhaps in a UA Christocentric theology, he would be a living incarnation
>of the Godhead, silmultaneously manifesting all and none of the
>Archetypes that mankind will create.  Of course, this means that somewhere
>in the Hidden/Lost/Dark/Satanic Gospels his role as War, Executioner, and
>so on is recorded - or perhaps there's an Antichrist who manifests the
>darker Archetypes.

Hmmm.  This actually plays well into the idea that the "end of the
world" which happens when the IC is filled is symbolic/metaphoric,
rather than real...  Jesus, then, is actually the Comte; the
crucifixion is the point when he ascends to the IC and completes the
Godhead, and the resurrection is when he returns, the IC emptied, and
starts the cycle anew.  His decision to do it this way, depending on
how you want to handle it, was either dictated by the way the previous
IC had been filled (thus requiring him to sacrifice himself in order
to complete it properly), or else was his way of putting a particular
spin on it -- or maybe it's just the way it has to be done: In order
for the First and Last Man to ascend, he has to be symbolically
sacrificed.  (If the latter, then the cycle previous to that may have
ended with Osiris; you could probably make a case that the next one
ended with Charles II, or Louis XVI, or Lincoln, or, um, the last
emperor of China; I forget his name...)

Just a random thought...


-Corey



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