[UA] Jesus Christ, SuperAvatar!

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:17:12 +0000 (GMT)
> 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

Also:

The Demogogue
The Pilgrim
The Hanged Man
The Good Shepherd

I like the last because it gives a kickass
HoR-transmogrification to The Preying (Praying?) Wolf.

> 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.

I like it, except, I'd use the concept as a sort of a "focal
point" for the current IC. What would his relationship be with
the Comte, I wonder?

Also, James, have you read the Gospel of the Childhood of Jesus?
Lotsa fun: As a kid, JC keeps smiting other kids dead; enough so
that the Holy Family (Joe, Mary, JC, and the sibs) have to keep
on the move.

Oh, and somebody uses Jesus' swaddling clothes to kill a dragon.

Fun.



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