The Christ...

What’s so important about the Christ that I discovered is that Jesus did not want to create a separate religion. Jesus did not believe that he was the unique son of God but was, rather, a very, very evolved mystic, who saw the possibilities for the total transformation of our world through an explosion of love consciousness. He was prepared not only to see it, like so many of our modern sages who talk about it, but actually to live it out in a most unnerving radical revolutionary challenging way. He challenged all the social lunacies of his and any other time, and was crucified for it—crucified by the religious and political establishment that his vision threatened.

The real vision of love in action is so radical, so extreme and so fierce because of what it reveals—that all relationships of power, whether sexual, emotional, physical or religious, deeply deform the essential relationship of each human being to God and each human being to every other human and sentient being.

Jesus recognized that the life of abandoned service and love and justice had to be lived on this earth, to transform this earth to what it is always meant to be—the living mirror of God’s love and God’s justice. This is a totally revolutionary vision.

It’s revolutionary because it brings together what has traditionally been kept apart—society and holiness, heaven and earth, politics and the highest, most intense love consciousness. It attempts to fuse all of these things into one overwhelming fire of transfiguration that is destined to transform the whole world and elevate the whole of humanity. It will do so by revealing to the entire humanity its own God nature, its own divine nature.........Andrew Harvey, author and teacher. His new book, Son of Man, presents a poetic and powerful re-assessment of the historical and symbolic Christ.