PART 2: 
It is very natural in man's youth that he would become greatly involved with the 
forces that were most evident to him, the forces that were making it possible 
for him to enter into matter. We all know that if a diver going under the water 
places too much weight upon himself, he may have a very hard time getting back. 
Water being what it is and people being what they are, that can be fatal. It is 
equally true for spiritual consciousness. If a being becomes too highly involved 
with materialistic forces, the forces that pull into dense form, he does not 
die; it is not fatal to him but it transforms him.
There is a wonderful illustration of this in The Lord of the Rings for those of 
you who have read it, in the Ents. The Ents were living beings who looked like 
trees but they were not trees, they were the shepherds of trees. They tended 
trees. It just so happened that being closely akin to a tree, they happened to 
look like a true. But an Ent was a different entity, if you will excuse the pun. 
There were some Ents that became so attached to their trees that they became 
treeish, to use Tolkien's phrase, and they would go to sleep and after centuries 
passed – the Ents lived a very long time - they would become trees. You could 
not distinguish an Ent from a tree. 

Well, in a way this is exactly what happens to a being who becomes too involved 
with the materialistic forces. He literally becomes transformed from a spiritual 
entity into one of matter. The energy that composes him becomes part of the 
realm of matter. He loses all spiritual identity, but he does not cease to 
exist. He has simply been transformed, which is a very disastrous thing to a 
happen to a being who is evolving, because it represents the complete loss of 
everything that he has developed up to that point, and a return to raw material, 
as it were. It does not happen very often. 

In the early days of man's development it was seen that this was a pattern and 
that it could potentially threaten mankind, especially because the Earth itself 
is an evolving being, and has to progress according to its own level of 
evolution. It has needs and it has certain sequences of time when it has to 
arrive at a certain point of consciousness. And it will arrive there. If the 
things living upon the Earth cannot keep up, then that is too bad for them. They 
are transformed to another dimension. But the Earth does have something of a 
timetable that must be kept to. This timetable is fairly well known by those 
beings who have as their responsibility to know this. 

You may wonder what all this has to do with the Christ. The Christ represents 
the supreme educative force in creation. Everything in life is educative in the 
true sense of that word, which means `to lead out.' We are all leading out from 
each other what is there.
Potentially we are everything, and it is not so much a case of having to grow, 
as it is a case of being exposed to those elements in the environment, which 
correspond to things within ourselves that need to be stimulated and brought to 
the surface, so that we can begin to express them. For example, many more people 
have the capacity to draw than one would believe. They may never develop this 
talent unless they are put into an environment that encourages it and draws it 
out. Then they discover that they can do it.
It is the same way within the universe. The Christ is that force, which has as 
its mission the nourishment and the cultivation of divine life throughout 
creation. It has as its task, if one could look at it that way, of continually 
being one step in advance of evolving life, always drawing out of that life the 
next manifestation of perfection. The Christ is the manifestation of the 
totality of the universe. 

The educator has himself to be expressing the thing that he is attempting to 
draw out of the student in order to supply the resonating power, the magnetic 
power that will draw it out. The person who himself loves, is far more capable 
of drawing the love out of others than a person who does not love but attempts 
to talk about it. 

 
The Christ is the demonstration and the manifestation always of the next step 
for whatever person or kingdom is involved. It is a different manifestation for 
different levels of life, and for different types of people. Some people like to 
look upon the Christ in physical terms as being a loving individual. Other 
people, now especially it is the vogue, look upon the Christ as having been the 
prototype of the revolutionary. In fact, every group that I have ever 
encountered in American, who is espousing a cause, can see in the example of the 
Christ the perfect prototype of what they are espousing. Even if it is the 
direct antithesis of what he taught, they can still see it there.
In a way this is what the Christ represents, even though man may distort that 
image somewhat. It is that presence which draws out of an individual that which 
represents his next evolutionary step.
Everything possesses the Christ within itself. That is what really is being 
drawn out. Ultimately there is no separation between what is out here and what 
is in here. But in some way we have to come to the point of seeing that and 
realising it. When we do see it and realise it and that separation vanishes, at 
least for that particular quality or that particular expression, we are at one 
with the outside. We might not be for other aspects of our life, but at least 
for that thing we are. 

The Christ, whatever guise he takes, speaks to the same manifestation within us 
and seeks to draw it out. The Christ pattern then – let us speak of it in terms 
of the Christ functioning within the solar system – has as its task making sure 
that the educational programme of the solar system moves ahead on schedule, and 
that is being drawn out which needs to be drawn out, and that is being unfolded 
which is in timing to be unfolded.
 


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