I Am A Sun Of God And So Are You

Let’s imagine that Jesus has returned once again, or incarnated, as prophesied to occur before the birth of the new Israel in 1948. If he was born before 1948 that would make him at least in his mid-fifties, and if this happened to be the truth, what would he be like? Would he be as radical and heretical as he was 2000 years ago? Would you be shocked to hear him declare: ‘I am the Sun of God...the Spiritual Sun (divine)?’ And in the next breath, I am the Son of Man (human).’

There is a belief among many scholars that Jesus’ followers did not view him as God or as the risen Redeemer but as a religious reformer, spiritual guide and revealer of experiential knowledge (gnôsis), the light and mind of God, or if you will, the Sun of God. It only makes good common sense. Why would there be a supposed disruption of universal law (God solely in human form) on our small speck of a planet called earth located in the corner of the Milky Way Galaxy? And our galaxy happens to be only one of several billion galaxies! 

After he proclaims: ‘I am the Sun of God and the Son of Man,’ what would Jesus teach? What spiritual philosophy and message would he bring to humanity? What would he reveal? Would it be close to the knowledge recorded in the New and Old Testament? Remember, the sacred texts of the Bible were not only written thousands of years ago, but the teachings and stories recorded in them were orally taught to students and priests over-and-over again. In many cases, these sacred writings of the ‘book’ post-date the original oral teachings and/or events by decades and sometimes even centuries.

How true can these written words be when we realize that they are based on an orally transmitted form of knowledge as well as centered on events that were unseen by the writers? The argument has always been that ‘it is the word of God.’ But does that really make logical sense when we consider the many other scared texts, the ones that never separate in an elitist way claiming to be the sole ‘word of God?’ And does it meet the criteria of common sense when we realize that every human being filters their mental capacity through their ego-based self.

Once we look to the past to evaluate sayings or events, we must understand that the past, especially one that extends back two millennia, can never be empirically proven...only reconstructed. This truth may be revealed with the following experiment: find a teacher who will work with you privately for just one hour. During that hour, have the teacher orally lecture to you on a subject of his or her choosing. No notes are to be taken. Seven days after the presentation, write down the knowledge, the teachings and the sayings of your teacher. Be as specific as you can about the exact quotes. Present this for feedback. Just for fun, repeat this experiment using an interval of one year; just imagine if you used a few decades.

I think we all know the results. This experimentation can be made even more challenging by having your teacher present new and particularly difficult concepts. Try finding a teacher who has radical views and teaches esoteric, metaphysical, or alternative religious subject matter. How much would you retain and really understand, much less be able to replicate in the future? Yet, the sacred teachings that we use to guide our lives (for some, fanatically), came from a technique not very different from the parameters of our experiment.

The dawn of a new age is upon us. As a human race, we are walking out of the darkness of the past thousands of years, and we are approaching the light timidly, as only one can, after being imprisoned for so long in a shadowy, corrupt world ruled by fear and materialism. These past millennia have been a time of religious darkness that witnessed gatekeepers, in the form of priests, popes, rabbis, and mullahs, between the people and God.

As the Lightbringer, the morning star, of this new age, Jesus would convey basically the same message as before: each and every person comes from a divine lineage as well as a human one. Each person is both divine and human. Each person, as divine, has direct access to God and the mystical without going through an intermediary. Because each person is also human, in accessing the divine, a person may filter the knowledge through his or her own ego, such as one’s biases and expectations, with the result that the objective divine truth becomes the subjective human opinion. This concept, applied to religious texts, brings us insight into sacred writings. Sacred scripts are both the ‘word’ of God (divine) as well as the word of Man (human). Every text may be sacred as well as profane. Because some texts may be more sacred than others, it is up to each individual to determine which words have been divinely inspired and which have been humanly filtered. For the reason that all writings contain the seeds of divinity as well as humanity, there can be no one sacred text that is innately superior to any other.

Jesus would teach that the best tools for making any determination of truth are intuition and reason. In figurative terms, intuition may be viewed as centered in the heart and reason as originating in the mind. In metaphysical teachings, the sun symbolizes our hearts and the moon our minds. The moon has no intrinsic light of its own but relies on the sun for its illumination and most importantly, its reflection. With this being true and considering that light is the most common symbol for knowledge, solar light (the heart) represents direct knowledge, which may be termed ‘heart knowledge’ while lunar light (the mind) corresponds to reflective knowledge. Our hearts know intuitively divine truth while our minds can only find reason through discursive knowledge and cannot function properly except through the guidance of the higher intellect of our hearts. In other words, our heart and our mind must work together to determine truth.

Divine As Well As Human

If we are correct in stating that Jesus believed in the divineness of each individual as well as the humanness of each person, where is the proof of such a statement? Today, Christianity teaches the exact opposite. To the church, Jesus is the only divine one. Everyone else is branded a sinful human with only the church being the representative and intermediary between Jesus, as lord and god, and a sinful humanity. Could it be that the original message of Jesus of Divine