God is perhaps the most significant idea humans have ever pondered. In the God idea we have something that attempts to account for the context of everything. The God idea is the first, and on a symbolic level, the grandest, version of a unified field theory. It is a subconscious attempt to depict for our inherently subjective conscious mind the notion of the ordering factor behind the unfolding material universe.

     As such, the God idea is also a symbol of those sub-categories of the idea of the oneness of everything (the idea that everything belongs to one set), ideas such as love/harmony/order, and context/objectivity/insight. With this in mind, the Christian idea of there being a need for humans to have harmony with God restored, is by extension, the psychological reality that we humans need to have our connection with love and objective insight restored to us.

     We humans need to be reconnected with a mentality that everything in the universe (which, of course, we are a part of) is a manifestation of love. On a practical philosophical level (I know those two words are seldom used together, but work with me here) mater is in existence only because of the presence of order. In fact, it could logically be said that matter IS order.  And if matter exists because order exists, then logically, order predates and prevails over, matter.

     And it could be said that order in the universe necessarily implies the harmony of components, and that harmony is an expression of love. Order implies purpose, in as much as order is the ultimate purpose for things, mapped out.

     The reason the restoration of the God idea is so important to us is that the dual aspects of our instinctual drive to become conscious (the Will and the Heart, or in modern terminology, The Rational mind and the Super ego) have been damaged, have been made less conscious, by our alienation from the god idea.

     The question for humans then is what does harmony with the idea of the context for everything being love’s order, look like, and what happens in a human that damages this idea. It is probably clear to many of you that it is trauma and disorienting pain that is factor that damages our concept of the harmonious ordering of our life, our world, and our universe. Pain, and specifically, fear (Satan/Lucifer) teaches us that there is no order, that there is no love, and that if there were an absolute context for things in the universe, we would not have had to suffer.

     Of course such an idea is merely the subjective reaction of a wounded human consciousness. It is this woundedness that must be repaired in us. Satan/Lucifer is a symbol of this wounded, subtle yet harmful, too intelligent for our own good, emotionally wounded mentality in mankind. In the book of revelations, in fact, we see that it is Satan who comes as a dragon, a symbol of trauma (fear), and who generates the wild, harmful, un-domesticated (that is, compulsive/obsessive) instinctual desires within us (the Beast). Fear usually seems intelligent to us when it is our fear, and yet it is only a subtle delusion that brings destruction and death.

     If we could have every human emotional wound fully healed, what would our consciousness look like? Would it not look like a mentality of absolute peace, serenity, in the face of everything that happens to, and around us? We would understand completely that all that is happening is a part of the grand, perfectly ordered, loving, factor behind the unfolding material universe, and we would feel joy. Every sorrow, and every pleasure, every moment of suffering, and satisfaction would be met with an intense inner peace and joy. We could still feel sorrow and pain, but it would always be wrapped up in peace and joy.

 

    Okay, so where does the Christian notion of a savior enter this psychological equation?

1. The Christian notion of a savior is constructed on the theme that the ordering force that generated the unfolding material universe, needs the presence of free will in some components of this universe in order to be fully actualized, realized, and that,

2. in as much as this free will is given to us humans, and we have chosen a trust in the knowledge of good and evil, in place of our more natural trust in the idea and mentality of love’s ordering force (in guiding our decisions in life), we have disengaged somewhat from our harmony with the order factor of the universe we are a part of.

3. And in as much as this ordering factor generated our existence, and produced such a choosing factor within us, the ordering factor must also produce the means for our restoration (while, at the same time maintaining the viability of our freedom to chose or reject restoration of our lost harmony with the ordering factor unfolding in the material universe.

    The Christ/messiah idea is essentially a carefully constructed, and very detailed, myth that fully develops the idea that there is an ordering factor unfolding in all there is. If there is such a factor, and the universe does unfold as matter (which is essentially order), then even our detour into a misbegotten choice of disharmony with this order, will necessarily have been accounted for by this ordering factor. The messiah myth is about this ordering factor accounting for our choice to opt out of harmony with it, by subjectively being driven by fear to grasp for the control, the ego/conscience control, of our decisions. 

    This universal ordering factor is what we humans have always experienced as spirituality. Our human spirit is our means of becoming conscious of the ordering factor unfolding in as the material universe, of which we are a part.

    Trusting in Jesus, is trusting in the ordering factor, and turning away from mankind’s tendency to trust in the super ego, in our decision making process. If God, the ordering factor, is truly love/harmony/order, and God gave us the ability to make choices, within a naturally subjective (deceivable) consciousness, then God will naturally also produce the means for us to recover from the trauma of our bad decisions. This recovery means is embodied in the idea of forgiveness. The Christ myth is the embodiment of the idea of forgiveness, and it lets us know that forgiveness is totally natural, totally an expression of the universal order.

    Thus trusting Jesus is a psychologically effective path to embracing the idea of forgiveness for our bad choices. We would all like to believe we could be forgiven for our horrible decisions, but until we can see that forgiveness is a natural expression of the universal order, we don’t have the means we require to embrace forgiveness. We can attempt to intellectually convince ourselves that forgiveness is the reasonable and fair thing to embrace, but until we see that it is natural, we just can’t get there. We need a myth to get us there, because only a myth holds the archetypal expressions of the spiritual core, the ordering factor, within the unfolding material universe we are apart of.