Jesus and Christ

Use in the book

The introduction separates Jesus’s teaching of brotherhood from later theological formulations and objects to restricting spiritual consummation to Jesus alone. Comparative passages place the Christ story beside other dramas of death and renewed life. The Foundations division also uses Jesus in a narrative of secret teaching and apostolic transmission. These uses serve related theological aims but do not supply equal historical evidence.

Places to read

1. Original Introduction · Block 21… “it but reiterates the New Commandment announced by Jesus, which was also announced by every great reformer or religion since history began. Drop the theological barnacles from the Religion of Jesus,” …
2. Original Introduction · Block 24“"The Perfect Man is Christ: and Christ is God. This is the birth-right and destiny of every human soul. It was taught in all the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity, but the” …
3. Original Introduction · Block 28“" No civilization known to man has ever risen to any great heights, or long maintained its supremacy, that debased woman. Indeed, the Secret Doctrine demonstrates with unmistakable clearness that sexual” …
4. Mystic Masonry · Block 72“71. ''Masonic Lodges are dedicated to the Sts. John; one of whom, the Evangelist, opens his Gnostic Gospel with the Greek philosophy of the Logos, the principle of emanation already referred” …
5. Foundations of Mystic Masonry · Block 154“188. " Jesus conferred on His disciples the evangelical Initiation, caused His spirit to descend upon them, divided them into different orders, according to the custom of the Egyptian priests and” …

In this edition

Christos is retained as a technical expression. Counts of Christ also include compound names and conventional Christian references.

Reading the argument

The distinction between a named person and an inward principle is central to reading the book fairly. At the same time, the source’s claims about Jesus’s movements, associates, and institutional successors should not be accepted merely because they support that distinction.

Related texts

Luke 8:1–3 names women, including Mary Magdalene, among those accompanying Jesus, and John 19:25 places women at the cross. These passages complicate the introduction’s assertion that Mary could not have accompanied him on his journeys.¹⁴

Jesus

“Jesus” — 19 occurrences in 16 text blocks: I.16, 21, 24, 31; M.45, 69, 73, 79; F.50, 52, 76, 91, 154, 157; S.13, 97.

Christ

“Christ” — 45 occurrences in 28 text blocks: I.16, 18–19, 24; M.1, 24, 29, 38–39, 41, 45, 69, 73; F.62, 64, 72, 91, 98–99, 132, 153, 156–157; S.44, 97, 134; N.86, 149.

Christos

“Christos” — 10 occurrences in 6 text blocks: I.16–17, 25; M.1, 45, 68.

Jesus Christ

“Jesus Christ” — 4 occurrences in 4 text blocks: M.73; F.91, 157; S.97.