The Christ cannot be born in you. The Christ has been with you, in you and working through you since time began and will continue to be with you, in you and working through you for all eternity. When you are first conscious of the Holy Spirit in you, you might think it was just born in you. What you call the “birth” is the moment that you first become aware of the Holy Spirit working through you.
What is the Christ? Simple, the Christ is the intelligent energy radiating from the Source or God that both permeates and is expressing as the universe. The Christ is another name for the Holy Spirit, the first emanation of Omnipresent God.
Remember, we are attempting to describe an Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent reality using finite symbols called words. We can only say- it is like this, it is like that. We can never say exactly what it is because no word can express or encompass infinity. Infinity is always one step ahead of any attempt to communicate it in words, pictures, symbols, images, similes, metaphors or approximations.
Now that that is said, here are a few attempts:
First is Omnipresence of God.
Second is the first emanation of God - which is the Christ
Third comes crystallized emanation – you, me and everything that is manifested Omnnipresence.
Another way to see it is
First comes the Lake.
Second comes the little stream of water leading away from the Lake.
Third is the little pond that is both the creation of and fed by the little stream that is leading away from the Lake. The little pond is completely one with the lake and is totally all that the stream is, nothing more and nothing less.
A third way to see it is
First is an electrical power station - God.
Second comes the electricity or energy directed through electrical wires.
Third comes the light bulb radiating the energy traveling through the electrical wire that comes from the source of the energy. We are the light bulbs. The light which we bring into the world is God, manifesting as the Holy Spirit or the Christ.
The spirit-humans who say you have to allow the Christ to be born in you are implying that the Christ is not always in you, that it is somewhere else and you have to allow a seed to be planted and allow it to grow and sort of take over your mind and body.
Or they are implying that the Christ is outside of your body and you have to open a door and let it in, and then allow it to take over your mind and body.
Once we accept the truth of the Omnipresence of God, then all you have to do is understand that the Universal Intelligence that we call God is ALWAYS expressing through you and as you. You could not exist without this truth. If we accept the Omnipresence of God, then how could God or the Christ ever be somewhere else but in the most innermost core of your total existence?
The word Holy Spirit actually means Whole Breath. Holy means Whole and Spirit, from the Latin Spiritus, means Breath. It is even written in one of the major religious books in the world that God made man in the image and likeness of God and then “Breathed” the breath of life into him. According to this story of the “birth” of man, which is accepted by Jews, Christians and Moslems, we cannot live at all without the breath of God. Then they somehow try to separate us from the breath of God.
Our only choice in living is to either be open to the Christ, the emanation of God, expressing through creation and us, or to resist the Intelligent Energy and try to do things our way. However, regardless of whether we are open or resist, we cannot exist with this Intelligent Energy. We cannot even complain about God without God helping us move our lips.
The Christ is just a symbol to be used for the understanding and communication of how the Universe works through us. The problem with all symbols and all myths is the tendency of spirit-humans to begin to give to the symbol or the myth the power and the reality that the symbol or the myth only hints at.
It is written that the spirit-human called Jesus told his followers that he must go, that he must leave them in order for the Holy Spirit to be with them. He did not want to leave but he understood that the spirit-humans at the time gave him the power that was God’s and they claimed he was the reality that even Jesus said was not his or him. Until his physical form left the earth, the spirit-humans could not get closer to knowing the essence of God that was already in them attempting to work through them. They made a God out of Jesus, and kept looking outside of themselves for salvation instead of within themselves where Jesus said God was to be found. Jesus was a Way-Shower of the reality of Omnipresent God. A spiritual way-shower is one who shows us the way to truly be as we already are – The Sons and Daughters of God.
We are the Sons and the Daughters of God. The Holy Spirit or the Christ does not have to be born into us, it is always in us attempting to express the will of Omnipresent God through us – as us. We just have to get out of the way and do our best to ride the wave of the will of God – By and For the Glory of God.
