Myth & Christianity, Ritual in by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-26T17:00:00+00:00

all that pertains to it, so that he is not only true God but also true--that is, complete and pefect-Man. But he is not, as the Nestorians believed, a human person. He is man, but not a man. The inference is obviously that personality does not belong to the perfection of human nature, being essentially a divine and not a human property.l

But the importance of the truth that the Christ is Man and not a man is that the Incarnation of God is not something which comes to pass in a single, particular individual alone. Theological, as distinct from mythological, Christianity has always wanted to insist that such an Incarnation ocurred only with respect to the historical individual called Jesus of Nazareth. It has confused the true uniqueness of the Incarnation with mere historical abnormality. For the Incarnation is unique in the sense that it is the only real event, the only ocurrence which is Now, which is not past and abstract. It is thus the one creative and living act as distinct from dead fact, eternally happening in this moment. One would readily agree with the theologians that the Birth at Bethlehem is not simply-indeed not at all-the symbol of God incarnate as each and every man. There never was any question of Gad becoming each, a, or this particular man in the sense of any individual human personality. For there are no human personalities; at most one can say that there were such person, alities, every ego being a construct of memory only. But HeWho,Is is never at any time That-Which-Was. "Before Abraham was, I am."

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