 This morning you spoke of the cosmic Christ as reality. You're something like that Would you please say more about that because cosmic Christ has always struck me as very Triumphant Christian imperialism. That's clearly not how you're using. No, no, not at all. No Remember when I said that this notion of Christ is not in competition with anything because it includes everything All right, that's why I say the Christ symbol is not now Limited to the Jewish Jesus which did I will be very orthodox I still believe Jesus is the image of the invisible God I still believe in the divinity of Christ if you stay with me you'll find out I'm quite conservative, right and Ironically, it's that conservative holding on to the essentials the essentials Which allows me to blow the whole thing wide open if you keep it there. So the cosmic Christ is As soon as matter and spirit Became one now. We're the first generation that has a word for that. We now call it the Big Bang We even give a date to it fourteen point six billion some say 13.8 that God decided it seems and here time falls apart. I don't know if time even means anything But God decided to show himself herself itself To manifest the innards of God and that's creation So the early Franciscans insisted that the first Bible was creation And now that is in Romans 120 if you want to check it out, right? That is in the Bible the everything you need to know is in the created universe And they said that if we if we didn't respect the first Bible Created world if we didn't learn how to Contemplatively honor animals and plants and waters and skies and this magnificence that's around us every day We would murder and mangle the second book The second book is that maybe a little over two thousand years old But the first Bible is 14 billion years old. That's the cosmic Christ So Jesus is the personification. This is Christian belief. You're not Christian. You don't have to believe it Yet it coheres though. It holds a lot together Jesus is the personification in a moment of time when we were ready for an eye-vowel Relationship I think when consciousness had evolved enough that we could fall in love with something somebody He became the human eyes and face of this Infinite eternal Christ which is creation. So the cosmic Christ is saying as Colossians and Ephesians say the Christ existed from all eternity Jesus was created in a moment of time Christ is creation part of what you're saying. Yes, not part. Yeah, that's it And that's a lot If any of you think I'm I'm making less of Jesus you're not hearing me If you think I'm taking away your Jesus this makes Jesus far more central the alpha and the omega You know of history that's saying here's where it came from divine love and here's where we return to divine love As Tayard says the Christ stands at the end of history seducing it forward into love Good stuff back here