 148. Second Coming |
But when we see a man who by self-struggle and proper use of his God-given free-choice and power of meditation become a Christ, then we can stir hope of salvation in the weak, matter-tortured, fear-maligned, timorous, frail, human breast.
Just as the husband is born again in the wife as the son, so inactive God the Father, active and manifest in Holy Ghost become the only reflected, only begotten Son. Therefore it should be remembered by the Praecepta student that after listening to and feeling the cosmic sound in all the Physical, Astral, and Ideational cosmos, or in the Physical, Astral, and Ideational Holy Ghost, his consciousness will vibrate in all creation. Then when his expanded consciousness becomes stable in all creation, it feels the presence of Christ consciousness in all vibration. THEN THE PRAECEPTA* STUDENT BECOMES CHRIST-LIKE; HIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCES THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST; he feels in his vehicle the presence of Christ-consciousness as Jesus felt Christ expressed in His body. All human beings find their consciousness hidebound by the body, but by listening to and feeling the "Aum" vibration and intuitive Christ consciousness the Yogi realizes that God the Father's cosmic consciousness exists inactively in regions where there is no motion or presence of the Holy-Ghost-vibration. (For the Holy Ghost vibration is limited only to a certain tract of space which is peopled by the cosmos and all island universe. Holy Vibration is condensed into planetary creation.)
When the Praecepta* student feels his consciousness one with Christ consciousness, he realizes that Christ consciousness in nothing but the reflection of the cosmic consciousness of God the Father. Then the precept student, like Jesus, can say, "I (Christ consciousness in creation) and my Father (Cosmic consciousness beyond creation) are one." As the white light beyond the blue crystal ball and the blue light in the crystal ball are the same, so also the cosmic consciousness (God the Father), existing beyond all vibratory (Holy Ghost) creation and the Christ Consciousness (Kutastha Chaitanya), in all vibratory creation are the same. When vibratory creation exists, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost exist. When by cosmic dissolution (greater than Noah's Flood which was only partial dissolution), or when by universal dissolution the holy vibration is dissolved, then automatically God the Father, Son and Holy ghost become reconverted into the one Unmanifested, Absolute Spirit.
-Yogananda
SECOND VERSION
The first coming, materialization and manifestation is when God outside of creation made or actually became creation, (the body, the God), since creation, the body, the reflection and offspring of God is of the same spirit (but in a different state of vibration) it contains the original consciousness of God, i.e., the God that is IN and AS creation is the SAME as the God that is unmanifested and prior to creation. The God outside and prior to creation is called the source or Father and the same God in and as creation is called the only begotten Son, the reflection of the Father, the offspring, the Son, the Christ-consciousness. This is the first stage or phase of God to bring itself forth.
The second phase of manifestation, materialization or coming, is when God, now in creation, and now called the Holy Spirit when it is in a human being, manifests and materializes through that human being. ALL human beings contain the Holy Spirit of God, (the inner SELF), and ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE DIVINELY CREATED for the PURPOSE of the second coming, or second manifestation into creation. The second manifestation or coming is the final phase, as God becomes a living being.
The second coming of God, is through ALL of humanity one by one in order to experience ITS own creation and to know ITSELF through the divinely created human race.
The second coming of God manifesting and materializing from INSIDE of creation is also called the PAROUSIA or ARRIVAL by the Greek Gnostic schools, it is also called Spiritual-enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, Samadhi, Heaven, and THE REVELATION.
* Note: "Praecepta Student", one who has received or been training with "special" or "spiritual" instructions.
