Saturday, June 14, 2025

Remembering Divinity and the Mind of Christ

Many voices in the New Age movement assert that humanity has forgotten its inherent divinity. They speak of a collective amnesia—a veil that descends at birth, cloaking the soul in forgetfulness. This idea resonates deeply with ancient Gnostic texts, particularly The Gospel of Truth, which teaches that ignorance is the root of human suffering. It proclaims that humanity has become lost not through rebellion, but through forgetfulness. The remedy is not punishment or appeasement, but remembrance—awakening to our true identity and origin in the Father.

The Gospel of Truth presents Jesus not primarily as a sacrifice to appease divine wrath, but as a revealer, a teacher sent by the Father to awaken those who had become forgetful of the divine fullness. In this text, salvation is not a legal transaction, but a process of enlightenment. Jesus, the embodied Logos, comes not to condemn but to stir the memory of the soul, to remind it of its divine origin. The Father is not distant, but intimately present, and Jesus' mission is to restore the lost to their original awareness of unity with the Source. It is a message not of guilt, but of healing through recognition.

The apostle Paul, too, in his letters, speaks in terms that suggest something far deeper than the surface doctrines often imposed upon his words. In Philippians 2, he writes what many scholars believe to be an early Christian hymn. He says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon himself the form of a servant.” The Greek text implies that Christ existed in divine form but chose to empty himself—kenosis—voluntarily laying aside his glory to fully enter the human condition. This was not a loss of divinity, but a deliberate descent into forgetfulness, an identification with the human experience.

Many overlook the depth of Paul’s opening statement: “Let this mind be in you.” He is not merely admiring Christ’s humility; he is calling others to share in Christ’s consciousness. Christ did not regard equality with God as something to be seized because he already possessed it. Yet, he laid it aside to become one of us—not to lord over us, but to show us how to rediscover our own divine likeness. Paul is not suggesting that we mimic Jesus' behavior from a distance, but that we participate in his consciousness. The mind of Christ, then, is the awareness of one's divine origin coupled with the compassion to lower oneself in service to others.

This is a radical message when read through the lens of remembrance rather than mere moral exhortation. What if Paul was calling the early Christians to awaken to who they truly were—not just followers of Jesus, but sharers in his divine inheritance? The traditional interpretation frames Paul’s message as one of moral example, encouraging humility. But beneath the surface is something far more mystical. Paul, after all, speaks often of the mystery “hidden for ages” now being revealed in Christ, “which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). Christ is not only the historical Jesus but the indwelling Logos, the divine seed in every soul.

If we read Paul's theology as participatory rather than merely imitative, we begin to see a profound truth emerge. Jesus becomes the pattern of remembrance, the one who did not forget his connection to the Father, even in the midst of incarnation. He chose to empty himself, to descend into the realm of form and limitation, so that he could show others the way back to the fullness. His death and resurrection are not merely judicial events, but symbolic acts of transcendence—laying down the ego-self and rising again into remembered union with the Source.

In this view, every human soul enters this plane of existence veiled in forgetfulness. The incarnation, while rich with opportunity, is also a descent into amnesia. We forget where we came from. We forget who we are. We take on identities, roles, and stories that slowly become mistaken for our essence. Yet, deep within, a spark remains—the divine breath that animated us from the beginning. Paul’s message and the message of the Gnostic Gospels converge here: we must remember.

To remember is not merely to recall data, but to re-member—to bring the disjointed parts of our being back into unity. Jesus, in this framework, becomes the archetype of remembrance, the living Word sent not to create a new religion, but to unveil an ancient truth long buried under fear, dogma, and forgetfulness. He is not just a savior, but a revealer of the hidden Self. His invitation is not “worship me,” but “follow me into your own remembrance.”

Thus, Paul’s kenosis becomes a cosmic act of solidarity. In Christ, the Divine embraced our human forgetting so that we might, through him, find our way home. Not through striving, but through awakening. Not through sacrifice, but through surrender. The mind of Christ is not far from us. It is the mind within us, waiting to be stirred by the truth we have always known but long forgotten—that we, too, are of the Father, divine in origin, and invited to live as awakened sons and daughters.

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