Infinite Divine Consciousness

Among many modern religionists there is concern that the New Age will be a strictly humanistic venture—one that does not include relating to God but rather is based solely on the outworking of secular human enlightenment. Thus the entire idea of there being a New Age up ahead for mankind is often viewed disdainfully, with many religious fundamentalists proactively slandering both the New Age ideology and its most vocal proponents. But this is really just a misunderstanding due to ignorance—ignorance about what the New Age stands for and, if we are fortunate enough to actually participate in it, what it will entail.

While it is true that the New Age will be an age of human enlightenment, that does not mean it will be godless. In fact, such a notion is actually quite preposterous. Why? Because in the New Age the enlightened consciousness of mankind will realize its oneness with God so thoroughly that there will be no more need for religious works. There will be no need to strive to get close to God. There will be no need to earn points toward admission to heaven. There will be no need to appease God when we think He is angry. There will be no need to manipulate God when He seems to be ignoring our prayer requests. There will be no need to inform God of our needs, etc., etc., etc. All of these present-day religious activities will become obsolete, but that does not mean that God consciousness is being replaced or forgotten. It only means that the way we presently view and relate to God will go out the window.

While the religionists are at present fervently attached to these God-related activities, what they do not now see is that they are actually the outworking of spiritual deception. They are superstitious, pagan, unscientific, unlawful, emotionally unstable, and simply ignorant. They have arisen from an orientation, not of love for God, but rather of fear, separation, and mistrust. In short, they have arisen out of the Adamic state of consciousness.

So the New Age will not be a godless one. On the contrary, it will be an age, in which man finally knows God aright and therefore ceases from his Adamic distortions and misconceptions. This is because the New Age will no longer find mankind moving in Adamic consciousness. It will be the Age of the Christ.

You may ask: What does it mean to know God aright? We have already seen how those moving in Adamic consciousness would answer this question. For we have had six thousand years of religious history that have given full expression to this matter. In Adam, God is an almighty human-like being that created our universe, watches over it, and mercifully condescends to allow us lowly (sinful) human beings to know and relate to Him on a personal basis. He is all knowing and omnipresent—a God with a very distinct purpose and plan pertaining to us, his prize creation. Therefore He is a God of prophecy and human intervention, often moving us about (like chess pieces) in order to bring about His purpose. All this has been spelled out for us by holy scriptures that, though they were written by the hands of men were supposedly inspired by God Himself. This is the God we have known and related to throughout this Age of Adam. And the proof that this is the God of Adamic consciousness is that It is the God of not just the Judeo-Christian tradition but of every religion that has ever been known to man (though religions vary in the details of what this God expects and wants from us). In other words, though there have been many religions, from Adam’s point of view there has only been one God and therefore there has only been one way for human beings to relate to this Almighty One.

But the dawning of the New Age will signal the end of Adamic consciousness—a transformation that will also bring an end to our previous ways of relating to God. It will be the Age of the Christ—that is, an age in which all mankind is moving in Christ consciousness. So, while we think we know what it means to know God aright from the perspective of Adamic consciousness—a perspective that will become obsolete—the real question then becomes: What does it mean to know God aright from the perspective of the Christ? Some people would answer that it will be no different because God never changes. And that is true. But we will be different! We will be so different in fact, that we will no longer cling to our old perspective as though it still had merit. We will see clearly that in Adam it was simply not possible for us to know God aright.

It will, however, be possible to know such a thing when our perspective shifts to that of the Christ. How? Because as the New Testament states: the Christ is the light of the world (John 8:12). Is this scripture referring to physical light that we see with our eyes? No, of course not. It is referring to spiritual light—the light of knowing the truth. So, knowing the truth about God will most certainly come with that package. We think that Adamic man is moving in the light of knowledge—that that is how we were able to build our world and rise to the top of the earthly food chain. And it is true that we know some things aright, but God is not one of them. In this regard we clearly are still seeing through a glass darkly. What does the Apostle Paul say? “Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12). Now we are moving in Adamic consciousness—a state of consciousness that will not allow us to see spiritual truth clearly. But then (in the New Age) when we are moving in Christ consciousness our knowledge will be full and complete.

We call Jesus the Christ, and rightly so. But what does this mean? Does it mean that he was God in the flesh? No, this too is a misperception brought about by Adamic consciousness—the consciousness out from which we see only part. The full truth, as revealed by Christ consciousness, is that Jesus was a man who had evolved in his state of consciousness—out from Adam and into the Christ. And because the Spirit of the Christ is, in fact, divine, it is not entirely wrong (only partly) to say that Jesus was God. But where we err is in how we see ourselves. When we view Jesus as the only Christ we show that our perspective is still Adamic. When we view Jesus as exclusively divine and ourselves as hopelessly human we show that we are seeing only in part.

The truth is that all human beings have the potential to be divine. This is because all human beings have the potential to become the Christ (that is, to raise up the Christ Spirit and evolve in consciousness). So when Jesus said, “I and the Father are one,” (John 10:32), he was including us in that assessment. He was in essence saying that all human beings have the potential to merge into and become one with God (so that their separate human hood is lost and God becomes all). How can this be? It has to do with our created makeup—specifically with our created endowment of spiritual consciousness.

God is not an anthropomorphic personal being who resides in heaven and sometimes is emotionally drawn out against His own will. God is impersonal spiritual consciousness—consciousness made of the same stuff as our human endowment. That is why the scripture says that we humans were created in the image of God. But there is a difference between men and God. Men are evolving states of consciousness. God is infinite divine consciousness—that is to say, God is consciousness in its fully evolved form. Men are in-process. God is already perfect and complete. The endowment of consciousness in both man and God is the same, but men are not God, because we are not yet perfected in the evolution of consciousness. In fact, we are rather far away from that outworking at this point in time. So God is still God, and we are still but men. But to say that God will not have a place in the New Age is erroneous because, being made of the same stuff as God has rendered us eternally joined at the hip.

Meanwhile, we are at present still wallowing in Adamic consciousness. In other words, in our evolutionary unfoldment we have pretty much yet to leave the starting gate. True, Adamic consciousness is better than unconsciousness—that is, the state of being humans were in prior to Adam awakening in the Garden of Eden. But whereas, we tend to view Adam’s awakening as our ultimate evolutionary thrust, the truth is that it was only a beginning. That is why its outworking during this age has been anything but perfect.

What Jesus came to show us is our next evolutionary step in and as the Christ. We started our evolutionary journey as the Adam man, but that was not the end of the journey for us (even though we have stalled therein for six thousand years). It was only the beginning. That was why Jesus referred to himself as the Son of Man. The word in Hebrew for man is adam. So what Jesus was teaching us by referring to himself by this title was that the comparison between Adamic consciousness and Christ consciousness is like that of a generational transition. The Christ is Adam’s offspring, in that all potential Christ-men (and women) have to start with Adamic consciousness. But at the same time once we attain to the Christ we are no longer of the same generation as Adam. We have, in fact, become part of a new generation, a new race—the race called the Christ or the Son of Man.

The Adam man is the original old generation of the human species, but because we were created with an endowment of spiritual consciousness that is evolutionary in nature we are each destined to give expression to a new generational demonstration. The original or first generational demonstration has lasted a full six thousand years, but this has had little bearing on the science of our evolutionary unfoldment. In other words, though we have languished in the Adamic state of consciousness for so long does not negate our evolutionary destiny. In fact, the truth from God’s timeless perspective is that it does not matter much at all. True, it has been to our own shame and disgrace and has resulted in the human psyche becoming loaded down with hopelessness and despair, but these poignant outworkings will one day be forgotten when at last our evolutionary thrust is fully realized in Christ.

One of the mysteries of Jesus’ advent as the Christ two thousand years ago is that according to the timing of that advent, the Infinite Divine consciousness seemed to be probing the collective state of human consciousness to see if perhaps we were ready (as a species) for Christ consciousness back then. In other words, the drama of Jesus’ life experience did not necessarily have to unfold the way it did. Had we been ready (and many individuals most certainly were), Jesus would not have needed to die on a Roman cross. Contrastingly, he would have entered Jerusalem as Christ the King (that is, the first Christ man) and been honored as such for all eternity. But we know that that is not the way the story goes. Rather the human collective showed its determination to continue its resistance to the evolution of consciousness. And so instead of recognizing the time of their visitation and embracing the Christ for themselves, those who were alive at that time could think of nothing else other than how to make the Christ manifestation in their midst disappear in the most thorough and final way possible.

This then brought about the implementation of Plan B. Since the human collective rejected Jesus and showed that it instead wanted more time to give expression to the demonstration of Adamic consciousness, it extended this Age of Adam indefinitely and changed the entire emphasis of Jesus’ incarnation. What was Plan B? It was for Jesus to die a cruel death on a Roman cross as an atoning sacrifice for sin. Why? Because the Infinite Divine consciousness that created us knew what we needed most in order to kick-start our evolutionary impulses. By rejecting Jesus, we had shown that we not only preferred to continue in Adam; we were obviously stuck in that mode—so stuck, in fact, that we needed divine intervention to help us become unstuck.

How did Jesus dying on the cross achieve this? The imagery of that meek and godly man dying so mercilessly and bravely for our sakes only when taken into human consciousness works like leaven therein to bring about our release. It frees our endowment of consciousness from its stuck state in Adam, so that we can move forward in pursuit of the Christ. Moreover, the divine decree of atonement for sin—atonement that brings full reconciliation with God—reverses Adamic consciousness’ most dominant and strangling belief—that is, the belief in our separation from God. Essentially, the introduction of this one decree into human consciousness works like a dissolving agent to undermine Adamic consciousness and loosen its deceptive grip over us.

And so the for past two thousand years the human community has been responding to the implementation of the Infinite Divine’s Plan B. And though it may seem to unenlightened eyes that this plan too has failed to bring about man’s evolutionary unfoldment, the truth is that a very great harvest of human souls has been brought to fruition and is now being preserved for the New Age. Though it may appear as though the human collective is still clinging tenaciously to Adamic consciousness and controlling human destiny, this work of harvesting out souls for the New Age has been going on unseen ever since Jesus was here.

Amazingly then, as the end of the age draws near, it is becoming clear that God’s plan has not failed in the least. Human consciousness has responded wonderfully to the atonement, and a New Age is now being prepared, in which the Christ will indeed be honored and exalted. All those who responded to Jesus’ Plan B and received God’s offer of atonement, believing in its ministry of reconciliation and taking that belief into consciousness have been set apart and preserved for participation in this New Age that is coming. How? Through the power of the resurrection.

Thus on account of the great wisdom of the Infinite Divine it has not mattered that the evil status quo’s intent to resist consciousness evolution seems to still be controlling human society. For, through the divine power of atonement, reconciliation, and faith the evolution of consciousness has gone on unhindered for a great silent multitude. And through the power of the resurrection these called-out-ones have been and are being preserved to come forth and repopulate the earth in what will then be a new world—a world in which the genetic influence of our evolutionary father Adam is at last severed and replaced by his evolutionary son, the Christ.