55. The Crucifixion Of The Son Of God And The Lord's Supper

  
At the death of Christ, the veil in the Temple that had separated the Holy of Holies from humanity was torn in two. This event is seen a symbol that, with the sacrificial death of the Saviour, at that very moment, the separation between humanity and Divinity ceased, so that an immediate connection was established.
 
However, this interpretation is incorrect. Through the crucifixion, humanity rejected the Son of God as the expected Messiah, and through this the separation became greater! The veil was torn because the Holy of Holies was no longer necessary. It was opened to the gaze and to impure influences because, symbolically speaking, the Divine would no longer set foot on earth after this act, thus rendering the Holy of Holies superfluous. This is precisely the opposite of previous interpretations given up to now, which, as so often, reveal only the great arrogance of the human spirit.
 
Death on the cross was also not a necessary sacrifice, but murder, an outright crime. Any other explanation is a paraphrase that is meant either as an excuse or arising from ignorance. Christ did not, by any means, come to earth with the intention of being crucified. Neither does redemption rest in this! Rather, Christ was crucified as a troublesome Bringer of Truth because of His teachings.
 
It was not His death on the cross that could and should bring redemption, but the Truth that He gave to humanity in His Words!
 
However, the Truth was inconvenient for the religious and temple leaders of that time, a nuisance, because it greatly shook their influence. Just as it would be again in many places today. Humanity has not changed in this respect. The leaders of that time, like those of today, relied on old, good traditions, but these had become mere rigid and empty forms through the practitioners and interpreters of them, without still being alive within them. The same picture that is often seen again today.
 
But He, Who wanted to bring this necessary life into the existing Word naturally also brought about a revolution in practice and explanations, but not in the Word itself. He freed the people from the oppressive rigidity and hollowness, redeemed them from it, and this was naturally a great annoyance to those who soon realized how forcefully this interfered with the reins of their false leadership.
 
This is why the Bringer of Truth and Liberator from the burden of erroneous interpretations had to be suspected and persecuted. When, despite every effort, they did not succeed in discrediting Him, they tried to portray Him as untrustworthy. His “earthly past” as a carpenter’s son was used to brand Him as “uneducated and therefore unfit to provide clarification”! As a “layman.” Just as happens today to anyone who comes too close to the rigid dogma that nips all free, lively upward striving in the bud. Cautiously, not one among His opponents ventured to examine His explanations themselves, as they rightly felt that they would have to concede defeat in a purely factual rebuttal. Instead, they resorted to malicious slander through their corrupt tools, until finally, when the time was right for them, they did not shrink from publicly and falsely accusing Him and putting Him on the cross, in order to banish the threat to their power and prestige.
 
This violent death, which was common practice among the Romans at that time, was not in itself redemption and did not bring it about. It did not absolve humanity of guilt, did not free it from anything; but, rather burdened humanity even more as murder in the lowest sense!
 
If, to this day, a cult has developed here and there that sees this murder as a necessary main point of the Work of Redemption of the Son of God, it diverts humanity from the most valuable thing that redemption alone can bring. It diverts them from the true Mission of the Saviour, from that which made His coming from the Divine Realm to earth necessary. It was not to suffer death on the cross, but to proclaim the Truth amidst the dogmatic rigidity and hollowness that had dragged down the human spirit! To portray things between God, Creation and humankind as they really are. In this way everything that the limited human intellect had contrived and which obscured reality would fall away of its own accord, powerless. Only then could humankind clearly see the path that leads upwards.
 
Redemption lies solely in bringing this Truth and the liberation from error associated with it!
 
It is redemption from unclear vision, from blind faith. The word “blind” sufficiently characterizes the false state.
 
The Last Supper, held before His death, was a farewell meal. When Christ said, “Take, eat, this is my body. Drink all of it, this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins,” He thereby declared that He was even willing to take on this death on the cross solely for the opportunity to bring the Truth in His explanations to errant humanity, which alone show the way to the forgiveness of sins.
 
He also expressly says: “for the forgiveness of many,” and by no means “for the forgiveness of all!” This is only for those who heed His explanations and draw living applications from them.

His body, destroyed by death on the cross, and His shed blood are intended to help in recognizing the necessity and seriousness of the explanations He brought. This urgency is to be emphasized merely through the repetition of the Last Supper and in the Last Supper alone!
 
The fact that the Son of God did not shy away from such hostility from humanity, the likelihood of which was already recognized before His comingpoints particularly to the desperate situation of the human spirit, which could only be saved from destruction by grasping the lifeline of the unveiled Truth.
 
The reference of the Son of God to His death on the cross at the Last Supper is merely a final explicit emphasis on the compelling necessity of His teachings, which He had come to deliver!
 
When partaking in Holy Communion, each individual should be constantly reminded that the Son of God Himself did not shy away from the prerequisite of death by crucifixion through humanity, and gave His body and blood for the sake of humanity receiving the description of the actual happenings in the Universe, which clearly show the effects of the immutable Laws of Creation, which carry the Divine Will! With this realization of the bitter seriousness that emphasizes the burning necessity of the message of redemption, humans should find new strength again and again, a new impetus to truly live according to the clear teachings of Christ, not only to understand them correctly, but also to act accordingly in all things. Through this they will also find redemption and forgiveness for their sins! Not otherwise. Not immediately, either. However, they will surely find it on the path that Christ shows in His message.
 
For this reason, the Holy Communion should should make the event come alive again and again, so that the zeal that alone can save in following the teachings brought at so great a sacrifice, does not weaken; for through emerging indifference or mere outer forms, people lose this lifeline and sink back into the arms of error and destruction.
 
It is a grave error to believe that the crucifixion guaranteed the forgiveness of their sins. This belief holds the terrible harm that all who adhere to it are thereby held back from the true path to redemption, which lies solely in living according to the Words of the Saviour, according to the explanations He gave as One Who is All-Knowing and All-Seeing. And these explanations provide practical examples of the necessary adherence and observance of the Divine Will contained in the Laws of Creation, as well as their effects when they are observed and not observed.
 
His Work of Redemption was to bring this clarification, which had to show the shortcomings and damage in religious practice, because it carried the Truth within it, so that it could shed light on the increasing darkness of the human spirit. It did not lie in death on the cross, any more than the Holy Communion or the Consecrated Host can offer forgiveness of sins. The belief goes against every Divine Law! It also negates the power of humans to forgive sins. A person only has the right and the power to forgive what has been done to them by another, and only then if their heart urges them to do so without external influence.
 
Anyone who thinks seriously will also recognize the Truth and thus the true path! However, the lazy and indolent who, like the foolish virgins in the parable, do not keep in constant good order and readiness with all attentiveness and effort the little lamp entrusted to them by the Creator, that is, the ability to examine and illuminate, can easily miss the hour when the “Word of Truth” comes to them. Having allowed themselves to be lulled into a state of weary complacency and blind faith, their indolence will render them incapable of recognizing the Bringer of Truth or the Bridegroom. They will then be left behind when the watchful ones enter the Kingdom of Bliss.