The traditional interpretations of the meaning of "Son of Man":
We are Holy One
Jews did not know
John knew how the Son of Man realization forces one to conclude Judaism is utterly wrong in separating Jews from the rest of humanity. It is dividing God.
"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.
They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me; I speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."
As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, "You will be made free?"
Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father."
Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father."
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He who sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil*, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell you the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."
-John 8:26-47
It is interesting to see these Pharisees forgetting all about their supposed captivity in Egypt when they make the statement "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone." Brahmins can make that statement but not former slaves of Pharoah.
God's Cosmic Plan
(2000 A.D)
"I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."
This verse from Revelation 22:13 went through my mind during my initial Biomystical religious experience at Easter of 1979 and began my vision of God's Cosmic Plan. My first revelation of it can be viewed in the End of the Universe and Key to the Unified Field Theory section of the Original Biomystical Religious Experience chapter. More than two decades have past since then with no further "cosmic" revelations. But at the end of August, 2000, the following came to me contemplating the following:
In the Beginning...
Genesis 1:26
"And God (Elohim) said, 'Let Us make man in our image, after our own likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So Elohim created man in Its own image, in the image of Elohim created It him (them); male and female created It them. And Elohim blessed them.."
"If God were to have a throne anywhere in the universe it would be in the most complex part of it which we presently know is the human brain."
-Teihard de Chardin:
What is the Purpose of Life?
To create God which created the Universe, Life and Humanity to create Itself. God is Humanity far into the future, far into the past, and ever present. God guides Humanity's development towards a Spiritual Climax of becoming God. Humanity in our future may not even look like us.
We are primitives in God's past but nonetheless Humanity is made in the image of God. That's why the word means more than just being a human being and expresses God's compassion and loving kindness. That's why we seek guidance and respond to the Call from our Mother-Father, Elohim, to become the humanitarian Good Shepherds of Life in the physical world which is the School of Living for the world beyond the grave. And that is why Life and human societies evolves towards higher states of complexity, to approach and eventually become the vast complexity that is the Holy One of all Creation.
Image the Klein Bottle model of the Universe which is the third step up from the ancients' Ouroboros, the World Serpent eating its tail, then the Mobius Strip, then the Klein Bottle, all archetypes for multidimensional dynamic cyclical closed systems. Time and Space are recycled endlessly from Big Bang to Black Holes and back perfecting God out of Itself. This is the only way God can be thought of as "Unbegotten". But this is only the physical Time-Space continuum and material universe. Beyond the grave there is Somewhere Else, a world of Loving Light that gives the Eternal Model for evolution of the Spirit through Matter.
Spiritual Ecology & the Climax God
There is a Spiritual Ecology system as well as a biological ecology system to Life. The evidence of it are to be found in the movements of spiritual entities and concepts through history. A spiritual climax succession pattern emerges where each new religious vision goes through a series of revisionary changes to arrive at a final form that is stable and self-perpetuating.
Within the body of religious beliefs a similar succession of stages emerges where religious belief systems interact with one another, sometimes cooperatively but often competitively to arrive at a final or climax stage where dominant religions, i.e., those with the most followers and material power, are relatively stable and capable of self-perpetuation and lesser religions finding small sociological niches to exist in. In other words, a spiritual hierarchy is established one way or another, one that is stable through time, at least until the spiritual foundation collapses through old age and deteriorating doctrines proven wrong allowing new dynamic visions to spring up and replace the old climax religious visions with a new set.
All of this points to humans viewing a Godhead that is Itself in process of evolving through successions of human recognition stages. But like the natural ecology systems there will be established one way or another a dominant religion in a spiritual hierarchical pattern and that means one spiritual vision of the Godhead will prevail over all others, i.e., a Climax God.
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