Christ Consciousness - A Path of Inner Development

Van Dijk, Danielle

ISBN 10: 1906999090 / ISBN 13: 9781906999094

Published by Temple Lodge Publishing, UK, 2010

About this Item

First English Edition / First Print (originally published in dutch in 2008). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 174pp. B/w illustrations and diagrams. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions. (64/5).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1745420048397

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christ Consciousness - A Path of Inner Development
• Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing, UK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906999090
• ISBN 13: 9781906999094
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

We live in a world characterized by intolerance, war, environmental degradation, and economic collapse. By contrast, is it possible to build a society in which tolerance, love, and peace are the abiding principles? In this positive and inspiring book, van Dijk shows how, beginning with our personal development, we can contribute to such a new and transformed world. She describes how we can develop a universal spiritual consciousness―what she calls “Christ Consciousness.”

The author emphasizes that the Christian mysteries took place on the physical plane, distinguishing with great clarity between Jesus as a human being, the incarnation of Christ on Earth, and the Cosmic Christ. She builds bridges between the spiritual research of Rudolf Steiner, the Nag Hammadi writings, and the gospels of Mary Magdalene and Judas, culminating in a comprehensive and wide-ranging picture of the Christ. By gaining insight into the nature of Christ’s being and undertaking practical exercises described here, each of us can achieve the new Christ Consciousness.

In ancient times, selected individuals underwent rites of initiation in secret mystery schools. Any student who made public the knowledge obtained there was put to death. In our time, however, the spiritual mysteries have become open and available to all. Initiation, van Dijk tells us, involves “walking the inner path to all-embracing love, which is known in Gnostic and esoteric lore as Christ, the highest divine Being,” leading to sublime, cosmic-orientated consciousness that comes into existence when the higher self exists wholly within the individual human being.

About the Author

Danielle van Dijk, MA, has taught literature, philosophy, and ethics at the Steiner Waldorf school in Zeist, Holland, for more than thirty years. During this time she has also made an intensive study of Christian esoteric teaching and Anthroposophy.