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ChristChristJesus Christ as the central figure of Christianity. Matthew 27 depicts the soldiers' mock coronation with a robe and crown of thorns before crucifixion; Philippians 2 describes Christ humbling himself and becoming…Read full entry → is not the ego.
But the ego can use Christ.
That is the danger.
Any image powerful enough to save can also be stolen by the self that wants to survive. Any symbol bright enough to reveal sourceIs — SourceIs names unclaimed being: awareness before possession, distinction, or identity.Read full entry → can be turned into a crown. Any name that opens the heart can be hardened into doctrine, nation, institution, hero-image, savior-brand, or spiritual identityThis — IdentityThis names the formed identity: the body, role, image, wound, belief, or story claimed as what the self is.Read full entry →.
Christ stands at that threshold.
That is why the symbol is so volatile.
In one register, Christ appears dangerously close to HorusHorusIn Geomytha, Horus names the identity that forms after claim: This — the body, role, image, wound, belief, or story taken as what the self is.Read full entry →: son, child, king, public image, wounded body, miracle-worker, crowned figure, visible savior, resurrected form. He appears in the field of This, the field of image and identity.
But that is not the whole pattern.
At…
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