Daily Meditation: Saturday, April 19, 2003

In order to do his work on earth, a spiritual master needs …

04/19/2003

In order to do his work on earth, a spiritual master needs a collective body. Some of his disciples are the eyes, the ears or the mouth of this organism. Others are the heart, stomach, lungs, arms, or legs... To the extent that he cannot bring this collective body to life, a master is limited. So the spirit of a great master strives to incarnate not only in his own physical body, but also in the collective body of a spiritual community, in order to develop this community and, through it, to help the whole of humanity. But in return, this collective body must work equally hard to help the spirit of the master incarnate and manifest within it. This is why, instead of remaining fixed on the body of Jesus nailed to the cross, a Christian's sole preoccupation must be to prepare himself to become a pure and luminous particle of this collective body which the spirit of Christ is working to animate. It is a fact that Jesus was crucified 2000 years ago; we cannot change that. But it is up to us now to reinforce the body of Christ so that its spirit can continue to work on earth.