Now is Christ Risen from the Dead

Jesus is what God is DOING. He is the ACTIVITY, present continuous, as an aspect of God's consciousness. God is saving us by the illumination of the Holy Spirit directing us away from our inherent ignorance. God doing that process is "Jesus."

God's Anointing of awareness upon OUR consciousness fluctuates in degree. He - always there - can increase or decrease our awareness of being one with Him. It can seem to go away completely, or increase to an intense sense of presence. He is always present (we would not exist otherwise, as He is everything). Thus He "will never leave nor forsake" us, but He seems to become present or to return when our flagged sensitivity is increased.

From Handel's Messiah (Job 19:25-26; I Corinthians 15:20):

"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep."

In the latter days of our lives, He will "stand upon the earth" in and as us, anointing our awareness of Him. We are the "dead" He rises in! Dead in sensing His presence and power. In the Season of Grace the Anointing became present. A man's awareness melded with It, and the man became a living spirit, the Messiah, after he, a spiritually anointed man, WITH the Anointed Spirit of YHWH, died. Together as one they were the illustration - in the flesh - of God's activity, which is the Godhooding of us! THAT is the 'Jesus' we know of the New Testament: God's activity of saving us from the ignorance of unawareness.

Was there a human son of Mary, or was (is) Mary herself an image of God's activity in us? I am inclined to say there was, for God is doing the same with us. Or was and is He the personification of a very real aspect of God which is YHWH, the thing we are destined to become? Again I am inclined to say He was. Can't have both? I am inclined to say we can. For that is the deal about the Season of Grace: the image IS what it is an image of, (...?) manifest.