Christ, or ‘Christos’, is a Greek word meaning the ‘anointed one’ and is another way of saying God-realisation, or the resurrection of Consciousness. Jesus of Nazareth was one who was awake as the living demonstration of Christ Consciousness, thus he is known as the Christ. But Christ Consciousness is not tied to an historical event and exists now as all realised beings, animated always and forever by the same Heart that lives us all. Ultimately, everyone must aspire and attain the Christ Consciousness, to awaken as Only God.

This is significant in that the raison d’être of the Hermetic Art, is the awakening to Christ Consciousness. It is as though we have reached a time when the expression of the essence of the Alchymie can be revealed in the truth of what it is.

Historically the passage of the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, held within the period of Lent and Easter, has been a significant event over the last 2000 years. When truly aligned to that passage, when truly experiencing it as a reflective consideration, we within the Hermetic Art, have made true use of the passage in the esoteric essence to which we have awoken to understand as its gift. The literal awakening of an individual to one’s own heart intuition and to be able to live that, is the significance of such an event.

The journey of the cross in the tradition carried by Christ, in esoteric terms, is revealed as that which we in our own journey of awakening, must allow ourselves to feel. The cross represents the vertical or social persona of which we identify within mortal form. The horizontal line being the awakening to that which is prior, or allowing the heart to truly awaken in its fullness across the horizontal plane. In order for that to occur, one must suffer the cross of one’s own existence. One must truly allow the death of egoic life, the death of where identification, differentiation and desire, revolve around creating the egoic personality which we have endured and built up over lifetimes. The lesson of this life is that the undoing and sacrifice of the frontal line, is the death of separative self – the death of the ego – the death of egoic life and the submission or heart awakening, yielding with the arms wide open to allow the cross of our own existence to be felt, known, lived, breathed and made manifest whilst alive.

There has not been the possibility of resurrection of Consciousness because it has been blocked by this dark epoch – the Age of Darkness, the layering of mindedness, the exoteric relationship to existence and the build-up of what has concretised as the cloak of doubt. So the significance and the wonder and unlocking of this passage is what this period can truly become for us through the use of these Alchymeic Energies.