The word became flesh

Predhuman K. Joseph Dhar
The verse: “the Word became flesh”—is the Great Divide. In all other religions it is Word became Word—a philosophy, a moralism, a system, a technique, but for all time and all men everywhere, “the Word became flesh”—the Idea became Fact. The Almighty God in human form.
The Lord born of Mary is the only Person in the world Who ever had a prehistory to be studied not in the primeval slime and jungles, but in the bosom of the Eternal Father. Though He appeared as the Cave Man in Bethlehem, since He was born in a stable hewn out of rock, His beginning in time as man was without beginning as God in the ageless of eternity. Only progressively did He reveal His Divinity; and this was not because He grew in the consciousness of Divinity, it was due rather to His intent to be slow in revealing the purpose of His coming. So is the Feast of Christmas in its essence
He came for imparting a universal path to Lord God’s Kingdom. He was crucified. He resurrected and ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
It is important to make a clear distinction between Jesus and Christ. His given name was Jesus. His honorific title was “CHRIST”. In His little human body called Jesus was born the vast Christ Consciousness, the omniscient Intelligence of God omnipresent in every part and particle of creation. This Consciousness   is the “Only begotten Son of God,” so designated because it is the sole perfect reflection of the Transcendental Absolute, Spirit or God the Father.
It was of that Infinite Consciousness, replete with the love and bliss of God, that Saint John spoke when he said: “As many as received him (the Christ Consciousness), to them gave the power to become the sons of God.” Self-realization is the knowing—in body, mind and soul—that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are merely near it at all time, but that God’s omnipresence is our omnipresence; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. All we have to do is to improve our knowing.
Saint John at the beginning of his Holy Gospel relates His prehistory as the Son of God:
“When all things began, the Word already was. The Word dwelt with God and what God was. The Word, then, was with God at the beginning, and through Him all things came to be; no single thing was created without Him.” (John 1:1-3)
Word means intelligent vibration, intelligent energy, going forth from God. Any utterance of a word, such as “flower” expressed by an intelligent being, consists of sound energy or vibration plus thought, which imbues that vibration with intelligent meaning. Likewise, the Word that is the beginning and source of all created substance is Cosmic vibration imbued with Cosmic Intelligence.
“In the beginning was the Word.” Whatever there is in the world is made according to the thought of God, for all things postulate thought. Every bird, every flower, every tree was made according to an idea existing in the Divine Mind. Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle held that thought was abstract. Now, the thought or Word of God is revealed as Personal, wisdom is vested in Personality. Prior to His earthly existence, Jesus Christ is eternally God, the Wisdom, the Thought of the Father. In His earthly existence, He is that Thought or Word of God speaking to men. The words of men pass away when they have been conceived and uttered, but the Word of God is eternally uttered and can never cease from utterance. By His Word, the Eternal Father, expresses all that He understands, all that He knows. As the mind holds converse with itself by its own thought, and sees and knows the world by means of His thought, so does the Father see Himself, as in a mirror, in the Person of His Word. Finite intelligence needs many words in order to express ideas; but God speaks once and for all within Himself- one single Word which reaches the abyss of all things that are known and can be known. In that Word of God are hidden all treasures of wisdom, all secrets of sciences, all the designs of art, all the knowledge of mankind. But this knowledge, compared to the Word, is only the feeblest broken syllable.
In the agelessness of eternity, the Word was with God. But there was a moment in time when He had not come forth, from the Godhead, as there is a moment when a thought in the mind of man is not yet uttered. As the sun is never without its beam, so the Father is never without His Son; and as the thinker is not without a thought, so in an infinite degree, the Divine Mind is never without His Word. He had a Word with Him equal to Himself.
“ The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us,” This is one of many ways in which God assures His children of His awareness of their need for His presence amongst them. “The Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14) “Which being interpreted is ‘God with us” (Matthew 1:23).
The coming of God in flesh speaks of Divine intercession to mitigate the Cosmic Law of Cause and Effect by which man suffers from his errors. The mission of love the Second Person of the Holy Trinity Jesus Christ came to fulfil. Moses brought the law from God to man, emphasizing the awful justice that befalls wilful heedlessness.
Lord Jesus Christ came to demonstrate the forgiveness and compassion of Almighty God, whose love is a shelter even from exacting law. “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”(John 15:13). Such was the exceptional mission shouldered by the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Lord God is with man in the darkest moments as well as in enlightened times. He reminded a world fearful of their Creator as a God of wrathful judgement that, though “God as spirit: and that they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth,: (John 4:24) the Absolute is also a personal God who can be appealed to in prayer and who responds as a loving Heavenly Father.

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