The Seven Blessings of the Cosmic Christ

Source: THE RESURRECTION - Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary

A key for meeting the Second Coming of Christ on the etheric level, as St. John did, is to receive His seven blessings.  When we pray and meditate from the depths of our hearts, we invoke the presence of the Cosmic Christ and receive these seven Blessings, one after another, which, according to the Book of Revelation, were given after the messages to the Churches. These Blessings are like esoteric keys for the opening of the seven centers (chakras). Through work with these keys and receiving Christ’s living Blessings, we can illumine our chakras, become Christ-like beings and ultimately merge with Him.

• To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God (Revelation 2: 7) This first blessing is to reinforce the Christ impulse within and to link with Divine Love as the essence of Creation. In meditation we have to link with the immanent Christ who is the Light and Life of the world. This means to stand firmly in the stream of the Christ energy and to neutralise the negative Lucifer, Ahriman and Antichrist energies.

  
  

• Those who win the victory will not be hurt by the second death (Revelation 2: 11). The second blessing is connected with the mystical death of the ego personality and the establishment of ourselves on the Path of ascent. In deep prayer and meditation, we have to vow to serve and to love our Lord with all our power and strength and to love our neighbour as ourselves.

  
  

• To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it (Revelation 2: 17). If we achieve this state of devotion and commitment, we are entering into Creation as a living cosmos. We become sensitive to Creation as an ocean of living energies forming all the worlds. In this spiritual reality we understand the essence of ourselves as Divine sparks from God, as Divine monads, each with his or her own fragrance and potential for realisation.

  
  

• To those who win the victory, who continue to the end to do what I want, I will give the same authority that I received from my Father: I will give them authority over the nations, to rule them with an iron rod and to break them to pieces like clay pots. I will also give them the morning star (Revelation 2: 26-28). The fourth blessing is connected with our first resurrection, i.e. to be reborn as living souls from the substance of the "morning star". Let us remember here the Star of Jesus, which the shepherds saw in the fields. The purpose of the meditation here is to link with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to experience the "solar substance" of all the Divine virtues within our souls originating from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Universal Soul.

  
  

• Those who win the victory will be clothed like this in white, and I will not remove their names from the book of the living. In the presence of my Father and of his angels I will declare openly that they belong to me (Revelation 3: 5). After our spiritual rebirth we are ready to develop our spiritual bodies of Light, Love, Wisdom and Truth and to write our names in the Book of the Living. On this level the prayers and meditation have to lead us into the celestial world, experiencing the vision of human souls sprouting into the Garden of Paradise as Divine flowers with exquisite beauty, fragrance and colours. On the other hand this fifth blessing is an intensive work in the Mystery School of the Spirit for achieving the second resurrection in the Highest Divine world.

  
  

• I will make him who is victorious a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on him my new name (Revelation 3:12). The sixth blessing is connected with the awakening of our Divine Self and becoming cosmic-spiritual beings living in all three worlds of Creation. The prayers and meditation here have to link us with the Cosmic Christ and prepare us for meeting his Second Coming as St. John saw Him in accordance with the Book of Revelation (Chapter 1: 10-20).

  
  

• To those who win the victory I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and now sit by my Father on his throne (Revelation 3: 21). If we enter into direct contact with the Cosmic Christ as the First and the Last, the beginning and the end, we could enter into a very deep mystical state – experiencing unity with the Cosmic Christ as the Word through Whom God made all things: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not (John 1: 5).

In every spiritual tradition we find profound and inspiring descriptions of the great spiritual journey of the human being through the two resurrections towards complete self-realisation and final liberation in God.

A very important key Blessing before the last, the seventh one, which means reaching the Throne of God, is the sixth Blessing: I will make him who is victorious a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never leave it.  I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from my God.  I will also write on him my new name. (Revelation 3:12):

The New Jerusalem is the Kingdom of God with many mansions which are the spiritual worlds of the various religions.  Everyone, regardless of spiritual tradition, who feels called by the spirit within, is encouraged to join an amazing spiritual journey and to receive this Divine blessing.

The new initiation of the transcendent Christ will help us to build ourselves as micro-models of the Universe and to grow the Universal Tree of Life within us.  The archetype of the Universal Tree is a symbol of the three-fold structure of Creation. So, when we receive all seven blessings of the Cosmic transcendent Christ and as a result open completely our seven chakras, we become able to live in the whole vertical structure of Creation as 'Universal Trees of Life':  with our roots (the physical body and the personality) in the physical world, with our trunks (our souls) in the celestial world, and with our crowns (our Divine Selves) in the highest Divine world. 

We could summarize that these blessings are like seven stations on our ascent towards immortal life in the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth.  Here a striking comparison can be made between the fourteen stations of Jesus Christ connected with the Cross of Crucifixion and the seven stations related to the Cross of Immortality. The Second Coming opens the new mysteries of the transcendent Christ with seven stations on the path to immortal life in the new reality.  Of course, both mysteries - the fourteen Stations of the Cross of Crucifixion and the seven Stations of the Cross of Immortality are two sides of the same Divine process - the manifestation of the macrocosmos into the microcosmos and the reverse. They reflect the ultimate meaning of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on Earth and the glorious ascent of humankind back to Him.

As a result, the initiation of the immanent Jesus Christ in His first Coming, symbolized by the Real Vine will be complemented by the initiation of the transcendent Christ, symbolized by the Universal Tree within the human being. The initiation of the Real Vine came to replace the old Hebrew initiation of the Fig Tree (see Matthew 21:18 - 21). The old Hebrew initiation, symbolically expressed in the parable of the Fig Tree, is the external reception of spiritual fruits, that is to say receiving knowledge and experience from without, with the help of priests and initiates. The initiation of the Real Vine (see John, Chapter 15) is an inner initiation, a merging with the immanent Christ and life in Him. In this initiation every thought, feeling and action in our spiritual bodies become enlivened by the rays of the life-giving Christ-Spirit within. The initiation of the Universal Tree is an inner initiation as well, but merging with the transcendent Christ and blessed by Him to develop ourselves as Cosmic Christ-like beings and to produce spiritual fruits ourselves as a result of our merging with the Cosmic Christ.