The Human One

This weekend seems like an excellent one for discussing the Human One. Sophian Christians, or Followers of the Way, traditionally celebrate the Risen Christ on the Spring Equinox, but Easter Sunday seems like an excellent time to contemplate the deeper meaning of the Human One or the Human One of Light.

Ain, which means “no-thingness,” is a reference to the unknowable aspect of that which we also sometimes call God, better known in the Sophian tradition as Ain Sof. The Christian Kabbalah holds creation was born from Ain Sof’s own desire to reveal itself. What does it mean to be created in the image of God? This is a reference to our spiritual being which, when realized, makes us fully Human. Until we are realized we exist as Divine Potential, which is, in itself, an incredibly awesome, mind-blowing revelation. God is constantly revealing itself through creation and us… and through this revealing we have the ability to return more and more to an awareness of who we most truly are -- as we exist in Ain Sof. 

The Hebrew letters for Yahweh or YHWH, a name for God in the supernal realm, form a human being when laid out vertically, thus the Tetragrammaton. This is a deep and beautiful mystery. Within this is the truth of our innermost nature as individuals and as part of the Body of the Christos, the Human One of Light.

Yeshua Messiah was the first one in this human life wave to fully embody something of the Human One of Light. In Hayyah Yeshua divine potential is actualized. He was also the Opener of the Door for his disciples who saw through his resurrection that death is not real. He showed them – and those ready to hear and understand since that time – that the Way back home, back to our true nature, is as near as our own breath, our own being. He was born human but became fully Human, just like we have the ability to become.

There is much more to this mystery, but I thought this was a good place to start.