The Full Meaning of the Christian Cross

In this post, I will discuss both the superficial and the truest and most esoteric meaning - the sacred geometry - of the Christian Cross -

In this post, I will discuss both the superficial and the truest and most esoteric meaning - the sacred geometry - of the Christian Cross - the King of all symbols. In order to fully understand its symbolism, one must know one of the deepest secrets of the hidden world, which is the rupture between the Old and New Testaments.

As a disclaimer: I am a Gnostic Christian. I do not seek to offend other types of Christians; and I know that simply stating one's informed and good-intentioned beliefs about such an important religious topic can be enough to ferment negative feelings of anger and so on in the minds of many. But my intent with this post is the opposite: it's to inform and deepen the connection of the reader to Christianity (even if he is not Christian).

The most well-known and apparent meaning of the Cross is sacrifice - more specifically, martyrdom.

The most sacred act of all is that of self-sacrifice for a greater cause. There is a dichotomy between the sacrifice of others for one's own sake (which is satanic) and self-sacrifice for the sake of others (which is Christian).

One of the most important messages of Christianity is that suffering sanctifies. While it may seem, to the uninitiated, a harsh, or perhaps twisted principle, it is, actually, one that frees one's soul - quite literally. Once you become mentally and spiritually aligned with this ideal, you attain inner peace, and all burdens become lighter. Of course, this is not to say you become immune to suffering - even Christ, the perfect man, doubted God during the moment of his greatest pain.

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Psalm 22:1

The strongest root of the idea that suffering sanctifies oneself comes from Christ's story, but more broadly, from the message of the New Testament - which is that of distillation.

Christ is a winepress; and the grapes are his subjects, whose bodies are turned into pure wine from sacrifice.

The demiurge is a being of both good and evil. He is chaos personified; the spirit of the abyss. The world he created is cursed with duality. Once you come to this realization, the stories featured in the Old Testament make perfect sense - they present to us a mixture of good and evil in their developments and conclusions. And some groups which worship the demiurge adhere to this logic - they follow the axiom of order out of chaos, often manufacturing chaos to create the order which they desire from it. They commit good deeds only to the same extent of their bad ones. They often reserve their goodness to their own kin through in-group preferences and protections and their evilness to the others.

Even the heavily altered versions of the Bible we read today - which were altered with the purpose of hiding many of its secrets and plainly-stated truths - feature excerpts which indicate this - going as far as to call the demiurge the devil; especially in the books of John and Matthew, the two authors who witnessed Jesus directly if we are to believe it.

"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44

Many 'conventional' Christians would then say something along the lines of "God had a change of character from the Old to the New Testament"; however, this does not take into account the fact that this God was supposed to be perfect; and thus, never-changing; nor does it explain why said God describes himself as jealous and why he is so mischievous, wrathful and unfair in his judgement, punishing innocents alongside evildoers (see the flood and the plagues of Egypt). Of course, the argument is quite complex, with many questions and answers; and I will not dedicate this post to expanding upon it to the fullest extent. What is important to understand is that the demiurgic God of the Old Testament is, as I've claimed, a God of good and evil.

The New Testament then preaches an opposite message - to separate good from evil; to achieve the golden formula of the spirit. Jesus is, then, the embodiment of pure gold; goodness personified. He came to destroy duality itself, despite being chained to it as a corporeal being - which is why he suffered the worst punishment of all, and had to sacrifice himself for our sake.

The ultimate denial of the duality is the voluntary abandonment of the material for the sake of the spiritual - a literal self-sacrifice. Of course, this does not mean that one should forsake his own life for naught; but that one should strive to work hard for an aim greater than himself - a good aim, that is -, and devote himself entirely to it. Through adversity, a man becomes stronger. This is a cosmic law, which is manifested in microcosmic forms all the time; in order for us to become wiser, we must sacrifice our time and mental energy; in order to become stronger, we must exercise the body, sacrificing our physical energy. We must not seek comfort; but greatness. And the path to greatness is always the harshest, for which there are no shortcuts.

To live without the fear of death is the greatest form of enlightenment; and the greatest freedom. Christ transcended life itself - even returning from death -, and came here to tell us to strive for the same, to reach the eternal paradise, which stands in contrast to the earthly world. Which is what the Cross most importantly represents: the complete rupturing of the paradox.

The material world is the square, the cube, the dark; and the spiritual is the circle, the Pi, the formless light. The Cross is the negation - the deconstruction of the cube. It literally represents an unfolded cube - for Jesus transcended the material world through the suffering and death on the Cross; his arms were spread like the wings of a bird - for he was like a white dove - a common bird, as Christ was a common man; the color white being that of the soul and of purity. The cube was unmade, and Jesus' soul was freed from his corporeal prison and ascended to paradise.

The reason why Jesus came to the earth as a jew to become their king, and contradictorily why he is hated by many jews, is precisely because he came to them with revolution - they were the protagonistic worshippers of the demiurge; they dreamt of an earthly paradise, which they would rule from a physical Israel; and Jesus essentially denied them that dream, saying they should disregard the earth for heaven, which is the only true, eternal paradise. He proclaimed their God to be evil, and said they should follow his word instead. Christianity is, at its core, the most extreme belief there is in this world - the greatest revolution ever known to men.

There is a jewish ritual which involves placing a black cube (the Tefillin) over the forehead - the place where your third eye (representing spiritual ascension) would be - and one over the upper arm - the tool with which the jew is to enact the will of his God.

There is another jewish ritual which involves the sacrifice of a chicken - the chicken representing Jesus Christ, the bringer of dawn - to free themselves of their sins by tricking their God into believing the animal absorbed their misdeeds. They ritualistically reenact Christ's murder to cleanse their souls.

(I do not condone hate of any kind; this is merely a discussion about religion. I do not believe any group of individuals to be evil. All can and should be loved and redeemed; this is also part of Christ's ultimate message.)

To conclude, let me point you to two excerpts which perfectly encapsulate this idea.

Jesus was led through the desert - the realm of Azazel, who my next Biblical post will be about - to meet with satan himself. The devil tempted Jesus after a fasting that lasted for forty days and forty nights - 4 being the number of the material. The journey represents Christ transcending - through the harshest possible path, the empty and perilous desert - the material realm. During a moment of great need, the climax of his journey, satan offered Jesus the entire world if only he bowed down to him - for the devil is the king of all earthly kings.

But Jesus, his counterpart, is the supreme King of Kings - the King of Heaven. And thus, he refused the deal.

"Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, 'All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.'

Then Jesus said to him, 'Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.'" Matthew 4:8-10

And finally, when Jesus was on the cross, he was mocked for, supposedly, being a false king, a false messiah; but those who mocked him did not understand his kingship was not over the earth, which is ruled by satan, but over the heaven; they were fools who did not understand that his crucifixion only brought him closer to perfect greatness, and that he did not seek to be physically saved from his unjust punishment. The crucifixion was the culmination of the ceremony of his coronation - thus the crown of thorns, a symbol of his kingship, a crown which hurts its owner. Christ's last words were "It is finished".

"Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, 'So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!'

In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. 'He saved others,' they said, 'but he can’t save himself! Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.' Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him." Mark 15:29-32

This is the end of this post. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you all have enjoyed it! I sincerely thank you for your support. May you all have a great day!