CHRISTOPHANY

 

 A fragment from Raimon Panikkar’s diaries, October, 1997:——

“I have practically finished the book about you, ‘Lord' Jesus Christ, the book of my love and my life – which has all been well hidden and few have understood.”[1]

This confession is poignant. It expresses my own sense of love for Christ which has been “well hidden” and which few have understood.

In the following prose/poem I attempt to capture what this “Christophany” means to me… not an exclusive claim to truth but a living symbol, penetrating into every manifestation of the human spirit, discovered in every authentic{religious] expression.[2]

Christophany
 
a shuddering, shattering, shimmering explosion of galaxy
 creating, star-throwing, gratuitous Love
shining in death defeating, body rising
 intensity of sheer tender, vulnerable willingness
 to surrender every defense to Divine Fire.

Christophany

 showing forth,
 manifesting,

   Divine-Cosmic-Human
 pure trinitarian relation

Jesus is Christophany,
 not exclusively but completely
 in his capacity for Love~ 
to BE Light.  
 
Such revelation is now ours to embody~
  human-cosmic-divine journey into Christ,

Symbol of Reality
(seen only with the third eye)

incarnating love and light. 

We have a way to go on this temporal plane. 
But, at the Center, 
where time and eternity meet, 
we have everything we need for the journey.

 

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[1]The Water of the Drop, Fragments from Panikkar’s Diaries, ISPCK, 2018, Delhi, p. 227

[2] Christophany, The Fullness of Man, Orbis, 2004, pp. 9-13