25. When he descends from the height of contemplation, however, he remembers enough to enable him to laugh at the echoes of his former doubts and fancies and misconceptions, and to make him realize the marvellous power of the natural living symbolic language that underlies the words of the mystery-narrative that sets forth the story of the Christ.
POSTCRIPT.
The vision itself is not so marvellous as the instruction; nevertheless it allows us to see that the Cross in its supernal nature is the Heavenly Man with arms outstretched in blessing, showering benefits on all—the perpetual Self-sacrifice (F., 330). And in this connection we should remind ourselves of the following striking sentence from The Untitled Apocalypse of the Bruce Codex, an apocalypse which contains perhaps the most sublime visions that have survived to us from the Gnosis:
“The Outspreading of His Hands is the manifestation of the Cross.”
And then follows the key of the mystery:
“The Source of the Cross is the Man [Logos] whom no man can comprehend.”
(See Hymn of Jesus, p. 53.)
No man can comprehend Man; the little cannot contain the Great, except potentially.