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The multiple hypostases of Christ
The prophet Daniel spoke about the multiple hypostases of Christ.
The fifth Element
- The multiple hypostases of Christ
It is very important to understand the basic principle of the structure of Creation. In the Holy Trinity all Hypostases are angles of the Unique God the Father, as well as in Creation all four states are not some four different creatures,but four angles of the same God-Man. And if we bring the diversity of the created world in an integral state, we will see four Christs. This is what Creation. These are four Christs gathering in the fifth, in the Ancient of Days.
The fifth Christ represents four hypostatic centres gathered in one point. This is a state of the Seventh-Eighth Day, when all centuries will gather in one integral century. The distance between the hypostatic centres will disappear, that is why time will also disappear. There will be no time in the world of the future century. It will be a state of eternal rest.
Eternal rest is a Trinitarian light, gathered in an original state, in the same state that it was before the separation and refraction, before entering into Creation.
Here the four hypostatic centres meet together. The beginnings are connected to the ends, and it turns out, as it were again the three hypostatic centers located in each other.There is the Divine-Human Kingdom of the Most Holy Trinity.
The multitude of Christs, we have defined, does not mean a split personality. Here operate the same principles as in the being of the Holy Trinity. The three hypostases do not represent a split personality of God the Father, but three personal angles on Unique God. And the Son and the Holy Spirit are, so to speak, the flesh and blood of the same God the Father, and not of any other god.
The same is in Creation. Creation is a Unique God-Man Jesus Christ. Four hypostatic centres are four main angles of being of the Unique God-Man. And these angles are also individual, as individual are the Hypostases in the Holy Trinity.
There are three Persons God or three Hypostases; nevertheless, He does not lose the unity, because all Three Hypostases are Persons of the same God. If we take, for example, Easter cake and examine it from different angles, it will not transform into three Easter cakes. This is the principle of hypostatic being. Creation is structured in the same way.
Everything is the Unique Christ, but Creation has the beginning and end, the top and bottom.
And each angle of the world being is a live hypostasis of the Unique Christ. At the beginning of Creation, we see Christ Emmanuel or Jesus the Lamb. And at the end is Christ the King of Glory or Christ the High Priest, or Christ the Ancient of Days. Between the beginning and the end, there are two other Christs, marching in parallel to One Another on the river of time.The One is the Christ of the earthly church, the second - the Christ of the celestial church. First, they go separately and then, after passing the midpoint (the half of being), the earthly Christ interconnects with the celestial Christ, then, the procession continues together with clouds and heavenly force. This is already a state of the Messianic Kingdom.
The prophet Daniel spoke of multiple hypostases of Christ.
The multi-hypostatic structure of Creation is described in detail in Daniel: “I, Daniel, then looked and saw two other people standing, one on the near bank of the river, the other on the far. One of them said to the man dressed in linen who was standing further up the stream, 'How long until these wonders take place?' I heard the man speak who was dressed in linen, standing further up the stream: he raised his right hand and his left to heaven and swore by him who lives for ever, 'A time and two times, and half a time; and all these things will come true, once the crushing of the holy people's power is over' (Daniel 12:5-7).
Here is shown the state of Creation before passing the midpoint. The being is in a separate state. The earthly Christ is separated from the heavenly Christ, passing through the river of time. The Ancient of Days stays above the waters, in the middle, that is to say, He occupies the same place as the Hypostasis of the Father in the Holy Trinity, is dressed in linen. The linen is working clothing. That is, the Creation is still in a state of becoming, in a state of preparatory work,in a state of construction of the foundation of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Since the universe is in a state of entropy, for the moment, the forces of darkness have an advantage over the church. However, the situation changes dramatically after passing the midpoint. “This was the horn I had watched making war on the holy ones and proving the stronger, until the coming of the One most venerable who gave judgement in favour of the holy ones of the Most High, when the time came for the holy ones to assume kingship” (Daniel 7:21-22).
Now, the earthly Christ meets with the heavenly Christ, with the heavenly clouds. The history of the world passes already in a state of integral being, and the period of Messianic Kingdom begins. “I was gazing into the visions of the night, when I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, as it were a son of man. He came to the One most venerable and was led into his presence. On him was conferred rule, honour and kingship, and all peoples, nations and languages became his servants. His rule is an everlasting rule which will never pass away, and his kingship will never come to an end (Daniel 7:13-14).
Please note that the Son of man is led into the presence of the Ancient of Days, that is, he does not act independently, but through third-party assistance.This assistance is a holy people that constantly gave birth to Christ from their midst.That is why He is called the Son of man. This is the main feature of the structure of the Messianic kingdom.
Everything that happens in this period is done through the Sobor of saints. God fully passes the management of Himself into the hands of man. The Day of Judgment, as well as the universal preaching and the first resurrection of the dead, and all other extraordinary historical events of the messianic period, will be special projects, developed by the sobor of the saints, the sobor of the kings coming from the Orient.
The Lord will give the power of the universe to the Church, and the Church will give the power to God. Such will be the monarchy.
First, the saints must ascend to Heaven and obtain thrones. Only then the Saviour will enthrone over the world and go into a state of the Ancient of Days. Here, He will be dressed in brilliant white clothes. It is the colour of centuries gathered into a whole. Then, the history will enter the period of the first judgment.
“While I was watching, thrones were set in place and one most venerable took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool. A stream of fire poured out, issuing from his presence. A thousand thousand waited on him, ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. His throne was a blaze of flames, its wheels were a burning fire. The court was in session and the books lay open” (Daniel 7:9-10).
The fifth Element
No need to be surprised by the multitude of hypostases of Christ. We must think spiritually and keep in mind the example of Easter cake. No matter how many crumbs the cake contains, everything is the Unique soborial Body of Christ, with the difference that every crumb is an Easter cake, an integral cake, not only one crumb. It also has the size of Christ. We speak of spiritual things. We see a crumb and imagine one of the angles of the integral Easter cake.
The Kingdom of Heaven is an integral Unique Christ, gathered from the countless hypostases of God-Man. In every Christian is reflected the whole Christ. Thus, the Apostle Paul said: "... and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20).
For a visual explanation of this truth, Christ produced the well-known miracle: by five loaves of bread He nourished five thousand people.
We must remember that the main hypostases are only four. That is why there are four evangelists. And they all seek to unite in the fifth, in the Ancient of Days. And the Ancient of Days is the Kingdom of Heaven, the Heavenly Jerusalem. That is what represents the essence, both of man and of Creation. The nature of each of us potentially represents four Christs, seeking to gather in the fifth.
Guided by this understanding of the Project of God, the holy fathers invented the famous Easter cake. The Easter cake is a symbol of the world of the future century where all ages gather into a whole. Therefore, it is made from cheese, from white-coloured product.
The Easter cake is a symbol of the Ancient of Days. The four side surfaces rise and unite under the head of the fifth. These are four hypostasis of Christ gathered in the fifth hypostasis of the Ancient of Days. The Easter cake is the quintessence of the orthodox divine thought.And even not only of Orthodox thought, but in the broadest sense, this is simply the quintessenceof the entire system of scientific knowledge of the world. This is the fifth element of the world order. The point of gathering of the entire system of created being.This is the head of the created being. Therefore, when the knowledge about the fifth hypostasis of God-Man was removed from theology, the Christian world collapsed. Therefore, the revival of the Orthodox world order begins with the restoration of the gathering point of created being which is the Ancient of Days. Here, all scattered times of Russian world, due to natural processes, begin to gather into a whole.
