Chapter 9The Avatar

All the details and complications are appearances mostly added by men in order to give a symbolic expression to invisible qualities.

29 September 1967

* Avatar — the Supreme manifested on earth in a body.

* The Avatar: the supreme Divine manifested in an earthly form — generally a human form — for a definite purpose.

* The Divine, being all-powerful, can lift people up without both-ering to come down on earth. It is only if it is part of the world arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way that avatarhood has any meaning.

6 March 1935

* Men tolerate the presence of the Divine upon earth only on condition that He suffers there.

* Only when men depend exclusively on the Divine and on nothing else, will it no longer be necessary for the incarnate god to die for them.

2 August 1952

* The chief purpose of the “avatar” is to give to man a concrete proof that the Divine can manifest upon earth.

12 July 1954

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