This will be an attempt to explain "a" symbolic meaning for the Christian Cross ... as it applies to any individual's true relationship to it.
I suggest a little mental exercise, not a difficult one, rather simple, relax and give it a try.
First picture a simple unadorned cross against a white background ... recognize that it has two major aspects, the horizontal "line" and the vertical "line" ... most of all realize that those two lines INtersect at the Center. There in the very center of said Cross is the crossroad, the very "junction-point" DoorWay to GOD.
That Center is Truly representative of a Balance Point rather than a polarizing extreme which a particular "end" of a line, designated dualistically as positive (+) and "good" would mean in the "traditional sense" which "required" it's opposite, the negative (-) or "bad" at the "other" end of said line ...
One line at a time here for best understanding ... ("best" understanding being the esoteric meaning as opposed to the common exoteric meaning).
Humanity, and most Christians in particular, tend to do the "judgmental thing" in seeing things from a linear scale such as their existence upon a horizontal line with "perfection" at the positive (+) end which they call good, love and God ...
Then at the "other" (opposite) end, the end that they deem negative (-), lies the "wrong" choices in life, that which is to be avoided and fought off because it is destructive, fearful and hateful ... "evil" ... Such are the "judgments" associated with linear dualistic (+/-) thinking ...
Those very same "judgments" could as well be applied to human dualistic perceptions of a "vertical" line as well as the horizontal ...
Next let us speak of the vertical line, having agreed for the purpose of this discussion that the human condition, as described already, was associated with the horizontal line.
Let us for the sake of this example call the vertical line the "Divine Designator" where it would stand for that "other realm" where God was the positive (+) at the very top and Satan stood represented by the negative (-) at the very bottom ... naturally we would call PERFECTION to be the Top of said line ...
But how many "Church Authorities" mention these two lines of THE CROSS ??? I suspect that most preach utilizing ONLY ONE line ... (remember the admonishment that one must "never fence sit in the middle of the line" ? That being a "grey area" subject to the clutches of Satan himself and his enticements ... that one should always strive for the "far right" of righteousness, as close to God/Christ as one can get ... yet all are advised that they can never achieve an "actual union" during this lifetime ... so say the preachers.
I propose that such linear striving is much akin to attempting to reach the "pot of gold" at the "end of a rainbow" ... (like a tiger chasing it's tail).
All of this because of "dualistic" thinking about extremes and ends, with a self generated VOID [symbolized in duality (+/-) via the (/) in between said choices], a "place" undefinable that you cannot "put your finger on" and thus fear as an unknown that could be Dangerous ... after all, it is right next to the linear theoretical point where evil actually begins ... best to stay way clear of "that" ... right ?
WRONG ... (IMnsHO anyway) ...
Lets go back to that Cross' INtersection ... allow that the very SPIRIT of GOD resides the strongest as a NEUTRAL (=) PRESENCE right there IN BETWEEN ALL POTENTIAL EXTREMES ... designated symbolically as a TRINITY of (+=-) ...
Said SPIRIT being The Bridge (=) that CAN UNITE the extremes, an INclusive presence based upon non-judgmental UNconditional Love with "no strings" attached .
Said SPIRIT doing away with the previous VOID (/) of duality, changing the "old" (EXclusive) duality of (+/-) via TRANSCENDENCE to a the Trinity of (+=-) ... (+=-)>(+/-) !!!
How can that work you might ask ??? ... well, let us go back to the picture of said cross on the original white background ... then picture in our minds as a staring point or beginning, ourselves standing at said intersection as the physically manifested creation of GOD ...
If we were to use only the one horizontal line for physical reference, as said before, we would gravitate to the extreme end we called good (+) in order to get closer to God or Christ ... and naturally, as said before, stay way away from the "other" end.
BUT ... still standing at the very center for proper perspective of the whole ... let us "imagine" the real truth as it really is ... that each of those "line ends", both horizontal and vertical, do NOT END, they actually are part of a complete spherical circle that continue on, turning back on themselves, and coming together again out of our "sight" culminating in GOD ... and only "there" could there be any potential final judgment ... if any.
Point being ... that everything is interconnected and relative withIN our UNIverse as a Part of GOD ... INterconnected via Spirit as the Neutral Balance Point (=) of each and every whole natural truth which IS A RELATIVE PERFECTION !!!
With Spirit all is perfect as it should be and to each their diverse own, hopefully in cooperative and thus creative synergy, but also allowed, is our free choice to do otherwise, even fearful hateful and destructive things ... BUT ... Spirit keeps track via KARMIC ACCOUNTING and what goes around comes around, sometime in the bigger picture of eternity (not always evident in this singular lifetime) ...
Meaning that it should NOT be GOD that we seek as residing at some extreme end of some scale, but GOD's Spirit that resides already withIN each of us at our highest truth realization which would be our personal Soul realization and perfection as what we are meant to achieve during this very lifetime ... after that, all proceeds automatically on our continuing journey resulting in the ultimate UNITY with our ALPHA SOURCE culminating at the OMEGA ENDING where for the first time we realize that we began there ...
Sorry, it took more words than I intended ... but the TRUTH THAT SETS ONE FREE is contained withIN this "message" ...
Again, considering our individual perspectives of being centered in that Cross INtersection, we are protected from any potential evil because in that sense Spirit is between it and us actually attempting to show each of us the proper path and way back to our source ... non-judgmentally.
And also, each and every one of us is a singular cross among an infinity of such crosses that are all interconnected spiritually across the complete sphere of what is both GOD AND our UNIVERSE ...
I hope that someone was helped to see the greater picture of our unified inter-connective relationship(s) ... :-) Jerry Kays, Nov 8, 2008, 1:37pm EST
(reprint from: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977501383 )
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