Source: Talk:A Working SolSeed Christology

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A working SolSeed Christology is a statement about Christ interpreted through the central tenet of SolSeed -- Life is Precious.

Within the Christian tradition, Christ is the beloved Son of God, through whom abundant life comes to all human beings. 

Members of SolSeed understand all life as part of Christ, embodying Christ, and ultimately fulfilling Christ. 

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Because life is precious, members of SolSeed seek the full expression and fulfillment of each individual life, and of Life as a Whole (the "body of all life"). Our ultimate virtue is to fully express life by embracing and embodying our fullest potential (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics). By doing this, we give expression to our deepest being, that "being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; *myself* it speaks and spells, ' Crying *What I do is me: for that I came* (Gerard Manley Hopkins). When we express our being fully, we embody and express Life itself, that is, Christ: "Christ plays in ten thousand places, / Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his / To the Father through the features of men's faces" (Gerard Manley Hopkins).

We bring life not only through our fulfilled being in the world, but also through our actions.

As we perform our work in the world, we are performing the work of Christ, and bringing fulfillment to Christ.

Teilhard de Chardin: 
"It is through the collaboration which he stimulates in us that Christ, starting from *all*created things, is consummated and attains his plenitude. . . . [Creation] continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world . . . and we serve to complete it, even by the humblest work of our hands. That is, ultimately, the meaning and value of our acts. Owing to the interrelation between matter, soul and Christ, we bring part of the being which he desires back to God *in watever we do.* With each one of our *works,* we labour--in individual separation, but no less really--to build the Pleroma; that is to say, we bring to Christ a little fulfilment." (The Divine Milieu pg. 62)

"Each one of our works, by its more or less remote or direct effect upon the spiritual world, helps to make perfect Christ in his mystical totality."

SolSeed is the body of all life related to the star Sol, and members of SolSeed support the complete expression of all forms of life, not just human forms: "Each mortal thing does one thing and the same; Deals out that being indoors each one dwells" (Gerard Manley Hopkins).