In the Esoteric Christian tradition, (considered to be heresy among orthodox Christians), Essenian and later Rosicrucian, there is a distinction to be made between Jesus and the Christ [3]. Jesus is considered a high Initiate of the human life wave (which evolves under the cycle of rebirth) and of a singularly pure type of mind, vastly superior to the great majority of the present humanity. He was educated during his youth among the Essenes and thus prepared himself for the greatest honor ever bestowed upon a human being: to deliver his pure, passionless, highly evolved physical body and vital body (already attuned to the high vibrations of the 'life spirit'), in the moment of the Baptism, to the Christ being for His ministry in the physical world. Christ is described as the highest Spiritual Being of the life wave called Archangels and has completed His union ("the Son") with the second aspect of God.
In this western tradition, there is a clear distinction between the Cosmic Christ, or Christ without, and the Christ Within: the Cosmic Christ aids each individual in the formation of the Christ Within (also called soul body, the correct translation of Paul of Tarsus "soma psuchicon", or also the Golden Wedding Garment (Matthew 22:2,11)), however the emphasis is that the work needed to form the Christ Within is the responsibility of each individual. The Christ Within is regarded as the true Saviour who needs to be born within each individual in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in the Earth's etheric plane, that is, toward the "new heavens and a new earth": the New Galilee [4]. According to this tradition, the Second Coming or Advent of the Christ is not in a physical body but in the new soul body of each individual in the etheric region of the planet where man "shall be caught up IN THE CLOUDS to meet the Lord IN THE AIR" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The Day when this event shall be, as described in the Bible, is not in the human knowledge domain. The esoteric Christian tradition teaches that first there will be a preparatory period as the Sun enters Aquarius by precession: the coming Age of Aquarius.