Of course, in the telling of it, the Jesus story got corrupted. The idea that God could take on human form, however, meant that we had come to an awareness that humanity might have a potential we had never realized before. This represented a major shift in consciousness. Next we began to entertain the story of the Holy Spirit, which served to universalize the Christ story. Now all people, not just Jesus, could be God-filled. There was no longer anything unique about a God-filled humanity. Maturity had begun to set in.
