Christ Nature
& Versistasis
On the Platonic Forms as qualities of human presence, the metaphysics of genetic heritage, and a new term for the inter-woven associability of the divine within the genetic line — toward a theory of everything.
Why Christ's Nature
Still Matters
There has been a great deal of talk about the lineage of Jesus Christ — much of it stirred by the wake of popular works like The Da Vinci Code. I wanted to develop an understanding of a deeper metaphysical system: one that moved past the sensationalism and engaged seriously with what Christian thought, integrated with Judaic studies, actually proposes at its most fundamental level.
It is upsetting to hear those who disregard the life of Jesus of Nazareth as unimportant, when Christians have supremely fomented the global reforms we see today in this extraordinary age of technology. These are not incidental connections. The ethos of Christ — the striving for an ultimate ideal, the sanctification of human dignity, the insistence on moral accountability — runs like a structural thread through the development of Western civilisation and its scientific ambitions.
These reasons were behind my attempts to further develop an understanding of the Christian ethos at the fundamental level — by integrating Judaic studies — so that, outwardly in the face of media hype and general sensationalism, I could engage with Christian ideology with capable hands. Not to defend doctrine, but to understand the metaphysical architecture that doctrine has always been, imperfectly, attempting to describe.
The very striving for an ultimate ambition so personified classically by Jesus Christ has been the standard motivation for advance — and though through history countless have fallen victim to such a guise as have been ascending by its force, the bona fide intentions remain our concern, whether physically present or absent. — Original text, c. 2009
The Question of
Lineage and Procreation
The Catholic Church's position on the possibility — or actuality — of Jesus of Nazareth having procreated is one of the more consequential silences in institutional theology. The popular imagination, stirred by fiction and by genuine historical scholarship on the margins, has filled that silence with speculation. What the speculation misses is the deeper metaphysical question: what would it mean, ontologically, if the Christ nature — the quality of divine-human presence that Jesus embodied — were transmitted through genetic heritage?
The Church's teaching of Christ's perpetual virginity and celibacy is not merely historical assertion — it is theologically load-bearing. If Christ procreated, the transmission of the divine nature becomes biological as well as spiritual, which complicates both the unique mediatory role of the Church and the doctrine of Christ's full divinity. The institutional stake in the question is therefore very high.
Serious scholarship — Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln's Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982), Margaret Starbird's The Woman With the Alabaster Jar (1993), and the Gnostic Gospels — raises the question with more rigour than popular fiction. What these works share is the intuition that the transmission of Christ's nature may not be exclusively institutional or sacramental. It may also be relational, genetic, and experiential.
The deeper question is not biographical but metaphysical: what is the nature of the quality that Christ embodied, and how does it transmit through generations? This is the question that Platonic philosophy — specifically the theory of Forms — is uniquely equipped to address. Not the historical Jesus, but the Christ principle: the Form of which the historical Jesus was the most complete expression.
The Jewish understanding of covenant — the binding agreement between God and a people across generations — provides the relational framework within which Christ's nature as a transmittable quality makes sense. The commandment to honour one's parents is not merely ethical instruction: it is the recognition that the divine transmission operates through the family line as its primary vehicle. This is the Judaic ground of the Christian metaphysical question.
The Forms as
Qualities of Presence
For this monumental task I fathomed a concept based on Platonic philosophy — the tradition with which I most closely resonate. Rather than applying the Forms to abstract ideals, I typified the nature of the Forms through qualities inherent to the human condition as a whole.
Such Forms as Passage and Relations I thought to be the integral facets of conditioning upon the human psyche — necessary constituents that belonged to the title 'Christ' as a Form would be to a form, by titled qualities of human presence.
These typifications are constrained by the closest bonds of human society — family — and exist authoritatively by the same reason as the covenant demanding one to honour their parents. Since ownership of self has naturalistic duties, one can easily ascertain an informal cognitive definition of qualities of life, in standardised titles under sublime control: inferred qualities, as I termed them.
Extending Nature to
Christ Nature
I formally extended the concept of nature — which connotes only non-human affairs — to Christ Nature, and deemed this a necessary cosmic principle in understanding both human beings, individuality, society, and the mechanical constructs of the universe in the light of the adaptive Form.
If genetic heritage had the power to corrode or set the very fundamental fabric of mental coherency through ownership of supreme human traits, then there should be a tapestry likened to a family tree — one visible or at least prevalent energetically in the daily motion of life. The Christ Nature hypothesis proposes that this tapestry is not merely genetic but metaphysical: that the qualities transmitted through the genetic line are expressions of a deeper formal reality operating through but not reducible to biology.
Christ Nature is the Form of which Christ was the most complete historical expression — not the only expression, but the one in which all the qualities of divine-human presence were most fully actualised simultaneously. As the Sun is the archetype of all stars, Christ Nature is the archetype of all genuine human spiritual attainment.
The genetic line is the primary vehicle of Christ Nature's transmission, but it is not the only one. The quality can also transmit through teaching, through genuine relationship, through spiritual practice — but the genetic line carries a specific density of transmission unavailable through other channels. This is what the Jewish covenant tradition had always known.
The potential of the genetic line in the formulating theory was restricted — limited at the only feasible stage — that equally divided by the perimeter of an extended quality as an archetype like the solar system is, systemically constricted by size. A personification of the quality was still required to bind the concept to language and allow identification for secular reasoning.
Christ Nature as a cosmic principle means it is not merely psychological or theological — it is structural. Like gravity, it operates whether acknowledged or not. The faith-driven totality of motion within the cosmos is its expression at the largest scale; the individual life well-lived is its expression at the human scale. The two are fractally related.
A New Word for
An Ancient Reality
I created a new term for the inter-woven associability between those of the genetic line as so contrived by a personified Christ Quality. The term carries its meaning in its construction.
Versistasis is the condition that obtains when the Christ Nature is operating fully through a genetic line — when the interweaving of generations produces not mere biological succession but a living metaphysical coherence. It is the state in which the individual is genuinely in alignment with the qualities transmitted through their heritage, and through that alignment, participates in the larger cosmic ordering.
The term also captures a dynamic that purely biological or purely spiritual frameworks miss: the turning-and-holding, the verse-and-stasis, of a life that is both in motion and in equilibrium simultaneously. This is what the New Testament calls the peace that passes understanding — not the absence of movement but the presence of a still point around which movement organises itself coherently.
The Ideas in
Narrative Form
These philosophical concepts — Christ Nature, Versistasis, the Platonic Forms as qualities of human presence, the fractally ordered theory of everything — are developed in full narrative form across the six books of the Alchemy Series. A unique time-travelling dichotomy containing original interpretation of the holy scriptures, anthropomorphic myths, and cultural expositions, the series ranges across science fiction, philosophy, Christology, and astrology.
The series is available as individual titles in paperback and ebook, as audiobooks on Google Play (with PDF included), and as a complete Compendium containing all six titles as a single novel.
The thematic order:
- Versistasis
- Simbiotica
- Tetranomicon
- Spectronomy
- Pentacoast
- Versaflux
Plus the Compendium — all six in one volume.
Atemporal, Aspacial,
Fractally Synchronised
I propose Versistasis as a beginning of a theory of everything — an atemporal and aspacial, fractally synchronised, ordered understanding of time-space in which the Christ Nature operates as the formal principle connecting the sub-atomic with the galactic.
A judgment so described — the totality of motion within the cosmos informed by Christ Nature — is the accepted work of God, accepted by many as well beyond the possible understanding of any individual whilst ever striving for the ideal as Christ. Whilst in the potential of computation, an analytical power of systematic potentials can and may subscribe to such ultimate knowledge, as are known in genetic sequences, traits, and perhaps qualities of personality and behaviour.
The outcome of advancing science — with the alleviation of genetic disorders, the readability of genetic code at the surface level, the possibility of choosing in advance the qualities expressed in the next generation — could soon settle the debate over holiness once and for all. Where the genetic code is readable such that the choice of advance within the next generation is determined by accountable intelligence with legal parameters applied when broken — this represents what might be called the truest revolution of our age.
In such, a personification of the quality was still required to bind the concept to language and allow identification for secular reasoning. So all up I formally extended the concept of nature — which connotes only non-human affairs — to Christ Nature, and deemed this as a necessary cosmic principle in understanding both human beings, individuality, society and the mechanical constructs of the universe in light of the adaptive Form. — Original text, c. 2009
The Living Transmission
of the Christ Form
The Christ Nature hypothesis does not require the institutional Church as its guarantor. It requires genuine engagement with the qualities — Passage, Relations, Presence, Justice, Grace, Continuity — that Christ embodied most completely and that the Platonic tradition had already described as the Forms through which reality is structured.
Versistasis is the name for the condition in which those qualities operate in coherent alignment through a genetic line and a lived life — the still point of the turning world, the fractally synchronised order that connects the sub-atomic to the galactic through the medium of human presence fully inhabited.
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