The Sacred Heart

In which Jack’s destiny is not to rule, but to love. 

*Dusts off Catholic hat* *puts it on* SO anyone with eyes saw that this episode was FULL of the Christianity. Which is nice for me, because HEY I used to go there! And GREAT, now everyone who wasn’t picking up on the metaphysical underscoring of this show sure as hell is now. The imagery is universal; recognizable. The cross represents Jesus’s sacrifice for humanity. Two people standing opposite one another at an altar looks like marriage. The Virgin Mary is the mother, and Joseph is her husband. Jesus is their son, both human and divine. Crossroads of humanity and divinity. He died for forgiveness for our sins. 

Like all religions, Christianity places a lot of emphasis on death as a means of restoration, a non-ending. Birth and death are complementary and often, in the eyes of the universe, synonymous. But death is only cyclical, only a transition, when divine love is present; the Christian doctrine indicates divine love as the means through which we may know eternal life. If the light of Jesus’s love is shed upon us, we shall never know an end. We will live forever. In my neck of the woods, good old Roman Catholicism, the love of God which delivers us from sin is represented by this image:

The Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

The Passion of the Christ is the name for the say of suffering endured by Jesus of Nazareth before his crucifixion and death. Symbolism associated with the Passion is featured in this depiction of Jesus’s love: the spear that lanced his side has slashed his heart, and he bleeds his own blood and holy water. A crown of thorns encircles the heart. A cross lies above the heart. Besides this are the flames of divinity and the Holy Spirit, and the light of Christ’s love for humanity shining in a halo of golden rays.

The heart suffers, it bleeds, it dies, but its power of love can resurrect the dead and restore the living. 

As I said, anybody with eyes who saw that church scene understands that Dean is Joseph, and Cas is Mary. Dean, the earthly father, the masculine-aligned force, the surrogate parent. Cas, the caretaker and mother, tasked with guiding a child of divine eminence to his destiny. And between them, before the visage of Christ and his sacred heart, is Jack. The son, the child with the power to save the world. And he is the Garden, because it is within him, I mean literally, boy swallowed it. Jack is the crossroads of divinity and humanity. Dean and Cas are the union of divinity and humanity.   And he is the first to venture back to the Garden, the place where divinity and humanity meet, because he is neither– he is both. (Who are you really? Who are you meant to be?) And when he returns, he is restored; his ability to feel love, pain, remorse, regret, compassion, and the desire for forgiveness, is restored.

As Jack carries on with his own set of trials, his true nature will continue to be restored. His spirit will be renewed, and he will get closer and closer to the purity of union of divinity and humanity. When his time comes, this age’s Christ child’s sacred heart will glow like the Sun, and his love will deliver the world from damnation. But instead of liberation from the punishment of sin, humanity will be liberated from the punisher Himself– the tyrant God whose toys have long outgrown him.

Automatically my brain went here: 

If this isn’t exactly what Jesus wanted for the world, I don’t know what it is. 

GOOD FUCKING LORD IN HEAVEN, MAN. I'VE BEEN ATTACKED. PLEASE HELP.

Not only are they beautiful and talented, their presence on the show will make a bunch of bibros MISERABLE.

@mishamishayepmisha getting the priorities straight. 👌