He Alone is Without Blemish

About this poem

Our Lord Jesus, as Christ and Savior was, by trade, profession or vocation a tekton, the Ancient Greek noun employed as a common term for an artisan, craftsman or mason; in particular a carpenter, woodworker or builder. In his earthly ministry of three years Jesus served humanity literally and metaphorically as a chiseler or molder of human morality, serving as a craftsman of human ethics. Observing the role of art and of the artisan in human cultures, societies and civilizations, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), states it this way: “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him” (Carl Jung, CW 15, par. 157, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul” published in Psychology Press, 2001. As artisan and craftsman, Jesus himself did not seek his own ends in his earthly ministry, but obeyed the will of his Heavenly Father, declaring on the cross, “not my will, but thine be done.” This seven-stanza poem portrays the divinity of Jesus as the LOGOS, the artisan without blemish, uniting the opposites in humanity and serving as a model for mankind to look up to and, with humidity, to follow. more »