He must have been, if this was his meaning. Yet he showed perfection in his dedication to the truth. Only his followers, in limited numbers, have been willing to separate their spiritual expectations from common sense. Many naive Christians even today await the Second Coming as an act on the stage of history. An appearance everywhere on earth could only be to individuals here and there who were rapt in ecstasy or else, if outward, then as a new incarnation.
Divine experiences are outside of time and space.
Seemingly distant, at least in time, their truth is ever present beneath the surface restlessness of life. Paramhansa Yogananda used to say that time is like a motion picture film. It can be turned backward or forward at will by the projectionist, whose sense of time is unrelated to the episodes on the film. For if we think of God as the projectionist, time doesn't pass for Him as the film turns. If these truths seem abstract, they gain practical usefulness when we realize that our need, in seeking God, is to rise above the consciousness of time and space.