St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-06

the disciples discernment of jesus
teaching. or manifestation of the
Christ. But he had now made way
through that veil, the flesh; he had rent
it and destroyed it at the ascension.
lSee Heb. X, 90 And so their
Sense OF Their Own Flesh
was rent asunder; and they. through
spiritual eyes, looked beyond the veil
and read Jesus teachings spiritually.
and beheld all the acts Of His life in
their spiritual Specification. They saw,
! for the first time, that he had revealed
an simpasslble gulf between flesh mat-
teri and sprit-tle one being unreal
and temporary, AMI the other real and
eternal. They remembered that he had
said That which is born of the spirit is
spirit. and that which is born of the
flesh is flesh" This had been: his la
comic reference to that eternal gulf.
| Their Teacher had not labored to re-
store the fallen image of God to the di-
vine likeness, as they had supposed. but
to teach and prove by actual demonstra-
| ton that that image had never fallen,
but remained eternally spiritual and
upright. He labOred to impress the idea
! that God Is not the author of the SEEM
ing material man, who is unlike Him In
every respect, but that which God Gre
ates is spiritual and perfect and ever re-
mains so. But spiritual man. created in
| Gods likeness, is discerned only by
| crucifying and destroying the lustS or
carnal mind and the flesh and allowing
the spiritual to gain the ascendancy.
! They now knew Jesus taught and actIl-
\ ally demonstrated this for their benefit
as all object lesson, just as musician
plays chords i'll the presence of his stu
dents to demonstrate the principle and
rules OF harmony which Ee is teaching.
| The divine i'll Jesus met and destroyed
| all the human from the manager to the
| ascension. Thus he demonstrated his
way out of illusory sin and flesh into
the realities of spirit, ever reckoning
| his followers on and saying: II am the
day, follow Me-" By returning 60;
| for evil. healing the sick, giving sight
| to the blind and hearing to the deaf,
raising the dead, walking the wave,
sitting the storm, drying up the fig tree,
| and turning water into wine, He
Proved Spiritual Law Real
and all inclusive and material law an
Illusion. By partial understanding of
| this His followers succeeded in triumph
| ing over many sins in themselves and
| doing much good healing. Thus were
| their feet planted in the Way Gin
| Christi. The light of this baptism of
truth also revealed to the disciples the
significance Of the crUcifxion, teaching
| man to cruelty the flesh and die to it's
lusts and affections that he might live
| spiritually.
| The lesson of the resurrection taught
| them that the only life and identity of
man is spiritual and eternal, and proved
| the complete control of the BODY after
| crucifying and destroying its evil de-
sIres and propensities. The ascension
| lesson, also. was now more fully inter-
preted. At the time of its occurrence
| they learned that the body was van
pushed as being no necessary part of
| Gods Son. Now they understood it to
have been myth, an optical illusion,
an imperfect conception of man held in
| human consciousness - what you will,
| but not real. He had "gone up'' into a
higher consciousness, saying: $50, l
am with You always" and they knew
Ee had not gone away, but remained in
| their presence in the true essence of
being. Then had followed their aseen-
| sion to higher spiritual altitude, where
III they became conscious of the pres
ence of Himself and the Father, Just as
| Jesus. while clothed in the flesh, was
conscious of the presence of God. They
now grasped the faith of the truth He
| taught, !. e., the divine nature of man,
identical with that of Christ, and indis-
s0luoly coexistent with God. For the
| first time they read the meaning of
their Teachers words, "In that day We
] shall know that the Father is in Me,
and in you and We in Me, that we may
be made perfect i'll one" LII other
words, God is My Father and your
Father. therefore we are His child equal
] ~ as L am, the Divine image being
equally reflected in we and Me, making
| perfect oneness between tae Father
and Me and ye." This is
The Second Coming
OF Christ. 1t comes to every man indi-
vidually when he discovers the Christ
| III himself; that is, when he understands
that the Christ embraces all of Gods
| children. including Jesus of Nazareth
80 we, being many, are one body in
| Christ, and every one members one of
another" Romans xii, 5; also see xiii,
IA; viii, 1, 2, 10. II, II.
| Those faithful truth seekers now
| found themselves fulfilling the prophet
| &c parable of the prodigaI son. whose
| guilt had filled him with sense of hay-
ing been cut off from his father: but.
| returning, was overjoyed to find his
| sonship. with all its power and priyi-
| leges, unchanged.
And so. now, endowed with the truth
| and power of divine sonship-the very
| christ pOWer-their evangelical work of
converting sinners and healing the sick
| was wonderful.
why has not this power accompanied
CHRISTIAN work through the centuries
that followed? Because Jesus teaching
! could reach only those whose spiritual
| insight was far in advance of the age.
nj
imam sense. was necessarily brought into
the world before the world in general
was ready for it. In living words and
DEEDS 1t has for eighteen hundred years
hung aloft i'll the atmosphere of omnip-
| otent love. and the ages have SLOWLY
worked up to it.
/ The Christ has ever gone on before,
preparing places for His oncoming fol-
lowers. Through priesthood and ritual
and creed, through man-made doctrines
ana flashes OF inspiration. they have
tolled onward and upward, following
| the star of Bethlehem that stands over
the young child, the Christ conscious
ness. which they will find at last in
| each mans heart. A few of the fore
| most have found it. They have passed
through the betrayal, the crucitixion.
! the resurrection, the ascension, and now
stand Dathed in
Ehe Baptism OF Spirit.
| or divine science" The science of
being flashes its light over the past. and
interprets Alright all these conditions or
demonstrations of Jesus, so mysterious
to human thought: and this Christianity
scientific explanation affords the oNy
reasonable and practical understanding
! or Ills words and works whereby man
can ''go and do likewise" and work out
his own salvation upon the basis He
| founded.
II the light of the science of life
Jesus miracles are no longer miracles,
put demonstrations OF divine law and
being. 1t is teaching man today that
the way to heaven, to eternal life. is not
through death, but that he will gam
| spirituality either here or hereafter lust
i as Jesus did at the ascension, i. e.. bv
/ translation, The humiliation of the flesh.
30 VIII he overcome the last enemy,
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