The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-21

siah, so the New Testament is the nat
ural fulfillment of that prophecy, be-
cause is deals with the redemption under
the type of Christ Having fallen man
has 10 win his way back to his original
freedom Having entered matter"
he must fight and overcome il. The
necessity for reincarnation is condi-
toned by his not having accomplished
as yet the objects for which the origi-
nal impulse to incarnation, was given.
When that object is accomplished man
rises as the conqueror over death-be-
came the conqueror over re-birth-as
the glorified Christos, the perfected
adept. the full initiate Thus there
cannot be historical Christ any more
tran historical Adam, for every man
IS Adam and every man may be-
come 'Christos" or anointed. The .-di-
vinity of Christi has been the great
dogma of the church and at the same
time the great stumbling block of ra-
tional thought. because under ecclesi-
astical teaching the personal Jesus be-
came absolutely identified with the
spiritual Christ. The divinity of the
Christos is as certain as the humanity
OF Adam The one completes the other.
The doctrine of the divine incarnation
was taught IN the ancient mysteries.
The same story, incident by incident,
as is told in the gospels is related of
krishna. the son of Vishnu and LAX
shini, all OF them being the narrative
of the same divine mystery, as under
stood by different races of men in diff
ferent ages. When we thoroughly I'M
derstand the septenary nature of man.
recognizing the spiritual or divine man
as the trinity of Atma- Buddhi- Manas,
the divine reincarnating ego, the com
ing of Christ unfolds to our minds
truths more transcendantly grand than
even the allegorical story of birth of
the Babe of Bethlehem could portray
The coming of the Christ to us is the
complete domination of the lower or
animal nature by the higher, the re-
demption of matter by spirit, the
atonement with the higher self. Enc
mame-el. God with us. This is our
only hope of salvation, the only way
in which we can escape from the evil
of matter, from the great Illusion. the
great deceiver'-or in short the devil
the only way in which we can reach
that perfection of our humanity which
is typified in the Christos: the union
with our higher self, the indwelling
Christ And this is something which
must take place now and here. by our
own conscious efforts and not by
miraculous disDensation of providence.
And if we would escape rebirth, if we
would triumph over death and the
cross. we can only do so by this per-
feet union with our higher self, with
the Christ within us And just as the
accomplishment of this individuality is
the complete union of the personality
with the higher triad, so for the race
collectively it is the return of that
cycle when spirit viii once more tri-
umph over matter typified in the New
Testament as the second coming of
Christ Then the "son" having ac-
complished his work becomes once
more one with the father. United with
the Christ we shall go on into perfec-
ton. Filled with the divine, what lips
of man can utter. what brain of man
can conceive of the possibilities that
lie before those to whom the Christ has
come, who have entered into that plan
of peace that was only dimly fore
Swallowed in the angels song of Peace
on Earth, Good VIII to Men,
Catarrh is a constitutional disease
and requires constitutional remedy
like Hoods Sarsap arilla, which puri-
fees the hiOod