The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04
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ny FLORENCE WILLARD DAY.

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by FLORENCE WILLARD DAY.
Il am the resurrection and the life: be thai
bclietreth In Ne. though he were dead, yet rhal
| he live; and whosoerT liveth and behevcth in
| Nc shall never dic."-(Johu ua5 81
Today the whole of Christendon is
| celebrating the final achievement in
the enactment of a great world drama
the attainment Of the apotheosis Of the
soul. as lived and demonstrated by
Jesus Of Nazareth nearly two thou
| sand years ago. But now is Christ
risen from the dead and become the
first-fruits Of them that slept. For
since by man came death. by man
came also the resurrection of the dead
For as in Adam all die. even SO in
Christ shall all be made alive. But
every man in his own order; Christ
the first-fruits; afterward they that
are Christ's at His coming"
Through the process of involution
and evolution the soul of man is born
into existence. Man is a spiritual be-
ing, made in the image and likeness
of God. in His essential being con-
tanning all of the powers and at
tributes of his Heavenly Father, which
are to be evolved and manifested in
visible form and expression. Man thus
becomes an individualized expression
of God, a Goldman or a manifested
God.
That which was accomplished in the
life and experience of Jesus Christ
is to be the accomplishment Of each
and every soul, in due time. But
every man in his own order" Jesus
tho first n the attain
ment, and because Of His having at
tanned He can be and is an example
and guide to all the other souls who
are struggling along the pathway Of
embodiment. His having gone before
has opened the way through to the
nnermost, where the union with the
Father, the universal consciousness, is
made. and therefore the way has been
made comparatively easy for all those
who will follow Him and be guided
by His life and teaching.
mo man cometh to the Father but
through Me. the Christ or individual
consciousness. God is spirit and spirit
must be spiritually perceived. Spirit
only can apprehend spirit. No man
hath seen God at any time; the only
begotten Son. which is in the bosom
Of the Father. he hath declared him."
Christ, the Son of God; which is the
Spirit, the real self within man, is the
only one who can discern the Father
of spirits. and perceive the truth and
reality of being, the Kingdom of God
within The outer man, the person.
ality, has no power in himself and no
faculties by means of which to per-
ceive or know spiritual realities. Spir-
itual things can only be known
through the faculty OF spiritual per-
ception. which Is one of the powers
beSnging to the spiritual man, he
who dwells In the bosom of the
Father. the Son of God. This Christ
of God must be found and realized
within ones own consciousness before
the at-one-ment with the Father can
be made. The way to the Father Is
through the Son, He Is the door
through which the personal sen must
pass into the Universal or cosmic con-
sciousness. II am the door. by Me
IL any man enter in, he shall be
saved. and shall go in and out, and
find pasture"
Until man has found this way and
has entered into the realization Of his
inner relationship with the Father
through Christ, the door, he wanders
about in a wilderness of doubt and
confusion, unconscious of the reality
of his being and of his true inher-
itance of Eternal Life. Wisdom and
Power. because of that relationship.
This separation in consciousness from
the source of his supply causes him
to believe in lack and want and gives
rise TO the desire and impulse to seek
for the satisfaction of his needs in
external things and conditions. His
attention is fixed upon the world of
appearance. the changing forms and
effects. and he runs after them. yainly
thinking that satisfaction will come
through their possession. After wear
ing himself out in the chase, although
having succeeded in gaining possess
sion of the objects sought after, he
finds himself still unsatisfied and he
longs for more things, for other
worlds to conquer. until though hay-
ing gained the whole world. he real
ICES that one of those things can or
will satisfy his real needs. Then after
having exhausted his resources in
those directions he begins to look
within himself and TO study and
analyze hi, mind and soul. He
searches for Knowledge along INTEL
Iectual and nsvchic lines and feels
,or a time that he 10 gaining the satis-
faction for which h. seeks. hut sooner |
Or later he h.comcs conscious Of the
TACT that he has not vet found the
est for which h. Ion1s. that INTEL
ectual knowledoe Il not the ultimate
md that he rnust nnrtinus hi. saarcb.
hat he must look still further and
,ieb.r IN 3d. IN So, ~. zoo, ~
,is aspirations Thu. eventually he
'inas fha wan o.. .n .,;.it,,., co.
,ciousness the interior secret Mace
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