Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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see not, and ears ye hear not, that ye might understand
see not, and ears ye hear not, that ye might understand
and be converted and I might heal you." Their belief
of personal sense shut out the communications of Soul;
hence the saying, "Ye cannot serve two masters."
Jesus adhered to one only, was guided by spiritual
sense; therefore the sensualism of the age separated
from him, and hated him. His affections were pure;
theirs carnal; his senses were Truth; theirs but error,
therefore Love with him was spiritual science; with
them it was material sense; their imperfection and
impurity felt his perfection and purity an ever-pres-
ent rebuke; hence the world's hatred of the just and
more spiritual Jesus; and the prophets' foresight of
the reception it would give him. The people knew
not how to interpret their uncomfortableness arising
from his presence with them; and the chemical changes
he instituted in their being. When those opposites
met, had they understood the meaning of the stir it
produced, they would, like Peter, have wept at the
warning, and begun a warfare with personal sense that
opposed Truth. They in their ignorance of the science
of Life, never regarded the fact that the good are hated
only by the evil, while the former suffer for the latter
in life-long sacrifice. He bore their sins in his own
person; that is, he felt the suffering their error brought,
and through this consciousness destroyed error. Had
the Master utterly conquered the belief of Life in mat-
ter, he would not have felt their infirmities; he had
not yet risen to this his final demonstration, or had he
partaken equally of their sensuous being, he would not
have so suffered from them, nor they from him. By
overcoming his own temptations he had measurably
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conquered for them, even while they knew it not; he
conquered for them, even while they knew it not; he
demonstrated purity and Truth, and their power to heal
the sick, and assured others they might give his demon-
stration, but for their disbelief in its science. Though
they saw not his righteousness, they must all gain
the harmony of being from the Truth he taught, and
plant their demonstration on the foundations he laid,
on what he had experienced for them, and poured lib-
erally into their ears. This was the cup drank by the
pioneer of the science of Life, by him who came with
those higher proofs and practices of Truth and Love
unperceived by the age in which they appeared; they
neither understood him, nor his works, and would not
accept his explanation who did understand them.
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Anomalous though it seems, I have no doubt that
Anomalous though it seems, I have no doubt that
Jesus was shunned, and deemed a bad man at the period
of his public labors, by all, save the few unpretentious
ones whose Christianity enabled them to understand
him. This was the cup drank to the dregs, by our
Master; he also spake of those who followed him,
drinking this very cup; which must indeed be the case
if they are in advance of the public sentiment. Refer-
ring to himself as doing nothing beyond the ability of
others to do, he said, "The works I do, ye shall do,
and greater." Before this he had established the plat-
form that "a tree is known by its fruits," indicating,
if they healed the sick on the Principle that he healed,
they must be Christians. Though it is in vain we
stretch our weary wings to the full realization of that
saying to-day, yet in centuries to come I look for its
fulfillment. Whosoever shall triumph over personal
sense, and lay down his earthly all on the altar of the