Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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master's business; and they about theirs; but their
master's business; and they about theirs; but their
masters were unlike; one was Spirit, and the other
matter; one God, the other man; one was Soul, the
other personal sense. He had suffered and experienced
for them, to give liberally his dear-bought bounty unto
their famine; but what was his reward? Forsaken of
all save a loving few, who knelt in woe at the scene of
his crucifixion. Peter would have smitten the enemies
of his master, but he bade him put up the sword, and
take not the world's weapons to defend Truth. Jesus
disdaining artifice or brute courage, when Truth could
not protect him from the false accusation, was able to
submit to a felon's death. His mission was to vindicate
a Principle, and not a person, while their highest ambi-
tion was the applause of man.
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Jesus could no doubt have withdrawn from his ene-
Jesus could no doubt have withdrawn from his ene-
mies, but he permitted them the opportunity to destroy
his body mortal, that he might furnish the proof of his
immortal body in corroboration of what he had taught,
that the Life of man was God, and that body and Soul
are inseparable. The opposite belief was the error he
came to destroy. Neither spear nor cross could harm
him; let them think to kill the body, and after this, he
would convince those he had taught this science, he
was not dead, and possessed the same body as before.
Why his disciples saw him after the burial, when others
saw him not, was because they understood better his
explanations of this phenomenon; he had given them
the Principle of it, in healing the sick; hence the unsat-
isfied malignity of his foes, that he was not dead, but
furnished a higher demonstration than ever of the Prin-
ciple he taught, and for which they had hoped to kill
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him. Another important feature was, that he sought
him. Another important feature was, that he sought
not the protection of law from their unjust wrath, but
chose in every instance to demonstrate the higher law
that governed being, that cast out error, healed the sick,
and was about to prove its triumph over death, over
the beliefs of personal sense and Life and substance in
matter. Jesus knew the body is but a reflex shadow
of immortal Soul, also that it is impossible to lose this,
for, as the Scripture saith, it is the image of God.
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Alone, the meek demonstrator of God and fittest
Alone, the meek demonstrator of God and fittest
teacher of man, met his fate; no eye to pity, no arm to
save; he who had saved others, a solemn, faithful senti-
nel at the threshold of the great Truth he would estab-
lish, unprotected by man, was ready to be transformed
by its renewing. He had taught what he was about to
prove, that Life was God, and superior to all conditions
of matter, above the wrath of man, and able to triumph
over the cross and grave. In the garden night-walk,
that hour of gloom and glory, the utter error of sup-
posed Life in matter, its pain, ignorance, superstition,
malice and hate, reached him in their fullest sense. His
students slept. "Can you not watch with me one
hour?" was the supplication of their great spiritual
Teacher, but receiving no response to this last human
yearning, he turned forever away from earth to heaven,
from sense to Soul, and from man to God. The tri-
umph of Soul over sense demanded by the great Princi-
ple of being must be proved, and Jesus availed himself
of Life and glory outside of matter, in this supreme
hour, and final demonstration of the science of being;
and yet viewing its utter magnitude, and feeling the
lack of all human sympathy, he momently exclaimed,