Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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and faithful," bestows immortal honors. Our Master
and faithful," bestows immortal honors. Our Master
had realized and demonstrated the science of Life when
he was found talking with his disciples after the burial;
and whom the Rabbis had hoped to bury in a sepulchre,
to-day is acknowledged God! and this God, and this
Truth that Jesus taught and proved over eighteen
centuries ago, in days to come will be understood.
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Soul triumphed over personal sense, and said to
Soul triumphed over personal sense, and said to
death, where is thy sting, and where thy victory,
grave? But many who saw this phenomenon miscon-
strued it; his disciples even, called him a "spirit," but
his reply was, "Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye
see me have;" Jesus demonstrated man's unchanged
condition after what we call death, also that Spirit is
not person or man; and to convince Thomas of this, he
caused him to examine the prints of the nails and spear;
he proved for time and eternity that death is but a
belief of personal sense, because Life is Spirit, alias
God, and God the immortality and Soul of man; but
those consenting to the martyrdom of a righteous man
were only willing out of their wicked work to make a
doctrinal platform for saving souls? His students, not
sufficiently advanced to understand the lesson of that
hour, performed not their wonderful healing until their
Master reappeared, and talked with them of its science,
and at length rose out of their sight, that is, his third
demonstration was so beyond their understanding, we
have no farther record of him to explain. Then re-
ceived they the holy ghost, in other words, the fuller
interpretation that science gives of God, and wrought
after the example of their Teacher, when they had no
longer a person, but a Principle to lean upon.
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In the crucifixion of our Master, human error and
In the crucifixion of our Master, human error and
divine Truth met, and Truth conquered through "the
man of sorrows," who best understands the nothingness
of Life in matter, and the substance of Life, Truth and
Love. Because Jesus was the fuller manifestation of
Spirit, therefore, the higher representative of God
among men; the world of sense hated him. Fully
comprehending this, he said to his disciples, "You hath
it loved, but me hath it hated;" proving that mortal
man is not allied to Life, Truth, or Love, that personal
sense is the very opposite of Soul, in its attractions,
joys and sorrows. Herod and Pilate could lay aside
old feuds, to unite in putting to derision and death
the best man on earth; they could take up common
cause against the exponent of Truth, because they both
secretly hated it, and were united in their malice against
him that upheld it. To get rid of Jesus and his accus-
ing Wisdom, was the design of them both. Said the
Rabbi, and Pharisee, "He stirreth up seditions," "he
maketh himself as God," "he is a glutton, and a wine-
bibber," "he casteth out devils through Beelzebub,"
"and is the friend of sinners." The last was the only
correct view taken of him. Because his life was nearer
Truth, he was more belied than all other men; and
because he was the friend of sinners, he failed not to
rebuke them pointedly and unflinchingly; hence they
regarded him their strongest enemy; and so he was, the
strongest foe to error, but the friend of man. Through
demonstration Jesus established the foundations of the
science of Life, controlled matter, and proved Intelli-
gence, neither matter, nor man, but the Principle of
man, able to hold and govern the body, and to destroy
sin, sickness, and death.