Chapter V - Prayer and Atonement
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the science of Life, as others cannot, whose origin is
the science of Life, as others cannot, whose origin is
material. This idea of Truth came to rebuke Rab-
binical error; to point out the way of Truth and Life,
and to demonstrate, as it did, throughout the whole
earthly career of Jesus, the difference between the off-
spring of Soul, and of sense; of Truth, and error;
Christ was God; therefore the Principle of the man,
Jesus, otherwise his Father; Jesus acknowledged no
ties of flesh, saying, "Call no man your Father upon
the earth, for one is your Father which is in heaven."
Again, "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren,
but they that do the will of my Father." We have no
record of his ever calling a man father. He recognized
God the only Principle of being, therefore, the Father
of all.
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Referring to the materiality of the age, he said, –
Referring to the materiality of the age, he said, –
"The time cometh and now is that they who worship
the Father shall worship Him in Spirit and in Truth."
Again, foreseeing the persecution that must attend the
introduction of this science, he said, –" The time com-
eth that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God
service." "And these things will they do unto you
because they have not known the Father or me." In
other words, are ignorant of the Principle of being;
their father, on earth and in heaven, being personality
instead of Principle; ignorant, also, of the origin of
man, his nature and true existence. The world of
error is blind to the Truth of man, and the world of
sense, to Life that is Soul. Jesus was neither under-
stood in his origin, his nature, or works; not one com-
ponent part of his being did the world of sense get
right. Even his righteousness and purity hindered not
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the accusation, he is Beelzebub, the chief of sinners, a
the accusation, he is Beelzebub, the chief of sinners, a
glutton, and the friend of the impure. Christian martyr
of the nineteenth century, does it wrong thee one half
as much? then remember, it is enough for thee "that
the servant should be as his Lord," and that you be
found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master's
faith. To conclude persecution for righteousness' sake
belongs to the past, and that Christianity to-day is at
peace with the world, honored by sects and societies, is
to mistake its very nature. History will repeat itself;
the trials of prophet, disciple, and apostle, those of whom
"the earth was not worthy," await, in some form, the
pioneers of Truth.
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Scripture informs us, Jesus read the thoughts of man,
Scripture informs us, Jesus read the thoughts of man,
discovering the hidden springs of action, and construing
them according to motive. Perceiving their thoughts,
as he walked with his students, he answered, unasked,
questions that needed explanation. This mind-reading
was not clairvoyance, it was absence from the body, a
spiritual insight wherewith he shew the woman of Sa-
maria her error, and convinced her of his superiority
over man, and she went away, saying, "Is not this the
Christ," the Truth of man that discerns the error? His
marvellous works are readily accounted for when we
remember, Christ is God, and that Jesus held all that
he was, God, and wrought from the standpoint of his
God-being, and this was the science of being.
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A magistrate who lived at the time of Jesus, wrote,
A magistrate who lived at the time of Jesus, wrote,
"His rebuke is fearful," and his strong language in
scripture regarding hypocrisy, confirms this saying, but
the stronger evidence that his reproof was pointed
and pungent, is the necessity there was for it when he