Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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The basis of all health, sinlessness and immortality is
The basis of all health, sinlessness and immortality is
the one great Truth, that God is the only Intelligence,
and for this Truth, the great Teacher of the science of
Life was martyred. The reward of our Master was not
on earth, and not in matter, but Spirit, while all his
sufferings came from the materiality of the age, and
were not because of his own sins, but the sins of others.
Then was it just for him to suffer? No, but it was
inevitable in this wicked world where the good suffer
because of the evil, even as the evil derive blessings
from the good. Jesus taught us, that the way of Truth
is the way of salvation, which is spiritual; material
religion consists of rites, ceremonies, a personal God,
etc., but this is not Christianity. Seventy students
Jesus sent forth whom he had faithfully taught; but of
twelve only have we any especial record, and one of
those had a devil. His final crucifixion drew near, the
hour of triumph over personal sense, and all the pangs
this world could occasion – the hour that gave the
highest proof of the science of being, proof so important
to mankind. Judas thought to take advantage of the
world's ingratitude to his teacher, and betray him into
the hands of his enemies for thirty pieces and the smile
of a Pharisee. Well did the pitiful traitor know his
time, for the world was then in mystery concerning
him and his teachings. Perhaps Judas feared the period
approached that should reveal the great goodness which
enabled his Master to demonstrate above him, and to
rebuke the sinner as none other could; the moral dis-
tance between himself and his teacher had already cre-
ated his enmity, wherein greed for gold held empire
over gratitude. He also knew the sensuous world loved
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a Judas better than it did a Jesus, and this was another
a Judas better than it did a Jesus, and this was another
point through which to victimize his Teacher, and raise
himself with the people. Judas had all the world's
weapons, Jesus none of them; therefore he chose not
to defend himself before those who understood not that
defence, so "he opened not his mouth." The great
exponent of Truth and Love silent before error and
hate! They to whom he had given the highest proofs
of the science of being, misinterpreted them, and said
deridingly, "He maketh himself as God." Those
"who turn aside the right of a man before the face of
the most high," esteemed him "stricken and smitten
of God," he was "brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep dumb before her shearers," and "who
should declare his generation," who in future should
say whence cometh Truth, and answer the question,
what is Truth?
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The Rabbis could not decide this momentous inquiry;
The Rabbis could not decide this momentous inquiry;
they must wait on the centuries; but the women at the
cross dared say he was right who had inspired their
devotions, winged their faith with understanding, heal-
ed the sick, cast out error, and caused those he sent
forth to say, "Even devils are subject to us through thy
name." But where were the seventy whom he had
taught, were all conspirators, save eleven; had they
forgotten his weary years of explanations and patient
waiting, all his labors of Love as day by day he taught
them the science of Life, and spake to them the Truth
of man; could they not give him even a cup of cold
water in its name, and satisfy for a moment his yearn-
ing for one proof of their fidelity to what he had
taught? From early boyhood, he had been about his