Chapter II - Atonement And Eucharist
Death outdone
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out error, healing the sick, and raising the dead, even as
out error, healing the sick, and raising the dead, even as
they did understand it after his bodily departure.
Pentecost repeated
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The magnitude of Jesus' work, his material disappear-
The magnitude of Jesus' work, his material disappear-
ance before their eyes and his reappearance, all enabled
the disciples to understand what Jesus had
said. Heretofore they had only believed;
now they understood. The advent of this understanding
is what is meant by the descent of the Holy Ghost, – that
influx of divine Science which so illuminated the Pentecos-
tal Day and is now repeating its ancient history.
Convincing evidence
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Jesus' last proof was the highest, the most convincing,
Jesus' last proof was the highest, the most convincing,
the most profitable to his students. The malignity of
brutal persecutors, the treason and suicide of
his betrayer, were overruled by divine Love to
the glorification of the man and of the true idea of God,
which Jesus' persecutors had mocked and tried to slay.
The final demonstration of the truth which Jesus taught,
and for which he was crucified, opened a new era for the
world. Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetu-
ated and extended it.
Divine victory
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Jesus rose higher in demonstration because of the cup
Jesus rose higher in demonstration because of the cup
of bitterness he drank. Human law had condemned
him, but he was demonstrating divine Science.
Out of reach of the barbarity of his enemies,
he was acting under spiritual law in defiance of mat-
ter and mortality, and that spiritual law sustained him.
The divine must overcome the human at every point.
The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over
all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelli-
gence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such
beliefs.
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Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must
Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must
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seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns
seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns
can be laid aside for a crown, the benediction follow,
"Well done, good and faithful servant," and the suprem-
acy of Spirit be demonstrated.
Jesus in the tomb
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The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge
The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge
from his foes, a place in which to solve the great
problem of being. His three days' work in
the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time.
He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the mas-
ter of hate. He met and mastered on the basis of Chris-
tian Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims
of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.
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He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He did not
He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He did not
depend upon food or pure air to resuscitate wasted
energies. He did not require the skill of a surgeon to
heal the torn palms and bind up the wounded side and
lacerated feet, that he might use those hands to remove
the napkin and winding-sheet, and that he might employ
his feet as before.
The deific naturalism
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Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature
Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature
to sustain Jesus in his proof of man's truly derived power?
It was a method of surgery beyond material
art, but it was not a supernatural act. On
the contrary, it was a divinely natural act, whereby divinity
brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ‑
healing and revealed a method infinitely above that of
human invention.
Obstacles overcome
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His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was
His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was
hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive, demon-
strating within the narrow tomb the power
of Spirit to overrule mortal, material sense.
There were rock-ribbed walls in the way, and a great