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| 1 | or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His |
| | image. |
| 3 | XII. The word Christ is not properly a synonym for |
| | Jesus, though it is commonly so used. Jesus was a human |
| | name, which belonged to him in common with | Messiah
or Christ |
| 6 | other Hebrew boys and men, for it is identical |
| | with the name Joshua, the renowned Hebrew leader. On |
| | the other hand, Christ is not a name so much as the divine |
| 9 | title of Jesus. Christ expresses God's spiritual, eternal |
| | nature. The name is synonymous with Messiah, and al- |
| | ludes to the spirituality which is taught, illustrated, and |
| 12 | demonstrated in the life of which Christ Jesus was the |
| | embodiment. The proper name of our Master in the |
| | Greek was Jesus the Christ; but Christ Jesus better sig- |
| 15 | nifies the Godlike. |
| | XIII. The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the |
| | first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is |
| 18 | without beginning of years or end of days. | The divine
Principle
and idea |
| | Throughout all generations both before and |
| | after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spirit- |
| 21 | ual idea,--the reflection of God,--has come with some |
| | measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive |
| | Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets |
| 24 | caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which |
| | baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of |
| | Love. The divine image, idea, or Christ was, is, and |
| 27 | ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God. |
| | Jesus referred to this unity of his spiritual identity thus: |
| | "Before Abraham was, I am;" "I and my Father are |
| 30 | one;" "My Father is greater than I." The one Spirit |
| | includes all identities. |
| | [[[XIV. By these sayings Jesus meant, not that the hu- |
| 1 | man Jesus was or is eternal, but that the divine idea or |
| | Christ was and is so and therefore antedated Abraham; |
| 3 | not that the corporeal Jesus was one with the | Spiritual
oneness |
| | Father, but that the spiritual idea, Christ, |
| | dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God, from |
| 6 | which it illumines heaven and earth; not that the Father |
| | is greater than Spirit, which is God, but greater, infinitely |
| | greater, than the fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was |
| 9 | brief.]]] |
| | XV. The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the |
| | so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a |
| 12 | bodily existence. This dual personality of the | The Son's
duality |
| | unseen and the seen, the spiritual and mate- |
| | rial, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest |
| 15 | in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when |
| | the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, |
| | while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in |
| 18 | the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins |
| | of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before |
| | the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes. |
| 21 | XVI. This was "the Lamb slain from the foundation |
| | of the world,"--slain, that is, according to the testi- |
| | mony of the corporeal senses, but undying in | Eternity of
the Christ |
| 24 | the deific Mind. The Revelator represents the |
| | Son of man as saying (Revelation i. 17, 18): "I am the |
| | first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead |
| 27 | [not understood]; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, |
| | [Science has explained me]." This is a mystical state- |
| | ment of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference |
| 30 | to the human sense of Jesus crucified. |
| | XVII. Spirit being God, there is but one Spirit, for |
| | there can be but one infinite and therefore one God. |
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