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TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY

JESUS THE VEHICLE, CHRIST THE SPIRITUAL CONTENT

            Spirit loq. Christ was of God. You are of God. All things are of God. But Christ is ever the Lord of Earth. The Spirit who rules your planet, the Savior (par excellence) of Men, the immaculate, perfect, and true image to men of God, for the incontrovertible reason that he is and was the God-in-man. He came not through Earth-growth. He came direct from God in the power of the Spirit. The Gospel of John speaks truly. “He was the Word, and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”

            But Jesus of Nazareth was flesh, man, the soul of man. Therefore Jesus of Nazareth was born of “blood, of the will of the flesh, of the will of man.” Yet Christ was born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

            There are hierarchies and individual dispositions of God’s Spirit that ye men dream not of; and “the Spirit,” “the Word,” “the Life,” “the Light” of which the Gospel of John speaks in the opening chapter, was it truly which dwelt among you in the body of Jesus the carpenter’s son.

            The actual definition to man of the present position of Christ Jesus, Earth’s Lord, in the Divine Being is impossible, till Earth shall have developed greater faculty of spiritual understanding; neither would this conception be of practical value to Earth at present, nor is it the conception which Christ came to urge on men.

            What He did come to urge on men was the redeeming power of the Divine Spirit born into man. He came to give Earth a practical demonstration, in his own Earth-life, of the limitless action on man of that Spirit; he

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came to shew Earth how it could and would transfigure gross matter, Earth, sin itself, into power, Heaven, and love unspeakable.

            Suffice it to you that Christ was and is of God, and that He established, as an everlasting fact among you, that the pure and perfect Spirit of God may inhabit the earthly tenement generated by, and born of, man.

            In this fact are unutterable “tidings of great joy” to Earth, unspeakable promise for the purification and redemption of Earth. Yet this fact would seem to be as a thing forgotten in your wordy worship of a “Christ-God.” The profound, the hidden wisdom in the opening sentences of the Gospel of John you take literally, for the very reason that you have not yet accomplished within you the divine birth which Christ Jesus demonstrated to you. Until you are truly born again, ye cannot behold the Kingdom of God which these words express. Read them, ponder them, and pray for light on them until the glorious truth, love, and light of the most Holy God, as manifested in Earth’s development, shall dawn upon you in the strength of its full divinity, until you shall have grasped the wondrous import of this “God-in-man” gospel of Christ Jesus.

            “That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” That birth of God is your redemption. Christ Jesus the Son of God, the Son of man exhibited its possibility and its powers in his own Earth-life. He practiced in his own nature, so to say, the birth and life which is thus described as of God. He proved to you that man is made in the image of God. He shewed you the means by which the birth of God

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can be accomplished on Earth. He expressly stated over and over again that this birth, of God, into man, was not to be put off to the future; it could and might be accomplished here on Earth, and needed in man but the entire abandonment of his love, of his whole desire, unto the Most High. The power of spiritual generation, of spiritual impregnation, existed in the Most High, and would be answerable for the true conception and birth of the Divine in man. This birth it is which, once accomplished in the race, shall bring redemption of Earth from all its sorrows, possession to Earth of all its joys and powers – its divine inheritance. This birth it is which, once accomplished in any son or daughter of Earth, does bring redemption from all evil implied in the passage of spirit through matter.