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196 flesh; to show that Truth is made manliest upon the human mind and body, healing sickness and sin.

Jesus presented this true idea of God. Hence the war fare between this spiritual idea and scholasticism, between apostolic clear-sightedness and the blindness of popular belief, which led to the conclusion that the spiritual idea could be killed by crucifying the flesh. The Christ-idea, like the Christ-man, rose higher because of the crucifixion, and proved beyond a question that Truth was the master of death. Jesus presented indestructible the man that Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs; illustrating, also, that blending with the Maker which gives Divine Science dominion over all the earth.

Paul writes, “If Christ [Truth] be not risen, then is my preaching vain;” i. e. If this idea of the supremacy of Spirit, which is a true conception of being, come not to your thought, you cannot be benefited by what I say. Jesus said substantially, “He that believeth in me shall not see death:” i. e. He who perceives the true idea of Life loses all sense of death; he who has the right idea of Good loses his sense of evil, and, by reason of this, is ushering himself into the realities of Spirit that never die. Such an one abideth in Life, Life obtained not of the body, incapable of supporting Life, but of Truth, that develops its own immortal idea. Jesus gave the true idea of Life, that results in infinite blessings to mortals.

In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes “When Christ, our Life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also appear [be manifested] with him in glory.” When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall we be like Christ.