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Rh Jesus teaches the way of Life in demonstration, that we may understand how its Divine Principle heals the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over death. Jesus presents the ideal of God better than mortals can, whose origin is less spiritual. He demonstrated more spiritually than all others the Principle of Being, by his union with God.

Jesus understood the Science of his own statements: “I am the Truth and Life;” “I and the Father are one.” The Christ is the Principle of the man Jesus, It is the Principle of him that may be called divine, not the man Jesus. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave him authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to demonstrate the Divine Science of Supreme Being, to prove what God is, and what He does for man.

That Life is God, Jesus demonstrated by his reappearance after the crucifixion, in accordance with his scientific statement, “Though you destroy this temple [body], yet will I [Spirit] build it again.” It is as if he had said: “I — the Life, Substance, and Intelligence of the universe and man — am not in matter, to be destroyed.”

Jesus' parables explain Life as never mingling with sin and death. He laid the axe of Science at the root of material knowledge, ready to cut down the false doctrine of pantheism — that God, or Life, is in or of matter.

Why do those who profess to follow Christ reject the essential Truth which he came to establish? His persecutors made their strongest attack upon this very point, endeavoring to hold him at the mercy of matter, and kill