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502 point out the way of Truth and Life. This ideal was demonstrated throughout the whole earthly career of Jesus, showing the difference between the offspring of Soul and of sense, of Truth and of error.

Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. He said, “Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, who is in heaven.” Again he asked: “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren, but they who do the will of my Father?” We have no record of his calling any man Father. lie recognized Spirit as the only Being, and therefore as the Father of all.

Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said, “The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth.” Again, foreseeing the persecution that would attend the Science of Spirit, Jesus said: “They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, the hour is coming when every one who killeth you will think that he is offering sacrifice to God; and these things will they do, because they neither know the Father nor me.”

Because of the human ignorance of the Divine Principle, the Father of mortals, on earth and in heaven, is represented as a personal Creator. Hence men recognize themselves as based in person instead of Principle, and are ignorant of the origin of man and his eternal existence. The world of error is blind to the Truth of man, for the world of sense is ignorant of the Life that is Soul.

Neither the origin, the character, nor the work of Jesus was understood. Not a single component part of his being did the material world measure aright. Even his righteousness and purity did not hinder men