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Rh The opposite and false views of the people hid from their eyes Christ's sonship with God. Tlicy could not

discern his spiritual existence. Their carnal minds were at enmity with it. Their thoughts were filled with mortal error, instead of God's spiritual idea as presented by Christ Jesus. The likeness of God we lose sight of through sin, which beclouds the spiritual sense of Truth; and we only regain this likeness when we subdue sin, and regain man's heritage, and the liberty of the sons of God.

Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him to demonstrate the facts of Being, — to prove,

irrefutably, how spiritual Truth destroys material error, heals sickness, and overcomes death. The divine conception of Jesus pointed to this Truth, and presented an illustration of creation. The history of Jesus shows him to have been more spiritual than all other earthly personalities.

Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother,

Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrating the way of Divine Science, he became the way of salvation to all who accepted his word, that mortals might learn of him and escape from evil. The true man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin, and lose sight of material selfhood, to find the real man and his relation to God, and recognize the divine sonship. Christ was manifested through Jesus to prove the power of Spirit over the flesh, — to show that Truth is made manifest upon the human mind and body, healing sickness and sin.