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212 Jesus presented this true idea of God. Hence the warfare between this spiritual idea and perfunctory

religion, between spiritual 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, or the Christ-man, rose higher to human view because of the crucifixion, and thus proved that Truth was the master of death. Christ represented the indestructible man, whom Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs. Thus he illustrated that blending with the Maker which gives man dominion over all the earth.

The idea of God, presented by Jesus, was scourged in person and rejected in Principle; and man was

accounted a criminal who could prove God's powerful reality by healing the sick, casting out error, spiritualizing materialistic beliefs, raising the dead, — dead in trespasses and sins, resting on the basis of matter, and blind to the perception of Spirit, or Truth.

He uttered things which had been “secret from the foundation of the world,” — ever since knowledge usurped the throne of the creative Principle, and insisted on the might of matter, the force of falsity, the insignificance of spirit, and proclaimed an anthropomorphic God.

Whosoever lives the life of Jesus, in this century, declares the reality of Christian Science, and will drink

most deeply of his Master's cup. Resistance to Truth will haunt his steps, and he will incur the hatred of error, till “Wisdom is justified of her children.” These blessed benedictions rest upon Jesus'