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Rh come, with some measure of power and grace, to all those prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the Prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the spiritual idea, the divine nature, the essence of Love. The divine idea, or Christ, was, is, and ever will be inseparable from its Divine Principle, God. Jesus referred to this unity, saying: “Before Abraham was, I am;” “I and my Father are one;” “My Father is greater than I.”

XIV. By these sayings he meant, not that the human Jesus was eternal, but that the divine idea or Christ was

so, and therefore antedated Abraham; not that the corporeal Jesus was one with the Father, but that the unseen idea or Christ dwelt forever in the bosom of the Father, God; not that the Father was greater than Spirit, which was and is God, but greater, infinitely greater, than the fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was for a day.

XV. The invisible Christ was incorporeal, whereas Jesus was a corporeal or bodily existence. This dual

personality, of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the Christ and Jesus, continued until the Master's ascension; when the human, the corporeal concept, or Jesus, disappeared; while his invisible self, or Christ, continued to exist in the eternal order of Divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ had always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes.

XVI. This was “the Lamb slain from the foundation

of the world,” — slain, that is, according to the testimony of the corporeal senses, but undying in the deific Mind. The Revelator represents