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Rh and persecutions which attend a new and higher understanding of God? If not, can you then say that

you have commemorated Jesus in his cup? Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspiration to a dead rite, instead of showing that Truth has come to the understanding, by casting out error, and making the body “holy and acceptable unto God”? If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no commemoration is requisite, for he is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?

If all who ever partook of this sacrament had really commemorated the sufferings of Jesus, and drunk of

his cup, they would have revolutionized the world. If all who seek his commemoration through material symbols will take up the cross, heal the sick, cast out error, and preach Christ, or Truth, to the poor, they will bring in the millennium.

Through all the disciples beheld, they became more spiritual, and understood better what the Master had

taught. His resurrection was also their resurrection. It helped them to raise others from spiritual dulness, and from a blind belief in God, into a faint understanding of infinite possibilities. They needed this quickening, for soon their dear Master would rise again in the spiritual scale of existence, and ascend far above their apprehension. As the reward for his faithfulness he would disappear to material sense, in that change which has since been called the Ascension.