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348 his Life-principle, by casting out error, healing the sick, and raising the dead, — even as they did understand this, after his bodily departure.

The magnitude of Jesus' work, his material disappearance before their eyes, his reappearance in idea, all

enabled the disciples to understand what Jesus had said. Heretofore they had only believed; now they understood. This understanding is what is meant by the Descent of the Holy Ghost, — that influx of Divine Science which so illuminated the Pentecostal Day, and is now repeating its ancient history.

His last proof was the highest, the most convincing, the most profitable to his students. The malignity

of brutal persecutors, the treason and suicide of his betrayer, were overruled by divine Love, to the glorification of the true idea of God, which they had mocked and tried to slay. The final demonstration of the Truth Jesus taught, and for which he was crucified, opened a new era for the world. They who slew him, wishing to stay his influence, only perpetuated and extended it thereby.

Jesus rose higher in demonstration because of the cup of bitterness he drank. Human law had condemned

him; but he was demonstrating Divine Science by acting under spiritual law, in defiance of matter and mortality, out of reach of the barbarity of his enemies; and that spiritual law sustained him. The divine must overcome the human at every point. The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelligence, and the multitudinous errors growing therefrom.

Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must