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334 Jesus was or is eternal, but that the divine idea or Christ was and is so and therefore antedated Abraham;

not that the corporeal Jesus was one with the Father, but that the spiritual idea, Christ, dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God, from which it illumines heaven and earth; not that the Father is greater than Spirit, which is God, but greater, infinitely greater, than the fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was brief.

XV. The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a

bodily existence. This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has 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 the Son of man as saying (Revelation i. 17, 18): “I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead [not understood]; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, [Science has explained me].” This is a mystical statement of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference so to the human sense of Jesus crucified.

XVII. Spirit being God, there is but one Spirit, for there can be but one infinite and therefore one God.