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Rh said mockingly, “Save thyself, and come down from the Cross!” This was the very thing he was doing, coming down from the Cross, saving himself as he had saved others, by the law of Spirit's supremacy; and this was done through what is humanly called agony.

Even the icebound hypocrite melts in fervent heat, before he apprehends as the Way. The Master's sublime triumph over all mortal mentality was Immortality's goal. He was too wise not to be willing to test the full compass of human woe, being “tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.” Thus the absolute unreality of sin, sickness, and death were revealed, — a revelation that beams on mortal sense, as the midnight sun shines over the Polar Sea.