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F there is no reality in evil, why did the Messiah come to the world, and from what evils was it his purpose to save humankind? How, indeed, is he a Saviour, if the evils from which he saves are nonentities?

came to earth; but the (that is, the Divine Principle which made  the ) was never absent from the earth, and could not come to it; for spoke of himself as one who came down from Heaven, yet as “the Son of Man who is in Heaven” (John iii. 13).

Salvation is as eternal as. To mortal thought seemed to come as a child, to grow to manhood, to suffer before Pilate and on Calvary, because he could reach and teach mankind only through this conformity to mortal conditions; but Soul never saw the Saviour come and go, because he was always present.

He came to rescue men from these very illusions to which he seemed to conform: from the illusion