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THE WORLD is no longer on the eve of a great spiritual awakening, but is standing tiptoe at the dawn of
the new day, when Truth shall shine with such a radiant light as to blot out forever the reign of error.
Clear-seeing minds discern the innumerable adjustments made in governments, theologies and the
world of affairs, to be but the preparation necessary to receive the new Ideal. Like a spring, which must
have both an inlet and an outlet in order that the purity of its waters be preserved, the consciousness of
the race, that delighted in its revelry of sense, is letting go of its false and time-worn customs and
traditions, and making room for the inflow of fresher, purer and more wholesome ideas.
Truth is the “leaven” at work in the hearts of mankind leavening the whole race. Truth, in the form of
Christ, is preaching again the good news which Jesus presented to the race over two thousand years
ago. Christ is not a person, but a principle, always seeking expression in the hearts of the children of
God, which in reality the children of men are.
Throughout the ages, here and there, individuals have been Christed because they had become
receptive enough, through continual purification, to receive the fullness of God. Jesus of Nazareth
stands as peer among these Christed men. He came to establish no political kingdom, no material
method of coping with the effect of erroneous thought, commonly referred to as sickness and disease,
no intellectual laboratory through which the truths of God should pass and be made to fit the demands
of a selfish populace, no artistic means of glossing over and making beautiful that worst enemy of
mankind, death, which is the final culmination of sin, and the last enemy to overcome. Jesus came to
wipe out of human consciousness the belief in the power and reality of sin and its effect. Fresh from
the Heart of Love, he came understanding the relations between God and man, and in his fearless, free
recognition of Spirit as the only power, he proclaimed the supremacy of Divine Law, which when
understood and applied to every act of living, will transform suffering men into radiant beings and usher
in the only real kingdom of perfect citizenship, the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus showed the way into this kingdom by being the way, making himself the demonstrator of the
Christ, which is lead all men out of the darkness of material and selfish consciousness, when they too
claim their inheritance and demonstrate their divinity. Jesus taught the law of love as a means to
abundant, eternal life. This is the law which is seeking perfect expression at this time, however contrary
the appearance may be. The world was never so hungry for real issues as it is today. When Jesus
delivered his message he was like a lone star shining in the night of ignorance and bigotry. Now
humanity expects new philosophies and follows leaders who have a vital message, until they prove for
themselves its worth. However, the verdict of the crowd is not always a reliable one, but it shows the
desire of men to grow and press forward.

People once aroused to new ways of thinking never settlement back into the old. A seed once sown in
the mental soil of the universe is bound to produce harvest. Every thought is a seed which takes root in
Universal Substance and brings forth after its kind. Upon the thinkers of Truth rests the responsibility of
sowing the spiritual seed, which is awakening and redeeming the mortal race consciousness from its
dream in conditions less than the Divine Ideal. Every man is really desiring to bring forth the Divine Ideal
or Higher Self, though he be unconscious of it. He longs for the freedom to think, to speak, to act
according to his own will. With high hopes he sets out on life’s journey expecting to “make good”. But
entangled in the web of personal, selfish thinking, and influenced by the thoughts of the race, he takes
the wrong direction and becomes lost in a maze of thought wanderings, for it is his attitude of mind that
steers his course. Man has been given dominion over all that is in the earth, but it is well to realize that
this power to rule was given to God’s man, created in his “image and likeness”. How necessary then
that we come into the realization of our real nature as sons, and declare as untrue all limitations in the
realm of effects, knowing that according to our thought and word so shall it be. Man’s natural heritage
is the good, and he has a right to enjoy its fruits.
In an understanding of his Real Self, man would express in harmonious order all the qualities of the God-
self. But through ages of ignorance and selfishness, he has miss-used his God-given capabilities until this
power within takes the form of destructive forces instead of constructive ones. The hearts of men are
awaiting an understanding of how to use aright the power that makes perfection possible. Teachers of
the past, as well as the present, who use as their foundation premise, “Thou shalt not,” have only
strengthened the idea of sin. This procedure of thinking has built up the hard conditions in the world,
known as the mortal race consciousness. Man must change his base of thought, using as his premise the
Truth of his real nature, and work from the within outward. “A house divided against itself cannot
stand.”
Man living in the personal, seeking selfish expression, must come to naught. What is true of the
individual is true of a race, and so now, as always, when new revelations are made to man and a new era
of consciousness ushered in, error seems piled mountain high in a last effort to assert its supremacy. But
wise students of Truth, true to the inspiration of the Almighty Spirit within, answer this Pharisaical voice
with the same force that Truth uttered centuries ago when it exclaimed, “Which of you convinceth me
of sin!”
The perfected spiritual race consciousness is to be an entirely new one, “and will contain in itself the
fulfillment of all that is holy and true. It is not the mission of Love to destroy, but to fulfill. Those things
that man in personal consciousness has treasured will become doubly valuable to him because of his
understanding of their reality. Those forces which have, through his ignorance, been his pitfalls, will
become his obedient servants to bless and multiply and replenish his earth (body and affairs) with all
that is for his highest good. No man liveth unto himself alone, and what blesses and prospers one,
blesses and prospers every receptive heart. All in consciousness that retards man’s growth must be
transmuted into its real nature, must be thrown into the furnace for purification. None of the baser
thoughts or desires can be carried over. More than that, none of the relative good and desirable
conditions of mankind can enter the spiritual consciousness. Only that which is eternally true and
permanently abiding as a reality, always applicable to the Divine Idea of Man, will be admitted into this
new kingdom. Man’s real nature is spiritual, and all his thoughts and desires, must be in keeping with
this divine heritage. There is but one goal for man. The attainment of eternal life, which embodies the
unification of Spirit, soul and body in the Christ Mind. This is the Divine Ideal toward which humanity is
ever moving.

We are not to be hirelings in this new kingdom, but shepherds, having every sheep (thought) trained to
answer to the voice and follow the leadings of Christ. Christ is the “door”. He that entereth not by the
door, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” The thief cometh “but to
steal, and kill and destroy,” but the Christ comes that we”might have life and have it more abundantly.”
There shall be one fold and one shepherd” in the perfected spiritual race consciousness. This is not a
blissful state to be realized ages hence but it is a state of consciousness now being formed in our midst.
Every earnest seeker of Truth, who steps out from the false cycle of thoughts and fearless, freely and
sacredly consecrates himself to the One Shepherd is eligible to citizenship in the One Fold. Upon
cooperation with the Spirit of Truth deepens the individual’s redemption from the bondage of the lesser
self.
Jesus provided the supremacy of the God-man over every limitation and set at naught every science
having for its foundation principle less than those contained in the Science of Being. He assured his
followers that they should do greater works, and according to the Aquarian Gospel, he reiterated again
and again, “What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be. “
The world was formed for no other purpose than that the kingdom of God might be expressed in it, and
not for the up building of personal man with his various pursuits and pleasures. Just as we plant a grain
of wheat in the ground and expect the perfect harvest, so Divine Mind imaged its ideals in Mind-
Substance and expects a perfect expression of its spiritual seed. Flesh and blood are false growths in
mortal consciousness and do not inherit the kingdom. Jesus emphasized this point in his reasoning
concerning the new wine skins. The new wine of life, which is liberated through establishing in
consciousness the Truths of Being, must have a corresponding abode in both the individual and race
consciousness. The spiritualized body and the spiritual race consciousness symbolized the “new skins.”
If man is to enter the kingdom of God, he must relinquish all claims to the kingdom of man; he must
become as a “little child”, and be willing to accept perfect simplicity, faith and confidence the counsel of
his Father, who can certainly be trusted to lead his children aright.
Jesus did not hesitate to declare himself one with the Father. He is our exemplar. The Christ
consciousness is the supreme attainment and embodies pure Being. It is beyond knowing. It is not
striving to be, but realizes we are, in mind, idea and manifestation, the Sons of God. There is only God
and his image, through which God presses into visibility. We must accept the responsibility of the new
consciousness and act the part. The redemption of the whole earth is included in this responsibility.
The good news is to be preached to “every creature.”
Man has ignorantly thought that his return to God was to be accomplished thought successive deaths
and births, but we know that the whole world awaits the redemption of the body. No one really believes
the effect of the “wages of sins” to be the open door to Paradise. Man’s return to God is a matter of
consciousness to be attained here and now. His passing from “glory unto glory” depends upon his
receptivity to the Truths of Being and his demonstration of these Truths. Man must prove his divinity in
the midst of humanity even as Jesus did.
The law of Love is perfect and “God is Love”. In the light of this new day, the mystery of Paul’s words,
“Christ in you, the hope of glory,” is being revealed. This Christ is being manifested today and is seeking
expression in all mankind. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open
the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He that overcometh, I will give to
him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

​He that hath an ear, let him hear.”