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Lesson 13. December 27.
REVIEW AND CHRISTMAS LESSON.
Read Psalm 103 and Matthew 2:1-12.
GOLDEN TEXT— The mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him.—
Ps. 103:17.
Man evolves consciousness according to fixed
laws of Being. There are rules governing the development
of a conscious identity, with all that that
implies, exactly as there are rules governing mathematical
demonstrations. The student in numbers
knows that he is not limited in the use of the
principle—all he has to do is to follow the rules and
go forward. So in working out this problem of life,
man is not limited so long as he conforms to the law.
That he may learn the law easily it is*provided that
he begin with a few ideas, such as life, intelligence,
power. These ideas he combines in a multitude of
ways, and when he has arrived at a certain proficiency
another factor or rule of action is opened to his consciousness.
This may be termed the Idea of Divine
Substance.
The development of this idea in consciousness
requires an uplift in the whole man. There is a
bringing forth of greater activities in every department
of consciousness; virtually a new m a n is born,
with the old as foundation. This new man is called
"Jesus," whose name means the same as Jehovah,
the I AM, the Supreme Will.
This man of lafger possibilities requires a wider
field of action, hence he is born into a comprehension
of Divine substance which far transcends in its
capacity for expressing mind that old environment
called matter. So we are informed in the symbolic
description of this evolutionary step in Matthew,
second chapter, that Jesus was born in Bethlehem
of Judea. Bethlehem means the house of bread, or the
abiding place of substance, and Judea means praise,
or spiritual recognition. The tribe of Judah is tha
aggregation of thouguts that has acknowledgement
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