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The Eighth Lesson: The End of the Life Work.1047
The occult traditions teach that during the forty days of Jesus’ appearance
in the Astral Body, He imparted many of the Higher Truths to His disciples.
They state that He even took some of them out of their bodies and showed
them the higher Astral Planes of Being. He also informed them regarding the
real nature of His mission which He now clearly saw with His spiritual mind,
the cloud of His mortal mind being now removed.
He told them that the real work of His followers was the sowing of the
seed of the Truth, without regard to immediate results. He told them that
the real fruition would not come for many centuries—yea, not until the
passing of over two thousand years or more. He told them that the passage
of the centuries would be like the preparing of the soil for the great work of
the Truth, and that afar in the distance would be the real fruit season.
He taught them regarding the Second Coming of Christ, when the real
Truth of His teachings should become apparent to mankind and the true Life
of the Spirit should be lived by the race. He taught them that their work was
to keep alight the Flame of the Spirit and to pass it on to worthy followers.
This and many other things He told them, before He passed on.
And the mystics teach that He still lives in the world, diffused among
all the living souls on earth, striving ever to lead them to a recognition of
the Real Self—the Spirit Within. He is with us ever as an Abiding Spirit, a
Comforter, a Helper, an Elder Brother.
He is not gone from us! He is here with us now and forever, in Actual
Spirit Communion!
The Lord hath indeed Risen—Risen from Mortal Form to Immortal
Spiritual Existence!