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accustomed sense. As the Christ Principle or “The Christ” He is mingled with
the life of the human race, and may be found immanent in the mind of every
man, woman and child that has ever existed, does now exist, or will exist so
long as Man is Man. Not only is this true of those who have lived since His
passage from the physical body, but it is equally true of those who lived
before His birth. This apparently paradoxical statement may be understood
when we remember that these souls did not “die,” but only “passed on” to
the Astral Plane, from whence they re-incarnated in due time. The Christ (for
so we shall speak of the present-state of Jesus) even entered into, and still
abides in, the Astral Plane, as well as upon the Material Plane, for wherever
the souls of men abide—or whatever place their residence may be—there
is found The Christ, ever working for the salvation and redemption of the
race.
On the Astral Plane He is working in the minds of the souls abiding there,
urging them to cast off the dross of earth-desires and to fix the aim upon
higher things, to the end that their re-incarnations may be under improved
conditions. On the Physical Plane He is working in the hearts and minds
of the earth-people, striving ever to uplift to higher things. His aim is ever
toward the liberation of the Spirit from its material bonds—the Realization
of the Real Self. And so, in the hearts of all men, Christ is living, suffering, and
being crucified every day, and this must continue until Man is redeemed
and saved, even the last man.
This wonderful sacrifice of Christ far surpasses the physical sacrifice
of Jesus, the man. Try to imagine, if you can, even the faintest pangs of a
being so exalted compelled to dwell in the world of the hearts and minds
of a humanity so steeped in materiality as our race, knowing always the
possibilities of the souls if they would but reach upward to higher things, and
yet constantly suffering the knowledge of the base, carnal, material thoughts
and acts flowing from these souls. Is not this the extreme refinement of
torture? Does not the agony of the cross sink into insignificance beside such
spiritual agony? You rail at the cruelty of the Jews who crucified their Savior,