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The Ninth Lesson: The Inner Teachings.1057
and yet you crucify your Savior, with a thousandfold degree of torture,
every day of your life, by your persistence in the carnalities and foolishness
of mortal thought and action.
The mighty uplift of the world since the death of Jesus, of which the
present is but a faint prophecy of the future, has been due largely to the
energizing influence of The Christ in the hearts and minds of the race. The
sense of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, which is
now manifesting so powerfully in the world of Men, is but an instance of
the work of the Christ—the Savior and Redeemer. And the highest dreams
of the exalted souls of this generation are but inadequate visions of what
the future will hold for the race. The work is just beginning to bud—the
blossom and the fruit will render this earth a far more glorious place than
even the highest ideals of heaven entertained by the faithful in the past. But
even these things of the future will be poor things, when compared with the
life of the higher planes which await the race when it has demonstrated its
fitness to pass on and on and on to these greater glories. And ever and ever
The Christ is working, and toiling and striving and suffering, in His efforts to
raise humanity even one petty degree in the spiritual scale of being.
The Christ is always with us, and if we but recognize His presence we
shall be able to feel that warm, loving response to our soul-hunger and
spiritual thirst which will result in our being given that we are so longingly
craving. Here within us dwells The Christ, ever responding to the cry of Faith,
“Believe in Me and ye shall be saved.” What a promise this is seen to be when
properly understood! What a source of power and comfort is opened
up to every human soul when the Inner Truth underlying the teachings is
understood! Mystic Christianity brings this Message of Truth to each and all
of you who read these lines. Will you accept it?
We would ask our students to pause at this point and contrast the
teachings of Mystic Christianity regarding the doctrine of Christ, the Savior,
with the corresponding teachings of the current Orthodox Theology.