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The Second Lesson: The Mystery of the Virgin Birth.957
and the great minds in the Church, as well as those out of the Church, are
beginning to lay the old legend aside as a worn out relic of primitive days
when the cloud of Ignorance overshadowed the Light of Truth.
In concluding this lesson, let us glance once more at the words of the
eminent divine, Dr. Campbell, in his New Theology, in which he states:
“But why hesitate about the question? The greatness of Jesus and the value of his
revelation to mankind are in no way either assisted or diminished by the manner
of his entry into the world. Every birth is just as wonderful as a virgin birth could
possibly be, and just as much a direct act of God. A supernatural conception bears
no relation whatever to the moral and spiritual worth of the person who is supposed
to enter the world in this abnormal way…. Those who insist on the doctrine will find
themselves in danger of proving too much, for pressed to its logical conclusion, it
removes Jesus altogether from the category of humanity in any real sense.”
Let us trust that these Higher Critics may become informed upon the
truths of the Occult Teachings, which supply the Missing Key, and afford
the Reconciliation, and which show how and why Jesus is, in all and very
truth, The Son of God, begotten and not created, of one substance from
the Father—a particle of Purest Spirit fresh from the Ocean of Spirit, and
free from the Karma of past Incarnations—how He was human and yet more
than human.
In our next lesson we shall take up the narrative of the secret life of Jesus
from the time of his appearance, as a child at the Temple, among the Elders,
until when at the age of thirty years he appeared at the scene of the ministry
of John the Baptist, and began his own brief ministry of three years which
was closed by the Crucifixion and Ascension. This is a phase of the subject
of intense interest, and startling nature, because of the lack of knowledge of
the occult traditions on the part of the general public.