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The Third Lesson: The Mystic Youth of Jesus.969
priestcraft, and sought to lead the people back to the Spirit of the Truth,
and away from the ceremonies and forms which have always served to dim
and becloud the Light of the Spirit. He taught always the Fatherhood of
God and the Brotherhood of Man. He sought to bring the great Occult
Truths down to the comprehension of the masses of people who had lost
the Spirit of the Truth in their observance of outward forms and pretentious
ceremonies.
It is related that in India He brought down upon His head the wrath of
the Brahmin upholders of the caste distinctions, that curse of India. He
dwelt in the huts of the Sudras, the lowest of all of the Hindu castes, and
was therefore regarded as a pariah by the higher classes. Everywhere He
was regarded as a firebrand and a disturber of established social order by
the priests and high-caste people. He was an agitator, a rebel, a religious
renegade, a socialist, a dangerous man, an “undesirable citizen,” to those in
authority in those lands.
But the seeds of His wisdom were sown right and left, and in the Hindu
religions of today, and in the teachings of other Oriental countries, may be
found traces of Truth, the resemblance of which to the recorded teachings of
Jesus, show that they came from the same source, and have sorely disturbed
the Christian missionaries that have since visited these lands.
And so, slowly and patiently, Jesus wended his way homeward toward
Israel, where He was to complete His ministry by three years’ work among
His own race, and where He was to again raise up against Himself the
opposition of the priests and the upper classes which would finally result
in His death. He was a rebel against the established order of things, and He
met the fate reserved for those who live ahead of their time.
And, as from the first days of His ministry to His last, so it is today, the real
teachings of the Man of Sorrows reach more readily the heart of the plain
people, while they are reviled and combatted by those in ecclesiastical and
temporal authority, even though these people claim allegiance to Him and