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The Fourth Lesson: The Beginning of the Ministry.973
The Fourth Lesson: The Beginning of the Ministry.
When Jesus reached his native land, after the years of travel in India,
Persia and Egypt, he is believed by the occultists to have spent at least
one year among the various lodges and retreats of the Essenes. By reference
to the first lesson of this series you will see who and what was this great
mystic organization—the Essenic Brotherhood. While resting and studying
in their retreats His attention was diverted to the work of Johannen—John
the Baptist—and He saw there an opening wedge for the great work that
He felt called upon to do among His own people. Dreams of converting His
own race—the Jews—to His conception of Truth and Life, crept over Him,
and he determined to make this work His great life task.
The feeling of race is hard to overcome and eradicate, and Jesus felt that,
after all, here He was at last, at home, among His own people, and the ties of
blood and race reasserted themselves. He put aside His previous thoughts
of a world-wandering life, and decided to plant the standard of the Truth
in Israel, so that from the capital of the Chosen People the Light of the Spirit
might shine forth to all the world. It was Jesus the man—Jesus the Jew—that
made this choice. From the broader, higher point of view He had no race;
no country; no people;—but His man nature was too strong, and in yielding
to it he sowed the seeds for His final undoing.