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JESUS AS SON OF GOD
A symbol of the Higher Self proceeding from the
Supreme and manifesting upon the buddhi-mental plane. It signifies
the potential indwelling Christ seated in the causal-body; and it
also means the perfected Soul wherein the higher and the lower
consciousnesses are made one.
"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth
not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on
him." - JOHN iii. 35, 36.
From the potential, unmanifest Supreme Self proceeds the actual and
manifest Self deputed to carry out the Divine purpose, and to be the
Life within all forms. The quality or soul that becomes in harmony
with the Christ hath the life immortal, but that quality which
conformeth not to the Divine Will cannot be transmuted, but must be
left to the destroying forces of the planes. It is the lower
qualities as such which cannot be transmuted.
“Remember, the self that is imprisoned in the desires of the flesh,
the slave self, is not the whole of you, not the chief part of you.
There is a Self beyond and above who knows no such bondage, never
has done, and never shall; if that Self shall make you free you
shall be free indeed. And who is the Self beneath even this self,
the gold concealed within our dross, the life within our life, the
creator Soul of all mankind? I will tell you it is Jesus. . . . It
is the faith of Christendom; it is the one central truth around
which the New Testament was written; it is the truth of experience
upon which Catholic and Protestant are agreed, and upon which the
whole Christian gospel rests." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Freedom
of the Son of God.
"The object of the faith of the Christian congregation, from its
very inception, never was the earthly teacher Jesus, but ever and
exclusively it was the heavenly spirit of Christ." – O PFLEIDERER,
Develop. of Christianity, p. 25.
"A section (of Congregationalism) adopts the Modernist position that
the ideal content of doctrine is everything, and the historic origin
of it nothing. Even a historic Jesus, these extremists say, is
indifferent, if only we trust our. selves to the ideal principles of
which He was the symbol rather than the source." - PRINCIPAL
FORSYTH, Constructive Quarterly, Sept. 1913, p. 499.
"Christianity is a historical religion, but its power to save
depends upon our power to spiritualise history. I believe the
personality of Jesus indispensable to the early Christian movement,
and I cannot understand the history of the movement without Him; but
it is not Jesus as a historical person who is our Saviour to-day. It
is only as a symbol of what God is that Jesus is of value to us. And
here He is of the greatest value. When we come to look into later
Church history, we find that its Jesus never has been a mere
historical person; Jesus has always been to the Church a symbol of
God. And it is perfectly true to-day that only as a symbol of what
God is, and what He is in the deepest heart of man, do we value
Jesus." - ANON., Serm., Jesus the Great Symbol.
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