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Fulfillment
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"AND GOD created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them. And God
blessed them." "And on the seventh day God finished his
work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the
seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested
from all his work which God had created and made."
Science tells us that all living forms are made up of
aggregations of cells, that all cells are made up of
molecules and atoms, and that atoms have within them
electrons and protons, the soul of light and energy, the
source of everything the atom and its aggregations
manifest. So we are safe in asserting that the atom at its
core is Spirit and that Bible characters had this primal
source of light in mind when they spoke of the light of the
Spirit. Jesus proclaimed: "I am the light of the world."
"Ye are the light of the world." When He spoke thus He was
speaking of this inner light which gives life and
intelligence to all creation. When the apostle James wrote,
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights," he was
corroborating the Gospel of
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John, which in the very first chapter says: "In him was
life; and the life was the light of men. And the light
shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it
not. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of
the light, that all might believe through him. He was not
the light, but came that he might bear witness of the
light. There was the true light, even the light which
lighteth every man, coming into the world."
These light and energy units radiate light and generate
light, of which an incandescent electrical bulb is an
example. From this we get a clue as to the status of man
and his body as a light center with an aggregation of
billions and trillions of cells, every one of them flashing
light of varying color and brilliancy and forming about the
body an aura of splendor. As stated in John, this aura
shines in the darkness and the darkness apprehends it not.
The mind must be illumined by Christ before it can behold
the light radiating from every soul. When that light is
developed it is visible to those who know how to still the
outer mind and enter into the silence. In the 1st chapter
of Revelation John says: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.
. . . I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of
the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts
with a golden girdle. And his head and his hair were white
as white wool, white as snow;
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and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like
unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a
furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. . . .
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he
laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the
first and the last, and the Living one; and I was dead, and
behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of
death and of Hades."
Here John, resting at the light center of his soul, saw the
resurrected Master.
The development of this spiritual light is the destiny of
us all; and we shall not be satisfied until we "awake in
his likeness." All are radiant in a certain degree with
this spiritual light, but especially those who have an
understanding of Spirit and its universality. We feel the
light and sometimes mentally see it flashing into
expression when we have a spiritual uplift gained from a
new idea of Truth. Others feel its influence and are moved
to higher things by it; or if it is radiating gloomily,
they are moved to depression and discouragement.
The scientific understanding of the great Bible truths
thrills the soul with the desire for spiritual attainment,
with a longing for spiritual fulfillment. Today many
enlightened persons are proudly acknowledging Jesus Christ
as the grand and perfect fulfillment, as perceived by John
in Revelation, and they are claiming His promises: "If ye
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye
will,
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and it shall be done unto you." "If a man keep my word, he
shall never see death."
We revel in just concentrating upon the name Jesus Christ
and in speculating about the history of His soul's
unfoldment. We take delight in speculating about the true
reason why He is so far in advance of our time. Surely
Jesus Christ was the product of a cycle of human
development that was before our present cycle of
development. When here on earth, through the mastery of
spiritual laws of which we today have only an inkling, He
performed many seeming miracles. Think of the condition in
those times of a body that had been dead for four days.
Imagine Jesus thanking God that His petition had been heard
and then speaking the word of life to one who had lain in
the grave for this length of time. Then imagine this person
instantly being charged with new life; imagine great
streams of life flowing through his every cell and fiber
until he came walking out of the tomb, restored to perfect
health. Imagine Jesus in the consciousness of perfect unity
with God speaking the healing word to many "sick unto
death" and each one instantly throwing off the disease and
coming forward sound and well.
Jesus taught us how to pray. He taught us that prayer is
not only the spiritual approach to the Father but that
through prayer and realization we attain the
interpenetrating consciousness of God's perfect life and
love and power. Jesus revealed to us that we are the sheep
of His pasture; that is,
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that we are children of the same Father as He. He is our
Elder Brother, our helper. We are His people, and He is
interested in our progress.
Jesus Christ has provided and provides today the greatest
impetus to the ongoing of our race. When the soul of the
race (symbolized by Eve) became involved in the pleasures
of sensation (symbolized by the serpent) and sought other
guidance than that of Jehovah God, gradual degeneration of
the whole human family began until men were in a bad way.
Something had to be done. Someway, somehow we had to be
lifted out of the murky darkness of sense thought.
To lift the race out of sense thought Jesus was compelled
by the necessity of soul sympathy to become an intimate
associate of the people He sought to help. Hence He
incarnated into the race and was "tempted in all points as
we are, but without sin."
Through His experience on the cross, where His precious
blood was spilled, through His suffering there Jesus
lowered His consciousness to the consciousness of the race,
thereby administering to the whole race a blood
transfusion, imparting to both the soul and the body of men
the properties of Being that will restore man to his divine
estate.
With their blood transfusions the medical men of today are
copying this grand transfusion of life. We are on the way
to fulfillment and the Jesus Christ way!
Jesus Christ broadcast the electrons of His blood into the
race thought atmosphere, and they may be
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apprehended by all who believe in Him. These electrons
become centers of energy and life in those who appropriate
them, and thus men gradually transform and regenerate their
blood and their body. This is the real spiritual meaning of
being saved by Jesus Christ.
The blood is the life. Jesus really came to bring to the
whole human family a larger consciousness of life. He said,
"I came that ye may have life, and may have it more
abundantly."
Life is a universal energy that moves even the corpuscles
of the blood. Therefore life is more powerful than the
blood. Consequently we believe that it was through the
"shedding," the getting rid, of the idea of flesh and blood
that Jesus accomplished His great works. He tapped the
great reservoir of divine life and raised His consciousness
of life to that of the Father. Through Him we all have
access to this perpetual life stream. We must really eat of
His substance, as He taught us; that is, we must
appropriate it as spiritually ours. We must drink of His
blood: let His life stream flow through our mind and body,
healing, cleansing, and purifying us in every way. This is
the grand at-one-ment (atonement) of man's life with the
life of God through Jesus Christ. This is the way to
perfect fulfillment.
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