Unity of LO Lesson

The Essential Charles Fillmore

By James Gaither 

Jesus Christ's Atonement (A continuation of last weeks reading)

It is set forth in the New Testament and whoever adopts the life of purity and love and power there exemplified in the experiences of Jesus of Nazareth will in due course attain the place that He attained.

  The way to do this is the way Jesus did it. He acknowledged Himself to be the Son of God. The attainment of the Christ consciousness calls for nothing less on our part than a definite recognition of ourselves as sons of God right here and now, regardless of appearances to the contrary. We know that we are sons of God--then why not acknowledge it and proceed to take possession of our God right? That is what Jesus did in the face of most adverse conditions.

  The process of Jesus' evolving from sense to soul was first a recognition of His spiritual selfhood and a constant affirmation of its supremacy and power. Jesus loved to make the highest statements: "I and the Father are one." "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth." He made these statements before the resurrection, so we know that He was not fully conscious of their reality. But by the power of His word He brought about the realization.

  Next in the process was that constant cleansing of the consciousness through denial, or fasting. He prayed much alone, and fasted. He was being tempted on every side, within and without, and was always overcoming. He daily put out of His mind all the ideas that bind men to the world. He recognized that the kingdom of the spiritual man is not of this world--that it is a world that transcends this and controls it; therefore He was not attached in any way to the things of sense.

  When Jesus said, "The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life," He touched the inner Christ word which created all things, and we know that His words were vivified from that center with a life essence and moving power that will demonstrate the truth of His statement. 

  These words have rung through the souls of men and set them afire with God's Spirit, throughout the ages. This is because they are spiritual words. Within them are the seeds of a divine life and they grow in the minds of all who give them place, just as a beautiful flower or a great tree grows from the seed germ planted in the ground. 

  Jesus recognized that the consciousness of man was submerged in the things of sense; that it could not perceive Truth in the abstract, and that it must, under these conditions, be stirred into activity by some stimulating force dropped into it from without. Hence He sent forth His powerful words of Truth to the thirsty souls, and said to them, "Keep my saying."

  To keep a saying is to revolve it in mind--to go over it in all its aspects, to believe it as truth, to treasure it as a saving balm in time of need, and above all to obey the law that it sets forth. 

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