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no longer regard the sufferings of Christ as in any sense a penalty which He endured in order that we might escape."-(Christ for India).
RESURRECTION.
"The revelation in Jesus, says Mr. Lucas, "has shown us not only God as he has manifested himself in Human life; but it has shown us man as conceived by the divine mind. He has shown us of what humanity is capable when its life is lived, not in isolation or opposition to God, but in harmony with him." Those who have attentively followed the previous pages of this work need not be reminded that within every man there are two principles, namely, the Subjective, or Divine, and the objective, or personal, i.e., the lower self. Of these, Christ stands for the Divine element, which is buried deep under huge deposits of sin. This hidden divinity is to be purified and released from the grip of sin, when it will reveal itself as a God. Jesus not only taught and preached the doctrine of the "Key of Knowledge" to dispel ignorance and to bring into manifestation the hidden Divinity within, but, also, actually demonstrated it in his own life. And he invites us to follow his example to regain the Paradise lost, which signifies what is described as entering into Life. For one's Divinity is real the moment one can consciously and conscientiously say, from one's heart, "I and the father are one" (John, X. 30). In different language, Godhood is at one end and animalism at the other of existence, with the middle point denoting freedom of action, hence choice of paths, occupied by man. When the animal nature acquires ascendency in this see-saw of life, the God-element goes down, and vice versa ; and
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