====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1936 ==
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that cometh into the world.” According to St. John, in the first chapter of his Gospel he plainly states that Jesus Christ is the Light that lighteth every man. But he tells us also that the “Light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.”

This is all too mystical for anyone fully to comprehend until he is able to see the key which is given you when we say that God alone is the Light which lighteth every man; for is He not All in all? With this key and what we have said above, that Jesus is God, Himself, and that He is the Holy Spirit of God, the Light that is the life of every man, then you can understand the meaning of the following marvelous words of St. John:

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

“The Word was in the beginning with God.

“All things were made by him (the Word Who was God); and without him was not anything made that was made.

“In Him (the Word, Jesus Christ, God) was life, and the life was the light of men.”
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Study these words carefully, especially in connection with what we just said and with what follows in the same chapter, where it tells of God sending John to bear witness of the Light Who was to come, He Who is the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Now listen;

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“He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” (This can only mean that God was already in the world in every man, and that when He came in His Perfect Form as Jesus Christ, the world knew Him not.)

“He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

“But as many as received Him (or recognized Him as God), to them gave He power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe in His name (have faith in His promises and His power).”
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Just think what that means, dear friends; that all of us who recognize and accept Jesus as God, and who believe in His promises and power as of God, will be given the power to become Sons of God, and to become like Jesus in every way!
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