The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1936

Satan finding no sin in them, so that the angels came and ministered unto them?

Very few are there of such on earth. But they can be known by the work they are doing. It is always a work similar in many respects to what Jesus did; for He was the Example, the Wayshower, the Pattern, given to man by the Father to show all men the way back to His Consciousness, their Heavenly Home.

All must admit that Jesus attained, through the gift of the Holy Spirit at His Baptism, a consciousness unique in the history of mankind. No other person previous to Him gave evidence of such a high consciousness, claiming Oneness with the Father, and stating, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

But we hear much of the Christ Consciousness these days, and it is not vain illusion that many are speaking of it; for the very fact that it is being brought so prominently to the minds of men at this time is a sure sign it is possible of attainment—perhaps is the next step for those who are in the vanguard of humanity in this dispensation.

Take note of this statement—“the vanguard of humanity in this dispensation.” This implies not only that there are those who are in advance—who are the highest advanced Spiritually in this age, but that there are those who in previous ages reached the zenith of human attainment, and then “ascended” as Jesus did beyond humanity’s consciousness, even as will “ascend” those who are now the highest advanced of mankind.

Listen to what was told in Hebrews 12:22-24, of those “who art come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.”

What is Mount Zion but that high Spiritual Consciousness where in God’s City, Truth, the Heavenly Jerusalem, dwell those who, like Jesus, have proven themselves, and where they are of the General Assembly, the Church of the First-born who are enrolled in Heaven, the Spirits of Just Men made perfect; where they are ministered unto by innumerable hosts of Angels, and where they are in the actual Presence of God, the Judge of all—being in His Consciousness, and of Jesus, the Mediator of


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