The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1933

claim, nor that some day they will be required to prove that they are Christians.

Well, that day has arrived! This man who appeared in the world and stayed here only long enough to announce his mission and to give forth his message, was more than a mere man; he was sent of God. As he said,

“I came forth, and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me.” And again, “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; soon I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

Which means that he must have been a Divine Being, a “Beloved Son,” as the Voice from Heaven proclaimed him at his baptism in the river Jordan, Who came as the Representative of the Father expressly to teach humanity the higher and better ways of living that must prevail before the freedom, harmony and happiness men seek can possibly manifest in their lives. Think you, in the light of what was said in previous articles, that he came or was born as an ordinary man, gave his message, and then died? If he died, and went back to the Father, just where did he go, and where is he now? Think you he does not still live, and will not make good His promises? Perhaps that will be made clear to you later on.

Do you remember that he told his disciples before he went, “I go to prepare a place for you,” but “I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” In other words, he promised those who believed in him, believed that in him they saw the Father—that the Father was in him, and he was in and of the Father (see John 14:9-10)—that he would return and acknowledge and accept them into that same Oneness with the Father that he enjoyed—“That they all may be one; as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee, that they


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