The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1936
Yet in order that they might not be left without a sure guide and teacher in the world, He planted in the minds of men the seed picture of Jesus Christ and the great truths that He taught, that this picture and these truths might live throughout the ages and be a Light that would lead all men and finally back into His Heavenly Consciousness.
Jesus plainly showed this when He said, “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; again I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
And when, at another time, after He had said, “If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also; and from henceforth ye know Him and have seen Him;” and Philip had asked Him to show them the Father and it would suffice, Jesus replied in these memorable words:
“Philip, he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father. How sayest thou then, Show us the Father?”
Do you grasp the great significance of this statement?
Again in the 44th and 45th verse of the twelfth chaper, He said:
“He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me but on Him that sent Me.
“And he that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me.
“I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in the darkness (confirming St. John’s word and ours above about His being the Light).
“And if any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. (Think of the wonderful significance of these words! Who but God Himself could save the world?)
“He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (Verily will this be so; then will those who did not acknowledge Him for Who and What He is, learn how they were denying God Himself.)
Can any words—and these were Jesus’ own, remember—make it plainer, that He and the Father are One?
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