When we realize that the Christ is God enthroned in the human soul - enthroned in every soul in the vastness of the cosmos; that the spirit of Christ is the central principle of every soul; and that the human soul is the real man, the you, the me, the "I Am," we discover that it is impossible to separate ourselves as spiritual entities from the Son or from the Father. There is a unity there that cannot be defined in words; but there is also a differentiation there that cannot be defined in words; but those who are spiritually awakened can spiritually discern how we are eternally individuals, and eternally spiritual entities, and at the same time, realize that the chief principle in every soul is the Son of God, the Christ - God enthroned in the real spiritual man.

When we grow in spirituality, and discern that wonderful unity on the spiritual side, uniting the soul with the Christ, and the Christ with God, and all spiritual life with the Holy Spirit in manifestation, we discover the wonderful meaning of the Holy Trinity; and therefore, that term is no longer a mere phrase, or a mere expression, but a divine truth of wonderful meaning - a truth that can be discerned only by those who are spiritually awakened. And they who do discern the real meaning of the Trinity have wisdom indeed; and still the understanding of that sublime truth is simply the beginning of real spiritual wisdom.

We remember the statement, "To know God is the beginning of Wisdom," and we know God for the first time when we discover this interior spiritual relationship - how we, as spiritual entities, have the Christ enthroned within us, and how the Christ is God in manifestation, God living and reigning in every soul in the vastness of the cosmos.

Returning to the original statement, that the greater works must follow when the Christ goes to the Father, we find that this is not something that begins in us at any particular time. The Christ does not begin to go to the Father at any certain time, because the Christ is eternally going to the Father; but the discovery, however, of this eternal truth may come to our consciousness at any time. The fact is, that there are a great many things that have been taking place for eternity, and yet those things have seemingly been hidden from us; in other words, we are just awakening to the realization of the wonderful things that have been going on upon higher planes for ages and eternities.

God has been giving everything to this countless number of human souls for all time, but we may not have known this great truth. However, at a certain time we all awaken to that truth; and at our first awakening, it seems as if God just began to do these things for us. But as we become more fully awake in the spirit, we learn that God has been doing these things for us during all eternity, although we were not ready to accept His gifts or enter into unity with Him in working out the wonderful destiny that we all have in store.

Knowing this truth, we realize that higher spiritual power has been pouring down upon us for ages and ages; but we did not receive that power, not being spiritually awakened. When we awaken in the spirit, however, then we begin to appropriate more and more of this power, and the greater life and the greater work must follow.

The same is true of the Christ going to the Father. The Christ in us is eternally rising in the vast spiritual world; and when we become conscious of this, we enter into harmony with that wonderful ascension, that is, the ascension of the Christ eternally taking place in our own soul; and when we make this discovery, or when we awaken to that wonderful spiritual process, it is clearly evident that great spiritual power is added; accordingly, greater works must follow.

What these greater works are to be will depend largely upon our own ability and power in life. There are very few of us who really feel the need of what may be called miracles, although as we grow in spirituality, we are liable at any time, to experience demonstrations in our very presence that are truly miraculous. But the greater works, in many instances, will be the greater awakening of spiritual consciousness, the elimination of ailments and imperfection, the overcoming of the world and of all things that pertain to this world, the complete mastery over mind and body, and the conscious possession of those greater powers within us through which we may attain and accomplish the highest purpose or the most wonderful goal that imagination can picture in the lofty world of the ideal.

Whatever the greater work may be in the present life of each one of us, the essential principle is this, that we gain the power to do the greater things because the Christ enthroned in us is eternally going to the Father. However, we must become conscious of that eternal ascension, because it is only as we become conscious of that ascension that our own consciousness takes higher and higher ground.

We know through our own experience, that as we ascend spiritually into loftier realms, into higher states, that the power is greater, the light more brilliant, and the wisdom more wonderful; we realize gain in every conceivable manner. We grow in wisdom, in understanding, in power and in spirituality; and the result must always be that the greater works will follow; and this is the spiritual meaning of the great statement under consideration.

The whole truth of this statement is purely spiritual; but this whole truth is so vast that we may ascend into it, higher and higher, for all eternity, forever rising into the greater power, the greater wisdom and the greater light; and forever manifesting the greater and the greater works that invariably follow. There is no end to that life, to that attainment, to that ascension in spirituality; and therefore, we can truthfully say, that however great the work of any exalted soul may be to-day, that soul will perform still greater work in the higher life of the wonderful future.