It is now over nineteen hundred years since the dial of time was stopped, and the year marked one. A volume of history was then closed - a new volume opened. This, not a history of wars and conflicts, but a history of the growth of man's consciousness. Intelligence, even at that time, had risen, lifting man to a higher plane and teaching him something of the unseen force on which he might draw. A life then was ushered into expression whose deeds were carried on the tablets of memory for years and years, and handed down from one generation to another, before the need of a record was felt. Centuries passed before that record came into permanent form, even to the few - the learned. And yet that advent of a life was potent enough to make a division on the calendar of time, to be recognized later in every business transaction among the foremost nations of this planet.

The story of the Galilean Fisherman's King came to us indirectly through the Greeks - they were a highly romantic and imaginative people, and when their poetry reached its most heroic heights, there was a union of mortals with immortals, thus producing a race possessed of magic force and power. It is not strange that, coming through this channel, a veil of mystery which has dimmed perfect perception was thrown over the record. To-day, as we read the story of that life in the form we have received it, we still, like those who followed him, are questioning the wonderful meaning there shadowed. An historical record, colored with the lively tints that dart from Eastern imagery, and mingled with intuitional truths received from those mystic vibrations from infinite mind, is a record that confounds the logician, startles the thoughtful, and amazes, at times, even him who has attuned his soul to the vibrations of the force energy of the universe.

Think a moment - does not the record plainly show that the repeated assertion of Jesus of "I and the Father are One" was never comprehended by his own disciples? And what to them was "Greater works than these shall ye do?" The disciples never did greater works than he - or, if so, the record fails to show them. Whom does "ye" refer to, then? Clearly to those to come after - to you and me - to all who live to-day.

I do not want to call forth opposition; but, as I understand spiritual growth, it has taken nearly nineteen hundred years to bring forth a mentality on this planet whose unfoldment would permit the understanding and appreciating of the real teachings of Jesus - the Illumined. A new era of time is approaching, and man is finding his divine selfhood. Laotze, in China, twenty-five hundred years ago, dreamed of this truth - Plato guessed at it and guessed well - Jesus knew it and taught it. It is no wonder that the record coming to us through the Eastern and Greek philosophers was not understood. The record taught human birth to rise from sin and branded innocent childhood with horrible stains. A mythical story was invented to save the personality of Jesus from the stain, for the simple reason that the philosophers for centuries have not separated the incarnate - the immaculate Christ principle from the personal Jesus who taught them.

To know the Christ principle, let us turn to the intuitional side and study the record. Let us recognize the Adam life and its real meaning - let us travel over the road or climb the heights, from the physical being typified by Adam, to the Christ life waiting expression within every breathing mortal, and typified by Jesus.

There is no metaphysical student today who questions the absolute permanency of soul life. It is without beginning and without end. Its first entrance into matter, giving form to individual entity, is exemplified by the Adam life or age. The earliest intelligence was to recognize and use the physical entity. The Infinite energy of the Universe as I reach it intuitionally, was first directed to teach man the use of flesh and bone and muscle and nerves, to serve his purpose in the physical economy of living. This Adam age, then, represents the child life of humanity. During the first years of the life of a child, the only mental instruction offered is that of the power of the mind over the physical. To move this physical entity as one would - to make it obey the will - were and are the preliminary requirements to make it obtain mental mastery over the unreal or material selfhood. Though the mind here is the directing force, early intelligence erroneously gave matter a power it does not possess and so made it an opposing factor in man's unfolding. Back in the earliest human life on this planet the conflict between mind and matter began. Opposing forces were recognized in the human entity and the strife has been waged for thousands of years in ignorance. The Adam age was misinterpreted - it did not mean the commencement of soul life. Where there is a beginning there must be an ending. Then, soul first infused itself into material form: that is all. I take it that the soul, prior to that time being free as thought, found itself seemingly restrained. It fought against its seeming fetters, though they were of its own forging. Mind everywhere existent, filling all space but occupying none - observed that the new creation (matter) attracted its like to itself, and that it filled and crowded space. Did this observation give rise to conflict, creative of fear? Who shall answer? Surely the requirements of materiality could not have received attention till they became known. For the soul to adapt itself to new conditions, the laws of harmony, not between soul and matter, but of soul encased therein and vibrative force, were to be learned. The lesson has been only partly learned, and a compromise has patched up a peace.

Childhood passed, we reach early youth, and here we find the Moses age. Some rules must be accepted as the basis of right action. The Moses age presented them under the form of the ten commandments. They taught the property rights of each, the sacredness of life, the relationship of parents and children, and gave society a moral code.