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THE ADVANCING AGE

From the June 1958 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christ Jesus said to his disciples (John 16:12), "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." By this statement, he implied that he himself was able to grasp and utilize many things far in advance of his disciples' present capabilities. Jesus foresaw and foreused truths of which the disciples must wait the unfoldment in their conscious experience. Jesus was reassuring, however. He claimed no monopoly of the power and understanding of eternal truth. He said to the disciples (verse 13), "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth."

Jesus as the individual demonstrator of the healing and saving Christ was able to foresee the coming of the final revelation of Truth, and therefore he was able to predict that then the sole remaining need would be individual response to guidance by the "Spirit of truth."

So in the fulfillment of that prophecy came the individual pure and unselfed enough to receive and record that revelation. Always it is the individual who receives and utilizes and bestows. And we now have in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy the final revelation of Truth.

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