I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever more. Rev. i. 18.
The spiritual man, the expression of Life which is Spirit, is always slain in human consciousness while material sense holds sway. The serpent or carnal mind slays the true idea of God, that is, slays it to its own false sense, for of course the true idea, the spiritual man, is undying, as he coexists with God. Hence the spiritual man or Lamb of God, is "slain from the foundation of the world— "from the beginning of the false claim of carnal mind, the belief of life in matter instead of in Spirit. It is the true idea, the spiritual man, which says through the Revelator, John, "I am he that liveth, and was dead, and, behold, I am alive forevermore." He "was dead" to human sense, which for thousands of years has been looking for life, substance, and intelligence in matter, but finding it altogether vanity, the dust of nothingness, a will-o'-wisp which was always just ahead of us. The time cometh quickly, thanks to Christian Science, when he is "alive forevermore" to the uplifted human consciousness.
We slay the true idea or "crucify Christ anew" when our motives and actions proceed from mortal sense instead of spiritual sense. But error always "soweth the wind and reapeth the whirlwind."
