JESUS the Christ was ever directing thought to the realm of the supersensible. He was too wise and too scientific to reckon himself on a level with the physical senses. Had he done so, the Christ idea could not have been made manifest through him. His declaration, "I am from above," separated him from all that was "from beneath," and gave him superhuman wisdom and understanding to correct the misguided senses.
If, on the other hand, Jesus had held to or stood for his seeming mortal investiture or corporeality, his thinking would have been on a par with that of mortals, and he could not have pointed the way to heaven, the conscious recognition of the Science of being. To him God was first, and the Christ, his eternal selfhood, therefore antedated any human concept. This understanding of God and His perfect spiritual creation placed the Master upon an immortal foundation, which has remained and will ever remain untouched by the theories and doctrines of men.
The mental attitude of mortals is the opposite of that of Christ Jesus. They have little use for the supersensible. They are in league with the material senses, which are "from beneath" and therefore opposed to the least advance of the Christ idea in human consciousness. The thought of man's immortality makes no present day appeal to them; rather is it considered a subject for speculation and future experience. They want nothing to do with the kingdom of heaven on earth. Well has it been said of them, that they neither go in themselves nor suffer "them that are entering to go in." Nothing beyond the reach of the material senses has any interest for them. The operation of an unseen spiritual law, regardless of the great good it may have produced, is viewed with incredulity. "We acknowledge what is done," they say, "but we question the Principle back of it." They would credit the human or mortal mind with the production of good and cheerfully worship at the unhallowed shrine of mesmerism and hypnotism. Herodlike, they would put to death the child thought of simplicity and purity in its efforts to testify to the reality of the supersensible.
