The evidence of the indestructibility of man presented in the life of the Master has a special significance for the age in which we live. "Why was it," one may ask, "that after his crucifixion Jesus could appear to his disciples and present to Thomas, who doubted his reappearance, the proof that he had lost none of his essential being?" As all could see, he was himself, the very self whom they had known. While he bore the marks of the experience which they believed to be an experience of destruction, yet he was not destroyed.
The answer lies in Jesus' declaration (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one," a declaration which he had made to his disciples many times in many ways. This was a new theme, incomprehensible when first proclaimed and destined to be misconstrued in the succeeding centuries, in which the healing and protecting power inherent in this oneness was to be lost to humanity until brought to light by Christian Science. This Science explains Christ Jesus' oneness with the Father as the oneness in quality of Principle and its idea, of Mind and its reflection. It shows this oneness and coexistence to be the endowment of every individual idea of God, and thus the saving truth for every human being. As witnessed in the life of Jesus, man's at-one-ment with his Maker is seen to be the demonstrable means of humanity's escape from the destructiveness of so-called mortal life and its refuge from the illusion of a world of matter.
As Jesus was to prove in his ascension, God is not aware of a world of matter or of a state of consciousness which can conceive of such a world. God knows only the pure creation of Spirit, which is the expression of His own infinite nature—the expression of Life and Love. Jesus was to translate this Life and Love to human consciousness. He was to show that the divine qualities of Life and Love, which he reflected, were indestructible and could give mankind dominion over the illusion of a material world. As the ray of light is "sent" by the sun, so Jesus recognized himself as sent by God to mediate between the pure creation of Spirit and the seeming mortal consciousness.
