Today, more than ever before, the glamour of human personalities is being imposed on an ever-increasing number of people. Television, radio, motion pictures, and the sensational press project into the minds of a listening world the fallacious importance of material personalities.
Our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, was aware of the detrimental, mesmeric influence engendered by the mortal personality. In reply to a young man, apparently impressed by personal accomplishments, the Master said (Matt. 19:17), "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." On another occasion, after performing many remarkable healings, Jesus noted the inability of material personality to be an agent in the healing work, in these words (John 5:30): "I can of mine own self do nothing."
Indeed, it was not the human personality of Jesus which produced his mighty works, but the eternal Christ-principle, understood and individualized by the Master. By precept and demonstration, Jesus taught the powerlessness of physical personalities and the impersonal omnipotence of his Father-Mother God.
