INDIVIDUALS occasionally perceive through spiritual sense the universe of Spirit. In this moment they become aware of an endless perfection of movement, of ideas circling divinity in a vast expression of harmony, of an irradiance of light which knows no darkness. Within such a realm there is obviously no need for defense, for there is no attacker, no villain, no subterfuge there. The simple fact is that there is only God and His eternal reflection, that there is only one God, who is All.
It must have been to gain such precious views that Christ Jesus left the multitude, the sick and the sinning, and went away into the wilderness or up to a mountain top. Alone with God, this man, each time he went, envisioned with greater clarity what God is seeing and knowing all the time.
Such a concept of reality refreshed the Master for the arduous and ever more arduous duties awaiting him. He was well aware of the usual means of defense. He told Pilate, for example, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews" (John 18:36).
