The Easter story shows us something of what we are that makes it as natural for us to say, "I am not sick," as it is to say, "I do not steal." It reveals the spirituality and indestructibility of the real man, and it unveils our capacity to claim our real identity.
In order for us to see that we are spiritual and indestructible, we need a clear representation of the real man, who is God's idea, and of the human individual. Christ Jesus was both. His life and teachings illustrated spiritual, eternal manhood, the Christ, the true idea of Life and Love, of God. He also showed the capacity of the human individual to discard from his concept of himself whatever is unlike the true idea. Jesus' spiritual conception and virgin birth gave him a clear view both of man's spiritual identity and of the conditions of human life. He could see, as no one else ever has, the entire way from human birth to conscious immortality. And he gave his whole human life to showing us that way.
"Ye must be born again,"John 3:7; he said. The new birth is a birth without time. It is an entering consciously and willingly into the truth of coexistence with divine Life and Love. And it comes through following in the way Jesus taught and lived.
