Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He went beneath the material surface of things, and found their spiritual cause. To accommodate himself to the immature idea of his power, possessed even by his disciples, Jesus called the body which, by his own power, he raised from the grave, “flesh and bones.” To show that the Substance of himself was Spirit, and the body no more perfect because of death, and no less material until the Ascension made it so, he waited until the mortal sense, or flesh, had risen above all earthly yearnings, and relinquished the belief of substance-matter, and the Ego became one with the Father. Then it was that our Master gained the solution of being, that demonstrates the existence of but One Mind, without a second or equal.
The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed plainly that their material views were the parents of their wicked deeds. When Jesus spake of reproducing his body, — knowing, as he did, that Mind was the builder, — and said, “Though you destroy this temple, yet will I build it again,” they thought he referred to a material temple. To such materialists, Spirit, or God, seemed a spectre, unseen and unfamiliar; and the body, which they laid in a sepulchre, seemed to be the substance. This materialism lost sight of the true Jesus; while the faithful Mary saw him, and he presented to her, more than ever before, the true idea of God, Life, and Substance.
Because of men's material and sinful belief, the Spiritual Jesus was imperceptible to them. The higher his demonstration of Divine Science carried the problem of being, and the more distinctly lie uttered the demands of its Principle, — Truth and Love, — the more odious he
