Article November 12, 1949 ISSUE

ONLY ONE EXISTENCE, THE SPIRITUAL

MARY R. HASTIE

In the seventeenth chapter of John we read these words: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." What a clear realization Jesus had of his true spiritual selfhood, of his pre-existence with God, his oneness with the Father, and his eternal continuity with Him, for to Jesus there was only one world, one existence—the spiritual. This realization was based on his understanding that man, created in the likeness of God, is the idea or expression of God.

Jesus never recognized any other power, presence, or Mind but God, and he knew that this understanding is based in true consciousness, which emanates from God. Then what was the world to which he referred?

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