The relation of Jesus to the Christ and to man.

Citation

Evans, W. F. (1885). The relation of Jesus to the Christ and to man. In W. F. Evans, The primitive mind cure: The nature and power of faith; or, Elementary lessons in Christian philosophy and transcendental medicine (pp. 175-182). Boston, MA, US: H H Carter & Karrick Publishers.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/12761-022

Abstract

After what has been said in the preceding section, it only remains to say a few words respecting the relation of Jesus to the Christ of Paul. As all human minds are connected through a universal mind, through Jesus as an inlet the Christ entered into humanity, and deposited in it the germ of a new and higher life. In a preeminent degree, he was an incarnation of the Christ, — not that no one else ever was, for all spiritually enlightened mind is a manifestation of the Christ and the Word. But owing to the unexampled spiritual evolution of the man Jesus, his individual life became merged and blended into a unity with the "Only-Begotten of the Father," the Universal Christ. In him also the Word was made flesh or manifested on the psychical plane of mind, and we beheld his glory. And his intelligent mastery of the natural forces indicated his union with the Adonai or Lord who has all power in the heavens and the earth. In Jesus we witness a complete humanized expression of the Christ, the Word and the Spirit. His personality is an inlet and an outlet of those universal divine principles, and a medium through which they may enter into each one of us, and through which the human race may have access to them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)