The height of material achievement has perhaps been reached. Now comes the opportunity for that subtle divine Self to manifest through the agency of the experience which we call the "new birth," the secret teaching which Christianity has never taught.

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There is an ancient Mexican aphorism which reads, "Always in the center shall come a new Word."

Every form has its positive center of life. Every organism is constructed around a central nucleus of power. There is a center in our universe from which the Word went forth, bringing into being our organized solar system as we now have it, and the planet on which we live and with its myriad forms of life.

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The same was in the beginning with God.
"All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
"In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
"He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not."
- St. John, I, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10.

What is thus true of the Whole is true also of the part. Each civilization, as an expression of the human consciousness, has had its Word.

Two thousand years ago a Word was "made Flesh," and around that dynamic center of spiritual life our Western world revolves. Whether we accept this fact or question it matters not, as far as the results are concerned.

The historical foundation of Christianity, as rationalism, liberalism, and as modern theology count it, exists no longer - which, however, is not to say that Christianity has therefore lost its historical foundation.

The work which historical theology believed it must carry out, and which it sees falling to pieces at the very moment when completion was near, is only the veneer of the true indestructible, historical foundation, which is independent of any historical knowledge and proof - simply because it is here, it exists.

Jesus is something to our world because a mighty stream of spiritual influence has gone forth from Him and has penetrated our age. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by an historical knowledge.

Always the Word has sounded out which has enabled the race to see and recognize its next step. The Christ enabled man to hear this in the past; He will enable man to do so again. Some day these Words which have been spoken periodically will be superseded by a WORD which is known among man as the "Lost Word."

When that Word is finally spoken humanity will be enabled to climb to the final peak of human achievement. The hidden divinity will then shine forth in its glory, through the medium of the race.

The height of material achievement has perhaps been reached. Now comes the opportunity for that subtle divine Self to manifest through the agency of the experience which we call the "new birth," the secret teaching which Christianity has never taught.

The effect of all that is now transpiring upon earth is to bring to the surface that which is hidden within the human heart, and to unveil to our eyes the new vision. Then we can pass through the gateway of the New Age into a world which will be characterized by newer awareness, a deeper understanding of the vital realities, and a truer and higher standard of values.

The Word must again sound forth from the center - the Center in the Heavens, and the center in every human heart. Each individual soul must hear it for itself alone.

Each of us has to pass through that experience wherein we know ourselves to be a "Word made Flesh," and until the Way is a part of our individual consciousness as souls, it remains a myth. It can become a fact - the major fact in the experience of the soul.

An isolated soul is an impossibility.

The Soul - in the most general sense to mean the center of experience which as a microcosm has acquired or is acquiring a character of its own and a relative persistence - the soul is not to be contrasted as a detached agent either with its constituent externality on the one hand or with the life of the absolute on the other.

The soul is a range of externality centering the mind. And when we speak of the soul as a will creatively molding circumstance, this is another expression for the microcosm, including the center which its circumstances stand around, remolding and reshaping itself.

It is, on the other hand, a thread or fiber of the absolute life, a stream or tide within it of varying breadth, intensity, and separateness from the great flood within which it moves.

What this soul is, when unveiled and manifested, even through the limitations of the flesh, Christ made clear to us. The partial in us is complete in Him, a fact in full expression. He has linked us to Himself through His perfected humanity, and He has linked us to God through His expressed divinity.

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