- 31 - 7. 3 The connection between Christ and the World of Spirit As to the manner in which the Divine revelations reached Christ, I have already intimated this to you, but I wish to go into the subject more fully because it is essential to a full understanding of Christ’s life and work. It will then become clear to you that also in this respect the experiences of Christ present nothing altogether new or previously unheard of. You have only to recall the way in which God had conveyed His revelations and commandments to His instruments in the past. How did He communicate with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? With Moses and Joshua? With the judges, kings and prophets? With Zacharias, Mary and Joseph? In precisely the same way He now communicated with Christ. Jesus was thus not favoured in this respect above those who had preceded him as Divine instruments and emissaries. God caused His spirit world to enter into communication with him as with all the others, and through it He revealed everything that Christ required for the fulfillment of the task before him. The prerequisites for communicating with the spirit world were the same for him as for any other person. It was but natural that his mediumistic gifts were of the highest, for he was the highest and purest of spirits created by God to be incarnated in human form. Christ possessed the ability to concentrate, and to ‘submerge the spirit’, of which I spoke to you in connection with the development of mediums, to an extent never attained by man before or since. Moreover, no other human medium has ever possessed a physical od as pure as that of Christ. • In him, then, the prerequisites for communicating with the Divine spirits existed to a degree that no other mortal can hope to attain. The mission Christ had to carry out on behalf of the kingdom of God was the greatest ever assigned to a mortal. Hence it was necessary that God send him spirits in abundance, not only with regard to number, but also with respect to strength and ability. Among them were spirits of fortitude, to infuse new strength into him when his own began to fail in the battle with evil powers. Often these spirits were accompanied by those of hope, joy, and peace of soul. Again, militant angels from Michael’s legions came to his side, when Satan marshalled his legions in full force to bring Jesus down and the fury of their assaults threatened to be more than human strength could bear. Spirits of truth and knowledge instructed him about the teachings that he was to present to the multitudes as the Word of God or provided answers to personal questions about himself and his tasks. Spirits of wisdom taught him how to accomplish his individual tasks, but only after he had fully exhausted his own resources without finding the right answers. With him as with all other mortals the motto applies: ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ If you would arrive at a good goal, use your own strength first, and if this does not suffice, God will intercede with the aid of His spirit world. • God does not heedlessly distribute His favours or crown you with success without effort on your part. He demands that everyone exert himself to the utmost, and this He demanded of Christ also. When the sick required his attention, spirits of healing came to his aid whenever his own native healing powers proved inadequate to cure the diseased od of the patient, although in many cases his great personal healing power sufficed to bring about the desired end without the help of the healing spirits.
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