- 34 - In public Christ never mentioned his connection with God's spirit world. He mentioned it only when necessary. Thus, when some of the Jews accused him of using the powers of evil to cast out the spirits of the possessed, he replied that he drives them out with the help of a spirit of God. Matthew 12: 28: ‘If I drive out the demons with the help of one of God’s spirits, then indeed the kingdom of God has already come to you.’ Along with the gift of clairvoyance in its highest form, as it was manifested in him, Jesus also had the ability to recognize the spiritual state of human beings and to read their thoughts. At all times there have been people similarly gifted, although your contemporaries have no understanding of this matter and especially do not realize that eternal laws govern also these phenomena. Even in the case of Christ these laws applied in every particular case. They were taken into account by him in the sense that he always selected the time and place for communicating with the spirits with a view to securing the conditions most favourable for the purpose. He, who advised his followers to withdraw to their quiet chambers for prayer, himself sought out wooded hillsides in the cool of the dusk and the night. • For light and warmth and the noises of the day exert an exceedingly adverse effect upon the formation of the od required for communicating with the spirit world. Hence he preferred the solitude of the woods or the garden, and the darkness and coolness of the night. Furthermore, everything that Christ predicted about the future he had learned from the spirit messengers sent to him by his Father. It has been customary among you to regard Christ’s miracles and prophesies as evidence of his Divinity. This conclusion is entirely erroneous. You confuse the Agent with His implement. • The Agent is God. His visible implement may be any being whatsoever, while His invisible implements are the Divine spirits assigned to that being. A little reflection on your part would enable you to discover this fact for yourselves. When you, personally, preached on the ‘Divinity of Christ’ and tried to prove this by citing his miracles and prophesies, did it never occur to you to draw a comparison between him and those of God’s emissaries who had preceded him? Did they not perform miracles similar to those performed by Christ? Were the miracles accomplished by Moses any less wonderful than those that Christ performed? Were the transformation of a rod into a serpent and that of water into blood, the killing of the first-born of Egypt, the passage through the Red Sea, his producing drinking water with the stroke of his rod, and the many other signs performed by Moses of less account than Jesus' transformation of water into wine, walking upon the waves or calming the storm? If you cite the acts of Jesus as evidence of his Divine status, then you would have to consider Moses to be God, too. Were not the sick healed and the ‘dead’ raised by many mortals who were Divine instruments? Then you would have to regard also these mortals as Divine. Then Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, and the other great prophets from God were also God, not to mention the Apostles, since they performed miracles equal to those performed by Christ and would, according to him, do even greater works than he. You cannot cite a single miracle performed by Jesus that has not been performed in the same or in
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