To this agrees another passage in the same chapter, which refers to the Son as “the brightness of His [God's] glory, and the express [expressed] image of His personality [infinite Mind].” It is noteworthy that the phrase express image, in the Common Version, is, in the Greek Testament, character. Using this word in its higher meaning, we may assume that the author of this remarkable epistle regarded Christ as the Son of God, the royal reflection of the Infinite; and the cause given for the exaltation of Jesus, Mary's son, was that he “loved righteousness and hated iniquity.” The passage is made even clearer in the translation of the late George R. Noyes, D.D., “Who, being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His Being.”
Jesus of Nazareth was the most Scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material Jesus the Scientist. surface of things, and found their spiritual cause. To accommodate himself to immature ideas of spiritual power, — for spirituality was possessed only in a limited degree, even by his disciples, — Jesus called the body, which by this power he raised from the grave, “flesh and bones.” To show that the Substance of himself was Spirit, and the body no more perfect because of death, and no less material until the Ascension (his further spiritual exaltation) made it so, he waited until the mortal, or fleshly, sense had relinquished the belief of substance-matter, and spiritual sense had quenched all earthly yearnings. Thus he found the eternal Ego, and proved that he and the Father were inseparable as Principle and Idea. Then it was that our Master gained the solution of Being, demonstrating the existence of but one Mind, without a second or equal.
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