The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed plainly that their material views were the parents of The bodily resurrection. their wicked deeds. When Jesus spake of reproducing his body, — knowing, as he did, that Mind was the builder, — and said, “Though you destroy this temple, yet will I build it again,” they thought he referred to their material Temple, instead of his body. To such materialists, Spirit, or God, seemed a spectre, unseen and unfamiliar; and the body, which they laid in a sepulchre, seemed to be substance. This materialism lost sight of the true Jesus; but the faithful Mary saw him, and he presented to her, more than ever before, the true idea of Life and Substance.
Because of mortals' material and sinful belief, the spiritual Jesus was imperceptible to them. The higher his demonstration of Divine Science carried the problem of Being, and the more distinctly he uttered the demands of its Principle, Truth, and Love, the more odious he became to sinners, and to those depending on doctrines and material laws, to save them from sin and sickness, and submissive to death as the inevitable law of matter. Jesus proved them wrong by his resurrection, and said: “Whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die.”
That saying of our Master, “I and my Father are one,” separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis, Hebrew theology. His better understanding of God was a rebuke to them. He knew of but one Mind, and laid no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind, instead of body, — that matter, sin, and evil were not Mind; and his understanding of this Divine Science brought upon him the anathemas of the world.
