The Saviour's Mission.
IF there is no reality in evil, why did the Messiah come to the world, and from what evils was it his purpose to save humankind? How, indeed, is he a Saviour, if the evils from which he saves are nonentities?
Jesus came to earth; but the Christ (that is, the Divine Principle which made Jesus the Christ) was never absent from the earth, and could not come to it; for Jesus Christ spoke of himself as one who came down from Heaven, yet as “the Son of Man who is in Heaven” (John iii. 13).
Salvation is as eternal as God. To mortal thought Christ seemed to come as a child, to grow to manhood, to suffer before Pilate and on Calvary, because he could reach and teach mankind only through this conformity to mortal conditions; but Soul never saw the Saviour come and go, because he was always present.
He came to rescue men from these very illusions to which he seemed to conform: from the illusion
