And Jesus Sinned Not

And  Jesus  Sinned  Not

Uranda   September 22, 1932

How often have you heard it said that Jesus the Christ lived on your plane without sin? This very thought has made you feel that He had in some strange way access to a power that is denied you.

If Jesus had some power that is not within your reach He is not the great example for you. If you have access to every power that Jesus had, and you do not live the life He lived, then surely it is true that you understand not that which is necessary for your own victory. How is it that you who lay claim to Christianity at the same time say that it is not possible for you to live the perfect life? What strange inconsistencies there are in your body minds; for your body minds seek to please the body, and the body seeks to ignore the guidance of Soul as expressed through your astral bodies. And thus does the body sin.

I would give to you a deeper understanding of Jesus, the Master, and His life, or expression, on your plane. In order that you may comprehend His expression it is needful for you to first learn what sin is.

What you call evil is the partly formed object, and what you call sin is the acceptance of that partly formed object as if it were the finished thing. It is said, “In the beginning the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Had you been there in your present state of consciousness, you would have cried out that the forces of darkness were stronger than the forces of light, for the forces of light were not then manifest in the earth. This condition you would have termed evil, for it was “without form,” and from the physical standpoint it was therefore without purpose. Or at best you would say that this darkness would hinder the good in its expression. But this would not be true, for the spirit is not subject to the laws of the flesh, therefore the flesh sees not that the imperfect is the perfect in process of manifestation. Here, then, is the secret. Contact with the imperfect, or evil, is not sin unless you accept the imperfect as if it were the perfect. Sin is the resigning of oneself to the idea that the imperfect cannot be made perfect.

If you would grow, you must work constantly with the imperfect, for the perfect has need of nothing. This Jesus did. He learned the secret of the Supreme Logos and the Great Secret Arcanum, and thereby was He able to take hold of the imperfect and bring it to the state of the perfect.

The self-righteous hypocrites of Jesus’ day could not understand why He was willing to be with the publicans and sinners, simply because they saw not that on your plane the perfect must first be imperfect, and that the imperfect needs only the skilful touch of a master in order that it may be perfect. Is not this also true of your self-styled religious leaders of today? Of a truth they are themselves the sinners, because they teach that it is sin to be imperfect. If this were true, then the earth was in the beginning in sin, and God was the creator of sin. What blasphemy it is that these so-called teachers shout from the platforms of your churches.

God was not the creator of sin, because He did not leave the earth in an imperfect condition. Into the darkness of that etheric substance God projected Himself, for He is light. Then did God see that substance as it would be in its perfect expression. He spoke the Word and it was so. These are the steps by which God created, and they are the steps by which you must create. You are not greater than God, so then do not think that you can bring anything into your life by any other method.

Jesus became the Master because He, above all others, realized the truth of these things. Jesus was not the Master when He began life on your plane. He began with the same imperfections as are within yourself. He made many mistakes. He often fell short of perfection while He was in training. The secret of how He attained mastership is in the fact that, no matter how beautiful the imperfect may have seemed to the physical body, He refused to accept it as the perfect until it measured up to the standard of spiritual perfection. Jesus lived a life without sin for the simple reason that no matter how many mistakes He made, and no matter how many times He failed in His attempts, He kept right on trying until He was master of the thing He undertook. And as He mastered one thing, He thought and sought to master greater things, until at last He mastered all things on your plane, and thereby He became the Master.

It is not sin to be imperfect, but it is sin to remain imperfect. The things you are wont to term evil are those things still on the way to the perfect. So condemn not evil, which is the imperfect, but rather condemn the stagnation of progress, for this is sin. Condemn not the imperfect one, whom some have called the sinner, but rather condemn the act which accepts the imperfection as inevitable, for this is sin.

This will show you how Jesus lived in your world of evil—which is your world as yet incomplete, or imperfect—and was without sin.

This shows you more clearly how He was, and is, your perfect example. For He was “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” See you not that this plainly states that Jesus had to overcome His imperfections the same as you do, and also that His imperfections were as many as those of all living beings? But He was not daunted by His imperfections and failures, which were many, and so was He without sin, because He rose above evil. In other words He took the imperfect and turned it into the perfect. This you also can do. The manner by which you can do this is outlined to you in the “Seven Steps in the Way,” which I have given to you. Meditate deeply upon them.

This also remember. When God was creating the earth, He looked on each stage of its development and “saw that it was good.” When you are contending, then, with that which is in the process of creation—that is, with your obstacles—why do you not see that “it is good” in its development thus far, and bless it accordingly? This would cause those things to respond to your Word much more quickly. In order to say that a thing is good, you do not have to feel that it is perfect. It is good at the point where it now is, and when it reaches a higher point in development it will still be good. One point of growth is not better than another; all are necessary and all are good. Therefore look upon your creations in the light of this truth, that you may bless them and thus hasten their arrival at perfection.

You ask, “How can I bless my creation?” It is by first seeing it in its true light, and thereby giving proper credit of goodness to it. This is the step of proper visualization. Next is the step of the spoken word. So, therefore, you may bless your creation by always speaking of it in its true relation to eternal progress.

When you speak of your creation as if it were in a state of stagnation, you do thereby curse it.

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” And see all things, that they are good, for you do thereby bless them.

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