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.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
