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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity
A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity Author:William Walker Atkinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: The Yogi publication society Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com ... more »where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IN MYSTIC CHRISTIANITY Tjl. Bjr YOGI RAMACHARAKA Author of '' Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism," " Hatha Yoga," "Science of Breath," "Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy," "Raja Yoga," "Gnani Yoga," etc. THE FOURTH LESSON Copyright, 1907, by THE YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY Masonic Temple CHICAGO The Beginning Of The Ministry. When Jesus reached his native land, after the years of travel in India, Persia and Egypt, he is believed by the occultists to have spent at least one year among the various lodges and retreats of the Essenes. By reference to the first lesson of this series you will see who and what was this great mystic organization -- the Essenic Brotherhood. While resting and studying in their retreats His attention was diverted to the work of Johannen -- John the Baptist -- and He saw there an opening wedge for the great work that He felt called upon to do among His own people. Dreams of converting His own race -- the Jews -- to His conception of Truth and Life, crept over Him, and he determined to make this work His great life task. The feeling of race is hard to overcome and eradicate, and Jesus felt that, after all, here He was at last, at home, among His own people, and the ties of blood and race reasserted themselves. He put aside His previous thoughts of a world-wandering life, and decided to plant the standard of the Truth in Israel, so that from the capital of the Chosen People the Light of the Spirit might shine forth to all the world. It was Jesus the man -- Jesus the Jew -- that made this choice. F...« less