The Herald of the Cross Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...of Gethsemane, but was couched under the forms of many of the deep Sayings of the Christ. It spoke not of any cup which He had to drink, but of the extreme anguish which He would pass through on His way. It made mention of all the terrible sufferings which He would have to go through as He went down from the state of Celestial Christhood into the various states of the human soul amid the hells of matter. It was indeed a picture of His Passion. The Christhood which should have THE been the great redeeming force in the BLASPHEMIES Western world, since that world specially OF THE took up the new religion, as it was WESTERN named, has had in that world the NATIONS. saddest of all experiences. It has not only been repudiated by the nations of the West, but it has also been made the basis of the most illogical and unrighteous doctrine concerning the Redemption of the Soul. The Western Nations have been most loud in their affirmation of faith in the Christ. They have all been professedly followers of His Christhood, and have acknowledged Him to be the Head of the religious Institutions they have reared in His name. They have always sought to make His name a part of their civilization, and have thus mixed Him up with all the conditions which now exist in their very midst--conditions which are the most opposed to any state of Christhood which the soul has ever had to contend against. And they have had the effrontry to speak of such conditions as the direct outcome of the teachings of His beautiful Christhood. Yet these very nations are at heart the furthest from the state known as that of human Christhood. All their conditions are the outcome of evil pursuits. All their ambitions are born of matter, and are circumscribed by the sense-life. All their desires are for ...