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whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him?" (Rom. 14:14)

Books and lectures are good, teachers are good, but you must learn for yourself that Christ, the Son of God, lives in you, that He within you is your light and life and all. When you have once grasped this beyond a doubt with the intellect, you cease looking to teachers to bring you spiritual insight. That Christ lives in you, Spirit itself must reveal to you. Teachers talk about the light, but the light itself must flash into the darkness before you can see the light.

Had the Master remained with the disciples, I doubt whether they would ever have gotten beyond hanging on his words and following in the footsteps of his personality.

Jesus knew that his treatments for spiritual illumination, given to his disciples from his recognition of Truth, would act in them as a seed thought, but he also knew that each man must for himself wait upon God for the inner illumination which is lasting and real. God alone can whisper the secret to each one separately.

The enduement of power was not to come to them by the spoken word through another personality, not even through that of Jesus, with his great spiritual power and discernment. It was to come