depths of your being, you are conscious of your oneness with the Father, until you know within yourself that the spring of all wisdom and health and joy is within your own being, ready at any moment to leap forth at the call of your need, you will not have spiritual understanding.

All the teachings of Jesus were for the purpose of leading men into this consciousness of their oneness with the Father. He had to begin at the external man --- because people then as now were living mostly in external things --- and teach him to love his enemies, to do good to others, and so forth. These were external steps for them to take --- a sort of lopping off of the ends of the branches; but they were steps that led on up to the place of desire and attainment where finally the Master said, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" (Jn. 16:12).

He told them of the Comforter that was in them, and which would teach them all things, revealing the "depths of God" (1 Cor. 2:10) to them, showing them things to come. In other words, he told them how they might find the kingdom of heaven within themselves --- the kingdom of love, of power, of life.

The coming of the Comforter to their hearts and lives, giving them power over every form of sin, sickness, sorrow, and over even death itself, is exactly what we mean by understanding or realization.