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The world has been crying for "more light," and
then shrinks in alarm at the "new things," that "more
light" reveals.
If we stand in a dark room, we see little that the
room contains, we scarcely can tell where we are. If we
stand in the kingdom of heaven, with our souls darkened,
we cannot "see" what heaven is holding for us, nor know
even where we are! Bring a light into the dark room,
and how different everything appears; the light does not
bring in anything, but it enables us to see what was already there, and to realize where we stand.
So the soul illumined sees everything in a new light,
and begins to know where it is. This is the "new
heaven and the new earth" promised -- heaven and earth
seen by a diviner light, revealing what was not seen by
us before; new to us.
Jesus came as a light to the world, not to bring anything that was not always here, but to throw light upon
the world. As it is written of him, He came to bring
life and immortality to light." Men were suffering and
dying not for any lack of good in the world, but because
they did not know the truth, could not see the presence
of Good.
He brought to light, or to man's consciousness, the
immortality he had not known, and led man's thought
out of darkness into light; out of ignorance into knowledge of truth; out of bondage into freedom.
"That is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." -- Jno. 1:9. But "If the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness." Every
man has the light of the Divine within him, but if he becomes unconscious of this truth, he is in deep darkness
to himself.
Jesus' mission was to show the Truth to man, and
