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apostles Jolin and James, and nearly all of the disciples, were
Essenes."
Who were the spirit-guides of Jesus?
" He had a large circle, over two hundred attending
spirits,
—
' a legion.'' They were mostly from the earlier
Jewish prophets ; and among them were Moses, Elijah,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, as well as sages from India, China, and
Persia."
Do the prayers of sectarian Christians affect Jesus ?
" Yes : the millions of Christians praying to and persistently
calling upon Jesus, very slightly and indirectly affect
him ; and I must say not pleasurably, because of incorrect
ideas concerning him and his mission, and because they ask
him to do what they themselves should do. . . . The
scriptural records of Jesus are very imperfect. He did not
whip the money-changers out of the temple, but so sharply
rebuked them that they voluntarily left. Neither did he call
men ' swine,' ' dogs,' and whited sepulchres ' ; ' but said,
' If you persist in your unrighteousness, others will compare
you to whited sepulchres.' . . . Jesus was overshadowed
by spirit-presences from the sacred moment of conception,
and therefore the prophetically expected of the Nazarettas.
After the anointing, and descent of the baptismal Spirit, he
was Jesus Christ, pre-eminent ; the greatest medium ever
born upon this earth. And in him, as apostolically expressed,
'dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily,' — that is, the
full power of the Christ-spirit. And the races will ultimately
acknowledge the sublimity of his precepts, as
as his moral superiority among the world's Saviours."
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