Christ came to the world not to appease any wrath of an unmerciful God―not as an atonement for a sinful world―not to save any man from the inevitable result of his own sin—but he did come to save him from the dread and horror of the grave―to reveal to him a purer and better existence beyond that grave―to Reveal to him all he could comprehend of God's love and mercy―to reveal in his own spiritual body a living, tangible witness of the spiritual future of which he taught.
He came to bring tidings of great joy in that God's blessed spirit is everywhere, waiting to guide and uplift the weak and trembling spirit that is ready to receive its impressions.
He came to teach of the law also—to tell to man the inevitable result of reaping as he sows.
It was necessary that he should suffer and die―not for an atonement, but for a revealment―to make a strong impression on men's minds and to reveal himself to them afterward and clinch the fact of a spiritual existence in the minds of his followers.
If this one fact could be fully received into every human being's mind, together with the truths which he taught, that through prayer strength of spirit is given to overcome man's lower nature by will of the higher, the world would be saved indeed—saved in the very sense in which Christ came to save the world from its sins.
Leaflets of Truth, or Light from the Shadow Land
