The Herald of the cross Volume 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...it without seeking to share its burden. The anguish was so intense that no one would have understood the reason of it even had it been presented to them, because no one on this world then would have understood the awful nature of the purity of the Father whom He had ever loved and ever sought to serve; how He had Himself sought always after the like purity even when He was the Beloved One upon the Divine Kingdom; how He had laid aside that purity which was His upon that Kingdom, in order to enable Him to pass through the two Valleys of Gehinnom and Gehenna; how the restored Vision of that awful purity made Him witness all that He had passed through in the two valleys, so that His very being was lacerated with the memories of what He had done; and how, now when He knew what had befallen Him since His Christhood, and saw what it would mean for Him to pass through other bodies in which evil was great and through which it ever sought to make itself manifest, then truly was His very being rent asunder. He was no more the Christ living in a comparatively pure body wherein no evil had ever dwelt, and in which no evil found any response, so that He was able through it to make manifest the Christhood in order that the Souls of the Children of the Father might once more behold what He meant by living a life which was filled only with Divine purpose; but He was now even as one of them, knowing sin through having passed through its state. When the Christ had restored unto Him the Vision of the Divine, so that He awoke unto the full realisation of all that He had done in giving Himself unto the evil powers that they might make of His very Soul a buffet for all their malice and wickedness, and that they might expend upon Him those evil forces whose nature had been the ou...